* ——————— WINTER'S NE'ER SO WEARY. The winter's me'er so weary But the sweet thought of my dearie Can make the winter blossom as the spring; For the thought of her is sweeter Than a song in sweaelest meter, — For the smile of her has taught my heart to sing! The winter's ne'er so dreary But the sweet thought of my dearle Can make the roses redden o'er the SNOW; For the thought of her is filling All the world, and thrilling—thrill- ing gardens where grow! The the fairest roses O golden bees! bring honey From the fragrant fields and sunny! | O birds! be not a-weary on the wing i Till earth grows glad to greet her— | Till Love kneels low to meet her, For the love of her has taught my | heart to sing! i ~Frank 1. Stanton étitution. A LOST LOVER. Con. | in Atlanta “It's too bad!" said Alexia ‘vane. “Halt a dozen pairs of gloves—fifteen dollars at the very least—and all my pocket money gone, and papa as cross as a bear because of Madame Hilaire's bill! I'm sure I don't know what I'm going to do!” “It serves you her younger said it was bet!” “Pshaw!” said Alexia, “Everyone does it—at the races, I made sure that Lightmng = And I should have had such a delightful outfit of summer gloves, if he only had reached the winning pos: first.” “Well,” said Editha, with a her frizzes, “1 shouldn't pay the bet 1 were jer “He will, “And I don't want favorable impression, fust ting interested. Oh, the be somehow. If me ten dollars, Editha, just week?” And Editha Vane lent it, enough. “Mind I have it back Tuesday, for Ny new ge, Alexia Vane dashing beauties, like a meteor—a Editha always thing to right,” said “Papa unladylike sister, an lisdainfully. And wi would beat, toss youn. Gentlemen never Alexia. an un as he's get though.” said to make gloves must lend next got, mle until you ¢ unwillingly must again on gaid bonnet,” 10 of those wis o tha dark-eved, tall, $ $ ys i t startle socie ehon tressed girl, with rich, rose A ripe, scarlet mouth, and a complex ion like a calla lily leaf. But, in spite of her attractions, &he had reached the age of five and fwenty without an eli®ible offer. Pen niless young were red cheeks all officers in plenty,” briefless law yers, and interest Ing artists, but Alexia Vane had not the slightest idea of becoming a poor man's wife, here “I'l marry money, or I won't marry at all,” said she, with a meaning com pression of Ler cherry lips. And Major Creswell had money, well as good looks and engaging man ners, and Major Creswell had driven her to the Jerome Park races with his own four-in-hand, and they bad bet to gether on the respective prowess of ‘orsair and Lightning Rod, and Alex- Ida had lost half a dozen pairs of gloves because the latter Steed turned up third instead of first best. And under the circumstances she felt that it" was best promptly to meet her engagemonts, “Gloves, if as You please!” Vane to the dove eyed, &hop-girl at & “Number ecight-and-a-halr, man's size.” And Miss Vane thonght, with a sort of languid interest. how very pretty the dove-eyed girl was, and wondered why she had ne more color in hor cheeks, and if the wavy ripple in her hair was the result of art, or a natura! gift, ‘How much are they 7 sald Miss Vane, earclessly turning over the var fous packages that Alice Lee laid out on the counter for her inspection. | “Three dollars a pair? Oh, dear my, | that's an absurd amount to ask! Have | You nothing for a less price?” i Alice did not know: she would ask | Mr. Hopgood. | Az she turned away, sald Miss rale-faced Hopgood's gentle Soames one of the | Just the right size, Alexian wanted, * Khe saw them fall, and shem back: on the contrary, she slip per them hurriedly into the deep pocket of her mantel, “Soames & Hopgood will overcharge me enough on the next silk dress | buy here to make it up,” thought Alexia. “And my stock of pocket. money is so awfully short just now! 1 declare it was quite providential, that package falling right into my pocket, as it were!" Bhe rose hurriedly, with a deep color on her cheek. “Never mind now! ealled she to “I don’t care about getting’ tem to-day. I'll call in some other time." She swept ouf of the store, with the half-dozen pairs of gloves in her pock- exactly what did not put with amazement and dismay: for, in the mirrored panel opposite, she had seen the whole transaction, Shouid she call out to the richly dressed beauty to stop? Should she dare to denounce the richly dressed lady as a thief? Or should she Sn firm, and ask his advice? she troubled over the possibilities in her mind, Miss