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THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS.
The melancholy days are coms,
The sadest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods,
And meadows brown and sere,
Heaped in the hollows of the grove,
'he autumn leaves lie dead;
They rustle to the eddying gust,
And to the rabbit's tread;
%¥he robin and the wren are flown,
And from the shrubs the jay,
And from the wood-top calls the crow
Through all the gloomy day.
‘Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood
In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
Alas! they are all in their graves, the gentle race of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours.
The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain
Calls not from gut the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
The wind-flower and ths violet, they perished long ago,
And the brier-rose and the orchids died amid the summer glow;
But on the hill the gelden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
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4nd the yellow sunflower by the brook in autumn beauty stood,
Till the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,
And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade and glen.
And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come,
To call the equirrel and the bee from out their winter home;
When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still,
And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill,
The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore,
And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died,
The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side.
In the cold, moist earth we laid her, when the forests cast the leal,
And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;
Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend of ours,
So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.
—William Cullen Bryant.
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“Good-by, dearest!”
“Goed-by!”
For the twentieth time Mark Jermyn
uttered the words of farewell, and for
the twentieth time the girl responded.
but, realizing that the parting was not
an ordinary one, they were loth to part
even: then. Years hence they might
meet again; perhaps never!
“And, dearest, you'll remember, if
the recollection of me ever stands in
your light, you're to forget I existed.
Promise me that!”
The girl looked into the earnest face
pending over her, into the: depths of
the grave, brown eyes.
«I cannot,” she said softly. “More-
over, is it necessary? Is it what you
would do were you in my place?”
Her logic was unanswerable, and he
sighed.
“If you were the only child of some-
body next door to a millionaire,” she
went on, “and your father forbade you
to marry anyone who was not wealthy
while you really loved one poor as a
church mouse, would you give up with-
out a struggle? Of course you wouldn’t,
Mark. You'd wait, and wait, and
hope!”
“But waiting doesn’t always bring
wealth,” broke in Jermyn, “especially
in the musical profession. Why did
my fatner ever destine me for his own
career?” he added, bitterly.
“Because it’s what you're most fit-
ted for,” Elsie Renton replied. “Mark,
dear, you're going to be a great man.”
He waived away her words with a
smile and another kiss.
“You flatter me, sweetheart,” he
said, “although it’s true my father
ag far from being a mediocrity. He
changed his name on marriage, and
died when I was only five years old.
But his existence really ended, sO far
as the world was concerned, when he
Jorscok his old name, for he never
composed a single thing after.”
“How strange!” remarked the girl,
wonderingly. “And what a terrible ex-
ample to you, dearest.”
“You may think so. Of course, I
was too young to know much then,
and never heard how it all happened,
for my mother soon followed my
father.”
“Uxhd his name before was—?”
“Wegar—Mark Wegar—one of the
foremost composers of his time!”
vr ® * * % * * .
‘A couple of years later Mark Jer-
myn was in London. It seemed much
longer since he had parted from Elsie
Renton in Paris, where they had been
fellow students at the Conservatoire;
she, for the sake of finishing a musical
education, he because he had his fu-
ture living to congjder.
%In Paris the girl had been free from
the hidebound conventionalities of
home, and her doting parents would
doubtless have been horrified had they
known she bad dared to regard some
one with affection. The two had part-
ed; he to work for a name and she to
enter society.
And now he was in London, his fame
having preceded him, and Mark Jer-
myn, the celebrated pianist, was an-
pounced to make his debut before the
most critical audience in the world.
Success had not spoilt him, and he
remained the same modest man that
had held Elsie’s hand in his two years
since; deeply, madly, in love with her
still. Several times she had written
to him, and with her last letter in his
pocket as a talisman, he faced the
eager crowd that evening.
The performance was a ‘success.
