f the Take 1 de- some ipe it 1 telk h and zette.! in old inder- t the , said r end r only , 8ir, 3 the when help- ordial on to 8, and back- eS me alive, 1 from | the S best, wants bt 20 St C= 8 @$3 25 to 6 50 to 40 00 lo 375 to 3 50 0: 2 0) to 4 00 to 6 20 to 6 10 to 5 80 to 5 0¢ REPUBLICAN CONVENTION EI JACKSON AND FELL. — T:e Republican State Ticket Selected by Acclama ion. ee iin {t took the Republican convention at Harrisburg on Wednesday but 1 hour and 60 minutes to complete its work. When State Chairman Frank Reeder rapped for order there were 253 of the 261 delegate: present. Only preliminary work was done at the morning session. There was a larger attendance at the after- noon session and of course a great deal more lifein the proce:dings. Ex-State Senator Horace B. Packer of Tioga, was made per manent chairman. After the platform had been read and adopted and the convention had passed a resolution thanking Gen. Frank Reeder and Frank Willing Leach for their ‘‘disting- uished services’ as chairman and secretary of the State Committee, Chairman Packer called for the naming of candidates for Su- preme Justice. District Attorney George S. Graham, of Philadelphia, nominated David Newlin Fell, of Philadelphia. U.B. REast- burn, of Bucks, in behalf of Judge Fell's uative county, seconded the nomination. Judge Fell's nomination was made by acclamation, The nomination of Col. Samuel M. Jack- son, of Armstrong, for State Treasurer. was also by acclamation. He was formally named by ex-Judge J. B. Neale, of Kittan- ning. William R. Leeds, lof Philadelphia, seconded the nomination. Col. Jackson was by acclamation made the nominee for State Treasurer and the convention adjourn: <d to the tune of “The Star Spangled Bar- aer.” The platform reads as follows: The Republicans of Per.nsylvania. in con- vention assemb.ed, reaffirming their adhes- ion to the declaration of principles adopted by the Republican National convention of 1892, resolve: That we demand theimmediate and un- conditional repeal of the purchasing clause of the act of Congress entitled **An act di- recting the purchase of silver bullion and the issuing of treasury notes thereon,” ap- proved July 14, 1890. We congratulate the country upon there- cent prompt and patriotic action of the House of Representatives, and request the Senators from Pennsylvania to support sim ilar legislation now pending in the Senate. We favor the expansion of the circulating medium of the country until the same shall amount to $40 per capita of our population, and approve the proposition to issue to na- tional banks notes to the par value of the bonds deposited to secure their circula- tion. In this connection we repeat the following declaration of the last Republican National Convention: “The American peop’e, from tradition and interest, favor bi-metallism, and the Repub- lican party demands the use ¢ of both gold and silver as standard money. with such restrictions and under such provisions, to be determined by legislation, | as will secure the maintenance of the parity of values of the two metals so that the purchasing and debt paying power of a dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper, shall be at all times equal. The interests of the producers of the country, its farmers and its workmen, demand that every dol lar, paper or coin, issued by the government it be as good as any other.” Further, we declare that the obligations of the government should be discharged in money approved and current in all civi- lized nations, and to that end that a largely increased reserve of gold snould be gradual- ly accumulated and maintained. Swiftly upon the heels of the success of the Democratic party in 1892 has followed anprecedented national distress. A ruinous £all in the price of farm and other products and manufactures;the closing of workshops, factories and mills; the reduction of the wages of labor; the discharge of working: men from employment; the cessation of railroad extension and diminution of traffic; bankruptcy and the suspension of banks, are to-day the only monuments of its tri- amph. The present condition of the coun- . try is mainly due to the conviction that s vital attack will be made upon the Ameri- can system of protection. We reiterate the belief we hive often ‘expressed that the maintenance of #n adequate and stable system of protective duties is essential to the well-being of the Nation and the pros- p-rity of labor and cavital and protest against any amendmentsto the McKinley bill until it shall have been fairly tested and judged by its practical operation. 