IF THOSE WE LOVE BE TRUE.
What matter if the days seem long,
Because your task is hard to do;
Within your heart will burst a song
If those you love be true.
What matter if the day be bleak,
thro’,
Joy to your inmost soul will speak
If those you love be true,
And what it knows is false of you;
Much happiness you still can find
If those you love be true.
Fortune,
your footsteps
What if Dame
Seems
g0e;
Success vour toll at last will crown
If those you love be true,
to pur-
e'er
What matter, then, what comes
goes,
If life be long or days be few?
lave be true,
Porter, in Boston Globe
If those we
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“$0 ‘As By Fire."
BY E. «
MARTIN
PEERS ew
iting Moll's letter
contracted
from: his
Jack sat contempls
with dismayed exe:
brows. The
nerveless grasp as he exe
“By Jove, this is
must go to New York
Mortimer.”
While he is writing
scription for himself,
chum, Mortimer, let us
the document that has
seek this consultation
“Oh, my lost Jack, while
are drenched in rivers of tes
are with Madam Vor
kie, contemplating the
end of the veranda
that ever slipping «
“Little did
month ago, s
that she would eclij
fickle affections. ”
In reply to m)
with
sponded,
And yet in
are now ca
“1t reliey
and
pen dropped
laimed
unanswerable!
and consult
out this
a telegram t«
glance
doubtless
moon
dream
nO
1¢
what
post it
address
was |
your back tu
you were cot
could not
were
‘When pretty women
What can a poor man
The last
ing closer to her
‘Call me Vivienne
» of hers
I caught
word
released me
good
spite
hope
J
denly, and
‘Yet
to have a n
fire
Someh
fort from th
peacock {
were
throug!
Ww
luck for I
“Bless you,
uld
ld hardly
Worse
Jack, w
be! Ico
I not peeped out and
da
white rose you
deserted Good nis
Eayv:
Geek,
“Your all forlorn
This was the letter
for change of air, to New York.
into his pe ssion is easily
Our
that
How
it came
explained. forgot
“post it” in her desk. Kitty, her maid,
when she came hot
sleeping quietly took it
away, as in the happy days gone by,
with a kindly wish that it might prove
a counter charm to the “wily widdy,
bad ‘cess to her!”
to
witn water to her
mistress,
after having “forty
own words she
said:
“It is fate. What next?”
Jack's absence, day after
gtrange to say, brightened her. Pale
smiles began to play around her lips,
and sleep once more visited her tired
eyelids. It was misery, of a kind, not
to see her gallant Jack every day and
hour, but it was comparative bliss to
share this misery with her rival.
Jack's Mortimer was as true as any
friend could be who was so sympa-
thetic as to be secretly In love with
Moll. He “never told his love” to
Jack, seeing from the first he had no
chance, and for the pity that is akin
to contempt he had no craving.
But when Jack was seized with this
temporary insanity, and allowed the
witch lights in the widow's eyes to
lure him from Moll, then did Morti
mer's heart rejoice, and alas for the
advice he gave His friend!
The result of it was that when Moll
gave out the mall, as she often did,
after riding four miles on her bicycle
to get it, it was her eruel duty to hand
to Madam Vivienne Yon Winkie a let
fits,” to use
calmed down, and
ter addressed in Jack’s reckless hand.
Madam read the sprawly lanes
flauntingly, before Moll's
sieur Chack.”
rone down into such depths; as it was,
of her canary.
“What more can come?"
More did come, to wit, Jack, the
very next day. After witnessing Vi-
as he
jumped from his wheel, Moll would
darkened her room
‘y
8¢€ no more. Hine
ed, though Kitty
of “Huyler':
produced a tempting
mysteriously fresh
Somewhat appeased,
box
him his old candies to hus
widow!"
“lL.et
horrid
Had
give
all would
again, for
Mortimer's "fav-
the box
gloom
she opened
been deepest
card in it
ored” by Jack.
It might have that the fire
Moll's veins communicated iwself
the building; be that as it may, a lit
midnight there
cry heard in the hotel:
“Fire! Fire!"
