BURGLARSATWORK.
How the Merry "Cracksmen" 0p8n
Safes.
No Safe Strong Enough to Re
sist Nltro-Glycerlne.
iTow to burgle a bnnk snfe is dis
cussed in an apparently practical mnn
nor in n recent issuo of Hint usually
well-behnviug journal, the American
Machinist. The professor who fur
nishes the advice classes (ill bnnk safes
according to tho kind of door with
which they aro provided. The siinnre
door is prcncrnlly held in portion
when closed by eight round bolts of
about one ninl one-hnlf ineheii in din
meter. Thexo nro Hhot from behind
the door nonius tho joint to the renr of
the jamb of tho door, nnd tho strength
of these eight boltH or tho strength
of tho door jam') to resist being torn
out is the mnxiinum strength of the
Bife to resist tha quiet but forcible
eloquence of the burglarious visitor.
The second or round cIhhs of doors
are built up of phitcK niniilnr to those
of the safe, nnd generally hnvc a eonrsc
thrond cut on their periphery, the
door being screwed into the safe.
The Hipinro doorK nro geiiernlly more
open to perxmiHion tluin tho other
kind. Formerly tho brglnr used
very fine gunpowder ns tho finnl ar
gument. His plnn wns to putty up
tho entire joint between tho door nnd
tho safe, except n hiibII npnoo on tho
top and tho bottom joints. Ho then
applied the nir pump nt the upper nn
puttied crack or joint nnd fed tho
powder into tho lower one, the in-go-iug
air enrrying it into the ante. This
wns nil possible nnd in mnny cases is
yet, owing to a luck of contnet be
tween tho door nnd tho jiimb. This
method wns finally bended off by the
introduction of felt, evmont or rubber
between tho door nnd tho jninb. But
nitro-glycerino will penetrnto a crnck
l-100flth of nn inch, an opening ho
much finer than it is possiblo to mnke
between tho sipmro door and tho jamb
that the operntion of opening Hiieh a
wife is a abort ono. In opening a
mo.lern bunk Hiifu the burglnr putties
up the entire joint of crnck except for
about an inch at the top nnd bottom.
A well of putty is then formed about
tho top crack whoro it is uncovered
and two nnd a half or three ounces of
mtro-plycerino poured into it. If the
eafo is not protected by felt or rubber
, it will roipiiro but throe or four min
utes for tho glycerine to distribute it
self over tho entire joint of the door
and drip out at the lower crnck. An
ordinary detonating cup, such as is
used in exploding dynamite, is insert
ed in the upper well and tho fuse lit.
When the explosion occurs tho door
comes off. When the operntion takes
plneo in a vault there is rarely any
noiso nioro thun fifty feet away owing
to tho aitfu inside which tho explosion
occurs being itsolf within a solidly
built ineloHnro.
Tho burglnr docs not carry nitro
glycerine with him. He goes to n
hardware store and buys a few pounds
of dynamite, which he breaks up in a
convenient vessel, as a wash-basin,
covers with ulcohnl, and allows to
stand until the glycerine has all com
bined with it. The alcohol and gly
cerine are then poured off and an equul
amount of water added ; the water
and the alcohol combine, and the nitro
glycerine sinks to the bottom, whoro
it is ready for use.
Tha chrome steel, of which the
sales ana vaults of hanks are now
largely built, in easily drilled by first
heating the steel. A basket of wire
netting is mado to cover a apace of
.about six or eight inches square, and
this is wired to the side of the safe or
door. It is filled with charcoal, which
is ignited and a fierce heat gouerated
by a pair of bellows. In four or five
minutes the basket is removed and tho
heated spot allowed to oool. It may
thou be drilled or out like ordinary
boiler iron. Tho author of the arti
clo states that he hag seen a hole suffi
ciently lurge to admit a ui tin's arm out
clear through a chrome-steel bank safe
four isches thick in two hours, so that
a mau's arm was passed through and
the locking bolts disconnected with a
wrench. In little less than two hours
a similar hole was out through the
back of tho sufo into the money vault,
aud its contents taken out through thin
Jiole.
