Pittston Gazette

              KHTABL!81IKIDI850. » VOL. XLV1. NO. 31 » Oldest Newspaper in the Wvuming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. MARCH «, 1S9 * Weekly Local and Family Journal. {•,-ari854Sii CHRISTIAN LNUEAVOR FOR l.lTTLF; FOLKS. A FINK NEW COAL BREAKER. BISHOP OF A LA LI*. BIT OF INTERESTING BISTORT. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Topic For tl«» Work IVKim rch ». Father Ho ban, of Ashley, Receives HIh On Timely Topics of Local and (lateral LESSON X, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MARCH 8. Comment by liov. S. 1«. iDoyl Tho CliincKe Itaby I Joy Who Ljvm In New York, but Is lDresseCl In Chinese Fashion. Chinese babies, its well a.s infants of other nations, aro fond of playthings. But there is a vast difference between tho toys set before a Chinese consul's baby soil and those with which a Celestial baby in Dope alley, for example, might amuse itself. In thoir toilet also some difference is made. A Dope alley baby may shriek itself hoarse in rags and s\\4ldling clothes, but a consul's child can go in trousers even at the tender of (! mouths. When the little son of nieChineso consul in New York made its appearance in the world, he had to content himself with American baby clothes. But this didn't hist long. A little trunk came from over the seas filled with shirts and coats of padded silk, made double breasted and held together by ribbons instead of buttons. Trousers of two separate pieces, one for each leg, came with these coats. They cover the foot, as well as tho an' and thigh. They aro made of wadded cotton with a background of green and gorgeous Easter flowers aro embroidered upon them in yellow and pink. A solo of heavy black wool is sewed on to fit. under each foot. Tho trousers are fastened to a red waiut- HAS GOLDEN TOYS Plans Prepared by the Mount Look- Credentials. The -Forlorn Hope" Before Port Intercut. Topic.—HC rCK's of mi: Kttf.—II CJ 28. (Let each EikIkivoI-it (five an missionary Tu roisin.) Rev Michael J. Hoban, of St. Leo's parhh, Ashley, who *u on Wednesday, fceb. 5, appointed coadjutor to Bishop O'Bara, of Soranton, received hie formal credential* by registered letter on Wednesday evening. They oune from the Pope by way of Waahington from Cardinal Satolli to Archbiahop Patrick J. Ryan, of Philadelphia, who sent them to F.ther Hoban. (Wilkesbarre Record.) The question as to the most practicable means of enforcing the Uqnor laws is one that may well occupy the attention of people generally and leginlato s in particular. Of laws regulating the in'qultong triffio we have more than a enffielency in this State. The tronble is (o get th«m enforced. The Brooks high license law was expected to prove very beneficial in leseenlng the number of drinking placee and improvlog their character. We are told thut tLlolthae done to a certain extent In the larger cities. But what of the State in general? How has the law operated In the several counties ? It may not be regarded by certain people as fair% to cite Luzerne as an illustration, In view of the reputation for crime that this county has attained among people away from here, and yet If the facts were known it would probably be shown that Lnzerne's record as respects lawlessness is not much more than other mining counties of the State. Hence, Lueerne may properly be tften to ill nitrate the operation of the Brooks high license l»w. And what are the results ? Worse, If anything, than under the old system of low license fees. Then almost every saloon keeper, however email his business, oould afford to pay the money necessary to seoure a license, aud the majority of them did so. Increasing the fee from $160 to $600 made it Impossible for the small fry* to stand the expense. The reeult was that others with more means came in to take their places with license saloons, so that the number of saloons has been jnst as great proportionately as befcre, while those who were unable to pay the t igh license fee simply opened new stands In various nooks and corners of the community, and kept right on selling without anf llocnse whatever. This, then, is the condition that now prevails throughout th's county, and there are others like it. In the single town of Duryea atd its suburbs, we have oeen told this week on good authority, no less than 190 of these unlicensed places flourish, amenable apparently to no law—n fact, so secure in their supposed right to sell liquor that an arrest among them creates the utmost indignation and very rarely is a conviction found in the oourta. out Coal Company, Hudson in 1863. Text of the Lriwon, Luke x, 85-37—Mem- The heroes of missions have been those who have been willing to sacrifice and suffer, many of them even death*itself, for tho great can.se of missions. ory Verms, 2/5-27- Golden Text, Lake AN INTERESTING CLEANING PROCESS x, 87—Commentary by the Re*. D. M, VOLUNTEERS FOR DESPERATE WORK. Steam k. Paul is the great Scriptural example of a hero of missions. His historic sketch of his extraordinary trials for Christianity, found in our Scriptural reference, makes it evident that ho stands among tho first of those who may claim the title of missionary heroos. What a wonderful record! IJe was scourged "five times," in "prisons frequent," in "deaths oft," "thrice beaten with rods," once "stoned," "thrice suffered shipwreck," in "perils in the sea," and on land midst foes and friends, in the wilderness and in cities, tried by "weariness and painfnlness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness," and besides all this there was daily upon him tho care of all tho churches. Pure Coal and Doubtful and Bony Coal 25. "And, behold, ft certain lawyer stood up and tempted Him, saying, Master, what Klytll I do to Inherit oternal life?" Throughout tho whole Ulble we see on the nno hand the love and grace of God, and tin the other the perverseness a At sinfulness of man. In the Intervening verses between this lesson and the last one wo see Jesus, God manifest In the flesh, steadfastly sotting His face toward Jerusalem to die, senduig messengers before Him to preach thrfi kingdom and to heal the sick, rejoicing in spirit that babes see what wipe men cannot, and ever hearing with the&'tt life that remains even in His disciples. We see, on the other hand, tho unsaved resisting Him and the saved following Him so imperfectly. And now wo havo in the lawyer a sample of the wise and prudent, and In Mary a sample of tho babes of verse 21. Will lDe Prepared on UlflTerent Side*, They Were Promised Places on the Roll '"s» n»lnf Uwd to Help Clean the of Honor and Medals, but the Promise Has Never Been Redeemed, and Latter—A Model llreaker In Krert an Kflort Is Now Being Made to Have Itmptrl, With All Modern Appliance*. Congress Award the Medals. I transferred my seat from Monroe's mule to the horse, and with my traps in a pair of capacious saddlebags thrown across the saddle and cushioned with my overcoat we started for a ride of 20 miles. It the new Mount Lookcu1 breaker, now being built t D take the place of the one mently dtstrC yed by ft e, is not the finest and beet In the valley, it certainly will be do fault of the ifficlals of the company, wno are sparing no expense or itbor to make the plaus aa nearly perfect as it is possible to have