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HUMAN SUNBEAMS,
God bless the human sunbeams,
The people strong and true,
Who daily sing or whistle
At all they bravely do.
Their eyes are clear and merry,
Their st s firm, but light;
Their laug a benediction,
And life once more seems bright
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"IN THE PEW
BY THE DOOR.
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By EDITH COPEMAN HALSEY,
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“I've only a minute to stay,” Mrs.
Morris announced, settlikg herself in
a comfortable chair in the farmhouse
kitchen. “I stopped for your mail,
but they said it was too late.”
Mrs. Headley nodded toward a let-
ter beside her. She never talked
much when Mrs. Morris dropped in.
She never needed to.
‘About David?’ questioned her
guest.
“From David,” was the answer.
“Well,” responded Mrs. Morris,
“Dr. Wilson was sayin’ last night}
that it was just wonderful, his bein’
alied to that big church. 1 hear he
went there to
their mir
ach for ’em when
roin’ to leave, an’
some of t made up their
minds ti nobody
else. Lands! of the
way you took that he little baby
an’ broug him up, an’ you a widow
an’ no 1 1’ how you've sold
Lt
little. farm to edu-
I hope you'll get a
yurse.”’ Then after
a pause, ‘I e the salary’'s aw-
ful big.”
“It seems so to me,” was the reply.
“Well,”’ with a little look of disap-
pointment, “I must get along. 1
suppose you'll go up with Dr. Wilson
to hear him preach his first sermon
as pastor?”
Then the old face opposite flushed
a little.
“Oh, no! It's so far and there will
be so many people there, I suppose;
ob, no, I couldn’t go.”
Mrs. Morris considered a moment.
“Well, I don’t know. I should think
you’d want to see how he looks
among all the high flyers. Of course,
it costs a lot to go so far, and (with
a quick glance at the little figure be-
fore her) you mightn't feel real easy
among ‘em. Well, good-bye. Any-
way, ‘tain’t as if he was your own.”
Then she was gone and the sensi-
tive scul was left with the sting, and
the wound, and the pain.
He wasn’t her own! He wasn’t
her own! Oh, the sharp, keen pain
it brought her. She ‘“mightn’t feel
easy among ’‘em.’”” She knew that,
but why did well meaning Mrs. Mor-
ris say it? She did not belong to the
great world out there—David did!
She, if she went to be present at that
wonderful service, would hardly
know how to act, unless—and she al-
most held her breath—unless she
might slip in a rear seat where no
one would notice her at all.
She picked up David's letter again;
she had read every word of it four
times that day. It said: “You must
come. Dr. Wilson will take care of
you in the train, and then I will take
care of you!” Much more there was
in the long letter. “It doesn’t sound
as if he’—and the thought sprang
out at last—'‘feels ashamed of the
country mother. David would do his
duty, anyway, and maybe I want too
much.” The tears rained over her
face, but presently she lifted her head
and asked herself what they had been
for. Hadn't David always loved her?
Hadn’t he always been kind and good
and attentive to her?
But down in her heart she knew
that only David himself in some way
could remove that haunting fear.
“He’s no call to be so very grateful,”
she said in loving excuse. ‘I'm a
selfish, exacting old woman, that’s
what I am, shedding tears when I'd
much beiter be thanking the Lord
that my boy's able to preach!” So
she rose above the worry, stilled the
voice in her heart that whispered,
“He isn't your own, he isn’t like
you,” wrapped about her the mantle
of unselfishness that she had always
worn, and wrote David that she
guessed she'd better not come.
But because of the great love in
her heart, and because Dr. Wilson in-
sisted, it came about that the mistress
of the little farmhouse took the long
journey, and found herself one of
many who were entering a church
that seemed to her stately and beau-
tiful beyond the telling.
“You must just let me slip in by
the door,” she whispered tremulously
to the reverend gentleman beside
her, and knowing how very tired she
was, and seeing the frightened look
on the gentle old face, he answered
soothingly, “Just as you sar—just as
you say.”
