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A Quesen’s Boudoir.
Jueen Alexandra’s boudoir at
Windsor Castle, England, is a charm-
ing apartment, says the London Ex-
press. Her Majesty has taken the
greatest interest in its decoration and
furnishing, and some of the Louis
XVI treasures which are to be found
there were discovered in 1902, when
some alterations were being made in
another part of the Castle.
The bathrooms used by the king
and queen are magnificent, the marble
in each having been brought over
from some quarries in Greece. which
were said to have heen lost sight of
for over a thousand years, and which
were not reosened until a couple of
years azo.
Care of Shoes.
“Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their
gait,” is an cold saying which applies
well to the modern shoe and ifs wear.
er. No shoe will keep in shape long
unless it is put on a tree when out of
use. These “trees” are very cheap,
but most women look upon them as
an extravagance. Another rule of the
carefully shod weman is to rest her
shoes for a day or so and always
wear a different pair indoors. Low
shoes are better for house wear, as
they permit of ventilation. Select a
strong calfskin for a walking boot,
keep it well oiled and your pedestrian
trips will be made in perfect comfort,
says the Detroit Free Press. Keep an
old pair of shoes to wear under rub-
bers, as the perspiration which India
rubber excites ruins good leather.
Be Cld Yet Attractive.
You are always as young as you
feel; people never grow old until they
think themselves old. According to
Balzac “a woman of thirty is most
fascinating, dangerous.” The fash-
ionable age for a society woman is
without doubt between 30 and 40.
Never either admit your age or give
landmarks which will enable others
to guess it rightly. Take plenty ot
exercise, move briskly, speak firmly.
Take a half-hour’s rest in ths middle
of the day; nothing conduces more to
a . good appearance. It renews
strength and fresliens the complexion.
The want of occupation does not con-
duce to youth or to rest; “a mind
quite vacant is a mind distressed.”
Energy kecens the muscles elastic,
and romance is an amulet against
wrinkles. Defy time by keeping your
heart young. It is envy, loss of heart
and impatience that bring lines to the
face.
Bathing Suits of Silk.
This year’s bathing suit will be as
dainty and becoming a creation as
the afternoon frock.
Bright electric and sapphire blues
as well as all shades of red and even
green have taken the place of the one
time somber black and deeb navy
blue.
Purple is hinted at, but it will take
a brave or exceptionally beautiful
woman to wear it.
All smart bathing suits are now
made of a new taffeta made especi-
ally for this purpose, and warranted
not only to wear, but also to keep the
color absolutely.
Pleated skirts are to be worn, as
the flare is as much in fashion for
the abbreviated bathing skirt as for
any long recention gown.
Wide and narrow tucks will be em-
ployed on waists as well as skirts,
and, in fact, the bathing costume
made quite simply and without trim-
ming.
‘Parasol Covers.
With the subject of parasols, cov-
ers certainly deserve attention. In
these plainness rules. This may be
denied by those who look carefully
into the matter. And, indeed, the
simplicity is mostly in effect. A care-
ful examination of the parasols car-
ried by the smartest dressers reveals
the fact that though there be an ap-
pearance of utter plainness many
parasols are adorned at the expense
of great labor. Flat ribbon and lace
appliques are noted. So are appliques
of chiffon so finely shirred that the
shirring is hardly visible. Even flat-
ter than these are the painted designs.
One magnificent white silk parasol
shows a spray of pink roses painted on
each gore. Though it must be admit-
ted that painted apparel usually ap-
pears dauby, it must be admitted that
this parasol is beautiful. All told,
though, plain parasols are the thing,
and rufiles and frills are studiously
neglected by those who dress more
smartly.
The Small Woman.
The one aim and ambition of the
tiny woman is to be like her taller
sister. While it is impossible to ac-
tually elongate the figure with per-
fect safety, or at all, il is nevertheless
comparatively simple, avers the Lon-
don Express, to give her the advant-
ages of from two to six inches which
might otherwise be lost altogether.
There is more in the way a little
woman -holds herself so that she
makes a good appearance than in the
highest heels and longest skirts that
can be worn.
By throwing the shoulders back
and tilting the chin just a little in
the air a woman seems to present a
different perspective to the observer.
Imstead of looking down on her, the
observer is compelled to look at her,
and the relative size becomes more
nearly equal.
