Pittston Gazette

              K8TABL1SHKI) IH 5 O. » fllHop VoUXUl. NO.4tt ( UlucS Newspaper in the Wvoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY. JULY 17, 1S9G. Jt Weekly local and Family Journal. OiMtnww. The captain, speaking with the cigar in his mouth, halted opposite the men and said: "What are yer wrongs? Are ye too well fed? Are ye growing too fat for the want of work? Say the word, and I'll right them wrongs for ye fast enough." 1 like the man who faces what he must "INo use keeping all on grunting," exclaimed a quiet looking seaman, addressing the 01 here over his folded arms. "What's to be the horder of the day?" While Captain Jones, sitting on the skylight, was drinking some coffee which the only mate had boiled, the carpenter, Mr. Chips, munching a biscuit at his side, and the only mate munching another biscuit at the wheel, a sail hove in view. The breeze was light and the sea smooth. Captain Jones hoisted the English ensign union down, and at about 9 o'clock in , the morning the two vessels were nearly abreast, of each other, the Rose with. her topsail to the mast, the yards having been swung by Captain Jones, and Mr. Chips taking the braces to the quarter deck capstan. The stranger was a large, light bark with painted ports. She, too, had backed her topsail. ten in large white letters upon her stern. Nothing was. to be seen of Air. Chip* and the only mate. A man wearing a fur hat resembling Robinson Crusoe'h paced the short poop .of the bark. He carried a glass in his hand, and to judge by the frequent glances he directed at the Rofte it was to be guessed that he had interpreted the handwriting on the blackbaord. miTl [Oil[SUED s'rnottons as to the slz* of opeutngs and pillars. It was the dnty of the t-uperlntendsnt, Mr. Langan, and the mine foreman, Mr. Lynott. I oa not define the distinction between the general manager and the general superintendent. I cannot tell how often the general manager or the owners ot the collier; visited It. whatever testimony should je presented, that when the commission would reassemble next week, It wonld be expected that things wonld be eo arranged that the investigation cou'd be continued nntil the work was practically eodnd lfr. Wheaton, attorney for the oompany, said that he wonld try to have the Lehigh Valley maps and a Lehigh Valley engineer precent this afternoon. have come into the evangelical churches connected with fifty denominations, influenced in part, at least, by the Christian Endeavor Society; and it is certain that over two millions of dollars have been given in benevolence through denominational and church channels. "The past at least is secure," we say. But ah! is it? Not unless we secure the future by learning the lessons of the past. The future stretches before ns,—ten times in fifteen years of Christian Endeavor, please God. and ten times that. We started yet at the lieginnings. fellow Endeavorers. The stream is yet near its source. Our concern should lie not to deflect it into any channels of our own choosing. Let God choose its way and direct its course, as he has done these fifteen years, and then the future too, is secure. "We have but one lamp by which our feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience." By the past what does God each us for the future? With step trtamphant and a heart at «heer, Who tights the daily buttle without fear, Bees his hoped fail, yut keep* unfaltering trust That God is God—that somehow, true and just, His plans work out (or mortals; not a tear la shed when fortune, which the world holds dear, "A bust up," answered the strong man, who bore the nickname of Black Sam. "Here we ar», 16 days out, two hands overboard and not enough men by six able seamen to work the ship; wessel making water and requiring to be pumped every four hours; meat fit to make a wnlture ills ship's bread old and wormy and the rest of us men's stores shop sweepings. Now, this being ao, I'm a-going to knock off work for una" Falls from.feis grasp; better with love a oruat Thau living in dialionor; envies not, "Ye'vegot a sow under that there longboat, Capt'n Jones," said Black Sam. "Would ye give her the wittles ns men have to live on and work hard on? No? And why? Because the life and health of a sow is of more consequence to the likes of such men as ye and the owners of this wessel than the life and health of a sailor." Nor loses faith in man, but does his best, Nor even murmors at his humbler lot, But, with a smile and words of hope, gni zest - John B. Law, general manager of the Newton Coat Coal Co., eworn —I am gener*l manager of the Newton Coal Co. This oompany operates one breaker, and three shaDt«. I nave b» n general manager since 1892 We have one Inside superintendent for all shafts, and on* foreman at each shaft, Mr, M. J. Langan had supervision of the three shafts. As general manager I rarely visited the workings The laat time I went Into the Twin was In February, when I went In response to Mr. Laigaa's r» quest to see a stream of water that had been struck. I examined the maps and had a general knowledge of the workings I did not tnow the width of the gaogwaya and oham eie. I found It out here I knew abont how thlok the strata wis between the two veins Both veins were bt log worked at the same time. The map does not show that men were work ing over one another I was slok the day before the accident. If Mr. Da via told me about the fall he simply said that the bottom of a chamber had fallen out. I don't *now whether they wen working on the gangway where the fall occurred. Before going to the Newton I was anperlntendent of mines for the Pennsylvania Goal Co. I wonld say that if the plllara were not as a general thing over one another it would not bB good mining. If I were mining I would rather have the pillar in the top vein a little larger than that in the bottom. It would act as a cap piece. Bo far as I could see, the method of working met my approval. There are no teaching as to what to do in fighting n rture. There Is no law by whloh a man on the outside oan direct what a man ought to do on the inside. Solence tells that where veins are closely associated, the pillars should be one over the other. The wider the openings the less the resistance to the roof. There Is no law as to tie eizs of the pillars or the width of the gangways. It depends entire ty upon the oonditiona. With thirty cr forty feet of rook between veins, the openings oould be made larger than - where the strata is thin When the lower vein was worked, there was no knowledge of a top or fifth vein. It comes In only in certain portions of the mine. The sixth vein was opened In 1887 The fifth was started about two years ago. The gangways and airways have been driven the same in both velna, I suppose. My duties are to see that there la a man occupying every position of trust required' by law, see that there was a superintendent, a master mechanic ; see that the time was properly token; look after the funds. The miners have always had suffiolent props. We sent to So ran ton for props, because we had to have larger ttmber Our ordinary timber Is six lnjhss in diameter. I suppose that it was furnished the miners according to law Mr. Langan was there to see that it was done. I knew pretty well how the maps were worked. The breeze freshened. Sheets and tacks strained to the increased pressure. The Rose, with foam midway to the hawse pipe, went steering alongside the bark .within pistol .shot. To every toiler. He alone is great Who. by a life heroio, conquers fate Getting at lie Facts of its Twin Disaster. The commission came together promptly at two o'clock. Half a dozen witnesses were called, but failed to respond. Mr. Wheaton said that the Lehigh Valley engineers who made a map of the Twin mine were expected to arrive soon. The chairman invited any of the old miners present to testify in regard to the condition of the mine, but none responded. Mr. Law was recalled and asked if the company had a record book, as the law required. He replied that the company had such a book and would produce it. AFTKRNOOJJ SRSSION. Falltluie. Fall time In the country, Ain't It out o' night? Hlek'ry nuts a-droppin Au fire* blazin brighW "Hard up!" shrieked the man in the Robinson Crusoe cap, and the fellow at the helm made the wheel spin like the driving wheel of a locomotive. Let me try. as best I may, to draw out the leesonjL Christian Endeavor, as our platform showti? » a practical paradox, a reconciler of irraconcilables. It has married opposites. It hajr brought into an harmonious family, ideas wnich have been thought to be mutually exclusive. I am tempted to consider this the most important work of Christian Endeavor, in the futufe-aiun the past. Our platform specifies some of the banns that have been proclaimed by Christian Endeavor. It has married the ideas of denominational fidelity and fellowship between denominations and has written on the door posts of the home thus formed: "Fidelity ana Fellowseip. one and Inseparable." Again, if our platform is correct. Christian Endeavor stands for a self-governed society that is yet wholly governed by its own church. "And me for another," "And me for another," went in a growl from mouth to mouth. Captain Jones clinched his fist and glared. But what is the uso of one man clinching his fist and glaring at seven savage, hairy, resolved British seamen, and the captain might well know that he was but one man to the whole ship's company, for the only mate stood at the rail looking ovor the side as though he were a passenger willing to listen, but rather anxiens not to be "involved," while the Mfcpenter had stepped aft and was dividing his attention between the oompass caw and the main royal. The captain looked around him. He then puffed a tew moments at bis cigar, while an eljgpession entered his face that would havo-persuaded shrewder observers than the sailors ho confronted that he intended to keep his temper. Taters lit the ashes, f Apples oil thv shelf; Pass aroiui the eider . Till you hardly know yourself. "There's (he mate, and there's the carpenter," continued Black Sam. "If the ••apt'n can ' lie shit* with  two, well and good. But Peter he shan't have. Rather than that cuss of a Dutchman should be agio us and on the capt'n's side I'd"— He projected his arm and seemed with his powerful hairy hand to strangle something in the air. "There is no use in hailing," said Captain Jones, addressing the only mate. "Lower that quarter boat, Mr. Johnson, and go aboard with Mr. Chips. Tell the captain of the bark that my men have refused duty and ask him if he can oblige us with the loan of a couple of hands to carry the bark to"— And he named a convenient port. " Hard up and into him I'' roared Captain Jones, and round fizzed the wheel of the Rose in true firework fashion. WERE THE OPENINGS TOO WIDE PaUtime in the country, Full o' sweetest joys, All the fiddles playing— Swing your sweethearts, boys I For the next two hours the Rose was occupied in endeavoring to run down the bark, the bark, on her side, cutting a hundred nimble nautical capers to evade the shearing stem of the enraged Jones. . But at. the end of two hours it had become plain to the maa in the Robinson Crusoe hat that the feose was in earnest He then gave up, backed his main topsail yard and sent 4he only mate and Mr. Chips aboard tflfe itose in a boat polled by . two men. Captain Jones at once put Mr. Chips into irons and sent the only mate to his cabin. He then called to the two felloWs who were sitting, in the boat under the gangway : "Are you undermanned?" A man in the audience said that in his opinion nature showed that the lower pillars should be larger than those above, but the man did not take the stand. Spring has lots o' pleasure, Hummer's sweet to see. But fafltime In the country Is the best o' times to me. ■-Prank L. Stan ten in Atlanta Constitution. Till Point Irimi Which Arp- Forthwith a boat was lowered, and in a few minutes Mr. Chips and the only mate were pulling away as for their lives for the big, tight bark with painted ports. The captain, grasping the wheel, stood watching. Now and again a hairy head showed in the forecastle hatch, and the noise of % hoarse laugh floated aft to the ears of Captain Jones. The boat gained the side of the bark, a rope's end was thrown, and the only mate made the boat fast to it Both men then clambered over the side of the vessel and disappeared. Wm. Costello was called and sworn. Am twenty-eight years old. Have worked in mines fourteen years, at every kind of work. Worked in Twin on rock work and timber. Worked in right hand section for about five months. The measure between the two veins ran from seven to forty feet in thickness. It was forty feet thick where we drove a tunnel. I have noticed squeezing. The chamber openings were driven as they , liked, from 06 to 30 and from that up. I determined the width by looking at it. The gangways rdn from 36 feet up. They never were smaller, so far as I could see. Lots of times we took up thirty-foot rails and turned them completely around. Have noticed squeezing going on for five months. I don't know about the thickness of pillars, but I knew that after the mine had been idle for several days, the chippings from the pillars were sufficient to fill fifteen or The coal was loaded by company men and sent out. I don't know much about the Strength of the pillars in the district which went down. I thought, however, that there was a great deal of pressure on the pillars, because of the way the pillars were chipping. I was timbering in this district Once I put up three cog pillars. Did not remember anything about pillar falling through from the fifth vein to the sixth vein. I quit work two weeks before the accident because I was afraid of the mine, and because they gave us only breaker time. In my opinion, this was the worst gutted-out mine that I ever saw. Dross examined by Mr. Wheaton, witness could not say positively that the rails in the mine were thirty feet long. They were of of varying lengths. At this point the square of hatchway was again darkened, and the salt, husky voice of the carpenter called down: "Be-low there! Hain't the starboard waidi got their dinner yet? Tumble upf Tumble up! The wind's drawed ahead, and the yards want trimming." mtit Ceatorod. Third. Again, our platform embraces pa triotism and humanity. Patriotism is a name that is used to cover a multitude of sins. "It is the last resort of designing knaves." said ' Johnson. It has been made to stand for partisanship and to mark hideous corruption. It needs to be married to another idea.—the idea of humanity. The Christian Endeavor liae attempted to do. By Christian Endeavor, then, we marry the too-often disassociated ideas, patriotism and humanity. Christian Citizenship and Christian Missions, one and inseparable. Fourth. Our Christian Endeavor platform, once more, stands for Organization, it stands for Spiritual Power. These two great ideas, alas! have two often lieen set over against one another, They have been divorced and sundered far. Come, Christian Endeavor, thou white-robed: peacemaker, and pronounce the banns which shall moke organization and spiritual power forever one! The Christian Endeavor history of this past year is the story of this power. Its dominant note has been ''Evangelism." "Saved to serve" has been its motto. The "new Endeavor" may be summarized as the evangelistic Endeavor, aud wise evangelism is spiritual power applied. O' Endeavorers, this is your supreme mission. Be the conductors of this spiritual electricity. Be the willing wires, along which may run the power of God to every part of our organization This is the one, Hie only, secret of true success, —"Not by might, nor -by-powe*'' net by org&mzation or by perfection of machinery, not y committees, not by methods, "but by My Spint, sa»th.the iiwA." working.through committees aud methods and organization. Oh that by some word of burning eloquence I might lay this thought on the heart of every Eadeavorer throughout the world! This wort 18 not mine to speak. It is not any man's to uttet CpMe-Holy Spirit. Heavenly Comforter, speak Thou the word that makes