TH ® 0 LOCK. Hear the musle of the clock, Softly ticking time; As the water wears the rock, Se in rhythmic rhyme Does the ticking of the clock See to wear out the, In the bustle of the day It is searcely heard; Stil it ticks and ticks away, Blithe as any bird. Careless that the sounds of day Make its volee unheard, But at night it speaks aloud In the stillness deep, When the day-time's weary crowd Drops to realms of sleep: Then its voice, exulting loud, Wakes the stillness deep. And the wakeful listener hears Strange and serious things: Hears the stream of flowing years As it flows aud sings Surgings of the future hears, And clash of coming things! wodames Raymond Perry in Companion. Youths’ THE CRIPPLE’S SWEETHEART. By Fiorenee C. Reilly. Garry Von Ritter, he laziest and most shiftless man in Farmdale, stood in An derson’s store, warming his feet at the stove, The men sitting about on the barrels eyed hh expectantly. When Garry walked the three miles from his lonely, miserable to the there was sure to be fun for the crowd there, and Garry's remarkable speech es were quoted all about the town Now they waited, hoping that he would give them something to laugh at He was very tall, and thin that his elbows literally pierced the thread bare material of cont, and stuck out of his sleeves, all raw an¥i bleeding from the cold. He had a heavy, sullen face, and slouching move ments, “Well, Garry,” sald storekeeper, seeing that seemed disinclined to bros “How's Elvina?” “Loouy,” said Garry, yer know, fellers, 1 made a big mistake in girl. My old mar said ryin’ way think she was right for once.” A cripple lad, in a far of the store shifted his seat and & look of pain came into his soft men lnughed Von any one “bend her struck cottage store, S40 his single Anderson, the Von Ritter 1k the silence sullenly. “Do begin tor know 1 marrvin® that ns 1 was mar amd b'gosh, beneath me, sitting ne «corned uneasily rent eves, The Mis titter thinking good-for-nothing them ath drunken son as being a rather good joke. “Yep,” right for crazy as a loon. that mine, starin’ out of her whi no attention to rag doll is egough ter give a She don't that's done fer her. ain't a bit grateful ter ryin’ her.” The wen lnughed again. Grateful! My Lordl” Hawkins, ipple, his thin He thought sili tO wont to the distiriet school gentle, shple Httle thi about her He, Abe Hawkins, and aight, like t { oil not far from the (:ar Was Elvina Is crazy sure ttin in tend ry. “she repea once. Ter see her se with ie (nee house of her big eves amd payin’ nothin® than fell anythin’ nHiore CTePps, appreciate Sometimes 1 think mar she * me for mutiere (I Abe clenchnd his Allen when sli She w the as he hands and of little years C1 ground top Elvina aii, 4: as need he ax 0 oretty, vith un frig sad little then w other boys. with =n gratsdiather. «any her walking from the ia old man leaning ww face ng. delicate, face. as strong he She liv i school, wretched, drunken a time be had seen vern, with the on her shoul crimson with shame, the pel eve ied to ache neavily der, li tears quivering on lashes, How his heart with pity for her and uate for the old man who made her life so unhappy fot her. It was to Allen, new dead, that he owed his affliction. He had met the grandfather and Eivina on the bridge As the little girl saw him, she stun bled, and the old man's hand had slipped from her shoulder, almost fling ing him on his face. He had turned to strike the child, and Abe, springing for. ward to save Elvina from the blow, re ceived it himself, and then Allen, in his drunken fury had lifted the boy and thrown him over the low bridge railing itito the brook below, injuring his back and making him a cripple for life, He thought of all thiz now, as Elvina's her droo fdlers of the girl whom Abe had loved 80 devotedly when she was a little, helpless child and he a big-hearted boy, who pitied and, when he could, pro tected her, statement that she was “crazy.” mind, never very strong, given way beneath the privations she had undergone cottage of her grandfather, and later with her shiftless, brutal husband “Poor, gentle, Hitle Elvina!” He was Her langh from the loungers, “Trade her fer a stove! Anderson, “This ain't no Indian settle- ment, where