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P1TTSBOEG. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 18S9L

THE SITUATION AT JOHNSTOWN.Yesterday brought forth no especially new

features in the situation at Johnstown,where the work of relieving the living andburying the dead is going forward slowlybut steadily. Somewhat tardily the Stateauthorities hare recognized the need of anarmed force to keep order, which was

clearly perceived by others two days ago;and the fourteenth Begiment will be onduty there

The contributions for relief still continueto come in with the freest liberality from allquarters. The danger of suffering fromwant of food is thoroughly averted. Thework is now to prevent the growth of anepidemic from the debris and offal of thedisaster.

But back of all this is the fearful showingmade by the tally ot 3,600 bodies recoveredso far and an indefinite number still to hearfrom.

A NECESSABY WOES.The question of the water supply of the

two cities, as it may be affected by theJohnstown disaster, is recognized every-where as a vital one. One feature in con-nection with it deserves the attention of the"Water Department.

It Is necessary, apparently, that the wateras it comes duw.t the river shall be pumpedJate the reservoirs. With a system of

- storage reservoirs, the city might be carriedpast the period of danger from impure waterby an accumulated supply without pumpingany of the bad water. That being impossi-ble, the public must protect themselves byboiling and filtering, and the need for wash-ing will necessitate further pumping.

But so soon as the danger is past and thepurity of the water coming down the Alle-gheny assured, the "Water Bureau shouldhave its force prepared to give every reser-voir a thorough cleaning. The possible ac-cumulations of filth should be thoroughlyremoved at the earliest practicable moment,and the system be thoroughly purified assoon as it is apparent that it will stay pure.

It is to be presumed that the authoritieswill be prepared to do this work promptly.Until then the greatest care should be ob-served in the use of the city water.

NOT UNPAED0NABLE.

The complaints which are made in somequarters of the bearing of the people ofJohnstown toward the people who havegone there to do relief work, are hardlyjustified under the circumstances. It is notquite reasonable to expect people who have jbeen overwhelmed by such a shock to pre-serve the exact bearing required by al

comity. Especially when thesepeople are zealously guarding the ruins oftheir homes and the bodies of their deadagainst marauders, and have been plaguedby sightseers, it is necessary to pardon tbemif they do not always distinguish accu-rately between relief workers and the ob-noxious classes. Pittsburg will go rightahead with the good work and rely on thefuture lor the appreciation of these efforts.

A DILEMMA AT BEST.One of the least satisfactory features of

the present administration is the exclusive""control by Mahone of the Fed-

eral patronage in Virginia. This has re-cently been brought prominently before thepublic attention by the visit of a delegationofVirginia Bepublicans to the Presidentin order to protest against the small

continued power in the controlof the Bepublican machine in the OldDominion. As the Bepublican party ofVirginia is useful for nothing but holdingoffices, it seems like rank injnstice to shutthat field of utility to all but the supportersof Mahone.

Secretary Blaine is reported to be op-posed to the predominance of Mahoneism inthe administration at present; but it mustbe remembered that he was largely re-sponsible for the original acceptance ofJIahone by toe Bepublican administrationin 1881. It was a sour dose to thinking Be-- vpublicans to have that representative of adishonest financial policy forced upon themwhen he was successful in the control ofhis own State. Now that he has no powerin Virginia, and only represents the de-feated cause of repudiation and spoils pol-itics, it is even more discreditable to makehim the agent of the administration in thedistribution of patronage.

Still between Mahone on the one side andBiddleberger on the other it is no more thanfair to recognize that a Bepublican ad-ministration, disposed to dictate in thedistribution of patronage, would be on thehorns of a dilemma.

' - LONDON'S UNSOLVED MYSTEBY.Once again Londonls plunged into a fit

of excitement over an atrocity following sogclosclyon the lines of those committed byWackthe Eipper" as to lead to the suppo- -

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sitiou that he has resumed his butchery."Whether it is the original fiend who hasagain startled London on this occasion, orsome imitator, the effect, all the same, willbe to raise comment in every quarter on theinability of the police to track and capturethe scoundrel or maniac who committed thecrimes of last year.

When excitement was at its height overthe murders of August and October a storywas pnblished that a Malay sailor wasprobably the guilty party. It attractedwide attention, because of the circumstan-tiality of the acconnt; though, nothing be-ing given to fix the identity, that, like theother theories, was in time forgotten. It isnotable, however, that a prediction wasmade in connection with the sailor theorythat a recurrence of such tragedies might belooked for about the time needed for thecriminal to make some distant voyage andreturn. This story made a deep impressionat the time and its effects were only dissi-pated by the bulletins purporting to bewritten by the "Bipper," which were suchas the ordinary Malay sailor would hardlyuse.

The newly reported affair, verifying tosome extent the prediction tacked onto thestory of the Malay as to the probable freshoutbreak, will doubtless set the London de-tectives back to that traft, however muchthe "Bipper" bulletins seem to discredit it

THEEE WAS NO WATTING.At a Cabinet meeting yesterday the na-

tional authorities at Washington, aftercouncil with Governor Beaver, tooksome steps toward the relief of Johnstown.The interest shown and the promptness ofthe President are in gratifyingcontrast withthe previous slowness of Pennsylvania'sGovernor in grasping the responsibilities ofthe situation. That, indeed, has been mat-ter of comment The executive of our sisterState, Ohio, who, immediately on hearing ofthe disaster, shipped tents to Johnstown,was far quicker than Governor Beaver.

However, with so much sorrow abounding,the people are not in a mood for sharpcriticism. The people themselves, allover the broad land, have notwaited for the slow machineryof official action to relieve the suffering.They have been before their Governors andtheir Presidents, not in thinking merely,but in efficient action. Pittsburg's nobleanswer to the first dread messages fromJohnstown is the grandest incident in thehistory of this city. Before the noise of therushing waters had yet died away, Pitts-burg's men and Pittsburg's relief trainswere on the ground. Hearts, hands andparses were placed at the service of thesufferers with such prompt energy and pro-fusion that it is doubtful if even the organi-zation of the national or State Governmentscould, for the time being, have done betterfrom their resources.

But. while it was peculiarly the privilegeof Pittsburg to care for the afflicted, andwhile her spirit will not relax, but rathergrow more intense until everything thatcan be done shall have been done, it is alsoconsoling to note the vast wave of earnest,practical sympathy which has rolled overthe whole civilized world. The brother-hood of man, however forgotten at times inthe petty competitions of life, surely assertsitself grandly when great misfortunebrings all within the overwhelming influ-ence of that touch of nature which makesthe whole world kin. There are throbs ofhuman sympathy which are felt sim-ultaneously around the globe. The calamityat Johnstown has evoked one of them.

