WAKENINQ. Thl, jn-oad whito curve of the beach, 1 lTiat lies like a bonded arm; The amorous waves that seem ever a-reach To kiss it and die a-calm. j , ,1 ,till the hovering; sky, tisl st ill the splendid day, the far white sails, and the seagull's cry, jVud the sun-path ovor the bay. Uovv many and many a time Have 1 questioned the stranded shells, If they knew, perchance, of the magical dime, Where the answer of dreaming dwells. There s|>eed the out-bound ships, Here lieth the sunshine warm, With the spent waves pressing their curv ing lips, On tiie white shore’s bended arm. Then for what is the day more fair? Why bluer the deeps of space? Oli, the sun on tho gold of a woman’s hair— The love of her eyes—her face. —Charles Washington Coleman, in Lippin eott's. EMBERS. It was snowing, .and Dick Snlvers’s old felt hat and meagre overcoat were all white and soft looking; you couldn’t see the holes in the crown of tho one nor the threadbare edges of the other. Ho shuffled slowly along ths snowy path past tho university, his chin buried under his coat collar, his shoulders up about his ears, hi's hands shoved deep into the breast pockets of his overcoat. Already there were a few lights in the windows of Matthews, opposite, and a solitary black figure with a cape flappnig about its shoulders could bo seen across the yard, marching head down against the storm. Snivors stopped in front of Wold. In one of the rooms In the north wing there was a red glow, telling of a good fire. Snivers couldn’t help thinking, then, of his own poor little room in College House, with its white walls and deal table supporting a pilo of battered hooks and a brass lamp; and its empty stove. It had been three days since he had had a fire. He couldn’t afford to buy any more coal at present—he had figured on that lialf-ton^asting longer. It wasn’t so bad in the evening, because then he could sit close up to tho lamp and keep pretty warm, but in the after noon. before it was dark enough to light the lamp, it was very dreary; Snivers had - rather shiver out of doors then than in his room, so here he was whitening all over like a miserable Santa Claus. That room in Weld with the red glow in it looked very cosey. There were curtains across the lower part of the window, so that only a bit of terra-cotta wall paper surrounding a small etching, and a yellow circle cast by a gas jet half turned down, were .visible. Tho owner must have but just gone out; probably to dinner, for it was hardly dark yet; hardly 6. Snivers turned up the short path to the front of Weld, clumped through the dark, brick vestibule, and, with a croak and a thud of the door, entered the hall. It was really very cold out side. he would get warm here. It must be so comfortable to live in a place where the halls are warm, thought he, shivering underneath the gas jet, as he gazed at the sign pro hibiting the building to "pedlers, beggars and book agents." He won dered if he would be taken for a bog gar. Well, he was one, but a student too—the • ‘Beggar Student ” ho said aloud, with melancholy cheerfulness. At the end of tho hall there was an open door, through which, past the little vestibule, he could see the room with the terra-cotta wall paper. Over the floor flickered an orange light flinging queer, trembling shadows about the room. ■ ‘A wood fire must be burning there, I wonder if tho fel ler’d mind if 1 went in,” said Snivers to himself. "I guess ho won’t if ho doesn't find me there. And such a fire as that—a wood fire— oughtn’t to be wasted. To think of the feller wasting a wood fire!” With which economical reflection Snivers timidly entered the room. ' mere was an ouor of cigars in the air that made the room seem all the more cosey. In one dark corner glowed the polished black iront of an ebony piano, the keys gleaming like white teeth on the grin; pictures, signs and shingles were scattered here and there on the walla and beside a large desk in the middle of the room, lit tered with books, papers, tobacco and a couple of thin glasses, was a small, open steamer trunk. Before the fire there was a low arm chair covered with a rug. W ith a final glance about the room. Snivers sat down on the edge of the chair, holding his hands to the fire with a sigh of satisfaction, while the snow from his hat and coat trickled down in little streams, spoiling the rug of his unknown host. •Td better not turn the gas up. ” he soliloquized, 'some of the feller’s friends, or