THE CREATER JOY. What joy is his whose way— A sunny thoroughfare Yieldeth from day to day Fulfilment everywhere; Whose paths run on and on, Forechosen and foreseen, Clean-swept from dawn to dawn, With not a care to glean, What greater joy is his Whose paths perversely wind, Some pleasing goal to miss, Some battlefield to find; Till, after broken dreams, And tears uncounted spilled, A sudden prospect gleams Of hope at last fulfilled. : —Frank Walcott Hutt, in “New” Lip- pincolt. « Mike and The Banshee An Incident of Logeginz-Camp Life in the Sierra Navada. ADDED ODEA Coe eee Tat dananan the Scattered throughout Sierra Ne- vada Mountains are numerous saw-mills on the magnificent tract The chain of mount turesque scenes, and medium-siz ets of diminutive sapl tire range, barring tl peaks, and the of man, The State haps, as well known on the Truckee River, a 1 acres Line Sa nishes power to a dozen stitutions along the eastern slopes of the Sierras. the site of ed within : ) erm Pa ance of ance ol cific Railway, in water power of shipping lumber camp 1s perched line, and a hicle, on contour of remembere with cu high with lly picking wr 100 WwW perpendicular ascent. It is no easy thing to mules up a narrow mous can not be hurried ont walk, frequently comin occasionally lying doy the trail. This last act is aggravating, as the pack has to re- moved before the donkey can arise again With all the trials and tribulati nected splendidly as m pack-train— a big, cheerful deep, sonorous voice that each individ donkey had grown to understand, “Holloa, Jinny!" rang out lil toned bell, and urged on th a lash would not have least. Every day the trip had to be made; besides the provisions fo were twenty head of oxen as many horses to be supplied provender One day the superintendent of the log- | ging-camp, while down on a visit to the mills, happened to observe a drove of pigs rooting about the boarding-house He suggested to his employers that it would be an excellent idea to have a few of them up at camp, as there was plenty | of refuse from the tables to keep them | fat, and his men would appreciate fresh | pork now and then. The mill-owners | agreed with him, and so begins the real | motive of this tale, It is next to impossible to drive pigs | along a wide, level roadway; it was! utterly impossible to drive them up the | mule trail. How, then, could these ten | fat young porkers, weighing from fifty | to seventy-five pounds each, be trans | ported from their present field to the logging-camp? The men gave it up as an unsolved riddle; just then French Joe's voice sang out a loud “Holloa, | Jinny!” and the superintendent exclaim. | ed: “The pack-mules! That's the thing! | Box the pigs up and load "em on Joe's | donkeys. What could be more simpler?” | Easily said; but the weary corps of | men that caught and boxed the slippery, | noisy shoats declared that it was the! hardest day's work they ever experi-| enced. French Joe wore a look of dis- | gust. “Morbleu! 1 nevair before see ze | pig packed ze mule on. Nevairl” Nevertheless, the crated porkers were | hoisted upon the pack-saddles, two for each mule. Barring an occasional grunt, or a flint squeal, the pigs, tired | out after their valiant struggles against | capture, gave no signs of displeasure at | their peculiar position. The funny little donkeys, accustomed to burdens vary- ing from fresh meat to cord-wood, seem. ed quite indifferent to the oddness of tiieir live freight, French Joe's good-natured smile wreathed his broad face once more as | he beheld the comical array of pig-laden | mules. “It ees verra funny—zis ting; | but it ees again like what I nevair see before. Ze mule will not pleased be if ze pig squeal in ze ears.” The afternoon was well advanced ms con- “French Joe” got along wleteer of the State Line thereto man, with with Come, Cayuse!” which started the mule- train on its difficult climb up the moun tain trail. The trail zigzags beneath towering pines up a very steep then it winds along a canon for a mile, ascends another pitch, and finally tra- verses a broad, wooden plateau, com- paratively level, at the extreme end of which, on a slight rise, is the logging- camp. French Joe always rode in the wake of the train on a mouse-colored donkey, The narrowness of the trail prevented him from passing the burdened animals, slope, so he had to content himself with shout of all his precautions, one calmly laid down at the steepest part of | Joe was compelled to remove the pig-freight and clumsy pack- gain an upright position. In the place, the train had started late; this de-| m dell lay and the uncomm werateness of the great deal mor tience began poured forth French and whole strin f mules consumed a mule topped ed beneath the great pines ded the plateau it was quite dar test stone he irst stone Nhe h the slats of one effect was indeed way up the consign fairies do you spin “Oi an’ whin he says he di An animated con loved to sweer me grandfather hearn didn’t he mike rant and argued with him simply for that reason. In the of the n China Tom ap peared opened nw the t He carried a dish of smoking suet-pudding in either hand. The Mon golian seemed uncasy; he