———————— AT THE DAY'S DAWN, — | Daylight dawns In the dappled sky - | What shall the new day be? ! "Tix but a flash till the day goes by What shall the new day see? Hopeful hearts that look for the best? Sorry souls in a mournful quest? With the sun in the east or the sun in the wes and me! It's a choice for you Daylizht dawns In the dimpled sky Joy that the night is done! "Tiz but a breath till the day shall die Get the good of the sun! For the little day is yours to make Bitter sake, or sweet for your own life's shall strengthen or shall break, while the day doth And your heart your As you choose run! Ripley D. Saunders, in public. heart St. Louis Re On 2 Cholera Ship. Plague, Mutiny and Heroism on the High Seas. SAAN ANNAN Now caine | a breath of =» the the oily swell to the royals water; the est stir The alarming rapidity sey had said, the ing wherewith to The steward lad, and vate as Lamp- re was actually noth the « Scoteh weight OrPses : his ior h ailot Ross, the sailo one or two of our own pri native servants—under the stimu lus of reward paid down on the nail at so much a mufted carbolie towels, constituted the head-—thelr mouths and noses in saturated burial These men, penetrating "tween decks, dragged the corpses up the hatchway, #cross the deck apd through gangway doors, they were, for there little 1 nd less inclination to sew them up in anvas, as had been done at the outset, eing unweighted, the © sink; the sharks, moreover, did not party. them pushed the just as was me bodies refused ppear to fancy them, and, being im- pelled by the same current, they ke by down, rolling over. now now the ship's side. hobhbing on thet most face up Brewsome ‘ashi were well: fast es then the crowded at us in piteocus to grant us a to pray to God w | What could we do? We told them ¢ pat we should hail the first get her to tow us would not only fill the cholera out of mean time exhorted patient and things, Several steamers passed, going in the same direction, but too far off to com municate. At last, tenth of the calm, we sighted a two steamer hull down in our wake came on slowly, and breast of us about a oisted our signal and ar ously awaited the result. In f ninutes she replied. whereupon we ilisplayed a whole line of bunting: on reading which she altered her course and ranged up to within speaking dis tance, “Steamer ahoy!” per through steamer's that?” “West Indian!” from the bridge: Bombay. What ship's that” “Zenobia: bay.” “What's the matter?” “6 holera’ the straits?” TSorry we can’t. Port engine broken dwn; much as we can do to ge along Durselves. Can we help wise? “Yes. “Want med No, thanks: have lots “Goodby!” In another minute she put up her elm and resumed her course There's no ‘elp for't but to wait for next.” sald the skipper. e, there was no help for it, so on the best face possible and | jp our fortitude and patience to | th the same ob Te ey into a wind our sails the ship we them obwy the doctor on the dar funnel She she de "Ww as mile away we distress 1X ow shouted 2kin “What our his trumpet bellowed 1 veice other's dedldah to Aunesley Bay Bam Will you tow us through » Li sou other Have you a doctor” ineq 7 Croihy” ently the crew again came aft, time on their own initiative, their emeanor more truoculent than before Whether the disappointment had irri. i tated them, or whether, owing to the existing dislocated state of affairs, | they had managed to gain access te | the spirit room, I do not know, but their bearing now was mutinons “Captain Hutchinson!” called Lamp. | roughly from the malo deck. Well?" replied the skipper, going to | ie rail, whither we all followed him. “We ain't a-goin’ to stand this here no furrer— we ain't!” “Aln’t yer? Buppose you think ns | that there steamboat with ‘arf a lung | could ‘a’ tawed a twelve hundred ship | wdlo yer? “What we thinks or doesn’t think ain't neither hiere nor there, but 1 tell | yer what, this ship's a coffin-she ix, | and we aln't a-goin’ to stop in her. we ain't! Jest yer come along to the | fo'castle and take a whiff o' the stink | as comes through the cracks in the bulkheads, and then say If Christian | sallormen can stand ft agy longer!” ““'Ave patience, cau™ ger? Another! steamboat’'ll be along presently, and we'll stop er” “We calkilate as we've drifted pretty considerable out o' the course, and this way, 80 we've made up our minds what ter and have to give yer all a chanst in wid us “Well, wade up yer minds to do? “Take to the and the “Yer? “They'li all be de fore an will The ship is sartin to be picked up by some darn