£) fs ECR -~ a ——— ——— ns he - CROST THE WHEAT, Come a-trippin’ ‘crost the wheat, Lookin' sweet, an’ mighty sweet! My! but I wuz glad to meet Mary o' the meadows! Let the sheaf fall at my feet: Heard my heart--an’ how it beat, Jest a-savin': “Ain't she sweet Mary o' the meadows!” Wild winds tossed her tresses sweet— Gleamin'—streamin’ at her feet; Nothin' could the winds repeat But “Mary o' the meadows!” Yet, jest like a shaft o' light Quick she faded from my sight, Ax’ the whole world sighed “Good- night" To Mary o' the meadows! —JF. L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Consti. | tution, #0Oh, Jules! listen to me for the love ! of heaven,” the woman interrupted, in the same shrill, pleading tones I had heard before, “Oh, Jules!" she went on, “I am in- nocent, I swear'd [—" “Enough,” the man broke in fiercely, while his eyes gleamed upon her like those of wild beast about to spring upon its prey. “1 wonder at it," he sneeringly con- tinued,” after all I have and heard that you dare talk of innocence | and beg for forgiveness, Then, after a moment's silence, savagely shouted: “Forgive you? By heaven, Pray, pray, while you have yet time, for in one minute more your guilty soul will be hurled into etevnity. The next instant, while too paralyzed | some seen he i no?" continued kneeling there at the door he had The Tragedy of Room I2. By Prof. James Ramerefz. A In the winter of 1803, while travel ling on business connected with the pa. per I represented, 1 put the — hotel in Chicago. had been recommended to me by the jour nalistic fraternity for its comfortable beds, substantial meals, of all, its moderate prices, I was assigned to Room 14, a ne: furnished apartment that had doors, one of which opened into the hall, while the other I found on examination to be tightly los communicated chamber The connecting room nous and much dreaded and I was informed by 1l porter that it had been nnoccup a long time in On the night of when, after a hard but profi work, I reached the new guest had register absence who seemed to poss of superstitious fear that the much shunned The newcomer ing man. dressed in of deepest shaven face, tl pallor of whicl rast to his stormy, summers as full of their gleams. When room I bringing It consisted of a smal long, deep, coffin highly polished As I watched this box carried into the room, fatal number so superstitious, a strange pending evil which I coul define took possession of me, and al though I was not much given to curi osity, I could not help wondering what the coffinlike looking receptacle con tained and why the stranger seemed 80 anxious it should be handled with the utmost care. But wearied with my day's exertions | I managed at last to dismiss both man and box from my mind, and after ex. | tinguishing the gas and retiring was soon in a sound sleep. 1 had slept scarcely an hour (1 found by consulting my watch) when | aroused by the sound of voices in the adjoining room. One of them was a harsh and angry, while the other seem ed to be that of a and | pleading. My first thought on awakening was | that I was still dreaming I did that it house to let rooms to men only But, as 1 awake and convinced that it woman's voice I heard “How had the new comer's room? up at which and best ity two {which Redd, with joining bore COnsequenct second Room Was as a Mane black, and hy ji a little later 1 met up the the porter new box shaped wnlike wood strange | beari: much feared by the sense of im not well was! man's voice, | woman, shrill Knowing as | was a strict rule of became more thorou listened intently, 1 was unmistakably obtained entrance to How managed to smuggle her in there?” | asked myself, what tained I gage. To further satisfy myself that 1 | was really awake, 1 from my | bed and steadily creeping to the door | of the adpoining room applied my | eye to the keyhole that the new comer had not taken the precaution to plug up on his side, As 1 did so I started back in as. tonishment too great for any words to describe, For, looking through it, I distinctly beheld a woman seated ontheone chair near the foot of the bed, a woman who was so wondrously fair to look upon that she seemed more like some artist's or poet's vision of the unearthly bean. tiful than a flesh and blood creation. She wore a robe of deepest bine, matching in hue her eyes that swept in billowy sealike waves about her, while amid the foamlike laces at her bosom sparkled a cluster of star shaped diamonds, At her feet rested the strange coffin: shaped box with its lid now thrown back, and I had just time to notice this, and take In the details of her face, form and dress, when I heard the new comer, who stood close beside her, his band roughly resting on her shoulder, exclaim in the same harsh, angry tones that had awakened me: “It is useless Marie for you to beg for mercy. Your guilty life must pay the forfeit for your sin. Like your “ire had he while again 1 wondered the strange, coffinlike box had poticed among his Aros sweetheart you" cry of rage, catch the woman by the up to the hilt in her breast, As he terror broke the woman's died muffled choking gasps as the tightly gripping hand and deadly did so a wildest scream of from Hips, away in sharp weapon did thelr cruel, work. The sound of her dyis ‘ries the spell of hiroke horror held me helpless for the time And with a murder!” that might dead, I dashed my In a age to me “murder! § tl the hall. La fondest £ rs have wa that the landlord up the stairs, His Scene of idly ont into the 14% : moment seemed rme dashing was fol appearance wildest confusion, guests and serva in all stages of rooms to inguire tl motion Among the of Room dressed in hi pant 1 wt b no where But th Hid the foot As | y ling Hmbs HOW with tremb exclaimed ind his victim that “Grentlemen the woman he murdered is in box.” “Yes, gentiemen will new er Wits an aw inswered the of ds epeat resignation as of one prepared to meet his doom Even at that terrible moment [ could not help but admire the man’ and Mine lid of the box As it, a loudest laugh broke from his lips, Fearing he had sud denly the awful blood stained within, as well as & coolneas demeanor first Courageous host was the to raise the he did so and peered down Into that become insane at sight the gazed in consternation at him, of the and servants pressed about him to also get | his hotel, | while some guests When too followed suit teliey horrible had looked by loudly laughing ing myself to be the others they the victim of Somme jest I at last the managed box myself It were impossible “or to peed into words to ple ture my feelir ax | regret at ted in such a hasty manner in rousing the hotel with my cries of The the the senses woman had seen through hin the box re the Khe wax lying there wit etly as sloen posing nw qm i one in of death ut. alas, for me! and chafing 1 my fellow salesmen She wax fore} to uw was a woman of wax, 3 The occupant of Room 13, informed his ecard a clever hypnotist, the fis} was and a rehearsal of a short drama of triloquism, entitled “The Jealons Hus band.” a real tragedy, and, 1 suppose, will prove an equally gruesome tale for those who read before they become aware how badly I was sold. From the Bottom of the Ocean. The material brought up from the bottom is of great value as Indicating the state of the water and sea floor. Over a large part of the ocean the bottom is covered with a light pow. dery mass called ooze, It is made of the shells or tests of little animals that can bardly be seen without a microscope, that have died and settled to the bottowa as snow. flakes settle through the atmosphere to the earth. This is the sort of de posit that made our beds of limestone ages ago, and it Is the best kind of resting place for a cable, for it sinks into the soft, fluffy mass and is pro tected from harm. Ooze shows still water, for a current would wash it away as a wind blows snowflakes, and if the floor sloped steeply the ooze would slip down like sand on a roof, the rod shows ooze it Indl still water and a nearly A hard bottom of gravel, current that should be avoided if possible. Near the refuse from the land may heap up into piles of rotting matters that may be injurious, and some kinds weeds are sald tn have done by the lodine tho” Washington Star, 80 when calm, level floor, contain, A Hazardrus Undertaking. Our readers will remember the Car negle library at Pittsburg, Penn, which is not long completed, and will learn that it ix pro- posed to move the structure bodily to another location, about 1,000 feet tant, The building stands at trance to Scheunley park, and the Im provements now being made around it will, It is feared, injure Its ance, so that its removal be interested to dis the ene appear. is desirable, The weight to be moved Is calculated