— 1D NT Eighy onies. 1s dedi y. The ed, ana one op 1 memo- hingtor !'renton n this 08s the people es. The ower, 0} ia; Ful laware; f New Brown, that ot e Phila. Wilson e statue assachu- nsylva- ntation y their is of 1 the air atue of e gift of be ac- levator. eir radi. . There pedestal ing the ylvania; w York; by Con- tablet Cincin- nt and glving demon= in New 58. Firms ‘ork, 02- a y York, trial es- States. d on the and on 57,660, a 1e same ist year paying ns from the fol- r 5, 1892 r 5, 1892, mber 5, , 763. ,202,951,- of wages ort from ie num- 9.710;and ,693.62 to of over show a 28,838 to earnings er $214,- concerns yy 2,389 ruent to are $16,- 6.70, al- Causes & C. ured are ok place section mited of freight ‘alls, Pa., raffic on land and s bound through ) miles an n, which is, it is warned »revented t the ac- sht train ed being as there dead: LO. kill- eny, Pa.; llegheny, ed; died rer, New ed,injur- way to gageman, y; died at ago, both hospital. he e engi- y jump- had one ‘rowd, thousand 1 fifty-one er within is, little 3 difficult ir signifi- non Park ittle more 10re souls nion. Let vhich are znificance . 746,000; 0; Idaho, 13p. 000; , 377,000; , 314.000; kota, 829,- g, 61,000. his gener- gathering A t en the io Grande the troops. soldiers r wound- Ee - picture took,” said Tommy. OLD BO3 VVHITE. Now the hills ara turninz yellow and the : brown is on the corn. "There's a meiody that’s mellow in the music of the horn, And the sasafras is blazing and the sumach all agiow Whera the old beil cow is grazing on the fal- lows down below, And the pea vines gladly rustle where the soft winds are at piay, And the young guzil chirp and hustle, grow- And that cunning old suborner in the bushes to the right, Perched upon the low fence corner, whistles “old ob White I” Cet your ammunition ready. now, and lim= ber up your gun, Train the young dogs to be siaady so as not to spoil the iun, For the time is swiitly coming and October's nearly here When we'll sot the woods anumming with the music far and near, And we'll fill each hunting jacket with the spoi! our prowess yields As we raise a merry racket in the forests and the fields, For the chalieng» is temptation as they sit there out o: sight, All around the biz plantation whistling “Old Boh White. —-2. M. Folsom. in Atlanta journal. PITH AND POINT. TFireproof—Tuins. Pigheaded—A drum. A tea set-—-The Chinese. Fixed stars—The American fiag’s. It seems to take a good deal of high wind to blow down a bad law.—Truth. There is one good thing about the apple of the eye. You don’t often see one that is green.~-Truth. It is certainly unlucky to have thir- teen at table when there is only dinner enough for twelve.— Life. The chef makes no pretensions as a sharpshooter, but he can hold his own at the range. —Elmira Gazette. A tow-path mule while practicinz His merry little pranks, Execlaimed, “I'm getting ready for A run upon the banks.” —Washington Star. “Tow are you? Just thought Ud drop in awhile to kill time.” ‘Well, we don’t want any of our time killed.” —Boston Globe. “It’s a funny thing about getting a “The newer the picture is the older I look.” —-Indianapolis Journal. Irate Father —¢ ‘I'm going to put a check to your extravagance, sir!” Im- pudent Son— ‘All right! Giveme the check.”’—New York Herald. Wills of millionairas remind us, 1f in our graves we'd be content, We should, dying, leave behind us Not so much as one blamed cent. —Buffalo Gourier. «Jhake! old fellow,” said the pillow to the sword, who had been relating some thrilling experiences in battle. <I know what it is to be in a fight.” — Puck. 1t is said that the alligator is about to become extinct in this country. Let us pray that he will take the guild of jawsmiths with him. —Seattle Tele- graph. «Did he spend lots of money on her music?’ ‘Oh, yes; he must have, for she doesn’t play anything that sounds the least bit like a tune.”’—Chicago Herald. The poets all of autumn—squall, But what delights our eyes Is, not the country in the fall, But the country on the rise. —Atlanta Constitution. “This,” said the frightened young man, who had encountered some West- ern road agents, ‘‘is positively my last appearance on any stage.” —Washing- ton Star. Mistress (who is about to engage a sook)—¢‘Now, are you sure you have bad experience?’ Cook— ‘Oh, yes, mum ; I’ve been in 'undreds of places.” —Tit Bits. She's home at last and her heart is gay, She opens her wardrobe, alack :alack! She finds that while she has been away The moths have devoured her sealskin saeque. —Boston Courier. Hostess— ‘Oh, I think some people are so disagreeable. Don’t you hate people who ean sing and won’t?” Old Grouchy—¢No, not so much as I do those who can’t sing and will !”—Life. An eminent physician says it is often dangerous to lie on the right side. It is also unnecessary. Any po- litical speaker or writer knows the wrong side needs the lying, if any.— Buffalo Courier. Mrs. Kindle—*‘I presume you have rather a hard time of it?” Tramp— “Yes, mum; but every cloud has a silver lining, mum. I'm not worried to death by autograph hunters.’