a school. “Why, Frog, do yon gaze at me? Pray swim or jump. that 1 may learn Some Natural History!” : ¢ he eronked out hin reply: what I'm here for, too. studying Boys. and their curious ways, s¢ I've nothing else to do!” he turned snd went away, { sank below; en of the pool Jefe of the in St. Three Amusing Garves, me called water sprite affords Jot of fun. Players stand wo lines facing each other, with a open &pace, representing a river een. The child called the water | nds between and beckons one This one signals to one on ite side, and they run across | hange places. If touched by the sprite, the water sprite and the touched exchange places, and th ds in front with his back others and calls, “Last couple he iast two in the line | to the front and try to join before they are touched by e catoher. The one touched becomes fs partner joins the pre- r, and they fake their when th a8 first couple in the Hine, play red lion, one player, the red tands {n & den. The othors ven- pear to him, calling: den LL ; yer you catch H will be one of the line can catch others. Japanese Children at Play. fn an ariicle in the St. Nicholas en titled “Glimpses of Child Life in Ja- : strated by himself. Theodore ‘Wores says that two holidays pepecials Jy for children are obrerved by the In panese during the ysar The one oc ms on May 5. and Is called “Boys d the other, on March §, Is on 3s “Girls’ Day,” or ths “Feast ¥ Dolls.” On boys’ Day the streets t a very bright and festive ap of, AB almost every honsge I ecorated with a tall bamboo pole o which one or more large paper fish from each pole corresponds 10 the number of boys in the family. © These fish are very cleverly copstroc. are painted so as to present matural appearance. astenied to the pole by a cord passed suth and tall allow the wind to blow gh Alling them out and causing them to plunge in a most lifelike man- per. There paper fish vary in length three to 20 feet. tnany houses, on this neeasion, siature stands of arms, containing rds, spears, bows banners, and of armor, are brought out of the ura, ¢r storehouses, and placed on view. Home of these Loy Weapons are carefully made as toe real things, and are often very old, having served 4" Day in the same family for srations. On Girls’ Day ai ery household has more or Jews collection of dolls on view. Theue carefully packed away, each . own wooden case daring the | and are only brought out on thee occasions, when it 18 the cus for Hitle girls to pay visite {o , exchange the compli- ‘one another's dolls. In ad- dition 10 these dolls, all sorts of minis ture household articles, consisting of dress ruses, toliet-sety, furniture, en utensils. ete, mide of ail and lacquer, are displayed. The al dolls imitate the mikado and empress in ancient court dress. these collections of dolls are mole: . a has not without reason been “ehilaren’'s paradise.” While own observa “have proved to that Japanese children are about pplest 1 know, | have also ob d that they always display the yespect for their purents und ,/ who are thus more than repaid unfailing love and attention ow upon the little ones of the Kingdom.” : ee A AE Missing Words. ive children had played evory- they knew over twice: at least ought they bad, and still it ould not to be § o'click, when to go down-stairy to the H- to play a brand-new game with u only walt long enough it to be § o'clock after & while; as the clock began to strike | father. “I'm not going to need it!” sald Dummy Des, indignantly. t the fittle boy spoke and : | sim arn sh * Nicholas. is continued. P pass fs another amusing p children stand in twos, the other. One who Is 4 lion, come put of your The number of fish | They are jaws, and openings at the | All be number one, Tommy , Molly three, Polly four and Dum- You may help Dummy » If he needs it.” said thelr ‘80 father began: “A young fellow whose surname was Lc PHL said Donny, promptly and eagerly. 4 “That's good.” said his father, “al- ‘ though the word was mill” So Donny sat down. “Ha topped beside a flowing" “Ril,” said Tommy, who said after- t | ward that he said it by mistake, bat it appeared to be right “There came a pretty girl named—" “JH1.