them, and to adapt them to the conditions foand at the colliery, i'he old Monnt Lookout breaker was a "plendid coal-preparing plant, bnt It Is quite natural ttat experience should en able the offi ials to make the naw one even be ter, and tnis it certainly will be. There are two documents in Latin, on fine parchment. An exact copy would oover several columns. The substance of one bnll is a dD ed of privilege, diploma or certificate, and the second bnll addresses him aa foils*•: In June, 1863, when Grant was besleg Ing Vioksburg, Ba Dks, with the Army of the Qulf, was seeking to captnre the one other stronghold of the Mississippi. Cashiers valley today, surrounded by Its mountain wall, is as little disturbed by tho bustle of the outside world a.C Sleepy hollow was in the days of Icha bod Crime. No one seems to be doing any work except the housewives, who cook and knit and sweep and milk. Only one buggy is owned in the valley, and whoever wishes to ride borrows a mule or a borse of his neighbor. Although the soil is far from strong and very little of it cultivated, overybody, With theee two paints taken the Mississippi was open to the gulf and the Confederacy greatly weakened. The left fork of the Tuckasegee flows through a gap in the mountains, the road sometimes far above tho sound of Bohk, Italy, Feb. 5, 18%. " ily beloved brother : On aooonnt of the advanced age and ill health of Bev. William O'Hara, bishop of the diocese of Scranton, the Holy See was requested to appoint a ooadjutor to the said bishop, Surrounding Port Hudson were forty or fifty regimerts, eighteen of whloh were New Yjrk State regiments, and among them the 114h under Ool. Smith Several times Ba ika' entire army was repulsed igth heavy loss Here in a general assault, Jane 14th, Ool. Smith fell mortally wounded and the slaughter all along the line was terrible. Its tumbling waters. The high peaks are covered to tho base with massivo timber. Superb specimens of tho ash, hemlook and poplar roar their straight trunks toward the light and darken the mountain side with their shada Logging camps are scattered along the stream, and we passed frequently by logways where the timber is snaked down incredibly steep places by long strings of cattle and rolled into tho stream. When a freshet comes, the logs go whirling along, many of them to lodge on projecting rocks and then wait for the next period of high water. Here and there queer, picturesque little grist mills are built on the mountain branches flowing into the river. seems to have plenty of corn bread, potatoes, fried chicken and cabbage. The land flows with milk and honey, the woods are full of bacon, and the oold mountain streams alive with trout. Bare and tbere a man has strayed away as far as Omaha or New York, but in a year or two be is sure to drift back to the happy, indolent life of the mountains. Log fires cost nobody a penny. The mountains, covered with valuable timber, can be bought for 91 an acre, and $10 is tbe highest asking price for cleared land in tbe valley. When the young people go as tar as tne considerable town of Franklin for better school advantages, they pay $6 and $8 a month for board. "5ft. ""Ho salfi unto him, What Is written In tho law? how readost thou?" Ono of the earliest recorded utterances of Christ is that threefold "It is written" of Math, iv, 4, 7, 10, each time from the fifth book of the law. Thero is no light on things spiritual, heavenly and eternal apart from Him who is the Word of God, and the written word which spoaks of film (Isa. viii, 20 R. V.; Luke x, 22). This is a wonderful record, and yet the annals of missions will tell ns of many just snch heroes. In many places even today the lives of the missionaries of the cross are jeopardized. In tho past year many have been cruelly mutdered, their mission stations burned and many indignities and outrages havo beon heaped upon them. and whereas the request has been decided advisable, Bev. Miohael J. Hoban is here by appointed as bishop of Alalis, with the right of snooessoTship to the bishop of Soranton." General Manager J. L. Crawford is giving his peisonal supervision to the work of preparing the plane, and they are now ai most completed. In some respects the new breaker will be exactly the same as the old one, while in other respects it will be materially different, and a statement of the points of difference will bs of lntereet to mine T7orkers generally. Jane 15th General Banks issued the following oTder, calling for a storming column or "Forlorn Hope." Ia explanation of the title of bishop of Alalia, Rev. Father Hoban says that Alalia ia a title given him In memory of a city of Asia Minor, where many hundred yean ago there was a famous oathedral. It is the cnatom to confer npon bishops who are not attached to any special diocese and whojdo not oome Into actual service exsept by euocessorshlp titles in memory of snob cathedral cities. il|f What a emit rant are our Christian lives ill this particular. Wo often speak of the trials and hardships that we are called upon to endure for Christ, but what are they in comparison to these heroes upon our foreign mission fields? *'GINERAI. OBDBB, NO 49,) HEADQUA&TEBS DstT OF THE GuLT, - Jane 15, 1863. ) 27. "Ami Ho answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart," etc. Jesus did not ask "What thlnkest thou?" or "How do ypu explain?" but simply asked for a quotation from Scripture, and the lawyer gave Him promptly a correct quotation from Deut. vi, 6, and Lev. xix, 18, and In these words a correct, and concise summary of the law, for love is the fulfilling of the law (Rom. xiii, 10). This must mean a whole hearted love to God and tojnan such as was never fully seen on ojtrih except in the Lord Jesus Christ himsfflf. Ho Is the end of the law for righteousness to overy believer. " Tne commanding general oongratu latee the troops before Port Hudson upor the steady advance made upon the enemy's work*, and is oonfident of an immediate and triumphant issue of the contest. The new breaker will occupy exactly the ame site as the one destroyed by Are. The new building will be larger, however, for the reason that it will be donole, while the 'ormer one was single. To make it so a wing will be bnilt on the northeest corner. The 'oundation for the wing is also in readiness, it having been built some time *go when it was proposed to enlarge the old breaker. Some idea of the massive oh»ra;ter of the new structure may be gained from the statement that 1,800 000 teet of timber will be required in its nlldlng. Daring the latter part of the rido the rain fell steadily, wetting us below our coats and soaking through our shoes, and here the moonshiner's whisky filled its useful place aud made ns think tho rain a delightful variation in the monotony of fair days. A mi le before reaching our destination I pushed on ahead of the others, eager to seo my old guide. Bnt what should be the effect of the sufferings of our missionaries upon us? It should fill onr hearts with gratitude and thankfulness to God that our lives are not endangered and that we live in a land where it is an honor to be a Christian if We aro only true to onr Christian profession. It should also arouse a deeper interest in missions and missionaries in our hearts. Dow can