l?n forth yonr triumph", F.nster bolls,
FIT1II earth shall lenrn the story;
wot Is the now yonr mnsto ttlls,
Ho lives, the Kins of Olorvl
Die I.nmb, who vim for dinners slnln,
Cornet forth from death In might to rclgn.
Be lives the rnee of men to bless,
To banish rare nnd sadness,
111 Rrlofs to heal, nil wrongs redress,
To fill the earth with gladness.
The Lamb, who was for sinners Main,
Doth now for man's redemption relgnl
sooooooooooooocooooooooooc
I THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED GIRL
A Child's Easter Story.
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OME over hero, aid
Olivia, nnd I will
tell yon an Easter
talc. There was
once a woman who
hod an only dangh
tcr that wna -very
email nnd pale and
altogether tome
what different from
other children.
When she took the
little one ont or a
walk the people stood and looked at
the child and whispered among them
selves. When tho little girl asked her
mother why the peoplo looked at hor
lo strangely the mother always re
plied, "It is becanse yon have on snch
beautiful new dress." Thereupon
the little one was contented. As soon,
however, as they returned home the
mother wonld clasp her little daugh
ter in her arms, kiss her again and
tgninandsay: "Yon sweet little angel,
what would become of yon if I were
to die? No one, not even yonr father,
knows what a dear little angel yon
arel"
Some time afterward the mother be
came suddenly sick and she died on
the ninth day. Thereupon the father
of the little girl threw himself in de
spair on the deathbed and asked to be
buried with his wife. His frionds,
however, spoko to him and comforted
him, and so he left his wife's body,
and a year later he took unto himself
another wife, who wns lovelior, young
er and richer than his first wife, bnt
by no meaus as good.
And from the dny that her mother
died the little girl spent her whole
time from morning till evening seated
at the window sill in the sitting room,
since there was no one who would
take her out for a walk. She had be
come even paler than before and she
had not grown at all during the latter
years.
When her new mother came to the
house she said to herself: "Now I will
go out walking again in the city and
on the beautiful promenades where
the snn shines so brightly, where
there are so many lovely shrubs and
Sowers and where there is snoh a
crowd of handsomely dressed people."
For she lived in a narrow little alley,
in which the sun seldom shone, and
when she sat on the window sill she
saw ouly a little bit of the blue sky
a bit not larger than a pocket band
kerchief. Her new mother went ont
nearly every day in the forenoon and
afternoon, and eaoh time she wore a
rery beautiful dress, much more
beautiful than any dress the first
mother had ever owned. But she
never took the little girl with her.
Finally the child took heart, and
one day she earnestly begged her new
mother to take her out with her. The
mother, however, refused bluntly,
saying: "You are not smart enough.
What wonld the people think if they
wore to see me with yon? Yon are a
little hnmpbaok. Humpbacked chil
dren never go walking, bnt always
stay at borne."
Thereupon the little girl became very
nuiot, and as soon as her new mother
had left the house she got on a chair
and looked in 4 mirror and saw
that indeed she was humpbaokod, badly
humpbacked. Then she sat again on
the window sill and looked out into
the street and thought of her good old
mother, who, in spite of bar hnmp
baok, had taken her out walking erory
duy. The she thought again of hor
hump.
"What is inside of it, I wonder I"
she said to herself. "There must be
something iuHide of such a hump as
this is."
. Many a strange fancy entered her
II II
Ii03KEl IN TUB MIRROR AND SAW SUB
WAS HUMPBACKED.
little bead and many au hour she
wiled srvay in wondering wby her
back, instead of being straight like
the backs of other children, was dis
ft
Bp
it j ir"w. w 'jaaa
Behold, from winter's thrnll not free,
Th lilies fnlr are springing;
Tlmlr radiant bloom, In holy gles
Thn waking earth In bringing.
A tribute to tint I.nmb once Klnio,
Now raised In endless might to reign,
Come forth ye aon'.s. In glad new llfo,
This blessed F.aster morning;
With bloom of love nnd beauty rife,
His grace he your adorning;
The Lamh, who onee tor you was slain.
Doth bid you rise with him and reign.
torted ont of all shape by snch an ug
ly bump. The stories of fairies which
hor dear mother had told her rnme
back to her memory, and in childish
fashion she sometimes prayed that
VISIT OV TTIE AXOF.L MOTHER.
some good fairy would come and take
away the burden that threatened to
blight her whole life.