do, come " with it! ot boats, aud leave the tub heathen to thelrselves,” SO us if we ed salvager.” “Well, all | the captain, leaning ‘uve to say is," replied over the rail “that the I'tl put a us God 1 speaking lmpressively, as touches life or bullet through ‘lm sure made little apples!” play at Hor nn iimed Lampsey, shak “1 guess more one © that game!” excl “Come on, lis and off to the fore wing. ing his fist at the captain mates!” he added to fellows, the whole crowd made castle, A unanimously ranged law TOI Wis hire and we the side of and o passengers fisted bss vied ein JH aver wheel, on deck lookin y Hn poor iaqgie . i iy came to t} quent there were any s had the t hav vident! fey evidently vith ith of im them earlier in the das all scourge The atmosphere in probability would ri the was and hot, without the slightest breath of air watchful, f oors tense and we sat down on All hands taken in sail! n the direction of the fore “Be onfoundsd tornadoes.” smart, lads tin one o yer slack as well as ver sails orted i. hand to his “Stow verselvea”™' ret PII with his We ain't out i budge” in going to I don’t through the know what may have passed captain's mind at this ter for and a squall fast bearing down on his full fitted with imbersome and old fash tackle of that day-—-carrying five hundred souls all told, allow the and a valuable know not what bt that wna rible juncture ail was set every ship—a rigged ship, the more loned quite ing for deaths fzovernment cargo. | he contemplated, | say; at moment an unwonied commotion observable among the hither toapathet ic Punjabis They, the change following our glances, had heard the poop and threatening and, with wing Then scores of them, suddenly shaking off too, had noticed in the sky's aspect, and, short altercation between forecastle, had seen the gestures of the disputants understanding what its ont was said, gnessed purport their lethargy, and ignorant of marine etiquette Ind ders and asked wins the matter, Was a breeze coming at last? If so, why did not the sailors do what had been ordered? They knew enough to tell them that canvas ought be taken in Devine and I, who were the only men on beard conversant with Punjabi Hindustani, hastily ex plained the danger to the ship, clothed as she was to the mastheads, and the refusal of the erew to do thelr duty. The Mahometan mule drivers at once realized the situation. “We will make them!” now thoroughly up. “God has sent the wind to drive away the cholera. and shall we go to another death be- CRUSE your men are untroe to their No! we will ald you! our protectors! to you, and will stand by you! then, in the name of God! swarmed up the poop what th to the main deck and mounted the fore. them, There ensued a flerce battle: now infuriated natives, who were, however, entirely unarmed, their eut- lasses being in chests below decks. Shrieks and groans assailed our ears, and we were about charging forward, revolvers in hand, to quell the disturb ance, when, numbers having gained the day, we saw the sallors driven along with kicks and enffa by the vie: torfous Punjabis; we saw them ascend the ratling, followed by the swarms of mule drivers, who threatened by ges- tures to throw them into the sen If they did not Immediately furl sail. The seamen, not daring to disobey, worked in fear of their lives, and in a few minutes the Zenobia floated under bare With a low rumble the squall Sand was in the alr; it in- nostriis months; poles came on, vided our eyes, nud the hurricane struck the ship with ter. The gust proving to be a precursor of a stiff but favorable breeze, sail was speedily made on the ship, and in due bowled along toward our destination, thankful for our deliver ance from a combination of perils that seemed threaten us with an- COUrse we once to nihilation. Only two deaths ocourred after that terrible day Next morning the crew expressed contrition for their behavior: the Punjabis, now full of renewed spirits, came aft in a body and inter- ceded for their late antagonists: cuts and both pargles shook hands in token of amity of I'he skipper, loath, and bruises were forgotten, ahsen iHwill nnd thing accorded his forgive her adven- ved safle ie twenty off hambers's anchor YOUNG NAPOLEON OF FINANCE Oue Town Where Flies Have a Marke! Yalue Jonson stat When on Saturday evening to order ted from his home the 1 Las pro visions for 8 menis the last “Don’t hold flies in unday's ife sald wi let said that 8 that r open and Nhe avs whenever he going used to It Jon of COINes, Was out or coming and All the &., whence