DON'T LOOK FOR I LAWS, Don’t look for daws as you go through life; And even when you find them is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, And look for the virtue basind them, For the clowdiest night has a hint of the light Somewhere in {ts shadows hiding; It is better by far to hunt for a star Than the spots on the sun abiding. The current of life runs ever away To the bosom of God's great ocean; Don't set your force 'gainst the river's course And think to alter its metion. Don’t waste a curse on the universe Remember, it lived before you. Don't butt at the storm with your puny form, But bend and let it fly o'er you. The world will never adjust itself To suit your whim to the letter; things must go Wrong you! whole life long, And the sooner you know It the bet- ter. It is folly to fight with the Infinite, And go under at last in the wrestle. The wiser man shapes into God's plan | As the water shapes into the vessel — Progressive Age. WAS IT MURDER? Some years ago I was well off, and received the education and bringing up of a gentleman; but partly through my own folly and partly through un- | fortunate speculations, 1 gradually | lost all my capital, and about two | years ago I found myself penniless, | and saw starvation grinning at me | within measurable distance. Then I | determined to attempt no longer to | keep up appearances, but to try to | earn a bare existence in any walk of | life that was open to me. After some fruitless efforts 1 obtained, through the kindness of a gentleman connected with the Great Junction Railway, England, the position of locomotive fireman. | never was given to drink, so that I was well enough able to ful fill the duties of my new position, | am now a station master, and it i= during my few hours of leisure that | prepare this plain nparrative for the decision of a discerning public. It is a great point for the “stoker” to be on good terms with the engineer and I generally found little trouble in making friends with my nearest trav- eling companion. On the day when I went through the most disagreeable experience my life I was travelirg from Paddington to Cowchester on the well-known-t engine named railway gir fine, upstanding. “Pluto.” bold sort of engine, and when in good temper does her work right well. The engine driver on this oceasion was a man named John Morgan, | often traveled with him two or three times, and I never could get on comfortably with him. He had been many years in the company's service, and bore an excellent charac ter for steadiness, but rather taciturn., He ways in the sulks, and was, of a surly temper. Before he hardly answered any remark | addressed to him, and secined more surly than usual. When head guard gave the and Morgan turned the handle, we moved slowly and steadily cut of the station. When we got well out into the country Mor- gan turned to me and sald, “Mo: coal” Now, in my opinion. no more was wanted, as there was quite enough in the fire to keep up the usual speed. However, as a stoker, | only an underling and must obey reasonable orders. So I stoked as bid den and then curiously watched to seo if the engine driver would turn on full speed. He did nothing of the sort. but sat with his back to the boiler and began to talk to me quite affably. Among other things he sald he was quite tired of this perpetual traveling. and that he meant look out for a wife with a little money and never sot foot on an engine again. We had he fore us a run of an hour and a half and by that time were due at Blinton, a big junction, at which every train must stop, so we had plenty of time to talk. About ar hour after leaving Pad dington Morgan stopped suddenly ‘u the middle of a sentence and said: | “Well. 1 must get to work now.” Then he opened the firebox and called out to me: “More coal” I expostulated with Lim and pointed | out that we were golng at a high rate | of speed, and would not need more coal before Blinton; but this seemed to | excite him terribly. “Shovel it in" he roared. with an oath; “I'm going to | make her travel” To satisfy him, I took up a shovel | ful, and managed to upset a good deal | of it before 1 reached the firebox. “You clumsy fool!” he called out: ! “here, give it to me;” and snatching | the shovel out of my hands, Le! crammed on as much coal as he could get in. "1 was beginning to get alarmed: and looking out over the well-known coun- try—for 1 had traveled that journey many and many a time before-saw that we were much pearer to Blinton than we ought to be at that hour. In a few minutes our speed inreased enormously, and I calculated we wer: traveling