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NO USE FOR LADDERS.
THg- RETIRED BURGLAR TELLS OF
TWO UNFORTUNATE EXPERIENCES.
Be Got Iota and Out of the Boose With
Ease, but That Wasn't All Hon at De
teectwa Got a Clew and Workeii It Ks
caped Once With Broken Arm.
"Ladders, when you find them han
dy," raid the retired burglar, ; "may
seem like a very convenient way of get
ting into open second etory windows,
but after two experiences that I had
with them I gave them tip and stuck to
the old faebjfjued way of doors and onl
lar windows. r - -"la
a Euburbcn town that I visited
once I found 'em painting a Queen Anne
hcuEe in tho rainbow style tbat they
used to paint houses in, r.nd that, I sup
pose, they paint 'cm in still to eome.ex-
tent. Tbe men had ladders up, no stage,
and I noticed tbat at 'tho c-lcse cf tho
day che of'" them was fainting near a
window, and I wondered ' if ho'd leave
bis ladder there when ho ttopped work
at night. I sauntered proniul (bat way
after dark, and there it wau, cud it was
summer, uud the window was wide
open. Moiit folks in the tocntiy, when
their houses are being paintcd, are apt
to be a little skittit-h ate'et the ladders,
and if cue should be left like this cue
they'd be pretty sure to close the win
dow near it and lock it, but these folks
didn't appear to be disturbed, and as far
as my getting into the boueo was' con
cerned it was just about as easy fcr me
to. walk up that ladder and rtcp off
through' the window as it would have
been to walk in at the front door with
it unlocked.
"Later, about 2 o'clock tho next
morning, I went up tbat ladder and in
at the window without the slightest
trouble, and there was nobody sleeping
in that room. It was all just as easy as
it could bo. I poked around tho bouse
and gathered up what stuff there was
worth carrying off and went back to
that room and the open window and
down the ladder and off.
"A month after tbat, as I was walk
ing across the platform of a station on
the same road that the other town was
on to take a train, there was a man
laid his hand on my arm and says,
'Now, don't make a fuss about it, and
it'll bo a good deal easier all around.'
And I recognized in him the detectivo
of the road, a man that I knew meant
business, and I went along with him.
"Being a man of brains, he had gone
up to the house where the robbery was
as soon as ho bad heard of it, which
was the day after. There he hod put
himself, in tho burglar's place and fol
lowed in his footsteps as near us ho
could. He bad had the ladder placed in
just tbe same positicn, and he had gone
up that and stepped off into tbo win
dow and followed over his track inside
the house as close as ho could guess at
it, and then he'd come back, to the win
dow and got out on to the kddtr, and so
down to the ground.
. "The ladder went up on tho right
hand side of this window, and while it
Was easy enough to reach it, Mill it
was quite a little step from tho sill to
the ladder, and he noticed that when
he bad got bis foot on tho bidder ho
swung back a little toward the houso,
so that his elbow just touched it in tho
angle between the window frame and
' the clapboards. Ho gave a littlo push
on that elbow naturally and threw him
self cut again cn to the ladder. Then
he stopped and looked at the spot where
his elbow had touched The paint was
dry and there was no mark, but bo call
ed np the painters and learned that on
themcrning before tbat was the morn
ing after tbo boueo had been robbed
the paint at that place, on the cupboard
by the window frame, and on tbe frame
itself bad been cmudged a little, and
they'd touched it over. That was all
tho detective wanted to knew. From
that tiruo on be bad been looking for a
man with two paint spots cf different
I colors on tbe left elbow of his coat, and
I was tne man.
