; Over the Way, Over the way or your dreams ry boy, Are wondrous things for yo .r eyes to And wonderful paths to a world of joy . And the marvelous land of the Ought A to-Be, —— There is gold in the dust that your feet will tread, And diamonds gleam on the wayside Zrass, Aud wreaths of laurel to grace your head Hang waiting to crown you as you pass, Cah = tates, And servants to every wish fulfill, And armored hosts at the castle gates Stand ready and eager to do your will, youth, repose, And breezes to fan you with love and truth, And gardens that blossom like the rose, There are wildwoods ringing songs of birds: There are sumptuous feasts where friends are men To greet you with tender and honest words, And never a theme regret, that vou might Ab! over the of dream {it les way your This paradise of the countless skies, where, Your childhood lives in this land, And the loved ones lost in the years ago In the glow stand And tenderly know. happy of its glorious beckon you What care if bleak And the shadows elatch at your gar- ment's hem? It's over the way that your soul must seek For the light them. your present that will over banish Just over the way of you boy, wondrous things to sed, And wonderful paths to a w» And the marvelous land of to-Be. HOW NO.99 WON THE RECORD By Ceorge Ethelbert Walsh, Are he Ought “I don’t believe rd -breaki runs with or gines. Its daogerous work, aml day there'll be tand or sea that'll cure people craze.” Dan Martin, the shining No. 99 vigorously, in steamships reco ai such big explosi 1 old 11 hbsencd of thes eri rie file REiNneer Rin brass counecting 5 until they [wked like a strong reflecting m r “I've al'us refu at a dangerous $ record for the company,” he continued after a pause. “1 of bein’ the most careful engineer in the West, an’ | consider that a bigger hon or than if 1 had the reputation of hein’ the one that could drive & engine the fastest. The superintendent has hint ed to me more 'n onee that he'd like to gee me break the record with old 06 but I al'us shrugged my shoulders, and told ‘em that I war'n’ goin’ to risk the lives passengers for any foolish advertisin’ of the road. No. sir. I wouldn't do it.” Another vigorous rub of the polished brass rod, “Nes, No. 99 holds the record now” he added in reply to a query, will for some time, too, | was speakin' of things made that big run from Ellinwood to Grent Bend in Middle Kansas “Was I the engineer at that time? Of course 1 was, an’ No. 99 never put in better work. 1 didn’t believe in record smashin’ then any more than now, hut I had to break the record that time or lose my life and 99 too It was a forced trip that I took, an’ { don't want to make it agin. No, sir, enough for me, “1 was ordered to take No. 9 from McPherson to Great Bend one morn: in’ to meet the superintendent of the sil to run my encines pace just to make a £¥y #y ce game have of the “an' she But 1 she FORE td ore once Is bit. down to Dodge City, where thers was some trouble with will have a good chance to mgke 0 break the record. 1 smiled the safety point one bit reputation was just as train load of people behind me. “1 started out of McPherson on a speed. the country when there ain't no ears danglin' behind, aw’ I just let old 00 skip lively. 1 was goin’ as fast as | thought she ought to go without run. nin’ any risk. Ii was midsummer then, and the day was pretty warm and sultry. We hardly made a breeze in our rapid flight. Jim Watson, my fireman, said he thought the air was feverish hot, an’ that's just what it was, The sun seemed to glare at us like a ball of fire, and the heat ap peared to be risin’ from the all around. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, an’ it just hurt our eyes to look outside of the caboose, The long stretch of ralls ahead silver. “We'll have a storm or somethin’ before long,’ Jim says as he looks at the sky. “T'his heat won't last.’ “I thought so, too, but I didn't give words to my ideas, We were ap proachin’ Lyons at a swingin' gait when a few clouds suddenly rose up in the east, They looked black In the centre, and seemed to Increase in size as they approached. in a short time glistened like looks were threatenin’. They nin’ of a bad wind storm. When we rushed through Lyons the waved his hands at threatenin' than ever, and Jim tered, ‘A tornado. I'l bet! “Shouldn't wonder,” was all the re- “We swept on a little faster, | to port before the storm Then it occurred to me that we would be better off probably runnin’ So I slackened speed a little an’ watched the sky anxlously. “Suddenly from ths very middle of the black cloud somethin’ seemed to extend way down to the earth. It looked ax if the cloud had burst, an wis trailin’ along the track right be hind us. 1 knew that sight only too well, It was rushin’ down upon us like a fiend. The sun was still shinin’, but the fleecy clouds around it made it flcod the landscape with a sickly glare, * ‘Bay, Jim, that fellow is after us’ I sald as quietly as possible. “Yes, an’ it's a reg'ler twister,” “Now when a tornado rushin’ down upon you at the rate of eighty or ninety 1:iles an hour you forget all the danger there is In record smashin’, At least I did. There that big, ugly-lookin® cloud followin’ us with a fearful noise, It close that we could hear the rush and roar of it I gave one [frightened glance at its terrible centre, an’ then I opened the throttle of old 90. Jim be. gan to pile coal on, and shake up the fires. We were directly in the road of the tornado, and unless it veered to one side or the other, or we could suc ceed In outrunnin’ it, we were doomed, “But 90 responded to my touch like a horse. She snorted and puffed away as if aware of the danger behind. The wheels revolved so fast that it seemed fis if they could not keep on the track. In another moment we were speadin’ along at a rate that wonld have made at any time. But we goin’ fast enough The horrible cloud was still on us, * ‘More coal, Jim, more coal!” 1 shont. el. “We must go faster.” “Well, be knew the danger, too, an’ he perspired like a porpoise as he tried to get up more Faster an’ faster we flew, The strain on the en in me sick other weren't yet gainin’ steam gine was severe, but I never thought of t.. 1 just put on all the steam we We now holdin’ onr but it was still If anything would We wore itwo § #4 were Own 8] race should gi down upon us In an instant really balanced Hangers. ve the storm fae way between great ‘If we ean reach Great Bend we'll be all right 1 to Jim, we both looked anxiously at the pursuin’ “There's a turn in the road, an’ we'll get out of the path of the tor nade,” * ‘But we must cross the bridge first’ Jim said in reply Tes, but we sped : “f knew what thinkin' of The bridge across the large arm of the Arkansas was only a wooden structure then, and it was not overstrong. To rush across it at our tremendous speed might eanse a catastrophe. Dut the bend in the road did not occur un. til after the bridge was crossed. Until we reached that point the road was as straight as 8 beeline, “Neither one spoke after that, anid fs cloud. can't slacken our hie was We and the track abead, We just beld our own and had pe time to spare, If we lost one minute the hor ible flend would be down upon ns, “*The bridge! the bridge is ahead! his face turned a shade paler, “1 could not believe It youd, and it was hard work to realize the distance we had covered since the tornado first alarmed ns, “Now for it. I muttered to Jim. ‘Here goes! “I opened the throttle, Then No. 00 that might have been her death knell, The next Instant she reached the wooden bridge. and thundered upon it like the rumblin’ of thunder. The structure swayed and trembled under the weight. When we reached the middie it ereaked and eracked, and seemed ready to give way at any mo- ment. But we passed the middle safely. and the other shore was al most reached, “Bee! see!” Jim shouted, “1 lookdd behind and shuddered at the sight. The tornado had reached the other end of the bridge, and as if angerdd at the prospec: of our escape the mighty wind was rippin’ and tear in’ up the wooden structure as if it was made of straw. We touched the other side none too soon, for the whole bridge began to sway, and then top- pled over before the furious onslaught of the wind. “But in another moment we reached the bend in the road, and roshed out of the path of the tornado. We slowed up a little then, and watched the baffled flend hurry past us, earryin’ death and destruction with It. We both gave a sigh of relief, and then turned to check the terrible speed of our fron horse, “We brought her to a standstill at Great Bend station with difficulty. It seemed as If she hated to stop, and she puffed and panted like a lving creature, On the platform stood the