THE ———— Come, listen, oh dove, The dove and the olive of oll, Companioned still in their world above As when the deluge rolled Hark! heaven, oh, love, to the the dove, volee Hark, heaven, and hear him say, “There are many to morrows, suy love, my love, There's only one to-day.” And this is his wooing: you hear him say, “This day in purple rolled And the baby stars of the milky way Are cradled iu cradles of gold:” Now, what is thy secret, serene, gray dove Escaping death's deluge alway re are many (0-1 OWS, my love: day THE STORY OF THREE OLD JIE There's only one to 1 tle after tl 3 Horuy alter the succes independent its awful land fore Even Mistre 3 “Old Reub HAY,” ana eves, looking ‘Rube 1 the stone ho passed the w dows: dead!” “Ohr neighbor has heen nea but ince my he has lived a life of 1 4 ¥ HE%e Many years, aeath strangers. earlie grant to age what you would crime “Woman!” ie ¢ old his father speak to you of Seotch girl, services house menial were by Squire Elli from the owners of the Glasgow packet for the price her passage, who his home and his proffered WAS IY taken, tied to the scoundrels h and drageed to death among the rocks on this very road ¥' The question seemed fo revive a host of buried memories. Mrs. Dorris bered that as a child she had listened the story of Murder Notch: had identical rock on which the ghost of a beautiful victim was said to sit at mid- pight, two burning tapers in her hands and sing of her sad fate. how Tom Dorris—rest his soul--long be- fore he had dreamed of becoming husband. <had told her of horse which time and again man linzing head your Merey Douglass, the hands above his wWihose He bought ston of ran from love, ree remem- to seen the Was seen to lovely woman, IL tress 1” said the old man, who had nar. rowly watched her face. “There was such a story when | was very young,” she replid, ‘‘but 1 never heard it coupled witi the name of Reuben Elliston. The great war has driven out many o legend, master, Old Reuben evil tongues should spare their breath.” | ‘I'he stranger's eyes glittered with anger at this reproof. +1 feared it would be | kept from this generation I” he cried. { “Listen! Mercy was be my bride. | Because she would not break her vows he killed her in his jealous pride. She He was tried for the crime and sentenced to death by the rope, to lies buried on this farm. but a corrupt judge delayed his execution until his ninety-ninth birthday, He was, cord of silk upon his neck and once a year to show to the court that he still bore the emblem of | Cain. To-morrow, mistress, Reuben is uy however, ordered to wear a ‘My father has this!" said Mrs, Dorris ‘No; | death would other ehit word { sneered Raven you th film of master ““Tear from tred, Giles, and that Re wknowledge what you know iben Elliston never murder in his heart Mercy pluginss wa: mine she bride—he had sp him to become ; to her—the law said that for a term her Inbor was his ’ force ts ken of love retook her by he slew her Call chance,” Hiram Cook # ‘He was young and had youth's wavs: he you that 8 ‘mis. erred. but when that poor g was dragged to her was because no human arm could have checked his course.” ‘Yee a jury called it murder,” grinned vengeful man, ‘and though long delaved: by koavery, is at inst!” ; death it the murders due, near “God touch the governor's heart and bring Amos safely through the storm !™ exclaimed the judge. ‘1 have writien Clinton that the conviction was under the English rule and might well be avoided.” “And it the roads should delay vour mercy pleader 7” ih Hiram replied with a sigh, which was full of significance. Cook," he said, ‘we three old not so far exceeded the years—for nothing.” “Father,” cried Mrs, Dorris from the tap-room, ‘‘some one is coming up the men limit of { i Poor Mercy, who had exacted the terri. bla story from the widow, already stood in the dark road, listening for the slightest sound which would hearald the bearer of the governor's clemency. The storm was abating. S$ oo.e0.0000 the blackness, “It is Amos,” exclaimed the girl, who knew the voice of tthe brave young fellow Ina came faintly through " better than most people were aware few minutes the mail rider, drenched to the skin, drew rein at the door. Since noon on the preceding day be had ridden nearly 100 miles over the heavy roads and had twice rowed the river. His hind been an perilous and dreary task, but his face wore a smile as he drew a packet from the army saddle judge, who BOTOSS holster of his the the and step i by handed it to quickly Raven “Oh, Amos! Mercy implored, The ished. on what business he into house, followed It is good news, isn't it?” Amos had face that had been le love d pleadingly into his; he to find Mercy at the tion slaried Lh turns the red] figure HE Weary of the am itn eves Lo see Li rH of igh noe for i more, on the v Hips there rests a smile of wonder of ineffable peace siben ! is droop an i head falls upo he breast It is broad day. A School on Wheels. Philadel most pe- Kentucky which is built on wheels. When night comes,’’ he says a pair of mules pull it to the home of the trustee and the next morning it drawn baek to its daytime location. The mules go and come on schedule time, and if the school is a little slow about dismissing in the afternoon the whole outtit is apt to be given a free A day's supply of water and by the trustee A traveling man in the deiphian Record tells of a ar school in * i Cui is upon its journey. The needs no carriage. Ab night a bull dog is chained beneath the