our organization live. But I can. I do urge you to make this the Christian Endeavor watchword of the comlBg year. Each year of the fifteen years has 1 teen noted for some advance step. Each convention has been signalized by some great thought. "Citizenship," '•Missions," "Fellowship,'' have been our watchwords at conventions past, and they are our watchwords still: for a step once gained we will not lose. And here is the great- ' est word, and best of all: Spiritual Power. "Washington *98"—may it live in history as the convention of God's power L 1896-7, the year of God's energizing might in Christian Endeavor! Then,as steel and copper .hitherto unwieldable metals, are welded together by the mightv, subtle power of electricity in a union as com- Slete that no human eye can find the seam, ho, y the fusing might of God's spirit in Christian Endeavor, will be welded together fidelity that is true and fellowship that is large-hearted, responsibility that makes strong and loyalty that makes humble and gentle, patriotism aria humanity, organization and spiritual power, now and forever, one and inseparable. And "what God hath joined together, let not man put asun-.. der." 6aoi Jones otMose Bj V. OLAEK BUSSELL. MR. LAW ON THE STAND "Tumble npl" exclaimed Black Sara. "Don't ye be holding your nose too long over the hatch, or it'll be ye as'll "What have yon to oomplain of?" Several sailors spoke at once. Black Sam elevated his immense, hairy fist. "We oomplain of this," said he. "First, the ship ain't seaworthy." Seven men sat in a gloomy wooden cave. Under a massive beam that ran athwart the ceiling swung a sort of coffeepot, from the spout of which sputtered a smoking and stinking flame, Whom disgusting fumes were to be everywhere tasted in the atmosphere of the darksome wooden cave. The seven men were seated, not on morocco chairs or velvet sofas, but on rude boxes, whose lids were scored by the cutting np of cake tobacco. ' There one or two pillars or stanchions in this gloomy wooden cave, from which dangled several oilskin coats and oilskin leggings, and nnder the ceiling hung a number of bags called hammocks, with here and there a ragged blanket peeping over the edge or an old shoe showing through the meshes. In the midst of the ceiling was a square hole called a hatch, down which this day there floated very little daylight owing partly to the hatch being small and partly to the sky being overcast with clouds. [Copyright, 1895, by the Author. 1 Engineer David Davis Also Ex- "Lie number one," said the captain. "Fearful-ly," was the answer. amined. "She ain't seaworthy," continued Black Sam, with a menacing note of storm in his deepening voice. "Ye're as good a sailor as we are, I suppose, and ye nmst know that a ship that needs to be pumped out every four hours ain't seaworthy." The captain gazed eagerly, and while he stood looking a hoarse voice roared the following weather worn lines through the forecastle scuttle r "I thought so," said Captain Jones. "Step on board, my liveliest, and have a glass of grog afore you return." The two men cheerfully crawled over the side, but instead of giving them a glass of grog apiece Captain Jones ordered them forward to turn to with the rest of the crew, and with his own hand LEIIIGII VALLEY MAPS PRESENT "Yon parliament of England, you lords of the commons, too. Consider well what you are about and what you mean to do. "Next?" said (ho captain. And Ihe Ergineer Who Made Them "All the wittles is rotten to the heart. Is this food for a man?" And Black Sam, putting his bund in his breast, pulled out a biscuit and extended it to the captain. But the captain looked elsewhere, and Black Sum, with his face full of blood, dashed the biscuit on to the deck at the captain's feet, on which one of the sailors cried out, "Seo how they run I" You're now at war with Yankees. I'm sure you'll rue the day You roused the sons of liberty in North Ainerioay."let go the line which held the bark's boat ito the Ro§e. Sail was. then trimmed, and in less than three hours the bark was hull down, though still in pursuit of the Rose. Testifies. The time passed. Captain Jones stood at the wheel with his eyes fixed upon the bark. Suddenly he ran-to the companion way, picked a telescope out of its brackets, and kneeling at the rail directed the glass at the bark. He remained motionless with his eye at the telescope for some minutes, then stood up and sent a glance aloft aud a locdc that swept the wide platform of his own decks, and his hollow, gaunt countenance wore an expressiou of perplexity, dismay and wrath, aU combining tn a look that made him appear more than ever as though just out of hospital. The only mato admitted, with a countenance of hate and loathing, that he was sick of the Rose., sick of Captain Jones; that he hadn't any intention of working a big vessel of nearly 700 tonB single handed with old* Chips, the carpenter, and that, whsn he boarded the bark and heard that she was very short banded, he accepted the raj/ain's handsome offer of a number of dollars for the rest of * the run to Windsor, as did Mr. Chips. The only mate added that both he and Mr. Chips were in debt to the Rose as it was, and that Captain Jones would have b»ii welcome to their clothes and nautical instruments had the Nova Scotia man succeeded in getting clear off. A1 MOURNED UNTIL THURSDAY "Lie number two," said the captain. "Next?" (From Friday's Daily ] "Tumble up I" exclaimed Black Sam. be tumbling down. Can't ye smell it? Oh, it's nothin but us men's dinner! There's plenty left If ye've a mind for a bitei" Attorney General UcCormick was com pelted to return to Harrisburg t- day to attend » meeting of the State Board of Pardons The interest of the Jommonwealih at the Twin diimster investigation today. wi»e therefore looked aft«r by «he Deputy Attorney General, John P Rikin. The in terest In the Inveet'gation, as manifested by the attendance, is not eo great as was anticipated previous to the op wing of the Commission's work. It was expected that the hall would be found too small to accommodate the crowds which would attend, it Is found to do so very comfort ably Had these seven men seated in this Interior been cleanly shaven and had they been appareled in well washed colored shirts, sleeved waistcoats, comfortable trousers and caps with naviil peaks, they would have passed as a harmless, respectable body of seafaring "Yer ship's stores are rotten to the heart," said Black Ham. "The vessel's taking in water faster than she should, and ye know it. The crew are about seven less than the complement of such a vessel onght to be, and that ye know also. And here we are to tell ye this— that we're willing to go on pumping the vessel ont for the next three days for our lives' sake, but not for yourn, bnt that we don't do another stroke of work unless ye shifts yer helium and heads for the nearest port, where ye can ship more hands and wittles fit for men to eat. But if at the end of three days nothin's done, then we shall give np pumping, take the boats and leave, ye and Mr. Chips and the mate to keep the ship afloat by yerselves if ye can. That's yer mind, mates?" Mr. Wheaton presented the Lehigh Valley maps of the Twin workings. Wm. Siley, the engineer who made the maps, was sworn. I made visits to the Twin to extend the maps. I always did the Twin workings. I had no instructions to order the size for pillars. I made all surveys on the west side of the shaft. I only survey the openings made on Lehigh Valley lands. We have not the entire workings on our maps. Veins 5 and 6 are on our maps. The maps do not show any falls. We take the size of the pillars when we make the survey. We measure on the main transportation openings, and then take offsets. We make surveys about three times a year, sometimes more. Our survey is independent of the Newton engineer's survey. We compared the maps once, and found them to agree well. We measure the pillars over If there are any indications of work hav ing been done around a pillar. The company could scarcely tamper with a pillar without us noticing it. Our marks on the roof would help "Who's that a-jawing?