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Re- slices of diamonds ead quite fill with zetlier. suet wiil : together rinegar in- find it ex- the wall. r and then f currants ied before ng mouldy has been ng out al- lace. you wax not work » very hot 2 ic on the thing has other grit- aps, for it ‘ause need- ood polish- e excellent e. t forget to little green ce leaves ven celery [t is a good ‘ass or oats rem to nib- quality of nconductor absence of the same rr gingham two layers le that wil} , comiorta- harities. yet Tee a ¢ ; 3 Pop, ie POLO OLOCOOY Hime co aam lack 2 Adventare. PIPPIN INIA WHALING FROM SHORE. 5% IE first island of the Azor- sk 4 ean group appreached Q from the westward is OR crs. N Flores—the island of flow- Only in fair weather can a vessel anchor off the island; as there is no harbor. The shore is a precipitous cliff, with fifty fathoms of dark blue water laving the basaltic sea walls. But approaching the little stone quay over which the forcible At- lantic waves wash with destructive fury in stormy weather is seen a Re row passage between walls of blac lava and scoriae, rising from which are columns of basalt. This little channel leads to a basin about an acre in ex- tent. Long before the anchor has been dropped, the voyager has noticed a lit- tle shed perched high on a command- ing point of the island. The glass shows a patient watcher sitting there, spyglass in hand, from sunrise to sun- Set. Between the basin far below and the lonely watchman alert on the hill there is a vital connection. The man with the spyglass is looking for whales, and though months may pass without his seeing ‘a blow,” the vigil is never relaxed. On the beach of the basin are boats, each fitted with the latest instruments for killing whales. There are lines nicely coiled in the tubs, brightened harpoons—both for hand and for use in the guns. Everything necessary is in readiness for a quick and successful chase, There is a regular crew under com- mand of an old whaler, and but a short time elapses from the moment the watcher on the hill gives the sig- nal that a whale is in sight to the de- parture of the boats. Tne men get a certain percentage of the value of the catch. It needs all the pluck, knowl- edge and daring ever belong to whal- ing, and many a boat has gone out never to return, A fighting bull whale, or an angry cow whale protecting her calf, is the same whether met in Ber- ing Sea or off the western islands. 3 Why all this slaughter in these days’ when petroleum has almost driven whale oil out of the market? It is to give my fair lady delicate perfumes. The ambergris found in the intestinal tract of the whale now causes the pur- Suit of the cetacean, In the older times the whales were brought alongside the whaling vessel, and there, by the means of sharp spades, the blubber was cut into squares and hoisted aboard to be dried out. The head was cut open and the spermacetti hoisted out in buckets, while the whalebone was extracted from the throat. After this was done the carcass was cut adrift, often car- vying with it .thousands of dollars worth of ambergris, The demand for ambergris at that period was limited, and it was the prevailing idea that ambergris was a morbid product vom- ited by the whale. Up to a few years ago all the amber- gris that came into the hands of man- ufacturers of perfumes was picked up on the sea, generally in the neighbor- hood of the West Indies and along the edges of the Gulf Stream up to lati- tude thirty-nine degrees. It was found floating in cakes weighing over 100 pounds. In color it is not unlike striped marble, with blackish spots there and there. At present ambergris is worth in the London market about $12.50 a pound. The carcass of a whale on the beach at Fayal not long ago yielded $30,000 worth, so one can readily understand the vigilance of the watcher on the hill.—New York Sun. EXPERIENCE WITH A LION. Lions, it seems, take to man-eating only as a means of self-defense, or when they become too old to be a match for the wild prey, the flavor of which they so much prefer. Old hunt- ers declare that they never knew a lion to really “stalk” a man; that, as a rule, they rather “turn up their noses” at civilized flesh, and are more or less easily diverted from the scent. In “Days and Nights by the Desert” Par- ker Gilmore tells of a trick he once played on one of these animals. “I was hunting ostriches,” he says. “At a bend in the ravine the bird dis- appeared, and I was about to follow it, when, by the merest chance, I looked behind me, and to my surprise and horror saw that a large lion was not over seventy yards behind me, and evidently stalking me as carefully as I had been stalking the bird. “If I could have gained a tree I should certainly have climbed it in a hurry; but no tree was near. To make a run for it would have brought the lion upon me at once. I kept steadily along the edge of the ravine till I came to a place that promised shel-| ter; it was a drop of four feet to a ledge about thirty inches wide, and afterward a perpendicular descent of fifty to sixty feet, terminating in a quantity of broken bowlders and