The large vault door, behind which
the safe is pluoed, is rarely blown
with glyoerine. It is generally
(Opeuod by drilling a two or throe'
inch hole between the handle and the
combination look. This outs off tho
.looking bolt, and the door opens
when tho huudle is turned. Bufcs
with round doors, which are screwed
iu, are ofUn opened experimentally
. by building a well of putty at tho up
per part of tho joint, nnd exploding
about a teaspoonful of glycerine on
the outside, tho remit being to cup
out tho top of tho outer plate of
metal. A largo well embracing the
cupped portion in then rhade, anil two
ounces of glycerine placed therein,
which feeds around tne threads in
about ten niinntea, tenring the door
and pnrt of tho frame out when ex
ploded. Mifilt Air.
Before we enn hope to fight con
sumption with any chnnce of success
we hnve to get rid of the night nir su
perstition. Like tho dread of cold
wnter, rnw fruit, etc., it is founded on
mistrust of our instincts. It is prob
ably tho most prolific single cnuso of
inipnired health, even among the civil
ized nations of our enlightened age,
though its absurdity rivals the gross
est delusions of tho witchcraft era.
The subjection of holy reason to hear
say could hardly go further. "Be
ware of the night w ind ; bo sure nnd
close your windows after dark !" In
other words, "Beware of Clod's free
nir, bo sure nnd infect your lungs w ith
the stagnant, azotized and offensive
atmosphere of your bedroom." In
other words: "Beware of tho rock
spring; htick to sewage." Is nightnir
injurious? Since tho day of creation
that nir hns been breathed with im
putiny by millions of different animals
tender, delicate creatures, some of
them fawns, lambs nnd young birds.
The moist night nir of tho tropical
forests is breathed with impunity by
our next relatives, the anthropoid ape
tho same apes that soon perish with
consumption in the close, though gen
erally well-warmed, atmosphere of our
uothern menageries. Thousands of
soldiers, hunters and lumbermen sleep
every night in tents and open sheds
without the least injurious consequen
ces. Men in tho last stages of con
sumption have recovered by adopting
a semi-savage mode of life, nnd camp
ing outdoors in all but the stormiest
nights. Is it the draught you fear, or
the contrast of temperature? Black
smiths and railroad conductors seem
to thrive under such influences.
Good Health.
Inscriptions o Coins.
Among the change for a dollar which
tho conductor of a North Side car
teudered mo the other day was a
piarter with an odd inscription.
Nicely engraved ucross the young lady
who impersonates the Republic on
the coin in a singularly strained atti
tude wore these words: "Given to Anna
Polk, Indianapolis, 177." It wns not
merely scratched on, but neatly cut in
an easy English script. The conduc
tor noticod tho legend, too, nnd of
fered to exchango the quarter for
another. But tho coifc seemed good
enough, and I declined. This, per
haps encouraged the conductor to re
mark that bo handled more queer
coins, foreign aud domestic, ancient
and modern, during and since the
World's Fair than in all his six years
of street railroading previously.
"There was a half dollar I took in.
ono day last August," he said, "which
had a piece of poetry cut in its face.
I forget tho other three lines, but
the last one was something about
'You are all my own,' and there were
some letters at the end, the writer's
initials, I guess. The words were very
small, but so well engraved that you
could road them easily enough.
"We had to keep a sharp lookout
for foreign coins, Canadian and Eng
lish, mostly. I never saw so many
old silver dollars, quarters, and halves
as the strangers who came to see the
Fair turned out." Chicago Times.
Tea-Rred Oil.
It appears that some of the Ceylon
tea planters, are making an1 organized
attempt to obtain a sale for their tea
seed in the London market. A parcel
of seven bags of that article was
offered at the drug sales recently, but
no one seemed to know what to do
with it, and although the broker
declared his belief that the drug was
"a favorite medicine in China," the
audience remained unmoved. Never
theless, the tea seed might have been
worth purchasing for the sake of tho
blaud oil which it contains, to the
extent of about 85 per cent, by weight,
and which resembles olive oil in color
und somewhat iu tiists. Tho seeds are
about the size of a cherry stone, sub
globulur iu shape, and of a deep
brown color. The oil would be useful
for burning or lubricating. London
Chemist and Druggist.
Valuable Collection of Mlnera's.
According to the Philadelphia Rec
ord, Clarence H. Bemuut of that city
has a collection of minerals which is
second to only one in the world, thut
of the British museum. It is esti
mated to bo worth fully $500,000.
