PEDDLE SUNLICHT IF YOU CAN, Though you deal in liquid blacking, Dismal bluing and such things, When you have a sale to manage, Do it as the robin sings, Put shome cheer-up in your business— | Be a chipper sort of man, And, with other lines of notions, Peddle sunshine if you can, There's an awful deal of meanness In this busy world of ours; ut, mixed in with weeds the rankest, Ofttimes grow the finest flowers. Wear a posy on your lapel It won't hurt the trade you plan, And, along with other samples, Peddle sunshine if you can, The Hand of Fate ¢ hE & PRrPERER a ARR in a tn dn gi im a a fe A ea i J a ain BODOG SPH VDEE DN EERPRRRRREPY IR) KARP RP PREPPY Anton Stradeski sat at the table with his chin resting hand, fost in thought, He why he had not heard again society, for he well knew what Li ymmands would Presently, 2 » . » “ Y . upon his yer wondering from the Wis s (dis obedience of their « cost him—probably his life. a little boy clambered down high chair aid toddled round ner of the table towards him “Will Unkie please tate off tin?” Anton turned and mechanically un tied the serviette from the child's neck; then, as the littie one put up his face for the usual morning kiss, a rush of tenderness came over the man, and he lifted the boy onto his knees the curly head to his bosom “Poor little Bobby,” he said, stroked his face; “you do love Unkle, do you? “Ess, I do,” answered his big, blue eyes sought friend. “And what would had to leave you journey 7’ “You're not you, or you mu “But suppose as he going SO take me away said Anton, with s in his voice. “Then I woul anil and down good boy, home some hit,” said the littl n and marches r little boy; it id what is coming wn. I hare was when alx they had ordere has a : sake 1 spared him; and my turn” R ing 1 boy like attention to displayed for sale uj tony shook | head pass the ms nan whose face Turning it over, | ral written in French upon a paper gummed to the back meet, thou wilt remember to obey.’ “Ah! it's come at last!” ed, turning to lcok for the peddler, who had, however, suddenly disappeared He thought he caught a glimpse of the foreign, bearded face looking at him from the window of a cab that was going up Oxford street, but no where else was there any trace of the man who had handed him his death warrant, | His first impulse was to call a cab and hurry after the one containing the messenger, but he said to himself, “Where is the use? Suppose 1 caught him; it would avail nothing, and would not save me from the avenger.” Crossing the street, he went down Charing Cross Road, looking about him in all directions for the original of the portrait, for he knew the ways of the | society and that thelr warnings were soon followed by fulfillment. i When his day's work was done and be hurried homewards, he kept his eyes moving from side to side, oces glonally turning round to see if his | tracker were near him, for he did not doubt that the man was already in| London, As be reached the corner of Oxford street again, he remembered that he | bad promised to bring Bobby home | sweets, He accordingly went into a! shop in Oxford street, and having | made his purchases resumed his jour- | tiey homewards. He was very much | surprised at reaching the door of the house where he lodged without having | been accosted by any one, i lobby was overjoyed at seeing him | and his burden, and the child kept his | thoughts from brooding upon the mes. | gage he had received in the morning | by the laughter he made as he ex- ploded the crackers in the bon-bons, and by his making “Unkle” decipher the mottoes he found therein, as well | os by dancing round the room with | cclored caps upon his head and Anton's | stick in bis hand “playing soldier.” pie “When we he ejaculat- After supper and more Bobby was put to bed in a little room adjoining the one that served Anton | as bed and sittingroom, and the latter was left alone to his gloomy reflec He dared not go out, for his might lurking for him around first turning, but sat revolving in his mind scine plan of escape from his "Iie even contemplated in- foe be the danger that threatened him, He was no coward, but he knew weil the of the wen 10 whom the so- daring and to revenge, that they would nothing carry out thelr for their own lives depended upon their doing He had sat an hour or more, when he was roused by a knoek at his door. He it, but entered, Ri, was too late, man had closing and locking the door behind him, “1 thought 1 would the land iandlady trouble of announcing for a gave the have introduced ' Then, without {to re Know time pulling off his and dis in the me,” he began, “so myself, 3 waiting to give t ply, he wen in, '] me?’ at 0 heavy beard and other time he suppose you evebrows, closing the ad represented portrait. “Yes, I know you, Moritz,” replied Anton, in the former “What want you with me?” “The handed morning tell a the have demned for ing our Anton did reply, but pulled out a drawer of the which “Yon posed Mori maoveda language in had addressed him. . 