Not only does a great deal in the
way of suggesting height depend up-
on the manipulation of the skirt, but
the cut and the length of it are re-
, was from Ecclesiastes 11:22:
sponsible for a gain of almost as many :
inches as a woman desires—that is,
to a reasonable amount. A skirt that
is very long in front, if it lies on the
floor several inches, increases the
height, while a very long train de-
creases it.
dreadful havoc with a short woman's
appearance, and, to be consistent, dhe
should emphasize the ‘don’t’ here.
But, then, walking costumes have be-
come cne of woman's most cherished
belongings, and it would be a pity
to deprive a small woman of their’ b
comfort, just because they make her
appear smaller. However, there is
more than one way of getting round
the difficulty, and the best is to have
the skirt cut with the greatest skill
and art. Keeping a watchful eye to
lines that may tend to balance the
curtailed skirt.
Short women should forego capes
and all full garments that tend to
cut long up and down lines.
Wide belts. unless they are careful-
Ankle-length skirts play |
{ now done, is human labor invested in ma-
: ture of a thousand ard one articles of
daily use.
ly and specially shaped to the figure, '
should be eschewed by all women
who are not long-wezisted, slender
and long-limbed. In this connection
it might be mentioned that there: are
small women who appear small and ;
other women of exactly the same
height, but of different mould and pro-
portions, who look shorter or taller,
according to their length of waist.
A long waist, it is generally admit-
ted, gives even a tiny woman a sem-
blance of height, while a short waist
renders her almost insignificant as to
inches. On this account it is more
than important that a small woman
should gown herself so as to gain
every possible inch and fraction of
inch in height.
Narrow belts help in this detail
of dress, and if they follow the much-
abused dip or point in front the
length of line from shoulder to waist
will be considerably increased. It is
a temptation to small women to put
on the new and extremely wide belt,
but—“Don’t do it,” is the advice of
those who have studied its effect.
Don’t wear extremely flat hats is
an additional plea to the small woman,
and one, too, that is important, while
it presents no trifling difficulty to
her to whom'it is uttered. When all
the fashionable hats are almost per-
fectly flat, and one who doesn’t choose
such a style runs a risk of looking un-
usual for the sake of a few inches,
she is not to be blamed if she refuses
to heed this particular “don’t.” How-
ever, it is quite within the power of a
good milliner to adjust the trimming
on a fiat hat so that it preserts just
a suspicion of extra height without
appearing . out of style. Small hats
are not exactly suited for little wom-
en, either, as they tend to increase
the impression of insignificance. and
to obviate this a hat of medium or
larger size of brim has been fcund
to accomplish the end with admirabie
results.
Fashion. Notes.
Frilly, lingerie collars and cuffs look
well cn the French shirtwaists.
Blouse sleeves are seamed and join-
ed to the shoulders by lines of deli-
cate veining.
Straw hats with as many as eight
shades of one color woven into the
braid are fashionable.
Beautiful robe costumes of voile
with wide borders of French crochet
are also the correct thing.
Girdles are extremely high, and
darted, boned and fitted almost like
the ancient “spencer” waist.
Heavy silk cords: which stray off
into queer scroll and flower designs,
trim the prim silk taffetas.
Tight little bunches of tiny grapes
in white and all pale colors are for
the hat that’s to copy Paris.
Tucks five inches deep, one half
way down the skirt and one at the
hem, is an old fashion revived.
In the colored linen gowns there are
set snug vests of white pique fasten-
ed with double rows of gold or jewel-
ed buttons.
Pendant embroidery trimming is a
novelty—just long narrow strips of
fine embroidery dropping like a fringe
from the band of insertion.
One dull brown taffeta is shirred,
corded and bedecked with silk ruch-
ings and countless little silk bows in
the quaintest fashion.
Where the bodice blouses over the
girdle in the back there is a fancy
for underlining with a little lace frill,
making it look like a lace-edged
bolero.
A New June
“What so rare as a day in June!”
I cuoted, profoundly moved as I was
by the radiant beauties of nature.
“An 'r in June Is consid’ble
skurce!” pouted Madeline, in her
earnestness falling unconsciously in-
to the rich, sonorous dialect of her
Puritan fathers.
And then, her eyes cast shyly down,
and the delicat lor suffusing her
cheek she conf 1, with many deep-
drawn sigh, she did love oysters,
whether raw od.—Puck.