this story SOI Was Ha wage relentless woman t kensad warfare upon flies fr 3 4 irom he 1 f of me their arrival antl they d st 41 ie approach of cold at free “nts a sappear veather, and many a doorway in the day, pres verheated woman fran 1 hand ¢ owel in either Mi Dlesame uly oi iwrld ask do you od vy give 1d of things? of you the them want the blame The boy counting dead flies and didn’t fifty was answer until he had counted out looked up "Mamma gives me a cent for every flies 1 catch the A light broke in Jonson “What do for wb al ¥ Li holesale Then he and said twenty in hotise, on Fou pay them at asked They give us fifty for a cent “and they let The gladsome tone in which this was sald led Jonson to be he the ts fount boy responded, ‘em ourselves.’ Heve that permission to count out their own purchases materially lowered the rate on dead flies “Well, don’t your mother know that kill many files ax have there in the house in one day?’ “Oh, 1 kill a few when she's around, and then when she's sewing upstairs I take a newspaper and slap it on the thinks I'm killing a You can't at] you table, and she lot.” fown are in this rofled How many bors in asked line of work?” Jonson tively replied the boy many to get on be enough flies “Oh, about a dozen "We to it, for all” Jonson picked up his packages and His wife was at the door want foo wont don’t or there went home driving out the flies “He careful and don’t bring any flies in with you,” she said “Ray, maw,” said Jonson's eight year-old son, “will you give me =a penny for every twenty fliex [ ketch in the house? Georgie Ray's mother does, and they don’t have hardly any flies there now.” Jonson looked his youngster in the face, and a smile played about his mouth, The boy returned his gaze for a moment, and then Lis eyes fell, “He's on to it, too,” sald Jonson. New York Press, He Was Saspicloss “Dear Sue.” he whispered, "do you would ever forgive us?’ “I'm sure he would, dear,” she as “And would he give us live sumptuously on?" “I am sure of it, Harry.” “And would he take me firm?" “Certainly he would.” “And let me run the business to suit myself 1 “Of course he would, darling.” She snuggled to his bosom, but he put her aside coldly, “1 can, never marry you,” he said, hoarsely. “Your father is too eager to get you off his hands. . enough to inte the “THE CHINESE HADES, A QUEER CONCEPTION OF THE FU- TURE STATE OF MORTALS. The Yu-Li, or Precious Records, Leave Nothing to Chinese Sinners’ Imagina tions - Rewards and Punishments Al. loted With Scrupulous Care. The papers of the Roval Asiatic So clety contain interesting (Hustrations of the Chinese conception of a future State, the Nome society published the Clark's translation of “The Yu-Li or I'reclons Records,” ut tenth years Hgo {ey George a work that came into exist some indefinite century, the teachings had left the of another world in some uncertainty, PIee the 10 date about aid was supposed of iransactions supplement fucius, Con who There Is no uncertainty in the “Pre full sitiner cious Records.” for they glve in detail everything the Celestial may expect him when arrives Hades in a il formally “God of Fare Hades lke Department divided i { " InN Halls wlgment Presiden to happen to his soul in sedan in dueted Rinte ruptious soul e balan xactly then and lie is chance, nnd begins soul from raising « ing the President's simple but When received by the God # offered “forgetfulness door Fate whi a cup of tea Dr when the missionaries the soul induces Clark says that Chinese visitors ofier tea to usually declined, thie Chinese ing that “we put something in to involuntar The Halls of ere on suicides, which will canse them ily join the Church Judgment are very sev nnless the suicide has been committed reason A debtor life to spite an importuuate creditor, who has to fray the funeral expenses and compen ste the family of the deceased. The Hall of Judgment will wheth er the suicide was due to oppression to a mean spirit of revenge. Un filial the of fense with which a soul can be laden: virtuous his for some takes sometimes de decide or onduct Is about worst but the most dutiful son cannot escape if he has defrauded the or neglected to pay taxes the Government limited to a very small sum, and therefore the exact moral position of a highly placed in a Hall of Judgment Quacks are sternly treated, fate of all people who openly ‘Previous Records.” There rible of what befell priests who ordered coples of the “Ya Li” Liars have a very disagreeable portion in this world as well as There ix a certain temple where an