— New York Weekly. “Look here, young man,” said the medical practitioner. ‘‘If you ride n wheel so much you’ll get ‘kyphosis bi- cylistarum.’” = ‘On this wheel?” “You, sir.’ Well,” replied the wheelman, ‘if I do, one of us will have to get off and walk.”’—Washing- ton Star. ———— Days That Must Drag. . The longest day of the year at Spitz- ergen is threc and one-half months. At Wardbury, Norway, the longest day asts from May 21 to July 22, without intermission. . At Tornea, Finland, une 21 is twenty-two hours lonz, and hristmas has less than three hours of ‘daylight. At St. Petersburg the long- est day is nineteen hours and the short- lest is five hours. At London the long- est day is sixteen snd one-half hours, at Montreal it is sixteen hours and at New York it is about fifteen hours.— New York Sun. SOLDIERS’ COLUMN HARD TIMES. How Baitery M, 5th U. 8. Art, Went to Dry Tor .uga?. WE did not like it! No, most emphat- ically, no. But what would you do? It was an order from the War De- partment’ and that settled it. Ay! but any man whe serv- ed in the army knows. how : we felt when ‘ | this order came to dismount Battery M. 5th U. 8., Art., and equip the men with gun and side- arm. We werein the service since beginning of the war, and most of the men had veteranized. We were with the Sixth Corps on many occasions; especially was this so at Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864,where our battery was fearfully cut up. “The Cannoneer” can vouch for this.He was one of the boys. The battery was scnt to Camp Berry at Washington and we were finally dismounted and furnished with rifles, made do dutyaround Washington, until one nice day we were ordered to New York. Here we were sent on board the North Star, a new boat of the Star Line of steamers. Our destination,we learned later,was Dry Tortugas. Oh,the lovely prospect —right from over three years’ hard marching and hardship, to go out to this out of the way rip rap and guard political prisoners. In my own easel went to the then commanding officer of Battery M. First Lieut. Klapp, lay- ing my claim for discharge before him. You may see for yourself how much I was entitled by the following. In November,1862.an order from the War Department r:ad as follows: “Ten men of each volunteer company may enlist in the Regular Army, the time served in the volunteer service to be deducted from the three years.” I was at the time 1n the Lost Child- ren, a Zouave regiment, lying in front of Yorktown. There were, besides my- self, my brother and four Swiss boys who went aleng inside the fort and enlisted in Battery M. Our ignorance of the English lan- guage was here apparent in not includ- ing our six months’ service in the re- maining three years enlistment, where- by we would have been discharged in June, 1864, in front of Petersburg, and we could have veteranized wit» a goodly bounty; whereof we now were debarred,and our time was not up until November. So you may see how un- fairly our ignorance was taken advan- tage of. 7 Of the six to enlist in the battery there were now only three remaining. In the name of the three boys and my- self I asked Lieut. Klapp for our dis— charge before leaving New York, as we only had some 12 or 14 days to serve and it would not be worth while to carry us all the way down to Dry Tortugas only to be discharged on the way or on our arrival there. But no. Lieut. Klapp probably thought he could retain ourservices for another en— listment and of coursehe,do’ng his duty in the interest of the Government, was not to blame for refusing the demand. On the afternoon of Oct. 19, 1864, we passed by our headquarters, the band playing ou the ramparts at Fort Rich- mond for our benefit, There were three batteries, or what had been batteries, but now acted as heavy artillery, oa board. I am not sure of the othez two, but I believe they were Batteries D. and L. Any- how, everything went merry as a mar- riage bell at first. On ¢2e morning of Oct. 21, when off Cape Hatteras, a storm blew up which lasted for three days and which did more damage to shipping than w: 8 known for years. Our steamer was new and not very “crankv.” still. like all sidewheel steamers, a fearful roller while lyicg to in the trough of the sea. I had been a sailor previous to my coming to America, so I did not care a picayune how much if blew or how much the vessel rolled. I had made my headquarters in lee of the first cabin, on deck. The rest of the poor lads were chopped up and down in the fore hold and it was no pleasant place. What with the hatches battoned down there was very scant ventilation and light down there amongst 100 men, all sea sick. - It was fearful—the swearing, raving, and, yes, a little, very little, praying going on. On the morning of the 22d the storm grew in fierceness and cur smokestack was wrecked, and we had alively time to secure the monster, and before it was done two of the crew lost their lives and an hour later the Second Mate was knocked overboard by the stack breaking its moorings. Finally, toward evening,the blamed thing broke its moorings again, and a big roller sweeping the deck took it over board and