Mark Jermyn’s reputation was more
than upheld and he quickly became
the lion of the hour. Invitations from
the highest in the land literally show-
ered upon him, so numerous, that they
would have taken years to respond to
all, one of the earliest coming from
the Rentons offering ga princely fee for
a short recital at a forthcoming “At
Home.” To this Jermyn stiffly replied
that he only accepted social engage-
ments. An answer soon came alter-
ing the tone of the invitation, and a
day or two later, he found himself
about to meet his loved one cnce more,
The place was already thronged with
guests when he arrived, but Elsie was
the first to greet him, and as he took
her hand he would have knelt down
there and then and kissed it, had not
decorum forbade. She welcomed him
gayly, and he felt all at once the hap- |
-up,
piest of mortals, for a single look
served to tell him he held her heart
still.
“I'm hostess for the moment,” she
observed. “Let me take you, to
mother.”
He followed her, and a little later
was being introduced to Mrs. Renton.
“Mr. Jermyn, mother!”
The stately lady addressed, looked
and as she Saw his handsome,
clear-cut features, started.
“Mr. Jermyn?—ah, yes, of.course!
Your appearance seems familiar. But
then, aren’t your photographs all over
London?” she asked.
Mark bowed, but guessed by .her
tone that she had never seen his por-
trait. .
He sauntered aimlessly about, con-
versing first with one and another, till
at length he found himself addressing
the host himself. And Jermyn was
agreeably surprised; Elsie’s father was
not nearly so formidable as he had-
pictured him to be; on the contrary,
his attitude toward the young lion of
the season was courtesy and geniality
itself.
“Ah! my daughter tells me she-met
you in Paris,” he remarked. “One of
the first to discover your genius, I be-
lieve? Elsie’s a dear girl, my ‘dear
sir!” y
“She is” assented Mark, earnestly.
“Always a dutiful girl, and a prize
worth the winning,” continued Mr.
Renton, briskly. “It’s a pity we're to
lose her so soon—but there! the men,
the men! I was young myself once.”
“You mean some one will fall in love
with her?” queried Jermyn, anxiously.
“Has fallen in love. Scores of them.
By the way, there she is with Lord
Mapleson.” ?
Mark Jermyn turned and followed
the other’s glance to where Elsie stood
talking with the man he had noticed
but a few moments before.
“Are they m”
“Engaged, my dear sir, engaged.
And to be married shortly. My wife’s
a wonderful woman; she’s arranged it
alll”
Mark’s first impulse was to flee, but
he resclved to learn the truth from
Elsie’s lips first. At last he caught
her glance, following her into a small
ante-room leading from one of the
principal apartments. When the door
closed, he took her hand, and looked
into her eyes.
“Elsie,” he asked. “Is it true?”
She avoided his gaze.
“Is what true?” she murmured.
“That you're engaged to Lord Maple-
son?”
Her eyes filled with tears and she
turned toward him passionately.
“No!” she said vehemently. ‘He's
asked me frequently, but I've always
refused. But mamma insists, and the
rumor we're engaged is about already.
Oh, Mark! Mark!”—With an out-
stretching of her arms that was irre-
sisitible; “what’s to be done?”
He took her into his arms.
“You love me, what is to prevent
our happiness?”
“Mother—she insists. Father, I
know, would rather I married a man
of my choice.”
“And I insist on you marrying me!”
he cried earnestly. “That is, if you're
willing to become the wife of a non-
entity ?” >
She looked up quickly.
“Who is the nonentity?” she asked.
“You, the clever artist or’—with a
gesture of disdain—Lord Mapleson?”
“Then, darling,” he cried, “if your
mother will not consent, it must be a
runaway match. You're sure you
don’t mind intrusting your happiness
to me?”
“No, indeed, Mark, no! I love you,
oh! heaps more than I did two years
ago, and that’s something, isn’t it?”
He admitted that it was, and kissed
her, when someone calling Elsie, she
had to leave. Mark strolled back to
the drawing roem with a lighter heart.
Someone was asking Mr. Renton
whether Jermyn was to play; the host
shrugged his shoulders, but the musi-
cian at once interrupted witn the re-
mark he should only be too delighted.
