If the possession of a million Is "re
spectable poverty," as Colonel lllpgln
son avers, what n lot of men would
like, to be poor!
Women collegium! who got lip and
practice college orles will nil bo old
mndlH. Any mnn worth having would
ratlier murry n enlllopo tlinn wed one
of tlX'lll.
Two-story turret, linvlng lKen
proved successful, arc to lie adopted
for live new battleship. They are
another Important Amerlenn contri
bution to the art of nnvnl warfare.
The city of Mobile, Alit., bus a new
municipal ordlmmep forbidding spit
ting upon the sidewalk as deleterious
to good health, and the male Inhabit
ants thereof, though all amused, are
said to be obeying It with cheerful
alacrity.
lr. Chnpln writing In n recent medi
cal Journal on the effect of summer
heat Upon the public health calls at
tention to the function of tree In alle
viating the heat. A trees maintain
a steady temperature of fit degrees,
the cooling effect of inimliers of them
upon the atmosphere ought greatly to
modify our present summer time dis
comfort; nlso the constant giving off
of watery vapor from trees enhances
the cooling effect.
The time ha gone by when the
mother of grown-up son wore cork
screw curls, white caps, spectacles,
wrinkle and unattractive habili
ment. The matron of today knows
bow to keep young and puts her know
ledge In practice. She 1 oidy ns
"old as she looks," and she looks
young, flatteringly remarks the New
York World. The abiding youthful
ness of the modern matron I not the
least of the triumphs of an age whose
mission Is to correct the manifest mis
takes of nature.
The right to construct an electric
railway on the one rail principle be
tween Manchester and Llveriiool I
asked by an English company which
proposes to run It trains 110 miles an
hour. A committee of the house of
commons has been considering this
petition with a view to determining
whether the proposed rnte of travel
would be safe. The projector of the
line produced expert witnesses who
declared that 130 and even l."0 miles
an hour would not only be practical
but safe for passenger, though they
admitted that a train going at the rate
of 150 mile an hour could not bo
stopped within less than 1100 yards, or
considerably more than half a mile.
The parliamentary committee very
sensibly reported against tho project.
Trofessor Able, In tho Monthly
Weather Review, takes to task a cer
tain school text-book of geography be
cause of Its statement that "the warm
winds known as the Chinook winds,
from the Pacific, heated by tho Japan
current, may spring up eveu In tho
coldest weather." This view as to the
source of warmth of tho Chinook
winds Is entirely erroneous, nccordlng
to Trofessor Abbe, just ns Is n similar
view formerly commonly held In re
gord to the wnrmth of the Swiss
"foehn," viz., that the wind, coming
down wnrin and dry lu the northern
Alpine valleys, has Its origin In the
desert of Sahara. The warmth and
dryness of "chtnook" and "foehn" are
the result of the warming by com
pression of the descending air, as was
very fully explained by llnnn, In the
case of the "foehn" some years ago,
Compilers of school text-books should
muke an effort to keep a little closer
to the heels of the rapidly advancing
snvuus than they sometimes do.
Elementary courses In agriculture
arc to be Introduced Into the public
schools of Illinois at the beginning of
tho next school year. With the pri
mary purpose of Interesting country
boys In what may be their life work,
the course will bii adapted especially
to the country schools, but It will bo
Introduced Into town and city classes
In a modified form. One hope of those
who have been liiHtrumentul lu se
curing the adoption of tho study Is
that It may tend to stein the tide of
migration of the boys from the coun
try to the city. The nlm of tuj course
will he to ninko w irk interesting to
the boy who Is to be a farmer, and
to give him a knowledge of surround
In which will remove his labor
from the commonplace and open up to
bliu possibilities for ns great develop
ment as can bo found lu a city. As
time advances the scope of the study
will bo broadened, so that finally the
public schools of the state will offer
almost as good a course lu agriculture
as the short courses In farming at th
tato university. - .... .
THE C000-BYE KISS
tier eyes we.-e Illumed with glance of
pride
Ami her henrt wn love nirlnw.
As she softly tripicd to her husband's
side '
When he opened tho door to go.
And there In her morning wrapper trim,
While n smile her reil lim wore,
She stood on the Mops niul gave to him
A good-bye kiss nt the door.
She turns to her duties with cheerful
henrt.