at the rate of seventy miles an hour. 1 called his attention to the fact, and begged him to reduce the speed, or we should run into Blinton without being able to stop. “Ha ha!" he cried In reply. “Stop! I'm never going to stop again! I told you I'd make her travel. What do Some of 0 employees She Is a had not } bef He, only was considered seemed to be al I suppose we started the signal, shortly: con) was fo sou want to stop for? Get on, oll LE wench, get on! Then he burst into a hideous peal of laughter. A cold sweat of absolute terror broke out on me as 1 realized the state of things. Here was a raving maniac, a far stronger man than my- self, in charge of a tain full of people. The train rushed em with tneredible speed, not steadily and evenly, bul with leaps and bounds, that threaten- od to cast the engloe off the line at every yard. There was no doubt the man was as mad as a man could be. and he was also master of the situ- ation. 1 made one effort to reach the handle by which the steam Is turned off: but the madman was too sharp for me. “No you don’t!” he shouted. He brought his shovel down with a tremendous blow on the rail at my side, just missing my head, It was plain I could do nothing by force. Would stratagem be of any use? 1 looked out to the ed, and probably not one passenger would escape uninjured, and but few with thelr lives, 1 looked back to the train. Outside the windows were hands gesticulating and alarmed faces. At the end of the train was waving red flag. Something must be done, and by me, or we should all be inevitably lost. | made up my mind. 1 turned to Mor- gan with a smile on my face, and I sald: “Old boy. you're quite right; a fine but it ain't quite enough. sand } i is pace; fast Look here! the side of the engine next to the don ble rall. “See.” 1 cried, “there an other train coming up faster than us, and will pass us; faster: but let's see first ing her. Lean out and look. see?” The poor maniac stepped outside the rail and leaned forward to look for the imaginary train, when 1 gave him a = she we must go who is driv Can you side rails and was killed on the With a gasp of relief 1 sprang back to the engine and turned off the It not a moment soon. We were well In sight of Bli ton Junetion before 1 bad the tral properly under I pulled fo the spot. 100 sieam. was control. up at the plat fainted. When I came to bench in walting inspector was standing over me, with in his band, prepared to take down my statement. What 1 stated hat the engloedriver had gone mad. and that, to save the lives of the passengers, I had knocked him the ti in This was corroborated tiie room. 8 Lis notebook was, 1 off the engine just in time fo get train under control before running to the station. by the guard and several passengers, and before Sid x 5 ’ 3, % We the case was brought the the the matte sitors of company. I gan nquest and heard r until one handed evidence at m of passenger in day no ire the the supeeri sovercigns on nme ten pointing me staf Mudford., It ors condoned my conduct, ders will a Was 03 and 1 that my re gree with them, and, in saved a trainful : . ’ consideration of of people Yyrly Tod Sloan's Riding. The topic in London is the ridinz of the American jockey, Sloan. Thou- sands who only take the most casual interest in the turf, but attracted by great horsemanship, asking expert advice on the intrinsic merits of the American style d ing. A sportsman has written in structive letter on the He are are of r an subject, says: “jet me whether | an explanation of Sloan's In the first distance | should say he is a “OP can give RII00T 8%, man of absolute courage; and it is this which, combined with Kindness, wins confidence of all the lower and is the first essontlail jockey. Horses are of character. Secondly. position. exactly that of on a stick, does offer less to the air than the of a horseman, In phraseology. it diminishes friction a minimum. Again, position enables him to grasp reins within a foot of the mouth, amd the nearer the object to be guided the more acenrately can be applied the directing force. Thirdly, Rloan, 1 the mals good judges Sloan's monkey of Nn wonderful opposition nary titie sent to the can become one with the moving mass if we sit still, This is proved by the wellknown fact that a cirens rider does not jump over the banners; he simply lets his body be- and ag he approaches the banner he the air. The Impetus which he has obtained from the horse earries him over the banner nearly as quickly as the horse has traveled, but If we watch the bareback rider we shall see that he does not Keep interfering with the