° sald Molly, sure she was right. | “He wished that his was Jack, not-—" 1 “SINT asked Polly. “No. we cannot use the same word | twice: but you did not know that, 80 you may try again’ “Wil?” asked Polly was right. “Or. as they sometimes called him—" “HILL” said Dummy Dee, with such an air of conviction that he received ! mich applause. | Which really was a bitter—" “Pill, ald Tommy, delighted with his cacy one. “Hi: errand he forgot—" But Molly could not think, peither Dee shouted. could Polly. Dummy “Until” and was right again. toPhe gun shot down behind the—"' SH sald Tommy. and that was right 100, and the last line. Then trey nll decided to write one | it had to be hari for their 1ather, ond sald thelr fatoe {oanss. ns Molly | wrote things with rhymes in them for fhe papers. so be was in the habit od {{: bur Pafuse they were through with | eupper-bell rang, to #0 they had to thelr task ie thelr great surprise, wait until ths next afternoon. But they had decided on the roming word. men. : Ir was gry. outh's © gmpanion, ¢ rung out and tries to catch one. : The first one caught joins bands with | d together they try to catch eh captive being added to his | Only the two persons at the ends | | dould remertber, some man had sald | that the whole world was lke two A Trae Story, Toggles's Sunday school teacher had told him something he did not under. gland very well. Ass nearly a8 he great heaps, one of the happy things and the other of the unhappy things, and every time wo took something trom the nnhappy heap, and put it op the happy heap we made the whole | world plensanter and better Then she had told them how the ann who raid it had made the world happier by giving a penny to a littie © gir] who had lost hers and was crying | shout it, Hike that, because, even if he should meet such a little girl, the chances were he wouldnt have any penny. fleing at gramdpis on a visit. and hav. ing 4 new teachir he just kept quiet, ard put the whole malter carefully away in the back of his head, to keep 1 until be had time to think it over. The time came the BiXt aflernoon when he was out by the barn, digging in the load of new fresh sand that grandpa had had duniped there on pur: pose for him. He made two great piles. as nearly of a size as he could, and the one by his left foot he called | the happy pile, and the one by his right hand the unhappy pile. and then he took 8 big trowel full of sand from the right-hand pile, and Jet it gift gown on the lefi-uand pile, and re. joleed to see the unhappy heap Rrow smaller and the happy heap grow blg- ger. And all the time he was think- ing how to tell it to Mabel who wai Tagglen's Jittle sister, and who hadn't been to Sunday-school because she had torn a great hole iu one of her new shoes and the shoemaker had not fixed it yet. It was while he was very busy there that mumma called him to cote into the house Grandpa had come back with the wagon, and was all ready 10 take him to the big factory where they made the kind of milk Toggles had geen the men squirt out of the cows n- | to the thick, sticky milk that Toggles’ mamma bought in cans at the groogry store. Toggles had asked so many questions about it that grandpa had promised to take Bim (0 see it don They were ready to start, and grand- pa had just sald, "Get up!” to Dobbin, when Mabel came running to the door. “1 want to go, too,” she called, “Oh, no!” said mamma. “you have not any shoes to put on. Why, whit would the men In the big factory say if they were 10 see a little girl withioue | any shoes?’ “1 want to go,” repeated Mabel “1 wint to see them make the thick, sticky milk” “No sald mamma, some other time” And then Mabel began to ory, for she was littler than Toggles, and all of a sudden Toggles thoaght of his two heaps. “1 ean go some other time, “he sald. Mabel can wear my shoes” Grandpa and mamma did not say anything while Mabel, with tear- stained cheeks, but as radiant as a lit- tle cherub, was pulling on the shoes | Toggles had just taken off; but they looked at each other, and there were tears ip mamma's eyes. : “Good-bye,” called Mabel, as grand pa gathered up the reins. 