£ THE DREAM SHIP, When the world is fast asleep, Along the midnight skies As though it were a wandering clon The ghostly dream-ship flies ‘An angel stands at the dream-ship's | helm, An angel stands at the prow, And an angel stands at the ship's side With a rue-wreath on her brow dream: | The other angels, silver-crowned, Pilot and helmsman are, And the angel with the wreath of rue Tosseth the dreams afar. The dreams they fall on rich and poor; They fall on young and old; And some are dreams of poverty And some are dreams of gold. And some are dreams that thrill with Joy, And some that melt to tears; Some are dreams of the dawn of And some of the old dead years love, On rich and poor alike they fall, Alike on young and old, Bringing to slumbering joys And sorrows manifold. earth their The friendless youth in them shall do The deeds of mighty men, And drooping age shall feel the grace Of buoyant youth again. The king shall be a beggarman- The pauper be a king In that revenge or recomper . The dream-ship dreams do bring. 186 So ever downward float the dreams That are for all and me, And there is never mortal man Can solve that mystery. \ . : But ever onward in Along the haunted skies As though it were a cloud astray-— The ghostly dream-ship filles, its course 3 Two angels with thelr Pilot and helmsman are, And an angel with a wreath of nt Tosseth the dreams afar. silver crowns ie go at this time of I'd the “You won't reall the year?’ “Rather! ber if Dick were at Journey.” “Well, I would n in the middle of Nove sweethearts.” Miriam laughed Dick had been separate years, and now he good berth in Toronto, to her lecide go in Decem end of the Atlantic a dozen it cross the mber and for three fallen into a bad written ti ey should both spend their winter in lonel whether to him settle down at as his wife, Miriam did not hesitate a moment, she get aside the shortest time possible for winding up ber affairs in England and arranged in the “Sovonian” from Liverpool to Halifax, + “But you'll have a dreadful overland Journey after that; it must be a long way to Toronto,” sald her friend Nora, “I don't know how you'll get through, all! by yourself.” “Ah! but I'm not going to. been sent by his firm to New some business, and he intends to take a berth in the “Meldrum,” a coasting steamer which will bring him to Halli fax about that 1 get there.” Miriam was in a fever of joy. and was altogether oblivious of such small matters as intense cold, a pitching, roll ing ship and battened down hatches, The good ship fought gaily through a stormy ice-threatened sen, and at last a morning broke, the sun shone fair, and the waves sank parative calm. Passengers on deck, congratulating each other on thelr escape from prison, and the anxi ous captain sighed with relief to think that the worst was over. He was upon his bridge, stamping up and down to keep the blood eireunlating in his feet, when ahead of them he saw a strange gpeck dancing on the waves, Ag It drew nearer he found it to be ain apparently empty boat; and he sent off one of his boats to tow the stray to the steamer. When it reached the side, however, the limp form of a sailor was lifted from it. Under eare and good treatment the blood began to run again through his stiff veins, and he was able to tell what had befallen him. But be. fore that happened his boat had been | hauled on deck, and the name upon it, “Meldrum,” made known. “How funny!” cried Miriam, steamer sailing from New York Halifax is named ‘Meldrom."” “Ay! Missle,” gaid a sailor, ominous. ly, “and this is one of her boats.” “But how can it be? had and to « whether iness or and she would go once to sail Dick has York on the same time when into a com- swarmed “a to | : How could it | i “If that poor chap lives he can tel | standing ear, but her tongue would not move, only her knees shook so much that she nearly fell. Her neigh. bor drew her to a seat, “Is the ‘Meldrum’ wrecked?" Miriam asked with tragic eyes, “1 do not know; but I hope not; that poor fellow will tell us if he lives.” That evening it was known that the “Meldrum bad collided with another vessel In the storm, and that though all boats had been lowered they had, one after another, been swamped. The res. cued sailor had just jumped into one when its ropes snapped and he was therefore, the only person saved, The stewardess took the tidings, with a cup of tea, to Miriam, as she lay in. ert and despairing on her sofa, and she let the woman gossip out ner news At last, the stewardess went away, and Miriam lay still, not thinking, only suffering. Later she crawled Into her bed, where through the night, visions of Dick, as a boy, ns a youth, as a man, rushed through her mind, Sometimes she saw his face shining through the darkness, but when she clasped him round the neck he was cold as ice and wet with salt water. When she woke she was out on the and not alone, a glant, 108 clothes changed thelr colos from light to dark. from black to brown, His great body undulated all the time, and when he put his arm round her he seemed to be surrounded with dry, suf- warmth. Then he pointed long arm to the northeast, and