at about 58.000 The tion ix of steel, cased with stone, and the question the thin casing will hold properly to the metal skeleton during the trip is a very lm- portant one, and the problem is further tous construe whether stone complicated by the fact that a ravine 100 deep and 200 feet wide intervenes and the deed or filled ¢ 150 1g hetween the present site one proposed, and must be br in some before a build fot safely was $y feet long can be it Ameri wide and transported a Architect TONS can Latest Thing ja Deagistry. thing In substance the latest For years for place the composition commonly Paper teeth are dentistry some has been sough which conld re em ployed for making teeth, and a fortune awaited the man who was lucky hit the right material enough to Althou up paper has some disadvan are small compared to its and teeth eX a peerfe ations 3 be used paper 1 fa € » iUsIVeLs at more me china has been used almost entirely, bu it that presents wO dentists al for conld re Not only does china not re action of and nerves of many disadvant IKes been on the lookout ’ Pre ther substance which saliva affects turn china the who wear false teeth often and many dentists as of suborbital neuralgia, down by send by the heat or cold act 1 he china or porcelain, Poree mineral piso is 0 or ' composition break, and for these reasons has The na never been satisfactory papier i= submitiad to a until it is as hard Their peculiar composi and the price paper teeth are made of be, which ire mendous pressure as requ rex} tion renders them cheap of 8 ws sf il go down consid feel WwW erabl owing fo the new pvention, The United States Calvary Horse No army in the world, perhaps, has ! INTEREST ON ACRICUL. TURAL TOPICS. goria Goats Butter from Pasteurized Cream Satisfactory Salting of Beef Harvesting the Crop, Ete, Etc. Harrowing for Fall Crops. Fertilizer can be applied on fall may be injured Good endurance of has United stretches of cavalry horses as 1 regular Ntates The the smal force of the long level the marauding Indiana tireless bironcho the plains and activity of the mounted on have the condi hich gave to Uncle Sam's cal alrymen his matchless long foreesl mounted one] Ayranit A. colle official long distance cavalry rides, made them public compared with been tions w chances for Col I'. BR marches i hendor “ Proslge todd the and may wo thint they be the performances Colonel Dodge declares specifically of which there Is no end.” and has ac cepted only those proved by official re ports. Colonel tain 8. VF cavalry, in tachment four Dowlge says that Cap Puited ISO, with a de Fountain, Kiates the of Year his troop, rode eights miles in eight hours This re for, and it is better than that of the Natal Mounted Rifles hy about four hours, t vouched i jgtance be that nal perhaps at within Africa march of the ing South fore il one made in For ac apecd this the orl, been more res stands head though other rides have markable American army Jes Where Almonds Are Growa Almonds grow well in and southern part of France, while the shell Is soft. green tender the nut ix sold largely table article he meat is white and creamy priced and are a luxury. the and and The peanut taste for it is growing. It is import. ed in enormous quantity for its oil A few years ago there was a good deal of talk about the merits of bread made of peanut flour, and it was thorough iy tested in the German army, where, for a little while, it was a part of the ration issued to a number of regi ments, It was declared to be too highly concentrated and an Irritating kind of food, and the soldiers didn't like it, The use of peanut flour was accordingly discontinued, The Biggest Ever Built, The great pyramid of Cheops in Egypt ia the largest structure ever erected by the hand of man, Its orig: inal dimensions at the base were 704 feet square, aud its perpendicular height in the alghest point 460 feet. 1t covers 4 acres, 1 rood and 22 rods of ground, and has been eatimated by an eminent Eaglish architect to have cost not less than $185,000,000, ing agaln, until the soil is well work The har- itsell be bene will of highly ficial, Fences for Angoria Coats. Angora goats are not breachy, but they them they will crawl over it, or will creep If the They are retained by any perpedicular fence, A common rail fence will hold them. A woven wire fence is perfec tion for the purpose, if a able to keep dogs