3 French, which message | surely You disob § will society heen orders.” quickly table not at he sat, 1 not look revolver was Iv nee tz his morning by ) those | r employ 11 as all dan gerous weapons Ol ¥ hs po been sudde Fatherland She would En me his name resolved country in er down, Was own and made me her poor orphan iredd his father might never “What was her name?” “Clara promise for sha return.” said Moritz, boy, foare Roberts." “Gareat Heavens! claimed Moritz. my wife!” ex “They let her die, and now they would have me kill you who befriended her and have watched over my little one. Hang them all; 1 will not do it, Stradeski, thou knowest | would have killed thee In obedience to their commands, but thy hand, man how can I do it? Together we will balk these bloodhounds of their ven- geance."” Then, rushing to the boy's side, he face with Kisses, “Bobby does not remember me,” he anid, “for when 1 was in London be- for I grew my beard.” Then, putting the child down, he turned to Anton. “Now for some plan of escape from the men outside. You must draw near to the window, and attempt to struggle when I rush upon you. I will then pretend to stab you, and push you down upon the floor.” Anton, half suspecting treachery, did | we when Moritz roshed upon hin he ac-| taally struggled, but finding that! Moritz did not attempt to use the knife | he suffered himself to be struck down. | Bobby screamed and rushed to his! side, but Anton's smiling face reas | a noise, Moritz then went to the window, | made some signal to the men, and drew down the blind, “You are saved,” he sald to Anton, as he saw the men depart. “1 have been a hard man, Stradeski, but have done no murder yet, thank God; though If it had not been for Bobby here 1 should have been a murderer this night. I quit this infernal ser- vice now-—forever.,"” i in this English land has driven al) “We shall have to leave London at went on Moritz, “for unless 1 them at they will grow suspicious and come back to look for me, when the game will up. there a back entrance to this house?” “No,” replied we ean climb the wall the rear, and escape that Late that night carrying a band-bag each, might have been hurrying into the Euston the first morning train ana we iL. Penny once,’ rejoin once be Anton, "but into a mews way." a boy and two men, at seen road to cateh for the reach Magazine, borne Liverpool, of pursu CAT-AND-BIRD LAW, | Liable For Damage They Do. A novel Justice lL. I. involving the h case was argued before O'Neal a few days ago, unique question as tc rr of a cat is liable for owner of a led by the that Elizabeth ther the own to the mocking bird, ki damages cat. New the owner It appears jelt, of 1103 Northwest, is h st prizes highly of his he she to keep him there t t Mrs. Hampshire of Q avenus Whi this cat is fond insists on have he home Hampshi away. particu R t. avenue, wh is one block Ww. ir N¢ to the cat's com was thought to Mr. idence by the warblings of an unu bird. The » entered the plaintiff's resi was entered going. It attracted protests and was ing he Ling MOCKINE open wind which was itting room the « f A5¢ Eighth Pennsylvania County 8, page 142. The case Mr. Newman, after an A Pe exact hearing 44 y was read ano owner of ustain an actic 3 n whe make the keep th cata, If in to dispose of law no damage Washington therwise away with such an of the owner pets out go doi FORUE animal duty it of birds to WY Necessary Hh he the cat will have been Times, A Century of American Pretry, of our poets The typical Americar poet look is found man. Of the eight on the frontispiece, gray-beards and inclined to and of the black-haired heads, lived to be 39 and Poe to be 40. Ne American poet has had the advantage down to the faces that brary hoary tured from his Ii be an poets six baldness walls Pp « ar enough accomplished to be Cora Fabri, Anne Aldrich and Wini fred Howells, the youngest of the sisterhood to lay down their pens; but of their Drake at maturity. oy. dy Francis Brooks at 31 had hardly be- gun thelr true poetic career. Proba. Hovey, 36 he was just prepared for bold ad- venture, 38. Edward Rowland Sill and Bayard Taylor, whose premature deaths wers MN to rounded and well.proportioned work, Lowell, Whitman, and Halleek entered the ell Triggs, in the Forum, The lowllest people of all the world are the miners of Bohemian, at least their dwellings would so indicate. Many of them live at a point 2.000 feet PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. The Latest Happenings Gieaned From All Over the State. BIG STEEL PLANT AT WASHINGTON. Firm Presented With About Valuable Land and Will Commence the Erece tion of the Works at Once--¥ail Pouch Thief Caught--Amishman Defies a Court--Rabics Among Cattle-~Cripple Burned to Death. Forty Acres of year-old boy Aarry's creek log with a clut » were in thei es