2 A SONG OF THE ROAD. it seemed as If this wag the breath: ever way vou fare, with heart as light as alr: { No care for where the road you takes | a-leading—anywhere,— It can but be a joyful jaunt the whils you journey there, i The road you take's the path of love, an’ that's the bridth of two | And I will walk with you, my lad,—0, I will walk with you. Ho! I wil! walk with you. my lad, Be weather black or blue, Or roadsides frost or dew, my lad OI will walk with you. sters chronicled in fabulous history, I noticed that from the moment we than ordinary ind I mentally determined to double known his object 1 would in all prob- Well, at last we had seen all wished and prepared to ascend. we to follow, when my guide sald: “Nir, you have taken nothing as a your visit to our Aye, glad, my Ind, I walk with yon, whatever winds may blow, Or summer blossoms stay our steps, or blindling drifts of snow, The way that vou set face and foot's the way that I will go, And brave I'll be, abreast of you, the Saints and Angels know, With loyal hand in loyal hand, and one heart made of two, Through summer's gold, or winter's cold, it's I will walk with you. Sure, I will walk with you, my lad, As love ordains me to,— To Heaven's amd through, lad, 0 1 will walk with you. —James Whitcomb Riley, cott's, door, my ppine. in Li THE MANIAC GUIDE OF MOUNT VESUVIUS. I have in m; per col fused and shape, and time 1 ciuses a shiver to run through me, if suddenly plunging into a sea of ice Now it is not the manner in which 1 came by the colin that oceasions this unpleasant feeling, but the way in which it became fused and But here is the tale, and after perus ing it you can see if [ mn justitied in the disagreeable dings caused by the remembrance to deseribe. It was a August, 1860 We—that is myself, three other gentlemen and two guides, in all, were up rough, Mount Ve vius on our to explore its ter. No one but those who have heen | Pp wsession an old con twisted out of 3 every look at as Leh of the scene I am about beautiful, calm morning in fo say, slowly clambering tineven sides of Wis voleanie ravaged region ean form th slightest appearance, Not idea of its desolate, drear) a shrub or blade of grass lieves the monotonous extent of black broken in all tions, resembling somewhat the broken surface of a storm-lashed sen Half way up the view was sublime, and again would stop and allow our eyes to wander out over pue of i beautiful that I bad the pleasure to behold. The Wf Naples and kissed the islands of Capri its placid twin emeralds in a casket of si while fu pet westward stretched the blue waters of the Mediterranean until the mild hor zon and its shaded of nature; with its 3 reted towers. While eye could roam for over the fairy panorama of yards, villages, and villas, un til even it would be dazed by the hril lant hues and relieved when turned upon the arid waste thr which we were tolling, At last we reached the verge of the crater and The sights we saw and the sounds 'é heard wili never from my memory. Looking down into the immense ba: sin, we could he smoking, fiery cone situated in the center, sending up momentarily discharges of red hot matter. Our guldes informed wis no danger. but like courting death the yawning abyss, like the entrance itself, But at last, hesitation, we determined “do the mountain’ properly or die in the attempt. Bo we commenced the descent, it was a descent with hands and feet were at a preminm, and I'm not positive to this day whether I did not use my teeth, : Crawling here, hanging there, where fa misstep would send you a thousand feet down a shapeless mass, holding | by projecting rocks so hot as ty ~quee pain, sulphurous smoke and jety .° flame burst out here and’ there into] your very face. making breathing al | most an lmpossibility, ] Well, at last we reached the bot tou. i The scene was terrifying. I The ground we sto] om trembled above the awe-like motion of the boil: | ing, hissing mass beneath. ! Upon getting wore accustomed to the fearful surroundings, we could distinguish that everything in this | great laboratory of nature worked with clock like precision, The deep, heavy, piston-dike thud of the immense internal engine could be heard at regular intervals, and then from the valve. or more speaking, from the month of the cone, world dart chunks of flery ; rise fifty or sixty feet and then scoria, which