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There was a great philosopher,
Lived years and years ago;
And such a merry soul was he -
They called him Laughing Joe,
For laugh he would throughout the year,
Let things go Trond or right;
t Fortune smile or Fortune frown,
heart was ever light.
And little children every day
ould gather round his place
To listen to his hearty laug
see his smiling face.
But gloomy-minded people said
They thought it was a shame
‘A man should be disposed to laugh
At good and bad the same.
At last they gathered in a crowd
And pulled his dwelling down;
They hustled him around the streets,
drove him from the town,
To find a home beyond the ses
Jpon a foreign strand,
And never dare to set a foot
Upon his native land.
But when they chased him from the realm
These people little knew
What even cone good-natured soul
And smiling face can do.
Now children seeking after Joe
Would round the ruins stray,
And grieve because the people drove
Their laughing friend away.
And long before a year went by
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Those bad-behaving men
Sent messengers across the sea
To coax him back again.
And out they ran with princely ¢ifts
To meet him at the shore,
And begged him there to live and laugh
In peace forevermore.
—Palmer Cox, in St. Nichojzs,
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~AO3% HE abandoned Beckwith; occasional inquiring note. It was too
y limerock quarry is a gigan-{ hot "to stay there long.® Sedgwick
a T @ tic pit, 200 feet deep, blast-
f ed out of the solid rock.
OW Almost the entire bottom
is filled with a gulf, of
greenish-black water, forty or fifty
feet in depth, reflecting the steep walls
in its dark surface.
fanned himself with his straw hat, and
then began to ascend.
It was a slow, weary climb beneath
the scalding sun; but step by step:he
won. his way upward. :
was at the foot of the last ladder, fifty
feet from the top..
Ere- long he
Round by round he
Arthur Sedgwick, assistant professor ascended, until he had gone ten féet.
of botany in a Wéstern college, came
to New England to study the flora of
the limerock region. The .farm on
which the Beckwith quarry is situated
was rich in wild flowers, and the bot-
anist had obtained from its owner full
permission to tread down the grass
as much as he pleased. After a de-
lightful morning in the field, Sedgwick
became curious to look into the deep,
rocky gulf.
pver.
The cliff down which he gazed was
80 nearly vertical
dropped from its summit would have
Then something gave way above.’
The ladder settled slightly, and fts
top dropped straight out from the cliff,
As Sedgwick felt himself falling back-
ward he instinctively let go the rounds
and grasped with both bands: at the
wire rope beside him, swinging him-
self out of the line of the ladder as he
did so. :
His presence of mind and quickness
Lying flat, he edged cau-| of action undoubtedly saved his life.
tiously up to the brink and peered]
A hundred feet below him there was a
heavy plunge in the pond, a suggestion
of his own probable fate had he been
that a plumb-line | a second slower.
For a brief space he hung dangling
fallen straight to the water, 200 feet| at arm's length against the face of the
“below. He noted. the rocky walls of
blue and slaty white, darkened here
between the shelly layers. His bot-
perpendicular wall, too horrified to do
anything but hold on for dear life.
and there by springs that trickled out | His
broad-brimmed straw hat had
fallen off, and it scaled downward,
anist's eye marked the green tufts of | this way and that. until at last it came
grass and the clusters of white yarrow
that decked the little ledges in the
course of the waterflow. on
Just above the level of the pond, at though they were.
his finger tips the rope ran through the
eye of a supporting rod.
but raise his body and get up on this
its eastern end, he saw the heaps of
ashes and a circle of bricks on the
tlinker-strewn terrace where the pump-
house had once stood. Up to the top of | |
to rest on the surface of the water.
But presently the strain began to tell
the botanist’'s muscles, strong
Two feet above
If he could
rar, he would for the time be com-
the sheer wall beside it ran a line of | paratively safe.
rusty red, broken by a few short iron
rods, with scattered chain-links and breathless, on the
steel.
frayed rope-ends hanging to them,
showing where the pipe that drained
the quarry had been fastened. 1
As Sedgwick’s eyes followed the
water-line along the base of the steep
dash of vivid pink against the dull
blue quarry wall.
glance to tell him what it was.
yarrow!
