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tenement house fire. A great hive

tenemen house fire. A great hive
swarming with human beings had al
ready become a mass OF ~leaping fame.
So much Roadway had been inada that
the force could do little but confine the
fire to the building in which 1t had
started, and let it burn itself out there.
The great heat of the night, added to
the burning furnace of the fire, made
the work of the brave men perilous
and almost intolerabIe. But they
never finched, for lives were at
stake. The building was old, and
its passage ways narrow, tor
tuous and dark-except where the fire
lighted them. Some of the people, in
their fright and in the s~uddenness of
the alarm, had become hemmed in,
and the firemen rushed into that
seething hell to save them. Women
and children were carried out, fainting
and suffocated- Men staggered into
the outer air Is though heavy with
drink. Prayers, screams and cries
for help rose above the roar of the
flames and h steady boom of the en-
gines. Husbands We're searching fran
tically for their wives, women for their
babes. At last, the chief gave orders
for all to come out, forbade his men to
risk their lives further, for floors and
walls were falling, and it was almost
certain death to enter the building
now.
Just as his order was given, a man
hurled himself out from the snarIing
fire-a man choked Ivy the smoke and
SCARED where the burning fingers of
the flame had touched him, yet with
some power of speech still lett to him.
"a priest he gaspcd; "a priest. my
brother And he pointed into tn. gee
henna out Of which he had come. His
words were ta'eel W ard carried for
ward by the unthinking crowl: "A
priest, a priest The cry was heard
above all that horrible bable Of sound.
Then out from the throng came q
man, his huge shoulders breasting End
pushing aside the human sea that now
would nave stopped him. He paused
only while you could count one look
ing to see whittier he pointed who had
just come out from thS fire. And then,
drawing the sleeve OF his gown across
his face to keep from breathing the
fiery death, he strobe forward.
You may talk about the. courage OF
the six hundred. That was the courage
ofnumbers. And they know a nation
would sing their death song. This man
was alone. Remember that.
eve waited, and held our bre
while the man who had come out .old
us his brother lay there, pinned be-
meath a great timber, and the fire all
about him. And knowing that he must
die, will, tie instinct of faith he had
called for a priest And the priest had
heard-and had gone. SO we waited,
while the flames roared and timbers fell
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on the clubs race course. l was
anxious to get this story out of him
next, for l fancied it might be rather
dramatic. But when l suggested that
he tell me more about it, he drew away
from the subject.
Look here, young man." he said,
severely, mo human institution is per-
feet. The liability to err occurs with all
men. The club has been no exception
to this universal rule, but we do not
care to dwell on our mistakes. That
which is done, is done. We aclnowl-
edge that h race course and the Bob
by Nichols episodes were our mistakes.
But let them rest"
Now, / do not think that a man
should give you the hint OF a story I'M
less he intends to tell you the whole of
it, especially when there seems to be
the spice OF q scandal about it. How
ever, l know l shall get it out of him
some tirnc-and 1t is just as we'll to
have a good thing or two in reserve.
So l will wait patiently.
We We're sitting in the darkroom, and
had been playing cribbage. But the
points had run 50 steadily in my favor
that my antagonist finally yawned and
| pushed the board inpatiently away.
Then, evidently feeling that he had
been a tritle rude, and to a guest-a
matter of which the Old Eeau could
rarely be accused, for h. was The most.
| punctiiious of men-aud desiring to
make immediate and ample amer.d, he
asked me ii l would join him in the
supper-roonn over a bird end a bottle.
1t was not these things that tempted
me, but | guessed he would be in the
l r,,0Ol fN n Ill nr1 fhar I -l,@,11 t@--
something worth the hearing.
AS we passed through the billiard
room l saw a man CARRIED in the cas-
sock of a priest. bending over one of
the tables and deeply engaged upon his
play. 1t was not the frock alone
strange, though, that was in such a
place-that rivet.d my attention But
the ace and physique of the man were
strong. This is but a brief description.
But L will let it stand as | have written
it. because if this simple statement
does 0 convey the meaning l intend,
no words of mine can make you under
stand.
My companion paused for a moment,
waiting until the player had finished
his shot and looked up from the table.
Then my attention was divided be
tween two thinGs-onc, the awful scar
that dis6gured the whole left side of
the mans face ana neck. How one
could have received such q mark, and
lived, was the instant question in my
mind. Eut there was another thing
which took my mind from this. When
their eyes met, the Old Beau bowed
with more cordial ceremony than
had ever seen him use toward any other
man-and as1nile Of exquisite sympathy
passed between the two.
"There,'' said the Ola Bean, when we
were fairly seated, meeting and an
swering the question hat my eyes
asked, 'there-is a man. And thi:
thing OF which l am about to tell you
was a deed"
He paused, as If to flnd words fit TO
the telling of it, And when he hat
chosen them he went on slowly, speak
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Sanford (Fla.) CHronic7e:: DR..
Andrew &. Caldwell is no more.
On the morning of the 9TH June.
one of the purest and best men
of our community was removed
from US. DR.. Caldwell, whose
life was adorned by consistent
virtues, gentle ways and kind
offices, enjoyed in nc common
degree the confidence, reverence
and love Of his friends, neigh
bors and Christian brethren.-
DR.. Caldwell located in Orange
county, Florida, from North
Carolina more than twenty-five
years ago, and was descended
from a long line of honored and
distinguished ancestors.
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Another Use for the Flag.