horse's move. ments, He In effect says the animal will do his part of the work If left alone, Those who have watched Sloan In bis races will have noticed how he jumps off rapidly, and at unce settles down on his horse, and is not constantly changing his posi tion in the saddle, or Interfering with the special step of the horse; because it must be remembered that each horse, like each man, has his or her special mode of progression. Sloan simply makes himself one with his horse In wovement; he does not offend the naturally sensitive temperament of such a beautiful creature ns a thoroughbred horse; he does not sac. rifice a race for the sake of making an artistic finish, but with unequaled skill and judgment, and with a cool intelligent head, he wins his races when and how he ean, always remem. bering that friction means loss of energy, and that interference with a horse's method means loss of power and opposition to nature, For m3 part, I am glad to «ee Tod Sloan or our race courses, Yt will, I hope, be the cause of young men who are of light weight, good traditions and in telligence making jockeyship thelr calling, There Is ample room for them, and they might serve a good purpose.” GREAT BAPTISM OF FIRE. The Scourge of the Land is the Annual Bur ning of Forests. In 1871 Wisconsin baptism of flame. tigo, Oconto and Menekaunce obliterated, 400 square miles of terri tory were converted into in the face of these appalling confls erations, and those of 1881 and 1894 and today's tragedy In the Gogebie there's not a doubt that in 1838 his itself. In Finland, where the French tom of sartage Is largely followed un the name of kaski, wood garded one of elements, air or water, and is burned stint. The forest Is fired to In a year two the land becames hopelessly bar ren. In India name of Cus is re as the koomaree, In of Mysore alone 90,000 engaged in the two crops, then a In Ceylon the chena district annually {One or are work. Ces known as title of sved, offense is under the ed condoned In Sweden, is officially permitt yenrs, It would seem that sved hag becomes in Wisconsin, Mich In 1840 of northern an state ceremonial gan and Minnesota, twenty-seven Wisconsin there feet of standing pine. ent time about 86.000.000,000 this has been feet destroyed Dy fire, ago Michigan boasted of her 600,000 feet of waving conifers. day but one-fifth of that remains, Wisconsin, while the ent proceeds at of 2.600.000,000 feet per an regrowth is but 2,000,000 done in counties was Up to the pres foot 286.000.0000, 001 Fifty 150,000, To cut and the rate num, the Nothing so far ar protect in our abutting state and of the 17, 000,000 acres of remaining forest, one-half is brale and practically howling desert, The annual cut timber three states load a train full-sized pearly 7,000 miles in Michi enn pine is the most valuable of any £4.67 per 1,000 feet, $4 for Wisconsin and $3.21 for the Minnesota product. Out of the 2ZN5000.000 of privately owned th country, i has been to re stock these in the waonld of cars length. agninst timber lands 11.000, 000 lake in neariy Acres located the group of the land © beyond a doubt there three decerdes ompounding increase fire of per the en cent. for each The farmer must shoulder chief responsibility, Of 3.000 reported pearly one-half were result of brush fires in clearings one-fifth were by careless hunters; one-sixth by locomotives, and thirty-two only were traceable tolighs. forest loss by throughout fire country wld ten Years the CANes the on ised They Harvest a Hat Crop “Probably the most unique propositions I ever heard.” said a min- ing engineer who recently visited Mo the story told me by a up there of a Dutchinan who had a partnerships, one of lave, storekeeper and was Chinese ! f C——— 3 FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS LITTLE MR. PLEASANTFACHK Little Mister Pleasantface, Quite af home in any place; Nothing in the world to do But to stand and grin at you While his mirth-compelling whim Makes you stare and grin at him And his quaint, old fashioned airs And the garments that he wears, Wonder what he's smiling for ? Just for fun, it may be, or Simply langhing at himself Such an odd, good-natared elf, Don't you wish yon had his hat And the nether garments that Have the pockets, bulging out With two chubby fists, no doubt? Mister Pleasantface can tell Where the happydimples dwell Those queer wunks that wink at you From a ronnded cheek or two— JAPAXE'RE CHILDREN'S PRIS, Children in Japan have some pets little boys and girls of America. Among them are tiny dogs and rab- Fawu- nen spots, and they have no tails ies In