S WEDDED EIGHTY $ I Oldest Married Couple in the World Wife 106. Fonr milei sonth o( Elktort, Mich., (here lives perhaps the olden married eonple in the world. There have been several well au thenticated eases of men renching a mr. hiller sawiso wooi. greater age than the 108 years which Jacob Hiller has seen completed. There have been many women who have lived longer than Mrs. Jacob Hiller, who is nearly 100. But prop bly it has never happened to any other youth and maidon, marrying when the former was twenty and the latter eighteen, to pass together eighty right years of wedded life; to celebrate their golden wedding and live on; to selebrate their diamond wedeing an d still have thirteen years of wedded life together after that. Mr. and Mrs. Hiller were married twenty years before the railroad came, and fourteen years before "Witt Clin ton s Ditch (the line canal), across New York State, was opened. The United States, when they were married, was a puny little nation, on the point of going to war one moment with Eng land, the next with Trance and in putted and browbeaten by both. Na- pnleon waB at the height of bis power, yet unsapped by the disasters in Spain or the retreat from Moscow, the grisly horrors of Waterloo, six years away, and all unforeseen. Yes, it's a long term of years for man and wife to spend together, but the old couple seem never to have tired of it or of each other. And, sitting in their little house like a veritable Dar by and Joan, they received a New York World reporter together as they have lived. "I'm 108 years old," said Mr. Hiller from the depths of his capacious arm chair. "My birthday was the 20th of last October; so yon see I'm pretty well started going on 10!). She" here he nodded toward Mrs. Hiller in her asy chair opposite "will belOG next March. I was about twenty-two or twenty-three when the War of 1812 broke out. But we were on the other nide, you know. We were born at Jamestown, buck of Kingston, in Can ada, and lived there till we were old." "Your children are scattered?" "We have had eleveu childron," re plied Mr. Hiller, "and seven of them are still alive. .The oldest is eighty-live and the youngest is fifty-eight years old. One of our daughters lives about half a mile from here, and once in a while I walk over to call on her." "Yon do not seem like so old a man," said the writer. And indoed Mr. Hillor's eye is bright, and, though bis face is wrinkled, he has the ap pearance of energy suoh as one does not attribute to age. ' "Me?" said he with a shrill laugh. 'Why, I was eighty-eight years old before I lost my first tooth, and I've cat two new oues since then. I've - never worn glasses in my life, and I ' can thread a noodle as well as you can, if yon are a woman. I don't sleep well as I nsed to, though.'' "And you, Mrs. Hiller?" r "I've kept house eighty-eight years," piped up the old lady, "but I don't do much work now. I'm pretty feeble, pretty feeble. I can't walk and I'm 'most blind and can't read; but I dearly love to have people read to me. I get lonesome sitting here so long. Sometimes my grandchildren come and read to me. And things are sent to me for them to read, and I always keop them." "What kind of reading do you like lest?" 'Toetry. Jacob, show them to the dy." The old man promptly fished out of mi:, hiller. 103 years old. a table drawer a lot of newspaper clip pings, most of them yellow with age and creased with many foldings. One of them was Eugene Field's "Little .'Boy Blue," out from a Chicago paper. The vinitor read it through slowly, old Mrs. Hiller nodding to the rhythm of th word. "My children are gone, too," shs aid; "ivtx of tunm, and I'm ready - EIGHT YEARS, Husband is to8, and only waiting for the words. It's a long time. Twenty years ago I had my burial olothes made ready, and once year I have them put in order. Would you like to see thorn?" The writer tnrnert the question hastily. "When did you come to this coun try, Mr. Hiller?" "About the time the war began we moved here to Michigan?" Before the poems were pnt away some one spoke or hymns, ami the couple with shrill, quavering voices sang to the old tune of "China," with its quaint trills and runs, the words: "Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove, With nil thy qnlokenlng powers; Com shed abroad n Hnvlour's love And tknt shall quicken ours." Then the old man put awny the clippings, moving easily about the room wth a firm and fairly quick