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A PLAIT FROM PICiRDY.
M I D W I N T E R right,and bitter,
r ~ b'Uer cold. Not so much snow,
but a win-! which had an arctic
anger in it. It stung the face like
vitriol, and froze the blood and almost
made a fellow cry out, as if he were in
pain like.
Three of us, just common newspaper
reporters, were scurrying through Mail
street, half running, to get to a warm
place. We had been at work up towc
trying to find certain facts about a
man who bad been mysteriously mur-dered
in the Tenderloin precinct—
Johny Spellman, the jockery.
Well, the City H a l l park was bleak
enough. The wind shrieked across it
and the hall, with its old white marble
steps, stood over yonder, pallid, ghast-ly.
Not a human being in sight. No-body
would stay out of doors such a
night.
The lights in the tall buildings in
Park Row and in the low entrance to
Hitchcock's ever blessed old cellar
coffee houses were happy, cherry
beacons.
I t was late well on toward midnight.
That made us hurry all the more.
Even Uncle Sam's fagged out old
horses and- wagons which forever wait
in the Mail street alley behind that
grim stone copiner, where big bags of
mail matter for all parts of the world
ara bundled in and out, had disap
peared out of the cold. There was no
sound of the mail clerks' voices call-ing
off the bags.
We reached the middle of the mail
street block. We were on the north
side of the street. I ran to the rear of
the procession.
Out of the shadows of the park came
a man. In a yoice which upon that
night wind was the most piteous sound
ever heard, he cried, stretching; out
one hand in a suppliant way :
" Parlez Francais, monsieur?''
I t was a strange, courteous question
to come wailing amid the howling of a
storm. I turned and then stopped.
Then in honest amazement and pity
said, " My God ! yes." I had learned
some French in boyhood, then had
bought drinks for a Paris boulevardier,
and fulfilled the dubious linguistic re-
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quirements of a New Jersey college. I
had a deep seated love for the French
people and a deal of fondness for the
French tongue.
There in that wretched night, when
heard that question, I saw the honest
peasants—simple, sturdy folk—toiling
afield in far Provence. I saw the
Breton fisher, singing as he patched his
nets on the shore of the dear old s
I saw gay Paris and the sweet valley
of the Loire. And here, alone, clad
thinly, was a son of that France,
stranger in a great, selfish city ; in a
great, strange and selfish land, upon a
night when no mortal ought to have
shown his nose out of doors.
He was just asking—I learned it in
his first lonely question—just asking
for some one to give him a helping
hand—a syllable of direction.
The two other reporters went pelt-ing
along. I looked at the wanderer.
A man of 40, maybe. Old to begin
life anew. He was above medium
height, a little stooped in the shoulders,
on account of the cold perhaps. He
was overcoatless, barehanded, and
carried a small parcel under his arm
Over his head was drawn tight a knit
cap such as football players wear.
I t ffas a woeful story he told me,
standing there in the open air on that
awful night, with the spare flakes fly-ing
all about us.
He had come that day on the
Bretagns. The passage had been very
stormy. A fellow-passenger, a Picard,
who smelled terribly of garlic, had
taken all his money. His chest con-taining
his worldly possessions, he had
left at Castle Garden—that was before
the barge office days. His wife and
two children—oh, such pretty children
—were at home in Picardy. He was
hungry and thirsty. No one but an
honest man begging in the streets of
New York would admit that he was
thirsty.
Common reporters are not habitual-ly
well-to-do. I had 65 cents. I gave
i t all to him. I told him about the
rich possibilities of beef and beans.
Then I directed him to a 10-cent lodg-ing-
house. Then penniless, I hurried
on afier my companions. I expected
to walk all the way to Twenty-first
street. But then I had rowed in the
eights in the fall and weighed 182, and
was equal to it.
" God bless vou " in French sounds
well upon a fierce night wind.
I told the fellows when I overtook
them that it was a relief to find an
honest beggar. One of them who
knows McGlory and Fat Flynn and
O B., and has been among the oyster
pirates of Maryland and the Shang-halers
of Greenwich street and Yuca-tan,
curled his smooth, churchly-look-ing
lips and sniffed at my story that I
had " gone broke" on a beggar.