superintendent, “Why, burrab, Martin, you've brok. en the record all to pleces,’ he sald, slappin’ me on the shonlder, ‘Since the agent reported you at Lyons, why, you have averaged eighty-two and a half miles. Great Scott! man, that's a wonderful run? “Yes, It was, 1 sald, “I was too tired and nervous to ex- plain then, 1 was satisfied to think that we were home safe, It was the most wonderful run 1 ever made, and that's how old 99 holds the record.” BILEWORMS IN IOWA. Molnes Suecessxful So Far, Mark Chiesa, an Italian, is success. brought from The eggs were son who brought the eggs carried them in his pocket and they hatched on ship. into the sea. whom the eggs were Instrosted sus- pended them on a string so that they got cool air on the ocean and on the railway trains. Arriving at Des Moines, age until the ready for them, into a warm room, they hatched in one day. mulberry moths about 4.000 hatched, The find mulberry They oat about and in been the average Italy, difficulty has to leaves for the worms, wagonlonds a day, stop eating for a minute, but eat all the time, day and plight. They must be fed about fifteen times a day and during the night. The devouring the mulberry noise like rain on the hunting the food for provided, and healthy, are just CONOONnS, why the sieved, Mr. times in make a roof. Dy lively the has been they are well developed and about three inches long, and beginning weave their There seems to be po reason industry should not Chiesa has brought a woman from Italy who has had thirty vears' ex. perience with silkworms and she says worms, leaves, worins to saw, The experiment ix the first that is and is certainly the first that has been successful, It much attention as a circus in Des Moines, and the number very large. The owner is 8 good-natured man and he cheerfully and proudly shows the industrious 4.000 to all who has attracted as of visitors is care to see them. If they turn p fo, Mr large farm. plant it to futo the bosiness of ralsing well they will mulberry ont 6s as romise Chiesa bay a and go worms amd producing silk on a scale From had the experience in America and Italy, where father is a silk producer, he reason why the industry should not be S08 No entirely successful in lowa. Piervie A rich A i George's quarter of Avid Found ihe Thief, residing in the St Paris, France, had been for some little time past the vie tim of systematic thefts Banknotes and money not left under lock and key disappeared regularly. M. Cornette, of Police, was in formed of the robberies He found it wottld be mpossible to keep an effec five wateh on the bedroom where the thefts occurred, but he stratagem turned fully. A small vial containing a mix ture of picrie acid and fuschine was placed in a metal case for holding gold, and a few Napoleons were placed on top. metal nerican the Commissary adopted which Ol Success. case had to be held apside cal preparation would run out and stain the thiefs bands a bright and in. delible yellow. canght yellow. handed, he A Mastached Morse, A coal yard at Thirteenth and Chest. nut streets 8 the prond possessor of a well-trained tion, but in the morning it stands out “Fritler.” as he is called, seems to feel that he is at. tracting attention, for he holds up his head with all the pride a virility of six. teen years can summon up. Fitler has easily won for himself the friendship of all his coworkers, and he is treated with many distinctions, It is sald that the animal whinnles In terror at the sight of a pig, for fear it may prove a razor-back, but while Fitler remains with the coal yard people he need never fear the ignominy of a shave. Philadelphia Times, Carrying Hia Coin Pinte, Captain D. F. Penington, quarter. master of the Fourth Regiment, Mary- land National Guard, will have a sim- ple, scarcely visible, plate on the cngket in which he ix to be buried, The plate will be a Russian coin, size of the old-fashioned “cartwheel” copper pon. nies #0 DUIMSTONS years Ago. Captain Penington has had the face of the colin made SHouth and inscribed as follows: . ¥. Pennington. Born Sdptembetr 8, 1847, Died oo” This plate forms the captain's pock. otploce, and ever serves as a reminder of death. This popular Guardsman gives his friends a genuine case of exhibits AN OLD FAMILIAR FRIEND, New Endings Suggested for a Well. Known Tale, The character of the old joke has be. come a decidedly stormy one, A few evenings