BOWSKR'S BEGGAR. Result of an Argument With His Better Half. His Little Lesson In Philanthropy Ends In Disaster. Bowser, nrcn't you feeling well?" queried Mrs, Bowser the other even ing ns lie enmo bomo from the office looking very sol cr anil a trifle pale trouud the month. He waited until he hud hung tip his list and overcoat and removed his rub bers and wiped his nose, and then re plied : "They wero dragging for his body in the rivor as I came along." "Whose body?" "A poor and discouraged man's. Ho was out of work and hungry and cold. Ho folt that he could not livo longer. As ho stood on the wharf ready to take the plunge he cried out that ho had even been refused a crust of bread, aud asked heaven to forgive the heartless woman." "That was sad." "Aud who was that heartless woman?" demanded Mr. Bowser as he looked down upon her with Btern, act face. "Why, how do I know?" "I believe it was you. That's just yonr way. If a man comes to the door and says he's hungry and discouraged and out of work you bang the door on his toes and add to the bitterness of .his woes. The moment I heard the words wailed out by that poor man I felt sure that it was you who refusod him bread. Mrs. Bowser you may bo a murderess I" "Do you suppose I'm going to feed and sympathize with every beggar who pomes along?" she spiritedly replied. "Yon drove that man to his death.' "I didn't do anything of the sort. It isn't likely that he came within a mile of our house. If I fod every body who came along we'd havo to turn the house into a hotel and get extra help." "Mrs. Bowser, when a poor and distressed man comes along you can at least pass him out a crust and say that you are sorry for him. I wouldn't have your hoart of stono for all the money" "There's one ringing now," she in terrupted. "3o to the basement door aud greet him, Mr. Bowser." "I certainly will The poor man shall not only receive kind words, but something substantial. . When Mr. Bowser opened the base ment door, he found a woebegone and hungry-looking man with his thumb on tho electric button. Ho was a fuir specimen of the average callor. My dear man, you are out of work, liuugry and di Hcournged?" softly ob served Mr. Bowser. "Right you are Jimmio!" replied the man who was evidently laboring under a mistake. "Hus the old bird got home yet?" "Old bird!" "Yes, the old cock-a-doodle-doo, yon Inow. They say he's as soft as putty, aud oan be worked for half a dollar, while his hen is sharper than a knife," "His hen?" "ies, his wife, you know. Don't speak too loud or she may hear you. What time does the old bird get Lome?" "Do you mean the owner of the Louse?" "Cort nice, soft old duft'or, with a lald head and baggy trousers. I've got a tip that ho oan be worked as easy as rolling down hill." "He's he's bomenowl" stammered Mr. Bowsor, who realized that his wife wan standing at tho head of the stairs aud could hear evory word. "Thou go and tell him that a hard' working, rospectuble man is out of work and hus a sick wifo and four hungry children. If he comes down with a half, I'll whack up with you Strike a trot, my bully, for I'm dyiug for a nip of old rye." "Sir, I am the nice, soft, old bald Leadod duffer you refer to I"exelaimed Mr. Bowsor, as Lis temper flamed up all of a sudden. "Oh, you are I I was only joking, you know. You behold in me, sir, an unfortunate man. Two weeks ago I lost my job, and on that Bame day my wife" "You'll got nothing here, sir," shouted Mr. Bowsor, "Alas, sir, but I haven't tasted food for nearly two days t Can you Lave the Leart to turn a starving man away? "I oan. If you are nungry, go and eat snow or fence posts. You are a dead beat and a liar. The idea of you calling me an old bird and my wife a hen. You ought to bo arretted, sir." "Half a dollar to get a prescription filled?" pleadud to man. "Not a penny. Hkate out of this or I'll call an nfhVcr." "A loaf of bread for my starving children1." "Not a crust." "Then take that for my farewell!" exclaimed tho tramp, as he tapped Mr. Bowser on the chin and spread his wings and Hew away. "Well, were you sorry for him," queried Mrs. Bowser as Mr. Bowser came up stairs with his eyes hanging out and his cars working. Ho glared