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Of thesef 59 got away safely and reached'' the Union'. lines." 48 were recaptured and two were drowned while, attempting to escape by swimming the river. shall let Colonel Urquhart tell the story of his escape and recapture In his own words: "When No. 93 was called, I quickly passed down to the cellar and made my way out through the tunnel, reaching the ship chandler's yard In safetyThere was a guard on duty when I reached the street, and as it was almost daylight, I was in a ticklish position. I had contrived a plan of escape before I left the iZk HAYS HAY'S llair Ilealfh I has been a biasing to ihoasandi who have became gray bo'd Hay's Hair Health is a healthful hair food, restoring youthful color and beauey to gray and faded hair.

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HSYtrjr year or two there comes to the front somebody who claims to hT discovered a substitute for coal as fuel, but heretofore these claims have Hot been proven. Investigators 'along this line, however, are keeping at it, tad It Is weU worth keeping an eye on their work, for in the very per ''aistency of our scientists it is not un likely that somebody will be fore long make the all Important discovery, ana 1 when it Is made another revolution in industrial affairs may be expected. Renorta are now in circulation con corning a new fuel that has been in. Tented by a locomotive engineer liv ing in Omaha, Neb. It is claimed for this fuel that It Is cheaper than coal, consumes more nearly its total weight, and is superior in heat producing power, pound for pound, to good coal.

Clay forms the base for the new fuel, oils of, the cheaper grades being used in connection therewith. The assertion is made that the fuel can be produced for $2 per ton In places 1,000 miles from' an oil field, while near an oil field the cost will be reduced to about 40 on 45 cents a ton. The fuel is to be tested during the present month by two of the western railroads centering at Omaha and also by tne great pacK tnK Onus of Armour, Cudahy and Bwlft The value of the discovery will, 5 therefore, soon be known. Coal region people will be vitally interested In learning the results of the expert Jonas Long's ions. BaafjsBasaaaaMaajsaajaajsaBBaHsaiBajsaasasaBa In tKe Great Display ouck oj 'ptviXd "Tflokea trie when the prisoners were making their escape through the tunnel.

The Idea of digging a tunnel from the prison was conceived by Colonel Rose, who is still living and who Is an officer in the regular army. Two tunnels were dug. It was at first planned to dig a tunnel a short distance out through the rear wall of the prison to a large sewer, through which, it was hoped, an escape could be effected. For 39 days the work of digging this tunnel pro gressed and the sewer was finally reached. Then it was found that the gas in the sewer was so strong as to make it dangerous to attempt to get out by that way.

In the meantime, a new tunnel scheme had been planned, This one contemplated digging a tun nel through the side wall of the pris on, across under the street, to a build ing through which, it was expected, an escape could be made. Throughout the period that the work of digging was in progress, the minstrels played, and the prisoners danced and made a great noise and turmoil. This was for the purpose. of keeping the attention of the guards from any sounds that might be made by the men who were in the tunnel. In the first place, it was necessary to make a hole in the chimney in order to get Into the cellar of the prison.

This was effected after considerable difficulty, and then the work of digging started. The greatest trouble was experienced in accounting for the absence of the men who were engaged in digging the tunnel, but this was accomplished by strategy. Three men worked at one time in the tunnel. One man would dig, one would blow air into the tunnel for the man who was digging, while the third carried the dirt away in an old haversack. This haversack had a string attached to it, and when It was filled with dirt it was drawn out and emptied.

At the beginning, the dirt taken from the tunnel was placed under the pavement In the cellar, but that process occupied too much time, so afterward it was hidden behind a lot of old boards and boxes at the back part of the cellar, There has been considerable contro versy as to the Implements used in digging the earth loose in the tunnel. Colonel Urquhart says he was in the tunnel at various times while the work was in progress, and he never saw an implement used except a piece of hinge that had been taken from a door. The workers in the tunnel wre changed every 48 hours. dt was a very difficult matter to effect the change, on account of the vigilance of the guards. A dancing party was the most effective manner of distracting the guard and permitting the diggers to be changed without arousing suspicion.