Vane had vanished. “Mr. Hopgood,” sald Alice hurriedly, to a stout, short, bullet-headed man, who was walking up and down the store, “there Is a package of these gloves missing." “Missing? barked Hopgood, stopping ginning to count up “missing? And don’t Lee that you are them?" “Yes, sir,” faltered Miss Vane took them. slipped down, and she put it pocket.” “Nonsense!” ly. “Miss Vane, charge-customers! crazy, Miss Lee!” “I saw it myself, in yonder mirror,” protested Alice, In a faint volee, “And why didn’t you speak,” Mr. Hiram and be the packages you know Miss responsible for out short, Allee; “but—but A package in hes said Mr. Hopgood, tart one of our hest Why, you must be de- tnke look You Miss Lee, must for a fool, Now, turn up, somewhere and somehow, be now and Saturday night, vou That's the rule of the store, the the And rule of store! more nonsense about Miss Vane, I» wouldn't have such a thing get to her ears for the world! Il. Major Clarence Creswell “Tabor Bureau,” ging =a coachman., Lawrence O'Grady, incumbent, was growing gether fond of the flowing and the major found it imperatively necessary to make a change. He was waiting for a candidate to in, when a slight, girl entered the room. “Alice!” he cried out. Miss Lee?” “Major Creswell!” For Alice Lee was the daughter of the old housekeeper nut ! Manor, and it was old Madam well herself who had obtained her the at Scames & Hopgood's. he the gentle, elder broth in a place the new the alto- bowl, was n engi last 100 be sent soft-voleed “Surely it is Creawe Crpg position “Alice, writative tones “how is it that this?” with of an You are sald, antl er, like “I am answered, gitnation.” she Inaudible looking for a in an almost “I thought you were well placed at dry goods house?’ lost the hand Alice” all of mine, ames's “1-1 He “Tell And told him “lt no fanlt “I saw the lady slip it into her pocket a rich, elegantly dressed lady, whe have place!” gently, he took her me haw, sald. she * sald she wns one wonld never suspect of such a td *" thine ang Major Creswell’'s dark brows met, ‘Do you know who it was? said “Oh, perfectly well.” said Miss Alexia regular customers." Major (Creswell “Child, are “yt her myself, Major Creswell elegant was gtarte you certalr he asked " ice replied of which aw thought the had | bearing | of gloves come to him the week Mesers., Soames & with Miss Vane's tached “it between pairs hefore. Hopgood's stamp. perfumed card a muttered he “It is well Allee, child, is very strange.” his teeth, impossible; and yet, here, 1 will pay your fare to Manor. to my She will keep you there as maid, or companion, or until snit yourself better. This intelligence office is no place for von" And Alice Lee's timid look of grati tude showed how well-timed was the generous offer. Major Creswelll went straight Soames & Hopgood's establishment. “What day did Miss Vane hay half | a dozen pairs of gloves here? asked he The polite clerk turned to his books, and. after a brief search, responded, eonrteonsly: “Miss Vane has bought no kid gloves here within the month.” sald he. “Migs Vane generally patronizes ne. but it so happens that she hns not made any purchases lately in the glove line' : “But yon have missed a package lately.” said the major. "Quite true,” answered with some surprise. Tee charged on suspicion.” Major Creswell bronght wt igh look mother Creswell Go something, you to the clerk. “And one af the has been dis ont the ped in silver paper. “Is this the package?’ he Inanired. Mr. Hopgood was summoned and at once pronounced that it was the very “Might 1 nak" “No! Major Creswell turned abruptly awny. He wished to ask or answer no more anestions. He had succeeded in dizcovering that Alexia Vane was mean, false and treacherons, “It's very strange that Major Cres well has never called since 1 sont him those gloves” said Miss Vane “Three weeks ago yesterday! “Didn't you know?" sald old Judge Vane, Nfting his blue spectacles above the edge of his newspaper. “He hase gone to Paris, and he's going up the Nile with a party of English friends afterward.” “And never bade us good-bye!” “It seems not.” Alexia’s heart sank within her. “It's very strange,” sald she. But it was not so strange, after afl, If only Miss Vance knew everything. There are only two cows in Dawson City, but the water supply Is excellent and fresh milk is plentiful. At least if mmon one of the partners of the looks like milk. SPANIARDS SHOT WOUNDED, The Dressing Station at the Bloody Ford of | San Juan, As the wounded lay under the