at her and felt of his chin, "If you didn't speak words of sympathy Bnd hand him a quarter, ho may commit suicide," she continued. "Woman," gasped Mr. Bowser as ho jumped up and down, "I've been struck on the chin by a blamed o liar and a tramp !" "Yes, I saw him hit you." "And you you " "Yes, I'm to blame for it, of courso. and it's the last straw." That's what Mr. Bowsor was going to say, of course, but he didn't sny it. He -rushed into his bat and overcoat and out of the house to And that tramp and make him dio twenty dif ferent deaths. Two hours later he sauntered in and got out his old razor and began paring off a corn, and as he made no allusion to the affair Mrs. Bowser was diplomat enough to ask questions. It was only when ho was ready for bed that he cut loose to the matter by remarking: "If I were you, I'd forbid tho cook feeding every loafer who calls and claims to be hungry." "I havo done so," replied Mrs. Bowser. "Because most of them are liars or worse, and deserve the workhouse. Y'on ought to also curry a revolver when you go to tho door. I'll get you one the first thing in the morning, for no one is safe even in his own house these times." Mrs. Bowser said "Yes," and the subject was dropped. M. Quad, in New York Recorder. Ail Old Shoe nn I'nsnfc Safe. An old shoe, containing six diamond rings aud a brooch set w ith diamonds, valued in all at $400, was given away, with its mate, to a poorly-dressed young man a few days ago, and now the Oermantown police are looking for tho man, the shoe, and its contents. Mrs. Walter Leonard of Oermantown was called to the door by a tramp, who asked for a pair of old shoes or some discarded men's clothing. She told the man to return later, when her hus band would be home. The visitor called at the time set, and Mr. Leon ard wont to ono of the upper rooms and took from one of the closets two pairs of trousers and two pairs ot shoes and gave thorn to the visitor. About a halt hour Inter it dawned upon Mrs. Leonard that sho had placed a portion of her jewely in an old shoo belonging to her husband, and she went npstairs to ascertain if he had givon the shoe away. Sho looked in the closet and found the shoe had dis sappcared. Her husband started iu pursuit of the man, but was unable to find him. The jewelry had long boen in the possession of the family. The Leonards are said to have Lad some experience with burglars, and Lad adopted this plan of checkmating them. Philadelphia Ledger. Hereward, the Wake. There certainly was such person as Hereward, the Lero of Charles Kingsley's novel, "Hereward, the Wake," though perhaps Kingsley do pictod him too romanticully. Of Lis parentage and early life no record ex ists, but Le is known to Lave owned estates in Lincolnshire aud Warwick shire. One story says that Le was in Flanders at the time or the Conquest and returned to aid his mother, who had been deprived of her estate by a foreigner. He drove out the intruder aud took the field against William. Kingsley hus followed the general story of Hereward's fight aud Lis great defonse of Ely. He Leld that island as it was then for a year against William's best efforts. When it fell, Le munaged to escupe, luurried a wealthy Englishwoman, made peace with William, and was finally mur dered in Lis own Louse by a band of Normans. Mr. Freeman suys that the manner of Hereward's death is un known. Kingsley bus taken a novelist's license and disposed of Lis Lero as soomed to him best New York Dis patch. Trouble lu the Museum. "You'd better go aud look after those freuks," suid the asaistaut iu she dime museum. "What's tho mutter?" inquired the managor. "The cross-eyed giant is courting the two-heudod girl, and she's gettiug jealous of herself." CLicugo Tnb mif.ntii'ic s iurs. Jn calcareous rocks acids are often used to enlarge the blast hole at the bottom. Toronto, Canada, was plainly visible from Buffalo, N. Y., rccontly during a mirage. Owing to the altitude it is almost impossible to boil potatoes in tho city of Mexico. A new Italian rifio will send a bul let through five inches of solid oak at a distanco of 4,000 feet. Professor Ball says tho actual mo mentum of some of tho tiniest nieto- ors is