FEATURES FOB AMENDMENT.The vigorous opposition of the Mt "Wash-

ington people to the introduction of metersin natural gas service looks like oppositionto progress. The plan of selling gas by thethousand feet to consumers is certainly thebest one and indeed the only fair one as be-tween consumer and company. Those whouse gas economically and invest money inappliances for saving are entitled to thebenefit of it; while those who waste theirgas are certainly not treated unjustly ifthey are made to pny for the waste.

But it is also no more than fair that, inthe introduction of this opportunity foreconomy, the consumer should have aneqnal chance with the company to make asaving. The general impression is that thenew rate of gas by the thousand will requireall economy practicable in order to keep gasbills down to the amounts of the old con-tracts. This will certainly be fair groundfor complaint if the new rate is more thanan experimental one, to be reduced if it isfound to largely increase the charges on thesame amount of gas. The company shouldnot appropriate all the benefits from theeconomy. It is to be hoped that after theexperiment has progressed to definite re-sults, the rate will be changed in accord-ance with those results.

One of the details of the scheme, that ofcharging the consumer five dollars for set-ting the meters, is certainly taking a ques-tionable shape. It bears a perfect resem-blance to the deposit for meters which theilluminating gas companies have long re-quired; but it differs materially in givingthe consumer neither any property in themeter nor the right to receive his moneyback if he should discontinue the use of thegas. The consumer who deposits $5 withthe illuminating gas company for his metercan, if he should move to another house,receive the five dollars and apply it againin his new house. But according to thepresent natural gas arrangement he has topay $5 in each case for an amount ot workwhich does not cost the company much overSI SO. Unless the company reforms thisfeature it will certainly have to be set downas one of those methods of levying ex-cessive charges upon the consumer whichare common in the case of corporations andindividuals alike who are not forced, bythe presence of competition, to be fair intheir charges.

A wise policy on the part of the gas com-pany would certainly reform these unsatis-factory features and apply the fair andequitable method of selling gas by thethousand feet, so that its advantages canbe shared equally by sellers and consumersof gas.

UNJUST DISCRIMINATION:

There seems to be an unjust discrimina-tion with regard to nationality in the factwhich appears from some of the Johnstownreports that while the Hungarian thieveswho plundered the bodies were lynched, theprofessional crooks who have got to theplace were rescued from the mob by the po-lice.

If the shooting of the Huns was justifia-ble, as most people seem to agree, the sametreatment is applicable to the domesticproduct in the line of thievery. In fact, asbetween the ignorant and poor Hun and thegenerally intelligent crook of native origin,the latter deserves the severest penalty.There is reason to suspect that the outcryagainst the Hungarians has been carried tothe extent of oppressing some of them with-out clear evidence of wrongdoing; and theinjustice is not made any less by letting offthe professional crooks who have flocked-t- o

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the place for the purposes of plunder, withlittle or no punishment

Perhaps it is well that the summary pun-ishments shall stop; but if they are to go onit will be necessary to insist that the profes-sional and native thief requires them justas much as the cheap imported article.

Samuel J. Bandall is very anxiousto have the Democratic party "get to-gether.' As his idea of the method ofgetting together is that they shall get to-gether under the Bandall banner it is notdifficult to see the grounds for his regardingsuch a course very favorably.

A joke is going the rounds of the papers,as having been played upon an ambitiousspeculator in a Southern city by inducinghim to invest $16,000 in a "monkey farm,"upon the expectation that the monkeyswonld prove serviceable in cultivating cot-ton in the South. This may be a joke; and,if so, it throws a great deal of satisfactorylight upon the character of a large numberof other investments that are offered. Prob-ably the effort of the American people tobuy four thousand million dollars worth ofwatered railroad stocks, under the im-pression that they would yield dividends, isa joke also; and the recent attempt that wasmade to get the public to buy petroleum,upon assurances that the Standard Oil Com-pany would never refine Ohio oil, was aneffort evidently of the most grotesquehumor.

As sfecutjAXOBS can no longer get quo-tations from the exchanges they will haveto satisfy themselves with quotations fromthe poets, the lattec are jnstas instructiveand decidedly less harmful; but there issome difficulty in betting on them.

Theee is a dispute abroad as to whetherthe yacht Bestless, which was recently usedby the President for a Sunday excursiondown the Chesapeake, belongs to "WilliamM. Singerly, of thePhiladelphiaifecord, orhas been sold to Postmaster General. Wana-make- r.

Probably the extraordinarily goodColonel Elliott F. Shepard is waiting tohave this important point settled before hepitches into the administration for usingthe yacht in going on Sunday excursions.

The young man who launched a skiffupon the flooded Conemaugh and saved22 lives at the peril of his own should cer-tainly be awarded rank as one of the humblepeople who rose to heroism, at the crisis of agreat need.

These does not seem to be much proba-bility that the American woman who hasbeen detected in poisoning her husband inEngland, will escape the gallows by thesickly sentimentality which makes it im-possible in this country to hang womenmurderers. England is not a model in allrespects, but it seems to have sense enoughto know that women who commit crime mustpay the penalty.

The Treasury surplus is $54,000,000.This is doing very well considering the lastCongress; but in view of the fact that aCongress is soon to meet, doubt may bepardoned as to whether it is big enough.

It is hardly correct or wise for a Bepubli-can organ like the St Bonis atto say that President Cleveland's most truth-ful expression is "I have been honored bymy party far beyond my deserts." A cor-rect statement, both from the partisan and

point of view, would be thatPresident Cleveland had given his party agood deal more than it deserved.

A membeb of the Bhode Island Legisla-ture has been accused of buying his seatThis is unpardonable. No people can buyseats with impunity below the rank ofUnited States Senator.

The days wages given to the sufferers bythe workmen at Homestead is an exhibitionof practical philanthropy that is all thebrighter from the fact that these workmenare contemplating the possibility of a stop-page of work. Some millionaires couldfind an example worth studying in the gen-erosity of these laborers.

The State administration concluded thatit was necessary to have troops at Johns-town about forty-eig- ht hours after every oneelse saw the necessity.

PekHAPS the weather prophets whounited in the predictions that this was goingto be a dry spring and summer, made theircalculations on the knowledge that the pro-hibition amendment was to be voted for thismonth. No other foundation or corrobora-tion of their prediction has yet appeared.

The sightseers should be stopped; nonebut hard workers are wanted at Johnstownuntil the stricken place is fully relieved.

As the State officials discovered the neces-sity for earnest work at Johnstown, twodays after the rest of the country had foundit out, it is natural that they should callout the troops the same length of time afterevery one else had declared that such astep was an absolute necessity.

PERSONAL FACTS AND PANCIES.

'To be 70 years young," wrote Dr. OliverWendell Holmes on Mrs. Julia Ward Howe'sbirthday anniversary, "Is sometimes far morecheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."

