SURRENDER COMPLETE.
Long ago to thee I gave
Body, soul, and all I have,
Nothing in the world I keep3
All that in return I crave
Is that thou accept the slave
Long ago to thee I gave—
Body, soul, and all 1 have:
Had I more to share or save
I would give as give the brave,
Stooping not to part the heap;
Long ago to thee I gave
«ody, soul and all 1 have;
Nothing in the world 1 keep.
—New York Pos.
fe
EY
How Madge Tilton
Lost Her Lover.
BY RUTHELLA SCHULTZ.
3
RRR AREER RRRRRRRRRRRS
“This will do, Jane.”
} from the
indicated by
fresh from
mmnag ti
“Mayn't I mend it,
*No; I've kept Mr
ing too long ¢
button my boots.”
Jut
decision
in hand,
throwing «
precating tone-
all in order.
wearing one ot
“Jane! 1 cannot
tO me In
vice asked you
fore. 1 am parti
this skirt and
1s, you
as 1t came from the wash.”
“1 hadn't tune
“No more
time.
bring my
isn't a
when
318 man
15
should
bury had |
for the last
zr Yon
OW Lite
young gentiem
rmaments and
he had
in his mind, it 1
resolved that the fortunes of that
should seal hi
A picnic,
young friends, was to be held a
miles distant i he day
yas one of the
drive through out in
the country, was to Mad; me of u
usual interest.
She saw in every glance of her com
Panion’s dark eyes, and heard in every
tone of his rich that she was
loved; while he, regarding her earnest- |
ly, could not fail to see and rightly in-
-
pe oo the varying color of her cheek
ever sullered
He
$
iay
ty ts
wenty
few
Ww
to
n
voice,
e downward sweep of her long lashes
d the soft cadences of her voice. {
Arrived at the place appointed, they |
found their companions awaiting them |
—~just as all picknickers and others!
ought always to wait for the tardy— |
enjoying themselves to the best of their |
ability,
Time passed in the pleasures usual |
to such gatherings, and when the rural |
feast was over the company dispersed |
in couples through the woods. How
many low vows were whispered in the
still solitudes, and how many fair faces
blushed beneath the shadows of the
green wood on that golden day in June!
Only Waterbury and Madge remained |
near the edge of the forest, under a!
large oak. The former leaned against
the tree, silently regarding his com- |
panion, who seated in a campchair was
wreathing a chain of wild flowers,
Gradually she became conscious of his
steadfast gaze. Blushing. she rose and
tossed the garland over her head, let-
scend in festoons over her dress. As
almost every woman, a: such a moment.
knows that the sumpreme hour of her
youth is at hand, Madge knew that this
hour had come to her. She turned, and
taking the garland from her shoulders,
hung it on a low branch of the tree
and said, “Where is the view you prom-
ised me?” ’
“On the other side of the hill” he
replied. “We shall have to go to the
top, though not to the highest point
of the hill. The walk is very pleasant,
but you must gather up your dress, for
She path is thickly intersected with
ers.
Madge, accordingly, lifted the heavy
trail of her skirt, and threw it over her
arm. No sooner had she done so than
Waterbury changed color, and turned
away. She flushed scarlet. There was
no room for apology or explanation. [It
was of little mse to let the folds of her
dress fall over the hole that was staring
like a great reproachful eye into her
face. Yet she did so, with a vague sense
of relief which forsook her again when
she saw the expression of shame and
disappointment that filled his eyes, and
the painful constraint of his manner as
he turned and offered his arm. She
accepted nt with some slight remark
and a forced laugh. But he could not
respond in the same spirit, and little wa;
said. By the time they reached the hill
top his manner had so chilled and dis-
tressed her that she was unable longer
to assume a careless air.
“1 am tired,” she said, sinking upon a
fallen tree; “let us go back.”
Something very hike a sob followed
her words: and Waterbury, overcome |
with tenderness and pity, seated himself |
beside her.
