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THLE SONG THE KETTLE SINGS,
Oh, many a song have [heard sung
In a way that soothes and charms,
And many a strain that stirs the brain
Like a bugle call to arms.
But after all, while the shadows fall,
And the warning curfew rings,
When the night is drear 'tis sweet to
® hear
The song that the kettle sings.
.
It bears me back to my boyhood home,
And the farmhouse old and gray,
To the battered door and the polished
floor
Where the kittens romp and play;
Again I stap with my book in hand,
Or follow a dream that wings
From zone to zone with the world its
own,
On the song the kettle sings,
Lalia Mitchell,
Jeanne’s Bravery.
Felix Labardie had been a French
tireur in tho great war of 1870, and 1
liked nothing better in the evening than
to sit and listen to his stories of
terrible thoe when Frauce lay gasping
and bleeding.
Une evening we had been silently
smoking for some time when he sald:
“Did 1 ever tell you, mapsieur, how I
fell into the hands of the Germans and
out again?’
“No,” 1 sald.
mans shot all
caught.”
“They let me go free, monsieur,” he
said, with a grim laugh. “It may seem
incredible, monsienr, but Jeanne yon- |
der held the life of royalty on her fin
ger tips.”
*I should like very much to
story,” 1 said.
“Certainly, monsieur, and if monsieur
thinks what was done was wrong he
must excuse a wogran in love.
“After Sedan, monsieur, a meeting
was called in our village, and thirty
of us enrolled ourselves as a company
of Francstireurs. We felt we
do more for France as irregulars than
serving under incompetent ge P's
We were well armed and a brave and
skilful old veteran commanded us. As
the Germans were in around
Metz we marched In that direction, and
made our headquarters in the hills be
hind a village called Pency,
three leagues from the fortress.
in Pency Jeanne lived, and from the
first moment I Ler, monsieur, I
said to myself, ‘If fortune is kind, Fe-
Hix, that girl shall be your wife.’ Her
father was the miller of Peucy, and
the accursed Ulillans had almost ruined
him. They were very against
the invaders and my profession
me find favor in her eyes. Before we
bad been at Pency a wonth we had
plighted our troth, on the understand
ing that we should not marry
France was rid of the encmy.
“Small as our band was we
ourselves a terror the marauding
Uhlans, thanks to the generalship of
old Montbon. Jeanne was Invaluable
to us. She was all eyes and ears, and
Montbhon her the ‘head the
intelligence department’ of our band
sed to meet her every evening, when
it was possible, in a little cave 1 had
discovered, whieh, having
Wis proof against surprise,
“We staid three months at Peney,
and then the place. became too hot for
us, aml we prepared to lea for a
villgze some Jdeagues to the south. 1
fell the hands of the Bavarians
the evening before we were to
leave Pency.
“Jeanne declares to this day, and 1
believe rightly, that I was betrayed by
a villager, a young fellow named
Odean, who believed fate had intended
Jeanne for his wife, and whe was even
savage when she refused him. But be
that monsieur, 1 was. seized
at dusk that evening, as 1 was on my
way to meet Jeanne, and taken go com-
pletely by surprise that 1 had not the
least chance of defending myself or
trying to escape, and, worse than all?!
was taken with the rifle in my hand.
* “You are an assassin,’ said the stout
little officer in command in barbarous
French, ‘You shall Where
are your companions?
“But 1 professed not to understand.
I was afraid of being shot on the spot.
There was mueh of the executioner
and little of the judge in those days,
monsieur,
“Much to my relief my arms were
bound behind me, and we set out for
the hamlet where the Crown Prince
Frederick had his headquarters,
“As fortune would have it. Jeanne
met us on the road. Monsieur would
suppose that Jeanne is a quiet little
woman, but monsieur has not seen her
thoroughly aroused. She was roused
then, monsieur. She flung herself on
me and tried to release me. Then she |
seized the bayonet of a Bavarian, and |
if 1 had not begged her for my sake |
to be calm she would have fought the
whole party single-handed. Then she
fell to beseeching them, for she could
speak German well, but they only
laughed at her and drove her off with |
foul words. My heart was like lead |
then, monsicur, but I did not know
Jeanne,
“I was taken before the prince's ad- |
Jutant, who promised me liberty if 1
would betray my compatriots. But I
feigned stupidity, and when he found |
that I would tell nothing he ordered
me to be shot at five the next morn-
ing. ‘We give you till then, he said.
