— A LOAD OF HAY, A load of hay in the crowded street, A whiff of the scent of clover, 4 change of thought,—vague,—Iincom- plete, — A living a young life over. A day in August. and clouds of white, A shifting of light and shadow. The hum of bees and the martin’s fight, The meadow larks and the meadow. Strong arms of men and the yellow green Of the swaths, the steady swinging Of forms of laborers, strong and lean, The scythes with their steely ring- ing. The roar of trade, and the newsboys’ cail, And the dream of a moment's over: T'was a brain-wave came through the nose, and all From a whiff of the scent of clover! i —Chicago Tribune, The Black Horse Harry.” BY CHAS. B. LEWIS, was a farmer with gray hair and wrinkled face, and the look and post ure of a man whose vears had been spent in hard work. hitched a horse—a coal-black horse with a star in his forehead. On the Kitchen dooc-step, three hundred feet away, sat a woman of fifty—a gray- haired woman—a woman with a wrin- kled face—a woman who apron, and she did not raise it to wipe the tears from her eyes. By and by there was a cloud of dust down the road, and five minutes later a brisk- looking man drove up and halted and called out: — “Well, Uncle Joe, you've concluded to sell, have you? The old farmer choked up and mo- tioned toward the horse, and it was half a minute before he could say: — “It's most as bad as the day we bid Sam good-bye, but I've got to sell Take him along and be quick about | di “Two hundred dollars.” man, as he counted out the green. backs, “and I'll tie him behind buggy. Sorry you are forced to sell Unele Joe. but let me tell yon Just the finest horse this county will ever send down to the cavalry. You've owned him since he was foaled, and I know how hard—" Uncle Joe reached for the money and turned away toward the house. His lip quivered as he sauntered along and he had to shut his teeth hard to keep the tears back. He passed the strawstack at which the calves were nibbling—the hayrack dumped against the fence weeks hefore—the open shed under which he housed the plows and drags. He did not lsok up. Even when Lie opened the gate and struck the path leading to the kitchen door his eyes were on the ground. He stepped aside to glance into the pig pen—stopped for a moment in frout of the smoke-house, and he had choked down his emotions when he reaclied the deor-steps and the woman waiting for him. She had her face apron. He sat down beside her, toss od the money Into her lap, and after a while he said: “Thege was the interest on the mort: goes ~% the taxes coming due, and 1 bad » it, Martha—had to do it.” It Sam's colt!” wife. \ sell, : make the best of it Thess: uot him for the cavalry. and woos i phe funny if our Sam should « to get him way down at the fron am would know him on sight, nn. he jest whistled once. Marry’ wu Jamp fence to find him. Bay, ma, chirk wn an best.” The womas house withoy, presently go! said the he's 8 wileve imal walked straight up to him and rubbed his soft nose against the sun burned cheek, and whimpered, and kissed, and showed his delight. It was the strangest kind of luck. The fath. er had sald he would write to his sol- dier boy that he bad been obliged to sell Harry, but he had not done so, His heart was too sore over the part. ing. Sam's joy was great. It was like coming ncross a brother. His cwn hands had first bridled and saddled him--had first broken him to harness, Every Infantryman has his chum, Every trooper two of them--his horse and a comrade—his horse first, The father had pleadingly said to the mother, hoping to lighten her sorrow, that Sam and Harry might find each other down at the front, and chance had brought it about. A hundred en- vious men crowded around the black ! and looked him over and growled at chance. He was a game horse, they | sajd—one to thunder down into battle | with eyes blazing and foam flying, and i his heart set on victory, i troopers have formed | for a charge. The men are pale-faced | and gritting their teeth-—-the horses | lifting thelr feet and working their | ears nervously. There is the bugle: | Walk—trot—gallop—charge! They sweep up the hill in a solid mass, ev- lery trooper cheering—every sabre glinting and glistening in the sunlight, Beyond the crest of the hill, down across the meadow, over the cotion field, and then they strike the foe. It Is a crash as if a thousand feet of stone wall bad been toppled down, i There are cheers, shouts, shots