Moll, the in a mo
ment Hastily dressing,
she took a peep from the usual agony
toward the veranda.
sure enough, stood Jack, hovering un-
certainly between her end of the house
and that of the golden haired siren
Moll ground her teeth and
“Faithless!”
staved to see
was
in
to
been
after was a great
sleepless, was
all animation.
apot, There,
stamped
She
which
her foot,
ould fain
muttering
have
turn, but realizing
not
ight
wait his leis
a coil of
would $
wized rope kept
+ of fire, and glided softly
for his
bower
behind him, seen, face was
toward her rival's
Blessing the good year
in the West,
rope, lasso fashion,
observation and
cowboys now stood he
spent wild
the
Her
among the
aro
experis
good slend
him-
AWAY
found
veranda,
He was com
. otherwise Moll
d up the
captive
the
ower
) means dry
t night
vie
Was a warm Au
up comically at
“Thank you me from the
water We
mm th
from the
alarm.”
let
A false
lined to
much
n toward
+
’ 1 ” “ne
for leading
he could not
there is
rousing
gleamed
hand as
straight to
had
madam rush. It
knew all the buttons,
searchlight shed
Vivienne's “diminished head.”
sry had departed it was as
ii the fire’ had passed over it and
Madam the
ostrich, seemed anxious to get her un-
lucky head into a bush
not look at them
Jack meekly followed
the darkness, suggesting that
might as well go and get dried.
saucily lifted a couplet from an old
walked
nto which she
was dark,
and
cleoctric its
lke
Oh
She
“‘A man of your stature, with long
yellow hair,
Who once came a courting my father's
gray mare.’
I fancy, Jack, you'll find your love, her
‘long, yellow hair,’ reposing on ma
dam's dressing-table.”
“Moll,” cried Jack, spare me--for-
give me!”
Moll did. And safe in her room she
caressingly opened her little text book
and kissed the words. “So as by fire.”
Waverley Magazine,
SAAN
English Dukes and French Counts,
The American girl who reads of the
gradually unfolding record of the for-
eigners whom American girls have run
the risk of marrying must pray that
fate may save her from marriage with
an English duke or a French count. «-
Providence Journal.
—
In the British museum is a carved
box, made from a mulberry tree that
Shakeupeare planted with his own
hands.
WILD BOAR HUNTING.
Rewards Offered by the Government of
France Stimulate Sport.
Partridge shooting having been
brought to an early close on account
of the scarcity of game, and it having
been ascertained that wild
were in great abundance in the
de Boulogue, the inhabltazls
Boulogne and the neighboring
tricts made preparation for =a
battue,
by the
dis
government for every
by them on the crops, and this, to
men to give
to hunting. In order to have great
success the twenty sportsmen, includ
ing the subprefect and the
general, who joined in this battue, did
not, as is usual, meet at a certain spot
in the forest and then all march
gether to the place of action, but they
all had their positions assigned Lo
them beforehand, and then one
by one te the which
Thanks to this,
sport were had,
gamekeepers on the track
band of fifteen boars in the
morning, and tracked them up to their
lair, which was situated in a “futale,”
one of the densest parts of the wood,
which is trimmed
once every iirty years
bh y
went
inclosure was to
A BUCCEeES-
The
of a
be beaten.
ful day and some
ame
only cut down and
Nothing
impenetrabil
the
daunted pparent
ty of the inclogsure
Ag s0o0On as
into their
entered the bush
their dogs and commenced beat
ing it thoroughly. All the boars were
driven out, and, although most of
them got away, some scot free, others
with a little souvenir in the shape of
a bullet somewhere In
bodies, sult of the
§
i
buntsmen had got places,
the
with
gamekeepers
or
the
four b
ting
was shot,
to
ores of horses and don
grass in the
Now, about two
years ago a huntsman shot one by ac
cident, and found himself in
a very heavy fine as well as damages,
for the Fronch punishes very
heavily an act of this kind As there
was a young huntsman the party
arts, and who
art in a
amusing incident occurred
ward dusk. BS¢
keys are dally
Bois de
out to
Boulogne.
mulcted
law
in
in
who was not of
i bat
the
him
wild boar,
warned
Boor
MP
that it was
had plainly
flappi Now, as a mat
Cars scarce
ly visible at a distance of three yards,
flight of
imagination or {} sul f an attack
of nervi yoar it
was tho boars were
becoming part of the
», that the con
a battue will
in every
e boars out as
Mall Gaz
lared
donkey
eon it fi
i CArs
ter of fact boars
are
#0 this was cither ild
last
country
CHILDREN UNDER VICTORIA,
Legislation for Their Welfare and Pro.
tection Previously Unknown,
i reign was rich
the welfare
i a writ.