a man can swap his wife fer a knife or a keg of liquor or any other old thing.” “Don’t care,” “I'll trade Elvina for a stove, * sald Garry. doggedly. I tell do want a stove. Italian Pete has got two stoves, and since Marie hung her- self In Thompson's barn he ain't had no wife, an’ if he wants Elvina, an’ gives me the stove he kin have her, whether this is an Indian, or a Dutch settlement, Give me a pack of fer backer, Anderson. I've got ter be mak- in’ tracks fer home, “Yer ain't got no more sense of mor: ality than a rail fence, Garry.” “1 didn’t ask yer anythin’ about mor. ality. Dido't say wothin' about it. What 1 did ask yer {et Wis & package of terbacker, so shet yer head, John Anderson, an’ give it ter me,” and seiz- ing the package Anderson handed him, he walked out of the store, followed by Abe, “Garey, Ritter's arm, a" sald Abe, touching Von “Per you mean it? you really trade yer wife fer a stove?” “Sure 1 mean it, yer grasshopper,” sald Garry impatiently. “Is the stove new you?" “New! Pete ain't quite a fool. Why would he give me a new stove for a eras woman? Certainly it ain't new.” “Garry.” said Abe, with a great desl of suppressed eagerness, “1 tell yer what I'll do. I'll give yer a bran new stove, just out of the store, let me take Elvina home to my mother, A bran new stove, Pete will give “Yer will?! think ax a cripple, take the things and “When?” “This afternoon, said Garry. you was a fool as well but if yer mean it, I'll give her ter yer.” if yer bring the 11. A little later Abe was sitting kitchen of the large Hawkins house, while his mother, a ant, elderly woman, They had been talking of “Certainly, my boy,” she the poor little girl home, and I'l look after her. She has had a bard lif poor child, and 1'H best her happy for the time but all this will cause a dreadful lot of talk, Abe. 1 wish you could have her from that brute in some way.” “I wish 1 could Abe, as he kissed dear, for f there in the farm- pleas him. rosy, sat opposite Elvina. said, “bring do my to make she has to live; got other have, mother,” suid her, “God bless you by me in this, Even t amd I Know don't we?’ standing ix tal} We die doing the right Dg, 11 dt was late in the noon when Abe ter's cottage with the iilly after Yon Rit i fuel in ine slodching out wid the £1 1, and at last cottage Abe fol wretched, fireless g, her lap full of Abe re then, how raw, cl up to SIOVe In drove his wagon. Garry oi and proceeded fo nk lid not take £1803 wagon. him very ln he walked the i him. In the lowed na girl was » into od itiin ertm biftersweet berries, hdd at hi for t Son tnembered, ax hie on hem together hey were children ne in her hair, and berries made her by side, ness ol contrast “Yiney,” astly her face look » walked over fered She he wi Abe? then slipped as she frist bat : Olwsiiontis tehed je fittle faced fi wigon, ti * ETippie whit indal sure,” he sald, , and tur sn added or ped and went into “I'm eyes her” As th road £1 and the al Elvina conghed There y bine exhinusted. Abe drooped % ig hi her 1 enougn 1 blood on her his head to hide “God, " he prayed, i ittle while, long that we aren't all brates in this Lord, Hs iv. Has the tear fg eyes, si ¢ long enough to snow Het HBS Deel 80 Mrs onstracd, ured by t The man's it taken that tl such a Hawking's goin’ to speak to Mrs, their disapproval evening a deputation Knocked at the Hawkinses door. woeiving no walked in. Mrs and the doctor stood beside “f did all I could, Mrs, wis saying, “She was too worn out and too starved Inst any longer. If she had been attended to in time her fife might have been prolonged. but she was consumptive, poor child” The five citizens stood abashed, Abe entered the room with white, set face and trembling Hmbs, “I suppose you people have come to make me send Elvioa back to that brute?” he sald, glancing at them. “She won't be starveo or frozen or Khe is dead. haps you would like to see her?” They followed him silently into a little bedroom, and there on the bd, with a few bittersweet berries on her breast, her vacant blue eyes closed child-uge smile on her all that dea wife CRs Flvina ie people flgnation it "that tin Hawkins Necordingly of citi Kite eRpOnSe, Hawkins sat ery her, Hawkins," gate of sen yy