Danger.
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED:
“THE INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT.”
The Rev. John DD. Long Gives Some
Wholesome Advice About FYresent-
Day Problems—The Causes of Dis-
‘content and the Remedies.
BABYLON, L. I.—In the oid First Pres-
byterian Church here, Sunday morning,
the Rev. John D. Long, pastor, preached
on “The Industrial Conflict.” The text
ii “What hath
a maa for all his labor?” Mr. Long said:
The writer of this text was asking as to
the rewards of life. Let us accommodate
it to the conflict now waging between cap-
ital and labor. It is the old question of
the laborer and his hire. What are the
teachings of Holy Writ on ‘he question?
Here, as elsewhere, we believe that the
Gospel applies, for as Ruskin suggests, the
Gospel bears upon life at every point, and
is erther good for everything or good for
nothing. J
Civilization is based upon labor—human
animal, mechanical. What we call capital
is at bottom only accumulated labor. The
day laborer lays brick in a wall; that is
labor. He saves up a part of his. wage,
and that becomes capital. Mechanical la-
bor, by which most of the world’s work is
chinery, and working through the same.
Of course. money or capital is secured
not only through saving and invention,
out in many other ways; vet human effort
is back of it all, and it becomes a sort of
call loan upon the bank of labor. Was it
not Emérson who said, “He that hath a
dollar is master of all to the extent of that
dollar?”
Vast fortunes have been piled up by
those who have invented machines by
which mechanism may take the place of
human hands. Thus the inventor is eng
abied to draw the wages of thousands. We
all know how largely the machine has su-
perseded the naked hand in the manufac-
Take, for example, pins and
needles and nails.
To be sure, many great fortunes have
been made by other means than by ma-
chinery, but in the main the weaith of
modern times is founded upon mechanical
labor.
Before asking what the letter or spirit of
the Bible teaches on the labor question, let
us face the situation of to-day. Organized
labor and capital are in conflict. There
arc strikes and rumors of strikes. Kach
strike is a battle in the war.
It may be well to observe that organized
labor has as yet only a iraction of the total
labor army, but it is a fraction that is in-
creasing.
Why this warfare? Because labor on the
one hand is dissatisfied with its share of
the rewards of industry, and because, on
the other, capital constantly seeks to re-
duce the cost of production by opposing
the demands of labor.
Other factors, however, enter into the
situation. One arises from the develop-
ment of the modern corporation. Wheth-
er corporations have souls or not, they lack
in large measure the element of personality
and the personal touch. Men who work
for a corporation are working in the main
for an unknown entity. Now, we remem-
ber that among the old-time Romans the
word for stranger was also the word for
enemy.
Further, there has been much dishonesty
in corporate dealings. Take such things as
the corrupt purchase of public franchises
below value, the increase in cost of certain
necessities of life by reason of unjust com-
binations to keep up prices. These and
other similar crimes against the commu-
nity have done much to inflame not only
Japon, but the general public against capi-
al.
Also, the rising standard of life, by which
the living wage gets further and further
from the meagre pittance that would suf-
fice to support the frugal Chinaman, leads
the laborer to constantly demand a more
and more generous wage.
Still other grounds of hostility might be
referred to, such as the natural, though
sinful, envy of the rich by the poor; the
ostentatious luxury of the rich, the growth
of class distinctions between the poor and
the rich and the inequality of pecuniary
rewards. The men who discovered the
priceless boon of anesthesia—who found
that surgery might be rendered painless by
the use of such agents as chloroform and
ether—gained but little money from their
discoveries. © They doubtless might have
traded on the world’s fear of pain, and by
using the patent laws and secrecy secured
wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, but
to their honor they did not. On the other
band, the men who introduced such im-
proved and cheapened methods as the Bes-
semer process of producing steel gained
money by the hundred millions. So peo-
ple are tempted to ask, “Have not some
men been rather selfish, to say the least,
in the acquisition of their wealth? And
may they not have obtained a little more
than their share?”
Before we go further let us ask shat is
to be the probable outcome of the war be-
tween labor and capital? Is it an irrepres-
sible conflict, or can the opposing interests
be reconciled? The answer is already he-
ing given. Take such a situation as may
now be seen in the coal trade of Chicago.
