+, AN 01D STORY I was nincteen, she twenty-eight, When first 1 saw her lovely Her fairy form of lissome I knew that I had met When, as I saw hier Hor carmine lip 1 muttered, *Ye gods, but she face, my fate golden hair, abalt p furnace g falr!” fel with a sigh, : passin and I nineteen! She twenty-ef wird To nd more favor in her sight Of my affections she was queen; Alternate hope and dark despair Would mount or rankle in my breast; Nhe spoiled my I said that fair 1 PF Ye gS a good drnl of rest she was passing She twenty-eight, 1 twenty-eight! face! more I see the powder on her Her form lu grace, Her eves are straight. I really thought my love would last, Rot fleeting years w I thought that And so is angles than hiu but ill love impair, Lhe was passing fait but now she’ she was s past. i 'hicagzo Record, OVER SUMMER SEAS. The Agnostical Lover and His Rude Awakening, it was from the ntended any had told 1.1 erinls had won have said wded them though you when you and the pasenget possible and uuprofitable bean hot to move, much 1 o play That are ordl and her father frooke kewl an ac charming rar, was as irying moment woman,” went in staterooms oud until dinner, It was only the purser, who vicar upon earth nor thes search eet again dinner, undoubtedly first The heaven's in the match-making business, had not had time to observe and distribute fittingly, they wherever they listed, or w herever they had to. whieh for Brooke was across the table, and not even opposite to her, He howed ag he took his seat, and he bowed when be whirled around and got up, and for the rest hoth versal with each via tain. The captain had seen thitg before. Ho talked at, but His eyes twinkled, Brooke ate enough i= 80 sat they Con cap that same consented sweetly was not fooled. observed how make him other, the to be ie nits bie when, even with that, Mr. Farrar ottisat him, That evening Brooke went into the kerchief. Ie did not understand that parsers see everything, and do not need to be taught thelr business, Brooke was one of those pleasant peo. ple to have about who go on the sup rule of conduct having the properties of a boomerang. So he brought the conversation round in this wise, Hy asked If they were likely to have a pleasant trip. The purser sald that they usually did, at that time of year, Brooke hoped the passengers would be agreeable, too. The purser thought the Farrars looked promising. Brooke thought wo, too, and added: “I say! You're going to put me beside Miss IParrar, aren't yout’ was, and Brooke Immediately lost all interest in the Hitle nicked nubbins of it wax cool: and the purser smiled as in. the safe he locked his treasares came in to breakfast a little pext mornivng, Miss Farrar was already seated, looking particular Ivy nice, too, known to : al,” with a Brooke in what is men white materi gaudy silk Panama shawl around her The intelligent walter owed Brooke to the next chair, Miss Farrar asked him to explain why it that the on the wrong side of the world Panama Bay; which gave him the requisite feeling of super. at He did not happen to know that it did, because he had not been up to but he explained ir, anyway, After breakfast he bought her agnacates from the bum-Doats alongside, and told her he would show her at luncheon how to eat them. She she did not, mit she pretended attractions ‘some soft, is Sin rises in Ore, see, knew and Brooke's opinion of her waxed After goperal was that the cours f things In of the ward day that as smooth as t ' 4 as {i Cui 3 way St iy the awnings and talked, he pale summer seas ler up in the bow, hey sat ay up in the peak, where, if you had the least sible good opinion yourself fancy Which red to help you vou rather whose High thrown 4 viv t " - aA pair up to TANS ith ike Fire ohjed ing girk whe Her, WN 3 3 Of course, UeT +4 in Nie, But even a chara understands ner place io scheme of ition has an under Iving human sie for Just a pinch of variety Miss Farrar would have liked to have him show gome interest in ber from him for just did tie went on to tell her self, as disconnected five sites, Brooke ghort n think of that. ‘om and himself at college: something in whieh he figured rather more credit ably than Tom did. And she listened as she watched the desolate yellow const of