the feller himself, might see the light and come in. I’ll sit in the dark—it’s pleasanter anyhow with such a fire." Suddenly he caught sight of a little piece of paper, folded once across the middle, lying on the hearth. Mechan ically he reached for it and examined it. “Why, it’s a check!" he exclaimed, as with trembling hands he held it in the firelight. “Bay £o the order of Charles K Graff ’’ he read. It must be fine, thought ha to have $100 and to spend it on anything you wanted, as Charles P. <;raflf would da Graff must be one of those follows you see sometimes on Sunday afternoon, in long, loose overcoats and silk hats, boarding the olectric cars to go into Boston.15 Gne of those fellows who think nothing of going to the theater when they want to, that can spend a whole hundred dollars on fun. Fel lows that leave $loo-checks lying on the hearth with the door open can’t think much of $100. He, poor Salvers, had not even enough to buy a little coal. If he only had $100! and Sniv ers fell .vplanniug what be would do with so much money, staring into the fire. He wouldn’t spend it all on him self, as Charles P. Graff would proba bly da He would buy Tom a good fiddle, Tom who had such a genius for music—you can buy very good fiddles for $25 now. That would leave $75. He’d send his father $">0—Salvors would so like to help the dear old grisly fellow, with his wrinkled, tired evos. and cheerful mouth, who had denied himself so much to send his boy to college. Twenty-five dollars would buy him coal and clothos and a new hat. He really needed a new hat, his prosent one was really too disreputa ble; and perhaps he might—Snivel's hung his head guiltily at the thought —he might go once to the theater, or maybe—twice—and a delighted, but shamefaced, smile flitted over Sniver’s face. Ah, yea there were so many things he could do with the money. But what was the use of dreamingP The check wasn’t endorsed. If only the check were endorsed, then he could—Snivers suddenly straightened up in his chair. Well, what would he do? What good would that do him—was he—was he at heart a thief? What a mean man is a poor man! thought Snivers, blushing guilti ly at the fire. It seemed to hiss back at him, forming many bright, grin ning faces; it was no longor a com forting lira Snivers rose to ga "Hullo, Gus! is that you?” said a voice behind him. Ho turned hastily to the door. Be fore him stood a rather tall follow, wrapped m a light mackintosh, with a felt hat pulled over his eyes, his trousers tucked into a pair of high arctica With a start the newcomer bent forward and peored into Snlvers’s face. "Well what are you doing hero?" he asked, quietly, as he Stopped under the chandelier and turned up tho gas. "I—I just came in and sat down to get warm,” stammered Snivel's, con fusedly, and blinking in the light. The man in the mackintosh stood looking curiously at Snivers, slowly drawing oil his gloves. "That was cool in you," he said at length, with tho faintest twinkle in his eye, "but where did you get that?" catching sight of the check trembling botween Snivers’s fingers. "Why, I—I saw it on the floor—I was just looking at it—it's not en dorsed." he added hurriedly; "it wouldn’t have done me any good if I had—er taken it." "Won’Uyou sit down, Mr. - "Snivers,” said Snivers. "Mr. Snivers? My name is Graff," said the man in the. mackintosh, doffing it and snapping the lock on the door. Snivers sat down, watching his host uneasily ns ho pullod the heavy curtains across tho windows, kicked off his arctics, and drew a chair up to the fire. Ho was a big fellow, with a rather pale 'but pleasant face, his hair parted squarely down the middle, and with a solf possessed glance in his eyes. Snivers laid the check on the desk. His host reached over and took it. Snivers noticed that his hand trembled as he read it. Snivers dropped his eyes to his host’s yellow shoes. He felt himself being scrutinized, and he felt that he was blushing. Surely his host would think him a thief if he noticed this sign of guilt. Snivors wished his host would say something, instead of sitting over there and digging his keen eyes cheerfully into his (Snivers’s) soul. Only tho mirth ful crackling of the fire broke the stillness and Snivers could uot but feel that it was laughing at him and pointing him out to its mastur as a thief. me silence muse oe oroken. so. still avoiding tho sharp scrutiny of the eyes he felt fixed on him. and finger ing his ragged hat Snivors began hesitatingly. "I ought to—say to you. Mr. Graff—that I—I didn't come hero to steal. I just came in to sit down and get warm. Your fire looked so warm—so cheerful. I mean, that I couldn't resist coming in. I happened to see that chock.” ho glanced up half haughtily, half guiltily, and was sur prised to see that his host was not looking at him. His face was hidden by his hand and he seemed to be gaz ing into the lire. The check still trembled in his hand. After another silence, with an effort. Gratli began hesitatingly, "Mr. Snivors. 