THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO, PA. 'CA.EY AT THI BAT." TIktp -Jas en?e In Cnacy" manner as M ptr; i Into hid plice. There was pride In Cnsey's bearing and aiil a smile on Casoy'e face; Ami when responding to the cheers ha lU'luly doftVd hl hat, Xo f.ramri-r In the crowd could doubt 'twits Cusiy at the bat. Ten thousand eyes were on him as ha rubiicd his hands with dirt. Five thousand tongues applauded When lie wlrod thorn on his shirt: And when the writhing pitcher ground the t all Into his hip, ri :lHMC" planted In Casey's eye, a sneer curli d Casey's Up. A:id now the leather-covered sphere cams hurling throiiKh the air. And Carey s'ood a-watchlng It In haughty Kramlenr there. Close by the sturdy batsman the ball un heeded oped "Thst ain't my style," said Casey. Strike one," the umpire said. From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar. Like the beating of storm waves on the stern and distant shore; "Kill him: kill the umpire" shouted some one on the stand, And It's then they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand. With n smile of Christian charity great Casey's vlsane shone; He stilled the rising tumult, he mado tha Rame ro on; He slitnaled to the pitcher, and once mora the spheroid flew, T!ut Casey still Ignored It, and the um pire said "Strike two." "Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and the echo answered "Fraud!" But a scornful look from Casey, and tha audience was awed; They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, And they knew that Casey wouldn't let the ball go by again. The sneer Is gone from Casey's Hps, his teeth nre clenched In hate, lie pounds with cruel violence his bat ui'on the plate; And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets It go, And now the air Is shattered by the force of Casey's blow. Oh somewhere In this favored land tha sun Is shining bright; The band Is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, Iiul there Is no Joy in Boston mighty, Casey has struck out. FOR A GIFT, A HUSBANU "Six years ago to-day! What a long time!" sighed Maud Merlin, sinking into the low seat by the window and pressing her sad white face against the glass. "Ah, me, how happy I was; but it is all over. I shall never ba happy again." Her dark eyes overflowed with teara and ber memory went back to the scenes of her childhood, the great, rambling country house, with its spa clous rooms and blazing fires and large-hearted hospitality. She could see the old garden, with its winding; borders and cool retreats, and catch the swoet odor of the pinks and the drowsy murmur of the bees, and there was the woodbine arbor beneath which she and Harry had sat so often to gether. How well she remembered one evening above all others an evening in royal June. The air heavy; with spicy odors and a full moon pour ing down its glorifying light upon the enowy billows of orchard bloom, and the long hedges of crimson roses, weighed down by their own intense perfume. On that evening she had lis tened to the story that had been so often repeated but which never grows old. "Maud, my darling, I love you. Will yo be my wife?" She recalled tha very words, she seemed to hear hla dear voice and see his tender eyes. The betrothal ring was still upon her finger, Just as he put it there that sight, and beside it another, even yet more sacred, her wedding ring. And this stormy, desolate night was the anniversary. Six years ago, and the old homestead had rung with muslo and reverence. Every window blazed with light and every broed hearth stone glowed with flaming logs. For on that night, robed in white and adorned with blossoms as spotless and! sweet as her own virgin heart, Maud, sole daughter of house and heart, and beauty and belle wherever she went, became a bride. Bidding farewell to the old home onrt. the old friends, Maud went forth with her husband, thenceforth and foiover to be the light of his Koma and the Inspiration of his life. One year one short, sweet, happy) year, that went by like some rare, rlcii melody, without a single note of discord lo break its divine perfection, and then the trouble came. The bare remembrance of it blanched the wife's cheeks and made her breath come In quick, painful gasps. At the close of fiat short, happy year of her wedded life, her husband received informa tion concerning