FARM A5D fl.VUDEX.
EOdd IS WINTER.
If yott want eggs in winter you must
provide a comfortable poultry-house
with windows which will admit sun
light, .and the place must bo kept suf-
flcently warm to keep the combs of
the layers from freezing.
A wooden floor to the poultry-house
is better than an earthen one, which is
apt to become damp, and dampness ' is
to be avoided, if you would k jpp your
(Jock free from disease and death.
Cleanliness, too, is essential, as are
good warm roosts and open air exercise
on all days which are not damp or ex
cessively cold.
Chickens, if properly fed and cared
for, can bo made to lay nearly ns well
luring the winter months as in the
summer. The chief secret lies in pro
viding a variety of egg-producing food
an 1 in keeping the hens in propor
condition.
FEXCISu) IX WINTER.
Th n'9 is often plenty of time, after
tho so-called fall work is completed,
to do a good deal that is usually left
till spring. The fence can bo looked
over and repaired. Tosts can bo set
to much better advantage tlrin in the
spring, ns tha soil is in better condi
tion for such work. It pays to see o
the fences. If neglected, they will
soon fall into a dilapidated condition
which it will require a good deal of
time to bring them out of. And a
broken-down fence is a disgraoo to
any farm, and a standing reflection
against the owner of it. One reason
why bo many shabby fences aro seen
is that the work of repairing them is
left till spring, and then there seems
to be no time for such work. Do it
while there is leisure, nnd you w ill bo
more likely to do good work. Amer
ican Agriculturist.
how to KKKPrt sirKixs.
A writer iu the Ohio Farmer thinks
that to keep pumpkins iu a fresh Btate
for ten months or a year is a very
simple matter. A person has only to
select those that aro sound aud well
ripened. Handle them carefully bo as
not to bruise the flesh ; wash and wipe
dry ; then store them in a dry, warm
room. Let each pumpkin have a
separate rest that is, do not pile ono
on top of another. Keep tho temper
ature of tho room as even as possible
at all times, and sound, plump pump
kins can be had in June just as well as
in the fall or early part of winter.
For tho last two years he has kept his
in nn upper hallway leading from the
dining room. A portiere hangs at the
opening of tho stnirwny, so tho hent
rises and keeps tho upper hall nt tho
same tompcraturo ns the dining room.
If a person has a roomy pantry, well
secured from frost or dampness, tho
upper shelf would answer nicely for a
storing place, or a clothes closet, se
cured from cold or dampness, would
answer tho purposo as well. Winter
squashes can also be preserved in liko
manner.. Dampness aud frosted air
will soon put this lino of vegetables
ou the road to dooay if loft long un
der its influence.
PROFITABLE PIOS.
An Eastern paper has a letter from
W. F. Brown, a swine grower, in
w hich he gives his own experience with
pigs nt five months and three days
old. It would without doubt have
paid to feed them another month, but
the drought had nearly ruined my
corn and I could not buy corn without
paying from five to ten cents above
city price, so I concluded to let them
go. My pigs averaged 130 pounds and
were iu a condition to gj on them ar
ket as fat pigs at a good price. They
wero fed entirely on bran and oil meal,
except for the lust three weeks, during
which they 'were on feed of half new
com. The fourteen pigs te half a
ton of oil meal at 823 a ton. ' The
bran was not weighed, but I estimate
that they ate a ton aud a hulf, costing
818.75, and during the last three
weeks ten bushels of corn worth $4.50
This makes the cost of their feed from
the time they were weaned $31.75
and they sold for $80, which repre
sents a fair profit. I did much better
with the full litters, as I sold them
wheu the price of pork was at its high'
est point. I have now raised three
litters of pigs in succession from these
sows. My idea has been to see if I
could rear pigs aud sell them young
at a profit without milk to give them
a start aud I have demonstuted that it
can be duue."
GHEEN FOOI) FOB FOWLS.
Gruen food is .tho natural food of
fowls iu the summer season. It i
cooling, possessos all of the elements
required, and is more readily obtained
than any other kind of food. Being
bulky, it contains water, sud promotes
digestion by disti'OtsJK V01?-
Though not as nutritions' ot
rain, yet more of it is consiiujea, and
If of a variety, it supplies a!! Juo
wants of the flock.
