with a coarse piece of rope.
trembling with cold, was emaciated and |
| which flows a mile from the town. They |
was altogether the most deplorable look-
“ing human object the policeman had ever
He was about to take ber to the police
station to give her shelter when she told
“him that she was’ looking for a Mrs.
Townsend, who lived in the neighbor.
hood. The policeman found Mrs. Town-
chose this spot for their tour for game
" because it is rarely visited. Finley and
while Goodwin remained on
| the bank gunning for snipe.
Without knowing it, Finley walked
into a bed of quicksand. He did not |
send, and the latter said she would take
care of the woman, with whom she was
well acquainted.
It turned out that the woman was the
owner of a fine four story brick house at
884 Bedford avenue, had a bank account
of $15,000 and other
: and that her entire wealth wns estimated
‘at between $50,000 and $80,000. Her
pamé is Berths May, and she bas long
been the solitary occupant of the big
Bedford avenne house, Not even a dog,
for nearly 30 years. Her husband, Ed-
ward May, had a wig store in this city.
when she married him, and she has care-
folly watched over the fortune he left
her.
Mr. Townsend escorted the aged re-
‘clase to her home yesterday morning
and then went around to the Clermont.
victim was sinking more rapidly now,
Avenue police station and called the at-
tention of Captain Hardy to the wretch-
ed condition of the woman and the neces-
sity of providing for her. Captain Hardy
sent Detective Sergeant Fitzpatrick to
the hogse to make an investigation.
k secured an entrance by rep :
erward tried to resch the bottom of the
bed with long sticks. The sand was
found to be over six feet Seep Pilla:
himself as a building inspector
pi Ag ie pgm i He re
ported to Captain Hardy that from cel
to roof the house was in an intoler-
ably filthy condition, and thst there were
several years accumulation of dust on
the old fashioned furniture.
80 miserly is the old womun thut she
will not even buy the food she needsand |
. would starve to death did not a benevo- | goo] suxiliary telephone, which is -
designed to be nsed in conection with
substations. The auxiliary consists of a
lent family in the neighborhood supply
ber laily with bread and coffee.~-New |
York Son.
A ROMANCE ON WHEELS.
Two Young People Make Kove on Bleyeles |
mand Are Married In Road Costumes.
It is not oftem that a bride and bride
st the altar rail clad in
| body
costumes to be united for life.
| that the chair will answer the
} ceiver, a compound induction cofl, the
. tertiary coil of which is connected in se- | golf
' ties, and an amplifying magnet located
but his legs had sunk to the tops of his
_ | water touched his waist. Finley
| and togged at his right leg. It yielded,
but at the same time his left foot pene
trated deeper and deeper into the mys- |
.terious substance. Then he reversed his |
efforts and with all his strength pulled ’
eat or bird has shared her seclusion. She = ot his left leg. It yielded, but the right
" {8 74 years old and has been a widow’
leg went down to an alarming depth.
Finley called to Shine for help, and |
the lstter responded quickly. He tried |
in vain at his own peril to extricate his
friend. By this time the quicksand had |
almost swallowed Finley’s legs, and the |
water was gradually rising and Senting
his shonlders.
Then Goodwin was simmoned. The |
the water was getting
and
pear his chin. The combined efforts of |
the two friends checked the descent.
They tugged for 10 minutes before Fin-
ley,
the
quicksand. For curiosity they aft-
delphia Record.
THE CHAIR TELEPHONE.
A New Invention Which Might Be Used to
Advantage In Barber Shops.
An Ohio inventor has just patented an
y constructed chair. The back
| speciall
of the chair is so made that it will act as
sa transmitter, sc that a conversation
may be carried on with perfect ease
while the operator is seated in the chair.
The principle on which this patent oper-
ates in the vibrations produced in the
the speaker, wkich are trsns-
10 the chair back and thence over
the life in the usual manner.
chair telephone is so designed
| of an ordinary office chair. Mr. McKel-
| vey, the inventor, is now making exper-
| iments with & view of putting this at-
! tachment to suy ordinary chair now in
' use. In devising this telephone Mr. Mc-
| paths followed by inventors and has
6. slong new lines, employing a
pole nonmetallic diaphragm in the re
| immediately behind the diaphragm in
il | the transmitter. This telephone has
| been successfully worked over 115 miles
it | of telegraph wire with earth return, and
it is believed that when further experi-
r ments are made a distance much greater
: than this can be Sueeamtuly worked. —
y | Electrical World.