decid aid express tint five fis hen thes ing he 0 white face, lay She looked very, and happy. too, happier very young than those of her young Hle—years so full of mis. ery. pain and sorrow; softly left the room. Mrs. Hawking followed them. died ramblin’ along about old school times, and at last she said, ‘Abe, help me up the rock "Mhage is a lot of bitter sweet growin’ there, and she put her poor hana ato Abe s and closed her blue staring eyes and died, he tnought she was a child again. . oor dear, she wasn't much morethan one. Only nine teen, It's better that she should die, But Abe will feel it terribly, in the little réom the cripple was kneeling beside the bed holding Elvi na's hand in bis. “Oh, God” he sobbed, “I thank thee that her suffer: ing is over and that die with friendly faces round her” Then he kissed her pale forehead and whispered, "You'll never know how much 1 loved you, little sweetheart” New York Mail and Express, WHICH FOOT WALKS THE FASTE.T? A Few Simple Experiments Which Give You the Correct Answer. You may think this a very silly ques. tion to ask, but it? There Is no eateh about It sirable fact which you your own satisfaction in a very few minntes., If you will take any pave- ment that Is clear of other pedestrians, that there shall be no interferance, walk briskly in the centre, you will find that before you have gone a yards you will have very much to one side, make apy conscious effort, course, to keep to the cente vou may do it, and if you will think of something and to walk naturally, it is 8 han- you cannot keep a in can prove to Ne) veered of Fr, of endeavor dred line, The fo one this lies to walk explanation of in peculiarity of one foot than the other. Or, tobe more perhaps it should be sald that longer stride than combined with the qui walk other, ‘ker takes ao the aid novement, can to one than the other, It is well known, for instance, in the in a ahont gnsirntes this, ROS Oh 10 Hoe wide that if woods, the and eventually return the starting dem the fact also one foot walks faster than the other You car an experi ment in this way if you will place one is lost § i wed ix to walk circle fo his 0 interesting two gahout eight feet stand off abont to be blindiolded, walk the lawn apart, and then is feet, and You will ba uals task, votrself endeavor to between them find it almost impossible Hi go a bit the an beeause one fool w than right or left. feet walks | faster the other, elther to Now, which one of aster than the other? Sugar and Its History. a constituent of most in or less degree, at fod of thelr The « formerly supposed to be honses of have found to contain notable Sugar is greater wiki miy ch, wil rose or saccel used by substance 11 carbohydrates taste. The px stance, However, the sis tiie Puke : ph int containing fo rst attract This abundance kind. only amd it as a People Who Eat Arsenic. The old adage that win another mans illustrated by an ac of the Styrian h SOFTEApon at is one man's fool in sty count of recently poison is ingiy ios yneracy ins publ od in Io Figaro of Pari said to eat arses te Asiatic the European chews tobacco a matter of taste, There are peo vary from pm size of a millet to pills the of various Kinds of arsenic, favorite being the white gus asx ratsbane, They will take it daily, or on alternate days, or twice a week, ae cording to circumstances: generally they abstain from the luxury at the tisne of the new moon, beginning small doses with the young moon and ine creasing them to a maximum by the full moon. Why this lunar observance it is hard to guess, unless, ax the corre. spondent says, the arsenic makes them strong and healthy and they fancy that the waxing moon weakens them and renders the greater proportion of the restorative necessary. But what over be their reason, the fact remains that the regular consumers five to good ages, nd are strong, healthy and conr- ageous, New York Times, Our Six-lach Gun is the Best The new six<dnch fiftycalibre gun for the navy now being constructed at the Washington Navy Yard will be type iu the world. It will carry a one hundred pound shell and will use American smokeless powder, The present six. inch gun of the American navy, which is of forty calibre, was tested