we seo our follow Christians suffering and enduring hardships in places where we ought to be perhaps and not be most deeply interested in them and their work? We should sympathize with them, pray for them and encourage them by liberal gifts. The hardships of tho missioa Held cannot but be lessoned when theso heroes of missions realize that they have the united sympathy, prayers and support of Christendom back of them. Will we do onr part in giving them to realize that this is the case? Father Hoban informed a Record repot ter that he wonld stay in Ashley as long as be oonld, and he tbooght that wonld be several years. "We are at all points upon the threshold [of this fortification. One more ad vanoe aod they are ours. For the last doty that victory Imposes the commanding gen eral summons the bold men of the corps to the organization of a storming oolnmn of a thousand men to vindicate the flag of the anion, and the memory of its defenders who have fallen. Let them oome forward Offioera who lead the oolnmn of victory io this last assault may be assured of ■ just recognition of their servioee by promotion, and every officer and soldier who snares its perils and its glories shall reoelve a medal fit to oommemorate the first grand susoess of the campaign of 1863 for the freedom of the Mississippi. His name shall be placed in general orders npon the roll of honor. North Carolina exacts a tax of $3 for a marriage license, and to avoid the outlay of this pittance the mountaineers will tramp 60 miles down to the South Carolina line. I hoard an amusing story of a youthful pair, rich in affection and poor in money, who were overtaken by a wag from Cashiers valley as they were coming down the slope of the Bine Ridge. Bev. Daniel Green, formerly of Minooka, has been placed as assistant to Rev. Father Hoban at Ashley. ■——^ 28. "And He said unto him, Thou hast answered right; this do, and thou shalt live." He wanted to do something to inherit eternal life, and hero Is his task, this and nothing short of it, perfect lovo to God and to his neighbor. There must bo no failure in any point or at any time, for "whosoever shall keep tho wholo law and yet offend in one point, ho Is guilty of all" (Jas. ii, 10). It must lie God first and whole hearledly in every detail of life, and your neighbor as yourself all tho time, or else all is failure. Mack was at Sunday sehool. Rather fnnny place, I thought, for that rockless, harebrained guide, who in former times on Shooting creek wonld as soon brain an enemy as help a friend. By )his time the others had arrived in the porch, and our hostess, who was a shouting Methodist, bad opened a lively attack on poor Reilly, who had lately joined the Episcopal church. As I turned myself round and round at tho firo I beard her tell him through the window that "there was no way you could get around regeneration." THE WEATHER DURING MARCH "How far to South Car'lina, capen?" demanded the eager but weary bridegroom.The coal will be hoisted to the top of the breaker by meais of a plane, as before, and the manner of handling cars will be he same. From the dumping platform downward through the breaker, however, are radical from the old style which It will be interesting to watch very closely. Prof. Coles's ProphaclM In "Storms and Signs." The gaseous mi tier that had been pawing over the sun for the paat four months cutting off onr regular supply of sunshine passed away from the sun last month npon the yefy day that we had predicted it would and aaused tornadoes and storms unprecedented. In our Storm and 8ign Calendar in Storma and Siyns we had a "Tornado Signal" displayed just twenty days in advance of the New York and Washington Weather Bureau's forewarning. The diameter of the storm area was at least 3,000 miles &.nd the centre had so arranged itself that Ne# York City and vicinity felt the worst of it, as we predicted it would, in last month's foreoaat. The reactionary waves of that storm will be felt along the aeaooast sometime between the 1st and 15th of this month and will do great damage In many sections. Strange weather will pre dominate during the whole month. While It may be snowing In one seotion of the country thnnder showers will appear in anotoer not tar distant, and while the sunshine-is making summer-like days In one State, as it were, blizzards will be blowing in the next. Strange phenomenon* and explosions will occur In the heavens again this month. A.strange electrical phenomenon will occur somewhere In the northern part of New Jersey, southern part of New York or on the Paciflo ooaat, as a strong electric oarrent has been running from the Northeast to the South, west for twenty three consecutive days, and when the reaction sets in the elements will war, and the great iron magnets of New Jersey or the big valleys toward the Pacific slope will be where the eleotrioal currents will gronnd, if {rounded on land. If they plunge into some river or lake that lies along their ronte across the continent, then an -•arthqutke will be the result. The strange weather this month will be caused by the elements in their mad rash to «eek their equilibrium, for, with the exception of earth, moon and the Vulcan periods, March is free from all the regular canses of disturbances. The regular V»r-nal equinox storm period is due on the 81st, but it looks now as though Maroh was trying to trade plaoee with April. This month will provs whether the "signs" rule the "vital force" or whether the "vital foroess" rule the signs. "You uns done crossed the line 'bout a quarter back," said the Cashiers valley man. "Youse plum in bit now. KfHjp this yer road 'bout a mile down into the settlement, an thar you uns will find a preacher by the name of Bennet, an he don't ask nary cent for marryin folks. I'll just ride ahead an have everything ready." band with orange colored ribbons and around tho ankles they are tied with little tapes. Imagine the shirts and double breasted coats, and yon have a bundlo of humanity of which tho clothes form the larger part. 29. "But Im, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?" We are either justifying self and oondemniug GiDd, or justifying God and condemning self all the time. Most people are willing to do tho former, because to do the latter is very humiliating to self, and self is apt to bo very proud. SC*) chaptor xvi, 15. • • * Presently Mack came in, surprising me with a figure too tall and spare for the broad shouldered and stoutly built Mack I oxpected to see. Perhaps my memory was at fault after so many years, as I had already found it in other particulars. Bnt this abundance of does not disturb "Baba," which is the baby's pet name, from thoroughly onjoying himself in his infantilo way. He is very good uatured, hardly ever cries, and amuses himself with littlo Chinese figures of gold, against which he rubs his gums. Then he has rings of gold and precious stones, and littlo round balls of gold adorn his clothes, although they are not visible. Foo Kong Shu— that is the baby's full name—can sit upright like a drum major, though he is only 0 months old. Ilis stiff and padded clothos help him materially in this. His diet also is somewhat, different from that of babies of tho gentile raws. He sips tea and rice soup, and probably by reason