tHE OLD HOME DAYS.
Old stone doorstep! Blessings on you!
1'd have known you if I'd met you anywhere!
Greetings! Blessings!
You have suffered no “repair.”
Sixty years and more have faded since you anchored by the door
Where the wide back porch was shaded by the ancient sycamore,
Waving soft, through Memory’s haze,
In the dear home days!
Old stone doorstep! I recall you!
And he said ‘‘By George!
Father found you on the hill,
I'll haul you where you'll make a noble sill
Summat rough, but wight be rougher; 'nough sight smoothern me, I guess;
All of us that toil and suffer must be wrinkled more or less.”
That was just like father's ways
in the old home days!
80 he hitched the oxen to you in the path the water wore,
Slowly slew you round and grew you to the open kitchen door,
Where the crowbar made you worry.and the heavy iron mace—
And I laughed to see you hurry as you wrigglec into place:
And he said: “I'll bet it stays!”
. In the far home days!
And you stayed, O stair of granite! of our home and life a part;
Not a throne upon the planet touches so the truant heart.
As fond memory backward glances through the labyrinth of years
Round thee troop the pictured fancies ‘mid the laughter and the tears,
And we thread the tangled maze
To the old home days!
Oh, .the orchard and the garden, and the elms arrayed in state!
.8till one giant, like a warden, towers beside the open gate!
How le ciptured us and swung us—oh, the mad and merry wight!—
Through the tangled branches flung us till we shouted with delight!
Ob, the joyance ef the plays
In the long home days!
Peaceful hours! The twilight shadows ofthe harvest evening gray
Brought the blossoms of the meadows in the odors of the hay,
i “And the cows from out the clover tinkied that the day was done,
And the bees went droning over with their golden armor on
Through the sunset’s fading rays
In the sweet home days! -
: “Hung above you ‘on the'trellis were the Concords in the'dew, : :
' Grilving swee tr for the chalice as the jodund Summer flew, = ©
++. And yosrheard the water4umble where the river breaks in twain 8
_ And the rum' = and the grumble of the grinding of the grain,
And you witched éach changing phase
«x Of the oii home days!
' Dear old doo step! Oh, the prances of the children on the grass,
-3
<“+And the gam-i3ls ani the danees of the laughin iad and lass,
And the songs we sang and chan‘ed as the hours of evening sped!
Oh, thd Sacred Spot i haunted with the :aes of the dead
«+. And the echees of the lays
Sung in the old home days!
Memories throng: The heart is swelling till the pain has found relief;
.Holy sorrow’s pearls are welling froin the blessed fount of grief :
For the music hushed and vanished, for the voices round the door
And the footprints that have vanished from the path forevermore,
As through blinding mists we gaze
‘Loward the old home days!
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—W. A. Croffut, in Springfield Republican.
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g Two Warriors and Their Last Charge.
By JOHN W. HARDING, Pp
Author of “The Gate of .the Kiss.”
4
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“Heard the latest from the Philip-
pines?” queried young Lieut. Gay at
the Raconteurs’ club, as he glanced up
from his newspaper at a number of
the members who, cigar in mouth,
were enjoying the post-prandial hour
of dclce far niente, utterly indifferent,
in their contentment and comfortable
surroundings, to the wind that rat-
tled and the rain that beat against
the windows of their Fifth Avenue
clubhouse. “Here's a single Filipino
who has the sand to charge a whole
American column!”
“Wow!” chorused his listeners, in-
credulously. “And what happened to
the gentle Tagalog?”
“He isn’t, or I suppose it is safe to
say wasn’t a Tagalog, but a Moro,” re-
plied the lieutenant, ‘though I sup-
pose all Filipinos are alike to us here.
As to what happened to him, the dis-
patch leaves it to the ‘imagination.
This is all it says:
“Manila, Sept.‘ 27—Three compa-
nies of infantry, commanded by Capt.
Eli A. Helmnick of the 10th regiment,
left Camp Vicars, Island ¢i Mindanao,
Thursday, to reconnoitre the Moro
forts and recover stolen arms. They
encountered only slight opposition.
The column captured and destroyed
the Butig forts. A few Moros were
killed. ‘The American troops had no
casualties. A fanatical ‘Moro, armed
with a bolo, charged the column alone.”