to find your tongue. You'll ge dumb
enough after. And be lnughed,
“I was bound like an log, monsieur,
and thrown into a hot and brutally
kicked. My thoughts were not pleas-
ant all this time. I lay thinking of
Jeanne, whom [ should never see
again, pletaring that, womanlike, she
would go home and weep in her help-
Jessuess aml despair. But I did not
know her then. She was working for
me with all the energy and wit of a
woman. Jeanne, Jeanne, ma petite,
the
(ior
they
«1 thought the
the guerillas
$
hear the
could
nerals,
force
about
It was
saw
bitter
made
until
nade
{io
1 #
called Of
no outlets,
©
into
very
as it may,
ber ghiot,
come here,”"
¥
Jeanne came to the door.
“Come and tell monsicur how you
saved me, ma petite,’
A blush overspread Jeanne's feat
“What, that foolish story again?’
“Certainly not foolish,” 1 interposed,
“1 should deem it a kindness If you
would oblige me.”
“1f monsieur wishes it, and monsieur
will allow me, I will get my kuitting.”
“Certainly,” 1 said.
“When 1 saw him carried off,”
Jeanne began as soon as she was
seated, “1 was in despair, for 1 knew
would be. There had
been a sharp fight a week before, and
himself of some German uniforms that
he had taken from the dead. So I de-
A sous
cealing a pistol and dagger in my tu-
nie 1 hurried away. 1 crept along cau-
tiously wnen I neared the enemy's
lines, for my plan was to get through
the sentries without being challenged.
When I heard the pickets I dropped on
the ground and erawled like a snake.
And yet I was nearly caught. A Ger
man officer was leaning against a tree,
and I almost touched him. 1 lay still
without breathing audibly for a long
time—how long 1 cannot say—until he
moved away. Then, once inside the
lines, 1 rose up and hastenedsto the
prince's ‘headquarters. 1 prayed for
and then walked up to the
I trembled so that I could hard-
Fortunately the officer did
courage
door.
ly speak.
* “Take me to his highness instantly.’
I sald in my best German. ‘Important
dispatches.”
* ‘Who from? he began.
“To his highness instantly,’ 1 said
boldly, but my knees shook under me,
“He looked at me closely in the dim
light, and I felt ready to faint. Then
without a word, he Kk the
prince's room, ‘Important dispatches,’
he sald, knocking and showing me in.
* ‘From whom? asked the prince.
“In private, may it please your
highness" [ stammered, but feeling
that 1 would not leave without Felix's
life or another for it.
* ‘Retire and leave us, Haupe,' sald
the prince, and the officer, closing the
door behind him, obeyed.
“*And now, said the prince kindly,
You look pale and ill, sir. What is
your name?
“The key was in the door, and I
turned it swiftly. ‘And now, 1 said,
pulling out my pistol and pointing it
full at his face—my hand did not even
tremble at that moment
‘your highness" 1 said rapidly, ‘if you
call out, you are a dead man.’
{oO me to
supreme
s0 brave, so brave! He did not
wince, but he looked straight into my
and smiled.
**Ah he said lightly,
Who are you, and what do you want?’
* ‘Monsieur le prince,’ 1 said, ‘1
the daughter of the miller of Pency
My sweetheart, Felix Labardie,
taken by your men to-night as a Franc
If he is not already dead, he
life or Jou
©even
eyes
‘a stratagem
fin
Was
tireur. is
condemned, I want
lose your, monsieur,”
“TA woman! he said.
and he smiled, and the
dropped from my hand with the
of it till 1 thought of Felix. ‘lI know
nothing of this, wy good woman. No,
but stay. Here are some papers El
berfeld has left for to sign.
here it is
To be shot at five a. mn.’
“ ‘He shall not
or'—1 could not
words, but my pistol
“But he is an assassin’
“No, I cried, ‘he is a soldier, though
wear the uniform. Imag
ine, your highness," I said, ‘if I should
have dared so mach for a murderer.’