little frame window, and a bad man , armed with a Winchester, sleeps inside of it. All of this came about because some one threatened to burn the schoolhouse. Why the trustee does not have the building located in his own yard and save the trouble of hauling it back and forth I do uot know, unless it is to comply with some legal technicality. THE ROAD RUNNER. Most Interesting Bird of the Western Plains. Prominent among the quaint duaetions of the Bierra County is road runner, often ealled the paral cock,” and again the ‘‘cock of the plains.” Like all the bold lengers of the bird creation, the road canner is crested. He is relative of the grouse, being, indeed, an unique Strangely classified with the cuckoos, which ar denizens of the groves and are gentle, spiritless, But in road pro- the “echap- chal- no creation. enough, he is our legs enckoo have become long and matching those The feet, dosi climbing or and strong, with two turne A friend in Santa Fe, that he has :r tuke a telegraph pole sks, fis 1L were, of the wild red Appar ntly for also long perching, ure sharp li me Keen n ou strong, ides the ¢ sharply aapparai a weapon olf desfe i Carrion, A ter of the no several don f the marks of a He a perfect with the ways of dogs, for he passed in getting in, and the which he made getting out did not provoke even a bark from them In the family store-room which is in the basement in the rear of the house, is a window opening into the vard where the three dogs were, Mrs Coleman keeps her egg basket under neath the window in room Mr. Coleman's son uses a buck oc snaliy, and this is hung above the window. It was hangin the eggs Monday nig! Shortly after midnight there was a crashing sound from the rear win dow of the store room, The Coleman family rushed downstairs in a body all armed, just in time to see a man leap the back yard fence. The win dow panes lay in a thonsand pieces on the floor and above them the bro ken sash. Every egg in the basket DUCK Saw On Lis heck showed scquaintance threo noise § i 1 + i the store saw Ri There was a ‘trail’ of yellow over the window sill and to the fence. Mr. Coleman examined the saw. The teeth were filled with cuticle and blood stains, The dogs crawled shamefacedly from a corner of the fence. Up to this time they had not made a sound. Just fifteen years ago a London firm of auctioneers sold 100 000 acres of land in the Transvaal at Is 06d. per acre. The purchaser having dis- covered gold on the land, has sold 70,000 ncres for as many pounds sterling. INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY, General Business in the Bouth Conti Make a Good Bhowing. The Manufacturers’ B that while the ord repon general bu ths nake'a good showing, dustrial progress of Month the Atle 1s being th own at least 1000 during the Lt the Lig SEA OLAIMS. Canada’s Representatives Presented to Becre- tary Olney. Rir Mackenzie Bowell, Premier of Canada, and Bir Charles Hibbert Tupper, Minister of Justice, who are in Washington to attend the Bering Sea Convention, were presented to Secretary Olney, The; ssivaccompanied by Kir Julian Pauncefote and the staff of the British Embassy, Bir Julian was seriously indisposed with an attack of the gout, mak. ing his movements slow and painful. He had suffered so much that he was unable to move, but in view of the arrival of the oMeial visitors from Canada, he took part in the presentation. The State . Department has not yet an- nounced any of the details of the convention, Jullan's condition permits of his prooseding. No memorandum or brief has been flied by the British representatives as to the amount of their claim, and it is said that this will await the opening of the convention. The original olaim for Dering Sea selrures ex- coded 81,000,000, A 30 Cannes Monsey, member of the House of Commons from Brecknockshire, is the only thorough musician in that body, He is see. retary of the Royal College of Music and an accomplished violinist, PYENNSYLVARIA ITZMS, s (Heaned Prom Various Parts of the Bate, r £10,000 damages n + Grant f Us falin, of Upper avidense, Was robably fatally injured while trying to break by after was struck a train at Lewis shortly ward, Elmer R 14 yours, fell ft vor Om & pear treo father, and sustained & of the found- held The thirty-first anniversary while digging a trench on was buried hy taken George Baker, Reventoenth Street, Pittsburg, a fall of earth, and was dead when out, A horse and buggy were from the barn on the farm of Samuel W. Ensminger, in South Ainsville Township. Two traing crashed together at Wylie Ste one Was No ono stolen wrecked, and two ears destroyed, was seriously injured, While picking coal on the Wilkes-Barre & Erie Railroad at Stroudsburg, Hesekiah Daily, 14 years of age, was run over by & train, both feet being mangled, The Huntingdon Car & Car Whesl Works have been sold by the Union National Bank, of Huntingdon, to a syndicate of Southern capitalists for §256,000, Solomon Meafner, one of the oldest and best-known residents of the Western section of Lebanon County, is dead at his home in Palmyra, aged 71 years, Warren Walker, 8 yoars of age, son of Superintendent William Walker, of Hillsdale Coal & Iron Company, was killed by a train on the Delaware & Hudson tracks. Several cases of diphtheria are reported in Wilkesbarre, but the number is causing no alarm. At Yatesville, there Is an epidemis and the directors ordered the schools closed to prevent the disease from spreading.
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