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MUTILATED a t i f i i a T ! YOL. XIIL NO. 32. MECHANICVILLE. SAEATOGA COUNTY. N. Y., SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8.1894 WHOLE NO. 656 is located on the upper Hudson at the mouth of Tenendaho Creek, the outlet ot i f I i C C l l S f l l C T lliC B a llsto T Lake and Hound Lake. It is midway between Albany and Saratoga, the political and social capitals of the Empire State. It is twelve miles from tide water navigation at Troy and eighteen miles from Scheneotady. I t is on the line of the Champlain Canal and has railroads diverging in se v e n d i f f e h e n t d i b e c t io n s . A street railroad exteiids through the main business portion of the village and reaches Stillwater, three miles np the Hudson Mechanioville has facilities for passenger and freight transportation that are surpassed by only a few cities. The United States census of 1880 gave Mechanicville a population of 1,265. It now has a population of fully 5,000. Its growth has been rapid and substantial. The Saturday Mercury is Printed ^ A L L A T H O M E .^ A d v e rtisers A n p reciate a H o m e N e w spaper. TJae S a m e P u b l i s t i e r lia s Issu e d . tM s P a p e r — ^ N e a r ly Thirteen ^ This cannot be said by Any Other Newspaper in Saratoga Co, and has one of the powers on the Hudson River i v l C C ' H c l . I l l v V l l l W largest pulp and paper mills in the world. ( | l t s other manufacturing enterprises include Fitchburg Eailroad car shop, Delaware & H ibson car chops, three larg* knittuig millB, three sash, blind and door factories, two shirt factories, two brick yards, a factory for elec-. trical supplies, iron and brass foundries, lime kilns and fertilizer works. Mechanicville has six churches, a new $40,000 academy and public school building, a fine new opera house, a bank, two telegraph offices and a driving park. t The Y. M. G. A. maintain a public library, reading rooms, gymnasium and bath rooms. The village is lighted by electricity and has unequalled water works, supplying the public with ppre spring water by the gravity system. Electric street cars will soon be in use J . P . r i c Q I R R & C O . PAR K -IV E ., MECHANICVILLE, Our Holiday Goods are Coming! W e have no room for them. R > >m must be made, and here’s the way we are g nng to do it. During the Next Ten Days we announee a Great Reduction Sale in Every Department. H o siery and Underw ear: At 19c, Misses and Children’s Wool Hose, worth 25c. At 12 l-2c Ladies’ Seamless Fast Black Hose, worth 20c. At 25c, Ladies’ Fine Cashmere YY’'nol Hose, worth 40c At 13c, Gents’ Alerino Half Hose, worth 1 90 . At 25c, Gents’ Camels’ Hair- Wool Hose, worth 39c. At 49c, Gents’ English Merino Wool Vests and Drawers, worth $1 00, At 39c, Ladies' Heavy Fleece Ribbed Vests and Drawers, worth 50c. At 25t^La(iies’ Ribbed Fleece Underwear and Drawers, worth 40c At 49c. Gents’ Natural Wool Underwear and Drawers, worth 75c. ’ * At 89o, Gents’ Fine Scarlet Underwear and Drawers, worth $1.25. At 25c, Children’s White and Natural Wool Vests and Drawers, worth 39c. worth ,40c worth 60c worth 7c worth 25c worth 10c •worth 6c worth 7c worth 40c worth 60c Dress Qoods and Flannels. At 25o, All Wool Dress Flannel, double fold, A t 38c, All W oo' Serges and Henriettas, At 4c, Cream Outing Flannel, At ISc, All Wool Red Twill Flannel, • At 6 l-2e, H e a v t,Cotton Flannel, Mxislhxs and “ I able Linens. At 4c, Y'ard W ide Alushn, At 5c, Extra Heavy and Fine Sheeting, A125c, Red and W hite Plaid Table Cloth. ^ At 82 c, Extra Fine and H-ravy Half Bleached Table Linen, Ladies’ Large Gingham Aprons, 10 Cents. Blankets and Comfortables. At 49o per pair, w'nite wool blankets, worth 75e. A t 98e per pair, extra heavy 10-4 blanket, worth $1.50. At 69c lull S!Z 9 toaitortables, worth §1 00. At $1.25 extra large comfortables with cotton fldiug, worth §1.75. (Cents' Fur-ntshings, M a ts and Caps. At 25c, men and bo4s’ Warm win er caps, worth 50c j^t 39c, man an i boysX winter caps, worth 75c ■ \ Cloaks and Shawls. BLadies’ and ChiKirea’sydckets and Cloaks in Great Variety, at Greatly ' Reduced Prices. ' C u rtain^ and Windoxo Shades. Los a pair, heavy chenide cuWiui',, knotted fringe top & bottom, worth $3 I 50o a pair, Nottinghiiq laca curtains, worth $1 00 AT 25 o each, Holland window' shades, spring roller, fringe at bottom, 1 worth 4 CC. \ i Tlia abuve are od I v a few »f the many Great Bargains we will du ing the wetk 5 ^^N B. Cad in the fo'eUi/ou if pi.s^el , &ayoiil the great rush in the aiternuons PRESTO! This iBicace E v e r y W e e k \ ^ a v e . S i r p e P a r l o r , F ^ e p ’s HAND WELT, FINE CALF STOCK, IN ALL STYLES, ARE ^ THE BKSr THAT MONEY PAN PIIODUCE. EVERY V a IB GU.tRAN- TEEP FOR SBIIYICE. , ' : P a r k Avenue Shoe Parlor, ? D . C . H i l i i l l , P ^ r o p r i e t o r . J WATCH OUR FINE WINDOW DISPLAY. | D. S. DOUGLASS, FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE, N o tary P u b lic a n d K eal Phtata Agent. Losses promptly settled. Po'ici s Atritfen in companies; none better Oian tC se reptcsentet tbis agency. Co., ot Ulens falls, J , of N V.; Ins Co. of dpbia; Royal Ins. Co., of i llritisli and Mcrcanbie B o d Edinburgh; Trnvtlers, of Rutual l.ife Ins. Co. of K. V. Bee, Main Street, Park Place, ParE-ave. w h e r e you enu n e t y->ui even tlHlIai’.-- w o ilh . Full line o f la-lit a\ under w e a r . CC oo rr ss ee tsts andnd p'o 'o- v e s at lovf( prices. a p . Ladles’ gu- ds a special iU? Mrs. C. O. Barnes, RICE & H O W LA ND, i » kal >: ks IK Oats, Hay and Straw, Hard and Soft Wood. A lso A c e c ts far th e Br<Kl> niOWKK M A C H m isH O P . «cueral machine work done.''A ll kinds oifagri cultural implements repaired, ateam littinjf and oiping. Gnns, looks, sewing t^achincs, bicycles &c., &c- Mill work a specialty. J E SM ITH. Mill Street, Mechanicville, IJUI. — N, CUUTE. ---- Practical Horse Shoeing L o n g K x p erlence. P’ruit Trees & Shrubs. Ch'iicesi Variety and True to name, splendid .specimens will he furnished you bv L. F. B A K E R , Mechaniagille. Drop him a Postal Can iuteed. Will be it does not live. replaced You Want Crayons or Photographs t'OK t-H K IsTM A S FBKSK.-^TS. Come ot once and «1ve me lime to HI your orders. Q T ’D D T T D I V l b a u i n o O X lrirjhniJLiX ., pnorooBAPHEK. LOCAI, LINES. Most people prefer to drive the chariot but it is a thousand times more codifort. able to ride. It is responsibility and not work that kills. And yet men are continually seek ing reaponsibiliiy, even when no salary is attached to the trust. Severol new real estate advertisements appear in our went colnmn. Read the entire column. It Is bright and newsy, and will keep you posted on many inter esting subjects. Henry D. 8«ffbrd and Walter J. Ssfiord have each purchased a fine bnildlng lot on the south side of the Park-ave exten sion. Charles N. File, Police Justice Davry and Lucius Doughty have lots on the north side of the same street. Mrs. S. Kennedy has returned from her trip to New Tork. and now displays a fine stock of fashionable millinery, as well as a nice assortment of ladles’ fancy goods, dolls, etc , suitable for the holiday trade. Bead her new advertisement in another colnmn. Lee, the Park-ave. market man, ad dresses our readers this week in a new advertisement. He finds that it pays to advertise. It would not pay If he con ducted the wrong kind of a market, and was ashamed to inyite the public inside. Lee sells this year’s meat. No “ back num bers” for him He is not in the magazine business. ________________ Houses should be built at least fifty feet back from the street. New Idea, is it ? That don’t make any difierence. It’s a good idea. What, on a lot 100 feet deep ? Certainly. A honsff with 60 feet of green lawn in front of It, appears a mighty sight more beantifnl than one with 15 feet of lawn. Of course, eyery house on the street should be built back from the street the same distance. Houses thus removed from the street escape dust and noise and the owners en joy more privacy, than when built near the sidewalk. Let street roadways be narrower and better kept, and houses be oiiilt on the rear of lots, and our streets would be more beautiful. CLIFTON PARK. Mrs, George T. Hoag is visiting friendi at Bayonne, N. J. Mrs. George Pitts of Nassau village is a guest of her father, George W, Taylor. Stephen and Daniel D. Reed will work Jacob W. Smith’s farm the coming year. Mrs. F. J. Noxon and family have been spending a few days with friends at Cohoes. Seth Clapper spent Thanksgiving with his sister, Mrs. Henry Falrweather of Schenectady. George Sweet has moved in his house lately purchased of the heirs of William VanVoorhees. George H. Usher of New York city spent Thanksgiving with his mother, Mrs. Adam Mott. The