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gathered at the old homestead at Spring­ field testified their glee by using the hat as a football. A few of us went over to assist Mrs. Lincoln about the supper which was to be given some gentlemen who had come in to hear the returns. It was after mid­ night before enough had beenlearned to Warrant the belief that our candidate had been elected. We went nearly wild with joy, and congratulated Mr. Lincoln most heartily. Someone saw the famous "stovepipe" in the hall, and, seizing it, threw it up to the ceiling. Another caught it, and then it went the rounds till it fell to the floor, when one gave it a kick, nnd then an­ other, and another gave the hat a send- off, until it was so battered that it had- lost all resemblance to its original shape. Mr. Lincoln looked on and smiled good- naturedly at the childish performance.-- Philadelphia Record. DEATH IN THE STORM. LATTIMER TRIAL BEGINS. KILLED IN THE HOUSE HEAVY TRADE BALANCE. Case Against Sheriff Martin for Shoot­ ing Miners in Pennsylvania. The triu,l of James Martin, high sheriff of Luzerne County, Pa., and his* eighty deputies on charges of murder and felo­ nious wounding, was begun in the county court house at Wilkes-Barre Tuesday. Sept. 10 a collision took place at Latti- raer between Sheriff Martin and his arm- FURIOUS BLIZZARD' IN THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. TELLER RESOLUTION WITH DEFEAT. Over a Score Are Killed--Property Loss Foots Up to Hundreds of Thou­ sands of Dollars--Boston a Severe Sufferer-Isolated for Hours. After a Lively Debate, Kvery Repub­ lican, with One. Exception, Votes Against Measure-Resnlt Is 182 to 132. Deals Wide Destruction. Lives have been lost, hundreds of thou­ sands of dollars' worth of property has been destroyed and all tranches of busi­ ness have been paralyzed by the fierce storm which exhausted its fury Tuesday afternoon on the New England States. Not in twenty-five years has Jbere been a storm of such severity. It will be days before anything like an accurate estimate can be made of the damage inflicted. It will be weeks before the effects of the storm ,will have passed away. More than a score of lives have been lost along the New England coast. At least thirty coast­ wise and fishifig vessels are reported as having been wrecked, while as many mofe are missing. .The storm, which began Monday morn­ ing and continued till a late hour Tuesday afternoon,'was the most severe lb every way of which the weather bureau has any record. About eighteen inches of snow fell in Boston, with a wind blowing from thirty to fifty miles an hour. The storm Was even -more severe in the North and East. . " • For about eighteen hours. Boston w&s cut off from all communication with the outside world, no wires were working, and all trains and electric cars were stalled. Hundreds of miles of wires are flat, and it Will take thousands of men several days to restore the service to its normal condition. At least sixty horses were killed in Bos­ ton by falling trolley and electric wires. The streets in many places were literally covered With a network of live wires,- and as the districts Monday night were in to­ tal darkness it was extremely dangerous to pedestrians. Few electric cars made any progress, and many filled with pas­ sengers were stalled all night because of falling wires and deep snow. The steam trains fared little better, as nearly all the tracks were covered with wires and -poles, in addition to snow, making progress even for a locomotive practically impossible. Add to this the fact that the switches and signals refused to work, and that no com­ munication could be had with „the conduc­ tors of trains on the road, and some idea of the completeness of the blockade can bo obtained. Superintendent Merritt of the Western division of the Boston and Maine Railroad says it is the most disas­ trous storm on his road since 18(57. None of the New England States es­ caped the force of the storm. New Hamp­ shire and Vermont are having the most severe winter in twenty years. Follow­ ing temperatures ranging from twenty to thirty degrees below zero, the storm came and completely paralyzed all railroad and telegraphic communication. Drifts thir­ ty feet deep are reported from the hill towns, and railroad trains are stuck in the snow. Many mills and factories made no at­ tempt to run, and "no school" signais were hoisted in twenty-eight of the thirty- three eities.in New England. ing, and, although the old man was on the most familiar terms with her husband and children, he never noticed her. He died the other day, leaving an estate val­ ued at $45,000. • • * By his will he left his widow §30,000, and to his son-in-law the