AN "OUT-OF-DATE"
We are “so out of date,” they say,
Ned and 1;
We love in an old-fashioned way,
Long since gone by. i
He says I am his helpmate true, |
In everything,
And I-well, I will own to you
He is my king.
We met in no romantic way
"Twixt “glow and gloom.” |
He wooed me on a winter day
And ina
Yet, through life's hours of stress and
storm, i
When griefs befell,
Love kept our small
warm, |
And all was well
rooin, {
home-corner |
Ned thinks no woman like his wife
But let that pass;
Perhaps we view the dual life |
Through roseate glass;
Even if the prospect be not bright,
We hold it true
The heaviest burdens may
When shared by two,
grow light
Upon the gilded scroll of fame,
Emblazoned fair,
I ean not hope to read the ng
I proudly bear;
But, happy in their
The years glide by
We are behind the times, w
Ned and L
even flow
Chambers’ Journal
WEDDING GIFTS.
“Pooh! Presents!” said the
fed Man
think you'll g
tell you
“As the time
near 1 used to call at
available evening
dentially to the curly head which
actly fitted my shoulder that 1 was
luckiest fei:
sion
to th TOO.
want,
you
my experience
for our marriage drew
the house every
and whisper confi
arth, On one occa
and
was just
wy on
Agnes sighed murmured
dreamily that th
felt.
“That was on the 5th
“On the
wat what
12th I stopped in a
noon to see if she loved
at 11.15 the night bier
hat she di
—Litit that
arrive
an unsettle
were more
uncles and
fact,
we
respects
wens
insurance
fnsuranc
cated to h
motion
the face
preference
not so good 1
per of mean
Lounsbury
Oli 4 very
preci
we wn
ore Tie
nevertheless
our
handsome
“They d
set of kn :
polished wood case
the consin Aggie
‘Such a
nother, ‘they will
“sYou' said 1
while
time.’
*Pon't
sensil
to wear al
YOU Supp
ing to entertain ang
asked the girl of tw
me on the cheek witl
“The same
her, saying: *, you ought to
the coffee
spoons Second Cousin Miily has sent
no Orange p
Isn't is exciting? Don't toll
I almost wish they'd
else, for 1 think some of the
e Ine
night I had a note from
‘Prearvst Jo
after dinner
Riv lovely
two alike CTR
flush
1
been
ROOD Fhe
going to giv 1
this letter was not inter
“This
lanche of spoons
nutmeg
spoons, witch spoons, bust spoons
trait (I called these last
picture gallery, and suggested that they
should be framed in ribbons and hung
dp in the pariorh. of our friends
sent a pair of salted-almond
hoping that we would exchange them if
they were duplicated, but it turned out
that those were the only ones we had.
The sugar spoons were all marked.
There were five of them.
“It is a time-honored custom in our
office when one of us is married for the
rest to ‘combine’ and buy a picture; and
you could generally tell what year a
man's wedding came off by a glance at
his parlor wall. Williams, who was
married in ‘84, had ‘Far Away’:
Brown's, a few years later, was “The
Three Fates,’ Ours was, of course, the
latest thing out. It had a silver frame,
“As the days went by and pieces of
silver piled up on us I was more than
once reminded of the couple whose
courtship was conducted in Brown.
ingese, and who were fitted out by
their admiring friends with a Brown. |
ing tea set, with quotations around the
edge. ‘Oh, the little more, and how |
much it is" The Fords had a rug on
clvina, but a good deal of it got broken |
the first year. The Smiths’ specialty |
was etchings: they bad enough for ey- |
ery room in the house—only, they never |
had a home; they have boarded ever |
since they were married. Finally the!
climax came. when my old Uncle John
gent us a solid silver tea set. I hadn't
expected anything from him, unless
perhaps a Bible or a Webster's Una-
esting
the beginning of an
Charter Oak spoons
soled ers
was
SDOONS, monument
pot
SPOONS our
ne
Spoons,
®
bridged, for he didn’t enjoy giving any-
thing sway. Aggie was getting too
tired to very enthusiastic, but her
mother was delighted, and it wi no
use thinking that I would just
have had the money,
“vPhis makes 103, dear
he
{18 BO0l
nine more
“ One hundred and two,” sald Aggle,
“Ng, dear, 103-102 eame this morn.
“Oh, T know I shall never get this
list right!" exclaimed Aggle, diving for
be handing
for a prayer-
“look out, you'll
that book to the parson
book,’ said 1.