"It may seem amazing to you that I
hadn't rubbed the paint off. I had rub
bed' some cf it off, and I was going to
rub tbe rest off the next day, and then
I kept setting tbat next day ahead, us
we are apt to do, and I finally ' wound
up by letting it go altogether, the rest
of it. There wasn't one chance in .a
thousand of its leading to anything, and
even as it waal might have talked my
self out of the paint, but I bad a watch
that I'd got in the house in my pocket,
and that settled it
"That was one ladder. This was tbe
other:
"Looking around the outride of a
houso in tho country one night, I found
a ladder lying on the ground against
tbo rear of the house. They had tome
fruit trees in the garden, and I suppose
they'd been working over them, or on
the grape arbor maybe, and were going
on with tbe work next day and had left
the ladder oat instead of taking it down
cellar for tbe night. It was summer,
and on tbe tide, of the bouse there were
two windows opto in cue room. I
thought I'd set the ladder np then and
co iu one oftboM windows. I eet tbe
ladder up and found it a little abort, bot
by rfchmg np ana getting a hulri of
the window sill and stepping up on the
ends of tbe tide pitccs cf the ladder I
wu nblo to get in tolerable easy. 1 went
through the hoc so and gathered up
what there was to get and was turning
to go from the last room when I knocked
a picture over on Vbnreaa and wok np
the man that was sleeping in the room.
I went hvk to the room I'd come hi at
rind backed out the window and bung
down for the ladder, and, by crack, it
wasn't there! .But I'd got to go all the
una, and I let go and dropped. I aaw
the ladder M I was going down at tbe
next window, - IV get oat the-wrong
window. I turned half over going down,
atrock cn my left side and broke my arm.
"I cot away that time, bot I was laid
no tar six weeka and after that I didn't
fool any more with ladders 2cW
York Sun. .
FORCE OF TRACTION.
Intonating; Kxperlmenta. Oondaeted hy
tbs Bureau ut Bosd Inquiry.
Experiments to determine the force of
-tfaetitill OlTdlffereut surfaces have been
made from time to time during the last
' 60 years, the latest being thone oonduot
ed by tbe road inquiry office of the de
partment of agriculture.
In order to secure a ccntinnous record
aswoll as a measure of tho tractive force
an apparatus called a troctograph, ar
ranged to make a grapbio record, was
attached to h loaded wagou whiuh wbb
driven over different surfaces and gradi
ents. These tests gavo the following re
sults: V
The force of traction is not constant,
but varies with the clmrnoter of the road
at any given instant being most uniform
on the smoothest surfaces and constant
ly increasing the variations as the rough
ness of tbe road increases until it be
comes merely a quick succession of vio
lent pulls. . A team is thus subjected to
a continuous jerking, motion, which
greatly increases the fatigue caused by
tho simple pull necessary ' to move a
load. On asphalt the variation of trac
tion is very small, on smooth macadam
it is somewhat more, and on an ordinary
dirt road it is seven or eigjit times as
great as on macadam. - If the dirt road
" EASY HAUUKO.
From Good Roads.
be actually bad, the result is practically
a serie of heavy blows transmitted to
tbe team through the collars, and these
blows are estimated to bo doubly as fa
tiguing as a steady pull even at the
maximum traction of tbe road. On a
smooth road tbe traction itsulf is less
and is comparatively constant, so tbat
tho pounding effect on the team disap
pears, thus enabling them to use their
whole strength in hauling much hoavier
loads with less expenditure of power.
During tbe tests a team of small
mules easily drew over 0,000 pounds up
a 10 per cent grade of smooth macadam,
but were unable to pull tho samo load
down a 0 per cent gradoof sa:id, though
tho indicator showed that nearly double
power was applied, and three-quarters
of tho Ton'S was removed before it could
be started. A loaded wagon, with 3
inch tires, drawn over, a dirt road cut
it into deep ruts, while the sumo load
with 4 inch tires only smoothed the
surfaco, and it was found that tho trac
tion on the road where tho narrow tires
had been used was double what it wqs
uu the heotiou where, the wide tires
were used. - . : .
SOME ROAD STATISTICS.
Things That tbe People Interested Barely
Think About.
A prominent man interested iu statis
tics recently made tbe following state
ment: Moro money is lost iu ouo year
by bad roads than is levied on all tho
dutiable) articles imported 'and moro
than all tho money that is collected
from all tbo internal taxes levied by
tbo general government. The bad roads
of this' country cost the public $300,
000,000 a year. Tho yearly freightage
of all tbo ships, cannlboats and railways
in the country i farloss than the
freightage that passes along the country
roads.