A move was made to the piano, while
all voices were hushed as it became
known that the great Jermyn was at
the instrument. He ran through sev-
eral of his better known things in
succession, playing as he bad never
played before, his audience speilbound
and enraptured. The applause at his
conclusion, unlike most drawing-room
applause, was for once sincere.
Mr. Renton was profuse in his
thanks, and then his less genial wife
inquired as a special favor, whether
he would give them a novelty.
“A novelty?’ repeated Mark, anx-
ious to please his prospective parent.
“Ah, yes! I had almost forgotten. To-
day’s the twenty-second, isn’t it?
There is one thing I only play once a
year, and always on the twenty-sec-
ond of this month.”
The last notes of the song were grad-
ually dying away, when all at once
there was a tense scream from a dis-
tant corner of the room.
All turned and saw that Mrs. Ren-
ton had fainted.
A few days later Mark Jermyn call-
ed to inquire after Mrs. Renton, whom
it was understood was seriously ill.
The young fellow was at once shown
into Mr. Renton’s study, where the
millionaire greeted him cordially.
“My dear Mr. Jermyn,” he said,
“you're the very man I wish to see!
You remember the effect your wonder-
ful playing produced on my wife the
other evening?”
“Unfortunately,” responded the fa-
mous musician, “Believe me; I'm ex-
ceedingly sorry.”
“It’s not your fault, my boy,” he
answered kindly. “The event has
brought, something to light. which I
hope may mean your happiness. I
have learned that my daughter loves
you.”
“Yes,” . responded . Mark,
“And I love her, too.”
“Just so, just so! ‘What I. was going
to say was this; my wife, it appears,
was once engaged to your father.”
Mark Jermyn looked up in astonish-
ment. : :
“Yes,” continued Mr. Renton, “and
from what I can hear—of course, this
is in confidence between you and me
—it broke Mark Wegar’s heart. My,
wife jilted him for myself, and it
seems that, out of pity, he afterward
married a cousin whom he discovered
had been in love with him, for years.
The air you piayed the othep evening
was one of Wegar’s compsitions, was
it not?” bE : :
“Yes,” replied Mark. “My father
left me the manuscripts, with the in-
junction it was only to be played on
the twenty-second of November in
each year—the anniversary of what I
could never make out.”
“Ah! my wife recognized the theme;
it was the old love song he used to
play. to her and of which she had
been so fond. The date you mention
was the one on which she broke. off
the engagement. Old memories came
back to her, and—and—""
“Say no more, sir, it’s a ‘painful sub-
ject.” . oe 2 ot
“To be sufe, to be sure? ‘My wife
wishes me to tell you that, although
she broke your father’s heart, she has
no wish to break either yours or her
daughter's, We are both willing .you
should marry Elsie.” : 5 3
Someone opened the door just then,
and Elsie Renton, seeing Mark, threw
herself into his arms.”—New York
News.
quietly.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
To settle once for all the frequent
disputes with customers regarding
the varying size of eggs, Stockholm
merchants propose to effect all future
sales on the basis of actual weight in-
stead of by the sccre.
Japan’s latest curiosity is a baby
boy, who at the age of ten months
weighs near four stone, and is over
three feet in stature. His parents
have taken him to Tokio to have him
educated by a wrestler.
Honesty is a prevailing virtue
among most Chinamen. fome of them
in their native towns and cities often
leave their places of business un-
guarded while they go off for half an
hour or more. Should customers ar-
rive in the meantime, they find the
price or goods plaiply marked, select
what they want, and leave the money
for them.
Dutch fishermen make astonishing
caiches hy means of a very simple ex-
pedient. They put a number of live
worms and insects into a bottle part-
ly filled with water, which is then se
curely corked. The bottle is dropped
into the water, and the fisherman
sinks his line alongside. It appears
that the wriggling centents of the bot-
tle so temnt the fish that they fall
easy victims to tne baited hooks.
