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Although it is now too late in the season to suggest the introduction of any more bills in the legislature some thing ought to bo done to give people an opportunity to protect themselves this summer against the damphools who want to know every five minutes "Is it hot enough?'' The weather of the past few days has thawed out several of these inquisitive friends, and they meet you at every turn with the same old question. Hazletonians are very profuse with their "ifs" and "might have beons" about the new county bill. It was a hard blow to them for the commiitee to prevent it from even coming to a vote in the house, but they should be getting used to such treatment by this time. The measuro was treated too gently from the start, yet the legislators cannot be blamed for play ing a few monied men over there for jays and bleeding them in style. However, as it is over aud the famous windbag will cease disturbing the lower end for two years, let us be thankful. President Cleveland is being im portuned to call an immediate extra session of congress. There is little doubt that Mr. Cleveland would call an immediate extra session if he knew that it would promptly repeal the Sherman silver law, but, of that he is not certain, and a refttral to repeal might have a bad effect on the finan cial situation, which has not been affected by the Wall street excitement during last weak. Many Democrats express the opinion that it would be the proper thing at this time to en! I an extra session and throw the respon sibility of maintaining the govern ment credit upon congress, but they also express their confidence in the president's ability to do the right thing. Albert A. Pope, the well known bi cycle manufacturer of Boston, is urg ing the newspapers of the country to protest against a proposition made in several places to tax bicycles. One of the aguments used by Mr. Pope is that few assessors will be able to place a proper value on the machines, and therefore cheap ones will ofti n be taxed more than dear bicycles. Again, iuasmuch as the makers ami users of these machines are persistent advocates of better country roads be thinks it would be more equitable to pay them a bounty rather than put upon them more tuxes. But after leaving bicycles out of the question and bringing it down to the principle involved in this species of taxation we believe he is right. The idea that everything in sight should be taxed is rapidly dying out. The public is be ginning to understand that it should take nothing in taxes only from what it creates, viz. land values—and when the assessors have but this single tux to collect the knotty question of taxes will bo solved in a manner fair and just to all. Herbert has correct and thoroughly Democratic ideas about the relations that should exist be tween naval officers and the U. S. government, as his order that no more leaves of absence be granted naval officers for the purpose of allow ing them to enter private employ fully proves. This practice, like many other questionable ones, is of Republican origin, and has grown in to a scandal. Under it naval officers who have acquired special knowledge along certain lines after long study, at government expense, have secured leaves of absence, in some cases as long as four years, on two thirds pay, in order that they might sell their special knowledge to the highest bid der among those to whom it would bo the most valuable—the contractors who do business with the navy de partment. Secretary Herbert says that herafter when any naval officer desires to accept private employment he must resign his commission before doing so, and every good Democrat will say amen! Costiveness is the primary cause of much disease. Dr. Henry Baxter's Man drake Bitters will permanently cure cos tiveness. Every bottle warranted. Sold by Pr. Schilcher. Tlio Great Event. A touch from the hand of General Grant, then President Grant, started all the machinery and opened tho Centen nial exposition at Philadelphia in 1876. President Grant's hand set in motion tho huge Corliss engine, 1,400 horsepower, weight 700 tons, which furnished power to practically all tho machinery at tho World's fair of 1876. The difference be tween the exposition of 1876 and that which opened at Chicago May 1, 1898, is shown by nothing more vividly than by tho fact that in Machinery hall at the Columbian exposition 60 huge engines are required to afford tho necessary pow er. The Columbian exposition 1b not 00 times as large as that of 1876, though it is indeed several times as extensive as that was. Tho great addition to the steam power is required on account of the electric lighting apparatus. How far wo havo advanced since 1870 may be understood from the fact that there was not an electric light used for general il lumination at the Centennial exposition. Men were in doubt at that time whether the electric light could over be generally utilized on account of its