‘ There was silence for a moment, as:
each man, impressed by the dispatch
writers’ laconic reference to the in-
cident, mentally paid his tribute of
pity and respect to the battle-frenzied
patriot of the distant isle who thus su-
perbly had defied fate and the might
of his country’s conquerors and, armed
with a useless sword, had courted a
warrior’s ‘death from half a thousand
lightning bolts. Then a slight, elegant
man of medium height, with clean-cut
features and a gray pointed beard re-
marked quietly:
“That recalls a similar and very ex-
traordinary incident which I witnessed
in the Soudan in 1885.”
The speaker was Stanford Hylish, a
visiting English journalist and ex-
war correspondent. to whom the cour-
tesies of the club had been extended.
The entire company was attention im-
mediately, and Mr. Hylish, on being
pressed, continued:
“It was during the operations, begun
too late, alas! for the rescue of Gor-
don at Khartoum. I was with the col-
umn commanded ty Gen. Sir Herbert
Stewart, which made that famous dash
across the desert to Metemneh when
1500 Tommies and bluejackets at Abu
Klea fought off 10,000 tribesmen whose
valor is immortalized in Xipling's
barrack-rcom ballad ‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’:
‘“‘An’ ere’s to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with
your ’ayrick ’ead of ’air—
big black boundin’ beggar—for
you broke a British square.’
“The column was made up of tae
Sussex regiment, mounted infantry,
a camel corps of guardsmen, and a
detachment of men-o’-war’s men, with
a troop of the Nineteenth Hussars
acting as scouts. We hurried along
with us four screw guns and a couple
of gatlings. Big Col. Fred Burnaby,
of ‘The Ride to Khiva’ fame, was of
the expedition, and rejoicing mightily
thereat, caring nothing (if he had any
premonition of his fate) that it was to
mark the close of his adventurous ca-
reer. Not having been able to get
himself sent to the front, he had se-
cured several months’ leave of ab-
gence, and, armed with a shotgun, had
overtaken the army on the Nile, hav-
ing dodged, by avoiding the Egyptian
towns, imperative orders to return
You
interception by the war office authori-
ties, who had learned of his departure.
“We had made a forced march of 18
hours and were nearing the wells at
Abu Klea, Not a man had had a mor-
sel to eat or a drop to drink during
all that time. Most of us were on the
verge of prostration from fatigue and
the torture caused by the sand and fine
dust which clogged our mouths, ears,
and noscrils, causing an intolerable
thirst, ‘and penetrated our worn and
in many cases ragged clothing. [he
scouts dashing in at breakneck speed
apprised us of danger, ‘and we barely
had time to form a square about our
baggage and animals when two mighty,
surging torrents of black
swept upon us.
“Three minutes after the first horde
got within range we ‘could scarcely see
each other, owing to the smoke from
the rifles. There was no wind.” The
atmosphere, heavy with the terrible
heat, as it seemed to us, appeared to
concentrate :the powder smoke in 2a
dense, acrid, choking” pall
which it was impossible to see the on-
rushing tribesmen. . The screw guns
had to be cleared of sand before they
could be put into action. As for the
Gatlings, they had to be taken to
pieces and cleaned. Bluejackets in-
side the square were doing this ex-
peditiously, but with the utmost calm-
ness, amid pandemonium, for the men
hayirg the tussle of their lives. Some
of the. camels and horses had been
wounded, and were _ squealing and
plunging madly. Meanwhile officers
were rushing along the rear of the
lines of the square, shouting amid the
din into the ears of the men to aim
low at their invisible foes.
“Suddenly, on the left rear of the
square, where the heavy cavalry and
camel corps men had formed, an im-
mense black mass which had broken
through the terrible circle of fire
ilcomed through the smoke cloud at
the very barrels of the rifles, and,
hurling itself upon the square with
the irresistible force of an avalanche,
broke through the lines. Some of the
cavalrymen, true to their instincts,
and lacking the infantrymen’s train-
ing to meet such an emergency, broke
ranks and rushed at the enemy. The
others and the infantry stood their
ground, and by dint of terrific fighting
closed the gap. Many of the hapless
cavalrymen thus shut out fell, pierced
by the bullets of their comrades. Tae
tribesmen who had broken through
were quickly cut down, though not
before Coi. Burnaby and many othcr
gallant fellows had been killed. Bur-
naby, you may recall, received a spear
thrust in the throat. Gen. Stewart
himself had a narrow escape, his horse
being slain under him.