United States Consul Mason, of Mar-seilles, writes to the State Department that theeffects of general and unrestrained absinthedrinking in France arenow recognized as form-ing a basis of one of the gravest dangers whichthreaten the physical and moral welfare of theFrench people.

Peop. Sylvesteb, who came from Englandto be Professor of Mathematics at Johns Hop-kins University, is absent-minde- Calling onfriends in Baltimore, he inspected the pictureson the parlor walls, and, coming to two striking-l-ooking ones, asked who they were."George and Martha Washington." "Ah,friends of the family, J suppose."

Kalakaua. the jovial King of the Sand-wich Islands, is sorely in need of money. Prin-cess Katulanl explained that he wonld have ac-companied her to Europe had it not been for asodden illness. A rumor spread about that thepoker-playin- g potentate wai' afflicted withboils. The fact is that Kalakaua is hard up.He wants 510,000 for the expenses of his pro-posed trip to the Paris Exposition. His En-glish friends refuse to lend it to him, and hisagents in San Francisco find it hard to borrowthe money. 'It Is a sad truth that Kalakaua'scredit is about played out

The New York Sun: A former operaticsinger, now a teacher of singing, says that it isimpossible to stand on a carpet or rug and singone's best Bare boards make s good floor tostand on when you sing. Stone is just as good,and glass is better, but carpets deaden thevoice and make a trained singer feel chokedand suffocating. To sing well one must nothave anything above or in front to catch thevoice. Even the brim of a derby hat will im-pair the voice of a man who wears It while hesings. That is why singers stana far out by thefootlights to sing, and because the stage of theAcademy of Music projects far beyond theproscenium arch vocalists always will love thatold theater.

Srlf-Mnf- lo Man and His Maker.Rom the Washington Star.! "

The self-mad- e man onght to he conscientious,for be is supposed to settle every question with

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CHURCH AND HOME WEDDINGS.

The Graham-Bcn- Dean-Mill- er, SadlerBindley and Other Nuptials.

Last evening Miss Annie Graham, daughterofT. P. Graham, M. D., was married toG.Walker Beam, of Chartlcrs. The wed-ding excited a .great interest among the friendsof Miss Graham, who, as the contralto ofShady Side Presbyterian Church, was bothpopular and well known. The service tookplace in the presence of the immediate rela-tives only, and at Dr. Graham's house. Dr.Beam and his bride left after the ceremony forthe East

Clnrko-fllllliollan- d.

Mr. Harry C. Milholland. bookkeeper of theChronicle Telegraph was married last eveningto Miss Hattlo Clarke, sister of Mrs. W. J.McCormack.of 441 Forbes avenue, only theImmediate families being present. The conplewill enjoy a two-wee- trip to Chicago, Detroitand Cleveland. Mr. Milholland is the son otJames Milholland. Upon the couple's returnthey will reside at No. 26 Btockton avenue,Allegheny.

Dean miller.A very pretty wedding of yesterday was the

one in the Second Presbyterian Church at 6 p.M. just before the transformation of that edi-fice into a hospital for the relief of Johnstownrefugees. Miss Lilly Willis Dean was marriedto Mr. D. Knox Miller, the architect and manyfriends of the contracting conple witnessed thenuptials. The congratulations and attendantceremonies were cordial indeed, and the Wed-ding was a memorable society event

Boornm Gordon.George Breed Gordon, of the law Arm of

Dalzell, Scott & Gordon, was married in Brook,lyn yesterday. The lady who became Mrs.Gordon Is Miss Mary Edwards Boornm,daughter of W. B. Boorum, of thatcity. The wedding was quite a fashionableevent After the usual bridal trip the happycouple will take up their residence in this city.

Sadler-BIndle- y.

Many invitations have been issued by Dr.and Mrs. O. W. Sadler for the marriage of theirdaughter, Miss 'Sara, to Mr. Albion BindleyThe ceremony took place in Grace EptscopaChurch, Mt Washington, last evening, at 8o'clock. Afterward there was a delightful re-ception at "Grandview," the home of the bride'sparents.

Getty-Scot- t.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Getty, of Thirty-thir- dstreet and Webster avenue, had invited

many friends to the marriage of their daughter ,Kate Armor, to Mr. Henry Browne Scott, yes-terday. It was solemnized last evening at 6o'clock, and was a decidedly delightful event

SmUhmnn-Car- r.

In Cincinnati yesterday Mr. George M. Carr,of the East End, and Miss Jessie Smithman, ofCincinnati were married. Their future homewill be in the East End.

STOLEN BY THE INDIANS

Discovery of a Girl Who Has Been Missingfor 21 Years.

Portland, Me., June 4. In the year 1868 anumber of Indians were encamped at Knights-vill-e,

and one of the families bad in their pos-session a white female child about 7 or 8 yearsold, and they so 111 treated ber that complaintswere made to the Selectmen,who, upon investi-gation, felt it their duty to take the child, whowas called Julia A. Sampson, and they accord-ingly did, and sent her to the Baldwin PlaceHome at Boston.

Since that time nothing had been heard fromher until this week, when a lady from Bangor,accompanied by her daughter, called on theSelectmen and made inquiries about the child.The lady, whose name Is Bobbins, saya that inthe year 1868 the child was stolen from berhome In Bangor, and she has never until withina few days been able to find any trace of her,and had almost given her up for dead. Herchild's name was Agnes Maria Bobbins, andshe feels certain that the one at Knightsvillewas her child.

She has gone to Boston to make further in-vestigations.

EELSEINS FOR RHEUMATISM

Sufferers Who Are Making sn Indnstry farBoston Fishermen.

From the Boston Globe."Give me two large eelsklns," said a young

woman who entered a North End drugstore atthe time a Olobe man happened to be quench-ing his thirst at the soda fountain. ,.

"Eelsklnsl" said the reporter to the clerkwhen the young lady had left with her purchase. "What does she want of eelsklns?" '

"Rheumatism." said the drug clerk. "You'dbe suprised at the number of people who useeelskins for rheumatism. I know an old manwhose arms and legs are completely strappedwith them, and be believes that they prolong bislife. We have more or less call for them, butI understand that n stores don't seepthem, although once in a while their customersask for them. We got our skins of a fish dealeron Atlantic avenue. He purchases them fromSouth Boston people, who sell the skinned eelsfor food, and when the skins are dried, selltbem to various customers. In many of thefish stores on Atlantic avenue yon will see abunch of the skins suspended from the wall bya hook, Thoy are very oily and soft, and whileI don't take much stock In them, numbers ofpeople have implicit faith in tbem. I am toldthat there is a German family in South Bostonthat sell these eelsklns to various peoplethroughout the United States and realizes asnug little Income therefrom."

A SPECTRAL L0YER.

Tho Good-Natnr- Ghost That Is AstonishingMany Hooalers.