out, it would be a benefit, for goats as often as they do sheep, do sometimes attack young stock, ever known, old stoek is Old stock will fight a dog fiercely, fence is too t t while dogs do not attack kill have them, and but, so far as we never Butter from Pasteurized Cream. The results which have been at ed in the United States from butter not thou, h this method ticed In Denmark periments made at periment Station at teurizing machines the that chines, from am generally pasteurized core been satisfactory is largely In some recent ex- New York Ex- Geneva with pas- the results indicate the fault does not lle but in the manipnlating them ¢ ing power of tin when used 178 bacteria pres ranging from ber of from hoadreds of thousands an millions to 200 or 300 Butter mn mentarily 1 ile from milk ¥s nigh t these ttle fla has i cooked fla handled rightly machines there this made makers, very a'vt ever must be sort in by Satisfactory Salting of Beef. Beef salted will seldom fall to keep well: Cat meat cool place where it will not “ripen” for four to cording to the age of the creature, If A two-year-old, suffice The “ripening” completed, set on the stove an two-thirds full of water, and the moment it furiously put into meat as the receptacle on the cover and allow cook about ten meat and more for (he same length of time ing sure that the fire Is good and the water boiling well placing in the meat Thus= rou have treated all the meat that is to be corned. The result of will be the closing of the pores of the meat on vent the juices The brine should two ounces of salipetre, pounds of brown sugar, six pounds of coarse salt and four gallons of water. Heat thoroughly, and while boiling hot ply to the meat good in the following manner the up as soon as cold and put in a freeze. to eight davs, a« five days will period iron boller boils it ax many pleces of Put Saud whale 10 will bold the then replace It minutes take the ont with some Toe before rontinue until this process the outside, which will going pre into brine made of two the be flies ap after it has been pack Place a on top of the meat It is ed in a barrel weight 1] was of Vit vital importance that « kind Epitomist, any be Kept su Harvesting the Crop. The proper vation of the hay crog fluence on dairying dairying. eens A wise, and consequently dairyman, Is always look Year or more, cordingly. He knows that winter food for some, is due to improper.y summer, and making hi hea Line OWS Is the cured tabooed hy reasam amd siored in to order during haying, a mach better quality of fodder than the average would result However, even with the most favor able weather conditions, some farmers wonld never have good hay. They harvest it too expeditiously, and then pack the imperfectly cured grass into tight barns, where the ex. cess moisture It contains results Inter in musty or “smoky’ hay. The bulk of the hay crop in the Uni ted States, is harvested according to latitude prior to the middle of July, and it has long been considered as a rushing season to work, With modern machinery the ease and rapidity with which the erop can be handled, tempts the farmer to im- perfect caring, and this is a point that 1 wish to spenk about. The socalled “sweating” process that freshly cured hay passes through, being slmply the evaporation of ex. cess mnistare, should take place une der conditions In which alr can freely cireninte through it, wn SRG, By this plan fresh sweet hay can be fed the winter sulting io an increased milk flow augmented dalry profits, The principle that has fallen into such disrepute as feed for out to cows in reason hay is 0 much poor hay feed, Where hay Is stacked it pay to thoroughly protect the top and will always slides against in clemency of the went her, useful for talloon-framed sheds but they are this purpose must have tight Lieorge BE. Newell, 1o the Bouth- ern Farmer, Cood and Poor Cows Compared, The importance of keeping none but 5 best cows cannot be too urged upon dairymen and A study of the amounts paid difference between the amount paid for the milk of the poorest cow he difference in the profits from keep. been very well illustrated by the ex periment stations in the records of thelr herds The teen record of the dairy herd of fit. ows at the Utah station that the food cost of 100 pounds of milk varied with different from 20.4% to 52.07 centg. The cost of food pound of butter