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Henry Lair, 3 Mercer Csunty (Ky.) far- mer is 6 feet, two inches. His wife is two inches taller. Each of their seven £033 is taller than their mother, the tallest being 6 feet, 8 inches. DR. B. A. GITNN, M. D., Dean and Profes- or of Surgery of the United States Medi» cal College, Editor of the “ Medical Tri. bnne,” author of “ Gunn’e New Improved Handbook of Hygiene and Domestic Medi- cine," eays : “ Belonging as I do to a branch of the profeeeion which believes that no School of Medicine knows all the truth regarding disease, and being inde- pendent enough to use any remedy that will help my patients without reference to the source from which it comes, I am willing to acknowledge and commend thus frankly the value of Warner’s Safe Cure. Every Man to His Trade. Jinks (at a variety entertainment)â€" " That fellow in front of us was about the only one who didn’t applaud that good old song, ‘Don't Despise a Man Because He Wears a Ragged Coat.’ He must be a regular arissoomt, isn’t he ‘2” Blinksâ€"“Wen; I dunno.‘ Maybe he’s a tailor.” Gen. Sir Fred Middleton will inspect the military camp at Niagara on the 18th inst. He will afterwards inspect the Royal Military College at Kingston and " A ” Battery of Artillery. From King- ston he will go to Gananoque, proceeding afterwards to the camps at St. John. Qua, and Sorel. It is probable that he will visit British Columbia in the autumn. A Woman Wants to Know. Why is it that a man is better natured and more approachable after he has had a good dinner than just after he has had his breakfaat ?â€"-«A woman, in Washington Press. 2. Three wraps at the floor means that there is a murder in the house and you mgstfiet up. > 3. Please- rite your name on the wall pagegflso that We kqu you’ve been here. 5. If yBu are too cold pub the oilcloth ovgr your bed. _ 6. Caroseen lamps extra; candles free, but they muffin?!“ burn_all pight. 7. Pléaae don’t empty thou sawdust out of Ath§_pi_llersr. 8. If-there’s no towel handy, use a. piece 0! the carpetsâ€"Spokane Globe. An Albany deepatch says: Gen. Austin Lathrop has received a letter from a Phila- delphia man who said that he was poor and out of work, and that he had a large family to support. He had just seena statement in some newspaper that Gen. Lathrop had some doubts whether the electrical apparatus which was to be placed in the three State prisons to execute murderers would destroy life instantane- ously. If Gen. Lathrc-p would guarantee that the writer’s family should be paid ($5,000 in cash on his death he would sub- mib himself to atrial with the electrical machine. In case Gen. Lathrop should look favorably upon this offer. he would request him .to insert a personal addressed to “ A. F." in the Philadelphia Ledger. 1. Gents going to bed with their boots on will Igcharged extra. ' Ii. The other leg of {he chaif is rig-£7133 closet if you need it. An Overloaded Boat Capsizes in the Ottawa River. A Grenville (Que) despatoh says: A sad drowning accident took place here at noon to-day. by which five man lost their lives. Agnng of raftemen, nineteen in numberI under the charge of Elisha Cooke, pilot, started to cross the river at the head of the Long Sault to join their raft, which was lying on the south shore of the river. The boat was overloaded considering the weather. The wind at the time blew a perfect hurricane and they had not pro- ceeded very far before the boat became full of water and sank, leaving the human cargo floundering in the water. A num- ber along to the boat and were saved through the exertions of Wm. Cooke and Peter Leroy, who succeeded in reaching them by means of another host. The re» mainder of the crew struck for the shore, but five of them sunk and were lost. Their names are Eli Robillard, sen., Joseph Cooke, Louis Lemay. Geo. Saraein, of lGrenville, and a Mr. Windsor, of Cumber- and. Evidence of Patrick MoGarry at the Inquest. A last (Wednesday) night’s Chicago de- spatoh says : In the Cronin inquest to- day Patrick McGarry, a friend of Dr. Cronin, testified as to what Cronin told him regarding the investigqtion by a com- mittee of the Clan-na-Gael at Buffalo of charges that Alexander Sullivan appro- priated funds of the Clan to his own use while a member of the Exmutive Board or “ Triangle.” McGarry 5 .id Cronin in~ formed him that the charges were not only of misappropriation of funds, but that the Triangle had sent men to their death and to British prisons. The Witness could not remember the exact amount of money mentioned by Cronin,but it approximated half a million. The witness then told of his visit to Toronto after Cronin’s death, and the result of interviews with Reporter Long. The latter at first denied having sent the misleading despatches, but subse- quently said he had sent a statement of the facts to Frank Scanlan, of this city. Cronin said to the witness, after the Buffalo investigation. that if he were murdered it would be at Alexander Sullivan’s instiga- tion. Cronin also said that the life of Dr. McCahey, of Philadelphia, who joined Cronin in reporting against Sullivan at the Buffalo investigation, was also in danger, and that an attempt had been made to de- coy him away. A Modern Prophet‘s Eloquence Saves Film From Severe Punishment, A last (Friday) night’s Waukesha, Wis, despatuh says: The eloquence of Simon B. Needham, whose predictions of the second coming of Christ and the birth of a child on the date specified was incidentally connected with his arrest one charge of illegitimate parentage preferred by Mrs. Clark, to-day saved the prophet froma long term in the penitentiary. Mr. Need- ham addressed the court at some length, giving a summary of the history