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WATER FAMINE IN DURHAM.
A. Loudon cable ay:fThe great coal
miners' strike was inaugurated yesterday in
accordance with the plan of the Miners'
Federation:which in its manifesto issued
a few days ago declared that the holiday
the men proposed to take was tor the
purpose of clearing the markets of the
surplus coal, and for restricting the output,
In order to prevent the masters from using
the low prices as an excuse for lowering
wages. At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the men employed in the mines in Lanca-
shire, Cheshire andYorkehire stopped Work,
and the ponies were removed from the pits.
The ouly men now at work are the surface
men, pumpers, ventilators, attendants, etc.,
whom the Federation have not called out.
In Durham mining work has also com-
pletely stopped. It was hoped, until yester-
'day, that some sort of a compromise would
be arrived at, but so agreement could be
reached, and the strange spectacle preeented
itself of the employees quitting work in the
masters' interest, for it cannot be denied
that if any advantage is to be derived from
higher prices the intne•oivners, as compared
with the miners, will reap the greater por-
tion. Belgian shippers are sending coal to
the Tyne and Thames, but they refuse to
give any information as to the quantity
they have Shipped. The old colliers carry-
ing these consignments are expeoted to ar-
rive to -morrow. The coal porters will -
attempt to prevent the. discharge of these
cargoes, and it is feared this will lead to a
renewal of the dock troubles.
Twenty tnousand miners in Nottingham
quit work at noon yesterday. When they
came out of the pits they brought their tools
with them.
The coal stocks in the Bristol district are
already nearly exhausted. The miners there
have also stopped work, and as a result the
price of coal has gone up four shillings per
ton. Many manufacturers refuse to pay the
price demanded and have closed their fac-
tories. In this respect the action of the
miners is working greatly to the harm of
the operatives employed in other industries.
One of the results of the strike that has
occurred among the North Wales miners is
that the men working in Flintshire will not
go on strike, but will work no more than
five days a week.
Wooden barricades are being built around
the mouths of the various pits in Durham
and none of the miners will be allowed
within these enclosures. It is believed that
at the conference to be held on Wednesday
next by the Miners' Federation it will be
decided•to limit the holiday to a week, and
°to restrict the output:during the summer.
Many of the large industrial establish-
ments in Leeds and Manchester and on the
Tee -side and Tyne -side and other places in
the vicinity of the collieries dampened their
fires when the operatives left their work
yesterday afternoon. This means that work
*ill not be resumed to -morrow, the manu-
facturers refusing to pay the extraordinary
prices now demanded fot coal.
'The Miners' Federation will pay the men
atrike wages during the period of idleness.
N. The Ouly'excepnre to this, so far as at
i present known, ' -are the Durham miners,
who will not receive pay. It will require a
vertlarge sum of money to pay the 400,000
men who, it is said, have left work, even
'thomah they receive strike wages. To re-
' oup the drain the treasury of the Federa-
tion will be subjected to a levy, which will
be made upon the men as soon as they return
' to work.
The weather yesterday was stormy, and
snow lies several inches deep inthe villages
about the collieries.
Yesterday aftermion delegates from all
e' the collieries in Durham met and finally
decided that they would submit to no re -
Auction in their wages. Durham and
Northumberland miners are not members of
. the Miners' Federation, but have an organ-
izo.tion of their own, the National Union.
The membership of the Federation is enor-
mous. It comprises about 280,000 miners,
of whom 200,000 are bottom workers. The
remaining 80,030 are employed on the sur-
face. The Federation delegates, who met
some time ago at the Manchester confer-
ence, represented 175,000 working miners.
. The conference to he held on Wednesday
next will take place in London. Hitherto
most of the water used by the miners and
theirlamilies in household and other duties
has been obtained from the mines. The
pumps there furnished them with an abund-
ant supply. It is now feared that a water
famine will follow the cessation of the work.
The women and children are procuring
water from ()eery available source and stor-
• ing it in all manner and kind of receptacles
in their houses.
d'he miners have plenty Of coal, as the
masters ha ee allowed them to provide them-
selves with liberal supplies.
A BURGLAR STOPPL'D.
BRAVE EFFORTS AT BENUE,
A Brussels cable says : Later particulars
regarding the explosion in the A.nderluis
colliery show that it occurred in a gallery
400 feet below the surface. Here were
working 270 men. Of thil3 number 40
escapy means of a second shaft and 16
others were rescued in a terribly and it is
believed fatally injured condition. It is
feared that of the men in the mine 200 have
been killed.