* exclaimed Mr. Chips, who combined the duty of second mate with that of ship's carpenter. " Tumble np, I tell you. The wind's drawed ahead." "By this and by that and by t'other," he roared, using words which,, as they camiot be described, must be loft to the imagination, "who'd have thought it of two Bach this and that and something else sniggering whelps?" And even as he thus used language which cannot be written the bark swung her yards so as to fill upon the sails, and letting go (Jap tain Jones' boat, which dropped, quietly rocking, astern, glided along her course, her flying jibboom end pointing at something west of north. nan—-persons who would say "mum" to a lady when addressed by her and answer intelligently and respectfully whan asked about the weather. But, as now sat, they looked as sulky and wild a set of fellows as one could imagtne strangely and fearfully attired, grimy of face and hairy, booted with half Wellingtons and belted in Wapping fashion—and timid people would have thought that they carried a murderous air because each man wore a sheath upon his hip, in which lay a very sharp blade. "Catch it and smell it for yourself," shouted a seaman, plunging his hand into the mess kid and hurling a lump of pork through the hatch. The sailors beard the hurried steps of Mr. Chips as he went aft Captain Jones' troubles were not yet at an end. Ho wished to put in to Lisbon, but the crew refused to work the ship unless he returned to England. "He'll be telling the old man," said Black Sam. "Let's goon deck and have it ont, lads. I'll do the talking part, with yer good leave. We don't want no language. Civility's a trump card in these here trawersea We all knows what we mean to get, and I'll say it for ye." "We're not going to he convarted into blooming distressed mariners," said the crew of the Rose. "No oonsuls for us. We know them gents. They'll find everything all right, stores sweet, crew plentiful, ship tight, and wo know how it'llbeu A blooming Portugee jail, then a trip home and a blooming magisterial inquiry and six weeks o' quod," and so, blooming, they forced Captain Jones to sail his ship home. The text of Secretary Beer's report m Lake 18:10 Some extaurte ere ee follows; David C. Davis, civil engineer for the Newton Coal Mining Company, was first •worn. Been engineer for this company for six years We made «urveys in the Twin shaft nearly every week. We go in, fi id old points and from those start ont to survey new workings We make a general sarvey every six months I also sniveyed No. 5 vein, and put on the mips the size of pilUrs. We generally measured with • steel tape The pillars are pot correctly upon the map. I have never been led to doubt that the pillars have been lessened in »1m from time to time. I never noticed but once before the accident any subsidence, except at one point on Thnrs day before the accident. This was in No 8 slope, about 900 feet from the foot of the *lope The overhanging part of the pillar fell off an! dw pped down to the lower vein. Theoverhang'ng piece was three or fonr feet In fclzi. Mr Davis then gave a detailed review of the way in which a person wonld ao from the foot of the shaft to the point where the cave in occurred. I have traveled the gronnd often. The rock between the two veins la eight or ten feet thick. It varies somewhat. It gets thioker toward No 9. The strata over So. 6 vein Is very hard, of solid snl pbnr. I think it Is good m'nlng to work two veins so closn together at the same time. It is done all over the valley. The wttneai was qnestloned cloeely in retard to the nature and p'zi of the falls from the fifth vein to the tteoond. The map presented, lie said, is a correct representation of the mine workings, as correct as it can be made. These few lines (five a brief and most accurate account 6f the beginning and" progress of Christian Endeavor. Wonderful indeed has' been its growth. Paul has {"anted, and A polios has watered, but God has given the increase. Yea, verily, the mustard seed cast into T)r. fHarlr'n — *1— vxrsw:-*.— /-n 1- - Captain J cues stood looking as though bereft of his reason, and many «nCi "That's our mind!" was echoed in a hurricane chorus. The wooden oave in which these men D „ ♦ WW maamtu ovuu -1—ir WVu . ' °«'C■» K«fg^ajf5^s?agn%s,i6s Now let ns count the branches on the great as to the ad- £ree- "{4110 States and Provinces that now moo have each over one thousand Tonne People's So•w. It was cleties of Christian Endeavor, the Keystone i gangway State of Pennsylvania still heads the list with So the L. ?D27,8: ,New York aeifc, 8,97*-, -Ohio, S.811; On.. , tario has now passed to fourth place, with further along 1317; Illinois, 1 1,30; IoU. 1,303. " *eet at the The Junior "branch" claims our first attennined the S011- ?*efe are now ttjBt Jtmior societies. Pennsylvania leads with 1,224; t&en New York pillars are not very far behind with 1,101; Illinois, 836; ey are practi Ohio,-716; Indiana. 498; Iowa, 488; Massachusetts, 461; California, 443. Notwithstanding ,, M many of the States have made splendid ad Table tune vances in Junior societies, Pennsylvania will pillars in for the thirdtfme secure the Junior "badge" - TTianner forthelargestgainin number of JunW - sat rose and fell as though it were the _ extreme end of a long board violently seesawed, and this motion, combined with the smell of the fumes of the slush fed lamp and a vapor rising out at a small tub of boiled pork, not to mention other odors, such as might be produced by well worn, newly greased sea boots, bedding which had made several voyages around the world, sooty clay pipes, old ropes, stale salt water and many mysteries of malodorous com modi ties stowed below in the hold and farepeak, must instantly have upset the stomach of any landsman who out of curioalty should have put his head into the little hatch to see what was inside of it The captain looked up aloft at his canvas, then around at the sea, then at his only mate, aid at Chips, the carpenter* and at Peter at the wheel. His sulphur colored face was dark with temper. Nevertheless he spoke deliberately: "This ship's going to make her passage. The leak's nothing, the stores are first class, and there are more of ye than are wanted to do the work of the vessel"awtui were the sea words wnrcti imped from his lips. Again be looked along his deserted decks. There was nothing to be seen in the shape of human nature but a single head showing in the forescuttle, and this bead appeared to be graphically describing what its eyes beheld to the hidden mob beneath, else how should Captain Jones account for the continue roar of derisive laughter which saluted his ears? He stood alone upon his deck. Either the only mate and the carpenter had been kidnaped, or they had deserted him, and Captain Jones was perfectly right in not doubting for a moment that they had deserted him. to discover if anything had been takei He led the way. His shipmates followed. They gained the forecastle and stood in a group gazing at the after part of the ship. The attorneys had a discussion mission of the Lehigh Valley ma, pillars. He arrived at Swansea and handed the only mate and Mr. Chips over into the hands of justice. He offered to ship two more hands if his old crew would sail with him, but they said no, not if he shipped 800 .mora hands, and so they were taken before the magistrates, who found the captain in the right and punished the men by a turm of imprisonment far in excess of any penalty in jail and hard labor which they would have inflicted upon a m;m who had merely broken his wife's skull with his heel, or who had only been systematically starving and cruelly treating his child of 10 ever since the neighbors could remember.finally decided to admit them. T1 The vessel was the Rose, from Liverpool to an East African port She was an old fashioned composite ship, bat her lines were those of a yacht, and there were few vessels then afloat which could look at her on a bowline. Her yards were immensely square, and she carried swinging booms and main