hesitated and looked back over his shoulder men noticed that his whole shook violently. Before they had time to say a word the Chinaman both men hear 1 dearly about his queer superstitions, . reat discussi at the door which chen. Some of ' iet glittered wildly, and he made a frantic dash for the door. His queue sailed out behind him in a straight line, and as he disappeared the men heard a gasping | “Him debbil, sure! He catchee me!” “What's up with the heathen?” said | Ome one, Through the chinks of the logs came a strange sound. Every man heard nt sharply on their ears. It grew louder, | louder. A frightful calamity scemed im. pending. The main volume split up; a piercing shriek, apparently borne on! wings, circled about the cabin. Another | uncanny cry rent the air from the direc- tion of the stables. The woods were full “Catamounts!” yelled a burly logger. “Save me soul! It's the banshee! | Och, it's the banshee!” ! The banshee! Did it not tally with! Mike's vivid description of skurrying, whistling winds, of terrorizing cries, of | dire premonitions? Mike fell upon his knees, praying! audibly and rapidly. No one directed a! single jecring remark toward the praying | Irishman, The crew's jesting mood had vanished; they knew not what explana- | noises, A clatter of hoofs dashed up to the cabin, a heavy body threw itself against the latched door, broke through, and a huge man stood before them. “Ah, morblen! It ees one vera big meestake, zis ting, 1 know.” “Joe, holy smoke! Man, what have youu been doing?” shouted the superin- tendent, “Ze pigs zat m'sieur wished that I bring up are arrived, and rey squeal in ze mule’s ear, and ze mule he run away.” “Ran away with the pigs! Where are they now?” “Oh, m'sicur, it ees not easy to say, It ees verra necessaire for us all to go loo! big A relieved laugh resevnded through the candle-lit dining-room. Mike shegpishly from his knees. In a short time lanterns were twink ling midst the forest aisles, here, there The men had no difficulty in locating the strangely burthened for spasmodic squeals still ed through the woods, When the corraled, it was that three or four boxes had burst cpen liberating the pigs. The men made mer ry as the remainder of Joe's freight war turned loose in an unoccupied stable. As the superintendent suggested, the arose everywhere, mules echo seven cle nkey 3 were found now and then. China Tom served if out to them in many different styles, ang in dubbing the crisp, brown ry stews, and spare ribs “stewed cata and “hroiled debbils.”" —Johr Harold Hamlin, in the Argonaut, ’" Banshees,” mounts,” NO USE FOR OTHERS' iCEAS, By Using Them. ting with some of hi: tel, a well-known maga wim was in Cit) i alifornia, i a with curiou othet iaternal ediate aK imo n an actual was little that him. of Sn an explanatory card the journal had the story. 1 told course, to go to the deuce, used he threatened to me ‘expose’ some literary bureau that callow authors at As 1 was duly exposed, but am not quite cer- about 1t At present an amateur int hand me a u 1 a silver New Orleans Times-Democrat protect annum tam 1 CO salver.” Hop Pickers, It requires a great many hands, and As work and take the train to the hopping able. They are quite free from any inter. ference ; no one watches over them; all day long they are out in the fields. They are paid, and paid well, by the basket; therefore they work hard. In the evening they have games entirely of their own girls, no young university man good with his fists let loose upon the lads; beer flows in streanm, they dance and sing at their own sweet will. The farm. ers, so long as they do no mischief to the crops and orchards, do not inter. fere. At night the girls sleep in one barn and the lads and men in another. When hopping is over they come back to town. Like Bottom, they are trans. formed : their cheeks, which were pasty- colored, are now rosy and sunburnt ; they are no longer the children of the curb; they have been adopted for the time by field. How they get back to work I do not know, but 1 believe that in many fac- tories the employers look forward to the hopping desertions and make arrange- ments accordingly.~Sir Walter Besar in The Century, The Atlantic liner Deutschiand has made a new record of 587 knots, or 676 statute miles, as a day's run, which is nearly twenty-four and one-half knots per hour. No cruiser has yet been built which could overhaul such a vessel in the open sea. In the average man there ate 22,300, 000,000 red blood cells, | i BREAD ON CO-OPERATIVE PLAN Cheaper Prices. In Belgium workingmen the benefit of co-operative the price of bread to such an extent out of business. is an institution that not only yrotest against the inordinate profits of I Eg unsanitary condition of naking is an unqualified success, At such cities as Brussels, eries regulate the bread market. They set the standard for and the producers, subjected to rigorous cism, work day is regulated on a shifts. The working ticipate in the profits of the Their products are staffs three They have encouraged the unions, which amine and propose mea : . beneht or improvemen business BANK DEFAULTERS, How a Conspiracy Between Two