equivalent to that of a cannon ball. At sea level an object ono hundred feet high is visible a littlo over thir teen miles. If five hundred feet high it is visiblo nearly thirty miles. The Prussian army hag a special division devoted to aerial navigation, comprising six officers and 120 pri vates. Balloon experiments are being constantly made. A doctor's watch has been invented which can be placed on a patient's wrist and will indicate the rato at which the pulse is beating. It is call ed thapulsomcter. If two tuning forks of the samo pitch are placed facing each other, the one sounding the other silent, in a few seconds the silent one will be giving out a distinctly audible note. Suspenders are superior to belts from a physiological standpoint. A belt must be tight to keep the trousers in place, and the tighter the belt tho greater the likelihood of injury to the liver. For every degree of temporature of the air there is a maximum limit of water vapor to the cubio inch which tho air is capable of bearing. So, too, for any given quantity of vapor pel cubic inch, there is a temperature at which the air will hold exactly so much. This is the so-called point of saturation. Reduce the temperature below that point, and tho vapor be gins to condense, and assume the form of dew, fog, mist, vapor or rain. Suukes have thoir usefulness in the world. They are tho scavengers of swamps and morasses where other ani mals of sizo are unable to penetrate or exist. It is iu tho tropics, of conrse, that serpents chiefly abound. All snakes are of tropical origin, but some species have spread into coolor latitudes. In very cool countries there are no snakes. Contrary to the popular boliof, there are some snakes in Ireland, but they are very raro. Substitutes for Tea. Should a tea famine at any time be come a disagrceablo fact it is well to know that tbcro are substitutes that may satisfy the craving of the tea fiend. These are of two sorts: Those which contain thoine, and which con sequently have the same stimulating effect, and those which are destitute of that principle, only resembling the true tea in flavor and smell, but which possess some other mild intoxicant. Of the former class the mate and gu arana of South America are particular ly rich in theine. The Gauchas of Argentina And mate tea a groat incentive to endurance, and accomplish their . long and arduous rides with little other support Ths fat Spanish peasants in the country around the River Plato are rarely seen at leisure without the "bombezia," be tween thoir lips. This is a metal tubo with perforated, spoon-like end, through which they suck tho infusion of mate from cups inado of dried aud hollow gourds. Coffeo leaves are occasionally pre pared as a substitute for tea in the West Indies. Tho Kolu nut of Africa, the active prinoiple of whioh is theine (according to Dr. Daniel, the eminent author of "The Kola Xut of Tropical West Africa," ) prepared as a tea, "is specially intended to act in warding off the predisposition to epidemic out breaks of suicidal mania, which not unfrequently occur in certain consid erable districts." Mail and Express. Runaways in Russia. In Russia a horse that is addicted to the habit of running away has a thin cord with a running noose around bis neck at the neck-strap, and the end is tied to the dash board. When a horse bolts he always takes the bits in bis teeth and tho skill of the driver is useless ; but the moment the pressure of the oord comes on the windpipe the horse kuows he bus met his master. New York World. . Ahead ou Lays, "Here," suid the poet, "is an au tuuiu lay." "Can't use it said tho editor ; "over stocked. Sixteen bous and five tur keysall laying. Atluuta Constitution. DRESS NOVELTIES. FASHIONS 1 WOMF.Va COATS ANO JACKKTJ. Cloth Coats Reach to ths Knee Short .Tuckets for Younz Women and tJlrls Neck Kiss. POX-CLOTH of the lightest tan shade and Oxford gray mix tures are used for tailor mado coats, says Harper's Bazar. The box-cloth coats reach to lha knee, and have double-breasted fronts fitted by single darts and fas tened by only one row of large bone buttons. The back has no middle seam, and is flat below the waist. Straps of cloth outline the side forms from the shoulders down. Sleeves are ample enough for large sleeves of dresses beneath, and are held in lapped pleatainthe armhole.