1 wish yom were going, 100.” “Oh! never mind” answered Tog- f gles. “1 can #o some other time.” And then, hurrying back to his piles, | he tell to digging wo hard that loog be it | fore grandpa and Mabel returned, the | unbappy heap was gone. and only the t round happy heap remained. — Frederic Hall, In Sunday School Times. his horse and started | again, and that Toggles thought it very one likely that he shonid ever do a thing “vou oan go {| ENDED IN THE PHILIPPINES. Me Had Served Under Many Flags— His { Courage Helped to Avert 5 Disaster | to the Americans Nefore Santiago- Became 8 Traftor in the Phillpploes At 2 o'clock on the afternoon of ¥ | July 1, 1868 when the American army | thin line from San Jusn | to El Caney, the commaniing general © Lain, : : had grave doubts asx to bis ability to in one regiment and then in another. lay in a Jong, hold the position. He had driven the Spandiards before him, but at a terrh i ble cost, for sne-fifth of bis troops lny © dead or wounded in the rear. The al | vance had been so rapid that supply | wagons had been left milea behind | arg} a one fn charge save civilian @ with no one fn charge save CIVHMI © p00 who knew Bim doubted. Every available enligticd | an omnivorous rosder. supecially of} | nistorieal works, and although he de- | | eried war hit had at his tongues end | | the full detutla of every great battle account was taken of the am- | munition used, and when the Span ; juh works were at last gtormed the i troops who had borne the brunt of the | attack found their ammunition beits | Comitieteera, man had been pressed into the at- tack. in the fierce onslaught of the morn. | ing no | in a state of depletion. Somes of the | men were without a cartridge, others | had but half a dozen rounds. No ntw supply was in ¢ight and the situation | for the Americans was very grave. { The key of the position was San Juan hill held by the Third Brigade, | | with the Ninth Infantry in the centre, | flanked by the Thirteenth Infantry on the right and the Twenty-fourth In- fantry on the left. In the three rogi- | ments not over 2050 rounds of ammuni- tion could be found and should the Spanish make an attack at this point | {t would be inevitable that the Ameri retaken and further gevers loss inflict ed on the invading army. The brigade commander, realizing | gall well the situation. was Jolng some was considering the advisability of ly. Dbiack-bearded, swarthy glouchy, stepped up and sald: “¥ get ‘em, Colopel” “You?! Why, you'll be killed before pou got half a mils to the rear.” sald and ary big tree is fllvd with sharpshoot- era” “All right, the same.” “Wall If you want to go you better take a detail of ton men. You cant lo it alone.” “No 1 don't want no army. {tomy “Go ahead then” said the (Colonel, “and don't waste any time The swarthy individual was off down i the hill on & run. At the fir Joad | man he stopped and exchanged am- | munition belts, thin started on again | In ten minutes he had crosses the San I get to aight in the thick chaporral It waa just three-quarters of an wour later. when the Colonel had be- rear and Saw & PACK team crossing the river on A trot. Six muleteers were along. and bringing up the rear was the arderiy astride of a big. gray mnie The train. bearing 50 00 rounds of am. raunition. roached the crest of tue hill just in time tomavi +t 3 disaater, for the Spaniards had discovered tie weak ness of the American army and were concentrating for an attack. But the assault wag never made, for the re sewed vigor of the firing must Have shown that ths belts of bine had bran replenished and that an attack then was useless, When the mulez had been ralioved of thair burdens the hlack-whiskered man fay down unlor a mango ree ang 31d not stir for a long time. The Col onel came up presently and geving wioed aozing from the man’s chest and arm and face, aald. “Are you hurt, Eberhardt?’ "Nao. Colonel, only wounded” was the reply. "1 bee all right after a vile” But he went to the hoapital ano stayed there for two months He had heen shot four times by Spanish sharp shooters while hringing up the ame munition train. but he got it thers, driving the muletesrs ahead of hint at the muazgie af a gan. That man was Otto Eberhandt, will known in the regilar army as an ever lasting kicker, Jdaltked by offfeers and men. and generally considered a cow ard. In a recent attack on an American garrison in the Philippine Islanas, thie insurgents seemed more Jetermined than asual They fired with precision stood the return fire well and only fed when thelr leader had been killed When the Americana went out to bury the dead and care for the wonnded they found that the insurgent jealer was an Amerivan, { That man was (ito Eberhardt, well known in the Philippines as a deserter to the Filipinos, and generally consid ered a coward. Otto Eberhardt was a soldier of for- tope A Gorman by birth with his first taste of war obtaipea in the France Prassian encounter, he had gerwad under many fags. He received hig education at Hehlelburg univer sity and on leaving that institution hore the sca. of many a duel. Enter i ing the Prussian army he became bri- gade bugler when the Franco-Prussian war began. The loses of two fron! teeth was the only sear he had to show fur that struggle. He was blowing a call when & piece of ghell struck his way down his throat Early In the seventies Eberhardt army. Jt was not long afterward that ting Bull was started. Eberhardt was in the Eighth Cavalry at the time and | OTTO EBERHARDT'S ADVENTURES | tos chief. Geronimo. * fi the service than he, because he was | the chronic kicker. He was | lazy, sbiftless, dirty, disgruntied and | i never had a good word lo Say about) | Known as with his life He went to Greece and was with the Greek army during the hegan talking about getting out of the army. cins would be driven back. the hill scholarly “cussing” because the am- he never bad trouble in obtaining an munition train had not come up. He | sending a detail back when his order- and otlier great generale always wind. the Colonel, somewhat pettishly. "By. Colonel 1 bring ‘em shuat | desert had Be so desired he remained Gen Joubert Juan river, a mile away, and was fost gun to despair, that he glanced to the bugle and drove the mouthpiece half | came to America and enlisted in toe ‘the disastrous campaign against Sit- } V0 eric Harrissn in the Nineteenth Cen fury. England and enlisted there. ~ He was Infantry when Gen Lawton chased the Apaches into the mountains of south. orn Colorads and captured the rebel | For a fow ypoars after that Eberhardt remained in the American army, first Phere was hardly a beter known man @ any one unlesy {twas some dond gon | But that he was a genius | He was | or campaign in the world’s history. | It {as sald thot he was acquainted with | aver 20 languages and dialects, | In 1860 he loft America and the next | heard of him he was leading a regi- i ment of Chinese in the Japanese-Chin- | ee war. Getting out of that affair war with Turkey. He arrived in the States again In 1896 and enlisted in the Ninth Infan. try and was with that regiment dur. ing the Spanish-American war. When rumors of war were first heard long hefors the Maine disaster, Eberhardt He sald he did not want to fight: would not fight; wwonld desert first. After the Maine was blown up he was more vehement than ever in denunciation of war. Although he wig disliked by both officers and men for his surly manners audience, for he could talk entertaia- ingly even when kicking. At night af. ter drill it was his want lo gather abont Kim a few men and Jeseribe tO them the horrible suffering brought on by war. Hg would tell of the cam- | paigns of Napoleon, Von Moltke, Grant {ng up with an account of ihe casual ties. inying special emphasis on fhe fact that many more soldiers died of | Aigeaso than were killeq in battle But notwithstanding his kicking and the fact that he had many chances to with the regiment in the Spanish war, doliig Ale duty until carried to the bos- | pital a badly wounded man On getting his discharge in tan spring of 1899 he said he was going to the Transvaal and he wis next hesrd of as an officer in the Boer army under, After the capture of Cronjy and the disintegration of the Boer army, Eberhardt returned to Philippinen. But Ge was not long in| the islands when ho deserted and bee came