He scated her carefully “back by
the decor,” and then went to join the
ministers already seated on the plat-
form.
The tired little woman in the back
of the churc! trembling with ner-
vous excitement and fatigue. At first
only a dreamy, dazed feeling pos-
sessed her. hen she was conscious
that the great church was filled with
people, people who seemed to belong
to another world than her own.
“That's Mr. Ferris,” she heard
some one say in a low tone behind
her, as a tall, distinguished looking
man passed the pew where she sat.
“He’s one of the most prominent men
fn the church and worth mil 19!”
Wonderful music was flooding the
building, such music as she had
dreamed she might hear in heaven.
Then with timid, eager glance she
was searching the palm-decked plat-
form for “her boy.” Her eyes were
dim, but she found him. He was
grasping Dr. Wilson's outstretched
hand and speaking softly to him. In
that moment how her heart swelled
with thanksgiving and cried out to
God in praise.
How big—how distinguished—how
handsome—how, oh,” how good to
look at he was even among all those
splendid men up there! Then that
little tormenting spirit that had no
right in the farmhouse or in the city
church whispered, “But he isn’t
vours, he isn’t your own, these are
his people, you are not like them—
why did you come?”
Then as the tired head bowed to
hide the great tears that shut out
the face on the platform, David Hol-
land’s eyes, directed by Dr. Wilson,
found her. Just a low spoken sen-
tence to one of his brethren on the
platform, a quick, courteous reply,
and he quietly stepped down, walked
around by a side aisle, across the
&1ck of the church, and then paused
beside the pew “back by the door.”
Those sitting very near saw a hand
rest on the shoulder of the, lictle
woman, who looked up startled as
his voice said softly, “Mother!” Like
a flash the heartache and the fear left
The music trembled, and then
forth in jovous might and pow-
er, and like one in a happy dream she
was moving up the aisle leaning a
little heavily upon the arm of her
stalwart “‘boy.”’
Very near the platform he paused;
a man rose quickly, stepped out into
the aisle and motioned to a seat be-
| side him. ‘Have you room for my
{ mother, Mr. Ferris?” the young min-
sked very softly, very distinct-
{1y. “It will give us great pleasure,”
the other responded quickly. “Then
she sat down and David was back in
his nla
nis piac
But, oh, the heaven-sent bliss of
it all! She never knew that hun-
dreds of eyes had filled with tears as
they saw the minister they had cho-
sen, leading so tenderly the white-
them. She did
grave, dignified men on the platform
looked on with a new feeling of love
for, and pride in, their brilliant young
brother. She did not know that, as
he walked up that broad aisle there
was in David Holland's heart a strong
desire to ery out to all these, “his
people”’—*Look at her—look at her:
—at the bravest, purest, most unsel-
fish soul that ever lived—Ilook at her.
and be like her!” !
She only knew as she sat there,
her sweet old face aglow with a won-
derful light, that she was happy, hap-
py, happy! 7 '
A divine melody sang itself in her
heart. The great congregation rose
to its feet. They sang the joy song,
too—‘‘Joy to the world, the Lord is
come.” Oh, yes, that was the word.
Joy—ijoy! ‘‘He wasn’t ashamed of
me. He’s mine, my own. ‘Have you
room for my mother?’’ That was
what he had said—for ‘my mother!”
Down in the depths of her heart, she
knew he was glad to call her that.—
Epworth Herald.
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It would be interesting to know
from how many little wilderness sta-
tions in the North there goes each
spring, to eager business and profes-
sional men in the large cities, the
message that the ice is out. If one
could measure and sum up all the
pleasure of those who take the mes-
sage for their marching-orders, and
all the increment of health and
strength that comes to them by vir-
tue of their annual fishing trips, it
would make the world seem a very
cheerful place.