of heredity they agree with his little Chinese stomach very well. Just below tts dumping platform are two pairs of crushers, and here the changes begin. Into one pair of crushers, 40x43 Inches In s'za, goee all of the pure coal Into the ctber crushers, 36x36 Inches in «ize, goee all doubtful and bony ooal Both claeses of ooal are treated alike as to crushing aod separating, passing from the crushers into oouuter screens 6x7 feet in llameter and 24 feet long Out of these screens broken aud egg coal is prepared over automatic slate pickers. There is «lso an extra pair of crushers, by means of which the broken and egg ooal may be re luced, if desired, to lower sizes. By Command of IIaj. Gbn. Basis." Occasionally there are spaemodio eff orts on the part of private organizations to better the oonditloa of things and bring the violators of the law to justice, but they Invariably fall of permanent results. This is not surprising in view of the fact that the county authorities seem unable, with all of the of the official machinery and plenty of money at their oommand, to do anything in this direction. An ex district attorney remarked, while in offioe, a few /ears ago, that it was easier to hang a man in Luzerne county than to convict him of violating the liquor laws. There are constables in every ward, it is true, whose special sworn duty it Is to detect and report to the court violations of the liquor law. With unfailing regularity they report no violations, notwithstanding the many flagrant cases. That sush a thing is possible is due In a large degree to the axity of voters. Year after year men are elected as constables who are In league with the proprietors of the " speak-easiee," and who are known to freqaent these places. Indeed, It is oommon talk that not a few oon stables in the worst districts of the county secure their principal revenue by levying a tribute of a few dollars a month upon each illegal seller. Some of theee offioers, when oharged with derellotion of duty, do not deny out of court that there are viol%tions, but olalm that it is impossible to secure sufficient evidence to oonviot them, and, what ts a yet more flimsy exouse, that they would arouse the wrath of the people among who a they live by disturbing the widows nd men in unfortunate circumstances, of whom dozms are in the liquor business without legal warrants, to scrape up an easy living by keeping a barrel on tap in a hole in the wall. Bible Readings.—II Chron. xxxvi, 14, 15, 10, 17 ; Noh. ix, 20; Isa. lii, 7; Nah. i, 15; Math, v, 10-10 ; xxiii, 34 39; xxviii, 19, 20; Acts iv, 1-4; v, 1S-20; vii, 64-00; xiii, 50-52; xiv, 1-7; xx. 22-24; xxi, 11-14; xxvii, 41-44; II Cor. vi, 4, 5; Gal. vi, 2; I Thess. ii, 14, 15. In answer to this call 994 volunteered from the different regiments; and thos» who volunteered had been in the previous asaaults when about 4,000 were killed or wounded, and knew the desperate work for whioh they volunteered. Bennet, who had no more authority to perform the ceremony than he had to declare war, stood, spelling book in hand, on a sandy spot in the road when the couple arrived, and concealed behind the fences were several of the neighbors to witness the sport 80. "And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho." From the city of pSaco to the city of palm trees (Heb. vii, 2; Deut. xxxiv, 8), from tho city of crucifixion (Rev. xi. 8) to the city of earthly comfort and rebellion against God, is surely a spiritual down grade and will bring one's soul into tho hands of thieves, who, if they do not actually take one's life, will surely tako away much that ought to bo given to our rightful King and Redeemer. "I know your face," he said "Jest giTe me a little time. When your party, under guard of Parker's men, crossed over the fork just above the mill on to the Webster road, I came to you out of the bushes and talked with you and Sill. Don't you remember that?" Copnectiout, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Miohigan, Vermont and Wis consin were largely represented, but New York State had more offioera and men than any other. Ambug them was Bev. H. M Orydenwlse, a former pastor of the Weet Pittston M. E. utkurei, no# Presiding Elder of the Chenango Dlstiict of the Wyoming Oonferenoe, with reeidenoe at Norwich, N. Y. "Jine hands," said Bennet "Hold en! I never seed a gal married in her bare feet Seein as how you uns is got It is no wonder that Texas Christiaii Endeavorers are a power in the stati when this is the sort of material of whicl they are made: It is reported that one En deavorer in a small lumber town organ ized a Sunday school, of which she it superintendent, organized a church an' reads a sermon from some standard work every Sunday morning, while in thC evening the Christian Endeavor society, which Ehe herself organised, has cbargr of tho meeting. She is superintendent oC a junior society, nnd once every tw( mouths she visits the Hnntsville peni tentiary Christian Endeavor society, which she herself organized. This work er is also superintendent of a district Christian Endeavor union composed ol 22 oonnties. Besides all this she at tend) to her homo duties. A TeiM Worker. i y is I didn't remember the circumstance, but it was precisely what Major Sill had told me before leaving Now York. 81. "And by chauco there came down a certain priest that way, and when ho saw him he pass**] by on the other side." Apply I John Hi, 10, 17, to this priest and then to yourself If necessary and answer to God the qu»»ition. See also MaL li, 7, and consider rrnat a strange messenger of tho Lord of Hosts this priest was. Are you a Ix-tfer one? More after the Lord's own heart? It is easier to tho flrDsh not to see trouble, or if seen to pass by on the other side, but it is not loving your neighbor as yourself. "Yes, I remember you, sure," he continued. "I mind jest how you stood while we was a-talkin. You looked sort of keerless like. I told you if yon could get away to come straight to me, and we would get you through to Tennessee. I told you to look carefully at the mountain tops go as to be able to find the place again." The pure ooal under broken and egg igoee to the main screen, from which tbe •ftove and ohrstnut sizes ate prepared over tutoraatlc slate pickers. The chestnut and pea ooal then pataes over shakers and automatic slate pickers, thence going direct o the pocktts. The pickings from all of these sizes of coal are elevated and replcked.The 994 men were taken out 'from their several regiments, organized Into two battalions, and put on drill for thsir peril out and deadly work. As a good provi dence would have it, before all was ready for the acsault, Vlcksburg surrendered. In July his mother will take him with her on a visit to China. When he is old enough to want an education, he will bo brought back hero, and all his learning will bo of tho American sort. —New York Letter. As soon as this was learned, General Gardner, Confederate Commarder at Port Hudson, off ired to surrender and General Banks permitted the storming column to mareh in and reoelve the surrender. More than thirty years have passed, since in an awful crisis hour of our country, and especially of the Army of the Gulf, these 994 men stepped out from their regiments and at the risk of almost