“Meanwhile one of the fiercest and
bldodiest hand-to-hand fights in the
annals of warfare was in progress all
along the line. Every man, handi-
capped from the first by exhaustion
through he was, knew that not only
his own existence, but the lives of the
entire command, depended’ upon the
square being kept intact. Tommies
and tars fought like demons, and for
the first time I ‘understood how the
expression ‘to swear like a trooper’
probably had its origin, for while they
fought they swore continuously and
horribly, and the curses of the wound-
ed would in any other circumstances
have been frightful to hear. What
they were ‘up against,’ as you Ameri-
cans say, will be better understood
when I tell you that those gigantic
and absolutely fearless blacks hurled
themselves upon the bayonets and de-
telegraphed to every point of possible liberately impaled themselves in order
to reach and enable other warriors
behind them to attain, with their
spears and long swords the men hold-
ing the square.
“All this took place in a few min-
utes. Then the gatlings and other
guns got to work and the black mass
withered away in their fire and the
leaden hail from the rifies.
“The result is matter of history. Our
casualties were nine officers and 65
non-commissioned officers and men
killed and 85 wounded. The tribes-
men left about 2000 killed and wound-
ed on the field.
“It was then that the incident re-
called by the lone Filipino with his
bolo occurred. Nearly an hour after
it was all over and the black host had
vanished, the men not engaged in at-
tending to the wounded and the ani-
mals were drawn up awaiting orders.
Théy were in. loose lines, propping
themselves om. their rifles and discuss-
ing the battle. A. thousand yards away.
a superb Fuzzy-Wuzzy rose amid the
hillocks of slain and looked wildly
upon the scene of carnage about him.
He was of uncommon stature and
proportions,. even for these big ath-
letic men of the desert, and evidently
a chief. His actions attracted imme-
diate attention.
grim ranks of ‘the conquerors from the
north who were blazing the way for
the advance of civilization .into the
wild fastnesses.. of his ‘ancestors;
scanned the horizon on. every side in
vain for a trace of the Mahdi’s mighty
and reputed invincible cohorts; looked
once more upon the bodies heaped and
strewn around him, then picked up a
shield and spear, and: with a scream of
defiance and despair. charged upon the
army at full speed! .
“The Tommies who had supposed
he was wounded as he doubtless was,
unless he had been simply stunned by
a bullet-were astonished beyond meas-
ure. Not quite knowing whether to
take him seriously they were reluctant
to kill him. Besides, perhaps they felt
a little sympathetic admiration for
him. But the warrior was out for
blood, and evidently not disposed to
listen to argument. His poised spear
meant death to some one, and amid
cries of ‘Don’t shoot; ‘it ’im a toss
with the butt!’ ‘Look out; ’e’s as mad
as a March hare!” and ‘Give it to the
poor beggar; it can’t be helped!’ a doz-
en men raised their rifles, there was a
crackling fire, and the warrior pitched
forward and lay about 100 yards from
the detachment of guards.
“That night, while soldiers and sail-
ors, exhausted as men rarely are, were
dreaming the battle over again, or of
those they had left behind in the
peaceful towns and villages of England,
1 lay slepless from nervous excitement,
watching the sentries silhouetted in
the violet night and the great bright
| stars that twinkled seemingly so near
humanity |
to earth as to be almost within reach.
The vision of that .solitary warrior,
such was the impression he made upon
me, recurred with depressing persist-
ence, and, though I have seen many
| terrible scenes of suffering and hero-
|
ism in war, as it frequently-has done
since, and probably will continue to do
when 1 am alone with my thoughts,
| until at my last bivouac I fall into the
i
| ‘slumber that knows no dreaming.’”’—
| New
through |
York Tribune.
QUAINT AND. CURIOUS.
It is stated that the largest steel
plate ever rolled was one recently
turned out by the Parkgate Worss,
England; it is 30 feet long, 10 feet six
inches wide and 7-8 of an inch thick. -
!. In Egypt nets are spread along the
told off to look after the animals were | iw
cqast, in which hundreds of thousands
of ‘the birds which come from Europe,
all worn out from the long flight
across the ocean, are caught, slaugh-
tered, and sold for two cents apiece.