- Short reversare notched, and go up to a turned-over collar. Pockets with curved slits are edged with a strap and buttoned. Oxford-gray cloth coats have box straps on all their seams, and are fitted to the figure in the back, with straight double-breasted" fronts. The fulness in the back is of two graduated folds set in the side forms below ths waist and pressed flatly. These coats may Lave revers and collar of ths same, or else ot black Persian-lamb fnr, the collar mounted on standing cloth band arranged to be buttoned Ligh or low, as may be required. Very handsome Havana-brown cloth eoats trimmed with black marten fur otherwise called Alaska sable have double box pleat down the front, held at the waist by two rows of four out steel buttons and edged with fur, then drooping in blouse fashion, to be used as a muff. The entire revers and col lar are of fur. The back falls in full box-pleats below the waist. Sleeves that are enormously wide at top are held by a oloth band below the elbow and flare to the wrist. Navy-blue oloth eoats of medium length are em broidered with the finest jet beads in vines on the seams and as a yoke, and are trimmed with black fur. The baok has the two flat pleats now added in the side forms, but not in the mid- rOATTTMM FOH die seam. Yokes ot moire Persian fur and much flat Astrakhan trim other coats ot brown or blue oloth. Sou tache braiding in fine ' vine designs and in deep slender vandjke points is also on new costs. Short jackets, twenty-eight or thirty inches long, are also shown for young women and girls. They are of tan or blue cloth, out single-breasted, with much military braiding or frogs aoross the front and down the full sleeves. Other short box-cloth jackets Lave a aLoulder-oape opening np the baok nearly covered with applied clotb bands put on in an intricate design. The turned-over velvet collar is bor dered with a oloth strap. A deoided novelty is a black velvet jaoket which is nearly all sleeves, as it reaches only to the waist, yet has huge sleeves extending down the side forms ot the baok and folded under in dol man fashion. Jet bands cross the front, and a wide belt of Liberty satin is knotted on the side. A collet formed of eighteeu blaok ostrich feathers encir cles tbs shoaldors below points ot let embroidery, and a oollar of eur led ostrioh tips completes this elegant gar ment . SMaassa CBIKOLXNI IN SLEEVES. The newest sleeves are, it seems, wider than ever. This appears the oase beoause they do not droop over the elbow, being stffened to stand well away from the joiut. The effect of the more fashionable sleeves is to im part by fores of contrast an apparent slenderness to tbe waist the greatly exaggerated width of the shoulders caused by extreme volume at tbe up per part ot the sleeves produoing this result Sleeves are never high in ef feot, but the more the great fulness oan be made to stand away from the shoulders, the more fashionable they ares end for this reason they must be lined with a fabrio that will keep thein well distended without, however, giv ing them a stiff wooden appearance, aud eight out of every ten dressmakers ptefer the lightest weight crinoline lawn for this purpose. This is of course for sleeves that aro not trans parent. HKCK Rim. Just a word of warning regarilint the ecentrio neck rigs that are now in vogue. It is quite the mode, as yon a ' ii - i rama nsoovrxa collar. know, to smother your throat with a bewilderment of chiffon, silk or crepe, bnokled and rosetted to a startling ex tent. Mow for tbs tall, slender woman, with a throat termed by nov elists "swanlike," these fluffy rnehes and oollarettes are all right, but her pudgy sister with a thick short throat is going to come very near making a guy of herself if she employes too gro tesque neok creations. She must not forgot that balloon sleeves are doing their very best to accentuate her dumpiness, and these puffed affairs beoome decidedly unat- STREET AND HOME. tractive when the throat ia walled in upon tbe ohin with feathers, tulle, eto. studv your