ago nt a little down. town gathering one of the girls sald she had heard such a good story. “It happened out in the Fast End only last week,” she sald, “A young woman whose hone Is on one of the a call from a young man, and It came on to rain dreadfully, oust re. member the night. Several times the young man offered to but each time it rained harder than ever. He lived about half a mile away, but, of course, it meant a thorough drench. ing to venture out. Finally the girl said, ‘Well, would simply un civilized to turn you out such a night as this, Brother Robert is away from You NO, it fre not.’ little, but the as well ns a to appreciate ment. ‘Now, excuse me a said the young woman, ‘and 1 will see that the apartment made ready for you! So she went upstairs and told her mother, and then stepped Into the brother's room to ses that it order. She more than five minutes, but when she went young had disappeared.” finally af appeared argu. mament or force the is wasn't gone the man COm- Every body breathed hi reached this dramatic ¢ “The woman. looked the room in a bewildered manner, Then she looked on table in the His hat Wis young around the hat wasn't there, She Rhee waited about in an aimless manner. vainly Birv 10 solve the mystery rapidly approaching ing stpddenly she hear footsteps threw it He and have The and there stood the youth! evidently soaked through. "Why. you been” she or At point the abruptly interrupted “Pardon me.” ers, “but if 1 Foung man =a secure huis nigh “Excuse m “but the way 1 heard it door. young woman open through where on eartt : ad this OArrator was listener, he went home split the morning's supply ling wood for the kitchen st “1 hate to Iw sont third Interrn told that ma’'s god ni And weit home hie kigs™" the sto wasn't The Dendly Upas Tree. In thrilling stories of ady poor caaracters have met an end beneath the leaves of Upas tree” CHine with poisonous shade Biricken to Up in the the Interior of snpdden deat gardens of Cevion derful collection are There stuhber, fingimeg clove, gunva and pearly tree that gros at Among them is a dea tin the INR 10 ner of stained repaired garden and sought from the blazing ful the Ld ¥ vapors were upon them, and so they afterpoon of a « story begin this thse tory Books --two travel and tired depths of the wayiarers, weary t shady shelter and repose ¢ bon i aa in beneath a beautd tree Attie did they suspect that malign influence of poisonous rientod fully. discos ery on, smoking and talking peace After an hour or so one of them dd a little card pinned to the tree, and on close inspection discover that it the name of the tree, It was the “Deadly Upas Tree!” Whereupon the travellers posed and had a snapshot ed bare made of themselves button. And thea they went on their way rejoicing. Why She Biushed, Of course she was indignant when it Yet there wag hind her had kept steadily after her “And he's old enough to be in bet ter business” she sald to herself, in digoantly., “I'll cross the street juss to maks sure whether he is really fol lowing.” She crossed the street and so did he, Then she turned on him, “Sir,” she said, “why do you persist in following me?” He started. as if wildered, and sald: “Madam, why do you persist in pre. ceding me?” Two doors farther on he turned in, producing a latchkey as he did so, and showing in other wars that he had renched his destination. She turned back and went round the block rather than pass that house and her face was still red when she feached home, =~hicago Post. The Terrors of the Red Ant, The red aut is a bore fighter, and is one of the most annoying pests of the Indian jungle. Not only is its bite extremely painful, but its tenacity is such that, haviog once driven its man. dibles into your flesh, it will allow it the boughs overhead, Almost immedi. ately a colony of red ants descended in a shower on the heads of the unfortun- ate occupants of the guddee, or cush. loned seat, on the elephant’s pad, The scene that followed wax a Yively and i exciting one, The victims, who were all natives, made frantic efforts to es. | cape, for the insects, angry at having been thus rudely disturbed, attacked | them furiously, One native man, yell ing with pain, made a most undignified retreat by way of a back somer- gault over the elephant's tall, while the driver leaped from his perehh into a mines of undergrowth, where he made fran- tie