of his life. So eloquently did he tell his story1 that when he withdrew his special plea of guilty and admitted his guilt Judge Sloan inflicted the nominal punishment of three days in the county jail. The case was called late in the afternoon, and considerable time was spent in midiâ€"2g twelve men who had not formed an opinion as to whether or not the prophet is insane. When a jury was finally secured Mr. Needhum took the stand and asked the Judge the privilege of relating the history of his mother and him- self, which was granted. Mr. Needham started his narrative With a statement that surprised people who had known him for years, stating that his mother was a slave, and that he was born in slavery. He told of their escape from bondage and their flight to Canada; told of his early struggles for an education, of his religions opinions, and of his arrest and imprisonment in Canada for seven years for preaching his opinions to the world. He said he was ready and willing to make Mrs. Clark his wife, which, owing to the divorce recently secured by Mrs Needham, could be done lawfully. EWIll‘ng to Test Electrlc Denlh FIVE RAFTS HEN DROWNED. W11 AT CRONIN BELIEVE D. Oklahoma. Hotel Rules. Military Inspection. IS THIS ALL GOSPEL? AT Mt. Spurgeon’e church in London on a. recent Sunday earnest prayer was offered for the conversion of the Prince of Wales. Evidently the need of this conversion was deeply felt by his audience, for a chorus of ” Amene” broke forth from the tabernacle worshippers‘ Electrocution is the new word, which means What it says, anfl is therefore rapidly becoming popular with all persons except murderers. Tubbeâ€"I flatter myself that honesty is pri_1_1te§1_on my _f_aco. _ Grubbsâ€"Wellâ€"er~â€"yes, perhapsâ€"with some allowance for typographical errors. ALondon cablegram says: The Czar's extreme favoritism to the Prince of Mon- tenegro has aroused the anger of all his southern neighbors, and in none of the Balkan States does the ill feeling run so high as in Servia. The Servian Russo- phiies are especially angry and eXQueen Natalie is thrown into a state of ungovern- able rage, alternating with that of fear for the stability of her son’s throne. Prince Karageorgevitch. the pretender to the throne of Servis, is a son-in law of Prince Nikita, of Montenegro, whose ambition has been for years to found a Slavonic Empire in the Balkans. With the husband of his daughter as the ruler of one oi the Balkan States, himself on the throne of another, and the Czar at his back, the goal of his ambition would seem to be not very diffi- cult of attainment. Gentlemanâ€"And What are you in for, my good man? Convict XIIIâ€"Fer takin’ pictures, sit. “ Mercy, I didn't know thot photography was a crime.” “There is nothing sentimental abou Mary,” said Mrs. Palmer. “Even when her lgveyia wg'th her__1h_ey sit far apart? “Yea,” spoke up little Harry, '7 as long as you are. in the room." Electrocutc â€"E1ech'ocutingâ€" Electrocnted. Signor Crispi appears to have obtained a. definite pledge of German aid in the event of hostilitiea with France from a colonial or any other dispute. Austria is only com- mitted to the first treaty, and is not bound to make) common cause with Italy in every quarrel with France. It is reported that during the Shah’s visit a secret treaty was made between Russia. and Persia for the temporary annexation of Northern Persia to Russia in certain cases. ' The Czar has bestowed a. dowry of a million roubles on Princess Militza of Montenegro, who has been betrothed to Grand Duke Peter of Russia. Ho Gives Blow ’Ilmn :I Gentle Hint to the Huhâ€".ng Dowry for a Princess. A St. Petersburg duspatch says : Prince George, the Czar’e favorite son, and proba- bly his successor, in View of the weak brain and general debility of the Czurewitch, will soon begin a. tour of the world, starting from Paris, where his presence is intended to mark the Czsxr's adhcsion to the French alliance. It is dcclared that the Czar is definitely committed to a. panslavlst policy, involving critical developments which are bound to have a violent end. It is said that the Czar told the Shah, and hotly too, that it While in England he should make any concession unfavorable to Russia, 100,000 soldiers on the frontier would be made to march into Persia. A London cablegram says : There is now in the county jail at Liverpool Mrs. Florence Maybrick, aged 26, the Widow of a wealthy Liverpool cotton broker, who was nearly twice her age. The whole aflair is a mixture of poison, romance and mys- tery. Her husband is said to have been an arsenic eater. Her friends say he died from natural causes; his friends say she killed him with arsenic. They met about seven years ago on a steamerfrom America. She fell down the saloon stairs and he caught her. The acquaintance thus begun ripened into love, and they were married in few weeks. He died two months ago. The doctors who attended would not give a certificate, an inquest was held and an open verdict was returned. The body was buried, but rumors induced the police to re-open the case. Another inquest was held, at which the evidence showed , that Mrs. Maybrick purchased arsenic at chemists’; that the medicine, part of which she had given her husband, contained arsenic ; that arsenioal fly papers were found in her room soaking in water ; that a letter to her lover, named Brierley, in very endearing terms, was intercepted, telling him all was safe, that he need not leave the country ; that she attended her husband up to the time of his death, though for the last two days he was in charge of hired nurses ; and that she had told the doctor she disliked her husband, with whom she often quarrelled. She was finally committed for trial