—— i A IA simon A500
a] A HERO AND HEROINE,
He was a grim old fellow,
As stern as a man could be,
Who did odd jobs for a living:
A washerwoman was she
A shabby, forlorn old couple
As ever the world has seen;
Yeti he was a noble hero,
And she was a heroine,
He fought with the largest army
That ever marched out to war,
fn the world-famed “Battle of Dollars
and Cents,”
To keep the wolf from the door:
B3he ruled o'er a growing kingdom,
Nine riotous girls and boys,
And faithfully bore the burdens
Of a sovereign’'s cares and joys.
And when, at last, were van-
quished, |
This queen and her soldier brave, i
They patiently started adown the hill
Which leads to a pauper's grave—
A shabby, forlorn old couple
As ever the world has seeng
Yet he was a noble hero,
And she was a heroine.
they
|
Clear out!” sald Simon, grufily.
And the door was shut unceremoni-
ously {a the traveler's face,
Old Paul smiled sardonically to him-
self in the storm and darkness,
“I'l try my luck a little further,”
sald be, half aloud. “My nephew Si
mon evidently doesn’t believe in
scripture theory of entertaining
unawares. Well, well
or two further on; and
for me. My old bones ache and my
head feels dizzy-like, Let us see now
what Herman will say to the old way-
faring man? This must be the house,
where the light shines out so cheerily
through the red curtains.”
And once more Paul Copperfield
knocked on the panels of the door upon
whose sill the snow had already spread
a mantle of ermine,
it's but a step
it, with a candle in one hand.
“What's wanting?” inquired,
unkindiy.
come in and warm myself?”
“It's an bleak night
missed my way.”
him come
a volee that
fi score of
and Paul
she
“Can 1
asked the stranger,
and U've somehow
“Yes, tell
Phoebe!” called out
like Paul Copperfield’s own,
years younger and fresher,
obeyed the summons.
.& was a smaller and less pretentious
in,
WaS
yo! to
UNCLE PAUL'S NEPHEWS.
By Ruth Ransom.
One stormy winter twilight at a soli-
tary little Gothie gabled railroad sta.
tion, four passengers alighted, as the
train made momentary pause—a
stout, elderly man, in black, with
stout, elderly wife; a tall, stooping
young man, with eyeglasses, and a
book under his arm: and an erect, griz
rle-headed personage. in an ancient
butternut-colored coat and a mangy
fur cap.
“Eh-—-what?”’
gentleman, as the driver of the one
horse team—who had come down in
the forlorn hope of turning an honest
penny out of somebody—proffered his
services, “Ride! What should 1 ride
for? Haven't 1 got a pair of legs of
my own?"
“Why—yes—sir,”
man, slowly
fimhs, “1
unl
iss
its
his
crustily demanded this
Jethro ©
the sturdy
Most
said am
surveying
Jou
hey've
t with ¢
aave,
spose
have, heen
nate as
it's comin’
now
“Let it
interrupted Mr,
ain't of
I'm every ways able
way!”
So saving. he
fur cap inch
and set off up the
Jethro ( $
nd
Squire Te
walk te
was likewise
Pipford, the t}
theories on the
to mee
on
storm.”
for a
SNOW H
Paul
afeard Snow!
pulled the brim
an or two
more
eyes, hill,
‘amman got
drove away,
spliff and
iles than pay
wife
nn its, and
Percival
had
xX
well aware that
weological student
subject of
ercise that precluded all
hire,
“Humj
Copperfield
up the hill
took away
sh! humph!™
to him
whose
his breath,
is made up of contrasts!
gale pattern they
Here am 1, after
and ten in Europe, back again
the very old huckleberry
stone walls I used to know as a r
barefooted It's rising
little things changed!
only one that
steepness
Flo
years in
as SAY
in
twenty
pasiure
boy! Up
have
Is changed
Thirty years! I'd give all
made—yex, and
bartfooted boy
three red
nothing
was rich then
welcome—to Ie
once more bringing
OWS at n
pocket but heles! |
rich in a thousand
things that have melted away from me
gince like morning mists “un
shine—-Faith, Hope,
the better part of one's life!
was that a flake of snow?’
Blow and soft, the floating flakes he
gan to cloud the air, and the winter
night was settling down over the bleak
Inndscape in earnest
“I don’t care!” said old Paul Copper
fleld. plodding on “There's a warm
welcome waiting for me, if 1 may trust
my nephew's letters. There's—let me
gee, do I turn off here? or ought I to
go on to the next cross roads? Things
have changed hereabonts, the
old stone mill the finger post
taken down--nothing as it ured to be
Well, I'll risk it. Whew! how fast it
snows! [I believe it's settling down
for a northeaster.”
