THE
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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.