at the assizes for wilful murder on Thursday. If she did poison her husband her homicidal tendency may be hereditary. Her mother was Miss Hoibrook, of New York city, who went to Mobile, Alabama, before the war on a visit to her uncle, Rev. J. H. Ingraham, the author of the book entitled “ The Prince of the House of David.” She married there William G. Chandler, a wealthy mer- chant. Thc-y lived happily together until Frank Dubassy, a captain on the Confederate side, turned up. Chandler fell ill, no one attended him but herself, and it is said she killed him. She moved to Macon, Georgia, and married Dubassy. He was sent to Europe as a representative of the Confederate Government. Two days after sailing he died. At her request the body was thrown overboard. In two years she returned to New York, made a great scandal with an actor, returned to Europe, and married Baron Von Rogue. They led an adventurous life together. She separâ€" ated from him, and lived as the wife of an attache of the British Legation in Teheran, Persia. Mrs. Mayhrick was a daughter of Chandler, and has a fortune in her own right. Her mother had a mania for col- lecting poisons, and gathered specimens in all parts of the world, and she had an inti- mate knowledge a! the nature and effect of each deadly agent. Maybrick was well known in New Orleans, and was a brother of the popular song writer, “ Stephen Adams." “It isn’t, air; but takin’ ile pictures is.” ACCUSED OI“ HUSBAND MURDER. The Extraordinary Family History of Mrs. Maybrick. POISON, ROMANCE, MYSTERY. THE CZ.‘ R‘S AMBII‘XON. The Young Fiend Aguln. VOL XI The Face 1» Mirror. The Difl‘erencc. Where Johnstown’e principal stores stood last Friday are now pitched 1,000 tents, and before to-night this number will prob- ably be doubled. Under this shelter are accommodated the members of the militia and thousands of workmen who are trying to clear the streets. Over 5,000 men are now thus employed in Johnstown proper. Contractor Flynn, who has charge of the army of laborers, said : “ It will take 10,000 men thirty days to clear the ground so that the streets are passable and the work of rebuilding can be commenced. -The one thing that most impresses the thoughtful now is the supreme danger that menacee Pittsburg and all the region de« pendent on the Allegheny River below the Kiskiminitaa for its water supply. Only those who have seen the valley of the Conemaugh since the flood can appreciate this danger of disease from the polluted water. Poor old John Jordan, of Conemeughl Many a tear ran over swarthy cheeks for him to-day. All his family, his wife and children, had been swept from his sight in the flood. He wandered over the gorge yesterday looking for them, and last night the police could not bring him away. At daylight he found his wife‘s sewing m9.- ohine and called the workmen to help him. First they saw a. little boy’s jacket that he recognized and then they came upon the rest of them all buried together, the mother’s burned arms still clinging to the little children. Then the white headed old man sat down in the ashes and caressed the dead bodies and talked to them just as if they were alive, until some one came and led him quietly away. Without a protest he went to the shore and sat down on at rock and talked to himself, and then got up and disappeared in the hills. When it is remembered that previous to the heavy rain of last week Johnstovvn‘e reservoir contained nearly seventy-six thousand million gallons of water some ides. of the force of the terrible avalanche of water may be formed, when it is known that the great reservoir was drained in an hour after the large dam gave way. Long relief trains are rolling into Johns- town almost every hour. From east and west, north and south, come Whole train loads of clothing and provisions, accom- panied by special messages, having funds and large corps of volunteer physicians. Several hundred destitute people are being well cared for at Camp Hastings, on the Ebenaburg road. The special train of the Masonic Relief Association was sent from Pittsburg. The brother in charge spent the morning dis- tributing the food and clothing brought up among the Masonic sufferers. During the work of removing the rubbish from the Johnstown Methodist Episeqpal Church a man and his wife were wand clasped so tightly in each other’a arms thet it was found necessary to bury them t.)- gether. Just as the flood struck the city a wedding was going on, and the principals were drowned just as the ceremony was completed. The ministers and nearly all the witnesses escaped. The “flood a§§ept Eway eight million gallons} of Whiskey. _ Scenes and Incidents. “ This is my last message.” This is the telegram which Mrs. H. M. Ogle, manager of the Johnstown telegraph office, sent just before she was swallowed up in the flood. Long after the danger was imminent, and longer after death was almost certain, Mrs. Ogle sat in the Johnesown telegraph cflice, over which she had presided for nearly a. quarter of acentury, and sent warning tele~ grams down the fated valley to the towns and villages below. The warnings were little noticed, but Mrs. Ogle did her duty to the last. Before her despatch was fairly received in Pittsburg it is thought the tele- graph office went on the crest of the flood. Mrs. Ogle’s daughter perished with her. There was a. small riot at the labor camp this morning on account of there not; being food enough for the men or utensng to 6601; it with. M)- I’lynu, who i: at "uhe head of the labor bureau, made a speech to the men and stated that it was almost impossible to get things down from the railroad. The Altoons gang, by the use of dyna- mite, have located the day express which was swept