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Miss Canary’s Legacy. E
: BY F. L. BACON.
SA liNARasaasss sats sam ten
The wind was blowing in high and
from the sea. It always sounded with
that peculiar wail when it came sweep-
ing over the foam-touched waves as
| they lashed up against the beach. It
| was very strong tonight, and there was
{ had
| about
a dash of sleet with it. Miss Canary
drawn her striped shawl closer
her shoulders and stirred the
fire into a brighter glow.
She was a thin, angular woman, of
60 or Her face was hard with
many lines of care. She had not taken
life easily; though, living alone in the
little cottage, her simple, uneventful
life had had seemingly few grievances.
Miss Canary tended her flowers, kept
her house in order, and owed no one.
What cause had she then to worry?
Tonight she held in her hand a let-
ter, and more than once settled her
spectacles to re-read it. Joel Canary,
her only brother, was at the point of
death. How she had loved him! It
seemed, tonight, that she could
him so plainly—a little lad, when she
was already a woman grown, running
to her for everything, his sunny curls
tossing brightly over his white fore
Lead; could see again his laughing
eyes.
She had loved him
strength of her heart. But she had not
forgiven him for loving and marrying
as he had done. Shehad opposed itfrom
the beginning. A pink and white doll
face, that was all! It had been a grim
satisfaction, when the news came that
the foolish little woman had run away
from home to join some opera com-
pany, deserting child and husband.
That was what the story had been.
She had not cared to investigate it fur-
more.
see
with all the
ther. It was nearly five years ago, and
she had not forgiven Joel. He had
but met his deserts, she had said stern-
ly. Now he was dying. He had not
prospered, the letter said, and there
was nothing to leave, “nothing save
the little lad—Joel.” And the writer
begged in her brother's name, that she,
his only sister and kinswoman, would
care for the child. She, Eliza Canary,
who had no dealings with cliildren,
who dreaded their approach as some
unknown species of untamed animal!
She had suddenly the care and re-
sponsibility of one thrust upon her!
Her untasted tea stood on the little
round table. Mousey, the big Maltese,
rubbed herself against her mistress’
dre vainly desiring notice. Miss
Canary had indeed forgotten that she
had no tea, and that Mousey's saucer
of milk had not been poured. She
sighed heavily and folded up the let-
ter.
“It’s got to be, I s’pose,” she said.
Much living alone had given Miss Can-
ary the habit of talking to herself. “I
s'pose I know my duty; the Lord's
always made it plain enough for me,
whatever folks may say ’'bout not
knowing what the Almighty wants ‘em
to do. That's just shiftin’ the respon-
sibility, I'm thinking. Joel's child! I—
I almost wish I'd seem him afore he
went; but I told him I'd never speak
to him again if he married that girl,
an’ I never broke my word yet, an’
never intend to—but oh, I wish to
mercy the child hadn't never come!
How ever I'm to keer for it, I don’t
know. There'll be dirt over every-
thing—my carpets an’ clean floors; an’
noise like the Fourth of July all the
year round. An’ he'll be certain to
tease Mousey.”
Thislast was evoked
Mousey had put up her paw
gently patting Miss Canary’s lap.
old woman rose mechanically,
with hands that trembled a little,
poured the milk. The wind outside
blew the curtains at the windows. It
sounded like a voice of distress afar
off.
“I never knowed the wind to blow
that way and bring anybody luck,”
sald Miss Canary; “an’ it sure has
brought my share of trouble,” she ad-
ded with a groan.
For the next few days Miss Canary
held herself and home in readiness for
her new charge. She had repaired a
little white bed in a small but spot-
lessly clean room. She carefully laid
pieces of drugget by its sides for the
bare feet. She baked an overwhelm-
ing number of pies, and even made
doughnuts. She had not made any for
so long that they were rather a failure.
“But boys’ stomicks can stan’ most
anything,” she said, “an’ Joel used to
love ‘em s0.”
‘When finally the boy arrived, having
come in charge of a comparative stran-
ger traveling in the same direction,
Miss Canary was not prepared for him,
She was in the back yard hanging out
her modest array of washing, when
the vehicle stopped, and a tiny—such a
tiny—little figure was lifted out, and
then the driver whipped up his horse
and was off, leaving what looked like
a bundle of rags at the gate.