moderate circumstances agquarinm well with curious varieties of fish of bean crimson, some with spreading fins as fine as gauze, and others round as The most remarkable pet, how Bn kept in bamboo eages built like small houses, in which the children arrange beds of fresh flowers or leaves daily not show the least fear of people, and butterflies will alight voluntarily on children’s hands, BOWS IN ANCIENT TIMES While universally used by the an- cients, the form of the The Scythian coit's, was in the form of the letter C, and the bow of the Tuartars—de- thiree or four feet in but so length, siderable strength and skill to use it It is said that the first Greek bows fo of ¢ the bases means of a metallic band, ont, being united by Afterward original shape. short be of much use, and, com paratively speaking, but a small por troops were armed with to them I he carried the bow to Britain, it at once obtained favor, and during the Middle Ages was extensively nsed, forming an im Bomans where period, The English be the finest in the world, and decided the battles of Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt, The bows used were of two kinds—the long bow The Or Ccross-t ow arbalest made and was was the string. The in battle, Son THE CHINESE PEDDLER. half a mile southeast of Mojave, this plece of ground they bullt a high barbed-wire fence, the wire being very close together. The inhabitants won be put, some suggesting that all the rabbits In Kern County were to be that It saver to catch the gold as it blown with the desert sande. Both these theories were soon dissipated when one morning Ah Sam and hid partner, Jake lIekelbeiner, drove inte Mojave with six barrels of old hats for shipment to a second-hand deales in San Francisco. It seems that Mo jave hos the name of being the wind. fest place in the West. The wind blows forty miles an hour in one di rection, viz., southeast. Most of the passengers on the overland trains ding there, nnd unless forewarned are vers apt to lose their headgear. They sas that at present half a barrel of old hats is an average of their daily clean up. but after the tourists begin 1 come they expect to reap a bonanza.” A. ———— The Siamese Twins. Ent and Chang, kuown as the Siam. ese twins, were born of a Chinese father and a Sinmese mother in Slam, April 15, 1811. They died In North Caroling January 17, 1874, They were joined to one another by a short tubular cartilaginous band, throug. which their livers and hepatic vessels communicated. They were brougut to Ameren for exhibition in 1828 and after making a competency in various countries settled in North Carolina, They married sisters in 1842, In 1800 they again exhibited themselves in Europe. The one survived the other two hours and a half. wae in a Mexican home the sofa is the gent of honor and a guest does not ng. | was ———— i depend on toy stores for them, it is, the peddier is a familiar sight it is a signal for a rush to the front gates to cate him before he gets Ly, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. At a call these men slip the pole from their shoulders and set their gather around them, Americans, though shapes seem odd and fantastic. Clay Lardly ever go off, small carved idols, little horses, dogs, camels and ele- pull them along. birds, fish, serpents, dragons, and houses—will have wind harps fast- ened ou their backs to make them sing while in the wir, and will have eyes set loos in their heads, so that when the wind blows the eyes will turn arotind and look as if they were winking at you. There arelong glass trumpets, to be blown hike bugles, that give out a beautiful, clear note, Little shuttlecocks made out of a couple of cash bound together with red leather and with a bunch of feath- ers fastened in the holes in the cash, which the children keep in the air by bumping with their heads and strik- fag with their feet. Xoids for mak- ing clay money, whistling tops that spin on a string held between two stioksjamall whistles to fasten on the tails of pet pigeons to whistle as they You will also notice a lot of clay fruits or other familiar objects, and i sas ART MTNA. AAI HEIN SH for one cash yon ean take your choice, The toy-seller then opens up the bottom tray in his rear basket and shows a bowl of yellow candy set over a pan of burning charcoal to keep it soft. He rubs a little flour in the molds to keep the candy from stick- ing, picks up a little of the soft sweet, which be works into a euap-shape in his fingers and then draws out, clos- ing up the hole. One end is drawn out longer than the other and then brokenofl, He p'aces his lips to