KLEE
fri
}
took it to 14 editors without getting it
- accepted, and finally it had to be nent to
Wearing of the Green.
_A man wearing a §1 greenback note in
siderable attention. At Filbert street he
tered some naintances, whom |
asked into a nearby saloon, and tak-
ing the note from his breast they all
drank to the memory of St. Patrick. Pin-
ning another greenback of the same de
nomination to the spot from wkich be
had taken the first, he started out, pre-
_ sumably to meet more friends.—Phils- |
Sulphia Beoord.
‘Williams Johnson of Boston, who has |
taken weather observations at § a. m. |
“every day for years, reports that the
st that hour 41} degrees |
all last month, and that it was the warm- |
. est March within the 40 years he has been |
kesenine a record,
He Unearthed & Lawsuit.
The inquisitiveness of a boy in Allen-
town the other day resulted in the find-
. ing of $600 and will cause alawsuit. The
| personal estate of Silas Camp, a rich old
bachelor, who died s month ago, was
sold at suction. “Among the goods dis-
posed of was an old safe, which was
| knocked down for $8.50. The safe had
been used by Camp, but after his death
it was opened by his relatives, and every-
thing of valne was taken out, as they
supposed. Before the purchasers had an
| opportunity to take it away, however, a
small boy worked the combination and
opened the door. While examining the
interior he pulled out a private drawer,
and out rolled a pile of
‘When counted, they were found to
amount to nearly $600. The money was
taken in charge by Camp's brother un-
: der the protests of the new owners, who
| say they will bring suit for the gold.—
1 Allentown (Pa.) Lowder.
A Buyrack Ambulanee. :
A rather curious spectacle on Court
street in Auburn recently wis a hayrack
| containing a bed made up neatly, In
the bed was a man, evidently an invalid,
for be lay back weakly upon thie pillows.
rather strangely with his surroundings.
Beside the bed sat a lady and over him
| bemt another carefully attending to his
wants. This sickroom on wheels was
part of a spring moving and will go
on record as one of most novel louds of
the season. —Lewiston Journal.
Siem tt
: An Intermittent Well.
There is a spouting well on the place
of William Deutsch. four miles south of
‘| Anacortes. The well is 112 feet deep and
bas only three feet of water in it, which
When the well begins to spout, it con-
tindes for several days at a time. It
roars precisely like the Ohio gas wells
and forces the water and spray several
feet above the top of the well. Then for
the sane time it will cease to breathe
and remain perfectly quiet. —Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
Humilisted Athens.
'» humiliation which never could have
been imposed upon ancient Athens. The
city is
bill, amounting to 447,000
that the gas will be cut off unless the
| Bill is settled within a few days. —Puarie
Shine waded in the creek searching for
boots in the consuming sand, and the!
ntterly exhausted, was pulled from |
purposes Pets Amsterdam.
A hut Wis upos ¥8 hen, coutraniing
cannot be lowered from its present depth. :
The Greek capital is threatened with
apparently unable to pay its gas .
drachmas, and
' the company has notified the anthorities
; i
“The rose Era
4 Gist Sal cheek grow deathly pale
|
Crests.
“You will aot find one woman in a
hundred who is familiar with the rules
of heraldry.” said a fashionable stationer.
| “Ladies insist on having crests embossed
on their writing paper, even when I tell
| themn that they are permitted by the
usages of centuries to use only the arms.
A handsome woman. came in the store
one day and said, ‘Mr. B—, I wish you
wonid put a crest and arms on my paper.’
I mew it would be nseless to argue
‘abont the crest, and so I asked her,
| ‘Have you any crest with you? ‘Oh, no!
| | haven't any,’ she answered. “You can
| make a nice one, can’t you? | learned
| that her husband was a grain dealer, so
for a crest | designed a sheaf of wheat.
For the arms I designed
heads on a shield, and she was delighted.”
_ Women who are interested in these
' things should observe the regulations set
down for the use of spinsters, married
for the arms should be used by each.
: The spinster is required to put her fam-
“lily arms into a diamond frame, with -
| very simple adornment. When s wom-
. an marries, the arms of her family must
| of her husband. The shield is impaled,
' the wife's arms occupying one position
and the husband's the other.
comes a widow, the frame for her arms
again assumes the form of a diamond,
. symbolizing her unmarried state, while
"her arms and che arms of her deceased
husband remain impaled as formerly. —.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
I» Duplicate.
enue with his chin cut ‘in several places,
#0 that it looked as if a4 drunken barber
had been practicing on it.