2 The heroic sacrifices and unfaltering patri- otism of the Union soldiers and sailors in the great War of the Rebellion created a debt of gratitude that the Nation can never pav, and the Republican purty, ever mind- ful of their loyal services. and grateful for their heorismi, renews: its declaration of friendship for the surviving veterans, anc its advocacy of liberaljpensions, and so far as possible, will not only contribute to thei comfort in their declining years, but will hold in sacred memory their priceless and : distinguished services on the field of battle The National Democratic Admbiistation 17 ointment of officers in charge of the ean Department at Washiugton, whe are hostile to these surviving veterans, de: serves the condemnation of everv loyal cit- izen 1n the Nation, and the Republican party of Pennsylvania emphatically de= niounces the acts by which the heroes of the republic are being arbitrarily deprived ol their pensions as unworthy of the patriotic American people and as reflecting dissredi upon the great Republic made perpetual by the loyal services of the Union soldiers and ilors, ae demand the enactment and enforce- ment of immigration laws which shall effectually prohibit the importation of ig: norant and undesirable immigrants. Our intelligent workmen should not be obliged to compete with such labor. 3 : We recommend that the representation in the Republican National Couvention for 1896 be based upon the Republican vote at the presidental election of 1892, and that the Republican National Committee in future State conventions shall be based upon the vote cast’ at the presidential or gubernatorial election immediately pre- ceding, one delegate being allotted to each legislajive district for every 2,000 Republi- can votes, and an additional delegee tor a fraction exceeding 1.000 votes, each district to have at least one delegat. We commend the action of the last Leg- islature in this State in setting apart from the revenue of the Commonwealth an additional $1,000,000 to defray the cost of public schools, thus increasing the appro: priation for that purpose to $5,500,000 ver annum, and relieving the burden of loca taxation to that extent. This act again for- cibly illustrates the integrity of the Repub {ican party in redeeming its pledge for the reduction of taxation. —— ete : SKETCH OF THE CANDIDATES. A REVIEW OF THE CAREERS OF JUDGE DAVID NEWLIN FELL AND COL. SAMUEL M. JACKSON. Davip Newry FELL was Jborn in _Buck- ingham township, Bucks county,in Novem- ber, 1840. His father was su; erintendent of the Bucks county schools aud conducted his early education. He attended and graduated from the Millersville StateNormal School. In.August, 1862, immediately after leaving school, he enlisted in the army, and rose from the rank of lieutenant to major of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the close of the war he studied law in Philadelphia with his brother, the late W. W. Fell. and was admitted to the bar on March 17, 1866. On May 2, 1877. Maj. Fell was appointed by Gov. Hartranft to a vacancy oa the bencn of the Philadelphia Court of Common pleas No.2. The same year he was elected with out opposition for the full term of 10 years, and in 1-87 was unanimously re-elected. Cor., SaMUEL M. JAacKsoN was born on a farm near Apollo, Armstrong county. on September 24, 1833. He attended for awhile the Jacksonville academy, in Indiana county. but was unable to finish his course by reasons of his father’s death. He joined the militia as a drummer boy when 13 years of age. Subsequently he became a captain, When the iL out he recruited Co. G, of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves, of which he was chosen captain, On July 2 1861, he was promoted to major, October 2% the same year he was made lieutenant colonel and on April 10, 1862, became colonel. He served for three years. At the close of the war Col. Jackson en- gaged in the oil business in Venango coun- ty, but subsequently returned to Armstrong county. In 1869 he was elected to the Lower House of the Legislature and in 1871 was re-elected, Four years later he was elected to the State Senate. In 1871 he became cashier of the Apollo Savings Bank and served as such until April, 1892, when he was made collector of internal revenue for the Twenty-third district, and served until July 1, 1885. In September, 1885, he was chosen president of the Apolla Savings Bank, an office he still holds. KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS MORE CASH THAN IS REQUIRED. DISCOVERY STATE TREASURER MORRISON'S ABOUT THE STATE BANKS, HarrisBurG—State Treasurer Morrison has been investigating the banks ot the state on his own account and finds a satisfac- tory yet peculiar condition of affairs. In an- ticipation of the existing stringency the banks have been swelling their cash reserve far in excess of the requirements of the national government. The balance sheet of the treasury, he says, will show a surplus of over $8,0.0,000 on September 1, but much of this does not belong to the State. Under the Boyer act three fourths of the personal property tax must be returned to the coun- ties, and when certain large appropriations to educational and charitable institution have been paid the surplus will be about right. In 20 Othe state treasurer will be permitted to open a letter on file in the de- partment stating a sum on deposit in the Girard trust company’s vaults in Philadel- phia to the credit of the state. —_— DROUTH IN FAYETTE. UnxtoxTows.