If tho farmer will economize with
the food at this season, using no grain,
he will find that his hens will keep in
better health and condition than if
they aro fed on grain or other concen
trated food. The greatest drawback
to the keeping of poultry is hot that
the fowls are insufficiently supplied.
nit that they are fed too much, nnd
the cost of their maintenance is more
than it should be. Surfeiting of a .
fowl with all the grain that it will eat
is not conducive to thrift or egg pro
duction. There is an pnormons wasto of food
in the summer by the lack of judg
ment in feeding. Grain is given lav
ishly, when in fnct it is the most un
suitable food that can be allowed dur-
ng warm weather. Grass is superior
to any other food now, and if hens are
o n lined and cannot have tho run of a
grass-plot, the green food may bo cut
up fine aud fed to them, and it may
be given three times a day, in w hich
case a small quantity of ground oats
or comment may be sprinkled over
tho cut food, to each quart of tho
ground grain so lined a teaspoonful of
salt being first intimately mixed with
it. If it is found necessary to give
something else than green food, let it
e lean meat, or meat and crushed (or
ground) bone, given once a day, a
lonnd to twenty hens bein; ample.
Tho hens w ill lay more eggs w hen sup-
died with plenty of green food than
when allowed grain freely. Farm
and Fireside.
FARM AND GARPEIf NOTES.
All manures are not equally valu
able.
Ground oats is ' a good feed for
calves.
All stock requires good caro to pro
duce good results.
Cornstalks will make good feed for
hogs if cut when green.
Don't rear indifferent stock if yon
are trying to make money.
Turnips mnke nn excellent addition
to the feed of a milch cow.
In Euglish gardens toads nro highly
esteemed as insect destroyers.
Keep only those cows which will
give a profit all tho year round.
This is an excellent time for ex
perimenting with feeding whoiit to
stock.
It is said that ensilage which is not
covered will only mould to a depth of
teu inches.
The sides of tbe silo should be care
fully packed, so that they aro ns solid
us tho center.
If you expect to keep your sheep up
to the standard you must not be con
tent with grade sires.
Quarantine all newly purchased
pigs for thirty days before letting them
run with their fellows.
Those persons who n: o sVd to hnvc
good luck in firming tie tu uu.'i who
employ common sense uuu good judg
ment.
By removing alUfnllen fruit ninny
insects will be destroyed aud others
will be prevented from obtaining a
footing.
A good warm barn with silo and
water iuside and good cows, make
winter dairying cosier thun summer
dairying.
Oood breeds cannot stand tho neg
lect which the scrubs can, but if you
give them proper care they will surely
repay you.
Whenever signs of defective consti
tution appeur among your hogs, it is
time to chnngo to another strum of the
sume family.
By thorough culture the farmer can
get much better crops, but will ex
haust his soil much sooner than by less
thorough cultivation.
Pigs that have been driven any
distuuee, or even carted to the place
of killing, should be given a couple of
days' rest before killing.
The remedy in use for the codlin
moth in Australia is a bun dago ubout
the trunk of the tree and the destruc
tion of all infected fruit.
A writer says that he succeeded in
driving away squash and cucumber
beetles by scattering on each hill a lit
tle laud gypsum which had been
moistened with coal tur.
If turnips are fed to cows just be
fore milking they aro apt to give a
taint to the milk, but it is said that if
given directly after milking the next
milk produced will bo untainted.
Wheu green crops are plowed under
for the purpose of enriching the soil,
an application of lime will often be of
the greatest benefit. It helps to cor
rect the acidity of the soil that often
results from the too rapid fermenta
tion of tbe green stuff.
, PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICANS
Meet at Bsrrisburi and Nominate
Qaluiha A. Orow for Congress
mw-at-ly,.,
At the Republican Cohvsnllon htld at
Jlsrriiburg, Oalusba A, Grow Was unsnl
moXjtly nomlnatttl for Congreumsn-at-Isrg.
Ths eottvwitlon decided to bold the stats
convention In Harrlsburg on May 23.
Wllllnraaport nude a hard fight, but the
capital received almoit double the number
of votei given In favor or iu competitor.
sketch or nts Ltrt.