the Illness of an only brother residing in California. He was dying of a slow, but sure disease, and wished to see his brother's face once more. Harry Merlin did not hesitata an Instant. The path of duty was plain he must go. Maud entreated to be permitted to accompany him, but he was Inexorable. The risks and har.lships were tco great. I. eft alone, Maud was not the woman to give way to despondency. It was her nature to keep her face to the Run. She kept herself busy with tha duties of her household, and at last tho dreary days went by and tidings from Harry came. He was safe at the Journey's end, but his brother waa riul, leaving Harry, however, the ln herlror of a eonsldsrable fortune. Just ps soon as his business matters could be arranged. Harry wrote, he would rtart for home. Soon after a second mail came home, bringing Intelligence Hint Harry, In company with quite a perry of brother travellers, had set out! talrtiiR the overland route. Maud counted the days with throb bing impptlenca. The parting had Iwa ft lonz. She pined to see his 3cr face and hear his voice once raorp. She worker from morn till Mtfht filling the room with little or naments er.i petting up little sur H..J03 njalnat hla reiurn. She culti vated t'ne (lowers he loved, and sang ballads ho admired. Never did "DTiaa count the pafmlns? moments r-uch loving expectation. At last is.j came. Sbo had received nc Intelligence, but Bhe felt sure that he .vculd come. The rvptilng was In spring, genial and balmy, their little home a wilder ness of blospoms. She prepared his supper with her own hands, she adorned the rooms with the flowers he loved, and even laid out his gown and Ellppcrs and drew his nrm-chalr be neath the window. Then she went to her chamber and put on the dress he liked to see her wear, a mauve silk, with dainty lace at the throat and wrists and Jet and gold ornaments, her flossy brown hair held back by spraya of heliotrope and sweet verbena. Sur veying herself in the mirror she smiled and blushed, remembering hla words when she had first worn the dress. ' "Oh, Maud, you are beautiful! Al ways wear this dress, darling, when you wish to please me." The May sun wheeled lower and lower and at last went down, leaving the earth wrapped In the dusky mlsta of twilight. Maud lit the lamps In the parlor and then went out to tha porch to wait. He surely would comej ho would not disappoint her! The gol den tints of the day faded like tha colors of a dream. The stars came out one by one in the hazy lustre of the sky, and then the moon arose, coming up grandly above the purple steeps. Still he had not come, and the poor wife's heart began to grow sick with hope deferred. Another hour and then above the murmurous muslo of the night she heard a sharp step upon the gravel and started to her feet, flushed and all breathless, but tha next Instant she fell back, pale wltb disappointment, for the step was not his she knew that long before the per son came In sight. He had advanced towards the porch where she sat wlthl a slow, uncertain step, observing which and recognizing him as one of her neighbors, she advanced to meet him. "Mr. Rutherford, is it you? I am looking for my husband. What do you think can detain htm?" The man stood still, his face full ol silent, unspeukable pity. Something in his expression caught her Quick eyes, and she sprang forward and grasped his arm. "Mr. Kutherfcrd, you bring me tid ings. Speak! Don't keep me in sus pense!" j Still the man was silent.' I r'Oh, sir," she entreated, don't trifle with my feelings. Do you know any thing concerning my husband? If you do, for mercy sake speak out!" "Madam, I have heard that Is, there is bad news," he began, his voice husk) and broken. Her face grew aa white as death, but her eyes were clear and calm and hec hand strong as she grasped his arm. "Sir, if you pity me, tell me tha worst at once.