remainder, pro­ vided ho survived his wife, the farmer's own daughter. If the son-in-law died first, then the money was to be divided among his three children. To his daugh­ ter Mr. Martin bequeathed "a package to be found in his trunk, tied and sealed with green ,wax." When this was opened it' was found to be the unfortunate valen­ tine that had caused the estrangement of the farmer' front his. daughter half a century ago. . " - ^ " IN connection with the celebration of Lincoln's birthday it will not be out of pbtee to reproduce from the New York Herald a part of the description of his swwssination given by the poet, Walt Whitman, who was present in Ford's Yiwnter when the foul deed was done: -There is a scene in the play ('Our j8t»eTican Cousin') representing a modern gMsrtor, In which two unprecedented Eng- Msft ladies are informed by an impossible Yankee that he is not a man of fortune, amt&i therefore, undesirable for marriage ^niching purposes; after which, the coin- swsnts being finished, the dramatic trio amafee exit, leaving the stage plear for a moment. •"* • •• "At this period came the, murder of J&rstltam Liticdln. Great as was all its Manifold train circling round it, and Mretclsipg in,to the future for many a cen- flery, in",the politics, historv, art, etc.. of •Sfce Hew W orld--in point of fact the main the actual murder, transpired with 4Hts* quiet 4ind simplicity of any commonest «eeorrence--the bursting Qf a bud or pod 5>i the growth of vegetation, for instance. Through the general hum following! She stage pause, with the change of po­ sition, came the muffled sound of a pistol sliot, which not one-hundredth part of •She audience heard at the time, and yet » saoment's hush, somehow, surely a TOSiie startled' thrill, and then, through She ornamented, draperied, starred and striped space way of the President's box, a sudden figure, a man raises himself with.hands and feet, stands a moment on the railing, leaps below to the stage, a <SisJor.ee of perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet, falls out of position, catching his boot heel in the copious drapery--the American flag--falls on one knee, quickly ETOOTers himself, rises as if nothing had happened (he really sprained his ankle, Sort unfeit then). "And so the figure. Booth, the murder- j «r» dressed in plain black broadcloth, bare headed, with full glossy, raven hair, and his eyes like some mad animal's, flashing with light and resolution, yet with a cer­ tain strange calmness, holds aloft in one Sraad a large knife, walks along, not much tatefe from the footlights, turns fully to­ ward the audience, his face of statuesque fecnty, lit by those basilisk eyes, flash- | LINCOLN AS A DOORKEEPER. How Abe Pinned on the Badge and Did Duty for a Time. James Elter is one of the oldest; door­ keepers in the War Deportment at Wash­ ington, and has been stationed at the Seventeenth street entrance of the Win­ der Building for many years, occupying a, chair, in which President Lincoln sat while he acted as doorkeeper in place of Mr. Elter. Speaking of the incident, Mr. Elter said: "One1 day a tall, lank'gentleman came to the entrance and asked me if the Sec­ retary was in, and I told him no, that it was too early for.him. He then asked at what hour he would be likely to find him, and I told him. With a pleasant "Thank you' (something we don't always get) he walked away. At the hour I told him the Secretary would be in he again walked up the steps and asked me if I would not go to the Secretary's room and tell him that he wished to see him. I told him I could not leave my post. ^ " 'Oh, that is all right. I am Mr. Lin­ coln, and I will keep door while you de­ liver my message. Tell him that I want to see him here in the lower hall.' With this the President unpinned my badge, stuck it in his own coat, and took my chair. I hastened to the Secretary's room, and soon the two were together near me, but in quiet and earnest talk. I never did know why Mr. Lincoln did not want to go to the Secretary's room, but I know that I prize this chair. I call it Abe Lincoln. No doubt that was the only time a President ever acted as a doorkeeper." SHERIFF SI ART IN. od deputies and a body of striking miners. Twenty miners were killed " and fifty wounded. Subjects of Australia, Italy and Germany were among the killed, and tl^ese countries arte awaiting the outcome of the trial to make claims for damages upon the United States. The.defendants all come from Hazelton anu vicinity and are all men of considerable standing and good reputation. Henry M. Hoyt, deputy Attorney Gen­ eral of the United States, is in attend­ ance at the trial. In sending Mr. Hoyt to attend the trial the United States Gov­ ernment has only