—With the exception of a few isolated fieldsthe corn crop of the coun: ty will not be more than half the average yield. The mountain districts probably fared a little better than the farmsin the low lan~s, but even from Henry Clay, Whartor and Stewart and the other mountain town- ships the reports are encouraging. The droutk is perhaps severest along the valley between this place and Smithfield. Potatoes and buckwheat also have suffered and will be light yields, a THE NEW REPUBLICAN STATE CHAIRMAN. Harrissurc.—Judge Fell, Col. Jackson, and Chairman Packer had a conference and selected Col. B. F. Gilkeson, of Buck: county as chairman of the Republican State Committee. John A. McDonald, A. D. Fetterolf and Jere Rex: will Ge the secretaries. 5a ie PERISHED IN A BARN FIRE. CARLISLE,—The barn of Thomas Ahl,nea Boiling Springs was struck by lightning and burned and George Lutz the tenant ol the farm, was burned to death. ee STANDING OF THE STATE LEAGUE. W. lL. Yet. WwW. L. Foi, York....«. 19 10 .657 Scranton. 14 14 .70C 11 .6€45 Harrisb'g 15 16 484 13 .552 Altoona.. 15 16 .484 4 25 (138 aston .... 20 Johnstown 16 ) Allentown 1¢ 14 ,533 Reading. ag Mes. Coxrap Jacoss, of Penn township Westmoreland county. while gathering cncumbers, was bitten by either a snake or spider in the hand. Sheis old and the wound may prove fatal. CoUNTERFEITERs are believed to be opera- ting in some secluded spot near the Ieisen- ring road. ¢ounterfeit dollars and half dol- lars have been turning up daily at Con- nellsville. I"arMERs near Crown Point, who have lost much stock, found the thief prowling around a hog pen and killed it. It was abig jugnar and must have escaped frou some circus. Tramps robbed Joseph Covac, a Connells- ville cokeworker of $500 as he was going to get it changed into foreign coin preparatory to sailing home. Tur Mahoningtown postoffice and rail road station were rifled by robbers Monday night and several hundred dollars worth of goods taken. J.J. Ruopes, proprietor of the Marlin House at Girard was killed with his horse while out driving at Erie, by being struck by a train. ALFRED AsnLEY, editor of ‘American Industries,” was killed at Mt. Gretna. bya heavy pole, uprooted by the wind, falling upon him. Five Huxprep miners at Madison and Aron near Greensburg went out on a strike against a 10 per cent reduction in wages. It is said that Fayette county's corn crop will hardly be more than half the average now, owing to the continued drouth. Ox Wednesday about 200 Slavs left Con- nellsville for Europe. The will return when the coke trade improves. Jonx McPHaARLAND and Mark Fulton, coal miners, near Greensburg were killed while at work by falling slate. A 4-vear-oLp daughter of Michael Siskis- ki, of Bradenville, fell into a well Sunday nightand was drowned. James McGINNIS was thrown from his buggy near Templeton and killed, Too Trivial. Judge Chase of Vermont, was a man of excellent sense, and a great stickler for the dignity of courts. At one time a case Bf very trifling importance. which had well-nigh run the gauntlet of legal adjudication, came before the highest court in the ‘State. The counsel for the plaintift was opening with the usual apologies for a frivolous suit, when the subject matter, *‘to wit, one turkey, of great value,” caught the ear of the Judge. «Mr. Clerk,” he calied out, in an irate tone, ‘strike that case from the docket. The Supreme Court of the State of Vermont does not sit here te determine the ownership of a tur- key!” THE way out of it for Australia is to set her pugilists to killing rabbits. i such other arrangement as shall OUR BALLOT LAW. —_— FUSION AND ALLIANCE MAY HAVE SEPARATE COLUMNS. Only Political Parries Entitled to the Big Circle For a Straight Ticket. The! Voter Must Have a Clear Opportunity to Designate His Choice of Candidates, and the Names of All Who Have Been Duly Nominated Must Be Printed on the Fa ce of the Ballo:. carmela The Baker ballot seems to be as well un- derstood this year as it was last and is the subject of apparently endless controversy. The trouble just now is in regard to plac- ing of tke naraes of the Fusion and Alliance candidates upon the official tickets. Some claim they wiil be printed in party columns if certified by a nominating convention