He had known that it existed in the | vy
Pink 1
stalks that
along the
cliffs, his attention was caught by a| turned his glance downward.
of the first stairway
It needed no second | yards below.
safety
In a few seconds he stood, hot and
slender piece of
What should he do next?
He looked up. It was more than
hirty feet to the roots of the tall grass-
shook their tufted tops
edge of the quarry. Hag,
The top
was only five
It would be an easy
natter to swing himself down to the
those wooden steps afforded,
vhile to climb to the level of the
region, but so far had been unable to! field meant several minutes of hard
find any specimens.
way down to that cluster of bloom,
but he determined to add it to his her-
barium, if there was any possible way
of reaching the shelf on which it grew.
It was a long| and painful work.
Once at the top, however, he was
free to go where he pleased; but if he
descended and waited for his plight to
be discovered, he might have to remain
Not far away, in the end of the [hours in that rocky pit, hatless under |: 3 !
. FAL daylight: the’ species of the.captive
quarry, was the line of ladders and | the broiling sun.
steep stairs which had formerly been |
used by the workmen.
through the thick grass brought the
A brief circuit | taken.
sobn
Sedgwick's = resolution was soon
He would scale’the summit as
as his arms could carry -him
botanist to its top. there. :
The first stage of the descent was a
{adder running fifty feet down the face
of a perpendicular cliff; from the ledge! t
on which the ladder ended a stairway |.
almost as stéep led down forty feet
another ladder longer than the first;
The rods supporting the wire rope
were ten feet:.apart, se the next above
he one on which he stood was about
a yard and a half over his head. There
were only two more hetween that and
farther to a second ledge; then came} the top. )
teaching as high as he could,
the botanist hegan to “shin” the cabie.
and finally a second stairway landed | He threw up his right hand for another
close to the coveted bloom. c
Sedgwick was too sensible to incur
actual danger for the sake of gaining
the spray of yarrow; on the other
hand, he did not propose to be fright-! t
ened from his purpose by the mere
difficulty of the accomplishment.
* He scanned the ladder below him.
Its rounds appeared perfectly strong.
Better still, a wire rope, running
through eyes in the end of iron rods,
and serving as a bhand-rail, was
stretched close beside the ladders and
stairs clear to the edge of the water.
Although the canvas
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nat covered this |
rope was fray and its supporting
rods were red with rust, it gave prom-
ise of security in case the wood should
fail.
nerves sound. ISeeping firm hold of
his feet.
No signs of decay were ap-
was fully ten minutes before he stood
ends studded the
surface, and drew the blcod wherever
they touched the skin.
grasping a metallic stinging nettle. If
hie took light hold he could not lift his
weight, while a firm grasp meant cruel
laceration of 1
ed his grip.
grip. His fingers closed over a spot
where the rotting canvas had left the
wire strands bare.
The metal was burning hot. Worse
han that, several needle-pointed wire-
otherwise smooth
It was iike
—
1ands.
Sedgwick set his teeth and contract-
A man can afford to un-
lergo some physical discomfort when
he is swinging over a hundred feet of
empty air.
Once, twice, three times he renewed
his hold, raising himself until he could
Sedgwick's arms were strong and his | get one knee over the bar.
When he
finally stood upon it the insides of his
the twisted steel, he cautiously tested | hands and fingers
the upper rounds of the ladder with | piously from doz
were bleeding co-
ns of minute pune-
tures, and the perspiration stood in
parent, and he began the descent. big drops on his
So careful was his progress that it} throbbed painfully in
veins and arteries se
face. His head
the hot sun. The
med fuil to the
on the final ledge, only a few inches | point of bursting.
above the water. A few steps brought
him to the spray of yarrow, and pres-; had bargained for.
ently it lay with the other specimens
was more than he
But the grass-roots
were now barely twenty feet above,
Decidedly, t
in the canister slung over his shoul-| and he entertained no thought of turn-
s
der. Before beginning the ascent he
stood for a time looking up.
From the field of blue sky between | hot.
the cliff summits the unclouded sun
sent down a flood of fiery light. No
breeze was stirring in the deep pit.
ing back.