step. He is small and slight now, though he may have been in his prime a man of average stature. Mrs. Hiller moves abont but little and with difficulty, feeling her way around the room with thin, tremulous fingers. Of their very simple house work she docs almost none. Gener ally one of the grandchildren drops in during the day to help with some MB. HILT.F.R NROVET.S 8X0W. of their work. The rest, Mr. Hiller himsolf does. There .is a little garden about the house, and here, in the season, Mr. Hiller raises a few vegetables and weeds and waters an old-fashioned posey bed, in which grow all the fa vorite flowers of his wife's youth, and a nosegay of these is generally upon her table. Sometimes be carries her chair out into the gardou, and she sits there while he works. At present, however, the dry and withered stalks of the garden favor ites peep melancholy through the snow, as if bidding one to wonder whether Mrs. Hiller will ever see them bloom again. There seems to be no good reason why her, more sprightly husband may not live to see them once and again. The son-in-law plows the garden and arranges for the rougher work about the place. The wood the old couple burn is sawed by horse-power into short lengths, but Mr. Hiller splits it np for firewood, battering away at it with short, pecking strokes MRS. HILLER, 108 YEARS OLD. with a dull axe. All Canadians know how to chop wood, but Mr. Hiller no longer has strength for that. In winter, when the deep snows come, he gets out of doors with a snow shovel aud makes neat paths about the house and from the front door to the gate. The 'labor of shov elling does not seem too much for his muscular strength, but bit tnio blood Is quickly chilled, and after few minutes' work in the cold be goes into the honse to rest for a few minutes before the kitohen stove. In this way the old man putters abont for half day over a light fail of snow, but one who has lived 108 years has plenty of time. So they sit, the old man and wom an, in their little honse, singing the old hymns and waiting for the mes senger who has spared them so long. THE BICCEST KITE EVER RAISED. Snared Aloft t.lke a School Hoy's Tof and Lifted III Owner Into the Air, A kite that would have served as a toy for the yonthful residents of Qul livcr's Brobdingnag has Just been constructed by a resident of South Bethlehem. Fenn. The kite is a m6n- ster. If the world has its equal, ho one has ever made tbo fact known. Imagine kite ns big as a two-story house, capable of raising high in the air an able-bodied man, who fried to hold on to the soaring flyer. William H. Mavklo, the man who built the grent kite and rained it heavenwavd, says: To begin with the dimensions of the kite: It is 25 feet high and 25 feet A YUKON VILLAOE IN THE PEPTH OF WISTEK. wide, and is of the ordinary triangle pattorn. The sticks are made of white pine, o(x2 inches, and are tapered from the cross to li inches at the ends. At each corner of the cross there are two-iuch screw-eyes, On these screw-eyes are tied the four corners of the canvas sail, which is made of sail drilling. The nail is sewed on the bias, and along the edge of the canvas is sewed a rope three-eighths of an inch thiok, with loops at the corners. These loops are tiod with separate rope in the sci ew-eyes on the frame, the frame being bolted at the cross with an eye bolt, making it easy to take the kite to pioces, a very noccessary thing, by the way, with a kite as big as a house. The centre bands are made of rope three-eighths of an inch thick, with heavy harness snaps, which are also hooked in the eye-bolts, in the cross and screw-eyes in the corners. I used, when I made the first trial of the kite, 2500 feet of silver lake sash cord, but found the strain too great, and had to proouro the. highest grado of Manila rope three-eighths of an inch thick. This rope stood the strain of a high wind without signs of breaking. world's siooest kite. In a strong breeze the pall, acoord iug to careful estimates, was. from 400 to 600 pounds. I have at different times attached a barafewbnndredfeet irom the hitching point, and allowed myself to be pulled into the air to a height of a hundred feet. The kite floats at an angle of from fifty to eighty degrees, and my weight is 165 pounds. The weight of tho kite, rigged, is seventy pounds. It is a very easy matter to raise the kite. With the assistance of a few men the sticks and canvas are put to gether, aud