Oh, if she were only like other
children! Was there one of them
who loved the sunshine and the flow
ers bettor than she, and yet among
them all was there one who saw so
little of the sunshine and the flowers
as she did? From her seat by the
window she saw the little ones play-
ithubbv hmd-&be7fi&r stroke -g3.
VjU beads od Myptt
r L..ui,A,ctr
! And boM devoutly
Where ynxlv tna'i tni
in tmler "
Hi eves rt
On lore hi
' And. ere he
CFuUavoy
Must
And
Worlr
A
ing in the narrow street, and as tboir
frequent peals of merry laughter came
to her ear, ber question, "Wby am I
not like other children?" became ever
more urgent.
So the summer passed, and when
winter came the little girl was still
pale aud she had beoome so weak that
she could no longer sit on her window
sill, bnt was obliged to remain lying
in bod, aud, juBt when the snowdrops
were beginning to peep above ground,
the good old mother came to her one
night and told her how glorious . and
beautiful it was iu heaveu.
The following morning the child
was dead.
"Don't weep, father" said her now
mother; "it is best for the poor child."
And the girl's father answered no
word, but simply nodded his head.
The little girl was bnried, but on
Easter moru an angel with large white
wings like a swan flew down from
heaven, seated himself beside tho
grave and knooked thereon, as though
it were a door. And soou the littlo
girl came forth from the grave and the
angel told her that he had oome to
take her to her mother in heaveu,
Then the little girl asked in a tremb
ling voioe whether even humpbacked
children could enter heaven, bbe
could not conceive suoh a thing possi
ble. Z. Yet the angel answered, "You dear,
good child, you are do longer hump
backed," and with those words lie
passed his white hand over her back
aud the ugly old hump fell off like a
great hollow shell, and this left her a
transformed being.
And what was in it? Two beautiful
white angel wingsl The child spread
them out, as though she had always
knows bow to fly, and she flew with
the angel through the dueling sua-
light tip into the blue sky. On the
loitiest seat in nnaven sat tier good
old mother awaiting hor with out-
maiemm
1
ft
THB TRANSFORMATION.
stretched arms, aud the child flew
straight into her lap. New York
Herald.
EASTER MONDAY ECOROLLINC.
Tlionsanris of Children Spend Joyous
Day In the White Home Grounds.
Clifford nownrd, in writing of tho
annual Easter Monday egg-rolling in
the White House grounds at Washing
ton, gives a flue glimpse of the spot
in the Ladies' Homo Journal. "The
chief points of attraction," he says,
"are the monnds of hillocks that rise
in gentle slope from the lawn iu vari
ous parts of the grounds. Their sides
are richly carpeted with soft, thick
grass, and here it is that littlo chil
dren roll their eggs. They clamber
np the hillside with their baskets, the
little tots crawling np on hands nnd
knees, and then turn and roll their
eggs one by one down the green slope.
Bnt the children do not confine thorn
selves to rolling eggs. Many of them
take more pleasure in sitting about in
groups and picking eggs with one an
other. This is done by striking two
eggs together on their points. The
ono whose egg is broken in this en
counter is the loser and gives up his
egg to the other. This gnrao is par
ticularly enjoyed by tho colored chil
dren, for it gives them a good eppor-
iWik
txhm sweet be Us w
down . , -vv
mf,rPn. ,cf . -
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on his pnyer
thought ire
Hits the tricks
a beirt ht
LFar Cuoid slv twMHriVes
ply at at
thus those
Jtn
woe to.
tunity and a good exouse to eat eggs,
and there is nothing they like better.
Preparatory to an enoounter each lit
tle fellow tests the hardness of his
egg by knocking it agaiuBt his teeth.
If it can stand this test it is consid
ered a good one for pioking, aud tho
owner sullies forth with a broad grin,
confident of suooess. The boy who
owns a goose egg or a turkey ogg is a
prince among his fellows. Occasion
ally suoh a boy appears. In all prob
ability his shoes are torn, his clothes
are patohed aud his woolly head is
adorned with an autiquated moth
eaten fur can. But he could be no
prouder nor command greater respect
if lie were adorned with regal robes
He is immediately surrouuded aud
followed wherover he goes by a baud
of admirers, who adopt him as their
champion and defy anybody to pick
an egg wuu niin."
llot Cross Uuui.
