sap THE ROADSIDE AEOLIAN, Layton Brewer in the Criterion When winds stream over the ragged knoll The highway lies along The wires stringing from pole to noie (ive tongue to a voice of song They carry a blitheful air, Humming a burden that seems to run “Good news is the word we bear.” This joyous one “Good news we bear.” They swing and swing at the breezes will, While the heavens smile above To hear the measure they gaily thrill: “We're speeding a line of Jove With gcale and trill “A line of love.” A cloud and a shadow sailing vy; To the breeze's failing breath In sinking cadence the wires sigh “Respect for a tale death!” More softly still: “A tale of death.’ gO ol wires is 0 the songs are many the sing When the roving wind To play of gladness or suffering On its mighty instrument KATHIE'S ADVENTURE I'm ‘wo weeks: sent “Girls, going into country for ned and 1 An eager crowd gathe little girl, who had playroom of cheeks brigl with exciten t} ve 11 plan they ve i pian Two weeks never saw ine ound the into tae } iome, het resi S000 “When are y« “This af I Mrs. Winsl farm. 1 came in talked for me would would b me feel you want t¢ 1 he she looked around But one of the spoke up bravely mean “Of course it when would they ask go quick some of us will “Kathi get pari since before food mother]es had taker her, and although thought home which of chai ited, When } o'clock ready and traveling bag had carefully direction of were flushed with pleasant ant ly returned Mrs and followed hes Mrs. Wins face with talked to her feel at ease her enjoyment was 5.30 o'clock into a Mr. Winslow horse and The drive w: winding road, either side and green grass the houses just enough for companionship, was such that the little girl bound, while her into each other's across the top of her head and smiled in sympathy “8c you're not disappointed, eh, my child?” asked Mr. Winslow. She looked up quickly into his face J4 wi the when little station and they waiting them with a Carriage 3 half a mile over a flelds on and trees, together a deligil though spell friends looked with rolling ling close sai as new eves Kind “Disappointed,” she a little catching of her more than words. “I didn’t think country could be so pretty.” Mr. Winslow laughed, almost pleased as she was herself “Well, how does this suit asked as they turned into a pretty driveway and approached a comfor.. able white house with a deep veran. da, surrounded by large trees over a velvety lawn, while from the farther side a profusion of brilliant flowers peeped at them through tree trunks and bending branches, “Is this where we're going?’ asked Kathie in a half whisper of delight, “This is where we'regoing.’” andswer. ed Mr. Winslow, gayly. repeated, with breath that said {he as you?’ he of the veranda. “Hello, Gracie!” cried Mr. Winslow, as the child came running eagerly to meet them, laughing and holding out both hands full of dowers. Mr Winslow caught her in his arms as he sprung ont, “This is the davghter of the house,” he said, holding her up. is a little gir! come to see you and play with you.” { Gracse made friends readily and] up to the house, holding her Then Kathie learned that the Mrs. Winsiow's mother, latter bent and kissed she was welcome she id lady was when the her and told her ladies, walked all around the in, visiting the flower gar den, peeping into the barn at the rear 88 the rolling flelds away, whose waters now in the They house nA far like n¢ shining sunlight then they were agilver bright And went in to get ready How good the supper tasted, Th ers came in through the open windows dining room, and the around the table were heal'hy while the snowy bread aud newmade butter, with thin of boiled ham and fresh new just out of the ice-box, the dell- frosted cakes and above all the picked less than an hou in cream, formad the daughter of a have called perfect girl, who had delicious milk before and buried that millionaire might this little orphan feast even almost thought it a table {rom Mrs. Winslow alld the crumbs from wipe the pretty cl they After her to snowy cloth done, she and when this was and pot horses, afte Grace under the members Winslos Did you read got away In Chic No. Where did get asked Mrs. Winslow hurriedly From Lincoln Park (Oh the away from: was ‘he an Mrs, Winelor aut cried should Gra dear, what if it 1 dare let “Oh, 1 guess it haa as Lal,” aid Me. vipalow, laugziing. "it would cavght shot i ax this jut it wife There would hardly be ger in the day time anyway,” sald Mr Winslow. “A hyena