There is hardly a pound of freight
hauled upon tho railways of this conn
try which does not have to first pass
over some highway destgued for tbe use
of vehicles and horses. American rail
way freight rates, though they are tbe
lowest in tho world, are frequently
grumbled at, but docs the com plainer
ever think, queries the statistician, that
it has cost him more to haul 40 bnshcls
of corn or wheat over 10 miles of bad
roads than to ship it al 00 miles over a
railway?
These are things that the people who
aro most interested in good roads seldom
think of, because, as they do not have to
pay iu cash upon tbo spot, the loss tbat
results from carting their products over
reads deep with mud or duxt or full of
loose rocks and deep rats, they imagine
that they have lost nothing. Iu reality
they have lost labor, horscflcKh, wagons
and, worst of all, great quantities of
time, which ' to every man who makes
tbe most of his business is tho most
valuable commodity of alL
Mo Boom For Toll Bands.
When tbo country was poor and
sparsely settled and tbcro was little
travel, it was perhaps necessary to
transfer to private enterprise a function
of the state and allow tolls to be levied
in return for the construct iou of faigh
waya That day la long since past The
state should take its own cf course on
jnst and equitable terms, but it should
recover it without delay.
Their Valoa Apparent.
'be asm needs ara found in widely
separated sections of jhecooqtry,.. In
Charleston and fc?icaw, Mich., tbey
are beginning to. realize t bet In proved
highways converging in their cities
would increase tbuir trade and nuke
them greater distributing centers, to
thdir material advantage.
Brrfa.J"-
Prosperity travels oa good roads.
Bad roads mean dreary isuLuioo for
months every year.
Keep tbe roads clean, and tbe atten
tion thn railed to them w ill scon result
in their being still further improved.
Tbe vehicle that uses wide tires is
oatributing Its rbara toward better
highway
Poor highways are incompatible with
tbe public welfare.
ABOUT underdrawing.
lloir Drains Are Constructed In Connect
icut TUo Versus Stone Drains.
The remarkable wet summer of 1807
was a forcible admonition to the farm
ers of many sections to drain their
lands, and they have heeded it A Con
ffecticut correspondent, writing to Coun
try Gentleman from Hartford county,
says: ' ' ' r V" ' '' . -
I do not remember a time when so
many drains were being laid as at present:-
Farmers who had fields of potatoes
not worth diggiug and - tobacco only fit
to be plowed uuder are determined not
to have another experience so costly and
disagreeable. If tbe next season were to
prove as dry as half a dozen preceding
the present one, they'lnigbt secure fair
crops, but what the farmers want is in
surance against loss from the effects of
surplus water in another wet season.
They are aotingwisoly, for it Is probable
that the increased yield of their crops
during the first ensuing summer of ex
cessive rain will offset the cost of drain
age. ,
The drains that are being constructed
in tbe valley lands are almost exclusive
ly of tile. On the rooky lands away from
the Connecticut river some stone drains
are being built. When it is an object to
rid the land of surface stones, it may
be advisable to build stone drains, but
the additional labor required, makes a
stone drain more expensive than one of
tile under almost any ciroumstanoes.
There is, some little variation In the
method of making a stone drain, but the
ordinary plan is to lay a row of stones
on each side at the bottom of the ditch,
cover across with fiat stones, place a
layer of cobblestones on these to a depth
of several inches, cover the small stones
with straw or brush to prevent the loose
earth from filling tho crevices and fill
up the ditcb with soil.'
One objection to a drain of this kind
is the liability, provided the soil at tho
bottom of the ditch is not of equal hard
ness for its entire length, that some of
the foundation stones will sink below the
line of the rest. In this case the drain
is likely to bo choked up. Another ob
jection is that burrowing animals may
enter the drain and obstruct it. How
ever, a stone drain well laid on a hard
pan bottom will often remain iu posi
tion and perform good service for many
years. I do not intend to say anything
to discourage any farmer with an over
abundance of loose stones upon his lands
from building a stone drain. Indeed
there are many situations where an open
drain, with sloping sides grassed over,
is very much better than none.