Miss Canary’s hands were wet, she
wiped them hastily upon her apron as
she hurried forward. Two grave blue
eyes—Joel’'s had been blue—met hers.
But what a baby! Surely she need
not fear dirty carpet and general de-
structiveness from such a child as
this. She gathered the little bundle
of clothes, as she called it, into her
arms and carried it swiftly in from
the keen east wind.
The child was indeed very small for
for his age of nearly six years. As he
sat eating thick slices of bread and
butter and drinking rich, sweet milk,
the like of which had never before
been his share, Miss Carney looked at
him in a sort of stupefied amazement.
To speak to him, to expect a reason-
able reply, did not occur to her. He
continued to cut bread and butter as
his requirements seemed to call for it,
and with great satisfaction she
watched the mouthfuls disappear.
When Joel had finished he got down
from the tall chair very gravely, and
came to her, folding his little hands
together.
“I fink I'll say my prayers
Aunty ’Liza.”
“Mercy, child!” gasped Miss Canary,
completely overcome by this familiari-
ty and the startling announcement.
“Who told you to call me that?’
“Papa; he tol’ me how you loved
little boys, an’ how you were goin’ to
buy me a rock’n’ horse an’ a sailboat,
an’ a canary bird an’ white mice; an’
now, Aunty ’Liza, I'll say my prayers.”
“But it isn’t time; it’s not night yet.”
by the factthat
and was
The
and,
now,
“Oh, that's noffin,” responded Joel,
cheerfully. “Papa always let me say
‘em ‘in the daytime—God’ll hear.”
Miss Canary was mute while the
little face buried itself in her apron,
and a smothered voice gabbled over,—
“Now I lay me,” and added, “Pease
b’ess mamma, papa, Aunty ‘Liza, an’
little Joe.” Then the tightly closed
lips relaxed and Joel sprang to hig
:
3
Auncy
feet. “Now
Liza!”
So the days went on, and Miss Ca-
nary’s charge thrived and grew like
the pink and white holiyhocks planted
against the kitchen wall. But things
did not go exactly as she had expected.
For instance, the very first night Joel
had flatly refused to occupy the little
white bed arranged with so much
care.
“I allus slept with papa,” he pleaded;
and Miss Eliza found nothing to do
but let him crawl into bed with her,
wheére he slept soundly and his head
resting constantly against her arm,
She found herself counting over ler
scanty hoard, to see what might be
spared for a rocking horse. She would
compromise upon that; the sailboat
would keep her in endless terror, and
how could she insult Mousey by instal-
ling white mice and a bird in her do-
main?
let's play horse,
Joel was very happy. As the spring
advanced he spent hours down on the
beach collecting treasures hitherto un-
known to him. Miss Canary was si-
lent when he showered jeliyfish and
“fiddlers” on her parlor floor. ay, she
even permitted the building of a “pond”
for his “fam’ly,” as Joel called them,
in the corner of her sitting room—a
pond formed of a dish pan surrounded
by bits of stick, rocks, and sand. She
used to pause every now find then in
her baking or cleaning, to go to the
front window and look for him on the
beach.
“I have to do my duty by the child,”
she said, apologetically.
So time passed on, and Joel had been
an inmate of the little cottage nearly
two years. It was a day bright with
the May sunshine, and Miss Canary
Lad set herself to work at cleaning the
cellar. “The brighter the day the bet-
ter to see the cobweds,” she said, as
she tied up her head and drew on a
pair of cotton gloves.
Joel was playing. He had put pre-
pared glue on Mousey and his own
hair was sticky with it. Miss Canary
did not know that.
Suddenly she heard his voice calling
her name excitedly. What was the
matter? She scrambled up the steps,
not waiting to remove her gloves. She
hastened to the front of the house
and flung open the door, drawing back
in horrified amazement.
Just outside, bending over the child,
the long plumes of her hat mingling
with his curls, was the slender, almost
girlish figure of a young woman. The
rich silk of her gown glistened in the
ght; there were bright colors in
her hat, and the soft hair under it
shone like gold. Joel's arms were
round her neck, and he turned, saying
with an air of pride,—
“Aunty "Liza, this is my mamma; I'se
been ‘spect'n’ her so long, oh, ever so
long, ‘cause papa said she'd come.”