lies pos] amd again we the prospects have bay « gently at our Ischilla ripnled foot dotting - = and like iver bosom, glasy surface were softs the master h Ii ‘I RO i 1 . ito ous hy ind nearer the iis ur farther inland the miles i matchless palaces, its and miles like fields again ag looked over, be erased see t seething thers that it seemed ns almost yentare gto which appeared to Dante's ufemio to after some to a vengeanoe: He was right. of the basin remind me of my visit, “Have you any copper you?" he asked. I felt in my pockets, Yes, 1 had one, just one, well-worn United States coin, to him. He walted a small plece of the hot compound. and when it did, I picked placed it in my pocket, The same instant the guide gave a yell and rushing toward it up and came and his eyes flaming. and of that dis agreeable grenish color. the cause of his strange actions. Was the voleano about to commences another eruption and crisp us to a cin der, or had some ’ of nature changed the voleanle surroundings as to render our entomb us alive. These were the thoughts which rush ed through my brain, aud before I knew it he Lad grasped by the throat and bore me down to offer to cried, as he com me “Another sacrifice charming Queen.” he menced dragging cone, sioRing due season to nceompany them back to the city, But as hour after and me still absent, an undefined, vague feeling for my safety ran through them and they deterinined to once more descend the ugly pit in quest of me, Which they did, at the risk of thelr lives, for it was late in the afternoon, when they started, Upon reaching the bottom they, afte a long search, found me lying in a deathlike swoon near one side and my gulde crushed to a jelly beneath the at the base of the hour rolled by of scoria They let Lim lie where he was, and to the city. It was some before 1 was able to leave my room, but, thanks to the indefatd gable attention of my kind friends, 1 weeks And now, kind reader, can von won der that even here, thousands of miles distant from of my trying ordeal, that a blood-chilling thrill raus through me when | at the old imbedded In ing of the scene look coin its cover ————— A RO MOVING PICTURES OF A TREE. Photograph Growth of Plans, The Agricultural Department, Wash the of nto of [REIT dogy Service SOlenee, “ The division vegetable i in one of its greenhouses, photo- he of a small oak growth tree, automat At into The The machine works cally, taking a pleture each night an electric | cireuit as the exposure is hour, ieht ILL Is IHitown made, and will be Kept going about two weeks longer on is present sab. When the series of pictures is it will be possible to duce with the of the repro. Wil first stereapticon the gi plan " Lie the appeared i in fall leaf and from the surprise which this unexpect ed maneuver o casionad, t at last I did and struggled to my I said, “von enough.’ he Inughed, fighting ti 1 up desperately force Cone, “My pet thinks It is a eapit al joke hear tl Hem So few! 2 ie appedse their hunger don't you ome, it Is your aud that will His fiendish flakes of lips, I saw eves glared into ming foams dropping from it in an instant the bamls of a raving would amount to mit strength * ie from a most the cone of Iouth ing beneath, | should be burnt to of time. I struggled desp . ®houting ie friemds Bur all in » evershifting clouds of smuoke and ist, wh in back my § & i IS fs a8 rendered suibility, My aesailant. Wie of thie base of the only hope was to over » 3 were pow within a few vards cone, and the was almost insufferable followed Diood-rexd Clowds of smoke and flame of from fio eid by SCOTIA. funnel huge | were vomii the black ke peak i was gradually foreed nearer and nearer. The perspiration started from every pore, and | EiowW becnme weaker, and would soon teenmbs: my physical strength wing no match for his conscious wi HE bnve tos urged on by a Pemdish pu pose, the product of a dis fatelioct, rth wa ensvd The « quaking beneath onr feet, the alr was stifling and preg. ei My face and hands had already com menced to Blister ander the he appeared to have his augmented at every step, I conld not fight much longer, Death, in one of its mos fate, pierced by hot irons: “God help. me!” I murmuoared. I opened my eyes; a mass of red hot (a charred, shapeless heapy to the By a great effort of will I regained sufficient strength to stagger off and reach the