against an English fifty-calibre gun about three months ago at the Indian lead proving grounds, and under similar conditions of charge and projectile beat the English gun by 400 feet per wocond mugzle velocity, The Hnglish gun's best initial velocity was 2.600 she Aa Niyy as the ents opium or as ple whose doses size of a pea, the tin ss MR, JOBSON'S Had to Admit Fiaally thet You Can't Beal! the Women, Mr. Jobson got home from hix office at 4:10 one afternoon last week and found a note from Mrs, Jobson saving S REVENGE. aud that for the ance of a long-haired pianist, he'd find his dinner all ready girl to serve it “That's a good thing, too,” mused Mr. Jobson sulkily, when he had read the note, *it's a wonder these mat- tress-headed geniuses that come over here to this country and rake in Amer hating Americans all the wouldn't eall thelr game at an that 'ud permit a tolling man's wife to be on hand at home to give it." ete, The opportunity Jobson to miss, ef, good for 80 he declined 10 was too it on the table, Instead, he slammed on his hat and went down town. He wanted give Mrs. Jobson a lesson. ate an unsatisfactory dinner.at a restaurant, and then poked around un- til it was time for a variety theatre to open its doors, He had to watch a lot games in or- and to talk with to to put in this time, thinking he had departed. He bored exceedingly by theatre time, The show bored him still But he for he wanted to get home as possible, the better to rub it Mrs, 11 « Lie had a pre{y poor was mare, fas late in on Jobson, By Yelock his evening paper idle talk with he didn't want finally, a tawdry, that might him ten years but was only so much ribaldry to pow. He took in a couple more inrd games, after the wow, and smoked a couple of vile cared to smoke, wanted Mrs, Job and thus perceive the poor dinner, of men that to and periormance Inugh out talk to, variety cheap have 04 Dress bill Bi however, cigars, not because he because he son to his breath OTIS * conduct rials noes Of tucked hone irning the bedroom srely when Mr. J the gas els going ing, however, Mr to find her and in tears He was more ikin't greet hin $ 1 Ys 8 $541 expected ui Mr. Jobson saw go fo sleep Causing $y king any kind oi ivhody by wthods, hey 7 i what ¥¢ sald Mrs 3 Yap” 307 Licey ire Josh tal that" 4 ana minutes past nee of our wsaat Pon flags OHtly adva & Of ¢ » minntes in but, Hse, had to I suppose you had gone back * office to work, It's shameful the way they're overlooking youn, old thing.” and then Mrs, Jobson, knew that Mr, Jobson lindn’t working at his office, turned over sithaided into dreamy slumber, “You can't thought Mr. Jobson, when be got into bel. He was thinking of women in general.—Wash- ington Star. You poor wlio been and beat ‘em.’ A Japanese Girls Wedding. “Marriage in Japan is only a civil contract, and not in any way a religi ous one,” Ladies’ Home Jourpal. by law and social obligations, writes Onoto Watanna in the “It ix protected selves at all in marital affairs, times; three times the times the groom, Hqguid) nine bride, three tween the palr In making the engage: ment. Toward the end of the cere mony a singer sings a song dled “Fakasago,! which narrates the loving and happy life of an old couple, the ceremony closes, the last notes of the singers beautifal melody remain: ing in the air, charming all. The last stage of girl life is over,” A mi Samonan Opinion of America. Among the Samoans their war over the succession never has ended, The forests have bad their fends hidden away. It even has been dangerous at times for Germans to go a.one into the remoter parts of the larger sia ively was the Bamonn hatred of the Teuton. Englishmen webe safe any. where, but often unwelcome. Ameri cans were the only ones who could be assured of a Hearty Welcoins in say f greatest nation on earth, the most i powerful and the most just. To them England, Germany and France were far inferior to the Americans, who al- wave had been their friends and al wavs treated them with justice, The American flag was the honored fiag and Amerlean strangers were the wel come ones. It was pleasant to drive about the leafy. forest roads or walk in the villages with the certainty that every man, woman and child would smile a