HOPE AND EFFORT. Hope is of the valley; Effort stands Upon the mountain top, acing sun; and great deeds done; hands, lands won, not below, strife, begun where the Lox ks and sands. : “ Hope; but when Hope bids look within her glass, may befall, Wait not for destiny, This leads to failure’s Morass ; dark and pet call, tain pass. w — k Tribune. SB @ Sas "SSOP OPP The Viceroy's snuff-Box., i A Story of Favors Deftly Used. 8 vy ha 8 TARR AnR ALAR — “8 new n the days when his excelle Conde de Revillagigedo Spanish king as viceroy of Spain,” there existed in the Mexico a certain woe hungry-looking under-secret: went by the euphonipus cognome Don Bonifacio Oritz Legumbres. You ma) to the word “existed.” uses it advisedly. at eighteen taken unto himselt a in te of the fact that his salary escribiente, or under-secr viceroy's palace brougl enough money to support 2 few clothes at rare was this the least of his every succeeding year young Bonifacio, or Ju uita, the fiftee r Jesus Maria w Don Bonif nth MVErsary Of twelve represented beg yy nia ai he acted any rate, there dren, no scoldin Here, seated at occupied could at gaming 1d as various him to au have cali Fortune, seemed to side. be sure, one small ars fell { fieste day wanted like the pass He fin in 0 mvest it beneficio too well did twenty Senora Oritz de y Leg whose only comment was a grumble its not being twice as much. Notwi standing which, the dona proceeded “blow mn” the despised twenty in appr ywed style, buying with it large gold breastpins for herse claborate cuff-buttons for the 1 Alas, Dona Bonifacio purchased severa pairs of high-hecled satis which, I grieve to say, she the usual approved accompaniment of hose—a new lace mantilla or two, and rosaries for each member of the family. Attired in their new gewgaws, the thir- teen then proceeded to feast upon a great deal of savory “mole de tote,” with plenty of “pulque compuesto” and many other things UIE rous and toothsome to mention What did luckless Don Bonifacio get out of the melee? Nothing! He had to con- tent himself with days of boring inac- tivity in the palace and fault-finding nights with his famiiy, the wife bicker- ing and the children complaining was nowhere any peace for him There can Bonifacio decided, as he drearily betook himself to the palace, that he could not and would not stand things any longer His wi had quarreled with him several slippers wore without toon y ere her and the at which they had intended to disport with the twenty dollars Don Bonifacio had drawn in the lottery. He did not know how or where to get the money, and so had informed his loudly scolding semora, Then, fleeing from the wrath, present and to come, he decided to think up another last plan for making money, as there was no writing for him to do that day. If he was successful, good; if not, a few cents’ worth of laudanum from his friend the botica-man in the Calle de los Parjaros would end mat- ters, +o far as he was concerned. "And now,” thought Bonifacio, grimly, as he seated himself on hig high stool, “what shall 1 do?” For hours the under-secretary sat motionless at his desk, His companion: did what work remained, chatted among hemselves, and finally betook them- elves to their various homes and occu- Then, and ‘aot until then, did BaLicns Bonifacio bestir himself. His face flushed, and his éyves beamed with re- newed hope, for a brilliant thought had had its inception during his several seance. Don Bonifacio had, ac cording to ‘his own belief, at last struck I. Now to prove it. With the aid of paper, ink and his best quill, he set to work, and within hall an hour his writing was completed Drying the sheet and finishing it off with an impression of the government seal, Bonifacio inclosed the docsment in an imposing-looking envelope, and hasten — of New addressed captain-gencral the package, and There viceroy Spain. viceroy himself, was left; and Don Bonifacio, with renewed hope and cour- wife and babies. Two afternoons later you might have seen Don Bonifacio station himself, had you been there to note, at the corner of Plateros and Portal de Mercaderes. He looked strangely agitated, and his face was very white, while his hands shook so that he could barely light his cheap Not that any one noticed the thinly clad clerk—far from it, People were as thick on the street as the fabled in Vallon sa, but es were fixed upon the great acros square, poor, 1 CAVES was, he shea k ) Speak intervening opped his Plateros, ns accepting return Il the powerful man de la Huerts privately Don Bonif came this time carriage, and in fine Said the vi im: “You deserve a rewarc Rise up, Count Bon own rich eroy to wise and man 1 wenn contained in the poo iocument. sent to his excellencs s0 long a time before? the mod ‘when passing the cor and Mercaderes, hi and offer o poor, hungry f snuff more” Viceroy Merely fop $i0f man a pinch ¢ As ng the stated, only a meat fused such a reasonable request Trans lated from the Spanish for the Argonau by G. Cunyngham Terry Rare Old Bible Found A wonderful old Bible has just beet discovered in Venice, the fortunate finder being leo S. Olschki, a wel known antiquarian of Florence. It is it five large volumes, and was printed it Rome, in the printing house of Dot Pietro Massimo, in 1471 and 1472. Soot chased by a patrician family of Venice and it was in the archives