will of the late Gertrude Van- Vranken, of Clifton Park, has been ad mitted to probate. Wm. H. Van Vran- ken Is executor. Fltz Reed has sold his farm situated west of Clifton Park vlilage to Elijah Wanmer of Jonesville. The considera tion was 11,250. George W. Taylor was summoned to Gloveraville last week on account of the Illness of his wife, who is ytsiting her daughter, Mrs. William Garnsey. Taylor Clark o f Bayonne, N. J., spent a few days In town last week. Mr. Clark has bad the foundation laid for a monnmont to the memory of his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark. a by Mr. Tallmadge for park pur- This would give some eight E. S. Grilling, the special representa tive of Ross & VsnSchoonhoven, has sold 'o Michael Dunpby the triangular lot be tween the Fiichhurg railroad and Wil- Ham- 8 t.., near the storehouse of the Knickerbocker hosiery mill. It is un derstood the property will be Improved, fhe lot contained a small honse. Ross & VanSchoonhoven are preparing to sell s Urge portion of their other property in 'his village. The repairs at the old Linen Thread mill have been made with a yiew 'o ihe early sale of that desirable prop -rty, which is now being extensively ad vertised for the first time. Onr citizms -hould co-operate with Boss & 'V'an- 8 choonhoven in the effort to set this mill in operation once more. The mill Is most admirably located for 'many kinds >f manufact.nring,. It is q' te possible a New England shoe manufacturer may lo cate here. Many of our citizens regret the pros- pnet for the early disappearance ot the driving park, Wm. C. Tallmadge, E«q., the owner, has already mapped out the park into building lots,\’ and one street has even been partly opened across the northern end. It is intimated on good authority, that if the vlilage would buy the building lots on the south side of the Park-ave. extension and within the driv ing tracks, that all the remaining portion of the land within the tracks would be donated noses. acres of land for a village park, and the driving tracks would be maintained now. Legislation would be necessary before this could be done. It Is thought that an expenditure of about $ 6,000 for land and $4,000 for improvements, would result In givipg this village a handsome park. Whatever is done in the matter must be done this winter. The present bonded debt of th:« village would be re garded by some as an insurmountable objection to tbis plan for a park. Who owns the street frontage between Thomson’s jewelry store and the Flanni- gan building? The yilldge is compelled to maintain the sidewaik at that point, and is • believed to own the street front and a depth of lot at least equal to the middle of Tenendaho creek. Why not turn the entire creek into the river at the rear of Ki.ig’s grocery store and aban don the pr- sent bed of the creek below the dam. The village then might sell its street frontage, and secure from such sale enough money to widen Main-st. be tween Massey’s clothing store and the property of Bryan Sweeney. The Fran- cls-st. bridge and the stone arch bridge would not be reeded if these plans were carried opt, and property owners on each side of the creek near the stone arch bridge would acquire valuable property on which to place their buildings. The property owners along the abandoned creek bed would all receive additional land, and be relieved of the fiow of more or less sewage along their premises. This sewage becomes a nuisance in summer when the stream is low. A large number of property ownersican benefit tkemselres by the plans proposed, if the enterprise is undertaken in the right spirit. These suggestions are thrown out fur what they are worth. The assortment of fine dress patterns at Packer’s Is complete. No patterns duplicated and ladles can secure exclu sive costumes. KKTCHUM'M CORNEH3. Sleighs were run Monday on the four Inches of snow that fell Sunday. M. A. Lasher and family spent Thanks giving at Baliston with Eli Bathrick. Mrs. W. 8. Bassett of Troy has been spending a tew days with Mrs. George Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perkins of Troy and Mr. Sherman of Saratoga spent Thanksgiving with Ftank Thomas and family. Rev. John Naylor of White Plains, will preach In the Baptist church next Sunday at 11 a . u . and 7 p. m ., as a can didate. The Ladles’ Home Missionary society held a fair and entertainment in the