Jagged stones. “With as little appearance of alarm as I could assume I sat down upon the edge of the precipice, ever and anon taking a careful glance behind to see where my foe was. About twenty yards behind me were a few ragged bushes. Behind these the lion had taken shelter, and was keeping a care- ful survey upon my every mov ement. Darkness was rapidly coming on when I slipped from my seat and dropped down to the ledge. Instantly I Susper off my coat and hung it on the muzzl of my musket, and shoved it up over the upper 1 where I had so lately been sitting, “Scarcely was this done when my coat was torn away and my gun hurled to the bottom of the gully. But they did not go alone. No, my assailant was with them, and there he remained all night, grumbling over his disappoint- ment at not having me for supper. “A colder night I never passed, but I had to make the best of it. In the morning I found my assailant had smashed his foreleg in his fall. The musket was not much injured, and I soon ended his suffering.” MOUNTAIN GOATS. From a point nearly T000 feet be- low an observer with a good glass oc- casionally may make out against the rock shelf a something which looks not uniike a white rabbit sitting upon its haunches. In reality it is an an- cient Billy, roughly speaking, as big as two fine rams and bearded like a prophet. His shaggy whit2 coat knows neither spot nor curl, his daggerlike horns are ebon black and his topaz eyes have in them that cold, inscruta- ble expression, something of which we see in the eyes of an eagle and a snake, They are marvels, these thought-con- cealing yellow eyes. Perchance they kindle a more baleful -light when love’s lamp flares and a snowy robed rival is stamping and snorting only ten yards away. It may be they soften when a limber legged kid caroms against the paternal ribs or rams his over sized head through the paternal rhisker. But these things I doubt, for the topaz itself is not colder or more unchanging than the windows of the soul of a husky mountain Billy. Be- cause he knows, or thinks he knows, that no enemy will come down upon him, all his precautions are directed against possibilities from below. I fancy, too, that he trusts almost en- tirely to his eyes, that his nose lacks that wonderful keenness characteris- tic of the deer tribe and that his ears play little part in the protective game. This latter is mainly surmise, based upon the fact that the worst noise a still hunter would be apt to make would be the rattle of a displaced stone, which is a thing the goats often hear and doubtless thoroughly under- stand. When one’s object of pursuit is an animal which dwells far up the mountains, which keeps a pretty close watch upon all visible lower territory, but seldom bothers his head about that which may be going on above and behind, one’s wisest plan of campaign, naturally, is a flanking movement, fol- lowed by an attack from above.—Illus- trated Sporting News. WOMEN SHOOT A LARGE BEAR. Mrs. E. H. Irish, Miss Willie Moore and Miss Minnie Bloyd, women, of Christine, Mlendccino County, Cal, have suddenly become heroines in the region by killing a large bear. Bears have been making inroads on the flocks near Christine for some time, and a log trap was set for the beasts. While out walking one recent afternoon, Mrs. Irish carried a rifle. She and her com- panions strolled near the trap and found bruin a captive. The animal had eaten through the end of the trap and had got his head and shoulders out. Fearing that the bear would gain his liberty before masculine aid could be summoned, the women determined to slay the beast. Mrs. Irish fired sev- eral shots, but owing to the small cal- ibre of the rifle failed to kill him. The beast desperately charged the side of the trap, but the women obtained a large pole and inserted it between the logs to keep the bear in the strong end of the trap. Mus. Irish then fired four more bullets at the beast. None found a vital spot, but all served to enrage it. While two of the women éngaged the bear's attention, Mrs. Irish await- ed a favorable opportunity and sent a bullet into the animal’s heart. The bear weighed 300 pounds dressed. The skin is being tanned to make a rug for the home of Mrs. Irish, LOST IN THE DESERT Lost on the Nevada desert, almost perishing irom thirst, Mrs. Emily Simpson and her five little children wandered without water for two days, and were finally saved from death by the instinct of their mules. Mrs. Simp- son, who lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, started with her children to drive to San Bernardino, Cal, with a wagon and two mules. The youngest child is less han two years old, the eldest a boy of twelve. With only water enough for two days, they started from Las Vegas to cross the Nevada desert. On the third day the last drop of water was xhausted and the baby was sick with fever. Near where they camped that night four bodies were found. They had been buried, but had been dug up by the coyotes. Until late the follow- ing day the woman and her children, two of whom were now ill, suffered the most horrible tortures from thirst. As they were