precipitous side of the ba. sin, when all became a black, impen- etrable void. When again I opened my eves | found myself lying In bed, with my friends bending anxiously over me, They formed me that they did not miss me until they bad reached the top of the crater and there my non. appearance was attributed to my ex ploring propensities, and, as 1 had as they supposed; an excellent guide, + the onk {roe pri tires it in intended rind photographs machine in watching blights like The Wt parasites and the aopes In the near to lend to the agricultus leges and experiment stad lantern slide film department’ snbijects It is pointed out that a le stidents cond and 1313387 Ix ¥ 4 Hb HUtes hie growth tion of any noxions plant stile, or the life bi pest so that it cold be read recognized and combats appearance in though the workers i! life i 1 1 ¥ itis ii NOL t § sen of In ns graphic itios he straight work expected of the designer intends to X-ray certain objects Yui it iw its five with #y ns pictiires nvisible wine v thoneght this sort taken in ths ould be of value aid might be adapted to period of Nn to stoek ihe medical profession in cer esearch Jumping on Snowshoes, at erick baselall na from the feat ‘ki rapning is to Norway wi and Not only is it no what Mt aside i inseioent it has a practical “hi i% of no mean importance long piece o strapped to the foot amd at frout end skntes of snow of Noreay for generations traveled in winter over hills from fa 1 farm and fiord to ford. Just ax figure and race skating were of the used in of their i= » I strong Fails slightiy turned the of [asants up iy nines those shiek the ave a ered ia tet lion to silding roaitits Imiteh bottom primitive binding feet fis boties the and way the most remarkable of the art is the jumping of and perhaps distances, Huving gained a tremendons impe. tug by running down hill on the ski, runner takes a leap nnd fies through the air for fifty, sixty or sev. enty feet, or even greater lengths, Why Americans Live In England. The first reason why rich Americans cause social conditions there are fixed and reliable, and because rich and poor where else on the globe, It is true that certain rich men and noblemen fake advantage of this liberty and shut in their parks to spend nolsy kinds, and that no one knows it at the time except their servants, It ie simply a fact that must be thrown into the balance with the rest of the conditions—this amazing feedom. this ahsence of a prying press with its de. filement of the privacy of men's homes and Hves, this makiog the home a cas tle, and enclosing every garden with a high stone wall, It ean be said of all the transplanted Ameriesns that they stay there, as one of them says he does, “because in America any min who has the means rides in a Pullman car, but in Bogland third-clees folks are content to travel with their own fnd in third-class cars." Julian Ralph, Fovors Calling flevenlter, Prof. This Country » Usona The hed Waterhouse * Louls article furnished by Professor Water house of Washington I niversity, on country, the chlef points herewith given: HAL present there that distinctively try. the wi 8 nn proper describes this coun whale western hemisphere, The people of Canada and Mexico, of Cen. tral and South America are all Ameri tension which claims that title exelu.- States of North Awerica, “The United Staten’ 2 an awkward expression. It is plural form singular in seuse. It not afford personnal or adjective in doex mn are inndmissibly harsh, ‘United Riates of North America’ is au exact designatiop of this country. ‘The first letters of these thio ‘Usona.” This term is agreeable to the ear, definition. words form 11s Introduction wonld sub- stitute f the Incomplete United an full and exact that no foreigner could misunderstand ig Biates address so it, “Formerly the general infor from the four quarters of the globe by placing at the ‘North, East, West, initinls of these that the term ‘news’ w “It Is States stands for ‘Unele press fgdicated that its mition was fiends of ts Columns Fre ROme South.” im the words assert vind nited ail this is deg facetionsly saa Sam burl jue personification has found a permanent place in our language. The fsrant supplanted by baptismal names of Generals and Jackson have heen the universally used names which ace cident or vi: Physicists have invested the vil! F INeXDressive watt, ohm