HOW MANY ? What schemes of empire every day are planned, Never to be; What golden ships are every : manned, And lost at sea. What brilliant hopes do every minute rise majestical, To longed-for goals of fair and sunny skies, From which they fall. What bright new dreams are dreamed away in peace That lasts not long, Are breathed in song. What songs are sung that vanish with the day, In darkest night, What daring spirits forever pass away, In bitter fight. W. SYDNEY HILLYER. Fakusraaaannan TARR RRA TAL PURE ERR BEA EE eee wee &B ne vw ’ : : » x 3 The Separation Deed, 3} xX > BY EDWARD F. PENCE. . <> N° 3 5 NS 5 ALE ans a 3 oq OOOO REET ADEE EHONS VRREDPRRERERP PRR EER PPP P “It is usual, I believe,” he said, “be- fore dissolving partnership, to take ac- Let us see what we brought into the firm." “You begin,” she answered. “I brought fair abili energy, bition, a decent comfortable name; every one said I wasn't a sort,’ and more than all, I br true, passionate love.” Said the woman— 1 auty''-—her was splendidly true—'youth. little elee, for it to marry the d: eharged bankrupt.” “What have we riage?” continued me speak. Of cour a failure: counts. each am- of unblemished position, life an means ‘bad ught deep, statement Perhaps of generous you - $$ had not dad, ndiXe: and th ble. You got more yf th than I, for you put more {; had not the beautiful ital, and yet And misunderstanding, that capital, love is gone: have died for would have you—I do n honor ent yet.” int and and I, you, Tell I regret ontent? me, what my mn) 8 d on n £Y at the end are tw the di paps ge execute tis irtner rship sintion ried wi fingers » was «¢ {ips. In a quarter of a: kins, the lawyer, will neas Teil me She head again in features, the execution. shook her splendid ligt in « Be cous auburn deep, large, violet eves “You regret nothing” head, r 1tfu or wned with we umined by h zh she regret that ris before me cast your that I have that 1 i regret that love, very inability to ih your love truly has irritated me by makin feel your debtor: i ne that feeling of irri- tation has helped to make you misera- ble and me miserable, too.” “I did not use the word regret quite in that sense,” he answered. nl meant, is there nothing you look back to of happiness that yet lives in your memory?” She put down the fan tnat had flut. tered in her tender hands. and, with half a smile, half a blush, answered: “There is one thing. one moment, that I regret.” 2 room, the daintily furnished room, ev- | | i | | | } “Hush! Then, clumsy the you must not Interrupt. day, we took a boat, a and sailed out, despite of the fishermen, I what happened; we one boat, warnings care harsh things.” “My dear,” he faults on both sides; they ren- dered life intolerable and love impos- “Hush! We rode out; you had the sculls and I steered; at least, I lay in the stern and splashed the waves with the hands you used to kiss so often.” She paused, and lcoked at the hands firm, plump and white, and decked He, too, looked sighed. She sighed. “But out we went. Then the skies became dark, the water darkened, too, and grew rough, and you tried to turn: we were far, far away from shore; you ship. at them, and must have been looking at me instead of the land, or that we you would have seen were fast In a cur rent. brought the I your handkercl weak, so my petti drifted, d: Bleamer save ere, happy in hat we quar I did wt CAS $ ne £0 to od He rang the bell, told the tell Mr. Hawkins that no ome, ie the Ww m y both servant one was girl pack girl left hold of the gravely tore it into a plecea, he observed, “of separation.’ —The and sl} ba things inst: hen the the room, took deed, and slowly, great many amall “It Is a new w cecuting deeds Hearthstone. ay, ¢ of An Absent. uiinded Minister, Some few weeks ago a noted minister went to one of the loeal railroad sta- tions to meet a friend. Upon entering the station and looking around. he saw an elegantly dressed woman, who dead love song. tataly tomorrow, we were at you recollect.” “tables, it was ridiculously cheap and very pretty, and I hated Boulogne.’ “1 remember how we wandered about; how, alas, we quarreled in the quarreled and you suffered—and the splendid sea shore, where I said bit. ter things, because my friends were at Troutville and I at the quiet Paris Plage, and you were sad and silent.” “My dear,” he interrupted, “I was greatly to blame.” She was carrying a number of par- cels In her arms, and, besides, had with her three or four children that § | ness, good, when all at once he discovered he was carrying a beautiful silk um- Since that time the reverend gentle- man has very little to say on the sub- Jeet of “Courtesy to Strangers.” And the umbrella is still unused. Cleveland Plain Dealer. ] THE AFRICAN TREK OX. | its Use as a Transport and How its Best | Work is Done. At the pre | ficiency of sent moment, when the ef- cur army In South Africa largely depends on the stability of its | transport, it may not be amiss to con | sider the capabilities of the trek, or | transport ox, who, after all, despite | mules and traction engines, is the mainstay of South African transport. The imperial authorities in the Cape Colony and Natal are now busily en- gaged In buying all the available ox | transports they can, as is testified by their numerous advertisements in co- lonial papers. { Oxen are less expensive than mules, { They are slow, but sure, never doing more than three miles an hour, twenty miles a day, which i8 consi a good The Zulu is best bred but small and serviceable compared with the Natal ox, which the “sq veldt, weot” or or- the un- ed trek. 0X animal when bastard Zulu, or thrives on both ur’ or the or up- howeve r, require ind must on no nber. They } and red metimes per In the renderin a 1 n (8, Hus The ox's 1 and mo thin useless, work ie at night are simp } oasis neares: the wagon dra ie (disselboom) faster and are hed to Known am i: Qe i the Couples attac a wire or hi $e iE oh § 1 qr “ Ch the yokes are fastened by riemas, ngs of h it Any breakage or can the «¢ Curious Effect of a 1 The following story, printed Electr i compl Case cal World, deseribes All Unusu- ally : $ : of effect, and demonet cated keeping loaded firearms ghining Flash, in cause and fieny tele phone receivers: In the town of Batey- ville, reanx diversifie | in southern Lonisiana, A al dealing relian tise Mr. Gant ore equipped with double-barrel’ed shortfnn and a tele- phone combination seems to have worked well until the other day, when a thunderstorm passed over Ba- teyvilie, and a lightning bolt made its way into the store over the telephone Cinnut condnuels a n re. reaux has | 1% The PERFECTION IN WIGS. Some Not to ba Distinguished From Na. ture—Lifelike Beards Also. “Wigs,” sald a wig maker, “are now made vastly more natural and lifelike in appearance than formerly. There wig; when If you met in the street a man wearing one, you would say: ‘There goes a man with a wig.’ But you couldn't say that now of the best wigs. “More difficult still to make in natural and lifelike manner is hair to be worn on the face, beard mustaches. Such an article might necessary to cover a wound or the mark of a surgical operation. This is and as PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. Happenings (leaned From All Over the State. never he sus- m naturally be would the of any false work pected, to even closer which the on inspecti face would subjected. “Here, for instance, the f 0 lip, wears a mustache; ig a man who to cover mark an operation on his upper but in these days that provided wit} periecti) would ver take one appearance so y natural nobody 3 of the men Fine wigs for wor as much as of a man's wig would or- a year way limited as not stinting hi wuld buy t about though a to in Wigs a i any maelf and mself wi there are wig makers in York, but the Workers besides New skilled are 10 be New York Sun A Poor Detective, Great men very often have not only of absent-mindedness. hut simplicity of inteliigence hit be called in wit to be less gifted than ancellor of the exchequer Abe al ministry in England, beyond question a highly an and able statesman, tells ry of this kind of simplicity at foolishnens transmitter to the shortgun and cansed the discharge of both its Two heavy chages of buckshot be- took themselves through the side of the bailding, narrowly escaped a group of men gathered for shelter to the lee- ward of the store, and J reeecded in‘o the landscape. The episode wonld ordinarily have ended here, but a Me, I'. Ayre, in a neighloring shed, much sfa‘tied by the explosion of the gun, in his excitement and a arm grasped with a frantic clutch a rapidly re- volving buzz saw near which he was working, and as a result lost several fingers and severely mangled both hands, barrels, AAA BON Electric Fans in the Orchard, It is stated that electric power from the Niagara River is to play a part in agriculture in that region. A power farmers to run transmission lines to | their farms, and it is the intention of | the farmers to place electric fans over their peach trees and run them at night. It is claimed a circulation of alr | will wrevent frost attacking the trees. He had suspected for some time ian servant in his employ had stealing money from him. At he resolved to set a trap for the 1 aking a handful of gold coins, been last Presently he sent this set vant to the room to feteh ar When Jotin bad retarned, he went promptly to his room tosee if the some On the table, in the place where he had left them, were gold coins. Jul were there as many as he had left He did not know, for hie had neglected to count them before he laid them down, ‘* By this incident you see,” said Sir Willimn, in telling the story, “that I was born to be chancellor of the exchequer!” This is a humorous conclusion of the matter, more worthy the recital of an American than that of an English. man, Iron-barred windows In residences are no longer peculiar in Spain. They have Appeared in American mansions since the kidnappers began opera tions, Philadelphia has the largest Rall in the world. city i Drunken Maniac Flourishing a Butcher Knife Dashes Into a Room With Fatal Results to a Witness--Panic at a Spelling Bee--Severa) Mercer County--Other Live News. known farmer of | Town . missing as to } safety are ente days ago he-went to Lanca bacco crop jor $200 being instituted for Maud Smitha a f Charles (). Smith 14-year-old daughter of Stowe, was the kitchen stove. In her agony she ran to the yard and plunged into a bar- rel of water, from which her mother lifted her in an unconscious condition. The Poitsville Board Trade has succeeded in securing a satin mill, with a capital of $50,000, for Pottsville. The board and five banking institutions of the town raised $18000 as the local contribution to the project. An incendiary attempted to burn a row of frame houses between Kerlin and Ulrich streets, Chester, by setting fire to a quantity of paper piled against the framework. A boy discovered the blaze and notified the police. John McMenany, a contractor work- ing on a new furnace for the Cambria Steel Conmipany, Johnstown, fell fifty feet from a scaffold and was instantly killed. Mrs. Sarah Patterson, wife of J. L. Patterson, cashier of the Burgettstown National Bank, was struck by a freight train and instantly killed, { Of COMMERCIAL £: nera! Trade Conditions. , R $s ' 10 (Special) LATEST QUOTATIONS. Baltimore. DeT Philadelphia. steady; contract grade Ary. yrayy lat Lorna firm, No 2. mixed February, No. 2 white cl steady prints, Joai¢ <4< prints, n 4 prints, do nearby i “RC Eggs higher; fresh noarby, 18¢.: do 18¢.; do Southwestern, 18¢.: Cheese steady: New small, 113§a 2¢ 12C. LABOR AND INDUSTRY. Porto Rico has a cigarmakers’ union, Grand Rapias, Mich, has a free skal ing rink, fie Patternmakers’ ton insures tools The New South Wales Parliament has passed an old-age pension law, One woman to every ten men wirtked for wages fifty years ago. Nov tne ratio is one to four. J At Boston Alderman Tinkhay offer. ed a preamble and resolution fiat the city own and control all subwiys that may be built in the future, | \ Union, of Bas
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