MT AUNT The greenest prnsthe sweetest flowcrs.grew (it Aunt Polly's door, Tho finest upplcs.tnlles nrnitnd, Aunt Polly's orchard beret Aunt Polly's cows were slck and fnt, her chirks a wondrous Kirn. And JiiIiit Nmlih. the hired mnn, n witty. eroiit mid wise. 1 used to no w lili .lnb nt nlglit.wlth clinking pails to milk i Rometlines Im'il li't in" feed the cults nnd ruli their emits of sllkt And the moon tluit roo In thoo days, just tiidilnd Hi" cattle burs, Was tnl'-o us largo 119 II Is uuw with twice ns many stn Aunt Polly wn it quaint old soul n busy bee tiv day Hiving the 'honey up for nil, with never thought of p.iy. How iniiiiv dmvn wn willelwd the sun, up rising Hi Hi" en-t. Blink" out Hi Iiiiiiiuti o'er the hills and iltlvn nwny the niMl I -lMllli !Vil!iAAA(1ii(kiiAAilVA&AAAAAAAfiAAAAjf3 4 THE MKESHIFT OF JOMS KEMP. Dy Annio Hamilton Donnoll. A t Dy Annio Hamilton Donnoll. t Cl:iria Kemp bile, very Into Cliu issii Collins .-carried each pot to tlio back dour a"d inverted it briskly. Tiie littio heap grew lii.lli ainl un stable. Tlmrn were a good ninny puts, ninl it was mute 11 distance from tho hitting lonm window to the back dour. Clarissa was tired when tin) stained green paint. 'd idielviM worn emptied nnd all the lifter swept up. "There!" she breathe I with a littio pasp of relief, sinking into it rocker. "I'm tlm ikfnl that job's dono with! It's been staring at 1110 ever since 1 came." Clarissa invir : iably spoke, of the day, n few w'clis il'; , when she and .lonm drove fiom thn minister's into the little trim side vard, us "when I tame." Since that day there had been a good in uy lei nun i t the Kemp place. Tlm heap of diai-aidcd gorani iinis and fuelisim was only ouo of them. "J can't and t won't nbido a mess of plants round, littering! There's enough, goodness knows, that's got to litter without putting up with wlmt ain't got to. Vou'vo got to water 'em, and you've got to putter with 'cm and coddle 'em, 1111' t hero's always a Inussy.wet plaou uiidoi' '0111 nnd sprigt nnd Ii y leaves. I can't nbido 'em if othor folks can. Thono t hat likn 'om lire perfectly welcoiuo I don't." Clarissa rocked backward and for ward iu the capii'dniis, ciilico-aol'teucd chair, communing aloud. Her ennui ly, lniddlc-ac.'e l I'aeo had a look of re lief upon it. Once only a slight shade of remorse quivered across it and was gone. "He'd ought to know I'd do it," sho muttered, "and ho ought to hava got his mind mado up by this time. I've given him time enough - over since I cam. I told him, ten minutes after, that 1 couldn't fellowship with a mess of plants. I guess that was good and fair wattling!" The rockers took to sudden creaking as if pleading iu Jonas' behalf, lit the sunny windows tho green nhnlves looked baro aud lonesome. There were little round circles, smaller and larger, side by sido along their lengths, where tho pots had stood. The big gest circle of all spoke pathetically of Jonas' pet cactus that bore the dainty pink flowers among its spines that "Alwildy" had set store by. Alwilda was the wife that had driven from the minister's into tho trim yard first, liven Jonas was hardly fonder of plants than Alwilda had been, "There's some souse to having windows to sit by that you can see out of," mused Clarissa contentedly, gaz ing out 011 the strip of meandering rondway stretching bleakly nwny up bill. "Xow I can seo the people passing there's Deacon Tottlo coin ing a'readyt I can tell it's the deacon by the way the horse wags his head aud ineecbes along down the hill. Keeras to me I'd have a oreature with some kind of spirit to him. Why, no; it's Jonas as I live!" With a sudden