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THE CATES OF YESTERDAY.
My love and I strayed hand and han
In the wake of the clover-weeking he
The sweet, wild grape in that
land
Had flung its festoons on hush ane
tree;
And red wood-lilles, a sentinel band,
Guarded the entrance tp Arcady,
A wiilte mist from the river curled,
Deep into the woodland
we!
And swayed in a breeze from the dis
tant sea;
pearied,
In the morning land of Arcady,
June send heralds gay
world may we
Only when
Into the
bee:
Ouly when
And the
and
grasses bend and sway,
wild grape
tree,
festoons
terday,
And linger again in Aready
NANCY MANN WADDLE.
MR. MEEK'S DINNER.
Mrs
one
“I wonder, James,” said Meek
doubtfully, to her husband
ing, “if you could get your own
to-night? You
servaut go on her holidays for
see, I've had
two, and they want me desperately at
the Ald and Relief Bazaar
to help them with their high tea
4:30 to 8 If you thought
manage by yourself
“T'H try to
Meek good-natu
will prove fatal.”
“I'll get n
ing, then”
fully,
ner.”
Woman's
from
30,
survive
Foast an
went
on
“and you ca
“Thank
“you'll do nothir
fancy |
much ever
I suspect
you,"
about
Mrs
most
M1
as well
Meek he
Wives,
x
inter
some oyster soup to begin ol
He was so tickled wit
he promptly rushed
and purchased half a peck of
then hured
into a
eating apples and
without a thought of the
ife at
to order for his w
iy five o'clock he
beautifully, and
a start,
By six o
to enjoy
stewing
i the ovste
contentedly on
The oysters
ret arrived.
“Dear me,” mb
gentleman, “I wish uid thought
in time, and I'd | pied
patties for a final deser
BOS Of
t. Hello
what's this? ¥ thunder, if
Insting pighen
me some cold
By the Lord Harry
throw the whol
back yard
The patural doc
however, prevailed,
noxious viands unmolested,
ceeded with his dinner,
the chops on to broil,
old days of yore” allusion
to the style of cooking occasioned hy
one of them accidentally dropping
the fire, whence he with
great presence of mind by the joint as
sistance of the stove lifter and one of
the best table napkins 3¥ the time
the chop was thos rescued both it and
the table napkin were fairly well don
~t0 say nothing stronger. This trifl-
ing difficulty by putting the erring chop
on the window sill to cool, and the nap-
kin into the fire--to do the other thine,
This accomplished, and with
chop gently cooking on the gridiron
that ey
hasn
ham and
for two cents
into the
tis hig yf 4,
Hity of his nature
and he left the ob
and pro
At 6:30 he put
“as in the good
this Proert e
into
resoned
dow-sill, he started
paste for his apple pudding.
proved most fascinating.
large quantity of flour In a smallbowl,
emptied a jug of water on top of it, ad-
ding butter to taste, and proceeded i
mold it deftly into shape, ax he had
often seen his wife do.
water promptly forsook the bowl and
betook themselves to his hands. Then
the milk for the soup began to burn
just as the potatoes boiled dry.
to
*
portion of the paste fairly evenly di
vided between the handles of the two
At this
saucepans and the stove lifter,
| juncture the tomatoes started in to see
if they couldn't the milk in
| | burning They succeeded The cat,
J which was accustomed to a 6:30 dinner,
[| walked off with the chop on the win.
{ dow-slil, while the chop on the fire grew
1 | beautifully black on the “down side.”
{ So many thing were now burning ali
at the same time that Mr, Meek gave
[ up all hope of trying to discover just
whieh burning “1.01
[ the dashed things burn till they're sick
[of It!" was the extremely broad-mind
{ed way in which he up the
With the astuteness that
{ characterized him distinguished
{| from his fellow-men, he at gave
up all efforts to track the truant paste,
{and simply popped his apples into the
oven to bake,
now
BUIHISS
one wus most,
summed
| situation
is
once
fire
much
about 7:30, and the
hotter than pretty
| anything on earth, unless, perhaps,
Mr. Meek He turned all the
| dampers, opened all the doors, and took
| off all the lids. This resulted
satisfactorily, the fire began to cool, It
didn’t It got, if anything, a little
low After that Then
it went He rushed for a kindling
took his head off
Just he had got
through expressing his view on clothes
that
about twice
head off
same clothes-line on his way back.
It was
was gelling
| Wis
most
sti,
it got very low,
out,
nearly
and on a
ns nicely
i clothes line,
and clothes line
went
general
in particular, he
far taking
ines in
ns
toward lis on the
Fhe gentlest of patures when roused
He used up
and coal oil
are often the most terrible
enongh kindling, profanity
ignited the pyramids of Egypt
{to have
* stamped and shoved, and poked and
and enrsed and shook till even
it had had its
i
Hin
and dinner
and
Kitchen to try
latory gr
» table wi
Meek
had heard enough
five niinttes
ing
Mrs, Meek
a plece
oled pie
apples
NO «
might
do;
You re not
in her mission
‘nts she reappeared. and
placed th
before her lord
were about the sizo
the color of ebony
way they rattled on
a muscle,
and master, 1 hes
walnuts and
¢
(1)
Judging by the
flint
Mr. Meek rose with an awful look
his eyes,
“I'm afraid” observed his wife
“they're like the
overdone.”
harma—just a shade
“If ever I eateh that eat,” remarked
Mr. Meew, as that sleek feline purresd
past him with a playful frisk of
tzil. “I'll break every bone in its body
only he described its body with sundry
adjectives that were very strange io
the ears of Mrs, Meek. At least, 80 sho
said when she described the oceturrence
{to her bosom friend, Mrs. Muggins
next day.
ity
Origin of the Nightshirt,
Thirty-one million nightshirts are
said to be manufactured annudlly in
three towns in the United States. There
[are several patents on them, including
some on the collar, yoke and button.
