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BOUND TO HAVE A GOOD TINS£ Two New England Woihen Visited New York on. Pleasure Bent. The strangeness of human nature Is rarely developed to a greater extent than in n New York hotel, but of all gueer guests the Fifth Avenue Hotel has ever entertained a woman and her daughter who stayed,there a few weeks ago easily lead all others. The woman, who was apparently about 50 years old and bore all the marks of a life of hard work came to the hotel one morn­ ing. -Her daughter looked like a typi­ cal milkmaid. It was:evident that all city ways were new to the couple. Both were in mourning. The day tliat-_ they arrived the mother deposited $1,- 400 with the clerk and told him to draw against it for all expenses incurred. Then they went away and the employes of the house seldom saw anything, of them. w:' The fact that such a coilpt* was in the house was frequently mentioned. All sorts of packages and bundles kept coming to the hotel for'the couple and they were always marked "C.' O. D." The clerk at the hotel paid" all bills without a question, but vaguely won­ dered what was going on. The mother and her daughter soon branched out in rainbow finery. They wore jewelry and had the best of everything. Their pinched faces arid hardened hands con­ trasted strangely with the gorgeousness of their apparel. They went to the theaters, and enjoyed themselves in many other ways,'\Tliey began to show a decided knowledge of everything metropolitan and did not need anyone td 'show them around. One day the clerk in making up the bills found that the amount for board and bills paid, when checked up against the $1,400 deposited, left a deficit of about $31. The woman was sent for and came to the ottice in a state of ner-. vous excitement. When told that she had overdrawn her account she began to cry. The manager of the house was much mystified over the conduct of the woman before, but her tears added to the mystery. The lavish prodigality she had displayed and the large amount of money she had deposited satisfied them that she was a Woman of wealth and that the deficit was nothing worthy of notice. They simply drew her atten­ tion to it as a business matter. When the woman had quieted down she blurt­ ed out hysterically: "Well. I will jest .have to go to jail then. I hain't got no more money. I told Martha as how she would get us all in trouble, and no w she lias done fit." The management of the house tried to comfort her and said: "Why, surely, if you had so much money you can get 'more. Where did that come from?" "That was life insurance," sobbed the woman. "When Lije died I took the insurance and come to New York to have a good time. I ain't got another cent in the world. The only thing I have is the farm up in Vermont, and that ain't worth nothin'." This was interesting news, and the manager of the hotel tried to get other facts from the woman. The woman had been married to a hard-fisted, puri­ tanical New England farmer. lie hail kept both her and her daughter at the grindstone without Intermission. He carried a policy for $1,500 on his life, and between paying the installments and the rest of the expenses of the family there was never a dollar left to enjoy life upon. When he died the daughter rebelled. She said that she had never had a good time in her life and she proposed to have one now. She prevailed upon her mother to collect the money and start out for a vacation, and not come back until it was all spent. When she arrived at the hotel she had about $1,500, and she gave all but $100 to the hotel clerk and kept the rest for incidental expenses. This was gone also, and the poor woman was at a loss what to do. The daugh­ ter was called and she corroborated her mother's story. She was a woman whom long contact with poverty had embittered, and she declared passion­ ately her willingness to go to jail. She said she had "had her fling," and' now she "didn't care what became of her."' The hotel manager became interested and took charge of the case, forgave the woman the overdraft and secured her transportation back to her farm. She left after thanking him tearfully and a few days later the mail age r got a letter from the woman saying that she had reached the farm safely and was going to stay there the rest of her days.