cost. At tho Columbian fair thero will bo 5,000 elec tric arc lights and 100,000 incandescent lights. For the incandescent lights alone 11 engines will ho necessary. The largest one will give power for 20,000 incandes cent lights and is of 2,000 horsepower, nearly half as largo again as the 1870 Corliss, which furnished power to tho whole exposition. Tho scene at the opening of tho fair was as magnificent as the eye ever he held in town or city. All that the skill of man could do to mako tho occasion Imposing had been done. Tho great Theodore Thomas waved his baton, and an orcliesti'aof 160 instruments, a chorus of 950 voices, filled tho air with a volumo of sound that rippled oven tho waters of the lake. That lako itself was grandest of all in tho vista which spread before tho eye at tho ceremonial exercises. This will be tho greatest world's fair that ever was —in tho greatest country upon tho globe. No world's exposition has had beforo tho advantago of so magnifi cent a site; so much room; nono has had that glorious inland sea to refresh the weary visitor with its breath after his sightseeing. The great fair is open. Go and seo it. Tlic Saturday Half Holiday. Tho movement in favor of Saturday afternoon as a half holiday is growing in the older states, although it would ho hard for it to get a foothold as yet in the new states of tho west where day light is not long enough to do tho work that must bo done, and that quickly. New York, New Jersey and a few other states have laws which name half holi days. Tho Saturday half holiday is, however, left partly discretionary. In tho largest cities of tho older states it is becoming a common practico now vol untarily to close dry goods stores and many other business houses at noon of Saturday from the middle of Juno to the middle of September. Sometimes this is tho case only during the months of July and August. It can be done very well in tho great cities, for midsummer is tho dullest business time of year with them. The Saturday half holiday gives clerks and all who work long hours time to get a breath of fresh air and get themselves in good order for Sunday. Employers are really encouraging it wherever it is at all practicable, and the considerate among them are the last ones to oppose the Saturday half holiday. What is lost in time is moro than gained in tho phys ical and mental vigor given by tho little bronthiug spell. How completely anybody in this coun try can become anything he or she chooses is shiningly illustrated in the case of Lucy Larcom. For 10 years of her early life sho worked as an ordinary fac tory girl in a cotton mill. Nothing in the way of humblo labor in city or country was unfamiliar to her, from milking cows to home dressmaking. Born and reared thus in the school of poverty and toil, Lucy Larcom nevertheless lived to become a thoroughly educated, refined, cultivated woman and ono of the most famous feminine poets of her country in the nineteenth century. The verses en titled, "Hannah finding Shoes," will live as long as anything Whittier or Rus sell Lowell ever wrote. Miss Larcom accomplished so much simply by making tho most of the time slio had and wait ing. It is a lesson that all may well tako to heart. All have not Lucy LarconPs ex ceptional gifts, but all can make a noblo success of their lives in some diroction. Tho world's gates are wide open before us all. We have only to choose our path nd follow it. One regrets to learn at last of the fail ure of the co-operative housekeeping ex periment at Philadelphia. It failed through tho apparent impossibility of finding anybody who was capable of managing tho kitchen part. Neverthe less nothing is more certain than that co-operative housekeeping will be event ually successful. The co-operative kitch en and laundry, with trained graduates from housekeeping schools to manage them, will in time dissolvo away all tho present difficulties of housekeeping. Rev. Dr. McConnell of St. Stephen's church, Philadelphia, declines to pray to I heaven to avert cholera from that city. Ho Bays: "I have decided that I for one can offer no such prayer. If the cholera makes havoc among us, it will he because I our streets aro dirty; our water is im pure; our drainage filthy." WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C., Hay 10. President Cleveland was able last week to devote more of his time to im portant public matters than in any Binglc week since his inauguration, owing to his having stopped the practice of granting personal interviews to appli cants for presidential positions; but it has been just the reverse with members of his cabinet; they have had so many callers that they have had to devote almost their entire time to them, and unless there is a "let up" they will be compelled to follow the president's example and decline seeing applicants for office. Those who pretend to be shocked at what they are pleased to call the president's innoyation have short memories, as he did precisely the