had a range It was from 5.91 to 11.8 cents pound With butter at twenty the net profit per cow way from $1471 to shows the COWS per wide per a pound ull tie selected with considerable care from common natives and grade stock, grade Nine cows, mostly Jersey and gre Guernseys, at the Pennsylvania an experiment During that time there was a difference of $33.10 in the profit the wia tion, were fed in last ing 150 days from the best poorest and COW, The value of the product from the best $64.52 poorest (OW Was The COW Was that from the $28.06 pearly while worth only cost of the food was very r the best cow. This is ik so often overlooked. New ] COW » taint if jai At the Jersey station the cost for the year was herd Valuing the milk being the average for a ¥ Of twenty -ane cows at once “nt a fit of $40.69, and the £1.79 The practi pound, the best cow Poor. cow had ally the same e%t one only bhowt the ability to tnke food worth and made out of it a $38.00 more than the could duing the product poorest COW product as ity cents a the of $258.74 over the In this case Poorest pay The best had the ability to convert out of the same food value a product valued at $40.65 more than the poorest cow. Such facts should convince every far mer that it is to his interest to test bis cows and find out definitely which his herd are the profitable ones to keep. —New York Weekly Wit. fyraa, pound, best cow made a profit fl anad made a loss of $1.91 did Cow feed, poorest COW the cow not for her Keen OWS in Short and Useful Pointers. Don't overcrowd the poultry house, Coal oil will cure scaly -legged poul try With some farmers field beans are a paying crop much feeding will the Too cause When you secure a good customer for Sheep are naturally animals. They dislike changes and excitement. Aerating the milk tends to drive out the bad odors that have been absorbed quiet It is said that a few potatoes are ex cellent to keep a horse iu good condi- An advantage that sheep have is that they are comparatively free from dis enwe The average farmer hardly realizes that wide tires benefit him in more than one allow to be ploughed under ways than the land to lie die, mers shonld study the fertilizing ¥ Tas ry 1 ania Ya question Plants are like animals; they need a balanced ration Hed raspberries can be wet with prof. it in the Fall, but Spring setting is pre- ferable for the black caps Fexl plenty of grain while at work, and when they are idle ain and in- the horses decrease the amount of gr crease the hay. Plant and cultivate what your home market requires. Don’t ship produce essary to do, One of the good points of a separator and fresh, When in this shape it can be used to a better advantage, The farmer with the richest soil is not the one who comes ont best at the end of the season, It i= generally the man who has paid the most attention to business, We all love to see the old ben stratt- ing around with her brood of chicks, but when she struts as far as the gar den, brickbats appear to take the place of sentiment, When we take into consideration the nature of the cow's product it becomes evident that we might as well deprive ber of her rations as to furnish an in. sufficient amount of pure drinking water. When it comes to property owners, by thelr deeds ye shall know them, It seems strange that even a writer should sometimes be wrong. | KEYSTONE STATE LATEST NEWS GLEANED FROM VARI OUS PARTS, BOY TORN BY THREE DOGS. Ferocious Mastiffs Attack » Lad on the Highway His Death Expected -Camp- ing Party Wiped Out While Crossing the Mallroad in a Wagen Other Live News, But for the bravery of Mrs. Lester Bahr, a boy named Thomas Murphy, of New Albany, would have been torn to pieces by three mastiffs which attacked him as he was passing the Bahr resi dence, Mrs. Bahr was attracted by the boy's screams, and, running from the house, saw young Murphy lying in the road covered with blood and three powerful dogs tearing at his flesh, Mrs. Bahr, laying hold of a club, ran fo the boy's assistance. She be- labored the furious mastiffs until they deninted in thelr dreadful work. Young Murphy was a horrible sight. His face was covered with blood, one ear was torn off, his cheek was terribly beaten, while his hair was matted with blood from wounds on his scalp. His arms, which he had used in an attempt to beat off the Lrutes, were badly torn as was also his neck and right side, He