It was now dead noon and fearfully
The hard bluish-white wall swam
before the botanist’s eyes. If only
some cloud would check those terrible
fiery arrows the sun was shooting at
It was like a caldron filled with trem-| him!
ulous air, seething in glassy billows
in the intense heat. Sedgwick almost
wondered that the pond did not boil
under the glowing rays. Far above,
ghe wire of the old cableway cut {ie
summer sky, a thread of black. Al
$ird, perched upon it, sent down an |
The light tin canister weighed like
lead upon his shoulders. His arms
ached as if they would drop off, and he
was growing weak and dizzy. What if
he were to have a sunstroke before he
reached the surface!
The dread of it gave him fresh
‘down upon the deck. without hurting it.
he had lifted himself ten feet higher
and stood on another bar. There was
but one more; and after that—safety.
The next few moments were agoniz-
ing ones for Sedgwick; moments of
dead, painful effort that seemed to
drain his system to the very dregs of
energy and endurance. ’
The blood from his torn hands ran
down his wrists into his sleeves as he
climbed, and now and .then a drop
spattered upon his face. The pitiless
sun-rays seemed to be probing his
brain, burning out the power of
thought and leaving only the coa-
sciousness of suffering.
Yet in spite of all he kept rising.
First with one hand, then with: the
other, he grasped the strands above !
the bar. The eye through which the
rope ran was close to his chin; it
touched. his chest, his thigh. A secand
later he got his knee upon it and then
his foot. His face was just above: the
level of the ground, and the warm
fragrance 'of the luxuriant grass was
strong in his nostrils. 1 b
And now, when deliverance secmed
so close, came the most terrible five
seconds the botanist ever éxperienced.
As he stood on the six-inch rod of
steel, his body was turned sidewise so
that it leaned against the cliff. He
had yet to raise’ himself ‘five feet be-
fore he would be on solid ground. The
wire rope could assist him, no longer,
for its end was fastened round a spike
in a @drill-hole level with his ¢hest; and
he must get a firm hold a yard higher
Before he could safely pull himself up.
With bleeding hands ‘he explored the
soil among .the grass-roots,” seeking “a
place suitable for his purpose. .If.he
tried to reach very far from the edge
Le could not sink his fingers deeply in
the earth, while if he. took hold: too
near the brink the turf might pull
through and allow‘ him to fall back-
ward. ; : 1 2
At last be found a spot that satisfied
him, and worked his hands down into
tiie ground, regardless of the pain.
Then, mustering all his strength, he
raised himself slightly. :
His feet had hardly left the bar
when his right handhold tore out: his
left-followed. He slipped back, clutch-
ing wildly at the grass-stalks, until his
soles touched again the slender rod of
steel. There he stood for a moment,
rigid with horror, tottering above the
abyss.
Everything depended on the turn
his body took in balancing.. If it
swayed inward, all might yet be well:
if outward, there was the rugged cliff-
side and the pond far below. A grain
of energy might turn the scale in either
direction, for life or for death.
With senses sharpened by the im-
minent peril, Sedgwick made a decisive
effort. His body swayed in toward the
cliff, and the crisis was past!
But there was no time to waste. He
felt that the next attempt must be his
last. Taught by experience, he dug
his hands so deeply into the soil that
there was no possibility of losing his
hold again.
A minute later he was lying prone in
the tall grass a good ten feet from the
brink of the quarry. The spray of pink
yarrow is in his herbarium now, and
he never turns to the page without
remembering tha danger he underwen
in securing that particular specimen.—
Youth's Companion.
Lassoed a Booby,
When the gasolene schooner Eclipse
was half way across the channel from
Kaul Monday night a large’ booby
bird lighted upon tha jibboom:. Mr.
Hartman, the first - mate, crept out
with a lassoo and on the second throws=
ing captured the bird. It was dragged:
was recognized, and then, with due re-
spect tO the awful consequences of
killing the albatross described in “The
Ancient Mariner,” the bird ‘was re-
stored to liberty. re .
The booby is distinguished from the
gooney in being entirely white, except.
ing the wing tips, which are jet black.
This specimen was a fine one, having a
wing spread of six feet. It resented
the approach of the sailors with vicious
snapping of mandibles and squawking
like an- angry goose. The bird ap-
peared to be tired out when it rested
upon the vessel, and the supposition
of the Eclipse officers was that it had
been blown away from Laysan Island
by a westerly gale.—Honolulu Pacific
Commercial Advertiser.
——
A Lemarkable Competition.