Finally, after 49 days' work, the tunnel was driven far enough, according to the calculations of those who had the work in hand. It was intended to briug the tunnel to the surface in the yard of a ship chandler', on the opposite side of the street from the prison, and this was successful. When everything was ready for the men to escape, it was agreed that those who had been engaged in the work should go out first and that they would have the privilege of choosing a certain number of friends to accompany them. After that, lots were to be drawn by those in the prison for the privilege of following the leaders, though it was stipulated that the tunnel should be closed for one hour after the leaders had left' This programme was carried out The members of the "Minstrels" put up the plea that since they had been of such good service in aiding the work of putting the tunnel through. they should be among the privileged ones, but their plea was overruled.

and they were compelled to stand their chances in the the same as the others. The men went out through the tunnel in the dead of night, as rapidly as possible, and there was considerable squirming among the stout ones before they got through the aperture that had been dug in the earth. Colonel Urquhart was among the fortunate, ones who drew num bers, though he came nearly being left in the prison. His number was so high 93 that only 16 came after him. The Xew World's and the Old's best silk prod in? ers have contributed to our exhibition, and what a vast variety of silks it contains foulards, satin liberty, moire soliel, sapho, peau de cygne, peau do soie, la edatant and all others of the soft clinging; silks also a grand assortment of the new silk linon effects, with the designs wrought out by insertions of ribbons and lace.

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THE HENS' STRIKE. HERB are the hens, the faith ful hens. That dally used to lay The shells In which the food we liked Was neatly stowed away? What have we done to give offense To these lone patient fowls That they should go on strike and cause Among us groans and cowls? We used to hear their songs of Joy, Their cackling long and loud. When they beheld the little spheres Of which they were so proud; But now their songs are few and short. For only now and then We hear the old time notes of pride From some still loyal hen.

And eggs! Well, they now come so high They re nearly out or signt Of every man who wants to soothe A humble appetite. In fact, so dear have they become That they are luxuries Just suited for a millionaire With palate hard to please. There's mourning In the restaurant. Within the home there's grief. For eggs have gone up at a rate That challenges belief.

And. what Is worse, we cannot tell How high they yet will rise Or whether we shall e'er again The Inside scrutinize. If we've offended any hen That ever laid an eg. Down on our knees we'll promptly drop And pardon humbly beg. And If they're striking for more feed We'll furnish It by kegs; Indeed we'll give them anything For more and cheaper eggs.

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Mam ma Of Crime. Willie, what's the baby cry ing for? Willle Oh, he's ungrate ful; that's what he is! Mamma Ungrateful! Willie Yes, ma'am. I Jest showed him how to eat bis cake, and he don't 'predate It Langaaice. Stubb Once more the pa pers say the Fi Squire Squirrel Here, you burglarious scoundrel.

If you don't quit boring holes into my house I'll have you jailed! Chicago News. lipino army is on its legs. Penn Great guns! That ar my must be a centiped. Her Iftintinnd. Wife I beard a husband tell his wife today that she made him tired, and I hope I will never bear my husband say that to me.

Husband (sagaciously! You won't. my dear. You may not be unlike some oilier wives, but your husband is un like some oilier husbands; be keeps bis opinion to himself. Philadelphia North American. 'Her husband's sudden death must have distressed her very "Yes, cd.

She told me it was quite iinnoyihi. She says if she had only had some warning she might have advantage of that bargain sale of crape at Selleuis' last week. Philadelphia Press. Willing tn dinner It. fool and his money ire scon parted, you know." observed the man who has a ma iia for quotations.

"Well," replied the optimistic boarder, "for the sake of having the money to part with I wouldn't mind being a little foolisli." Clilcago Xews. Troubles of the Men. Mrs. t'obwigger I suppose you find your social duties much more onerous since you became so rich? Mrs. Parvcnuc Yes, indeed, my dear.

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Houck's, Pitts ton, and G. D. Stroh's, West Pittston. General Debility Day in and out there Is that feeling of weakness that makes a burden of itself. Food does not strengthen.

Sleep docs not refresh. It Is hard to do, hard to bear, 'What should be easy, vitality Is on the ebb, and the whole system suffers. For this condition take Hood's Sarsaparilla It vitalizes the blood, elves vigor and tone to all the organs and functions, and is positively unequalled tor all run down or debilitated conditions. Unoivs Tills euro iMusMpatUm. 2) ceau, fill prison, but owing to the fact that I was anfong the last to get out, I was compelled to abandon the idea I had in mind of striking out boldly for the James river.