away at Conemaugh. The ruins of the train lie about one hundred feet from the fourth buttress from the western end of the stone bridge. Parts of the parlor cars have to-dsy been found, as well as traces of the passengers. About 9 o’clock the baggage of Miss Annie Chism, of Nash- ville, '1'enn., was found. She was a mis. sionsry on her way to Brazil fer the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. It is evident many lives were lost on this trainwmore than at first supposed. The whole train affair is still a mystery. - The coroner’s jury yesterday proceeded to the South Fork and investigated the cause of breakage of the reservoir dam. Witnesses testified that slight breaks had appeared in the dam several times in past years, but had each time been clumsily repaired with straw, sticks and rubbish. The general impression is that the jury will declare that the Pittsburg Fishing Club, that owned the reservoir, was guilty of gross negligence. In that event many suits for damages again-t the millionaire club will follow. An insurance agent esti- mates that the accident insurance policies alone for this place amount to $2,000,000. The Very Latest This Afternoon. It was found yesterday that four and even six families were being crowded into 9. single house, that as high as fifty slept in one room, that the doors and Windows were left closed to shut out the stench and dampness, and that as a result pneumonia. was gaining an alarming foothold. Dr. P. M. Cerrington, of the U. S. Marine Hospi- tal, estimates there are a hundred cases of the disease in Johnstown. He ascribes it to crowded rcoms, damp cellars and ex- posure. The cold drizzle that fell inter- mittingly yesterday added to the gravity of the situation. Mr. Sibbet, of the State Board of Health, inspected the river towns above Johnstown as far as Connellsvile. He finds there is no immediate danger of the disease from dead bodies except at Roekwood. where an immense collection of wreckage is full of corpses. ‘ But One-fifth of the Debris Yet Looked Over. DEATH ESTIMATE NOT LBSSENED Several Persons Taken Alive From the Ruins. WARNIEGS THAT WERE NOT HEEDED‘ PESTILENCE THREATENED. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1889. A mother and daughter were rescued alive yesterday afternoon suffering from nervous shook and hunger. They were at once I removed by rescuers and placed in charge , of friends. Both will recover. } ENGINEER mnx‘s STORY. 3 Resident Engineer Park, who was on the 1 spot when the dam broke on Friday, says: “ On Thursday night I noticed that the dam was in good order and the water was nearly seven feet from the top. When the water is at this height the lake is nearly three miles in length. It rained hard on Thursday night and I rode up to the end of the lake on the eventful day and saw that the woods around there were teeming with a seething cauldron of water. Col. Unger, the Presi- dent of the Fishing Club that owns the property, put 25 Itslians to work to fix the dam. A farmer in the vicinity also lent a willing hand. To strengthen the dam a plough was run along the top of it and earth was then thrown into the furrows. On the west side a channel was dug and a sluice was constructed. We cut through about {our feet of shale rock, when we came to solid rock which was impossible to out without blasting. Once we got the channel open the water leaped down to the bed rock, and a stream fully 20 feet wide and three feet deep rushed out on that end, while great quantities of water were coming in by the pier at the other end. And then in the face of this great escape of water from the dam it kept rising at the rate of 10 inches per hour. At noon I fully believed that it was practically impos- sible to save the dam, and I got on a horse and galloped down to South Fork and gave the alarm, telling the peo- ple at the same time of their danger and advising them to get to a place of safety. I also sent a couple of men to the telegraph tower, two miles away, and sent messages William Jones, of Braddock, thinks at least 10,000 to 12,000 were lost. The state- ment that 18,000 persons had registered at the registration bureau yesterday was in- correct. One of Gen. Hasting’e aides said today that so many persons had regis- tered twice or more that the list had to be revised, uni that the total was not more than 13,000 and perhaps 12,500. This registration not only comprehenae the population of Johnebown and adjoining towns, which was about 33,000, but em- braces points further away in the flooded rogion,the total population of which was at least 45,000. Chairman Hicks, of the Altoona delegation, who has been all over tl~e district, sayethelose is 12,500 to 14,000. Hundreda were carried down to the broad rivers in the tremendous current and may never come into the hands of the living. Said Adjt.-Gen. Hastings : “ In my opinion the loss is greater than we can now show figures for.” Eddie Fisher, 3 youth who lost: his mother and five raisiwerrs,i 0-day, in a fit of despond- enoy,threw himself from the roof of a build- ing and was killed. ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF VICTIMS. Up to last night about 2,500 bodies had been found, While 2,000, at the lowest calcu- Iation, are in the burned debris in the river; 3,000 are in unsearcbed sandbanks around the Cambria Works; from 1,000 to 2,000 are scattered in the valley from “food- ville to the bridge, and 1,000 or 2,000 below the bridge, between Johnstown and Bolivar. The damage to the Cambria Iron Works, it is now said, Will 1103 exceed $300,000. Physicians claim there are several hun dud casas of pneumonia 5'9"»; ngnmpw atcwd helpless on tar: bank an heard those heartrending sounds. What could they do ‘2 They could not fight the fire. Every fire englne in the town lay in that mass of rubbish smashed to bits. For hours they had to wait until they could telegraph word to surrounding towns and hours more until the fire engines arrived at noon on Monday. At N'inevah yosteré‘ay 74G bodieg were buried. - ‘ Thousands of people stood upon the river 1 bank and saw and heard it all and still were powerless to help. They saw people kneeling in the flames and praying. They saw families gathered together with their arms around each other and waiting for death. They saw people going mad and tearing their hair and laughing. They saw men plunge into the narrow crevices be- tween the houses and seek death in the Water rather than wait its coming in the flames. Some saw their friends and some their wives and children perishing before them, and some in the nwfrl agony of the hour went mad themsezves and ran shrieking to the hillsides and stronger men lay down on the ground md wept. All that night and all the next day and far‘ into the morning of Monday these dreadful ‘ ahrieke resounded from th' 3 'place of doom. Just below the bare plain where the busi- ness block of Johnstown stood, and above the stone arch bridge on which the Penn- sylvania Railroad crossed the river. are seven acres of the wreckage of the flood. The horrors that have been enacted in that spot, the horrors that are seen there every hour, who can attempt to describe ? Under and amid that mass of conglomerate rub- bish are the remains of at least 1,000 persons who died the most frightful of deaths. Thieis the place where the fire broke out within twenty minutes after the flood. It has burned ever since. The stone arch bridge acted as a dam to the flood, and five towns were crushing each other againstit. A thousand houses came down on the great wave of water, and were held there a solid mass in thejaws ofa Cyclopean vise. A kitchen stove upset. The mass took fire. A thou- sand people were imprisoned in these houses. A thousand more were on the roofs. For most of them there was no escape. The fire swept on from house to house. The prisoners saw it coming and shrieked and screamed with terror, and ran up and down their narrow quarters in an agony of fear. “ and I would like to have 3 black dress if I could get one. My hus‘mnd and four children are in that awful pile by the stone bridge, and I am alone now.” A black dress was found for her. A greyhaired woman who applied for clothing at Johnstown asked that; she might be given a black dress in ex’change for the one first given her. “ I have lost all my family,” she added by way of apology. as the tears atrpamgd down her wrinkled face, How strikingly frequent is the reference in the death list to “ Mrs. Jones and six children ” and “ Mrs. Smith and five chil- dren.” In the morgue the little ones lie in dozens where the adults are in half-dozens, but there is and has been a. much greater diflieulty in recovering the bodies of the children. Being lighter and smaller, they have often been swept into out-of-theâ€"way recesses that are almost inaccessible. The drift of opinion among physicians, engi- neers and railroad men is that from 1.000 to 1,500 of the bodies will never be found. â€"If you have nothing else to do, see how rapidly you can say, “ Soup soothes theoso- phists thoroughly.” WM. ROBERTS, M. D., Physicisn to the Manchester, Eng, Infirmary and Lunatic Hospital, Professor of Medicine in Owen’s College, in speaking of kidney disease,s&ys: “ Ono-third die of uremic (uric acid) poi- soning ; a considerable number of dropsy; one-firm from secondary pneumonia, peri- cardisis (inflammation of the heart sac), or pleurisy, exhaustion, indigestion, or the complications of npoplexy,hardening of the liver, bowel ulcers, etc.” The foregoing are only a few of the common symptoms of advanced kidney disease, and this ex- plains why Warner‘s Eafe Cure cures so many different symptoms, called diseases, and why it has such popularity. Ask your friends and neighbors nboui it. Emma Juch was plumply asked her age by a. Pittsburg reporter, and responded: “ Well"â€"â€"~with a. laughâ€"“I will tell you truly, for I have nothing to hide. I don’u look to be 21, do I?" “ You most cer- tainly do not. “Well”_',vit-h brilliant Emile»H I am just 27.” New York city's relief fund has already gone beyond $400,000. GALI‘ PEOPLE HAVE RELATIVES DROWNED. In so sweeping a destruction of human life it is scarcely possible that we in Canada could entirely escape sorrow. Amongst others who have anxiously awaited news from there has been Mr. James W. Scott, of the axe factory, who has one married sister living in Johnstown, Mrs. C. Wilson, and another, Mrs. W. Wilson, a widow, living in Conemaugh. Word has at length reached him that the eldest son of Mrs. G. Wilson, married, and living in Conemaugh, was swept away and drowned, and a brother-in-law, Dr. Wilv son, with his wife and family, were also lost. Mrs, C. Wilson and her family had just crossed the bridge when the torrent swept everything they had in the world away before it.