Indianapolis, Jnne 4. A ghost and spiritmanifestation story comes well authenticatedfrom Washington county, Indiana. The ghostprofesses to be one Biley Mull, who died 3&years ago, aged 18 years. It came into the Cokerfamily a year ago while Mrs. Coker and herdaughter, Sallle, aged 14, were sitting in theroom by lamplight, and claims to have been at-tracted by tbedaughter. Hundreds of peoplehave since gone and witnessed the manifesta-tions of the spirit which really did some re-markable things. It played an organ while thegirl worked the bellows, beat a drum, wrote ona slate and talked very intelligently.

Strangely enongh it thoroughly objected toprofane language, and several times asked thosowho were present to pray, joining heartily inthe "amen." The organ playing, drum beating,etc, have been done in other houses, where Itwould have been impossible to have fixed upany apparatus. Sallle Coker, to whom theghost seems to be especially attached, appearsto care but precious little for her ghostly lover,and not infrequently goes to sleep during itsvisits, while the mother treasures the hours otits visits. Mull, when alive, was her playmate.

MISCHIEVOUS CASH BOYS.

How They Amnio Themselves In New YorkWhen They've Nothing to Do.

From the New York Sun.lThe cash boys m a big drygoods store up

town have invented a novel way of amusingthemselves. During the day many ladies enterthe store leading their children, who come tag-ging after them with one of the little red toyballoons floating in the air. The cash boyshave an arrangement by which they can propela pin with deadly accuracy. They shoot thepins at the balloons and ppucture them. Theair escapes, and in a few seconds the balloonhas disappeared, to tho tearful horror of itsjuvenile owner.

Cold Feet in Jnne.From the Chicago Mews. J

"Cold Feet in June," a beautiful poem by thegifted poetess, Miss Juleppa Mint, contains thefollowing delicious lines, which tre very appli-cable to the present weather:

"The bloomsupon the sweet wistariaAre quite suggestive of malaria.And all the birds with songs symphonlo

Warm the sad heart with kindly glowAs does a chllls-and- ever tonic-D- ear

Jnne, sweet June, we love thee so."

The Low Shoe and Flannel Shirt.From the Philadelphia Press.!

The d shoe and flannel shirt havebroken out more violently this year than everbefore. Thevare unconventional and infor-mal: they belong to no "set" they are equallyIn favor in town and country, in the mountainsand at the seashore, and are ostentatious onlyin their suggestions of ease. Theshoe and the flannel shirt have risen to thedignity of summer institutions; they have cometo stay, and all the protests of bootblacks andlaundrymen shall not prevail against them.

He'd Umber Troublo Somebody Else.From the Louisville Courier-Jonrtfa- l.

, Mr. Vonhinkelsteinhausenbloser, of Ohio, isright in refusing to change his name. No manlikes to have his letters mixed with other people's. And besides, why shouldn't letter car-Tie- rt

and sign painters earn tnolr salaries ?

THE DEATH CRADLE,

A Detailed Description of theBroken Dam.

SCENES OF DESOLATION.

Chnos Reigns Everywhere In That RegionStories of Those Who Saw tho LakeGive Away An Old Man's ExperienceAssertionsThat the Clnb Gavo a 33,000-00- 0

Guarantee.

IFEOM A STAFF COIUIESFONDENT.3

South Fobs, June 4. About an hour ago Istood at the top of the abuttment of the SouthFork lake and looked down Into the abysscreated by tho maddened waters, which after-ward made their murderous onslaught uponJohnstown, and changed a district flourishingwith industries into a place of unburied dead.There the vast area of mud and slime spreadItself out as far as the eye could reach. Alllooked dead and dreary chaotic, in factHere, then, was the seat of the Angel of Deathwho. In his rapid flight down the Conemaugh,had blown his breath of everlasting sleep intothousands of happy households. Here, then,was his cradle, and from the aspect overspread-ing the scene like a funeral cloak, the Angelhad apparently returned to the place of hisbirth.

Death was seen fn the dry rustling leaveswhich still clung to the trees that lay strewedin all directions. Death was marked uponevery big' rock covering the land at least 30feet deep. Death was presented to view bymillions of young flsh which covered thegravel for miles, lying there dried up and withtheir mouths wide open. Death seemed to bethe echo of each of our footsteps, and overawed by the ruddering aspect of the rapidlydecomposing objects. Now we Instinctivelyhalt and shudder at the sickening scene be-fore us.

The Cradlo ofDeath.A slow, hut steady drizzling rain made the

streets of Johnstown totally impassable yester-day forenoon. As the many stories ot death,loss of friends, brother, mother, father, sister,had been so often told me that the very thoughtof the awful scenes brought a gulp into mythroat, I hurried out of town as quickly as apair of horses and a buggy could carry me.The driver was a farmer from South Forkvalley, who had told me such a story about thebursted reservoir that I concluded to go andsee it The road from Johnstown up along theside of the hill brought us into gloriouslybeautiful scenery, and at the top of the hill Iturned around to have one more glance at thedevastated town; and fn the next moment Itried to forget it

On and on the horses flew through an avenueof the most beautiful trees. Beyond them oneach side vast forests stretched themselvesover the hills, and the refreshing fragrance otthe soft verdant foliage removed the horrors ofthe past at lest temporarily. As the wheelsrapidly advanced over the ground the beautiesof the surrounding country increased. Therain had ceased and the sky began to clear up.A blue speck suddenly pressed itself throughthe fleecy clouds. It grew and grew, and pres-ently it was made resplendent with the deeporange-colore- d sun, which now loomed up inthe horizon. Gradually the buggy went againon the downgrade until at last tne driverstopped in front of a pile of logs and lumber,"Now, we are near South Fork creek, and hereis the place where we commence to get at theravages mads by the onrging waters as theyrushed down from the lake," said the farmer."We had better get out of the buggy and goup to the breastworks."