seemed slip farther away, though he still stood by her the monster length- ened into miles. Miriam followed him with raining eves, when a flash of lightning lit the and sea, It a moment round a distant = t which the giant was touching, a. il in that she saw a pleture which she never forgot, In the little circle of side; st up sky moment boat un- were crouched dozen huddling together, 10 eir bodies, She knew called his sudden a white virion light a gail trying by th in th der a some people, keep warm Dick shrilly; ovement in and was a ap. the wns there, there the human he face peeped out, pame and then 1 ay wih, the new Then Aird in her be am ighening the sky. fev rishiy «he g and the but sky but to see nothing the grayer sea, to of the and Breakfast but she heeded it not; for gray hear nothing engines wives hours to the came, she stood Immoval ing varks if hers mean? gn northeast ve the buly did that Dick floatin pa other : won when the wine PT a cloud and a i hands aer of smoke over shower in came mth. This slight dent awoke yard end i nected The | some YARgUe mein with her « wide, stance, and yet y cauguat w wpe d henrt. to the ship » them? sharply s footste sr down, Clutch ont dozen ‘aptain’ are ine of smoke! A dead” The captain glanced in How the direction indicated. should this yout ticed eye could not discern? guessed that she was the person said, had lost her lover in the wreck. “My dear.” he cried, patting hand, “go to your berth and lie down. You are in great trouble.” But the haggard hopeful eyes stared brightly at him. “For the love of humanity, use your glass. Yon will see know you will” To humor ber he took a careful sur vey of the horizon, upon which the shining At first shook Lis then he stood for a long time ex- the spot under the thin edge line of smoke. He rubbed his well and looked again, then they captain, them, I wns he head, amining of the glasses sald aunietly: “Something is there! Sit down In that corner and wait!” The course of the steamer was alter. ed slightly, a boat lowered once more to gather in the ocean's drift. To his intense surprise the captain saw that the distant object was really a boat without sail or oar. How could this girl have known it? Then the group of people became visible, all evidently in the last stage of exhaustion, and ha went over to Miriam and told ber to friend were there, She took it from his hand with a wild in the midst of a passion of weeping, Then she set herself to came in, When it did she was waiting For the next twenty-four hours she | the stewardesses, and saw Dick's eyes open with the first gleam of conscious. ness in them, With a contented look at her he fell asleep and on the ship's arrival at Halifax he, with all those who had been saved were well enough to be moved to more comfortable quar. ters on shore, The eaptain made friends with Miriam duging those few hours, and learned how it was that she knew the boat was afloat. He could hardly be. leve it, and he could not explain it, but was contented to secept the fact as It stood, and to be present at the simple ceremony which made Dick and Miriam man sad wife. CONGO CANNIBALS. Yictims Led About that Purchasers May Se: | lect Choice Cuts, le numerous Instances that | recorded In {llustration of the | organized traffic in human beings | which exists in Africa, reference may | be made to the conditions which hold | in the district through which the Lu- | lungn river passes, This river, constitutes a considerable atlinent Of the might be on the south bank of a point some eight hundred miles from the Atlantic | Within a short distance of the confluence is to be found a series of strongly fortified villages, representing headquarters of the Ngombi, wherein numbers of slaves are lm the periodical visits of traders from the Ubangl country, which is situated on the opposite side of the Congo. A visit to one of these slave depots at the mouth of the Lu lungu river reveals a condition of sav. agery and suffering beyond all ordina ry powers of description. At the pe- riod to which these remarks bear ref erence, it was no uncommon experience to witness at one time upward of a hundred captives, of both sexes and of all ages, including infants In their wretched mothers’ arms, lying groups; masses of utterly forlorn hu. manity, with eves downcast in a stony stare, with bodies attenuated by star vation, and with skin of that dull gray hae which is always indicative of phys leal distress, In cases when a suspicion existed of an individual « intention ability to escape, unfortunato doomed to lle hobbled a hole cut Const, aptive's or sucl while n ond ing it impossible fon of a log, spear- wns «(driven inte the Hmb, to move except eration. Oth prisoner's in the sect head the w close “ sclovine it renderit : nt the of lac. means expense io { ustody snfe binding both hands above the head to arms and pl the hair into a which was n At iz rvals these v who car the 1 3 + giepaans ting nnd fast to a brancl flages wy ne by Ubangi, r eanocs, and pro cess of barter menced, being urrency in the Upon the ite wa ret y of the transferred to the nsaction, the vis them as mai