chmch parlo'\ Thursday afternoon and evening. B. P. Brightman, having disposed of his two boat loads of potatoes iu New York, has returned home and is 1 buying apples. Flfty.tw o Dividends As a general thine investors are pleased to receive only two dividends a year, and if they are paid with regularity are fully satisfied. When one, however, can ceive fifty-two dividends in a year upon an investment of only three dollars, the matter deserves very serions attention. The Independent of New York for forty-six years has held the first position among the great religious literary and family weeklies of the land. It preseuis features for the coming year far in ad vance of any heretofore offered. It has the leading contributors of the world, it prints the best poetry, it has twenty one departments, edited by specialists, de voted to Fine Arts, Science, Insurance, Finance, Biblical Research, Sunday School, Missions, Health', etc. The In- depend mt Is partlcnlarlv fitted for intelll gent people, whether professional men, business men or farmers, and for their families. It coats but six cents a week and gives a great deal. A subscriber re ceives fifty-two dividends a year. The subscription of The Independent is only three do'lars a year, or at that rate for any part of a year, and a sample copy will be sent to any person free by ad dressing The Independent, New York city H o liday Onoda a t Q o a c k e n b u s h ’a, Troy. The store looks like a fancy bazaar. Brlc-a-hrae, flowers, celluloid novelties, mirrors, dolls, cuns and saucers, baskets, leather good», etc., abound. Their dis play of ladles’ embroidered and initial handkerchiefs, made up lace goods and feather boas and fur scarfs is very fine. Dressing gowns and smoking jackets de light the eye. Christmas dress pa'terns, silk umbrellas and a thousand oih *r use ful and ornamental articles can be select ed most advantageously at the reliable house of G. V, S. Quackenbush A Co , Troy, N. Y. Good N ews. No other medicine in the world was ever given such a test of Its curative qualities, as Otto’s Cure. Thousands of bottles of this great German Bem<-dy are being distributed free of charge, by druggists in this country to those afflict ed with consumption, asthma, croup se vere cough', pennmonia and all throat and long diseases, giving the people proof that Otto’s Cure will cure them, and that it is the grandest triumph of medical science. For sale only by G. H. Whitney. Samples free. Large bottles 50c and 24c. At Massey’s they have 200 boys’ cape overcoats which be will sell at twenty per cent, less than coat to clear tliem off. Also 500 pairs of boys’ pants, good stock, winter weight, for 50 cents to $1.25 to clear them ofl'. McGlrr has a quantity ot remnants brus'els carpets suitable for making ruga, from 26o np. 6 0 to G. H. Whitney’s for a hot coft’eo. LAST OF THE FAMOUS SLUMS. M. OUe* sad Five Foiata Gone and Farit XAtIa Quarter Tist dolag. eaty’t reign the greater part of the old and Infamoui St. Gllei wat demollihed, and with equal equanimity did reapedikblb New York witness the Introduotion of light and sanitation into the wretched Blum known at the Five Points, deioribed ■o vividly In the “Amerloan Notes’’ of Charles Dickens. There is scarcely a ghetto left in any city of Italy, and no yoioe of protest was audible in the Italfah press When the old quarter at Florence was torn di twoo yearsrs ago. Stilltill woulduld thehere tw yea ago. S wo t seem to exist among the studious youth of Faria a feelinging of genuineenuine regretgret to learnearn thathat thee feel of g re to l t th old Latin quarter, which was almost pull ed to pieces by Baron Haussman under the second empire, is doomed structurally and at no distant date to total disappear ance. Long since the Rue St. Jacques was modernized, widened and prolonged from the Pettit Pont to the Bue Suffiot, while the Bne Ecole de Medeplne has like wise been prolonged to the Boulevard St. Germain. And now has come the turn of the Place Manbert, the narrow etreets clustering about which interesting relic of old Faria ate to be cleared away by the municipali ty. The Hue St. Severln des Anglais is in particular to give place to a brand new avenue or boulevard. Three cabarets, our Paris correspondent told us a few days since, are to vanish. These are the estab lishments known by the signs of the Pore Lunette, the Senat 'and the Chateau