Among the material used in the con-
struction of the new Christ's Hospital
at Horsham, England, were 40
miles of hot water pipes, 98 miles of
electric wire, 20,000,000 bricks, 1,500,-
000 tiles, five acres of wood fiooring,
100,000 cubic feet of stone and 56,000
tons of cement, sand and breeze,
An American inventor of infinite re-
sources and sagacity has utilized rats
to lay the telephone cables through
the conduits. Several rats were turned
loose in the conduit with a ferret af-
ter them, to which was attached a
cord. Through 700 feet of the conduit
the merry chase was carried, and the
rats emerged into daylight at the other
end just a few feet ahead of the ferret,
which was probably impeded some-
what by the cord.
Snakes in menageries often fast
many months. Cases were recorded at
the Paris Museum of a rattlesnake
which refused food 26 months and a
python which fasted 29 months. But
the record belongs to a Japanese py-
thon which arrived in Paris in Novem-
ber, 1899. It died in April, 1902, after
having refused food for two years
five months and three days. During
that time its weight had decreased
from 75 kilogrammes to 27.
A telegram from Marseilles relates
a terrible accident which caused the
death of a young man of 18, in the em-
ployment of the electric tramway com-
pany, says the Paris Messenger. His
duty was to examine the working of
the lamps in a number of carriages
at the depot, and in order to facilitate
his task he placed several coils of
wire round his neck. He went from
car to car in this way, when, while
crossing the tram lines, he stumbled
and fell. The ground being damp, a
connection was established and the
unfortunate youth was killed outright.
When picked up his head was found
to be completely carbonized.
He gazed at the thin, |
UTILIZING OF WASTE.
PROGRESS IN BY-PRODUCTS’ MANU-
FACTURE IN RECENT YEARS,
The World’s Increment of Wealth De-
pendent Upon Finding Economical Uses
for Industrial substances — Ways in
Which Kefuse Is Made Productive.
The following extracts are taken
from a report by Henry T. Kittredge
of Boston to the director of the cen-
sus upon the utilization of wastes and
by-products’ in manufactures. Mr. Kit-
tredge is & weil-known expert in man-
ufacturing proc¢esses:
“Nothing in the arts of manufae-
ture is more’ indicative of ‘economic
efficiencies thah.the utilization of pro-
ducts that have:been rejected as waste
or residues inithe industrial processes.
“The acme of industrial economy is the
profitable employment! of every atom
of materialy in whatever’ form it may
‘be ; Presented or however obtained.
Every particle of an organic or inor-
ganic substance has a useful part to
play in contributing to human necessi-
ties or pleasures, and When it per-
forms no function toward some useful
end, or remains dormant, it shows that
the ingenuity and enterprise of man
have not reached their’ fullest devel-
opment, or that the arts of the labora-
tory haye not revealed all the secrets
of nature; :" hd :
“For nearly a century the world’s
main supply of soap depended on soda,
which was obtained as a product of
the sulphuric-acid industry. Notwith-
standing soap was known to the an-
cients, it was regarded ‘even in the
middle ages as a luxury, and when it
was not readily obtained, the lack of
cleanliness was concealed by fine
clothes and by perfumes. The soda
industry being brought to a standstill
in France during the French revolu-
tion, the national convention of that
country appealed to the chemists to
discover some metnod for making soda
from common salt, which had been
shown by Du Hamel, in 1736, to con-
tain the same base as soda. About
40 years thereafter, Scheele found that
caustic soda could be obtained from
salt by the action of lead oxide; but
the production of soda by chemical
processes was unimportant from an
industrial standpoint until Le Blanc
secured results that gave to the world
one of its principal industries. His
discovery was based upon the treat-
ment of chloride of sodium with sul-
phuric acid, forming hydrochloric
acid and sulphate of soda. The hydro-
chloric acid was regarded as a by-
product of so little value that it was
allowed to pass off into the air, to the
great detriment of wegetation in the
neighborhood. To remedy this evil
the English government took action
against the soda works to compel
them to condense the acid and keep
it ‘out of the way, and this led in-
directly to the discovery that hydro-
chloric ‘acid could be used as a valua-
ble agent in the bleaching industry,
which, however, was at that time far
from having attained its present height
of ‘development.