1 suppose you are pretty poor. Whether you’re honest or not has nothing to do with the case now. Now the Faculty—the Faculty—well, they think I’m a hand-ball and they’ve used me accordingly. I haven't made a success of my college life—I don’t believe my being here has done me or any one else the slightest good—so if you—er—you could accopt- -that check—welL i’d be awfull; grateful. I'd like to be able to say 1 have helped somebody here, if not with my own brains, with the old gentleman’s money, so—so—won’t you please ac cept it?" Snivers thought of his own father and Tom. • Why not acoept—what was pride compared to making three people happy? Tom should have his fiddle, and Daddy—he would send him the whole $75. •Mr. Graff.” said Snivel's, blush ing. "I will accept it. thank you sin cerely.” Graff endorsed the check and showed Snivers to the door. wish I were going to be here a little longer. ” he said, smilingly, ‘so that I could see you again. A warm.fire is good, but a warm friend and a warm fire—well. I won’t paint the good times you've missed through the efforts of the Faculty.” shaking Snivers merrily by the hand. "What a light-hearted fellow,” said Snivors. as he plowed back to his room: "he doesn't seem to care a bit about being expelled.” When Snivers hold the face of the oheck under his little brass lamp that night he was surprised to see how blurred it was: don't believe I un derstood that follow.” said Snivora thoughtfully shaking his head.—llon ry li. Eddy, in the Harvard Advocate. HUNT LEVEE BREAKS. WIDE CREVASSE FORMED AND FARMS INUNDATED. A District Twenty MUea Lou* Entirely Submersed—Stock Drowned end Crop* Ruined—Belief Thnt tbe Levee »>■ Gut. Quincy, 111., Juno 7.—A crevasse oc curred in the Hunt levee last nlfflit and the district wli.jli it protected, twenty miles long and four miles wide, extending from Warsaw south, is now under water. The break occurred at a point about twenty-four miles above this city, and a vast volume of water is pouring through the crevasse, which is now 200 feet wide and rapidly widening. Much of the district was under cultivation and the crops ore utterly* runined. Wlint was yesterday a fertile farming region is now a vast sea of water from six to fifteen feet deep. No loss of life has occurred, so far as known, though much live stock has been swept away. The people had been expecting the worst for a day or two and as soon as the break was reported lied to the bluffs.1 The Indian Grave levee is dan gerously weak and a crevasse there is momentarily feared. The water is still slowly rising. Warsaw, 111., June 7.—At 8 o'clock yesterday word rea -lied here that the levee of the Hunt Drainage district had broken near the line of Adams and Hancock counties and immediately a relief party of citizens, numbering 100, supplied with shovels, axes, lumber, sacks and other material boarded the ferry and hurried to the scene. They were met by as many more people from Canton, Mo., and the two parties immediately arranged to work conjointly, lly this time the break was 100 feet wide and the waters were rushing madly through the opening. Every effort was ex pended to stay the broadening of the breach and immense trees were felled and floated into position to make a bulwark, but there is little or no hope of stopping the crevasse. Thousands of acres of wheat are inundated, en tailing a loss of thousands of dollars. There are many who believe the levee was cut, but others who were familiar with the character of the fill at the point broken are of a contrary opinion. The misfortune tails with great severity not only on those inter ested in these extensive bottom lands but on the adjacent communities, which are deeply interested in the prosperity of the district. FOUR OF TUB FAMILY DROWNED. An Accident by Which Father, Mother, and Two Children Lose Their Lives. St. Joseph, Mo., June 7.