low. sheltering bank at the ford of the San Juan during the charge up the hill, the bullets came singing incessantly by, with a sound something like the quick momentary hum of a large mos quito, clipping the leaves from the trees in thelr flight, and allowing them slowly to flutter down In the faces of the men; then splashing into the creek would bury themselves in its bed. At times they fell so thickly for short in tervals that it appeared as though it were raining. To vary the excitement, an occasional shrapnel would come tearing through the trees above us, | smashing limbs, and dropping splint ers and branches all about Men | coming up the road from the rear to Join the firing-line were frequently wounded right in the while crossing it, and it was often necessary Us, creek to wade out and get them before they drowned, many of would have done otherwise. Now and then a wounded plunge through the station; and one poor ani mal, bleeding profusely from his side dropped half way the and drowned and death sim ultaneously, His footing and keep his head above wats were pitiful to see, A staff and field horses by the station. Some dropped dead in frantic, and brake their halters and disappear To add this tithe as them surely horse would HOTOR8 creel bied to struggles to gain a number of the were Killed close others, plunged tracks; their ed in the brush to die. to the feeling of Insecurity about but a Very plies it was very short hwefore heard fell and hand and shots close at were from {0 bul among us, apparently from above behind us. There was no natural pro from that side, and the I Onis solution of this problem that we time time, tection could being shot was that we were There with arrive at at from the trees, SOV eral very large ones Such, wore dense oli age found We close by. we wards, was really the ease, made targets of by rp shooters, It reassure the no danger would only a 3 His njured passed t Newgarden, in Harper's Weekly, Ambassador Hayy's Big Apron 3 ied Hay, our new Secretary was, when a boy, the Presbyterian at Warsaw, 11 Sunday neste committis nitting Ie and to attain reated quite a rivals John ahead from Hay wa two to . Bometimes more, causing hig comrades who were alwave In with 1% him when John the hind him egard Consequently, ¢ some of had churning than all, while at these that and do and, an apron his jealous comrades fairly crowed’ One morning it was agreed comrades him out while he had his apron on. and humil ate boys heard ! for that doties dishes mother, more Wore Ly his to get of doors iim by having two or three girls whom he rather liked ask Lim ques tions in regard to his housework. Young Hay came out to w here the boys were, and answered the questions by saying that he washed dishes As his mother taught him: and then with twinkling eyes, he gave the dishpan which he had with him a tremendons fling, contents and all, drenching who ever happened to be near enough. and. laughing loudly, ran into the kitchen. Hay and his big apron were never mo- lested after that Christian Endeavor Wool for England. Every vear between 480,000,000 and 500,000,000 pounds of Australinn wool are imported into Great Britain, There are also imports from Routh Africa. South America and other countries making the total annual importation about 800.000.000 pounds, More than half of this vast quantity of raw ma- | terial is retained for home manufac. ture, but we let more than half the colonial wool go abroad. The Austra | lian wools re among the finest. and are much sought after by Continental manufacturers. Every country, al most every district, has its owas kind of wool. It depends on breed and ell | mate. the character of the country. and the nature of the pasturige. The | dry climate and short herbage of the Australian colonies produce the finest fleeces, Wool comes from the prairies of South Ameriea full of burrs, and a coarse quality is produced in South Africs. The condition of the wool as Imported is also, of course, a prime element in price, which depends on | whether it Ix “greasy” or “scoured” | ‘skirty’ or stringy. fatty or earthy, The | wants of manufacturers are as varied as the qualities of wool. Buyers at the exchange know exactly what they want, and can estimate to a nicely | what they ought to pay for it.