oertaln death volunteered for the assault of this Bebel strong hold. True, this assault was net made But in good faith and with all the ohanoes. theee men volunteered, stood ready, and hourly expected to make it, with all the terrible suspense suoh waiting involved. I bad always believed this to be the same Mack Hooper who had gnided me from Shooting Creek to Loudon. This Mack had exchanged part of his clothes with Sill and Lainsun on the rocks during the excitement of the Watson affair, and when I first met my guide he had been wearing Lam son's ooat This Mack bad staid with the Kitchens in Shooting Creek and knew all the people there whom I inquired after. He had guided Union officers through to Tennessee, but the incidents I mentiond he could not recall. Did he remember dodging under the bed at Mrs. Kitchen's when the two rebel officers came and surprised me reading by tho fire? This was the crucial test, and he showed none of the enthusiasm I expected. Then it transpired that there was another Mack Hooper who lived in White county, Ga., who was short and stout, as I remembered my guide, and whom they called "Pool Mack," not from any lack of brains, but in token of his reckless bravado. Suing back to the top of the breaker, the course of the doubtful and bony ooal nay be traced. This, after leaving the oouDtsr screens, Instead of going to the naln screens, as the pure ooal, passes, together with the coal from the mud screens tinder the bars, over a series of shakers, and after being separated Into slzas by the -makers run Into twelve Lehigh Vallev pattern jigs (of the same style as those in ase at " Halt by") All doubtful coal, even the buckwheat size, is jigged. After being jigged it pasBee over automatlo slate plckirs, and thence goee to the ohutee, ready tor market, the long and perfect cleaning process through whloh It has pvned being x pec ted to make It clean enough to pass .he most rigid Inspection. 82. "And likewise a Levlte passed by on tho other side." Tho Levites were separated to stand before tho Lord, minister unto Him and bless in His name (Deut. x, 8). Consider tliis Levitc in the light of that fact. In Mai. ii, 6, tho Lord says of Levi, "He walked with me." If this Levite had been walking with God that day he would have bad compassion upon tho poor man in trouble. A Gard«*ii In the Snow. "Snow, snow, go a way J" sang Posy. "Why, what is the matter?" asked Cousin Nanny. HKADKN AT HOME. "Hero I've been waiting for this old snaw to melt and more keeps coming all the time," grumbled Posy. "I never can make my garden. " to the end of your journey, I 'low the bride better sit plum dowu an put them shoes on. South Caroliny law says no bride ain 't married bein her shoes is tied round her neck endurin the ceremony. An you, young man, jest lay your "baccy on that rail Now jine hands. You are goin for to take this gal for better or for worser, for to be your wedded wife. Great Scott! Got a rale gold ring? What'U you mistake for hit? Give you half a dollar. Won't sell hit? All right. Keep a-holt You gal, you 'oept him for your old man an swar to milk the cows an feed the young ones? All right, friends. You tins is plum hitched. John, you kiss the bride. Now go home, an good luck to you." In the Interest of Clirtatian Kndeavor. Tho board of trustees at it? session a Detroit, desirous of obtaining the wis dom and advice of the other practjcu workers of the country, mid of Becurin, the fullest co-opej-atiou uud fellowship of representative Endeavorers everj where, passed this resolution : "Bnt yon can have a winter garden," persisted Nanny. "Come out, and I'll show you how.'' 83. "Hut a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where ho was, and when ho saw him he had compassion." The priest and Levite were on the downward road, like the one who fell among the thieves. Ho was half dead as to his body, but they appear to In; wholly dead as to any heart of compassion. This Samaritan may have Jxxm on his way up to Jerusalem, for his conduct certainly Indicates an upward tendency. How like Christ in his coming to the one in trouble and haviug compassion upon him. "First we must have a hedge ronnd our garden," said Nanny. "Resolved, That a council be calle,C to bo composed of the trustees and off] cers of tho United society and the presi dents of the state and territorial am provincial unions to meet ou the da. before the international convention c 1890 in Wash inn ton for the considers tion of the interests of the (Jliristiar Endeavor movement." So they picked tiny branches of arbor vita? and stuck them into the snow to make u little square yard. "Now for fruit trees," said Nanny, breaking tiff some sprays of rod oodar, with their pretty blue berries. "Just the color of plums. " And strange to say those more than thirty years have passed, while doubtless more than half of that heroic 994 hare died and the promised medals hare never been given. We are pleased to learn that an act is now before Congress to correct this wrong, to fulfil this promise, and thns perform an aot of long delayed justice and right. Little sprigs of wintergreen looked like apple trees loaded with rod fruit, and pieces of lichen scraped from the old fence made paths all through the wee The breaker la tqalppcd with three llne9 of elevators, each uloty six feet high—ont or Hp screenings, one for donbtful coal and one for rehandling condemned coal. The work of rehandling condemned ooal, frequently a source of maoh trouble and expense, will In the new breaker be re duced to the minimum, a deep pit having Deen prepared under breaker, Into whioh the coal can be damped and then elevated to the top of the breaker to pass through the picking process a sscoud time. It will not be necessary to nse a shovel on sondemntd coal. 34. "Hrought him to an inn and took care of him." See how he gave his time, Bklll, oil «nd wine, boast, cans money and his promise. Well has one said, "What a seven hued rainbow of mercy." Jesus is surely showing to this lawyer the love of God as manifested in His own life, that the lawyer may see what real love is and how and to whom it is to be manifested. Blessed dcsplsod One! Oh, to know Thee better and be more like Thee. With suoh conditions as these, what can be hoped for from the local authorities ? The oonviotion is rapidly ooming upon us that It is worse than useless to hope for (he eradication of the "speak-easy" by oity or town officers. A practical solution of che vexed question, we believe, would be fuurd in amendments to the 1 quor law, establishing a Stote constabulary whose sPeolal business it would be to deteot and proeecute violators of the law, and making it illegal for wholesalers to sell liquors to any but licensed dealers. As to the first proposition, it would bring into the various boroughs and townships officers who wonld Oe unacquainted with the people and who muid not so readily be influenced to disregard their duty by friendliness toward the people who violate the law. All violators would be compelled to stand on the true merits of their cases, and the officer would have nothing to fear from the unfriendliness that might be arous d lowird him on account of his prosecution of violbtors who have the sympathy of many people In the community where they reelde. As