At Beaverton, in northern Ontario,
a peat machine is in operation. con-
sisting of a press, dryer and spreader
a most ingenious machine—for it
cuts, pulverizes and spreads the ma-
terial at the same time. This reduces
the moisture 50 percent, and the bal-
ance is taken out by the drying proc-
ess. The plant has a capacity of 20
tons a day, and the demand for the
fuel is such that it brings $3.25 a tom
at the plant and is retailed at Toron-
to at $4.25.
—
Miniature watches for the corsage
and wrist are common enough, but it
has been left for a western genius,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean, to pro
" duce a finger ring timepiece, and that
of the alarm order. A piece of mech-
anism so tiny, of . course, could not
contain an alarm bell, but a needle
that would give a very perceptible
puncture was possible. Now, all that
the man or woman who wishes to rise
at a certain time has to do is to set
the alarm, adjust the ring and lapse
into forgetfulness. At tlie appointed
hour the faithful little warder pierces
the finger with just enough emphasis
to rouse the sleeper.
OUR LAND AMAZED HIM.
COLDBZRCER’S OBSERVATIONS ON
AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIFE.
He Says It’s “The Land of Unbounded
Possibilities’? «= Produces 75 Percent of
World’s Corn, 25 Percent of Wheat, 36
Percent of Iron and 31 Percent of Gold.
“The Land of Unbounded Possibil-
ities” is the title of a series of articles
on conditions in the United States,
prepared by the Hon. Ludwig Max
Goldberger of Berlin, royal privy
councillor of commerce and member of
the Imperial German consultative
board for commercial measures. It is
republished by the treasury bureau of
statistics in its Monthly Summary of
Commerce and Finance.
These statements are the result of
an eight months’ official tour of the
United States by Mr. Goldberger, in
which he made personal observations
and investigations into industrial, com-
mercial and economic conditions. His
detailed reports upon these subjects
were made direct to the emperor and
the minister of commerce and have not
yet been officially published. Mean-
time, however, he has published in a
leading weekly journal of Berlin, Die
Woche, a series of signed articles un-
der the title, “The Land of Unbounded
Possibilities; Observations on the
Economic Life of the United States,”
from which the following are extracts:
The United States, like an enchant-
ed garden, has brought forth from a
marvellously productive soil splendid
results of hunian ingenuity. Yet the
thing that causes most wonder is that
the concentrated intelligensce, which,
intending to replace human factors by
machinery, has, in working toward its
aim, been giving to constantly growing
numbers of workmen an opportunity to
support. themselves and become pro-
ductive factors. The joy at the size of
their own land encourages cach indi-
vidual. It makes him communicative
and friendly to foreigners. who are
seeking information. It seems as
though every one were filled with the
idea: “The stranger shall see how
great and strong Amerlca is.” My
eight months’ trip of observation and
study took me through the states, and
everywhere I found open doors, invit-
ing me to enter, and nowhere did I
find the slightest attempt at secrétive-
ness* Everywhere I observed an un-
common, but steady bustle of men who
enjoy their work and arc consciously
working for .great results. “It is a
great country.” This is the verbatim
designation of reverential admiration
which the citizen of the United States
has found for his country. * ’
The inhabitants of the United
States, including Porto Rico, Hawaii
and the Philippine Islands, number
aboat 88,000,000—that is, barely. 5
percent of the world’s total inhabi-
tants, according to its highest esti-
mate. This 5 percent has at present
taken possession of 25 percent of all
the cultivated area of the earth, viz.:
407,400,000 acres out of 1,629,300,000
acres. A land of marvellous fertility
offered itself for tillage, and the hus-
bandman had but to gather in the
produce. The virgin soil made his
work easier, and its extensiveness ren-
dered the application of artificial fer-
tilizers practically unnecessary, al-
though the agricultural offices of the
States and the Union have constantly,
by excellent advice and practical ex-
pert assistance, heen furnishing the
ways and means toward more intense
cultivation.
Let us examine the corn crops for
the six years, 1895-1900. The world’s
total prcduct fluctuated between 2.6
and 3 billion bushels per annum, a
total of 16.6 billions for the period,
with an annual average of 2.77 billions.