Ben Dnria Apple In Vermont,
The fiurnl New Yorker says: "In our
opinion it is a mistake to plant tbe Ben
Davis apple in Vermont. Vermont can
not grow such large and highly colored
Ben Bavisas they raise in Kansas, Okla
homa, Missouri and Arkansas, and that's
tbe goods they have to .compete 1th.
But Vermont can grow Northern Spy
and greetings, Fameuse and Arctics as
fine as anything iu the world, and that
is what Vermont growers ought to stick
to. With the competition which now
exists in tbe apple business, and which
is bound to grow sharper and sharper
every year, no one should dare go to the
market with any fruit which is not the
best of its kind. Tho best Ben Davis al
ways brings a good price lucre's the
pity but wo can't understand what nse
could be made of a second class Ben
Duvis. Of course Vermonters pack first
class Ben Davis, but tbey -ue second
cldss compared with theOzaik pack."
Bandy Contrtyannes.
One often sees about railway freight
stations an affair similar to the one
shown at Fig. 1 iu theeut, but not hav
ing tbe convenient shovel handle. The
lip of iron nt tbe bottom is placed uuder
tbe edge of a heavy barrel or box, the
whole balanced over the small wheels
and the whole cotily wheeled away.
The shovel handle makes the wheeling
TWO USEFUL COSTUlVAHtM,
away much easier. Such a device will
be found very useful en tbe farm. Make
it of bard wood, with wide iron truck a -At
Fig. 3 is shown an improved form
of device fur moving heavy bodies In the
bouse or barn, stores being bsndled
with special ease by tbe nse of this lit
tle platform on very low, broad castors.
The rear end is so low as almost to
touch tbe fU-or. ' Farm Journal, wbicb
originally illustrated both these articles,
says; "By tilting up tbo object to be
movt-d and Latkica tbe platform in un
der it it can then be wheeled anywhere. "
Bar aad There.
A Massachusetts contributor to Tbe
New England Homestead claims tbat
there hi at least i. 60 per ton difference
between home grown and baled bay.
Striking figure showing tbe decline cf
farming in Connecticut am given by a
Litchfield county statistician. r
An advancing cranberry market is ap
parent, particularly in (be east
Tbe outlook for the sheep industry is
quite inviting at present, and tbe shep
herd feels eneocraged. .
'Mr. Charles Parry expressed tbe opin
ion at a farmers' inctitote that when
farmers realise tbe immense profits in
cbeatnnt culture they will be tumbling
aver each other to net out tbe groves.
Can't capture Grim ana Cl.wer, ebf
Wby not try bribing him? He loves
potash. Bet Sir Muriate after bint, ad
vises Bnral New Yorker.
An exchange says tbat in the south
west turnips are planted in different
parts of the ore hards end allcwcd to re
main. Babbits and mice feed on this
bait and do leas damage to treea
P
POULTRY THAT PAYS
MONEY IN RAISING DUCKS AND GEESE
FOR MARKET. '
Dock Raising- Baa Been Developed Within
the Last Ten Tear Into m Flourtshlnf
Industry Ten Standard Breeds Adrtoe
and Suggestions. '
' ' A recent bulletin of the department
of agriculture states that there are ten
standard breeds of duoks raised iu this
conn try. These are tbe White Peking,.
White,' Aylesbury, Colored Bonen,
White Cayga, Colored Muscovy, Gray
Call, White Call, Black East Indian
and Crested White. The first six named
are considered most profitable to raise.
The two breeds of Calls and the Blaok
East Indian are bantams, which are
bred ' more for the showroom. The
Crested White is almost wholly orna
mental.
i Duok raising has been developed with
in the last ten years into a flourishing
industry. Prior to tbat time the duok
was not considered a profitable fowl to
raiso. Its flesh was never prized very
highly by the masses. Duoks were raised
without constraint in waterways, feed'
ing mostly on fish and water insects.