one object in view-- namely, to protect itself in case foreign Governments file claims for damages l'fjr the killing of their subjects at Lattimer. Austria has already made a move in that direction, and it is understood if the ver­ dict is against Sheriff Martin and his dep­ uties Germany and Italy will til/ claims at once. Each of these Governments has a representative from its legation at Washington present at the trial. It has never been satisfactorily explain­ ed why the 14th of February is called St. Valentine's Day. It has been ascribed as being named after Valentine, who suffer­ ed martyrdom as a presbyter of the church, under Claudius, about 270, but nowhere in the history of his life can there be found the least incident connected with him that could possibly have given rise to the practice of that day, unless as some authorities claim, Valentine being a man possessed of great love and charity, his name was thus honored and revered, but this idea does not seem plausible. Some authorities have given the suppo­ sition credence that it is possibly deriv­ ed from the custom practiced by the an­ cient Church of Rome, to choose on this day patrons for the ensuing year, and was perhaps taken up by gallantry after it was dropped by compulsion by the sup­ erstitious at the reformation, for since that time the custom of choosing valen­ tines was a sport practiced by the Eng­ lish gentry as early as 1476 in their homes, but as all this is an uncertainty, we are A VALENTINE. TALMAGE'S SECRET MARRIAGE. Dear little maid In the scarlet hood, 1 know you're merry, I'm sure you're good; Your little blue skirt is patched and frayed, i'ou've a shoe-string bow on your towsled braid. Your shoes are stubby, and square, and old. Your ravelling mittens let in the cold; But you pass each day when the school-beij rings, Merrily making the best of things. Hoppity-skipping, 1 watch you come. Arms entwined with a giggling chum. Borne on the crest of a wave of girls, A motley tossing of hoods and curls. Friends behind you and friends before Surging in shouts to the sehoolhouse door-- Homely and happy, and shabby and proud. The laughing queen of the chattering crowd. Wise little maid of the hundred friends, Cheerily taking what fortune seuds, \our nose is snub and -your mouth is wide (rve seen a cooky tuckea whole inside!) And freckles all over your round cheeks lie Like cinnamon sprinkled on pumpkin-pie; But your eyes are gay, and your laugh is sweet. As you hoppity-sklp down the dingy street, ** Dear little maid in the scarlet hood, I am your friend, and will you be mine? I know you're merry, I'm sure you're good. And I'd like you, please^ for my valentiue. --Youth's Companion. LINCOLN'S BIRTHPLACE. The Announcement Thereof Created a Sensation Among His Friends. The recent marriage of Rev. Dr. T. De- Witt Talmage was a great surprise to his friends and relatives--even to his son. Mrs. Charles Collier, whom he married, is a handsome widow of 39 and one of The third week of the great-cotton mill strike in New England has closed, and it brings no change in the unfortunate situ­ ation. The storm center is still at New Bedford, with smaller strikes scattered throughout the other cities, and opera­ tives in still others waiting to see the out­ come of the New Bedford workers' fight before they take a hand at it themselves. Operators and mill owners are as deter­ mined as ever and declare that they will not yield. The manufacturers reiterate their declarations: That the market for cotton manufactures has not recovered from the business depression; that the opening of cotton mills in the South has seriously affected the market; that their properties no longer earn divi­ dends. commensurate with their invest­ ments; that their operatives are as well paid as any, and better paid than most o.f them; that a system of fines for inferior work is necessary to protect them against careless workmen; that the operatives could live comfortably under the new schedule if they were good managers. The answer the operatives make is this: That the mill owners, having regularly declared dividends of from 5. to 1G per cent, do not need to reduce expenses; that mule spinners alone of all the operatives could avoid starvation under a schedule 10 per cent below present wages; that they have been unable to pay living! ex­ penses at the old wages; that their hoties, rented from the companies, are desqate and unsanitary; that the employers jow require them to weave large cuts of gdxls at the same price they formerly received for smaller ones; that the mill owrnrs, by arbitrary fines, are able to regulate wages to suit themselves. The operatives are full of courage to resist the reduction. Forty-nine Gerijan families