Joel's mother unfastened his arms,
but still clasping the child, turned her
pretty, half-detiant face to Miss Ca-
nary.
“You are surprised to see me,” she
said, king gravely at the other's be-
wildered ce. “1 have known my
child was with you. I owe you a great
deal. I was with my husband when he
died, but I could not take Joel then.
I came up from Boston this morning
to get him. You will no doubt feel
glad to be relieved of him; you are un-
loo
used to children; Joel must be a trial |
to you.”
Miss Carney was still silent. She
felt as though a sudden paralysis had
seized her.
words choked her. She put out her
hands as though to ward off a blow.
“My position has not justified my
taking the child before,” continued
Joel's wife. “Now I have an assured
one which will enable me to amply
care for him. Oh, my baby, my baby!”
she cried,
“how I have hungered for you!”
Miss Canary’s grim face did not re-
lax.
“Then why did you desert him?”
tremabled on her lips. Words of pas-
sionate reproach, of hate, of anger,
arose within her. Still she stood si-
lent, the wind blowing the skirt of her
flimsy dress and the straggling locks of
her gray hair. With it all came her
stern sense of justice. This was the
boy's mother, who had the right to
him; how dare she question it? But
she made one last desperate effort.
“Joel,” she said, and her voice
trembled and shook, “would you rather
go with this lady, or stay with me an’
—an’ all your things?’ She clung to
the last inducement as to a straw of
hope.
The child looked at her
grave, questioning eyes, and,
with his
not loos-
ening his hold cn his mother, put out
a hand to her.
“I loves you an’ my fam'ly very
much, Aunty ‘Liza; but you see, this
is my mamma-—my truly mamma; I
couldn't help goin with her
Mrs. Canary showered kisses upon
him, and Miss Eliza turned away with
a sickening sense of defeat and misery
at her heart.
“I'll go pack up his things,” she said.
The waves were rolling inward, and
the wind was blowing high and from
the sea. The air was fuli of its wail,
as she stood and watched them as they
went.
She went about like one upon whom
some heavy blow had fallen. The
people missed her from the church,
They missed her active figure in the
village, and on the sands. She per-
formed her duties mechanically. It
seemed to her she had grown so old.
How empty the bed seemed! How
doubly empty the room! The “pond”
was undisturbed. A jellyfish sprawled
on the floor beside it. Miss Canary did
not remove it. To herself she dealt her
words sternly.
“It’s retribution. I wouldn't forgive
Joel; I vowed I never would an’ now
the Lord's punishing me.”
At the end of the tlrird month, the
moon, looking down, one night might
have smiled to see Miss Canary step-
ping cautiously out of her front door.
She was not wont to venture out at
night, and felt a certain sense of awe
and looked around half fearfully. She
locked the door and put the key in the
little worn satchel she carried. Every
window blind was drawn at front and
back. Without doubt, Miss Canary
was going away, but there was only
the sea and the wind to know it.
It was quite early the next morning
that she found herself in Boston and
at the door of the house to which, after
much inquiry, she had been directed.
A neat maid admitted her, and with
shaking limbs and trembling lips she
sat stifily on the high earved chair in
the hall. She was conscious that she
was squeezing a jellyfish or two, which
She tried to speak, but the |
smothering him with kisses, |
| then stopping short,
she had put in her pocket,
incapable of moving.
There was the soft rustle of a
woman's skirts, and then a graceiui
figure in a pretty morning gown came
leisurely towards her.
“The servant told me,” she began —
“why—why if it
isn't Miss Canary—Sister 'Liza, I mean
—why how do you do?”
She held out both hands, but Miss
Canary rose up solemnly.
“Wait er minute,” she said. “I want
to tel! you something. I didn’t forgive
Joel fur marey’n you; I sa’'d I wouldn't,
an’ I didn’t, an’ so the Lord pun-
ished me by lettin’ me have Joel's child,
an’ then, when I mos’ depended on it,
taking him away. Joel's dead, an’ I
can’t tell him, but mebby his sperit "ill
know of it, if you forgive me, an’ Ielu-
me live here—jus’ as—as er housexcep-
er—or somethin’, My salt riz bread is
good, an’ jus’ lemme—lemme see the
child.”
withered hands covering h r fac.