Of this amount the United States
alone produced 12.4 billions, an aver-
age of 2.07 billion bushels per annum,
or 75 percent of the world’s crop.
Toward the world’s wheat crop the
United Statés contributed in the five
vears, 1896-1900 20.7 percent, while
for the year 1901 its contribution to
he world’s production of wheat
amounted to 25 percent. During the
years 1896-1900 there were grown 14.7
billion bushels of oats in the world,
and of this 3.74 billion bushels, or 25.5
percent, were produced by the United
States. .
In the production of iron ore the
United States proved itself to be a
veritable land of unbounded possibil-
ities. It produced very nearly 30 per-
cent of the total iron produced, and
that of the very best quality. In the
past year the United States produced
39.3 percent of the world’s product of
pig iron. In 1900 it produced, rougn-
ly 10.1 million tons of steel, or 42
percent of the world’s product, and
in the year 1901 the United States
output was increased to 13.5 million
tons.
than typical for even
tion.
creased to 27,000 tons out of a total
world production of 153,000 tons; in
1890 the United States produced 116,-
815 tons of the world’s product of 269,-
455 tons. During 1895 it controlled
more than one-half of the world’s pro-
duction, and at the end of the cen-
tury the United States produced 270,-
000 tons, or more than the world's
entire product had amounted to 10
years before. -
The output of lead in the United
States since 1895 has increased to
such an extent that it has wrested
from Spain the position of primacy in
the world’s production. In 1900 the
United States produced 29.6 percent,
while Spain’s share has receded to 18.7
percent. In 1901 the United States in-
creased its production of lead to 250,
000 tons.
The rivalry of the United States in
the production of quicksilver has
been equally strenuous. In 1900, for
the first time, Spain’s product is
slightly exceeded by that of the United
States. Im 1901 Spain’s share in the
world’s product amounts to but 28 per-
cent, while the United States furnish-
es 33 percent of the world’s total
product.
The total world’s production of gold
for the year 1900 was estimated to be
255.6 million dollars; that of silver
represented a coinage value of 223.5
million dollars. For the year 1901 esti-
mates for both metals amount to 265
million dollars. In each of the two
years the United States showed the
greater share of both metals, 31 per-
cent for gold and 33 percent for sil-
ver.
TEST BEAMS FOR BUILDINGS.
Methods Used in Institute of Technology
Laboratories.
Few persons rzalize how impossible
would be the erection of a modern city,
the establishment of a modern rail-
road, or the building of a modern
steamer or battleship without a certain
amount of preliminary work in scienti-
fic laboratories. Never an important
building, or a big vessel, a ship dock,
railroad bridge, or any one of the in-
definite number of large modern struc-
tures for the comfort and convenience
of humanity is built until the material
is thoroughly tested to see if it will
bear the strain to which it must be
subjected. *
Naturally the laboratories of the
world are always watching each other;
the authorities of the great German
institution at Charlottenburg, for ex-
ample, keep a watchful eye on the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology, and
the Institute of Technology sends its
representative to visit Charlottenburg.
At first glance this seems simply an
example of the rivalry of important
educational institutions. But in reality,
having in view the actual relations be-
tween the modern laboratory and the
building processes of modern civiliza-
tion, it is also in the long run a riv-
alry between national civilizations.
To see these tests in progress is an
interesting glance at what is practical-
ly the birth of many a familiar struc-
big city, the floating foriresses of a
navy, or the railroad bridge spanning
a deep gorge in the mountains hund=
reds of miles from civilization. In the
tute of Technology these tests are in
progress not only night and day, but
some of them lasting over several years
of constant strain and pressure on a
given piece of material. The labora-
tory itself is what seems almost a
chaos of powerful machinery whose
sole purpose is to bend, twist, pull or
push the various materials of modern
construction to their last points of re-
sistance. Wooden beams, for example,
are here kept under constant pressure
for years, their sag being recorded from
day to day to determine just how much
the timber is deflected during the life
of a building in which it is placed—
a long continued experiment which,
among other things, looks forward to
remedying the often uneven floors of
a cotton mill.