It is well in these days of for
getfulness of law and order in
many of our industrial circles to
have the stars and stripes waved
from our public schools. There
is propriety in it at all times, but
it is well at this particular time
when lawlessness prevails in
many sections of the country to
teach the children of the land
that the flag of the Republic is
the symbol not only of public
safety but of law and order.
There is great need to have the
American flag hoisted oyer our
mills and great factories he e
lawlessness has been bred by
labor troubles. In almost every
instance turbulence has been
created by those who do not
know what the American flag
means, that are strangers to the
liberty of law on which our free
government is founded. They
have no appreciation of liberty
except liberty of license, and they
assume that ina free government
are free to destroy property a. d
life when their wishes IRE disre-
garded by their employers.
With them are a few Americans,
but as a rule the turbulent ele-
ment of our Industrial circles are
brutal foreigners who IRE not
citizens, and who have no sym
pathy with the freedom that is
made sacred by the majesty Of
law.
Now that we have the flag
hoisted over our schools, why
not go a step further and pro
vide hat the stars and stripes
shall float from every mine and
every factory, and every hive of
industry in the State? If only
Americans by birth or by adopt
ion were employed in these great
industries there would be little
none Of its virtues. They domi-
nate in a large proportion of the
striking miners throughout the
land, and they have brought such
reproach upon organized labor as
must'forfeit the public sympathy
that poorly paid labor would in
spire.
The first thing to do is to stop
the coming of ignorant labor,
and the next thing should be to
drive from our fields of industry
every one Of them who has par
ticipated in lawlessness by VIC
lent assaults upon person or pro
perty. But whether few or many
Of this turbulent class shall re
main in employ of our operators,
the stars and stripes should float
over them to teach to citizen anC
stranger alike that free govern
ment is the government OF peace.
of law and Of protection to the
humblest of its people. Let the
flag not only float over oul
schools, but let it float over oul
mines, our shops. and our mills
as we'll. Let it be teaching il
lesson from day to day alike <
children and to workingmen, an(
thus train att to .espect.the sane
tity OF our law and pay homage
to the grandeur Of our free III
stitutiOns.-PhId. Times.
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AT SEA.


I watch The white sails as they spread
their wings, like birds set free;
And some DER distant waves will glide,
Some in the wished for haven bide,
And some-be lost at sea
And thus, upon Lies changeful main,
While Hope sang merrily,
Full many u bark from of the strand
We launched with eager heart and hand.
Nor dreamt of loss at sea.
But were there treachcrous rocks and shoals
All, all uni. nown to theeP
1t matters not-the heart doth know
That cruel storm hath Sunken low
Tn venture out OF sea-
Mayhap 1T was TO costly freight,
though rich to you or me;
And Metnory, as the days go by,
Still counteth DER with fearful eye
Her treasures lost al sea.
All, well, there is a haven sweet
Where shipwrccks cannot be-:
Sad hearts, who sit in patient pain.
There shall We gather back again
Much that was lost at sea.
Lucy L Fleming, in Harper's Bazaar.
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ing in a low monotone. and r~evercntly,
as if in the presence of the deed itself:
at vas one night IN August The
day had see internally hot. and TIE
night came on worse than the day had
been. Finding comfort nowhere, l had
strolle1 down into the lower portion of
the city. where h poor are huddlcd
together like rats-perhaps because l
like to Sc human misery, and wretch
elnes~, all squ%lot. | lal heard an
alarm O. Gre and saw the engines rush
ing past ruc, bat until | had turned
into b street / did not know the
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-06-14

THE Third Partyites will SLAM
der President Cleveland vic
lently enough in the coming cam
paign. The Democratic paper
or voter that joins in the nefa-
ious work, is false to his own
party.
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GOLDSBORO, N. G., JUNE p, 1894
RESPECT THE FLAG.