“Merciful heaven, Gus!” exclaimed
*What did you do to
‘the barber? You ought fo have murdered
dene.”
“I didn't do anything of the kind. Aft-
er he was through sbaving [ invited him
across the street and treated himto a
cocktail and a cigar.”
“Well, you are a fool.™
“No, I ain't such a fool, after all,” re-
“Oh, that's a different thing. Youare
' » kind of a double barreled fool.” —Texas
Zeng Trees by Electricity.
Trees are felled by electricity in the
great forests of Galicia. For cutting
' comparatively soft woods the tool is in
the form of an auger, which is mounted
on & Garriage, and is moved to and fro
' and revoived at the same time by a small
‘electric motor. As the cut deepens,
and Wines at the bar,
some hawk
women and widows, A specified frame
be put on the same shield with the arms
Gus de Smith came down Harlem av-
him. That was the least you could have
sponded Gus, “for you see I shave on
or :
FIFTH AVENUE RESTAURANT, gl A Modern !
po. R. SNYDER, Prop'r,
avenue, below Berk ty Hotel. will ibid
Er all oars. a everyth
i had in a fintciass restaumn
; served in 2 Br do
| | MARAPPEY HOUSE
Mahaffey, Clearfield Co., Pu
Accommodations first-ciass. Best of Liquors |
Htabling attached.
GBORGE FERGUSON,
of Prop’r.
AUGUST K. HUBER,
STONE MASON,
Mellon Avenne, PATTON
{1am prepared to do all kinds of work in my |
_ line at ressonable 5. Contracts taken and |
setimates furnis hen destred. Satistaetion ©
| gnamnteed, Give Sd hen ie
PW BITTNER.
AND Bui DER.
co»
CoNT TRACTOR
; |
Sa Fatimates submitted on short notices.
PATTON. PENNA.
W. E. Probert,
SE ARTISTIC wr
Barber and Hair Dresser.
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
. SF NEXT DOOR TO POSTOFFICE
Go To :
DANIELSON & ENGBLAD’S
SHOE
4th Ave., near R. R. Station.
Shoes made to order and repairing
of all kinds done promptly.
moderate.
181.
Reuel Somerville,
Attorney-at-Law,
PaTTox,
(pffice in the Good Building.
aa
J.P McKENRICK,
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Pa.
If she be- =
Esewspueo, Pa. “And everything kept in a firpt-class several store.
a specialty of the best grades
Will attend to all bosiness with PrOmpLIe :
Cand fdadity,
Offer opposite the Mountain Hose,
WH DAVIS, —-
Attorney and C ounselor at Law,
EBENSBURG, PA. |
All lean! basiness promptly attended to,
{fice on Contre Street,
M M. CRAIN,
S PrLasTERER and CoN TRACTOR,
Patton, Walnut Run, Spangler, and Hastings. p
ADAMANT
laste: ting specialty, Fstimates giv
kinds of work.
M. M. CRrArx, Patton. Pa.
“non an!
L MCNEEL,
BARBER AND Hair DRESSKR,
In the room formers accupied by Ott) Closer,
Opera House block. First-class word, guamn-
teed.
Hair Cut 2 cents, Shave 10) cents, hampon |
2, and Sen Foam 10 cents,
" wedges are inserted to prevent the rift:
from closing, and when the tree is near-
ly cut through an ax ov handsaw is used
to finish the work. In this way trees are
felled. very rapidly and with but little
labor. «London Tit-Bita.
Growth of the Eegliish Language.
In the year 1794 the habitual users of
the English language did not number
over 15,000,000; in 1892, 105,000,000. If
these fignres are correct (and they are
from a recognized authority), by the end
of the present century not less than 120,
000,000 people will use the langmage in
their everyday conversation. If the
same ratio of increase holds good, Eng-
lish will be spoken by at least 840,000,000
of people in the year 2000.—i3t. Louis
Republic. Sin
One Child's Youibuiazy. :
The statement that a child 34 years of
age would not have more than 130 words
in its vocabulary that it was able to use
understandingly led a careful mother to
note for a month the number of words
used by her child. All the parta of
speech used were recorded, with the re-
sult that in this case the child appeared
New York Post.
Atheros Te Prtcrbig,
there is » room full of diamonds, pearls
and other precious stones. The empress
-of Russia is allowed to borrow from this
room after giving a receipt for what she
takes, and generally the grand duchesses
are allowed to borrow from it also.
Jewelers are ¢ fervently wishing that the
styles prevalent in France in the tenth
century might be revived for the sake of
business. Judith, the wife of Caipuchin,
wore a solid girdle of gold that weighed
four pounds, and all
dames followed her eaampla.