After bitter fighting the dealers and the
teamsters have come together to monopo-
lize the coal trade of the city and keep out
all competition. Wages and profits have
been put up at the expense of the ouiside
public, This is likely to go on more and
more. _
The ultimate outcome, unless the tend-
ency 1s checked, will be organization all
along the line until we have collectivism—-a
vast organized machine, in which men will
be cogs and individual initiative and per-
sonality will be restricted to an extent that
nil largely arrest the progress of civiliza-
ion. J
But let us take a breath and turn to the
Bible. What are the teachings of the Bible
in regard to labor and wealth? The Old
Testament is plainly anti-capitalistic. In
proof of this you have but to read tne laws
regarding capital in the Book of Leviticus
—laws that, if enforced, would compel
lain living as surely as the iron coin of
Sparta. Hear what was laid down there.
Land was allotted in small parcels to the
families of the tribes, and could not be
alienated except for the term of fifty years.
And ye shall hallow this fiftieth year,
and proclaim liberty throughout all the
land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it
shall be a jubilee unto you; and ve shall
return every man unto his possession, and
ye shall return every man unto his family.”
(Leviticus xxv:10).
. Interest could not be charged on loans.
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and
fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt
relieve him; yea, though he be a stranger
or a sojourner; that he may live with
thee. Thou shalt not lend him thy money
upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for
increase.” (Leviticus xxv:35-6).
Finally, there was the statute of limita-
tions with reference to loans. “At the end
of every seven years thou shalt make a re-
lease. And this is the manner of the re-
lease; every creditor that lendeth aught
unto his neighbor shall release it.” (Deu-
teronomy xv:1-2).
The attitude of the Old Testament to-
ward wealth is perhaps best reflected in
the prayer of Agur—“Give me neither
poverty nor riches * * * lest I be full,
and deny Thee, and say, Who is the Lord?
or lest I be poor, and: steal, and take the
name of my God in vain.” (Proverbs
xxx:8-9).
I need hardly remind vou that the great
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estament man, without
or home. labor
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may be imagined. It is well put by Dr.
Henry J. Van Dyke:
“Never in a costly palace did I rest on
golden bed,
Never in a hermit’s cavern have I eaten
. idle bread.
Born within a lowly stable, where the cat-
tle round Me stood,
Trained a carpenter in Nazareth, I have
toiled and found it good.
They who tread the path of labor follow
where My feet have trod;
They who work without complaining do
the holy will of God.
Where the many toil together, there am I
among My own;
Where the tired workman s'eepeth, there
am I with him alone.
I, the peace that passeth knowledge, dwell
~~ amid the daily strife.
I, the bread of heaven, am broken in the
sacrament of life.”
‘While there is never any bitterness in
the Master’s utterance regarding wealth,
His views may be readily gathered from
such parables as that of Dives and Lazarus
(Luke xvi:19).
Again, we have the same attitude in the
passage on the camel and the needle’s eye
(Matthew xix:23).
Not only was the Lord poor, but His
apostles were all poor men, who placed no
value on weaith. Paul, the greatest of
apostolic preaciers, supported himseif by
manual labor, and taught “They that will
be rich fall into temptation and a snare,
and into many foolish and hurtful lusts,
which drown men in destruction and per-
dition. For the love of money is the root
of all evil” (I. Timothy vi:9-10). On the
whole, the attitude of the New Testament
is one of warning against the seductions of
wealth.
The evangelical churches stand upon the
word of Scripture, and so in sympathy
with labor. In fact, of some 7,000,000 of
male members in the evangelical churches
of our land, not less than 6,000,000 are
wage earners or manual laborers. So that
the claim that the modern church has de-
parted from the position occupied by the
apostolic church is not well founded.
What, then, from the letter and spirit of
the Bible in connection with the teachings
of experience is to be suggested as a means
of curing the quarrel between labor and
capital?
First, let there be closer personal rela-
tions between the rich and " poor. Let
them meet together in the fellowship of
God’s house and the Divine Fatherhood.
Out of mutual acquaintance will come mu-
tual respect, and a recognition of a com-
mon humanity.
‘ou may remember Emerson’s story of
the quarrel between the mountain and the
squirrel, where he says:
“The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter ‘Little
rig.
Bun replied, :
‘You are doubtless very big,
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together
To make up a year
And a sphere
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I’m not as large as you,
You are not so small as I;
And not half so spry.
I'll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track. .