â€"Galt Reporter. One of the most troublesome things to deal with at Johnstown‘is the great jam above the stone bridge. It is 1,200 feet long, about 400 wide, and from 12 to 20feet deep. It is regarded as certain that in this immense mass of crushed buildings and debris the bodies of thousands of victims of the flood are buried. It is pro- posed to blast a. channel through the jam by means of dynamite cartridges, and to divert into this channel the powerful cur- rent of the river. By means of this cur- rent the debris is to be taken away piece- meal. But the work will be slow and diffi- cult. Philadelphia’s relief fund exceeds $550,000. It had been reported that the entire family of Prof. Seymour, the phrenologist, who span: a. few weeks last winter in ham- ilton, has been lost in the Johnstown disas- ter. Mr. Seymour lefh last Week for the scene of the flood. and word has since been received from him confirming the report. The reportea droxznitng of Blind Tom and his manager in the disaster is denied. Blind Tom is now in Canada. Rev. Dr. Agnew, of Philadelphia, was pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Johnstown for ten years. He declares that danger has been apprehended from the bursting of the reservoir for twenty. five were. About twenty years ago an alarm was given in the middle of the night and the inhabitants were all ready to fly to the mountains at a. moment’s notice. The danger passed, however, and the town escaped. But it was a common thing for the streets to become filled with water from the river, and this fact helped main- tain a fatal feeling of security until the flood from above WEI-S actually heard roar- ing down the great gorge. Among the reports from Johnstown is one to the effect that Herbert Webber, em- ployed as a sort of guard by the South Fork Club, had more than once reported to the club that the dam needed looking after. Here is the story: He had repeatedly, he declared, called the attention of the mem- bers of the club to the various leakages at the dam, but he received the stereotyped reply that the masonry was all right ; that it had been “ built to stand for centuries,” and that such a thing as its giving way was among the impossibilities. But Webber did not hesitate to continue his warnings. Finally, according to his own statement. he was instructed to “ shut up or he would be bounced.” He was given to understanu that the officers of the club were tired of his croakings, and that the less he said about the dam from thence on the better it would be for him. Webber then laid his complaint before the Mayor bf Johnstown, ‘ not more than a month ago. He told him that the spring freshets were due, and that if they should be very heavy the dam would certainly give way. Webber says that the Mayor promised to send an expert to exa- mine the dam then, and it necessary to appeal to the gtate. Somehow the expert was not chosen, the appeal was not made at Hegishnrg and the catastrophe ensued. w Uur goes on to say that had the dam beez’i repaired after the spring freshet of last year the disaster would not have oc- curred. It seems almost incredible that so many bodies remain unidentified. Thousands of people from the different sections of the State have seen them, yet they remain an- identified. At Nineveh they are burying all the unidentified dead butin the morgues in this vicinity no bodies have been buried unless identified. Yesterday workmen found three memâ€" bers of Benjamin Hoffman’s family, who occupiedalerge residence in the rear of Lincoln street. Benjamin Hoffman, the head of the family, was found seated on the edge of the bedstead. He was evidently preparing to retire when the flood struck the building. He had his socks in his pockets. His 20-year-old daughter was found close by attired in a. night dress. The youngest member of the family, a 3-year- old infant, was also found beside the bed. Dr. Graff was given charge of the Sani- tary Commission this morning. Dr. Graff talked at length on the different plans of sanitation for the flooded district, and finally said : “ There is but one sure, safe planâ€"burn everything. I think the order will be issued this evening to burn every- thing all over this district.” Dr. Greff’s plan of disposing of the debris above the bridge is to scatter oil over it and burn it. to Johnstown and Cambria, and to other points on the way. The young girl at the inatzument fainted when the news reached her and was carried away. Then, by the timely warning given, the people at South Fork had an opportunity to move their household goods and betake themselves to a place of safety. Only one person was drowned in thet place, and he was trying to save an old washtub that was floating down stream.” DR. GRANT BELIEVES IN FIRE. UNHEEDED WARNINGS. WHOLENO 1,610 NO. 5]. M Teefy But perhaps the wife to be most pitied is she Whose husband, While mean, smally abusive and tyrannical in little thingsâ€" Who treats her off and on as if she were his head servant Without a salary, instead of his equal in head and heart, whose petty discourtesies and inattentions, familiar though they are, always cause the same hopeless pang of despair to chill her: heart â€"this husband who, when company is around, is so sweet, and polite, and elegant, and joking, and complimentary to her. And she, trying to forget the parting words, perhaps, of the morning: “Understand this, the next time you invite company I When that husband is in straits, which he often is, and is depressed physically, for he is not in good health, and unstrung nervously, as is often the case; when his famous cold-hearted “ What are you going to do about it '2" is temporarily silencedâ€" that wife of his, that he never did deserve and is killing by degrees, is all gentle, womanly sympathy, constant attention, tender ministration and hopeful encourage- ment. And the next time he recovers the full force of his gigantic intellect, and it is her turn to reap a reward, it comes like Benquo‘s ghost upon her, “ I don’t see What you are going to do about it.” Yes, little things! I know a husband, a bright, intellectual man, who is killing his wife by his “philosophy,” he calls it, that he never fails to air upon every occasion when his wife is in distress or disappoint- mentor trouble. No matter how keenly she feels any pain, physical or emotional, he invariably freezes her with