If a contractor is building a church,
a masonry arch large enough for a
church door is tested with a weight
comparable to that of a church steeple,
not loaded to be sure, with so many
pounds of material, not being com-
pressed to the crushing point by steel
beams drawn downward by relentless
mechanical power. Steel rods are sub-
jected to torsional or twisting tests in
order that the necessary dimensions of
shafts for engines, steamships, and
for all sorts of shafting for the trans-
mission of power may be definitely set-
tled. Bricks are compressed until they
crumble into dust, but the recorded re-
aster.—New York Times.
Pushing a Parrow 14,000 Miles,
ing.
ture, whether the office building of a L be
engineering laboratories of the Insti.
sult of many tests determine the safe
height of a chimney or an office build-
ing of brick construction. Steel col-
umns are placed under compression
until they buckle or break, and it is
then known for a certainty how many
pounds they will support without dis-
Dan Gray, the Minneapolis wheel-
barrow pusher, who is trying to make
HEYSTORE STATE EWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Numerous Serious Accidents— Free
Bridges—Mysterious Shooting.
Sails for Cuba.
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added to the
the past week
od
Among the names
pensicn roll during
were: Thomas Leadbeater, Johns
: town, $12; George Hotchkiss, Pitts.
field, $12; Thomas J. Baker, Newry,
$12; John Wilson Shields, Gilpin,
810: Lewis W. Feistel. New Salem,
$8: Godfrey K. Biber, Charleroi, $10;,
Smith N. Brown, Youngzspille, $10;
William J. McKee, Butler, $8; Peter
Gensler, ~ Blospiiv)ille, $8; Thaddeus
B. Webb, Mifflintown, $12; Jacob
Kohler. Bowmansdale, $12; Filiza-
heth Freeman, McKeesport, $8; Ellen
Baset, Corry, $8; EmilPsr A. Keen,
Shermansville, $8; Joseph Popneck,
Waterford , $6; James Capstick,
Conemaugh, $8; John Cessna, Gas-
town, $8; John A. George, Vander-
grift, $8: Moses K. Etheridge, Edin-
boro, $8; Thomas C. Rigden, Shan-
nondale, $10; James Weaver, §S.
Mrs. - Sargh Shultz, wife of J. V.
Shultz, a farmer, of Brocks, near
Weayneshurg, was burned to death by
her clothing catching fireiat a cook-
ing stove. She was alone, and made
a heroic effort to put out the flames
with her bare hands and by rolling
in the snow, but finding this unsuc-
cessful, she ran to a neighbor's.
She fell exhausted mear the house,
and when found her clothing, ex-
cepting her shoes, was burned from
her body.
Fresident Baer, of the Philadelphia
& Reading Railrecad Company, issued
the following statement: “By virtue
of the authority conferred upon me
hy the board of directors I hereby
declare ihat the pension’ system of
the Philadelphia & Reading Railway
Company heretofcre approved by the
hoard becomes cperative on the first
day of January, 1903.” Pensions are
divided in the three classes.
The county commissioners decided
to huy the Petroleum, or upper
bridge, connecting the north and
south sides of Gi! City, from Scuth
Seneca street to State street, across
Allegheny river. A héard of
will name the price to be
ce stoeckhelders. If not accent-
nation prcceedings will
George bres, a negro, was found
in a coke oven ‘at Dav’ ison, near
Connellsville, sick and starving. He
was taken to the police station and
ate ravenously. In the jorning he
died. He said that he had been in
the oven unattended for more than
a week, and had not tasted food. He
was so weak tbat he could not raise
his hands. Yo
Bessie, a daughter cf Cyrus Mor-
row, who lives in Donegal township,
near Claysville, fell from the second
story of her father’s house while
walking in her sleep, receiving in-
juries that may prove fatal. She had
an arm broken, besides receiving in
ternal injuries.