evidenoe of the good results that might be accomplished by snoh a pian, the very suooeseful work of the United Stitee revenue officers may be taken as an example. It Is true that in theae cases the offi jia's are not frustrated by packed j arles, as is too often the case in our oounty oourts. In regard to the «eoond proposition, it Is eminently fair and practicable. There is no reason whatever for licensing a wholesaler and then permitting him to foster illegal saloons by the hundreds./ The books of the wholesalers are now opm by law to tae United States offioers, who are thus enabled to reach every violator, the result being that very few of the proprietors of "apeak-eaalee" dare to do business without a government license. Tae same books could be opened by law to the State or county officers, and they ought to be. Some snoh regulations must be put Into statute form before thecommualty will be rid of the "speak-easy" cnrse. X • « Mine h«»t Hooper, who had witnessed the scene, came to think that it was rather a serious joke and told Bennet that be had gone a little too far. Whereupon Bennet waxed exceedingly wroth and declared that his reputation was a* good as any man's in the settlement, and he wouldn't have bis integrity impeached. A week later Hooper handed a note to the mail rider informing thC happy conple that the ceremony was a fraud, and that (Joluiu Long and Jnck Davis were the practical jokers who had victimized them. The mail rider found the girl's mother at the postoffice and left her the maddest woman on Chunky Gal mountain. A few eveuiugs there after as Hooper was sitting on his porch along came the same pair from the south, re-enforced by the bride's, father. "'Can't you give us somethin to eat, neighbor?" said the old man. "I allow my gal is rightly married now. Whar's them varmints, Oohim Long and Jack Davis? I 'low to put the law on to them." Nothing; bnt Man, There is nothing but man that rc spocteth greatness; not God, not nature, not disease, not death, not judgment.— Joseph Hall. garden, All the men went on to Webster at daylight the next morning, and I was left with my camera and sketchbook to pass a long, sunny day rambling about the scenes of my former visit The old fashioned house, with its broad roof and deep porches, which I had so longed to see again as it was when wo drank Major Parker's apple jack by the groat fireplace, was transformed into a barn. In the center of this structure the log wall* of the main house, stripped of weatherboarding, still remained. Climbing up over the hay and stalks I found the single window of the upper story whore Lieutenant Sill and I had slept, and where We had been awakened by the loud talk that preceded the thrice hanging of Heoden. By this window it was possible to locate the front of the house, and coming down to the yard I easily Walked to the place at the branch where we bad found the Georgians washing when tbe banging party came m from the orchard. A dozen fence rails thrown in the bed of the little stroam were crushed and splintered by the passage of the laden wagons from the cornfield. The orchard was gone and the fences changed, but the same blue mountains looked down on tbe valley in tbe same morning sunshine. "But whore are our flowers?" asked Posy We earneetly hope that all of our Congressmen will use their influence for the immediate granting of these medals, and thus give honor to theee men to whom snoh abundtnt honor is due. To those who are yet alive it will be a great gratification, but especially (will it mean much to their children and grandchildren In years to come. "I'm just coming to them!" said Nanny, as she brought some bits of holly from tho house. "Those are our rosea— red ones, see!" Terse Paragraphs. The famous City Temple of London, over which Dr. Parker is pastor, now has a Christian Endeavor society. 85. " Take care of him, and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again I will repay thee." If He would have people take care of people, how much more will He take care of His own. O fearful heart, do believe that "He careth for you" (I Pet. v, 7). If He by you would care for others, cheerfully let Him use you, and your time and your skill, if He has given you any, and your money and !De content to wait till He comes again for your full reward, of which all pnwent joy is but a foretaste (Luke xiv, 14; Rev. xxil, 12). SUICIDE ON WEL8H HILL. Next they stuck in berries without any steins, to represent the smaller flowers. Scarlet partridge berries and crimson barberries made a beautiful gay David Phillip* Takes Ltndinam and The pledge is hard to the conscience that is hard. Dies Within Three Honrs. David D. Phillips, a well known resident of Vine street, committed suicide at nls home on February 27. There was consternation in the vicinity of the house when the news became known. Phillips was a butcher by occupation and had worked for several dealers in this oity, tnt has been working for some time past for Batcher Watkins, in Scranton. He had not worked sinos last Saturday. In the meantime it is raid be hid been drinking quite heavily. Last evening he oame home the same as usnal, and after eating supper went into the parlor, where, shortly ifterward, he was found lying on the floor in a dying condition. Alongside of him lay two bottles which hid contained lauiannm tnd these told the story of his condition. Or. IfoKown was hastily summoned and worked with the nncJnsolons man for three hoars, bat he passed away without gaining oonsoioasnees. Louisvillo Endeavorers are planning to take np slum work. border In all t'.iere will be ten shaking screens and six round screens in the breaker, and the total capacity will be about 2,003 tons day. The oapacity of the new breaker will not be much greater than the old, the additional space aiid improvements being uCed to better prepare the coal rather than Increase the product. All of the modern breaker accessories will be famished, saoh as electric light, steam heat, water for fire purpose, etc. Altogether, It Is safe to say that it will be the beet equipped coal-preparing plant in tLis region. When all was finished, with a background of pure, white snow, it was just 'ho daintiest littlo garden that you ever It wonld certilnl' seem that our government ought not to delay a moment In redeeming this pledge made by the general commanding a department and made aider circumstances of auch solemn and tremendous Interest. Often Christian Endeavor is "for Christ" by "being "for the church." saw A prayer meeting for tho meeting's sake is good, but a meeting for the sake of souls is better. "How long will it last?" askod Posy. "Till 1 lio snow birds eat it up," said Cousin Nanny. '"And then we will make another."—Youth's Companion. 