is a cowardly beast you know It might take some of the poultry. Why, Kathie, child, how big your eves are! | shouldn't have men- tioned ft But there isn't any danger you may sleep just as snug as if Mr. Hyena was back in his cage, as perhaps he is now.” come here! shan't plaz out at zl} ifn a8 ie or helore it might not Iv the per much dan- But Kathie was a sensitive child, and all night long she dreamed of hyenas and other wild beasts, and of trying to gave Gracie from them, always finding when she started to run with her little {charge in her arms that she could barely crawl along, while her pursuers | were just upon her. She came down | lin the morning rather pale, but she | sald nothing about her dreams or her | | fears, and no one spoke of the hyena. | | Perhaps Mrs. Winslov could not get | Lit entirely out of her mind, for she told | | Kathie to play out in the back yard | with Grace, and not go far away from | the house. | “Mr. Winslow is in tie barn,” she said, “and I would rather have you out that way.” and the barn was Mr. Winslow intended to tear down, All at once, in the midst of thelr play, Gracie started for this shed running as fast as her little fat legs would carry her, and Kathie started after her, ing to her, but the little creamed fastey call- rogue only with pleasure and ran the Kathie which the hyon of evervihingy hearing had a vague she thought Ing 1 for a neath thig old enough, while had suddenly But Baby She ran ap her chubby form to peer under it Kathie her 1 her, bending, with a sort fa i caused by her And then moment stared as if start since {ent bly give a hid and under surely reom there and grown terrib had laughing, might wild beast shed it w pos lace fears. bent no such ind Giracs 10 AL, to and came up 100, 01 fear she from cination horrible would sure enough, two for a head both eyes her were two great There, flaming her, ghe could not orbs, like jewels, staring at and she heard a low growl, But move those shining then fhe pointed a laughed geemed to baby and strength come geized the struggling child acd ran toward the house of her kicks the eye Kathir back She in her arms with spite all Steering By Echoes steamer k me as utiusual, for met on it trip are comparatively no settle moment ater I heard the pilot « y& bridee over ely and there ments A and ate the captain ms room in ‘I tell you it's right of them, itedly we'll be on the rocks That t of my on another colloquy there!” said one “It must be, in a minute!” was enough for me, 1 tumbled and, half-dressed, Just the whistle screech It immediately and 1 im- steamer, eX or ou berth rushed deck as rave unearthly geemed to be answered by another agined we “What did 1 t i near by, meeting a whistle were tell you?’ eried the pi- lot. here is, all right!” After waiting ten minutes or more, hoping to be able to catcl a glance of the strange craft, 1 accosted the cap- tain and asked him where the other steamer was, My question’ pearly gave him an epileptic fit We had run into a dense fog. and our pliot was she among those treacherous rocks by the which here and there rise precipitously from the water's edge. A whisk brootn made with the edge slanting, so that one end 1s longer than he other, is much better than one with a straight edge for brushing the dust out of the corners of the room and from the edge of the carpets. This broom is particularly adapted to brush- ing down stair carpeting —Philadel- AMERICAN HOLLAND. DIKES IN THE STATE OF WASHING. TON, TO PROTECT THE LAND, Tide Cates Along the Sea Shore. ¥ in where o much wild land, where mi of never felt touch the share or the keen edge of the it dos that it would EEBArY claim land for great tern country thi there is we s0il have ylonghman I of acres of lions the woodman ba the civilization not to re see from 10 obtain acres that in BSkagi northwest and Very done he stale has been in t of the the fines ing behind dikes built County, almost ern cornet can be found scores of ranche in the world, ly and the overflows of the the t veritable Holl: out the en it rivel largest emptie nto sound This is the Washington In Bkagit coun situated the sh flats the SWIinomi Olympi ounded famous Beaver i marsh and the dike feat land s« land 1d “4 on y Ve] ecak and ith water the ruined = are Intelligencer Sagacious Wolves. what form may enemy a as well easy task to an in Macleod Gas. 1 knows foes a pack of wolves become how an is not sagacious can prove himself ap ciated it is a ranch stance lately given in the sufficiently proves A colt belonging to a Mr. Warnock having died, its owner thought to make in clearing off a few wolves not an of such pests, as otte use of it inserted parts of be a prey and various left boasts For two days Mr. Warnock abstained from going near the but he did go he expecteqa execution had been done. To his sur- price, not a wolf was to be seen, dead or alive. Not that the colt had been neglected The skin had been neatly stripped from the body, and nearly every particle of flesh eaten, as well as the ribs and all the smaller bones, them carefully in the which he to the marauding fete body, to apot, to everything mashable had been properly mashed. And yet, within a radius of a mile from the spot where the colt haa beni, there was not a dead wolf. Mr. Warnock returned from his sur- vey and spread out the skin of the coit, hair down, upon the ground. Then he saw, with some surprise, a small bunch of flesh untouched, and still adhéring to wee hide. inciosed in the flesh were the strychnine tablet, A closer examination showed that every one of the ten pellets had been carefully left alone by the wolves. Every shred of flesh around the spots where the tablets had been placed was eaten away, but that which enclosed the poison was left, The explanation lay in the fact that Mr. Warnock had, before inserting the pellets, picked them up with his fin- gers, instead of with a pair of for ceps, a8 was his custom The wolves had scented danger A JOLLY TINNER'S MISHAP, Wandering Pig. {Mo.) with a body, ville, home dq odore Mowen, a Clark his badly bruis Ths tinne; confined to and of broken arm esult a peculiar accident on The wd and of Theodore's friends called a leaking waterspout his ladder him to repal got his Oiae] tinner and climl ttle stove Hi king CArrving iron * sel 1 and was ma good a moving object on ti him to stop there numerous fields ftOWHS PEE the urplus provisions of the It happened that when Theo Mowen was plugging up holes in numer are feeding com -~ and gireet damaged spout, one of the i {i mud-loving qi wobbling amily of snorting and Mowen couldn't have irl Household Economies in France h Wives Ais § § 13 \ if such delicacy they n in some rajes, or pi thers near the Halles Cent market the mother goes looks out not Inces upon at any the case of old bacheloss or are not the are in the afternoon and h would Dear a pe cause they are sold in “lone and orn’ at bargaining characteristic resource of what called technically bijoux, namely, the remnants sold by cooks of large establishments and by first class res- auranis. These are collected from door to door, and tumbled together In no very appetizing fashion: but the retailer sorts and arranges the various articles, which are then properly adorned (pares), scraped, and cut into neat nicely garnished, and set out Customers who are brave enough to forget the antecedents of such dainties may thus purchase for pr “fF widows who 26 there is expert jes or the best fish served on high class ta- with many other delicacies of tempting appearance. Many old ren- go call, living in garrets, and tiers, nn the public gardens, where they talk politice with their fellows, get really good dinners in this way. Neal Dow's Libby Prison &.esches. A man with a specialty is never at When the late General Neal Dow was in Libby, Prieon, during the civil war, he would stir up his fellow prisoners with patriotic addresses, ir the midst of his eloquence, if any of the guards appeared, he would quickly take up temperance as his theme, mach to the delight of his hear erg, and the guanls would only hear the familiar remark: : “Yes, gentlemen, we must put down the grog shops with a strong band." Youth's Compation. A woman has far more chance of marriage at 23 than at 21. ——————————————————————— HE KEYSTONE STATE. News Gleaned from Various Parts. t BLEW OFF HIS HEAD. Both Eyes Blown Out Awful Injuries Result From Premature Explosion Bulelde Mania Conquered —Dissatisflaes tion st Dubois Mines May End in Strike Outlook for Glass Trade Very Bright. James Bwesney death in 19 years, met with the parior of his home at pe aged an awful Tamaque He was handliog an old musket, when the weapon was accidentally discharged, the load blowing off the top of his head. His mother, hearing the shot, entered the roam and found his unconscious form, He lingered three hours before death came to Lis relief, A large flouring m sawmill and frame iad Three hun The Loss fire wae of lucen- dlary £15,000. insurance, #5000 The origin Hotel, near Dingen, ope. was destroyed by incendiarism. L #6000; Willow Glen through partly fusured The t glass ountry started up Jah fii fact the asual ries throughout Monday aller the holiday 1 The peri made rather earl glass Industry Is In business in this slart this year was isual, and the ine with the iron and steel respect such a co to be kept supply that the ware is in DRYe time to OBpecss are I'he market for table that factories running steadily for some the demand, and the will of Johu Nowilen suty Prison by Jus- barged with belug y car holdup near sited is the murder of A tramp givio Whe om g ithe name mitted to t} Columb implicated in the Norristown, whit Conduct The police refuse to give sey particulars, evidence against yay anything on authorities bave strong Nowien refuses 1 v Norristows Dave Leen ne Mrs Mahanoy City, who is charged with the murder of her hus- band, was placed op trial at Potteville, It is alleged that while her busband was drunk she seized a lighted lamp from the sable and threw It at him, It struck Palabeck square- the bead be died a few urs hate Palshack. of iy on aud 1 ster Robert nston, aged a farmer of Mars Station, while prospectiog for coal on his land, had both eyes blown oul by a pre« mature explosion of dynamite. He will re- cover, but will remain totaliy blind. By a freak of the explosion Jobuston wes not such ured otherwise BRCR 18) FR & Mrs mes C. Wentzell, throat with a in Hi! heaith for wife of f Gresusburg, cut ber She will die. 8he has been several months Io her brother-in-law » a the Om bad long bean entertained by fighting against it, she sal afraid It would overcome ber, While Frank Corringor was attempting ¢ take a gun from Frank SBonper the weapon discharged, the ball passing through Corriogear’'s heart, killing blm instantly. Sanper gave blmsel! uj A coroner's jury which ase charged Sonper with inv Wentzsll TRAZOT few suicide Bhe was Was iA § Wes OF she wh nvestigated the IUNIAry mabe The socident urred at Carlin chester Mine, st Dubols miners the mber of was closed that the perators’ desire to miners who have the recent The B indefinitely shut-down is due get rid of a n The claim The dissatisfaction apparent is PE Reynoldsville, where also no. the mines be inaugurated alfectad Rochester. At Reync winter strike ma) Over 600 men are idavilie The sult of the Wright heirs against the mpany came up in when a modified In the origi. pal judgement Judge Bennett found for the heirs to the amount of $42 166.77, with in- terest from November 1 1806. The Supreme at Wilkes Barre, A rumor was circulated in Hazleton that the Oentral New Jersey Railroad Company was going to bulld a branch road from Tamanend to White Haven, a distance of twenty miles, It is said fo be the intention of the company to touch all the towns in the Lahigh region. Work st the Franklis Colilery, of the Le- high Valley Coal Company, has been sus- pended indefinitely owing te the restriction in the coal trade, This throws 500 men and boys out of work. A toll gate war in Lancaster county was ended by the Willow Street Turapike Com- pany announcing the abandonment of the toll gate at Lamb Tavern. For several years the people of the neighborhood showed in. tense bitterness toward the company for maintaining this toll gate. In the first week of January, 1886, the toll house was blown up with dynamite. It was at onoe rebuilt, but was hardly finished before it was de- stroyed by an fncendiary fire. It was again rebuilt, LEATED FROM WINDOWS, Narrow Esonpe of People frem a Blasiog Hotel at Mt. Carmel, Ps. The Commercial Hotel, a four-story brick structure, on the corner of Third and Oak strects, was completely destroyed by fire, and the thirty-seven guesis in the house barely escaped with their Hees. Many of them were foroed to jump from the windows, and the personal affects of all were de. stroved. The fire was discovered about twe o'elpek by miners coming from work. England’s Stand in China. According to the Manchester Guardian, England will refuse to recognize any spe cial rights in China granted to any par. ticular power. Her warships will winter at Port Arthur, if the Russians do, and she will insist oh a naval station st Kiso-Chay the samo as Germany. is Fepotied that a similar declaration has been vered to the Chinese and other Governments by Japan, , Weyler's Defiance. General Weyler bas defied the Spanish’ Government to court-martial him. He citims immunity as a Senator, Spain is hurrying 5000 more troops to Cuba.
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