Ou.rurtA Aaron Orow was born In Ash-'
ford (now Kil ford', Connecticut, August
81, IS-M. When 10 years old bs removed to!
Suiouehannaeounty, I's. He graduated nt
Amherst College In 18U, studied Isw snd,
wss admitted to ths btr or Huiquehsnna
county In April 1M7. He settled in To-'
wands, Hrs'lford county and became a'
partner of Dsvld Wllm'ot. tbe author or the
Ulmot provlo, whom be succeeded In
Congress In 1HM is a free soil Democrat.
For 12 years lis represented ths Wilmot
dlsrtrct In Cnngress.helng elected Speaker
by tha Republicans In 18)11, hs having left
the Democratic party on tbt repeal of ths
Missouri compromise lis was a delegate
to the National Republican Conventions of
1HII4, 1H(W snd IBM. His first speech In
Congress ws In favor of the homestead
bill, of which bs wat the chief supporter.
In 1W hs wat chairman of the Republican
Piste Committee. In 1N7D he declined the
minion tn Itussla. In 1H81 he wat s candi
date for United Hiatea Senator receiving tbs
second highest number of votes In the fam
ous contest of that year. He now resides St
Wen wood, Suaquebsnba county,
THE PLATFORM.
The '-lattbrm adopted l a followe:
ver-. That the Republican Conven
tion of Pennsylvania, recalled to nominate
a candidate for Congressman-at-Lsrge,
needs not to be reminded of the- fact that
Oils is a representative office, that the situs
.tloii in Washington gives It not only Stats
fut national importance and that It Invite!
lie fullest possible expression of the public
lew on Tuesday, February 20, next, to ths
end that all our land may know tbe tenor
of current thought upon tbe most Immedi
ate and vital Issue presented la ths Wilson
bill. The simple anticipation of this
measure hat closed thousands of workthopt
It bat reduced to idleneaa 2,0)0.000 of work-)
ers and soup houses now displace former
Mvea of induatrjfc. It bat reduced values to
an amount greater than tha national debti
It will enlarge the free list only upon pro-
lluctlons which employ ths greatest nurn
W of American workmen. It will strike,
with equal cruelty the farmer, the miner,
the lumberman, the Iron worker, the glasi
blower and the textile worker. It will
transfer work from our own mills, mlnef
nnd workthopt to thoee of foreign countries.
It it tectlolisl in Its authorship and is all
loo plainly aimed at Northern Industries. 1
I It ttrlkei Southern Industries only wbers
uiv bkiuv uiuw rvnuiinf igrenier wi inn 11
indnitriea. It fosters tbe plantation tyttem
and destroys the tarm. That It an attempt
upon ths part of the free traders of the
Honth to reduce the Industries of the North
to the level of those of tbs Houth. '
I It it vicious In itt chsnge from sneclflo to)
ad valorem duties, the latter Inviting for
eign undervaluations and leading to con-,
ttant and cumulative frauds upon the
revenues. It is vicioua In reducing instead
of Increasing revenue. II will reduce the
revenues many millions of dollars and the
reductions will grow with time. It It vicious
In compelling the government to make up
these dellciti by meant of increased internal
and direct taxes. It It doubly vlclout Irr
compelling lit tupporters to retort to the
must teriout wsr taxes or borrow money. It
It wholly erroneous in the theory that the
lest work there It to do in tblt country,
the higher will be tbe wages of ths work
man, The protective policy coneyt the oppot
Ing thought snd taytthat thia policy which
lecnret the largest amount of work at horns
Is the one which secures ths bett wsges to
the home work man.
If the Wilson bill does all tbe things in the
threats which it conveys, what wllllt do in
its fruition?