The „vcplosion occurred at 8 o'clock
yesterday morning. It was very heavy, and
the shock caused by it resembled an earth-
quake. Almost before the tremblings
caused by the mighty explosion
had died entirely away the in-
habitants began to rush from their
dwellings, and crowds of excited men,
women and children, the faces of all blanched
with the horror which possessed thein,
flocked to the mouth of the fatal pit, down
which but a few hours before miners •had
been lowered to begin their dreary and
laborious work in the bowels of the earth.
The soene around the pit soon became one
of great excitement and anguish. Piteous
shrieks and cries resounded on every aide,
as it was at first thought that every one in
the mine had been killed. A willing band
of hundreds of brave men volunteered to
descend into the, abyss and commence the
work of rescuing those of their companions,
if any, who might have survived the dis-
aster, or bearing the blackened and torn
bodies of the killed to the surface.' There
was a long interval of waiting and susnense
before a signal was received from below by
ivatohers at the mouth of the pit that the
rescuers had reached some of the miners and
were ready to have them hoisted up. The
cries, prayers and shrieks of the anguished
crowd were redoubled as the men
at the windlasses at length completed their
work and the limp and black forms of
from 30 to 40 of the poor men were dis-
closed to the straining eyes of the weeping
multitude. All the victims were either
•dead or badly injured, and the face of each
was fearfully disfigured. Their counten-
ances 'were smeared with blood and were
completely black from the volumes of smoke
and dust which followed the explosion and
were swollen out of all proportions. Kind
hands bore the victims from the place. The
wounded men, groaning pitifully at every
step taken by their carriers, and followed
by their sorrowing friends, were tenderly
conveyed to the infirmary, which had.been
got in readiness for the reception of the large
number of patients which it was known
would soon tax all the resources of the in-
.stitution. A large staff of doctors and
nurses had already arrived. The latest
•official estimate places the number af 'dead
at 200. The Ministers of Husbandry and
Public Works are at the scene of the disy/s
aster, and are personally directing the
operations of the rescuers.
A. Bullet Through the Head Put an End
to Ills Business.
A Philadelphia despatch says: A man
supposed to be William H. Brooks, a
burglar, was shot and fatally injured by
Policeman Boolan at 12 30 o'clock yesterday
morning at Eighth and Arch streets just as
he had (smashed the window of Hart's
bicycle store on Arch street. Just as the
officer rushed on the window -smasher the
latter raised a brick to hurl at him, when
Boolan closed with him, and in the excite-
ment his finger pressed the trigger and the
mat fell, shot through the top of the head,
and never uttered a sound. The man was
taken .to a hospital accompanied by the
officer. The officer said he had not the
slightest intention of shooting the man, but
merely wanted to frighten him.
• —When a carpet is taken up to Ise cleaned,
the floor beneath it is generally very much
covered with dust. This dust is very fine,
and dty, and poisonous to the lungs. Be-
fore removing it sprinkle the floor with very
dilute carbolic acid, to kill any poisonous
germs that may be present, and to thor-
oughly disinfect the floor and render it
sweet.
—It cost £1,500 to bury the Duke o
Clarence.
—Spain has only 3,231 Sunday eehoot
hhildren,
A. LIVING TORCH:
A Lambeth Man Pours Oil on Himself and
Applies a Match.
A London despatch says: Mahlon A.
Swartz' who lived about two iniles, south-
west ofLambeth, met an awful death at his
own bands yesterday afternoon. He had
been subject to fits of melancholy owing to
.financial losses, and had twice within the
past year made unsuccessful attempts on his
life, and was therefore carefully watched over
by his wife and son. But yesterday he
eluded their vigilance and made a final effort
that was only too successful. He had been
but a few minutes out ot, his wife's sight,
and was engaged piling wood in the wood-
shed, when she saw him run out of the door
enveloped inflames. She ran to him with
blankets to wrap round him to smother the
fire, but he fought her off determinedly. She
then ran screaming to the house of Mr.
Siftim, a neighbor, but a few rods distant,
and gave the alarm, and help was soon at
hand, but not until life was almost, extinct,
and the unfortunate man was burned almost
to a.crisp. In the woodshed was a half -
emptied coal oil can, the floor being • scat-
tered over with oil, and a half -burned match.
The desperate man had literally saturated
himself with about half a gallon of coal oil
and then lighted it with his own hand. A
few years ago the deceased was a prominent
and well-to-do farmer living near Aylmer,
but the loss of all his property was followed
by sickness and fits of depression that re-
sulted in this awful end. He leaves a widow
and two children.