the brokenplace aiid begins to blow, and the lump of candy slowly swells, Then he caps the molds which yon have chosen around it and gives a { hard blow, breaks off the stem through which be has been blowing, opens the molds, dips a little bamboo stick into the soft sugar and touches it to the side of the candy figure in the mold, | lifts it out of the mold and hands it | Lo you on the stick ; all in much less time than it takes to tell about it. LILLY TRE GOAT, Jilly was a very funny goat. He liked babies and would always walk up to a passing baby carriage to be patted, much to the fright of the { nurse, Billy dearly loved to get into { the house, where he was not allowed | at all. Sometimes in winter he would watch the kitchen door, and when it | was opened by any one he would push his way in and stand by the stove, as if he really enjoyed the warmth, But lhe was sent out, for he had a nice stall in the stable and a very thick, warm fur coat of his own, soon One day in the spring. when all the family were out maid | Nora, she heard footsteps up stairs, | Wondering if the family had returned withont her knowing it, she ran up and about, What do you think she saw? Why, it was that mis- mischievous Billy, walking in {ront of the loLg mirror in one of the sleep- ing He was bow ing and BOO i ding to the other Billy he saw in the glass, Papa brought Billy home to | little boy Eddie as a surprise bright, sunny day. With him a fine harness and a gig in whieh Eddie eould ride, Sometines he would take both sisters out for a ride al~a, how, Billy did not always like to go away from home when Eddie did. it often took three boys to persuade films to go up the hill near the house Eddie pulled with the reins from his head, and his two playfellows, red in the face, pushed at Billy's back. When at last they succeeded in | reaching the top of the hill, two of the | held hima fast, while the third mounted the gig seat. When all was ready, the boys would let go their bold, and would trot, never stopping until he ran into his stall in the stable, Sometimes he could be coaxed ont by giving him lumps of sugar, but even then Billy went away from home very unwillingly. He always ack ina way tl the boys in the neighborhood laugh i shout. ana except looked rooms his one caine MIVA dashing | insects and Disease. ing could more strikingly lus i importance of than the large role which tributed to the mosquito in the otiology and wide the the is now at ROTIOUS which It is of some of the most spread diseases to race is sabject, tion of many tropical countries, and what throws the great obstacle way of civilization and good govern ent in the vast regions of Central Africa, Is not climate, not | from home, and not unfriendliness on | the part of the natives, The obstacle malaria, and now we find that the { prevalence of malgria, so far as man is concerned, depegds on the mosqui to, and that this pestilent little insect. in addition te irritating and annoying is the means by which the poison of ! mmlaria is propagated and distributed. For years past botanists have knowa the important part played by birds in the scattering of seed, and of Insecis { in the distribution of the pollen | plants, and it seems not unlikely that pathologists will have to. recognize in a much larger degree than has till | lately been done the large part taken by the subordinate forms of life which we are surrounded--our cattle, our horses, our dogs and cats, our flies, | our mosquitos, and perhaps even our floas—in distributing disease from man to man, and, as is stated in re gard to our mosquito and malaria, in | deciding whether the extension of our | empire over great areas of the globe's surface shall be possibile or not.~los- pital tees in 5 1 11 i distance ! is of he The Women of Barmah. Not long age Lord Dufferin remark: ed that the Burmese are the only Eastern nation among whom women | are publicly respected, honored and obeyed, Woman in Burmah has always had fair play; she has been bound by no ties and she has always had perfect freedom to make for herself just such a life as she thinks best fitted for ber, She has been allowed to change as ber world changed, and she has lived in a very real world-a world of stern facts, not fancies, Boys and girls grow up together, but with the school day comes a divi sion. In great towns there ls regular schools for girls, but in the villages while the boys are In the monastries the girls are learning to weave and herd the cattle, and drawing water and collecting firewood. The daughters of better class people, such as merchants clerks, and ad- vocates, do