“Joel, Joel,” called his mother softly.
There was a patter of little feet, a
sound upon the stairs, a glad cry, and
a curly head rested upon Miss Canary’s
breast; her tears fell upon it.
“It wasn't altogetheras you thought,” |
Mrs. Canary said, as
fragrant coffee for Miss Eliza, while Joel
smeothed and patted his flabby and
flattened fish. “I didn’t desert Joel—”
her eyes filled with tears—“we couldn’t
make ends meet, and I—I had talent
and could sing; he was willing I should
go, and when he died, we both wanted |
you to have the child until I could take
him. I didn't mention that when I
wrote, because—well, because we were
not friends then, and
not understand. And now I have a
place assured me in a large church here,
and I do not have to be away from
home. Joel, tell Aunty ’Liza she’s
never to go away any more—except in
the summer, when we'll all go to her
Lome and spend it there on the beach,
with all the jellies and the nettles—and
—what else
“An’ my fam'ly,”
Honsekeening.
but she feli
said Joel.—Good
WHY AMERICANS WIN,
A Cheap Product Does Not Always Mean
Low Pay.
“We scarcely ever patent anything
nowadays,” said the representative of
a big house which makes wood-work-
ing machinery of all kinds. “A patent
is simply a licence to litigate, and it
generally costs more to prosecute an
infringer than the thing is worth either
in damages or as an example to others,
What we really look to for protection
is the superior skill and celerity of the
American mechanic. As a nation we
have made such rapid progress in ma-
chinery during the past few years that
no foreign manufacturer can possibly
keep up with us. That is not brag or
bluster or spread-eagle hyperbole, but
a cold, plain statement of fact. While
the English or French or German mak-
er is plodding away on an imitation of
one of our machines the model has be-
come obsolete and we have replaced
it with something batter. They steal
our ideas, all right enough, but they
can’t steal them fast enough to stay
abreast of the procession. I was in
Manchester, England, last year, and
went, by invitation, through a big
manufactory of agricultural inple-
ments. In one department I was a
little surprised to see a lot of workmen
engaged on plows of a well-known
American pattern. ‘Isn’t that the
same as So-and-So’s plow?’ I asked
my guide, who was a member of the
firm. ‘Well, yes, substantially the
same,’ he said looking a little confused,
‘but, yuu see, there are no English pa-
tents, and we haven't any intention
of putting it on the American mar-
ket.” ‘Well, 1 should say not!" I ex-
claimed; ‘and you couldn't sell any of
them if you did! That model was dis-
carded months ago and an improved
form has altogether taken its place.
The case is simply one out of dozens.
Another important point is this: Our
improved shop tools, our scientifie
methods of handling material and the
ingenious manner in which we utilize
what are called by-products, so as to
minimize waste, are enabling us to turn
out machinery as cheaply as the for-
eigners, in spite of the fact that we
pay nearly double their wages. From
present indications that gratifying
state of affairs seems likely to contiaue,
and it does away with the bugaboo ot
foreign cheap labor, which has hereto-
fore menaced the business. It proves
that a cheap product doesn’t necessari-
ly mean low pay."—New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS,
An ingenious mechanical device
pastes paper labels on 100,000 cans in
10 hours. Down shoot rolls a cease-
less procession of cans, and each one
picks up a label as it passes.
The ostrich has long been laughed
at for pushing his head into a bush
when hunted. It is really far the
wisest thing the bird could do, for its
long neck is by far the most easily
seen part of it. Its body plumage har-
monizes perfectly with the desert
sand.
A citizen of Lewiston, Me, has a
watch chain made of nine peach
stones. Lach of the stones has a dif-
ferent device carved on each side, so
that there are 18 designs. The stones
are joined with bars of gold, the whole
making a rich and novel chain.
It is not often that one pair of shoes
will do two men, but in Middlesboro,
Ky., they are two men who wear the
same size shoe, and make it a point
to buy together, and only have to get
this method they are
one pair. By
able to get their footwear at half
price, as they divide the cost.
In Tasmania are large forests of the
Australian beech, a tree which some-
times measures 30 feet or more in cir-
cumference at the base of the trunk.