of this family that Olschki discovered it The edition of which it forms a par is exceedingly rare, and very large sum: have been paid for imperfect copies of this Bible. Olschki paid 5,000 lire ten years ago for a copy of which twe volumes were missing, and a library in Berlin recently asked 13000 lire for » mutilated copy. The copy just discov. ered is probably the finest in the world and 30000 lire was readily paid for it by a buyer, who is supposed to repre sent a wealthy American, The "Scenter” of Pooulation, The new centre of population is on a skunk farm near Columbus, Ind. Ag a scenter of population, the skunk is al. ways to be relied on~Denver Republi-- can, LOW PASSENGER. Sprawled His Bundles Over More Than Called Down, The man in the dark brown overcoat, a garment ornamented with several cas ual and random grease spots of a still darker brown, was accompanied load of bundles that covered his lap and seat which another passenger, a lean six footer trying to occupy “Moving? pleasantly queried the lat- ter, as one or two of the packages that had rolled off the other man's lap fell on his feet “No, sir,” said the other. “I didn’t know, It's the first of May, and you have all the outward signs of a flat renter making his annual change of base.” “When I move, sir, I don’t use a pas- senger car for dn express wagon.” ! lain, ordinary normal load sub of 1 % 4 i Was { there y % De your putt pack you wail were over loud nded sponded the than 67 save 67 likely to care ho ther people home or what spectacle of himself mis, you have upset a tion of : Blister your leathery cherished , that you had 1 ierished convict is a tittle 1 than a downtownite the worst I have encountered rou won t sDecCimens move fre (yo of nking about me.” lambered jo it myself yourself all you are thi Whereupon he the other man, packages and all, and went own in a seat at the other end ~( hicago aver Tribune Night Life Among Wharf Cats. It is astonishing how many outcasts of the feline family inhabit the wharves bordering on the harbor basin of Bait: more. Along every line of docks on the water front a band of cats, both large and small, have adopted the surround. ings as their homes, and nightly come forth to wage war upon the venturesome tom of an adjoining clan who has im- prudently ventured into the enemy's country The rarely venture from their lairs during daviight, but at ht fall, when trafhc is suspended, the water fronts are alive with the flitting forms and the air 13 resonant with the voicing of their seemingly numerous troubles Men whose business takes them along the water front at night tell many stories of feline battles, cats Phe 5: ing a rat, each unknown to the other, The rat escapes and the cats fight until one falls dead and the other limps away. Another story illustrates the adeptness of cats in water loose board throws three kittens and their parents into the dock. The mother back and another in her mouth father follows with the third kitten in his mouth Baltimore Sun. Cood Water and Sanitation Pav. During the month of April, in 1881, the interments i the Montgomery Cemetery amounted to fifty-two, Our population at that time, according to the census report of 1880, was only 16,000. The in- terments during the month of April, 1001, numbered forty-three. Now, ac- cording to the census of 1900, our popu- lation ts 30.346, or nearly double that of twenty years ago. It stands to reason, spon M4 dri. our death rate should’ be comsiderably g¥eater now than it was then. On the contrary, it is mere than twenty per cent, less, If the death rate % had kept pace with the increase in pop- ulation the interments last month, as years ago, would have been 104 instead i forty-three. This is a wonderful any commupity can show a better one, The reason for it is patent te all who keep posted on home conditions, It is our magnificent artesian water and our splendid sanitary fewer system which intl money was ever better expended than that put in these two great health pro- moters.—Montgomery Advertiser, FOSSILS OF 100-FOOT SNAKES. Prehistoric Monsters With Enormous Heads, and Tails Like Rudders. There is a small gulch near Florence, Col., which filled with snakes—great stone snakes, whose wriggling days are over—prehistoric snakes with enormous heads and tails like rudders. The State Historical Society has be- COtnie much mterested in this discovery, and an effort will be to secure some of the best of the specimens for preservation in the collection in the state capitol. The fossil rep were found by McFie and Masters, of F first it! ago st find is made strange 1 107 ~ ence, the several and 1 others was was y the ead a y&81l sort tha {cFie and ore recently uring unmistakably ar imal Of sters proceeded to he body. They | t on one side of the gul The snake had | a he ad measur 2X ¥ Ome us un PPOSILE ide of the snake n circumference tl po ! 