Ax the old man stood, puzzled and
undecided, light streamed from a farm
house window across the bleak fleldse.
“I'll go there and inquire,” sald old
Copperfield. “It can’t be far, anyhow,
and both the boys live night together
somewhere.”
Climbing over the stone wall. not
quite as briskly as he used to do fifty
years ago, Paul Copperfield hurried
fieross the fields to the house and rap-
ped on the door. It swung open on
creaking ninges, revealing an interior |
of ruddy eandlelight and blazing logs.
“Who is it, Simon?’ squeaked an
shrewish female volce,
go about his business!
nothing for tramps!”
Bimon Copperfield, a sharp nosed,
scant whiskered individual, hesitated,
with his hand on the door.
Old Paul eyed him keenly beneath
the brim of the mangy fur cap, and |
sald:
home ight, with
in his
the
and all
Heigl
Ho
in
Charity,
#0 just
qoue,
Ed
We've
only a night's lodging.”
“And our best bed room all made up
for Uncle Paul!” shrilly ottered the
woman by the fire, “A pretty notlon
that would be! Simon, why don’t you |
shut the door? Go about your busi
ness, man! We don’t keep tavern, me
and my husband!”
: 't you hear what my wife says?
Where a bright
hued rag carpet had adorned the floor
of Simon Copperfield’s kitchen, there
were only whitely-scoured boards to
be seen here, and the supper-table bore
marks of extreme economy. But Her
wan Copperfield rose up with a cheery,
welcoming face, and his apple-faced
wife drew forward a cushioned wood
rock
Take this
en ET.
seat by the fire, sir,” said
“we're just sitting down to sup-
per. I'll get you a bowl of hot tea di-
rectly. Phoebe, take the gentleman's
cap, amd put another log of wood on
the fir
“Bad night,
ing nearer
come
‘Unite
she;
sald Herman, draw
blaze. “Have you
sir,"
to the
some ways?’
avert
gaze;
road somehow,
stay all night?’
said Herman, refle
expectin® | a relat
but he hain't put In
till he you're
weleome to h & room. Eb,
tit ly, sald Mrs
rightly t ain’ 3 1 of a place
said Paul,
ing his face from the curious
and I've my
Perl MIPS | you can let me
“Well,
Hp
a distance,”
missed
ctively,
was ive from
abroad. an
See,
ariel COIMes
wife?’
“fort: Copperfield,
it, and our
all the fall
the “Job's
to work
it, all of
' to make |
We he
ways did squeeze
He
tice m
wouldn't + ft eTrust of
iy, not
resthed.
bre:
a-dyin’
Rij
il to
before his face! VW
get ont in Life di fe
ret 1 hung the
‘Bally, there
from thi
is
was
and
Ww hen
door on its hinges,
shan't no one
door,” and
Simon says that's what's kept
but I'll risk that and will
they
iar
Nally rent
Ray
he turn
there neve?
has, us
HOOT “ey
Sally.”
fut your uncle?
persisted Paul
“Well, folks do say
iderable 0° property
it to him
he's got
I don't
He's worked for it, aud |
he'll live long to enjoy It 8i
different now He's ecalenlatin’
how he'll fall heir to it
money, vith Simon! |
believe he'll have comfort
heaven, if there ain't savings banks
and compound interest there! And Un-
Paul's of life ought to be
as Nj He's only G1 years
hope
mons
a'ready
it's
dan't
R011
money,
cle lease as
god
old.”
“You're wrong there,
old Paul, “i
in" March,
day.”
mon s,
said
com
Herman,”
this
thirteenth
am sixty-thiree
if I live to see the
honsehold,
began Herman, “it ain't pos
youre my Uncle Paul?”
“No one e anid the old
laughing. “Come and Kiss me,
assembled
“Why,”
gible
fou
18,
man
Phoebe,
Troubles’ bed quilt. It does a lonely
old man good to know that somebody's
been a-thinkin' of him.”
The
sudden cheery lustre, but fits lHght was
nothing to that in the faces of
family groun
guest,
“I'l go over and fetch Rimon” be
‘gan Herman, starting ap and grasp.