A NOBLE WOMAN'S PLEA.
Epp( 1 Ye I I pals Fcr Mrs.
'Osborne.
M 1E.
FREELY FORGIVES GREAT WRONGS.
A London cable says: Mrs. Florence
Ethel Oeborne, who stole Mrs. Hargreaves'
pearls from that lady's residence while
there on a visit, and who, when accused of
the theft, instituted a libel suit against Mrs.
Ilargreaves, was found guilty to -day in the
Old Bailey of larceny and perjury and was
sentenced to nine months' imprieonment.at
hard labor. /
The eaddest feature of the whole case is
that Mrs. Osborne is to become a mother hi
June. Her husband, Captain Osborne, who
married her believing her guiltless of the
larceny, is bowed down with grief. Sir
Charles Russell, who arose as her counsel in
the libel suit and declared his client guilty,
made a plea to -day for mercy on the ground
of insanity.
At this point Mrs. Hargreaves rose from
her seat at the solicitors side, wed, speak-
ing with great emotion, said: "My Lord,
as I and my husband are the chief sufferers
The judge interposed, saying: "1 don't
think I can listen to you."
Mrs. Hargreaves, however, was not
daunted by this rebuff. She persisted in
finiehing what she had to say, and, con-
tinuing, she said : "1 am going to plead for
mercy for the accused. I am convinced
that Mrs. Osborne was not in her right
mind when she took the jewels. I beg of
you to deal as leniently as possible with
her. I have known and loved the prisoner
all her life."
During Mrs. Hargreaves' remarks Mrs.
Osborne showed the deepest emotion. She
wept bitterly and her sobs were audible in
every part of the court room.
It was thought that she would faint and
another female warder stepped quietly to
her side to help support her should she fall.
Everybody in the court was much affected.
Many of the women wete crying.
Even the court attendants were visibly
affected by the utter misery of Mrs. Os-
borne, which seemed to be added to by the
noble appeal for mercy in her behalf made
by the woman she had wronged.
The painful scene Was added to when the
clerk of the court, turning to the prisoner,
asked: "Florence Ethel Osborne, have
you anything to say why the court should
not pass judgment upon you ?"
Mrs. Osborne'sobbingviolently, replied
in a whisper, "Nothing., '
The judge spoke in severe terms of Mrs.
Osborne's conduct, and said in conclusion:
"Tho maximum punishment for your crime
is seven years—this remark caused a sensa-
tion in the court room—but I am not going
to pass such a sentence on you. I am taking
all the circumstances of your case into con-
sideration, notably the appeal just made for
you by Mrs. Hargreaves, and decide that
you be imprisoned at such hard labor as
your condition and frail health permits for
nine months. In prison you will be attended
by doctors."
Mrs. Osborne was seated ,in the dock
while the Judge was sentencing her, and
upon the conclusion of his remarks she
would have fallen from her seat but for the
warders, who raised her gently, each of
them taking her by an arm, and led her
away to a cell.
Captain Osborne had an interview with
his wife after sentence had been imposed.
He then retired to. his house, completely
crushed at his wife's position. The house
presents an appearance of mourning. All
the blinds are closely drawn.
His friends exprese high praise for his
warm and unwavering devotion to his
erring, yet e unfortunate, wife. Many
think that in view of her delicate condition
the sentence aught to have been still
lighter.
LONDON, March. — Mrs. Osborne, after
her sentence on Thursday, developed hysteric
catalepsy so seriously that her condition
became critical and her husband was per,
mitted to visit her. Friends hope to obtain
a medical certificate to the effect that a pro-
longed imprisonment is certain to cause the
death of Mrs. Osborne. The birth of her
child is expected in June.
HORINDIE
A Young Woman Deserted, Suicides by
Strychnine on a Train.
A New Albany, Ind., despatch days
Kate.Smith committed suicide in a Benet+,
tional Manner on a train at 12.30 this morn- ,
ing. She boarded the train at Louisville
last night, and while en route to this city
asked the conductor for a glass of water for
the purpose of wetting her handkerchief,
saying that she had a headaelie. A moment
latter she emptied -a white powder into the
glass and drank the contents. Ten minutes'
later she was writhing in horrible agony on
the floor of the coach, and it required the
strength of three men to hold her. When
she reached this city she was frothing at the
mouth from the effects of the strychnine,
and died at 3 o'clock. Kate Smith was at
one time considered the handsomest woman
in Southern Indiana. Two years ago she
eloped with a Cincinnati travelling man,
who deserted her.