the flying rope seourely hitohed about a tree, the alack in the rope being nerrly all taken in. The kite is laid flat on the ground with tho top toward the bitching point, and in a fair breeze the monster la lifted np a little so as to catch the breeze. It does this very quickly, straighten ing np like a thing of life and rising with the wind as though anxious to be as obliging as possible. In order to counteract any tendency that tbo kite may have for tilting sideways, guide ropes are hung at the wings, and if neoessary they can be used to keep the kite straight while it is rising from earth to the clouds. Sixty Bwlai Language, Sixty languages are spoken in the empire governed by the Czar of Bus sia. India Bicyclist, Hole-in-the Day, a wild Sioux In dian chief, is on of tbo most expert Dicyoie rioers in uontaaa. MINERAL WEALTH OF THE YUKON,' A Correspondent Tells of Possibilities ll tho Klondike Gold Region. Owing to the peculiar climate an 4 other conditions, nenrly all placet mining in the Yukon conntry must b condnoted by new methods or modifl cations of old methods. So far notlv ing but the crndest of mining, wit! the simplest of tools, has been done, and there are splendid opportunist for capital and engineering' skill, writes John D. McOillivray in Daw son City letter to the New York Her aid. This is not so much of a "pool man's conntry" as is generally re ported, for no one can eome here and accomplish anything without the ex penditure of considerable money be fore expecting' any return. Even prospeoting eannot be done with anj degree of satisfaction except at con siderable expense. . The introduction of capital properly directed, with appropriate machinery and tools, will mean not only the rapid opening up- of new distriots, but th working at large profits of handredi of miles or even thousands of miles ol creeks which have been located and are now abandoned. At present, it is true, there is little aside from placer deposits proven to be of profitable value, but coal, copper and other minerals have been found in deposits that are worth examina tion. That quarts mines will be dis covered and opened np in this im mense territory there can be no doubt. Under present conditions not more than one out of fifty of t the gravel mines whioh have been located will pay to be worked, yet, as costs are re duced and improved methods aro in troduced, most of them should yield good profits. There havo been located in the. Klondike district nearly three thousand claims. A small proportion not over one-tenth, or. at most, one-fifth of these, it is now believed by the best informed miners will pay to work by the methods now in vogue and with wages and other costs anywhere near the prevailing rates. It should be remembered that the value of this immense territory the Yukon country lies not so much in the rich claims in the Klondike dis trict, but in the fact that gold is muoh more 'evenly distributed over an im mense area than in any other known mining district in the world. The world's attention to-day is di rected, whenever the Yukon is men tioned, to the Klondike distriot, yet it is quite probable that tbo Bircb Creek distriot, on the American side, nearly three hundred miles below here, will in time produce as much if not mora gold. It is so far as is known more extensive, and. while the placers dis covered are of lower grade, tbey all contain considerable gal.:. Dangerous Carbolic Aeld. A Board of Health warning has been sent out in regard to the danger of using carbolic sold, either as a disin f eotant or as a cleansing wash for sira pie wounds. Even in an ointment it is not safe. Local gangrene is said to be the penalty of too strong an appll cation, or of a weak application too long applied. Another point of infor mation advanced by the board is that carbolic aoid is used in surgery as a germicide and disinfectant, and not as a means of healing wounds: on the oontrary it would retard or prevent their healing if used in improper strength. St. Louis Oloba Domeorat, Tli Difference. "A man," observed the student of social phenomena, "is never satisfied so long os there is anything he wants; a woman is never satisfied so long as there is anything aba can got." Chicago journal. A Chlckea With Babbit Feet. The London Strand has a ploture of a obieken with rabbit feet. The pho tograph of the curiosity was sent in by Mr. Sleight, of Fsshtigo, Wis. Tha ohloken was' one of a family ol nine, all