—A remarka ble case of drowning occurred in a small pond near Forest City, Mo., yes terday morning. Stephen Schalcr, a boy 10 years of age, was running across a foot-bridge over the pond, when he fell overboard. His mother and sister, the latter a girl of 15, witnessed the accident and jumped into the water to rescue him. The water was over their heads and, instead of saving the boy, they found themselves struggling for their own lives. The father, Stephen Shaler, Sr., was summoned to the spot bjr the cries of his drowning wife and children, and, although unable to swim, at once jumped in the water. The fight for life only lasted a short time, and when the neighbors finally reached the spot it was only in time to remove from the water the bodies of father, mother and children. Five other little children are left orphans by the accident. M’MILLAN GETS TWELVE YEARS Long Sentence for a Desperate Man Once Made Prominent by Suspicion. Houston, Texas, June 7.'—Charles McMillan, the man whom the officers believe to be the one wanted for an assault, in February last, on a lady of much prominence at Sedalia, Mo., was convicted of burglary of the store of J. H. Kudin that took place some months ago. He gets a term of twelve years. The lady and her husband came down from Sedalia, but the lady would not positively identity the man as her assailant. Since McMillan has been in jail he has tried to hang him self with his bedclothes and at another time he set fire to his b. d and at tempted to burn himself. Granite Cotters Still Fighting. New York, June 7.—This week is likely to see important developments in the strike which is being carried on by the Granite Cutters’ National union against the proposition of the New England Contractors’ association to change the date for signing the yearly wage scale from May 1 to Jun. 1. The union men, now recognizing that upon the issue in New York depends that of the entire country, have telegraphed to Secretary Dwyer to come to the city immediately. Wreck on the Reading. Shenandoah,Pa.,June 7.—This town was completely cut off from all mil road communication this morning as the result of last night’s heavy rains, which caused washouts on the Lehigh ▼alley and Reading roads. The Read ing had a wreck south of here during the night, caused by a coal train run ning into a washout, completely wrecking the engine and several cars. The engine rolled down into the creek and the fireman was badly scalded. _ Drowned In South Dakota. Huron, S. D., June 7.—Mrs. K. M. Foote and three children living south of Harold, were drowned last evening in attempting to cross a ravine after an immense downpour of rain yester day afternoon. The storm is said to havo been a cloudburst, deluging a great stretch of country. BURIED BY A FALLING WALL. One llojr Killed end One Fatally Hurt— Severe! Workmen In the Uebrli. Chicago, June *1.—Tlio south wall of a two-story building nt 319 West Four teenth street collupsed instantly killing one or two boys and fatally in juring another. Several workmen who wero engaged in tearing down the building are missing and It is feared they are buried beneath the ruins. A boy who cannot be found is also sup posed to have been erttshed beneath the wall. As far as is known the victims are: Killed: EDDIE CLANCY, of 181 Johnson street, crushed to death. IIENltY OROSSMAN. of ITT Johnson street, thought to have been burled la the tvrock. Fatally Injured: Frank Schkcta, 100 Brown street. All wero boys about twolve years of age who wero gathering wood under the sidewalk near the building. Sev eral of the workmen on the building cannot bo found, and it is feared their bodies lie under the mass of debris marking the scene of the accident The names of the missing could not be learned, _ HOUSE BLOWN UP. Two People Instantly Killed In a Dyna mite Explosion Near Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., June (I.—About 1 o'clock Saturday an explosion of dynamite occurred at Kensington, Pa., in the house of J. K. Turner, a jeweler. Two persons were killed instantly. They are: J. K. TURNER, Jeweler. MISS EMMA SCHEFFER, of Emlanton,Pa. The wtfo and two children of Turner were badly Injured. That the house was blown up delib erately seems certain, as Mr. Turner was never known to have dynamite in bis dwelling or store. The explosion was of great force, breaking windows and doors at some distanco. A posse bas been organized and is now endeav oring to find some clew to the fiend who caused the explosion. MRS. FRIEND ACQUITTED. Tile Jury In the Kleotrlo Sugar Cute Re turn a Verdict for the Defendant. Anm Arbor, Mich., June 0.