same thing in October, 1885. It would be advantageous to applicants for places if members of the cabinet would also refuse to see applicants, for then they would have a chance to look over the ' papers on file and make recommends-! tions to the president, thus hastening j appointments. It is because Itepubli- j cans know this that they are trying so hard to create a public sentiment in favor of unlimited personal interviews; | the longer the heads of the departments are kept away from the papers on file, I by callers, the longer the big offices will be filled by Republicans. See? The weather bureau investigation has closed and Gen. Colby is now at work on the testimony, upon which his report will be based. What that report will recommend your correspondent has no means of knowing, but the evidence will certainly justify a general shake-up of the bureau from top to bottom, and it is altogether probable that Secretary Mor ton will see that it gets it. While nothing absolutely criminal was proven against prominent officials a state of affairs was shown to exist that calls loudly for a change. So many complaints of one kind and another have been received by Secre tary Carlisle about the methods and the administration of the New York custom house that he has determined to have it thoroughly investigated from top to' bot tom and has selected the following gentlemen to do it: Ex-Secretary Fair child, of New York city; Hon. Daniel Magone, of Ogdensburg, N. Y., and lion. I'oindexter Dunn, of Arkansas. It is significant that upon the very day Judge Lochren, the new commis sioner of pensions, took personal charge of the pension bureau that frauds aggre gating something like SIOO,OOO should have been exposed. And still more sig nificant is the fact that all these frauds obtained pensions through a single at torney— IV. R. Dowry, of Norfolk, Ya. That hundreds of similar cases will be unearthed is the general belief here. Judge Lochren is of the opinion that the amount paid out for pensions can be largely reduced without depriving any man of what is justly and legally his and without changing the laws, and he proposes to demonstrate the correctness of that opinion. A number of prominent Democrats, headed by Representative Bynum, of Indiana, are endeavoring to persuade President Cleveland to call an extra ses sion in June, instead of September. The argument of these gentlemen is that September is the most unhealthy month in the year in Washington, malaria being worse than at any other time. They say that if congress came together in June the house can perfect its organi zation and the committees get down to work before the hottest weather of the summer comes and then a recess can be taken to the first of October, escaping the malarial season. S. Newspapers Hring Them. John Wanamaker's statement that he considered a one-inch advertisement in a country newspaper worth more than a thousand circulars was illustrated recent ly in a meeting in Portland, Me. The secretary asked those in a crowded meeting who had been inlluenced to come by several thousand little dodgers he had distributed to stand up, and fifteen arose. Then he asked that those who had been interested to come through the newspaper reports of what the asso ciation was doing, and more than half the audience stood up. Keep Up Your Sign. Here is what Peter Cooper, who died wortli many millions, said of a news paper: "In al! the towns where a news paper is published every man should ad vertise in it, if nothing more than a card stating his name and the business lie is in. It does not only pay the advertiser, but it lets people at a distance know the town in which you reside is a prosperous community of business men. As the seed is sown so the Beed recompenses. Never pull down your sign while you expect to do business." "A stitch in time" often saves con sumption. Downs' Elixir used in time saves life. Sold by Dr. Schilcher. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.' When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When sho had Children, she gave them Castoria TENEMENT HOUSE LIFE. Where the Working People of New York i 11nve to Live—Who 1m to lllauie? In an address delivered at a meeting of the associated charities of New York city recently R. Fulton Cutting said: j Let me describe the average tenement house of New York. It has been erected upon a lot 25 by 100 feet. It is perhaps six stories high. It has four double ipartments on each floor, opening on common halls and staircases. These apartments consist of threo so called rooms. Ono opens upon the external air; the other two are dark closots beyond; tho third has practically 110 light at all. It has a very tiny airshaft 2 or 8 feet in diameter, through which a slight cur rent of air sometimes passes. That is tho placo in which the work ingmen of New York aro compelled to enjoy domestic life. Ido not see how it is possible to bring up children properly in such a place. There can be no invit ing of