{ing hig hat. .
you needn't,” sald Uncle Paul
“I have seen quite enough of Bimon”
Thus the rich old exile came home
{to his Kindred, and thus he wag re
Leelved. And Mr. Simon Copperfield’s
hopes of an inheritance are consider.
| ably diminished since that stormy
| night in December,
Hereafter bells that can be heard a
distance of H00 feet must be attached
to all scavenger wagons in Chicago,
and those bells must be rung conting-
ously while the wagons are in service,
which may be between sunset and sun-
| rise,
| A barometer thirty-six feet long has
been placed on the tower of a Paris
Church.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Matanzas mule is eclipsed. |
bardment of Kimberly smashed ‘‘one
cooking pot.”
i
Oregon that in an emergency case a
physician may drive across a bridge
to ordinary trafic,
A jury in Chicago has just awarded
500 to a woman injured by a street
while she
this instance, at
was getting off. In
After the convict has served out his
Maine Pententiary, and
him by the State, he is required to
sit for his photograph, and it is kept
for future reference.
Mississippi is without a Bureau of
Statistics or any board of the kind,
and consequently the State officers
are much hampered in their efforts to
give adequate replies to persons hav-
ing to settle or make investments in
the State,
Premier Seddon of New Zealand,
worried by the unemployed and the
decreasing birth rate, has announced
will bind himself to marry inside of
six months he (the Premier) will find
him immediate work,
The question whether the ancient
Egyptians made porcelain seems to
have been settled at las’, Specimens
heretofore found were pronounced of
Chinese origin by experts, but a fray
ment of a recently found
near Memphis is declared to be real
Egyptian by Chatelier,
statuette
The New York m
killed in his bull
ance, because the
loaded, fell a
take which all
sooner
agician who was
‘atehing perform
gun fired was really
to the fatal mis-
men of his pre
throu
failure of mem:
ete
vietim
ion
make inter
lessness or 8
or th care
The trans
equal to
Arizona she was in
flectest of the
lantiec. In an
capable of Ix
into a powerful
ted trans
1 to be
in the world
port Hancock
ship afloat,
her day or
greyvhoun
quick ily
re-cOonairn
is believe
Conduits are gn
Europe through
perseverance : {
combined
Sooner
will be
Europs
and
to be at l¢
with
later,
the rule 1n
but «
Or
Ne
business bai
Ast a ©
A ¢ }
by the Sup
A Jewish me
his mother ti
upon the ¢
Conrt of
the
rew a (gus
fin and said,
lived, striven: we shall
more,” For this expression
arrested for blasphemy,
that hie had denied belief in the future
life. Int court did not take this
nd he was acquitted.
(Crermany
of
earth
have
ant at funeral
tity of
“Yon
Bo you ne
be
on the
"as
charge
3
the
The Chicago City
passed an ordinand
for the
examining engineers,
Couneil has
o which provides
establishment of a board of
who will pass
upon the qualifications of all appli-
cants for a license to run an elevator.
Prior to this action it was shown that
most elevator accidents due to
incompetency on the part of the op-
srator,
were
The death of Ottmar Mergenthaler
inventor of otype” machine
for setting type, removes a man whose
the *‘i1
revolntion
ing
fg press,
made
In fact, Gutenberg him-
no more important
tribution the “art preservative of
all arts” when he invented, or put
into practical use, the movably types
con-
to
There is no question that the Hol
land submarine torpedo boat will
revolutionize harbor defence, if it can
be successfully handled. And there
is very little question that the recent
trial under the supervision » the
Naval Board of Inspection wid Sar
vey was measurably successful and
full of promise for future achieve-
ments. The government will un
some of these boats, and continue the
experiments and perfect the plans,
ventor, whose private means are not
able to maintain the costly enterprise.
It is said that an eccentric under
in California advertises that
‘children will receive as careful at-
and as a
eateh phrase he uses, “You'll be glad
you're dead if 1 bury yon,” which
seems a questionable compliment
This, however, is not much worse
than the New York doetor who adver
tises, ‘Come to me before life is ex-
tinet.”’ Another instance of modern
advertising is the following placard
which ie hung ontside of the entrances
to a Methodist church in Northern
Towa every Bunday night during the
regular services: *‘Souls saved while
you wait—step in,"
Sessions,
With the introduction of motocycles
and motor carriages the terms * “hicy.
ele,” “bike” and “wheel” are threat:
ened to be abolished ina new classifi
eation that is, coming into vogus for
the purpose of the motive
For the begin-
0. Behwarzkopf of the
i Automobile Club & responsible, In
the latter a hippo-mobile.
ber,
cycle is, therefore, a homo-mobile,
The Boston Herald says: ‘A
was brought into the
with neglecting to support his wife,
He pleaded guilty and was fined $20,
Thereupon his neglected wife stepped
her, under the provision of the law
relative to non-support cases, which
provides for the payment of the
amount of the fine imposed on the
husband to the wife when the
so directs, The law appears to be
operates queerly sometimes, as in this
case,”
The attention of the Audubon So.
ciety has been called to the practice
of blinding finches to make them sing,
and this modern cruelty has been
brought to the attention of the Min-
ister of the Interior of Belgium,
where the practice is most common,
He has sent ont a warning and has
asked that a law be enacted forbidding
this inhuman practice, This extra-
ordinary cruelty has been in vogue,
it seems. for years, Finches natu-
rally sing, but it is said that their
singing is greatly improved by blind-
ing them, It has been the practice,
therefore, to have singing matches
between blinded birds and those that
uid as well as between blind
singers, The best singers were, of
course, more valuable, hence the
co see,
and
hideous practice.