One of the most extraordinary com-
petitions which have ever taken place
was attempted the other week in Bal-
timore. Six unhappy creatures were
placed on a platform, each of them op-
posite a grand piano, and a prize was
given to the performer who played the
longest at a stretch. It was not neces.
sary that the six performers should
give the same music, so long as they
rendered “what the program calls “in-
telligent music” it was considered sat-
isfactory: The winner played fifty
hours. He lost four pounds in weight,
and had to be attended by several doc-
tors on the conclusion of the perform-
ance. The most striking fact is that
five members of the audience sat it
out.—Baltimore Amo=rican,
Highest Waterfall in the Werld,
The highest known waterfall in the
worid was the Cerosola Cascade, in
the Alps, having a drop of 2400 feet.
But one in the San Cuayatan Canyon,
in the State of Durango, Mexico, now
claims first place. It was discovered
by some prospectors ten years ago in
the great barranca, district, which is
called the Tierras Desconocidas. While
searching for the famous lost mine
Naranjal, a great roar of water was
heard With much difficulty the party |
pushed on and up and down the
mighty chasm until they beheld the |
superb fall, which is said to be at!
ieast 3000 feet high.—London Tit-Bits, '
. City.
: day.’
One of Them Would Make a Fence Rix
Yeei High and Twenty-four Miles Lohg.
The only way we can comprehend the
greatness of the “big trees” of Califor-
nia without actually seeing them is by
comparing them with things of every-
day life. Imagine one of these trees
being transplanted to the corner of
Fifth avenue and Broadway, New York
It would make the Fifth Avenue
Iotel look like a cottage, and if the
largest tree now growiny on Manhat-
tan Island were placed on the top of
the Flatiron Building, it would still be
in the shade of the big tree’s upper
branches. General Walteuffel stated
not long ago that if he could have had
dne of-these big trees to throw across
the Pei-ho River upon the arrival of
the international army, it would have
served as a bridge across which he
eculd have marched the entire 30,000
men into Pekin in forty-five minutes.
It is estimated *hat scme of these
frees contain 750,000 feet of lumber,
and we may get an idea of what this
means when we hear that it would
make a board fence six feet high and
twenty-four miles long, or that it would
supply enorgh telegraph poles to sup-
port a line of wires running from Kan-
sas City to Chicago. If the tallest elm
tree you know of were cut down and
bent into. a circle, it would just about
make a ring to fit the base of one of the
big trees. But it is not their size alone
which makes these giants so impres-
sive; their age is still more remarkable.
When Cheop’s army of 100,000 nren be-
gan, ‘to: “hill the great pyuamid of
Jeezeh, over 2000 years before Christ,
these Sequoias, as they are called, had
bark on them a foot thick; they were
old, old trees when Methusaleh was a
baby—they are the very oldest living
things on the face of the earth. And
we Americans should regard them as a
priceless heritage, which once: taken
from us could never be replaced, and
we should at any cost guard them for-
ever fronr those who with ax and saw
would in one week undo the work of
S060 years.—Woman's Home Camnan-
ion.
Utilizing the Dead Sea.
It is believed that before very long
the Dead Sea will be exploited for in-
dustrial purposes. French engineers
are at work on three different projects
with this purpose in view. The level
of the Dead Sea being more than 1300
feet below that of the Mediterranean
and Red scas, it is thought by connect-
ing cither of these twe seas by means
of a canal with the Dead Sea, a stream
of water would flow with a velocity
calculated to produce some 25,000
horsepower. There is danger, it is
asserted, of an overflowing of the Dead
Sea, for the waters there evaporate at
so great a rate (6,000,000 tons a day)
that the incoming waters would make
no appreciable difference in the level.
One project is to start the canal frem
the Bay of Acre, lead it southward
past Mount Tabor, and let it join at
Baisan, the waters of the Jordan. An-
other plan is to build the canal along
the railway line from Jaffa to Jerusa-
lem. But this would mean blasting
a tunnel of some thirty-seven miles
through {tbe mountains of Old Judea.
The third project, the cheapest, pro-
poses to start at Akaba, in the Red
Sea, and pass through the desert of
Wady-el-Jebel. Having obtained power
in.this manner, it is thought many in-
dusgrial works will he carried on.—
Loi8on Daily News.