accession of nervous ness, Clarissa Kemp snatchod a rug and hurried to the back door. Jonas and tho old horso were turning into the lane. Hlie could hear the pound, pound of clumsy hoofs on the hard clay. She threw the rug over the heap of broke:) plants nnd waited to pull down oue corner across the tiors of interlocked ea-thon pots beside it. "I don't want it to come on him all in a heap," she murmured. "Jonas has to have time to get used to things. lie ain't a sndden man, Jouas ain't. I've found that out since I came." Then she hurried back to the rock ing chair by the window. Jouas was just plodding past. "Why, nin't yon early, Jonas?" Clarissa called, a little breathless with bnrrybg. "It's only 3 o'clock. I wasn't looking for you back till sup per timtf." "Yes, I am ia' )y whoa, baek, Den nis, wh-o-a! but the town meeting I'is' early. We got through our doings sooner' 11 we expectod to. Thoy ap pointed 111 e niodeiiito'.-." Jonas' voice had a ring of modest pride in it. Clarissa laughed appre ciatively. "I should say you'd moderate splen didly, Jonas, "she said, "but I shouldn't ve supposed you'd 've moderated so fust!" The old hore stai tid np and went staidly on toward the barn, with the trail of Clarissa's laughter iu his wake. "Clariiisy's a real humorous womun," pondered Jonas; "hhe's got all of it that Alwildy didn't have. Whoa, buck, Dennis!" ' If Jonas noticed the unwieldy heap under Clurissa's rug on his. way back to the house he said nothing about it. It was not Joniu Kemp's way to aoy things, Iu the trig little sitting POLLY. (told - wlnpocl arrows pierced tho gloom of vnllny, wood nri.l nook, Bright llcets of nrlmwon roilu tho clomln nuil tumbled In tlm brook, (lave Imek with cheer lh apple's hue, the pumpkin's. hiiiI tlio scpm-h, Till di'iir Aunt Polly would exclaim, "Wlmt a perfect diiy to wash!" W li at stenni of lneen thi-n would rise from dear Aunt Polly's tult! For sun nnd sky her heart khvo prulso Willi ri'-li iill-clcnnsliig rulii No fik y Irirk'tt hole, ni poet's song, more priilsctul tlmn the tune. liiiin'iiil tlin while her linen whlls upon lhi grins lay strewn. Aunt Tolly, faithful, gentle, entnred long since to reward 1 Her kind old face has slept for years bo- mvit li tlm churchyard swnrdi For her him dawned nnotlior ilny, morn per fect, bright iiikI Knd Than when she ruhlicd the snowy clothes, whtlo I mooii hv-n tail Kni'loy Mlokidy, In Voutlis t'ouipnnlon. loom tho bared shelves and thn un wonted iiitlnwiif mnishine ncn sa tlim uppo iled dumbly tn liim, mill .1 ;i n t niiMwon'l as dumbly. His seamed nil liii ii (tuned ilo!ff;rillv nwny friim tlio windows, mid tlio pain on it will only i "ililo to tlio fninl, sweet faon 11I A I v i I I it lookine; out nf tlm darner rcotypo 1111 tin) wnll, (llurissu's liOOII CVC 1 did lint Ht!l it. Twenty years ilivilml .Tmnii ninl '1 1 r i -f.i Iv inn 1 1, ninl ( 'hi' iH-in wan lint yoiin ;. Hlie Inul Iniluipd noil Hlitrlioil nwny nil hoi- yon 11 k yrniii i:i lii'i' mim'l iila;;.i hIioji liofore nlin i'iimmi. It lunl ln'i 11 siiiou iluys' woihIit In Clari ihi'k fiioiilrt ninl tnioo lluiin tli.it to Cl:ii imiI lioi -ii'lf, tlml hIiii li i l luol.oj hoi- simp il ioi' iiM'l jjiiiiij t' liin ininis- to 'm Willi .1(111111 iM'ilip. A ft i:r Kiiiiur t tn t ni'.,lit .lonm ili.l lii i clinrm ninl too!; ilowu liis )'iio. ('Inri-mi pi'iiiiittoil tin mihoU inu ilnni-H iiptM wi'ie own woiso than 11 mis n' Iittirin diui!. Von conlil uliiilo tlio Hiiioll of llowoif.lmt tnliici'ii fuit!?H! Ho Joiiui bail liU ovo'iinj; Hauiko uiidoi' tlio xtiii s, o , i iiiny tii'-jlili, Hittiii"; 011 tli n naw-lior.su in tlio wd'kKIio.I. Alvvil.ln lunl "likoil" tins sinoll of his iiu. llcivnn foip,ivo thn trii'itlo liltlii 'iiovniiciition.' Wliiin Joiiiix wont in ii'jiiin nt rui ly IvMltimo tho lioiri of jioIm unl l.ruiso 1 lt it t f wnt rloali'il lii'iitl.y nway, ninl .lonm lunl tlu rn, wnll Hlnikiii.iiiiilin' lii'i arm. Ho Hprcail il wit li protoNo luiiiistiikin in exnrtly it.i iliii'0 on tlio sitting room llnor. "I iuuiid it nut by tlm Imidt ilonr, CliirinHy," ho Niii.l (,'ontly. "t'm-in-in," iiiiiiuliUi'l I'lnrii-.sii.a lit tlo taken uliiirk. Ami Hint wui nil that was over miiil nliout tlio pluntM. After tluit, if (JlnriNRii lunl not linon oci'itjiioil poutiiiunlly willi kiippiup; tho liouso "inilitloiod" nnil most hioish ly iniui, hhn woulil Imvo tiikon liotin'o that .Toiiim Htnyoil it (.jiod ileal miine wlioio out-ot'-IoorH. Ho spout rino liiiiiiitcn only in 1 1 i m old pln.-o liosiilii tlio Kittiny; room window. And pims-ors-liy if tlioro hint boon any paHsom liv on tlio grassy cross roml tluit run past tlio old, mipniuted Ke np barn would have lookud (uriously ut tlio bii burn windows. Tlmro wore two of tliom, and botli wore a-bloom with red unnuiinms mid puy with purple nnd crinmou fuchsias. H0112I1 iloal nholves strotoliod bohiud the cob webbed pnnos, mid overy ouo was brightly tonnntod. IJut pussors-by worn fow.aud Clarissa never imssod by, Jlor way, w hen she went abroad, was by tlie widor main road that ran uphill and down nffitin to town. Clarissa never wont to the barn. .Tonus Kemp and the cows, tho great burn cat nnil Dennis wero tlio only ones that saw tho roit pel alliums blooming bravely iu tho bam win dowA unless, who can tell? unless Atwilda saw them. Another thing Clarissa might hava notieod was how long tho old pine lay untouched on the kitchen mantel. Jonas w ont out to his evouing muoko night after night without it! If it ha I been his way to say thiugs he might have said that when one's plants have been destroyed ruthlessly one must replace them somehow even if one must buy them with the tobacco one misses 'tilling the old pipe with. And that would have explained the times of late that Jonas had driven alone to the little city down the river nnd come back, past Clarissa's win dow and Clarissu's curious eyes, with a queer.hnmpy loal "in boh i ml." "Humph! N'ow I wonder what Jonas 's got all tucked tip iu behind," Clarissa would luuse.eyoiug suspicious ly the humps. " "i'isu't grain on" tisu t critters live ones anyway. And he couldn't 've got 'era if they were alive, not without my knowing where the money had gone to. But Clarissa had . not put her en rious thoughts into questinus, and tho times of boingcuriousau Hlie knobby, covered leads "in behind" Jonas hud gone by together. Bhe was very busy nil tho luto Bummer and early fail sew ing rags for her gny now carpet that was to transfigure the dull little cor ner parlor where iiobody weut uiul nobody wanted to go. One afternoon, as she sewed, sho Jioard Jonas' plodding feet tap slowly up the wulk ami Jonas' heavy breath keeping time to tho taps. What in laud of goodness was Jouns coming iu that time o' day for? It was so tiu nsiiul that Clarissa let the strip of red aud yellow rags ulide out of hor lap and curl like a brilliant tierpeut nt hor feet. Joiias "came in" so seldom, lately.exeept to his meals. Hho hard ly sjw his unsmiling old face from morning to night, for she had formed the habit of setting his diuner out uu the meul chest in the porou oud let tiug him eat italone. Her own dinner sho could "pick up" 00 the run, and It saved such a pile of litter and lnesl thnt way. Jonas plodded in. lie looked liodt and feeble. "You aren't sick, hro yon, Jonas?" Clarissa asked a lilllu nuxiously. "Oh, 110 no, I guess I nin't sick, Clnrissy. I guess not," answered Jonas, dully. lie crossed to the iiiautnl and took down his pipe nnd blow the dust frot.i it. A little glint of eagerness crept into his eyes it was so much like slinking hands with an old fi lend ngain. "Where nro you going to? 