- I' can bear it." "Well, madam, your husband and his party have been waylaid and mur dered by the Indians." "All? Did none escape?" i "Not one." . She turned sharply, leaving hint without a word, and he saw her enter the house and close the door after her, and that was the end. He would never come back any more, no mat ter how patiently she might wait and watch. He would never know that he had a son, never look upon the little chubby face, with its bold, blue eyes and sunny curls, so like his own. Henceforth her heart and home were desolate. And this was the anniversary of her wedding day. Six years ago, and she was a happy bride. Five years she had been a heartbroken widow. Her boy slept in his little bed, and she sat there thinking, thinking, and gazing out at the low leaden sky and tha wind-tossed trees. The night waa closing rapidly a night of Btorm and darkness. The rain came down in great smoking sheets, and the wild, walling winds rushed around the gables and went .shrieking over the hills like human souls in agony. Her heart ached with a desolation that seemed almost insupportable. Life was so hard, yet for the boy's sake she must endure and live on. She looked down at her sable gar ments with hot, blinding tears. Sis years ago, and she was robed in gems and blossoms. His face, his very, voice, seemed to come back to her, and she fancied that his spirit must ba near her. No matter how high above her, how happy, she knew that he loved her still, and his glorified spirit may have left its home of bliss to keep, with her that sacred anniversary. The fancy consoled her beyond ex pression. She glanced over at tha sleeping boy with a dim hope that his father loved him and watched over him. Then a sudden impulse shot across her mind. She would not keep the anniversary of her wedding day in the garments of womanhood; she would put on the robe she loved. If he knew aught of her poor, sad life he should see how sacredly she remembered and observed his simplest wishes. Stealing up to her chamber she took) out the mauve silk and the dainty laces, growing yellow and tlmeworn, and a pretty Jet and gold ornament, and arrayed herself as in days gone by, and the old bloom came back to ber cheeks and the brightness to her eyes, and she seemed to drop her years of widowhood, and to spring out afresh into the rare beauty of her early; maidenhood. Thus arrayed, she went down softly and seated herself before the blazing fire, her face tearful and expectant. It his soul was near she clung to the hope that it was, as she clung to life he should see how ten derly she remembered him. The anniversary night wore on, wild and dark with storm, and still the poor wlfo, half-dazed by ber terrible sorrow, sat by her lonely hearthstone, robed in her festive garments. At last there came a step without, a sharp impatient step on the gravel, but she did not hear it. A weary, travel-worn man, bronzed by exposure and pale with long-endured grief, came up to the front entrance and paused beneath the low window. Through the parted curtains rhone the ruddy firelight, re vealing the warm, attractive room the old, familiar room, with his hal upon the wall and hb books and meer schaum on the mantle, unmoved, as he Lad left them; revealed the kitten purring on the rug, and the little cur tained bed In the distance, and the dear, sweet face, wet with tears, and tho drees he loved In happy days, that seemed too far back to the poor wan derer to be real. Was it all a dream? Wr.s that thf wife from whom he had been so long parted, whose face had been present with him through all his lonely houn cf peril and Imprisonment? Was sh waiting and watching and keeping hit home bright for his return? lie left the window, stole softly tc the porch and approached the sid door. He raised the latch. It opened and he stood upon the threshold. Intent upon her musings, her own sweet memories and sad reflections Maud heard no sound. Her heart was far back with the husband shi loved so well. The old dress had re vived old associations and his very presence seemed around and about her. She looked up with clasped handi and streaming eyes. "Oh, Harry! Oh, my husband!" she murmured, "If you knew how I ovt you, how I mourn your loss, surely your soul might speak to mine and tell me you are near me." "Maud, my wife, my darling!" She started to her feet with a won dering, startled face. There he stood, worn and weary, changed from thi man he had been, but the wife recog nized him In an Instant. For a mo ment a solemn awe filled her eyes, and her love hesitated and trembled In thi presence of a spirit from the othei world, but the next lnBtant she held him In her arms with a wild cry. "Oh, Harry, my husband! You ar not dead! You have come back to me!" His passionate kisses on her face, his strong arms and throbbing, heart