It to letter to be sensible thnn tech. h'slry correct. Tsrtly tlrcen In wild to be studying stenography. It In not suspected thnt she Intends to ndd to her Income by Inking a salaried position. Mng before school boords wit e tnbnehcd In Knglnnd, OBiindlnn child ren were Instructed free of cost be tween the age of 7 nnd 12. Thin edu catlan Is eompulsory. fne 1ondon pun'" are gravely pohitlng out, as a result of tlio anarch ism troubles, thnt "Pnttprsnn, K J., tight to bp closely watched." This la piecing In an elevated position tho city heretofore known to fnmo aa "the bef) alrciia town in the country." Taw ennsuniptlnn of tea In the I'nl ted Hates wns estimated nl SO.OOO.OOO pcnnd In 1HPP; Crent Ttrllnlii nnd Ire lnnd, 184,WHl,ono pounds; Ttussln, 7,5oO,000 pounds, and Cnnadii, 23,404,000 poundN. In cofTce, the past y.nr, It la estimated Unit the eon sumption In tlie lTnltol States wns 71,22-l,0iO pounds. "There has never been n 1 1 mo when the coiitless mnn has not boon found with lis. Hp Ih to bo found In the milts and factories; In flip flplda nnd the mines everywhere. Indeed, when bard labor Is expected of mankind. !? dooH not stop to nk what iwiven tloa decrees wllb respect to plihcr rout, collar or vest. Ho junt takes tte off, says Hip riillndi'lpbla Inquir er. ape Hiitteras la to be marked for flip bow-fit of mariners with tin- lnrg pHt stonm-propollod and electric-lighted lightship In tho world. Tho vessel l now being built. It will bp 112 feet la length. S fcit C Indus In bonui an4 bnvp H di-plli of 14 foot 10 Inches. M will bnvp throe electric lights clus tered nt tin- bend of em-It of Ita two masts B9 feet above the water lino. 'Hipse lights will each bp. 100 candh pewer UK) volt lumps and will be con twullpd by ii n automatic flashing de Vice. The Interior of thp vessel will lit lighted by 800 Kl-candle power 100 valt lanipa. T ttipre la no tranquillity In the dial heme without domestic economy, there c-nn bo also no good temper and happiness without the thrift that ends la saving. It la not alone necessary t spend no more than your Income: It to equally obligatory to save a por tion of It for future emergencies. The ma a who hna not the fortitude to avoid consuming evei-y year nil Is earnings of the year doe at deserve an Ideul borne. To Im salveiit, a mnn ahnuld have sulll olet enrnlngH snved and Invested to meet the Inevitable rulny dny which csmpa In one form or another lo every Individual nnd every family, claim a writer In tho ChrlKtlnn Register. To ko honornble to IiIh miirrlnpo vows, a mini ahnuld have aome provlalon mndo, la the form of a II fo liiHuriiuce for the awpport of IiIk wife and family, should death suddenly overtnke him. The superiority of American agrl ralturnl lmplemeiita and the enterprlNo f Anierleiiii Implemunt mnkera has carried them Into ao many faraway purta of the eurh wtinre fertile-farming luruls are to be faund that la a veritable aurprlae wlieu any exIenHlve regiou Is dla covered where they are not represent ed and which offers new market. Kucti a one aeema to have been dis covered by PoiihiiI Duvls of Alexnud retta. In AhIii Minor, who calls atten tion to a recent report to the fact that in a late tour through the Interior he WHH much ImpveHMed with the lack of proper in -tli itlH of farming. Tho re gion la a fertile plain of nearly 2000 square mllea, hut plowing la mostly Jouo w'!i it Hlini p Btiek, pointed with Iron, wh U- tho hnrveatlng Is with a alckle and the tln-pMhliig by beating lit the pr nln with oxen or borsea drawing a short aledgn. The consul atutes that a light cheap plow which could be ciiidly drawn by a pair of xeu wnu'd Bud a ready sale, while hB Is sure that a very Important bul nesa cou'd be built In light threshers esiieclnlly adapted to tho needH of the country. The ateam powor thresher might net to bo of more than two hurao-pownr, easily trunafonib'e on wheels by one or two horses, w th engine and holler attached, the ll'o box being espeelnlly dnalgned to burn atraw. Ho states that tlrreahers of this kind, operated by horse or atenm tower, could bo sold by the hundreds every year to the small farmer In that part of tho world, aa the country h comparatively woll populated, Is fairly prosperous, nud tho aueoes which would attend tho operating of onu - tfareaber would luduce others to buy. ; THE MISSING FREIGHT. BY HAROLD Hoduey Cnthiini was well thought of In rremiMitvlllo, Ilia fstlier, Nelson Ornham, had