'Meat for n little smoke, Clarhfiy jest for n little smoke." "1iind of gooilness--at two o'clock In the afleriionii! Jonas Kmnp.voii nrou't lo ing your faculties, I hope!" Jonas peered it)) lit tlio old clock abovo him ninl then nt the afternoon sun riding across lite heavens, lie looked dazed. Tlio pipe slippell tlirotit;h his fingers nnuotie-il nnd lay iu two pieces on tlin bare Hour. "I guess I got mixed lip, Clnriaiy. f thought 'twas lifter supper," ho ex plained wi'li an apologetic ntteinpt at laughing. "I gne-ei I'll ,n out and wait a sprll, till 'tis." I ut ut supper tinio Jouas did not lljipcnr. Hull past live, six, half past six - still no Jonas. At iptiirler o! sev en ( 'la isnii was friglito led. Dim foreboding 1 lugged at her lo-art-Hli iugs till they vibrated ilinnnlly. "I'll go hunt Joints up." she said lil lsl.ly.sliutting her ears In the souuil. "It's just ns likely us not lie's fallen Hound asleep million hero, lie's get ting leal nl 1, Julius is." Sho went thmugh tho porch 11111I eari uigo House ninl t lieu wit 11 quick ened stops up to t he burn. 11 was a now trip, 1111 over tli.i stotiv path, for Clarissa, and the stones hurt her feet. "For the land of goo loess' snkol" she crie 1 shrilly at the barndoor. The flowers in the windows row on row of them -dance 1 ilix.ily before her eyes. 1 11 Clarism Kemp's and Chirissu Collins' life she had never been so nstoiiislied. One of the windows was raised n little, and too 1). ee.o crept in and sot nil tlm bright flowers nodding, friend ly-wise, nt Iter. l!ow on row, shelf on shelr for tlto hind of goo Inuss' nuke! lint, how cozy ami liomoliuo tin v looko ll How ploami'it tho weathered old burn looked! Then Clarissa went in. As long 11s she lived and tho Collinses c.uno of a long iiveil raco sun never forgot tho things sin saw that afternoon in Jonas Kemp's barn. Tho strip of car pet by one of the w iiidnwii.thu broken chairs set about Alwildy'a mother's spinning wheel, the light of tho sun through the geranium leaves and, dim ly, on the haymows behind mid on all tlio cobwebs mid cobwebs and Jonas there, asleep. Clarissa saw them nil. Sheiuw thoni over nnd over nuin till she died. "Jonas!" she callnd softly, after a 111111111001' two. "Jonas, it's supper lime Jonas!" She wont up to him and prodded his shoulder with hor tliiiuhled finger Clarissa nearly always wore hor thimble, to have it "handy." "Jonas!" She tilted his drooping old face toward hor and the light. It was twisted nnd white, "Oil, he's got n stroke Jonas! Jonas! - bo's got a stroke!" Clarissa cried wildly. Jonas opened his eyes and looko.l nt her in an unacquainted, troubled way. "It's pleasant out here," he mur mured thick y. "Tho plauts don't take 'cm nway!" "Jonus, dear Jonas, you must get right up and come into the house with me mo, Clnrissy, Jonus. Don t you know Clnrissy?" "1 know pomobody Alwildy," murmured Jouns, trying to smile with his twisted lips. One arm hung limp beside him, ami he touched it curious ly with his othor hand. "It doesn't belong to me," he said. After a littio while his mind grew quite clear again, aud thou he pleaded to stay with his rlowcrs "Couldn't I lay iu bed out here, Cln rissy?" he usked timidly. "Jest till I feel better? The plants '11 miss me an' I like it out here I like it out here like it out