“The. choicest perfumes that are
placed upon the market are no doubt
obtainédd from oils and ethers extract-
ed from flowers; but there are many
others which are artificially made,
many out of bed-smelling elements.
The fusel oil obtained in the distilla-
tion;.of spirits has an odor that is
peculiarly disagreeable, yet it is used,
after treatment with proper acids and
oxidizing agents, in making the oil
of apples and. the oil of pears; and
the oil of grapes and the oil of cognac
are little more than fusel' oil diluted.
Oil cf pineapple is best made by the
action of putrid cheese om sugar, or
by distiling rancid butter with alcohol
and sulphuric acid. One of the most
popular perfumes may be obtained
from one of the products of gas tar,
out of which is also obtained the oil
of bitter almonds, so largely cousumed
in the manufacture of perfumed soap
and confectionery. -
The refuse of cities throughout the
civilized world is now generally col-
lected and disposed of for sanitary
reasons, though ‘in many . instances
£
industrial purposes. The collection
of this refuse has been made only
within a comparatively few years, but
is now carried on systematically, being
more or less self-supporting and ad-
vantageous from an industrial point
of view. Formerly this refuse was
simply accumulated and disposed of
by burning, or casting into streams or
onto waste land. Now, bones, glass,
rags, iron, paper, and other articles
are separately collected and sold.
“The food wastes of New York City
are disposed of by what is known as
the Arnold utilization process, which
is, briefly, steam digestion and a sep-
aration or the cooked product into
greases and fertilizer fillers. The
greases are all, or nearly all, shipped
abroad and, it is believed, refined and
separated into several grades, such
as ‘glycerine, red oil, lard oil, and
inferior grades.” It ig not known tnat
refineries in this country are as yet
able to handle what is known as garb-
age grease, as the secret of the trade
seems to be held abroad. The solids
after being dried and screened are
sold to the various manufacturers of
‘complete fertilizers,” and by them
made up into grades which seem to
be particularly adapted for use in the
cotton belt.
“The economic uses of furnace slag
have been greatly developed within
the last few years. Formerly slag was
carted away from the furnace and dis-
posed of in the most available place,
as so much refuse material, hardly
worth the cost of carting. A consid-
erable portion of this waste is now
put to some profitable use as a sub-
stitute fofr artificial porphyry in the
construction of buildings and for
it is utilized to good advantage for.
‘ pioneer relics in the Central States,
street pavements. Paving stones are
are made from it for the streets of
Metz, Brussels, and Paris, of a quality
sufficiently durable to stand heavy
trafiic.
“A very important innovation in the
metallurgical industry in Germany is
the utiiizing of the waste gases of
blast furnaces for working gas en
gines.
“Gas machines for utiiizing these
gases were introduced into Germany
about 1898. Good results were report-
ed from all quarters, which lead to the
belief that this is a material advance
in the development of an important
gas-machine industry.
“Nearly all of the formerly waste
products of lumber and timber are
now turned to scme utility, and some
of the new products thus formed
are of considerable value. Of this
later class may be mentioned saw-
dust, which was formerly considered
an absolute waste material, and was
allowed to float down the stream or
was thrown into a heap where it
could be most cenveniently disposed
of. French cabinetmakers . have
found a way of preparing this mat-
erial which gives it a value far above
that of solid timber by a process that
has been in vogue for at least 25 or
30 years, combining the use of hyli-
raulic press and the application of
intense heat. oF
“The production bf acetic, wood
naphta, and tar from sawdust is one
of ‘the latest enterprises in Norway.”
THE AMERICAN W. FZ.
Is This a True Picture of Her Attitude
Toward Her Hushand? z
But the ' American wife? Henry
James has summed up the American
wife in just one sentence. He says:
“The American .wife knows nothing
of her husband’s affairs——except that
they are of not the slightest conse-
quence.”
This is both epigrammatic and ex-
actly true. The American wife has
quite a genuine affection for her hus-
band. Even after years of marriage
have gone by, she thinks of him with
unaffected friendliness, He is so use-
ful. She credits him with almost all
the virtues, except perhaps the virtue
of being interesting and she overlooks
that one defect of his with charitable
tcleration. She sees him come and go
each day with clock-like regularity.