friends, no society such as young people demand. They are driven to find it in the streets. In a recent report the board of health rejoiced at the erection of new buildings in which tho rear room opens upon a courtyard. This is well, but unfortunately the ex pen so of these apartments is so groat that 1 the greater portion of our working peo ple cannot live in them. It is clear that while in tho hist hundred years there has been great improvement in tho clothing and feeding of tho poorer people among us there has been very little improve- ; ment of their houses. There is no more living in cellars sinco 18G7. No rear dwellings have been built sinco 1881, but J tho real improvement has been but slight. And tho reason is not far to seek. In New York ordinary capital will not go into tenement house investments. Most peoplo aro not willing to have such prop erty on their hands. Houses aro com monly owned by small capitalists, very j likely by tho man who owns tho little shop on the first floor, and they are made ! to pay 8 and 9 per cent 011 tho invest- i ment. I am on delicato ground in enter- ! ing on an economic question, but I wish to call attention to tho fact that capital fixes tho placo whero labor shall live. If a largo manufacturing firm moves from ono part of tho city to another or from tho country to tho city, a thousand peo plo must follow it. Should not capital, which fixes the placo whero theso peoplo must live, bo hold responsible for tho character of tho residences? It is not for mo to explain how this shall bo carried out, but I think it points to a possible so lution of the difficulty. Another Homestead Strike. A dispatch sent out recently from Pittsburg says: Thero aro good reasons for behoving, in spito of reports to tho contrary, that tho men in tho Homestead steel works uro getting ready to striko again July 1. Tho men have been secrqtly organizing and aro now said to be bo well prepared that they believe themselves equal to an other contest. Homestead's is the great est mill in tho country, and it is urged that union labor cannot afford to have it remain nonunion. Ono supreme effort will bo made to regain it. Homestead has boon tho countersign for union labor throughout tho country during tho past few months, and the leaders have not been idle, that tho ground lost last sum mer may ho regained as soon as possi ble. There has been much dissatisfac tion among tho men at Homestead. They claim they have all to gain and nothing to loso in case of another contest. Tho Amalgamated association officials liavo nothing to say and dismiss tho subject with the remark that they arc not posted on Homestead affairs, but are sure the men know what to do. The dispatch concludes with the sug gestive remark that "the Carnegie offi cials know just what is going 011 at their mills." Sensn About Servant Girls. At a time when the newspapers and "women's journals" aro printing so much flapdoodle on "how to manage servants," it is a relief to read a sensible article liko the one recently written by Mrs. Anna L. Ingalls, wifo of ex-Senator In galls of Kansas. Mrs. Ingalls would banish tho word "servants" as applied to domestic labor from our vocabulary. She says among other good things: The question of domestic service will never be solved until tho mistress is better qualified to direct. No man would undertake, to conduct a business without previous preparation and experience, but the young matron will unhesi tatingly or sumo all tho responsibilities of bouso and home without tho slightest knowledge of domestic economy. Is it any wonder that she soon becomes discouraged and lays all her failures and disappointments at the door of tho unfortunate handmaidens who have becomo tho victims of her ignoranco and inexperience? ♦ * * Because wo hire a maid for a certain sum per week wo cannot compel her to smile when her head Is aching or to lie cheerful when her heart Is sad, so we must always remember that they are painfully human. To Increase Carnegie's Profit. The Law and Order league of Pitts burg is carrying on a crusade against the violators of a rather stringent Sun day law. Tho law is an old one, hut it has never been repealed, and the league is out for its enforcement. Among those recently arrested for violation of the law were officials of tho Carnegie company. One of the league's detectives paid a visit to tho Homestead mills, where ho found more than 1,000 men working on Sunday, as they said, not from necessity, but solely to increase their employers' profits. Tho detective was assured that most of tho works could be shut down over Sunday without loss, except loss of the profits of that day. PreHldcnt Lincoln and Labor. In 1804 the printers struck on The Dem ocrat and St. Louis Republican. That was in war times. General Rosecrans was in command at St. Louis. He de tailed a number of soldiers who were planters to take the strikors' places. M. H. Madden and Thomas Gauley, printers, sent in a report of tho same