Was Brought to Naught. going affairs at a when the cashier sud i toppled over in an apoplectic fit His cash and to be absolutely mnths later the Inspec almost instantly. were found S me mid i in to make an examination of another bank only a few doors away and the cashier promptly side entrance and disappeared veloped that he large amount, and, when subsequently caught seemed that both cashiers were defaulters, and had been in the habit of helping each other out with cash to ‘make good’ when the examiner appeared. At the time the first man dropped dead he had about slipped wag short a as he had to shoulder both shortages, and when the examiner next there was nothing to do but run details." —New Oricons Times-Democrat, A — The Actor Scores Again, A certain actor is as quick-witted and nimble-tongued as any other shining light of his club, which is noted for its brilliant members. He is credited with having crushed an impertinent counsel with aeatness and dispatch, He was a witness in a case, and was being questioned by the opposing counsel in a way that was not particularly to his liking; but a climax was reached when the lawyer, in the insulting tone too often adopted to witnesses, said ; “You are an actor, Mr. Do not censider acting a low calling?” “Not when | compare it with my father's,” was the answer. “Wat was your father’s calling?” “a was a lawyer,” replied the actor. Tit Bits. In the drama of life the clerk plays PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. All Over the State. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Genera! Trade Conditions, New York (Special Co.'s weekly revi “Confirmation 1 £1 wheal Cr $i Her Life~After Beating a Woman Inscnsible Vaccinated Her Nose--Other News. Sa ner Mrs beat * ¢ 5 mencement exercices of the heid in the Schaffer, State su were livered an address Rhawn, principal of ied the diplomas tae ic avenue of n the cotiages a disastrous conflagration fio insurance by the explosion of an oil stove. While attempting to cross the Phila- delphia and Erie Railroad tracks at Milton, A. O. Herr was struck by the engine of a passenger train and instant. iy killed. He was about 435 year and leaves a wife, son and daughter James Howells fell into an empty wagon at the Camercn Colilery, Sha mokin, just as a rush of dirt occurred He was buried alive tor « five min- He was found senseless, but will recover. An attempt made near Middleport to Bee by placing a large rock between the tracks was frustrated by the locomo- tive crushing the obstruction Owing to ill health Charles B. Hous ton has resigned the presidency of the Tidewater Steel Company of Chester and is succeeded by George McCall, of the firm of Dick Brothers, Philadel- pha. The outside empioyecs at the Green: wond Colliery, Tamaqua, who went on strike for an increase of wages, have been advancd from $1.10 to $1.20 per day and all hands returned to work. While making repairs to the Reading Railway bridge which crosses the river ai Yardley, Isaac Shaeffer fell 75 feet and was probably fatally injured. Phemia Workman, an inmate of the insane department of the Lancaster County Hospital, committed suicide by hanging hersell with her apron strings, Benjamin F. Cole. of Philadelphia, feli from a fast moving freight train at West Lebanon and was probably fatal ly injured. William R. Price, of Plymouth, a rominent citizen, was found dead in bed by his son, having died of apo plexy. . Henry Teutzer, of Williamsburg, was found dead under a tree, It is sup. posed that be was struck by lightning. {ast year st #3 . t Agure Norv pe 8 ¢ do. sho Qs 8izc; sides ¢: bacon shoulders, oc. Fat backs, Bt! Sugar cured breasts, Hams, large .11c; smoked skin- ned hams. 12% hams, Bic Lard—DBest refined, pure, in tierces, gVic;: in tubs, 934¢ | Mess pork, small 1105¢; LIVE POULTRY.—Hens, 1oVic; Ducks rage. Spring Ceese, apiece, 25a35C Butter —Creamery, 20a20V;c; factory, 15a16¢c imitation Creamery, 14aijc; 5 Faro. State and Pennsvivama i13lsa 12a13c; Western s orage, ens 143200 utier: HIDES ~Green saked, 6Vic: South- green, 6c; dry flint, 13¢; dry dry cali, 10c; dry glue 6lzc. Croat- salted Spring 11C3 tsa2s5c. Caliskins, green Sheepskins Hoayse 3cag40c Live Stock. Fast Liberty, Pa —Cattle steady; ex- tra $5.00a6.00; prime §$5.70a5.80; good, Hogs higher; prime a isort- $5.20a0.25; heavy hogs, $6.15a6.22%4 ; best Yorkers, $6 20a6.22%4; light do $6.15a6.20; common to fair Yorkers, $6.10a6.15; pigs. as to qualuty, $6.10a6.15; skips, $4.50a5.30; roug $4.00a5.80. Sheep slow; best wethers, $370a385;: culls and common, $1.50 2.80; choice yearlings, $40084.75; com mon to good, $30084.50; veal calves, $6.00a6.28. Chicago, IlL—Choice steers about steady; other: weak; similar conditions for butchers stock and Texans: top, $6.25; good io prime steers, $5456.25; cows $arcas.00; heifers, J5a5. 10. Hogs. top, $6.20; mixed and butchers’ $5.83a6.15. Sheep and lambs steady; spring lambs, up to $5.70. rete rata LABOR AND INDUSTRY Wyoming has a soap mine. Russia leads in barley production. Labor Day preparations have begun, skins, Goaioc lambekins, London imports 4,000,000 parasols an- nally.
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