passing some low hills the mules broke away and trotted out of sight. Mrs. Simpson followed and found the animals up to their backs in the waters of Cottonwood River, which had been concealed by the hills. A stop of several hours was made at the river and the party pushed on to a ranch on the California side of the des- ert, where they were cared for two days before they were sufficiently re- covered to proceed. KILLS EAGLE WITH PITCHFORK. At Cold Springs, Ind., Miss Lena De- mann and Mrs. Viela Wikening cap- tured an eagle after a fierce fight. Armed with pitchforks they attacked the eagle in a fence corner, where it was devouring a large turkey. The eagle got its talons fast in Miss De- mann’s clothing, and being unable te extricate itself, Mrs. Wicke plunged the fork into the eagle and killed it. The bird measured six feet six inches from tip to tip. A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE REV. C, L. PALMER. Subject: “Why the Righteous Suffer and the Ungodly Prosper’—God Permits Afflictions to Come Upon His People as a Character Test. KixgsToN, N. Y.— In the Reformed Church of the Comforter on Sunday morn- ing the Rev. C. L. Palmer preached a scholarly discourse entitled “Why the Righteous Suffer and the Ungodly Pros- per.” He took his text from Psalm 73: 3: ‘For I was envious at the arrogant, w hen I saw the prosperity of the wicked.” The Seventy-third Psalm was probably composed by Asa; ph, who was a pious Jew, and one of the leaders of the temple chorus. The phrascolozy and contents in- dicate that he was intelligent and spiritual, and that in the course of his religious ex- perience was exposed to the ravages of doubt. However, upon mature delibera- tion all doubt was overcome, and he be- came strong in the faith. The particular problem that confused him was why the righteous suffer and the ungodly prosper. Why the most vicious criminal should enjoy material prosperity and consecrated disciples be subjected to suffering. If God is perfectly righteous in Himself, and supremely just in all His dealings with men, why does He allow the ungodiy to succeed and the believer to faii? Why does He not obliterate every sinner and preserve every saint? Why does He permit the godly to pass through 30 many deep and raging seas of affliction? ‘Why are many of ihe Christless so free from human misery? These are questions which have been fresh in the mind of every generation, and the only satisfactory an- swer is the one that sufficed the psaimist. Before undertaking to develop so impor- tant a subject it is necessary that we di- vest our minds of one possible misconcep- tion. The implication of the text is not that all the wicked prosper, and that all the righteous are afflicted. It is not that all the ungodly prosper because they are ungodly, or that all believers are afflicted because they are believ: ers. It is not true that all the worldly enjoy success, and all the righteous are discontented, unhappy and unsuccessful. The psalmist was in a pessimistic mood at the time of writing, and describes a condition from which he was eventually extricated. It is true that some godless men and women seem to be happy and prosperous, and that some de- voted disciples are greatly afflicted. But is is far from the natural deduction of Scripture and experience that all the godly are unsuccessful and the #vicked prosper- ous, though we do acknowledge that the ancient sentiment of the text is not with- out its modern application. We still won- acer why the unrighteous prosper and the godly are afflicted. [. WHY THE UNGODLY ENJOY TEM- PORAL PROSPERITY. We cannot deny that many worldly peo- ple have an abundance of life’s blessings, and that they appear to be quite free from adversity. 1t is well known that many of pur most wealthy people seem to be indif- ferent to religion. They spend their time and means either in business or seeking pleasure. Our contention is that human success.or failure is not an infall ible criter- ion by which we are to justify or condemn ‘the government of God. It is not uncommon for godless people to fnherit property. Nor is it unusual for un- believing parents to leave an inheritance to their children. That while there has been utter indifference to Christianity there has been no want of concern in the accumulation of wealth. And many pos- sess a disinterested temperament that pro- tects them from needless care and anxiety. Unbelievers are often more shrewd than Christians. “the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the chil- dren of light.” A life of utter absorption in the accumulation and management of money develops an acumen, one who read- ily discovers whatever will contribute to his personal and temporal advancement. And since we are free moral agents it is possible for one to succeed in the direction of his ambition. Unbelievers are often less scrupulous. They will do many things for temporal comfort that others will not. A godless mortal will keep a saloon or a gambling den, from which the Profits are very large. He will desecrate the Sabbath or violate any of the divine laws “without hesitation so long as his personal