The Farmer's Story.We are just at the place where the road

from Johnstown leads across the creek. It wasa magnificently romantic spot On either sideof the road stood a copse of beautiful hemlocktrees, which seemed to have been planted thereas the pillars of a gate to the plain beyond. Wewent beyond; but sooner than day changesinto night in the tropics the entire scenery had.changed. We seemed to nave enterea upon asea beech. Everything was covered with graveland sand and pebbles. "This is some of theground washed out of the lake," said my n.

with a 8i?h. "and it covers some of thefinest meadow land in this part of the countryto a aeptn oi ten leei, out lei us go on anaturn to the right." So we did. and another ex-traordinary sight struck us. There were trunksof oak trees lying all over the ground beforeus, with their bark entirely pealed from thewood, and their branches stretched out to-ward heaven, as if to call the avenging angel todeal retribution for the wrong committedamong them. We were standing in a valleywhich was about 300 yards wide. The hills oneach side were covered with most beantifnlwood lands, and the creek seemed to be run-nin- e

through this valley like a silvery streakuntil they all lost themselves against anotherhill which lay directly behind us. The wholewas more like an immense hall with the

Front Wall Knocked Out.Toward this opening we were bent but noth-

ing except the gravel underfoot, the rippling ofthe creek, and the woods, and the sunand the heavens above us wero to be seen.Slowly we advanced, and gradually the graveldisappeared and we walked on big pebbles.Then they grew, and we had large stones.Then even they grew smaller, and we nowhad to climb over gigantic stone, weighingperhaps hundreds of tons, and apparently defy-ing the strength of a Hercules. While wegroped and climbed among these large blocksthe guide remarked suddenly: "Now look up."1 obeyed, and then for a moment or two Istoodspeechless. Before me I looked into a mon-strous chasm a Cyclopean gorge, whose veryjaws were yawning toward the woods as if theywere waiting to swallow a mountain, and trueenough a pretty good sized mountain conldfind plenty of room in this opening: and thischasm, this opening, represented the aperturethrough which the wild waves burst loosetoward tho city. The opening was about 100feet deep and 100 feet wide. Silently andbreathless we stood and gazed into the bighole. Then our thoughts flew upon the wingsof imagination away to Johnstown, the field ofso many deaths. Then they hurried on toBolivar and Nineveh, to linger on the pale, dis-torted faces of the many women and childrenwhom we saw in their coffins. Here we were at

Tho Fountain Hoodof all the trouble. The thought caused us torecoil at the sight before us as if we were be-ing stared at by a venomous snake. "Let usclimb up the side of the breastworks," thefanner at last broke in, and In 15 minutes webad succeeded in making the ascent There wasnot a drop of water to be seen in the lake; Asfar as the eye could reach all was empty noth-ing but black mud from one end to the other..Looking around we could see a wooden signstuck up in a tree: "No fishing onthese grounds under the penalty of $100 as pro-vided for by act of Assembly." What bitterirony upon the cold facts of stem reality.

Not far from the place where the dam ot thereservoir had burst stood a wooden shanty withon Italians in it. The foreman called himselfJack Lowrie and when asked whether he bad.Doen present at uiv uiuo tueauuiueub uccurreahe said: "Yes, I have been here with my menfor several weeks working for the South ForkClub."

"Will you kindly relate your experience oflast Friday?"

"Well, I will tell yon. On last Wednesday thelake was all right. The water was still 10 feetfrom tho top of .the dam, its usual height: but,as everybody knows, on Thursday it began torain very bard. It kept on all day and all nightIncessantly, and on Friday morning I noticedthe water in the lake was rapidly rising? Fromthat time it continued to rise at the rate of 10inches per hour. During the morning the peo-ple from the neighborhood came round here Inlarge numbers to see what the lake was doing,and all of them knew that

There Was Damage Ahead.At 2 o'clock in the afternoon water began to

run over the top of the dam, right there in themiddle of the breastwork. Then everybody be-came alarmed. The top of the dam began to bewashed away. Deeper and deeper grew thebole until 3 o'clock, when the entire wall wentoff. It was an awfnl moment. Istood just tenyard away from where the dam went. Theentire wall which filled that immense hole youseo before you tore itself loose and moveddown into the meadows as a wagon on a greasedtrack. It was awful, and I shall neverforget it. First when the ground gotloose and the water shot through a nar-row space in the wall you could heara hissing, whistling noise. Very much like a dogwill make when he has got a bone and youwant to take itaway from him. This noise in-creased, became louder and louder, tho businggrew into a rumbling sound, then it became aroar, until! It found Its climax in the laudthunder of, a wild storm. The roaring wassomethingterrific. You could not hear yourown voice. There were spectators all along thebank of thAvalley over there, who saw the aw--Jul catastrophe. xne water continued w rusn

through the opening for just. about, an hour,and at 4 o'clock the lake was as empty aa yousee it now."

"Now, tell me. Don't you think that some-thing might have been done to prevent thiscalamity?"

A Fatal Mistake"I do not know. 1 hardlv think so: although

I tried when! saw the waters rush over the.middle there. I got my men to make a dltcnover beside the hill, where the abutment wasmore solid. I know that the breastwork, whichhad only a diameter of about 80 feet at the top,was bound to go if the water once began towash over. Colonel Unger was here when Iwas digging this ditch, but when he saw me atit he told me to lot it go. He never thoughtthe dam was going to burn, but I knew better.Of course, when Colonel Unger told meto stop,I stopped, but I think that a great deal of thedanger might have been avoided."

"Well, it was an awrnl spectacle to see thatmountain of water rush down the valley andtear down everything before it. I saw some ofthe biggest trees that 1 have ever seen heretorn completely out of the ground and carrieddown the stream, and when all was over thebeautiful landscape was changed into a chaoticwilderness. Mr. George Fischer's farm stoodover there besides the stream, and the firstrush of the watter carried the whole placeaway, and you could not find out now wherethe house stood. The man Is poor becadse hisland is completely ruined by the gravel, sandand stone which is covering it in some placesat a depth of 30 feet."

An Old Man's Experience.We left the Italians packing their trunks ana

valises. "We are going away in the morning,because we cannot do anything here now. Wecannot even amuse ourselves by fishing in thelake, Decause it is empty," were the last wordsthey said, and retracing our steps across thatawful field of devastation, we made a detouras far as the road from where we started. Atthe bank of the creek stood an old man tryingto get across. "That is grandpa Fischer; let ustalk to him," said the guide. Fischer was aman SO years of age, and father of the manwho lost his property. He had been thoughtdead because no one had seen him sinceDecoration Day. The old man himself said:"I never thought that I would have to gothrough the likes of this in my old days. LastThursday f went to see ray grandson down InMinersville, near Johnstown, and on Friday Imeant to come up again, but. alas, since thenI have gone through an awful time. When thewaters came rushing along the Canemaughtowards town we were all at my grandson'shome, but soon the waters broke in on us. 1went to the roof of the house and so did mygrandson, bis wife and his child. There we allsat

Praying to the Lordto ke:p us alive, bnt it was not to be. Sud-denly a big wave of water came along anddashing against the house my grand-daught-and her little child were carried oS the roof.No sooner had the husband noticed it than bejumped after them to save them, but what avain attempt All three drifted down theriver until at last Host sight of them all.There I sat on the top of that bouse, an oldman. SO years old, and probably not a soul inthe world left who cared for me or belonged tome, for I was sure that ourhomesteadhere hadgone with everybody in it. Well, I Bat on thehouse for an hour, when another wave dashedagainst it It began to weaken and at last itdrifted away. I held to the roof as best I conld.but it was 21 hours before I got rescued. Ah,this lake, this lake. I have lived here fornearly 40 years and I always said that I wouldyet live to see the dam break. Well, I saw Itonce about 20 years ago, but I never dremptto live long enough to see it again. However,we must take things as they are. It is no usecomplaining. I am too old for that now."