Lower California, forsaken of Cod and man, of all but the sweeping winds, and the whipping waves of the sed. if a seemly interest in what a fellow was saying. but she was thinking of other things: of how he would have brought upon himself any quences that might now ensue, and of how it wonld serve lim good and right anyway. From which it may be seen that appearances are deceptive, that the most lovely woman may have a streak of meanness In her you would | never suspect, Conse whole heart--he was sure of it awd meant to tell her go some ROOD BeVer Bo much as guosed at She knew he did not. lle did now it. not idid not try to, Lereaturs at bottom. She likes to be | made to think that some few of her | thoughts and actions have a minor | sort of importance. There are men t who understand thls-and they gol Brooke better of understomd, felt than much him about to enll Besides her it by being that he was understood, ever before, The woman perspicacity was the However, there was telling her He on her in San Francisco, name and that she was returning from York, he knew this much about hor--that she lived on Pacific avenue, fie believed she had sald something ahout the view of the bay, from there, but he had not paid much attention. Ro they stood side by side up among the anchor all that last morn ing, speculating on the points along the betting on the number of pilot-boat, deserving the CHE House, watching the city spreading out and its hills. Brooke said: “By Jove! it is a big place; a Jot bigger than 1 had It was cold in the bay to had come up from the after the white tng with on the pilot-house, which ont or 1s off oO for hurry was going One no BY, cables the Const, aver supposed n who Ro, f hose South, the gilt pagle brought people, they wi had the doctors, toms something, shot and sat on the crim son-plush seat in the social hall Miss Farrar little absentminded, Even Brooke saw it. He laid it down natural agitation at However, Or again, nt Was a having he would fix onld he have gi would be Hp among “Have a down Brooks 520.000 IN TWELVE HOURS, From Alaska With a Plcasast Ter migation. Vinally WEDADET man a claim on was discouraged had not the funds clop | This claim MeDon ised for three hundred dol developing it in his low and aimless fashion. Find the claim fairly rick, put on a force of laborers and in a few weeks had taken out eighty thousand dollars, This sum he used immediately to pur axe other claims. All that year, he Bought right and left everything of any promise that was offered to him, often mortgaging the claims thus bought to buy still ground. Many of the ventures came to naught, but a few gave such phenomenal re. turns that he speedily took the rating of a millionaire. Out of one claim on El Dorado Creek he shoveled twenty thousand dollars in twelve hours, To- day he i= probably worth between two and three million dollars Many others came fo success even more saddenty than Mcbonald, One man on Bonanza Creek took ont ninety pounds of gold--abent twenty-five thousand dollars -in an single day. A | pan of igravel on El Dorado Creek vielded its lucky owner twenty-one | iundred dodars. This same man cleaned up three thousand ounces of | dust and nuggets from bis first week's i work. 16 Lbweanse he NeCes. to des pureh (d =et about he othe : An Electrical Range Finder. The Hritish war office has been test i ing 0 new electrienl rangefinder for the last two years, It was invented by an Australian, who says that it will give the range and bearing of a fixed or | moving object, and at the same time {will give information to any number | of fortress guns attached by wire to | the Instrument, thus equalling 100 guns | for instance, to concentrate their fre | simultaneeusly on a single ship, SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES. Railroads. The number the railroads in the Orange that i the the army and the maintenance of com munications with ths Thus the pate, for the first thine on in work that ix relnted to the war, The Basutos have po friendly sent British are employing no of Basutos to repair and lay Free State are essential to advance of base of supplies parti a large scale, natives are ow 10 i i part of Basutoland. The Zulus always hated the Transvaal Boers, with whom they