For she hn not now to learn
That tho wile anil husband must often
part
When the daily broad's to earn:
And there's pence mid joy in her gentle
breast
As she sows or swoops the llonr,
And every tnsk Is essayed Willi r.et
For the good bye kiss at the door.
The Fate of
BT CLARENCE PULT.EN.
"This I n bad piece of business. First
our dug killed, then our mule. What
next?" said my partner. Hill Magurder.
lie and I stood looking ruefully at
our pnck-mule, Andy, lying dead on
the oimmi grassy space In which our
cabin stood.
The mule hnd been feeding quietly
about bis plckct-pln in the morning,
when we started out tovlslt our traps,
and the picket-pin was driven beneath
the great sycamore in front of the
cabin. Now we had come back nt
night to And Andy killed, his throat
torn, his hnnnch partly devoured by
some beast of prey. leep claw-mark
were on his back nnd shoulder; hi
neck bad lteen broken nt ltJolnturo
with the spine by n terrible bite.
The loss of the mule wn a serious
one to us, Magruder and I, an cx-anny
scout, hud ls-on with General Crook
In his campaign against tU' Tonto
Apaches of Arizona, nnd so we had
found out the natural advantages of
the sheltered Tonto Basin with It ex
tensive tlnilH-r forests, numerous
stream nnd soft, equable climate.
Now that this vnst valley was clear
of Apaches, Magruder and I had en
tered It In September, built a perma
nent enmpon TontoCreek near the foot
of the Mogollon mesa, nnd prepared
to pass the autumn and winter there,
hunting and trapping.
In the middle of October we hnd our
lines of traps out nnd were getting a
fair amount of fiir, when our first
stroke of bad luck came our dog.
Hector, hnd been carried away. lie
had been useful In our hunting, nnd we
had relied on blm to give us timely
notice of any person or dangerous
benst that should approach the camp.
Hector's disappearance hnd not
seemed mysterious. One dark night
he ran out of tho cabin with a growl
the mule hnd previously lioen uneasy.
Half waking, I heard the dog bark
loudly. Then I heard a growl, deeper
and more savage than any dog could
give, mingling with one shriek and
strangled moan from Hector.
Mngruder and I Jumped to our feet,
caught up our rifles, and threw open
tho door. The mule was snorting and
stamping with fear at the end of his
picket-rope, but of the dog there was
no sight or sound. We heard fome
largo, soft-footed animal bounding
away In the darkness In long lenps.
We made no doubt It was a mountain
lion, although rain later In the night
blotted out all tracks.
A week went by nnd here was our
mule killed probably by the same crea
ture that killed Hector It could not be a
grizzly, for there were no tracks to Ih
seen such as a bear's great feet and
protruding claws would have made.
We decided that the mule, too, had
been killed by a moUntaln-llon a lion
of uncommon size nnd strength, else
It could not so easily have carried off
a largo dog and killed a powerful mule.
"Hunt the varmint downT' I said.
In answer to Mngruder, as we stood
by the dead mule. "I'm afraid we
can't do much nt that without dogs."
"Well, It Is rather late to bj going
after him now, ne's got everything
we hnd to lose unless he conies for one
of us next time." My partner spoke
with seriousness so unusual In him
thnt I leaked hard at him. and then he
luughed the thing away and mentioned
no other foreboding.
That night we hnd made our pre
parations to receive the lion If he came
back to the dead mule. We took turns
In watching, but no Hon enme. So we
dragged the festering carcass away
from the camp the next day, and left
It to the wolves and foxes.
Magurder, usunlly one of the cheer
iest and most indomitable of men, was
evidently greatly disheartened by our
bad luck; and he eveu prniKised that
we pull up stakes forthwith, and go
back to white settlements.
Hut I said, "We're here. Bill, and
we're doing well. We're trapping
lots of fur, and we can kill all the meut
we wnut to enL It will be no more of
a tramp to foot it out to the settlements
next spring than to do it now. Let's
try it a mouth or two longer, anyway,
We can catch our furs when we go,
and come back for them afterward
with an outfit of pne k-iuules."
"All right," he mid. "Stay It Is."
As the week wore on, Magruder'a de
pression seemed to vanish, nnd he re
sumed his old-time cheerfulness. But
one night In camp, just as I was drop.
ping off to sleep, Mngruder started and
said to me, "Do you hear that sound?"