Tl^ifirst is a lltorMy rendezvous, a cafe ohantant and a picture gallery. The Senat has a somewhat doubtful reputation as the favorite resort of ragpickers, oabotins and stripling candidates for the bench of the accused at the assize court, but the Chateau Rouge—not to be confounded with the elegantly dissipated Moulin Rouge in the Champs Eiysees—has long enjoyed genuine celebrity as a typical fea ture of the Quartier Latin scholastically treated and os the happy hunting ground of the male and female students of the left bank of the Seine. One famous, or rather infamous, In habitant of the Quartier Latin, where he also met his death, was Jean Paul Marat, the evil minded Swiss, who had been splendidly educated at home by bis father, who was of Sardinian oxtraotlon. But it would not seem that Jean Paul was ever a student of the Quartier Latin. The wretoh lived in the Bue Eoole de Medi cine, and on the 18th of July, 1798, be was stabbed to death In his bath by the modern Judith, the heroic Charlotte Cor- Undor the consulate and the first empire the young gentlemen of the student region I fain to keep, politically speaking, ex- :eep, politically speaking, ex nely quiet, since France was ruled by srson called Lied Napoleon Bonararte’, r Cromwell, “ stood no 1M4, when Paris was menaced by the al lied armies, how heavily the imperial regime had weighed on them, and the members of the faculties of law and medi cine, making common cause with the pu pils of the polytechnic school, organized a strong force of Infantry, cavalry and ar tillery and fought most valiantly at the defense of Charenton and the Barriere da Trono. Comparative tranquillity was en forced in the Latin quarter during the restoration, but the studious youths, to gether with the cadets of the polytechnic, burst out again in a furious spasm of re publicanism in July, 1830. They wore tolerably quiet They wore tolerably quiet during the reign of Louis Philippe, but the epoch was a halcyon one for them so far as ex treme sportlveness and unbridled gayety the roaring Charles Harkinson, the well known id actor, who has traveled all L and Europe, tells the following wonderful story of a Fahyah magician who walked straight up through the air to a height i were concerned. Those were the roar] _ times of the Cbaumiero, a noted cabaret, whither the students and studentesses re paired in order to dance the canoan, the tullpe orogouse and the Robert Maoalre, exercltatlona long since prohibited in Par is by the police, although pale and limp Imitations of them are occasionally visible in England. Gavarni lent his matchless pencil to the task of delineating the habits of the students and the enga^ng tricks and manners of their female friends, the grisottes, the last class wblob maybe said to have entirely vanished from the “ Rive Gauche.’’—London Telegraph. He Walked Up Throngli the Air. harles Harkinson, th loger and actor, who b over Asia, Africa and Ei onderful st< 10 walked sti _ . air to a height of several hundred feet: The Fohynhs are the greatest necro mancers, hypnotists and magicians of the world and are supposed to bo deaoeudants of the old mijas of Biblical lore. “ One of their principal feats is that of walking upward through the air to a con siderable height. The Fahyah who per forms this startling feat first lays flat on the earth, face downward, for a minute or a minute and a half. Ho then rises quick ly, and placing his arms tightly against his sides deliberately walks right upward into the air as high as his powers of en durance will permit. When bis strength is exhausted by treading thin ether, he simply stops, usually at a height of from 250 to 400 foot, waves his arms wildly a time or two and then begins the descent. One who sees this startling feat performed will agree with mo that it is a diffloult matter to believe one’s eyes and shake off the idea that a miracle has not been enacted. “ One who is not satisfied with the air walking feat may hold a coin in his hand while Fahyah mutters over It and then open his fingers and find the coin gone and a slimy serpent in its place.’’