& Radium as a Pain-Killer.
United States Consul General
Guenther, of Frankfort, writes as fol-
lows: Dr. Darier, of Paris, describes
a gase of cancer of the face which,
through application of radium, had
befar rendered painless. Kimilar re-
sults have been obtained by other
noged experts. He has also found
4 quik and pain-killing effects of radium
in Gertain diseases of the eye. The
infigence of vadium upon the motor
nerve centres he considers of still
gredter importance. In two cases of
nervous spasms, which occurred three
or four times a week, weak radium
preparations were applied to the tem-
ples for two or three days, when the
spasms ceased. In a case also of pre-
sumptive inability of motion, caused by
nervous debility, radium effected a
complete cure within three days--pro-
ably, however, through suggestion. In
acute facial paralysis of entirely new
origin, radium effected a cure in one
Samples of weak radio-activity
are now rather inexpensive, so that
other physicians are enabled to verify
these results.
Butted In at the Wedding.
Land office regulations unfeelingly
“butted in” on the plans of Cupid the
other day at Waurika and stopped a
wedding. Samuel Mosler, a home-
steader of that vicinity, has arranged
to wed Mrs. Mitchell, a buxom widow,
who had but recently made her final
proof before the local court commis-
sioners. Just before the ceremony was
performed word came that a wit-
ness’ failure to properly sign his name
had caused rejection of the papers by
the Interior Department. The wed-
ding was postponed, the groom to be
apparently being more willing to tem-
porarily relinquish a bride than to per-
manently relinquish a farm.—Mangum
(Texas) Sun-Mirror.
Old English Customs.
Sir Walter Besant'sstudy of old Eng-
lish customs shows that the doctors of
several centuries ago prescribed for
fevers “a cold water affusion” with
drinking of asses’ milk. When the
queen was iil in 1663 they shaved Ler
icad and applied pigeons to her feet.
Powdered mummy for a long time was
considered to be a specific against dis-
eases. It is said that the reason it
went out of use was that dealers took
to embalming bodies and then sold
them for genuine ancient wummies,
Ghe Funny
Jide of
Life.
™TEN AND NOW.
In : What
days would she
long say if she
ago (in saw girls
the six- today with
ties you skirts
know) when clutched
grandma so tights
went walking ly they
she held cil
her skirts so. look
this
way?
— Inland Pridters
NOC LIMIT.
“I vnderstand therc’s ro limit to
Smith's income.”
“Shouldn’t be surprised; he’s ihe
greatest borrdwer I know of.”’—Yon-
kcrs Herald.
HEIRLCOMS,
Mrs. Hadtterson—“Mrs. Sparkleton
descended from a glazier, didn’t she?”
Mrs, -Catterson— “Why ?”
““I saw her last night with her fom-
ily Jewels on.”
TOO EXPENSIVE.’
Bunting—*“Radium is said to be
warth $250,000 for. one-fifteenth of an
ounce.” =
% Larkin—"*Well, that won’t be popular
Jor Christmas presents.”
NOC GREAT LOCSS8.
“Your husband lost his temper in a
little dispute we had,” said Gazzam to
Mrs, Bickers.
“That doesn’t matter,” replied Mrs.
Bickers; “he has pleaty left.”
A HARD NAME.
“That Russian count has a name for
killing his man whenever——"
“Well, if his man has to pronounce
it every time he speaks to him I don’t
wonder.”—Philadelphia Press,
EXERCISED,
Doctor—“What you need is to give
your stomach continuous and vigorous
exercise.”
Patient—“But I have, doctor; I've
been living on predigested health
foods.”
HIS INTENTIONS.
The Duke—*“Is it true that you are
going to marry an American heiress?”
The Count—*It is.”
The Duke—“What's her name?”
The Count—*“Don’t know yet.”—Chi-
cago News.
A HOTBOX.
“What do you think now, Bobby?”
remarked the mother as she boxed his
ears.
“I don’t think,” replied the boy. “My
train of thought has been delayed by
a hotbox.”
NOT DEFINITE.
“Please print instructions for smok-
ing sausage,” wrote the constant read-
er to the answers-for-the-anxious edi-
tor.
“Which—the long or the fine cut?”
he wrote beneath the query.—Judge.