A Thrifty Editor.
An Augusta furniture dealer, in a recent
advertisement, offered a- handsome bedroom
suite to the first couple that Weald marry
in his display window. Col. A. M. Car-
penter, the thrifty editor of the Lincointon
+ • etas wrote that if the dealer would furnish
,
the bride and pay his expenses to Augusta,
he would buy the license and pay the
preacher. The dealer accepted the offer,
and the lady is said to be young, handsome,
and finely educated. Carpenter is a little
dazed by his good luck, but will be on hand.
—Columbus (Oa.)
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1 Professional humorist—Did you know I
had a family tree? Rival—Yes ; its. a,
ehestnut, I hear.
1. Atiguetiii nalY has Neceptea .a play by
Justin McCarthy.
FELL FIVE STORIES.
Perilous Escapes at a Fire—A Child Drops
to Death.
A New York despatch says: At 12.30
p. m. to -day a fire broke out on the fourth
floor ot the fifth story tenement house, No.
236 Twenty-ninth street. A family named
Knobloch live on the top floor. Katie Knob -
loch, 18 years old, was in charge of two
children when the fire broke out. The
smoke rendered escape by the stairway im-
possible. Katie was panic-stricken. She
held ono child out of the window until
weakness compelled her to let it fall. The
child fell five storiee to •the sidewalk, and
died soon afterwards.- Katie held the other
child out of the window'and let it fall into
the arms of Peter Clancy. This child was
only slightly injured. Katie climbed ont of
the wind sw herself, and after hanging sus-
pended from the sill for two minutes let go
and dropped. Clancy got several other men
around him, and as the girl fell ,they caught
her in their arms, thus saving her life. The
fire was soon extinguished.
A Murder Witness Silenced.
A Little Rock, Ark., despatch says : In-
tense excitement prevails in Ashley county,
and a double lynching is not at all improb-
able. The cause of the trouble is ,the
poisoning of Mrs. Sallie Hannible, who died
in terrible agony on Wednesday night at
her home at Parkdale. Omer and Dan
Carpenter, brothers, are accused of the ter-
rible crime. The poisoning is thought- to
have been the work of the Carpenter boys
in order to get out of + the way the only wit-
ness against them in the ehootieg of the
woman's hasband last fall. A posse is
searching for the Carpenters.
"Why, you use a common clay pipe,''
said little Emily,. in surprise, to her uncle,
who had just returned from a long voyage.
"Yes ; why not ?" asked Uncle George.
" I thought sailors always smoked a horn-
pipe.,
One of the most extensive of the minor
industries in Russia in the manufacture of
wooden sprions of which 30,000 era, _pro-
duced every year in the czar's domaanii.
They are blade of birchwood.
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--The ettle ef the average nct. d-ociitot
exceed 1,000 copies.
RD.WEDDED 1115 FIBST WIFE
After She Married Three Other Husbands—
A. Woman iho Grows Weary of Old
Biomes andll.eveseltew Stens - • •
A Scranton, Pa., despatch says: The
sequel to a remarkable story of a woman of
this neighborhoodwho had been four times
married and as many times divorced turns
out to be a reemarriage to her first husband
and the lover of her girlhood days.
In the summer of 1875 Miss Kate Landis,
a rosy-cheeked Pennsylvania girl. of German
origin, kept house for Leaton p. Sperry.
Albert Babcock was the farm hand, and in
the fall he and Miss Landis were married
He rented a farm the next spring, but he
did not get along as well as his wife thought
he ought to, and in 1877 she left him and
got a divorce.
Seven months afserwards Mrs. Babcock
married James Starkweather, a Carbon
county farmer. Stark wea t her was a
widower with two children, and he Owned a
small place. • His wife did not like the
neighborhood, and he sold out and moved
to Cameron county. In 1880 Mrs. Stark -
weather got a divorce from her husband in
another county.
In 1882.she moved to McKean county and
married a middle-aged farmer, Azro Fel-
lows. He had been married twice before,
but he had no children, and they lived
together until -'1885, when Mrs. Fellows
went to the western part of the State and
got a divorce.
In 1887 she married H. L Phelan, a
farmer of Washington county. He was a
well-to-do widower, with a large family of
girls, and Mrs. Phelan lived with him until
June, 1890, when she went away, got a
divorce and began to work again.