The wood is employed for purposes
similar to those served by the beech
1s of northern forests, but it is
herder and heavier, polishes easily,
and is very lasting if not exposed to
the weather.
Falcon island, in the Pacific ocean,
which originally emerged from the
sea after the eruption of a submarine
volcano near Truga, and remained
above the surface for precisely 13
years before vanishing two years ago,
is reported by the British crusier Por-
poise to be reappearing and to be a
serious menace to navigation. It was
nine feet out of the water a few
months ago and may be a mountain
now, for all anybody knows.
A newsboy at Earl Park, Ind. has
been made insane by a praetical joke
of companions, who gave him a shock
by a pretended hanging.
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She broke down sobbing, her |
she poured hot, |
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felt you would '
LOVE.
And what is love? It is a thrill
That percolates throughout
And sweetly tickles you until
You're in a state of wild unrest!
It is an effervescing sense
Of sparkling rapture; sort of fizz
f heavenly nectar so intense
It makes you drunk with
A sweet phantasmagorian dream
That comes upon you while awake
And monkeys with you till you seem
With pent-up bliss to fairly ache!
And that is love; at least that be
The way it always works on me!
— Denver Evening Times.
HUMOROUS,
Sprigs—What is your son bent on,
Wilks?
time.
Blobbs—Skinnum is always moving.
How long do you suppose he will stay
in our neighborhood? Slobs—Just as
long as his credit lasts, I suppose.
A little girl having heard one lady
observe to another that she was weal-
ing half mourning for a distant rela-
tive asked: “Is your relative only half
dead?”
“What is a queen, Willie?” asked the
Sunday-school teacher of a small pu-
pil. “A queen,” answered Willie, “is
a woman that rules a man that rules a
country.”
Stubb—You say he is very sensitive
about being called awkward? Penn—
Yeg! when he accidentally gashed him
self Tih a razor he tried to make peo-
ple believe he had attempted suicide.
Wilks—A bicycle, most of the
Tommy—-Pop, what isrepartee? Town
my’s Pop—Repartee with most people,
my son, consists of thinking, after it’s
all over, what they might have said
if they had only thought of it in time.
Muggins—Since your brother Bjones
married old Millyun's daughter he
hasn't done a stroke of work. DBug-
ging—He says he had to work hard
enough to get her to last him for the
rest of his life.
“It is rumored,” said the
“that the engagement is announced of
gossip.
a Mr. Patrick Cassidy to the wealthy
Mrs. Blublud. Is that really so?
“Yes,” replied the man who knows:
“Mr. Cassidy has been cus ol as
coachman.”
“The so-called ‘American lion”
said the professor of natural history.
“is merely the puma, but that is not
the King of Beasts. Where is the lat
ter to be found?’ “In Africa,” replied
the bright scholar. “Correct. And it
is called?’ “The British lion.”
“Oh, dear,” exclaimed the wealthy
housekeeper, arranging for her day's
marketing; “I find it so hard to get
up a dinner.” “Really,” remarked her
bachelor brother, who had just re-
turned from the Paris Exposition,
“you should try an ocean voyagi
After two solid hours of moonlight
and uninterruption she thought she
had him. “I admit that you are the
sweetest—" “Yes, go on,” she whis
pered. “But the doctor has forbidden
me sweets,” he added. And the sen-
sitive moon retired behind a cloud.
NICETIES OF FOOTBALL,
Why It Deserves to Rank as the Most
Scientific Intercoll te Game,
“Football, to the mind, is by all odds
the most scientific of any of the inter-
collegiate games and the best,” says
an expert. “Men of almost every
weight can play it, that is to say, from
140 pounds up. Few people realize it,
but every play is worked out on paper
previous to being tried. In the larger
colleges, where 30 or 40 men may be
trying for the team, the various plays
are taught to them on a blackboard.