--New York Tribune. An Ancient Obelisk. A magnificent obelisk of black gran­ ite, ten feet high, was found built into rlie foundations of a house at Cairo, which was recently demolished Vpr re­ building. This monolith is more than .3,000 years old, for, according to its inscription, it, was erected by Barneses II. about the year 1300 B. C: It'origin­ ally stood in an open square within the temple of Athribis, in the delta of the Nile. The son of Rameses, Meremptali, and one of his successors, Sfctlips II., have also inscribed their n'hmes upon this beautiful stone. The proprietor; of the building beneath whjcl^ ; tlie stone was found sold It to the German consul, who shipped the. obelisk to ,the National Museum In Berlin, where It is due to arrive early next month. A Striking Advertisement. • A very striking and novel form of electrical advertising is to be attempt­ ed at the opening of the earls' court exhibition in London. A sign contain­ ing a series of luminous words formed of Incandescent lamps will be con­ structed. The letters of the words will be raised 300 feet from the ground, and each letter will be forty feet in height. The whole sign will cover an area of about 10,000 square feet. From tests that have been made it is expected thaf the illumined letters wULbe visible on a clear night at a dif^nce of six to eight miles, but whethe^ they will be legible so far away remains to be seen. Boston's Most Beautiful Woman. The most beautiful woman in Boston is a mulatto with a dash of Jewish blood. Irreproachably dressed, grace­ ful in bearing, with a suggestion of Oriental languor, she is a rare delight to the eye, and her voice is like unto the voice of the viola.--Boston Journal. A man is always willing to stop Com­ plaining of his misfortunes long enough to tell a neighbor how many things the neighbor has to be thankful for. Until a girl reaches ten years of age it is a pleasure to receive little atten­ tions from her, for you know that she has not yet begun to think of marrying. WAS A BRAVE WOMAN HIS RENOMI NATION EFFECTED BY ACCLAMATION. TAKES HER DEAD HUSBAND'S PLACE AT THE GUN. When He Was Shot Margaret Corbin 5%Faced the Foe While Scores of Men Hastened to Get A war-Ranks with the Mj^l of Saranossa. Platform Demands Free Coinage* of. Silver--National Delegates Fledged to Support Only a Silver Man--"Gov­ ernment by Injunction Denounced." As a Cannoneer in a Battle. Margaret Corbin, a New York woman, whose bravery ranks her with Byron's famous heroine, the maid of Saragossa, and also with the maid of Domremy, 1a comparatively unknown to the world. Historians overlooked one of the grand­ est women that ever trod the earth, when failed to tell of the deed of heroism tone by Margaret Corbin during the bat- tils of Fort Washington. A few lines la an encyclopedia- tell something of her, frot no place else js there a word about her. * It was in the defense of New York city that Margaret Corbin showed herself as a ©onrageous and brave woman. In th# battle of Harlem plains--first and laj^ggf importance to be fought on the Island of Manhattanr^hers was the only deed of •hining valor that gave the surrender of Fort Washington the glory of victorious eBislariee. There were incompetence, ick of arms, pnsilanimity--indeed, it was .here at Fort Washington that treachery •like Arnold's, only more successful, was practiced. Some men died .bravely. One of them Margaret Corbin's husband. He 'was serving s cannon against the Hessiang in one of .the redoubts which stayetl4he advance of the enemy oh the fort. Baron Kuyphausen was directing his well-disciplined troops according to the information tftkon through the lines by the traitor. (W to the southeast Lord Percy was pressing with superior confi­ dence and numbe® upon the earthworks defended by Col. ufadwalader of Philadel­ phia. Just as hope was departing, and the Americans were falling back, here and there, one gunner was rendered con­ spicuous by standing his ground. It was Corbin, a Pennsylvania man, and by his side his tidy little wife, cheeks flaming with exertion and excitement, labored to speed his loading and firing. Suddenlv Corbin dropped and rolled to bis wife's feet. dead. The fragile woman •tepped to the gun, swabbed it, rammed bome the shot and touched off the charges, valiantly determined not to yield what ber husband died to retain. There was only hostile faces around, and she was alone and isolated. Presently, wounded by three grapeshot, she felL She hadn't saved the <iritlame like Jeanne d'Arc, but •he had shown again that there is one thing that woman can do as well as the best ef men--they can die grandly! It was due rather to a stanch constitu­ tion than to tender nursing that Margaret Oorbin did not come to her death by those linked balls. Three years later, in 1779, the council of Pennsylvania appealed on her behalf to the board of war, and in consequence she received from Congress a pension of one-half the monthly pay of a soldier in service. Learning, in the year following, that her injuries deprived her of the use of one arm, the Govern­ ment allowed her "one complete suit of clothes out of the public stores," or the value thereof in money in addition to the provision previously made. That, and the title of "patriot" in the records, which is a fine title to hold and deserve, is all the recognition which her service ever got It was thirty-three years afterward that the maid of Saragoasa imitated Margaret Oorbin's bravery, and received the renown that should have been bestowed upon the heroine of the battle at Fort Washington. ^ ̂ ^ tSi " TAKES HER DEAD HUSBAND'S PLACE IN THE FIGHT. enough to picture the amount of money which he thinks he could spend to advan­ tage on this