—C. Knowlton, Jr., and R. J. Sawyer, Mtb. Friend’s attorneys, made the argu ment for the defense In the case of the Electric company vs. Olive E. Friend yesterday. They presented a strong defense, the main points being that Cotterill, the president of the company, was cognizant of the frauds and car ried them on from the beginning. The closing speech was made by A. P. Wheeler of New York, who made an argument in behalf of the claims of the company. After being out ouly three hours the jury rendered a verdict of no cause of action. Chicago Hoard of Trade. Chicaoo, Juno C.—During the first half hour wheat sold 54 c lower thun Saturday, eorn 1)4c lowor, oats lo lower. Pork opened I5c lowor with the easier corn market and a groat run of hogs at lower prices at tho yards. For the first hour July wheat sold 80c to 8554c to 80>4o to 851|o. July corn sold 5114c to Olftc to 505(c to 51c. Oats for July sold ns low us 33)40. July pork*!0.45 to *10.4214 to >10.50 to 110.45. Ribs and lard 214 c to 714c lower. Closing quotations wero: Closlfag.' ARTICLES. High. Low. Wheat—8 June. July. Sept. Dec. Corn—2 Juno. July. August.... Sept. Oats— June. July. Sept. Pork— June . July . Sept. June. July. Sept. Short ribs June . July. Sept. * .8544 .8014 .8554 .8744 .5314 • 5114 .505, .5014 .3344 .3354 *254 10.50 10.50 10.0714 0.30 0.3714 0.5214 6.2714 6.2414 o.ao « .84 .8414 .84 .80)4 .6014 .49 .4854 .4814 ■ 3244 • 335. .315, 10.4214 10.4214 10.00 6.2714 0.35 0.50 6.20 0.27 0.2714 10.45 10 45 10.00 0.2714 6.35 6.50 6.22 6.25 0.32 Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, June 8.—The following quotations are for large lots only. Smaller quantities hr* usually gold at adranoed rates: Butter—Fancy Elgin stock, 17@18c per lb: fancy creameries, 15©l6c; faucy Imitations. 14 ®17c; Western goods. 18317c: fancy dairies, 18c; No. 1, 14@15; No. 2. 12©l3c; selects, 16©l7o; fine ladles, 10®12c; fresh packing stooli 10c; grease 4©7o. Potatoes — Burbanks. Mo; Hebrons, 48® 47c; rose. 40®46j: belL 35® 38c; peerless 38® 40c; mixed. 35®40j; Empire state, 45®48c; new potatoes, $1.60®8.00per sack. Fruits—Apples, choice, (2.7$©4 per brl; or dinary, 1203.50; oranges. Florida, 42®4.00 per box: California, *3@4.M;' lemons, 42.50®3.00; bananas, tl.50@l.7& per bunch; pineapples, 11.50 ©2.60 per doz. Poultry—Hens, ' 1214c; roosters 8o; hen turkeys, 14c; mixed, ll®12c; old gobblers, 8® 10c; ducks H®l2c; geese, 43®S per doz. Cheese—Full cream Young Americas, 10J4 ®1lc; do twins. 8 any alarm about her and that they are confident of her recovering sufficient strength to permit of her removal to the mountains (probably Deer park) in a fortnight Decrease In Dry Goods Imports. New York, June 7 —As shown by "tKe"manifest just given out from the custom house this week’s import move ment of dry goods at the port of New York was cdbsiderably below that of last week, the money value of the total entries having fallen to $1,593,618 from $1,770,994. The amount thrown on the market likewise exhibits a de crease of similar proportions, having declined to $1,576,435 from $1,743,113 lie Is Wanted in Chicago. St. Louis, June 7.—Frank Brady, a negro, was arrested here last nignt and is being held for the Chicago authori ties. Over a year ago Brady stabbed and killed Charles Harris in a quarrel over the affections of a woman. HUNDREDS ARE DEAD. TERRIBLE FLOOD IN NORTH WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. Oil City and Tltoavllle Deraetated—OU Tanka Taka Fire and the Horning Fluid Rnah'ea Through the Valley— Outalde Help Appealed for. ' Oil City, Pa., Juno 7.—The most ap* palling calamity in tho history of Oil City caine yesterday, resulting in de struction of llfo and property which ns yet can only bo approximated. Thus far sixty-nine lives are known to be lost, hundreds of people aro known to bo missing, and it is believed the loss of life will reach 200 or more. At 11:30 o’clock In the forenoon a largo proportion of the population of the city was distributed along the banks and bridges of tho Allegheny river and Oil creek watching tho rise of tho flood in both streams, the chief cause of the rise of the latter being duo to a cloudburst above Titusvlllo which rosulted in tho loss of many lives at that point. At tho time men tioned an ominous covering of oil made its appearance on the crest of tho flood