-Good | Words. as A New Zealand Lizard. I The Tuatara lizard of New Zealand | is said to be one of the most ancient | forms of animal life now existing. It originally possessed four eyes, but! now has to be contented with but two, | It Inys eggs, and these take no less | than thirteen months to hateh out, the embryos passing the winter of hibernation. These remarkable animnis are found in only one or two vlaces in the col ony, and they nre rapidly becoming every part of the world are continually on their track. They are about eighteen inches ards, are sald to have the charactor. istic of being able to replace portions of their Hmbs, ete, which have destroyed. One owned by Mr. Carl Hanser, of Awanul, had the misfor tune to lose an eye some time ago, and now a complete new eye, as perfect ~x the undamaged one, has grown in the place of that lost, While the lizard seemed to no venlenced that 2 human being is in the growing of finger nails or hair. been ths incon eye was developing br more TO SEEK OLD AGE. A New York Club Whose Object is to Encour- age Longevity, A club to encourage longevity is he The bevond the payment of dues is to pledge them to endeavor hundred years. be admitted The the Hundred George W, 8p this ing organized In New York city, only obligation of members selves to live more than One will bers, Centenarians as honorary men name of the organization Year ith is the Among desir i 10 be Org: unique i MO ety, have indicated their charter are Lieutens mond Hobson as Wilson, UU, 8 A. Herbert Stacey, members Pearson General Tho Colonel Henry W. Greene, Mrs treasurer of the i May Hol wil Kenly, secretary of the Adams nnks land linm Dames’ National Roele Wilkins iy: Sons American Revolution: A of the Noel Blakeman recorder Legion: Georgy It W nnd, of Yale I i | OF " Loyal versity Museum and er ene Payne "Our main obiect “is to teach Persons hour adays men and n colleeted individ inlined ex oukive pursued by therefr » founders, “valuable "will Be imparted to “We will have in our publications.” th Seeret the of cost ey way. “the essence of the secrets of variohs orders that sell their ideas at fabulous prices, with tedious rites and ceremo- There will no books presented for our members to purchase.” nies, re expensive An Elegant Vagrant, Paul H. Stanley, forty-two years of age, was arraigned before Magistrate Olmsted in the Harlem Police Court on a charge of vagrancy. He brown chinchilla overcoat, black diaz onal entaway coat, fancy dark trousers, patent leather tan gaiters, a tie of the latest sivie, a collar of Immaculate white and skin gloves of a light monse The policeman who bad arrested Stan ley sald that the man went to his house the night before and asked for something to eat. A meal was placed before him and he ate ravenously, Stanley told the magistrate that be had no hore. The last place he lived the Hotel Gerard. He re until his money gave Wor a Vest, shoes, 3 HOF color, “I spent my last dollar lke a ' he sald, waving his gloved hand. He added that he had travelled all over the world and had become i He never got over that ill ness, He told the magistrate all about hua, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, San Lule averred that he owned land in Mexico that wus =o dry hat It would erente n thirst in the most veterate abstainer. Magistrate Olm. sted comniltted him to the work. house for a month for recupermtion.— New Facts About Bismarck. One German newspaper having de. international com- merce, apother promply claims the honor for Blsmarck, As the mem- ories multiply we expect to learn that the Prince wrote the Declaradon of Independence, discovered Georges Washington, and was the original John Smith who married Pocahontas at the muzzle of a tomahawk Robert Taylor, the sheep raiser of Grand Island, owns more gheep than any other man In this country, Iu. feature In A HOLE IN A BOARD. Edison's Latest lavention Makes the 014 Jocular Saying Come True. Edigon Las an iastru- for talking a hole through a says the Washington corres of the Boston Transcript. This sounds like a joke, but it is a fact, nevertheless, and it affords of the most interesting Mustrations of the power of sound waves, When the wizard was In Washington a while ago an examiner of patents spoke to bim casually on the and, struck by an inspiration, he sat down and drew a sketch of the apparatus in question, which consists primarily of a dinphragh, a and a toothed wheel, When talks the phragm its vibration causes the wheel to revolve, and through the familiar called a “worm gear” a turned, which through a board. Indeed, the has been patented by Mr, Edison, but not purpose It appears in the records of the patent office as a alr. ment plank, pondent devised one subject, ratehot one to dia contrivance gimlet is bores