Many gaudy foreign ones from
and England find a market
here, also, but the good, old staple arti.
cle is made up and used as a home pro
| holes,
France
would go several times
world stitched together,
shrouded in sleep.
around the
Its origin is
"REVEILLE ON SHIPBOARD.
The Bugie Calls All Hands to Lash Up the
Hammocks.
Let us spend a day on board a man
of-war and this Last
as suppose that she (8 in port, We take
pur pace on her deck very early in the
are bright with
see how in done
morning. The heavens
stars, and about us masts and
Figging,
Hp
ventilntors,
amd rise
in shadowy outlines, while the big guns
loom ill-defined and ghostlike, In the
gangwany
bridge a quartermaster Keeps his looks
out; and back and forth on the quarter
deck an officer, By
Hght of a lantern he presently consults
a book for the “morning orders,”
kmoke-stacks
sentinels are paclug: on the
paces nlane the
which
have been written by the executive of
then he di
quartermaster enll the
hammock
atid the bugler
ficer the night before: and
the
boatswnin's
fein to
inte, the
rs, the master-at-arms,
hen
during
passes a period of ten minutes,
shadowy
thelr
beside the long troughlike places (nthe
bulwalks
netting,
which a few figures
ippear on deck, and take stand
ship's Known as the ham
them up and pre
of the
Opening
for the
Theu
in the morung orders,
1 1
aring them
reception
at the thme assigue
the officer of th
ves his first routine orders
ile! Call all hands”
the hither
merry bugle
of us bo
words:
‘ »
i KR Ki
Sound the reve
here in
ings out
ship those Boles
all them
fitted the
to almost
cant
Hp this
released off
the pasture,
herd
liane
SC IROTE
suntre
seine to noth
tions of affection. mi
onship when he was gone
his fi
i
f iwimer on
One to Le i fF
wit her head over the palings, and low,
[
did for
months
Nhe this at intervals several
A Maine Sampson’
Harbor, the home of the famons
bull-wrestier, has produced another
Rams=on, Dr, FF. C. Ames, who hag been
utertaining the Bangor folks this week
such feats as bending gas pipe
Bar
with
and iron bars, and finally wound up the
exhibition by lifting three men, whose
ombined weight was 525 pounds, and
walking about the room with them
as easily ax an ordinary man would
carry a basket of feathers. The heavi-
eat of them, weighing 230 pounds, was
perched on his shoulders, while he ear.
ried the other two, weighing 145 and
150 respectively, in his arms.
In the Penobscot Exchange he jifted
a bad of 500 pounds and carried it
around the room with 2ige,
wig witnessed by severul well known
wen. Last avinter in Bar Harbor he
lifted a load of 770 Ibs. The most
remarkable feature of this physical
wonder is that Dr. Ames was a weak
man and a wreck from disease ten
years ago, but by dint of careful train.
ing he had developed his muscles and
body, until to«day he is a perfect giant,
Therein is how be beats Sandow apd
the other giants of these days.
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Egyptian Troops Capture Firket,
Egypt.
1,000 DERVISHES KILLED,
Emir Hammuda, a Great Favorite
With the Khalifa, Who Com
manded the Dervishes
Forces, Among
the Dead.
Pirke
early hour
of
t was taken by Egy
an Sunday mo
manner asquittin
first engagement of
mn to
command of ther,
given satisfactic
The Egyptian forces
Egyptian outpost, Juae
Was a surprise, as it sasemed
termined to hold Akashe. a8 an ou
thi the hot season is past and the period ar-
rived for the Dongola in
intter part of
foros
ayer
in Beptember,
responded pron orders, how.
and for
The d Gn
idl 1INIRLO
right to accomplish
WHR soon wa
poip? is twenty t , and it
whole
atest secrecy had boen nn
and
Alntaln
arrangements every it
3 Was taken to prevent the pews
i ieakin
steadiness and dash
the Aght was twenty killed and
Hundreds of
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Miss Helen Gould owns a rare |
is valued at #315 000 and takes
in the horticultural
EBx-Governor B
{ 25(0 geres. an
“rous agricuiturists
# worth upward of $300,000
General A. DD. MeCook
represcniatives of Slates at
t bo ts
i the Cen
New
rs
Y.M C A
in ita favor
the
sdly
1 fam,
Hoseberry's friends state that his
is good and that he is not suffering
from insomnia. They declare that there is
resign the leader
heaith
bho reason why he should
ship of the Liberal party.