HIS PREFERENCE.
Mrs. Kindheart—“Here's a cast-off
golf suit of my husband's if you want
iH.
Rags N. Tatters—“Yes’'m; I'd like to
have it. I'd rather be taker for a golf
player than freeze.”
STRANGERS.
" “Kloseman says he doesn’t know you
at all.”
“I’m not surprised at all.
sees me, you know.”
“But I thought you said you were
members of the same church.”
“Yes, but I invariably take up the
collection.” —Philadelphia Ledger,
He never
PRACTICAL.
Ponder—“Did you ever notice that
most of the fires that break out sud-
denly and spread quickly are due to
spontaneous combustion?”
Housekeep—*“No, but I've often
thought what a splendid thing spon-
taneous combustion would be if you
could only keep it on {ap to light the
kitchen fire with” — Philadelphia
Press.
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SUGGESTING AN IMPROVEMENT.
The .owner of the new apartment
house was exhibiting it to his brother-
in-law, who was an architect.
*1 had it built according to my own
ideas,” he said, “and it's built for
keeps. An earthquake wouldn't have
any effect on it.”
“That’s a pity,” said the brother-in-
law. “An earthquake might improve
it.”—Chicago Tribune,
RETORT COURTEOUS.
Mrs. Bizzey—*“I notice you're clean-
ing house, Mrs. Newcome, and I was
afraid you might be tempted to throw
your rubbish out on the back lot. I
just wanted to say-that we don’t do
that sort of thing here.”
Mrs. Newcome—“I burned ail our
rubbish in the furnace this morning,
Mrs. Bizzey, including an old book on
‘Etiquette,’ which I might have saved
for you.”—Philadelphia Press.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE FORMED.
Citizens Arm Themselves and Raise
Fund of $2,000 Reward fcr Capt-
ure of Robbers.
The citizens of Slippery Rock,
Worth and Plain Grove townships, of
Lawrence county, have organized tc
protect themselves against the opera-
tions of thieves that have terrorized
this section for weeks. A fund of
$2,000 has been subscribed, to be paid
as rewards for the detection and con-
viction of the outlaws who committed
the Elliott, Jordan and McCracken
robberies last week. A vigilance com-
mittee of armed men will guard the
homes of the country people, and all
tramps and suspicious characters will
be arrested and held for an investiga-
tion. No effort will be spared to rid
the country of the brutes who have
tortured and abused their victims,
even when no resistance was offered
them.
Jealous of his wife, an industrious
woman, David Spahr, of Carlisle, went
to his homz «ud shot his wife with a
revolver. Four bullets entered her
body. She is now lying in the city
nospital at the point of death. Later
in the day Spahr was arrested and
placed. in tie county jail to await the
result of her injuries.
As a result of a dispute over a ganie
of cards at Eliwood City, C. Bullinta,
an Italian, was shot in the ahdomen by
Selin Gutz, who escaped, The wound-
€d man is at the. hospital and the
physicians say he cannot recover.
As -a result of a shooting affray at
Axleton George Kelley lies at the
point of death at his home in Monon-
gahela City. Ben Fagens and Monte
Davis quarreled. Kelley and William
Wilson attempted to separate them
when two brothers of Fagens, mis-
understanding their motive, cpened
fire with revolvers. An attempt was
made to catch the three Fagens broth-
ers, but they succeeded in crossing the
river in a skiff and escaped. Wilson
received a wound in the lez.
The coroner’s jury in the case of R.
C. Thomas, the fireman killed in the
Manor Valley wreck a week ago, de-
cided that the death was the result
of trainwreckers. The jury recom-
mended that the Pennsylvania railroad
company offer a reward for the cap-
ture of the unknown miscreants.
Harry K. Cope, 27 years old, a line-
man, employed by the Scottdale Light,
Heat and Power company, was elec-
trocuted. His wife to whom he had
been married a year ago, witnessed
the accident. Cope was attempting to
fix an arc light, about 100 feet from
his home, by tapping the light with a
porcelain tube to make the carbon
come down.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Wheeler, of
Goodwill hill, with their two children
were enjoying an outing along Kill-
well creek. A raft on which they
were riding broke in two, throw-
ing the woman and children into the
water. The woman wag drowned and
her body was not found until late
at night. The father succeeded in
getting the children ashore, but all
efforts to revive the girl failed. The
young father is almost heartbroken.