‘But he has fought a Fran
tireur, not as a soldier.’
* “What of that?
fought for France in her hour 1 would
spurn him from me. He must go free,
your highness, if you value your life
“My life in the hands of God,
mademoiselle,’, he said, lifting
to mine. “Threats fot
me, but you are a brave woman.
his
‘Well done”
pistol almost
pity
ne
arms,
die,
threaten him
was steady,
he does not
ns
is
eyes do Hove
“And then my courage left me, mon-
sieur, and I dropped the pistol and
flung myself sobbing at his feet and
beseeched and entreated him. And he
him all the story. All, but he was
brave and a true gentleman! And
when 1 told him all he sald, ‘He shall
be pardoned,” adding with & smile,
‘Such a devoted woman must not go
husbandless.” And then I fell to weep
ing again, monsienr, and kissed his
hand and tried to thank him. And he
took me to Felix, and he was released,
i flung myself on Felix and eut his
bonds myself, and we thanked the
prince together. We women don't find
out if men are worth it tll afterward,
monsieur,” with a sly look at her hus-
band. “Three days later an orderly
came with a bracelet from his high
ness, amd on it was engraved, “T'o a
brave and devoted Frenchwoman,' See,
I wear it still. h
“Ah, mousienr, we wept when that
noble prince died, and the great doctor
could not save him. We sent a wreath
and 1 presumed to write to the em-
press. She is a worthy danghter of
your queen, monsieur., Khe sent nie a
letter written with her own hand, She
was worthy of that.-true and brave gen.
tleman, her husband.”
A AS
The Eoglish aallway from Mowbasa
to Uganda in Afriea will cost 850,000,
O00 instead of $15,000,000, which Par.
lament has voted. Incidentally the
lives of 5,000 natives have been lost in
that part of the line already built,
The site of Centenary Hall, bullt by
the Methodists in Bishop ate street,
in London, sixty years ago, which then
cost $75,000, is cov sted by a dry goods
firtn which now offers $1,150,000 for it,
or nearly $200 square
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
TO BE HELD IN 1900,
Liberty. Mr. R. Binet is responsible
be a masterpiece of decorative archi
The two friezes on either side
Her Display of the Arts and Manuface
tures-=A Description of the Grounds and
Bulidings.
the U, 8B. Commission to the Paris Ex-
position of 1000, who has charge of the
New York offices of the Commission,
ure designed by M,
ticket office to this main entrace will
of the Exposition in Paris,
The vast carcasses of iron and steel
and masses of stone that a few weeks
ago had a meaning alone for archi
tects, bullders and engineers, are be-
ginning to take form and shape and ap-
peal to the public eye with their syme-
try and beauty.
The “strike” in Paris last fall inter-
fered only slightly with the progress
of the great Fair. Commissioner Gen-
eral Pleard and the numerous contract.
ors, both for the palaces and buildings,
and for the wonderful Alexander 111,
HON. FERDINAND
COMMISSIONER
WW. PEL
GERNERAL.
Is.
bridge across the Seine,
are confident that the
1900 will be ready
the gates will be opene
on
Commissioners
French
officially that they are
Is advancing in all sections of
-
The
Arts are
next few
tors and
i the we
of both
about
roofs naling
3
1
Compe
months the decorato
artists will
wrk of paintin
Or o
There should really
At
buildings wer
©SPTR Who were respons
fel Tower had wach k
Work
fhe
rapidly;
Trocadero grounds
on
the or
the varios
Place
of the masonry fo
i
the dow
Ora on
Boross Lhe Seine,
nps Kivs
des Invalides ad
In short. with a little
a year off, everything con
ith Paris Exposition
seems (0 indicate that its gates will be
public at the date
of its engineers
Ww
the
thrown open to the
The fandx invested far in the
Paris Exposition amount to six million
six hundred thousand dollars, Of this
gum about five millon dollars were ex
The city of Paris |
already contributed two million four
hundred thousand dollars of the four
a half
contributed
say
as
dollars has been
many alarms, the French authorities
are steadily pressing forward in their
preparations for the great Exposition.
which is 18 be the distinguishing fen
ture of the dawn of the new century.