had been tedious Process Upon enc i captives Wore, «1 to many fm . exchanged hands, until aft deliber fattened, they n their subject ing eventually, tragic 1 ately fate, and their bodies consumed, There Is a prevalent of the ongo were belief among FIvermi that the improved tribes of the ip flavor of human flosl submerging the ja by the neck in pre iWD victim up to the water for two or vious Indeed, asiopgs It was my privile three days to sacrifice. upon g relense several creatures who nd ha river. In certain places, notably Ubangi, it captis en bou nd and foot to stakes in market in of the is an ordinary occurance for the in most the sinister fate of Proportionate wo to he exposed for aale, in view being killed and eaten, fn greater number men than of victims to cannibalism, the youn esteemed as being of great by reason of their utility in and cooking food. This rule however, hold good through for in the vicinity of the Aruimi river our observations revealed a con rary order of custom. Probably the most inhuman p¥actice all to he met with among the tribes who deliberately hawk the vie while still alive. In. as it may appear, the fact re- mains justified by an only too abund- ant proof: captives are led from place individuals may gE are value, growing does not, out, of in the por. they to acquire. The dis tinguishing marks are generally made by means of colored clay, or strips of grass tied in a particular fashion. The desire thus witnesses the bargaining for his limbs, is only equalled by the callous. ness with which he walks forward to meet his fate. In expianation of the extraordinary indifference thus dls played it ean only be assumed that conditiong of slavery offering so little attraction, Mania for Automobiles, It would appear from the data now | in our possession that in Europe there | are at present well over 7,000 owners | of automobiles, more than one vehicle, so that perhaps | the number of vehicles could be put at 10.000, Of the 7.000 no fewer than 5,000 are In France, The general idea has been that in France the interest was centered in Paris, but this is erro. neous, there being of the 5,600 no few. er than 4.041 scattered all through the departments, For the remainder of Europe the figures are far from com. plete, but it would appear that there are 208 owners of automobiles in Ger. many, 90 in Austro-Hungary, 90 in Bel glum, 44 in Spain, 204 In Great Britain, 111 in Italy, O68 In Holland, 114 in fwirerland, aod 35 in Russia, Den mark, Portugal, ete, As to the investment, If the 10,000 an. tomobiles in Earope be averaged at $1,000 aplece, they have cost the pur. chasers $10,000,000. In this country at the present time, the like Investment, averaging the automobiles at $2500 aplece, would only be $1,250,000, but the orders and contracts now in hand represent echiape ten times that get, while the Smpinies With a nominal paper capital of about $400, 000,000 have announced thelr intention of building automobiles, The Ameri ean output the coming year ought to be worth $10,000,000, and it will lnrgely electrical at that,—Eleetrical World and Engineer, : CURIOUS HABIT Is OF THE BEAR as Fat as Ever. “The time of the year when the bear the food supply. As soon as the snow gets deep the bear finding iged rned. whether the snow as nuts and gets scarce, He early the the latter part date. Old out as long as they can to ent. A captive bear so it is plain the food ix to den, not, vegetable food sometimes HE Conece also obl fa% goon iden ins but the usual ns find anything does so from necessity, weeks winter hollow the Oar will sometimes search for a suitable place for his home, Then he will choose a log or tree, a leaning weather glide of a the shelter of a there Is little way wander day time, Even in out when the ble around, tors.” stub or root, swamp, bush, While ground he deal in the at night, {0 Come and ram Lils quar cedar even on the good returning to his den KNOW about n midwinter he weather | and perl ned out.” (dat “Diat’s because he we Joe, wet bed, “Mi 13 snid “Sartin, bear n kim known bark Paendd, out a vibe so, Anyhow I hav gather up new moss and purpose of repairing his a rule, Le app Mrs to pick his den.” vy place for “Is It trae?” $e a 5 How Willie Was Fooled. woman in Harlem years old who is a hocks has a danght« natural Mi her gaye a wri 17 es Ss sometin HET Re parent = of propriety, the New ibune A mischi young + 3 hina 8 tie sits lend tis 1 who has a propensit) Kissing and the to leave th y walls on her, mother fol wise m alone together. On a when the were in the recent evening two wirlor it became nex for the mother to leave told would CREATY for » years vickel the house hour, so she her son, old, that she if he he parlor and see Mr. Brown and stay there till she 1 turned. When she got back the merrily playing the game of buff, When Mr. B Willie was rewarded “Did you have a his mother. “Yes” said did not that he employed watchdog they are pretty for a little like me to They kept ndfolded most time.” ive him a wonid go into t three were blindman’s hind gone the nickel, time?" Willie, was being “but fellow me hil row with good asked who