Hot cross buns, so generally eaten
ou uooa riday, have mauy miperaU
tions connected with them. They aro
kept by the English peasautry from
one year to tue next, being partaken
of whenever sickness afHicta the fam
ily or the herds aud being considered
a sovereign remedy. Another legeud
says that if friends or lovers ataud in
side the ohuroh doors before matins
on Oood Friday and break a hot cross
bun, and eaoh take a half as long as
they keep the pledge no enemy can
oome betweeu them and tbcU love
will iuorease.
Let Hut bands liijolca.
Who says the year 1900 isn't a inbi
lee year? It is now announced that
taster bounets this spring will be
cheaper thau aver before,
coping Easter in Uh.
HOSE of ns who
know Easter onlt
in ont cold and
rosnio North can
lave little concep
tion of the signifi
cance and solemn
ity of passion week
in countries where
a hotter sun has
infused intenser
warmth into the
blood. Thomas IT. Ttraham gives an
interesting description tit Easter a
observed in Bautiago and other Cuban
cities.
"During the entire week," he says,
"all social gaiety is suspended; even
business assnmon a quieter aspect,
bnt the distinctive celebrations do not
begin until Holy Thursday. On that
dny high mass is broken off in the
middle, and a procession of priests
carries an image of tho Christ the
'Ecce Homo'-to the cathedral. In
towns where there is no cathedral
some, church is selected, nnd there
the image, life size and robed in white,
is carried in solemn stnto, the entire
populace joining tho procession. This
ceremony commemorntos tho journey
to Pilate's judgment hall. Tho image
is left iu the church and tho poople
disperse ffl silence. Then the devout
begin the ceremony of the pilgrimage.
That is, they visit fourteen churches,
indicative of the fourteen stations of
the cross, sayiug prayers at every
ntation.
"Oood Friday is something to be
remembered. The snn rises on a city
plunged in absolute stillness still
nosa of tho grave. The very air is
funeral. In the afternoon the pro
cession of the Holy Virgin takes place.
Ibis is really the most striking of all
the ceremonials. The sacred image,
robed in black, is carried by priests
and is followed by tho eiirhteen canons
of the church iu singular costume, all
black. On their bends they wear
canonical black caps fully two and a
ball feet in height, aud their robes
havo trains sixteen or eighteen feet
long. Every canou is followed by an
acolyte, who carries his train. Then
comes the populace, uion nnd women,
still iu black, all carrying lighted
candles. The sccuo is cuiiously
medieval and impressive.
iurouuu the entire dar no bells
havo been rung. Then conies the
'Saturday of olory,' with its wonder
ful aud dramatic chnugo. At 10 o'clock
iu tho morning all the church bells
ling ont joyfully, aud tho 'vigil' is
euded. Everywhere rejoicing takes
the place of mourning. Eastor Sun
day lb a day of musio nud gladuoss.
Origin ol ICaHer Itnblilts.
Oue of tho quaint nud interesting
features of our modern Easter enruiva
is the nppoarauce in shop windows,
side by sido with tho embloinatio col
ored ogg, of a pert tall-eared rabbit,
and thoso who caunot understand why
lmuny should havo a place iu our
Easter decorations shrug their shoul
ders and think it a trick to please the
children. But the legond of the
Eastor rabbit is one of the oldest in
mythology, aud is mentioned in the
early folklore of South Germany.
Originally, it appears, the rabbit was
bird, which the ancient Tentonio
goddess Ostara goddoas of the east
or of spring trausformod into a
qnadrnpod. For this reason the rab
bit or hare is grateful, and in remem
brance of its former condition as a
bird and as a swift messenger of
spring, and of the goddess whom it
sorved, is able to lay colored Easter
eggs on her festival in the spring
time, the oolors illustrating the theory
that when it was a bird the rabbit laid
colored eggs, and an egg has always
been a symbol of the rosurreotion,
and, therefore, used as an illustra
tion at Easter.
To Color Easier Kgca.
Fill a large kettlo with eold water.
drop iu the eggs and plaae them up
on the stove. When the water has
boiled for ten minutes remove them.
By using cold water they heat gradual
ly aud are not apt to crock. Several
days before this process put a little of
these dyes into small bottles and fill
them up with water: uosin pink, yel
low, green, blue, scarlet, violotand or
ange. A spoonful of yollow dye is
first placed in a small dish; roll a
warm egg over and over iu it and
when it is ovonly dyed plaoe it upon
a paper to dry. When all the yellow
eggs that are wanted are secured, use
anothor dye in the sumo manner.