The gridiron is first laid out, and then
the oposing teams are set down. Then
a play is shown, and the instructor
demonstrates the position each man is
to occupy and what he is expected to
do when that particular player's sig-
nal is given. Each play is in turn
shown to the squad, and they must
learn them all. As there are usually
30 to 40 different signals, it is quite a
feat to keep them in mind. A young
friend of mine, who was a ‘sul’ last
season, but who hopes for better things
this year, told me he had to play over
the signals every night and
on a checker board. He had pasted
pieces of paper on the checkers to des- |
Jt is a very i
are |
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ignate what they were.
good scheme that. The
usually given by the captain, but the)
may be given some one else if it
seems best. Usually the quarterback,
signals
if he is cool headed and not likely to
From his po- |
rattle, is the best man.
sition he sees better than any one else
on a team and is better able pick out
the weak spots in the opposing team’s
defence. As a usual thing football
elevens depend on certain
and recognized plays, although they
are always trying to invent ground
gaining tricks to spring on their oppo-
nents. The only trouble with trick
plays is that they are generally good
only once and cannot be repeated. One
of the modern developments is the
open game, that is, kicking the ball out
of danger. A good fullback is worth
any other two or even three men on the
team when it comes to this game. A
fullback who can kick with either foot
is worth his weight in gold: for when
he is attacked on one side he can use
the other. All in all, it is a wonder-
fully interesting sport and I am
for the season for it to begin again.”—
New York Tribune.
ger.
Largest Dog in the World.
In the town of Rutland, Vt. lives
Nero a huge German and English mas-
tiff, which enjoys the distinction of
probably being the largest dog in the
world.
Nero is owned by Judge Wayne Bail-
ey of Rutland. Irom tip to tip Nero
measures seven feet four inches, and
he tips the scales at 285 pounds.
He stands nearly three feet in hotgnt
and he measures round his
inches. The circumference of his brass
collar is 382 inches, and his foreleg
measures 165 inches.
Nero is very fond of the fair sex,
and is a special favorite with the ladies
and children.
Nero's daily rations consist of
pan of corncake and milk.
only meal, and, strange to say,
large a dog he has a light appetite,
a big
Too Much Sail.
A somewhat cantankerous old farm- |
in Shrop- |
er wholived in a small village
shire, took to himself a young wife.
After the union, however,
did not seem to agree as well
have been expected. One day
altercation,
worst of it, the vicar
happening to meet the old man, re-
buked him for his harshness, remind-
ing him that the wife was *‘the weak
er vessel.”
“Well, sir,” was thedog
“if she be the weaker v
ought ter carry so much s
as might
after an
Spare Moments.
your breast |
bliss! It is |
morning |
standard |
This is his |
i
for so
the parties |
in which the wife had the |
of the parish, |
‘KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
|
|
| Will Deve op Rich Coal Lands in Blair and
! Cambria Counties—New Electric
| Line for Uniontown.
{
{ADD PA
| Pensions have been granted the fol-
Christopher Hutzen,
oseph P. North, Punx-
sutawney, $10; Frederick Byers, Turtle
Seek, $3; David Craft, Philipsburg,
airsellus Noss, Coraopolis, $3;
To a Keyes, Pleasantville, $8; far-
vey Coburn, dead, Uniontown, i
William J. Jamison, Chicora, $1 i
iam Harper, Bellefonte, $12; te
Lowry, Bellefonte, $8; Joel Pancoast,
Elizabeth, $8; William Bice, Mount
Union, $8; Susan Coburn, Uniontown.
lowing persons:
Duquesne, $1
Cd
$3; John 0. A. Wageley, Wilkinsburg,
$6: Thomas E. Barnes, McKeesport,
$6; Nelson T. Hicks, Blairsville, $10.
Five
E y for foreign fields. Miss Mary
ms and Mrs. W. J. Brandon will
go to the famine-stricken districts of In-
fia, Miss Lucy Powell will work among
Japanese, while Mr. and Mrs. Cov-
entry, who were married a few weeks
ago, will go to Egypt.
ates of Grove City college.
A mortgage for $400,000 in favor of
the Land Title and Trust Company, of
P'hiladelphia, and against the Clearfield
Coal and Coke Company, of the same
city, has been recorded.
covers 6,532 acres of the richest coal
iands in Blair and Cambria counties,
and also the entire town of Frugality,
which is owned by the
The lands will be greatly developed and
many coke ovens will be constructed by
the company.
struction of a stretch of sample road in
North Strabane township, Washington
county, has arrive For nearly a
month ten jail prisoners have been quar-
rving stone for road making purposes
T. H. Musson,
has been on the ground for several days.
There is enough material now ready to
build about one-half mile of macadamiz-
ed road.