' The Republican! of Pennsylvania. and the
people of our great Commonwealth ai well,
declare war upon it, unceasing war In House
and Senate, and it! Senators and Represent
atives in Congresi, including the Congrese-maniai-Large
nominated today are requested
to make thia warfare felt In every wise and
patriotic way, to tbe end that by the defeat
of the Wilson bill, American worklngmen,
Iiroducers and manufacturers may resume
hat prosperity which tbe country bad but
a tingle year ago. 4
The defeat of tha Wilton bill and I hit
consequent retention of tbe protective ayt'
tern will bring this prosperity within 3tt
days, not alone to the farms, mines, fur-J
nacet and mills and workshnpt of Pennsyl
vania, but to every section of our country
, heretofore devote! to development and
' improvement. It will reatore values and in,
all waya contribute to the welfare of ths
land and happiness of ths people. - I
linalrnt. That Pennsylvania1! recent
majority of 1&J.000 was a most emphatic
Indorsement of our party's national and
State platforms, both of which are now re-
atnrnieo wun tne saaitionai ueciaration,
that the Republican party favors the long
established policy of our republic to en
courage titter republics, kownajver weak,
snd foster the spirit of liberty wherever itt
Orel are lighted, to long at this can be done
without promoting or encouraging "danger-'
out foreign alliancet"and In thia connection
we denounce the Unpatriotic foreign policy)
of tbe Democratic national adiuiuittratioul
In tbs Hawaiian matter.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Abizoka Is raising peanuts.
Nebraska has 50,000 Swedes. ... .
Axabouists continue active In France,
Buffalo, X. Y., Is the greatest flour port.
Tramps are practically unknown In New
Zealand.
Coxmecticct farmers lately held a State
Convention.
The Chicago Treasury's deficit will proba
bly be 1,600,000.
Skvsm lows men era racing after Wil
son's seat In the United States Senate.
Kicr and extensive phosphate bed! have
been discovered In Lewis Couuty, Tennessee.
Ths Caps Cod (Mass.) cranberry bogt
produced 150,000 barrels ot red berries this
season.
Despite rigid economies the cash bal
ance In ths United States Treasury Is still
fulling off.
Florida hns lit) varieties of wood and an
lghten-pound pluaappls at the Augusta
(Oa.) Exposition.
Charitable women have opened a shop
In New York City tor tbe employment of
destitute women.
Good, heavy draught hones and good
roadsten are iu fair demand at fair prices,
but for the common bone there Is no mar
ket. Turn relations between Sweden and Nor
way are beuomlng so strained that tha possi
bility of a war between them tor supremacy
is now beiug seriously oouiidarod in Eu
rope. Mas. Sarah Johnsok, 115 yean old, died,
a few days ago, at Camdao, N. J, She was
tbe oldast woman Iu tha Btute, Mn. John
sou retained ber faculties up to the time of
ber death.
The settlera and rauohmen In tha vicinity
of Owen, Wyoming, complain that stock Is
killed la great aumben by boars. Hunters
are not after these animals, as there is no
bounty for tlttun.
mSTONE STATE CULLIKGi'
Fox I hoot cAVtn blood roreosMrto.
. Bums Falls. Phillip Corbett, sged 70
yetrs wss tsksn to the Allegheny Itotpltsl,
offering frpm blood poisoning. A short
jlmesgo he took rheumatism Id his leg, and
being told that poke root was a sovereign i
remedy, hs made a podltlcs of It and appli
ed It. Tbe only way to ssve his life now,
the doctors lay is by amputating tbe leg,
Which will bs dons.
MAOIITRATIt POW't PAT EXPIKSItS.
Philadelphia The 39 magistrate In
this city each receiving 13,000 salary, last
year collected fines smounting to only
140,000 or lets than half ths amount paid
them by tbe city. Al usual at ths close of
each year there Is a movement, on foot to
reduce the num ber of magistrate!.
OULT FOB COMMON SCHOOL ttg.
ItARRiisi'na Dr. Shseffer, superinten
dent of public Instruction decldej tbst tin
free text books purchased by the ttste's
money for ths use of the common tcbooli
cannot b used by "lubscrlptlon schools'
after ths regular school term Is ended.
A CHILD'S AWFUL DRKD .
. Cms Campbell A S year old daughterof
George Bneats's, living ,nesr here, round
her Istber'sself acting revolver, and delib
erately shot her 1 year old sister through,
the head.
oi.d ron 2,300.
IlARRisBt-Ru Executive Commissioner
tsrquhar telegraphed Oovernor Paulson
from Chicago that be bad sold tbe Pennsyl
vania state building for J.300.
' At Reaver Fall! David, the 3 vear old son
of David Kaiton wns badly burned hy
placing a lighted Christinas tree can. Us
under hi! apren to bide it from lot
mother.