This food gavo the flesh a strong fishy
flavor; hence it was not particularly
sought after save by a few who were par
tial to that class of diet. The duck cen
ters of Long Island and New England
Were then producing a limited number
each season, and it was with difficulty
that these were sold with any profit.
In fact, one of the most prominent duck
raisers may bo quoted as saying that be
was obliged to visit tho city markets
personally and tease the dealers to pur
chase his birds in order to secure any
thing like satisfactory prices.
Artificial incubation and brooding,
combined with judicious feeding, have
been instrumental in the development
of the industry. Machinery has enabled
the duck raiser to accomplish his ambi
tion of having his stock in the market!
when prices are the best,' and also of
raising large numbers of birds in a lim
ited space of time. The season for rais
ing ducks is about six months from
February to July.
Duck raising is to be recommended
to farmers as a profitable source of rev
enue, and by careful attention to the
work, as knowledge increases, tho scope
of the industry may be extended. There
are numbers of farms in this country to
day tbat are devoted exclusively to rais
ing ducks, averaging from 6,000 to
20,000 ducks as an annual output. An
idea of the proportions of tho business
may be had from the fact that an high,
as three tons of feed aro used daily by
a single raiser during tbe busy season.
Tbe profits are tho very best, and
good incomes may be made when once
the business is thoroughly mastered.
But the reader should not jump impru
dently to the conclusion that these re
sults can be easily obtained. Duck rais
ing is an arduous task, one tbat re
quires au apprenticeship and absolute
knowledge of the business before suc
cess is reached. Those who have been
succesafur in raising ducks have leant'
ed tho business much as one does any
other vocation. The beginner should
start modestly and increase his plant as
his knowledge of tho work Increases.
The average farmer has all the facili
ties for raising a goodly number of
ducks and may with a little outlay add
considerably to his income.
It is not at all necessary that ducks
should have access to water to be raised
successfully. They grow and thrive . as
readily without There aro successful
plants where thousands of ducks aro
raised that bave no water save tbat
which is given them as drink.
Oeeso raising is not so ex tensively en
gaged in as duck raising. The conditions
under which they are successfully reared 1
are almost entlrelv different than those .
necessary for the ducks. Being smaller,
. J
the duck can be raised in a more limited
space than can tbo goose. Tho latter
needs frco range and water. Tbe duck
bos been proved to do equally as well
Without water. Thero aro inany places
on a farm that are worthless for culti
vation tbat could be utilized with excel
lent results in raising geese. Many
farmers profit by this and add to their
incomes annually. There are but little
care and attention necessary fur raising
geese, -and the cost of food is also pro
portionally small . J
Tbo Sapply of Cess.
Not many American eggs are export
ed, and not many eggs are imported,
none except-in seaaonawhun eggs here
run very high. Tbe imported eggs come
from Sweden, Germany and Austria.
Tbey come iq boxes containing hun
dreds of dozens each, packed in chopped
straw. A few eggs in tbis country ore
still packed in straw in barrels, bnt tbe
now well nigb commonly natd Ameri
can egg package is a box orsataining 80
or 88 dozen. Tbe eggs are packed in the
now familiar strawboard racks, which
are called fillers. Tho eggs are stood on
end, each in a pigeonhole by itself, six
dozen eggs in a layer. There are sheets
of strawboard between tbe layers, and
eggs are packed some five and some six
layers to the box. Eggs are most costly
in winter, but cold storage has done
mncb to equalize tbe price of eggs tba
year round. New York Sun.
riektBaT Docks mm4 Osais.
