ron
a
LOVE'S MILL(ONAIRE,
{ say: “The world is lonely;
The hearth at home Is cold,
And sad is life to child and wife
When life hath little gold!”
But soft her arn gsteal round my nox
Aly comforter so dear;
And “How much do you love me?”
And her sweet volee answers clear:
“I love you-I love you
A hundred million—there!
And then I'm poor no more
For I'm love's millionaire!
no more,
Then sweeter seems the breaking
Of Poverty's sad bread;
And roses bloom from out the gloom
And crown her curly head.
Aud if sometimes a thankful tear
My dreaming will fill,
Fler soft arms steal around me
And she whispers sw. otly still:
eyes
I love you
A hundred millions—there!”
I wen) od help the poor!
1'11 Love's own millionaire!
p Stanton.
*1 love you
FIO ore;
UNEXPECTED VALENTINE.
Wien my dear Aunt Maud died—she
I graduated
t-broken to
Still, 1
disposed of in some way, so it was de
died the very summer
I was really too hear care
swhat became of me, had to be
elded that 1 go to live with my brother
had
her
aunt,
therefore
i always lived with my
v re 1 ..
no other mother;
was the greatest blow possible
And th brother
slightly, and that
re child If 1 hi:
mind to care about anythis
hard I
when 1
in a
i
ini
il been
have hated the idea of g
1. As it was, [| went without
pur. I
across the
took the journey
continent,
sequently, after many ups
Dick's town, a
village in Sonth Carolina
Dick is a
He is
very fair indeed
my advent, he had
+}
in a pretty cottage on the
arrived at queer
moderately
an attorney-at-law
young
has a
terior to
himself
tiest
figur
practice
lived
was rather a ©
most ¢
town He t
I found im
and de
and
, and was quite the
man about
fellow
hour after dinne
ti
about an
ceived a telegram to go up
to A ., & oOity
neet an important client
time to ie
fifty
ave home,
next
Prob
tomorrow
An
HUA
bank
till
with the
ably won't get home
noon, Spend the night
ctent (a dear old lady friend of
Be sure to put that money in the
before it closes at 4. Don't
k up at tha
late hour and go out for the night
It was such a bore to lod
afternoon,
Altogethe
I was not afrai
had been such a gloomy
looked like it
I did not feel like it,
though I had never staved
night in a And the
geveral thousand collecte
a client
put money in a
[I conld not r well
to the Ancient's, and |
got leave it.
I had never heard of
in the village, mede un
that | would stay at hon
and take the risk, if
because it was troublesor
wise,
I did not want any tea, so I let the
servant girl go early, and sat, neglect-
fng even to light the lamps, before a
big oak fire in the sitting room “think-
ing up” ane of Dick's cases, It was a
would
alone
house mone
do lars
surely I could not at
bank ti
CAreY
so I
night,
there was any,
ne to do other
ecirenmstantial evidence leading in va-
rious directions.
I soon became deeply absorbed, so
deeply absorbed that I presently went
to asleep at it, and in a dream saw our
poor man tried, convicted and actually
gentenced to be hanged, and was my-
gelf possessed of a frantic desire to at-
tend the hanging in person, my non
appearance being wholy due to the fact
that 1 econld not find my shoes, being
separated from them for some unex-
plainable reason.
find myself enveloped in darkness, re
the
Not
from the fast-dying coals upon
hearth. Everything was so still
room, and the clicking of the dying
conls,
1 was possessed with a strange, sink-
fog fear. 1 was afraid to move, afraid
“to tum my head to left or right lest |
should see something terrifying lurk-
ing in the gloomy corners; I fancied it
war just before dawe.
‘My fear increased rather than dimin-
as the moments dragged by. 1
hear my heart beating. 1 soon
kind of instinctive animal fear of im-
pending danger, I thought of the
money. It was locked up in the cabi-
net at my right hand, not two yards
away, 1 found myself listening pain
fully, tertuousiy, My throat
swollen, 1 swallowed In gulps,
I endeavored to rally my courage, to
WHS nervous,
that there was nothing to fear, and that
I was making a baby of myself. All to
no purpose. Something was going to
happen: something was happening at
that moment which would
bring me
I could not throw off the notion. Just
then it began to rain a regular down.
fall, as If the had
fallen out of the clouds. I have never
known it to rain so heavily, A perfect
deluge, and every drop seemed to pen-
I did not move i lay
back In my cushioned chair helpless,
and felt that I could not |}
my hand to my face if my life were the
forfeit. Such pouring! 1 found 1
gelf listening behind the rain
had
and
bottom
etrate my soul,
ave ralsed
listening
for another sound, | A grotesque
fel that
ng that
the elements this some
was coming to
1 +
leagued together, t
one
approach of the oth
I was listening
my drawn taut
did
hing bevond, be
body
what? 1
not
heard it
rain-patter
little
sawing sound
port I knew
through the Venetia
My faintest
when I unmist
i000,
hous
soon,
blinds dragged back and
as it was pushed up
tering the
ever it was
sence Crood
Henry, ou
What went on down belovy
ns of
in
hear the
know the eessati
fro in a sear
But I.