run the general atoro there for many yeara, Biid was rated In "InnnV an "U. 8. M. S.," which eaballMtle letters esliildlHhed the Urn ham i -red It on a solid foundation throughout the United States, ao ttmt. whenever a aalpsman hapix'tied to atop at rreaeentvlllo, he always made a call at Nelson (ii-iihiun's. Crescentvlllp, Illinois, was a flourish ing city of over 2in Inhabitant, and. of course, things were Just rushing. The city contained two manufactur ing plants, a brewery, a Klrst Nation al Hank of rresoetitvllle. an Klcetrlc Light and I'ower Company, nnd a rnll road depot. Also, various storea and small Industries invonllng to Its needs. The railroad was n loop of the B. It. & '. the main line ten mllea from t'rescentvllle. Nelson tirabam, as the proprietor of the Keiieral store, was quite an In fluential citizen, and It wns under stood that his son, Rodney, was In a position to pick the profession of hla choice. The law, medicine, nrt, iiiiihIo, poetry, stenography, hookkeep ng. were all within his reach; he consid ered them all from different points of view (very differently from most peo ple) nnd then deliberately chose the profession of stoking a freight engine. The musics of (IrcHi-ontvlllp rpsentiil his choice. They were surprised nnd displeased. They discussed It over tea tables, drug counters nnd saloon bars, and decided that Rodney, though ainart, was born without ambition. For this reason they Voted against Nelson tiriihnin when he ran for may or, and defeated hint, which allows how the alns of the sons are visited upon their fathers. Rodney (ii-aham wns peculiar In many ways. He came home to Orca ccntvlllo once a week, nnd in his con versation frequently cursed the freight engine. Instead of having a consuming affection for It aa all well reguloted atokersarc supposed to have he shamefully abused and (metaphor ically) despltefully used It He said the boilers were bad the brakes were no good the engineer waa crn?:y and that were It not for his untiring real and sleepless watchfulness, , fnat frleght Number Foity-Slx of the great R. R. ft 0. S. R. R. would be con tinually Jumping off the track and having to he lifted on again at great expense of life and money. He said that all stokers were excused from pur gatory; but notwithstanding all the things be aald he stuck to his job. nud when hla father Solicited the votes of his fellow cltliseitH for the honornble position of aldermnn, hla fellow cltJ aens elected some one else. In addition to running the Creacent vllle general atore. Nelson Graham was Interested In the First National Bank of Oreacentrllle, He bad always deposited hla receipts there, and aa they had grown in volume ho had In vested what he could apnre and wna now vlce-presldout of the bnnk. It waa In the fall of the year that the free sliver agitation burst forth In all Ita virulence. Tho Democratic party would surely win the elections, and the value of the dollar would be cut In half. The furmers all around Ores contvllle wanted their money befo'-e the dollar depreciated. The Oreaoent vllle bank bad money loaned out to Jiunilier of neighboring manufacto ries on easy terms, nnd tbla money could not be called In. Therefore the Crescentvllle bunk wns In difficulties, and the farmers came up and Iwaiugod It If the bank suspended. Nelson Gra ham would go with It If the bnnk pulled through. Nelson Graham would pull through. The bank wanted 10, 000 to meet the demands upon It, hut no one knew where to get the money In time. These were the circumstances when Rodney Graham departed from Cres centvllle one afternoon, to atoke fast freight Number Forty-Six. which be would join at St Louis, stoking it to Chicago and hack. The station agent was on the platform at Creacentvllle, and saw Rodney Graham get Into the cab of the train which left Creseent vllle for St Louis at a quarter before six. The frleght agent at Mattoonn aw Rodney Graham In the cab of Number Forty-Six when It stopped for water. It left Mattoona ou time passed Kalnkokanntlme. Rut It did not reach Dalaltcke. It waa signalled to Dalab.