was carried into the house by Mrs Bahr and medical ald summoned. His recovery is doubtful, Hurled by Dynamite, By the premature discharge of a blast of dynamite at the cut immed] ately west of Elizabethtown, on the Peunsylvania Raliroad, five men and a boy weve badly hurt, three of the men seriously. Keller & Crossan, con- tractors, of Lancaster, have a force of nearly a hundred men engaged on the improvements of railroad at this point, and the accident occurred while the blasting was in progress. The hole for the placing of the dy- namite had been prepared, and the barge was inserted. There were con- gregated about the hole about fifteen men, mostly Hungarians. In placing the dynamite it was prematurely dis- charged and the five men and the boy were hurled into the air. When the smoke of the discharge had cleared away the boy could not be found, but an immediate search devel oped that he had been completely buried under the shale. Michael Mc- Carty, Alexis Skevinski and Charles Bwarrow were found to be badly cut and bruised, but not seriously injured. The seriously injured were Stephen snd John Patrice and John Bellan. In addition to broken and crushed limbs it is supposed that these three are in- ternally injured. the Train Kills Three Men. The second grade crossing horror in this section with a week occurred at Palm Station, Montgomery county, when a passenger train crashed into a wagon and killed three young men from Allentown who were on their way to the banks of the Perkiomen creek to camp for a week The victims are John Wolle, Harvey Wolle, his brother, and Jas. V. Gotts- chalk. The latter is a brother-in-law of the Wolle boys and proprietor of a theatrical exchange in New York When the capping party reached the crossing the passenger train dashed out of the cut and struck the wagon squarely in the center. Harvey Wolle and Gottschalk were thrown on ths tender of the engine, while the body of John Welle was hurled over an em- bankmient and almost landed in a creek. The three men were married. Gottschalk was a native of New Or- leans, was known ail over the country as a promoter of teatrical and musical enterprises. New Electric Company. A charter has been granted to the York Furnace Electric Company, the purpose of which company is to own and control water power from the Sus- quehanna river and develop api dis- tribute electric current for heat light and power. The concern is capitalized at $1200 and the directors are F. 8S. Shoff, Colemanville; John W. Hol. man, Newton; J. Miller, G. B, Wison and W. F. Beyer, of Lancaster. Chased by a Bear. While James McDonald was picking berries along Boggs run, near Renovo, he found a cub bear in a clump of bushes, and, picking up the apimal, started for home, He had gone but a short distance when he heard the mother bear in pursuit. Quickly drop- piug the cub, McDonald made for the nearest tree, where he was kept pris oner for half an hour before the oid bear started off with her offspring. State in Brief Jx.coh Mahusky, a young foreigner was found mangled to death on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks near Mahanoy City. He was struck and crushed by a train while returning from a jollification at Buck Mountain. , A man who was found dead alongside the railroad tracks near Ferney could not be identifie!. He had been rur over by the cars and there was nothing about his clothing to indicate who he Was, The Otts Colliery, at Branchdale owned by the Philadelphia and Read ing Coal and Iron Company, which has been idle since last April, resumed op erations. Employment has been giver to 500 persems. Wheetman's Long Trip, Mervine Backenstoss, who left Hae righurg on May 10 on a bicycle trip to Seattle, Wash. arrived there on August 8. The journey of 4000 miles was pure- iy one of pleasure. At Spokane Falls his wheel broke down and he was obliged to walk and carry the wheel a dixatice of 185 miles. John Charles ac companied Mr. Backenstoss from Hare risburg to Yellowstone Park. Bristol's New Industry. The Way & Lowe Knitting Mills Company, incorporated under the laws of New Jersey, has secured the old Lewis Jones m'll property on Buckley street, Bristol, and will en in the manufaciare of men's rf under. wear, The officers of the corporation are: W. B. Lowe, ‘president; Penning. ton Way, vice-president and general manager, amd Marion 8. Acee, secre- tary and treanarer. %