greeting. or say chicerily, “Ta- lofa.” the “love you" that means the same whether in the “Aloha” of the Hawallan or the “"Tofa” of the Maori in New Zealand, for they are all akin in Polynesia, to Chicngo Record, DRUMSTICKS FOR BASS DRUMS. Old Style with Stuffed Head, Moder: with Head of Felt--Double-Headers. The old style, familiar dromstick for bass drums is made with the head of sheepskin or chamois, stuffed with yarn, Years ago the head of this sort of bass drumstick, ‘was Rg shaped; it now made pear-shaped and secured to thie stick, which is inserted into the Liead by winding around the peck ef the head with waxed cord. That part of the handle that is thus wound around is turned with a slight flare in its shape, $0 that the head cannot possibly slip off. This sort of drumstick usually made with a hic handle, though sometimes with a handle of rosewood The modern drumstick for drums is made of felt. Three of very thick felt of a size sufficient to form drumstick head are pressed together into a that firm and solid, has some de gree of elasticity, bloek of felt bored tra its layers to ive the the head is turned down to in an lathe, the felt drumstick made with an apple-shaped head, At the base of the head and also at the top there is a metal cap, the eap the top being held with a serew ranning ‘hronugh it into the the head be thas held betwee Pre miade iu commonly ix kor bass pieces the compact in and yer 1 his of and body, in nsversely rece handle, being ant end of stick, the ing un two metal caps. The handle is of 1 he folt dru about four rosewood, mistick in it three has been use It costs abou as the old. f hm YOOrs, ashioned it ore durn i8 Ir Aalis HA in o factory { with I head flats down more or less the stitching of the the course of » felt head preserves greater nied ig and titne certainty for bass dran er, having pearane tin filter pogo ti b i special dimensions to sult » ~aew York Sun. A “Lightning Change” Artist. hed on 1h pape | ush fens AW Aa soiree dis Zray roo easel in Sight, rience, | geual termination observation of either or minks Occasionally into or projecting IV OWD ex § 3 thi jg the Chaney fli hf be soon dart behind log plank, but much more frequently they vanish with a sudden ness that defies the Keenest eyesight, In all probability this vanishnig accomplished by extreme repidity but if this i= the case may brashes or tiie nation. then the ntterly impossible to any other warm. blooded animal of sige. Mice, squirrels, and some of the smaller birds fare all of them swift enough at times, bit except In the case of the humming | bird none of them =uccesd in accom the result achieved by the woeasels--W, E. Cram. in Appleton's Popular Sclentitic Monthly. its Living ia Vencauela, Any one going to Caracas with an idea of economy had much better scan n few figures which the Venezuelan Herald prints, It costs a good deal to maintain any sort of social position, says the Herald, and, therefore, to set: tle in Venezuela on a small salary is to partake of the life of the immi | grant, A litte house for two--small, clean and comfortable houses are very rare rents at from $40 to £55 per month, A cook costs $10 per month, and a maid, who does not Know how to sew on a button, $5, and it requires three maids to perform badly the service of one un- trained girl, Marketing is very high, and clothing exorbitant, There is no such thing as a ready made suit. Cabs cost 80 cents an hour, gas 20 bolivars per 1.000 feet, and the hotels charge from $2.50 to 810 per day, and are second rate at that pda Encougaging Howse Building. To encourage the removal of old buildings, the authorities of «Vienna, Austria, have decreed that if the own. ors of Fring peeled houses will THE KEYSTONE STATE. Latest News Gleaned from Various Parts. FIREBUG'S AWFUL WORK Mach Timbers Destroyed by Fires on Blue Mountains Smalipox Discovered by Medien! Inspector in Westmoreland County ~Filagwman Dazzied by Electric Light and Falled to Realize the Danger, An Incendiary Is supposed to be at work in the vicinity of Manor Station, Westmore land county, In one night two stables in which the same man was loterested, was de. stroyed by fire, On Baturday night the dairy plant of the Manorfield Stock