Hoodlums, after drinking several
kegs of beer on a farm in Mifflin
township, near Dravosburg, mutilated
with knives a ‘half dozen valuable
cows. Four of the animals will have
to be killed. The discovery was not
made until thé cows returned to the
farmhouse in the evening.
Elva Jeannette Schrum, 11-year-old
daughter of S." E. Schrum, of West
Washington, died of hydrophobia. The
girl was bitten slightly nine months
ago by a dog: The wound was cau-
terized, and she appeared well until
Sunday. Monday she suffered terri-
bly, and had te be tied. ¥
Frederick Bochman, wife and ‘two
small children, residing at Morrell,
one mile north of Dunbar, were peis-
oned by eating canned salmon this
evening. :' They wete all fourd to be
in a critical condition by the attending
physician.
Harry K. Cope, an-electrician em-
ployed by the Pittsburg, McKeesport
& Connellsville Light Company, was
instantly killed while making some re-
pairs to an arc light. He was 25
years old and leaves a wife and one
child.
John Krofi, a miner, at Jamison Coal
works, No. 2, near Greenshurg, was
probably fatally injured ty being hit
on the head with a brick during a
flght. ° A number of arrests have been
made. :
Masked robbers forced an entrance
into the residence of J. Eiliotr, near
Jacksville, Lawrence ‘county. They
looted the place, after binding and
gagging Elliott and his three sisters.
Judge Francis J. Kocoser, of Somer-
set, sentenced four Elk Lick strikers,
who admitted committing violations
of an injunction, to pay a fine of $75
each and all costs, for contempt.
Mrs. Catherine Spahr, aged 83, is
dead at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
George Hawk, of Paulton. Mrs.
Spahr was a. pensioner of the War of
1812. i
A burglar entered the heme cf Mine
Superintendent George Moore, at
Dawson, and is reported to have se-
cured $1,100 in cash, which was kept
in a box. This the thief pried open.
Edward Salisbury was seriously hurt
by falling from an electric crane at
the Carnegie Steel works at Sharps
ville,
In a fight at Sigsbee, Greene coun-
ty, Amos Rich, a former constable, is
reported to have been fatally injured
by Bert Tanner. The quarre] crigin-
ated over the trapping of fos
wag struck over the head
and has not recovered cons
OHIO
The Lackawanna county Republicans
unanimously named Thomas H. Dale
for Congress, and selected W. 1.. Con-
nell and Reese A. Phillips as Nation-
a] delegates.
Mrs. George Bryan, of Beaver Falls,
who cut her throat with a razor last
Friday, is dead from her injuries.
ciousness.
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story is
country
multiplyi
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lation of
multiplie
cities has
one man
city. To:
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women a
the most
our times
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boys and
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have bull
there is
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maimed f
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twelve ar
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for a lon
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deaths an
cause and
boys into
forbidden
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my boy
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oys. Th
criminals,
on the crc
and God
hearts, I
like Him
which is 1
yet true i
are denied
life drift
street gan
and bruta
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and the pe
path, trav
our boys e
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serious sit
ptreets tha
this morni
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the churcl
that the cl
the gospel,
that the p
been more
is the me
God cares
let a man
sink into h
ciple of his
in a badly
district, su
he will be
band and f
lord receiv
will transf
abiding pia
come. For
the regener
makes all f
ly, with co
preme, all
mission of
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our crowdse
portant to
tion when
point in th
the city ne
try village-
have the
There was
preaching ¢
A man of a
ospel ever
iia tl
did before
day. After
work as a
the Baptist
but unlike
did not co:
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ing for the
wilderness,
ood, heal
inspiring.
meetings ar
good. Man
them. But
ing the gos
preath and
learn anew
the truth tl
a life. We
prove it by
highways a
bringing he
up the fall
our arms, a
assured the
throned abe
and hardshi
ifestation o
was of God
singing anc
working, he
of Christ wi
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a pulpit by
to some poc
spair over
mated by C
room where
evenings ap:
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mother who
the gospel «
other in dec
sermon agai
say he is
starts a coo
to make foo
bands and s
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gospel of t
see what
preaching ti
every agence;