the head of a marauding band of : guerrillas, Tt was while with this band that he was killed—Nuw York | sun. Do Birds Whistle or Sing? {rt Las often been cause for aston fahment that an anbmal so remote a a bird in the line of developniont from man ahoaid be the only creaiiire Cae pable in the least degrees of imitating | hae Biaman voles A talliing hose haw prowl time to time been advertised! mt fur practical purposes aa anly | wim du the bird An Americen Bate aealiat nas recsntly written tn prove | that birds are not slogers. but whists | Jers. that 1% to say. that the notes | dre peadosed through 4 tubeto be teeknioal through the slit knownasthe slat tip--nt ay (he Jdp of voeal cords. | But the whole distinction is beside the : point, ALY one Who has seed 2 bird | jnelig will Bave seen both the vibra. tions of bis throat and the variations in the extent to which he Opies and | close His beak or mandibles, and giv- : enthuse arcompaninienis, tigether with the production of an articulste langage. whistling and singing fase some identical, in spite of the techiioal roenus suggesting a distinetion. Poo- | gle ure acenstomed to the llea that only a fiw species of birds, such ns the parrot and the jackdaw, can be ravgat, hat in wild life almost all sirds are mimics to some extent, amd | srahably mors of them than people | realize could be tanght to imitate hu- man sounds The staring has aston | hing skill in takiug off other birds; | and sven the ragcous jay can produce 4 sang orf a whistle if the word is pres : ferried. which would do justice to a rhrush ~ London Globe, Amerioan Boastoess Wathods, “then | come to London” sald 8 leading American man of huginess, | “1 fin} your bankers and merchants atrodl into thelr offtecs hetwoen and 11 in the morning. 1 am at my desk at 7.0 said he, "and by noon I. nave completed sen asactions by fetenhone” Telegrams in fact, ne longer 4p to dade in the Uinitest States. and few basy men ever a pen except to sign thelr Hames. Thiv do pot even lctate their let sepa. They speak into a phonograph andl haen thelr message typewritten | from #38 instrument. Life in. the states 3 one perpetunl whirl of tele 1a Hu APN Be uae panes, telosenies, phonoiraphs, eles | ert bells. motors, lifts and automatie instruments, To me such a life | would aot be worth lving, and the mere aight of {t is incompatibie with comtinuons thought But busi | aes seems to be done In that way. Api 1 did not learn that the per contage of suicide or buuanity ‘was very seriously increased by these truly maddening inventions. —Fral : was sent to India, where he saw | some fighting. He was in the Ameri can army again with the Thirteenth | perceptibly, as we wake or aleep, we i crisis shows ua that we have become. is subject to unremitting mental and | to a notably rigorous route. He never | way, bought a ticket for home, and res | 18 not stung against you” | spirit of application, qualities gre slowly sapped and under | i : ha mined by such steady exactions of | ments and additions have heen k denoted. i dicated. 4 stand ac right angles to the hand, . Yi court to the Morganza refoln school tA porsan | pendent thumb! the sirong character | ¢ Bas | disrermination. | apergy are denoted — i doesn’t it annoy you to have Ceamment on your sige? nratudlce —Bovee. Integrity without know!slsc is weak | and useless. —Paley. Live with wolves and you will learn to howl—Spanish proverb. i Rastiness is the faithful tnt unhap- | py parent of misfortune—Patler, : What you dislike in another take care top corrdct in yourself —Sprat. | The: great art of learning is to un dertake but little at a time Locke, A judicions silence {x always betler than truth spoken without charity | De Sales. He 1s a good mun whose friends are all good, and whose enemies are de cldedly bad —-Lavater. There is one form of hope that is never gnwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the Increase of | knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call (t patience. ~~Bal- | wir, Greut occasions do not make heroew or cowards: they simply unveil them to the eves of men. Silently and im- grow or wax weak; and at last some —Canon