While
grading on
workmen were
Pleasant street,
engaged in
Rochester,
fully 10 feet from the original surface
at that place. A few days ago a petrified
head of some huge animal like an ele-
commander of the Tenth Pennsylvania
regiment in the war with Spain, whose
husband died while the regiment was en
route home from the Philippines, has
been granted a pension of $30 a month,
gular rate for the widows of
The 1 T
nis Construction Company cf
Philade Iphia, has been awarded the
contract for building the new electric
road of the Uniontown & Monongahela
Valle Railroad Company. The tracks
will extend through the new Mason
town coke fields, making from 16 to 20
miles of track.
Mrs. George Speer, of Franklin, aged
38. a widow, committed suicide by
shooting herself twice above the heart
with a revolver. No cause is assigned
for her act, and after the fatal shots had
been fred her nerve evidently failed h
for she begge »d people to save her life.
A deal been concluded for one
of the large st tracts of timber land ever
! ; high, as the land had been assess-
ed at $1 per
acre,
cured a preliminary injunction against
lusion between the latter company
councils is alleged.
officials are investigating
ysterious theft from the New
Castle office of $1,0c0 worth of revenue
stamps from the box of the Standard
Brewing Company. The stamps were
in a package, which was placed in the
box late at night.
Attorney John A. Emery,
best known members of the
county bar, was instantly killed at the
Ft. Wayne Railws: ay station near his
home at Sewickley at 8:07 Tuesday
and
one of the
Allegheny
inP ittsburg.
Andrew Carnegie has presented the
’arnassus United Presbyterian congre-
gation a handsome pipe organ for use
iin the new church. The instrument will
| be installed within the next few weeks.
In North mecauntain, near Roxbury,
Lee Hull, a farmer, aged 23 years, was
mistaken for a wild turkey by Wilson
cnhour and shot dead. Spoonhour
gave himself up to the authorities.
| Edward Matthews, a New Castle tin
plate worker, was given knockout drops
by 2 stranger and narrowly escaped
1
Jeannette P. Dunmire, of Altoona,
committed suicide at Kittanning by tak-
ing carbolic acid. The girl was about
21 years old, and had only been there
for a few days, being employed as a
waitress in the Nulton house.
The Pittsburg and Buffalo Coal Com-
pany, which began operations in Can-
onsburg, Washington county, has reach-
missionaries left Mercer county |
All are gradu- |
The mortgage
the Philadelphia capitalists who control
The machinery to be used in the con- |
an expert road builder, |
a chain about 12 feet long was dug up
phant was exhumed near where the
chain was found.
Mrs. Cynthia Hawkins, widow of the |
| the ultimate solution of the rapid tran
0 Id in Westmoreland county. Judge |
V. Parker, of Cambria county, pur-
2 sed 1,951 acres in St. ir tow nship,
for $25,000. The price is regarded as
The New Castle Electric Co. has se- |
| the city, restraining it from contract-
| ing with the Citizens’ Light, Heat & |
| Power Co. to light the streets. Col-
| Shepherd's Bush,
corporation. |
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hallows, of Peckham St.,
Mass., have cause to thank Dr. Greene's
robably preserving the life of their little son.
es was troubled with indigestion and nervous tr oubles,
seemed to help him. Finally Dr. Greene's Nervura was recommended and trie
A few bottles were sufficient to effect a cure, and to-day the little
with success.
one is enjoying the best of health. By the
sickly child was transformed into a happy, hearty
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Thousands of other children can thank Dr. Greene and his wonderful
remedy for the strength and health they enjoy.
have less sickness, better health, better growth, and longer and more vigorous
Parents should realize that it is their duty to g
There are no diseases more dreaded by
Yet no child would be trouble
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lives.
is not in perfect health.
fits, epilepsy, and St. Vitus’ dance.
if
Charles L. McBay, a
officer, who resides at 14
Mass., says:
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Soon after she was prostrated by rheumatism, which severely
from St. Vitus’ dance.
affected her low limbs.
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1
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appetite retur ned, her pains Jisppenrehy she wa in ¢
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children.”
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discovery of the well-known Dr. Greene, of 35 West 14th Street, New York
City, who is the most successful specialist in curing all forms cf nervous
chronic complaints, and he can be consulted in any case, free of charge,
personally or by letter.