answered her as no words could hav done. He had come back to her from imprisonment amid the wild Western mountains, from perils and dangers, and death Itself. For awhile, after she had heard hit story, and fully assured herself thai he was really fleah and blood, and not a spirit, as she had first believed him, she lay quietly weeping on his bosom. Then she arose, with a solemn tender ness in her eyes, and, leading him to the little couch, drew aside the cur tains, revealing the little face, flush ed and dimpled in slumber, and the small, chubby fists clinched together. Harry Merlin looked on with a word, then, bending down, he kissed the little sleeper with a Joy and thank fulness in his soul too deep for utter ance. And on this stormy night, after weary years of imprisonment amid barbarous hordes, after having en dured trials and hardships almost death Itself this was how Harry came home. Pittsburg Leader. Mysterious Disappearances. It is a common thing to see an nouncements in the newspapers of tha sudden and mysterious disappearance of persons. In most cases the lost per sons reappear In a few days, having only gone on some errand of business or pleasure without notifying theli families. In many instances they art Riven up as dead by their friends end the public soon forget all about them. One of the most singular cases of this kind, and one which may furnish an explanation of others la that of J. M. Newcomb, a merchant of Petersburg, Va., and a member of the municipal council of that town. Mr. Newcomb came to Baltimore last September to buy goods. He engaged passage on the Norfolk steamer to return home, but the boat left without him. He disap peared, and was, after a protracted search given "up aa dead, and his es tate settled. Now he has reappeared at the home of a brother in Greens boro, N. C, a physical and mental wreck. It would appear that the cause of hla failure to return heme was thi sudden loss of his faculties and all knowledge of his Identity. How he f-Md ''i " - , clear, for he does not recognize any cJ his friends or relatives. It is possible that his finding his way to Greensboro was accidental, or it may have been by some mysterious mental operation as takes place in sleep-walking. No one can tell. An account of a case ol disappearance due to sudden mental disturbance, similar to that of Mr, Newcomb, has been recently publlsn ed In New York. A prominent man named Howe, who had been having some nervous trouble, slipped away from his wife on the street In Janu ary and has not been heard of since. Two voers ft go fi man in Phlladelnhla, In walklnr a short distance from his home, suddenly lost knowledge of his identity, wandered to Providence, R. I., and established himself in business, which he conducted for seven years. Then another failure of memory oc ci'rrpd. nd he wit to smother ni() sijr! nullt nn ftnw- Amines "vipt A Russian Uioiwj.', i-,cKOvsaps, has let in new light cn our use of electricity. He applied the great wa ters of the Volga to turn dynamos and turbine wheels, and conducted the electrical force produced Lnto the earth and the air. This Increase of electric ity attracted the sun's beams and de veloped greater warmth in the soli, more frequent storms in the region and an unprecedented frultfulness in that entire locality. Thus he became convinced that our excessive use of electricity deprives the earth of one of its conditions of productivity, and is the cause of the irregularity and fit fulness of the weather. The Russian Government has informed other Gov ernments of the result of these expert ments, and the professor is to repeat them In more extensive measure in the vicinity of Moscow this spring and summer. The Antithesis of hanta Clans. The exact number of telegrams re celved by Prince Bismarck from March 31 to April 3 is 18,390, containing 277, 697 words. During the same space ol time there were delivered at Fried rlchsruhe more than 150,000 letters and between 110,000 and 120,000 postal cards. About 35,000 packages, parcels and cases were delivered by the par cels poBt and railroad offices. rimio-riBjrln j Extraordinary. The latest feat of tbe strong man of a vaudeville company In Vienna is th carrying around the stage of a plat form upon which aro a full-sized up right piano and a performer, playing upon the same, whflo the Samson ralsei bla feet In