groand, eeuld onls
money fro:
ind again for sue
was 80
that
and would pro!
the chin 0
rigid and so walled
The nex
wry now and
out in a basin of
Id
311 t Suppose
Very that
train
friend magi
friend cordially invi
to his house, telling him
body in it. but that
there, make himself and uw
find plenty to eat by foraging ar
and get a good hed, Then to make
thing complete, gave him the
keys by which to let himself in. Imag.
ine this newcomer booming about town
until 11 o'clock, then striking out for
his friend's abode; overtaken by
rain; at last to arrive at
abiding place to
wrong keys, which
climbing into the house like 8 burglar
Imagine him piling into the first
he cones to, very soon sinking into the
ont
Neweo
there was
hie could put
ford peter
ound,
the
discover has the
he
necessitates
day by a something tumbling down tie
chimney. Not a hobgoblin—-that were
but a young woman bespattersd
amd grimy, but still 8 young woman,
Imagine it all if you can, for that is
what happened to the misguided young
man, who held me gcoross his Knees and
wiped the blood from my broken fore.
head on that memorable St. Valentine's
morning.
Imagine it and tell me if men throukh
stupidity don’t cause half of all the
trouble in the world, We explained it
all to each other as best we could, for
I was really 1il, and quite ready to go
off into another swoon, When the ser
vant girl came he went for the doctor,
and Mary got me to hed,
Dick came at noon, and was horrified
| at shat had happened. But the docto
pronounced me more frightened
than hurt; and, really, but for the
dreadful cold 1 eanght and my wounded
forehead, It did no! amount
thing, and soon became a tremendous
Joke,
And'it turned cut that this friend of
Dick's, whose acquaintance 1 made in
such an upconventional
the very client
fended,
And It also eame about that
that 1 that
grown to kaow
and Diek--IMek
other co-operator
to any
fashion,
money 1
Was
whose de
that he
we have
very well;
is to*look out for an
next fall;
well, for reasons best known to
we have
ench other
hefore be
clause
myself,
Electricity in the Earth,
“Take a spade, turn up a small quan
tity of soll, hold a portion in your hand,
hold it up
You will observe
hear a faint
to your ear, then smell it
first a slight motion,
the moving of
t hie
sound as of
distant timber, and readily notice
ador of heat wo
forces held in Your
tricity; that the e
deep Is alive wit]
and forms the scoret
Ww 3
aves of
passing
lows, thu
il they
of
tisend
tons
right
ing the oil
«1 to the olf
gathers
While
Pocket.
of ie lamps of va.
1d shapes have been pat
Hie
elects
A number
in Viennh., These lnmps
come in the shape of bottles, clit,
opera glasses. in factary desired shape,
but are all constructed after the sane
this bottle contairz a
in which three paird of
aud cletienis of the
smallest possible size are concealed.
Thiz battery has a six-volt tepsion and
furnishes a current of from four to five
phere intensity. A minute inean-
descent lamp is connected with the
poles of the batter, and protected by a
knob of cut glass. the lower part of
which is gllvered and acts as a reflector.
The body of the bottle contains the
reservolr, In which a fluld, which »
furnished by the inventor of the app
atus, is kent. When the light is to Le
assed the top containing the battery
screwed off, and the bottle is filled.
The neck of
no
ny
During 1804, 3.315 patents relating
‘o electricity were granted in Great
Gritain, the United States and Ger
pany. Of these 1,130 were British, be
ng one-twentieth of all British patents,
704 were American, and 481 were
iermay
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SOTES AND COMMENTS,
The Massachusetts Ploughman thinks
that Ex-Governor Hoaed
{ that “every milk-selling section in the
United gradunlls
woll be
fertility in
it is
statement
Biates Is growl:
poorer and poorer”
| toned Although
taken with the milk
| than restored in the form of grain pur-
cattle food
mny fue
neh
away ion
| chased for
Six Raving sys
|
tem
ago nu school
in Norristown,
‘a. Th for he six years ag
the ithdrawinls
leaving $13
of 1
first year
iount to 325,11%.60,
ART on deposit to the credit 300
After the
1 off, but increased last
amounted to 88
echool children
the deposits fi
Year, wing
i they 219.6.3,
The growing scarcity of fur-bearing
in The
feasibility {
to a4 wr.ier
the
animnls suggests
Sp ctitor
pation
n evilars
{weeny 5
Majuba
ArH
Of OX
Feeney, on
i the service
ygton and Balt
has just died,
fie locotiotive ti
incoln to Washi
in March, 1s
19d
$45
13080,
President ariteld was choot in
road station at Wash from
was assigned to run
the train that bore Mrs
Elberon, N. J. to Wa He ye
ceive] orders to open {lie % OW
irnck before
to the cap-
in 135 min
from
fei
an,
ad, baving a
he carried the train through
ital, a distance of 188
utes, breaking all pre records for
fast ali in untry. It
In anda that during the anwlul strain of
that 1 he pever terned ais bead nor
exchanged one word with his fireman
cienr him,
add tin thin «
nn
Statistics of the French expediting
to Madagascar show that of 17.700
excessive mortality, it 8 said,
trom lack of hygienic methods gener
ally and insufficient attention to pro
cedure usually adopted to diminish
in highly malarious regions. The
ciiuses have been summed up as fol
ows: The average age of the soldiers
employed being too young-that is
from 20 to 22 vears of age; the heavy
weight of baggage and accoutrements
carried under a fierce sun, and insuffi.