30. "Which now of these throe, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?" The lawyer asked where he might find his neighbors, but Jesus who rciui his heart and would hold him to his first question, taught him how to 1st a neighbor, as well as wlw-re to find his neighlKirs. Notice how Jesus always inakiw him answer his own question. What a skillful teacher! When your weekday companions nay "Amen" to your prayer meeting testimony, the angels glory in your words. Let this bill be passed without a moment's delay, and too long delayfd justice done to the brave 994 of Port Hudson's "Forlorn Hope." The Do-funny lland. Letter Writing. Have you any unkind thoughts? Tho Do-funny band live in Do-funny land. A dear littlo people as over you knew. With lips :ind with hand %vhut no one has "We're powerful hungry," said tho boy. "Slep' out on Timber mountain las' night" Do not write thi ni dow.j. Write no word that giveth pain; Writtei, words may long remain Have you hoard some idle tale? The little Do-funnies will certainly do. They dance and they play the whole sunny day; planned LICBNSK DECISIONS. Joseph Tyrrell, of Forty Port, has been awarded the o 3D tract to build the breaker, and he has already started work. 37. "And ho mid, lit; thnt showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus uutu him, Go, and do thou likewise." The only way lo obtain eternal life is to receive Him who is The Life (John i, 12; Horn, vi, 23; I John v, 12). All commands to do, or to keep the law, are intended to humble us, to shut our mouths, to make us see that all our righteousnesses are only as filthy rags (Rom. iii, lit; lsa. lxlv, 6); that so we may cease our vain doings to obtain life, accept Him who wails to become our life and our righteousness, and then let Him live out His life through us to the glory of God (II Cor. iv, 10, 11; Phil, ii, 13; Gal. 11, 80). Do not writ« it down. Uossijw may repeat it o'er, Adding tCD its bitter store. Have yiia any careless Jest? Bury it and let it rent; It may wDnnd some loving breast Word* of love und tenderness. Words of truth and kindliness, Words of comfort for the sad, Words of gladnms for the glad. Words of C•« Dunst'l for tin bad— They dimple with laughter; they sing, they List of Applloatlona from thla Vicinity Which Wore UefuMd. "Oh, now, shoo," said the bride. "We didn't do no such thing—jes' been a-walkin all the time. " KinK The anxiety among the applicants for liquor 11 senses In ie over for thie jeer. The decisions of the ooart were annoanoed on Saturday. There were 1,23? applications filed. Of theee three were withdrawn, 163 refused and the othere. 1,072, granted. Last ye«r there were 1,03 6 applications filed, and 974 granted. All of the PlttstoQ applications were granted Tbe applications of the following resident* of the npper end of the oouuty were re fused, the new applications being marked with an asterisk: They work with a will: they never ore still. And dearest of pleasures they bring, thoy The above fa its were given onr reporter by T. R Griffith, mechanical engineer, of this oity, who has been assisting on the The party was fed and the old man pacified and advised that it would be better to keep the matter quiet aod prevent unpleasant gossip up Chunky Gal •way. bring. Tl»rough Do-funny haunts tho tin alee and aunts And fathers and mothers roamed long, long Just above the union of the two branches of the Tuokasegee a picturesque wooden bridge spans the stream, and on the arched roadway between the log ramparts broad patches of snnlighl found their way through the overhanging trees. At the house just across tne bridge I found a namesake and sprung my trusty camera on the old lady almost in the shadow of Shelton mountain. A little farther up the east fork and just below the point of our crossing was a rare old mill built into the bank at the end of a log dam, over which the sparkling water tumbled and foamod under the undershot wheel which turned the gearing of the slab covered sawmill extension. plans Now each M enjoys the girls and the boys— The little Uo funnii'S, you know, you know. Such mimics arc they at work or ut play Wo watch them with laughter and sing wl sing. MASONIC BUILDING PUOPOSED. On Saturday afternoon I walked two miles over a charming mountain road to spend the night; with Monroe Hooper, one of the most daring of the outliers in war times, a member of the Ninth Tennessee volunteers, who, with his brother Mack, was sent back on the Tuokasegee with recruiting papers—the same Monroe who, with Bill and Lain son secure in the laurel, had stood out on the rock overlooking the forks of the river watching the sheriff's 800 in pursuit of them. A comfortable house, with spacious barns and outhouses, was surrounded by a fruitful and well cultivated farm. Through the side yard flowed a clear mountain stream overgrown with laurel and grapevines and full of trout in the spring. Near the house a broad granite rock sloped into the stream, with hearts and names cut in its surface, and here by the never failing water was the family wash place, with iron kettle for boiling clothes and a wooden paddle for beating them on the rock. It seem* that Phillips had bjen oontem plating taking his life for several days, ae he had told several persona of his inten tlon and had also parchasad the three oonoee of landannm at two different drng stores the last time he had been In Scran ton—on Saturday. He w*a a strong, robust wan and • good workman. Ilia little daughter is very m with typhoid pnen tnonla, which had led him to drink, and it is thought both things had troubled him to saoh an extent as to nnbalanoe his mind. Wisely write them down. WomIs, though small, are mighty things, A .Joint CommittM Appointed to Consider Pause before you write them; Little woads may grow and bloom With bitter breath or sweet pcrfumo— Pray before you write them. "They add to our care, but double our share Of pleasure and jcy by the love which they The Masonio lodges of this oity have under consideration the advisability of ereot ing a building for their own use. A j lint committee consisting of several members of each lodge has been appined, whioh held a meeting laec week to disease the question, and report back to the lodges N 3 action of any kind has yet been taken the OueHtlon. bring —Pansy. —Sarah E. Howard in Womaaklnd. FOUND »7.000 IN GOLD. THE WORLD'S RIVERS. TAIL TWISTERS. Avoca—T. J. Newton, P. F. Golden, * Jon McLaughlin, Jim* Doran, 'Michae Brogan— 5 * Slow rivers flow at the rate of throo to seven miles an hour. Geographically England is surrounded by water, mid diplomatically slie appears to l«e completely surrounded by icebergs.— Wichita Eagle. A Demi Man's Brother K«vo#l«l the Hid- den Place to His Widow The branches of the Mississippi have an aggregate length of 15,000 miles. t»even thousand dollars in gold was found In a crack under the tljor of the residence of the late Wm. Moore, of North ScrantoD. Oae week ago last Sunday Mr Moore dropped dead, and after his funeral his wife was astonished at small araount of money he left Her brothf r-in law, Jo*n Moore, informed Mrs Moore that In 1888 her husbai;d placed $7,000 'n gold In a crack, and o ■nttded to him the secret of Its hiding puce The secret was shared wl h no one else, He wert to the place specified by his dead bro'h 'r, and there touud the crack and Its tich contents. Exeter borough—*B Kaufman, *M. Savage, *A. R Hoover, 'Jenkin Evans, *J. L. Frankel, 'Mike Horaha, *John Robso, a Joseph Gilenbusky, P. J. Brann, "Michael Smith, G»rge Gmtltus—11. The river Jordan has its origin in one of the largest springs In the world. John Hull hasn't succeeded in hypnotizing the Russian bear as yet, nnd the chances are he never will succeed.