I listened. Presently from some
where up the canyon side came a wail
ing, deep-throated cry, which was re
peated at Intervals.
"lies, i near it," i said, "it u a
mounUim-llwi If it Isn't an owl. Pity
AT THE DOOR.
And the hnuhnnd striving In life's rongh
race.
Where there's little time for play,
Has ninny n glimpse of her smiling fare
In his mind tlinmch the hnsy day.
And his look Is tender, his eyes ore bright
As he eons his ledger o'er.
For ho thinks nt the welciiine that waits
nt niuht.
And the good-bye kiss nt the door.
O wires and hushnmls, the world is
biieht
When the heart with love doth glow,
And Its pnth is smooth and its burden
liu-ltt,
If you're wilting to ninko them so.
And Die sun will shine through the dark
est day
And scatter tho clouds thnt lower.
And the roses Mooin nlonit life's way
For the good-bye kiss nt the d.mr.
I'earson's Weekly.
Magruder. $
we haven't another mule for him to
chew up!"
"It's n different note from n lion's
cry," snid Magurder. "The beast
that's making that sound I the one
that killed our dog nnd mule.
"Something has just come Into my
mind thnt the Apache scouts told me
once," be continued. "It's about Ja
guars. They said that these animal
sometimes wander up Into Arizona
from Sonorn, and when they do, they
always come to the Tonto Basin. The
forests nnd climate here suit them. I
suppose. The Indian are supersti
tious about these beasts. They say
they are always man-eaters."
"All right; Jaguar or lion, I'd like a
fnlr shot at blm, "I remarked, nnd set
tled myself again to my slumber. But
before I went quite to sleep I heard
niy partner moving restlessly In hlB
blanket und muttering.
lie was In good spirits the next morn
ing when we started out to make the
round of our traps. It was one of
those exquisite nutumn days which, In
the higher levels of Arizona, open with
frost nnd are sunny nnd warm at noon.
We separated at the forks of the creek,
Magurder taking tho south nnd I tlu
north brunch.'
I hnd the longer route, nnd I found
two mink and an otter to skin; so
when I got back to the forks, near the
end of the day, Magurder had bent
some twigs In the direction of the
camp to show me that he had gone on
down the creek toward the enmp. I
went on, following the route he had
taken.
Presently, In a place where the
ground was soft, I came upon Magru
der'a tracks and something more. A
line of tracks followed Magruder';
they resembled the tracks of a moun-tuln-lsm.
nnd the breadth nnd depth
of tho Imprint showed the creature
to be of uncommon size. Step by step
It hnd crept along, oat fashion, until
It hnd crossed a marshy place In two
or three enormous Itound. when It
hnd resumed Its stealthy gait
I had got to hard ground, where the
tracks were faint, when I cnught
sight of a mnn In Mexican costume
crossing the valley a short dlstnnoe
ahead of me. It was Jose Bonifacio,
a Mexican Indian who had served us
scout and trailer In Indian campaigns
with me, and he recognized me, I mo
tioned for blm to come to me, nnd
showed him the tracks In the soft
ground. lie examined them carefully.
This man was Uot to lie easily fright
ened, but there wns something like
fear In his face ns he spoke In his brok
en Fngllsh.
"You go 'wny," he said. "Go 'way
from Tonto. No leon make them
tracks. Yon know what?" HI voice
lowered, and he put his hand on my
arm, looking around as If fearful of
being overheard. "I know thnt fellow
heap In Sonora. He very bad. EI
dlablo, we call blm. He follow that
mnn all day, never touch him. When
dark come, ho kill Ulm. That man
your partner? You hurry 'long find
him. Then you two stay together. Go
'way!" bis voice sinking Into a whis
per. "Go 'way. quick T'
"What do you mean, Bonifacio?" I
asked, impressed by the seriousness of
hi manner. "Io you menn to tell mo
that these arc not a mountaln-llou's
tracks?"
The half-breed had tho savage's
common superstition agniust pronoun
cing the name of a creature that Is
greutly feared, lest It overhear and
avenge the familiarity.
"He no Icon," he said. "Leon kill
deer, calf, sheep but the man he run
from. This fellow," here his voice fell
again to a whisper, "he kill mau. You
hurry 'long. 11 ml Kill." Then warnlng
ly ngnln, "Go 'way from Tonto! Go
quick!"