KURpeCt as un hard catch of the Cement of the Ancients. Samples of cement used in the an. tique water conduits about Ephesus and Smyrna were recently subjected to ples were found to be quite similar in composition, The water works from to 300 years Inter. The chief constituent of the samples ! was carbonate of lime, but mixed with {it was from two to eight per cent. of organic materials. This was ascer tained to consist of a mixture of fatty acide. Experiments were made with a cement consisting of burned lime and olive or linseed ofl, but it was not found to be permanent. On the other hand, a misture of two-thirds air slaked lime and one-third olive ofl hardened readily apd posseised great endurance, leading to the belief that this was the compogition of the ancl ent cements which were analyzed, Whe Paid the Bills? in London, where two hundred literary women met one another. surged and swayed round the platform | after the recitation which followed the dinner, a young woman ventured to re. mark to one of the “old hands” upon the exceedingly prosperous appearance of several of the literary women, » ‘“I'bat is not literature—it is husbands.” BAPTIZED BY FIRE. A Religious Sect that Brands Its Converts with a Hot Iron. Kansas missionaries of the sect kndwn as the Plre Baptized queer Ar Pennsylvania, says the Philadelphia Record, and a furor in re ligious clreles has been stirred up by them In certain districts, These people do not believe in the baptism by water, but the later method—-by fire set forth by 8t. Paul in the Acts of the Apostles. This they regard as a per sonal privilege granted only who join their associations, They believe that ghould not have more of earthly than another, but that should share in common, In fact, go a little further than this and it the thirty-second verse of the fourth chapter of The Acts literally, and that thelr possessions are not their own, but given to them by a Di vine Being merely temporarily. They are from the River Brethren denomination, and during the first few weeks of thelr here the missionn attacks to those man pos all hey also one BEeSSIONSK say are weceders stay ries concentrated their almost entirely upon that church, iy however, they have turned thelr guns upon all relig and declare at their public meetings that their faith is the only guarantees ab oreo nt {018 sects, which in the life Baptized have about six hold two afternoon evening, On the affair, but their few, One of » of the most that set One solute The Jima snfety Fire nwa Grove, 10 Cone. located in miles from i meet and account of mmbersburg, They day-—one in the * in the of noes, they atiract CONverts these very in oN angelists home Ww ut a dozen rot | apt zed, 1 ag Bs to bra he in his hell y converts so far fen of the h. That the ihirs River Brethy is determined to the to present a hostile front seceders is shown by the expul an ther of the members of the mother church who greeted the ceders with the holy kiss. There tacit understanding that the members of the old denomination nre to have nothing to do with the new sect. For this offense several members of Bishop Martin W. Overholtezer's church “vere deprived of their membership. Were not the River Brethren an ex- ceedingly law abiding people it if the seceders would progress very far with their work. Should they thelr tirades against other de inations trouble will likely follow, there is talk of driv the community located, un se is A 1% ques. tionable continue Ho for them thes already ing from which are t in Mother's Visit. “Tbe other day, friend tice this on an electri softly: | {wo CC Car. 1 sa id want you io no man in front, he has his mother down the city on a little trip and is showing her the sights, His care of the old lady is something beautiful: I have been watching them for some time, and, oh how lovely it is to see a man so ten and Kind with his old mother! Straightway it became a fascination to watch in tarn the pair, who wes too much engrossed with the passing scenes-—one in pointing out, the other in observing-—to know or care anything for watching eves, The old lady's shawl weunld slip a little too low on the thin shoulders, and her ‘boy. a man himself getting on in years, would carefully draw it into place. One arm was thrown protectingly across the back of the seat, resting with a reas surirg touch against her arm. “And the pleasure and interest on the worn face! Well, it was a sight to warm younger hearts, and to msake us wish that every good old mother might be blessed with just such a son, or with a kind, loving danghter, who, when skies are blue and alr soft and balmy, would see that the dear old of wens evidently to der Ing change might be enjoyed and a lit tie of the care and thoughtfulness of past years be given back in a direc tion where it Is so richly deserved.” A six-masted schooner Is being built at Camden, Me, and seafaring men thereabout are much concerned what name shall be given to the sixth mast, CAtierfiggermut las been suggested seriously, and “Saturday mast” has itn advocates. The schooner Is to be near iy B75 feet lou: THE KEYSTONE STATE m——— News Gleaned