* * * * *
Spring came. The trees in Citv
Hall park were budding. The tramp*
had come to sit under the electric
lights in the circle and listen to the
noises.
Work was done. Evening was just
changing into late night. The same
three of us sauntered across Mail street
ending towards Park Place station.
The odor of ink and the clang of press-es
were behind us. But a soft breeze
played about the corners and stirred
the dust in the streets.
A man came out of the shadows of
the park.
He stood looking at the bright lights
from the postoffice, where the great
bundles of letters and papers were be-ing
lumbered into waiting vehicles. In
a yoice which, upon the night wind,
was the most utterly piteous sound I
ever heard, he cried, stretching out
one hand in a suppliant way :
" Parlez vous, Francais, monsieur?"
I t was a strange, courteous question
to break in on the vernal quiet of a
spring night. I turned, then stopped.
The man who knew McGlory laugh-ed
bitterly, twice, " H a ! ha !"
" I said " My God ! ves." , I had
learned some French in boyhood.
Then I had bought drinks lor a Paris
boulevardier, and had—well, never
mind about that. It is too much like
the story of George Zinzendorf.
But there in that quiet night, when
all the air was soft with calm, hearing
that question I saw the honest peasants
simple, sturdy folk—toiling afield in
far Provence. I saw the Breton'fisher,
singing as he patched his nets on the
shore of the clear old sea. I saw gay
Paris and the sweet valley of the Loire-
I t was strange how the memories
crowded on my mind.
I looked at the wanderer—a man of
forty, maybe. Old to begin life anew.
He was above medium height, a little
stooped in the shoulders. He carried
a small parcel under bis arm. It was
a woeful story he told, with the spring
moonlight all above us.
He had come that day on the
Bretague—confound the man and his
two children in Picardy ! This paresis
was an awful thing. But what if it
tvere all a breath from old Egypt, and
my great-grandfather had heard a
story ahout a fellow Picard and a roll
of money stolen in a steerage and—
then I swore. As I said, I had learn-ed
some French in boyhood. Then I
had bought drinks for a Paris
boulevardier, and—well, never mind.
The Paris boulevardier had taught me
to swear in such a fashion as would
have made me hail a fellow in Mont-inartre.
And I dammed the beggar, and I
called him the worst things that his
native tongue permitted.
The man who knew McGlory blush-ed
and looked back and forth from the
beggar to me.
And the man with the bundle
shrunk and shrunk, and made no re-ply.
He crept, always facingus, back-ward,
further from the light and dis-appeared
into the deep shadows under
the trees. His form was lost. His
pale face was the last thing which I,
still swearing, saw.
And he went away.
* * * + *
dismal, beggar voice kept stalking out
upon me from dark places ?
Was he going t i do like Mr. Dick's
head of Charles I . ? Could I know no
refuge from this garlic breathed Picard
and his two children and his roll of
money lost in the steerage of La
Bretagne?
Profit, cried I , thing of evil,
Profit still, it bird or devil.
I hit him very hard. Assuming
that his face was France in profile, my
fist landed in the Norman territory.
He moaned and muttered something
in French. I paused while he lay and
waited for me to go away.
I t was enough. There was no fight
in him. In an ecstacy of meanness I
walked off whistling loudly the " Mar-seillaise,"
"Allons, allons, mes braves."
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The air was filled again with De-cember
snows. Gray looked the tall
buildings through that sifting cloud of
white. The street lamps were dim
and dull, like the eyes of poppy eaters.
Far down a shabby, narrow west
side street, in the purlieus of old
Greenwich yillage the shop windows
gleamed gay, with the frost upon
them.
Men and women and children with
bright faces leaned against the storm's
great harsh breast and laughed. Street
cars, with their merry bells, bundled
along.
A white door, with the snow heap-ed
about it. Some tracks up the steps,
and the already nearly obliterated evi
dences that a wagon had been there.
I t was a coroner's case—suicide from
despondency, they said.
There was no carpet in the dusty
hall. A olowsy landlady showed me
to the second floor. In a rear room a
fire, not much of a one, burned in a
tired stove. The room was chilly. An
oil lamp shed light over a form upon
the low bed in the corner, face and all,
with a sheet.