his formula: “Well, what are you going to do about it ? ” Never a loving word of sympathy, a kiss or a caressâ€"~and yet he’d be insulted if you told him he didn’t love herâ€"never a word, “ It is too bad, dear ; but as it is unavoidable. can’t I help you to bear it ‘1” I know that wife would sacrifice ten years of her life it she could get out of her mind that cold, judicial, unsympathetic tone of voice and look that she will carry with her into eternity. I am well aware of the argument in favor of the sterner sexâ€"that they are all day exposed to the friction of business, and, when night comes, they ought to be received into a quiet, peaceful, happy home, where they may don slippers and smoking jacket. and read or doze on the library lounge until , bedtime. Very good. But your wife is all ‘ day subjected to something far worse than the contact with business annoyances, and that is the monotonous. endless routine of domestic drudgery, which, home keeper, home lover that she is, Wears and tears on the sensitive nerves in a. way few men appreciate. When evening comes, the babies are asleep, she wants a little exhila- rating change, something rather more effervescent than the pleasure of feeling alone in the same rooms she has occupied all day, watching the handsome features of her recumbent lord, or immersed in the columns of a newspaper. ON THE COSTLY MONUMENT. Now, which shall it be? The husband's comfort or the wife’s? I can tell you the result. It will be the survival of the fittest, l and as he is the stronger physically and gets plenty of air and exercise the chances are nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand that before his eldest child is in its teens there will be a costly monu- ment in some silent resting placem“ Sacred to the memory of my beloved wife.” While, if God’s own truth were carved on that pure, white cross in letters of blazing gold, they would read: “A woman’s life wasted: a heart disappointed unto death ; hopes destroyedâ€"by littlethings.” I wish I oould get the ear of the general masculine public for just a. little while and whisper into it that perhaps it would be quite as well if the husbands took a little more pains to retain their Wives’ respect and affection. According to the inevitable law of nature a woman cannot be happy unless somebody loves her, enthrones her, crowns her and lets her know in unmistak- able language that such is the case. Ihave heard men say 2 “ Of course I love my wife. What do you take me forâ€"<9. brute ?” Well, no ; not exactly such a. detestable thingmr that delicate, ladylike lit-tie wife of yours ,never would have married you. But there is a resemblance between you and that quadruped in the fact that brutes never speak their feelings. Of what use to ‘ me is a. gold mine in Australia or a diamond field in Brazil if the riches of them are not quarried? Where is the sense or reason of your loving your wife if you never speak of it, or look it, or act it ? In fact, you don’t love her if you do none of these things, for if there is a. truer aphorism than that “ murder will out ” it is that love cannot be concealed. “ Meet him at the door with a smile and a kiss "â€"~that is an old, beautiful and sensible piece of advice that every wife in this country ought to be encouraged and able to carry out from the very depths of her heart, but, alas I that only the husbands who are in the minority deserve. WHISI‘ERING IN THE HUSBANDS’ EARS. Supposeâ€"and I call upon hundreds, aye, thousands, of wives in our midst to witness if I do not draw a picture they recognize all too readilyâ€"the wife has been up and down all night with the cronpy baby, while its father lay comfortably asleep. Well, take this wife, who, after the night s anxiety, loss of rest and fatigue, has to get up and prepare breakfast, attend to all her usual duties with a splitting headache, caused by sleeplessness and consequent irritability of the stomach, that utterly loathes the idea of even toast and coffee, while her handsome, well dressed, well fed husband goes off for the day with 9. “Well, I‘m off; take care of yourself 1” Think you she will feel much like meeting him with a bright, cheerful, sunny smile and a kiss when he comes in, perhaps a half hour later than usual, with his greeting : “ Haven’t you had dinner yet '2 What did you wait for me for ? You know I detest haying you wait.” One can seldom pick up a. peper of miscel- laneous reading without coming across advice to wives to spend the major part of their existence in striving to retain their husband’s love and admiration. Un- questionably this is right, and no good wife with a. good husband but will find it her supreme delight, as well as duty, to daily strengthen the sweet cords that bind them together. But there are other sides to the questionâ€"shadowy, gloomy aidesâ€"â€" and it is toward those wives who are con- signed to dwell perennially in the gray, somber lives their lords and masters make for them that I am impelled to say my say. Courtesies 'llmt mean Something When They are Reciprocalâ€"The Head of the Household is often too Exclusive in His ConduanWhynqt be Sociable at Home ‘.’ A Spicy Lecture for Husbands on Home Duties. AS A LADY SEES IT. 1/37.Z:M/._'WMW DURING the Paris Exhlbition no lesl than sixty-nine internationnl congresses will meet under Government patronage. That devoted to the discussion of electrical sub- j acts will no doubt develop matters of great interest. Life's Real Episodes. Janey-There are only two periods in a man’s life when he is greatly interested in his personal appearance.” Smithâ€"When do they occur '1’" Jonesâ€"‘One is at 20, when he wntcbes the hair coming out of his upper lip. and the other is at 40, when he watches the hair coming out on the top of his head. “Good gracioua,Jeptha, is that what became of the sponge,” said Mrs. Jones. “ I hunted high and low for it. When did you swallow it ?” Mr. Jones came home the other night feeling somewhat discouraged. Sitting down by the register. he leaned his head disconsolately on his hand and sighed. “ I believe-1’11 throw up the spifiéé} saideejgctedly: "Yes, sir," was the tom tre 1 . “ Well, what is it? "p P p y “ I want to dodge my creditors, and they will never think of looking {or me where there is any work going on.” “ Have you any particular object in loaf- ing around here? ” asked the contractor of a. new building of an idler who was in the Way; “ Did I ever say all that ?" he asked de- spondently, as she replaced the phonograph on the corner of the mantelpieoe. “ You did.” " And you can grind it out of that me- ohine whenever you choose 7" “ Certainly.” “ And your father is a lawyer 7" “ Yes.” “ Mabel, when can I place the ring on your finger and call you my wife ‘2" Jennie Wright, the 9-year-old daughter of a can 31 boatman, fell from the boat into the water off the Hoboken shore on Thurs- day. A search was made for the body, but it was fruitless. During the night Mrs. Wright sprang up in her bed, exclaiming. “ I see the body of my child at the stern of the boat.” The grappling hooks were brought into use, and the body was tnken from the spot where the woman had seen it in her dream.â€"Newark (N. J.) Advertiser. Is the tower beautiful ‘1‘ No. But it has the erect, fragile-looking elegance of an obelisk not hewn out of red granite, but knit of dark-hued meshes.â€"â€"Emile Michelet in Paris Illustre. The Eiffel Tower. The whole tower could be lifted by four men of average strength. The one has been proved. When it was about half its present height a few men actually did lift it. This is not humbug ; the thing is per- fectly simple. The construction of ’the tower is based on the cantilever principle, and its bulk of 6,400 tons is so adjusted on to press on the foundation with less weight than that of a men in an arm-chair on the floor. \wish to be formally consulted, as I believe I run this ranch "â€"oannot to save her iimmortal soul, look or feel pleased when at ‘table that men tells the guests “ how he enjoys the delightful surprises his den little wife gets up so nicely. Fine cook. isn’t she? I tell you she beats my mother, and I thought she was the best cook in the world. Let me give you this choice bit of white meat, darling, shall I ‘2 "â€"Mme. Emerce in New York Star. “ But the little feet grew weary ; Drooped their blossom day by day ; And with aching heart they watched her, Knowing well she could not stay. We can pity earthly sorrow, But with us there's naught but joyâ€" Open wide the golden portalsâ€" Welcome. welcome. Little Floy I" V Star-é§éd;i{villi e-robed Little Floy. " Downward on a. mission Went she, With her playmate,gentle Spring; Hand in band they wandered earthwnrd, She wirh closely folded wing. Earthly eyes with love were blinded, Earthly hearts were filled with joy, And they never knew an angel Was the fairy,Little Floy. “ Open wide the golden portals, Swing the pearly gates afar; Hail her coming with glad music, Light up every twinklin star, Lo 1 she comel, returning omewgrdâ€" Cherubs, wave your wings Ior joyâ€" Comes the littie truant angel. no-.. Atvnl‘ “hut -0L-: 1’ “AL 11‘ ,7 And on its bosom sped, All ghastly in waning light, Are borne into the coming night An army of the dead. The seething whirlpool boils and foams Above a_fih9usa§d ‘ruined herpes, In its awful play. Like straws before the freah’niug breeze, Like sands beneath the beating seas, They pass away. With a mean and a. groan, With a shriek and a. roar, Down on the town The waters pourâ€"â€" A shivering crash, And it is no more I The torrent sweeps on its changeless path, Grindingrtye pug}: wglla like chlfi. Then people come, And people go, In constant; streamsâ€"â€" For people know That he who has good wares to sell Will surely advertise them well ; And proudly I reiterate. I am an advertiser great! They buy the goods and come again, And I'm the happiest of men; And this the reason I relate: I am an advertiser great! There is a shop across the way Where ne’er is heard a human tread, Where trade is paralyzed and dead. Where ne'er a customer a day. The people come, The people goâ€" Bnt never there; They do not know There’s such a shop beneath the skies, Because he does not advertise; While I with pleasure contemplate That I'm an advertiser great. The secret of my fortune lies In one small fact, which I may state. Too many tradesmen learn too late; w If I have goods to advertise! I am an advertiser great; In letters bold, and big and round. The praises of my wares I sound; Prosperity is my estate. Ready to Take His Medlclnc. Tears for the souls that passed away ; But charity for those Whose all was lost that bitter day : Whose ca.“ for pity goes Up from hearts that are sad and sore, And laden down with woes ; Tears for the lives that are no more, But charity for those. The rhythmic ring of s. horse's feet Echoes slang the city street, And the idle crowd swarms out to see Whom can the reckless rider be. With bloodless face and blazing ayos He dashes on, and wildly cries “ Fly, for the river’s wrath is man! Fly. for the Floodâ€"the Flood is here! " He passes, and they stand amazed; Then jest, and deem the rider crazedâ€" Some mischief-breeding nddlepateâ€" Then turn and see, and flyâ€"too late I The Song of the Advertiser. A Mother's Vision. The John-town Flood. The people come, The people go In one continuous, Surging flow. Too Literal. " LITTLE FLOY." Had One. II. â€"Glen MacDonough. 3' he