-ke, and the iqx'rator there wait d for It ltecauso after It had gone It was bis Intention to get his sii'tper. Number Forty-Six waa 15 mlnutt-s late; 80 minutes late; 45 minutes lute; one hour late clearly It must have met with some accident aim It left Kala koka. f The Dalabcke agent (D'mklnsl, wired Chicago that fast freight Number Forty-Six had met with an accident ud was delayed. Then he arranged with some one to watch the depot weut homo and took a busty mouthful, collected two or three people and a doc-tor, anil ataitud up the track to ward KulaUoka, a distance of about flvo miles. The doctor's roian-t of tbe adventure Is as follows: "After ascertaining at the depot that no train of any kind bad passed. walked along the i : , ivalnkoka, expecting to discover the wreck faat freight Number Forty-Six at any moment To our grunt surprise, how ever, we saw no signs of the trn'n anywhere, on account of which r'm klns aald that Tompkins (the Kaln- 1 NAEMANSSON. koka agent) must have been mistaken In signalling tho train to lialalieke. "On arriving at Kalnkoka we found the station deserted. We then went to Tompkins' house nnd found lit lit In bed. On rousing bint, lie stated that fast freight NuiiiIht Fotty-Klx most certainly passed through Kalnkoka on time, iinillllstliictly Insinuated that, if Dlukina didn't see it pnsn through Dalabcke, Diinkina must have been tho worse for something perhaps liquor. "Mr. Dlutklns hotly wonted this Imputation, and the two men were lighting la-fore we had nn opportunity to Interfere. The Knlakokn police man unfortunately hapis-nedtolH-uoar, and rushing up, began clubbing us all, under the impression, I suppose, that we were an orgpiil.atlon of b.indlts about to liiiiko a raid on tho village. After an extended iH-riisl of g.nenil mlsundeirliiniliiig, altercation nnd per sonal Injury, the tumuli was stilled, and we all returned to the depot. Hero DUnkins wired St. Louis, only to be In formed that fast freight Number Forty-Six had lift that city on time and that nothing imusiuil had tran spired. . "As nothing could he made of It. we started Iwck along the tracks to Pula beke, where we arrived without Inci dent of any kind, l'art of the railroad ran through n wood which was fenced off by posts nnd bnrbed wire. The rest of the way the railroad ran through open prairie. "It wus ridiculous to suppose that n fast freight troln could hiivc utterly disappeared lM-lween Kalakokn and Dalabcke and the only probable hy pothesis seemed to ls that Tompkins wna mistaken In some way in suppos ing that the train lind passed Kaln koka." Thus ends the doctor's narrative. The next morning It became evident that fast freight Number Forty -Six had In some way disappeared. Chica go, however, took It aa a joke. The niwspa-r reporters went down to aee Tompkins, who had seen the miss ing train - pass Knlakokn. They plagued and exasperated him to such an extent that be resigned hla position In disgust. A Chicago paper printed a funny article In regard to Tompkins, ntllled. "The Freight That Didn't Ma terlnliae." The Federal ICxpress com pany's representative called on the president of the B. R. & C. R. R. R. and was Informed that freight Num ber Forty-Six hnd not yet left St Louis. The Federal Kxpress com pany's representative expressed his satisfaction and Inquired when ffit freight Number Fiwty-Six had not yet left St. Louis. The Federal lixpresa company's representative expressed bla satisfaction and Inquired when fast freight Numlier Forty-Six would leave St Louis, because she had $."0,000 In currency aboard, and the Federal Express company was anx ious. The president of the B. R. ft C. S. R. It. answered that the frin.OOO was all right and Hint the disquieting ruuiora were nonsense. Then he wired St. Louis thnt fast freight Num ber Forty-Six must be found nt once. St Louis replied that they would Im mediately put on n tracer, and there after maintained silence. At Crescentville, lllionis, there were sensational doings. The bank had just managed to hold Its own for the dny by tho method of taking an unprc codentedly long time over doing every thing. When the hour for eloaing came there were certainly over 200 ex cited clients of the b tnk waiting their turn to withdraw tnelr money, and these iieoplo camped In the street for the night, making all kinds of treats, and vowing all kinds of vengeance against everybody connected with the bank If they should not be paid promptly the next morning. The offi cers and employes of the bank stayed Inside and did not venture out. About 4 o'clock In the morning an extraordinary thing occurred. A posse of men rode Into Crescentville, well armed and wearing masks. They rode straight to the bunk, were ad mitted after a short parley, nud did not come out again. Rut at nine in the morning