day. How to make a little money go a long way wrinkles the fore­ heads of the youths and troubles their sleep with dreams of complicated mathe­ matical problems. If the hoard of cash is small no bright little chap needs any advice as to the ways of disposing of it. He will prim up his home with all the flags he can find and invest his money in firecrackers. the pieces of tissue paper the exact square, by machine, and then force the center of each square through the holes of a brass rack. Then a lad drops some of the ful­ minate in the bottom of the little bag there formed, and another boy fills the little paper up with gravel. Then the racks are handed to girls, who brush paste over the tops of the papers and twist them tight into little points so that the gravel cannot fall out. This done they are packed in sawdust, ten in a box, and are ready for you to awake your neigh­ bors. BELLS OF LIBERTY, OOV. JOHN P. ALTOELD, -f~Pl Aye. let the glad bells " I |\ ring to-day O'er all this sun- kiss'd clime, „ 1--̂ King loud and cljcar and far away, jgj: F°r this Is Free- j p F ~ ^ d o m ' s t i m e ; And lot them tell the tale anew, river, lake and • rill. How long ago our grandslres true Stood fast at Bunker Hill. Ring out with joy, O, tuneful bell, From surging sea to sea; Let every stroke melodious swell The paean of liberty. Ring out where the pine tree's crest Majestic seeks the sky To where the waters of the West In golden glory lie. Above Atlantic's snowy foam Take up the cherished strain. And In their fair palmetto's home Join in the glad refrain: No North, no South, no East, no West. For love hath stopped the fray; Ring out, O, bells, by heaven blest. Beneath our flag to-day. Proclaim our grandeur to the world In chorus reaching far; Tell how all flags but one are furl'd Beneath the Union star- How, lu the burst of Freedom's sun Beside the Western sea, We are the land of Washington. Where every soul is free. O, bells! your tongues with pride endow, And let the nations know That, while our swords are plowshares now, Wo fear no foreign foe; Join with the bell whose thrilling sound. Amid the strife forlorn. Proclaimed to patriots gathered 'round'* That Liberty was born! Ring proudly, bells, beneath the sky. The anthems of the free, In valley low, on mountain high. Ring out for Liberty! Let not a bell In silence rest That hangs "twixt wave and wave; Recrown the land we love the best- Land of the fair and brave! Recollection* of July 4, 1770. WHAT THE DAY MEANS. The Fourth of July la the Greatest National Holiday in the World. ft jgeaaggte HE greatest nation- al holiday in fthe wor'd 's that on which is celebrated L er nations have their days of jubilee, when ' some leading event in theirr history is commemorated. France celebrates the destruction of the Bastile; Germany, the triumph of Sedan; Italy, the entry of the Italian troops into Rome. The Hebrews to this day commemorate in joy and feast­ ing the deliverance of their race from the bondage of Egypt; but not one of these, celebrations can compare in world-wide significance with the Fourth of July. The Bastile was a monument of ancient des­ potism, the overthrow of which signified that the people had cast off the chains of their tyrants; Sedan was a great military victory, but it was a victory of conquest; and the day which marks the union of the Italian peninsula witnessed not so much the birth of a new nation as the resurrec­ tion of a race. How much more mem­ orable than all these is that great day, vrihen the delegates of Great Britain's American colonies assembled in Philadel­ phia, proclaimed that a new nation had been founded in the New World, having for its basis the inalienable right of man­ kind to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and, in the name of a few weak communities fringing the Atlantic shore of the Western continent, threw down a challenge of defiance to one of the most powerful empires of the earth! The Declaration of Independence was not the assertion of freedom by a nation of slaves. Americans were always free. The Pilgrims who landed on the bleak New England shore were freemen; bound, It Is true, to British allegiance, but ex­ ercising from the first the rights of self- government. The American colonies nev­ er lost the freedom which the Fathers established, and the brief tyranny of An- dros only scathed, without destroying, the heritage of liberty handed down by the founders to their sons. The Declara­ tion of Independence was as much an as­ sertion of rights which had long been en­ joyed, and a protest against tyrannical attempts to encroach upon those rights, as St was a proclamation of that indepen­ dence which Americans deemed to be necessary for..the protection of their free­ dom. ' ~ ̂•e!Xr7S3b̂ "•Mai®?