have left town for Texas, wlj?re they have secured employment in the ot- ton mills, and many more Canadians ire to return to their homes across the br- der, to remain until the close of the stng- gle. The manufacturers have made no signs toward starting up their mills, aid no more is expected on their part for seme time to come. WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. His Illnc-ss Not of So Severe n Char­ acter as to Endanger His Life. It is gratifying news that Mr. Glad­ stone's illness is not of so grave a charac­ ter as to endanger his life. Whatever may be thought of his politics and his work as a statesman, there is something fine and admirable in the way in which this famous man has conserved his en­ ergies and kept himself healthy and active up to the ago of SO. To have been so actively engaged in large enterprises, to have lived so long and accomplished good hard work in ev- Poverty and Desolation Wafted on the Famous Baby. Abraham Lincoln, the great wafPresi- dent, was born in Larue (then Hardin) County, Kentucky, in a rude little log cabin, says St. Nicholas. This cabin has recently been restored and so far as pos­ sible made exactly as it was eighty-eight years ago, when a little baby boy wh\ born to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, or "Linkhorn," as the name was then spell­ ed--humble "settlers," who had moved to the neighborhood from Washington County four years before. The few living people who remember Thomas Lincoln, the father, say that he was a rather improvident man, not work­ ing long at any one thing. He was a hard worker, but was a poor manager, and the little family was often without more than the simplest necessaries of life. Thomas Lincoln cleared a few acres around his cabin and raised a small crop of corn and grain. Then he became a car­ penter and tinker, working at such odd jobs as he could- find among the pioneer neighbors. He was away at work at the time Abraham was born. The neighbors heard that Mrs. Lincoln was in the cabin all alone with the little baby and had little to eat except corn and potatoes. They at once visited the Lincoln cabin, taking such delicacies as their houses afforded. The father return­ ed in a few days and the baby was named Abraham Lincoln, after his grandfather, who had been killed by the Indians when Thomas Lincoln was a little boy. A St. Valentino's Tea. A St. Valentine's tea may be easily made a very charming little festivity. The guests should consist of a few bright young people, and the whole affair should be conducted in a spirit of fun and in­ formality. A sentimental quotation should be written on the name card at each plate, taking care that it has some appropriate­ ness to the guest. The prevailing colors in flowers or other table decoration should be pink and white. All the dishes should be suitable to the occasion, at least in name, and each one accompanied by a suggestive couplet, to be read aloud by the server. A Good Postman. If I were a postman I'd learn how to lose The letters that vex And that earry bad news. But I'd pack such a stack In my bag, 'twouldbe queer If you didn't have valentines I Twelve times a year. MRS. T. DK WITT TAI.MAGK the most charming women in the society of Pittsburg's twin city. Last summer she visited New York, being one of a party of friends who spent several weeks with Rev. Dr. Paxon. Another of the guests was Dr. Talmage. It was the first time the renowned divine aud the woman who is to share his joys and sorrows met, and it was a case where Cupid conquered immediately. When the guests parted there was an understanding between the preacher and the widow. Correspondence was continued, but no one suspected any­ thing. Saturday Dr. Talmage went to Allegheny, where preparations for a quiet, secret marriage had been made. After the ceremony the announcement was giv­ en out and it created, a sensation. This is Dr. Talmage's third venture on the mat­ rimonial sea. His second wife died two years ago. BOOTH FIRES THE FATAL SHOT. GO TO BED EARLY, GIRLS. Take Warning from Miss Fitzgerald's Fate, and Don't Yawn. No matter how bored you are, don't yawn. Be warned by the sad case of Miss Emma Fitzgerald of Oakland, Cal., --. and keep your jaws ^ i n t h e i r n o r m a l p o s i - / V vA Miss Fitzgerald is f / ' n Hi years old, and, I j ) I "'u! well-couduct- \ f~-'\ I / / ed damsels of that. Vf-/J age, goes to bed 1/ early. On the even- ing of lj&r famous dislocated jaw. yaWn jrtie made a call and her hospitable friends insisted upon her staying later than she Was used to remaining awake. At 9 o'clock she had yawned in a smoth­ ered fashion several times. At "J:04 she yawned openly, but hastily put up her hand to hide the fact. At 0:15 