The best method of picking ducks
and gceae Is to steam them. If tbis is
impracticable, tbey may be dipped into
very not water tho same as chickens
and turkeys, bat must be kept in a tri
fle longer, as tne feathers are mors diffi
cult to loosen. It does not pay to pick
them alive for tbe aake of saving the
feathers, as tba email profit derived
from tbem is more than lost on tbe sale
of tbe birds, the result being so to in
flame tba akin as to greatly injurs the
sale. Leave tbe bead od apper portion
of tbe neck unpicked and tne legs and
feet in tart. Never singe docks and
geese, as it leaves tba akin oily and un-
iavittoc . . . - 1
BALLADE OF A CITY BOW Eft
If bonky dolls with brown nnd silver brooks
Pipes number lees perennially shrill,
For publishment betimes in sightly book . .
bongs breathing righteous praise ot bough
and rill, ' .
These are (air spots, but here Clod's gracious
. Will. , :
A etono's throw from the city's heart and din
Gives me as fair let me deserve it still
My upper window where the elm looks in.
They love dark things who celebrfite the rooks
That build In woody places mirk and chilL ,
My neighbor, too, misled, on sturdy hooka
A painted cage bangs from his window sill
. And hears not In ita captive's ev'ry trill
Plena (or the liberty he may not win.
Those ore free, lusty throats with tune that
fill .
My upper windows where the elm looks In.
A gllst'ring, turquoiso bay it overlooks,
My pleasant bower, and a gentle hill
Ollt with wild mustard blossoms. . There are
nooks '
Beyond them doubtless which a little skill
In ballad making must misprize. To-thrill
The world with perfect lays let them begin
Who can. Thla theme befits an humbler quill '
Ky upper window where the elm looks In.
When day is over at the rumbling mill
And slipped the gyves of office discipline.
Here is an exorcist for ev'ry 111
My upper window where the elm looks in.
Edward W. Barnard In Lotus.
THEATRICAL RECEIPTS.
Charles Beade Wondered Why They Ware
Bo Large In America.
"Edwin Booth In London" is the title
of an article in The Century by E. H.
House. Mr. House tolls of an interest
ing meeting between Booth and Charles
Beade and reports the following conver
sation relating to the appearance of
Booth and Irving together;
"Is it true that the prices will be
changed?"
"Doubled, I believe. Irving says they
must bo. That is one of the risks-1
speak of, but he is fnll Of confidence.
He does it more for my sake than any
thing else. "
"Then I hope it will turn out welL
What are the indications?"
"Very good, 1 hear. I cannot jndge
myself. The conditions are all different
from what 1 am used to."
"I understand. We are too slow
and thrifty, I suspect to run the swift
American pace. Yet I can't see why
there should be such an amazing differ
ence in your theatrical business and
ours. The stories we hear of New York
profits sound fabulous. I should say tbey
were fabulous if i had not seen the re
turns of Wallack's when one of my
plays was produced there. A hundred
pounds a night is nothing to you. it
seems."
"Two or three hundred wonld not
stagger us, " said Booth, smiling, "nor
four or five for a very great and special
attraction. For several years the pros
perous houses in Now York considered
91,000 a fair average tho year round.
'Stars' traveling through tho country,
for whom the regular prices ware raised,
could somotimes draw much more. "
" Were yon at all prepared for the
lower receipts hero?"
"Not really prepared. I was told
what to expect, but paid no attention.
Clarke said I should got nothing at the
Princess , but I did not take bis 'noth
ing' literally. I thought I might count
npon $1,000 a month at tho very worst.
He was right, however. "
"I can't moke it out," said Beado.
" Yobr theaters are not larger than ours,
and the prices of tickets are about the
same, yet I see the Adelphi or the Ut.
James' packed, without about one-half
the result tbat Wallack's shows. It
beats my arithmetic. Yon can't get
moro people into a place than it will
nold."
We do that, too, sometimes,"
laughed Booth, "but, as I say, yon must
come and find out all about it for your
eelf, Mr. Reado. Your audiences will be
larger than tho balls can hold, so yon
can study, the
pToUlum under tbe best
conditions. '
'No', no. Yon
tempt me to my de-
atruction." But tbe compliment greatly
r jucumxi tuu auiuur, wuu iiaeu uj ueur
. . i . I l ,:, a . i
uch things said, though be affected a
lofty iudiffcrcuoo to praise
ficoldlng Vadwr DiOUmltlas.