Meanwhile Babcock, her first husband,
stayed in Colley township, this county,
worked hard, and accumulated considerable
property.' Last fall his former wife re-
turned to Colley township. Babcock began
to ceurt her again.
A week ago Thursday she gave up her
,place, and said she was going to Washing-
ton county. Babcock went away the same
day and on Wednesday last they returned
together.
They were married in Buffalo.
THE GARDEN IIILL TRAGEDY.
The Jury Find That McCann Was Shot by
Forsyth.
A Port Hope despatch says: The post-
mortem examination on the body of John
McCann was held yesterday by Dr. Corbett,
of this town, and Dr. Niddery, of Mill-
brook. They found that deceased had come
to his death by a gunshot in his left thigh,
which had shattered the thigh bone, sever-
ing the arteries of the leg, and, scattering,
had penetrated the bowels, causing a fatal
hemorrhage. The inquest was heldin the
town hall, Baillielpro', yesterday, Dr. Gray,
eoroner, presiding. Drs. Corbett and Nid-
dery testified- the deceased ,came to his
death from the effect ef a gunsbet,
which had caused a fatal hemorrhage.
Thomas McCann was examined. He
admitted being drunk, and that he caused
a disturbance at his father's house. He
said he went to Mr. Forsythto question
him about an evil report he had circulated
about him. Forsytlawas abusive, and they
had hot words. Mr. Rowe came in and
they had a little fraeas, which was put a
stop to by his brother John, who came and
persuaded him to go home. They were
going home when Forsyth rushed out and
shot John. Rowe and he then attempted
to take the gun away from Forsyth, who
beat them with the gun -stook. Rowe gave
evidence to the same effect. Forsyth's de-
fence is that ho fired only in self-defence. No
other evidence was submitted by witnesses.
A verdict was returned finding that the
deceased had come to his death by a shot
from a gun in the hands of Thomas Forsyth.
The evidence was submitted to the Crown
Attorney, who will take proceedings against
Forsyth at the next Assizes. It is unlikely
that the latter will be confined injail during
that interval.
TO HASTEN ITS DEA.TH.
Parents Place a Child Victim of Diphtheria
a Cold Room to Die.
A Buffalo despatch says: A story of the
inhuman treatment of a little child reached
Coroner Tucker early this morning. Some
months ago a family named Cavan or Carver
came to the village of Springbrook, in this
county, from Canada; and went on a farm,
which they worked on shares. Last week
the three or four-year-oid child of the
Cavans took to his bed with a sore throat,
which rapidly became worse. No physi-
cian was summoned, but instead a local
midwife was called. She diagnosed
.the ease as contagious diphtheria,
attended it three days, and then gave
the case up. She ordered her patient
t� be secluded in a room without a fire, as
ehe said, it is reported, it would die easily
there, and the end would come more quickly.
• Accordingly the child was put in a room
where there was no fire, and the midwife
ordered them to open all the windows and
doors, so that the little one could have the
full benefit of the freezing atmosphere, while
she and the heartless and ignorant father
and mother sat in another apartment hug-
ging the stove and listening to the plaintive
cries of the child, who; displaying sur-
prising vitality, lingered until last night.
The coroner, the post-mortem examiner;
and a representative of the District Attor-
ney's- office started for Springbrook this
afternoon, and will make a rigid examina,
tion of the facts in the case.
Hydrophobia's Awful Agony.
A Crawfordsville,, Ind., despatch says :
John Steward, a farmer residing near here,
has just died a horrible death. Some time
ago his pet dog showed signs of rabies. The
dog was locked up and soon died. In bury-
ing him Steward allowed some froth from
the beast's mouth to penetrate a wound on
his hand. The hand began to swell at once,
and soon the whole arm from the shoulder
was frightfully swollen and Steward became
raving mad. He was tied up and suffered
the rnost excruciating pain until Wednes-
day night, when he died.
Ex -Mayor Robert Bowie Brockville
Ont., Says : "1 used Nasal Baim for a had
case of catarrh, and it cured after having
ineffectually tried many other remedies. It
never fails to give immediate relief for cold
in the head.''' Thin is the experience of
thousands in all parts of the Dominion.
There is no case of cold in the head .or
catarit that will not yieLI to Nasal' Balm.
Try it. Beware of substitutes.
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WILILY BECAME OF HIM P
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A Lewiston Man Visits ilie Tihirlpeof
Rapids and Does Not Return.