had many a hard fight in what Is now Natal, and by whom the Matabele branch of the Zulus were driven north he Crocodile The Basutos and Zulus a est native These tribes supply manual labor thronghout South Africa, but their efficiency falls below that the average Americ They have not reached of civiliation, more easily of 1 e the strong Africa. a large part of the r elements in South of an negro, the same plane wants are fewer and rm thelr supplied, and after a t« of service they usually to thelr homes | 4 ness: so it has been them ds of 1 f ir marke supplement of thousan they are by element onsand of Witwaters wir began; the labor mines ompound T } uring t THE OLD ARMOR MAKER Loag Before the Civil War He Wove Coats of Mail as a Side Line. nea bnildin thus Aa In openly, tection and for pro man had n pttend to i of him n old business than conld re went into the arms and lost sight ntil =ome years after peace was declared. When 1 en countered him one day, working as a journeyman watchmaker, i once whether he made any more chain armor, and he laughed and said it bad gone out of fashion. 1 belleve, how. ever. that he used to still make a coat now and then for some crank up to the time of his death. Of late years he quit active business and lived in quiet retirement out near St John's bayou," New Orleans Times - Demo trat. asked at Had Faith in Her Pappy, “Keep him,” said the head house, indignantly, the brought back the lost dog. “1 never want to see him again, He's no Kind of & dog. as far as I am able to ascer. tain. That is, he's no particular kind of a dog. of to “Youll ged 1% goon think of from I'd a rewnrd for a no reward me, praying «ipallpox., Thai dog ix kind d him ihe to bi with a disgrace and to anvone Hut you know whi! 1 wWoinan Bhe feeds shined sinned the at ik A pet, iil trend milk in door, fie Ina how Jiiv business, thie dog J and Detro Niagara at Its Best. If correct, Mrs, Nisgara Itensselaer's opinion 18 Falls will be a less in the year 2500 than the Century an in for het The Niagara Of it is to-day. she gives reasons hellef liver belongs to our world's interminable We may investigators, awn era the and t alone, be with history lieve, that it 10 gome reoent began to cut its way through tableland about thou 1X Rand others, thirty in ye we say with tard suit Ars Ago, or may ousand Fears ago. nd of cal yesterday; and falls will stand wi back of the head of Goat Island in five » farther un geolog that ths x hundred years, this {O-MOrrow Moreover life belongs A Sporific Plant nara i Transeript Patagonian Floating Stones. The surpr 3 tine stones floating ling phenomenon of heavy water was observed sonthwest Patagonia Nordenskiold and Borge. Ina numerous clusters of { bituminous slate that had been broken from thecliffs and were floating on the water, and with a on last summer in by irs river were seen of them more than half an inch in dia- obtained, The specific gravity of the pieces was nearly three of the waters The top of were came wet they immediately sank. The Minute bubbles held by a and yet he's cost me fifty times that” “But you offered a reward, sir.” “No, I didn't. My wife offered a re. ward. She's offered a dozen of them. That dog has «trayed or been stolen wince we've had him. He's brought home, she pays out from three to five dollars, he fills up on the fat of the land, and then he's gone again, Keep him.” “1 don’t want him. Tlis tail's wrong, hig hair is coarse, and he's a mongrel 1 just want to be paid for bringing him back.” “Ix yon suppose you are giving me any information. He's a cucumber of the earth, he ix, i've seen a rat chase him all over the barn and a tramp steal dog biscuit from under his nose. Keep him. Take him away. Lote him, as phyxiate him. Anything!” “Tut the reward, sir?” : to the effect, which was the greasy surface. It is suggested that floating stones may have played a hitherto unsuspected part in geology, a¢ ocean currents may have transport. ed them long distance. jorming new Her View #i Boy At a recent school examination for girls, this composition was handed In by a girl of twelve: “The boy is not an animal, yet they can be heard to a considerable distance. When a boy hollers he opens his Bie mouth like frogs, but girls hold their towng til they are