skysail mast, and her burden was between 600 and 700 tons. Such a ship aa this demanded 20 of a crew at the least, not to mention master, mates and "idlers." Instead of 20, the Born had sailed with ten men in the forecastle and a cook in the galley, and the others were a carpenter, who acted as second mate, an only mate and the captain. Of the slender crew two had been swept overboard in a gale of wind They were foreigners, and the English Jacks did not lament their shipmates' end, bnt, on the ooutrary, grinned fiendishly when it was discovered that the foreigners were gone, and they hideously wished that all Dutchmen who signed articles for the red ensign of England wonld go and fall overboard as those two foreigners bad, and as promptly, too, so that nobody concerned might be kept waiting.at the foot of No. 3 slope, according V. mapH, is 16 feet wide; 1,000 feet' Mr. Whsaton here took a hand In the examination, and started to sbow by questions to Mr Law that the company was jast as mnoh intere.ted la working the sixth vein safely in order to aave the ooal above. This aa a'question of dollar* and oents alone, leaving the question of bnmanitj aside. Mr. MoQoyern objected to the qaeetlon aa lnmaterial, but the ohairman admitted the evldenee, and Mr. Law «ld that he now fears that the ooal property north of the Lackawanna is lost to the owners He was of the opinion that the coal in the Mar07 Yetn there oannot be mined, on acoonnt of a wash of 147 feet of sand and also on aooonnt of floods in the tiver coming over the land in qneatlon. The cave extends over about 160 acres, so far at we have any knowledge. it is 18. The Newton map showed lb latter point. In my survey, I examined pillars in both veins to see if the over one another, and I believe thi cally so. He called to Mr. Johnson, the only mate, who approached him with a glance at the men that was certainly not remarkable for spirit "Mr. Johnson," said the captain, "you've head what's passed?" Attorney McGovern spent fonsic with the witness measuring certaix. each vein and comparing them as to location over one another. The pillars measured lapped considerably. And the other banner, now in the hands ol Aasinlboia, must pass across two imaginary lines to our enterprising neighbors' in Mexico, for her record for the greatest proportionate increase in number of Junior societies is far ahead of all others. • - Next in numerical strength comes the Intermediate society. There are now 115 Intermediate sociatiee enrolled, and many more of which we have no record. Illinois leads with 17 recorded. California, Indiana and Ohio each havA 11 Ambled. We have not time to investigate the branches in schools, in oollegee, in pubU • institutions: of all kinds, in prisons, and schools of reform, in almshouses, asylums, institutions for the blind, etc., on board ships, men-of-war, at navy yards, in life stations, and among life-savers, among the boys in blue in the United States barracks," in large factories, among car-drivers, policemen, and patrolmen, in the Travellers' Union, etc., bnt we oanncrt pdssJhy the growth of the Canadian and foreign 'branches." for they next attract our admiration. All Canada has £882 -- societies, and in foreign and missionary. lands there are now 8,309 societies enrolled. The United Kingdom has over 3.000; Australia, over S,0Q0: Prance, 88; West Indies. 83: India, 128; Mexico, 82; Turkey, 41. Africa. 38; China, 40i. Germany, 18; Japan, 66; Madagascar, 93; and so on until every country In the world is rerpesented, save three or four, making a grand .total of 46.125 branches. -  The "badge" banner, which.ia given for the . neatest absolute gain in number of Young Pe. ifJe'a societies, can again lie carried back to - England's shores. Pennsylvania and other tates have made splendid efforts to keep It oh ' this side of the "pond," but it is evident that our brothers ana sisters on the other side have a firm grasp upon it. ■pie banner for the greatest proportionategam in number of societies for "the first title crosses the "briny deep" to Scotland's shores. , „ In the United States the denominational representation is as foHows: The- Presbyterian*— still lead, with 5,458 Young People's Societies and 2,59(1 Junior societies; the Coiigregaticitialists have 4.1QB Young Pe.plos societies and 2,077 Junior societies; the Disciples of Christ and Christians, 2,941 Young People's societies and 1,087 Junior societies;, the Baptists, 2,67», Young People's societies and 927 Junior societies; Methp&st Protestants, 975 Young People s societies and 302 Junior societies; Lutherans, 864 Young People's societies and 388 •Iwhjt societies; Cumberland Presbyterians, «U5 Young People's societies and 2H9 Junior so- • - cieties, and so on through a long list. In the Dominion of Canada the Methodists" of Canada lead, with 1,041 Young People's societies and 150 Juniorsocieties (most of the societies known as Epworth Leagues of Christian Endeavor); Canadian Presbyterians are next with 1,086 Young People's societies and 131 Junior societies; Baptists next," with 173 Young People's societies and 34 Junior societies; Congregationalists next, with MB Young People's societies and 40 Junior societies, etc. In the United Kingdom the "Baptists lehd, with over 900; Congregationalists next, with .... nearly as many; then the Methodists, with over 700, and the Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Moravians, and Friends, in order named. W Australia the Wefueyan Methodists lead, " awlCongregationalists, Baptists. Presbyterians Yes, the Christian Endeavor tree grows.- Its - tap root, the active member's pledge, which reaches down into the soil made ricliby God's " word, to sending up, growing .nearer and nearer to the heavens above, its mighty, sturdy trunk. For Christ and the Church.And coming from all denominations, all tribes, and all nations, for the fifteenth time we gather under Its' spreading branches, crowned" with a blessed fruitage, and with united heart and voice praise God "that it is a tree planted by the rivers' of water, that brlngeth forth his fruit in his season.In reply to a Question from the Attorney General, witness said the pillars in veins worked over one another are usually about the same tn size. "I have, sir," answered the only bate. He rushed forward. This cave was indeed a ship's forecastle. but the seven men who Hat in it were mariners who had for many years been tossed by the various oceans of the world and could not possibly have been made seasick, eveu though they should have been offered a handsome reward to try. One of them was a largo, strong man, with a shaggy head of hair and a beard like rope yarns. He looked as though be bad taken a "header" and come up again to blow crowned with seaweed * This strong man suddenly and with a sulky fnry of gesture whip ped the knife oat of the sheath that was strapped to his hip, and plunging it into a lump of pork lifted the horrid block Into the air and-cried out: "Men," he bawled, "up with youl Yon shall have your way. I'm a lonely man. Don't stop to conrfidei1. Yon shall have your way, but you most bear a hand." "These fellows will go forward," continued the captain. "They will swing in their hammocks, and they will smoke their pipes, but no more stores are to be aerved out to them—no, not io much as a fragment of that excellent bread which lies wasted on the deck here—until they xDns ut to turn to Then, I don't doubt, it will be all plain sailing again. Go forward now 1" he cried in a voice the nudden ring of which was like the report of a pistol. "Mr. Johnson, I'll take the wheel, while you, Mr. Chips, and Peter trim sail." The record book of McCormick was offered in evidence without objection and was accepted. Martin Haley, sworn—Am a miner. Worked in Twin just before the accident. Was a gangway minpr. Have been a miner for fifteen years, and have been in the Twin since boyhood. Was asked to go in Saturday night to timber. Two men came out, and reported gas. The fire bosses went in, hot could not get around. I made np my mind that I would go out. I did not know