pouring down tho Cil Creek valley, and tho danger ous foreboding waves of gas from dis tillate and benzine could bo seen above the surface of tho stream. People be gan slowly to fall back from the bridge and the creek, but they hardly begun to do so when an explosion was heard up Hie stream which was rapidly fol lowed by two others, and, quick as a flash of lightning, the creek for a dis tance of two miles was filled with an awful mass of roaring flames and bil lows of smoke that rolled high above tho crook and river hills. No pen can picttiro tho scene then witnessed. Almost all the town was on fire within three minutes of the time of explosion, and no one knows ns yet how many of tho inhabitants are dead in the ruins of their home. A correspondent stood at the time, of the first explosion at the east end of the creek bridge mentioned. Almost as quickly as the words can be written fully 5,000 pcoplo in that portion of the town were on the streets, wild with terror, rushing to the hill. Men forgot that they were man, and scores of men, women, and children were knocked down and tramblcd upon by both horses and people in the mad flight for places of safety. Hundreds of people thought tho day of judgment had come, and many praycro were heard mingling with the moans and lamentations of the fleeing multitude. The heat was Intense, and the weird and awful spectacle pre sented to the panic-stricken people was that a cloud-burst of fire, bordered and overcapped by a great canopy of dense black smoke, was falling upon the city. The flood in the Oil Creek valley has inundated tho upper portion of the town, flooding from fifty to seventy five houses along North Seneca street. The most of their inmates reached places of safety by the use of boats or by swimming or wading, but a number of them were yet in tho upper stories or in the water when the fire came and their fate was quickly sealed. Some of them were seen to jump into the water to escape death in the flames. Sss :% The distillate and benzine on the creek came from a tank lifted by the llotod and is supposed to have been ignited by a spark from an engine on. the Lake Shore road, just above the tunnel at the northern part of the aity. The fire shot up the creek as woli aa down and several tanks are on threat*, number of the refineries above. But it is believed that their burning content* can be kept within the tanks and that a second baptism of fire may be averted. * It is almost Impossible to find werda to describe this awful calamity and at this time no one has any idea of tfc* number of lives that have been lonk For miles up the creek on both admt everything is in ruins, and hundredsOt families have been rendered hoMtf*t '<£ The fire came so suddenly and so was* pectedly that little if any property ha* f been saved along this stream, and the,'' sky for miles around is still black WHIrS the smoke trom burning dwellings arti 4^ oil tanks. 1 ' S The water in Oil creek Is fkTHag - slowly at this time and it is hoped ; worst is over and no more lives will P*. ^ lost. The creek is fifteen feet deep apd ’ . 100 yards wide now and in tbe n of the oldest inhabitant has nevi so high before. if 85! v:i< Ji Call for Outride Hein. . t J As the devastation is so great it M* l 3 been decided to call upon the outdide? world to furnish financial means to ff* .? lieve the distressed. Such contribn-' 3 tions should be sent by telegraph to Roger Sherman, president of the relief committee, *£s no mails will be received or dispatched for several days, owing to three railroads entering the city t'. having their tracks washed out almost entirely for many miles :'p The following appeal iB issued: Crar suffering and destitution are terrible. There is a great loss of life and manufacturing interests are wiped out by flood and Are, hun dreds of families are homeless and destitute. In the absence of our mayor we appeal to a - generous public for help in this, our time of dis tress. William McNadghton, . * ' President Select Council. , W. B. Benedict, President Common Council, H. C. Bloks. Editor of tbe Herald, .V, Joseph Ztsr, John L. McKinnet, -v,.’r J. A. CadwalladeS, J. E. McKinney, J. J. McOnuM. Titusville gave 81.1,000 to Chicago, 85.000 to Johnstown sufferers, and 82.000 to the Soutli at the time of the yellow fever epidemic, also 81,300 to. Russian relief, and has always re- : sponded to all demands upon the pub lic sympathy when oil towns have been in distress.