attempts to free himself of his ven omons attackers. The two or three remaining natives, after dancing wild ly ou the pad, pawing thealr, thrashing and making other efforts to dislodge the intrnders, finally slid down the and howled for assis. tance, As for the elephant, which, by virtue of its tough hide, was antproof, minhont themselves, wile it stood complacently looking on, and | doubtless could have of its It took us a long time to clear of red i+ wotdering what occasioned the antice riders, the pad sirange invaders, which Hterally while as for the bitten had lost all fur ther appetite for hooting that day. the coverad patives, they THE FIRST SUSPENSION BRIDGE Dire Necessity Was Its Mother in Rorven in 1502, The first be dignified by ROTORS 1502, sURpension bridge that can that name was thrown River Korea in again dire necessity dicta The Japanese in Pyeng f the defeat of winent, defermined to ‘Bina bad began to bestir of Korea, and the Jap. from Pyeng-yang by Chinese and Koerean ar southward toward pursuers arrived at the Im-jin in Here ted the ter O the 1 favor driven the combined hastened When the Im-iin refused to « eR, Seoul, the Chinese general ntinue the pur- Koreans would bulld large and strong passage of his 120.000 The Koreans were revenge upon the Jap iver, the oss and « suit unless a bridge sufficiently insure the men in famishing for aAnese 4 3 i Lio fo wes Fortwo safety, stopped by no ob- could men in iectidd enormous slirimnonnt. Main frie i all directions, fibrous 3 th of 100 » hawsers quantities t often att From this elgh Attach fet % carried vibe tha yards were woven or heavy timbers siren there in the Way ers dragged in the Bn, but the Koreans Niont (if water in Were “Wiies oeeasion ¢ onken ba inserted between the strands then the » torsion ght them a gon ten above “ii Lhawsers Lira Won tt was then i plied an hawsers, (and upor and gravel rogd-bhed amd hs had been SUSE IRH 1 army of all their and im This Chinamen, wil 163 FRARIETN CRINDD squipage, crossed in safety. the tortolse-boat, mrpose, was left Harper's Magazine, Fast, of are You Walk Very ever thought Have 1 tance you travel YOu while you an hour's stroll? Possibly you walk three miles in an hotir, but that does not represent the travel. The earth turns every twenty-four hours, call Cir distance Axes TON ils ronmd figures the earth's travelled during your hour's stroll a thousand miles in the axial turn of the earth. But thiz i= not all. Th” earth makes a journey round th sun every year. Put the distance of our planet from the sun at 802 000.000 miles, The diam eter 1s therefore 184.000,000 miles, and cirenmference described hy the earth STS.O00.000 miles, In other words, the earth travels around the sun each day 1.584.000 miles. and every hour for instance, the hour during which you took your walk-—the earth moved through GA000 miles, So, adding your three miles of leg travel to the hour's axial movement of the earth, this to the earth's orbital | journal and that again to the earth's ' exenrsion with the sun, and you will find you have travelled within the | hour 85.0980 miles. have SASHA. A Remarkable Elephant, Elephant intelligence is about “up {to the limit" in animals, and an Eng. | fishman tells of one that was accus {tomed to receiving pennies that it { would drop into a slot for a biscuit {If given a half-penny the elephant | would throw it back contemptuously, ‘but one day a boy gave it two half. pennies at the same time. For sev. eral minutes the animal held them in fix trunk as though pondering over their valine. At last he dropped the two together into the slot, with the result that he got the biscuit. He ap. peared to know that he had made an unusual discovery and frisked around in the greatest delight—Detroit Free Press, The Force of Habit, “Jen't there something the matter with the feet in this poem?’ asked the critical friend. “1 don't believe some of the lines have enough.” THE KEYSTONE STATE, News Gleaned from Various Parts. Latest I s— DEATH UNDER ENGINE. —— Ballrand Wreck Near Shamokin Due to Nut Placed on Track—~Fireman Morgan Killed —The Engineer Injured and Pas. sengers Bruised Locomotive Toppled Over an Enbaskment— Other Live News, A disastrous raliroad wreek ocenrred at a point of the Philadelphia & Heading Raliway opposite the sidisg running into the Buck tidge Colilery, near Shamokin, Fireman Rollin Morgan, formerly