stature wben contem plating these dress details, and lot ar tistic discrimination guide yon in tho adoption of bizarre neck arrange ments. The knaok ot bow and rosette mak ing is a great possession this season, and she who has it is able to design exclusive styles for her stooks and pass by the ready-made offerings with feeling ol superiority, xue illustra tion shows three styles that are be coming, pretty and not too elaborate for day wear. GOLD BCTTOXS FOR BABIES. The gold buttons for babies' froeks have been largely replaoed by sets of tiny gold pins, united as the buttons were by slender gold onains. tivety mother will appreciate the value of this ohange. Six button boles were needed for the stud sets, and if a little gown tightened or loosened there was no adjustment possible. The pins do away with work aud permit all sorts of lapping over or letting out ALL BUTTONED DOWN BEFORE. Buttons, as was predioted, Lave come to the fore, and they are here to stay. With the exoeption, naturally, of boas, muffs, eto., fur will not be in groat demand. It is to be a button season. For both useful and orna mental purposes the button will be largely employed. GOOD NEWS FOB FLOWER MAKERS, Artificial flowers are coming into use in Paris for corsage deooratiou. They are perfect imitations ot nature and are selected ot a tint to match tho trimmings of the oostutne. A oluster is worn near the right shoulder and at the leit side of the waist. In Spain the tobaoeo consumption is but 110 pounds annually to each 100 inhabitants. Io Austria it ia 273. KEYSTONE STATE CULLIES FOUND DEAD. A Confidence Man Cleverly Outwitted by a Fayette Farmer. A confidence mnn attempted to bunko Dsvli Moruan. ot Favetta countv. br selhna him ((old dust, hut came out ol tbe deal ti behind. He went to the (firmer bonne. claiming to be in search of one David Mor- Can, who owned gold Interests In California, ut who wss still living In Pennsylvania. 114 Bald the gold was discovered by an Indian while chasing deer, and an Investigation proved there were iarxo deposits, Morgan (aid he had no such Interests, but gave the stranger the history ot his family, some of whom reside In Westmoreland county. The strangei left but returned some da)S after, saying be had located tbe David Morgan til Westmoreland county. He wanted to pay Morgan for his services ami said he would let him have :I5 ponnds of gold dust from tho mine, which he bad brought along as evi dence, at half price, lie gave Morgan t!i and a meeting was arranged. Both ap peared. Morgan said be would go for his attorney, when the stranger suddenly disap peared. Morgan bad an ofUour ready to ar rest him. pi.sstt or rsosrtstTT. At Canonsbnrg the Iron asd steel mill and the keg factory are running steadllyi a con tmerame amount or coal is oeing mined; a Manufacturers' natural gas company Is build ing a pu.np station at Cecil that will cost over (30,000, and Is putting down several miles of pipe from tbe Connor pump station to tbe Hickory Held. The Philadelphia gas jompany Is erecting In the eastern part ot town a pump station that will oust from sMS, 000 to 40.000 and Is putting down seven miles f 8 and 1. inch pipe from the Hickory field to their pump station at this place. The trchlteotursl Iron works company has Just Sommeuced oa the south side the erection of t large building, wblcb, wben completed, will give work to several hundred men. will bnt roa siltbb. Landowners near Hollldaysburg have been excited by tbe discovery of preolous metal ores In paying quantities. Tbe Tuesey moun tain mining and smelting aompany bas beea organised to develop tbe rich veins of gold and silver ore In Tuseey mountain. The of ficers are Hon. D. I). Morrell, of Henrietta, president) V. 8. Nlcodamus, of Martlueburg, secretary and treasurer, aud W. H. Taylor, general manager. Expert mineralogists pro nounced the silver ore equal to the Colorado produot. Hon. George W. Orlady, of Hun tingdon, ex-Mayor John H. Law of Holll darsburg. and Dr. Francis, ot Harrlsburg.ara financial backers of tbe company. V. F. S. C. B. CONVENTION. All previous gatherings of the Pennsylvania CbrlstlanEndeavorerswereellpsed by the con vention In York. Over 4,000 