—St. Louis Republic. Deiperste. It is probable that few musicians ever became famous without wishing at one time or another that they might find a ref uge from the reputation whlob precedes them wherever they go. At one time the celebrated composer Verdi went to the watering place of Mon- tocatinl for a much needed holiday. In one of the apartments assigned to the veteran musician stood a grand piano of splendid tone. Verdi removed the score of “ 11 Trovatore,’’ which hud been laid on the rack by way of compliment, locked the instrument and called for the son of bis host, to whom he said in solemn ones: “ Lead mo to the spot which overhangs the steepest prcdplce.” On reaching the summit the maestro, who was almost exhausted from fatigue, flung the key of the piano into the abyss, saying, with energy: “ Now I have done something to secure rest and quiet. On the day of my departure I will send a look- smith to provide the piano with a new key, but while 1 am here let It remain as ■it Is.’’—Youth’s Companion. TELEPHONE EFFECTS. Some Central Girls Have BuiilDgS In t h e Ear, and Some A re Made Deaf. Several girls employed In the central telephone office in San Franoisco were stricken down a few years ago with a dis ease of the ear, which, for want of a bet ter name, was called “ telephone ear’’ by a prominent aurist who studied their trou ble. The ailment was the result of the constant strain on the ear caused by keep- WILLIE’S SEEYICE. day. Buzzing in the ear and severe headaches were the first symptoms, 'orei abscesses formed cases scv a of the ear, and operations The disease became so girls who had not been an run the eder, and it 8 telephone ikeuan hour’s rec- or three hours of he ting! this iswers fr ;s them up during and in somi on the drui were necess __ _____ _ prevalent that girls who had afflicted quit work rather than risk of contracting the disoxde was not stamped out until company let the girls taka A business man who has seven tele phones in his office in this city told porter that he has considerable troul getting prompt 1 girls when he ' “ I don’t quite understand it,’’ he said, “because I have made complaints about it and have been informed that the girls on my wires are among the oldest and most faithful employees of the telephone company. When I have been ringing the bell for several minutes without receiving any reply, and the girl suddenly answers me, and I ask her why she didn’t answer before, s is invariably replies that 1 didn’t ring before. “ ‘But I have been ringing for five min utes,’ I said to a girl one day. “ ‘Oh, that’s impossible,’ she said, ‘be cause 1 haven’t had the receiver away from my ear once in an hour and a half.’ “lam Inclined to believe that the girl bad been telling me the truth, for the dozen times with Inly would Willie Lentz is a miner’s son, 13 years old, and lives in a tumble down shanty beside the Illinois Central railroad at Rutland, a mining camp situated In the lower end of La Salle county. Ills. One afternoon during the miners’ strike Willie went, with several boys, np to the Santa Fe pond to fish, for should he suc ceed, he thought, in bringing home even a few bullheads, it would serve for one meal at least. The Santa Fe pond is a de pression of about 300 feet in length by 60 feet in width, made a couple of years ago in excavating for tho main extension of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail road from Chilllcothe to Ancona, Ills. This railroad crosses the Illinois Central at a point about two miles north of But- Willie spent perhaps two hours sitting in the hot sun on the west bank of the pond, with a long, green willow rod in his band, to the end of which was fastened a strong piece of linen thread, a bent pin and an angleworm. But the fisp didn’t bite well. Wlllio had caught three, and one of his companions had landed a mis erable little Bunfish. So the boys were growing tired and discouraged. “X«t’s git up on the track and look around,” suggested Jtosey Brady, a brown eyed Irish boy. The boys reached the top of the em bankment and played about for some time, throwing pebbles at the birds as they would alight for a moment on the tele graph wires, walking the rails or watch ing the farm wagons as they crept slowly along the smooth prairie roads. Willie finally wandered down the track toward the wooden bridge, and as he reached It Q to pick his way over tho heavy ties. certain! luenoy. She trouh’e. thing has happened a di this same girl, and she not fib to me with such freqi must be suffering with some < else she la really deaf, although that see:, impossible, because she hears me all right after we once get started.” The reporter spoke