its way deviee here described for the above described inding a clock. All you have to do in order to wind this sort Apparatus notoriously contrivance for w clock--a class of of a and bit obstinate Hntrast to ®torm at jit a Without obedient ti worthy In i i ana call 1 some names any more to do fhe mepiece #1 it If acolne ai i ¢ I Blaits itself agoing, and is good {or twenty -fi hours It has 801" 5 mir been suggested tl Mr. Ed at invention for causing tli omplish a bor Yolee to ace oy ne the utilized to advantage in he United States, where long Beeches of cert not members woul i i wind the capital ain Bev e merely to clocks, but also to run uch of the m ) elaborate machinery required to ven tilate and otherwise manage the build { oceupled The by the national legisla idea is susceptible to inde Operation. wf Sargical s Baw Dreast rhing . 3 IMO, 2 those PRAY latter bone which ~ ress and pulsated with art causing a soft ie 1 of the that he dange TOUS ne vith that ondition known as aneurism the Inttes fig situated, as stated above, alx three inches from at the of the and branches, carotid and the subclavian three vessels the rupture of either of which meant instant death. eration, consisting of ligating the Car otid and subclavian arteries beyond the dilated blood sac. although haz. ardous in the extreme. was finally de. cided upon, rather than allow the pa tient to die hy rupture of the sae and bleeding to deaths The patient being cognizant of the fact, submitted the operation. After being anaesthet ized an incision wax made, extending from near the collar bone to about three inches above it and two inches external to Adam's apple. The sn perficial and deep tissues being divid wd, the common carotid was hooked up and securely tied and the wound clos ed. Another incision about three inch ee long and two Inches * deep, just above and parallel with the collar bone, brought the operator to the sub clavian vessel, which was also secured and tied tightly, The patient rallied from the operation and is now a well man. heart and Dominated function two its common The op io The Brave Bull, the Cruel Spaniard. A correspondent describing a bull fight in Spain In the Saturday Review, says: The trumpet sounds again, and the espada takes his sword and his muleta, and goes out for the last scene, This, which ought to be, is not always, the real! cilmax. The bull is often by this time tired, has had enough of the sport leaps at the bar rier, trying to get out. He is tired of running after red rags. and he brash es them aside contemptuousiv: he can scarcely be got to show animation enough to be decently killed. But one bull that I saw yesterday was splen didly savage, and fought almost to the last, running about the arena with the sword between his shoulders, nnd that great red line broadening down each side of his neck on the black: like a deep layer of red paint, one tricks one's self into thinking. He carried two swords In his neck, and still fought; when at dast, he, too, got weary, and he went and knelt down before the door by which he had entered, and would fight no more. But they went up to him from outside the barrier and drew the swords ont of him; and he got to his feet again, and stood to be killed, Accoraing to an old joke, English men usea to say: “It's a fine morning Let's go out and kil something.” But now they say: “It's a fine morn battle fips.” And they do it, too, THE KEYSTONE STATE. News Gleaned from Various Parts. Latest CAPTAIN NORRIS DEAD. Assistant Adjutant Genera! on Gobin's Btaff-A Well-Known Pottstown Hotel keeper Doad- Heading Freight Sistion Abandoned - Two Hundred Kegs of Fowder Explode Near Shenandoah. There probably bas never besna mors popular young man in Harrisburg than Captain A, Wiison Norris, who died sudden- ly Bunday evening, Captain Norris was as- sistant adjutant general on the staff of Brig- adler General Goblin, First Brigade, Second Division, Becond Army Corps, and bad been stationed at Augusta, Ga. He was close to General Gobin and came home to sees his chief inaugurated Licutenast Governor. He arrived early in the morning and in the afternoon, alter a dinner st the Harrisburg Club, he was stricken with acute lodigestion and shortly after his removal to the home of his mother he died at about 6 o'clock, Cap- iain Norris was born in Clinton County in 1872, and was the son of Dr. Johan C, Norris, of Salona, Ciinton County, When his father died, he was adopted by the late Colonel A. Norris, for years prominent in Pepnsylvania polities, He