She vaguely knows what his profes-
sion or vocation is. She thinks bet-
ter of him if it is a profession or vo-
cation that is generally rezarded as
quite creditable; but this is practical-
ly all she knows or cares about it. She
sees him rising early and hurrying to
his office. She hears him sitting late
into the night in the rcom overhead;
and she is probably aware that he is
immersed in a great sea of papers and
documents of some kind or other—
tiresome and stupid things that he will
persist in bringing home and fussing
over. / :
She finds that he must sometimes
stay in town all through the summer
when the thermometer is in the nine-
ties and when the sickly heat sweats
on the very walls or sizzles on the
pavement. She thinks it very incon-
siderate of him to do this. She would
really rather have him go with her to
the cool, wind-swept nook that she se-
lects for her own summer's outing.
Just why he does not go, she cannot
possibly imagine.
It is onc of the curious, irrational
traits which he possesses and which
prevents her fren taking him quite
seriously. Perhaps he will run up there
for a day or two; and when he does
come she is very nice to him, apart
from scolding hima a little for getting
so hideously thin and sallow. But he
is not particularly comfortable taere.
e follows her meekly into the dining
room three times a day for a while,
and then he has to go back to what-
ever it is-that he does in town. Just
what it is she doesn’t know. The
household bills are paid; the checks
come to her rcgularly. She does the
things she likes to do, and sometimes
dimly recognizes the fact that it is
pleasant to have somebody to see that
her various projects and arrange-
ments all come out so nicely. Her hus-
band is really quite what a husband
ought to be. He does his duty perfectly,
and she has a very accurate notion of
what. that duty is. To provide what-
ever she requires, to fetch and carry
out her bidding, to leave her absolute-
ly free from care, responsibility or
worry—such is the whole duty of the
American husband.
And then, she is so very sure of
him! It never enters her head that he
has anything to wish for, that he can j
possibly be conscious of a void some-
where in life, or experience even the
faintest stirring of dissatisfaction;
that he could ever imagine anything
different from what he has; that he
might ever dream of an existence
where he should be something better
than the household banker, a glorified
butler, a ‘superior maitre d’hotel. She
is absolutely satisfied with herself
and absolutely sure of him. She does
not want another kind of husband, so
why should he desire a different sort
of wife?—Ainslee’s Magazine,
An Historic Church,
The Church of St. Germain I'Auxer-
rois is one of the finest in Paris, says
the Paris Messenger. It was from the
tower of this church that was run the
bell which gave the signal for the
celebrated Huguenot massacre. The
tower of this church that was rung the
now possesses a set of chimes, the
only one in Paris so provided. It was
built in the 12th century, and the
portico, of which the paintings arz to
be restored, was built in 1435.
Elwell Hoyt of Ea uClaire, Mich.,
has the most complete collection of
and keeps inem in a log cabin built
at his home for the purpose.
HEYSTONE STATE NES GONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
New Freight Railroad—Will Issue
Bonds—$15,000 Church—Gover-
nor Stone Files Protest.
The following new names were
added to the pension list during the
past week: Lewis J. Rosenbloom,
Towanda, $6; James W. Nelson, Vo-
dant, $12; Hiram Qualk, Ccal Center,
$12; August Kall, Allegheny, $3;
Thomas Sonach, Bellefonte, $10;
Samuel H. Williams, Bellfonte, $10:
Benjamin F. Yinglign, Huntingdon,
$8; William Dunean, Indiana, $24;
Benjamin F. Siple, Leechburg, $%:
George W. Baisor. Waddle. $12; Wil
liam L. Garrett, Altoona, $12: Irvine
Stone, Johnstcwn, © $§; I.orenzu
Krieger, Entiriken, $12; John Wire,
Elliotson, $8; Robert H. Owens,
Braddock, $10; Matilda Jones, Har-
risburg, $i2; Jeorge P. HopKins,
Whralusing, $12; Florence J. Parker,
Allegheny, $8: Johm 1D. Landis,
Johnstown, $14; Sidney Caldwell,
Irish Ripple, $10;
Harrisburg, 38.