clent medical supplies and arrange.
ments for the sick. Young troops gar
risoned at Tamatave were cooped up in
a narrow belt of sand for six months,
four of which were the most unhealthy
of the year harrassed by the Hovas and
[ exhausted by incessant trencu work
| and fatigues, and unsupplied with
pre per nutritive rations,
The
Hie
the modern
the old-time sailing
difference between
urn vessel and
of
In marked in
the
ng ships and
many
of command
the earlier steamers
captain's and officers’ post was on
Ways, one
which Is ros (1
Hall
ihe
the quarterdeck, which was as far aft
On the steam-
quarterdeck Is abaol
fn promenade for pas
sengers, and orders are given from the
well forward of amidships, and
sufficiently elevated to give a
ine 1
Was ju sible to go
thi
iehied, eXCept as
or of today
bridge,
view of
the vessel from stem to stern, This is
frequently as hig! the maintop of
a salling ship, and xcept for the storm
that surround it in
as expos: i Oeeinp
pilothouses
un
winter, is
steamships
ns the
but on
roll of the sl
no covered
d river steamers do,
idge, where every i
exaggerated, the captain and his aids
gtant lookout
of Dobb
4 up
80 used
ns the Ardsley Casine
on
have a peculiar mode of get
mea is
# reporter thew
SEW prepa
diner. It was about 6.30 whe:
iil the men
vood fire in a thatehed roof hat
near the old Cottenet
of the men were the cooks,
assembled around a bin
barn
thors helped In one corner of {he
making Hi
fhe «
FOO 3 man was bread.
which watd?r was being poured by
gallon. This the baker stirred wit!
| @ plece of an elm tree, After the batts
had been mixed stiff, it
bade aid placed on the red-hot ember
Cio bake. When done it was as black as
in
ihe
shounas tes ll we
was rolled in
the reporter's hat,
They also made a Kind of soup, and
yonsted several calves and
{ heads, When the cook announced
the Italian dialect that dinner was
ready, each Iallan took a black bread
ball. a tin ean of soup nnd a piece of the
calves’ head and sanutered off to his
particular rendezvous, These men
spend most of the night smoking and
drinking around 8 red-hot fire in one
of the large shanties, A large number
of trees were recently cut down in
Ardsley Park, and the Italians, there.
fore, have an unlimited amount of fire
wool,
gsherps
¥
Savannah, Oa. has 62,107 population,
living ou five syuare mile: of ground.
Charles Edmondson and James
an oll uber.
were drowned in
ville, Ohlo, N¢
tank near st
Kiy In trying to rescues
Edmondson,
Morton Finell was killed and Joseph Me-
Iutyre and George
Bradley
injured by the
explosion of a dozen sticks of glant powder
in the o
conda, Montana,
ven of a st
« 81 B quarry near Ana-
Mary Jones and her husband, while driv-
a8 the tracks of
Beading snd New
Mount Riga, N. Y.,
bound passenger train and both kil
the
ing acre the Philadelphia,
at
3 Gast
i Raliroad,
Englan
were struck
In connection with
Northeastern Ne
aye that about fteen
earthquakes in
ruska, a Butte despateh
miles north of that
the ground 1s very warm, and lo some
is 80 Intense that
sn Bharpless and
were burn to
death Their res
the father, after re
§ § %
glher cnliaren, W
TORNADO IS AUSTRALIA,
Many Persons Drowned snd Great Destro
BF IISSIDR AS Lhe result
ring tbe tornado amounted
is estimated that the
unt to $500 000,
persons were drowned,
operty will am
umber of
FROM TURKEY.
Property De-
I
MARKETS.
{ holo
Prime
Bye in ca
EGOGR
North
State sual
Carolina
LIVE POULTRY.
Hens é
Ducka, per 1h
Tarkeys, per ®
TORACDO,
Sound common.
Middling
Fancy.
228%
LIVE ETOCK.
Bost Booves 8 275
akan 200
4 Ov
FURS AND SKINR,
16
a
585
Hours
MUSKRAT
Raccoon
Bed Fox 5
Skunk Diack.
Opossum
Mink.
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EERESNC
SEW YORK
FLOUR-Southern.......8 310
WHEAT -No.3Red...... Ti
RYE Western... 4
363
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