the bank opened it doora, and the run began uuew with grent desperation. De positor after depositor was paid off un til scarcely any were left, and the peo ple atood around and talked about it There seemed to be uo end to the bank' resources, nnd at lust a large and lufluential customer exclaimed "The bank Is all right and we are a pack of fools. I am going to de posit my rash again!" There was a murmur of approval, and then everybody began to laugh. Right after the Influential man fol lowed a long Hue of people desiring to re-deposit the money they bad only just withdrawn. Such a day of busi ness the Creaeentvllte bank never had before, and It is not at all likely ever to have again. An euthusluuHc meet ing waa held at the Masonic hall that evening, at which It was unanimous ly resolved to nominate Nclsou Gra ham as next mayor of Crescentvlllo. In the meantime, the B. It ft C. 8. R. R. people were still hunting for fust freight Number Forty-Six. . They hunted for It In the train yard In and about St. Louis. Single cars bad been lost lu those yards In great profusion and never found again, but when a wholo train could get lost like this It wits evident thnt there must bo care lessness somewhere. During the search reporter discovered eng'ns NumlMtr Forty-Seven in a peglceted looking rom4noiMM and prompt! wired the news to Chicago where the Im'ormatlon waa considered aa quite Important, although In what exact re lation no official conld say. It wna Unite possible, Number Forty-Seven having been found, that Number Forty-Six might not be fnr off, unless it hnd accidentally plunged Into the Mississippi, or stinyeil to Knnsns City by means of a misplaced switch. Dlmklns of Dalnheke had accepted the explanation that the train could not have left St. Iouls, nnd thnt Tompkins nnd others must have been mistaken. On the second night after the train was lost, Dlmklns was quiet ly playing Ida usual game of checkers in the depot with a friend. Dlmklns waa In a terrible position where one wrong move would lose lilm tho game, and lie was intently studying the nh Firllng problem, when his friend said "What's thnt?" Dlmklns paused on the la-Ink of de struction nnd looked up aghast He put tils hand to bis enr and there wna no doubt about It- he heard the slow pulling of an engine coming to ward Dnlabeke! Dlmklns snys be fchnlt never forget the sensation. "It's Forty Six's schedule." said Dlniklns, deliberately, "but It ain't Forty-Six." Therefore, speaking very slowly, "therefore, It tinit-t be Forty Six's Ghost!" liven ns be spoke, the puffing of tho engine grew nearer nnd nearer, nud i-lower nnd slower, until at last. It ceased entirely. "She's gone!" whispered Dlmklns In horror-stricken tones. Then the sound of a yell en me from somewhere. Dlmklns got up nnd crept carefully nlong to tlii- window, while his friend watched Intently, ns though lie expect ed the ghost of fast freight Number Forty-Six to jump suddenly through, the window nt nny moment. Then "Hallo!" said Diniklns. "Come here. Tom!" "What fur?" demanded Tom, very doubt fully. "It's Forty Six!" snld Dlmklns. "Her light's n biirnin'!" "Oh! her light's n-burnln'!" repeats Tom, dogged and Immovable. Hut out Hew Dlmklns, racing at top speed down the track toward tho train. When he reached It there was no engineer, stoker, brakesman, nor any kind of living soul to be seen. But there was n fenrful racket going on In the third box car. "What's the matter there?" shouted Dlmklns. from what he considered a anfe distance. "Brenk open the car and let us out!" responded n number of voices. "Get a rail and knock the lock off!" "Ifa us!" shouted another voice, which Dlmklns recognized nt once ns the voice of Rodney Graham, stoker. So Dlmklns followed directions, got a rail, broke the box car, nud found the entire train crew laying on the floor of the car, bound hand nnd foot. Whether It wns sheer bewilderment that caused It. or whether the subtle nnd pervasive odor of the box car wns resiMnslble, Dlmklns snys he doesn't know, but be snys thnt altogether be felt so dazed thnt he hadn't the slight est recollection the next morning of the pxplnnntions that wore hurled at him by the Imprisoned mpn as to the cause of their extraordinary condi tion. Fust freight Nnmber Forty-Six puffed out of DiilalK-ke station en route to Chicago shortly afterwards, nnd was respectfully signalled, nnd notified, and switched, and o. k.'d through by operators. The