Pretty baskots for tho eggs are made
by covering pasteboard shapes with
white cotton batting and tyiug with
narrow ribbon bows. The light
colored eggs may bo fluitdied with in
scriptions in darker oolors or orna
mented with bronze or gold powder.
The baskets may be sprinkled with
metallio flitter, which ndds to their
elTdctiveness.
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W3&
mmi STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Lettish Laboratory Burnt One ol the Bet'
quipped In Ihs Land Ma Build
a Church lor a Bell.
Pensions granted last week were as
follows Lawrence l'islier, l.ccctiiiurR,
$w; Kirlinrd llo'.l;iml. McKevsport. !M;
William I'ossellinan, Dnnnalty Mills,
JS; Jane Potts, PhilipsbtirK, Henry
Smith. Johnstown. $d to ?;: Henry M.
Roley, l avcltc City. fM to $io: Marv li.
Vrin1it. Tiliont.. ?; II enjainin !'. Mar
tin, Doyles Mills. $io; Charles W. Taft.
(ieneva. John H. Morc, New
Castle, Norman C. MeKcan. West
Franklin, $12: David li. Copley. Grren
ilalc, $H; Benjamin I Crain. Tidioutc,
$10: Christian 11. l.in'enlicit. Uennett,
$H; (Jcorgr W. Reynolds. New Castle,
$17: William W. Campbell, Indiana,
jjo. .
The RIossIhtk Oil Company's well at
Gaines. Tioa county, struck the sand
Thursday afternoon and is spouting oil
at the rate of 30 barrels an hour. The
sand is a white pebbly formation and
points lo tlie existence of a new pool.
A larjic force of men arc at work re
moving the machinery and tools that
IicIomk to the American Tin Plate works
at lllair-ville. They arc being shipped
to McKeesport and other works that
ire controlled by the trust. In a short
iimc (lie whole place will be cleared and
everything taken away.
The teachers in the public schools of
I'iitston tnwmhip, I.uzeme county,
.vent on strike and the schools were
Irsed. Six months' salary is due some
if them. The school district has ben
in linancial straits (or some time. The
members of the school board say that
llicy cannot collect sufficient taxes to
keep the schools gointr. Some of the
teachers, however, claim that the board
lias been extravagant, anil instead of pay
ing salaries, has spent the money in
buying due furniture, globes and li
braries. A new coal field is being opened up
in Somerset county. Several thousand
teres of coal lands have already chang
d hands near Milford. and agents rep
resenting Kaston capitalists arc secur
ing all the coal lands in this neighbor
hood. A number of test holes have
b.-i n drilled with satisfactory results,
the drill passing through three seams
of good coal, one seam of gas coal three
feet thick and two seams of Htmnin
ons cokin;.r coal, one seam nine feet
thick and the other live feet thick.
Oil City has two school boards. The
old hoard held office under the act of
1X74. which Judge Criswell recently de-.-ii'.ed
unconstitutional. At the late elec
tion the city went under the law of
1N54. and elected only six directors in
stead of iS. the number formerly elect
ed. The members of the old board
claim the law has never been tested, and
they propose to hold office until the
supreme court has passed on the ques
tion. Recently the Baptist congregatibn at
Cannelton purchased a i.joo-pound bell.
When it was hung in the belfry it was
discovered that if they attempted to ring
it there would be great danger of bell
and belfry falling into the cellar, owing
to the weak condition of the structure;
iO the members arc now hustling about
to raise money (or a new belfry, and
the probabilities are that it will end in
a new church edifice being built.
Dr. S. S. Kring, one of the leading
physicians of Beaver Falls, is making
arrangements to go to Cape Nome,
Aliska, in search of gold with a party
of Pittsburgers. The members expect
to leave lor Seattle in two weeks. The
organized of the party is Capt. Johnson,
and among the members are Dr. Ir
win, of rittsburg: Dr. Fletcher, of
Grccnsburg. and Robert Mcintosh, of
Beaver Falls, an old Klondiker.
Seven Blairsvillc men who plead guil
ty several weeks ago to selling liquor
without a license were summarily dealt
with by Judge Harry White. A. Mc
Kinnie Baker, Milton G. Kerr. G. M.
Alters, H. J. Zimmerman and T. C.