here." Again aud again he mumbled it wistfully. The tune Clarissa's heart-string were wailing 11 1 most broke her heart. She got help at a neighbor's, and they took Jonas home, lie was doz ing all the way. It was almost a day later when Jouas fully awoke. "Ain't it - ploa-uut out here in the barn, Clariisy?" ho whispered, happily. "I like it out here dou't you?" "Yen," Clarissa said brightly. "I like it 'out here,' Jouas." The green-painted shelves bad back their old teuunts nnd new tenants, row upon row. The window s opposite Jouas' bed were full of geraniums and gay purple aud rod fuchsias, and tho cactus was them that Alwilda had loved. Her mother's spinning wheel stood oil a strip of carpeting nour Jonus. llow pleasant it looked "out there!" How the puushiue ti 1 1 01 oil through Hie geranium leaves and made dancing traceries 011 the wall. A sprig of the huh leaves lay across Clarissa's face, unit Jouui smiled at it like a pleased child. "Clarissy," he whispered eagerly, "can't we stay out hero always? I like it out here." Clarissa's oye fell on a tiny litter of cit y leaves under a window. "Yes, Jonas," 4sho smiled, "yes, we'll stay 'out here' always, I like it, too." Country tiontletnau. The Quality or Ilia Walvr, Doctor Can you get pure water at your boarding houue? I'atient Not ulwnys. I frequently detent just a flavor of coffee iu it. Detroit Free Press. . A SELF-MADE MAN. ONE OP THE UNUSUAL PROD UCTS OP OREAT BRITAIN. I.nrtl Stmtlirons tins Lately llffn Simla CitHKillrtfi 1'crr Skpteh of Mtiir Msila Man Who Has lllavn to Wealth nil rower. An rCtiRllsti-Canntllnn baron, prrr of hrr majesty's renlm. clinncnllor of Mo Hill 1'nlverslty nt Montreal, resident governor of the Hudson Hay Contpnny, ninl nlso claiming the Interest of the t'lillril Stntp.i 11s president of thn Dunk of Montreal, (iiilcngo, Mntitronl anil I-nndoii. ninl ns n director of the 8t. 1'iiul, Minneapolis nnd Manitoba rnil wny nnil tho (irent Northern rnllway, of Minnesota, Is Lord Stralhcona nnil Mount Itoynl. His recent prominence In roiihpctlnn with tlin governor grn cralnlili lends additional Interest to the few member of the house nf lords, who.'-p projefts have hren almost ns Intimately Identllled with the 1'nited Slat.fi ns they linve with Cnnnda. Hlnce the tempestuous ilnyn of T.7 no such Interest In the governor general ship has keen shown In Cnnnda ns has been manifested the past year. After the ileimrtuiP of Lord Dufferln the np liolritmerit of thn queen's son-ln-lnw to llhlcnii hull eeemed 11 nparer drawing of the dominion to the throne uf Eng land. It nmounteii () little more tlmn n ikwrveil compliment, however, nnil things Jogged nlong ufter the snnto old d mm .II LORD STRATHCONA. fushion until a Krcnch-Cnnndlnn lib eral gave promise In his election to the premiership of mnklng radlcul chang es. Would tho mother land give Can ada a successor to Ixird Aberdeen from nmong the representative men who had wrought out the destiny of the young nation? If such a departure from British conservatism had been made it wns an open eecret that vice regnl honors would have fallen to Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal. The tlmo for Btich home rule has not come In the dominion, however, and Lord Mlnto, military secretary to Lord Lnnsdowne during the Rlel rebellion, has received the approbation of Wind sor castle and Canada as Aberdeen's successor. But it docs not alter the fact that In London as high commis sioner and peer of the realm, Lord Strathcona stands as one of the strong est factors in Canadian politics. Ills lordship's latest project In rela tion to colonization which, it Is said, will