train dis patcher, thinking lie must have made a mistiike, altered his schedule and said nothing. The next min-nlng the Federal Kx prcss company received their $."i0,000, and they said nothing. But a day or two afterwards the general mnnnger of the B. R. ft C. 8. It. R. fished n memorandum out of aome forsaken pigeon-hole and said "By the way, what has become of Uila freight Nnmber Forty-Six r The clerk looked up the records and found thnt It waa at St Iou!s. "Where onght tt te be?" demanded the general mnnnger. The clerk looked up more recordaand reported that St Lonls waa where freight Number Forty-Six ought to be. So the general manager tore op his meniorandnm. Critical persona inny talk atmut the train's Way bill and other railroad red tape that la (opposed to keep track of tralna present or missing. In re gard to this we have nothing to sug gest, except that If one studies the record of aome politicians there win appear many a hiatus Irregularly filled In. We look askance, like good Samaritans, and imirs by on the other side. Dlmklns sat In the depot, playing checkers with his friend, one night when fast freight Nnmb.T Forty-Six uame thundering by. Said Dlmklns That's no ghostr Said Tom "Queer go, that!" "Yon may say thnt!" responded Dlmklns. "I've heard of ghosts' walks In my time," coutlnned Tom, "but yon know, that waa the first time I ever saw one." "Ah!" murmured Dlmklns, resting hla finger on a checker. "Right over behind the pond In Rtl jah Baker's wood," said Tom, "west of the tracks, old Walker keeps a shooting box, and there'a a lot of rails there and n switch." Dlmklns nodded Inquiringly. "The mark of them rails la mi the grass yltr concluded Tom. "Oh, It's fank!" "So It Is!" atspntcd Dlmklns. " eon 'eot myself." Waverley Magm-at. THERE DOES THE tun's MEAT 00 7 Dsn r It CnmplMrt? BlMtp4a hi This tint TriT J According to the ordinary view the ! mn Is constantly radiating heat In all directions, and, I think, It la gener filly supposed that only a small por tion of this hent encounters material bodies nt any instance, however grent. If so, the question arises. What be comes of the residue? I'hyslcnl re- search lends us to believe thnt hent cannot be destroyed, but only trans formed; yet many persons seem te liilnk thnt this hent vanishes like a -hnst without transformation and without producing any effect. This may be so, but it Is so much opposed lo phyalr.il analogies thnt we should be slow to accept It imlesa on the ba sin of definite observntlona which, I think, It will be admitted are not at present forthcoming. Nor can we confine the question te Hie sun. 'ihe loss of radiant heal must (on the theory which I am now considering) extend to all the stars. A lnt-Rer imrtlon of the hent of some of I hem is no doubt Intercepted by other bodies, but some of It must es capevanish. The whole universe Is losing bent; or nt least It Is losing motion, for the supply of hent may be temporarily kept up by the conversion of motion Into beat (as, for example, by n bombardment of meteorites). But that a good port of the radiant heat vanishes, thus lessening the total amount of force -of heat nnd Its equiv alents In the universe, seems to ben common opinion. ThiR theory, how ever (for of course everything on the subject Is theory), will strike many of your readers ns unsatisfactory for physical, not nn tnpliyslcal or theolog ical ro.-.xo'is. But If ibis heat be not lot, what heroines of It? If the sun's rays nnd those of the stars always met with some material body, however print Its distance ti'brht lie, the problem would be solved; there would bo no loss of beat to the universe. The sun may at pres ent be radiating more than it receives, nnd, consequently, cooling; but In traveling through space It may reach other regions In which tln.se condi tions will be reversed. But It scents plain that If this be the case, the grcnler part of the bodies which en counter the solar heat are dnrk bodies, or else thnt there is nn absorption of light In passing through the ether. Such an absorption of light and heat by the ethrr-as maintained, I believe, by the great observer Struve would equally solve the problem; fer the light and hent thus absorbed oenld not be hvt, and would probably be given back by the ether to material bodies In some manner not yet trailed. Otherwise, It would change the prop erties ef the el her. A third polhle alternative is that radiation, like