interest is encour- aged. His motto is “eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow we die.” Would a reborn soul and heir of the kingdom do the same? A true disciple of the Great Teacher would not consciously transgress any civil or religious requirement, even it by such a violation he would increase his means and comfort. The attention of unbelievers is more concentrated on the accumulation of wealth and on personal comfort. It is about all many think of. They think about money when they retire. They dream ebout it at night. It is upon their minds when they aw ale in the morning, and they labor for it during the day. It is the only desire they have, and it is not strange that they should obtain it. Christians are unwilling B deprive them- selves of the comfort and b ssing of giv- ing. Our churches are su sported by ‘the rofessed followers of Christ. All the phi- anthropic and charitable organizations are largely sustained by those who bear the Christian name. The church has great rea- son to thank God for those who give so liberally toward her support, while the worid is either hoarding or wasting its means, they are applying their gifts to the social, intellectual, moral and eternal im- provement of others. The long suffering of God is not to be ignored. God permits ungodly people to obtain the desire of their hearts. The sneering Jest of Dionysius, the younger, a tyrant of Sicily, when, aftor having robbed the Temple of Syracuse, he had a prosper- ous voyage with the plunder is well known. See you not, said he, to those who were with him, how the gods favor the sacrileg- ious? The interpretation of the incident was from the standpoint of a heathen. God simply permitted him to escape. Doubtless the ungodly are allowed to prosper, in_order to test and prove the righteous. It is a test for the faithful but unfortunate to see some godless mortal carried on the sea of prosperity. But it is a test that we are abundantly able to sus- tain. Socrates, being asked what would be vexatious to good men, replied, the pros- erity of the bad. What would vex the ad? the prosperity of the good. It is not and cannot be made to appear in- compatible with the perfection of God's government that the ungodly should have a measure of material prosperity. II. WHY THE So Eos S HAVE AD- wy Having admitted that the ungodly often enjoy temporal prosperity, it remains to acknowledge that the righteous are fre- quently subjected to the greatest suffer- ing of body and mind, and it possible to ascertain the cause. Not all are greatly affected, though it is very likely that every heart sustains some burden. iven our limited knowledge of the iptures and imperfect re ous exper- ences enable us to understand why believ- ers are often afflicted. It seems as if some were destined to be unfortunate. Every- r they undertake fails, and the hard- hey labor the more they are disap- pointed. We utterly repudiat e the doc- trine of fate, but find ourselves confronted with the fact that some seem to be crea- tures of misfortune. Many of life’s adversitigs upon ourselves. We may ze or even God, but in our inner ness find ourselves confronted with the conviction that we have been the cause of our own suffering. A man who attempted to steal wheat from an elevator brought down an avalanche of the staff of life which smothered him to death. He had trangressed the law and brought upon himself destruction. Some of life's adversities are brought upon us by there, he social fabric is so closely woven that even one thread can- not be broken without weakening the whole. So we suffer for the deeds of oth- ers. A bank official abscounds with the funds of the institution and many lose all they possess. One partner defrauds an- other and throws him into bankruptcy. The President is assassinated, his family broken-hearted and the nation znd world in mourning. An intoxicated father de- strovs the life of his child and the fam- ily never recover from the shock. Unquestionably God permits afflictions to come upon His people. Adversity is required as well as prosperity. If it were not for the former we should become in- different to the latter, and forget the source from which all blessings come. Prosperity is a more severe and refined test of character than adversity, as one hovr of summer sunsnine produces greater corruption than the longest winter’ s day. India with her famine is more to be en- vied than ancient Rome with her fatal apoplexy of wealth. Better grace with scarcity than plenty without saving salt. We believe that God sometimes sends affliction to bring His children back to Himself. He takes aw ay the idol of some heart that He may be the only object of adoration. He sweeps away houses and lands to teach His people that they are dependent on Him. One has excruciat- ing pain to teach him the frality of the body and the certainty of its ultimate dis- solution. Spurgeon used to say that many are like boys’ tops, they only spin when they are whipped. There is a famous fairy tale in Brad- wardine that will convey to our minds the interpretation that we ought to apply to the sublime doctrine of “providence. A