from Various Parts. Latest LOVE LED TO MURDER: Thomas Rolland, Whe Shot Fis WIG Newur Gireensburg, Surrenders and Makes Btatementlinligns Stabbed Daring = Carounsnl Neur BStranton — Smsll-FPox Breaks Out at Jeanstte—~Otier News, Thomas Holland, who shot and killed bis wife at West Newton, surrendered himself to Constable Peters, of that town, Robland, snimost famished from hunger apd exposure und bleeding from an awful gash in his wrist, caused accidentally, he ssid, bys piece of giass, is greatly distressed, “I loved my wife and children, and it was love unrequited for my good wife that urged me 10 fire the shot. My broken heart wili be buried with her," suid he, and then broke out into a paroxysm of grief, *‘Domestie trouble such us I bave bad would drive a man to do soything.” Robland is very penitent. His wife and be disagreed nearly two years ago. Robland says outside lo- fluence fanned the flame of discontent until he and his wile separated. “The thought of living apart from ber worried me. My troubles bore down on me In an unguarded moment, Maybe I was crazy. I kliled her for whose love 1 would bave died. I was wot drusk.” Death of M. HH, Goodin. M. H. Goodlu, one of the best known pro- moters of light harness racing io this ecun- try, died from Ilsflammation of the bral. Mr. Goodin was for many years one of the leading lights of the Belmont Driviog Asso- elation, and to his ff of many suoceessiul meels were due, Until a few weeks ago he on chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Goodin was proprietor of the Bingham 3s: at Eleventh aud Market streets, Pulladeiphia, Capiain Henry McKinnle. Captains Henry McKinnle, one of the most widely known proprietors in the United States, died suddenly of heart dis- onse, At the time of bis death Captain Me- Kipsle was proprietor of the Hotel Ander son, tsburg, but for the past two years had practically left the management of the botel to his son. He was 77 years of age, and for many years had been familiar to the travellog public, both as a botelkeeper and as a steamboat captain on the packets plying between Pittsburg und New Orleans in the early days. Lote Five Wounded tn a Fight, During a carousal on No. 5 Mountain, near Beranton, a fight started among a crowd of nine Italiane. Aneillo di Bast! was serious. ly wounded, and Pacquall and Tony Voliell were badly gashed and stabbed, the first ed possibly fatally. Joseph Stimplinger, the proprietor, and his wife; susiained slight wounds in attempting 10 quell the disturbasce, The lesser wounded of the Volielis is the only one of the belligerents nrrested, nam Spread 47 Small-Pox. BEmall-pox in virulent form bas broken ont in Jeagette, five miles from Greensburg, and its presence has caused great unrest, A 12- id daughter of J. E. Black has been stricken with the disease. The child re. turned bome a few days ago from Ambersos, Indiana County. Dr. Hammer, represents. tive of the State Board of Health, also re- ported three new cases near Laughlinstown and one at Donegal, Typhold in William psport, The Williamsport Board of Health Is tak- ing vigorous measur«s 10 stamp oul au epl- demic of typhoid fever In the western part {the city. Eighteen cases are reported in one block. The board hes ordered a gen- eral cieaning up in that section and Is com- peillng connection to be made with city sewers, Owing to the large humber of fever eases at the hospital the managers of that institation have been compelled to secure more nurses, Theft of $2,250, Nearly $2.0 0 worth of negotiable paper and $750 in money was stolen from the store of Abram Breck, of Ludwick, near Greens. burg, The crime bas been charged to Lee Good, aged 20, of Greensburg. A warrant bas been issued Tor his arrest. He is miss. og. No War Labor Party. At a meeting of the Central Labor Union held at Seranton, the matter of forming an independent labor party was considered at some length, and it was fonily decided that the time is not yet rips for such a movement and action was therelore postponed for the present, Dead Body on the Tracks, The dead body of Frank Sabalesky, aged 850, was found horribly maogied on the Lehigh Valley Ballroad tracks, at Shennan. doa, Deputy Coroner Cardia suspecis foul play. » ———— Killed at a Rallway Crossing. John Heavern, aged 19, was struck bya train at the Brownstown Crossing and in. stantly killed, This Is the second death at the Crossing within a week, Nowe In Brief, The Farmers’ Ualon, of North Jvoventey, Chester County, heid its ancusl ploaie, Congressman LP. Wanger delivered an address, The Grand Jary, by a uasanimous vols, approved the report of the viewars in favor of a feos bridge across the Busgquebnans River at Derwick, Howard Steward, aged 8, while walking on the Pennsylvania Buliroad at Coatesvilis at an early hour, was stroek by & west bound passenger train and, it is believed, fatally injured. In trying to separate two colored men who had been quarreling at the National Hotel, Chambersburg, William Miller, an acne iy thrown to the track en Toot rushed, the ampatas gi porion of the member being nee.
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