a -maldi. THE FRIEND IN NEED. .. ACTOR’S GOOD SAMARITAN. A Reminiscence Which Seemed to Toueh the Relator’s Heart—Onee Ho Was Very Poor and Unknown, but Now He I's Rich and Famous In All Lands. The place was a coxy room In a cozy house in a quiet street off the Strand, London. The time was Saturday; the hour, midnight. sional ‘wen, composed of some of the lawyers, doctors; newspaper men and. actors whose names are famous on both sides of the Atlantic, was scattered in . groups about the rooms smoking and chatting after the Saturday night sup- tution with them. In a sheltered cor- ner over by the fireplace sat a small knot of men, every one of whom had reached the top, or at least the front rank, of his profession. The talk, drift-- ing in a smooth, deanltory, half sleepy way from phase to phase, had gradually to another the story had passed, each telling the tale of an empty stomach, or an empty pocket, or a hopeless tramp of 30 miles or so in thin shoes along a snowbound road in search of employ- - ment. Henry Yrving, thoughtfully smoking, with an air of deep attention, had not spoken and did not speak until the others, having exhausted their stock, turned to him. He had experienced harder lack than any of them, and they knew it. He looked np at fhem for a moment and then, after a panse, said: “The recollecticn nppermost in my mind just now, while you boys have been talking abont tramping and winter roads and all that, is of a certain Christ- . mas dinner st which I was present. I - wonder whether any of yon remember a poor fellow. long since dead—Joe Robin ~—who played small parts in London and ontside it, and who made the one big mistake of his life when be entered the profession. Jos had been in the men’s underwear busines and wag do- ing well when an amateur performance for a charitable object was organized, and he was cast for the part of the clown ip a burlesque of ‘Gory Fawkes.’ Joe belonged to ome of the bohemian clobs, and on the night of the show his friends among the act: rs and journalists attended in a body to give him a 'send- ' He played that part eapitally, and nischie? might have ended there, bunt some one compared him to Gri- stock, went on the stage, months later I came upon him playing . general utility on a small salary ina small theater in Manchester. One relic - of his happy days still remained to him. He had retained shirts, collars and un- ‘derwear sufficient to last him for a gen- . eration, ‘Bat if Jos lacked ability as an ac- tag he had a beart of gold. He would . le#d or give his last shilling to a friend, and piece by pisce his stock of under- wear had diminished until only a few ~ shirts. and underclothes remained to him. **The Christmas of that year—the year in which we played together— was perhaps the bitterest I ever knew. Jo» had a part in the pantomime. When the men with whom he dressed took off their streét clothes, he saw with a pang at his heart how poorly some of them were clad. One poor fellow without an overcoat shivered and shook with every "breath of the wind that whistled through the cracked door, and as he dressed there was disclosed a nuit of the lightest sum- mer ganze underwear which he was wearing in the depth of that dreadful winter. Poor as Joe was, he was deter- mined to keep up his annual custom of giving his comrades a Christmas dinner. Perbaps all that remained of his stock . of underclothing went to, the pawnbro- ‘ker, but that is neither here nor there. Joe raised the money somehow, ard on the Christmas day was ready to meet bis guests. * Among the crowd thet filed into the roora was his friend with the gauze un- derciothing. Joe beckoned him inte an adjoining bedroom, ard pointing.to a chair silently walked out. On that chair hang a suit of onderwear. It was of a / comfortable scarlet color; it was of silk and wool ; it was thick and warm, and | started to the station a bystander asked it clung around the actor as if it had been boilt for him. As the shirt fell over bis head there was suffased through his frame a gentle, delicious glow tiat thrilled every fiber of his body. His heart swelled alinost to bursting. He seemed to be walking on air. He saw + all things through a mist of tears. The faces around him, the voices in his ears, the familiar objects in his aight, the very snow falling gently outside the windows, seeped as the of a dream with but one reality —the suit of | underwear.’ ‘‘His feelings seem to ‘have entered your heart,” said ong of the Hlsteners. **They might well do go,’ replied Mr. Irving, ‘for I was that poor acter.’ — New York Tribune. nn sre omen, Valaable Pamps. The hydraulic pumps at the Combina- tion shaft cost $8,000,000; the first set put in cost $750,000. The surface pnmp plant at the same shaft cost $400,000. That at the Union shaft cost £650,000, + At the Yellow Jacket’s shaft the steam . pump plant cost nearly $800,000, while that at the Forman shaft cost £500,000. ~ Btatistics show that the pumping ma- . chinery on the Comstock is not only the wost costly bat the most powerfal im | the world, —Virginia(Nev.) Enterprise. : “ow to Discourage Treating. ; Gayboy Have # drink with me? A company of profes. alarming extent. His fate was sealed. He sold bis and a few - eomt a bushel. boes.'’ x samen ousven some. | . Startling Developments IRVING'S STORY OF THE " epysTED” . Bslivened | -o Dinner to His | This story is going. the rounds ot Vienna: Among the prominent citizens of the capital of the Austrian empire js a gentleman called Fritz. Hodis the pro- prietor of a large factory ang is, more. over, well known as a jovial, whole sonled fellow, who delights to give large dinner parties. Not long since bo sent out invitations to all his business friends to partake of _ bis hospitality at a dinner party. At first, ae is frequently the case at a dinner party at which there are gemtie- men only, the proceedings were some- what tedious. By degrees, however, the frequent lubwications, and there was a flow of geniality and wit such as is - found only on press excursions. : Good hamor prevailed to an almost Everybody present was in a hilarious mood. [Just at this erisis Fritz stood up and intimated that _ he would like to make a few remarks. assumed n retrospective hue, From one ° “Bravo!” said a fat’ man with a red face, pounding on the table with the handle of his knife. ; ‘Now we will hear something fan ny,’’ remarked another guest. getting his mouth ready to laugh. h, speech!’’ exclaimed several of Fu guests who had contemplated the wine when it was red, There was a solemnity about the host that almost convulsed the merry gentle- men present. '‘Gentlemen, I see around me all my creditors, and I bave some important information to impart to you.’' And he paused. The fst man, to whom Fritz was owing 20,000 marks, tarned a Sitepkionid seemed to be un- able to close his mouth, in which be had deposited a morsel of pate de foie gras. Several other creditors looked at each other. a ‘bankrupt.’ : Roars of laughter. “That is good. “Ower the Hills to the Poorhouse,’ gi rs orator did not join in the laugh- ‘ter. With increased solemnity he said: - “1 wash, gentlemen, for your sakes and for my sake that I were jeeting, but I em mot. Of late I bave experi- enced severe losses. It 19 impossible for me to meet my obligations. If;however, you gentlemen are willing to give me ‘six months’ time, | can pay off every- and my thing and thos save my honor life, for'’—and here Fritz drew a re volver—‘“] propose to blow ont my brains in your presence, ’’ and he placed the deadly weapou to his temple. . The horrified guests sprang to their feet. A few of the IGT Courageous en- deavored to wrest the revolver from the desperate man, but they did not suc- Frits declared that he would not give up the revolver until a certain doc- oment giving him an extension of six months was signed, and he saddeniy drew the document from his breast. As we have already intimated, all: the creditors, owing to the wine, were © in a most genial mood, and iz a few. minutes the document was signed hv all the creditors of Herr Fritz .. Then the merriment was renewed in earnest, although thers was a hollow in the laigh of the fat man that of an aching heart. Fritz put up his revolver, which, so it has been inti- mated, was not even loaded. ——— rs ana Boies Simple Arithmetie. A potato bagger went into a Pitsburg commission house «ne day and asked if there was anything to do. ‘Yes,’ re- plied the proprietor, '‘a car load of po- tatoes Is wyiting &t the station to be bagged. t will youdoit for?’ “A **Now, I'll tell you what I'll do. There are 800 boshels in the car. job.” The shook his head. *‘1'll give you §10 to bag those B00 bushels. '’ “No, sir; a cent a bashel js my price.” “I'M make it $11, and that's as high as I'll go.” “Can't doit, boss. I never scabbed on potato bagging in my life, and I won't begin now. oont a bushel.’”” The Dagger started out, when tbe proprietor: called him back again and said, ‘'All right; I'l} give you your price.” After the man the proprietor the reaming of the eon- vorsation. ''I just wanted to show you - something queer. That man won't work unless he gets an even cent a bushel. He can’t compute any other rate. bas a bmshel bagged. hoeuts 4. acteh on a stick, and that Tepreemts 1 cent.’ Pub Dispateh. ; Al Front. At Chancellorsville, while 3 sckson's corps was moving to the flank and rear of the Union army, the Confederate eav- ' alry in advance became engaged with . the enemy. Presently a wounded troop- .. e1 emerged from the woods ia fiomt. After surveying the scene b.. moved in _ the direction in which the infantry were mareing, apparently in search for the ont immediately the biue jackets closed behind Jackson's corps, and the poor cavalryman appeared again, look- 1g hopeless and distraught. He was | met by another cavalryman, to whom hea called out: "Hello! Woanded?'' **Yes,'' replied the other laconicaily, adding, * ‘Let's git to the rar.’ “R'ar!’ : returned the disconsolate cavalryman. ‘This is the worst I've been in yet. It ain't got any r'ar. " oe Ge Seay wii hoeband; be never hurries you whem | aT no 1 ™ little credit due to him for | w Ee 1 drink. Now York my dear. Whenever I sce that Iam | ; likely to be ready in time, I hat or gicves out of the way and hunt for them up and down till | '* — Detroit | . guests became more lively under the stimulating influences of the wines, _ Their tongues became loosened by the per, which had become a standard insti. comtinved the orator, . “you will regret to bear that I am- I'll give you $9 for the My price 1s 1- When he AT EVEN-SONG. | BT cmd call you buck for one brief hour, Jt is nt even-song that hour shoul be, bells are chiming from an oid gray tower Arross the tranquil ». Just o the last gul@ lingers in the west, you to the world you knew Before you went to rest. And where the starry jnsmine hides the wall We two would stand together once again. -F mow your patience 1 would tell you all My tale of love snd pain And you would listen, with your tender smile, Tracing the lines upon my tearworn face, - And frding. even for a little while, ‘Our earth a weary place. Only one little hour. And then once more The hitter word. farewell, beset with fears And all my way darkened. as before, shades of lonely years. Far better, dear, that son, unfelt, unseen. Should hover near me in the quiet sir And draw my spirit through this mortal screen’ Your higher life to share. J would not call you back, and yet ah, me! Faith is 80 weak and humap ore so strong That sweet it seems to think of what might be This hour at even-song. : ~New York Ledger. How to Protect Yourselr. If you get into a quarrel with man and see that you can't get out of = with- out a fight right then and there, forget that he has a béad, pick ont the second button of his vest and smash him on it as bard as you can. In 90 cases ont of | CONTRACTOR pe aria Fes 5 NEAR THE PATTON MOTEL. i All kinds of lanndry work. done on shortno- | i tice und Fond work gusrantaed Prices regsorn- un whia the fields are sweet and cool with | allied for and delivers! without Opders left at Nebsid's barber Work extra charge, te the Beek Hotel, will rmeelve shop, « { prompt a tention; AUGUST K. HUBER. ‘STONE MASON, Mellon Avene, PATTON, PA. lam prepared to do all kinds of work in my: w. Contracts taken and line at rensonabile extimates fumisheal when desing.