Duncan, druggists, and John Nich and
Jacob Dcnnison, proprietors of speak
easies, were each sentenced to pay fines
of $joo and undergo imprisonment in
the county jail (or 20 days.
The physical laboratory of I.chigh
University, one of the largest and best
equipped in the country, was burned to
the ground Friday morning and all its
scientific apparatus destroyed. The
building was a fqur-story stone struc
ture erected in 1893 at a cost of $150,000.
The apparatus was valued at $50,000
and included all modern improvements.
There is only $50,000 insurance.
A third interest iu the Mcintosh oil
farm in Fairview township, Hutler coun
ty, was sold Tuesday by one of the heirs
ot the estate for $6oo, or at the rate of
$t,8oo (or the entire tract ot uS acres.
In the farm was the property of
the Union Oil Company, who sold it to
Mcintosh for $ii,ooo with the oil rights,
reserving an eighth royalty for 10 years.
Karns City and Millerstown.
In accordance with the expressed
wish of the late J. Shan Margerum, a
leading merchant of Washington, Mrs.
Margerum has had made u life size
marble figure of his favori'.c setter, to
be placed at the foot of his grave.
Lawrence bield, a farmer near New
Castle, hanged himself in' his barn
Thursday. No cause is known.
William Wyeih. a boy prisoner at the
Washington county jail, made his escape
some time Monday afternoon, the sher
iff not Knowing of the fact until about
6 o'clock in the evening. He is the
first prisoner to escape from the new
building. Wyeth was alone in the boya'
department, where he had been engaged
in cleaning the floor.
George 1'lymick, a miner, had hW
neck broken while wrestling with an
other miner at Greensbtirg.
The large furniture factory of the
Hyndinan Lumber and Manufacturing
Company, at Hyndman, ltedford coun
ty, was destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
The fire was discovered in the glue and
paint room. The place was filled with
fine lumber and furniture and the loss
will be very heavy, reaching at least
$50,000,
Lillie Smith, aged 16 years, of near
Beatty, Westmoreland county, disap
peared from home Saturday, leaving a
note in her room, addressed to her
mother, saying she would never see
her alive again. No cause i assigned
(or ber strange act.
THE MARKETS.
1 iTTsnuno.
Train, I lour anil Fend.
WrtFAT Nrv 9 rml a 1tA
71
68
IWHKAT-Mo. Iiihw W
COHN No il yellow, ear I
No. 2 ynUiw. she;lmi 41
Mixed IikIIkiI ,
OATM No. a whllo 80 j
No. 8 wliltn a.5
Fl.ol'll Winter pniBnt 8 ijO
Fancy sira!Knt wlntr 8 SU
I ltv No. 'i Ml
49
sfl
iH
81
80 "
8 lid
8 00
60','
i at
14 00
18 90
10 71
18 75
8 Oil
1 71
IJAY-No. 1 timothy 18 00
lBf, So. 1 14 73
Ekl No. 1 whim mid., ton.. 18 00
Hrown mlddlluus Id 25
limn, bulk' 18 SU
STIIAW Wbnau 1 78
"at 7 a
Dairy Products,
CCTTErt-Klglii creamery..... 28!f
Ohio erenniHry li
Fanry country roll 17
CUKKHK Ohio, new 10
New York, new 13
loiiltr, Ho-
llfNP or pnlr... ' 05
UK KKN8 dressed 13
1 1'llKEYH drt-Mxd 15
EGGfcWn. and Ohio, fr-h .... 13
Fruits and Vegetable.
MEANS Oreen V liakot 4 00 9
I'DJ A IOKH rnney White bu 60
CAII1IAOE per ubl
ONlONtt f,er bu 1 00
ii'i
a
ao
lo.'i
is; i
70
14
17
13
4 25
55
a tal
1 15
II.ILTIMOUE.
Fl.Otn $ 8 05(9 85
W UK AT No a ted 0i Ml
COIIN-Mixed 43,'- 13'4'
OATH HI
EOOR 13 W,i
liUTTlilt Ohio creamery. . ..i 21 it
I'lllLADKLI'HIA
FJ.Ot lt S 53 8 7J
W II I. AT No. a red.. Tlfi
t'OHN No. a mixed 4I U'ii
OATH-No. a white m
Ml'TTEll Creamery, extra.... ai
KCIUB l'eunsylviitifa llrsts.... 11, 12
NKW VOIIK,
FLOUIt Patents
; w IlliAT No. a red
COHN No. a
OATH White WVrteru
,. .. 7;V
ai
. lli l
Ill 1 ir.lt Creamery.
t(l UM male and I'eun
LlVfc STOCK.
enlral 8ot k 1 arris, Kast Liberty, Pa.