The space to be occupied by the Ex
position i= about three hundred and
Government has allotted abont sixty
persons per hour. The of this
magnificent monument will be about
three hundred thousand dollars,
On the Qual which extends along the
north bank of the Seine, lies the
Champs Elysees, In a part of which
The
Palais de Industrie, which was the
Exposition,
hax been demolished to make room for
the two Art Palaces, which are to be
Cost
aces of Fine Arts, They will cost
about four and a half million dollars,
MAJOR FRED BRACKETT.
SECRETARY AND DISBURSING OFFPIORR,
ing about forty per cent, for them:
selves. The space thus far secured by
Commissioner General Peck for the
United States 1s about two hundred
The main entrance to the Exposition
will be located at the estreme north.
east corner of the grounds, at the place
where the Qual de la Conference nd-
Joins the Place de Ia Concon. This
monumental entrance to the Kxposi
tion is now being rapidly constructed.
It takes the form of a trivmphal arch,
lishments to the eity of Paris. These
new Palaces of Fine Arts will be two
modern and useful huild-
Ings of their kind in existence, The
Grand Palace will be utilized during
the Exposition as the Palace of Fine
Arts. In the of painting, sculp
ture, bitecture and drawing it will
anything the world
of the most
Wis
prolmbly surpnss
hus The m
century
evel “1 ion
arts
wig
a1
twenty-four
these palaces
Hours in
On
the On
Juai de Oesay,
1
us of
1¥
a
ail
and
LILUT. A. €. BALER, 1. N.
NAVAL ATTACHE.
The building, a spacious one is de
gigued for both ornament and useful
It Is square shaped, i
cupola at each corner, and the main
part is a mass of delicate ornamenta-
tion. At night, when ablaze with elec.
tric ght, it will be the centre of at
traction and will present a scene of
great beauty. In the eentral court.
yard of (be building will be an electri
cal fountain with a series of cascades
all brilliantly Mluminated with vari
colored lights, On the exterior of the
pager will be innumerable electric
Ighits of various shades, coldrs and de.
Crowning all on the topmost
pinnacle of the bullding, will be a mass
of flashing electrical flame. forming a
staturesque group, designed by a fam:
ons European artist,
The piace of Electricity will be de
to an exhibit of electrical ma-
nes with
Vives
The demand for space from
of Electricity far exceeds that which
Peck
axle to give,
To the west of the court ¢a which
will be located the buildings devoted
to Chemical Indoxtries, Transportation
and Civil Engineering, Liberal
and Instroments, Letters, Arts and
Forestry.
On the east side of this same court
will be the
igation, and the Textile Building,
American electricians will be much
in evidence at the Exposition, and it ig
estimated that the wanufascturers of
American clectrienl machinery will ex.
pend over one million dollars In thelr
exhibit in 1900. American artists, 100,
will be represented, and the products
of the earth, agricultural, horticultural,
forestry, fisheries, food stuffs, textile
fabrics, placer mining and metallorgy,
will all receive complete attention from
American exhibitors, The United
Sintes will also have an Immense do.
partment of hygiene and one of Public
and Organized Charities,
As the Exposition will occupy so
much space on dhe Sete it
1
Ides. which will be built entirely of
iron decorated with electric lamps dia
posed in groups forming luminous
flowers, The pillars supporting the
ing a fine effect to the Fale nt night,
Another foot bridge will cross the
| cross the Belne near the Pont de "Alina
It will be constructed of barges sup-
| ported by pllasters decorated with
| maritime symbols, The entire brides
will be covered with a lurge velum.
Still another foot bridge, a suspension
bridge, will cross the river In front of
the Palais des Armees de Terre ot de
Mer,
The municipality of Paris will do all
in tg power to make the city look more
beautiful than ever in 1900, The Muni
pal Council has already sanctioned the
outlay of large sums of money for the
rearrangement of many public gar
| dens and squares, and for the brushing
up and cleaning of numerous monn.