“ “Wouldn't be a bit surprised,’ she
answered, smiling; Aggie could smile
or
when she was tired,
“Well, were
breathes
Aggie, 1
slammed on
again, let's
heathen superstitions,’
«1 know it, Aggie,
them not, but would
hair?
Ihrushed
newspaper
married. A man
it's over with,
sald, as the carriage
‘If it ever hap-
leave out the
we
easier when
‘But,
door
pens to us
us,
‘I begged
f
smuggle
sad
they
any in my
‘Some in your hat brim,’
r off, the
[ had earefully brought along to look
1
i
gome in. See
and she seized
ke an old married man, and conjured
a minute, holding it out hy an
HpProy handle, ‘Here,’
‘the very children in Kintergarten know
to make paper
brush the carriage seat’
I gi
with a bill on top,
ised she sald,
how dustpans—now
When we got
ive the hackman a dustpanful of
burn it,’
ont
rice “There,
'
Raid i
‘Id you see h l
m chortle in his joy?
do fool
giggling: ‘Joe, you
an
“ ols’
“Our
wmrried couple?
sald IL.
days in Washington had
the blank book. Aggie
must finish notes,
ten
one bogh
her
and fret,
: 4 told
than 1 helped,
glad i
to Iu
wide her reel
and
me |
and
sit
sli
awfully ive we
better,
housekeeping in a
Ose
on
ble
dinner We
it looked funny
own ia
1 silver that
wd giver
tx and things.
“plain china—nobody 1
presents. 1 liked
in the sugar bowl,
i
he tis
i if
© host
i eh igh
“Oh, Joe
You're ready to ery)
Walks r work I
rying if I'd sereamed it at
at made me feel
Fig dinner t
ave explained
ive
known |
hi inl
pretty
wasn't addy
i
and si
silver
forks
I get worn alike, and I've shut ti
i
the combination
got down bexide her hot
§-
Mexico in that closet, 1
lock
Was
ter than
od
turn-
‘o Keep ¥
dresses out of the way. they tickle the
back of neck.’ ‘Well, 1
guess we'll use the old forks today.”
said 1: 'l don't believe they'll fade
away vet awhile.
wh I'm sorry but
every one shut up in that chest.’
laughed. What else was there to do?
It was so funny when Deming came
home with me to tea—we'd asked him
some days before, It wouldn't have
been funny with some girls, The table
looked principally white china, and the
kitchen knives and fork didn't go
round
spoon? It is great.
“It wasn't quite so funny when three
hot days had gone by and we had near-
and tried the our
my NO good,
#0 they're
So we
and no news of the combination. ‘Don’t
tell mamma? pleaded my wife, 1 be.
locksmith, when one evening
‘I've got it! I've got itl’
ye
.
ing.
“ “Got what—-a nightmare
“I've got the combination! I've
just came to me in my sleep. Get right
you don't set anything on fire” In an
other two minutes the front of the
front of the chest fell down, and behold
our household gods! ‘If anybody wants
to steal them between now and day-
light, they can, that's all,’ sald Aggie:
‘but I'm not going td shut that lock
again to-night for nol m
“In the fall there was a burglar
gears shout tov, and Agnes's mother
came over and gave wer a lecture upon
locking the Nhe wi
really ought to hove a burglar alare
To please her 1 nad one put in. Elog
tion night 1 went dow a to town, tellizg
Aggie not to sit up for me, for 1 should
walt It was 1
when I opened the front door very soft
ly, not to disturb Agnes Br-r-r-br-r-ke
plunk!” I had forgotten the alarm,
“Before 1 had time to say a word or
even turn down my coat collar, my wife
Wwineows, sad
for the returns, o'clock
appeared at the head of the stairs, She
Her halr hung
well, never
distractingly
pointed a pistol at me
loose, and she was in her
mind; but she looked
prety,
“If you
fire!" she cried.
“t's Joe, Agnes,’
“i don't believe it!
hat!"
4]
how,
one further I'll
come step
said 1, meekly.
Take off your
off and made her a low
shoot vour husband, he's
took it
‘Trn't
doing the best he can
“Agnes laughed uysterieally. ‘Ob,
Joe. 1 was so frightened.’
“And think should
pistol at your own husband!
loaded, Joe.