A Suspension 13ridge dispatch etsys :
Lothrop Cooke, of Lewiston, came tp this
village at 10.30 o'clock on Tuesday morning
and spent the day here. Several other reel -
dents of Lewiston were on the same train
and afterwards saw him on tbe street. Be-
tween 4 and 5 o'clock in, the afternoon ho
went down to the Rapids View eleyator
between the bridges,and, paying the regular
fee of 50 cents, descended in the car to the
water's edge and walked north on the plat-
form and docks as far as he could go. Two
employees at the foot of the elevator, whe
were acquainted with him; -spoke with
him as he passed by • and ,.1/ aited
for him to return, intending as-
cend the incline together. Two other
strangers who came, down shortly b,fter
he did saw him at the extreme end of the
path under the river bank. That was the
last time he was seen. After waithrg a rea-
sonable time for his return, Meesrs. Miller
and Bedford, who are counected with the
elevator, inetituted a search which proved
f+ uitless. All indications point to his hav-
ing fallen into the river or committed sui-
cide. Many incline to the latter theory„
as he had fits ot despondency, and acted
strangely that day. He had been down the
elevator many times before, and was not in
the habit of paying for the privilege. The
fact that he did so in this instance, and had
often seen the rapids, leads to the theory ef-
suicide. Mr. Cooke was a bachelor about
co k, of
45 years old, and made his home /b. his
brother, ex -Supervisor W. J.
Lewiston.
SHOULD S fRETCH HEMP.
Horrible Assault by an ex -Convict Fpon a
Little Girl.
A Huntington, Pa., despatch says: On
their return home from market here on
Wednesday, Farmer Wilbur Strait and.
wife, of Juniata township, found their little
daughter Ruth lying on the kitchen floor
unconscious, with her face and body shock-
ingly lacerated and bruised and her clothing
torn into shreds. Suspicions of being the
author of the outrage fell upon Elmer B.
Corbin,, of Philadelphia, who was recently
discharged from the Huntington reforma-
tory and engaged by Mr. Strait as a farm
hand. Corbin, who is 23 years old, and
over six feet tall, had fled, but was captured
yesterday morning and lodged in jail. The
little girl identified him as her assailant.
She is not expected to recover. Her father
endeavored twice to shoot Corbin on his way
to jail, but his revolver failed to discharge
A BRAVE WOMAN
Risks Her Own Neck to Save a Somnanibu
listic Lodger.
A Plainfield, Conn., despatch says : Mrs.
Nellie Haines, a lodging -how e keeper in
the village of Glen Falls, proved a heroine
on Tuesday night. A lodger'who is a
somnambulist, had climbed in his sleep out
of a dormer window, and, sliding down the
eaves, sat with his feet overhanging the
sidewalk three stories below, gesticulating
at the circle around the moon. Mr. Haines
declined to crawl down the roof to rescue
the man, but his wife was equal to the
emergency. She called to her sister :
"You hold me and I'll go." Then she
clambered out of the window and carefully
lowered herself until she had the imper-
illed man within reach. She clinched
firmly, and clung to him with desperation
until both were hauled safely back inside
the window. .
Feeble Revolutionary Movement.
A Houston, Tex., despatch says: A
letter to a gentleman in this city frona a
friend on the frontier, who is conversant
with the state of affairs there, says the
Mexican people on the Lower Rio. Grande
complain bitterly of the manner in which
they were treated by the United States
troops during the Garza fiasco. The same
letter says that a day or two ago a sergeant
in the Mexican Army issued a pronuncia-
mento in which he violently assailed the
Diaz Government and called for troops to
rally to his standard. Only seven respon-
ded, and when he sounded his war cry he
found he bad to tackle 800 men in the
Neuvo Laredo garrison. He and his fol-
lowers beat a hasty retreat. One of the
revolutionists was killed but the Cegeant
and the other °six suoceed in reac irg this
side of the river in safety.
—Will it pay to advertise in family
papers? It will pay if you do a legitimate,
clean, square -cut business ; because family
papers go directly into people's homes—are
read by all the family --are read all through
by people who believe in them more than in
any other papers they read and are, there-
fore, more influenced by advertisements
seen in ahem.
Would you be just? Please do not
punitth a child for a fault learned from
yourself.
It is" said that, old ladies likelo talk to
young folks. Perhaps that is the reason
some chorus girls are fond of chatting with
the chippies.
Nails may be driven into bard wood with-
out bendingdouble if first dipped in lard
or oil.
The minister's study—How to make both
ends meet.
SOOTHINGE,
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