and the clash of steel, The black horse and his rider were i In the front rank. With the bit in his A thousand | teeth and his ears laid back the black horse dashed at the foe, and with sa | bre whirling about his head the rider cheered and exulted, The thousand break through and seatter the foe, but when they draw off there are only seven hufidred to ride away. Down there on two acres of fleld the dead and wounded almost touch each oth er. amd as the sun goes down and night comes on the groans and walls i of the wounded are a sound to make one shiver. An hour goes by—two- three hours. Then one of the wornd- ‘ed men—one who has been lying as if | dead—striggles up and braces his back against a dead man. He pants and groans with the exertion, and presently he purses up his dry lips and sends forth a signal eall. It is a shrill. quavering whistle, and many another wounded man listens and wonders. Once—twice- thrice, And then the signal Is answered. From where be is lying, forty rods away slowly bleeding to death from a gap- ing wound. the black horse gathers his | feet under hhn and utters a shrill | neigh, Again the whistle, and now | the stricken animal picks his way among the dead and wounded, moving | at snail's pace and groaning as he moves, and by and by he halts and : sinks down in his tracks and thrusts { his muzzle against the breast of the man who ealled him. “It's you, Harry!” whispers the man as he puts out his hand, “I knew you were hit, but I hoped you had not left me. Got your death, eh! Well, same here. But wasn't it a glorious charge. { though! How we thundered down! How we crashed into ‘em! How we slashed right and left and drove them before us! Men had to die, Harry— men and horses. Back there at the old home there'll be weeping and grieving, but they'll be proud to know we died with our faces to the foe” “Dear old Harry!" sald the trooper, as he stroked the soft muzzle with his stiffening fingers, “Yes, men and horses had to dle, and why not we, as well ag others? Ah! bunt how strong you were under me as we swept up | the hill! It was your first battle { your first and your last-—but you had in heart of onk, and we struck the en- How | strange and queer that yon came down i to me! Poor old dad! Poor old Mam! | It must have wrenched their hearts to part with you! Are you here. | Harry? Are you talking to me? Poor old chap! That was a terrible volley NOTES AND COMMENTS, A——— Medals of valor have been conferred on 100 Greek women who served ns nurses in the war with Turkey. There wasn't anything to do but decorate the women, for the men furnished no ex. cuse for such attention. A monument costing $40,000 is to be erected over the grave of a simple Kentucky private killed in the San Juan fight. The soldier was only one of many wealthy men who were pre- pared to go to the front in any capa- city. Mr, Covert, American Consul at Ly- ons, France, declares that the eye glass and spectacle mountings of American manufacture are the best in the world, and that in certain lines of such goods this company may have a monopoly if it so desires. A Vienna (Austria) paper declares that very few persofis in that city read poems, and fewer still buy them; that puunblishers refuse to print them un- less the authors pay all expenses, and the sowing machine company he rep resented. American exports of all kinds to Hong Kong are increasing remarkably, Formerly kerosene and California flour were almost the only articles shipped there from here. To. day ever steamer and ship from Amer. lea brings cargoes of American goods, This is a direct result of the war with Spain. Goods are shipped to the United States forces In Mantia by way of Hong Kong, which, as is generally known, Is a mountainous island, hard. ly a mile away from the coast of China, and In the possession of the British, The imposing quantities of American goods passing through cre ated curiosity first, then demand, The users of American bicycles in Hong Kong will be chiefly men In tha employ of the British government and English merchants who live there. Russia's progress during 1898 Las been most remarkable, Internally, ievery kind of reform-—industrial, edu. | cational, mercantile—~has been pushed as rapidly as possible. The Biberiay railway Is advancing with that to ask for a volume of poetry in a book store is to be stared at as at a freak, During the last twenty-five years the government has granted twenty- five