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Recogized friendship" The execution
OF thifmedal was given to woman,
Marcea Lancelot-Croce.
The ase Of George Herbert Stephens,
who isunder arrest for setting fire to
the Ltayette college buildings, Is ex-
traordiary In criminal annals. He
had ben professor OF ethics at the
collegtethics above all things. There
Is no oubt of his guilt; he confesses
1t. Hired of President Warfield was
his mtive, for the president had him
removd from his position. Mr.. |
Stephos was a graduate OF Princeton,
and WIS accounted one Of the brightest
studets. He won fellowship In men
tai philosophy, took a masters degree
and sent year In the Princeton The
ologial seminary.
"Gnndma," Nancy Berger, who
lives It Bellefonte, Pa, is lot years OF
age. Her husband was killed in the
navalbattle of Erie In the war of 1872;
she LIST two sons at Antietam in Che
civil var; and a great grandson Is now
mmber OF the army operating
against Spain. She Is still quite spry
and ives with her son, Samuel, who
was babe in arms when she was
widowed, "a years ago. Senator Quay
recatly introduced bill to grant her
pnsion OF $12 month, and. after
he tated the facts of her remarkable
carer, the bill passed without vote
against 1t.
A Gustavus Adolphus Memorial
churh is 10 be erected in Philadelphia,
and the Lutheran congregations or
New York are requested to assist In
the work. Besides the church. there
will be a statue historic tablets and a
winbw contributed by Sweden. What
Is Known as the Old Swede's church,
on the banks Of the Delaware, was
founled by Gustavus Adolphus, and its
maintenance was long assisted by
Sweden. It's congregation is now az
filiat.d with the Protestant Episcopal
diocese of Pennsylvania. The new
church will be Observation-Disclosures.
Ore more warning against excessive
IOpCohlpplA6 COnCS AiOu ANN" SNfNt
where a twelve-year-old girl has skip
ped herself to death In an attempt to
surpass her playmates In the number
Of times she could skip without rest
ing 1t is hard for parents to forbid
their children indulgence In what Is
really an innocent sport, yet death or
detormity is often the result OF trust
ing to the child's judgment In this mat
| ter.
There Is now pending In the Louis
lana legislature a bill to provide sep
arate street cars for whites and blacks
In the cities of the state, and to forbid
persons Of either race to ride In the
cars set apart for the other. The law
makers are now worried to know how
to arrange 1t that white children In
the care Of negro nurses shall have
street car accommodations.
Thomas Kelly, machinist emploGed
at Mount Glare, Md, had a lively ex-
perience with lightning during Heavy
storm. Mr.. Kelly was at work in the
shop during the storm, and was hold
ing in his tongs a piece OF iron which
he had just heated. He laid 1t upon
the anvil and raised his hammer to
strike II. Just at that moment 4 ball
Of fire flashed across the room to the
anvil, the hammer descended, striking
1t and scattering fragments OF the ball
in all directions with a loud report.
Mr.. Kelly was thrown across the room
against his work bench and the ham
mer few from his hand and struck
the ceiling with considerable force.
Every piece OF metal in the shop
which was struck by the fragments was
either burned or melted at the point
of contact, and the hammer, tongs and
other tools about the anvil were
strongly magnetized, as the men about
the place afterwards found they would
attract small pieces OF metal and fill
ings. Mr.. Kelly was not seriously in
jured, but did not recover from the
shock until late at night. 1t Is sup
posed that the lightning came down
the rod and in passing through the
shop was attracted by the large amount
of metal stored therein. The lightning
also set fire to a small leak In the gas
pipe in the room which, previous to
the storm, was not known to exist.
Lieutenant Lindsey, OF the Fourth
Cavalry, on duty at the Yellowstone
Park, has submitted to the secretary
OF the interior report covering the
condition OF the game in the park
He says of the wild buffalo to be found
there THE scouts discovered, dur
ing the winter. between thirty and
forty head, in four different localities
They are so wild that II they see OF
wind a man they will run a long dis
lance. Their protection is the most
difficult task intrusted to the superin-
tendent of the park. Their natural
range is on the open plains OF much
lower altitude; they are now driven
by fear into the most inaccessible por-
tons OF this mountainous and tinfcer'
ed country. Besides the danger from
poachers. their young must suffer from
the ravages OF wild beasts, and from
the rigors OF the climate. They are
said to be peculiarly susceptible to the
bad effects OF inbreeding, and an emf