Thirty years ago the Florida orange
was stil unborn, During that period
hundreds of been
evolved Florida soil, purely
A
varieties have
on
result of intelligent
A hundred of these least have su-
perior merit, In grapes we have
veloped in less than :
wild Ame
erican activity.
A century
rican Wigs, origin
i int almost endiess
of
newhat longer period
3 app ex 3
devel
is : i
s lave given
wide repu-
ee of Old
DIAS roll
ting in
the bottom of
CAVES,
va, level
rive
raminage
Bpeciluens
Opes and fix
sully bodies,
for
tros
earth winters
aria, Ail
1
auiQ
{«
tains and descend into 1
When the nee
ted, if they
to Mars
3
G0 we
fers, fal 1
re ever are
£4 fue
to it, shall go
into the of the earth,
iless of dangers, for the purpose
ignorance ax to
there. And
inven
shall be
found
down
soar Way
miles
bowels
regar
of dissipating
what actually exists
every part of the surface of this
sphere, including ! North Pole and
the millions of sq. .ro miles of now
unexplored and
which surrounds it,
within human ken
our
be Lirvngnt
Wealth in the Great Lakes.
The G Lakes have become the
great artery of our riches: commercial
blood. One-third of the population of
he United States is dependent on these
— « for their export amd import trade
This waterway taps the richest and
Most prosperous agricultural territory
oni this continent of ours, together with
our nu productive mines, and it
worth while noting that within a ra
dings of 400 miles of Cleveland
one half the population of the United
States. It is a well established fact
that deep water transportation is, and
necessarily must be,
of transportation by rail;
reat
ysl iu
indesd, it is
when the voyage
is of any
is only oneoighth of the latter, As
this question of transportation deter
and enhances
in proportion to its efficiency and econ
and the sea” Is no great problem to
account for,
passed through the Sault Ste. Marie
canal no less than 21.234.064 tons of
Canadian freight, alone having a value
of £200,000,000, while American ship
moved some 1085.000,000 tons through
the same waters for the same length
of time. The total traffic throngh the
locks of this “Boo” canal, for less thay
eight months, is five times as great ip
number of vessels and slightly less
than twice as much in actual tonnage
ax passes through the Suez canal dur
Ing an entire year.—Alnsiee’s,
Oregon newspapers want a law
cgainst “salting” mines.
KEYSTONE STATE.
LATEST WEWS GLEANED FROM VARI.
OUS PARTS.
WILLIAMSPORT TRAGEDY.
Murdered Mother and Children The Step-
father Disappears Bodies Under sa Straw
Steck Company Stores Will be Discon-
tinised by the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company.
The murder of a woman and her three
children was revealed on a farm near Mont-
gomery Borough, Lycoming county. The
bodies of two children were first found hid-
den beneath a straw stack, Thersupon a
warrant was fssued for the arrest of Abram
Hummel, a stepfather of the murdered chil-
dren, who is missing. Three weeks ago
Hummel married Mrs. Yoagle, a widow, who
had three children, A few days later the
nelghbors noticed that the eldest two chil.
dren were missing, and on Tuesday the
Hummel premises were deserted. A party
of neighbors made a search, They found a
blood-smeared piece of burlap near the barn,
Disarranged straw attracted thelr attention
to the stack, and under this the bodies of the
two children with their heads crushed were
found. The bodies look as though the chil.
dren had been dead for two weeks, A tele.
gram to District Attorney O, G. Kaupp states
that the bodles of Mrs, Hummel and her
other child were found in an outbullding.