and some go so far the other way as to claim the names will not be printed at all, but must be written in blank space left for them. Between the two are shades of opinion born of varying imagination. The Pittsburg “Commercial Gazette,” in order to set the question at rest hada num- ber of lawyers and politicans, who are thoroughly familiar with theoriginal Baker act of 1891 ahd the amendments of 1893, interviewed. There is no disagreement among these. They say it is self-evident from a readingof the law that the tusionists, not having polled any vote at the iast county election must go upon the official ballot by mean< of nomi- nation papers. The Alliance candidates must go on the ticket in the same manner. At the last Pittsburg City election the Citi- rens' Industrial Alliance polled’a sufficient number of votes to entitle it to a party column by certificate nt the next city elec- tion. but that does not entitle it toa party column on the ballot for the coming state and county election in November The Republican, Democratic and Prohibition parties may have party columas and a cross mark (X) in the largecircle at the top of these columns will vote every name in the column. On the other hand the Fusionists and Alliance men must put a cross mark (X) in the square to the right of each cin- didate to be voted for. The changes made in the ballot law, which affect the appearance of the ticket, are, first, that all groups are abolished and a single mark in the large circleat the top of a party ticket will vote the straight ticket; second, that the addresses of candidates are omitted* These are the only specitic changes that affect the appearance of the official ballot. In all other respects it should be printed the same as last pear. The change affecting parties is that which reduces the vote necessary to entitle such party to nominate by certificate and have a party colnmn, from 3 per cent to 2 per cent of the highest number of votes cast at the next preceding election. For nominations by nomination papers the number of signa- tures for state office must equal one-half of 1 per centum of the highest vote cast for any candidate at the last preceding election and for the offices in any electoral division of the state, such as county, city, borough township, legislative, senatorial, congress- ional or judicial district the signatures must number as much as 2 per cent of the high- est entire vote cast in the last preceding election in fsuch division or district. All nomination papers must specify the party or policy which jthe candidate represents, expressed in not more than three words, These words must not be the same nor simi- lar to those used by any party entitled to nominations by certificate. Any objection to a nomination on account of the party or political appellation shall be decided by the court of common pleas on hearing. Section 14 of the amended law governs the printing of the baliots. The first para- graph says: *‘The face of every ballot which shall be printed in accordance with the pro- visions of this act shall contain the names of all candidates whose nomination for any office specified in the ballot shall have been duly made, except such as may have died or withdrawn.” This should set at rest the contention that names of candidates by nomination papers may not-be printed. The act sayson the" face of the ballot must be printed the names of all candidates whose nominations have been duly made. The second section pro- vides that *‘the names of the candidates of each political party, or body of electors, shall be arranged under the title of the offices for which they are nominated in par- allel columns with the party or politicalap- pellation at the head of each column. *#* * + and shall be printed in the order, as nearly as possibie of the votes obtained in the state at the last state election by the parties or bodies which obtained the highest vote for the candidate at the head of its column at such election.” The law of 1891 provided {hat candidates by nomination papers should be arranged alphabetically to the rizht of the party columns. This provision is now omitted. The law of 1891, however, used nearly the same language in arranging the candidates by certiticates of nomination as is now used for arranging ‘‘all candidates.” This amend- ment was proposed by the Ballot Reform association for the purpose of grouping candidates bv nomination papers under their political appellations, in separate coi- umns, the more easily to determine their status when making nominations for sab- sequent elections. They may not have the large circle for a straight ticket at the head of their column. The form of ballot recently sent out by the secretary of the commonwealth had three party columns for the Republican, Demo- cratic