to President Lincoln. The answer returned was aB follows: Order 1 hone soldiers back to duty in the ranks. The servants of tho federal government shall not lnterfero with tho legitimate demands of labor so long as I am president. A. LINCOLN. j WORKINGMEN'S CLUBS IN LONDON. They Are Not Ideal Institutions, but They Have Their Go: d Points, j Apropos of the agitation looking to the ( establishment of church managed sa loons, as advocated by Rev. Dr. Rains ford of New York, tho following from a correspondent of tho Springfield Repub lican is of interest: j English workingmen, principally in | London, have established for themselves rery much such social centers as ho im agines his saloon would be. These clubs ire in some cases only taprooms, where members gather to smoke and drink, but : most of them aro much more than this. They aro organizations of manual work- I ers to whom tho club is a general center for society and amusement. Many of these clubs have houses of their own, some owned by tho club and others leased. Nearly all of the more impor tant ones occupy at least an entire floor in the building in which they aro located, find from a floor to a largo house. They vary in membership from ono or two hun dred to a thousand or over. Their ex penses aro paid by dues from tho mem bers and by the profits on the liquor sold, i All of them sell liquor of all kinds freely to members, and all have smoking rooms where card playing is permitted, and oc casionally a little mild gambling goes on. All of them aro open on Sunday, and liquor is sold for a few hours in the aft ernoon and from 7 or 8 to 11:80 in the evening of that clay. 1 Aside from tho liquor selling, which' in tho best of these clubs seems to bo as well managed as under Dr. Rainsford's 1 plan, those clubs afford a variety of en tertainment to their members. They have a reading room, where tho daily i and weekly newspapers aro kept on file, and several have libraries. One London club, described in The News, has some 500 members and a library of over 1,000 i volumes. This club expends about $125 I a year on its read ing room—half that sum for the library and as much more for occasional classes in some study. | As a rule, class work and educational schemes generally do not thrive in theso I clubs. Tho English workingman does : not go to them to work, but to enjoy j himself. Ho will go to a Sunday oven j ing lecture on some interesting topic j within his comprehension and to an en | tertainment, musical or other, some oth |er evening each week. lie will also give j another evening to '.lie weekly ball and I will usually pass thn other evenings in the smoking or reading room. Some clubs have bi- ilding and loan as sociations attached, i'j which many of tho members belong. They are not phil anthropic institutions, but aro organ ized and managed b; workingmen for their own benefit and in their own way. They are far from being ideal institu j tions and do not accomplish an ideal ro ; suit, but the weight of evidence seems to prove that they aro much better than tho public house—and this is a point in j favor of Dr. Rainsford's scheme. A Labor Party In Canada, , j At a meeting recently held in Toronto ; : a now political party wn s formed by dele- I gates representing the l'atrons of ludus j try, Dominion granges, Dominion Trades and Labor congress, Knights of Labor ] and Toronto Trades and Labor council, j The following planks of the platform j were agreed upon: The reservation of the : public lands for tho actual settler; purity of administration and absolute independ ence of parliament! rigid economy in every department of tho pnblic service; simplicity of tho laws and a general re l duction in the machinery of government; the Abolition of tho Canadian senate; ef fectual legislation that will protect la bor and tho results of labor from those combinations and monopolies which un ! duly enhance tho price of tho articles j produced by such combinations or mo nopolies; prohibition of tho bonusing of j railways by tho government; grants as j contrary to tho public interest; prepara- I tion of the Dominion and provincial vot ers' lists by tho municipal officers. Sev- I oral othor planks, including the trade j question, are under consideration. Tho press of Canada is showing consid erable interest in tho now movement, \ which is expected to become formidable. Bert Tillett on a "Killer." ' A special cable to tho New York Her ald says: Hen Tillett, tho well known labor leader, who was charged at the Old Bai ley with having incited strikers to riot at Bristol in December last, was found ; guilty by the jury sitting iff the case. The jury added, however, that though the prisoner was guilty of using words calculated to cause a riot they believed | the words were spoken on the spur of j the moment and were not intended to provoke a breach of the peaeo. i Justice Cave said that this rider to the | verdict was tantamount to a declaration that the prisoner was not guilty as