The charm of fishing, for the nor-
mal man, is so deeply rooted that it
can be accounted for only by regard-
ing it as a reawakening of primeval
instinct. When a fiy Lovs down the
rapids, or a worm drops 1ato the hole
below the big boulder, a racial mem-
ory older than history comes to life,
and the cashier of the First National
becomes blood-brother to the skin-
clad savage who made the first hook
from a bone or piece of shell.
To the savage, fishing was earning
a livelihood, getting a dinner: The
fish he caught was the wages he re-
ceived for working at his job. To his
descendant of to-day, “fishing” is far
more. It is a return, for a time, to
natural conditions, where the sun
touches the skin and water wets the
feet, and clothes are friends which
serve, not masters to be considered.
The fish himself is not the most im-
portant, or even an essential, thing—
until he is hooked. But when the
tug comes on the linz and the fly
disappears, and a thrill runs up and
down the backbone till the very toes
tingle, then he becomes suddenly the
most important thing in the world;
and his appearance later, if, happily,
he so appears, in an overcoat of corn-
meal, browned crisp and piping hot
from the pan—this confirms the im-
of his importance, and
crowns with reason the absurd busi-
ness of catching him.
The wholesome sentiment
would protect all animal life. from
cruelty has lately been showing a
tendency to lapse into unwholesome
sentimentality. There are those who
regard all fishermen as monsters, and
look upon a school of mackerel as an
| educational institution. Alas for the
| boys of to-morrow if this creed
| spreads! —Youth’s Companion.
which
haired old lady to “her place” among.
not know that the:
Drainage of Soils.
Drainage permits of earlier crops
and a larger proportion of air,
warmth and moisture in the soil
Drainage benefits the land also by af-
fording a ready outlet for all excess
of water, thereby preventing stagna-
tion and removing a source -of evil,
The bad effects produced by-an exs
cess of water—all of which are, of
course, removed by drainage-——may be
enumerated at length. One. evil pro-
duced is the consequent diminution
in the quantity of air within it, which
air ‘is of the greatest consequence,
not only in promoting the chemical
changes requisite for the preparation
of the food for plants, but likewise
to the roots themselves. Excess of
water injures the soil by diminishing
its temperature in summer and in-
creasing it in winter—a-transposition
of nature most hurtful to perennials,
because the vigor of a plant in spring
depends greatly upon the lowness of
temperature to which: it has been sub-
jected during winter (within. certain
limits), as the difference of.tempera-
ture between winter and spring is
the exciting cause of the asgent of the
sap. The presence of a large guantity
of water in the soil also alters the re-
sult of putrefaction, by which some
substances are formed which are use-
less to plants. An increase in the
proportion of moisture in soils has a
powerful effect upon its saline con-
stituents, by which many changes are
produced diametrically opposite to
these that take place in soil where the
water is thuch less in quantity; and in
this way the good effects of many val-
uable constituents are greatly dimin-
ished, as for instance, the action of
carbonic acid upon lime and green
materials, and gypsum upon car-
bonate of ammonia.
The proportion of plant foods avail-
able in the soil for the use of crops
is largely infiuenced by drainage and
the amount of surplus water in the
oil. The directions of the currents
which occur in wet soils are entirely
altered by drainage; in undrained
soil are altogather from below upward
—being produced by the" frce of
evaporation at the surfacediconse-
quently the spongioles of the plants
are supplied with undesirable subseil
water; but when the land is drained
the currents are from the surface to
the drains, and the roots are, conse-
quently, supplied with fresh aerated |
water. Drainage increases the ab-
gorption of carbonic acid, also the at-
mospheric supply of food, and cre-
ptes a ‘tendency in the plant to pro-
duce: leaves possessing a different
structure from those which the same
plant produces in dry situations. An-
other important point is that on land
that has begn drained the system of
subsoiling can be adopted with ten-
fold advantage, which is an object of
the highest importance, for there is
no doubt that the use of the subsoil
plow has been satisfactory on almost
nll soils, having been found as valua-
ble on light lands with rententive
bottoms as upon those of a more com-
pact and stiffer surface, rendering
soils drier in wet weather and more
moist during a season of drought.
