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THREE WISHES.
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It was years ago, when I was a child,
A falry came to me;
“Now, look at your heart and wish”
she smiled;
“You shall have wishes three,
Look deep in your heart and wish”
she said,
“Ror what you wish shall be.”
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1 looked in my heart—I was but a
child—
And I wished for a red, red rose,
The sweetest, the largest, the reddest
flower
That in any garden grows.
It came and it withered with an hour;
Flowers fade, as every one Knows.
I looked in heart—I was bot
child—
And I wished for a milk-white dove.
It came, and surely never before
Had any bird such love.
One day it unfolded its wings and flew
Far into the heaven above.
my
I looked in heart—I was but
child
a child can
me what's
sweet rose,
More fair thaa the dove that flies,
A lover, affectionate, good and true!”
"T'was then I looked into your
BARRAUD'S VENGEANCE.
“Take my
pretty faces alone
scrape—as |
flectively.
I+ was Max Deuch
baritone, who h
room instantly divined
ture lay beneath.
“The
we cried,
me, with
up his glass
“Well, 1
care to call i
goes. Most of
tering the pro
one
but you probabil)
Was ent that gave
first ut it wa
it
cast for a very 1
my
be
sweeter
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Yet
“Give
eyes
advice, Morris. lL
ars, the wel
spoken,
story! Let's
with One
delicate
guppose ti
guppy h
¢
auch’
profession hars's
+}
not Know
pure acc me
i
chance. I
1 was always ambition
had understudied
cipal 1
was pra
lines.
ritons
al
ticaiy
him ag:
which 1
~mode
a f:
having got rid of what
call prologue, let
carnest with the
*1 had been as
playe«
sty fort
dir amount
the
the ] I
scious of the surpassing beauty of o
face among the row after row
of me The girl did not look more
than 19 or The exquisite contour
of her cheeks, the shapely mouth
nose, and above all, her eyes,
with lashes seemed to droop ia-
stinctively conceal th oi
hazel, ali went to make up a face that
was well night in it
ness,
“1 had a idea of having seen
her before somewhere, but could
resolve it into anything definite, Each
time a few bars’ rest gave me the op
portunity I looked down upon her.
Strange to say she was generally gaz-
ing at me at the same moment, dnd
our glances met. Once | could swear
that she even smiled at the circum-
stance and lowered her eyes purposely.
It was the same during my
song. A subtle kind of
seemed to play between us,
“lI was encored, and thus time [I re-
sponded, going no further from the
platform than just out of sight of the
audience. When [ reascended it, the
seat she had occupied was empty. |
was disappointed, and racked my brain
again to think where 1 had seen her,
“When 1 returnied to the
room a surprise awaited me. A tiny
note lay on my bundle of songs, with
my name on the envelop? Instantly 1
jumped to the conclusion that it was
connected with the owner of the lovely
cended became
in ir
<0.
an
that
v
to oir
depths
perfect 8 loveli-
hazy
not
second
magnetism
of excitement. Inside was just a plain
card, and traced in pencil, in a dainty
feminine hand, this:
“Come and see me,
‘hing to tell you
“1 was at once ¢lated and disappoint-
ed. Eilated because I felt that ‘ny
arddress, 10 Osborne Terrace.
“1 looked at my watch and healtat-
ed. 1 could gpare half an hour and
still be in time for the theatre. My
mind was soon made up.
scribbled a few lines on the back has-
tily. ‘Dear Jack, I wrote, ‘Awfully
sorry | cannot meet you as promised
Pressing apgagement-—Max.’ They
were to Jack Albery, our tenor. I had
promised to meet him at the club and
| go down to the theatre together after-
| ward That much accomplished, |
proceeded to the address given by my
| fair correspondent,
jo "Yq * 1 began to the trim house-
{ maid who answered my ring, and then
| 1 stammered and looked foolish. I
| had forgotten that I did not know her
| name
| "The girl smiled
‘It's all right, sir.
way, please?
“She showed me into the daintiest
of boudoirs. Rich curtains and rugs,
the thick axminster on the floor, and
the array of little ornaments scattered
behind her apron.
tlie room
accustomed to luxury.
later the curtains
walked, not she it
I was expecting, but—Barraud! I gave
a start of amazement I had
nearly for n his existence;
insolent smile,
profusely around
its owner to be
A second two
opened and
or
in wh
gotte
showing
his face as he
] m
of his teeth, on
¥ 1
vd, brought back vividly
the circumstances
in, Mr. Deu
i 1
0, i
hat
1
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Well, M'sieur
make a charming
mouth
your mouth wate:
up at you
that becau
coming |
ver forget
an yportuni
that? he
It was
nirehongt sly at
apprehensively at
of
a revolver,
looked the polish
barrel
pose
well this afternoon,
for the last time.