of wblob bd rabbit Int. 1 , CONGRESS. Senate. , Washington, Jan. 26 The pension bill Was paused after an amendment offer ed by Mr. Alli-n, Populist, Nebraska, to Increase the appropriation to $148,000, 000 had been rejected. Mr. Butler, Pop ulist, North Carollnn, offered an amendment to the pnstoftlce appropria tion bill providing for nn extension of the experiment of rural free delivery to every State and Territory of the Un ion, and to as many' si-ctlons of those States and Territories as possible. Then followed a long and occasionally bitter debate upon the Teller resolution declaring the government bonds paya ble In silver. Washington, I. C, Jan. 27. After transacting some minor business the Teller resolution was laid before the senate, and after considerable discus sion It was agreed that the vote should be taken to-morrow nt 6 o'clock and the last four hours of debate to be un der the fifteen-minute rule. Washington, Jan. 20. In the senate the conference report on the urgency deficiency bill was presented and agreed to. A bill to lncrpn.se the efficiency of the navy by combining the line and engineer corps was Introduced by Mr. Hale, of Maine, by request. When the routine morning business was finished the Teller resolution de claring United Platen bonds payable In standard silver dollars at the option of the government was taken up, and Air. Teller nddrensed the senate. Senator Wolcotfs bill conferring ad ditional Jurisdiction on the court of In solvency of Cuyahoga, county, was up for passage In the senate Thursday, nnd was the subject of considerable discussion. The bill provide that the court of Insolvency shall have original Jurisdiction of all proceedings and ac tions In divorce and alimony as now possessed bv the common pleas court nnd like Jurisdiction of an appeal from the decision of Justices of tne peace, Including error thereto In all civil cas es. Senator Wolcott explained the con gested cond tlnns of the common pleas courts of Cuyahoga county; how far be hind they were with the docket and that this bill was to relieve the pres sure. The bill was passed. Washington. Jan. 28. In tho senate tho Teller resolution, which provides for the payment of bunds in silver, was passed by a vote of 47 to 32. "Honse. Wnshlngton. Jan 2n. Mr. Smith, Democrat, Arlzonln, made an attack on the present system of educating the Indians, lie declared that the Car lisle and Hampden schools were a mistake that an Indian could not be rivlllxed by teaching him to read and write and sing a psalm. The Indian, he said, must receive an industrial Educa tion, but It must be given him In the vicinity of his home, not In the East. In this bill he said, s.rioo.uou was wasted Mr. Walker, Republican. Massachu setts, moved to strike out the appropri ation for the Carlisle school. Without voting on tho amendment the House adjourned. Washington, Jan. 2?. The house at once went Into committee of tho whole for further consideration of the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Sherman, of New York, speaking to tho pending motion eliminating the appropriation fur the support of the Carlisle Indian school refuted the charges made yes terday that It was not an Industrial school. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, con demned the present system of educat ing Indians ut schools, and then Rend ing them buck to the reservation tn rwlapso Into the former state. This he characterized as rellned cruelty. His remedy was breaking up the tribal relations nnd allotlug the Indians their land In severalty, Washington, 1).- C, Jun. 27 The house to-iluy llnully succeeded In pass Ing the Indian appropriation bill and the political debate which has been raging since Monday was transferred tn the District of Columbia bill, which followed It. Only two Important changes made In the Indian bill, ai passed, were the elimination of the provisions for the leaning of the till ronlto mineral lands of the Kiowa, Co munche. Apache and Wichita reserva tions, both of which went out on points of order. The house bill of Mr. Jones. t Ptark, providing for weighing coul before screening, occupied the attention of the house of representatives Thursday fur a considerable length of tlmo and It passed without a dissenting vote. The miners have long contended for such a law. and with It In operation will work for a lower rate of mining, and that as Pennsylvania and Illinois have such laws the passage of It here