The Club's Guarantee."Bight here on the side of the creek," said

the guide, "stood another farm belonging toMr. George Lamb. He lost everything he hadin the world, and he got nearly drowned him-self in trying to save bis pigs. Do you seethose trees looking out of the sand? Well, thatwas his orchard, and you can judge how deepthe sand must be when nothing but the crownof the trees looks out of it All his land isruined, but he says that the club will returnhim the money."

"How Is that?""I do not know, but the people around here

say that the members of the South Fork Clubwhen they built the dam gave a bond of $2,000,000, with the understanding that when the damwould break they would give that amounttoward all damage done to property and other-wise. If that is so it will come very handy to agood many people."

"By the way, what do the people around heresay abont the accident?"

"A good many things. We are very sorry forthe members of the South Fork Club, becausethe members brought a great deal of money tothe fanners. But we have always lived in con-stant fear of tho dam bursting; Wheneverthere has been any rain here at all the firstquestion wonld always be: 'Will the dam beable to stand ltf But, curiously enough, whenit did come nobody wanted to believe it. It wasthe same as the cry about the wolf. But thepeople here bellevod it because the roaring ofthe waters as they broke through that holecould be heard for miles around here. But letus go further."

Scenes of Desolation.Following the course of South Fork creek

we came to the front of a hill where the rivulettakes a turn to the right. At that bend the as-pect presenting itself was most curious. Thewater of the creek formerly ran quietlythrough a beautiful forest of enormous hem-lock trees, but from this bend in the river agap had been made in the woods about SO feetwide, and every tree which had formerly cov-ered the ground, and in whose shadow thesmall stream ran down toward the Conemaugh,was pulled out by the roots. Some of the treeswere standing on their crown, the roots spreadout aloltr but there was not a vestige pi Darkleft on any tree. All was bare as it an army ofbeavers had been attacking tbem.

Thus it continued for about a quarter of amile, until again a bend occurred in thestream, this time the course going to the left.The same scene of utter wilderness uprootedandnnbarked trees, and the valley coveredwith enormous stones of tons upon tons ofweight, was reproduced. From here the greatbig mountain of water, which had been seen byscores of the people on the train near Johns-town on that memorable Friday afternoon,took its downward course through South Forkvillage and into the Conemaugh. There wereonly five lives lost in South Fork Philip Her-Der- t,

Charles Geisenheim, Lizzie, Theobaldand John Tonens but nearly half the villagehas been destroyed. Before the dam burst theSouth Fork people were notified, and hencethey were able to escape, though their homeshad been destroyed. Hetnriciis.

TROUBLE IN THE CAMP.

Some Nationalists Believe That SullivanHad the Meeting Postponed.

JSPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DI8PATCII.INew York, Jnne 4. There Is a prospect of

a big row among the Irish Nationaliststhroughout the entire country In consequenceof the announcement just made by PresidentFitzgerald, of the Irish National League, thatthe convention to be held next week In Phila-delphia has been postponed. Tho dispatchfrom Lincoln giving this intelligence says thatPresident Fitzgerald postponed the conventionon the advice of Mr. Parncll that such actionbe taken. The postponement" the dispatchadded, "is until after the ending of the presentsession of the British Parliament."

A reporter conversed with many prominentIrishmen in New York and in almostevery instance the postponement of the Leagueconvention was condemned in the strongestterm. The statement that MrParnell orderedthe convention to be postponed was receivedwith increduillty. The impression among Irish-men in this city over Mr. Fitzgerald's action isthat be has postponed the convention on ac-count ot the Cronin murder case, and Mr. Fitz-gerald, in all probability will be asked to makepublic the correspondence between himselfand Mr.'Parnell. Alexander Sullivan, who isconsidered to be President Fitzgerald's conf-idential adviser, as everybody knows, has hadhis name mixed in one way or another in theCronin case. A National League, conventionwithout Sullivan as a delegate would bo likethe play of "Hamlet" with Samlet left out, sothat there is a more than a little justificationfor the suspicion that President Fitzgerald haspostponed the convention just to accommodateAlexander Sullivan and his friends.

A TEST OF AUTHORITY.

Aro Firms With Only Branch Offices In theCity Liable to Business Tnx?

An argument was bad before Judge Slaglevesterday in the test case equity proceedingsof the Hartman Steel Works against Pittsburgto restrain the city from collecting businesstax levied on plaintiff. The works of the com-pany are at Beaver Falls, but they have abranch office in this city. Th assessors as-sessed the companv for all business transactedat the Pittsburg office.

The firm claim that they are not liable totaxation in Pittsburg, as the business here ismerely that of keeping accounts and attendingto correspondence. Orders art taken, bnt theybold that-th- business is actually transacted atthe works in Beaver Falls.

Messrs. D. T. Watson and J. H. Beed repre-sented the steel company, and City AttorneyMoreland and Assistant City Attorney Cama-ba- n

appeared tor the city.

TwasNotUIs.From the Chicago Mows. J

To "Constant Eeader": The famous saylnr,"Head, I win," was not coined by the Hon. J.(a Clarkson, of Iowa, Your mistake was a nat--

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HEROIC LIFE SAVERS,

A Brave Girl Jumps Into the

Raging Flood,

SAVING HER TWO SISTERS

Seventy Human Bolags Takes From theWater by the Columbia Clnb An Attoona Girl's Strange Experience LittleCecilia Thomas Tells a Thrilling Storr.

1FBOK A STAW COBBISPOJTOTST.J

Johnstown, June 4. Among the familieswho secured safety from the angry floods uponthe roof of their residence was the wile, daugn-ter and two children of John Duncan, a prominent citizen of Johnstown. Just at the momentwhen the few unfortunates thought themselvesfree from danger a telegraph pole struck theend of the house. The force of the shock castthe two little ones Into the water. Without amoment's hesitation Miss Duncan, who Is anexcellent swimmer, jumped in and rescued her

sisters.The work done by the Columbia Clnb, the

swell organization here, was something remarkable. Its members were at dinner whenthe flood burst upon them, but they jumpedout at once and manfully went to work. Totheir united efforts 70 beings, who were literally jerked from the jaws of death, owe theirlives.

Laura Proser was taken out alive some timethis afternoon. The poor girl wasbadlv crushedabout the legs and one arm will have to betaken off.

Mary Wayne's Rescue.Mary Wayne, of Altoona, was also rescued.

She had a thrilling experience. The younglady had come from Altoona to attend a wedding, and was dressing for the occasion wnenthe water came. When found she was naked,and they dressed her In boys' clothes. Shewore these garments to Altoona.