10 Lhe snake's defined plac ¢ attached of fracture had its h perhaps for the ead cag creature 1 ol is paanily + a rudder the IAW shaped li} downward, the reptile leads the belief swimmer shape of the oer THREE SIMPLE QUESTIONS, And the Librarian Could Not Answer a Single One of Them. 5 me in in ' when there : ar, § anccdotes o i peopie . i mber of 1t, wrote it, but ‘it 80 strating with “and it has a can you I was f 3 the was one dark tell me what day when | have time 1 would get it out. Of course, you must have it in the library?” For the third time the official obliged to confess his inability to her direct information. She looked him with a piercing gaze and turned saying audibly to her companion : or who about oT finger on the desk green cover, N it 1s? S i ow. was give away, talk about their being examined for posi. tions in libraries amounts to! Three simple questions, all on literary subjects, and he couldn't answer one of them.” — The Savings Jowrnal, Allen GC. Thurman's Little Joke. counsel in a lawsuit which was tried before a county judge in one of the small towns in the central part of the State Opposing Judge Thurman was a young lawyer named Cassidy, who wore his | dignity and was apparently greatly im- pressed with his own importance. Upon several occasions during the progress of the trial Thurman referred to his legal opponent as “Mr. Necessity,” The youn man arose whenever this occurred an with great gravity reminded the Court that his name was Cassidy. Finally, after the offence had been repeated about a dozen times, the pompous attorney ex- claimed : . “I must again remind counsel upon the other side that my name is Cassidy. I can’t understand why he persists in maintaining that it is Necessity.” “1 beg the entleman’s pardon,” said Thurman, “The reason | keep getting him confused with Necessity is, 1 pre- sume, due to the fact that the latter knows no law." Chicago Times-Her- A PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. The Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. A————— SLEW HIS ENEMY ON THE STREET. Henry Smith, a Brakeman, Ended a Feud by Murderiag Thomas Kelly, 8 Mize Worker at Tamaqua Sixty Cases of Typhoid Fever in a Population of 200--Creck Ran Into a Mine «(lovernor Acts on Bills--Other News. One of the most mes in ory of Carbon curred Hill, as which Henry Smith, shadow of the it the mine a brakeman nies for il member States Shamokin ganizat Rau will held in th ceses wil given regular » Seeley, : a rey $ 8H vill Before the : C1 % x whirl as death stopped He was wir ed to geatn an tfully mangled Jessie MeQuaid i aged . 3 resuit Of a gunshot wound man was shooting CTOWS in Sugar Creek township, and holding his gun behind him it Near was ac AWAY a n of his right foot, While dynamiting a Johi son, of Roaring Branch, $ k on the forehead by a piece of rock blown out by the probably fatally injured The epidemic Cross Forks 1s on increase cases have been reported. The popula tion of the town 1s only about two hur The trouble was caused by im water. port stump was girs 1 = of typhoid fever as iy pure The strike at the Hammond colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal atid Iron Company has been «cttied. The court at Pittsburg avproved the sale of St. Paul'd Roman Catholic Ca: H. C. Frick for $:1,325000 jestions which two members of the con gregation had filed. A number of capitalists from Scran ton and Jermyn decided to turn the old | company store of Watkins & Stein, at Swoyersville, into a mill for the manu. facture of silk ribbons. They expect to employ about 300 hands. Eldred Reynolds, aged 11 years, fell into the Lackawanna river near Hones dale and was drowned. Many men are searching for his body. COMMERCIAL REVIEW, General Trade Conditions. New York (Special)—R. G. Co.'s weekly i f trade ‘While qampered distril siderable ex Dun & BAYS me East has trade to a con- rendering season in some lines rather unsatis- West and South report { unchanged conditions, operations The brighter. settied the weather in the Jitive week, he factory, tne with well up to the recent average, 1 abor situation is little Many thers zr: ly “Railways are strikes have been and 4 expect minate sihort- unable to secure suffi- cient frieght cars and supplies, while tural work Pro eeds briskly with little interruption ir con- { troversies “Extended holidays short one in this to make the grain auiel, winnie Corn drawback who have aotner Blue in 1aDOr and Pennsylvania, Western Bal%c: sides gv4 clear sides, Fat backs, breasts 11i5¢. large. 11c: smok- yicnic hams, in bbl, pure tierces, 9lac per $i6.00 Hides. Quote do do, damaged, damaged, 5V5¢ green, s$35a0c; salted, Gc skins, green skins, Goaysc Live poultry —Hens, 10c ters 2%5a30¢C; do do Goatskins 1 salted, ©Goaloc. each, 27C: winter Ducks, Baoge : reese, apiece, 30. Live Stock. East Liberty —fxtra, § prime, $5.060a5.75; Hogs active; prime heavy, $6.0%ab.10; mediums, $6.00a6.02V;; best heavy Yorkers, $5.0526.00. Sheep steady; best wethers, $4.30a4.35; choice lambs, $5.28 28.40; common to good, $330a5.0%; veal calves, $5.50a6.00. Chicago —Good to prime steers, $5.43 ab.08; Foot to medium, $4 40a%.40; cows, S2Rs5ag380; heifers, $290a4.00; bulls, $30084.40; calves. $g.00ab.15. Hogs —~mixed and butchers’, $s570a 502%; good to choice heavy, $588 5.05. Sheep.—Good to choice wethers, $3.352400. Western sheep, $4 40a4.60; native lambs, $400a565; Western lambs, $5.00a5.65. ARMY AND NAVY NOTES 5.85a5.00; good, $5.30a8.50. The Navy Department received a cablegram from Admiral Remey ans nouncing his departure from Auckland for Wellington, New Zealand, aboard his flagship, the Brooklyn Col. Henry Jackson, commanding the Third Cavalry, was placed on the retired list on account of age. He is 13 the army from Hiinois.
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