Mill tend to uniformity. The house passed Mr. Davis' house bill No. II to give the state Inspector of workshops and factories mora power to enforce his orders for changes In public buildings nnd shops In the In terest of safety. There Is a time limit allowed owners of such bulldlngH, and this bill gives the Inspector authority to enforce his orders Immediately In oases where so much time Is not con sidered necessary. Washington, D. C.T Jan 28. The bill to pay the book publishing company of the Methodist Kplsoopal Church, South, IS.000 for damages sustained by that coroporation during the war, after en countering an obstinate filibuster which staved off a vote on two prevloiu private bill duys, was piloted to Its pas cage In the house to-day by Mr. Cooper of Texas, who was in charge of the measure. Tho friends of the meosuro proved themselves In an overwhelming majority and the oppoaltlon to-day, led by Mr. Dalzell, finding It could hold out no longer, reluctantly yielded. The vote on the bill was l8-87. vj el I n g" i ou. It costs 0700 a year to run tho T. A. W. liiuidquurtons In Now i'ork City. Whc-slmon generally aro watching tho elialnlaiui wheel question closely. Tha bleyole. It Is expected, will play a prominent part at tho l'arls Xxpositiou of 1!KH. Four years ato bicycles weighing thirty live pouuds were aonsldurud to bo light enough. One of the mnglHtrntee In New York hat dei'lifvil that a bicycle is a no.-ewsity, not a luxury. The roan who makes guesses places the number of cynluts lu tbo Uultuil states at 3.000.000. The Boston Bleyole Club Is thn oldest cycling organization In the country. MasHaabuiMitts good ronU iiihu are agi tating the passage of a wide tire law. If you keep your bicycle in a warm rooir all winter you aru certain, to ueudnnw tlrui la tho spriug. To glvn warning with your foot is the latest thing. An Ingenious cyclUt has in vented a bleyolo bull wliiuli fastens to the pedal. With the popularity of the bleyole the monkey JaoUoU and skiu-tight k nicker bookers of tho old "Ordinary" rider liavu eutirely disappeared. Nearly every English raoer rides a ma chine sunling neurnr twenty-four pound tliuu twenty pounds, and most aro oon vluoed that a little extra weight by nc menus diiuiuisbes the speed, ' A new maohino whioh snems to be grow ing into popularity lu the business world In tuo double tiurrior for two riders. A growing tendency to admit women to membership in bieyola oluba U a sign of the times. Tha fair sex is ou au equal footlug wlth the boys la many suoh orgauiisatloiui, urtluularly la the larger oltlon. , ERM m NEWS C0NDEK3EO RAILWAY MUST PAY. I Toathfal Fair of Hanoi Veins at $10,000 Rimer J. Walhrldge. aged years. sbtained a verdict for ItO.uoO against the Schuylkill Electric Hallway Company, of I'ottsvllle, recently. The boy was run over by a trolley car In Pottsvllle iver two years ago and had both hands silt off. The lad Is an Inmate of the House of the Merciful Saviour, Phlla ielphla. Arbitrators awarded $8,000, tnd tho company appealed It to Court. Harry Illndman, of Hutler, 'aged IB, tied the other morning from blood pol loning. Three weeks ago he had a de cayed tooth treated by a dentist pre paratory to having It filled. In a few days a sore place appeared under his tongue which developed Into blood pol innlng and caused death. Kva, the daughter of Mrs. Charles Weiss, of Ilrndheadsvllle, was burned to death during the mother's absence from the kitchen last Monday. Eva, who Is a little child, played with the fire. Her dress caught and her screams brought her mother and grandmother to her assistance, but too late. The child was frightfully burned from the knees up over her whole body. A can of kerosene oil exploded In the holler house of the Beenevllle cement mill at ltosndale the other day setting Are to the mill and storage house. Both sere destroyed, together with . 