wrecked our starboard whegl before we could cut loose from the monster, who in the last flop duga big hole in the ship’s planking,and we rommenced leaking at a fearful rate. With the smokestack gone clear at the deck we could not carry steam, as we had to cover up the opening of the stack. which otherwise would have swamped us;our handpumps were man- ned, but it was hard work, and we knew soon that the water was gaining on us. It was a fearful night. On the morning of the 23d it was found, on sounding the well, that the water could not be stopped by hand- pumping. It was steadily gaining, and the Engineer told us we were leaking at the rate of 8,000 gallons per minute; that if no other remedy than the pumps were used we would finally founder, E —, a He advised the throwing overboard of 111 freight; and we succeeded in throw- ing overboard some three or four hun- dred tons of freight which brought the ‘aak up out of the water, with only the washings of the sea to overcome, and that was no small item; but we finally got the upperhand. The storm having sartially brcke we removed the cov- ring from over the smokestack, and a small force of steam was gotten up, steam pumps finally got in their work, and with our one wheel, the port one, going against a helm hard-aport Wwe made headway like a crab. Toward evening on the 23d a tug- boat sighted us, hitched on, and final- ly landed us in Norfolk at 10 a.m. Oct. 24, 1865; the most God-forlorn subjects you eould put you eyes on. By the time she was tied up at Nor- folk wharfour men and officers and a few civilian passengers, gradually made their appearance. A sorry let they were—pale, emaciated,unwashed, unshaven, with big, “sleepy eyes and disarranged apparel. Now, me and my two Swiss friends’ time of service was up on the 2d of November. Another war steamer was sent for per telegraph to come and re- ceive us, and try to land us on Dry Tortugas, I was not willing becauseof a few days more to undergo any more such experience where 1t was against all reason. We'only had six days more to serve. I went aft and had an interview with Lieut. Klapp; in which he agreed to make out our discharges and final statements, but he wanted to see us after we had been up and got our money from the Paymaster. We were very sure we had seen ser- vice enough for a while anyhow, and this lest straw was enough. So that by the time we had our final state- ments cashed we went on board the boat for Baltimore and the same even- ing we bid farewell forever to Battery M without observing the ceremony of a farewell call on our worthy First Lieutenant, who surely will excuse this if it, by any chance, reaches his eye. He isa.Captain in the 5th Art, now and a good officer.—CARL HART- MANN, in National Tribune. KEYSTONE SAIS COLLINGS. SCHOOL MUST KEEP. NO MORE ELECTION HOLIDAYS, SAYS SUPT. SCHAEFFER. HARRISBURG. — Dr. Schaeffer, superinten- dent of public instruction, has put his foot squarely down upon the practice of closing schoo!s on election days. Heis constantly is receipt of comn.unications requesting an opinion on the subject. These interroga- tions are based on the act of May 23, 1893, designating the third Tuesday of February and the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November as legal half holidays. Dr. Schaeffer, ater quoting from the acts ref. r- red to, says: “The purposes mentioned in thisact have special reference to the maturity of com- mercial papei, the acceptance and pavment of bank checks, drafts. promissory notes, etc., as expressingly set forth in the act it- self. Iam cleariv of the opirion that the several boards of school airectors and con-* troliers a- e not required toclose the public schools in their respective districts on the days designated as election days, but on the contrary I would urge the directorsand con- trollers to keep their schools in ses-ion on these days ‘or the purpose of pre ening too many breaks in the regular school year.” a a THE MARRIAGE LICENSE LAV, TRE AMENDMENT DOES NOT GO I.TO EFFECT * UNTIL OCTOBEB 1, 1895. HarrisBurc—The State Department is daily in receipt of inquiries from the clerks of the courts of the several counties, as to whether an error does not occur -in the pamphlet laws of 1893 in the act of May I, 1893, amending the law relative to marriace license so as to permit marriages to be per— formed outside of the county in which the license is granted.The law as printed makes the law operative October 1, 1895, but many clerks of courts think it a misprint. The original bill, however, does not differ from the law as printed. i ite A DALING ESCAPE, DoyrLestowx—Michael Dolan, aged 22 years, sentenced March 22 to three years and three months in the Doylestown jail, for attempting to shoot his father in Febru: @y, at his home in Solebury township, es- caped from the jail here by scaling the 28 foot wall. Young Dolan had been working in the stocking knitting depart. ment and had secured enough yarn tomake a stout rope about twenty-five feet long With this, together with three large hooks, one of which was made from a poker stolen from the prison kitchen