certain hermit resolved that he would travel from place to place until he found some one who could otter a satisfactory explanation of the government of God. As he was passing along on his contemplated journey an angel in the form of a man joined him. The first night they lodged at the house of a very holy man, and they spent their time in praising God and con- versing upon divine things. In the morn. ing when they departed the angel took with him a cup of solid ; old. The second night they came to the ‘home of another religious man by whom they were most hospitably entertained. In the home they had an infant upon whom their affection centered. When they left the next morn- ing the angel destroved the life of the child. The “third night they were enter- taied in a home of great v. -eaith. When thes left the following morning the angel killed the favorite steward. The last peby was at the home of a godless man, to whom he gave the cup of gold as the angel left. After the fourth night the hermit asked the angel to explain why he had taken the cup and given it to another, why he had taken two lives. He replied, I will now explain. The first man was being ruired by his cup, so I took it away. The second home was more concerned i in regard to the child than in the service of God. The steward was slain to preserve the life of his master whom he was plotting to destroy. The golden cup was given tc the ungodly man because his only comfort was to be had here. Or in ouher and inspired words: “All things work together for good.” All ostensible prosperity is not true pros- perity. The prosperity of the world is greatly overestimated. Some godless men suvceed in certain particulars, but they have not that which is worth more than, the treasures of Egypt. They are poor spiritually. They cannot purchase at the Fipies the one great need of the soul. he adversity of the righteous is also overestimated. They do suffer, they ex- pect to suffer and are willing to suffer if such suffering will contribute toward justi- fication. But it is better to be ‘n moderate circumstances and be in the kingdom, than to roll in wealth and be outside of it. It is better to be in the kingdom with pain than out of it without. There is only one just conclusion. It is that the government of God is per- fectly just and that we are safe in its keeping. A child once said, I know that the criminal will obtain justice because my father is the judge. We know tnat we shall have prosperity and adversity. We know that we shall have justice be- cause our heavenly . ‘ather is the Judge. Peril of © the Tonge, “Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceed- eth out of the “mouth, this defileth the man.” It makes a vital and an eternal di {ference to us how we express ourselves. A man is in greater danger of self-destruc- tion by speaking than by eating. Former- ly many French words were in common use by the Germans, but now the Emperor's influence is toward the substitution of German terms for the French—the idea being that, as the people speak, so they ill become. This 1s supposed to beget a gher and more solid i i or national spirit—as, other thin cing equal, it Ist Statesmen eeaaive this truth in the bottom principle enunciated by Jesus, od thus apply it. But in our individual lives we often forget to act on it. It harms us to think evil; it harms us even more to say what we think. It is for thi s reason that silence is so often a den, But it is also on the principle that it is worth w to speak a pleasant word—if we can do no more.—Sunday- School Times. a How to Get Warm, Warmth is a sign of life. That it is also a very desirable part of our comiort is realized by many a one who reluctant y leaves a warm bed, and shiveringly meets the winter’s cokl, indoors or out, these win- ter mornings. lf there is an open fire or a heater near by, it is a great temptation to try to get warm by taking in all the heat we can get from such a source. But some have learned a better way. “hey shun heat from other sources and make it for themselves. By brisk exercise of their own bodies, by the healthy shock of a cold sponge, by an cnergetic walk before taking. the car, they make and give ou warmth, and the cold de: on is routed. And this is the better way in all spheres. Created warmth is better than borrowed warmth. Your own smile of greeting to another will bring more warmth into your life than you can get by depending on an- other’s. our own loving word, your own unse sh act, brisk and unhesit 1g, with perhaps its healthy shock as of a cold sponge, will set your spiritual circulation to tingling in a way that yo warm you to the core. Try it some co! Md day. A Lovable Quality. People would try harder for trustworthi- ness if they knen lovab] e a quality it When you A you Can rely upon any one, that whatever they undertake to do will be « over a share of your cannot help liking the 0. 1 1, it does not ma [ they are forg punctual, tney hal become sources of one’s iiking i Nicoll. re, that you can really pass load to them, vou h I is apt - {| and trouble.— IN SPAIN Safest Country in the World For Women to Travel In. “There is no country under the sun where you can travel with such per- fect safety as in Spain,” said Mrs. Abba Goold Woolson, at the Tuileries yesterday morning. “I have been all over that country, and found the Span- iards such men of honor and chivalry as to make constant travel within their domain a pleasure and impossible of | danger.” Mrs. Woolson was speaking of Toledo and Madrid, with its famous Gothic churches and works of art. The Cathe- dral of Toledo, she urged, was a veri- table storehouse of art treasures and souvenirs of Spanish history, and to be familiar with its interior is a liberal Spanish education in itself. Even the chairs of the cathedral, carved in the time of Ferdinand and Isabelia, each contains a story in its workmanship. In Spain the Government spends hun- dreds of thousands of dollars annually to preserve its (Gothic structures and works of art, whereas in other coun- tries little is done in that direction. There is in Spain no expenditures too lavish for the preservation of these historic relics of past grandeur. One wishes when in Toledo, said the speaker, to be immortal and live for eternity, so as to be able to learn all the marvelous art and history and beauty that are bound up in its walls. The heart of Spain, however, is in Ma- drid, and every Spaniard contributes to the glory of that interesting city. Mrs. Woolson’s enthusiasm ran high, and her well known admiration gave expression in her words: “I challenge the world to produce a more interest- ing city than Madrid, when you know it.” To those who just slip in and out of that city, she said, little interest manifests itself, but to the student of history no more educational centre vists.—Boston Herald. Japan’s Children. There are no unkind parents in Ja- pan, and practically no naughty little girls and boys at all. Of ccurse, boys will be boys and girls will be girls even in Japan, as Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Minister, smilingly admitted when speaking on the subject. “But we have,” he said, “an unwrit- ten system of training children which makes our homes happy. As soon as a child can be reasoned with he is taught to understand that the love and care his parents give him must be met with love and respect. In fact, the love of grown-ups for children and the respect of children for grown-ups are two ideals of our national life. “But then, Japanese parents are pro- verbially devoted. Many are the tales of their devotion. There is one as well known in our country as that about George Washington in America. “It records that a Japanese little girl, smelling a savory odor coming from a wealthy neighbor’s house, asked what it meant. Her mother answered that the neighbors were cooking a chicken for their children’s dinner. Thereupon, the child begged for a chicken, too. ‘Alas! said the mother, ‘we are too poor.’ “When dada came home the child asked him: with tears why they were too poor to afford chicken. Without pn word the father collected some of the household things, pawned them, and returned with the desired chicken.”’— London Daily Mail. An Odd Bequest. The lucky legatee was Thomas Joyce, a gentleman in comfortable circum- stances, though by no means wealthy, who was in business in the West of England as a wool merchant, says Tit- Bits. Desiring a caretaker for his city office, he placed an advertisement in a Liverpool paper, which was replied to by a young fellow named Philip Jackson, On being interrogated as to why he left his last place, Jackson explained that he had stolen some money belong- ing to his employer, for which he had served a year’s imprisonment, and that, though he had been out three months, he had utterly failed to ob- tain another position. Mr. Joyce, being somewhat struck by the frankness of the man, decided to give him a chance, and he was in- stalled as caretaker. At the end of three months he had made himself so useful and trustworthy that his mas- ter increased his wages. For two years he remained in Mr. Joyce's serv- ice, until, the gold fever breaking out in Australia, he decided to try his for. tune at the diggings. He never re- turned to England, but in 1898 Mr. Joyce received a notice from a firm of Melbourne solicitors that Jackson had recently died, leaving a fortune of $700,000, which he bequeathed unre- servedly to his old master. i Cn Not in the List of States. Delegate Rody, of New Mexico, was on the Senate side of the Capitol, be- moaning the lack of information which the average individual in the States displays about that teeming Territory in the far Southwest. “Why,” said he, “I was up in Ver- mont not long ago, where I used to live when a boy. Some one asked me if the money they used in Vermont was good down in New Mexico. Just think of it! 3ut that isn’t any worse than the experience one of our wealthy New Mexico merchants had not long ago in New York ity. He entered a big wholesale house to buy $28.000 worth F good ras his first dealing ar house, and he say you were said the cl there.” ’ New Y¢ KEYSTONE STATE-CULLINGS SURVEYING RAILWAY ROUTE. Engineers at Work Along West Side of Allegheny River. Engineers, presumably