Farm Company, five miles up Manor Valley, was burned, the loss being $20,000, ipeizding tronty-nine Jersey ‘cattle, The barn 2on- tained 120 bead of eattie, and all but twen- vy-nine were saved. The cattle which per- ished were worth #3500. Bome of them wers imported from the Island of Jersey, Dr. M. E. Griffith, of Manor, sold the con- cern to the Farmers’ and Deposit Bank, of Greensburg a few years ago, but retained an interest, On the same night the private stables of Dr, Griffith was destroyed by fire, and the firemen say they detected an odor of burning oll in the rulas, poluting to pos sible inocendiarism. The loss from the second Are was $1,200, ¥., 1. Fry, chist of the Manor Fire Department, says thers is no doubt but that the fire was incendiary. Dr. Griffith is unable to explain why aayone should desire the destruction of the two stables, but Is convinced that the fires were of incendiary origin. Store and Hote! Fired. John Beed's store building at Falls Cresk, two miles from Dabols, was partially de- sifoyed by fire, Citizens saved the buliding from total destruction, and it was then dis- covered thst the store bad been robbed and set on fire, The loss on goods snd bulldisg will reach nearly £10,000, An attempt was also made to burn the 81. Elmo Hotel, Da- bolts. Andrew Murray bad previously been eincied from the hotel. It Is claimed that 2s returned, and galoing entrance So 8 rear room emptied the contents of an ofl ean and set fire to the fluid. The blaze was diseor. ered before much damage had been done, Murray was aflterward’s arrested, and he was taken to ths county jall Sixtesn Small-Pox Cases. The discovery of the x stesce of sixteen eases of small-pox in Westmoreland county has crested considerable sxoltement. Dr. RE B., Hammer, medical iospector for the State Board of Health ia Westmoreland County, made the discovery. The cases have been treated as variciold, and they are lo- cated at Layton, a mining settlement of 300 people, oa the line of the Baltimore & Otlo Balirosd., In some instances convalescent eases within the past ten days bave been No deaths ocourred, Flagman Crushed to Death. F. B. Ryans, of Wilmington, Del. a flagman Wilmington & Baltimore talirosd shifting engine, was erushed to It seems that Ryan and for. ward bumpers of the shifter, which was run. Byau's companion saw the dan. but ag are light and did His one leg was cut off erushed, dazzled by Shot by a Pollceman. H. Y. Fisher, a Lithuanian, was shot and Barre, The officer discovered Fisher at- tempting to enter a residence, When appre- bended Fisher murderously assaulted the policeman, The Iatter thereupon shot The wounded an was taken to a The officer's bullet lodged in causing a wound that may Fisher's hack, Fires on Blue Mountains. Fierce and destructive fires raged siong north of Hamburg, the serpentine tralis of fire being Heavy rains durisg the night fortunately prevented further destrud tion, Higher Wages for 2,500 Men, It has been definitely announced that the shops are to receive an increase of wages ranging from 5 to 10 per cent. About 2.560 News in Brief. The residence of Eugene Whitenight, on Raliroad Street, Bloomsburg, was completely destroyed by fire, Ia preparing for a blast at O'Brien's quar- ries, Conshohocken, a workmen inserted a charge in a hole that was already charged, An explosion feliowed, wrecking the bolier bouse, but injuriog no one, The movement in Colwyn Borough to bor- . ow $10,000, to be spent in the erection of a modern school building, met defeat at a special election. The taxpayers voted three to one axaiast the proposition, John Thomas, employed on the Bridge port construction train, in alighting from his train at the Norristown station, stepped in front of a passing engine, He was knoeked down snd ran over, His right arm was cut off and he was otherwise Injured. IO. 3 MILITARY DIVISION OF Ccusa. The President Orders the Six Departinents Consolidated Inte Four, . Wasnivorow, D. C. (Special).The fest important result of Secretary Alger's visit to Cabh was an order fssusd by the War Depar. dnt, b Sireetioh of the President, Lonso) ng the six military departm ont of the Division of Caba Tho fo
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