from SCIvVICEeS obeying the ns who tried 4 1A 3% wou Oe 4d, Mrs. John Petty, de a great effort te th oid boy when he rushed into the room. his clothing flame. She sprang from her bed and ed a blanket around the child, bu Mrs. Petty was sick abe f Homestead, ma RAVE the life of her 4-vear wrapf his burns proved fatal. seriously burned A helpless cripple, Mrs. A J Holl day, was burned to death in her home near Addison. Mr, Holliday and his three sons were working some distance from the farmhouse. When they reach- ed home in the evening they found nothing but a heap of ashes where their home stood and in the ruins the charred bones of the woman, who was unable to leave the bed in which she lay James Correll, aged 55 years,of Maha- noy City, who left his home a week ago, died from the effects of a dose of lauda- num. The man was found in an un- conscious condition in a stable at the Vulcan colliery. Physicians were sum- moned, but Correll never regained com- sciousness, George W. Lentz, proprietor of the William Penn Hotel at Spring Mill, was found dead in bed. He was 58 years old. All ery the women employed in the bind department of the Government Printing Office are now members of the Women Bindery Workers’ Union, The postal savings banks of Great Britain, after paying 2% per cent, inter- est on deposits during the year 1000, which in amount exceed those of any others in the world, deelared a dividend amounting to $7.500.000. The London County Council, moved by the progressive spirit of a majority of its members, has decided to buy 2a acres of land and to build on it work: 42,000 tenants. The estimated cost is | COMMERCIAL REVIEW, Genera! Trade Conditions, York (Sq al) KB, (: 2ST QUOTATIONS. Baltimore. ec Wester: light Philadephia. Philadelphia. «Wheat firm; contract grade, April, 773%ay8isc. Corn weak and 4c lower; No. 2 mixed, April, g8agBYic Oats firm; good demand; No. 2 white clipped 33%%c. Butter weak and unset tled: fancy Western creamery, 22%ic; do prints, 22¢; do nearby do, 23c. Eggs firm: good demand; fresh nearby, 14¢; do Western, 14¢; do Southwestern, 14¢; do Southern, 13¢. Cheese dull and weak, 12a12b;¢ Live Stock. Chicago, Tll.—Cattle—Receipts, 8000 head: choice steers firm; others about steady; butchers’ stock, steady; good to prime steers, $5.00a0.00; poor to me: dium, $388a43.00. Hogs—Receipts 20. ooo head; top, $6.10; mixed and butch- crs, $5.735ab.00, Sast Liberty. —Cattle steady; extra, $5.00az2.75; prime, $5285.50; good, $5.00 as. 20. Hogs lower; best mediums, $6.25; heavy hogs, $0.15a6.25; pigs, S.00a0.00 Sheep steady: best clipped wethers, £4.80a4.00; choice lambs, $s5.00a3.15; veal calves, $4505.00, LET THE WAR CEASE, SO SAYS AGUINALDO. There Has Been Enough Blood, Enough Tears and Desolation, BELIEVES HE IS SERVING COUNTRY. Aguinaldo Urges Those Still lo Arms to Re- spect the Wishes of the Majority of Their Countrymen “Who Have Already United Around the Glorious Sovereign Banoer of the United States.” 101 which, *t enlightens nem Can't Keep Track of His Wives. water, watched i 3 the obed Against Compulsory Education. M { Special). —Gov- ed the compul- entitled “An nstitutional right of o an education; or parental schools officers in cities of 10,- or more, and to prohibit swimnent of children during wirs.” Governor Dockery de- the Act interfered with the personal rights of parents and savored Takes a Seventh Wife. Bowling Green. Ky. (Special).—Thos. Poteet 2 Warren county merchant, has just taken his seventh wife. He has been a grass widower six times and says that all of his wives are living. His Jast bride was a buxom widow of 44 with six children. He says that he does not know how many children he has, but the number is between eighteen and twenty-two. Four of his wives he mar- vied in the West, while two are still liv. ing in Edmondson county, this State, . At Pp ied ¥ hi that ne "w Dr. Wharton's College. Luray, Va. (Special).—~The Luray College. two valuable business buildings on Main street and other property in Luray are advertised to be sold on Ma 17 for the debts of the owner, Dr. H. M. Wharton, the Baltimore evangelist. The liens, as ascertained by the master com- missioner in the consolidated creditors’ suit, are probably twice as much as the property will bring. Dr. Wharton was given days to make arrangements with his creditors, but was unable to Go so. Oil Crate Causes a Rush New Orleans (Special). ~The Louisi- ana State Land Office has disposed oi all the swamp overflow and sea marsh fands in the parishes of Calcasien, Ver- non, Iberia and Vermillion in the last few days. Since the oil boom the Land Office has disposed of 7000 acres of lands in Calcasien and Vernen, 74500 acres of sea marsh in Iberia and 53.000 acres in Vermillion, This 1 the heaviest sales of marsh and overflow lands in the history of Louisiana. The sales are at- tributed to the oil craze. : I
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