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
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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
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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. :
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