inventors more than 100 patents the average 100. stands at the head of the list. received 711 patents, Elihu 304, Francis H. Richards, ward Weston, 27 ner 248, Charles J. Vandepoele, 244, and George Westinghouse 217. He has 343, Ed. The Philadelphia Inquirer discuss ing the financial and industrial condi. tions of England in so far as they have relations with the United States, Bays: as Englishmen if now describe it, accumulated savings of hundreds of years’ possession of the world's mar. | kets and carrying trade, the date when an Increased immigration from Great Britain to the United States will begin to set in is bound to follow after.” The Chicago Times-Herald talks of the peaceful conquest of genius, en- terprise and productive skill, and says: “While our army and pavy were closing in upon Santiago Ameri can manufactured goods were crowd Ing competitors to the rear In markets that have heretofore been largely con trolled by England, Germany and strides. The trans-Caspian railway, in its two branches, to the Chinese aud | Afghan borders, is approaching | pletion; river transportation is being improved; everywhere there Is the out- reaching of a vigorous people. The borders have been extended to Inclnde | Manchuria, and at last there Is a Rus Po In ahd i sian lcesfree port on the Pacific, | litically, she Is stronger than ever, i the Turkish, Persian, Chinese { nigh supreme, her | England, while her entrance inte | Afghanistan by the waters of the Ox. | hobes, It appears that one-fifth of the pop ulation of the United States is in school. That is to say, that In the 3003 pupils and students, 88.864 In 1871 students dents ns against 1872 the college In tion, whereas they now number 1.216 to each 1.000.000, Thesd figures aro both Important and encouraging cause they show that, quirements for admission are becoming and more ing every year, the ratio of students more this great body of learners must be added the large class of persons en gaged in post graduate studies, whose WIT AND HUMOR. Upte-Date Jokes and Witticlsms Prom ta» Comic Papers THE FAVORITE YOUTH, He sent her bouquets and he scribbled her notes With persistency loyal, but rash. His posies she wears and Lis sayings she quotes; But she'll probably marry the youth who devotes His resources to gathering cash, EXTREME CANDOR, “Which style of music do you pre- for 7"' asked Willie Wishington, who had just been reminded of the sub- ject by a street piano; *‘the Italian or the German,” “I prefer the Italian,” answered Miss Cayenne. “The orchestra doesn’t wake one up so often,” HE SIGHED POR REST. While she was getting ready to go to church she had been saying things to him because he would not go, and sha hind been saying them with con- | siderable emphasis and rapidity, He sighed and put down his paper. “My dear,” he said, ‘'is this a day of rest ?" "*Of course it is,” she replied. {| ‘Then why not?’ he asked path- | etically. i NO HARM DONE, ! Mrs, Henpeck—Do you dare to look { me in the face and say that ? Mr. Henpeck—Not on your life. I propose to always reserve the right | to dodge whenever I make a remark to you. | The rolling pin struck a eokner of | the mantel and fell harmlessly to the | floor, HOW TO DO IT. { "I suppose to write well you must use ink well,” “Yes; and to write fine use a pen with some point to it.” | 1 { ’ i A POSSIBILITY. She (with a sigh)— “I see that Miss | Astor is to marry a duke.” He-—"Oh, well, I wouldn't waste { any sympathy on her, Who knows ? { She may love hin.” i EPRCIFIOALLY STATED, *‘I noticed ah attractive advertise- ment in the paper this morning,’ said { Mr. McBride to his wife, “Was it a millinery opening ?" “No; it was a dentist's adveriise- ment; and what particularly struck me was the announcement that under humanity the United States has made its greatest record in exports and its smallest record in Imports and the largest importation of gold ever made in a calendar year.” It is estimated that there are 100. 