“Sit here and rest,” he
returned, but
Though her
face was averted if some object in |
the distance had fixed her atttention, he |
saw that she was very pale. And when
almost as much agitated as herself, he
took her hand from the on which
lay, he observed that it trembled
forebore,
as
OSS
pressure,
give
fooding
tenderness
fferent
How au
ferent
cipated
a time un-
her humilia-
an idle
her first bitter reflection
vpon mature deliberation, she came
a different It was this:
carelessness, |
]
lest hopes |
concius
70 her besetting ¢
had sacrificed her
dearest
It was a hard task—this standing in|
self-judgment-—discriminately and un-
mercifully laying hold of her darling
folly, and exposing it to the impartial
and penetrating eye of an awakened
conscience. But, with the help that is}
if
joys.
performed it; and, though the ordeal
was painful, the effects were salutary |
and lasting. —Pictorial Monthly,
Electricity and the Farmers.
Certainly the suburbs have benefited
in quite as large a measure as the cities |
in the modernizing influence of the trol- |
ley and electric light. It is the farmer's
turn next, Already several very suc- |
cessful rural electrical mstallations have
been made in Germany. Another is pro.
posed at Ochsenfurt, Bavaria, for the
riegessgerent was an insignificant vil-
of an electric power plant at that point |
has completely revolutionized the com- |
munity. Available cheap water power
has drawn many old established manu
facturing concerns from the large city
to the village, and the power that is
furniched for agricultural purposes has
transformed the district. Twenty five
farms and ninety premises of various
kinds, according to the London Electri-
cian, are now supplied with light and
power and so many are the new indus.
trial establishments that have sprung up
where once thete was nothing but a
quiet family village, that an electric
plant four times the capacity of the pres.
ent one is about to be installed,
Demand For B cycles in Cresce.
It seems that bicycles are coming into
use very largely in Greece, but they are
chiefly imported from Germany, as the
swgives cannot afford to pay the high
prices charged for American machines
in that part of the world
2 STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT,
Variations in Different States and in Dif.
ferent Countries of the World,
“The establishment of the bureau of
standards authorized by the recent ses
of Congress means ultimately,
not immediately, the adoption
of a standard United States bushel, ton
and every other weight and measure,”
explained a gentleman who has taken
great interest in the legislation. "Al
present some states have what is called
a ‘short ton’ and a ‘long ton,’ the for.
mer 2,000 pounds and the latter 2,240
pounds, though nearly all the states
which have legislated on the subject in
recent years have adopted a ton of 2.240
the standard. The United
though in all contracts when made there
15 a provision stating that the ton shall
2,240 pounds, even in which
have a standard of 2,000 pounds for a
be states
ton,
bushel
1s
Fhe same is true in regrd to the
There are a lot of instances in
same state the
5 ited
'
these
different weig!
all
COM radi
remedy
fim
accept
expressed
standard will have a great
seCurmg the acceptance
all th tates, but
tates unless th
The Baby and the Man.
man is the father
nly 10 m
Dee made
e youngster. But in this in-
wus offspring deserves
can be framed in language.
as a three-story head and
incipient statesman. But
are its distinguishing features
nothing cle 10 much
of X-rays. A man
than
the face
its eyes
They
as a par
Detroit who is
in
incapable
house
of blushing, called at the
he other evening to talk with
Of course the
baby had to be put on exhibition.
have omitted this would place paternal
love and pride under suspicion
The visitor snapped hi
ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM.
SCIENTISTS ARE NOT ALTOGETHER
ACREED ON THE SUBJECT.
Some Claim it is of Vegetable Origin—
Another Theory is That Oil Comes
From Animal Remains in the Earth
Still a Mystery.
By the discovery of large quantities
of petroleum in California and Texas
within the last few months, the
tion is again raised how such accumu-
lations in the earth originated, Oil
ques
18
posits, and it is somewhat akin to coal
in composition. Hence it has been in-
universally
coal. This is 3
sxperts to wonderfully luxuriant vegeta
atmos
tion of bygone ages, when the
phére was hotter and damper than now
contained more ] :
too, in Rus
substance
a product of coal
Another theory
the oil
Then,
Winn
1s that
America
Am
ONES
Wei
1 known th:
ch are exces
a good
he ry
It 1s
a product
Of Otis usual
of certain
the product a:
i
Not
3
and showed
3 .
fied
cat
through sm
the
OXyRe!