idol devotes itself to the function of striking lars dead, Dr, Clark asked a young priest wheth. or he had ever seen any liars strock dead, “Yes, two,” sald the priest, “My young friend, take care that you are not the third,” said Dr. Clark. To escape the various hells, which are like the circles of Dante's “In- ferno” without the poetry, it seems to be a good place to turn vegetarian, “It ix belleved that animals, birds, fishes, and insect are possessed by some one's spirit; If their prevented the spirit obtains some mitigation of the paius of hell; there. fore, much merit is obtained by set. ting at liberty living creatures.” The greatest merit of all is not to eat a flesh diet, San, whose soul thirsted for revenge. Wan San met Pao, who was willing to submit to the forfeiture of hia life, but becanse he was a vegetarian “Wan San had pity on him, and only cnt off his pigtail” Government Fraud on oer seems to Mandarin in not clear but the sooffers worst befalls the mock the i= a ter story fertain to be burned, others, New Mexico bas had a territorial or. ganization since Septemimr, 1830. RICH INDIANS WED. i | Dog Soup Among the Delicacies at Marriage : Feast. Two the richest Indians in the world were married In grand style at Pawhuska, Oklahoma recently, It the society event of the Indian world Hundreds of the there, Miss Mary Red Eagle, the daughter of Chief Red Eagle, and Tall Elk, a gov ernment clerk and helr to a fortune of over $1,000 000, married accord ing to the old custom oth are ful blood The ceremony was unique the Fall Ek HONE pretty of Wis wider were Were Indian Osnges fs Wa= courting was forced to get aronnd hard propo sitions could make terms father of the girl before he with the but Le at has re- the young buck had last succeeded and the old man given his bles ing, but he has not turned the price to pay Tor his squaw, Tall Elk college, and he is a graduate of an eastern only lately came back When college clothes and of his He he government office ensing business to live his he did he pu #finong people gave up his i on the regain DeGpie the lands of CHATres were iny jut | the danghter ade love ¢ up for ses FOUnNgZ man he could bring He discovered i had fis own agle heen Re if the and that thed it would mean offi her followed 0 the pony was turned loose and the Her undress on i advanced 1 center of the square and the Icks H . Coinmencwl to ran for it mother then the bride and as her clothes were flung to the winds the squaws ran and gathered them up ar mementos of the event. Finally the bride commenced to sing the wedding song of the tribe and her lover came on the south side and taking his Arms her his in visitors clapped their hands and later the ate from at the wedding breakfase, sisted of dog soup and sacred medicine Ry married, from his siuare carried wigwam of the her in fo pew couple the same plate which con ton these acte they were legally It is probably the last mar riage of Kind that will celebrated There were mo from any of the relatives, but then the them the ever lw presents Chicago couple’ do not need tecord Cool Tunmnel Riding. When the underground railroad completed we probably shall have the coolest riding in the world right here under our feet. The Paris tunnel road, which was opened without ostentation the other day, carried 30,000 passen gers through the heart of the city on “the first day, from the Porte Vincennes to the Porte Maillot, and the temper. ature throughout was 55 degrees, while on the streets the mercury was #7. Think of that, ©O ye doubters! | Think of our sun-beaten, weather | Blistered elevated cars where the ther mometer registers 100 degrees, Com- pare the situation with the future un. derground, without smoke or smell, | sunshine or simoon. Happy millions will enjoy riding from the Battery to Harlem in fifteen minutes of coolth | may. 80 degrecs-—while the city above | swelters. The only possible ohjection to tunnel travel hitherto has been smoke and darkness, Now these an. noying features have been abolished. We shall bave the most brilliant lights and the air will be as pure as a prairie gephyr. The constant and rapid pass. ing of trains will keep the air in cir culation, while the withdrawal of the sun will permit it to remain cool New York Press. in Net Old Enough te Marry. “No,” said a fond mother speaking of her twenty-five-yearold daughter: “no, May isn't old enough to marry yet. Bhe cries whenever any one scolds her, and until she becomes hard. ened enough to reply vigorously she isn’t fit for a wife." Ohio State Jour KEYSTONE