“iAenes Lounsbury,” sald I,
to you point a
“It wasn't
‘do you
mean to say vou were so rash as to aim
at me with a pistol that wasn't loaded?
“But 1 = have fired it,
way, it w
“Well
glar
4
houldn’t any-
asn't cocked.
this ends the watchman bur.
k "We've
want,
iness" sald
}
muci
alarm bus
as 1 Of it as
had about
silver we
the
ide what
day, and
To-morrow we'll ded
ant to rest
UEe every
shall go down to tl ink.’
“We're
ver
The si]
sideboard, and as yet
off, ido,
whi expected
able to breathe now,
stand on the
nobody has carried it if they
vegnes's mother will say
it. for we aren't the careful people they
used to be in hey {ince in
ALR
geberation
with bas
that
Hy
quarrels me
a while
i hile
«h or
would
it
other
for con
ON
I don't see my
i 1 pany 4H
and cl
it home
bank way
i arm.
and trust
I say
were at
should have
un ms
y
i
have them all home
vou'd rather,’
ther
the bank,
them,
they
you
Lenos's
this was
fear Mrs. Lounsbury
few years we
outfit, and then w h
i
keep open house f irglars
enon,
“‘Pou’t be ridiculous, Joe,” said my
wif
i
clean cons
0
The Buttonhole Bouquet.
“Ieople addicted
hit,” remarked a member
Athletie Club, “find
difficult to break away,
would. A friend of mine,
dealer
doing
when once
aouthern
i ely even
« a prominent in hides and
cattle business
proc ue is,
the habit
wearing roses in his but
have known
of
tonhole i him
number of years, yet during
period of our acquaintance 1
nosegay on the lappel of his cecat. If
he loses one he hunts a florist’s shop
and buys another. Winter or summer,
it i= the same thing. When 1 twitted
him about it he said he had worn rose
bids 80 long that he could not trans
act his business or feel comfortable un-
less the posy was in his buttonhole,
fore hin, and, in addition to this, he,
my friend, often found it lhmpossib.e
to sleep unless a vase of roses was on
the table in his room at night. He is
an absolute rosebud flend.,”-— New Or
leans Times Democrat,
A Mayor Without a Salary.
The mayor of Flint, Mich., performs
the duties of his office without com-
pensation other than the satisfying
sense of having done his duty. But the
rected the affairs of the town so well
during the year of office that thee Com-
mon Council unanimously voted to
make an appropriation for him as an
especial mark of satisfaction. The
sum was £1.
The deepest gold mine in the world le
| at Eureka, Cal; depth, 2,200 feet.
MANY LIVES LOST.
British Steamer Went Down in
the English Channel.
COLLIDED AT MIDNIGHT
Struck Upon a Rock While Hugging
the French Shore She Dis~
appeared Beneath the
Water Three Min~-
utes after
Sinking.
The British steamer Drummond Castle
Capt. N. W, Plerce, from Town
London, collided midnight off
with an unknown steamer
Iater with
cers and crew on board
Two pleked
some by fishermen off Ushant,
the
It is hoped, however, that some
Cape tor
at Ushant,
and sank three
minutes 144 passengers und 103
Ol
men floating on
wreckage,
near which
were up,
point steamer went down,
of the pas
sengers and crew escaped in the boats
The
famous Castle Line
belonged to the
Cantilo nged
of
with Africa
about 2,350
Drummond
steamships running
1
and Lor Bhe
between B
was of
last heard of
on June 12,
The fate the
Drummond Castle colli
i
tons regisier, RNG WAS
at Las Palmas, Canary Islands,
steamer with which the
led I8 not
that she
¢
O35
Known,
and hopes are expressed may be
4
afloat and that some of the and
of the Castle Line:
passengers
Tew are on
her,
When =a
nounced that
while hugging the French
being in ¢
was ©
from
dispateh
the vessel struck a rock
a i of
ther
ould be few sur
insten
ilislon with an steamer, it
needed that there
vivora, Bix bodies
on the Island of U
have been washed ashore
shant. The vessel sank
and disappeared entirely in about three
utes after striking.
Only two boats
these (4 believed to
passengers are thou
when the vessel struo
Bealaring men belles
is, while 82
ripped ope
and the g
sid acr
loan water on t
The ledge is near the Island «
way between
aker Charles §
Ashes
Ex-8pe
by Mrs, Crisp Is at
perhaps remal;
that indi
rt appr
aw
val and af
the patiern
next day.