gravitation, enlg acts between material bodies, and that, though, like grnvltntlnn, It. act on a material body In any direction and fol lows it In all Its movements, there is no expenditure of force In the direc tions in which no material body la en countered. On tills theory also titers would lie no loss of hent. There would only be an interchange ot' the same kind as If every heat ray ulti mately encountered a mntcrlnl body. W. II. S. Monek, In Knowledge. Hair (iliiflir Nat llrtroyt. "The tnlos of the complete destruc tion of the great Mulr glacier In Alaska nre nbsolutely without foun dation," said A. O. Hewitt, who hns returned to Minneapolis from the Ter ritory. "There run be no doubt thnt an rnrthqunke or nn upheaval of some sort did visit tho glacier, for huge Ice bergs have been torn from It and are now banked up In the sound about It. making navigation impossible within four or five miles of the deposit. The glncler wna distinctly visible through our glasses, and tt nppenrs to be fully as large as ever, with the main portion Intact 'this la the fourth trip I hare made to the llulr. and were there any great rbange in Its magnitude or shspe I would notice It at once. "From aa artistic standpoint the shaking np haa improved the glacier. Heretofore the Ice itself has Invaria bly heca hidden beneath the snewllke deposit but now the mass stands out like an enormous diamond, rollecting every shade of the seas and heaveu from Ita brilliant sides. It will re quire more than an earthquake te In terfere with the domestic economy of the great Mulr glncler." New Tor Times. Spaniards la Plartda, Florida waa originally settled by tlie Spaniards, and In the same way that the Old Swedea' Church In Delaware recalls Its pioneer settler nnd French uames in Wisconsin recall the French settlement of tiiut Slato, St. Angus tlue, Tnmpa, Fernandlua and other Spanish geographical names recall the fact that the IVnlusiila State waa under Spanish rule for a great numlicr of years. But there are net many Spaniards In Florida. The last census returned the number of such as only, a very small total wheu one ova sldura the proximity of Florida te the former Spanish possessions In the West Indies. There are, of course, a great many Cubans In Florida, par ticularly In and about Key West, but their presence there waa In uo wise due to the Spanish traditions of Flor ida; on the eoutrary, many, If not most, of the Key West Cubans went there as refugees from Spanish mh govcrnment In their own country, Varr llalleata Mathtaarj. Machines In a watch factory will eut screws with S89 thread to an inch. These threads aro Invisible to the naked eye, and It take 144,000 screws to make a pound. X pound of tlteni la worth aU pemnd weight of pure gold. i stite mi w: PENSIONS GRANTED. another Big Bile ol Coal Lands New Caiilt Students Indu i In a Mot-New -Trolley Lint Hrse.L Following rension were granted la-t cck: John McCahoii, CanonsbuiK, Pf. . cck: J Cahnn, Canonshurg, Soiomnn Rckhart, West Fatrview, 9h: tnhn NoMor k(,lln,l.l Y.. I.-L- I. ----.--, i.i.ui.iiniu, yu, Juki, , Schall, Lcechbttrg, $H; fchza A. CthV . son, F.vrrclt, $8; William L. Irvine, Mifllinburg, $6; Daniel S. Fry, falls Creek, $X; Homer Adkins, Northeast, t; Archibald Spratt, Leechburg, Mra J. McGow.tn, Green Tree, H. A large delegation of lawyers, repre senting the bar associations ol Buck, Montgomery, Chester, De. aware, RcrLs ! and l.i-higli counties, waited on Govern or Stone nnd asked thnt Judge A a rem S. Swam, of Norristown, be appointed su preme court judge to fill the vacnnvy , caused by the death of Chief Justice i tircen. A sale has been consumatcd for the largest contiguous block of coal lml on record in Western 1'cnnsylvania. The tract consists of over 40,000 acre, and Ihe Pcnnsy.vania Railroad Company Is the purchasrr. The selling price,, is said to have been 150 an .hi.. i m- imm ni-5 eai oi Allegheny river, nnd mainly bcl l'luni creek, nn the south, nnd Vu acre. I he land lies east of Ihe clwcen 'ucfrviv creek, on the north. It includes land in l'luni and l'enn townships. Allcelienv county, nnd where it extends north be yond I'urkrty creek into Wcstinorc'md county, takes in the deposits of Ixiwer and Upper Unrreli townships. The students of the senior nnd frculi nicn classes of the New Castle high school engaged in a Irec-for-all rinf at I o'clock Friday morning over the rai in. of a flng on the high school hg the seniors. The