spoken to, and then they an. gwor respectable and tell just how it was, A boy thinks himself clever be catise he ean wade where the water is deep. When the boy grows up he is called a husband, and then he stops wading and stays out nights, but the grown-up girl is a widow and keeps Bouse,” «Lay Monthly. KEYSTONE STATE. Secreinry of forcement Agriculture Describes Fn of Meomargarin Laws Ap penal to superior Court Decision on Color Clause Contest will Clenr Way for Viger- ons Action Other Live News, etter address. Gov i ricuiture Ham- Stone made public 8 ed to him by Heoretary ol Ag fiton in answer to & request for fal yrmation relating to the enforcement of the oleomar- garin laws, It Is ia pursu- ance of vour request for information, as to the dairy and food division of this depari- for the its efforts 10 enforoe oleomargarin end renovated butter laws 1599, 1 respectfully repori : That immediately yn the law going into effect there were printed and dis- tributed to dealers :hout the Biate 10,000 copies of the oleomargarin law, and 10,000 copies butter law. Puitable ree forse form of as follows ment past year, io the enncied In . i 30 3p throu of the renovated srd br were prepared ands Hoenes 1 id placards were printed, y take samples of suspected goods for analysis. The report of the « hows that during year 16899, 402 suspected were taken and these were found ure butter. twenty-seven renovated 4 During r selling cleo. and agents were instructed § ynmissioner 8 yieomargaria seventy-five of butter and 300 were cleomargaris 256 prosecutions I margarin wer brought, Of these, 100 cases either by the year t brought to a termination e couris seventy-six were ignored by were magistrates Or cases were pending De- 1. 1900, 417 been January omargarin bave has been taken out ture of oleomargurin. The in, butthe num- of oleomargario made sinos Janu. icansc A number of samples are of the chemists awaiting analy they have to the vt that reg CREA re earl ttorney, as rin Casts vas 1163, and and a large ing totl of the ure Falled. ire figured y Pittsburg, the ter Wagner, the t Greenfield k for a long faith eure, It of the Iaith cur Xa , Was given that if the physician could y which falth « parents beleved in s thee + 30 practises ked, UOCONS., it Is reiatlives cal attention his insisting would not save him a tang. Suicide Because He Was a Barden. Deonns self a burden te family, Provanoe, of Dubas Township, committed suicide by swallowing # box of morphine tablets. He died in hail an hour in the presence of his family. Twe years ago Provance lost a leg on the rail road, and has since been unable to work, n a he considered hin : his William Constable Committed Suicide. , Rolomon Schaible, for many years consta- ble of Tinteum Township, committed suicide by hanging himsel! at his home, a mile north of Erwinna, It is supposed that impendiag financial troubles led Schaibie to take his lite, Child Drank Fatal Potion. While Joseph Ford, aged 2 years, was playing in his parents’ home, at Coal Bun, he found a bottle full of carbolle acid, part of whioh he drank. Alter several hours of great agony he died, Miner Killed by Fall of Roof. Denjamin Seaman, a miner In the Penn. svivania Coal Company's mine at Old Forge, was instantly killed by a fall of rool. He was 26 years of age and leaves a wile and d-months-old ehild, EE — Ktate in Nriel George EB, Heybuin, ap ex-Assemblyman of Delaware county, is lying at Lis home in Birmingham Township is a precarious con. dition, the result of a kick from one of his horses, Ie attempted to administer to the animal, who was slek, and io ils strogges it kicked him in the abdomen, Oliver A. Clewsil bas been appointed as sistant postmaster by Postmaster Lewis W, Rayder, of Bethlehem. Ils succeeds BF, Hartzell, tax collector-elest of Bethiohem, who bas been in the postoffion for five years, Tired of life because she did ROL recover from a proteansted finesse, Mrs. Frank Bosier, residing nt Mt, Carmel, loft her bed and, standing before a mirror, cut her throat so worribly that she maj die, Falling from a second-story window Mrs, Rachel Campbell, of Folsom, received inter- ual Injuries, gh in ber 934 year, Mrs. had no bones broken and was
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