Talents differ, all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut.”
Then there should be a deeper interest
taken by capital in the financial well-being
of labor. Such devices as profit sharing,
old age pensions and the like will give the
workman a sense of greater security and
of partnership with capital.
Interest taken in the proper housing of
labor, although not always appreciated, is
in the right line. So, too, the introduction
of the social secretary as an intermediary
between the corporation and the employe.
Another thing needed, not so much in
the interests of iabor or capital, but in the
interests of the innocent non-combatants,
is compulsory arbitration, applied at least
where the public suffers intolerable incon.
venicnee, as in the case of a railioad, tele-
graph or coal strike. Compulsory arbitra-
tion may not always be satisfactory to the
combatants, but it is essential to the peace
and comfort of those not involved in the
controversy. This remedy, or military con-
trol, as in the recent railway strikes in
Holland and Austria, should be used to
protect the public.
The sovereign remedy, however, must be
not by recourse to legal means, but by the
application of the royal law. James (ii:8},
after speaking of the relations between the
rich and the peor, says: “If ye fulfill the
royal law according to the Scripture, thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do
well.” This is the aqua regia, the royal
solvent, in which we may solve all the hard
asperities of conflicting interests.
Only as men come to know God through
Christ, whom He has sent, and so come to
love their fellow men, will it be possible to
solve these questions of controversy in a
way that will insurc the permanent pro-
gress of our civilization.
What we need, after all, is not measures,
but men.
The world wants men—Iarge hearted,
manly men;
Men wht shall join in chorus and prelong
The psalm of labor and of love.
The age wants heroes—heroes who shall
dare
To struggle in the solid ranks of truth;
To clutch the monster, crror, by the
throat; ‘fag yo
To bear opinion to a loftier seat; *
To blot the error of oppression out,
And lead a universal freedom in.”
Faces That Comfort One,
“I wish some people knew just how
much their faces can comfort one!” The
speaker was a young woman who had
passed through deep sorrows; she was tell-
ing a friend how many people comforted
her, though they were unconscious of it.
The Epworth Herald tells the story. “I
often ride down in the same street car
with your father, and it has been such a
help to me to sit next to him. There is
something so good and strong and kind
about him, it has been a comfort just to
feel he was beside me. Sometimes, when
I have been utterly depressed and dis-
couraged, he has seemed somehow to
know just the right word to say to me;
but, if he didn’t talk, why I just looked
at his face, and that helped me. He prob-
ably has not the least idea of it, for I
know him so slightly, and I don’t suppose
people half realize, anyway, how much
they are helping or hindering others!”
There is a great deal of this unconscious
kindness in the world. Moses wist not
that his face shone. The best people are
not aware of their goodness. According
to the old legend, it was only when it fell
behind him, where he could not see it,
that the saintly man’s shadow healed the
sick. This is a parable. Goodness that is
aware of itself has lost much of its charm.
Kindnesses that are done unconsciously
mean the most.
Deception.
The one who successfully deceives an-
other makes it hard for himself afterward
when the deception shall have been discov-
ered—as it is sure to be in time. He will
always be distrusted, no matter whether
1e is again attempting deception or not.
The only method that wins clear to the
end is honesty.—Wellspring.
The “Bans” Ferbidden.
We forbid the bans between rum, relic !
ion and polities of whatever party :
whatever sect, and in the name of C
and humanity, we proclaim a union I
and ind i
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ter
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Neal Deal.
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SCIENCE NOTES.
W. B. Sutliffe of Ravenna, O., is the
fnventor of a railroad track in which
the base and cap are separavle and
the advantages are that it makes a
jointless rail and a cheaper track. It
will save $2000 a mile gi: renewals, it
is said. The cap is reversible, and
the base is indestructible, according
to the claims of the inventor, and no
fish-plates are required.
Anthony Aschenbach has recently
perfected an invention which has just
been given a public test and which
was found to do its work perfectly. It
is a machine which is built for the
purpose of wrapping and mail address-
ing books, papers and magazines in
large quantities. At the test referred
to this class of material was handled
at the rate of 5000 an hour.
Andrew J. Beard, a negro employe
of the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road, who has invented a number of
useful appliances for different pur
poses, has been recently endeavoring
to enlist interest in a car coupling
device which he designed, with the re-
sult that he has succeeded in organiz-
ing a company with a capital of $100,-
000. ‘The inventor lives at Birmiag-
ham, Ala., and the company is largely
composed of moneyed men of that city.
