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FREELAND, PA., MAY 18, 1893.
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.
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AHHANCJEMKNT OF Parhenoku TliAINg.
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(via New Itoston Branch).
i..',! 5 Vorlt, Kustnn,
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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).
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ber \ ard* Jeddo and Drifton.
111 31 a in from Delano, Ha/Jeton, Philadelphia
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