The dead were horribly mutilated, the mur-
derer evidently having used & ciao in carry-
ing out his flendish crime. Montgomery
and vicinity was In a state of utmost excite
ment as a result of the ghastly discoveries,
It is belleved that Hummel has made good
his escape. No motd juadruple
murder has yet been The erime Is
without a parsilel in { Ly
ing county.
ve for the
found
Hist
the 1 ory
No More Company Stores,
On Decer 1
ner 1, %
Lehigh Valley Coal (
from the’
Lehigh region. In this istrict
three stores where HN PAO YO0S
Lehigh Valle) y / bad fers
Jeanesville, { and Has=
COQ rn
asunounced, tho
yapany will
gtore”
Was
cut loose
business
SHEL
in
thers
pany
are
of the
honored,
laton. OF
solicit
basis
the Ie
Iyees Of
these stores
trade, but
The bills will not
high Valley pay
the company will bx
It Is said that
ntinue to
the miners different
here they
pauy wiil als
dViKIG ang
Fail Delayed Wedding
I East :
it agninst Wi
njaries allege
iy i ¥ {nner
im low falling
enrre
wa that
Aside
dent
Fell Fifty
While
walking over
Feet from Bridge.
wi m Th
yr Ele
pans the
Shenandoah, he stu
aged
tric
mas 268 YOArs, wis
Haliway Bridge
tracks
fell to
whichs Lehigh Valley
mbled
at
the
fort, break.
his side and
His inju
and
fifty
tracks below, a distance of Ofty
arm, orus
otherwise injuring himself,
believed to be fatal.
ing his left hing in
aries are
Flush Mill at Hazleton.
The Hazleton Board of Trade purchased
45,000 square feet of land on which the Har
leton Pilash, Velvet & Silk Manufacturing
Co, willeroot a large mill. It will be
of the largest plush p lants in Amerion and
will give employment to nearly 1000 hands
one
Train Kills Aged Man.
Bernard Carvill, aged 83 years, of New
Castle, was killed by a Pennsylvania passen
ger train, The safely gates were lowered,
but he failed to oleerve them and walked 4)
rectly in frout of the locomotive. He leaves
an estate worth $200,000,
News in Briel.
A deed was recorded at Media covering
the transfer of the property of the Berwyn
Water Company 10 the North Springfield
Water Company. #
George Horn, of Emaus, made an attempt
to end bis life by swallowing a dose of pols.
on, A physician administered an emetic and
James Horgan, an Irish laborer, made two
desperate but wishooesstul attempts to end
his lite, st Cornwall Station, by throwing
ger train,
Josso Clifford, of Johnstown, has been fost
in the fastnesa of the Laurel Hill Mountains,
above Laughlinstown, and a searching party
is endeavoring to find traces of him.
The finishing department of the F. J, Rich.
ards Manufacturing Company, of Blooms-
burg, caught fire and was totally destroyed,
together with contents, The loss will amount
Aanoe,
Judge Dunham, at Towanda, sentenced
Samuel Heoman to a term of five years in
the Fastern Penitentiary, and to pay a fine
of $500, for killing Jacob Capwell, on May
Heoman was convicted of voluntary
manslaughter,
The Board of Health is taking measures
threatens to become epidemic in Altoona.
The East End and Pottagrove schools, in
suburbs, have been closed on account of the
disease,
II —
Rorry She Retuased Mim,
Dou bother, Haury. becanse 1
won't marry you," e. “There
are just as good fish in the sea as over
wers canght,”
‘‘Better,” said he, shortly, as he
i Be fh Tham hop Tn
w ¥ ennsen
him so that she go
might make him
suffer for his herd “rear s=Har-
per's Bazar,
There's nothing
so bad fora cough
as coughing.
There's nothing
so good for a
cough as Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral.
The 25 cent size 1s just right
for an ordinary, everyday cold.
The 50 cent size 1s better for the
cough of bronchitis, croup, grip.
and hoarseness. The dollar size
the best for chronic coughs,
8s in consumption, chronic broa-
chats, asthma, etc.
Feeding the Flephants.
Elephants in the Ir
twice a day Wi
gv
Jian
mealtin
they are awn ine
of piles of food
1 !
inci
{ast nudes
done up in fis
The rice |
with grass
tion!” each elephant
and a package is thrown
cious mouth By this
ing not a single grain of rice
is wrapped
At the
wn a
$8310 3%
method of feed
8 wasted
118 sister
ACTS GENTLY ON THE
KIDNEYS, LIVER
AND BowELs
CLEANSES THE System
2 EFF ECTUALLY
BUY THE GENUINE « MANTD BY
Q@URRNIA JIG RPE
8 haw
Wie te * cl 0%
> TRA TAAL
A
ne have bg Saluane CASCA-
tect. Couldn't do
ners Rhy iy have al them for some time
and biliousness and am now com:
them, to every one,
never be withoul them in
will
ied ros ¥ W. A. MARX, Albany, N. Y.
the family.
CANDY
CATHARTIC