ments. The Bols de Boulogne, one of
the finest promenades in the world,
wil be improved at great expense,
The United States will have the larg-
est and most hmportant display at the
Paris Exposition of any forelgn na-
tion, The Honorable Ferdinand WwW,
Peck, U. 8. Commissioner General in
an interview, says
“The
he made
United
for ti
whale
i% not to
1 hie
upon
States exlilbit
iw French people,
ever of the world will be
ue on that occasion eat me
il then be
of
sent
Mil
; inner : ail
coming Ji iH paris
tropolis of France
the
and t
Paris exhibits
nations
assembled in
iftyv-seven lie repr
er of SHH OOH (HN) ¢ OUSUHINeTS,
§ THT s40
5 i §ras
prrent opportunity
«nt our
n Fesonrees
all the
Nir TM 5
people
trade
101 ®
ion of our
“ILE Our export
hundred
Lie rent
iy judgment every and
dollnrs « X pended in
dis nitlions in retorn to
:
ous wanuinctarers,
well our
the
as
1h:
as
pride,
nuterial demand it
Tew
i
i'n i
khonld
also demands
HMtates of or
! Atl
recently splendid in war, should
stand along side of Lier sister nations,
inying hes of
and the world expects this of us.”
A. H MATTOX.
ee lily fig pt t
Eranaiy dis aris peace,
STILL HUNTERS OF BUFFALOES.
In the Old Days On The Prairies
Worked in Gasgs
re of buff il
They
oes had no
ase alter their
Id hunter. “The
in gangs of ten or
buffalo hunt
A gang of
Linnters have
miffalo in
ol
in nore
and «
in
|
i
y
os 5
THE KEYSTONE STATE,
i.atest News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
Upon Returning From Chureh, Frederick
Clark, Actusted by Jeslonsy, Commits
Awful Orime- Terrible Catastrophes Oc
curs on the Heading Haliroad Near
Nashviiin—Son Serpent at Reading,
MeKeesport was the scans of ope of the
most horrible erimes ever committed here,
Frederick Clark, of Pittsburg, cams to Me.
Eeesport and after a few words with his
wife, shot ber down, Clark then tursed the
revolver on himself, firlug two balls into his
deart. He Is doad and bis wife cannot re-
fover. Clark was a tinger Ly treds, and
worked fer a Pittsburg firm. About six
weeks ago he bad troubles with bis wife,
tod came to her wother's home in McKess-
port, Clark came home asd called upon his
wife. He remained about the house until
went
Upon returning he went inte his
wife's room and in a few minutes ths mem-
vers cf the family were startied by the re-
Mre, Moyle, Lis mother
nelaw, entered the room and found Clark
with a
band. He turned
firing. Bh ran
from the room into {he street and eailed in a
Cinrk in the meantime locked
ad
@
in the
ree
3 the heart, He died short y alter
The Icjured woman
noved to the hospital, but cannot
was
TeCcOver.,
the lelt
ebdomen,
$ wife 80
ale
another through tb
Clark was aged 49 yenrs, ad i
Hhe was the daughter of
tichard Moyle, a bighly respected mer-
bant. Before Ciark died be stated the
‘Anse of his rash act was jexlousy, sod said
de was sorry be had not killed bis sun also,
.
TA
L
the
Engine Explodes,
By the explosion of a Ireight engine near
Reading,
dead man is
Lelsey, aged 22
of Pine The injured are
Fireman Lyman Emerich, aged 26 years, of
Haves, who eannot
burned and sealded over egilre
CAGDBOL recover. The
Arthur
rrove,
recover,
body, left
aged 34. of
engine,
about
sted and left ankis injured. The
No. 882, was running uorthward at
hour with & train
cars. A suppiy of water had
been taken in Reading, but 18 is believed
the bolier was allowed to
When about baif & mile south
fu
Ua
h
wa
The boller asd up per part were
into an adjoining field, while the truck
rown
Toe
81 assortinent of
the
is 198
iil
walter suffi
ting
up CATCH ERR
for a
ter used to steal from
a herd
the prairie.
sored
ent
where Was
feping on
Fr took a
yards of the sleeping
pos
ere, with a convenient
the
across the plains,
ti
Is
gun rest awaited
unter first
The
herd was first shot by the
The
ho
rays of sunlight
leader of tli
hunter
herd, but
the easily rd
would startle
not moving,
animals would
Al
wiill
the
report
leader
ghtenod
blowing, about
ran. fiitlensly
the members of the stil hunting
fin hh When herd
worked fit ihe
disorganized the several haut
iHony
Came
Thief Sheet Dead,
Two days ago Jacod Funk, a merchant of
bed on sev
eral occasions recently, procured a double
barrel shotgun and made bis store bis sleep.