“The emphasis he threw into the
words confirmed my worst suspicions,
and I heard my heart beat Bit
terly 1 cursed the headstrong foolish-
ness which had placed me in his grasp
I looked round the room. [ was can
like a rat in a trap. There was appar-
ently only one exit, and he sat gnard-
ing that and toying carelessly with the
revolver. 1 waited in trepidation for
him to resume,
“It is now 5:35. At 6:20 or
after you ought to be at the thea're;
is not that so? But you will not be
there, make up your mind that, 1
propose to—to-—what you cail kill two
birds with one stone.
“‘In the next hour you and I will
have a nice, quiet conversation--we
will recall old memories—and by thas
time, my very dear friend, the silage
manager will be saying to himself: |
“Where the dickens is that Deuchars?”|
iaat
faster
ri
<0
soon |
to
He will begin to fret about and get ox.
cited, as he did on a former occasion, |
for the understudy is away and thers]
ia no one who can take Deuchars's
ah! you are surprised to find]
that I know anything about that, are|
you not? i
| “With callous refinement of torture
he prolonged his words until a cold
| perspiration came out all over me us|
i 1 zat there helpless and inert,
: “36 much for the stage manager: I
‘shall consider that we are quits. For
| you, my ‘dear friend, I have another
| method. At seven o'clock 1 shall in-
she had given no name, nothing where.
by I could identify her. She gave an
i with me. 1 shail place two pleces o
| paper in that hat of yours. On one
your name will bs written; on the
other, mine. You may then take on4
out; I give you the privilege of draw-
ing. If it bears your name, you will
be free--you will have won the game,
{f mine i8 the name, + have won, and
at 7:30 o'clock 1 shall shoot you
through the head with this revolver, |
givé you half an hour, you see, to pre
pare. + have only one more thing to
say. Do not make any attempl to es-
cape; it will be useless, as 1 have here
an effectual means of preventing It
Another thing: the servant who let
you in at the door is my she is
the only person in the house besides
ourselves. You need not waste your
breath in calling out, therefore, you
understand?’
“He
wife;
ceased, and 1 was left to my
own thoughts, What they were you
a madmar, of course, there was little
doubt I had something over an hour
h to ponder on the very slender
of life 1 possessed after
for how did 1 know that
would keep faith even if our bout with
ited my favor.
gt came io the
mak» fight
woud sit
chance that
time, Le
in
» 1
es uU WI
i
for
there
i
ath
3 with
iT Wilh
hediet
oO i
fon winds
st and da
themselvi
neing
n ag
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gpeal language, whi
of foreign
native
contains a number
Like the North American Indians,
they join to their family name another
which corresponds to the char-
acter of the individual. They have an
extraordinary aptitude for learning
other languages: but their pronuncia-
tion is always strange and full of gut-
tural sounds —New York Times,
x
WOoraus
we
name
Best Parl of a Cemetery.
Probably few people know that there
is a choice to every cemetery
Thus in some parts of the world (he
eastern portion, without regard to its
situation, is always deemed the most
desirable. This preference arises from
the old tradition that our Lord will
It ig also
lieved that the dead in the eastern por-
gide
Town
of the southern, western and northern
in order. In England it was once the
custom to bury felons and other bad
characters on the north side of the
in a certain direction is responsible
for the Welsh designation for the
east wind: “The wind of the dead
men's feet.”
in Antwerp alone nearly 4.000 horses
were used las* year for human con
sumption. The aumber of shops dealing
exclusively ian horseflesh in the Bel:
glan ports exceed thirily,
TORPEDOES FOR DEFENSE.
GINES OF DESTRUCTION.
Secrecy of the Work of Placing the Tor
pedoes-+-Planted All Over a Harbor, and
Wires-+Varlous Kinds of Torpedoes.
An expert on explosives in the em-
ploy of the Government at San Fran-
cisco, and who is particularly familiar
a Chronicle reporter regarding the
manner of placing and directing these
terrible destroyers.
“The explosion which destroyed the
battie-ship Maine in the Harbor of
Havana, no matter what its cause,’
he said, "has drawn general aticri.on
to the importance of torpedoes us a
means of harbor defense, It was re
ognized, from the very moment of the
disaster that the destruction of tue
great armor-clad ship might have been
And so inquiries
have naturally arisen as to the ex
to which American ports are proteciet
this manner, if at all.