One woman
mariner's certificate
passad all the axaminations made romj
sory by the Board of T
Lady Clifford
Usher of the Black Rod,
Bho sails her
the year in
Bolent
John D
of the Eu
of Cleveland,
rade is the Dowager
wi low of the late Gentisman
wh fled in 1992
own yacht |
the Medi
or many mont
terranean and
Rockefeller ia the superintendent
lid Avenue Baptist
made an
the school on Flag Day. For
been superintendent of the Sunday |
the
bean present to
office could be numbered on
one band as he is ateent so mu
Sunday Sch
and address before
bat probably number of tim
af this
fingers of
perform the duties
the
h from the
eity.
The Right Dr the
newly selected bishop of the frst district of
the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is
an imposing figure physica ly, He
than six tall, and weighs abou:
poubds, He wears a full b ack beard, has
Rev Abam Geant,
is more
foe
short but weli-shaped nose, and black, in
telligent and genial He has a come
mon sense, chatty way of talking, and only
oocasionally does a Southern locution creep
into bis otherwise good English. Bishop
Grant's career, from birth in slavery to the
achisving of the highest dignity which his
Church ean give him has been remarkable
one
ayes,
CHINA IN POSTAL UNION.
Te Abolish the Private Bystem—Radical 8tep By
the Heathen
The Chinese Government wil abolish the
private postal system, which has farnished
the antire mail facilities for the Empurs for
centuries, and as soon as possible establish
its first government domestic postal service,
This action has been formally decided on.
The first step will be the entry of the Em.
pire into the universal postal system.
The news of the conclusion reached was
contained in a despatch from Mr. Denby,
our Minister to China. It gave no details,
This Is the most radical step taken for a
long period by China. When she will join
the union is problematical,
The installation of the new servise prob
aby will be accomplished by employing ex-
perienced Earopean postal officials. The
only service now is by private courier, with
& postal agency at Shanghal for the United
States, Great Britain, Germany, Frante and
dapan
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS,
Epitome of News Gloaned From Variony Parts of
the Btate
the old Carlisle Behool
Bourd filed an answer in court to the peti
The mandamus
#sked for by the new board for the purpose
of compelling C. P. Humrich, secretary of
the old board to turn over the books and pa-
pers to the directors elected last Bpring. The
answer denies that the repeal set of 1805
ousted the school directors from office and
further alleges that the act is unconstitu-
tional fn regard to special or local legislation
not having been complied with in the pas-
sage of the act as the “Legislative Record"
Much contention and bitterness
have arisen betwesn the two school boards,
and the legality of either will now be deter-
mined by the court,
Charles Nateo, a young Hungarian, shot
himself at Plymouth and will dle. The bul-
us thirty-eight his left
wound
young fellow
ina week and
despondent because he had no money,
The members of
tion for a mandamus, WHE
shows,
Just, calibre, entered
breast just above the heart, and the
is pronounced fatal,
The is
engaged to be married wis
very
baving been
He told some friends that if
not have snough
work in the mines very poor
he
money to get married he
lately did
would kill himself,
Internal Revenues Agents Flaey and Bam-
of the
the vi-
uel Coo! the records
Erin
*inity
8 inspection of
office nud secret movements in
of Erie have created a great deal of ex.
It comes from
flileit distillery
cilement among Lquor men
that an
bas been discovered in the southern
and
some official souroes
part of
the inspection of re-
the county, that
ords is a part of the work of connecting ug
the purchasers of the crooked whisky supply
in Erle,
Eber Worthington, a farmer, aged 40 years,
ving with
n, in Moreland Township,
his family near Woodside Bta-
was found dead
in his hog-pen, by bis 18.year-oid son. Apo
plexy was the cause of death,
John
late ex- Auditor
i I
, AL Rs sta at the Brown Bow
Lemon, aged 23 years, 3
A. Lem
aitercation with J¢
shan
IERETEL J
came involve an
Formho't
in H
and
1 . v
irew a razor
ide, the sharg
instrume
fH her remains
that she was
urne ! up in her bed It bas been learned
il oc
the house noticed that
that as iste as k some one passing
everything was quis
As she used only a wood fire it Is though!
improbab's that there fire in the
at
W's anv
house thst time, which strenathens the
Diligent search hau
suspected o
hes of incendiarism,
ry
t
t
bean made for Te
he erime, but be has not been apprehended
yole, who is
Valentine Donotelll and James Donnatis
two Italians working with a gang of raliroas
laborers at Pottstown,
attack on the gang boss Patrick J, Lysch
Yalentine struck the boss
shovel and knocked him senseless and Done
natis struck the prostrate man with a stone
The crew of a
GI
them and turned them over to the looal
off to jall at Nor
n the would-be murderers and captured
officers, who hustied them i
The cause of the troubi
of Valentine because of |
ristown # was the
nag bordi
nation.