That a tenacious and impervious sub-
soil must be relieved from the water
collected and retained on its surface
before the earth can be fitted for the
growth of vegetable matter has been
most clearly and satisfactorily ascer-
tained. The best mode of effecting
this object may be a question, but it
Is probable that under-draining with
tiles will be found the most econom-
ical method.
A cold soil is never capable of pro-
ducing profitable crops. An excess
pf water in the scil, in addition to its
injury to the soil, also produces a
constant dampness of the atmosphere,
which has been shown to be injurious
to plants, especially by diminishing
evaporation, thus rendering the
process of assimilation slower, and in
some sections and on certain farms
malaria results; in fact, there is every
reason to belifve that surface water,
which is for the most part stagnant,
is by far the most injurious, because
in this manner the currents produced
during the heat of summer-—namely,
the period at which vegetation should
be most active—will of necessity be
entirely from below upwards, being
produced by the evaporation. of the
water upon the surfaces of the soil, the
consequence being taat the roots cof
the plants, instead of being supplied
with water charged with the valuable
plants foods, will be supplied with
water which has existed so long in the
soil that it will have lost these vegeta-
ble ingredients, and will, moreover,
be charged with excrementitious mat-
ters. No system of drainage can di-
minish the quantity of water whieh a
soil receives; it can only affect the
guantity which it retains and prevent
stagnation by allowing it to escape
freely that continual currents are pro-
duced so long as any excess of water
remains. Drainage will not fail to
pay a percentage upon the cost far
greater than many other investments,
as that land which nas bezsn reclaimed
by drainage will oftentimes require no
manuring for years, the herbage, too,
being of a peculiarly different species
from that hitherto produced, as well
as being far more nutritious.—Phila-
delphia Record.
Good Horse Ilesh.
The chest in all breeds of horses
should be wide, deep and round, and
ribs well inclined to the rear. These
conditions are necessary to ensure ef-
ficient breathing =apacity and staying
power.
The lower line of the chest towards
the abdomen should be nearly hori-
zontal to the ground. Any undue in-
clination upwards of this line is an in-
dication of want of power of en-
durance. ¢
The abdomen in race horses should
be round, and not too full. Too large
an abdomen seriously interferes with
speed, by exciting an undue pressure
on the lungs, and thereby affecting
the breathing cabacity. Where speed
is not required, this part of the body
may be more fully developed.
The back and loins of all horses
should be short. On first thought, a
‘long: back gives us the impression
that such a condition is conducive to
speed; but on reflection it is found
that such is not the case. Undue
lengths of back and loins are gener-
ally associated with soft, {herring-
gutted” animals, and nececsitates the
expenditure of much more muscular
energy in raising the forequarters
than when the distance from the with-
ers to the croup is short. The top:
line should incline shortly towards
the croup, and, passing over this part,
should continue in a gentle down-
ward sweep to the tail. Short back
and loins are also necessary where
weight-carrying-power is required.
The loins should be short, flat and
broad. A slight convexity might be
admitted, but a tendency to roach and
hecllow backs should be carefully
guarded against.
Breadth of loins is a veryimportant
point-in all classes of horses, for it is
over this region that the strongest
and most powerful muscle in the body
is situated—the long, broad muscle
which extends from the pelvic bones
to the last three or four bones of the
neck, and the action of which is re-
sponsible for the rising of the fore
part in galloping, jumping and rear-
ing, and for lifting the hind. quarters
during the action of kicking.
We have aiready noticed the bones
and tendons of the leg from the knee
and hock down to the ground. Suf-
fice it to say ‘that, in proportion to the’
kind of work the horse has to per-
form, so should the size and shape of
these appendages be regulated.—W.
T. C., in the American Cultivator.
Bowel Diseases of Poultry.
Sometimes it happens that diarrhae
occurs in flocks where the manage-
ment has been good, and at once the
difficulty is diagnosed by the farmer
or poultryman as cholera, or some
other contagious disease that may be
unknown. The cause is usually the
free use of very watery green food.