At a church gathering some time ago
a number of deaf mates were present
Befresbniuuts wcra served during the
evening, and in haudiug a cup of coffee
to ouo of tbo guests a deaf mute gsntlu-
men happened to spin a lew orops on
bis wife's skirt. Tbe wife is also a deaf
mute, and it was evident that she took
the mishap iu a rather irritable way.
She wrinkled up bi-r forehead and at
once made a series of remarkably swift
movements with her nimble" fingers.
Tbe husband, looking exceedingly apol
ogetic, made a few motions in return.
One of tbe guests who bad noticed
this little byplay slyly slipped out a
bit of paper and penciling something on
it banded it to a friend.
Tbis Is what tbe latter read:
"No matter bow badly afflicted, wo
man can still scold."
Tho friend scribbled tbis in return:
"Yes, bnt in tbo presentcaae tbebns
band is luckier than the average. He
doesn't bave to look. " Cleveland Plain
ffcaler. '
MarrM Wwata Taasheta.
Of all tbe causes now tending to keep
women oat of matrimony one that is
very effective la tbe discrimination
against married women teachers in tbe
jmbiio schools. Maiden. Mass., is tbe
latest to dec lure tbat tbe marriage of a
poblio school teacher shall be regarded
s a resignation of her office. Mark the
pronoun "ber." No soch discrimination
is made against mau. .Woman's Trib
nne, "-J T.-. !
L Tbe region between tbe first and sec-
od cataracts of the Nile l tbe hottest
on tbe globe. It never rains there, and
the natives do not believe foreigners
who tell tbem tbat water can
from tbe sky.
Tba Bouan bosses and palaces were
an imperfectly lighted tbat in many liv
ing rooms tbe inmates were forced to
sSepand on lamps by day aa wll aa by
abjbt.
Royal atakss the teed pare.
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A horrible occurrence is reported
from Goldsboro. On Monday night
a week while two children of Prof.
A. L. Sumner, the principal of the
colored school at Burgaw, .; were
asleep in a feather bed in a room up
stairs, the house caught fire in some
inexplc.inable manner. The oldest
one managed to get out hut a child
about 4 years old was burned to
death. A, colored man ran np stairs
to rescue it and when he gejzed hold
of it, the arms of the child camd ofi
and he was so badly burned that he
threw the child out of the second
story window. It was dead, how
ever, before he threw it out , .
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The Newbern people aro having
somo fun over the antics of Dick
Williams, who owns the electric
lights of that town, and A. R. Den
nission, Newbera's new mayor, , a
Republican. The mayor employed
a Philadelphia expert tc test tbe arc
lightn, on the supposition that Wil
liams was not giving lights of l,200v
candle power, as per contract The
test was attempted in whole or in
part secretly and Williams got alter
them with a bot gun as they were
monkeying with his property.
Thero are numerous law cases re
sulting therefore.
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.North Wilkesboro suffered a $14,T
000 fire Sunday night amreek. It
started in the furniture department '
of Stafford ISros. store, the entire "
building being destroyed. It spread i .
to the store of Mr. McGee and the Si
residence of Policeman Vicker, both
of which; were burned,. Tho whole
sale More of X(,A. Jama and the 'l
bank building caueht several times
but were saved. The losses of Staf
ford ISros. and McGee the heaviest
the first Lei ng $6,000 with $4,800
insurance : the second, $4,000 with
$1,500 insurance. The office of
The Hustler, weekly newspaper,
was destroyed. The paper will re-T '
sumc publication as soon as material 1
caq le bought Three citizens in
their efforts to save property were .
painfully bunted and na newly
encajcd with their lives. -
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The large store of tho.Parmele
Commissary was destroyed Mon
day ni(ht by fire and the body ot
Mr- Whitrly. father of Mr.T.' F.
Whrtely, Coast Line agent at Ifot
good, was found in the waste. It is
thought that the store was robbed
early in tho night a"nd Whitely was
murdered and the store fired to
cover up all evidences. . This report
is current in Parade, says an el
change. ' -
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