- THE TABERNACLE, WHEKE THE CONTENTION WAS HELD. Little Tee Whew's Fourth. "How many fingers has my boy?" Asked his mother of Little Tee Whew; "Eight," she cried, as he spread them wide; "Of thumbs, dear me, you have only two! Do be careful of them to-day!" As Tom ran off, to himself he said: "What notions mamma gets Into' her head." The day bega/n--tho Fourth, you know- Bells to ring and whistles to blow. Tom, with Billy and Sam Carew, Showed wky they called him "Little Tee Whew." In the very thick ftf tho fizz and noise Tom was the busiest one of the boys; But now and then, In the bang and smoke, He'd think of the words his mother spoke. Then he'd gravely count his finger tips. To make quite sure there were eight, not six. "When one's so busy," said Little Tee Whew, "It Is almost more than a boy can do To count eight lingers--and thumbs--one-- two." The toy pistol banged, with a flash and sneeze, "Just one nice little finger, please." "No," said Tom; "mamma did say: 'Don'tbreak, nor burn, nor blow one away!' " Down fell a match and set on fire Tom's torpedoes, with hot desire For one fat thumb--but Tom was stout In saying: "No, you must go without." At last, when the rockets blazed at night, He fell from the wall, and half In fright, He counted over his precious store Of fingers eight, and thumbs, once more., When he crept to bed in his nightgown small And turned his face to the nursery wall, He sleepily murmured: "It seems to me Boys don't need more than two or three; Dear, dear!" And he fell asleep with the sigh: "I'mnot going to count next Fourth o* July!" But his mother said, as she smoothed his hair: "I'm glad my Little Tee Whew's all there!" The Nursery. "When Will We Three Meet Again?" FIREWORKS AMERICAN" MADE. Btaten Island Is Knocking: Ont China Better than Japan Did. N the little town of vM Graniteville, on Sta- • ten Island, more f: than 300 persons, apjfeV mostly farmers' ^a u g 4 e rs> w°r^ Jm from one year to the Mi next, making color- ^ ̂ res aD(* ^oc^e^8 r P and roman candles and those mysterious =» things known as "set pieces," which go off, It is true, according to program, but which need a guide and a spokesman most times to tell what they are all about. And talk about Chinese labor! Well, these energetic Americans work so, systemat­ ically for 357 days of the year, barring Sundays, that their employers are able to sell nearly 20,000 gross of fireworks •t less than one-half a cent each, and are still able to make a profit of 25 per cent, on their output. In this Graniteville, bound in with a fence over which even a baseball crank cannot hope to look, is a succession of frame buildings, before each of which stands a bucket filled with water. The buildings are separated so that if the contents of one of them go up to join the elements of air and fire, the water may be tliene to help out the insurance com­ panies. As yet the factory does not attempt to THE SMALL BOY 'S DELIGHT. Fonrthof July with Its Flags and Fire­ crackers Is the Day of All Days. -Pn' •, I^HiE small boy's life „ p would not be worth f living * without a Fourth of July cele­ b r a t i o n . C h r i s t m a s , j with all the fine pres­ ents that old Santa Glaus, with a heart in him as big as a woodchuck, can shower on a boy is all very nice, and the turkey and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Day are not to be lightly passed over, but for out-and-out fun, with no after­ math of stomach aches and disappointments, Fourth of July is the holiday of holidays. It begins for the boy a month or two back, when he begins to hoard up pennies and get estimates on the probable cost of fire­ crackers. The day itself begins when he finds the harbingers of the morning sing the joliiest songs to the tune of the boom­ ing of. cannons and the merry explosions of firecrackers. The fun never slacks while daylight lasts, and the evening is closed with a dazzling display of colors that is to be dreamed about for months. The old boys get as much fun out of the day as the young ones. On every other holiday people like to make visits or to go to shows, but on the Fourth of July v '^ every one' wants to stay at home, the A.| V you n g p e o p l e t o c a r r y o u t t h e i r c e l e b r a - • I ^ j j tion, and the older people, as they pre- 1. I I 1 tend, to help the children celebrate. It is | || pretense merely. For the more Fourths | H one has celebrated the more fun he can ^ jgisggs get from the next. ssJWP There is no boy that has as much money : to spend on the Fourth as he would like -N° man can be truly bravo who Is to have. His imagination is not large not trying to be truly good. SOME POLITICAL I.OO-ItOI.MSO. nounced that Downing received 589 votes and Herford 480, and the nomination of Downing was made unanimous. W. F. Beck, of Richmond County, was unani­ mously nominated by acclamation for Auditor. Col. Edward C. Pace, of Wash­ ington County, was nominated for State Treasurer by a^stauding vote and by acclamation. George A. Trude, of Chi­ cago, and Timothy J. Scofield, of Adams County, were named for Attorney Gen­ eral, The vote resulted: Trude, 826; Scofield, 243. Trude's nomination was made unanimous. Yellow soap and whiting mixed to a piste:with a little water will atop * leak as quickly as Bolder.