and Prohibition parties and a fourth column for writing names of persons not printed on the ballot. This was taken by some to indicate the construction of the new law by the secretary to be that only of the names of political parties entitled to certificates of nomination should be printed This would be contrary tothe language of the first paragraph of section 14, which ex- presslv commands the printing of the names of *‘all candidates” whose ‘nomination has been duly made’ either by certificate or by nomination papers. The ianguage of the second paragraph dis tinguishing between a *‘political partv’’ and a ‘‘body of electors” and in directing ar- rangement of names ‘‘as nearly as possible” according to the vote obtained at the pre- ceding election and ‘‘beginning with the party or body which obtained the highest vote for the candidate at the head of its col- umn at such election,” is all construed to mean that candidates by nomination papers shall be given separate columns. In regard to the three parties entitled to nominate bv certificates, they can as easily be arranged by their vote as the party for the first col- umn may be desienated. So the ‘“‘as nearly as possible’’ provision evidently refers to “bodies” having an indefinite political standing. It is the opinion of nearly all those con- versant with the laws of 1891 and 1893 that the fusionists and Alliance will be entitled to ‘‘body’’ columns on the official ballot or in the language of the sixth paragraph of the four teenth section, ‘‘zive to each voter a clear onnortunity to designate his choice of can- didates by a cross marx (X) in a square of sufficient size at the nght of the name of each candidate and inside the line inclosine the column.” The =ame paragraph con- tains two provisos, First, that the voter may designate his choice of an entire group of presidential electors by one cross mark in a larger square which shall be placed at the right of the surnamesof the candidates for president and vice president at the head of such group.” such mark to be equivalent to a mark against every namein thegroup. Second, '‘That a voter may designate his choice of all the candidates of a political party by one cross in the circle above such c2Zamn,’”’ The circle is thus made to apply only to “political parties,” while the othe: designations are all made fo apply to the candidates ofany “political party,’”’ or‘‘body of electors.” The law might have been clearer in regard to the arrangement of columns.as the law of 1891 wae. But the omission of the distinction between candidates by certificate and candi- dates by nomination papers in the arrange- ment of columns can only be construed to mean there shall be no distinction. Each “political appella tion’ is entitled to a SUNDAY SCHOOL 1.ESSON FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. IT. “Personal Responsibility,” Romans xiv., 12.23. Golden Text: Romane xiv., 21. Commentary. 12. “‘So then every one of us shall give ac- count of himself to God.” This epistie may be divided into three sections and labeled doctrinal (chapters i. to viii.), dispensational (chapters ix. to xi.) and practical (xii. to xvi). The practical, with which we now have to do, may be subdivided as follows: xii., character ; xiii., relation to civil rulers; xiv., relation to brethren ; xv., labors ; xvi., Chris- tian salutations. So that we find ourselves to-day dealing with the practical question of right relations to the brethren, and especially in the matter of eating and drinking. We + less” (Math. xii., 7). / are reminded of the judgment seat of Christ (verse 10 ; see also II Cor. v., 10) and of in- dividual responsibility. 13. ‘Let us not therefore judge one an- other any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.” In I Cor. iv., 5, we are exhorted to judge nothing before the time until the Lord come. In Jas. ii., 13, it is written that ‘‘he shall have judgment without mercy that hath showed no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment,” while Jesus Himself said, ‘‘If ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacri- fice, ye would not have condemned the guilt- We are here not to live unto ourselves, but unto the Lord (verses 7, 8) and by a Christlike life lead people unto im. 14. “I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself ; but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.” Jesus taught that ‘‘not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth” (Math. xv., 11). And Paul in another place teaches us that if oneshould see fit to accept an invitation to eat with an unbeliever the proper thing would be to eat what is provided, asking no question for conscience sake (I Cor. x., 27) unless the host should say, “This is offered in sacrifice to idols.” Then a believer could not eat of it. The glory of God must be the one aim in all eating and drinking as well as in all else (I Cor. x., 31). 