A machine for the shaping and
dressing of cross-ties, and which, be-
sides performing this function eco-
nomically, makes use of the waste
usually resulting therefrom in the
manufacture of veneer suitable for
use in the construction of crates and
other light boxes. The apparatus is
portable and is operated by a small en-
gine. The log is trimmed down to the
desired size by the action of a big
blade repeatedly descending upon the
log, and after each passage of the
knife the log is moved slightly fur-
ther to the front in readiness for the
next,
The problem of travel by balloon at
,8ea has been studied by M. Henri
Harve since 1886, his experiments—
begun in the North Sea—being now
carried on in the Mediterranean. His
balloon is provided with a conical top
to avoid flattening by showers, and in-
stead of a single guide rope a system
is used consisting of a trailer floating
at the end of a long rope behind the
balloon and a balance weight hanging
in the water by a nearly vertical and
shorte: rope. Two deviators are em-
ployed for changing the balloon’s
course through the action of the water,
one giving changes of about 30 de-
grees, while the other is claimed to
produce deflections as great as 70 de-
grees or 80 degrees. Water is used
for ballast and is drawn as neede-
through a suction hose into a cylin.
drical reservoir hung above the bal-
ance weight.
Swewdish Idea in Telephones.
A portable telephone is the latest
thing out, and it is the conception of
a Swedish—not an American—inven-
tor. The specimens of the device
that have been sent to other countries
have elicited unstinted praise from
Austrian, Russian, Greek and Turkish
experts who have tested them. and,
while large demands and inquiries for
the new phone have come from
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portu-
gal and the United States, those from
Great Britain have been even more
noticeable.
Within the cylinder of the tele-
phone is a small dry cell, the whole
appartus (including both receiver and
mouthpiece) being small enough to go
in the pocket. With each instrument
is a coil of thin copper wire, and it is
reckoned that a soldier could easily
carry 13,000 feet of this wire with
him.
The uses suggested for the portable
telephone are innumerable military
considerations being kept specially to
the front. Outposts it is declared,
could by its aid keep in constant com-
munication with the main force, and it
is pointed out that it would furnish a
valuable means for keeping in touch
with headquarters for police and fire
brigades. For use between railway
coaches on a moving train, for engi-
neers at work underground or on great
public works, for steamers, for cyclists,
and in many other fields it would be
most desirable.
A Strange Sea Fish.
Near Santa Catalina island, off the
coast of California, was caught recent-
ly the largest sunfish ever taken or
perhaps seen. It was literally im-
possibly, even with all the available
tackle used in lifting huge tunas and
black sea bass, to weigh this fish en-
tire or to lift it from the ground, so
that its weight was guessed at a ton,
while conservative estimates placed it
at from 1800 to 1900 pounds. The
captors discovered it while fishing
from a launch. It was swimming with
its huge shark-like fin above the sur-
face, yet the launch was steamed
alongside and a boatman thrust a
heavy gaff into it. Immediately the
fish began a series of clephantine
struggles which more than once
threatened the boat. After three
hours the fishermen subdued it and
with no little difficulty towed it in-
to port.—Chicago News.
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Men;
Pianist Small Viclinist Large.
Silvio Risegari, the young Italian
pianist, recently was discussing his
country, Italy, and from that the ec
versation drifted to music and art
generally.
“You may laugh at me,” Signor Rise-
gari remarked, “but most of the gre:
pianists have been small men and
violini
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KEYSTONE GTATE GULLING
VOTING TRUST DISSOLVED.
Payment of Dividend on Reading in
September Marks the Com-
pletion of Its Work.
The early dissolution of the voting
trusteeship of the Reading Company,
following the payment oi th€ semi-
annual aividend on the first preferred
stock on September 10, is an assured
1act. 1'ne payment of that dividend
marks the fulfilment of the condi-
tions under which the yoting trust
can be dissolved, namely: The pay-
ment for two consecutive years of the
full 4 per cent dividend on the first
preferred stock. While no official in-
formation concerning the dissolution
has been forthcoming, preparations to
that end are now being made. The
present trusteeship was created in
1896. The voting trustees comprises
J. P. Morgan and F. P. Olcott, of New
York, and C. W. S. Packard of this
city. Under the agreement creating
the voting trust it was provided that
the stock should be under the control
of the trustees for voting purposes
for a period of five years, or until a
dividend of 4 per cent has been paid
upon the first preferred stock for two
consecutive years. ’
The Bellefonte academy, a land-
mark, was almost entirely destroyed
by fire. The dormitories on the third
and second floors were burned away
and the entire building ruined by
water and smoke. The damage was
$6,000, fully covered by insurance.