900,000 old style copper pennies some Nobody knows what has be come of them, except that once in a while a single specimen turns up in change. A few years ago 4.500.000 bronze two-cent pieces were set afloat Three million of them are still out standing, but are never seen. A mil lion of three-cent silver pieces are! scattered over the United States, but It is very seldom one come across any! of them. Of the 800.000 one half-cont pleces not one has been returned to the government for coinage or is held by the treasury, i A Philadelphia dealer in birds, dogs | and goldfish has a new species of the five years ago. A bulletin of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics shows that we nearly twice as much coffee as does population. We half of all the the whole world. abroad $00,000,000 t coffee, consume about one We annually send 0 pay for our raw Leaving out the ehildren, out grown and half-grown population con sumes on the average fwenty pounds of coffee per capita per year. Mor over, the ecoffeedrinking babi growing upon us. only T00,000.000 pounds took SOO000.000 In 1808 Were great teadrinkers, snd the sta tistics show (hat we are dropping te gradually yet by no means slowly is in 1807, Ye never a year. While other nations drink position. A woman stopped before the "Ith all manner of fruit and vegetable store the other day, and after | 210% to the great distress of our di viewing the new variety went into the 5°8HVe apparatus. store and ordered the dealer to make PPT'0D, brave to rashoess in our eat the fsbes swim with their heads ele. | '"% 20d drinking. In no respect does vated. The dealer became angry over this reckless aundacity shine more Yer interference with his business. an 1 brilliantly than in our coffee-drinking. ordered her from the store, Rhe in. Every war has its unkeswn, or formed the Society for the Preven. scarcely known, heroes, whose names tion of Cruelty to Animals officials, | are Inscribed on no taolets of bronze, and an officer was sent to investigate. | Put who waxed as valiant in fight or The fish still swim perpendicularly. proved as alert in resource or as pa { tient In suffering ae any of the most The rapid progress made by Japan | uted commanders. Dewey, Sampson in its Industries during the last few | gq i yi 1 years was mainly doe to the develo chley and Shafter have their reward, Pi but few think of the humble heroes an absent way Jud then took a corn: : cutier i they gave us, but that's the way for a utter from its, jp the wood-shed | , r and went out ty, | soldier to die. Dead, are you, Harry, grindstone under | 1 " ’ ead with your head on my knees? the Bartlett pe (roo to sharpen it | JOU; ent y for the day'« we g, the cor - J nu field. Half an hour Ia when the imple- ment had been eng to has satisfac. ton, he looked Int pe kitchen to say to the woman who ng wearily wash Ing the last of the ecakfast dishes: “Say. Martha, I'l pire to Sam to. night to keep an e},u¢ ror ‘Harry, and I shouldn't a LE if they FUR across each oi. gown there, Sam would feel most gs tickled as it he'd seen one o' us.” a Two weeks Inter drove of BOO horses were turned in tthe remount camp at Pleasant Valley There were 500 dismounted troopers ere waiting for them. Sheridan 18 pushing Early up the Shenandon and there Was no time to sort th bays and blacks and grays and assi, them to ompanies. 80 many bors ang so any men, and on the Maw they ist be off to overtake Citer and } Into the ranks. ly the living Jingo™ » jer as a horse wis losure and the nalter nd. “Say, now, ed x a the mischief is the ter y Bam Johnson?’ in charge of the ‘Il be tetotally busted n't Harry, ny own pet colt, py Jou old farm: 10s hin, an wut ‘re born! Hey! Harry, boy! Dory know me?” boy } halter, , Again the woman sat on the kitchen doorsteps. with her hands under her apron. She leaned her head on the door-casing, and her eves were fixed on a man coming slowly naecross the barnyard. He had been to town and he had a letter in his hand. He did not wave it and shout. He looked this way and that-any way but to- ward the woman, She grew white as death as he came pearer, but she neither moved nor spoke. At last he sat down beside lier with a groan. He #till held the letter In his hand, and she saw that it had been opened. She heard him breathing like one who strangles in his sleep, and he conld hear the furious beating of her heart. By and by he huskily sald: “It's from one of the Reynolds boys. God help vs, mal” “Our Sam is dead!” she whispered, between her white lips, “Y-Yes, ma! But Harry found him before he died, just as I told you he might.” ; “And they dled together!” hi “Died together, ma, died together!” 