charged. He therefore considered it his ' duty to discharge the prisoner. I This decision was greeted with cheers by Tillett's friends, many of whom were in the courtroom. The demonstration was promptly suppressed. Away 11*1111 Prejudice. In hi* hook "Socialism and the Amer ican spirit," Nicholas Paine Gilman says: i "A people that refuses to talk of social ism declares its own Philistinism. A church that dreads to inquire bow far Jesus Christ was a communist has lost too much of his spirit, and no class of men and women ought to give their minds freer play over all social matters than the literary class. But all must account bofore the bar of reason Tor the use they make of their freedom of mind, tongue or pen." Break down tho prej udice against socialism, consider it on its merits, but above all consider before de ciding is the author's plea—a sufficiently sensible one. > Minneapolis unionists have organized a Labor league, tho object being to in crease tho use of union labels by Induc ing those whose interest it is to purchase only such articles as hear the label of the union engaged in the manufacture of that article. LOYE AND SNAKES. "Beware," said my uncle to me the very first day of my visit to his farm, which is situated at the foot of one of the mountains in the western part of the town of Meriden, Conn. "There's neighbor Thornton, dead as a nit, the doctor hardly knows of what disease. But iam well satisfied in my own mind that it all comes o' that ere bite he re ceived last spring from a cussed logger in the swamp. All of our land hereabouts is honted by the infernal trilie, and you may as well keep your eyes open if you intend to march around here in those gaiters and them linen trousers." "Nothing iu the world will save your life," suid my aunt, "but to cut a piece right out the very moment you are bitten— before you kill the varmint, mind you, for a moment's delay would be fatal. There Was poor Richard Henderson" "Oh! the devil take Dick Henderson," interrupted my uncle. "He was a cold water man, and in course he couldn't stand the smallest grain of pisin in his system— not he! Take one of your regular old bruisers, such as Troup Wright, for exam ple, and the snake would die, while the person bitten would not experience any trouble whatever. Dicker is what does the business, my hoy, for a snake bite—kills and deadens all of the varrus of the reptile in no time. If I should ever be favored by one of the infernal critters, I'd take a quart of fourth proof, and if that wasn't enough another quart to keep it company. You know, or oughter know, that you can't get drunk as long as the varrus is in your veins." For a number of days after receiving all of this information I did not care to visit any places on the farm where it was pos sible for a snake to lurk. At last, however, 1 was tempted to visit a nice field of red raspberries on the eastern declivity of the mountain, though not without resolving to be on my guard against the peril to which I thus exposed myself, that part of the mountain being notorious for the number and size of its snakes. The party consisted of myself, Thomas, the hired man, and my cousin—young and pretty, as cousins always are; very fond of me, as no other cousin ever was, and withal a lively and interesting specimen of her sex, with only a few touches too much.of dare devil wildness in her nature. "Kate," said I to her while wo were picking and eating the delicious berries at a rate which would have astonished if not alarmed a looker on from the city, "look out for those sly and treacherous serpents!" "The only 'sly and treacherous serpent' I am afraid of," she replied, with an arch smile, "is—yourself!" "Ah! Kate, how can you be so cruel? You know I am more honorable than those rep tiles. I will give you fair warning ere I in flict the fatal wound." "The snakes generally give you warning enough unless you come upon them too suddenly to give their better nature a chance. But come, it is already dusk, and wo shall lose our way if wo don't set out for the house without any further delay. For my part, I've eaten raspberries enough to last me the remainder of the year." "So have I, Kate, if you had only sugared them with a few words you could so easily utter. Now, tell mc," and I darted ab ruptly toward her, "answer me truly, in re gard to the proposal of marriage I've made you, will you become" My foot caught in a brier bush, and I was precipitated headlong. At the same in stant an awful rattle smote upon my ex cited senses, and a sharp, stinging blow was given me in the calf of the leg. It would be impossible forme to tell you how quickly I arose, drew up the leg of my pantaloons, saw the blood oozing forth, yelled and drew a knife from my pocket and cut out a piece of flesh, which in hulk might have readily satisfied thq demands of Shylock. "I will endeavor to go deep enough to re move the poison," said I desperately In reply to the exclamation of horror uttered by Kate, while