At a table sat a child, a girl not
more than a dozen years. She was
reading when I entered. She laid the
book down gravely. I noticed that it
was a French prayer book.
Her eyes were big and dark, and
there were in tears in them. She
iimply said, and her calm voice there
in that still room beside the dead was
the most utterly piteous sound I ever
heard:
" Parlez vous Francais, monsieur ?"
S a b b a t h or S u n d a y?
At the town meeting in Sharon the
much-discussed question whether Sun-day
or Sabbath was the proper term to
use was decided and the matter is no
longer in doubt. A motion that the
Constables be authorized to enforce the
laws against hunting and fishing on
the Sabbath was made, and an amend-ment
was made that the word Sunday
should be substituted for Sabbath.
This caused a heated discussion of
uearly an hour, in which many took
part. The amendment was carried by
a small majority and the word Sabbath
was changed to Sunday, and the motion
as amended was carried.
Too Slow.
Monsieur Calino was ordered by his
physician to take a drive of an hour,
each day, and having no horse of his
own, he called a cabman for the pur-pose.
One day he signalled a cabman, and
got in for his daily drive. The horse
started up at a painfully slow gait.
" H o l d on ! " said Calino to the driver.
" I must get another cab. It would
take me all day to ride an hour with
such a slow plug as t h a t !"
Summer makes Gramercy park
pretty, and the lights of the Piayers'
club shine ou(, and men drinking there
and say cynical things in the small
hours.
An August night I was passing
through Gramercy square homeward.
There was just the distant murmur of
Fourth avenue, with the occasional
footfall of a fellow walking along
Irving place. I could hear the foun-tain's
drippings fall into its still basin.
The air was sweet with the fragrance
of blossoms wafted out through the tall
iron palings:
Out of the shadows of the park came
a man. In a voice, which in that soft
night was the most utterly piteous
sound I ever heard, he cried, stretch-ing
out one hand in a suppliant way :
" Parlez vous Français, monsieur ?"
I t was a strange, courteous question
to arrest a homegoing chap at such an
hour. I turned, then stopped. Then
I closed my right very tightly, as Bob
Turnbull had showed me how long
ago. Then I answered " My God,
yes !"
I had learned some French in boy-hood,
then had bought drinks for a
Paris boulevadier, and fulfilled the
dubious linguistic of a New Jersey
college. I had a deep seated love for
the French people and a .deal p.f fond-ness
for the Fronch tongue.
Here in that sultry night, hearing
that question, I saw the nonest peas
ants—simple, sturdy folk—toiling
afield in far Provinces. I saw the
Breton fisher, singing as he—Lord !
who and what was this genius of Gau,
who with his pale, beggar face and
Seven Babies at a Birth.
NEW YORK, March 23.—Marie
Juneau, a French woman living in the
outskirts of Guayaquil, South Ameri-can,
cable advices say, has given birth
to seven children in one day. The
aggregate weight of the septets
was a trifle over fourteen pounds and
at last accounts all were alive. This
is said by eminent doctors, who have
consulted statistics, to be the largest
number of children ever born to a
civilized woman at a single birth.
He Got His Sleep.
Doctor. " I see what the matter is.
You do not get sleep enough. Take
this prescription to a druggist's."
Mr. Blinkers. " Thank you. I pre-sume
that's what's the matter."
Doctor (next day). " A h good morn-ing
! You are looking much better to-day.
Slept last nighf, didn't you ?"
Mr. Blinkers. " Slept like a top. I
feel first-rate."
Doctor. " How many doses of that
opiate did you take ?"
Mr. Blinkers (in surprise). " I din't
take any. I gave it to the baby."
The Three Kingdoms.
A Texas teacher, desiring to classify
the pupils, put questions to them to
find out how much they knew. During
the examination of the son of a lead-ing
Austin politician the following
dialogue occurred :
" You say there are three kingdoms
—the animal, the vegetable and the
mineral ?"
" Yes, sir."
" Now, were would you put sugar,
for instance ?"
" Pa puts it in the water and then
he puts the whisky in afterwards and
stirs them up with a spoon, but some-times
he takes it straight."