When rye, grass, tender weeds and
other bulky foods are largely con-
sumed by the fowls the result may be
a laxative effect, but this occurs most-
ly when the green food is very young,®
at which stage of growth it contains
a large proportion of water and very
little solid matter. The effect is more
readily noticeable when the birds
have had but little green food, being
kept during the winter and spring on
a grain diet. The remedy for the dif-
ficulty mentioned is to confine the
birds in their yards for a few days,
feeding them twice a day on a ration
of ten parts cornmeal, two parts sifted
adding a gill of linseed meal and a
teaspoonful of salt to every quart,
cooking the whole as bread.— Weekly
Witness.
The Bug Nuisance.
Dr. H. T. Fernald, of the Massachu-
setts Agricultural Experiment Col-
lege, says that five-sixths of all the
living creatures of the globe are in-
sects, and that not more than one
out of ten is friendly to man. He es-
timates that $2,000,000 or $3,000,000
worth of damage is anually wrought
by insects, and that known means of
protection, properly used, could pre-
vent about two-thirds of this loss. He
is, therefore, impressing the necessity
of a close study by all classes of peo-
ple of this question, with the hope of
saving forests, shade trees and crops.
Not to Be Continued.
According to J. E. Wing, unless one
is certain that his lambs will go early
to market, say an age of not exceed-
ing three months; he had better dock
them. Tails are unneccessary ap-
pendages to a modern sheep and are
apt to get fouled. A docked lamb has
a square look and seems fatter than
one with a tail. What blood goes to
nourish a useless tail would add to
the growth of the body, no doubt.
Weekly Witness.
To Get Rid of the Groundhog.
There is practically but one cure.
Bisulphile of carbon will smother the
pests in their dens. Saturate a rag
with two tablespoonfuls of the stuff,
and push it down the hole as far as
vou can, then stop the hole up with
sod or earth, and go away sorrow-
fully, for you have committed mur-
der. Bisulphide of carbon is very ex-
plosive; have no matches or fire
around.—D. W. Brown, in the In-
diana Farmer.
; Value of Quail.
It is said that the quail has been
known to destroy sixty different kinds
of weed seeds, and it is a fact that
about five per cent. of his food is
made up of sesds that are harmful
to the farmer. He also destroys an-
nually large numbers of injurious
| bugs.—American Cultivator.
The Rash Plumber.
To save foolish workmen from in-
curring unnecessary risks, says the
Builders’ Journal, is well nigh impos-
sible. Almost every year some rash,
thoughtless young plumber rushes
out and does a job of work.—London
Globe.
ground oats and one part fine bran, |
~ PENNSYLVANIA
Interesting Items from All Sections of
.the Keystone State.
COAL LAND DEAL
Syndicate Buys Greene County Tract.
Month's Sales Total $5,000,000.
Another big deal in Greene county
coking coal lands was closed. J: V.
Thompscen of Unicntown selling to J.
H. Sanford and R. P. Burgan, trus-
tees for a syndicate of prominent coal
and furnace interests, 3,000 acres at
$280 an acre, or a total of $840,000.
Messrs. Sanford and Burgan are of-
ficials of the Carnegie Coal Company,
one of the independent corperations
which operates mines in the Panhan-
dle district.
The coal included in the sale is lo-
cated in Washington township, about
six miles north of Waynesburg, near
the Washington and Greene county
line. It adjoins on the north the
property of the Westmoreland Coal
Company, which proposes large oper-
ations, while on the east is the prop-
erty of the newly arganized Emerald |
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Coal Company, of which Julian Ken- |
nedy of Pittsburg, is the head.
MINERS ARE ENJOINED
No Peace in Sight in Hilliard District,
: Judge Acts.
Butler.— Judge James M. Galbreath,
after a delay from the June term of
court to enable the coal operators in
the Hilliard district, this county, and
tse organizers, of the United Mine
Workers of America to reach an
| above
agreement, has made permanent the |
injunction restraining union men
from intimidating non-union workmen
dr interfering with the operation of
the mines.