“No work of the War Department is
"NO
than that
due to a torpedo.
¥
il
d with more
to the
conducts
privacy
use of torpedoes
od
ubiisneq Tri
of
¢ No p
bureau or department
it of the United ites
adopted
t
wha
exposed to at-
3 to the fixed and
there are thé an.
torpedoes of
descriptions
Theae may f a ship
| ar the shore, attain a b 4 under
ompreszed air or
in
wires
$n
!
water by means
electric energy directed
ta
their movements tric
ey
which are reeled off ss the
rushes onward to the object of a
ine
ack
mad
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Heahl Notes
A good complexion depends large:y
oni the proper circulation of good Llocd
throughout the body. Good blood
pends on the assimilation of digested
food of the right quality.
Anything which interferes with the
proper circulation of the blood i1ends
to make the complexion poor; for ex-
ample, tight lacing, tight shoes, tight
aeckbands and tight waistbands. Many
Lith
of pressure.
Red hands, tco, are often
the blood: for example, tight gloves of-
ten produce redness and coarseness of
the hands.
‘0 cold winds after they have been
washed.
from a chapped skin—a very frequent
the hands very thoroughly, and to
strengthen and soften the cuticule uy
on and wearing loose kid gloves at
night.
Glycerine is a safer application than
vaseline, because vaseline increases
the growth of bair on the face and
| bands,
A simple but efrective remedy to ro-
a sprain which causes great pain con-
gists of three drops of turpentine and
| the yolk of an egg, beaten together
| very thoroughly. Rub the sprained
| part every morning and night with
this. —London Mall,
The Warfare of the Future
The modern warship has not yet
been thoroughly tested, and there is
much uncertainty as to how the mGi-
gters will behave in actual fighting.
They are so ponderous, and at the
game time so complicated, that but
ia slight mishap 1a likely to render
{them helpless. The quick destruction
of the Maine from an explosion and
the rapid sinking of the British Viec-
toria from the blow of ram show
that the loss of a ship is likely to ee
absolute in such cases,
There is also uncertainty as the
effect on a warship of the continued
ire of its own heavy ordnance, and
in the case of the double-decked tur-
rets now under construction it
feared they may prove top-heavy and
turn the ship over like a turtle. If a
torpedo the Maine the efli-
cacy of these explosives is shown, and
if itd
danger
In 1881
up in the
gtore of explosives,
a
to
is
lestroyed
8 an unavoidable explosion a new
disclosed.
dritish ship Petrel blew
of Magellan f
and only
igland of Crete,
is
the
Btraits rom her
last
WHS
battle
year
there a
ussian
explosion on
ait
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these incl
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Cellars and Health.
Society im Siberia.
rmous expense, ain
ce give to the
ut fou
n matter
hough there ap-
giris 10
male portion of the
pany spent the greater part
buffet
drinking
of
the or zokoosi t
The
evening at
eating and
of the
ventional
the
conversa-
tion women,
and one could invariably
same remarks upon
tion to a lady. Knowledge of
1 was surprised to find
considered
accomplian-
con
French, which
few could speak, |
feminine
®
moat
ment
T1 kitchen, however, has for
lady of the | a peculiar fascina-
tion. Very often while dressed iv
silks and satins, and conversing witd
her guests, a hostess will proceed ta
fry a ‘blin’ or pancake, and eat it with
the greatest gusto. The other ladies
are at liberty to follow the hortess’
example if they choose.”
§
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and
“in the Somp.”
This expression comes from the Ger.
man, some say, but its birth as slarg
took place at a game of baseball be-
tween New York and Chicago in June,
1888 at the Polo Grounds, in New
York.
It seems that the members of the
Chicago team had made themescives
conspicuous by marching about the
had consequently been dubbed “wall.
ers” by the bleachers crowd.
The game was a disastrons ore for
the visiting team. They suffered a de.
At the close an enthusiastic New
York rooter yelled, “The waiters have
This tock the fancy of the exciied
grounds. The newspapers repeated it
in the accounts of the game and the
theaters promptly took it up.-—New
——
A sponge with the great circumfer.
enco of five feet six inches has been
taken from the writers of Biscayne
Bay, Florida.
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THE KEYSTONE STATE,
Latest News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
THE COMMISSION WINS.
The Lahigh Coal Region s Harvest for
Unlawful Liquor Deslers—Singular Fall
That Will Likely Cause Death of Nurse
nnd Child-A Locky Woman Finds
Wealth Hidden in a Spring House.