Things Worth Remembering.
Snakes will not pass over hair ropes.
The average life of a ship is about
26 years.
The Bank of England covers nearly
three acres.
I n France all postage stamps are
sold at the cigar shops.
The average length of a generation
is 33 years and 4 months.
Oranges and lemons are picked long
before they are ripe for export.
The better class of the Philippine
Islanders smoke cigars a foot long.
I t takes about a quarter of a century
to get the elephant to full maturity.
Between 1590 and 1680, 3400
women were burned in Scotland for
witchcraft.
The Nile must be about 4100 miles
long if the source be where Stanley
says it is.
I t is supposed that the average depth
of sand in the deserts of Africa is from
thirty to forty feet.
About 300 organ grinders arrive in
London every June from Italy, and
leave again about October.
By far the deepest lake known in the
world is Lake Baikal, in Siberia. I t is
from 4000 to 5000 feet keep,
The title of " Reverend " has been
applied to clergymen since the middle
of the seventeenth century.
I t is stated that over 40,000 persons
land at Joppa every year, in order to
make a prilgrimage to Jerusalem and
other spots celebrated in sacred
history.
Sufferers from neuralgia are warned
by a medical writer not to drink tea,
but to drink freely of coffee into which
the juice of a lemon has been squeezed
I n the southwestern islands of Japan
the women are the laborers. Their
hands are roughed and tanned with
heavy work, while the men's are deli-cate
and white.
A line of telephone, the first that
unites two I t a l i an cities, has been open-ed
at Milan, establishing telephonic
communication between that city and
Pavia. It is more than thirty miles
long, and acts perfectly.
I n digging the foundations of a new
sacristy for the Church of St. Christo-pher
at Turcoing a trench has been
discovered containing more than 2000
skeletons. It is supposed that they are
the remains of those who fell at the
battle of Turcoing, which was fought
on May 17, 1794.
He Was Full of Tacks a n d Glass.
Joseph Kennedy, the " Human
Ostrich" of dime museum fame, died
at the City hospital, St. Louis, on
Thursday night, the result i f the oper-ation
of laparatomy.
Kennedy swallowed tacks, nails,
screws and other small hardware for
the edification of admiring audiences,
and he swallowed a few pounds too
much. Thursday a post mortem ex-amination
was held and the results
were astonishing.
Shortly beiore his death Thursday
Kennedy stated that the Bellevue
Medical college, of New York, had
offered him $5,000 for his body, be-lieving
that the post-mortem examina-tion
would reveal some astonishing
abnormal state of the stomach.
On the contrary the stomach, its
walls and lining were found entirely
normal, but literally filled with the
nails, screws, tacks and broken
which the man had swallowed.
A remarkable feature of their pres-ence
was the fact that none of them
were encysted, and that there was not
one instance of perforation of any part
of the stomach or throat by the sharp
points or edges of these substances.
But beginning from the base of the
tongue back to the asophagus, and
from there entirely down into the
3,379 Votes for H i m Two Years Ago.
We call attention this week to the
announcement of P. A. Pyle for the
Assembly. Mr. Pyle is a man in the
prime of life eminently fitted for the
position to which he aspires, and two
years ago when first a candidate re-ceived
the handsome Vote of 3,379.
Mr. Pyle has conducted a successful
drug business in Mount Joy for twenty-ve
years, and is a member of the
State -and County Pharmaceutical
Societies. He has filled with credit a
ruber of local offices in his town,
and was prime mover in securing for
Mount Joy its elegant school building
and fine water works. He is treasurer
the fire company, borough auditor,
member of the G. A. R. and one oj
the directors of the Union National
Mount Joy Bank.
Mr. Pyle was educated at the old
Mount Joy Academy, and had for
classmates such substantial citizens as
Gen. Harry H . Bingham of Philadel-phia,
Member of Congress, Hon. Amos
Mylin, Senator from the Southern
district and John Roland, Esq , of
New Holland.
Mr. Pyle has the assurance of sup-port
this time which he did not get
two years ago, and his nomination is
conceded in all quarters. A vote will
not be wasted i f cast for him. *
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Remember the Departed Ones.