a few days ago, and which he threw over the wall until it caught in the coping, he succeeded in get- ting to the top and dropping over on the other side, escaped under cover of the night and the heavy storm. dl hg DATES FOR FARMERS’ INSTITUTES. HarrispurG—Dates for farmers’ insti- tutes in the western part of the state have been fixed by the state board of agriculture as follows: Greene county, Waynesburg, November 14 and 15; Carmicheal, November 16; Mercer county Greenville, November 29and 30. Dates of 42 institutes have been fixed, 16 will be held in December, 11 in Nove vber and 10 in January. LIMITING THE BOYS, BELLEFONTE. —Now that the cows have been penned up Bellefonte is to take a step higher. Councils uncovered an old ordi- nance which they again adopted that boys 14 years of age or under shall hereafter not be ailowed on the streets after8 p. m. The police have been given instructions to arrest and lock up for the night all boys found abroad after that hour. RI James DunwirTie, aged 5, and James Boyce, are 1 8, wandered from their homes near Greenburg, Mouday, after cows and it is feared they perished in the Chestnut ridge, as nothing has been heard ol them. Wirriam CreE's horses, frightened at the cars at Huntingdon, and ran away. Cree was thrown to the ground, the wagon pa -s- ing over his stomach, killing him instantly. He was 70 years old. : ——— POPULAR SCIENCE. Shaving pots are electricaliy heated nowadays. Lightning recentiy melted the Tea? frames out of the windows c a DM: Hart, of Rochester, N. YX. Dew has a preference for sore colors. While a yellow board attracts dew, a red or black one beside it will be perfectly dry. The ground in an open lot at East Great Plains, Conn., has been struck by lightning nine different times in the past seven years. Mount Kinseo, * which rises pre- cipitously 700 feet out of Moosehead Lake, Maine, is wholly composed of hornstone, and is the largest mass of that mineral in the known world. The idea that this earth is slowly drying up has quite a set back by a recent announcement of the hydro- graphic engineers that thé Gulf of Mexico is one fool higher than it was in 1850. When s2rews were made by hand five minutes were consumed in making one, and they were so expensive that wooden pins were used wherever prac- ticable. Now by the cold-forzed pro- cess a single machine will turn out {ive dozen in a minute. On a clear day an object raisad one foot. above a level plain can be seen 1.31 miles; one ten feet high, 4.15 miles; one twenty fest high, 5.80 miles; one 100 feet high, 13.1 miles, and one a mile high (as the top of a mountain), almost ninety miles. In ordinary dust are many living microscopic animals, such as the roti- fers. These little creatures may be dried for an indefinite period, but will come to life again when moistened. It is said that individuals have been des- iccated and revivel again as often as fifteen times. Experiments have shown that tho common sunflower exhales twelve ounces of water iz vwenty-four hours. Rts of all trees draw large quantities of moisture froin the soil, which is dis- chargedinto the air through the leaves. It is estimated that an oak tree with 700,000 leaves would give off something like 700 tons of water during the five months it carries its foliage. In a recent lecture Professor Unwin stated that compressed air transmis. sion is practical up to at least twenty miles; 10,000 horse power can be transmitted thirty miles in a thirty- inch main at 132.3 pounds per squara inch, with a loss of pressure of only twelve per cent.; the efficiency is fifty-nine to seventy-three per cent. if the air is reheated, and forty to fifty per cent. if it is used cold. The membrane lining the canal of the ear contains a great number of lit- tle glands which secrete a waxy sub: stance having an intensely bitter taste. The purpose of this is to prevent the entrance of insects and to keep the eax clean, as the layer of wax dries in scales, which fall rapidly away, thus removing with them any particle of dust or other foreign matter which may have found entrance to the ear. el The Wonderful Pecos Valley. “Talk about making a desert bloom as the rose; why, southern New Mex: ico can give pointers to all the writers of ancient writ, and in the way ol wonders it doesn't stand back for any portion of the globe,” said C. B. Eddy, of Eddy, New Mexico. “Pecos Valley in the southern por- tion of New Mexico,” continued Mr. Eddy, ‘‘is 400 miles long and from ten to forty miles wide, and less than a anlf dozen years ago was a deserf waste. But the outside world knows out little of the mighty wonders that man has performed there by utilizing the products of nature. The Pecos valley has the largest irrigatizn plant on the western hemisphere. A com: pany, capitalized for $8,000,000, went into that desert and built 1460 miles of main canals, each one being seventy teet wide at the top and seven feel deep. From these main channels numerous smaller ones branch out over the valley. The storage reservoirs for this plant contain 12,000,000,000 zubic feet of water and one of these lakes