STATE. LATEST NEWS GLEANED FROM VART. OUS PARTS, COSTS THE STATE $100,000 That Amount Will Xow Go te Mrs. Allee Mullin, of Columbia, Kister of Robert W. Sinclair, Who was Murdered by His Fierce Vight Be. tween Workmen and Serpents Wife at Greentree Through the finding of an old family Bible at the suburban home of Robert W. Sinclair, at Green Tree, Mrs. Alice Mullin, of Columbia, will be trans- ferred from poverty to wealth, and will ome into possession of an estate now sald to aggregate $100000. At the same time Auditor-General MeCauley falls to collect this sum for the State a%, under the circumstances it will rertain:y not escheut, ir. Sinclair was a prosperous P deiphia fruit merchant, and ft week ngo since the community horrified by the double crime of his erring wife, who shot her husband down as he entered the gateway of his suburban hom then took her life by firing a ball into her brain. The dead man had in an orphanage in Philadelphia, and, fnas nuch as he was i to I § } & ralatiy od r-oneral i i FEIBLIVES Fe IeTAl { wae anqg Gown been raised KU DDR have IPP ible.” advised Was expressed to the dead man sm ut Gr n to her relations The which as hip . 3 ys nelair yr SIRCIAN S00 iree has been Coro- ner since searched of the t four Bg! family as far that Mrs of the last brothers and sisters Counsel the Auditor-General has therfore recommended that the contest be dropped, and Mrs, Mull take possession of the encountering furthe in charges of tb tragedy, thereupon in a bureau drawer of one +Arooms Bible was the Sinclair 0, and proving only survivor family of the Was the ol ring the record of ing the record o back Mullin Sinclair 1d as 11 is the for Killed 109 Mattliers ' Brothers were less several sco feel, PMirave Girl Nady Burned. Brave 16-year-old Maggie Day saved her 4-year-old n from death and was severely burned in a gallant effort to rescue her 6-year-old niece, who was burned to death. Miss Day was asleep with the two little ones at the farm- house of her at Hughesville when the dwelling caught fire. Escape by the stairs was cut off. but she wrapped the child in her room in ee gigter iA 5B blanket and dashed into the adjoining room where the other little one was sioeping The flames drove her back, howeve and she had to jump from the window with the child she held Big Deal in Burnt Sugar. The American Caramel Company, of which Daniel F. Lafean, of York is president, has secured the plants of the Lancaster Caramel Company, op erating plants at Lancaster and Read- ing, for $1.000.000. This gives the new company abso lute control of 85 per cent. of the cara- mel business, not only of this country, but of the world. With the acquisi- tion of these two mammoth plants, and especially that of the Lancaster Com- pany, the American Caramel Company will control all of the export business, furnishing practically all the trade in England, France and Germany. Water Famine Threatens Washington. Washington is threatened with a water famine The water company there is working its pamps day and night and has prohibited the use of water for all purposes except those ab- solutely necessary - Probably Murdered by Tramp. The mangled remaing of H. Bb Brown were found along the railroad track at Pulaski by two section hands. The pockets were turned inside out and it is suspected Brown was robbed on a train by tramps and then thrown off EE —— State News in Brief. While visiting at the home or her grandfather, in Mount Pleasant Town ship, Anna, the small daughter of Ro land Ikeler, of Bloomsburg, ran unde: a horse and was trampled, sustaining serious, is not fatal, injuries. Two more incendiary fires at Ply mouth have aroused the authorities tr make a determined effort to capture the guilty parties. In the last twe weeks about twelve houses and barns have been fired. A big barn owned by Henry Jenkins was burned down and fire was discovered in William Evans barn, but was extinguished. Coroner Goheen held an inquest at Allentown on the body of Silas Shoe. maker, who was killed at the Hage! Dell slate quarry by the explosion of a blast which Shoemaker and two men were drilling ont. The jury found that Shoemaker's death was due to his own carelessness, as he violated a strict rule of the company when he tried to drill out the blast SR) A Miner Instantly Killed. J Midland. Md. pacts). ~ Patrick sep cKenna, years, was Sstantly kitied 1n Dsus mine by the ng ap coal weighi ‘about 500 pounds, which fell on his ‘head, ng his neck and killing him instantly.
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