This was one of the three oldest prep-
aratory schools in the State, it being
erected in 1805. The principal, James
BR. Hughes, was making extended
preparations to celebrate the centen-
nial next year. The trustees have de
cided to rebuild.
William S. Byers, of Greensburg,
who recently gave over bonds to the
value of over $200,000 alleged to have
been secured from his granduncle,
Jacob Byers of Mt. Pleasant township,
is the defendant in a civil suit
brought by his granduncle to recover
an alleged balance on two judgment
notes. The amounts alleged to be ow-
ing the plaintiff total over $7,000, and
$10,000 damages are asked in ad-
dition.
Frank Verino and Gianni Stauffa,
alias “Joe” Nountz, were given a hear-
ing and held for trial at court at Belle-
verncn. They are charged with the
killing of Libario Viso last Sunday.
The prisoners were arrested in Wash-
ington county, but have been removed
to the Fayette county jail.
During a storm an oil well belonging
to the Harry Grayson Oil Company on
the Cracraft farm in SouTa Franklin
township, Washington county, was
struck by lightning and with a tank
containing 280 barrels of oil burned
to the ground. The damage will be
considerable,
Miss Emma Campbell, of New Wil-
mington, has been elected librarian in
the Pennsylvania College for Women
in Pittsburg, and has accepted. She
is a graduate of Westminister college
and was principal of the High School
at Canonsburg, Pa., for a number
of years.
The bawling of a calf tied in his
back yard awoke Victor Bayonett, a
groceryman, of Butler, in time to see
a man cutting the wire screen at the
back window of his store. Bayonett
recognized the man, and the police are
in search of him.
A legal dispute has come into the
Fayette county courts between Al
fred M. Fuller and Mary T. Nutt,
over an eighth of an acre of land in
Perry township, the original deed to
which was held by George Washington
on a patent granted him in 1702.
Dr. E. W. Samuels of Mount Car-
mel, Northumberland county, was
nominated for Congress at a meeting
of the Sixteenth district Republican
conferees held at Danville, Northum-
berland. Montour, Columbia and Sulli-
van counties comprise the district.
The Petroleum Iron Works Com-
pany of Washington has bought 17
acres of ground from William Hough
at Arden station for $7,000 and will
remove its plant there. The company
is capitalized at $150,000.
A company capitalized at $1,000,000
will erect a plant at Greenville, for
the manufacture of glass sanitary ap-
pliances, including bathtubs, tanks,
acid vats, beer kegs and burial cas-
kets, by a process invented at Dres-
den, Germany.
Hon. George W. McNees, of Kittan-
ning, was nominated as the Repub-
lican candidate for State Senator from
the Forty-first Senatorial district, com-
posed of Butler and Armstrong coun-
ties.
Freeman Grace, a prominent con-
tractor of West Middlesex, was Kkill-
ed by lightning. He was lating a
house at New Bedford when killed.
He was 42 years old and leaves a wife
and one child.
Two freight trains on the Buffalo,
Rochester and Pittsburg railroad ecol-
lided at Carman, 25 miles north of
Du Bgis. Engineer Carvin, of Brad-
ford, was killed. Other trainmen were
hurt, but not fatally.
Thomas Wallace, 45 years old, was
arrested, given a hearing and held for
court at Blairsville, on a charge of
assaulting a 9-year-old gir] at Coke-
ville. >
Max Colman, 35 years old, was
struck by a passenger train near
Allenport. He died before reaching
the hospital at Monongahela, Pa.
Edna Dittrich, the 18-months-
Arthur C. Dittrich,
Kittanning, wandered away from the
house, fell into a small creek and was
drowned.
J. W. Hunter was drowned at his
home near Cheat Haven, while trying
to save his 2-year-old child which 1
fallen into the river.
James Hennesy, a miner, was Kil
by a Baltimore and Ohio railroad t
at C llsville. He was 40 years old
leaves a wife.
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