ing place. At 2 o'clock in the morning three
men broke open the frost door. Funk,
#tationed Bimself at the rear of the store
sud taking deliberate aim at the leader,
fired. The man feil dead with a handful of
shot in his heart. The two companions at-
Funk
The third carried the injured man, shriek.
the darkness, asd no
The dead man
The coroner's
jury rendered a verdict of justifiable homi-
or
a)
valnerable
was good time
SOT One shot a
for ench still hunter.
out of range in five or ten minutes
the tongues,
stoking by a cheap hand in the camp.
Smoked buffalo tongue was as common
a commodity in the West thirty vears
ago as bacon or beans.
and tongues had been packed on a
mule’s back and sent back to camp, the
still hunting gang began making plans
for another attack upon the same hord
or upon another herd in the locality,
for buffalo shooting with them was a
steady industry. A party of a dozen
sportsmanlike buffalo hunters might
slay about 1.500 animals in a season
of five months, but I have known sin
gle «till hunters to get 1.800 buffaloes
in the same time.”
The Dutch to Invade Maryland.
The Duteh may soon take Maryland.
retary of the Maryland State Burean
of Immigration, who is traveling
throngh the Netherlands drumming up
immigrants for Maryland, reports that
his mission is successfil, “1 visited
| Amsterdam.” he says, “at the invita.
| ton of some prominent capitalists who
desired to consult me in regard to a
prospect of making investments in our
| Btate, They have formed a plan to es.
land. The Dutch cocon is renowned
all over the world, and is also popular
in America. This industry is one of
the principal ones in the Netherlands,
and the Hollander Is familine with it
They asked me several questions
about shipping facilities, labor, help
of male ard female, and it seemed to
me that they were satisfied with my
Information. I assured them that such
an industry cwonld be welcomed in
Maryland, and promised them In be.
half of our Bureau all the necessary
assistance in the matter, 1 will have
another meeting with these men be
fore 1 leave, and will do all in wy
power to induce them to start this -
York
ferprise In the State of Ma
Woman Kills Herself
Mre. Minnie Flick, aged 29, killed bersel!
at 21 Sandusky street, Allegheny, after vain-
iy trying to persuades & friend to commit
suicide with ber. She went into the bali
way and sent a bullet through ber brain,
Ste left a note blaming the trouble on
Joseph Walton, a raiiroader, The couple
bad known each other, and on the previous
night when Walion visited ber, Mrs. Flick
asked him to go with ler into eternity.
Walton refused. She borrowed a pencil
from him, and, after writing a pathetio note,
al the time,
A Bea Serpent at Reading.
William becker, of Reading, reporis to the
police that be saw a very strange creative,
401 unlike a sea serpent, swimming down
the river, It had « head like a dog and
made a roariog noise. Mr. Decker oailed
several ol bis Irisnds, and they attempted
to shoot it, but were unsuccessful, The
animal would lie still for five minutes or
more, and then would dart forward about
iwenty fest, disappearing under the surface,
He belioves ita wea lion that has eronped
from some menagerie,
Dozen Buildings Burned
Harrison Valley, Potter county, lost al.
most its entire Lusiness portion by fire. The
Harrison Valley House and ten other build.
‘ngs were burned to the ground asd the re.
maining hotel abd three stores were only
saved by tipping a barber shop over into a
sroek, The village has no protection from
fre, and the department from Knoxville and
Westfield came on a special train to help
sem. The loss Is $40,000, with mush ess
insurance.
Harn and Live Stock Burned,
The barn of Mes. Herman Koause, on the
stern outskirts of Emaus, was destroyed
vy fire. The cows and the calves perished
in the flames, The fire is believed 10 have
veon of inscndiary origin. The loss fa
$4,000,
Morses Barned to Death.
A barn at Oentralin, belongiog to
he Dp eg Ta8 Yaluse
» " Ld Ta Da
were burned to death, va
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Tevehies Fall Dead.
Leeches, when applied to persistent
dead, dis.
reumatic ofl given off by {obese