she became as pale as the white handkerchief she had bound around her hair. As ill luck would have it, more over, I had made sad havoc with a vein of respectable dimension, and was bleeding with piofuseness, which was in itself enough to render a person considerably alarmed. "If I die," said I to Kale, who had al ready burst into tears, while endeavoring to bind her handkerchief around my leg in such a manner us to prevent too great loss of blood, "remember, Kate, that I loved you better than anything else in the world." "Oh, oh!" she sobbed, throwing herself into my arms and clinging to me with a fervency which made me happy as a boy with his first whistle. "How terrible!" and this seemed all that grief would permit her to utter. The hired man uow came running up, with terror and dismay depicted on his fea tures, for he bad readily understood from our cries and actions the nature of the afflic tion which had fallen upon us. "Where did it bite you?" he demanded. "In the leg?" Again, as the speaker thus neared me, that warning rattle was heard, close before him and between us, and both recoiled with exclamations of increased alarm. "Take care! ' I cried. "Here lie is—close before you, ready for another spring. Be watchful! Can't you get u stick and kill him?" The hint was acted upon—Barney reach ed a hickory branch nearly large enough for a cart tongue and began to poke around the bushes. Still another rattle was heard as Barney thus swept his weapon over the bushes, and when he again passed the staff over the bushes that rattling sound was repeated. "What!" be cried, springing forward and thrashing right, and left, while the rattling grew terrific, "bless me!" and be burst into a laugh which resounded fur and near over the mountain. "It isn't a snake, at all, at all; it's those cussed cockles!" It was true. I had taken quite a morsel of good flesh out of my calf just because one of the thorns upon which I had fallen gave me a greeting. For a number of weeks I was a martyr to the ban tarings, jokes and laughs of my friends, but lvate finallywmid me, and she and 1 are now getting along very well together, 1 can assure you.—New 1 ork Mercury. Odd Statistics About Thunder. Thunderstorms are more frequent in Java than in any other part of the world, there being an average of 07 days in each year upon which they occur. Next to Java comes Sumatra, which never has less than HO "thunder days" per year. Then comes liindoostan with 50, Borneo with 54, the African gold coast with 52 and the region around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with 51. The European list is headed by Italy, with 38 thunder days out of the 305 on an aver age. Austria has 23; Baden, Wurfcemburg and Hungary each average 22; Silesia, Ba varia and Belgium have 21; Holland and Saxony, 18; France, Austria and South Rus sia, 10; Great Britain and Switzerland only 7. At Cairo, Egypt, and in North Russia and in Sweden and Norway the average is only 4 par year. In Finland and East Toor kistau thunderstorms are wholly unknown. —St. Louis Republic- BEIOII RAILROAD SYSTEM. " LEHIGH VALLEY DIVISION. I^—Anthracite coal used oxolu- I insuring- cleanliness a ml AHHANCJEMKNT OF Parhenoku TliAINg. I>KC. 4, 1808*. LKAVK FREEHAND. i 0 10, 8 36, 0 40. 10 41 a in, 12 25, 1 60, 2 43, 360 ! 4 55, 0 41. 7 12, K 17 | in, for Drifton. Jeddo. Luik | ber Vard, Stockton and Ila/lcton. 0 10, 0 40 a in, 1 .70, 3 60 p iik for Mauch Chunk, AI lon town, Bethlehem, Phlla., Easton and New York. 8 3.7 a ni for Dethleheni, Easton and Philadel phia. 7 20, 10 50 a in, 12 16,4 60 p in, (via Highland Branch) lor While Haven, Glen Summit, Wilkes- Barre, Pittston and L. and B. Junction. SUNDAY TRAINS. "f II 40 a in ami 345p in for Drilton, Jcddo, Lum ber Yard and Hazieton. 345 p in for Delano. Mahanoy City,* Shenan doah, New York and Philadelphia. ARRIVE AT FREELAND. 5 50. 7 00, 7 26, 0 18, 10 56 a ni, 1216, 1 15, 233 4 50, 7 03 and 8 37 p in, from I la/let on, Stockton! Lumber \ ard, Jcddo and Drifton. .-o 18, 10 66 a in, 12 10. 2 33, 4 50, 703 p m from Deiano, Mahanoy City ami Shenandoah (via New Itoston Branch). i..',! 5 Vorlt, Kustnn, 1 hilndclplna, Dethleheni, Allentown and Munch Chunk. M 18and 1050a in from Easton, Philadelphia, Bethlehem ami Mauoh Chunk, 0 18, 10 41 a in, 2 43,0 41 p m from White Haven. Glen Summit, Wilkes-Bar re, Pittston ami L. ami B. Junction (via Highland Branch). SUNDAY TRAINS. 1131 a ni and 331 p m, from Hazlcton, Lum ber \ ard* Jeddo and Drifton. 111 31 a in from Delano, Ha/Jeton, Philadelphia and Easton. 3 31 p HI from Pottsvllle and Delano, lor futher information inquire of Agents. C. (J. HANCOCK, Gen. Pass. Agt. Philadelphia, I'a. A. W. NONNEMACIIEIt, Ass'tG. P. A. South Bethlehem, Pa. HARNESS and HORSE GOODS of every description. We can furnish you with goods that will please the eye, and be of such quality that they cannot be surpassed, at THE LOWEST PRICES ITJ OBTAINABLE. > GEO. 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