4,onn oagn and 600 barrels of cement and 300 Inns of coal. -The loss is estimated at ' 100,000; fully Insured. Burglars forced an entrance Into the residence of James Harts, near Mlll brook, the other night, and at the points of revolvers held him up and then bound him with a rope. They searched the premises and secured a sum of money, (tarts freed himself, but the thieves had made their escape. A concert was given at the Harris burg opera house recently for the bene fit of the Cuban sufferers. About $i00 was realized, tlov. Hastings presided and made a brief address In which he expressed the hope that the people of Pennsylvania would contribute liberal ly for the relief of the starving Cubans. In attempting to stop a runaway team of horses recently George Schref ller, of Rockefeller township, aged 24, was struck by a passenger train on the Northern Central Itallroad and instant ly killed, his body being scattered along the track for half a mile. S. W. Scott V Son, Waynesburg, who have been holding half a million pounds of OreSncnunty wool, have just sold between 300,000 and 400.000 pounds to a Koston firm at a good figure. About "00,000 pounds of this was bought two yearn ago at 15 cents per pound. James IT. Smith, a cattle buyer, of Cochrantnn, was ejected from a train on the Krle railroad the other evening at Buchanon Junction, nnd was found drowned in a small stream nearby. He probably fell through the trcstlo. The Jury at 1'hllndelphla acquitted Mrs. Anna Nlggl. who placed two chil dren, aged 2 years and six months. In a bathtub and nphyxiated them by turn ing on gas. She will be sent to Nor ristnwn asylum. Mrs. Jennie Sherman, a negress, shot her sleeping husband. Cleorge, at Nor rlstown tho other day, and tried to brain him with an ax. She has not since been seen, nnd It is believed threw herself Into the Schuylkill river. Henry Cole, a Bessemer, employee, was cutting off a bolt at Albion when the angle bar Mew around, striking hit nose and mutilating both eyes. It is doubtful If he will recover. Whllo Fred Belter, of Wllllamsport. aged 13 years, was leaning over a stove his clothes aught fire the other day. and ho was so badly burned that death i (suited four hours later. Mrs. Kdwlna Ohrosky, while crossing a trestle between Moyer and Connells- vllle, was struck by a passenger train and had her skull fractured and her left foot crushed recently, John McFndden, of Wilkeabarre, aged 0 years, was afflicted With an ul cerated tooth. A dentists pulled It, blood poisoning ensued and the boy died a few duys ago. Stacey Denny at Huntington, a few days ago, was taking a flash light pic ture, when the Instrument exploded. John Illack lost an eye and others were Injured. .Michael Kohl, who died several days ago, near Kentnersville, Bucks county, at the age of 84, enjoyed tho distinction of never having ridden In a railroad car. Because Mary K. Drumpeller, an heir ess, of Pottsvllle, married A. Ratlgan, a laborer, her father tore up his will, and Bays he will cut her oft without a pen ny. At a shooting match in Blair county, Oliver Burket. aged 38, of Hodman fur nace, wan accidentally shot In the arm by his friend, Alexander Wilt. Palmer Elliott, tho Center county Daniel Boone, who in Ills lifetime has killed 23 bears and over 1.000 deer, haa gone to Washington state. A hemlock tree has been cut In Jef ferson county measuring 110 feet in. length, which cut seven 10-foot logs and three eight-foot logs. Thomas McConnell, 6ft years old, died recently from being kicked by a horse three years ago in Shenungo township, Mercer county. While tending a log slide at Jamison City, Joseph W. Southard was struck by a log the other day and died from his Injuries. The blast furnace of the Warwick Iron Company, at Pottstown, lost week made the remarkable yield of 1410 tons of pig iron. The capacity of the Lehman Machine Works, at Vllllamnport, has been more thun doubled, giving employment to 100 hands. While shoeing a horse at Howard Benjamin Hotter, aged tiS years, drop ped dead from heart disease the other day. While coasting, Charles Brown, an Altoona school boy, ran against a tele phone polo and fractured his skull to tally. The store of Thomas Rush at Farm Ington, in which was the postotllce, was destroyed by Are. Loss, $8,000. John Roach, a one-armed peddler, died at Scranton a few days ago ot wounds Inflicted by a highwayman. Jacob Young, aged 18 years, commit ted sulcldo at Ring Oold. He was half wltted, homeless and friendless. The OH City Y. M. C. A. has pur chased a $10,000 site for a flno new building. Mrs. James Fluan, of Johnstown, was found froxen to death near Lilly, re cently. Robert Glide, S3 years old, a miner at Courtney, was killed by a train a few duys ago. Henry Ciibk-tt was crushed to death by a falling tree at Johnstown last Week. One of Harvard's athletes thla season has won In prlsea B medals, S watches. 61 diamonds, sliver tea sets, a silver water set, a rltle, and no end of elotbr
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