exact time. Plenty, Yet Starving. The thin, emaciated prrsons we see every day are actually starving for now i,shment. You may eat until you are stuffed, but unless your food is assimilated it does you no good. The kind, of food that makes tissue and enriches the blood is found in Cod-liver Oil, and the easiest, most palatable form of Cod-liver Oil is Scott's Emulsion But Scott's Emulsion is more than this. It contains Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda, a nerve tonic and constructive agent. The nutrients in Scott's Emulsion, therefore, are just what is needed to build up the sys tem and overcome wasting tendencies. Children gain flesh and strength on Scott's Emulsion when no other form of food nourishes them. They almost all like it Don't be persuaded to accept a substitute Scott & Bowne, New York. AH Druggists. 50c. and 51. ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. DEALERS IX Cigars, Tobacco. Candies, Fruits and Nuts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week. ZF-E-TSTiN-r Goods j Seci-a-lt. SOLE AGENTS FOR F.F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco Bole agents tor the following brands of Cigars' Henry Clay, Loadros, Normal, Indian Trincoss, Samson, Silver Ash Bloomsburg Pa. "A hc'indful of dirt may be a house fuj of shame." Keep your house clean with APOLIO B. F. Sharpless, Pres. BLOOMSBURG LAUD IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. Capital Stock, $30,000. Plotted property is in the coming business centre of the town. It includes also part of the factory district, and has uo equal in desirability for residence purposes. lyiiUlL-k LAJlb are ottered at values that will be doubled in a short time. No such opportunity can be had elsewhere to make money. Lots secured on SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS- Maps of the town and of plotted property furnished on ap plication. Call upon or write to the Secretary, or J. S. "Woods, Sales Agent, or any member of the Board of Directors. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. B. F. SiiARrLEss; J. L Dillon. C. W. Neal, A. G. Brioos, Dr. I. W. Willits, Dr. H. W. McReynolds, N. U. Funk. 11-19- t ELY BROTHERS. 6S Wtrrcn Bt New York. IMce SO ct.L-C2SLI2J ORGAN1ZED.- THE SOUTH CENTRAL CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINING AND MILLING CO. (INCOKl'OKATED.) CAPITAL STOCK - $2,000,000. Hharett ex oo cmvU, I'mi raid u Non.AHHcBNuble, (Issued In payment for this Company's Mines.) TREASURY RESERVE STOCK, itoo.ooo. OVER GOLD. 7 in the order received, at the price or 'reusury toclc will uow be sold to nrst applicants, 12J CENTS A SHARE. Certain to advance and yield ton to hundred fold on the par. 825. OO Cash Buys 8200.00 Full Paid Stock. andlnthatDronortlonmornorinuu ! MN.Znteeffi thSs'V rapidly. The Company's crms(! !! l ued 1, nes Sail" ''U,U 'B- U u dM tu "malsono'! merce lllU'Ut m, I,oul. Mo U. Funk, Sec C. H. Campbell, Treas. Owns a Rich Group cf Ten Gold Mines, Located In Cari.011 itilntnir UlHtrict. Owyhee County, Idaho; a district which hag produced 840,000.000,00 ur rains AMI DIKECTOlfS. rand Srw1frtiVriS'i.iIir?.,hpt7' cl,ltall8l Estate Owner: and or w. 11. H millers & Co., Hoofers, -t. Louis llc 1 T-V.1!"1' JA Wfi'1 liullroiid Contractor, 8tI.ou. Hr,,i, ariWVV. F.' 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Butter per lb $ ,20 Eggs per dozen 14 Lard per lb , 12I Ham per pound i2 Pork, whole, per pound .06 Beef, quarter, per pound . 07 to .10 Wheat per bushel .80 Oat3 ' .4S Rye " " 65 Wheat flour per bbl 3.60 Hay per ton 12 00 to 14.00 Potatoes per bushel .75 Turnips " ' ,5 Onions " " i,00 Sweet potatoes per peck 25 to .30 Tallow per lb ,4l Shoulder " " Side meat " " IO Vinegar, per qt 07 Dried apples per lb .05 Dried cherries, pitted. , .u Raspberries 14 Cow Hides per lb .i Steer " " , c2 CalfSkin 80 Sheep pelts ,75 Shelled com per bus ,75 Corn meal, cwt a. 00 Bran, uao Chop " x.aS Middlings " 1.20 Chickens perlb new . 1 a " "old 23 Turkeys " " ,s Geese " " Ducks " " ,I0 Coal. No. 6, delivered a 40 " 4 and S " 3:5o "6 at yard ,.15 " 4 and s at yard 3.25 COPYRIGHTS ' CAN I OUT A IN . I 1 TI.'V'n, - . RrriPLn,7?5 i P boV opinion, write to m V ft fl A- ('., who have had nuurly Urty year experience In the patent tmslnesa. Commuiilc. Mom .trlctly confidential. 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