Jacob Fross and James Mohan, of Pittsburg,brothers-in-la- to John Thomas, told a DIS-PATCH reporter that they went to Johnstownon Saturday last and when they arrived soonfound Mr. Thomas who was saved as also hisoldest girl Cecilia, U years old. Mr. Thomasbad a saloon on the corner of First and Bail-roa- d

streets. The house had seven rooms andwhen the flood came there were IS persons inone room. Thomas clung to his son Sylvester,4 years old, and went down with him twice be-fore he was forced to let nim go. He thensaved himself. Cecilia's father has not seenher yet. Minnie 8 and Annie 9 years old werenot found. Sylvester was found and is buried.

Several Kemnrknble Escapes.Barbara Smith, Thomas' hired girl, who was

drowned, was n at Sharpsburg. Herrelatives and parents, who reside in Johnstown,were all lost Harvy Wagner, a Tarentumglass worker, and Joseph Duffy were saved,and Bichard Howe, owner of the property.Duffy floated 18 miles on a piece of timber, andstates that he saw conntless numbers of peoplego under, while dunng bis perilous journey hewent nnder water seven times.

Mr. Andrew Noe, another brother-in-la- toMr. Thomas, who has been at Johnstown sincelast Sunday, stated, when seen by the writer,that little Cecilia Thomas said that she andher mother drifted about a mile. The youngman who saved Cecilia, was abont to rescneher mother, when the latter went under. Thelittle girl begged to her rescuer to let her go,but he clung to her and kept ber safe.

IT WAS NOT TRDE.

A False Charge Made Against One of theLocal Firemen.

Johnstown, June 4. A deputy consta-ble of Johnstown, named Hetzlnger cre-ated considerable excitement this eveningwhen be stated that he was going to arrest aPittsbnT? fireman of No. 10 Engine Companv.of Mount Washington, for robbing one of thedead bodies recovered irom tne aeons, oiWhen the Assistant Chief was seen and askedwhat he knew about the matter, he said that heknew all about the matter.

"The body," he said, "was that of Mrs. EvaBending, of Mt. Washington, who was in Johns-town to visit her parents; Mr. and Mrs. Freder-ick Hill, at the time the disaster overcame thecity.-T- hp woman died with the rest of herfamilv, and she was not found until this evening.Well, this man. who knew the woman since Bhewas a mite of a girl, recognized her as she waslying on the ground, and as he noticed herpocket hanging outside of her dress, he pulledit off and took the money out But he neverkept the cash. He has delivered it to the handsof the committee and he immediately tele-graphed the fact of the recovery of the body tohofrfonrta."

That Is the true story of the affair, and Iknow the Pittsburg firemen sufficiently toknow that they would not steal anything thatbelongs to any oi tne aeaa Douies.

PITTSBURG PEOPLE SATED.

Arrival of Passengers Who Were In thePennsylvania Ballroad Wreck.

tJT.OM A STABT COBEISPOXDZHT.JJohnstown, June 4. This afternoon about

3 o'clock another party of the travelers whowere In tne Eastern express, which was canghtat Conemaugh on iriday aiternoon wnen tnewaters came down from South Fork, arrived InJohnstown. The party consisted of Mr. Will-iam M. Williams. Mr. William Scherer, MissMargaret Patrick, the daughter of W. Patrick,the banker; Miss Whittaker, of Brooklyn: Mr.T.H.Swift, of Allegheny, and Mr. Davis andfamfjy, of Lancaster, who have friends at Alle-gheny. Mr. Robinson stated that tbey bad gotoff the train all right and escaped over thehills to Ebensbnrg. where they were eversince. All of these people left this evening onthe Pennsylvania Ballroad.

EETERIES OF A PHILOSOPHER.

IN JUNE.How fragrant are the flelas and groves IThe feathered songsters sing their loves;The days are warm, the days are bright;With bloom the orchards all are white;The swallows skim the river's brink;In meadows sings the bobolink;Where buttercups adorn the dale

And daisies wink their eyes.The brlndle cow with supple tall

AVhUks ofT the pesky flies.

POOt DATS, NOT COOT, SAYS.The perspiration beads the brow,

And Sol at noonday flames;And there's s deal of betting now

On baseball games.

Such betting oft brings grief and woe;bome men lose quite a pot

Of money and get left althoughThe days are hot.

THE XOVXB AND HIS LASS.They trip across the dewv grass

Beneath the stellar lights;The lovers burn no coal or gas

On these delightful nights.

The frog within the sedgy poolA song sings to his mate

While they lt on the piazzas cool,Or swing upon the gate.

Beneath the oaks and pines they meetAnd spend a happy tune;

Ah ! love Is strong and life is sweetWhen June Is in her prime.

A PBETTT SUGGESTION.They lingered at her father's door.

The hour was shining bright,And to the maiden, o'er and o'er,

The youth had said good night

Bnt still reluctant to departHer tiny hand he pressed.

While all the love that filled his heartHis ardent looks confessed.

At length the maiden blushed and sighed.And said In accents low,

1 hope, dear John, you will not tryTo kiss me 'ere you go.

SEASONABLE.Now ripening are the native fruits

That everybody wants ;The girls put on short bathing suits

The dogs put on long pants.

IT IS REPOETED SO.He lies all day In Jane's sweet air,

Beneath her cloudless sties.The pretty speckled trout to snare.

And then goes bome and lies.

Of course he failed" to land them all!Of this he makes the most.

And those he caught were verrtmaU, compared with those he lost.;, " -j-mtfon Cmrftr,

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the greasy fluid.Mesquite, Tex., comes forward with a

champion snake story. A snake measuring six.feet in length was killed near there, and itsimmensa size caused the parties who found itto cut it open. It was found to contain threelarge rabbits and 23 guinea eggs.

There is a new fly in the market whichwill doubtless take well with anglers. Thehook is so completely concealed as to be invisi-ble even when the fly Is held in the hand. It Ismade like a white miller and Is so constructedthat the action ot the water will not affect it

A. philanthropic citizen of Harveycounty, Kansas, has planted three miles ofpeach trees along a public road "for the benefitof travelers." But the small boys of the neigh-borhood have another theory as to whom theywill benefit

Hereafter women will be admitted tothe Hartford Theological Seminary on thesame terms as men. This action has been takenby the trustees to meet the needs of womenwho desire to prepare themselves for Christianwork either at home or abroad.

The Salvation Army has a new methodof advertising Itself In Paris. An open car-riage Is daily hired and In it are placed four ofthe most conspicuous members of the confra-ternity a North American Indian, a China-man, an Egyptian and a Persian. These aredriven wherever the crowd Is greatest

An American painter, living in Flor-ence, has painted a big picture of Satan so"realistically" that when a lot of young peoplewho went to see It began to dance, the shakingof the canvas made the figure have such asemblance of demoniac laughter that thsdancers would not continue until the picturewas covered.