shortly be submitted to the' gov ernment, is unique. It Is to establish agricultural and colonial schools where youths from Great Britain will be trained In farming, mining and ranch ing, coupled with a military education. These schools will be established at Brandon, Winnipeg, Calgary and else where, ln buildings erected at govern ment expense. At the end of three years those government proteges who give satisfaction will receive diplomas. In addition to donations of eighty to ICO acres of land. . ' It Is not generally known tn the United States that Lord Strathcona, as Sir Donald Smith, participated largely In the early "development" of our own northwest, and that he has much capital invented with us, whether wo like It or not. When the decree to create the "first baron of Strathcona and Mount Royal" wns decided upon as a jubilee tribute to Sir Donald Smith U wns Judged appropriate to confer-upon him the title of Mount Royal "Montreal" ln remembrance of his princely donations to that city. It was likewise deemed proper to per mit the new baron's use of the beaver Canada's heraldic animnl-rthe em blem of perseverance, its a charge on his escutcheon. But when it came to combining with Mount Royal "Olen coe," the name of Sir Donald's high land estate, as was first Intended, that was oulte another affulr. Olencoe was an acquisition by ptirrhnsn, neither conquest nor Inheritance having any thing to do with It, a fact that consti tuted cause for annoyance In the hrensts of some of the sensitive de scendants of the Inlrds of Olencoe. The future lulrd of that eidntn, how ever, was cqnnl to the emergency. Ohm nnil Btrnth nre snld to ho syno nyms for small ravine, while both toe nnd conn pmnn utrenm, making Clencon mid Htrathcona to mean vir tually the Ptimo thing. When nit Donald Alexnmler Bmlth, the adventurous son of n Kcotch gen tleman., he preferred the ilnnger of a pioneer's life to the ease of a civil ser vice existence at home, he lrnmp"d from Montreal to the prim shores of Iahrndor, voluntarily exiling himself for fifteen years, where supplies even from ( Ivlllutlon reached Mm but twice a year. This experience ulti mately resulted In his niipfilnttiient ns the governor of the great Hudson Day l'nr Coiniinny, the oldest company en rngod In dullness on earth, dnvlng been Incoriioniteil by Charles II. In 1G7H. Lord Rtrntlieonn's Canadian home Is one of Montreal's show places. Its huge granite pile, with ronlenl towers, was built a few yrnrs UK". I's gnllery of palutiiiKS contains one of thn most famous collections of old mnsters and modern originals In America. The history of each ennvns or curio and the rnrn specimens of orlentnl urt Hint ndorn the Japanese nnd other apart ments nf this princely homo would ench he nn Interesting flume for a story. The windows of the great din ing hull bear portraits . of the succes sive presidents of the Hudson Bay Company, and are surmounted by the monogram "II. B. C." FOREMOST OF THE YOUNGER ' POETS. If Richard .Hovey were an. English man ho would probably be exploited ln a number of our magazines. As he Is an American, bis "boom" Is small; but he can afford to bide bis lime. From an article in the December Hook man some facts about hli life are gained. Ho was born tn'Bloomtngton, 111., 34 years ago, but he spent his boyhood ln Washington and In An (lov er, Mass. He was graduated from Dartmouth college, and for the last tweve years has divided his time be tween New York and Washington. Two years be spent In Paris, where he was intimate with Stephane Mallarme ana Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian mys tic. He translated Maeterlinck's playi and his version was so faithful that It reproduced much of the charm of the original. Hovey's best work Is the trilogy on Launcelot and Guinevere, -v .ii ' Bl'N. loss ... v. RICHARD HOVEY. but he has also written "Songs from Vagabondla," In collaboration with Bllaa Carman, and a new volume 01 his short poems Is Just out, entitled "Along the Trail." F7 U wii I 'I f A BACHELOR'S WEALTH. 