Hoopskirts, which came into vogue in
the year 1530, weighed between 80 and 40
pounds, but it was the ‘“‘faskion,” and
they were lugged about by tha belles of |
the period despite the discomfort.
Professor Karl Pearson pronounces the
Monte Carico roulette wheel, as viewed
from the standard of exact science, bord
most prodigious miracie of the century.”
The Thinglit tribe tribe of Alaskcn numbers |
4,800 persons, - For
spent the greater part of io
aves.
dong
to have a vocabulary of 1,528 words. —
the fashionable
HARRY MoiORMWICK, M. Db,
CPHYSICIAY AND RURGHON,
PATTON, PA.
J.
to John Yahser's Hardware store.
Special attention given to Fevers and Dis-
ene of Children,
WARREN,
assess Per
CONTRACTIA NG
NTE R,
10 years TaN
Best work guaranteed, lowest
~ Prices.
oe en. om
ete.
Landscape, Grecian and Ormamental
Painting Taught.
Advertising a Specialty.
Pon Seasd bo Bay 53,
: PATTON. PA.
, Carriages,
| Hangw Paper,
Model 36
Columbia, -
Price, $125.
The New Columbia stands |
casjly at the of all fully
equi
pay maintain the high tation
et oy have established.
Ful etails concerning its new
Ry in the Columbia catalogue,
which is a beautiful book and full
| of interest. Free upos application. |
| For Sale by C. W. Hodgkins, |
* Patton, , Pa.
= [ao “gent for the Hickory and Hart-
ford Bleydles:
‘SHOP —
Prices
Ofer and residence vn Magee avenue, next |
sia necessary companion. There
:
| DEALERS who push the sale of [W. L. as Shoes gai
which helps to increase the — - 1 Doulas 5 of
#fford to sell at un leas profit, ang ue we bell
i foot wear of the dealer advertised below.
For Sale by MIR
Everhody is cordially invi
of goods which are offered
AT A REASD
mare Watches ag Watches, but the Watches that
1 OYSTERS IN THE HALF SHELL. |
| ete yon wil run and keep time with san. x tall line of Watboa and
| at lowest prices.
Repairing and Engraving
Pull line of Spectacles Yours eyes
Good 4 Building, Patton, Pa :
BE a
80
pre and wrk, Costing (rom $6 tn
f3.55 Police Shes, 3 Soles.
82.50, and 82 Shoes,
Unequatied at the price.
Boys 82 St 78 5 School Shoes
3 $2.50 S185 $1.78
n customers,
. They vem
Tig Sopris SeTing al yr
KIN & KUSNER.
ed to call andl see our Targe stock
r sale at our store :
it
fo
MBLE PRICE.
: In will be our constant effor} to supply the wants of all - our
customers and keepa
from.
DRY 50005, BOOTS
FLOUR, - FEED, -
‘A Inrge assortment of CARPETS, OIL, CLOTH,
~ TING, Etc., ke
yood class of goods to select
We have a full line of
We make
of
HAY, - GRAIN,
on hand. All
WwW ARE. DISHES and
(All kinds of Shelf Hardware
kept on hand.
No trouble to show gdods. Come in and look around,
- Respectfatly;
GEO,
* GARDEN
of every description a
Now is the time to ge
and we can supply yo
~ PRINTS and OILS
of all kinds and all shades and colors, It will pay
wonderfully to call an w
We a
you can save
General
of every description.
TOOLS
‘and prices. reasonable.
hoe, shovel, Span, ete,
's taste. a
[ a rake
u toa
youu
d sce what we have and
Fe -headquarters for
Hardware
Our store.is stocked to its ca-
pacity with a fine ling of shelf and heavy hardware
and all kinds of builders supplies, such as
DOORS a
We can supply you
line, such as nails, e
You
AMT
d SASH.
vith any thing in the building
c. .Be sure and see us first.
for Honest Dealing,
HOM
1A Few Fa
—The fact that you
Day Rux
They h
| will interest you.
FIFTH AVENUE.
ts
OF evERYBODY. oo
an buy economical of the—
Store Co
halve a complete line of choice, sea
]
1
| sonable goods, embracing dlmost everything in the general -
| merchandise line, which they are offering to the public at the
lowest possible
and will success. |
‘Hard Ti
mes Prices!
Right Goods At AL the Right Prices,
Corner Mages and Fifth Ay
|s the Text of Their Story, ;
entes. i,