15. ‘‘But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. De- stroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died.” This matter is more fully dwelt upon in I Cor. viii., 1-13, and is summed up in verse 13, “Wherefore, if meat make my broth- er to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth.” The great question with a believer should not be, **May I do this or that and not sin?” but ‘“‘How cam I best hasten His kingdom and win men to Him?” 16. ‘Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of.” A perfectly lawful act, some- thing that I might do or enjoy with a clear conscience betore God, might be misunder- stood by a weak brother and become to him a stumbling block, in which case it would bs for the glory of God and the good of the weak brother for me to refrain from even that which in God’s sight might be innocent. 17. *‘For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.” The chief business of those for whom Christ died is not eating and drinking, but a right relation to God, our neighbors and ourselves. The founda- tion is righteousness (Rom. x., 3, 4; II Cor. v., 21), the state is peace (Rom. v., 1; Eph, ii., 14), and the manifestation is joy (John Xv., 11; xvi., 24; Rom. xv., 13). All willbe disorder and confusion until we seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness (Math. vi., 33), not for ourselves merely, but for all whom we may reach. 18, ‘Tor he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men.” Having received Christ as our Saviour we are always accepted in Him (Eph. i., 6), but for this reason we seek to be accepted of Him as to our service. “We labor that whether present or absent we may be accepted of Him" (II Cor. v., 9). Salva- tion full and free is God's gift to whosoever will. We are saved by grace not of works lest any one should boast (Eph. ii., 3; Rom. iv.. 9). but we work because we are saved. This is profitable to men, and we shall be re- warded according to our works (Eph. ii., 10, Titus iil, 8; I Cor, 11, 8; Rev, xxil., 12). 19. ‘Let us therefore ullow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may ediiy another.” Ous Lord and Saviour is the Prince of Peace, and a mind staid on Him will have a perfect peace. Thus we saall be able to publish peace (Isa. ix., 6; xxvi., 3; Iii.. 7; Bom. x., 15). — 20. “For mcat destroyed not the work of God. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for that man who eateth with offense.” ‘Unto the pure all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure” (‘Titus i., 15). In this lesson, however, it is the brethren-—the believers-- whom we are to be careful not to offend. 21. “It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak.” It is only telling a part of the truth to select from this the drinking of wine and made it a so-calied temperance lesson, while the many other things that offend are left antouhed. A good worker on the side of total abstinence may possibly be a stumbling block in other directions, and so in other departments of Christian work. The only sure way is to adopt II Cor. iv., 11, as a daily motto and be willing to die to self in all di tions that the life of Christ mav be manife in our mortal flesh. Wien we ean truly say, “Not I, but Christ, who liveth in me” (Gal. ii., 20), all will be well. 22. ‘‘Hast thou faith? Have it te thysel before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which He allow- eth,” for if our hesris condemn us not then have we confidence toward God (I John iii., 21). To live always sas in the sight of the Lord with a constant aim to please Him will surely give a life free from offenses. “Walk before Me and be thou perfect. upright, sin- cere,” was God's word to Abram (Gen. xvii., 1, margin). To us the Spirit says through Paul, “Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not unto men’ (Col. iii., 23). 23. ‘And he that doubteth is damned (or condemned) if he eat, because he eateth not of faith, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” It is sin to do what you doubt to be right ; it is also sin not te do what you know to be right (Jas. iv.. 17). If everything is tested by “Will it please Jesus?” all will be well. All life is either for self or God and others. Christ was wholly for God and man, never for self, and could truly say to His Father, *I have glorified Thee on the earth.” All right relations to man must spring {rom right relations to God. Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him (Heb. xi.).