came to Harrls- burg in 1800 and and in 1882, when 21 years old, was admitted to the bar. He was ae- tive in poiitical, legal and military eircles. He was twice elected viee.president of the Republican State League of Clube, and was A member of the City Grays and Governor's Troop. When the war broke out he was side on the stall of Colonel Magee, of the Elghth Regiment, and succeeded (bn getting the piace of the adjutancy of the regiment, General Gobin, on belong given command of the brigade, appointed bim assistant adjute ant general, with rank of eaptain, and be was noted for bis flue military qualifications, No death for along time bas sbocked the community so much as that of Caplaie Norris, Wilson William O'Brien Dead. Wilitam O'Brien, the well-known Footie town hoteleeeper Is dead. He was born is County Limerick, Ireiand, January 6, 1544 He came to this country in 1865, and hao been a resident of Pottstown eversince, He was an active Republican in politics and wie Ligh ln the Counclis of the party iu the bore ough and county. It was largely througis bis Influence that the Young Men's Republi. can Club of Pottstown was organized, and sustained. He served as a delegates to the State convention in 1891. He wasforatimea member of the town Counell of Pottstown, and connected with various catholie socie. Ues, Heo loaves a widow but no children. Heading Freight Station Abandoned. As the result of the Philadelphia & Reads iog Raliroad haviag control of the Wilming. tou & Northern Rallroad, the Reading Rails way freight station bas been closed and all business will hereafter be attended to at the Wilmington & Northera freight office. The Beading Raliway freight and passenger agent, O. K. Wagonhurst, will be sent to New York. The baggagemaster, Albert Veuman, will be given another position, Toe freight operator, Jacob Heckenrode, wili go to Phliadeiphia. The yard master, Samuel Kochenburger, will be ticket agent aud baggage master. Brakeman Hoasted to Death. Jacob Ruth, of South Bethlehem, met a horrible death on the North Penn Raliroad, at Glenside, Ruth, who was a freight brake- man, was sitting in the caboose of a slowly moving train. Another train, which was shifting at that place, parted, and a section ran wild over a switch and into the caboose occupied by Ruth, In the crash a number of cars were wrecked and the stove of the caboose upset, setting fire to the mass of broken cars, Ruth was pinioned In the wreck, and before he could be rescued was burned to death. His body was completely incluerated. All that remaised was the charred trunk, Fowder Mill Blows Up. A powder mill owned by John Roberts, of Bhenandoab, and sitoated at Kreb's Station, exploded. The mill, glaze and drybhouses were completely destroyed, together with their contents. The explosion took pisce in the dryhouse, which became overheated and which contained 200 kegs of powder, follow- ed by an explosion in the mill and glaze. houses, The magazine building, standiog about 300 yards distent and containing 1,500 kegs of powder, was razed to the ground by the foroe of the explosion without disturb. fog its contents. No person was injured, Mr, Boberts places the loss at 5,000, To Mop Dredging Shad. The shad fishermen of Peansvills and vicinity are determined, if possi. ble, to stop dredging In the Dela ware River during the shad season, and have held several meetings with this end ia view. The result has been the appointment of a committee authorized to communicate with Major Raymond, at Philadeipbia, ask. ing his co-operation in the stopplag of dredging from April 1 to Muy 15, over a course extending from Reedy Island to Deep Water Point. Heretofore dredging of the river In the spring has proven a great detrie ment to shad fishing, Death Follows Wrong Disguosie. Rise Douple, the é-year-old son of Giregs Douple, of Lebanon, a raliroader, fell on the toy pavement on Friday and on Saturday wae pronounced cli right. Bunday night at 1» o'clock he died In convulsions. A fractu# of the skull was discovered after death, Misters Depart Life Together, Mre. Fannie Showalter and Mrs, Lissw Yeager, sinters, died nt Phoenixville within seven hours of each other, The former died Friday evening at 7 o'clock and the lattes next morning at 2 o'clock, They were bots over 70 years of age aad will be buried tor gether, Died Out in Arizona, Word has been received in Norristown tha! George C. Baker, of Ambler, died recently in Arizona, where he went for the benefit of
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