an ti pe with meaning them into the ence “In Int fine Hew tertns ‘Usona’ and ‘Usonis the needs of exact mmatical conver fis CNL A Vi d4% to deserve The adopt in en 2 . our anguage ; effect new vords nace in Mit will press of fhe Li Cedar Used in Pencil Making. vifte-tenthis of the lead pencils used “" are iuanufactured of ry large part of in Florida,” said a well Some so-called lead pencils codar ord HO cedar. a ve ErOWn clurer maoufa Amerie 85 are made in Europe from which they are irom thi untry Europe In logs and manufactured In proper shape after it Rrrives there, There number of throughout world, but the cedar is particularly valuable manufacture of lead pencils. It of a very fine structure, the grain being hardly distinguishable, sad can be worked up to the last inch, In the an tured the all is shipped COMmes It Mivenient to sized are on cedars Fi tue rida x bie but for the an cedar is ex For all practical pur poses all the pencils used in Europe are manufactured of Florida cedar. Much of the lead, plumbago and graphite which Is used in them comes from this country. number of woods in Europe that are tise] In manufacture of but the winding sther cedars cag used. finer goods the Amer clusively used tiatches American pines are gradimils all ont, for the shat the American p nes can be and worked at other consumed or the them PeRson handled any of woud Joss than The matches amounis to CX Pore woods, in foresty amount itwo Fins h bit three of trees n day. even with this consumption hardly ans inroad haz been made, for the growth more than Keeps up the supply. The American mateh, as well as the wood, How goes all world The business is simply enormous, and it is constantly increase,” Washington Star. iO paris of the $4 wl on co Champion Snake Snapper, The soll of Bridgeport is very pro lific of snakes, They grow there, along the river banks and ouder old. weeds walle, in an amazing way. Children carry little ones about in their pock- ffs, putting them in one another's lunch boxes at school by way of a and the bare band. Jess Trump, a young «dyer, is the champion Bridge port suake slayer, amd whenever he Inhabitants gather about to see him kill it. Tle first puts his foot on it then he takes it cracks it as a carter cracks a whip, be this young man will net hesitate to crack it, and hie has never yet failed to snap the head off of any shake that we has tackled. ~ Philadelphia Record, BS SS ASL SES. A Remarkable Discovery, Professor I, G. Brinton, the famous authority upon archacology and lu gulstics, has given his valpable libra. ty upon these subjocts to the Univer. sity of Pennsylvania, topether with many writings embodying his person. al researches, It is doubtful, however, whether his papers include the follow. ing incident, the truth of which ix vouched for: While in Mexico, on one occasion, the Professor was the guest of the National istorical Society of that re | while discussing with inte the average pron, the Professor attention to eramial peculiar transmitted from these ancient “There,” he sald, pointing to a la borer who was worklug ou the street, “is. nn type in which apparently the influences were Tollee and the pateraal Maya or Carib,” 1 mee.” mald the member, “Notice the forehead,” sald the Professor; “it all the charac of that?" man's hw the sup- “Phat's that ye're ave saying, ve long legged I'l have ye know we n O'Bhannessey and me Finnegan” “Phat's interrupted fayther was it Philadelphin When Egyptian Girls Marry. Egyptian girls marry at the of twelve or thirteen and some earlier, Few remain unmarried after sixteen years of age and many thirteen. It Is quite a coon occurrence among the Arabs man to marry his first cousin, This sort of a union Is generally last ing on this tie of blood. The man is seldom allowed to see the face of his cousin for some years be fore marriage. The parents betroth and marry thelr daughter to whom they please, if she is very young, but after the age of fourteen she may have fa voice in the matter. The giving of a dowry by the bridegroom Is Intely indispensable. The usual amount if the parties are io moderate circum about Xl. that of the wealthier classes is twice that amount. The bridegroom is not allowed to ob tain a glimpse of the features of his uitdess she belongs to the lower easy are mothers at account of abso. is bride, when it iz an enough matter. In general