working for the Shawmut & Northern Railroad : Company, are running a line down the west side of the Allegheny river to a point connecting with the Bessemer road above Hulton. The survey comes down Mahoning creek to within half a mile of the mouth, tunnels to Temple- ten, nine miles north of Kittanning; crosses the Buffalo & Allegheny divi- sion of the Pennsylvania and the Al- legheny river at Ore Hill, and keeps the west side of the river to where it connects with the Bessemer and will reach Pittsburg over the latter road. The preliminary survey was made in 1903 and the engineers "are now straightening the grades and curves. This will give Kittanning a competing line, Phillips Johnson, colored, 25 years old ard single, was shot in a shanty at Ellsworth by Nelson Phefer, also colored, who made his escape. The men were employed by W. F. Patter- son, who is sinking a new air shaft for the Ellsworth mines. Johnson and Leroy Phefer are said to have had a dispute about a dollar which Johnson alleged Phefer owed him, when Nelson Pheter, a brother of Leroy, interfered and shot Johnson three times, twice in the breast and once in the left arm, Johnson ran to the farm house nearby, where he was cared for during the night. The only physician in Ells- worth was unable to render medical attention because of his own illness and Johnson died this morning with- out receiving medical attention. Two men were killed by falling from a scaffold from the Duquesne steel works yesterday afternoon. Gustav sS. Lux, aged 23, of Pearl street, McKees- port, was crushed to death instantly; Joseph Kane, aged 22, of McKeesport, died at the McKeesport hospital two hours later. The men were boliler- makers and were working about a stack, some 20 feet from the ground. Louis Hippo, George Farmington, C.arles Denny and Clarence Skelly, of Altoona, whose ages range from 15 to 18 years, confessed to having band- ed themselves together to commit sys- tematic robberies and to loot lofts and coops. of chickens and pigeons. Offi- cers found valuable plunder in the homes of the accused. As a result of the discovery that $82,000 worth of Washington bor- ough bonds have been declared inval- id, it is probable that the big demon- stration planned for next Fourth of July in connection with the ‘dedica- tion of the new city park will have to be called off. Sherman Flanigan, 28 years old, died at the Altoona hospital. He was found recently wandering around with both feet frozen., To save his life they were amputated, but he was un- able to stand the shock. He is said to be a member of a wealthy Virginia family. Rev. J. W. Plannette, of Linesville, has been appointed a clerk in the De- partment of Internal Affairs at Harris- burg. Mr. Plannette was chaplain of the Two Hundred and Eleventh Penn- sylvania regiment in the Civil war. He is a retired Baptist clergyman. Carp by the thousand were ground to death in the breaking up of the big ice gorge on the Susquehanna riv- er, and since the receding of the wa- ters the dead fish are strewn in the mud and ice which has been left up- on the shores. Adolph Herskovitz, charged with false pretense while acting as agent for the transfer of lands in the old country, was acquitted by a Fayette, county jury, at Uniontown. Part of the costs were placed on him. Rev. R. P. Daubenspeck, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Apollo, an- nounced to his congregation that®he has decided not to accept the call of the First Presbyterian Church of Steubenville, O. Joseph S. Martin, 28 years old, was drowned in a lake in a Colorado game preserve. He was a son of Contractor Thomas F. Martin, of Altoona, and graduated from St. Vincent's college in 1892, A suit over a horse deal in Washing- ton county, which lasted six days, re- sulted in the jury awarding the plain- tiff $10. The horse was alleged to be unsound. 2 Rev. Watson M. Hayes, for 20 vears a missionary of the Presbyterian church in China, has returned to his home at New Wilmington on a fur- lough. A gas explosion wrecked the second story of K. Frozley’'s store at Union- town. Small damage resulted from a fire that followed the explosion. Fred Kahle, aged 23, son of D. P. Kahle, a well-known producer of Lines- ville, fell from a haymow. D3ctors sav he cannot recover. The Connellsville Board of Trade ap- pointed a committee to confer with the Fischer Foundry Company of Pittsburg relative to its removal to Connellsville. Thomas Hendry, the Baltimore & Ohio brakeman accused of wrecking the Pittsburg & Lake Erie express last January, was acquitted at New Castle. A company has been organized in Monessen and capitalized at $50,000 to build a theater. It includes Mayor A. N. Shuster and Councilman William S. Bumbaugh-. At Coal Center Thomas J. Lilley, an aged resident, was struck by a freight train and fatally injured. The annual spring meeting of the Northern conference cof the Pittshurg synod of the Lutheran church will convene at New Castle, April 19-20. A lump of coal has been sent from the mines Freeport. to the Wo St. Louis. The lump W 20) pounds: a near buroe
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