Ie
densed and hltered, ane
in the open, porous congis
characterize
5:1
anerates which
the Portage and
Catskill,
ree 6 G8 ove
SAINT NNOnNe «
deal of
time
sin,
good
lk § "0 3 x ou FG sole
carbonic acid in combination with
ontains 3
the idea that at a red heat this acid
unite with
ed
It will thus be seen that the real
being agreeable.
smiled
But that baby never
On the other hand, it acsumed
Its
For
the iron nerves,
a good, straight look.
His ingratiating
remarks became
hesitating and lame
and blushed.
At the front door he stonned «ith the
father. “That's the blamedest Ii 1s ras-
cal of a baby I ever saw,” he declared.
By the long-horn.
ed spoon, I never saw anything like it.
months-old baby made me blush for the
first time in twenty years. Say, |
haven't chick or child, but watch my
will"—Detroit Free Press.
Climate Healthy, People Live Lone.
Old age creeps along in easy fashion
in the health-giving county of Bucks. In
one village alone, that of Waddesdon,
where the late Baron Ferdinand Roths-
child erected his palatial mansion, now
presided over by his sister, Miss Alice de
Rothschild, there are eleven men of over
eighty years of age at the present time.
One veteran has just completed his
ninetieth year. Four members of one
family, two brothers and two sisters
have reached eigthy-eight, eighty-seven,
cigthy-five and eigthy-four years respece
tively—a total of close upon three and a
half centuries between them.—London
Telegraph,
A square meal is 25 broad as it Is
long. a
ow
5
1
i
English Weeds in New Zealanu,
The plants and animals of the old
English
destroying the native plants. Sheep and
rabbits have eaten some districts almost
bare, and all but exterminated the more
delicate plants. The pig and the rat have
eaten some districts almost bare, and all
but exterminated others. A curious or-
chid (Castrodia Cunninghamii) with
highly nutritious tubers has become very
rare where the rat is plentiful, Thus
the foreign weeds have the way prepared
for them. In some cases such weedy
plants as common home grass, docks,
fleabane, catchfly and Yorkshire fog
have taken possession of the sea beaches,
Such robust plants as New Zealand flax,
a coarse sedge known as toe-toe-whatu-
manu, and a common fern have been
overcome and ousted by grasses and
clovers. Another interesting example of
how a native plant can be overcome by
ani alien without the agency of man is af.
forded also in New Zealand. The seeds
of certain species of Epacrids have been
carried by atmospheric currents over the
twelve hundred or fourteen hundred
miles of ocean which separate New
Zealand from Australia. These are re
placing the native plants and spreading
rapidly in the direction of the prevailing
winds. In the same country furze
broom, sweetbrier, dogrose and bramble,
by their rapid spread, are causing injury
to pasty and destroying the native
mbers’ Journal.
WASHING ENCLAND AWAY.
Tight Little Island Crowing Smaller With
Each Passing Year,
“Stands England where she did?”
queries the poet. Geographically, a con-
siderable part of England does not stand
wherz it did a few years ago, or even
one year ago.
In fact England is disappearing—is be-
ing washed away by the sea, The “tight
little island” is being propped up with
timber and stone to save it from tum-
This erosion is assuming such serious
proportions that, in the opinion of var-
ious authorities, the time has arrived
for parliament to take steps to arrest it.
From Spurn Head to Whitby the sea
eating away the Yorkshire coast,
Along the whole line the county of
broad acres is disappearing at the rate
of five feet every year, but between
Bridlington and the Humber the coast
has been worn back to less than ninety
since the survey made forty-three
ago. The work of destruction
mtinues unabated, Yorkshire is losing
thirty acres of land annually.