Ho started on his wny over the htlls.
"Come down to the cabin und spend
the night," I suid; but the half-breed
shook bis bend.
The shadows of night were fulling
ns I hurried down the valley, Aft.'r
what Bonlfmio had said, I was natur
ally anxious about Magruder, although
I knew he had plenty of time to g t
to the camp before dark. Moreover,
my partner wns well-armed and little
likely to be caught off his guard by an
enemy, man or beast.
I came Into the open space before
the camp In the last light from the
western sky. Before ine the syca
more, with half Its leaves still upon It,
towered above the shadow beneath Ita
wide-spreading 'branches. The cabin
door was open, so Magruder bad re
turned. But where was be? Ah! What
Is that under the sycamore) lying out
stretched and still lu thtf deepest
shadow? Certainly the form of a man,
and be lay at lie the dead. ...
I cocked my rifle and looked around
me. Nothing threatened from the
ground. I gnsed Into the tree, but
could detect there nothing unusunt or
suspicious. Slowly I walked toward
the outstretched form until I came to
the edge of the shndow bonoat'i tho
yen more.
There I paused at a slight sound
thnt came from among tho branches
a soft, brushing flip Dip. flip-flip. It
enme from n grent forked branch thnt
overhung the pnth. Now thnt my
nt tent Ion wns drnwn to this limb, I
thought It looked unusual nvr the
fork. There It seemed to lie much
thicker thnn elsewhere In It length;
but looking closely. I could see noth
ing thnt Indicated danger.
"It I nothing," I snld to myself, nnd
made another step forward.
Then I saw It! The formless thick
ness of the bough nil nt once shaped
Itself to my eyes In Its true nppenrnncn
the bough nnd the thing upon It. I
snw two phosphorescent spots, not
ensily to lie discerned nmnug th" yel
low leaves. I snw these were living
eyes In n huge, cntllke head resting
upon the forks of the branch. Behind,
flattened Upon the bough, so that It
seemed n part of It, was a long body
whose motlle'd color merged In thn
of tho spotted bark and the leaves
nnd their shadows. Tho soft flip-flipping
noise was the furling In and out
of the tip of a supple tail among the
leave. The benst that had killed my
partner was waiting for me.
There wns not a moment to lose. As
I threw my rllle-breeiii to my shoulder
1 saw the grent head lift, the ears draw
sharply back, the phosphoresi-ont eyes
redden to burning flame. Twice I
fired, flrst ntthe shoulder, then, without
nlmlug, at the living thunderbolt thnt
came through the air upon me, crush
ing me to the earth. A frightful growl
filled my ears n something bit and
tore me the rest was darkness.
I enme to my sense lying on my
back on the ground In the coolness of
the nutumn night Through the lenfy
branches overhead the moon nnd star
were shining. My rllle was clutched In
my hand ns I lifted my bend and
looked nround, not realizing nt first
where I wns or what hnd happened.
It all enme back to me a I gnzrd
upon the form of a snvage lionuty, the
splendid markings In black nnd yellow
of the Jaguar that lay near me. Just
beyond the benst I snw the form of my
partner, his white face upturned to
the moon.
Yon can sec the scars made by tho
Jngunr's five dnws down the side of
my face, and there are other marks of
hi claws on my arm and chest I have
not been able to lift my left hand to
the top of my head since he crushed
my shoulder that night and those
wounds ho gave mo In his dying
struggle, after my second shot hnd
pierced his brnln. If Bonifacio hnd
not come In time I should have lioen
lying under the sycamore now with
Magruder. Youth's Companion.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
A Milwaukee florist thinks lie has
succeeded In producing green carna
tions by the use of chemicals while
the plant are growing.
A numb r of living specimens of the
curious blind fish from the Kentucky
caves have been deposited In the fish
house of tho Loudon Zoological gar
dens. Fine Jewels are registered, like fine
dogs. Their history, or pedigree, can
be got nt the registry ofllce, wltli their
description, value, owner nnd so forth,
all detailed very accurately. The reg
istry tends to prevent stealing.
British Guiana has a cnnnon-bnll
tree thnt grows to n height of 100 feet.