1 According to Inntructiom, Relatives Lift Boar and lu.covcr 1 1, too in Oold Wr bectiKto1 Had Secreted. 1 I iteslilents of Wallace township, Chea ter county, In I'otistown told of th discovery of n.r,i)0 In gold and paper money nt the home uf HHJnh Hiifkwa tr. His lunhi'lor brother, Holland MiiikwntiT, died recently nnd nn ex aioltiRtlon of his ctTeets illscloeefl a pa per teliinu- where the treasure was concealed under a llnor. Kiljnh fhick WHter knew nothing about bis brtli er'a . , ie,.,i money. . i'ooi.i. William A. Hlom wns Tucs Jiiy Inoiiuiirnteii governor "f I'cnnfyl vhuIii. fi.'foriil J. H. Oolilri, ut the sum" Mine, via. In. In. t. J Into tho nlllce of lleiil.nimt Kovernor. The InuiiKiiral pi 01 esslim una one or the most Impos I11K pi ..r s'...i n llm rNleirn. A fen-, lure of the p'lrfioV wns lh. fln ftp- citron' o ninl nuirchliiK of the imtionnl Kiiarcl. 01 101 nlr.ei hiat summer In take lh- plii'-i. i,r the lnis Hint went Into the volume, r airvtre from the gunnl for tin- war with Hpnln. i'oIoik I ri((,ii V.11 nreel d w llh lonn find eoiitliiooiiM tipi,;,urif ns he stepped to the pliii'oirn to ilt liver the IniniKiir nl iirldK-as. ilnwiii'ir H'one silj tlist It Hc.i.,e. to him Unit wlmt the statu llf-erliil f,t this Ittoe was lnoiJ of a l.iiHlness iKlmliihitriillon Ihsn u folltic nl one. Legislation should he con Unci lo clear ii nd Milirilttc'l- wants and shonhl not ti ppec illative nor ndven tniesome. klBi.l economy should be prriei ei. in order to reduce the expen nitiircH to a level with the slnte reve nues. As 11 further step lo relieve the Ktiile treasury nnd liipilrlnte the fbmt IriK In'lelil. iln. ss Krow lntt out of exces flve expi'inllturea Tor publle schools, the Kovi rimr r ouiirn iels lh suspen sion of third section of the revenue net of I "til. lie xpr-Hseir the hope thnt the present leijisln i u re will refrain for Investigating romtiottf--s to Inves llfrnfl. lr.il 1 1 i. -1.. I ...... I. .no w hich he. Kiiys are tmiiM ei'Rarily ex- enslve to the state. At the close (if the eiMress the governor nnil pa. ty w ere e.c,,i ted to the senate i huinlier lo witiiiH the Inauguration of (icnenil 'iohln. Afior n sliort mldresn by the lleutennnt governor the t.arty was iliivi n lo a pavilion In front of the exe cutive itiiinxion to review the parade. 'lovernor Htone has nomlnnted VV. W rlpi,.u . t .. 1, .. . ' wi. .rn, ill J ,l . .IF lit, nir H?' IlUMj of the Comiitonueiilth. nnd John V. l-:ikln for Attorney Dnetnl. Ttie following pensions w.-r prant'd Inst week: peter Vniinrr. Altoor.a. 4: H nry II. Pitts, Iilcksor.lmrn, ! to ilenrv Urinker. Lntrobe. 114 to 117: Joel MeNutt. I'eiev. $S to 12: Iit Hums. Sellns lirove. IS to 112: Hlrn n (M eRe, H'.pewell. Vi to S; ll.T.eklah Mi er, Tyron". '! to ID; Adam C.'hrnnlter, Wink". JO to S; Simon Inyer, Taren tmn, fi to tl'J; Absalom Neff, Jinm vlie, Jti to JI2: I.vnifin K. DemlriK. I'ut inimvllle. Jii to i: llTiim Oooi. B-ltn.4 Urove, H to I(i: Mary J. Ktaiiffer. WashlnKtonboro. S: Ji r mie If. Dunn, Altoona. i. William IS. Nash, 11. aver, ti: Kdwnrd V. Chnmtieiiln, Kree rnansburc. tn; Itenjamtn II. Ciirk. fiend. Picture Hocks, H; Andrew t.'omrey, Newvlll", i-'; .Tacoh W. Itea mer. Franklin, J; Hnmuel It. P. Nee her. HtrnslniiK, 6: Hiram Thi rnton, Kl llott, S : Albert Smith, Waynesboro, Is; Henry Leper, Houth Ffirk, $10 to $12; Hiram If. Lewis, Reynolds', li", $ to $10; Jneob I. Walter, f.'laysburs;. $? to lie.; John M. Kirk, Allegheny, $! to tH; Frederick H. fichrader. New Alb.ihy, Hi to $17: (iirltlan lirnllln. Altfinna, $10 to $12: George F. Hull. Fprlnx Creek. $12: Hamuol Hreth. Altoona. 