anything of the sqaeaae except what the men told me. The last day we mined coal, the 90th, the roof looked suspicions and we could hear the men drilling in the vein above. I did not call the attention of any of the officials to the matter. Prior to the 96th, I did not notice any extraordinary squeezing or cracking. I thought it was safe to work, but thought the gas might ootne out, I worked with a naked )amp. This was quite a distance away from where the gas was. I would be in favor of using safety lamps where gas is being given off, even in small quantities. Cross examined—J worked regularly about 2,00Q or 3,000 feet away from where the cave-in occurred. There might have been dangerous conditions existing without me knowing it. No. 3 slope is fourteen feet wide. Don't know anything about the width of the openings where the oave-in occurred, except that I drove the gangway, and it was fourteen feet wide. The width varied slightly. Captain Jones shipped a fresh crew and another only mate and a new carpenter, but though ho stopped bis leak be did not ship fresh stores. He sailed out of Swansea bay Oct. 11, 1869, and has not since been heard of. Upon this Tip through the hatch, with the agility of a seaman, sprang Black Sam. He was followed by the cook and Peter, and in a jiffy all hands were on deck. "See that bark?" roared the captain. "The mate and Mr. Chips have deserted me for her. They've stolen my boat Not I'm not going -to stop to pick her up. She'll be £13 against Mr. Johnson and six months atop of it for robbery. I'm going to follow that bark. I'm go- THEE^lS. John Williams, sworn—Am 86 year* old and a brattioe man at Twin. Have worked there nine or ten months. Have coal in Twin. My regular section was back of the shaft. 1 was sent for by the fin boss, MoOormaek, to help arrest the squeeze. Ia traveling from the shaft, I did not notice a general squeeze. It was at the "big branch" that I first noticed the squeeze. This branch is about 600 or 6 )0 i*et from the oenter of the disturbance. The chambers, and gangways, I should judge, were about 84 feat wide. I did not oonelder the colliery unsafe. I went into the mine to haul timbers from other parte of the mine. I did not sae Mr. Lacgan In my opinion, the openings were too large. I cant say In regard to the pillars. I noticed a false top that ocoa atonally fell down I never noticed particularly the character of the top rook. Have never notioed props standing without anything on top where falls had occurred. I saw the hole where the fall mentioned occurred. We placsd 8x8 oog pillars In the place. This waC in the gangway road. I notioed three pillars on the gangway, portions of which had fsllen through. The noise 1 Bret heard was violent cracking. I have worked In in tifelv; years. Have in Barnnm. The gangways In the Tw|n struok me as being unusually wide, wider than in other mines, so wide as to attraot attention J saw some chambers twenty six feet wide and some thirty feet. I bare seen chambers in other oo\ ll«rles twenty-elx feet wide, but not thirty feet There was no$ enough timber around ja-t before the accident so far aa I could see. We bad to take props whloh had been sert Into the ohambers. We did not go where I expected to work, became of the gas. Then I went out. I saw the Inspector In the mine onoe, aboqt six months ago I met in old works, I never saw him In th« chambers. I never saw the general manager In the mine. Mm and Boar Both Scared. "Yes, wo have a gteat many interesting^experiences out in the Puget sound country," paid the New England man lately returned from the state of Washington: "I saw a big brown bear one day when I was six miles from the nearest camp. Ho was about 50 feet ahead of me on the trail, and I was to leeward of him, so I just went round him." "Peter," roared Black Sam, "we men have knocked off work till we're riehtea. XT ye lend tne cupt n a nana side with him agin us"— During the gale In which the two Dutchmen had perished the ship bad been so strained as to oblige the hands to serve the pumps every four hours. Undermanned, leaky, the provisions rotten t There must be a limit to patience and enduranoe, even though the sufferer be a sailor. The seven seamen lumped together on the forecastle of the Rose stood staring aft The oook, a pale man, lounged in his galley door, half in and half out, and bis face wore an expression of sour expectation. The carpenter, as I may call him, was talking to the captain, and the only mate was slowly rising through the companion hatch as the body of seamen stood staring."Here it is again 1" And again he advanced his enormous arm and caused his fist to writha Am he pronounced these words the little square of hatch was obscured by the interposition of a man's body. Cross examined by Mr. McGovern—I have been In charge of the Nawton col Merles for six years, and worked for the D , L & W. Co fir four years 1 never worked in any other raln«e as a surveyor. I am only familiar with the methods used In these mines I am not a graduate of any Bchool What I know of engineering I have learned in practical work. The pillars are shown in the map right over one another, as close as could be secured. The pillars in the fifth vein would be a little larger than in the sixth. J never measured the pillars after 1 had made the first survey. My knowledge of the slae of the pillars after the snrvev was entirely by observation There Is a difference as to whether the lower pillars ought to be larger than those In the top vein. My opinion ia that they ought to be larger in the lower vein. They work two veins close together at the William A mine and at Avoca. A man told me the thloknese between the two veins at Avooa la abont two feet I do no know the name of the vein. I do not know of these things by personal observation I have never observed any soapetwie In the Twin shaft. I do not know how tbe accident oc curred I do not think that It was beoanse the pillars were over one another Tbe gangways were driven from twenty two to twenty four feet th'ck. The av«r ige thlckuflss of pillars, I ja lge, Is e'ghteeu feet. The width of gangways and airways average! about tie same tn both veins. The width of ohambers were from twenty to twentyfour feet. Driving tne chambers at this width might have had a tendency to weaken the roof. U ider the D L iV W. the gangways were driven from fourteen to sixteen fee*. Some of these mines are "Mr. Cheeps,"said Peter, "take this wheel. IamonwelL" And letting go the spokes the Dutchman marched forward and Joined his shipmates, who roared out a defiant huzza as the whole eight of them, with the oook in their wake, made their way to the forecastle |utd disappeared. "The smell of that there pork," said the voice belonging to the body in the hatoh, "is something to sit upon—something strong enough to lean agin. Why, a man might tarn to and chop them fames into first class bunk boards. Talk of strength 1" "WeJl, people that don't know the forest always ask that, even after I told them I bad only three shots left in my revolver and no other gun along. 