The Manheim Marble and Granite
Works, near the railroad depot, are well
prepared to execute at short notice all
kinds of tombstones, monuments and
cemetery enclosures. The yard is well
stocked with an elegant assortment of
all kinds of material for this purpose,
thus enabling the manager to suit all
tastes in styles and prices. Please call if
in need of anything in our line.
20au-6m S. B. HABNBB, Manager.
stomach, the
were found.
nails, tacks, glass, etc,
— S T . ELMO HOTEL, NOS. 317 a n d 319
Arch street,. Philadelphia. — Rates re^
duced to $2 per day. The traveling public
will still find at this hotel the same liber
al provision for their comfort. It
located in the immediate centre of bus!
ness, and places of amusement and the
different railroad depots, as well as all
parts of the city, is easily accessible by
street cars constantly passing the doors
I t offers special inducements to those
visiting the city for business or pleasure,
Tour patronage is respectfully solicited.
oc7-ly JOSEPH M. F E S E E , Prop'r.
P. A. PYLE FOR ASSEMBLY.
OWEN P. BRICKEB, E s q . , attorney
at-law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday morningand can be consulted
in all legal business. Laucaster office
48 N o r t h Duke street,
Mean Political Methods.
Columbia Spy.
The character of Walter M. Frank-lin,
Esq., the candidate for District
Attorney, is well-known to the people
of Lancaster county to be irreproach-able
and his career has always been
honorable. Although he is making a
most energetic and active campaign,
he has never resorted to any low and
despicable methods nor has he at
tempted in any way to abuse any of
his competitors. Mud-slinging, false-hood
and abuse are the resort of the
school of low and dirty politics, and
have no place in Mr. Franklin's
method of campaigning The people
are very sick of such political methods
and they are disgusted with the abuse
and villification which characterized
ihe last Primary Election. The pre-fer
clean men and clean methods. Not
ting able to defeat Mr. Franklin by
fair means it is useless to try foul ones;
hich only furnish evidence of weak-ness
and desperation. Mr. Franklin
is far in the lead in the race for Dis-trict
Attorney. The skies are serene,
his ship is in full sail, there is a fair
wind, and the harbor of success is in
sight. *
Two Lebanon County Deaths.
-John Stewart, residing near Klein-feltersville,
f'ied ot general debility,
aged 86 years. He was the grand-father
of W . W . Stewart of Newmans-town.
John Bruncer, residing in Heidel-berg
township, died, aged 70. He was
the father-in-law of Frank Landis, of
Richland.
Killed by a Rattler.
A despatch from West Union, Ohio,
says that while little Edna, daughter
of William Taylor, was searching
among the rocks in a small creek for
shells, she was struck in the face by a
huge rattle snake which sunk its fangs
into her flesh. The child's screams
brought her father, who killed the
snake. It measured four feet six
inches and had seventeen rattles and a
button. The child died in great agony
the same evening.
Coaling Without Stopping.
A Somerset county man has invent-ed
an ingenious arrangement by which
railroad engines can take coal without
stopping. The apparatus is construct-ed
above the track in such a way that
when the engine comes along, a trap is
sprung, emptying the coal in the ten-der.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will
test the^device on some point along its
line between Johnstown and Alioona.
and i f it proves entirely successful it
will probably be adopted by that and
other companies.
A good deal of time is now lost by
trains, especially heavy freights, in
stopping to coal up at different sta-tions,
and the expense of starting a
heavy train after such a stop is no
small item. There was the same diffi-culty
about the water supply, and this
was obviated by track tanks, which
the Pennsylvania Railroad now uses
for fast freight as well as passenger
trains. If coal could be taken on in
the same quick way, without the train
stopping, freight service would be
much expedited and longer continuous
runs could be made than are now
possible.
Alger is in Chicago and says he is
also in the Presidential race.
Charles J . Furey, of Wilkesbarre,
Pa.; James O'Hara, of New York, and
Michael Farely of Baltimore, were
fatally injured, it is thought, by fall-ing
off archways in Baltimore's Belt
Line tunnel.
Over the State. *
Two Johnstown boys went to j a i l for
two days for throwing snow balls.