4 he answered, as he reached out and took one of ber hands and sobbed in his throat—Atlanta Constitution, ; 10,000 Gallons in Tun. A huge brewing implement, an masy tun, holding 10,000 gallons, and the largest In the eastern countries, was “opened” by Lady Bullard on Wed. nesday, at a brewery in Norwich, ! tons : barrels. Each time MW is used it will hold ¢8 much ment which coal production has as sumed there and which facilitated the | starting of so many establishments | ind caused an increase of Japanese | goods on the Imternational markets. | he fears expressed by British and | European manufacturers In regard to the sudden competition or Japan are tbout to vanish now, when it is stated that coal production has ceased to be | onsiderable in the Japanese Empire, it appears that there is not more than sme million tons of coal a year now mined in the whole country, and that nine-tenths of this comes from the mines of Hokkaido and Kiensen. which are reported as nearly ex- anvsted. The original plan prepared by George Stephenson and his son for the Irst line of railway from Birming- ham to London was sold the other fay in the lafler efty. It bears the autograph signature of Robt. Stephen: son, F. R. 8, M. P., president of the Institute of Civil Engineers, who died m 1850, and was buried In West. minster Abbey. The plan, which is irawn to the scale of four inches to the mile, Is all the more valuable see. ng that the coples of it, which were fuly deposited in the Private Bill Pffice at the time, were destroyed in the disastrous fire which borke out at the Palace of Westminster in 1834. bills relating to this great under aking were passed on May 6, 1833, furing the reign of Willlam IV. and he work was begun on June 1 In the following Year, . Within the last three months a rep resentative of an American sewing paciine shisined an tar Jom an iderable of bicycles, made by who sank into unmarked graves or in obscure corners dared tremendous risks. That fireman on the Castine, for example, was a hero if ever there was one, who, when during a run under forced draft in action, the loos ening of a bolt at the farthest interior of a furnace, let the steam in on the fire, thus deadening It, ordered the draft turned off, and fresh coal thrown on the fire. When the white fires were banked, he climbed in over the wet coal, treading on a plank. till be reached the place where the steam was rushing in, and tightened the bolt. and remedied the trouble. For thee minutes he remained in the furnace, when he was pulled out by his ship. mates, and the gunboat resumed her cotirse throngh the waters, at the for- mer high rate of speed, as though noth. ing happened. That man deserves a medal if any sailor does, French and Our Owa Army Mortality. The statistics of mortality among the French troops, recently published by M. Noel In the Revue Scientifique, show that the death rate of the in France amounts to 6.08; in Algiers, 12.27, and in the colonies, to 42.06 per cent. When we compare these statistics of an army at peace, and those of the mortality rate among our own soldiers in the war with Spain, which was something like 2 per cent, including those who fell in battle as well as those who succumbea to disease, it is only fair to ask whether the groat outery agalnst the excessive death rate in our own armies is wholly war. ranted. Medical Record. more than one set of teeth to a cus. tomer at the reduced figure.” SYMPATHY FOR THE YVIOTIM. The Dun Please tell Mr. | that this is the third time I have called for that bill, and I can’t waste | my time coming here every day. Intelligent Bervant-—[ am sure that | Mr, SBlowe does not wish you to take so mueh trouble. The last time you were here I heard him say yours was | & sad case of misdirected energy. SBlowe THRORETIC PESSIMIST. Old Fogle—The country is going i to the dogs. I'm as certain of it as | ever was of anything, Old Keener—By the way, what'll {| You sell that acre lot on the corner of {| Mary and Martha streets for ? Oid Fogle-—That lot is not for sale, | Ishall bold onto it, In less than ten | Years it will bring more than double i what it would sell for to-day. A YRERY SERIOUS COMPLAINT, *“They's going to be something the | matter with my big brother Jim next | week,” said a six-year-old child to her teacher. “Indeed,” sald the teacher, “what is going to be the matter with Jim “He's going to get married; that's what's going to ail him,” was the sar- prising reply. AN OVERSIGHT. “I've called to tell yon, sir that the photographs you took of us the other day are not at all satisfactory; why, | my husband looks like an ape [”' ‘Well, madam, you should have thought of that before you had him gor taken ! A QUEATION OF THE HOME “My dear.” said a gentleman to his wife, ‘‘our club is going to have all the home comforts,” “Indeed,” replied she; “and when is our home going to have all the club comforts 7" A CAUSE FOR EXERTION. Highgear How did Sprockets come to smash the ten-mile record ? Bearings We told him just before he started that his wife had sent for bim to come home and mind the baby STARTING HIM RIGHT. “AL!” sighed the sentimental youth, “would that I might install » sentiment in your loyal heart." “Sir,” interrupted the practical maid, *‘I'd have you understard that my heart is no installment concern.’ THE REPORTER'S LOT. City Editor "The street is all ex. citement. An electric light wire has blocked traflie, and no one knows whatliet it ia a live wire or not.” itor—""Detail two reporters to 0 to the wire immediately--one to ‘eel of it and the other to write up the result.” : WANTED THE WHOLE OUTFIT. Bridget—There's a man in the par lor wants to see you, wir, Mr. Ardup—I'll be there in = minute. Ask him to taks & clsir, Bridget—Sure, sir, he says he's going to take all the furniture, He's u the instaliment company. “You don't think you will Dom’t Mind the Weather, There is one thing that does not mind the weather, and that is rheumatism; and one thing that does not mind rheumatism is Bt. Jacobs Ofl, as 1 goes to work upon it and cures right off, The ehlidren of the United States sach Jont consume toys that cost st retail $45,- # — uss After the Grip l'housands of people say Hood's Barsaps- rilla quickly restores the appetite, reguistes the heart, vitalizes the blood, cures those sharp pains, dizziness, heavy head, that Hired feeling. Hood's Sarsaparilia bas mar- velous power to expel all polsonous diseases germs from the blood, and overcome the extreme weakness which is one of the pecu- iar effects of the grip. Get only y . Hood’s Sarsaparilla America’s Greatest Medicine for the grip. Hood's Pills oureall Liver flix 35cents A Touching Sight. A touching sight was that witnessed in Burlington, N. J, when six young girls clad in spotless white walked slowly through the streets to the cem- etery, bearing upon their shoulders a coffin, covered with a pall of flowers. In the coffin rested the body of a young girl, a Bunday-school classmate of the bearers. The procession moved through the middie of the street with the min- isters who had conducted the funeral service immediately behind the coffin. It was not a long march, and the girls moved steadily with their burden, but there were tears on their faces and on those of the spectators who lined the way. The dead girl was burned to death a few days before while throw- ing waste paper on a bonfire in her father's yard, and it was one of her last requests that her classmates, of whom she was extremely fond, should carry her to her grave. Boston has s& Dewey Square, "COULD NOT SLEEP. Mrs. Pinkham Relieved Her of All Her Troubles. Mrs. ManpoE Basoock, 176 Second 8t., Grand Rapids, Mich., had ovarian trouble with its attendant aches and pains, now she is well Here are her own words: “Your Vegeta- ble Compound has made me feel like a new person. Before 1 be- gan taking it I was all run down, felt tired and sleepy most of the time, had pains in my back and side, and such terrible headaches all the time, and could not sleep well nights. I al- 50 had ovariah trouble. Through the advice of a friend I began the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound, and since taking it all troubles have gone. My monthly sickness used to be so painful, but have aot had the slightest pain since taking your medicine. I cannot praise your Vegetable Compound too much. My husband and friends see such a change in me. I look so much better and have : some color in my face.” Mrs. Pinkham invites women who are ill to writé to her at Lynn, Mass., for advice, which is freely offered. HEAD ACHE “Both my 4 have been wife was — are the best house. Last hesdache AS. STEDEFORD, Pitteburg Safe & Deposit Co, Pittsburg, Pa. CANDY CATHARTIC 000d: Hover Sleten: Wedven or Grier woos £2 «+ OURE CONSTIPATION. Secting Remedy Company, Chiongs, Mamtrest, Bow Fork 27 NO-TO-BAG 22 wriwanrionss ane The Potash Question. A thorough study of the sub- ject has proven that crop fail- ures can be prevented by using fertilizers containing a large percentage of Potash: no ~ We have a little book on the subject of |
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers