at Eee $EAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS." If any little word of ours Can make one life the brighter, It any little song of ours Can make one heart the lighter, God help ug speak that little wo d, And take our bit of singing. And drop it in some lonely vale, To set the echoes ringing. If any little love of ours Can make one life the 1f any little care of ours Can make one step the fleeter, If any little help may The burden of another, God give us love and care To help along each other sweeter, ease trength | and If any watchful thought of ours Can make some work the stronger, If any cheery smile of ours Can make its brightness longer, Then let us speak that thought to-day With tender eves a-glowing So God may grant some weary one Shall reap from our glad sowing. BY HOWARD HALL 1¢ 1 1 YS TY v it Was a lovely sumine!l Zermatt. Dinner was just huge Monte Rosa Hotel, and of visitors were settli th the chairs outside, 1 of the sunset pleasures of black On the little raised posite side of the of five English round one of the Perched on an seat and solemn Robert the fia climbed than for in the law courts people was noted fou friend, George Poll journalist, rough penci burned face by Bert Jeffre) the mir They were in the valle y for { had climbes od on the in than in peaks that though come Lo Zermatt Anal +) lard had tion ol possible, > ne, wario ot to please you pleas tcl Frit said Jeffrey } ellow ie i no ami soil above a beaten, Even my than yot i ve been protested Pollard hotigand feet “Yes, seem Lo ten that you had a mule most way,” laughed Barton “Then I have ciers, and up to some of “have you »@i. ni IT) dusty sisters hav i have.” to the top of and that have forgot. of the but you been on he persisted, strivi self. “But that was only bes Mr. Pollard said the Miss Jeffreys. “You lenve Zer- until you our new ice-pick on some peak “1 am not to blame for having bought it. Barton made me get it. That is th drawback of having an alpine ciul- man for a chum; he always thinks you can enjoy yourself only when climb ing up impossible mountains.” "But what have yvau really for?” protested Miss Jeffreys “Well, I have dug up a lot ers for you.” “That is merely a degradation to a self-respecting ice-pick. What elge have you done with it?” There was a moment's pause and then he replied: “I ran the sharp end into my hand | the day I bought it. and last night | killed a cockroach in my room with | the other end.” A roar of laughter greeted this an. swer, and Barton complained in an ag- | grieved voice: “No wonder I could mot go to sleep | when you were stabbing at that crea | ture over my head.” “I thought you might hear me. The beetle was very nimble, and I am not | used to such work,” answered Pollard, “Well that absolutely settles the mat. | ter,” Jefireys urged. “You must con- quer something bigger than a cock- peach with your ice-axe.” “Why not go up the Unter-Gabel- Born with us to-morrcw 7" asked the younger Miss Jeffreys, who was more | absorbed in watching the red glow die out on the mountains than in listen. fag to the conversation. you do it, elde: cannol have inatt used it of flow *That's & good idea. Barton Is go- ing to try and do the Monte Rosa from here, to-morrovr.” added Jeffreys. "So if you come with us we shall be a par tie carres” “The Law on Monte Rosa, and Jonr- interrupted Barton. are going with Bert, too, added Miss Jeffrevs, hen beauty will replied profund bow; with more Jeffreys firet time I won't At what unearthly asked Pollard, “But we be on the Unter but he quickly sat force than was agreeable, as "Well, luzy on a holiday down for the be hour do we start Kaufmann it? We'll “There's there, ask him)” isn t shadowy figures standing off the came to quiet “Goodevenings, gen- One of the a few paces in street them with a tlemen.’ Dat is goot. It a very nice climb, We must go by four o'clock,” he low speech of one not iss £3. swered in the language, steep and Pollard used to th s E21 Nh ked a long couloir, and makes step 0," the guide sat to explain his mean } hardt rocks 1838 not How one shon Ah, peautiful, It 1 il repeated the guide & wunde: aglish? reased vocabulary of us, Kaufmann nother chalet, § d the hotel smfortable When the kled on and fastened they start- haufmann tied t Hil he t to ‘ is snd led the 16 der Mise Pollard came in mid- die, and Pollard was fastened to the end of that rope The vounger Kauf man, with d his nade way, tl + the jeffreys an glater roped ond the up the gee and hard skin of sarily slow is Ka y ke i+ ‘ t oy "te is Kaulimas ih $ wie] ep The sun had not in t} in Lae the cold seemed the entered intense Liv comparison with had guides gine shine The ferent showering the loose gnow on those be- low, and it which should reach which glistened tween two rocky peaks, elder Kaufmann drew brother, so that Jeffreys and his sister had only struggled some Way up they quitted two chose slightly dif- routes up the couloir, to avoid L00N the little above them be- from above and saw the first three sil. houetted against the sky the Trift glacier of the gully the sun shone brightly upon them. To their left was the climbed, and on the far side rose a steep face of rock, up which lay the track to the sum. mit. “We must go, or when we climbs we makes stones fall on my brother,” Kaufmann said, as soon as they had regzined their breath: and he care. fully walked au ross tie litti> col, prob- ing each step with the long handle of his ice-axe before he advanced, “Yon must go in my steps always," «gd, half turning torward Miss Jeffreys, # who was following him. “Dis iss a cornice here--all spow, no rock be- low.” and he drove hig axe deeply Into the snow to his right, to show where “Rock here,” front of him, And once more the precipice beneath he added, pointing in “hold de rope tight.” forward. Pollard followed behind, treading in the gulde's footsteps, and holding the rope tightly, so that it id not trail in snow between him and Miss Jef freyvs He was about half-way across, and Kaufmann had already begun to climb the rocks in front of them, when he suddenly felt himself beginning to sink He glanced down and saw 2a dark crack open in the snow on his left and stretch some distance toward his companions. In an instant he ed he was on the fatal ledge of snow, and that it had given way be- neath him. Instinctively he tried to step forward toward the firmer he shrieked, “Kaufmann, I'm fall SNOW as ing He had a momentary Miss Jeffrey's horror-strick sn faceand he felt himself falling, falling, as dream, He was suddenly stopped a jerk that seemed to cut him in and he found himself dangling by glimpse of then in a the awful he- he heard sound of snow waist th For a ing b over space moment noth ft nissing SNOW, and fell from the ed tit the #«¢ sliding over felt gentle blows a Inmps az broken and shaken by the watched the edge pel 61 ugh the alr and his te downward the to prove vou Bow began to him DOVE t the thread jother blow love and ited “It's joved me and I p sipiess woman give me any mes- die together. O sobbed In de- all she HOW happe ned Tell Barton 1 never although 1 knew he would Then raising os Are they coming Kaufmann? and I clip now,’ hated im win you volee he led N¢ cal two minutes back then in a t back. Good Hold bravely: bye, he shouted lower on, and love voice, my Another tremor in the cord and sud the strain was taken off, Kauf. man gave a gasp of relief, while the woman half buried in the snow shriek ed with terror. Cautiously the guide made his position firm and dragged her toward him. Then he saw that the rope from her waist was hanging over the edge, and in a hor- he asked: “Where Hysterical sobs were his only an- swer, and as he drew the loose rope toward him and saw the frayed ends, he muttered in amazement, “Gott in he reverently raised his hat and cross- ed himself. An Englishman and his wife aiways come to Zermatt each summer, some- times only for a day, but they never leave without laying a wreath on that grave. In the early spring, when the first flowers have blossomed in some sheltered nook, a litile bunch Is al- ways on this spot; and even late in autumn, when the snow is low upon the mountain side, the little Kauof- manns try to find a tender nosegay to place upon the grave of the “good gentleman who fell to save our fath- er.”"—Nickell Magazine MILLIONS OF MICE. A Clergyman’s Unpleasant Encounter with ze Army of Rodents, “An Incident which came under my own personal observation is not with- out interest,” writes Ernest ingersoll in the New York Evening Post, “While I was waiting for a train at a small station on a branch line of the Southwestern rallway, a clergyman, with very long hair and beard, who was waging up and down the platform, stopped for a moment and raised end of a canvass which served cover for a large quantity of which was waiting shipment In an instant a mass of mice sprang at him, and his beard, hair and cloak were lit erally alive with them, To brush them off was a matter of some time, and when my fellow-traveler at length thought himself free, he was dismayed to find a mouse in each of his trousers pockets.” as 1 wheat The cause of these pestif2rous tions mice same in all cases natural enemies hawks, owls little rodents, prolific, to multiply favorable 1842 irrup lly the The destruction of of seem substantia wildcats the exceedingly guch as snakes, eld allows naturally unduly inter, as in Russia favorable COMes Very unusual season of when all their life and conditions are increase sudden augmentation « yilows There is then in the woods, and they learings and ecultl i lands spread to neigh- wappened in 1800 in Kussia, they extraordinary d grain 3 ow, thrive A DYING TRADE Influences which Threaten to Revolalionize the Medical Profession of be set down You gO you are sn there is ter You have i symploms got matter don’t until the ma the some before you know which specialist L 0, and whole mends itself oul and In old times in New York when there were family physicia ‘ou sus pected peters were , the family physician gol the benefit it does " $44) tha anadi the doubt. but the spe not Every one who haa this friena § . ass vs ori fads ond t n a disunguished, bu had experience knows that To tt} 4 call in a familiar i2 one ing. to unfamiliar gentleman is things that cause us things that never happen that brought physicians a large part perhaps the most—of their pecuniary reward were {llnesses that didn’t real- ly materialize. The family physician got the benefit of the vis medicatrix naturae. He got there in time to stand by and see it work, It was his friend and ally. The specialist benefits by it in less measure, for he is leas promptly summoned, and it is liable to finish up the job before he gots there. There seems to be some reason to anticipate when New York families will contract with a syndicate of physi- cians-—comprising a complete set of the necessary specialists—for the super- vision of the family health at a