is thirteen miles long, three miles wide and fifty feel deep. More than 400,000 acres acres are now irrigated, being twice the amount of territory irrigated by any other plant in the United States. When the plant is extended 800,000 acres will have received irrigation. Three years ago not more than 500 people could be found on 400 miles square. but in the last two years be- tween 7000 and 8000 people have set- tled in the valley. And they are not on the order of the average Oklahoma boomer—our settlers are Northern people and are thrifty and intelligent. The town of Eddy has 3000inhabitants and it enjoys electric lights and all modern comforts, and has forty-six miles of running ditches and shaded streets. The climate is the finest in the world. Where hot wastes of sani made the eye glimmer three years ago are now the finest appleand peach orchards on the globe, and the valley has the second largest vineyard in the world. Lemons and oranges and fruits of the citron family are not raised on account of the frost. One hundred miles of railrord have been built in the valley and 400 more are projected. Oh, I tell you, Pecos vul- ey is a hummer.” —Chicago Herald. ——— American Males the Tallest. The English professional classes, who head the list as the tallest of adult males, attain the average height of five feet nine and one-quarter inches. Next on the list comes the American males, and a minute fraction behind them come the English of all classes. Most European Nations average for the adult male five feet six inches, but the Aus- trians, Spanish and Portuguese just fall short of this standard.—London Lan- cote Lu meme eer T—— CATE A Sr re ott vm yn ay - HOW ABOUT SER PEELE ERA DEUCE SER D DERE DEBE EE PUEDE FORE RERTTIUNES ORRIN LIA DE VIEL ISTRER s = E : i = 2 i x : 2 ETH EER En OR EE FOE ENE TEE RE IE i i en Are you a supporter of the present financial system, which congests the currency of the country periodically at the money centres and keeps the masses at the mercy of classes, or do you favor a broad and LIBERAL SYSTEM Which protects the debtor while it does justice to the creditor. If you feel this way, you should not be without that great champicn of the people's rights, The Atlanta Weekly Gonstitation Published at Atlanta, Ga., and having a circulation of MORE THAN 156,000 Chiefly among the farmers of America, and going into more homes than any weekly newspaper published on the face of the earth. IT IS THE BIGGEST AND BEST WEEKLY cis = Co Cr Newspaper published in America, covering the news of the world, having zorrespondents in every city in America and the capitals of Europe, and re- porting in full the details of the debates in Congress on all questions of public interest. THE + CONSTITUTION Is among the few great newspapers publishing daily editions on the side of the people as against European domination of our money system, and it heartly advocates: Believing that the establishment of [st. THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER. Jone iit fondu will wroek the prosperity of the great inasses of the people, though it may profit the few whe have already grown rich by federal protection and federal subsidy. 2d. TARIFF REFOR Believing that by throwing our ports open to markets of the world by levying only enough import duties to pay the actual expenses of the government, the people will be better served than by making them pay double prices for protection’s sake. 2 AN INCOME TAX Believing that those who have much property should : * bear the burdens of the government in the same propor- tion to those Who have little. The Constitution heartily advocates an EXPANSION OF THE CURRENCY Until there is enough of it in circulation to do the legitimate business of the country. If you wish to help in shaping the legislation of the government to these ends, GIVE THE CONSTITUTION YOUR ASSISTANCE, lend it a help- ing hand in the fight, and remember that by so doing you will help yourself, help your neighbors, and help your country! « THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION has no AS A NEWSPAPE * equal in America! Its news reports cover the world, and its correspondents and agents are to be found in almost every baliwick in the Scuthern and Western States. AS A MAGAZIN E « It prints more such matter as is ordinarily found ih * the great magazines of the country than can be gotten from even the best of them. « It is a schoolhouse within itself, g AS AN EDUCATOR: ©..%:. of THE CONSTITUTION is a bora education to anyone. + It brings cheer and comfort AS A FRIEND AND COMPANION: i it ciae ovary week. is eagerly sought by the children, contains valuable information for the mother, and is an encylopadia of instruction for every member of the household. ITS SPECIAL FEATURES Are such as are not to be found in any other paper in America. . THE FARM AND FARMERS’ DEPARTMENT, THE WOMEN’S DEPARTMENT, THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT. Are all under able direction and are specially attractive to those to whom these departments are addressed. 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