The restraining order
collieries at Hilliard and
covers four
Argentine,
| Youngstown, for $2,700.
where 400 non-union men are employ- |
ed. These mines haye been running |
non-union since last April,
the strike order of District President
Feehan.
ARREST BAIL JUMPER
California, .Pa., Man Charged With
Forgery, Taken Into Custoc':.
Washington.—Charged with
following | —
| Wrecking of Buildings
ery Harry G. Paxton of California, has
been lodged in jail following his ar-
rest at Pocahontas, Va., where he had
gone after jumping a bail bond of
$500. Paxtcu was indicted ai few
months ago on a charge of forging the
name of his brother, Dr. Cornelius
Paxton of California to three checks.
Bail was furnished by a relative.
Before the time for his trial he dis-
appeared. Detectives of the Nation-
al Bankers’ association located him
in Virginia..
DRAFT PENSION BILL
Special Committee of State G. A. R.
Prepares for Legislature.
A special committee of the Depart-
ment of Pennsylvania, G. A. R. has
held a meeting in Harrisburg to con-
sider a pension bill and have practic-
ally agreed on a measure to be sub-
mitted to the next meeting of the
Legislature.
Troopers to Drill.
Greensburg.—Captain Leon Pitcher,
of Troop A, State police, has recalled
all separate detachments to the bar-
racks. Men stationed at Masontown,
Hecla, Irwin and other points are (o
report at Mt. Odin by September 20.
Daily drills will then be held to get
the troop in shape for the trip to
Philadelphia, as all four State troops
will attend the
two hundred anc
twenty-fifth anniversary celebrated
there.
Glass Company Resumer Work.
‘Washington. — The, old Hamilton
glass works at Charleroi, idle since a
receiver was appointed last fall, has
been revived.by the Imperial company
of Steubenville,O., which is running
the plant under the name of the Im-
perial bottle factory. One pot with
nine shops was started, furnishing
employment for 200 men. Two addi-
tional pots are being installed.
Names Mine Inspector.
Harrisburg.—Governor Smart an-
to be mine inspector for
bituminous district, vice J. T. Evans,
resigned. John C. Wells of Indiana
to be prothonotary in and for the
county of Indiana, vice A. L. Gilbert,
deceased.
Ambrose H. Rauch Dies.
Bethlehem.—Ambrose H. Rauch, 89
years old, bank director, wealthy busi-
QUARRY BLOWN UP
One Man May Succumb to Sxplosiom
Near Washington, Pa.
Washington.—Three men were in-
jured, one perhaps fatally, in a quar-=»
ry on the Sprowls farm, 12 miles from
here, by a premature explosion. The
injured:
David Sprowls, shoulder broken,
nose split, terribly cut about the
body; may die. James and John
Miller, brothers, knocked unconscious -
by flying rock.
After igniting the fuse for a blast
of dynamite, it failed to go off and
the three started to investigate. The
charge exploded as the men were
within a few feet of it. Sprowls was
blown 20 feet“while the Miller broth-:
ers were knocked down. After the
latter regained consciousness they
carried Sprowls to his home and sum-
moned medical aid.
SEWER PLANT FOR CHESWICK
New Way of Disposal Results from
State Official’'s Demand for
Change.
The state department of health has
refused to permit the borough of
Cheswick, which is about 14 miles
Pittsburg on the Allegheny
river, to empty its sewage into that
stream, and the town will build a dis-
posal plant in connection with the
sewer system. A contract for the
sewer was let to John F. Emery, of
will be let for the disposal plant at a
cost of about $2,500. To cover this
outlay a bond issue of $5,000 has been °
passed by council.
COSTLY FIRE AT GALLITZIN
Prevents
Spread of Flames.
Altoona.—A fire at Gallitzin, Cam-
bria county, which broke out early
Sunday morning, destroyed several
dwellings because the town’s gravity
water supply was exhausted.