It straight uubrnnchlug stem being
only IS Inches thick. When the can
lion bulls are ready to drop tho tree
Is avoided as a battery might be that
was aliout to engage In a bombard
ment There are few bearded men In
China. Men who hare grandchildren
may wear a mustache, and many take
advantage of the privilege and are
cnlled "old hair men." The foreigners
with mustaches, when they enme to
China excited much curiosity, and tho
unusual sight Justified thein In ask'
Ing tho ages of the boarded men.
A few days ago I'pper Sandusky,
Ohio, wns visited with an Immenso
swarm of flying nuts, which had tho
effect of compelling merchant In cor
tain districts to discontinue business
Tho merchants had no time to prepare
for the onslaught nnd had trouble to
get the Insects from their stores thnt
they might be closed. The ants were
supplied with long, transparent wings,
and only remained for a couplo of
hours.
Among the curiosities In deeds at
tention Is called to one In Belfast,
which gives the course and distance
"to a hole In the roof of tho shed of
the blacksmith shop." This, II. I'. Far
row.tho Belfast Me. civil engineer, says,
should bo considered an "Indestruct
ible monument," us the hole still re
mains, although the shed was burned
many years ago. Another queer deed
Is of a shipyard In Itockport and one
course li described ns "In lino with
the bow of two vessels now building
at said shipyard."
Judicious Investment,
"Angelina, you are spending a big
lot of money on artistic dies for your
stationery."
"Well, what of It? If I ever get to
the poorbouse I'll hnye something to
prove that I've seen better days,"
Chicago Record, - .
THE MYSTERIOUS CHINESE.
In Occidental Cn tTnititnitand Itia Work
Ints of the Vallow Hraln.
The Century Company hnve got out
"China, the Long-Lived Empire," by
F.llzn It. Scldmore. A couple of cita
tions from the first chnpter will show
the nuthor'a point of view:.
No Occidental ever saw within or
undorstiMMl the working of the yellow
brain, which starts from nnd arrives
at a different point by reverse nnd In
verse processes we can neither follow
nor comprehend. No one knows, or
ever will really know the Chinese
the henrt, nnd soul, and springs of
thought of the most Incomprehensible,
unfathomable. Inscrutable contradic
tory, logical, nnd Illogical people oil
earth, tif nil Oriental, no race Is so
nllen. Not n memory nor n custom,
not n tradition nor an Idea, not a root
word nor a symbol of any kind nso
f bites our past with their past. There
I little sympathy, no kinship nor
common feeling, mid never affection
possible between the Anglo-Saxon nnd
the Chinese. Nothing In Chinese
character or trait appeal wnrmly to
our heart or Imagination, nothing
touches; nnd of nil the people of earth
they most entirely lack "soul," charm,
magnetism, attractiveness. We may
ybld them nn Intellectual ndiiilratlon
on some grounds, but no warmer pulse
bents for them. There nro chiefly
points of contradiction between thein
and ourselves.
I gave up the conundrum of this
people, abjured "that oilskin mystery,
the Chlnniiian,"moredevoutJy each day
of six visits to China, and on the
seventh visit the questions were that
many times the more bathing. One
ran both agree nnd disagree with the
four-day tourist, who sum up tlie Chi
nese convincingly, with brutal, prac
tical, skeptlcnl common sense, nnd can
echo bis Irreverent nnd wholesale con
demnation and contempt when he has
once seen the land and the revolting
conditions In which the people live.
One agrees and disagrees, too, with the
sinologues, who arc usually slnophiles,
that the Chinese lire the one great race
nnd flue flower of all Asia, a superior
people the world's greatestoudearllest
teachers, It future lender and rulers,
the chosen people; China a vast reserve
reservoir of humanity to rojiooplo and
revive decadent, dying Europe; the
Chinese destined to uuderllve. override,
and outdo till the pale races; the wholo
hope of humanity bound up In this
yellow people.
Everything seems dead, dying,
ruined, or going to decay In this great
est empire of one race nnd people.
There seems no living spring nor beat
ing hmrt I A the Inert mass. Itellgion,
morality, literature, the arts, and finer
Industries are all at least comntose.
Their three grent rellgolns are dead;
two system of Ignoble superstitions
live. Literature Is a fossil thing, all
hollow form nnd nrtlllce, tlie empty
shell of dend conventions. The arts
have died, the genius of tho race has
fled. They hove lost the power they
once commanded, nnd hnve acquired
no new ones. There 1 little Joy, llght
heartedncss, or laughter In tlie race,
and their greatest virtue, filial piety.