fixed annual price—Harper's Weekly. call : another most anxiety are The ilinesses Malae's Biggest Tree. On the banks of the Androscoggin, in Maine, Is a tree which rivals some of California's redwoods in size. The circumference, four feet from the ground, is 23 feet, diameter 7 feet, About six feet from the ground there are seven branches radiating from its trunk. which are from IX inches to 24 inches in diameter. The branches spread over a space of grouna 270 feet in cireumference, or 0 teet in diame. ter. Where the branches leave the trunks of the tree, about seven fest from the ground, here has been erect- ed a Band stand, which seats twenty- five persons. WIT AND HUMOR, Up-to-Date Jokes and Witticisms From ihe Comic Papers. CONFIRMATION, Hee 5" “How is your health now’ **Bo so,” ““1 heard you were on the mend.” IN THE SAME BOAT. Little Clarence, — Pa, is there really “honor among thieves Mr, Callipers. —No, my son are just as bad as other peopl Gee thieves KOT HIB SERKING, Warden Look here, you're not doing that right. Conviet (earnestly) Say, I didn’t apply fer this job, an’ if work don’t suit, why don’t yon dis charge me? my Warden, my A HARD NAMP Zim] that going around calling we hard names, Is that true ? Zam Well, I said youn were a brick : ' Sweet reconciliation hear you have THE BEST OF RE Clerk to lay off next week. ) Well, you ¢ you have an excellent reason Well, Bir salary for that week If you please Fmplover , you see, #1 HEADY INFORMATION Mian weret ] Miss De Fink [.et's Odd Fellows and Red ‘Ancient Miss De Blonds Order of Dianas Miss De Young Order of Aerio ss De society Order of “1s After fier rosy cheek against hi her soft he had Kkiss¢ d HY; 5 and pre i § round i and asked “(Ieorge. do 3 “Yes,” he replied *“1 thought so,’ anid face 18 the roughest | ever” Then but it was too iate, and he away with a heavy Inmp in his breast. $4 YON SHAVE VYOoursell she she stopped, went cold, A RAINBOW PRECEDENT ““Shiftless as ever, Thomas,” said the wealthy uncle. ''Still making a failure of life, as you always have dene 77° “I don't know that I'm such a terrible failure,” sulkily answered the poor relation, “Why, you have nobody but your self to support, and yon can't make both ends meet.’ “Well, the rainbow has only itself to support, and it doesn’t wake both ends meet, either.” Sad Joke on a Eamous Judge. Roy Bean, High Judge of the Courts of Langtry, where justice is dished out to the living and the dead alike in Judge Bean's own novel and distinctive way, was in San Antonio last week, on the occasion of which visit he was made the victim of a cruel practical joke. He met a drummer at the hotel, try. “pid you see my bear? How iu he getting along?’ was the Justice's first guestion. Judge Bean's bear throughout West Texas stands second in fame to the Judge himself. The animal was chain. od to a tree in the rear of the Judge's beer shloon, and in its day drank many a bottle of beer at a cost of Z5e. per bot- tle, to the edification of the wayfarer who was compelled to spend a few hours in Judge Bedn's judicial dis- trict “Didn't you hear of 1t77 drummer, "The bear died The drummer had old to wipe out at Roy Bean's expense, and he succeeded in convincing the judge that his bear was dead Roy Bean lost no time in making for the telegraph office he penaed the ow asked last night an BCOTe where these instructions Skin the bear and expre the skin | to ine al once To this he i which is law In Langtry { at the {and expressed the skin ter that nis signature, Bean's man killed the bear in the let fur was this attached galoon promptly and accompanied the noe | We hated to kill the { hated to die it fore he gave i and he be are now bear three shots We took tgmoking the bacons When Roy sage he broke three chairs sived the mes- then The “arn Bean and get out 1 er Ling mail San FEMALE POLICE. They the Apartments eof Siam’s Private King. Guard contact an elder allowed number Earaest Preaching. reason for the [re fz that it NO othe: If you ses one great f your congregation eag of their heads then you you or you are only Archbishop that a g preacher has something to he haz to say something. That is just the difference There naver can be much of the dead-earnest preaching There i no man so much in demand to-day as the preacher all on fire with his theme Whenever he comes, his welcome goes before him. Even if men stone him, gtill he sits his throne and rules the hearts of men. There are no triumphs of the past go great as the trinmbphs | of speech, from Demosthenes down to Gladstone, from John the Baptist to Whitefield. Men bow absolutely before the magic of speech. It is not in vain that the highest revelation of God is { called the Word.—The Church Union. ! Cat With Earrings. | Mrs. Anita Comfort, of St. Louis, is | the proud possessor of a big, black pet ‘ cat, which she has decorated in a novel | manner, She had its ears pierced and | has placed small diamond screw ear. rings in ite ears. The cat scems to be proud of its adornment and to under stand the value of the gems, for it rare- iy ventures oulgide the house. not preaching Whately proaches because he a poor one because prosing RAVE oO say 100 | Firelighters are made in Germany | by twisting wood into rope, cutting it { into short lengths and dipping the ends | of the pieces into melted resin. Ostrich eggs aré sometimes aaten in Africa and California. They weigh ! about three and a ball pounds each. #
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