delegates were S resent. Erie was decided on as tbe place for olding the convention In 1HIIJ. Tbe follow ing Htnto officers wore elected! President, J. T. McCrory, of Plttsburgi secretary, George McDonald, Altoouas treasurer, John E. Potter, Pittsburg; superintendent of Junior work, W. H. Furguson, Philadelphia; superintendent ol good oltlr.enship, ltev. J, F. Hartman, Alloona, superintendent of missionary ex tension, Francis M. Hcbuyler, Wllllamsport. A HONl'MINT to Claris. The old war Oovorn-ir, Andrew O. Curtln, is to be immortalised lu marble, a movement now being started to erect a monument to him by the old soldiers of Center county. The tablet Isto cost 000, to be built of the finest marble, sur inouuted by a tlgure of Uov, Curtlu, aud will be erei.'ted lu tbe public square ia llellofonte. A LITTLE BOY VISSINO. Last Saturday Harry, tbe little son of John Walsh, of New Brighton, aggrioved at some measure of borne discipline, ran away. Hluoe that time uo trace of tbe child has been found and Ills mother is prostrated with grief. II is feared the little fellow bas beta killed. LYNCHED BI TBAMP. Ten tramps became engaged in a quarrel al Hojtll Beverly. Nlue of them took tba tenth, strung him up against a wall aud shot bim through tho head, kllllug him. Tbe tramps, who are believed to be foreigners, escaped. AN OIL STBIKS NEAB 8BABON. While workmen were drilling a well foi water on the farm of Charles Hurst, neat New Hamburg, a flow of oil was struck. Tbe well was ouly a shallow one, but will be drilled deeper. Judge Blmonton, of Harrlaburg, decided the nomination papers of Matt Havage, ths Democrati candidate for Henator In the 3 Mb district, to be defective because the nam Democratic was used by the signers In desig nating their candidate. Tbe Court allows teu days tor amendment of tbe papers. Attorney Oeneral Hensel has denied the ap plication of the City of Uradford for a writ ol quo warranto against tbe Commercial Natur al (las Compauy, on the ground that there Is uo prima facie evidence that tbe commercial bas consolidated with any other oompany, contrary to tbe act May TJ, ID'M. An epidemlo of horse stealing bas struck Center county. Almost every week some farmer Is minus an aulmal. The latest arrests were made Friday night, wben a man and a woman were arrested. Center county Jail now contains three or four borse thieves, who will be tried In November. John Mutchin was found dead on the Southwest ruilroad tracks In Greensburg aud at first It was lupposed be had been struck by a train, but tbe opinion Is that be wus mur ered. George Sanderson, ot Limestone township, Lycoming county, receutly struck a vein ol cement 100 feet thick ou bis land. New York asaayers suy It Is tbe best la the world. Andrew Brown, of Fayette City, has with drawn as oaudidate for state senator oa tbs Prohibition ticket, and Editor Zauharlah 0. Itugan, ot Wayuesburg bas been obosen. Most mines at Borantoo that have been working halt time will go on full time. Tbe Lackawanna mlues bave nearly all been worklug full time for a week. Manuel Frank, a Philadelphia wbolesalf merchant, who recently opened tbe largest notion establishment in Altoona, failed. Exe cutions for (5,000 were issued. Elections ot tbe oommtsaloned officers ol tbe Fifteenth regiment are to be bold al Greensburg. November 2. Col. Krepa Is s candidate for re-election. Charles Kruck. aged 60 years, was killed at the Moutello clay works, near Beading, bj a fall of earth. Cbrlstlau Hartiuau was badlj hurt. Daniel E. Dufton, a lawyer ot Ehenabsrg, was mistaken for a burglur by some Hun garians aud probably fulally shot at Lilly station. Hlavs from ConneUsviile, are going to Ar kansas to become farmers. The Hlarouio Colonization company of Pittsburg, ho pur chased 13,000 acres for them Ihero, The tobacco store aud billiard room of Ilonrv Ohl at Hhuron, wero closed by the sheriff. The assets will cover the liabilities. Villages adjacent to Uradford are having a scarlet fever epidemic, aud there Is also diphtheria la spots. Seventeen persons were hurt la aa excur sion train wreck ou tbe Pittsburg, Virginia fc Charleston road at Tippecanoe,
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