121; Henry Ircckor. Huntingdon. $ to $: Mary A. Freeman, t.'onnellavt le, IH; Kllen Cnlbnun, Pittsburg, $S: Annn la McHue. Sayre, $12: William D. Keiey, Altoona. $; Martin J. Htetll T. Candor, $. John W. Williams. F.tna. f: Corn elius I. Mef'omlis. Pittsburgh. $1; George . HaLerdelil. Allegheny, $; Hiram Van Horn, Haus r Mills, $10; P N lr Hoi Mm Hat Jnn 1 James McHu, dead. Sayre. $72; John ". Calhoun, dead. Pittsburg, : Levi Slclgtiter, Mercersburg, $; Thomas Cunnett. llnrbara. $10; Jmea Clark, North Hewlckley, $10; Jacob M. Iuer, Turtle Creek, $10; Alfred Wagner, Elk Lick, $10. A serious accident was narrowly averted last week east (if laysvllle. The tunnel trnln, pulled by engine Nc. . 77, was In No. 3 tunnel with a number of men under Boss Herman- Stuart. testing tho tunnel roof. An eastb und freight received Instructions from the tunnel train flagman lo watch out for the train In the tunnel. The engineer must have misunderstood the lnuru--tlons. for he started toward the tunnel at a good speed. However, a workman happened to be outside and gave a re verse signal to the engineer. The lat ter reversed his engine, but not sion enough, and there was a small colli sion. Injuring Boss Stuart and Thur man Hoyden. Ievl Hator. a wealthy retired far mer, who owns considerable real es tate at Hutler, ws the owner last winter of a duck that laid an egg. When Slntor went to look for the egg, he found It had been filched by some one, und blamed the adopted son of Olive Mutthews, one of his nelghbers. The boy denied the charge, and in the controversy over the question -Slator swore so violently that Mtss Matthews caused his arrest, and he was fined $25 and costs. This action ex.cl.ed Slator's temper more than ever, and Miss Mat thews brought suit agulnst him for slander. The case was tried, and the Jury returned a verdlut against him for t,'JM. Noticing a peculiar stench arising from a refrigerator car which arrived with a northbound Heading freg.it train at Taeoma the other evening, Hrnkeman George Miller made an In vestigation, and found the badly de composed body cf a man about 2 years old In the Ice cannel. The dead man bore wounds Indicating foul play. Glenn McCcimlck, son of Dr. John McCormlck, of Greensburg. dlel a f-?w days ago, aged 18. The boy was tne of six who drank from a spring at Athletic park a short time ago. All were stricken with typhoid fewr two days later. The others are convales cent except a younger son of Dr. Mc Cormlck. William Policy, a Jeanhette barber, hus sued Fred Abbott f jr $1,00J dam ages, claiming he circulated a report that he contracted the barber's Itch at Cclley's shop. While assisting to cut a bar rf Heel at the tile works at Beaver Fal's the other day. 'tow ard Wats m Imd an eye cut ep.irely out by a piece ofTthu steel striking It. Jacob Cruw. aged 22, of Nicholson township, was instantly killed by a rolling log. while at work at Van Lowe's sawmill on Georges er.ek one day last week. Little Cooly, In Crawford county, hus a gold mine scare. IJuaiti has been In struck .several wells In the vi cinity and a company has been organ ised to sink a shaft. Samuel & Kvana, aged 28. a prosper ous farmer near Webster, droppJ dead while on his way to a train.
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