8
gan practical) nothing
tempted good.
tice was harsh and unserupu
ut , and publi
rent
callous in its
that amazed to find
penalties recorded against he
thefts of mero
opinion was
law
rigor, sO
terrible
petty
Every meas
which is in
the of chil
into being within the
Victorian e Factory children, chil
dren employed in mines, in brick
fields, in himneys, in agricultural
gangs, on canals, on the high seas,
pauper children, street beggars and
hawkers, acrobats, children in pan-
tomimes, criminal children, all found
in their queen a friend as ready as
onGrant fos AE 0¥,
IEnorans or iu int
Was Diinaiy
Even the
we are
children
ure the stztute book
tended
has
on
to protect rights
dren coma
ra
endeavors on behalf of suffering
childhood was the
measure passed in 1889,
on children under whatever condi
tions, and the corruption of their
morals. So great an assault upon the
enemies of childhood might well sue
which the same foes had been stead
ily weakened during fifty years. Its
success has been its justification,
though not its only one. There are
proofs to show that the operation of
this act has accomplished much not
only for the welfare of children but
for the reformation and happiness of
thelr parents also. It has brought into
the dreamy indefinite ethics of the
late nineteenth century something of
“grit” and practical resolution. The
national foot has gone down on abuses
in our very homes because they were
scandalous abuses which no so-called
“liberty of the subject” sould excuse.
One hundred years ago it took a
month to cross the Atlantic. Now the
trip is made between two Sundays,
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS.
: All Over the State.
Mrs. Ei
Allentown, after
from a trolley car near
Siegiried, and the arrest
Alice Hutchings, her former friend
has revealed a most remarkable
that Mrs
most intimate friend of her
had assisted her pecuniarily
img a millinery shop, Mrs
Keck failed in the venture. Recent!
sr friendly relations cea
The shooting of
formerly of
alighted
home, at
had
her
1s
sane
Vv,
air
BLOTY
It appears
and
conduct
although
LY |
1%
viclim
in
Kup her home witl
was then |
hem, but has
fried. Mrs. Hitchings followed
most daily, pleading for a
friendship. On one occasion a trolley
car tor had to threaten to put
her off the car, so had sl
become 5 brother
who thie
her al
renewal of
cond
boisterous
Recently Mrs. Keck’
the
ehe
i
trolley car
preevnt Mrs. Hut
harm. Thursda
an unavoidable
meet her,
Mr
Mrs
in-law met her at
ight so as
from doing :
however,
fated to
i lowed
101
he owes
latter
noney, but that 1 Keck pi
3
ihe
ured arm dres
her
sight good
only when she reads
lear her
She wears glasses
father
by
rad
uncon
Reed and Samuel Anderson,
and son, narrowly escaped
asphyxiation at Lancaster
left the gas turned
death
They
on and were
scious when found
been
Negotiations have conciuded by
the Goodyear Brothers for the purchase,
of a valuable tract of coal land in Clear
field county from the Clearfield Coal
Company. The consideration was $220,-
000,
After being a fugitive from justice
for over a year, Levi LL. Kreider was
taken into custody in Marietta on the
charges of passing
pretense, larceny,
frauding landlords
Amos Martin, of Sharon,
his 104th birthday anniversary. He was
born in Scotland in 1797 and was twice
married. Two years ago, unassisted, he
built a brick cistern, and follows the
occupation of a cobbler.
The children of the late Nicholas
Funston, who was killed by his horse
plunging over an embankment while
driving from Muncy to Lairdsville,
have brought suit against Moreland
township for $10,000 damages.
J. M. Nichols, of Jersey Shore, killed
the first swan that has been seen in that
locality for 285 years. The bird was
snow white, measuring nearly 8 feet
from Lip to tip and weighing 30 pounds.
Miss Lauretta M, Funk and Edwin |
Hickman, of Chalfont, were married at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Austin E.
fiithe at Doylestown. Rev C, H
inchbeck, of Colmar, officiated.