to one of the head men of the Metropolitan Telephone com pany about the matter. The manager said it was true that many of the central girls snfCered from ear troubles as a result of the constant strain on that organ caused by keeping a receiver fastened to it hours at a time. “ 1 have heard of this disease which they call 'telephone ear,’ ” he said, “ and, while it has been very prevalent In the west, and girls have absolutely lost their heating from it, I am told, we have not had much of it here, because we have taken every prooaution against it. The gtrlB sometimes become ill from tho strain obliged to go home,me, butut inn a go ho b i almi i oases they have recovered in a day or so and coma back to work. Some find that they cannot do the work, and so we have to dispense with their servloes. But, as I said, we take every precaution to prevent the trouble becoming prevalent. The girls have time to rest their ears, and has been invent) ISO immediately to less* the strain on the girls. in put In use Immed iin on the girls. Many suffer from ii^zing sounds in their ears, and some- uhs girls faint at their tables; but, as I said, we do all we can to prevent it.” A telephone girl said to the reporter: phone table, while I have known dozens who have done the work for years and never suffered anything from it. Moat of us have awful buzzing sounds in the ears for hours after we leave work, while we also suffer from severe headaches. 2 have been stricken temporarily deaf while tho receiver was at my ear time and again and have had numerous complaints made against me by subscribers, who accused mo of inattention. It is unjust to com plain, but then I suppose they do It be cause they don’t know the facts. The girls are always anxious to bo prompt, and a subscriber can rest assured that when ho does not get an immediate reply to his ringing it is because the central girl is temporarily deaf.”—New York Sun. Middy Morgan’s Nerve, The suit of Miss Jane Morgan, tho art ist, against tho executors of her sister’s will has set nearly all the old friends of the lato Middy Morgan talking about her ;e more, r take up bci V remen lecullar o cupatlon. )odod birthirth and She was a woman of go b a as thoroughly educated ns any woman in Ireland in her day. Domesticomestic D reverses d her in New York penniless, but self respecting. She wanted to write for a living and called on Horace Greeley for his advice. He, In the half jocose, half testy way in which he was wont to dismiss a subject that bothered him, said: “ Cattle soles are an interesting subject. I’ve no doubt you could get a job to report them.” To his astonishment, Miss Morgan dri up and stalked oul ing, “ I ’ll do it.” beams, and tiny pools, i scum, lay T poured over tho with their dark green scum, lay in 1 hollows and crevices. He went to the other Bide and saw partially concealed beneath a rail a piece of round iron pipe, while from the end there protruded a shotti piece of tope. The child looked at the spot horrified. He knew what all this meant. The miners were going to set fire to the bridge and blow it up. As this 13-year-old boy stood and look ed at the gas pipe, with its rope fuse, he thought of the passenger train that was due to pass over this very bridge early in the evening and of the coal train that would follow an hour later. The thought frightened him so that ho could scarcely Willie at last found tongue to shout down to his playmates: “Come up here!” “ What ye want?” inquired Jamesy Brady as the boys slowly approached. “D’ye see that?” said Willie as ho point ed toward tho bomb. “Humphl” ejaculated Peto Robbins, tho big boy of tho crowd. Peto was 15 years of age and felt his authority among his comrades. “ Guess they’re going tor blow her up ” “But think of them people that’ll bo comln over here In that passenger,” re plied Willie, feeling something he did not like in Pete’s tone. “ Whatif they’dtouch it off tonight? Thcro’d be an orful lot of folks killed.” “Well, I ’m agin the ’nopliea,” declared Peto stoutly, imitating as well as he could the speech of his father, who was known among the strikers as an agitator of some note. “ Ye jus’ got ter do ’em up every possible way ye kin.” “I ’m goln ter tell tho p’leece,” declared ’illie, with firmness. “No, ye ain’t, ” said Pete quickly. “I ain’t goin ter ’low it.” “ Well, I will,” and before Peto knew what had happened Willie