Westcott, RH A SE A ak A, A HARD LIFE, sami { The Mentsl and Physical Bardehip of Misti Car Clarke is Unrenitting. The life of a railway mall clerk or route agent at the best is not easy, ! says ii contributor to Collier's Weekly, He travels under a constant strain and | physical hardship. He is always over- worked, but he must be ever alert, ex- | pert and accurate. The busines of a continent depends on the correctness of his instantaneous mental processes and his rapid maipulstion-—a letler “misthrown” may break a heart or burst a bank or ruin a riliway corpo- | ration, : The lurching of cars zolng at tre | mencous speed around sharp curves; the tontinued sucoession of efforts to maintain equilibrium: the monotonous i vibrations terribly destructive to nerve tissue, to spinal column and to hrain texture are the dally and hourly con- comitants of his ordinary work. Pro- baticners often relent and go back to thelr former duties. One aspirant for employment in this field was ausigned < 1 finished his Arst trip: he went half turned as a passenger. Replying af~ terward to some gquestipns as to the labor involved, he replied: “Lifting | and unlocking 200-pound pouches, | shaking out the contents, arranging America and enlisted for service in 1B} yyy removing pouches, locking same, | 3 | earrying on mail matter, re-arrapging sacks, then going over sime Work, con i | tinning sams 17 hours, without reat, | with trains flving around curves and | slinging you ssminst asierything that | Che was given a gener Vigor, vitality and resolution are | essential in a Beginner as well as intelligence and pnwearied koeeiiest f Rit the physical | duty and the mental aniilities are pros partionately doteriaratinh : Hence the railway mill system is & huge Gorgon, incessantly, ernelly des | vouring specimens of the best man. hood of the nation, Under present con. | ditipns It must continge to demand and devour, in order that the currents v ond time within throes Weeks that an of trade and tides of civilization may | eontinge to flow. Suspend the An: | wrecking process a single week for neciiod. universal rest and social chaos | winpid ensne Fortnus Told by Foal are i Teeth that are jong and not ARTTOW | denote large, liberal views, strong Pas. 4 sfonk and herode virtuis; f they ape | jong and narrow, a weak character is | fvenly grown teeth show | a hetter disposition anit hetter devals | oped mind than those that crowd and overlap. Long nosss ate cautious and | prudent; short ones, impulsive and | joyous. Deep colored uyes, with wells arched lids, both upper and low, | show a truthful and affectionate ni pure. An evebrow slightly curling He | tha outer adge indicates a jealous ni ture. There is a whole world of tell tale indieations in the apex of thie! ear. If it Hes plose to the nead the! owner possesses a refined nature. Bat) i if the top starty away from the head | at a well defined angle, that person | | has an uneven disposition and ia not. It a girl's thumb! Hitle, marital i to be reiled upon, tips fat. or drops 3 : submission to the master mind in ine if a thumb bas a tendency the damsel owning it is headetrody, | of weak character has a thumb. Fingers | a strong, sSrect (whieh bend backward mean powertal | if they arn round, strength hoth physienl and mental, I fdieated. Stubby Angers are grasp: | ing fingers, Fipger nails that ar risundpd show refitenienty if tong and : . rather square at the top, firmness and | Leslie's Weekly. Museum Diseipline, i Visttor—S6¢ you wilgh 700 pounis; | peoples | Fat man—Oh, no: if I wasn't wor | ried to death with fool questions | maybe I'd weigh 1000—Chicago Reo | ord Herald, ioe ah Abe iS A me ER It would be a gool thing if peapla | | thought less of their ancestors aad | sore of their progeny. {ipeorge Hackett, by New Yorkers mest complete lamp ebimoey i hatler { finished a large orxler of pb | deyers that will be P Rices Lamding, | Pensions have been on the week to the fo Rhoeninker, Greensburg, ; “Therese, Erie, $42.50; Jumes | we (deadh, New Castle, $12: Abrabam Wilt, Rogereford, $12: Cranmer Clean. dennan, Tarentum, $12; Julia A. To Woaw Castle. 