-—Lesson Helper. ee Washing Liquor. The following is a good laundry preparation,and is sold in some quar- ters at a fancy price per gallon: Soda ash, in fine powder, four ounces; oil of citronella, one fluid ounce; par- atfin oil, one gallon. Shake the cit- ronella with the paratlin oil, then add the soda ash and dissolve; add two tablesp onfuls of this mixture. and one pound of soap to each boilerful of slothes. SOLDIERS COLUMN. AT COLD HARBOR. Some Varied Exveriencss on Picket After That Battle. A TRAIN o incidents oc Habor, Va., on the 2d of June, 1864, which I should like to give your read- ers, believing that they will be of interest, and to show that a soldier’s life is made up of a variety of strange experi- ences, and not always fighting and marching or keeping vigilunce, even on a picket line, The Ninth Corps reached Bethesda church after a hard march from the North Anna River, something after dark on the night of the 1st. The rebels had beat us there, and were ready to give us a warm reception. At midnight three companies of my regiment—the 2d Pa., Prov. H. A, — were sent out about a mile and a half in advance, toward Bethesda church, on a picket line, We were posted slong the edge of a dense piece of woods. Immediately around us was a clearing about a quarter of a mile square, the ground being a little marshy and rough. We were delighted to find a well- preserved line of breastworks along the edge of the piece of woods. It was near here that the battle of Gaines’s Mill was fought during McClellan’s retrograde movement across the Pen- insula. We soon concluded that we were mighty near the rebel lines. We could hear their mules whinneying, artillery moving, ete, just through the woods; consequentiy we kept quiet until day- light, realizing that we were only a thin picket line. We had come out here irom our lines on an old traveled road into this open square, the road leading out through the woods into the rebel lines and out toward Gaines’s Mills. When daylight came we had a cur- iosity to learn how fur away the rebels were, and some of the boys got over the works into the woods, One mem- ber of my company went a few rods to the right and stepped out into the road, as if tocross, and in an instant we heard a crack and down went the poor fellow,shot by a rebel sharpshoot- or who commanded the road and no doubt was posted in a tree, Later in the day Capt. Samuel I. Davis, of Go. I, Leing seut out to view the picketline, came along the edge of the woods on the opposite: side of the road from us. We saw he was about to cross the road. He did not under stand the word of warning we gave him, butstepped into the road and re- ceived his death wound from the same sharp-shooter. How terrible this sort of warfare seems ! The ludicrous part of our experience on the picket-line I now wish to re- late. Theenemy made no advance up to 8 p. m. Some of the boys became careless, Porter C. Burns, of my company was one. He was a practical watchmaker by trade and a good mechanic. As we had marched falong from the Wilderness battlefield he had constructed a small kit of tools suit- able for tinkering watches, foraging through old abandoned blacksmith shops, ete. He had made four extra pockets in his uniform, and each eon- tained a comrade’s watch waiting to be repaired, Burns concluded to repair a watch. He spread a rubber blanket on the ground, took the watch apart, and commenced operations. All at once the woods rang with a clear bugle call. Lieut. Gausline, springing to his feet, says: ‘Boys, now look out; that’s a rebel bugle call to advance.” We soon saw them coming, and up, and gave them a volley,and they broke and ran. It was laughable, amidst all the excitement, to sce Comrade Burns, ina nervous state, trying to get the corners of the blanket together to save the watch. As he ran the pieces could be heard jingling and being strewn along the ground. the rebels coming up shouting “Stop, jou —=— Yank!” He barely escaped, No doubt they captured the watch, or frag- me: ts. When the Confederates made the advance they immediately opened up with a mortar battery, throwing shells across the woods into the open square. In the stampede I was knocked down, a shell bursting beside me, and I was run over by an unmanageable horse ridden bo the Colonel of the (I think) 24th N. Y. Cav., who happened to be out to the open square at the time, receiving a slight wound in the head and hand, and only escaping be- ing captured by a member of my com- pany helping me to my feet. I lost my gun, gum blanket and haversack, I was eventually taken prisoner at Burnside’s mine explosion, 1n the crater in front of Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864, and not released until the end of the war.