of Shamokin, but now of Newberry, was killed. He was 25 yours old and married, Eoginese Johan Gardner, of Williamsport, was badly bruised and lacerated, while a largs number of pas- songers were brulsed Ly being flung about the cars. The express trails, knows as No. 8, leaving Philadelphia at 8.36 A. M., in charge of Conductor William CObilison, was running forty miles au hour sround the curve at the switch satering the Buck Ridge Colliery, when suddenly the pony wheels of the eugioe jumped the traek. Engineer Gardner applied the alr aod cilmbed back to the tank ready to jump. The fireman was also on the tank, and ss the engive bounded over the sills it alarmed the passen gers und tralomen in the eonches, The engine ran s distance of st jeast 150 yards, when the pony wheels climbed the rails and rode upon thelr flanges for s short distance, They then jumped off again and within the length of four cars the josomntive toppled over the embankment, En ins Gardiner jnmped safely, but his flremas was buried beneath the tank and instantly killed, his teinalas being terribly crushed. The for ward baggage coach No. 442. was partly de- moilshed In front, but Clifford Potts, the baggageman, escaped with a shaking up. The train was made up of a baggage and smoker day coach, Puliman parior car “Polladoipbla” and a special car full of students. All of the cars excepting the one containing the students in the rear of the train, were derailed, Sentenced for Train Wrecking. Oliver Obl, of Tamaqua, aged 17 years, who on May 12 caused the wreck on the Littie Sebuylkiil Eaiiroad, which resulted in the loss of two jives, was sestenced by Judge Marr, st Poitevilie, $0 pay the costs, Dues sggregatiog $700 and to undergo an imprisonment of three years sod three months. There were three indictments against Ohl; first, placing an obstruction on the tracks; second, murder; third, involun- tary mansisughler. Obl by the advies of Lis counsel, pleaded gulity to involuntary mansisughter, this plea being satisinctory to the Commonwealth and agreed to by the court, Io the firetl case the court sentenced the defendant to pay the costs, 8 floe of £500 and serve two years’ imprisonment st separaie and solitary confloement. In the serond cass he was directed to pay the costs, a flue ol $200 and to serve fifteen months’ imprisonment, 10 date from the expiration of his first sentence, The traismes killed by Obl's thoughtiess act were Bamuoel Grier. engineer of the passenger i i { Denth's Bride. Miss Martha Hoover, daughter of Joba Hoover, of Claysburg, was found lying dead in the parior of the Kellerman Hotel, where she was 8 guest. The supposition fs that she became ill while in bed snd went down- stairs to the parior, where she died before rolisf eame, Bbe was 27 years old’ The theory that Miss Hoover committed suicide was disproved by the Coroner's Jrry, who, after an investigation, retursed a verdict that death had been caused b- apoplexy, The girl was to bave been rarried this month, it is sald, but arrangements for the woddiog were delayed. When fousd she was attired in what was to save bees her wedding dress and ber betrothal ring was on ber Ouger. Killed in » Runaway. Mee. Annf~ setion, wile of James Daniel Brittor, ui Bhenkel, Chester County, met deritt in 8 runaway aceldent. She drove to Yottstown in company with her little grand. dAuaghter, Grace, aod was selling raspberries to bousskespers. While driving on King Strest a bolt fell out, which frightened the horse and It ran away. In turning a corner both woman apd child was thrown out. The woman's head struck the curb, and the foros of the blow fractured ber skull She was taken to the hospital, but an hour later she died. She is the mother of un large family, The grandebiid escaped with a few bruises. Eagineer Killed in Wreck, The fast train east, known ss No. 18 on the Pennsylvania Raliroad, jumped the track st Stewart's. The train, one of the fastest on the road, was running at a high rate of speed aud at a crossing at that point the automatic switch felled to work after a freight had clesred the crossing, The loeo- motive turned over and Engineer W. W. Garland, of Altoona, was crushed to death, H. A. McAteer, the fireman, escaped with a tow bruises. The train was made up of soven mall cars and a passenger conch, The mall men were badly shaken up, but were prriously hurt, rursned From Poland.