Hr John Thompson, who died recently in
New York, was the first European to estab
lish 8 mercantile station at He
was given a testimonial for personal bravery
in saving seven saiiors of the ship Sappho
wrecked on the African coast.
Morooeo
Ruskin's bad state of health is shown by
the fo lowing referance in a letter to a friend
“No maiter how foolish one mayhave been,
one can't expect a moth with both wings
burnt off and dropped into hot tallow io
sing psalms with what is left of its anten-
nas,"
Mayor John Boyd Thateher, of Albany, is
watching the attempt of the free silver men
to earry the Chicago conve ti fon with a great
deal of uneasiness. He intimated the other
day that in case the free sliver men dintated
the nomination and the platform at Chi
cago, a groat deal of iassitude would be de.
veloped among the leaders in New York, so
far as the national election is concerned
William Churchill, who has been nomina-
tod by the President Consul-Cleneral at Apia,
Hamoa, who is on the editorial staff of the
Brooklyn “Times,” has written a good deal
for the magazines and a sovel, “The Prin
cess of Fil © He will be at home in Bamon,
As he bas lived there, as well as in other
Bouth Sea islands, and speaks the innguage
of Samoa,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS
Epitome of News Oleansd From Various Parts
the Btate
A fire broke out in the No. 11
and burned it and the cagine
ground By forming a bucket brigade
saved, 1
surrounding bulldings were
fire originated from the
The lk
machinery will amount
Many hands will bs idle
bullding is erected,
Now that the French
has
and
mand
Incomotive, the bullding
to several the
88 On
loliars, unt new
canned
beea satisfactorily disposed of Lv th
Agricultura
next have a siege with the exporters of o
Nice, Italy, The
pure food law are being tolerat ly well «
In Pottaviil
ete | thers
Hinte Department, the
oll in provisic
i
Hye
save in the hard coal regions,
Pottstown, Beading, have been
numerous flagrant transgressions of the
which will br
the
n
ns,
There are now at the department ten dif
ferent pampies branded as “olive ofl
Nice, which pon analysis
cotlon seed oll
prove
¢
followed up,
Miss Maud Tanner, aged
her he Minersviile
rout Aly
was in Philadelphia and
I'he
me in
Mr elr Islan oes,
and }
The bodies
ered,
Ten days ago Mr. and Mrs
ine and their three cf
went.
nt
CRA,
Mt, Carmel to vis
Throe dave after
ne
year-old daughter, My
let fover and died, Ti
aged € years, also
and Webster,
pired from the
Wils
: wh
saan] was
wife, parents and three
married onl
He had
it i»
had Leen three
H-
ore the a
brothers,
lays be! ident happened
Vera Cruz to see his wife, and
gone t
that he requrned
the supposition 1 i Emaus
on & freight train aud was fatally injured ip
jumping off the train.
+ August Grasin, aged 49 years, left bis home
aar'y the other morning saving he was go.
the
A fow hours
ing upto a mine breach on hillside
south of Ashland for some coal
inter two other men from the neighborhood
also struck out for the same breach. Arriv.
ing there they noticed that the top had fallen
in and a moment later saw a boat protruding
from the heap of dirt or coal It was the
dead body of Grasin, who had evidently
been caught by the rush and killed, He
leaves a “vife and seven children,
A sad acrident was that which happened
to the 1%-months-old daughter o! Clayton
Dueck, of Milhelm, when a tub of boliing
water was upset upon her and she sustained
injuries which caused her death. The mother
had left the chiid to go to another room, and
het ring & orash, came back to And her little
daughter writhiog in agony on the floor, She
lived but a { w hours aftee the scclient hap.
penod
Though its first house was built in
1636 Brooklyn was but a village at the
beginning of the century, with a popu
lation of only 2.378 Now it couta'ng
125.000 houses and a population of
1.100.000. It is good policy for New
York to consolidate before its saburh
passes it in the race.
SEVEN KILLED.
Myterions Assault on a Corpus
Christi Proczssion,
FIFTY PERSONS INJURED
The Explosion Occured Near the
Church of Santa Maria del Mar
«Fol
lowed by Rending Cries of
Fifty
in the Heart of thy City
Injured,
i FURR AND SKINS,
{ MUSKRAT 3
Racooon
Bed Fox
Skunk Biack,
Opossum
Mink
Ofer
NEw yong
FLOUR--Southern....... 8
WHEAT <No. 2 Red
BYE Weostern
CORN--No. 2
OATS-- No. 8 aki
BUTTER Stats, |
BOGS State
PRILADELPRIA.
8 3160 & 280
68
39%
By
17
124
FLOUR--Boauthern
WHEAT No. 2 Red
CORN-No. 3
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Showing the Crown Regalia.
The Anstro-Hangary erowa rogslis was
dispiayed at Balapest in coansotion with
the celebmtion in honor of ‘he cas thou.
sandth anniversary of the founding of the
Hungarian kingdom. The rezalia was
viewed by 600.000 porsons, while 500.00
Siiets were unabie to main admission to the
building in which the eablems of royalty
were displayed.