The Greenland block, Connellsvllle was
destroyed by tire. The building was occu
pied by two stores and a restaurant and nil
were destroyed. Ths lost will reach 10,
ouo. Wmi.R Abraham and John Lent, farm
ers near Shannopln, were at work in s field
three unknown men overpowered their
Sister and stole 13,000 from ths house.
James If. Anpehsox. of drove City
attempted to board a I'itleburg A Laka
Kric train at New Castle and received In
juries from which he died.
For the lint time In msny years appli
cant! lor liquor license from Sharon, tile-1
at Mercer have uo remonstrances nitvl
against them.
Tiia report of Secretary Edge of the
renntyivama Hoard or Agriculture snows
that the crops last season were far below
tbe average.
F.pn'Aitn. 9 year old son of Lawrence Rod
gere, of Neahanuock Falls, died ot a frac
ured skull, the result of being kicked by a
bone.
Two negro burglars whils robbing
Thompson's grocery atore near Hunting
don touched a burglar alarm and were cap
ured. The Columbia & Donegal F.lectrie rail
way was oiwiied. It i! six miles long aud
connect! Columbia and Marietta
INSPECTOR WATCHORN8 REPORT.
I1IE "SWEAIIBa" SYSTEM CONTIUCES TO A
Hoar DIFFICULT ONE TO COPE WITU,
WHAT IHVESTtOATIOMS UP
rACTORIXaSHOW,
Fsctory Inspector Wstchorn.in his report
ot ths operation! of his department the last
year, construes tbe law prohibiting tbe em
ployment of children under 13 years old as
not applying to those at work when the act
was passed.
Last year the decrease In ths number of
children under 10 yean employed In factor
ies was 0,030, I jut year s reKrt showed ths
total number of persons employed In fac
tories under tbs supervision of the depart
ment to be 230,003, while tbe report for
1803 gives a total of 717, 401. an increase ol
30,383. Last year 70 tiro escapes were erect
ed, a torsi of 221 lire escapes erected at tbe
Instance of the department in two year!
and a half; 200 more have been ordered.
There have been reported during tbe year
810 accidents. 40 being fatal.
It it stuted that the "sweating" system
Is the most difllcult matter the department
has to cope with, snd be admits that It is
almost powerless to deal with ths "sweat
er!." Inspector Wstchorn thinks nil
department should not hs required to
enforce tbe semi monthly pay lsw, as itt
violations most frequently occur in ths
mining regions. . Ths efforts ot tbe de
partment in this direction havs been almost
fruitiest.
Kitchen Schedule.
Housek sep-rs troubbd with forget-.
.ul s'ivant cun reduce their can s
:ousiderably by making out asch dulei
ot tb; worn to be done each day ot
tho we 'k and placing it In the kltch-i
en, where1 It can b; (en by the muld
who p.-eald s over tho hous'hold
work.
Tne duties ot the week, If aDpor-,
tioned to certain duvs, will make
work easL-rto mistress and maid, aud'
If th se days aud duties are putdown'
Id bla' k and white in view of thet
kitchen soddtsi th y will Impress)
tht Djselvea more readily upon heri
mind and lonvc no excuse for the for-!
netting whic.i servant xirls are so
addict d to.
A const mt buubcar of the kitchen
Is the maid who "fortrets" that there'
U no suuar, or butt.T, or coffee Just'
at the mum 'tit when dinner la ready;
to be ft rv.d. There is nothing inoref
exasp 'rating th in this p iase of do
ui stic aunoyance.
A Huston cooking sc' ool onco had
a wood, n "marketing card" for tl.e
kltzhcn wa'l, which could bo used to
advantugi bv hous 'ke per, and could
be copied In homemade form. It
consist (I ot a light wood frame pro-;
vlded with slips of dark wood upon)
which w.-re marked the ham s of tho
different housekeeping stores sugars,
tea, soap, starch, etc.
Theso wooden slips wero arranged
In slots und could b- moved Into place
ugdlnst the light background. When
any particular supply gave out t'ie
corresponding ip was brought In
vl w upon tha card, and when the
gro'try order was givm nothing
irjct'ssa'y cou'd be forgotten. This
plan will wink to paction with tho
most "dltilculi" of help, who will re
fuse to understand all other mod of
i x rclslug tn Ir memorl.s. llostoa
Globe.