—Indianapolis News. H1NBR FATALLY 1NJUHED. DIED IN COLORADO. The Parana of lirazll and Argentine is 2,200 miles in length, and after the Ama zon Is the largest river in South America. IHed In an Ambulance While Itelng Taken At a cabin I met two men who had been present with the company that hod captured us at Hearten 'a. As England's flying squadron is provlsloned for six months, perhaps it is golfig round the world jtist to scare every body".— Now York Journal. to the Hospital, Thomas Delaney, formerly of Fort Grlf River water purities Itself. A few miles l)olow a large city no trace of Impure matter can be found in the waters of a river into which its sewers empty. Alex KishlnBkey, aged twenty-four, a miner in the Schooley shaft, was so badly Injured by a fall of rook while at work Feb. 27 tHbt he died In the ambulance while being taken to the Hoepital. II tb, Pmnod Away. Jenkins—* Joseph and Max Moekovitz, * Jhas. Voylas, *M. J. Tighe, George Bravyak—4Passing the point whore on New Year's day in 1864 we came upon the four dead Watsons with their wives wailing over their remains, "There," said my guide, "just beyond that apple tree in the cornfield is the place whore von saw the bodies.'' Jamee Delaney, outside foreman at No 14 shaf received a letter last week containing the sad news of the death of his son Thomas, at Cripple Creek, C dorado Deceased had been in the West for a number of years. His last visit here was four yean ago op the oooaslon of the death of his sister, Mrs. Luke Brady. The letter stated that his death was o tused by pneumonia, and that he bad received the beat of care at the Sisters' Hoepital. The funeral occurred on Wednesday last, the Interment being made at Cripple Creek. Mr Djlaney was about 85 years of age, a d he had been very snooewful in business In the West, having property in Ohicago and Cripple Be is survived by his parents; four brothers, John, El ward and M E Delaney, of Port Griffith, and Martin, of Chicago, and* three sisters, Celia and Agnee, of Pott Griffith, and Kate, who resides in Caleago. England has discovered that If she wants a war she can get It by applying to almost any other nation In the world.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Marcy township—* 1 Bartuska, *Jno. Burke, 'Zivler Ziellnski, 'Joel Weldio, •John St3k, "Frank Namlnko, 'Patrick Fltzsimmons, * William Matohonis, 'Robert Doohakal, 'Andrew Mazrk, 'John Sockwet, 'Julian Rtdhoffer, *A Hantz, *A. Oiomber, *F Murtell, 'Frank Sews, 'Mlohael Walsh, 'Jaoob Denonohet—18. The Nile mud, which renders Egypt a habitable country, Is said to boar a striking rosemblance to that which every season is brought down by the Missouri. INDIVIDUAL COMMUNION CUPS. 2 Adopted by tho Memorial Presbyterian In the talk about Venezuela we seem to have forgotten that there is a little difficulty about an Alaskan -boundary which we have yet to settle with England.—rit. Louis Hepublio. The Winters-llowell Nuptials. Chnreh, Wllkesbarre Counting the Mississippi and Missouri as one stream, the total length of this great inland ocean is over 4,000 miles. Considered! separately the Mississippi is 2,810 miles and the Missouri 8,047. George F. Winters, of Forty Fort, and Miss Harriet P. Howell, daughter of Jonah Bowell, of Lnzerns avenue, were united in marriage February 27 by Rev. Thomas W Swan, the bride's ptstor, at the West Side Prfs lyterlan parsonage Toe brlda was dressed In a handsomi traveling suit. The oeremony wa* witnessed by a few friends Mr. and Mrs. Wlnteis took the afternoon Lehigh Valley train east for a short wedding Journey, and upon their return will be st the residence of the bride's father on LnzDrne avenue. Mrs Winters Is a llfe.long resident of this ptaoe, and has many friends who w sh her all happiness Her husband Is welghmaater at the Pettebone colliery. It has been decided to use individual communion cups in the Memorial Preebyterlan Church, Wilkeebarre. The church paper says: "With the unanimous approval of all the deacons and elders of Memorial Churoh the session has decided to make this change, and it ie  cups will be here in time for the next ooicmunlon service in April. Tue session feel sure that oonslderatioa of the matter will lead all our members to a decided approval of the change, as it has all our elders and deacons, and that after tht new system has been Introduced it will approve itself to all without doubt." This is the first ehurch in this section to adopt individual cups. On Sunday morning we were to start for the forks of the Tuckasegee, I to see Mack, my old guide from Shooting Creek to Tennessee, and the others to keep on to Webster for the opening of the court, which meets twice a year, and for the further excitement of a political tournament between the two candidates for congress. When we went out to the barn to start, I expected to throw my bag and camera into a wagon, but was surprised to find that we had but one saddle mule between us. At Cashiers valley we were Joined by Reilly Hooper, Kith a flft&U* Jkkw and another mule. THE F.ND. Wyoming I'aslor KeslgOi. ipiomm m num. Rev. H. A. Fayue, pastor of the Wyo mlng Baptist Chnrch, has resigned 11 his letter of resignation he says: "Always desiring to do what will be for the lntarest oi the cause of Christ, and b-lleving that the present pastor can accomplish little, If any, good in this church In the face of theuuclir|,8tlanllke opposition which has arls«n, and believing futther that there are interests demanding our greateet efforts where good can be'done for the Master, I hereby tender ray resignation as pastrr of he Baptist Ohnrch of Wyoming, to take fcffict at once." Philanthro—Don't you pity that poor blind man with starvation staring him in the face? Having married American girls, half the dukes und lords of England would naturally lie on our side In case of war with that country. Otherwise their American fathers-in-law would tie likely to cut off their cash supplies. — AtlantaConstitution. The British Islands are better provided with rivers than any othor country of the same size on the glotie. The Styx was, according to Honior, the principal river of hell. It encircled the infernal regions sev- Pitteton township—'Jno Lucusko,' J no. Stephenson. * Joculo—If he's blind, he doesn't know what is staring at him.—Now York World. The much-talked of application of A. J. Lynch, for a new hotel license for 78 Publlo Square, Wilkeebarre, was granted. The rlvor Euphrates flowed through the city of Habylon, and on oach side of Its banks the walls of the city were carried up to a height as great as at any other point, so that oven during a slogo tho city was as formidably defended on the river m • m tho land cidu *  en times, To a man with a sense of humor there must Ikj something very delightful in the tvay in which England, quarcellng noisily with America over Venezuela and with Germu/iy over the Transvaal, is quietly gathering In Ashantlland under cover of the noise. There Is a good deal of subtlety to Johnny Hull. — .Now York World. The Essence of Snobbishness. Karl's Clover Boot will purify your blood, clear your oomplexlon, regulate your bowels and make your head dear as ,a bell. 253.. 50o. and $1.00. (5) "Why?" "Pilkins is the worst snob I ever saw." "When he travels, he puts bricks into his trunk so as to have to pay for excoss tutaoasa "—Detroit News. .