Berks County has over $23,000 in
its treasury, but owes more than $55,-
000.
Hazleton boasts of a 15 year-old
burglar and watch thief—Willie
Shafer.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
the borough of Homestead a public
library worth $100,000.
Crazed by sickness, Mrs. Jonathan
Lurch, an aged woman of Red Lion,
York County, hanged herself.
•Tower City is organizing to prevent
a spread of the supposed small-pox
that has broken out near there.
A burglar on a roof awoke Miss
Minnie Reinoehl at Lebanon, and
Minnie's father shot his old gun till
the burglar fled.
Berks County auditors have com-pelled
Reading prison inspectors to
pay out of their own pockets for cigars
charged up to the county.
. Marguerite Carey, who a year ago
eloped from Scranton with Edward
Carey, now seeks divorce, and suspects
her husband of bigamy.
Wilkesbarre justice has put its heel
upon " indecent exposure " by fining
James Burch, a sprinter of Hyde Park,
$10 for appearing in tights.
The first legal battle in the Polish
Church war at Reading results in
victory for the defense. Mrs Mary
Dalmagolski was acquitted of perjury.
Three of a gang of six burglars, who
have been bagging lots of booty, were
captured atMahanoy City; They were
James and Michael Scanlon and Grant
Nichie.
The frightened horse of Levi Landis,
of North Lebanon township, Lebanon
County, plunged over a precipice 20
feet high into a mill dam and was kill-ed,
but Landis escaped but little in-jured.
" Tickets!" gruffly called a Jersey
Central conductor to a passenger look-ing
from the window across the Le-high
River. "Tickets!" The passenger
proved to be H. Stanley Goodwin,
who runs the road.
James F. Mills, the Butler murder-er,
was convicted in the second degree,
and the jurymen were insulted when
they left the court house.
John W a r d fell from the third-story
of the Hepburn House, at Williams-port,
on Sunday and was badly hurt
that he will die.
General News.
Omaha, Neb., has been shut off from
the world for 24 hours by a snow
storm.
A tornado that swept over Piatt
County, 111., carried buildings through
the air like balloons.
Governor Flower, of New York, was
stricken with vertigo while in the Ex-ecutive
Chamber at Albany.
Secretary of the Navy Tracy is med-dling
in Brooklyn politics to secure a
delegation for Harrison and has raised
a row.
Nine Arabs and a stud of Arabian
horses from the Sultan of Morocco,
for the world's Fair, arrived at New
York on Sunday.
Boodle Alderman Jaehne, of New
York, the first victim of the crusade,
will soon retire from Sing Sing and re-enter
society.
A collision at Welisboro, Ind., on
the Chicago and Wheeling Road, de-stroyed
a number of cars and injured
Engineer Bradford.
Great Britain has taken possession
of over 30,000 square miles of Vene-zuelan
territory, and there promises to
be a large-sized row over it.
Governor McKinley refused to sur-rendor
to the authorities of Glasgow,
Va., W ill. S. Whitman, of Ironton,
Ohio, who is wanted for alleged con-fiscation
of $23,000 of bonds.
The capitalists interested in the Iu-ter-
state National Bank, of New York
City, capital $200,000, have decided,
after a struggle of two years, to give
up the charter of the institution. The
capital of the bank is intact.
The salary of Massachusetts' Su-preme
Judges' has been increased from
$5000 to $7500.
Cashier R a l p h K . Paige and Presi-dent
Steele, the alleged wreckers of
the Painesville (Ohio) Savings Bank,
have been arrested.
Mrs. Curtis, wife of "Sam' of Posen,"
became her husband's bondsman in
$100,000, to answer for murdering
Officer Grant at San Francisco.
On account of imperfect terminal
facilities at New Orleans the Illinois
Central Railroad will receive no more
grain for export from that city.
The National Association of Demo-cratic
Clubs advises all Democratic
societies in the United States to cele-brate
the approaching birthday of
Thoms.s Jefferson.
John Kouhoupt, a fire-bug confined
in the Kingston (N. Y . ) jail, set fire
to the straw tick on which he slept,
and he and two other prisoners were
nearly suffocated.