8% Catharine Copley, Warriors Park. 512; Mary E Dusls Pittehinrg. $x Sarah A. Carron, Call | fornia, 8%: Helen Condon, Job $8: Morgan Jenkins, Princeton. : Elizabeth, $6; P ‘Womer. Dubring. $8; John A. Oreek. $12: Sarah A. Shearer, rile. $8. Eilzabeta M. Johns Oustle, $5; George M. Vensel gheny City, $6: Joseph ¥. : Grove City, $1: Sarah A. beugh, Roscoe, $8. The Somerville coal mines. have been operated by James ville on his farm at Brad for the papt 20 yoars, have D as the result of the filing of & Somerville ed the farm from his father. who chased it from a man pmned It ts alleged that Holder bad 1y sold the coal to the Bra Iron and Steel Company for company never touched the finally wax sold by a rece New York srudicate, whose agent m octirthed the claim. The deed given Holder to the stee] company IS pany has had a corps of eng ployed near Leechburg | ‘weeks, making a survey of plated zax line to run f township. Armstrong coubty. ‘neet with its main Hoe ob gide of the Allegheny river. 1 will cross the river Bear The engineers have completed survey and the first carlond of has arrived. de CW. Leech and RW. jointly brought euit against Mayor I). Woodruff for $30,000 damages slloged false arrest and $600 penses of a previous suit. They arseated and jocked op In town Jail tn November, 1800, on char oe of iat They oe suit agains: the olty of : gt Judge Barker held that th was fio responsible for the acts of ¥ sHnployes, bo Si The Sremen’s convention Union: saw closed Friday with some fine jess. lu the service rae utler Firs wand won fire prise, £100. Botler Ree Herve, seamed prize She, g i Kensington, third prise, $85 : Nose race, purse X35--Bu ward first: Butler | TOR, 1 Turtle Creek, thind Hook 8 Jer race, purse, $1T5-—-Butler First wand Bret. Butler Reserve, Camp PD. Perchimont, of the and brigade of the NE Pennevivania, was opened 8 Boperset, when the sunrise fined. ‘The usual National sa 33 guns wes omitted because munition had net arrived. Gen, Miller arrived guns. Lia The Macheth-Evans Glass Come pany’s plant at Chaderot will nsume pert inne [eptember 1. During = sitnimer shut down extensive which, when fully completed, Gl make # one of, If pot the hurgest in the warkl As : A charge of dynamite Wis ex Ad under (he general store ora ¢ Harmen, of Pesnfield, near DuBals, at an early hour this morning. in an attempt to wreek it This In the secs attempt bas beet made to de the property with dynamite. faving underhid Eoglish tors anil moetved contract, the works of Hollidaysbu pore to Christmas island, in the Ik dian ocent, for nse There. EAE An Eastern syndicate haw asited a franchise to bulld an electric ot maiden fram Wunrtemburg Elwood to Park Gate where sonmect with the proposed are to rap from New Castle to Fallin. ak Charters have been issued by the $140 eparineh 1a the following cod porations: Dilworth Coal ompany. Greene county, cape ml. Sagoo. Kemmerer Electoh Light Shifter, Welsport, capital. $85. MK, : < The hitldings of the H. C. Fry plant, at North Rochester, are rapid approaching completion, The North Rochester Improvement Company at ones erect 50 frame dwelling hong: ps for the use of the employes of the glaxé works $k Emma Weate, the lide 13 yeareld irl who confessed to the robbery the MeNutt residence at Taylorstown some hue ago. pleaded ullty St Washington, and wax sentenced by the Tames H. McCullough, form soupy and state tax receiver of thon. who is charged with the em hewrloment of 850.000 and who fed txt fall has been arrested in Baltes HIG Constable Charles Wilson, whe st ternptaad to pit A prisoner in the Cone aelsville lockup without paying a4 He cent few. has been arrested charged with vicinting a boroopgh ondinapee. commission W nod an exsmunati September 16, for the positions : clerk and carrier at the postoffice la that fawn : A gang of 100 men has heen put to work grading for a big brick plant at Cray Dell smton. on the J £4 Valley railrond. Si The annual camp meeting of Union Holiness Association is sion at ithe camp grounds at Be villa Ll The postofice at Cresson will Be raised to the presidential class Oe tober 1; salary of postinaster, $1,108
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