CATTLE.
Extra, 1450 to 1000 lbs 6 40 A 69
I'rlme. IMOOto H00 lbs 6 'JO S 85-
Good, laOU to 1HV0 IlK 6 00 6 ao
Tidy, 1150 to 1100 Ihn 73 4 05
Fair light steers. 800 to 1000 Ihs 4 a) t 7l
Common, ',00 to UUO lbs 8 83 4 15.
Boos.
Medium 6 70 6 75
Heavy 5 01 6 70
Itoutibs and stags 4 00 6 ao
siiEcr.
Trlme, PDlo 110 th. fl Of)
Good, tbloliO Hit Ill II 8
Fair, 70 to tu It, 6 i5 6 i
l onnnou 8 60 4 60
Veal Cnlvo 6 0) 0 CO
La u us.
I Choice to extra 7 CI 7 75
Oood to choice 7 83 7 60
Fair to good 6 60 7 15
Culls to fair 6 60 6 50
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Business Volume Larger Large Increase In
Exports Activity In Slocks Iron Sit
uation Moro HopeluL
R. G. Dun Co.'s "Weekly Review
of Trade" says: "Quarterly reviews,
show that, outside the immediate ef
fects of stock speculation and industrial
consolidations, the volume of business,
has been larger this yaar than a year
igo. Many of the usual spring demand
for higher wages have been granted, or
in part granted by compromise, so that
no more than the usual hindrance from
that source now seems probable. But
some of the disputes threaten to last
for some months. A little increase in
foreign exports of wheat from Atlantic
ports, flour included, 2,268,6.2. bushels,
against 2,074.760 last year, served as oc
casion for a little rise hut the anin unt
lost later, and the week closes unchang-
ed. Business in woolens is also some
what unsatisfactory, with cancellations
comparatively numerous, and orders.
II . , Tt. . I
sheet consolidation, with President Mc
Murtry, of the Apollo works, at the
head, promises great importance. If
this, the tin plate, hoop and national
steel works make alliance with the Car
negie Company, as is reported, tho
whole industry will sooner or later be
affected. For the present, no change
appears in prices of pip. and only slight
ly more yielding in plates and bars tr
secure more business. But many new
contracts are reported including one
purchase of rails for export, and the
situation is generally more hopeful. '" '
Changes in minor metals arc not im
portant, though copper grows steadily
stronger, with exports of 17,010 tons,
from only 3 ports this month. Fail
ures for the week ore 150 in the Unit
ed States and 20 in Canada."
Bradstreet's "Financial Review" says:
Reactionary features were more promi
nent ,n tliie ii'imL'. t,.lA, .. 1 I. U
bullish sentiment still seems to prevail
In eneent.'itive mtnrtera i n.l nrt, !,;.. nr
... ...... . . i 1 unu iit.iiiuiK u'
a general character occurred to depress
values. It is noted ' that bonds are in
good demand and that the buying has
been largely displayed in securities of
good (uality. which, until now, had been
quoted at comparatively low values.
Celebrated His Cen'ury.
Lorin Pearse, of Amherst. Mass . tho
! last of a family of ten sons and daugh
ters of a revolutionary soldier, celebrat-
I ed his tooth birthday Monday. He is.
! able to read ordinary type without
glasses, his hearing is only slightly im-
paired and he cats three meals a day.
, lie has never used intoxicants or to-
uacco aim uiiriuuics me great age to his
temperate habits and outdoor life. Hi
father lived to be (X) years of age and
his brothers and sisters all lived from
70 to go years.
May bi Married Yet
Six years ago Isaac Smith, a country
school teacher, near Kokoino, Ind., was
suddenly bereft of reason just on tho
eve of his marriage to Mits Effie Gos
sett. Brooding over the affair finally
dethroned Miss Gossett's irason and sha
was likewise sent to the Indianapolis
asylum, where the determined lovers,
unknown to each other, occupied near-
ry waras lor nve years. Last week
Smith being fully recovcre.1 returned
home. Miss Gossett is rapidly improv '
ing and a permanent cure is expected
speedily. 1 he delayed marp will
then be solemnized.