police were called u uucll the dirorder. Clubs and canes were free ly ti:ed. Fi vcral students wi re 10 badly hurt that they are under the care of phy sicians. Officers had to use their pi.u-is to protect themselves against the fran tic lioys. The authorities have posiliM--ly forbidden the boys to raise any fags, but they say they will pay no attention to '.he order. Frederick Kisuer is perhaps the M est resident of Washington county, nA one of the oldest in Pennsylvania, lie returned his age to the census enumera tor as 101 years. Kisner has excellent hea ill, and walks two miles to and ft-nni his home to Iioustonviltc every f.iy. He is a white man, but many years ago he married a negro woman. He h a large number of children, gratmYti'l drcn and great-grandchildren. fie served through the civil war and re ceives a pea-iion. I Isaac G. Fry, a Darlington Mark smith, is dying of hydrophobia. About two years airo, while he lived in Reaver, 1 Fry was sightly bitten on the knmi and forearm by a dog. Last Satanity morning he became violent, suffering I severe convulsions, and frothing at the mouth; The physicians immediately diagnosed his case as hydrophobia. Vrv . is now tied down in his bed, with man acles on his bands. The announcement that Roland Fair- hank, a resident of Black Ash, Crafoi4 county, has discovered perpetual auc tion lias arm scd much interest ia the minds of the mechanically inclined n Mendville. Mr. Fairhank will eirhibit his device at the Mradville fair Scntem bcr 25-28. The inventor was reared1 a farmer nnd a few yeara ago was a Ntcad vi'.te hotel keeper. Governor Stone has issued a procla mation ca.ling upon citizens of lV:i sylvania for contributions of cash, pro visions and clothing for the relic! of Vcxas Hood sufferers. ContribtitiosM of cnh tuny be sent to Drexcl & Co., llsil iideloliia, and of provisions or ctnlhinu lo Thi'odore C. knaus, The Munrse, Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Rail road Company will transport contribu tions iree of charge. The one hundred and twenty-third au nivcrsary of the Batt.e of Hi andy wine was celebrated Tuesday at West Ches ter, on the battlefield, where on Septem ber 11, 1777, for the first time the con tinental army carried the Stars and Stripes into battle. The -orator of the day whs Judje Isaac Johnson, of Media. The celebration was under the auspices. ot tienoral t.corge K. McUtll fini, Iv 31, U A. K. James Art, who was convicted of ting hre to the Hamilton planing at New Castle, has bi-rn setitenc undergo imprisonment in the W penitentiary lor 10 years. After vl of acquittal had been rendered byl Wallace's order, on indictments c mg Artz with burning; two other ing mills, a motion for a new trial the first . count ws refused. Shenango presbytery met at tit Unghton Tuesday. Kev. Dr. Jordan, M the First church, New Castle, was elect ed moderator, and Kev. Mr. Kirkbride. of I.eeshurg, stated clerk. Kev. ltttn Usp Moore, of Pittsburg, and other, spoke againt any change in the confes sion of faith, and -tnaniiiious action was taken against a thxnge. The coffin of Samuel Mar'x.t, who A.ti at his home near Tildcit, arrived (rem llaltimore. Its measurements were hi feet long, 3 feet a inches' hili, 3 feet .4 inches wide. The dead nun's measure ment was taken. He was 5 feet 4j inches tall; girth measurement. 6 feet inches; weight, 500 pounds. Might met were required to handle him. Stale Superintendent of Public Is strurtion Schaeffer has appointed E. C. Shields, of DuRois. superintendent af schools of Clearfield county, vice George W. Weaver, deceased. In the list of dead sent from Galves ton. Tex., is Mrs. Judson I'a'mer, wife of the secretary of the Y, M. C. A. She was a sister-in-law of VV. S. Palmer, su preme secretary of the Protected Home Circle, in Sharon. The extensive turning etUhlislimcnt owned by Calvin 1,1 ecu, at Levvistowa, was burned to the (.'round Monday even ing. The loss is $ji,ooo, fu ly insured. The fire was caused by a hot journal. The plant, which will likely be rebuilt, was va.ued at $m.s,ooo, and was the largest in the State. Fifty men ire thrown out of employment. The Uniontown & Monumrahrla Vat- ley Electric rai'roud is the latest trolley venture in Fayette county. The road f u .1 ... i Hum iiivii; iti ruauiiiuwn, passing through New Sa em am! McClelland nd touching all the new coke works M the new held south of Uniontown.
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