Rapid Transit Problem.
That underground electric traction is |
sit problem in the larger cities of this!
country and Europe has long been ap-
parent to engineers. The recent sub-
way plans suggested by President Roach
as a solution of the traction problem in
this city, while deemed somewhat chi-
merical by many, are nevertheless in
line with modern progress in systems of |
urban transportation, says the Chicago
Times-Herald. |
Fresh interest in the practicability and
economy of underground street railway
transportation is stimulated by recent
reports from the success of the under-
ground electric railway in London. This
line, which extends from the Bank of
England in the center of the city to
a distance of six
miles, and which required four years to
construct and an outlay of $17,032,850,
was opened on July 30 last. Its suc-
cess was immediate and notable. In a
letter to the state department Consul
General Osborne writes that in three
| days the road was used by 260,000 pass-
| engers.
morning, while on his way to his office |
| vast network of underground,
|
ed coal in a slope just completed and |
an erect a tipple at once.
Judge Miiler, of Mercersburg, has
ordered Sharon justices not to send
short. term prisoners to the county jail. |
He says they should be made to wok |
on Sharon strects
Angus Tibbs, known as “Eatabite,”
who spends most of his time in jail, es-
caped from jail at Uniontown recently,
and is still at large. He is a negro,
about 30 years old.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The foot and mouth disease has brok- |
en out in the Berlin abattoirs.
President Diaz has appointed Raf: nel] |
' Rebollar attorney general of Mexico
The congress of Ecuador has arrang-
ed to pay the entire foreign debt.
The complete suppression of the revo
lution in Santo Domingo is officially
announced.
Honolulu has contributed $3,300 ta
the fund for the relief of the sufferers
at Galveston.
From present indications at Wash-
ington the cost of the present census
will be $15,000,000.
Lord Curzon says 500,000 deaths in
India have been due to the famine,
but relief is in sight.
| The Germans have demanded and ob-
tained of the Russian the railway from
Tien Tsin to Pekin,
| The Berlin Municipal Council
appointed a commission to
the scarcity
Sta
has
investigate
of dwellings in Berlin.
of Colorado and the cattle-
working together, are offering
7 for every coyote scalp presented.
The bureau of engraving and print-
i devised a scheme to prevent the
< evenue stamps a second time.
Denver, Col, is to have a new reser-
| voir about fifty miles away. The dam
to be 220 feet high and will cost $70c0,-
Ste
<
°
5 Shade Tn have
erto Pest imported from Germany.
{ Signor Marconi has
nieans of insuring the privacy of wire-
less teleg 1s by a system of * ‘tuning”
New York city protest-
, and Wa ashi an made represent.
ations to France.
invented a
ng and receiving instru-
n fransstission of mails
rts of delivery and
|
| makeshiits
| preliminary to the
The road has many American
innovations, which are greatly appreciat-
ed by Londoners. It is equipped with
luxurious vestibule cars and 28 topedo-
shaped engines, which were built in the
United States.
So great has been the success of the
underground electric that engineers
freely make the prediction that in ten
years London will be supplied with a
electric
railways, with a grand belt of electric
lines encircling the metropolis. The
new system, it is claimed, has not only
emptied the omnibuses, but has thinned
out the crowds on the pavement.
There is little doubt that any plans
affecting the surface lines in Chicago
and New York are only* temporarv
to be regarded ag merely
final underground
solution of the traction problem2—the
only solution that will relieve the con- :
| gestion in the streets and give rapid
i shows that,
| single year,
considerable when decades are compa-
led
transit by doing away with street cro
ings.
The Best Prescriptica for Chills
and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELERS
CHILL TON10. It is simply iron and quinine in
a tasteless form. No cure—no be y. Price boc.
Shore Sinking, Sea Encroaching.
That the shore of the Gulf upon]
which Galveston is situated is gr radually |
sinking is a fact which cannot be dis- |
{regarded. A city which has an cleva-|
tion of only 12 feet at most cannot last |
long even with a subsidence of one to
|two feet in a century. Direct evidence |
of the general sinking of the Atlantic
coast 1s given by the configuration of
the land. Even the historical record
though imperceptible in a
the advance of the sea is
and enormous when
York Post
¢ measured by
centuries.—New
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