After two unsuccessful attempts to
take his life, Ellis Fiester. of Liberty,
suce in killing himself with a re-
volver, pondency is said to have
desertion and de-
cauged Fiegtax to commit suicide
*
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
(icnersl Trade Conditions,
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LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Baltimore.
red Cream 20821
iI8a19
mitation
Fresh
Eggs
Dressed
AM aryland
weights
laid eggs, 13¢
ORS £. hock
Pennsylvania
1b., 7a74¢;
per 1b. 635¢c
Strictly nice veal, per 1b, Ga
lambs and sheep. —Spring lambs,
choice, 8age per ib.; poor, sarall stock,
We
stern
hight.
8
and
per
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia
grade, April, y6Mayyc. Corn firm. I<
higher: No. 2 mixed, Apnl, 47aq7%c¢
Oats steady; No. 2 white clipped 33%5¢
Butter firm, good demand; fancy West
ern creamery, 22%¢; do prints 22; de
nearby 23. Eggs firm, good demand
fresh nearby 14; do Western 14; de
Southwestern 14; do Southern 13
Cheese quiet but firm: New York full
creams, fancy small, 12%4¢
Live Stock.
Chicago. — Cattle — Receipts 1200¢
head, including 200 Texans; steers
steady: butchers’ stock and Texans
strong: good to prime steers $5a6; poos
to medium $3.75a4.00% stockers and fed
ers steady, $2.7524.75: cows $2.65a4.50
heifers $288a4.75.
East Liberty. Cattle steady: eatr:
$s.e0a5.68; prime $5.2025.40: Commo
§32%a4.00. Hogs firm: prime heavy
hogs $6.2%a630; medmms and heavy
Yorkers $6.25; fair to good lighl York
ers $6.10a0.20; pigs $s.00aboo, roagiy
Saas 70 :
BIG COMBINE OF
THE RAILROAD
| Alleged Plan to Form Company of AH
the Lines in the Country.
SCHEME
SAID TO BE UNDER WAY,
Proposed Formation of a Company that Will
Huid Controlling Interests in All the
(ireat Railway Systems of the Coumtry~
Plans in Line With These Already Executed
by Pierpont Morgen.
Ks
ney.
and
provision
of
sition
Boffalo Men Show Grit.
¥ %
Nye
% P ai
Conductor on Bail
Special
coroner s
in Con
is {ram
ty Ex-
Trenton
was re.
2000 bail
The 400
strike
account
charges
to
pioy
: it
ne-
royal
4
£5 3 iY
-By the
he his-
d Come
COrpora-
of direct-
of $100,
The
1,703.442,
cent, a greater
any previous clection.
4
WK
as
er
Increased Fertilizer Sales.
Raleigh, N. C. (8pecial).—The State
“O11 1t griculture reports
Jo per co the sales
this season as compared
He says this indicates a
i largely increased colton acreage, though
| there is a tendency on the part of farm-
ers to use a larger quantity of fertilizer
per acre
isssoner of
ncrease of
a
tilizers
Two Locomotive Boilers Explode.
Knoxville, Tenn (Special), — A
{ double-header freight train loaded with
iron ore was derailed at Spring City on
the Queen and Crescent Railway, injur-
ing four men, one fatally. The boilers
of both locomotives exploded, the con-
russion and scalding water doing the
| injury to the crews that manned them,
Kruger to Visit Americas.
Amsterdam (By Cable). Herr Fisch.
er, the Boer delegate, informs your cor
respondent that President Kruger con-
templates a summer tour of the United
tates, and will probably sail for Amer
a in May on a Dutch trans-Atlantic
steamer,
Doctor Has Some Few Rights.
Indianapolis, Ind. (Special). - The
Supreme Court of Indiana has decided’
that a licensed practicing physician is;
not legally bound to attend any patient
for whom he is called. The case came
ap from Montgomery county, where Dr.
George Weddingficld refused to attend
the wife of George D. Hurley, although
called on three tunes, the last time by a
preacher, who offered to pay the Jess in
advance. It was charged that the woe
man's death was due to lack of a phsyi-’
cian's and, and the doctor was sued for
$10,000 damages