Altoona was asked fer assistance,
but before steamers for pumping pur-
poses were dispatched, the fire was
arrested by blowing up adjoining
buildings with dynamite, thus saving
the business section of the town. The
loss will reach $5,000, with no insur-
ance.
ASK FOR ARMORIES
Legislature May Be Petitionad for
“Half Million Appropriation.
Harrisburg.—So great has been the
demand for State aid in the building
of armories for National Cuard organ-
izations since the creation of the
State Armory Board by the Legisla-
ture of 1905 that an appropriation of
at least $500,000 will be needed from
the next Legislature. :
Philadelphia Gets State Troops.
Philadelphia.—Governor Stuart, as
commander-in-chief of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania, has accepted
an invitatjon sent in the form of a
letter by Mayor Reyburn, to have the
State troops participate in' the found-
ers’ week ceremonies in this city next
month. In his letter to the Gover-
nor, Mayor Reyburn says that all ex-
penses incidental to the participation
of the guardsmen will be paid by the
city. li
Find Family Starving.
Wilkes-Barre.—Mrs. Augusta Sav-
okenas and her seven small children
were found at her home, in Luzerne,
actually starving to death. The
United Charities of this ¢ity took
charge of them and relief was fur-
nished. The woman's husband was
killed in the Pettibone riine in April
last, leaving her penniless.
Black Hand at Work.
Monongahela.—Following failure io
heed Black Hand demands for goney,
dynamite was exploded under the
store of Battaglina Brothers at Dun-
| levy, doing several thousand dollars’
| damage and endangering the lives of
| two Italians and their families.
nounced the following appointments: |
Daniel R. Blower of Johnstown. Pa., |
the Sixth |
committed suicide
Poolroom Closed, Kills Himself.
Washington.—The bedy of Gotlied
Blanco, a poolroom keeper of Roscoa,
was, found in a rear room of the es-
tablishment. Blanco had apparently
with a revolver.
{ His pcolroom was closed by the sher-
ness man and the last surviving mem- |
ber of the original Moravian trombqne |
choir of this place, died at his home
here. Death was due to pneumonia.
Mr. Rauch was a member of cone of |
the picneer Moravian families.
Tuberculin Test Recuired.
Meadville—Judge Prather dissolved
the temporary injunction obtained by
dairymen to restrain the Meadville
board of health from requiring the
tuberculin test as a guarantee ff
wholesale milk. The decision sus-
tains on every point the authority of |
the board cf health and places the
costs on the plaintiffs.
Fire Destroys Reynoldsville Theater,
iff 10 days ago, and he disappeared
the same day.
* Council to Bring Action.
Punxsutawney.—At a meeting ' of
the Punxsutawney council it was de-
termined {o commence quo warranto
proceedings against the Punxsutawney
Water Company. It is claimed the
water supplied by the company is un-
fil foo use.
Smallpox Stops Mails.
Harrisburg —Frank Hawbaker, the
postmaster of West Fairview, a vil
lage in Cumberland county just across
the Susquehanna from Harrisburg,
was reported to the State health au-
thorities as having smallpox and the
office was closed, the railway mail
| service being notified to take precau-
| tions.
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The Park theater at Reynoldsville |
was destroyed by fire with a loss of
$10,000. The building was a new
structure and the interior had not
vet been finished. It was owned by
Mrs. Lucas Deible, Herple brothers
Residence Is Destroyed.
Jeannette.—The two-story
dwelling of Henry Howe caught fire
from. a defective flue and was gutted,
causing a loss of $2,000, partially in-
sured.
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To Examine Dairy Herds.
Dr. W. H. Laugham, president of
the Homestead board of health, has
been informed that *there will be an
inspection next week of all dairy
herds in Allegheny and Washington
counties, under the direction of the
State board of health for the purpose
of weeding out all diseased cows.
Fuil Time in Big Shops,
Scranton.—The Delaware, Lacka-
| wanna & Western railroad shops here
were ordered on full time with the
employment of n hands who had
Tv
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