Governor Stone has taken prompt
action ‘to raise tne quarantine which
has been ordered by Governor Yates
of Illinois against Pennsylvania
cattle on aecount of the foot ana
Mary ‘M. George,
mouth disease which exists among
cattle in the New Eng'and states.
Governor Stone wrote a letter. to
Governor Yates, protesting against
his action and advising him that
there has been no such disease; in
this state since 1882; that there has
been none in New York and there is
none and has been none in New
Jersey. E
A charter has been issued to the
York Haven & Rowenna Railroad
Company to build a line from York
Haven, York county, to the. mouth of
the Codorus creck, thence across the
Susquchanna river to Rowenna,
Lancaster ccunfy. The line will be
six mijles long and will serve as con-
necting link for the new line to be
built by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Ccmpany, for through freight be-
tween Pittsburg and Philadelphia.
The handsome residence erected
by John I.anzendcrfer, in North
Punxsutawney, ready for occupancy,
was completely ruined by an ex
plosion of gas. When in search of a
leak under the kitchen floor Mr. Lan-
zendorfer used a lighted match, and
the explosion, which followed, wreck-
ed the windows and walls and blew
oft the roof.
Factory Inspector James Campbell
in his annwal report says Penasyl-
vania stands first in the many diver-
sified industries, and in the employ-
ment of <wage-earners. He recom-
mends that the coal breakers in the
anthracite fields be subjected to in-
spection, and the age limit be raised
to 12 years for children cmployed.
I'" W. Kelly, employed in the cafe
at Oil City, is suffering from a pe-
culiar malady that is puzzling local
phtrsicians. Kelly fell in a faint
while entering the dining room.
Wnen he was restored to conscious-
ness he was unable to speak, and
since has not been able to utter a
word.
“Andy,” a horse that had the dis-
tinction of having been the favorite
mount of the late Governor Anlirew
G. Curtin, as well as being one of
‘the oldest horses in the country, is
dead at Lancaster.
old. The “war governor’ always
rode “Andy” when reviewing the
troops during the Rebellion.
Council at Charleroi accepted the
resignation of Burgess John Gormley,
to take effect January 5. A petition
will be presented to Washington
county court for the appointment of
his successor. Council has also de-
cided to increase the police force by
the addition of two new men.
Miller & Mason, of South Sharon,
sold to J. W. Miller, of South Sharon;
H. W. Klein, of Pittsburg, and F. B.
Hargrave, of Latrobe, the George
Stambaugh farm, of 350 acres, for
$100,000. The land will be laid out
in building lots. A certain portion
reserved for parks.
At a meeting of the Presbyterian
congregation of Claysville, it was de-
cided to erect a new church build-
ing. The new edifice will cost over
$15,000. Of this sum, $4,000 was
given by Mrs. Hoge of Fniladelphia,
whose huspand founded the church.
A complimentary reception and
banquet were held at Meadville, un-
der the direction of the Chamber of
Commerce in honor of Maj. Gen.
Charles Miller, who recently moved
there from Franklin.
Paff Bros.” dry goods store, at
Beaver Falls, was robbed again, it
being the fourth time within that
many months. The robbers se-
cured only about $100 worth of silks
this time.
Mrs. . Catherine Loucks died at
Scottdale in her 94th year. She is
survived by seven children, 32 grand-
children, 64 great grandchildren, and
nine great-great grandchildren.
J. R. Shaw and H. W. Warfield,
of Pittsburg, have sued W. W. Trout,
of Altoona, for $10,000 damages: He
recently had them arrested for al-
leged abusing of a horse.
Grave suspicions are arising that
the late John Black, of Edinburg,
near New Castle, who was found dead
in the rear of a livery stable at that
place was murdered.
In the suit at Washington of At-
He was #44 years
torney R. W. Irwin against P. Sessf °
to recover a fee the jury found for
the plaintiff for $1,000 and interese
frcm April 12.
Paul Morley, fermerly employed by
James Stewart & Co. of Pittsburg,
contractors, has sued ‘that firm at
Youngstown, O., for $25,000 for the
loss of an eve.
The literary contest at Washington
and Jefferson college, Washington,
was won by the Philo-Union sqciety.
The council of South Sharon has
arranged for the issue of $20,000
bonds for borough improvemeats.
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