A team of four cows appeared in Belle.vne,Idaho,not long,ago having been driven fromNebraska, a distance of L00O miles. They hadacted as motive power for a praine schooner,and had also furnished milk and butter for thefamily en route. They were In good condition,with the exception of their feet which neededshoes badly.

A new mat, which ac's as a erwithout retaining the dirt on its sur-

face, and which is readily cleaned, is made offlexible wood matting. Strips of clear whitebard maple, straight-graine- d and well seasonedare connected by means of galvanized ironwire, with a rubber tnbe between tbem, andthe result Is a very durable and flexible mat.

While Henry Parker was calling onMiss Dudgeon, In a small town near Mt Vernon,C the other night at midnight, a masked manentered the room, presented a revolver at hisbead, and demanded his money. Parker re-plied that he had none, but when the robbercocked the revolver the young man handed himover 31, all he had. The robber escaped. Thisis a warning to all young men not to stay laterthan 11 o'clock.

Becent experiments to ascertain within 'what limits the ear can distinguish the differ-ence In the pitch of two sounds show that thesmallest difference perceptible by untrained oronly slightly trained ears appears to be fromone-sixt- h to of a semi-ton- e. It issaid that a peculiarity that seems to apply aliketo trained and untrained ears is that they de-tect upward differences more easily than down-ward.

To think of having ahole bored throughyour nose in order to facilitate breathing is al-most brutal. But it is not considered so in thesedays for the operation is performed on all sortsof persons. The oarsmen of a certain collegewho have just submitted to it are merely fol-lowing a current fad of one school of doctors.The part that is bored is the cartilage between,the nostrils Inside the nose. The hole is bored!by means of a sort of wire drill, and the opera-tion 13 said not to hurt at all. Very many la-dies as well as men have their noses bored.'The wound does not show, of course.

Sir William Thomson recently delivereda series of lectures on physics at Johns HopkinsUniversity, and the fashionable people of Balti-more set out to make them an event in socialIntellectual circles. They understood thatsome mathematical training was necessary, hutSir William sailed right into the questions in-volving differential and integral calculus. Afterhe had filled a blackboard with equations heturned ana asked, "Do you follow me?" A fewminutes later, in a particularly difficult problemhe mildly asked his audience, if they saw anymistake, to call his attentien to it. He won-dered why everybody smiled. Half a dozenvery studious looking men made up the audi-ence at a second lecture.

From New England comes the' idea ofapplying the principle to the tele-phone. The person who wants to send JoMlmessages occasionally, bnt aoes not cars to In-come a regular subscriber, will be jfrlvilegedt vstop at any of several kiosks or sentry becus- - --distributed aboat the streets, drop abit ofmoney into a slot and open a door admittinghim to the mouthpiece of a telephone throughwhich he can communicate with his friends atwill, or send an order to his grocer, or engage aseat at the theater for the evening perform-ance. But is it not odd that, with all the pub-lic conveniences fostered by the nickel and-sl-

device, nobody seems yet to have thoughtof a scheme for furnishing the customer withchange of the right size? It Is not everybodywho has a nicxel In his pocket whenever hewants to use one of these Whyshould not each box, therefore, have one sup-plementary to it, which on receiving a dollaror a half-doll- or a quarter will shoot out anenvelope containing the equivalent in smallchange? Here is a chance for some Inventivegenius.

A little girl in Lewiston, Me., fell inlove with the sweet dissonance of the "SilverThreads Among the Gold," as wound ont bythe hand organ the other Jay, and she went toher mother's purse for money for the grinder."What have you?" asked her mother carelessly,as the little one approached the window withthe piece of money. "A penny." was the re-ply, "bnt it Is an awfully pretty one." Hermother held out her hand to look at it, and wassurprised to see It a 55 gold piece. A half aminute more and the barrel organ virtuosowould have been wealthy. The lady says shewould not have minded the loss of the moneyso much as she would the permanence of the"Silver Threads." Five dollars' worth of "Sli-ver Threads" would weave a shroud for a per-son of Iron nerve and constitution, and wonldhave included the summer vacation wnile thehouse Is closed. If a band organ will play fivetunes for 1 cent it will play 25,000 for 600 cents,la which each tune is repeated ECO times, notincluding the additional favors in the directionof additional tunes arising from hope of receiv-ing another to gold piece.

CLIPPED BITS OF WIT.

The Customary Question. Lady Custom-erDo you keep linen writing paper?

Stationer Yes, ma'am.Lady Customer Will It wash. Hurltngton Free

A Dangerous Experiment Miss Antique;(school teacher) What does spell?

Class (No answer).Miss Antique What Is the color of my skin?Class (In chorus) Yellow. JTo York Weekly.

TM n iu n f.l i m tn i what von n eed."Hsaidthohlgh-prlce- d physician, after he had llstened,toall the details of the patient's case. "Change of

exclaimed thepatlent in surprise. "Why,it- -., ni nr had anvxhlnsf else. I've

lived right here In New England all my life."enmtum Jtegincr.

nn;Vf Art. Smith I've iust taken somaof Dr. Quack's medicine; thought I'd try newdOCtOr. IWIOBIBOWluiiW wu.mi

jnnM-Y- ts. a little. A friend Of mlnetook someof bis medicine once.

Did, eb? Was It quick to act?"on. vest there wascrape on thedoornextmorn- -

lag." Ainc York Sun.Seasonably Safe: Mr. Slick (innocently)I never went home drunk in the whole course of

my life.Mb Coldwater (congratulatory) Ah, that's

good. I'm very glad to hear It, and I hope yoanever will.

if. hii.vtoii T vnn't. nnlpu the natrolwagon u on duty some night and a strange cabdriver gets on to me. nasmngion t,nc

Conditional Pardon. Oldgrudge Thedoctor says lam about to die and I sent for youthat we who have been bitterest enemies all theseyears might receive each other's forgiveness.

Makepeace I most truly forgive you In every- -

Oldgrudge And I forgive you, if I die, but re--.. , Twu.AVA. thofiirht. will be taken up

Just where we now drop Worm

Miseries ot Suburban Life. Mr.s. fauouro .--Yoa are very late Supper was readytwo hour. ago. . .

Mr. Suburb Yes. I missed the 8:17 train andbad to take the 5:19. ,,

Mr. S.-- Yes, my dear, but the J:17 comes stralghjthrough, and the 8:19 stops at ITS stations beforelsgets here. new iotk weeny. j,

Humbling a House Agent DilapidatedSpecimen-Sa- y, wsvs' the

price o' that !ere sbrown-stone- ? r -

Agcut-Uu- h! What 'do you want ttf know

Dilapidated Bpec!men-'o- ne oyr itiiVmwalkln" to Saratogy, where I've been promised aall summer johas head waiter. "JStr

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