OA1O "oJ w
cheapening it. 1t was an excel
lent thing when a law was passed
forbidding anybody to S the
Stars and Stripes i'll connection
with an advertisement Of any
kind. That law is practically
evaded when the national ensign
is degraded by being used as an
emblem of party or faction, but
it works we'll on the whole.
A few years ago one great
party in national politics impu
IDENTIFY usurped the flag Of the
country as its special emblem.
Handkerchiefs bearing it were
adopted as the Republican ori-
famine and used as pocket-hand-
kerchiefs generally are used,
with little honor to the emblem.
In later years the flag Of the
country has been prostituted to
yet meaner purposes, as the en-
sign of narrow sectarianism,
than which nothing could posi-
bly, be more foreign to it's intelt
and spirit.
Yet later, we have see it adj
vertised as an appropriate map
kin" for G. A. r. dinners, polit-
ical celebrations, etc. A Yankee
soldier, of the old-fashioned
stripe, had to stand up and pro
test, not long ago, when invited
to a banquet at which the flag
which he had been trained to
reverence was degraded to that
servile use.
1t is not possible to pay too
much honor to the flag of the
ration, but it is very easy to
make it common, in the eyes OF
young and old, by debasing it to
party uses. There is one, and
so far as we know, only n com
mercial steamship line in ou1
coasting trade, which makes the
daily hosting and lowering OF
the flag a solemn ceremony. AL
our passenger vessels should dc
the same, and it is eminently iii
and proper that the colors should
be saluted whenever raised or
any national festival day.
The flag was III years old last
Thursday. Comparatively few
people know the history Of this
beautiful emblem of the creates
government on earth. 1t was
probably suggested by the fae
of the Netherlands which a cen
fury ago consisted of three hori
zontal stripes symbolic of the
rise of the Dutch republic.
On the 18th of June, 1777, thu
American congress resolved tina
the flag of the Thirteen
united states should consist o
thirteen stripes, alternate ret
and white, and that the union b(
represented by a blue field will
thirteen stars arranged in a cir
Gle indicating "a new constella-
ton" among the nations of tn
earth.
In 1894, on the admission o
Kentucky and Vermont, the fla:
was made with fifteen stars an
fifteen stripes, but on July 4
1918, it was changed so tina
there should be the original thin
teen stripes: while a new sta
should be added for each state.
A woman made the first flag c
the union.
Washington was the author c
the design but Betty Ross, c
Philadelphia, cut outthe materia
and sewed it together in tn
form of our first national flag.
There was an appropriate an
impressive celebration of tn
flags recent birthday at Ind'
pendence Hall, in the city
Dbi1odo1nbia
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I'm rleston, Sumter & Northern
IN EFFECT JAN. 16, 1894.

NO [ connects with Seaboard Air Liue
at Hamlet for Raleigh and Wilmington.
charlotte. shelby, Rutherfordton: and
at charlotte with R & D Vestibule Linn
tied for washington and New york:
passengers can take s~leeeers at char
lotte at $50 a m.
NO 2: passengers by this train have
through sleepers: New york to Char
lotte. connects with S A L at Hamlet
from charlotte, Raleigh and North, and
from Wilmington, connects with S c Ry
at Pregeall's for charleston, columbia,
Augusta and the west: dinner at Ham
let. &. WILLARD,
Superintendent,
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Der that when
the Old Beau
wns telling me
that e h a S
story of I h e
Nj n n w h O
Started a Grave
yard. he hap
pcned to e
ton something
about 30 b
Nichols having
gone W r o II g
through plung-
ing too heavily
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Notice.

Notice is hereby given that applica-
ton will be made, thirty days after
the date hereof, to the Wilmington and
Weldon Railroad Company for a GER
tiicate for one share of the capital
stock of said company issued to Coun-
Gill; A. Bizzell, now deceased, the Ger
tifcate for the same having been lost
or destroyed. =
j. A. BIZZELL.
June ID, 1894.
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Lack CT Co CIftfy.

did the man seem to exhibit a lack
of courtesy?" inquired an Austin bust
ness man of a book agent who had
failed to negotiate with a neighboring
tradesInau.
80, l don't know but what he's got
courtesy enough and presume he keeps
plenty of it in stock. lie threw a chair
at me the minute l entered his office,
and just as l successfully lodged the
hal he caught me or the nose with 9
tin cuspidor, and that vas followed by
a paper-weight. two tack-hammers III
a loose d~oor-knob. He seemed to be
shooting all the furniture out of a
Calling gun, though he may have been
throwing them, and it is my impression
he was loaded for b~ook-agents. But
he didn't seem to lack anything, and
presume if hadn't withdrawn just as
I did, the next thing would nave been
a shower Of canned courtesy."-Texas
Siftings.
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The most formidable check to the
increase, In tropical regions, OF serpents
and venomous insects is the abund-
ance of the ants, which. attacking in
thousands. will kill and devour animals
often of considerable size.
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Little Fife (who has stroked the
kitten until she has begun to purr)-
'Maudie. do you hear that?" Sister
Maud-"Hear what. Efie?" Elite
ssyVhv do believe l. tits ho;Iinrf"
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House
...CQ3ater...