Is demoralized, degraded by the soul
less craven cult of ancestor-worship.
China In Its present stage, with the
desperate problems It presents. Is a
melancholy and depressing place, In
tensely Interesting, full of "questions."
hut not enjoyable In enjoyment's lit
eral sense.
Exploit of a Fire I.mlclle.
A remnrkablo, exhibition of nerve
was given the other day by a Hremnn
on his way to answer a fire alarm. Ho
wn sitting calmly on the hose cart,
which was Just aliout to turn Into
Broad street from Wulnut when a
spirited horse, attached to a stylish
Gladstone wagon, started to dash
away on a mad rush down Broad
street
There was no restraining hand near
nt the time, and for a moment the
situation took on a very serious look.
Just as the horse got well under way
and was straightening out for a mad
dash tlie fireman leaped from the hose
curt and ran rapidly toward the fright
ened steed. He made two or three
wild clutches for tho bridle, but
missed each time. Then the horse
wus running nt a frightful rnte of
speed, nnd the tlremnii held on to the
shaft and sprinted alongside. Slowly
he worked his wny up to the head of
the wild animal, and Just as a collision
was imminent with an automobile In
front of the Bellevue the plucky fire
man gained the ascendancy and
brought the would-be runaway to a
sudden standstill.
It was an exciting episode, and while
the startled spectators were cheering
the fireman darted away In full chose
after the hose cart he had abandoned.
New York Mull and Express.
Tho Vitality of Snail.
The snail Is blessed with grent pow
ers of vitality. A case Is recordud of
an Egyptian desert stinil which came
to life upon liclng Immersed In warm
wnter after having passed four years
glued to a card In the English museum.
Some sicclcs, In the collection of a cer
tain naturalist, revived after they had
apparently boon dead for 15 yeius;
and snails, having been frozen for
weeks In solid blocks of Ice, have re
covered upon being thawed out, Tho
eggs are hard to destroy as the snail
Itself, They seem perfectly Indifferent
to freezing, and have been known to
prove productive after having b-en
shrivelled up In an oven to the sem
blance of grains of sand.
About 605 tons of gold are estimated
to be In actual circulation as uioi.ey
In England, thnt being approximately
th wvlgbt of IM0.0O0.tKW.
KEYSTONE SIMM COllffl
PENSIONS GRANTED.
New O ut Works for KitUnnlng To Pmmi
Hiilcr'c Cabin In fayctlo County.
Cunco Gimo Worked,
Pensions granted lat week: Isaac
McGowan, hlizabith, $S; Mary Given,
Bennett, $?; Enzabith A. Eaton, New
Haven, J8; Catharine II. Shriver, Dick
inson. $X; John Bolingrr. Latrobe, ?ii',
William Yodcr, Mattuw.ina, $to; Will
iam K. McComb, London. Emanuel
Evnns, New Brighton, $4; l-'rank San
ton, Granville Ccntrr, $17; William Barr,
Beaver Fall. ?(i; Cecilia Knipple, Soit
dalc, $ii; Marie Kueliiic, mother, Alle
gheny, $0.
The new plate glass works will be
creeled nt Nvaleton, a suburb ol Kittan
ning. Those in the company are V.
Netibcrt, banker; Rev. Robert Barnes,
principal of Kittmining academy; J. A.
Gatilt, merchant; lleilman Bros., and
other prominent business men of this
place. Robert Naysmieli. who has re
signed his position in the Pittsburg
plate glass works, will be general man
ager. A. P. Sharp has entered suit against
John P. l.cvan. president of the Al-
toona Second National bank, to recovers
$10,540. The suit is an echo oi the loot-1
ing of the bank by Cahier Gnrdner.l
James Sharp, father of the prosecutor,!
suitrcs in me uauK, which
were bequeathed to his son. Sharp al
leges that he was frozen out in the re
organization of the bank.
The summer Bible school of Grove
City College opened Thursday night,
nearly i.ooo persons attending. Rev.
K. A. Torrey, U. D., of the Bible In
stitute, Chicago, delivered the opening
lecture, w iiuc tlie praise and prayer scr
vice was conducted bv Rev. 1. A. Par
sons, 1). p., of New Castle, assisted by
local ministers.