had given him a sudden push that sent him rolling over and over down tho north side of the em bankment. Before the other frightened and astonished boys could make a move Willie had darted down the south side of the embankment and was running along the wagon road toward Rutland as fast as his little bare feet could take him. The boys, in their loud and excited talk, had not noticed the slow approach of a lame Italian, who had been stationed by the strikers to watch the bridge. He had been dozing near the track, but hearing the noise had aroused himself and was now hobbling toward tho bridge, sbout- iug and gesticulating.ling. Hoo caughtaught sight H c sight of Willie down the road, and surmising that something was wrong pulled out an French revolver, pointed it at the f boy and fired. Will: ‘s and g 0 £ Frono] boy and fired. Willie’ companions lamed with terror as they saw him suddenly pitch forward and nearly fall. But in a moment he had recovered him self and was hurrying on. A sharp pain ran through his arm near tho shoulder, but he vvas determined it should not overcome him, for ho must get to Rutland amkin some way prevent the destruction of the hundreds of people that would bo on that passenger train. “Hi, kid, what’s tho matter of ye?” lazily inquired the Rutland village mar shal, who-had been sitting on a store box Whittling and telling horse stories, as a dusty, begrimed little chap came panting down the street and toward the place whore tho marshal sat. “Why, why, what's that blood on yer shirt, ye been?”— “ Gnin t ’ blow up Santa Febrldgol” thee childd as ho seizedized a hitching itcl' jether she was never afraid to live alone, gasped th chil as ho se a h she did so much of tho time, did not chain to support his shaking legs. “ Min- low the stuff of which she was made, ors got a bomb under it. I soon it, 'n they taking care of a friend's va cant country house in a remote corner of New Jersey two tramps appeared in woman?” tramps appeared )orway. “ Come, have you anything for us, old i? asked ono of them. I yes,” was tho answer. “Just wait, II bring it down.” Iss Morgan went quickly up stairs and in half a minute returned with a seven shooter. “ This is win “How do you The trai Kate Fiol) rhat I have for you,” said she. alike it?” ramps did not wait to answer.— old’s Washington. Fussy Draperies. Fussy and elaborate draperies are com ing much into vogue, greatly as we may deplore the fact. A recent art periodical says: “In some matters of taste it appears that we are to have a complete evolution within a century. This is particularly the case with regard to window curtains. Tho styles of draping In vogue at the be ginning of the century seem to again bo coming Into fashion, and we have received so many inquiries about them that wa have determined to put before our readers once for all tho best examples, or, rather, the least bad.” Space does not allo' ■ ing tho article those opening bo heeded no more ncci ed. Absurd curves and fancy arrange ments cannot be good. Wo have learned the advantage of the polo and of simple, honest drapery. Why con we not be con tent? Why must wc unearth this unde sirable fashion of tho past? ile follow tumbled forward, the sloping sidewalk gone. The littl and rolling do Into the gutter for life fainted. What excitement there was! Why, it wasn’t 20 minutes before a crowd of 50 were about the bleeding child, and faces became whitened as the word “ bomb” was mentioned. I need not tell how the villago dqotor was called to attend to Wil lie’s injuries, which consisted of a deop eut In the fleshy part of the right arm where the bullet had plowed its way through, bat had luckily not struck tho bone; how the marshal ran for dear life to the telegraph office and sent word of what was threatening to the Santa Fe trainmaster on tho Chilllcothe division. That evening deputy United States mar shals, together with tho sheriff’s posse, captured 20 men at the bridge just before the Chicago passenger thundered along. Rutland’s citizens held a meeting and gave Willie a purse of $50. I was talking with Mr. Todd, tho Santa Fe trainmaster, a few days ago. Said he: “ That boy saved us that time. He'll go to college after awhile and get $1,000 besides, and you cun state in your paper that thora’s one railroad company that wants to reward real grit.”—Exchange. 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