—CLARENCE WiLsonN. in “National Tribune.” - - a A PHILADELTrHIA girl broke off her engagement because the young man refused to shave off his mustache. The dear girls usually do not set their faces against such things so strongly as that. “Tae short story seems $n be quite the fad nowadays,” said one club man to another. “Ishould say so. It seems to me that nearly every man I meet stons to tell me how short he is.”- a PEE fetters of sin are riveted in fire,and burn as well as bind. curred at Cold , CHILDREN’S COLUMN, A FAIR EXCHANGE. L little Swiss lady whose name was Jeanne, Lived elcse to the Swiss frontier; While over in France, across the way, Lived her,little French neighbor, Madame Aimee, Ior friend of many a year. \nd every spring, by a long-tried’ plan, Vhcse value you'll see at a glance, They made of their houses a fair exchange; For said Jeanne, “One is better for travel and change, 30 1 spend my summers in France.” ind when any one called at her new house door, And asked for Madame Aimee, She said, “I'm sorry she’s not at hand ; She's gone for the summer to Switzerland, 3ut you'll find her over the way.” St. Nicholas. THE CHILDREN’S WHITEBOARD. Tt can’t be called a “‘blackboard,® secause it wasn’t black, but it is des- ined to take the place of one. A blackboard, either at school or at home, is apt to make lots of dust and lirt, and some mothers, after one has been bought for the use of children at 1ome, feel obliged to let them use it »uly at certain times—when they are 10t dressed clean, or when the nursery or playroom has not just been swept or dusted. To make a ‘‘whiteboard” buy a large piece of sheet celluloid and tack if, wrong side out, on a flat board just Celluloid large enough cam be bought for about fifty cents. Ar- tists’ thumb tacks or nice gilt headed tacks can be used. ’ Along the bottom of the board nail a hollowed piece to hold the crayons and put in one or two tacks to hold the little sponges and cloths used to clean the board. Hang the sponges up by strings run through them. Two screw-eyes in the top of the board will suffice to hang it up by. The ‘‘crayons” are heavy, blue and red pencils, or thick black ones. These the size. make dustless marks and can readily be rubbed off the celluloid with a damp sponge. When wiped dry with a cloth the board is ready for use again.— [Chicago Record. THE ANDAMAN DWARFS. There probably never was a boy or oirl who did not dream of possessing for his or her own pleasure a band of pygmies who should do what they were bidden like so many animated dolls. in Africa, Andaman Is- Dwarfs have been found but the lands, in the Bay of Bengal, arc the natives of the smallest race of people in the world. The average height of a full-grown Andaman is four feet five inches, and few weigh over seventy-six pounds. They are marvellously swift of foot, and as they smear themselves with a mixture of oil and red ochre, present Tew trav- ellers care to encounter any of the warlike little people, for their skill in throwing the spear and in using the very strange appearance. bow is only equalled by their readi- ness to attack strangers. Altogether their traits are not such them additions to the playrooms of children, since as to make desirable they have been said to eat men alive. They are as black as coals, and seem to find it desirable to tattoo them- This artistic usually begin when they are eight years selves. venture they of age, using bottle-glass for the pur- pose of getting their flesh into a con- dition to receive the color and retain it. They eat fish, turtles, and wild honey, and are rarely satisfied with a luncheon that does not provide them, eatables. They and in with six pounds of live in huts made of leaves, spite of their freedom, which amounts to wildness, are exceedingly irritable. —[Harper’s Young People. a Wonderful Fall in a Biblical River. The River Jordan, in Palestine, has the most remarkable fall or descent of in the world. The name of the river is from the Hebrew word Jarden, meaning the descender, any short river and thet it iswellnamed may be judged from the following figures concern- ing its fall: At its source, near Has- baye, the stream has ‘an elevation of 1,700 feet above the level of the Med- iterranean Sea, and at the place where it empties into the Dead Sea it is 1,300 the level of the Mediterra- nean, making a total fall of about even 3,000 feet. The baye Springs to the Dead Sea is total river, counting the feev below Has- 120 length of the windings of the distance from miles, and the che#unel, 200 miles. From this we must subtract twenty miles for the lake and morass of Hooleh, and the Sen of Galilee, leaving but 180 miles of river proper, which gives the river an average fall of seventeen feet to the mile throughout its entire course. Few fewer still descend as the Jordan does, paterfalls. rivers have such a fall, and without either cascades or —[ St. Louis Republic,
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