not, course, work at R KEYSTONE STATE. ns T Latest News icaned from . Various Parts. o—— # CONVICTED. SHEW Becond of Ili-fated Farmer's Assailants Convicted for Slaying Him Both Con Viets Hear Doom-—Never VFlinched While Sentences of Desth Was Fro Bounced on Them, Corneifus W. Shew, the second man charged with the murder of Andrew Jack- son Pepper, at Rush, has been found gullly of murder in the first degrees at Montrose, It was shortly after 9 o'clock when the jury filed Into the oouri-room, After the roll erdl Prothonotary Manger asked the usual ruestions. During this time the prisoner i00ked as Il he was eager to hear the resuit, good or bad, and when the foreman re- plied: “Gulity of murder in the first degree™ Bhew settled back in his chair with com. placency, Generally there has been more sympathy for Bhew than accorded James Esgan, but no doubt existed that both of the convieted men ars guilty of the crime of killing Pep- per. District Attorney Alney naturally shrank from an unpleasant duty, but he hes performed it well, Belden Munger, reluct- antly contributed the confessions mads to bim last January, considering also that it was an utpleasant duty be owed to the com- monweaith, T. J. Davies, Eagan's counsel, argued at length for a pew trial, The answer was made by A. H. McCollum. At 7.30 Eagan and Bhew were brought isto eourt-room when Judge Bearle asked of them: “Have you anytbiog to say?’ Eagan re- plied — “I have not,” BRhew, bowever, said: — “Yes, #ir; I feel that a first degree murder I am not entitled to, I don't deny belong in this crime. I do deny taking such a hand ss would warrant first degree. I have not the heart to lead me to a terrible crime ike the one at Bush. [ don’t fesl that I de- serve a first degree and 1 shall always say 20." Judge Bearle then passod the dJdesth sen tence upon the two men, neither of whom filnched. Bhew sald after leaving the court- room: “This is something we often read about but experience but once.” The Pepper murder was a brutal and whol- ly unprovoked crime with robbery as the object. Andrew J. Pepper, the victim, was an aged aod well-to-do farmer residing at Rush. In October, 1897, be was found fatally barn. A blood- of the assault, The shocking discovery of the crime was made about § o'clock in the evening by of ber Suspicion was directed to James and Corpelius Shew, Eagen, They They at tacked the aged and defenseless farmer in his barn, intending according to the oon- was then made, Horrifled apparently at the shocking deed the two murderers Explosion in Mine. An explosion of gne occurred at Preston No. 8 Colliery, owned and operated by the Philadelphia & Readiog Coal & Iroa Com- ing of six men, three of whom will recover, Travis, Smith and Solusky are the most bardly foroe of the explosion. The men were en- gaged In timbering a gangway, when a breast nearby caved in, bringing down a large body of gas, which was iguited, caus ing a terrific explosion. The men were hurled in every direction, and four were un- conscious when found a few minutes later by men from other sections of the mine, who bad felt the shock of the explosion and has tened to the rescus of thelr comrades. Philadeliphian a» Sulecide. Fraok Trinkie, 53 years of age, of Phila. delpbia, on Friday went to Allestows to visit bis brother Joseph, residing on Rall. road street, He was apparestiy barpy and enjoying his visit, Ssmurday afternoon ho went upstairs to his room to lle down, When supper was ready one of the children was sent to call him, She came down and sald that she couldn't awaken him, This alarm. ed the family and an investigation was made, It was found that Trinkie had shot himsel! in the right temple. The revolver was lying beside him. Trickle was a oabi- netmaker by trade, and was out of work, It is believed that this preyed on his mine. He had a eon living in Philadelphia, with whom he resided. Con! at Cut Price. James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Raliroad, it is announced at Pitts- burg, has made a contrast with West Vir gala oonl operators for 500,000 tons of coal 20 be delivered during 1808, It is to be de. livered at the Sandusky, O., docks for $1.25 per ton. This Is 25 cents below the price at which operators of the rlitsburg district strikes in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Indiaoa, Burne Were Fatal, Miss Mary Brown, of Trainers, has died aa the result of the terrible burns she received at her bome last week, The young lady foolishly attempted to make a quick fire by using coal oll on the kisditage, and the
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