she yawn­ ed with hopeless, sleepy candor, placing no shield before her face. At 9:20 she gave one frightful yawn and something snapped. She could not close her mouth again. She could not speak. She was taken quickly to the hospital and there the sur­ geon found where the jaw had been dislo­ cated aud set it again. But her Oakland friends will not get Miss Fitzgerald to sit up late again in a hurry. GLADSTONE IN HIS OI.I) AGE. ery year of life, is enough reward for any one man. If there is anything in the theory that hearty activity and hard work are life preservers, Gladstone is the man who has done most to demonstrate its truth. Great Damage Done by Firea Causd by Spontaneous Combustion, The steamer Warimoo, from Austra­ lia, brings news of appalling climatic con­ ditions which have been prevailing'ja many sections of that country. The pros­ trations from heat were so numerous tilt the condition of affairs in large cities waS alarming. In a great many instances work is out of the question and sleep im­ possible. Telegrams show that the same conditions prevail all over the colonies. The thermometer during the heat of the day averages about 124 in the shade, and in a long list of towns the lowest figure found was 110. In the sun it is 100, so it is impossible to work at midday. The heat has caused numerous fires from spontaneous combustion, and the houses are so baked during the day that in the worst sections the residents sleep in gar­ dens and on roofs. The damage from fire is very great. It would appear from the press reports that the total damage will amount to millious of pounds. In Victoria colony 100,000 acres have been swept clear and an enormous acreage of crops destroyed. In other colonies houses and barns were burned. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT, Increase During the Month of Janu­ ary is $12,580,771. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business Jan. 31 the debt, less cash in the treas­ ury, amounted to $1,011,701,338, an in­ crease for the month of $12,589,771. This increase is accounted for by the decrease in the amount of cash on hand. The debt is recapitulated as follows: Interest-bear­ ing debt. $847,305,810; debt on which in­ terest has ceased since maturity, $1,328,- 540", debt bearing no interest, $38(5,878,- • 774; total, $1,235,573,124. This amount, however, does not include $581,213,933 in certificates and treasury notes outstand­ ing which are offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury. The treasury- cash is classified as fotfcms: Gold, $200,- 731,551; silver, $510,010,100; paper, $100,- 452,690; bonds, deposits in national banks, disbursing officers' balances, etcv, $41,- 338,199; tfctal. $853,198,008, against which there are demand liabilities outstanding amounting to $029,320,222, leaving a net cash balance, including the gold reserve, of $223,871,780. ° The monthly statement of the Govern­ ment: receipts and expenditures shows that for the month of January the re­ ceipts aggregated $37,333,028, aud the ex­ penditures $30,090,711, leaving a surplus for the month of $030,917. The miscella­ neous receipts for January include $8,- 538,401 received during the month from the sale of Union Pacific Railroad. Ex­ cluding this item, the receipts amount to $28,795,227, leaving a deficit for the month of $7,901,484. Deducting also the payments during November and Decem­ ber on account of Pacific Railroad indebt­ edness, amounting to $49,909,822 in re­ ceipts and $5,449,308 in expenditures, the receipts and expenditures since July 1, 1897, amount to $187,537,378 and $239,- 439,201, respectively, showing a deficit, of $51,901*823. The receipts from cus­ toms during January amounted to $14,- 209,492, a gain as compared with Janu­ ary, 1897, of about $3,000,000. The in­ ternal revenue receipts'also showed a gain of over $1,300,000 for the month. Since July 1 the Government has pa,id out on pension account neatly $89,000,000. Tlie present net gold balance in the treasury is.the largest since August, 1890. A SECRET PACT EXISTS. The carnival festivities have begun at Monte Cftrlo. Sir Henry Irving will soon present a new play at his London theater. The anniversary of the execution of Charles I. was celebrated iu London. Serious riots against the plague meas­ ures were reported from Sinnar, India. Lord Nevill was held for trial in Lon­ don, England, on a charge of forgery, bail being refused. The French chamber adopted the bill for razing the Paris fortifications between Point Dujour and Pantin. French newspapers have advised-their Government to be watchful of Ger­ many's actions in the East, It was reported that Russia would com­ pel Turkey to accept Prince George of. Greece as Governor of Crete.