The new ice company being formed nt
Altoona to oppose the trust reports tha
$50,000 worth of stock has been sold.
During the past five weeks Postoffice
Inspector Stone, of Altnona, has ar
rested three persons in Bedford county,
cnargco witli sending obscene .1111
anonymous matter through the mails,
Soo Mec, the alleged leprous Chinese
lauiKlrynian of Olymiant. Monday, packi
cd up and left for Boston, where he has
a wealthy brother. The borough au
thorities made no effort to restrain him.
Three reputable physicians have de
clared the Chinaman a leper, but Health
Officer Tcraits contends that Kee's com-'
plaint is nothing more Mian eczema.
Charles Tine and Edward Spanglcr,
colored employes of the American Coke
Company, Uniontown, fought with pis
tols Tuesday night at the Edcnborn
works of the company. Tine was shot
to death and Spangler and another man
injured. The trouble arose over a eras
game. Spanglcr escaped and cannot be
At Pittsburg Saturday, Washington
fcoplc who own a gas plant at Marion,
nd., sold out to a new corporation
known as the Marion Gas Co. The price
paid was $400,000. Twelve years ago
the Washington capitalists bought the
plant for $100,000. The transfer made
includes leases on 15,000 acres of land,,
about 90 of pipe and gas plant.
Samuel P. I.angdon, of Philadelphia,
president of the Pittsburg. Johnstown,
fcoensburg c r.astcrn Railroad Lorn
pany, was rolled down a rocky embank
ment 00 icet ly the wrecking of a hand
car on which he had taken passage fron
yvopsononoek: to Altoona Monday even
ing. nt was oauiy cut anu Drtnscd
descending the rocky slope.
A jail delivery occurred Thursday
night from the Susquehanna counlvf
prison at Montrose. r,iglit prisoner
who were awaiting trial escaped to th'
woods. The men are all orofessionu
tramps and were recently arrested 011
ourgiary enarges.
A movement is on foot to preserve tin
old cabin in Washington township
Fayette county, which was built for ;
slave of George Washington. The cabii
is located at the head of Simon hollow
which takes its name from the old slavA
nimsclt, Simon runty Munty.
Mine Inspector Henry Lottttit. c
Monongahela, charged la foreign miner;
cm noyea at tnc Arno d mines, nearl
Fayette City, with violating the mininjd
laws in passing clanger signals in the
mine with naked lamps and eigh
mem were luugcu in jail.
James R. Mellon, of Pittsburi
purchased a a,oeo-acre tract, a 4c
south of few Florence, Westn
county, and is receiving bids i,
erection of a stone mansion, wli
cost about $50,000, to be his k
home.
William Yokes, of Sharon, an ol
dier with a pension, had his wife arrc?
ed f r furnishing him with intoxir.in:
when she knew he was of intemperaa
naous. aouire arr neia tier tor cou
in $150 bait.
Pittsburg men have purchased
acres of sandstone near Mineral Rid
and will erect a factory to crush the
stone for glass making. Later a glas
factory will be built.
By the explosion of an oil can Tursl
day evening Mrs. William Dodds, oK
uiiruue, was so uaaiy nurnca that shir
win prouab'y etc.
When Hon Lee. a New Castle Chi
nese laundryman. raised the nri ,.H
chop suey two colored female customers)
rebelled, attacked the oronrietnr and
drove him from the place, for which
tney were arrested.
Elmer Shaffer, tax collector of th
borough of Westmont. a Johnstown!
suuuru, nas ueen missing Lur a week
or more. It is claimed by the auditors
w ho have examined his books, that he i:
c .1. . : l:
fi,w Miori 111 in;, accounts.
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chaplain of the old Fifteenth regiment
N. G. P., has been appointed chaplaii
01 me oixicenui.
Auditors began work Monday ad
Aleauviiie, on tlie books of the city
treasurer and control'er. There is al-j
leged to be a shortage.
While Thomas Graham and lohn
Roller, employed at the Mononeahela.
blast furnaces, McKeesport, were ft
work underneath a ladle rilled with boil
ing water and suspended by a chain, the
chain broke and the men were badly
scalded. Roller may die.
Michael Nermile, a moMer, has been
arretted in Washington on a eharae ot
bigamy. He is alleged to hav wives, ini
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vicvcmnu ana mi. vcrnon, j.