A ten-dnech gun representing a lot
at the Bethlehem Iron Company's proving
at Redington. Ten shots were
fired, the projectiles weighing
pws
2a
each discharge. The test was very satislac
tory, and was witnessed by army ‘aspecton
and the officials of thelr own company.
well known in political circles, was conviet-
el by a jury at Mercer for the larceny of
$100 worth of wira, He was arrested three
times in the last two months and in eact
cass for a serious offenss He Is worth
$20,000,
TEN THOUSAND DROWNED.
—— ————
Prightfal Loss of Life in the Japanese Tidal
Ware and Earthquake
It is now estimated that 10,000 people were
frowned by the tidal wave on the Island of
Yesso, the northern part of Japan, which
sceompanied a succession of frightful earth
quakes, lasting about twenty hours, In aid
dition to the town of Kumaishi, waich was
wholly destroyed, many other coast towns
have been washed away entirely or lu part
a
The report that a pany headed by the
Marquis de Mores, consisting of 35 wen
bound for the Soudan in order to enlist Arab,
chiefs against the British, bas beon Mussa.
sored toa man. has been confirmed.
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson arrived safely at
Havana from Metanzas. His train was at-
tacked by insurgents and his coat was per.
forated by two bullets,
WORE DYNAMITE.
Havana Starlled by Two Suc-
cessive Explosions,
WATER SUPPLY ATTACKED.
Pipes onthe Aqueduct Were Much
Lamaged — Consternation Pre-
valled Among the People
Insurgents Preparing to
Invest the Cliy.
Havana was startied and alarme
WOCK Bun the 1
day night by
) successive explosions, whieh
id for a long distances and
veral mies, Consternsti
, Bs It was feared that
an stta
nathons
ind that the
ristina and
ernanado
has aes
to returs Thomas Daw-
, An artist, has been released, He repre.
uted Harper's Weekly and It was in visit.
that Consul-General Lee
of Cabonnas riress and
rabie nment from the
mez's { f 50
General G men was
3 + .
defeated recently on the plains
0
“
Puert
by Jimenes
fully 500
Baratoga
pear Najara, |
ght of
ilano’s troops,
Principe
after af urs, Castel.
oy Frat
Oomez 08
mon,
the troops losing none, Goday's
(renera
sommand, which reinfor
x] the troops, lost
four soldiers killed and two officers wounded.
Madrid
piring dis
isopers and
A Havana di i} Be
save
wived
"
ine American cot ins
trust
owing to his interest in
lining with Spaia’s enemies,
- tetris
WEYLER'S QUEER PLANS.
Talk of a Barbed Wire Fence and a Desp Ditch
About Havana.
Captain-General Weyvler evidently thinks &
crisis is approaching in the Cuban rebe lion,
according to advices received in Key West
These advices state that Weyler summoned
bis generais to Havana, not only to confer
about the threatened meeting of the troops
and about deserting the trocha but also to
plan additional defenses for Havana
It is asserted that Weyler has received
attack the city, which at present is denuded
of troops, who are doing service on the
trocha. It is said the generais delermined
to use the volunteers to cover strategic ap
proaches and to plant additional! artillery in
the outskirts of the city. A plan to erecta
barbed wire fence and a stone wail and to
dig a deep ditoh about the city was also con
sidered,
The growing uneasiness of Weyler is re.
flected in the tone of the official press. which
inkes 8 most gloomy view of the situation.
T'here is an absolute lack of confidence sven
in official circles in Spain’: ability to put
Jown the rebellion The recent attempt by
msargents to out off the water supply by de
stroying the conduits has thrown both Wey.
ier and the Havana public into a condition
bordering on pania h
a
Of the 247 passecgers and crew of the
British steamship Druramond Castle, which
was sunk st Brest, France, only three per.
sons, all seamen, were rescued. Bodies of
the 244 persons drowned are being recover.
od almost hourly.