THE purest in the city, used in
= making our drinks. We use rock
candy syrup also. and pure fruit juices
at our fountain. | desire specially to
say to my country friends that [ can
make milk shakes and lemonades just
as good as ever and will be glad to
wait on them as usual.
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AVE All your sflverware.
II spoons, folks, also watches
lockets, rings, etc, engraved,
NOW IS JOUR- CHANCE. For mex week
| will do all kinds of letter and none
CRANE work at greatly reduced prices.
Medal work a speciality. Call and see
me or send your work to
L. D. GIDDENs, JR.
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Notice.
Ten city lots for sale,
"A sple ibid opportunity
For laoosing men to

EASpIO uIU UppUItUHIUN
For laboiing mer to
purchase homes.
[ will sell ten lots in that portion of
the city known as Webbtown. The
lots are level and desirable. Situate
on Gin street: dimensions OF said lots,
70 feet front. 10 feet deep: price $50,
2 cash, the remaining So payable in
two years with Interest," at $ per cent.
For further particulars apply to the
undersigned at his office in the ccult
house. HUGH HUMPHREY.
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MEMBER OF THE CLUB.
RF JAMES KNAPP REEVE.

lCopyright, 1894. by the Author.1
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-07-26

Centralia is without II tax Collector
and the prospects are not very good
for getting one in n hurry. Both
the Council and the School Board
have been using their combine d
efforts to secure suitable person,
but no one seems to want the job.
There is so little compensation for
the work involved that it is claimed
ten per cent. commission will have
to bs allowed before a collector can
be obtained. The borough treasury
is depleted in consequence of the
inability to procure the taxes out
standing and something will have to
be done shortly.
X. G. K. PIcNIc.-Beaver Springs
Castle No. 423 X. G. f., will hold n
basket picnic in Markley's Grove, (,
mile west of Adamsburg, Pa, Satur-
day, July 2s, 1894. Music will be
furnised by four different bands.
Able speakers will make short ad-
dresses. Grand Chief G. b. Wood,
of Phila., will be present and speak.
Brother members of all other organ
izations and the public in general
are cordially invited to attend.
Parade at 1880 o'clock in which
Castles from Lewistown, Mifilin-
burg, Reedsville and Milroy. G. A.
r., 1. o. O.F., p. o. S. of A. s. of v,
and young Americans will partici-
pate. First class refreshments on
the ground. A special feature will
be the opening and closing cere-
monies of the Order. Program ;
Formation of procession, s,45; move
to the Grove, 800; music by band;
address; music; address; music; adj
dress; music; closing ceremonies by
Castle; dinner; parade; bag race.
BY order of Robinson Middes'
warth, d. j. Dreese, III. l. Treaster,
John Bolender, Chas. Shirey. Com
mittee.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-07-26
SAD Death /!
A. Clinton Walter OF CentreWlle Dies
Suddeak from a Mysterious Com
oIicahonof Causes.

On sunday morning when Aaron
Walter, prosperous farmer near
Centreville. came to breakfast his
family learned that Clinton his son,
was missing from home. The faith
er and brother of the boy started in
search Of the missing member of
the family, each in different di-
rections.. The father was told by
Isaiah Bowersox that the boy was
found in dying condition. The
following Information has been Civ.
en to us by reliable authority. On
Saturday Clinton Walter had been
working all day. In the evening be-
fore he left home. the boy ate two
plates Of ice cream and started away.
He was seen in company with Clyde
Fessler and Hoyt Walter. AT elev-
en- o'clock Saturday night, Clinton
was seen by reliable persons who
say he was all right then. The boy
was unconscious when found, but
before he died ON Sunday evening
at 1850 he regained consciousness
and in reply to question said he had
liquor and promised to tell the rest
the next day and with the closing
words he expired. The cause of
this sad death has not yet been sat
isfactorily explained and probably
never will be. Either the body of
the young man was paralyzed by
the chilling effect of the ice cream
or overcoma with alcoholic stimu-
lls-ss :ses' rs,hrth. 1. appears
that a.. asaAs Nit the
man was left lying by the way
with the face turned to the gsount.
in such manner that the dust of
the road was inhaled. He was after
ward taken to the graveyard where
he was first seen on Sunday by Geo.
Bowersox and Catherine Boyer
Bowersox raised the boy, but he
could not stand. Subsequently the
news was reported to his family
The boy was not yet IL years of age.
A black mark appears along the side
of the boys head and ear. Such are
the circumstances as we could learn
them concerning the boys sad death.
The funeral took place on Wednes-
day when his many friends followed
the remains to the cemetery where
he now lies buried.