the waits about eight or ten days after the Meantime and bride's classes, bridegroom the contract, fruit, swWeetimeats of value. The at the same time oceoupled conclusion of he sends Ler many family are in preparing 1 bold furniture and articles for her a stock of house Arexs etrolit Free Press A California Farm Telephone, The Bail Valley Land has a telephone the which consists of the that about ten Company line of barbed fences, We use a All the ery close. and JN sysiem ordinars was alreads ¥ on the 1 I wire It good in tiles Mig. telephone instrument, connections are made vy with the ground down conpectad either by io wire is ANY way, hanging or by touching any other wire that does it reach the ground In crossing roads and gates the pre way Is enough to carry an overhead wire, but water ferabie to have posts high we iron the took threewsighthdnch pipes and laid and most of the roads and then ran a rabbercovered through connect with the barbed wire on earch side, bending the ends of the pipe up at the sidex of the gates or roads and then filling the ends up with putty to keep water out. This character of telephone line will well ax any insulated but not at all when them under gates wire thems to just as line in dry weather it is raining, because then the current runs in ground. As soon as posts have time to dry off after a rain all right again. Such lines will work for any reasonable distance, say from to 100 miles, but in States where it often rains they will not do well American Agriculturist, the the it is ane Sure fo Follow, descendant of a distin of President Lin of fash Mr a is a butterfly and coln's cabinet, of galety rain sunshine rather than wonld pever think ting him with anything tr ic and solemn, Not long ago. Mr. X. town in a street car with fashionable undertaker. When his fare was asked for he offered the cone ductor a ten«dollar bill, the only mon. found in his pocket, which refused, sald fon whiow n fare characteristics and gloom ine # of Con ag ag rordee down the ta be was promptly “Allow me” ey the undertaker, have enjoyed my ride with yon sald Mr, NX. when he rose “Many thanks for if” very welcome,” replied the and then, grimly: “It is not the last ride youn will take with Washington Post, >] to go, “You are ss Americans and Shakespeare's Will tieperal J. 6G. Wilson, writing abomt Shakespeare's will, says: “The at not recognizing the visitor's ‘Hew Now or German see it, and manltitades of Them Americans are mad about Shakespeare, A hundred of ‘em come here for one Englishman. So many of ‘em handled the will that thei to mee Shakespeare's will, sald: follies to bottom of the urst aud second sheets, adn so we find "em framed. "New York Tribune. LH ARRAN When the Man Refused, A certain Irish Member of Parlin. ment, popular and a bachelor, had been very polite ts the danghter of the house where he was visiting, When the time came for him to go, the tooanxious mamma called him in for a serious talk. “Um sure 1 don't know what to say," she went on: ‘th reported all around that youn are to marry Letitia.” “Just say that she refused me” quietly advised the par liamentarian., : nis The money received from penalties Philadelphia amounts to about STONE STATE, News Gleaned from Various Parts. THE HE nati. FUNERAL ON, HIGHWAY: ———— AChuren Quarrel Nevessiintes the Con ducting of Obsequies by the Koadside The Members Mebuked—-New Iron snd Aten! Plant for Chester, ‘an Which G00 Men Will be Employed. The sermou st the funeral of the late Richard Morrison, 8 well-kuows eitizen of Chest Township, Clearfisid county, was, 6s the outcome of a bitter church quarrel, preached on the public round, sud was inrge~ ly devoted to a scathing rebuke of the living members of the chureh of which the dead WmAD was a member. ev, Mr, Brinnton was tent In 1895 by the confer-nee of the Metho- dist Protestant Chureb to the chureh at Mahaffey. Because of dissension in the son- gregation the conference soon sent Bev. Mr. Badier, who entered into possession of the cbureh, Another commities then in- vited Rev. Mr. Brisston to returo, and be accepted their Invitation, The result of the conflicting claims was 8 suit in equity in Which the court entered s decrees er joluing Rev, Mr. Brinton from preschisg in the Methodist Protestant Cbureh, When Mr. Morrison died his son asd two daughters were adherents of the defeated minister, and