On the spur of the mo ment I was compelled to take the only course left, and that was to hide, If possible, until night should again come on. With this idea in view, i crawled Into an old tubular boiler that lay near the mouth of the tunnel. Af ter I had been there about two hours I peeped out through the boiler and looked up the street There was great excitement in the street It seemed as though the whole Confederate army was there. I knew what the trouble was, yet I felt pretty secure in my hiding place. After I had been there what seemed to be a long time, I saw some parties riding furiously toward the boilers.

They dismounted finally and one of them yelled into the end of the boiler where I lay. One of the soldiers said, 'Nobody in and I felt greatly relieved. They could not see me, as it was rather dark in the boiler. The next moment the muz zles of two or three carbines were poked into the end of the boiler, and somebody said: 'If you don't come out, we will shoot' That settled it. I said: 'Don't shoot; I'll come The first question they asked me was, 'How did you get I told them I had bribed the guard and stuck to my story for some time One by one other escaped men who had been recaptured were brought into the prison office to which I bad been taken, and finally a young lieutenant broke down and told how the prisoners had escaped.

It was a crestfa'len crowd of officers that heard the story, and it was not until they had actually seen the tunnel and compelled a little colored boy to go through it that they believed. The whole vengeance of the Confederacy seemed to be on me for trying to put the blame for the escape on the guard. For the next seven weeks I remained in a dungeon in the cellar of the prison, with the rats as my only companions. Not even the guard who brought me a morsel to eat each day would respond to my questions, and I knew not what was going to become of me. Suddenly, one day, a man unlocked the door of the dungeon and I followed him into daylight.

But I was blinded by the strong light and it was not for some time that I could see. And that is the story of my escape and recapture." Colonel Urquhart has a large number of relics of his imprisonment, Among them is a brass plate bearing his name, rank and residence. This plate was placed on the floor of the Libby Prison building after it. had been removed to the World's Fair grounds in Chicago, and marked the snot in the prison where he lay during his imprisonment HAVE TO GIVE UP. It's All Over When Sick Headache Comes to Young or Old Every, thing Stops and Nothing Goes On but the Sick Headaches.

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package three smalt) piet. eke orhruli in list of 1847 Syracuse N.Y. I had an entertaining chat one evening this week with Colonel Samuel A. Urquhart, the West Pittston war vet eran of varied experience, concerning that most notable event of his life his imprisonment in Libby Prison. Richmond, during the Civil War, and his escape therefrom through the famous tunnel that was dug underground by the prisoners of war.

The way the interview came about was something like this: I had read In all of the morning newspapers the Associated Press dispatch telling about the death in a soldiers' home in Milwaukee, of General Harrison C. Hobart, "one if not the last, survivor of the original five who planned and dug the Libby tunnel and escaped from the prison." Knowing that Colonel Urquhart was one of the prisoners of war and that he had escaped from Libby through the tunnel in question, he was inter viewed for the purpose of placing on record a more detailed and accurate statement of the digging of the tunnel and the escape therefrom. The reports sent out from Milwaukee, la connec COL. S. A UKQUHART.

tlon with the death of General Hobart, are not as clear as they should be, and Colonel Urquhart, as one of the six surviving prisoners who escaped by way of the tunnel, is better qualified, perhaps, than anybody else in the country to tell the story, on account of the fact that he has given the sub ject much thought and research, and that he has carefully collated the facte concerning the tunnel and placed them on paper, me colonel nas on various occasions told the story in public hereabout, but, so far as we are aware, it has never appeared in print in de tail. The Colonel was found comfortably ensconced In his cozy Parke street home, and it needed no press ing to get him to tell about the most thrilling experience in his life to which we have referred. The Colonel was well acquainted with General Ho bart, who died this week. He had seen the dispatch announcing General Ho barl's death, and mourned his passing as that of a gallant comrade one whose friendship had been tested in the fire of a Southern military prison during the height of the bitterness en gendered by civil strife. At Colonel Urquhart's elbow, while he told the story, hung a group picture of Libby Prison inmates who had escaped by the tunnel, and the central figure was General Hobart, who was at the time of.

his death president of the Libby Prison Tunnel association, of which Colonel Urquhart is vice president Colonel Urquhart first met General Hobart, after the escape from Libby, at the reunion of the survivors held in Chicago a few years ago. The Gen eral did not at first recall the Colonel, and It was not until Colonel Urquhart tried to sing again for him a song that he, as a member of the prison minstrels, had sung while the General made his escape, did the scene ail flash before the General's mind. And then he wept for very joy. General Hobart was a distinguished resident of Wisconsin. He was a lawyer by profession, and was one of the mem bers of the last State constitutional convention.