1 should have been in a mess if J had only wounded him, you see. When he scented me, I was a long way off." "Why didn't you shoot him:" "Come below, oook," bawled one of the seven men. 8ailors have no friends, and Captain Jones knew it There are societies in Qreat Britain for the prevention of the ill usage of most thinss livinsr. from women to dogs, from children to dicky birds, but there is no society for the prevention of cruelty to sailors. Captain Jones knew that he had the powei to starve his men into compliance. Nevertheless he passed a very uneasy night. When the morning broke, he and the only mate and Mr. Chips were nearly dead of fatigue, for wind had risen in the hours of darkness, and the ship was a big one, and there were but two men, the third being at the wheel, to let go and clew up and haul down and make snug as best two men might. "Didn't he run after you?" "Oh, those brown bears {ire as much afraid of a man as a man is of thorn. Why, I knew a follow who was going across a stream on a fallen tree once. The trunk of tho big pine was abont five feet up from tho ground on his pide pf the stream, and three feet on the bear's side. Ho was picking his steps and didn't look to the other side of the water, 60 feet or sa Whon lie got fairly up on to the leg, there was tho bear coming, They were both so dead scared they tumbled off into tho water on different sides of the Jog." '• The Commission adjourned at four o'clock until Thursday of next week at 10 a. m. "Na I've got to see to the capt'n's dinner. Bat I'm of ye if ther's to be trouble. When I signed, it was for witind a drr bottom and a shin's company. Pomp, pump, and nothin to eat! Jfothin to eat, and pump, pump I Here's logic as don't tally with this covey's reckoning for one." And the man, violently smiting himself upon the breast, disappeared. HOSTS OF :endeavorers- The captain, whose name was Jones, was a tall, lean, gaunt man, his face of the color of sulphur, his appearance deoidedly Yankee, though he happened to belong to Liinehouse. He wore square toed boots, a cloak that might have been taken from the shoulders of a stage bandit and a sugar loafed hat The hair on his face consisted of a beard that fell from under his chin like a goat's, and his eyes were black, brilliant and rest Opining of the Great IiMrutiqul Con- vention Washington, July & —The fifteenth animal convention ol the United Boeletjr of Ohrtttian Endeavor was formally opneed •t #:30 o'clock this morning. Meeting* were held simalUneonsly In the tht«? big tenta on the White lot, the programme In ««oh being the same The chief feature* were, the annual addreee of Preeldent Clark and the annual report of Secretary Baef. The title of Preeldent Clark's addreee wai "What Qod Hath Joined Together " Some pertinent extraota are aa follows i "Men," he tnuuled, 'up with youP' The powerful sailor wbehad held the pork aloft while the cook. discoursed shook it off the blade into the tub again and spat ing to get those two men out of her. U the bark don't surrender 'em., I'm going to run her down. Turn to uow, my lads, and you shall have your way." "It's about time," said he, "that all hands was agreed." "Nothing. They both swam ashore on their own sides of the river and put off through the iforest. I don't suppose there ever was a man and a boar more surprised or worst* scared-"—Boston Tfwuscript  "What happened next?" When the morning broke, Captain Jones looked as if he had just come out of hospital Mr. Chips, who stood at the wheel, might readily have passed for a man of 70, and the only mate, who was lighting the galley Are, showed as if ho had been towed overboard during the areater Dart of the niarht "Those blackguards in the forecastle will be wanting their breakfast," said the captain, "and you'll have them laying aft presently and asking to turn to." "Well, we see ye're in a hurry, capt'n," said Black Sam, "and as ye know what our wrongs is and as ye mean to right 'em in the manner I took the liberty of pointing out yesterday, vy, we'll turn to. Give yer orders, and ye'll find us willing." "All hands is agreed," said one of the sailors, " 'eepting that blooming Dutchman Peter. But if he don't come into it it'll be a bad job tor one of us if on some dark night him and me happens to be aloft together." The only mate, whose name was Johnson, was about half (he captain's height. The ocean had done its work with him—had withered up his face, dried the marrow «nt of his bones, put a turn in either leg, so that his walk was like a pantomime clown'a Instead of being an only mate he should have formed the eighth part of a mate. Yon would have thought that eight at least of such men as Mr. Johnson should go to the makiug of an only mate for the Rose had you sent your glance from his dried iind kinked figure to the body of men forward, more particularly to the giant Black Barn, who, with the rest, tontinued to gaze aft. The captain forthwith gave his orders. His commands would not be understood by the landsman. Enough if I say that in a very short time the Rose, fully clothed in canvas, was standing With her head direct for (ho bark, an able spupwu at her wheel, the captain pacing the quarter deck, the cook preparing breakfast for tho men in the galloy, and the sailors, each of them with a glass ot grog in him, looking at the distant figure of tho liark over the bows. The Female Criminal Rxcels the Male. VWs is a good year to build platforms. Sevewl tyive t»en constructed already. Frcan the great metrojilis of Weat w«can almost bear the resounduw hJow-s of tanmer and chisel as, in another ijalfoj-iu, plank ia fitted to plank. Our Christian Endeavor platform waa built for the beginning Ixy Providence. Its strength has been revealed Ivy our history. My task is an easy one, for I only need write m wunfc what I lwlieve God lias written in JfTdo not state our platform correctly, I cjo, nut ask you to stand upon it. But if I can read our history these are its chief planks ; — First. Our Covenant Prayer -meeting pledge,—the Magna Cl»arta of Christian Endeavor. Second. Our Consecration Meeting, - guaranteeing the spiritual character of the H*¥'iety. Our Committees,- giving to each aCvtive member some specific am) definite work for Christ and the Chuwj^." Fourth. Our Interdenominational and International Fellowship, based upon our denominational aiyi national loyalty. Fiftiv Our individual Independence and KcJr-goverment. free from wintrol of United Society, State or local union, convention, or committee; all of which exist for fellowship and inspiration, not for legislation. rilxth Our individual Subordination as societies to our own churches, of which we claim to be an integral, organic, inseparable part Seventh. Our Christian Citizenship plank, -Our country for Christ, but, as a spr ciety, no entangling political alliances, Odir missionary pjauk,—Christ for the world. Eighth, Our ultimate Purpose^—to, deepen the sjtfMtual life and raise the religious stand' ai'ds of young people the world; oyer. For fifteen years Christian Endeavor has, built upon this platform. The history of the Society which has wrought out in practice these principles may be briefly summarized, ao far as words and figures can summarize a movenmnt, as follows: Forty-six thousand societies have been formed. Five millions of BJndeavorers have been enrolled, of whom more than two millions seven hundred thousand are today members. Two millions of others, Endeavorers in all hut name, have probably been enrolled in purely denominational societies. Ten million Endeavor meetings have be«n held. "That there Peter," said a sailor, "was a-boasting to me that he'd ha' ■hipped for a pound a month. D'ye know, he'd eat a shipmate's shirt if by ao doing he thought he would airn a ■hilling by saving his allowance." Dr. Lombroso, tho Italian specialist in criminology, has written a book on "The Female Offender," in which he says: "The female torn criminal is far more terrible than tho malo. She combines the worst qualities of both sexes —the woman'8 excessive desire for revenge, cunning, cruelty, love of dress and untruthfulness, the man's vice*, ficklencss. fearlessness, audacity and often mtwcular strength. Celto wrote in the fifteenth eentnry: 'No possible punishment can dete» women from heaping up crime upon crime.- Their perversity of is more fertile in new crimes than the imagination of a judge in now. jpunishmentB. * Rykise said, 'Feinininip criminality is more cynical, more depraved and more terrible than the originality of tho malo.' 