Charles M. Benzen, of Washington
avenue, Braddock, an electrician at
the Edgar Thomson steel works, re-
ceived a shock and fell from a pole
toc the ground, a distance of 40 feet,
while removing a carbon from an arc
lamp. His right leg was broken in
two places.
The town of Zelienople, 16 miles
from Butler was visited with a disas-
trous fire. The fire originated in
the rear of the meat market and resi-
dence owned by Mrs. A. Kline, and
destroyed those and several other
buildings. Loss about $40,000.
Clifford Cook, who was connected
with the Sharon Sheet Steel Com-
pany, wag found in his room at Shar-
on with a bullet wound in his left
side. Whether the shot was fired
through an accident or otherwise
was not ascertained.
Lewisburg that the effort to raise
$100,000 additional endowment for
Bucknell university has been success.
fully completed. This brings the
property of the institution up to 31.-
000,000. The attendance the present
year numbers 620.
Encch Thomas, a farmer aged 41,
living near Uniontown, was found
lying dead by the banks of Georges
creek, and it is supposed he fell off
the bridge and hurt himself, and not
being able to get up froze to death.
Pennsylvania has 48 factory in:
gpectors, and during the past 12
months 26,000 places, employing ‘863,
14,000 miles in 700 days so as to pay
off a $2500 mortgage, passed through
Chicago. When he arrived here he had
traveled 517 miles in 22 days, being 77
miles ahead of his schedule. He had
gained 7 pounds in weight since start-
His 14,000-mile tramp will take him
The United States produces nearly
55 percent of all the world’s copper.
The development of the American cop-
per industry was perhaps more rapid
American
changes. From modest beginnings this
industry grew by leaps and bounds in
a remarkably short time to the most
important factor in the world’s produc-
In 1870 the copper production
of the United States amounted to 12,-
000 tons; in 1880 its production had in-
east to Portland, Me., south to Jack-
sonville, Fla.,, west to San Francisco,
north to Tacoma, Wash., and east again
to Minneapolis.
held by a rich but eccentric individual
named John Holton of Mankato, Minn.
Holton offered to cancel the mortgage
if Gray would show that he was willing,
like the heroes of mythological lore, to
dertake some arduous task to demon-
strate his worth. The 14,000-mile tramp
was decided upon as one sufficiently
The mortgage on Gray’s home is.
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afraid of him.
thing I could think of.
Hewitt—What did he say?
say.—Philadelphia Inquirer,
difficult to prove his courage and stam-
ina. Gray has a wife and three children,
whom he will not see for two years,
if he completes his trip.—Chicago In-
Hewitt—Gruett says that you are
Jewett—Afraid of him! Why, it was
only yesterday that I called him every-
Jewett—I came away from the tele-
phone as soon as had said all I had to
318 working people, were inspected.
A move will be made to secure an in-
| crease in the number of deputies at
the next session of the Legislature.
General orders were issued at Har-
risburg by Adjutant General Stewart,
announcing that the date of the spring
inspection of the National Guard of
Pennsylvania will begin February 1,
next.
iovernor Stone appointed Joseph
W. Bouton, of Smethport, judge of
the courts of McKean county, vice
Judge Thomas A. Morrison, resigned
to become ‘a superior court judge.
Homer Ansen, of Meyersdale, is in
a dying condition as a result of the
accidental discharge of a shotgun.
Ansen walked to his home a half
mile distant after the shcoting.
At Franklin, John Clair, who struck
and killed Frank Bell, pleaded not
guilty to a charge of murder.
Pp. Powers, a prominent business
man of Uniontown, was found dead in
his room at Brownsville, caused by
asphyxiation from an overheated
gas stove.
While hunting near Penfield Fred-
erick Gifford was instantly killed by
the accidental discharge of a shot
gun.
Miss Myrtle © Niece. oi Ellwooi,
sails for Cuba to assume charge of
one of the public schools which is to
be opened there this winter.
Mrs. Harvey Kane died at Johns
town Municipal Hospital from small-
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