He had served In the State Legislature and was speaker of the House in 1849. During the Civil War he arose to the rank of brigadier general. At the time of his death he was 87 years of age. And now for the correct story of the Libby Prison tunnel, as the Note and Comment man received it from the lips of Colonel Urquhart. Soon, per aps.

no and all the survivors of the unnol affair will have boon called to their last sleep. They are all advanced in years, and the snows of winter are hiteniug their locks. It is well, there fore, that his story should be printed. Briefly, the facts are as follows: Twice during his service in the Union army. Colonel Urquhart was made a prisoner or war.

The first time he was exchange.l.'The second time he made his way out through the tunnel, being, however, recaptured. The story of Colonel Urquhart's capture does not properly belong to the history of the tunnel, and It la In that connection, to say that he was taken prisoner in the Shenandoah Valley, just below HarpeVs Ferry, by Imboden's cavalry. He, with other prisoners of war, was taken to Richmond and cast into Libby, the horrors of which are a matter of history. Colonel Urquhart says that whan new men came into the prison they were greeted with cries of "Fresh fish," and were deluged with inquiries concerning the army and the war. Prison life was devoid of interest, except that there was a band called the "Libby Minstrels," of which he became a member, playing the flute.

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The short lengths and odd pieces of a big season's selling hav 'been rounded up, and this week we give you the opportunity to buy them Foil Haw Worth and Less. (if) Cent Table Linen f)0 Cents a yard. This is an excellent opportunity. that comes in i a the wake of our Great Clearing Sale. Bed Spreads at gotiations without having some as mat lis aciion wuuiu receive the sanction of the Senators.

The concensus of opinion Is strongly in favor of the purchase. This Is not on account of any financial return that might come to us as a result of the further development of the resources of the island, but for stragetic reasons. We now own Porto Rico, and many people incline to the opinion that before many years shall bave passed the pubans will wish to annex themselves to onr country. It is quite important, therefore, that the other islands of the West Indian group should be under our control. If we do not purchase them it is not unlikely that some foreign government may be disposed to take hold of the islands, since Denmark wishes to rid herself of the far away burden.

Opposition newspapers making a great hue and cry and 'eavorlng to arouse prejudice inst the purchase of the islands. the ground that "we should be pur chasing 30,000 negroes of all ages, both sexes and many conditions, for a price averaging about $10 a head." The Chicago Chronicle wants to know we are going into the slave trade. is begging the question, however, to 1 put It in that light. Of course we are not going into tne slave traae. ana there will be no slaves in the West Indies under American rule.

We are purchasing from Denmark the territory and government rights that it possesses in the West Indies, and we have a perfect right to do so, morally and under international law. In pay ing Denmark for her West Indian pos 'rBe8slons we are doing exactly the amevthing that we did when we pur chased Alaska from Russia years ago. Nobody pretends to say that slavery Is practiced in Alaska. Neither will it be practiced in tlie Danish West Indies. The Inhabitants will be treated as well, if not better, than at present.

The record of the United States government, in its international dealings, lc sufficient proof of that. The Lancaster Examiner says, with good reason: "The Inhabitants most assuredly will be better oft under the authority of a great free government that is able, to protect and civilize them than as subjects of a king on the other side of the world. If they have 'hitherto esteemed themselves they should hereafter congratulate themselves that their freedom is to be of a better and more substantial quality." Good roads men of the Empire State have been in session this week in Albany and discussed at length and in detail propositions to enter on modern road building on an extensive scale. If the plans projected are carried out. New York State will have, within the next ten years, a system of roads equal to any to be found in the world.

State Engineer Bond is heartily in favor of better roads, and he was ime of the most enthusiastic at the good roads conference. He made an address explaining the proposition made in his annual report to have the JONAS LONG'S sons, Pie Mince Pic I The kind thatsmaclct of country home of years afjo. It makes the mouth water to think of it most conks won't bother now a days as they did then to get thitigs 'just and so we nuke NONESUCH to save the labor and expense and give the husbands and the hoys pies like mother Used to make." No housewife has a cleaner kitchen than ours, or can buy as carefully or cheaply as we can. That's why None Such Mince Meat is only A to have your Printing done at the Gazette Printing Of fice. We have every facility for turning out good work on short notice and our prices are low.

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