'Rarely,' ■ays tfc't! Italian proverb, 'is a woman wicked, but when she is she surpasses the lijfui. ' Then comes Euripides with this crusheri 'The violence of tho ocean waves or of devouring flamos ia terrible*. Terrible is poverty, but woman ia more terrible than ull else.'" All The People. The men, however, did not show themselves. They perfectly understood that the ship could not be navigated as things went, and that the captain must come round to their views before the day had passed, and indeed long before the day passed should u change of weather happen presently, and they grinned, man after man, as they furtively peeped through the scuttle and saw old Chips at the wheel lookinir 70 years old, and Captain Jones as though he was just come out of hospital, and the only mate as though he had been towed overboard, and they preserved their grin, man after piaq, as they looked aloft and saw Die unfurled royal# and topgallant sails fluttering, and the staysails hanging loose, and the yards very ill braced indeed, Should keep themselves healthy and eepeolal oara ahoald bej given to thin matter at this time. Health depends upon rich blood, (or when the blood Is Impure and impoverished disease* of various kinds are Almost certain to result. The one true blooi purifier is Hood's Sar*ap«rtlla By Its power to purify and vitalize the blood . It has proved Itself to be the safeguard of health, and the reooid of remtrktble ouree eff acted proves that it has woaderfat power over disease. It aetially and permanenily cures when all other preparations fall to do any good whatever "Thi»is sweet meat for Peter," said one of the seven, pointing to the pork, "and a pound a month is good money to Peter, and if Peter and the likes of him could get their way, then if ye wanted to see what sort of a man an English sailor looked like, ye'd have to ask the master of the fnst workhns as bore in sight to show ye him." "What a biasing fool a fellow makes of hisself when he goes to seal" exclaimed a man with red hair and a broken nose. "I might ha' been a market gard'npf had I staid ashore. Think of that I What did I ran away for? For likes of this for a parlor," said he, waving hi« hand round the forecastle, "frnd fof the likes of yon," pointing to the hammock, "for a bed, and the likes of that muck," he added, pointing to the pork, "as ameaL But no growling'8 allowed. Ho, no! Tell 'em that piokled dog ain't pork, and that wermin ain't ■hip's bread, and you're taken afore the magistrate and oommitted and locked np and left to rot, whilst the blooming Dutchmen are getting all the jobs, betanM nifVled to them is nnrlr anH werrntn a reiisto." lie struck his Ust heavily upon the chest on which he sat and fastened his eyes upon his hng« knuckles while he turned them about, aa though be were inspecting a sample rfpOHl ______ _ . _  At this point Chairman Stain made a few remarks. He said that with all due reaped to tue witnesses who uad testified, It had been notioed that of the employes of the mine who bad been called all were young men whoee experience mast of necessity be limited. The members of the commission, he said, thought it wonld be more satisfactory to all oonoerned to have as witnesses old miners of long experience who had worked In the Twin shaft previous to the accident. The earpenter, or second mate, was a brown faced man of about 50, but brine had taken the place of blood in his veins, and he looked 00, with his white Jocks and rounded back and long, hang ing arms, whoso fingers were curled in the manner of fishhooks. At the wlietff stood the Scandinavian seaman Peter, the like of whom you may see any day blowing in a German band in the streets of London, veal colored, freckled, yej }ow haired, a figure loosely put together and as meaningless an expression ot pounteuance as a dab's Tho Rose, as I have said, was a clipper. The wind had somewhat freshened, and in this pursuit the brought it about a point liefore the beam. Far ahead leaned the bark, tall and unsightly, heeling oot to the sun a space oi green copper, while at this monjent a foretopmast studding sail went slowly suftring to the yardarm. Captain June* gave a loud lungh of contempt, He knew that his ship could sail three feet to the bark's one, even though the chase should heap the canvas of it Royal George upor herself. He went on to his forecastle and sent a man aft for a largo blackboard, upon which ho wrote in chalk: gaseous. I know there is a swamp near where the men are supposed to be. The inclination of the vein here was not so great as to make It ueaeesary to have stronger suoports at this point of the mltDe, In my estimation. I never heard that other mining engineers had refused to work 11 the mine because of its dangerous character I never maiif second measurements of pillars. Pottltum might possibly be taken away without me noticing it. When 1 saw the fall on Thursday, the workings were not cracking much. The fall was about 18*40 feet In size. My Ofuts'ant first told me abi,ut the fall on Wednesday, an! I told Mr. L*w. After seeing tie fall from the top vein I went into the lower vein and exunlned the fall there. I never before saw such a disturbance in tha mine. It was something new In my experience My surveying is checked up by the Lehigh Valley surveyors. I had no authority to give iu- P«Stk •( Henry Shlfle*. Henry Shtflir, a well known resident of Wilkesbarre, died on Taureday, July 9, agedHi w«e prostrated while 01 the street, and died soon aftir being taken to his home. Mr. 8hCffar was born In Pittet in township, and was a brother of J. B. Shiffar, of thle olty. He eervsd in the Uaton Army during the Civil War, and Congress granted him a spsslal psntlon for bravery. Mr. MoGovern, for the relatives, said that he had jqst been dlseussing this point with his colleagues, and that they w'ahed such witnesses to bs called. However, there had been no time to sscure and olassify witnesses, and he therefore asked that the commlsdon ad j mm until about the middle of week. "We've "got yesterday's muck of pork," said Black Sam, "and the bread locker ain't empty. If the old man were the devil himself, we'd weather him out. But the ship mustn't be allowed to sink this side of three days," and forthwith the sailors grimly rose through the hatch and in silence walked to the pumps, which they plied until they sucked, and then returned to the forecastle. But there was no novelty in this proceeding, for they had kept their faith with the captain, and at every four hours throughout the night a gang had i turned ant to noma the shin. Tho captain was pulling at a Irng oiga* that drooped between his hps, Presently he pulled his cigar from hilt mouth and shouted: "Wo don't want All hands. The starboard watch can trim sail. Trim sail, starboard watch !" And replacing his cigar he fell to swiftly striding the quarter deck to and fr4 QiVB 'EM UP, OR— I'LL RUN YOU DOWN. Relief In SI* Hoo^, Distressing t;ido*y and bladder diseases relieved In six hours by the "New Grest South American Kldnev Cure." This new remedy is a great surprise on account of itsexcesdlng promptness in relieving pain in the blader, kidneys, baok and every part of the arinary passages in male or female. It relieves retention of water and pain in passing It almost Immediately. I' you want quiok relief and oure this Is y our remedy. Hold by J. H. flouck, druggist Plttston, Pa. As the Rose overhauled the bark— and had she been a steamer «he could not have overtaken her more swiftly— the blackboard was held on high by a pouple of seamen so that it oould be read on board the stranger. Captain Jones on the forecastle head watched the chase through his glass. The words "Martha JL Btubbw, Windsor. U. S.," were writ- A consultation of the Commissioners followed, and it was announced by D-iputy Attorney General JSIkln that It was the deelre of the commission that all who wished to ofljr testimony shoald have an opportunity to do so, and sinoe the day had been broken np, it had been dsolded to bold an afternoon session and listen to Are yoa mads miserable by lndlgestloa. o mstlpatlon, dlszlnese. loss of appetite, yellow skin I 8hltoh's Vltallair h a positive cure. The seven sailors marched aft and came to a stand a little abaft the mainmast. Black Sam advanced himself by a step and exclaimed: "Capt'n Jones, us men don't mean to do no more work until oar wrongs are rich ted." _  Five million copies of the constitution have undoubtedly been printed,in forty different languages. and at least fifteen million copies .of the pledge. Lumber, doors, aaah, blinds,  mmods' supplies and builders' hardware. J. K. Patmbson & Co. OvMr oaj million of i»ur as-iiHata mvnbi