insisted that he presch the funeral sermon, The body was -brought to the chureb, but the trustees refused to let Mr. Brisston en ter the sacred edifice, abd the mourners re. fused to permit Mr, Sadler to preach the funeral sermon. As a compromise the mourners stopped the bearse lo the middle of the public rosd, and Mr. Brianton spoke an bour and a balf “under the canopy.” While be sald iitle about the merits of Mr, Morrison he delivered a scorching phillipls against the sncoessful faction in his church, The cburch members were greatly scandal. ized, aud the organization is split into two sngry Iactions, one following Mr. Brisnton sud the other being adherents of Mr. Sadier, Big Industry for Chester. Over 600 men wili be gives smpioyment ia a new fron and steel plant which witli soon be erected along the Delaware river froot at Chester, A company bas bees or- ganized that will bs backed by capital to the extent of about bsif & million dollars, Application bas been made for » charter at Harrisburg, through Jobs © Jobuson sad Francis P. Pritchard, of Phiiadeiphis, who Are the attorneys. The works will be ioeated on the river front atthe foot of Harwick street, where the cecessary bulid- ings and machinery will be erected ss soon Es the necessary arrangements can be som- pleted, Engineers are now at work pre- pariog plas and details, The good news bes brought joy to the hearts of the pecpie ia the south western section of the eity. Woman's Ftrange Death, Charles Goff, aged 60 years, a bricklayer, Is under arrest pendivg an ofMeial investi- &ation of bis wife's death, which oeeurred al sn eariy hour Saturday morning under peculiar circumstances, Goff went home about midnight and, it 1s said, began quar. relig with his wile. Neighbors were aroused by ber eries for beip, and when they arrived at the bouse Mrs Goff was found in a dying condition. A physician was called, but she died shortly after bis arrival. A superfleisl examination failed to show any marks or bruises op the body, A pair of false teeth was extracted from ths dead woman's throat, but the physicians would not say this was the cause of her death. To Bull) New Steel ¥iant. The Logan Manulacturing Company, a newiy-chartered concern that bas just cated at Phoenixville, awarded the con. tracts for the buliding of thelr large steel plant. Ground will be broken at once, The Penusyivanis Boller Manufacturing Com. pany, who recently bought the bridgeworks of Jobn Denitborde, Sous & Co. will pro. ceed at onee to erect now buildings snd re- model the old ones. As soon as the Im- provements are completed the company will move their large plant from Germantown to Phoenixville, The company will give em- ployment to 200 skilled mechanics at once, Transfer of Waynesboro Water Works, The Waynesboro water and gas companies were turned over to local capitalists, The controlling Interest in these two concerns, who combined eapital represented more than #150000, bas been held by the George 8 Moyer estate, in Pbiladeipbia. These companies were organized in 1882 and did not cost the promoters more than $50.000 ae that time, i= Fire in un Hotel, The Passmore House, one of the oidest hotels in Philipsburg, esught fire, aud be. fore the Hames were put out, was damaged 10 the extent of $10,000, on which there is a partial Ivsurance. The guests all ee eaped, although some of the servants lost niore or less of their clothing. James Dass. more is proprietor of the hotel, i —— Lockjaw Cured. Rix eases of lockjaw have been cured in Conuelisvilie by sub-cutaneous injection of about four drams of anti-tetanic cecum. These cases resulted from toy pistol wounds incurred on the Fourth, most of the victims belug boys. ——— Escaped Prisoner Captured, Jobn Lawless, of Shamokin, was arrested and taken to jail. Last May, while in the prisoner's doek at Saubury Court House awaiting trial for the neglary of a Shamo- kin business house, Lawless walked from the dock and escaped, sluoe which time nothing was heard of him, ——— Kgited by Fall Buus Mine Breast Reuben Kramer, aged 26 yer, fred a shot in the Mabanoy Colliers, Shamokls, and lanier when he entered the Least he was overcome by powder smcke and foul ale, Falling on the floor, be rolled 175 foot down, the breast snd was instantly killed, He ia survived by a wide and nine children, :
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