A decision was handed down by the Bu-
preme Court in the metter of the appeal of
the Commonwealth from the decision of the
Dauphin County Court, in its suit against
Amos H. Mylin, Benjamin J. Haywood,
Samuel J, M. McCarrell and Henry K. Boyer,
which was an application for su injunction
resiraining the defendants, who are mem-
bers of the commission for the erection of
the State capitol building, from proceeding
to award eontracts, ete. for the erection of
the bullding, which {njusction the Dauphin
County Common Pleas Court refused. In
disposing the case, the Court says: “In Cope
and Stewardson, against Hastings, et al.
153, Pa. 300, referring to the powers and
di les of the Biate Capitol Commission, it
was said that ‘the location upon or near the
site of the old Capitol Building, the colonial
style of architecture and the eost, not Lo ex-
ceed were fixed by the act, and
mandatory upon the commissioners
oy £
One
dealing with them
lesser extent wus the fire-proof charac
ding sverythiog else was
discretion the commissioners 1
that the i
should ‘In thelr judgment, be adapted to
of the General
offioers, committees and
the commissioners
thelr duties
definitely settled by our
who wrote for the court
no longer open
fsshown that
the bul
hae o building
resent and future use
iy, Hs
yoos The extent of
utbority, the natures of ete.,
waving been bro.
in
ques
sr, Mitehe
se Cases, they are
; and
ners
vested in them
ye
itted
ons the
aoth
Asgembily
they
SOM-
mise
have
by
exceaded
the Aet of
by this C
Lhe rity
as
th a rat ty» Serstsid
thus nalr urt shou
be perm
to ¥ 3 in the proper dis
charge of thelr du
_ naidarakt
A careful considerati
us, bas led us all to at, |
Over
o
me
re
naterial averments
as amended
the graztiag of
3
notion, The controlling
« cnse have been so satisfac
{ bythe learned President
Pleas that furiber discus
them is On bls
cree denying the motic
anetion, is affirmed, and
®
A yw * . *
nissed at appsilant wi.
IDLeCORRArY
nu for
Held un Crowd at Bay.
Casteline, of
i bis fell
ueiderable me
Migersvills, is sal
w boarder, Petes
ney and valuable
f
bbe
ttevilie. Duran
line 10 stop SUD
heck to which
Duran’s name, Du
nire Street
ok
rar
and called
* Lroke away
r. Kept 2 210
al
several minules
wrestsnd the wes
iigcharge it
asics 10
#0 a8 the travels
regions, is a wag
and this
foor in
i007 iD
What is kr
baer
i
and the liguo
be dr
* Are in
3 hy 8 i
y-five
rounds dally and
y all purchasers, regardiess 0
law's restrictions,
Crashed Under a Woman
A singular Mrs. John
Heiptiy, aged 6) years, and a three-year-oid
infant of Mr. and Mes, George Griffiths
Pottsvi The woman was smployed in
the family as a nurse, and while carryiag
the infant she tripped over a plece of carpet
ag down a flight of twenty
steps, The infaut's skull was badly inden-
ted by striking agalast the washboard and
body crushed beneath the woman's
welght of 200 pounds, Mrs. Helptiy disio-
cated her shoulder and received serious in-
ternal injury. It is belleved both will dia.
Deserted Forty Ose Years
Thomas Stroke, of Stroudsburg, aged 71
years, brought political influence to bear on
Prothonotary William L. Decker, in a sec-
ond effort to secure a marriage license that
be may be united to Miss Winters, aged #4
years. Dat the Prothonotary remains ob-
durate, claiming that Mr. Stroke has not
produced sufficient evidence to show that
his other wile is dead, even though she left
him 41 years ago.
accident befell
of
lie,
is
R2009 Pot of Gold.
in addition to the gold recently unearthed
on the farm of William Hoey, near Sharon,
Mere. Albert McDowell, a relative, found a
coffee pot hidden in a spring house contain.
ing over #2000 in gold, The farm has almost
been turaed over by searching parties,
Crusade Against Cats.
A proposal to start a dog pond at Alle-
ghony has been made to include a crusade
agalust stray ests. Councilman Staring says
cats have become as great a nuisance as
dors and he wiil pot consent to the passage
of the ordinance unless it contains a siause
against owneriess cats, He proposes that
cals shall be taxed as well as dogs,
Barn and Live Stock Boraned,
The ixrge barn on the David Spotts farm,
about ten miles from Deliefonte, was burned
10 the ground. Joho Brecon was the tenant
farmer and he lost ail bis grain implements
and two cows, The bulldiag was losured.
Loss about 4000,
Another advance is to be made in the
price of castor ofl. The smal boy will
not grumble if it gets clear out of hia
wother's reach.