Ravenspur was formerly a rival to the
port of Hull. Every school
1at Raven was the port
where Henry |
of R
school boy w
1%
yards
years
of
boy knows ti
di same
map in
vain for Ravenspur
Other places th
fate are /
and
samt
Owthe
ne
ast
inhabitants
tomd
inland
distance of
A similar
One Cromer hz
from Norfolk.
» under the German
18 ca n .
land
ang t
%
have vanished entirely
+ - - . . 1
t is another amazing example
th onward march of
he irrepressible
ans and cofhing may oc
jecting
+ the ch 4
srch yard.
ive churches.
the other eleven
£3
ir ss
the
ie east
obliterated Ne
coast
Former Clerk Who Bought Kansas Farm
Land and is a Millionaire.
rentals
T. Stewart
pty
Iniy
byivrer
"2 5
CCUnng a crop
if the wheat
Ml rentals this year was ship
stimated that all
onsignment it would require
trains of fifteen cars
cach market. His rentals
in wheat last year netted him $435.000.
In addition to owning about $3150.000
worth of land, every foot of it paid for,
he has nearly $250,000 worth of bank
stock and $300000 invested in farm
lands in Sumner county and Oklahoma.
About twenty-five years ago Mr. Stew.
art began life as a clerk in an obscure
office tn this city at $60 a month. He
slept in the office and was economical
in other ways. He began loaning
seventeen freight
to take it to
years ago and has developed mo a re-
markable financier. It is said that his
He car-
ries a small memorandum book in his
it out at any hour of the day when re-
quired and tell every debtor exactly
what his account is, Indeed, it is said
of his vast transactions
pocket.
It is said that he lives on less than
$100 per month, and that outside of this
his largest annual expense is $500 to the
Methodist Church his wife and large
family attend. He is not fond of trav-
eling, except to go to a Democratic con-
vention, a diversion he is passionately
fond of. He is a pronounced temperance
man, and, it is «aid, believes in the pro-
hibition laws of Kansas,
The people of Wellington insist that
his success is due to luck, but it isn't
He has a genius for making money and
pnine-tenths of it is hard work, That
luck attends him, however, is certain.
The great Wellington cyclone of 18g2
picked him up and absolutely pasted him
to the gable end of a big barn and kept
Him stuck to it for more than half a
minute, as if he was the picture of a
man instead of the real thing. When
the tornado had passed, he dropped to
the ground and landed on his feet with.
out a scratch,
The same cyclone passed over his
house without doing $5 worth of dam-
every house for
splinters, Ii cut
off two or three of his fine maple trees
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS.
fhe Latest Happenings Gileaged From
All Over the State,
SARMER KILLED BY AN ITALIAN
Dispute Occurred While They Were Riding To-
gether on a Wagon in Cambria County~
Trying to Foil a Kidnapping Plet--Giri Out
of Work Through a Strike Ate Too Many
Green Appies—~Other Live News.
‘¢ been issued as follows:
Wm. A. Moffitt, Pittsburg, $6: Charles
Engel, Rural Ridge, Allegheny county,
$6; George Gordon, Alegheny county,
$6; Conrad Gunnerman, Pittsburg, $8;
# Griffin, dead, Beaver coun
wharles A i
cy, $12; John Felton, New Castle, $6;
Mt. Jewitt, Mc
John T. Burkholder
Kean county, $8; James P. Youn;
Canonsburg, Washington county,
Daniel Snow, Pitt
Annie (
Pensions have
hurg $6 Widows
Pitts £R- (eo E
‘ 3 %7
leasantville, V
Casey, burg
yriginal,
Lawrence
ius,
Ma
N las
Ada Bair i
$8: Jane L
Butler county,
Pittsburg
P
who Ii
days
rect
nger,
F da
english
ing $300 und
of his
matled from Lancast
that the $300 be
box in front of the
which adjoins that
lieving the threat t
was deposited in the
and numerous watchers
duty. The writer of the or
emissaries did not appear, however
Further investigation is in progress
one children
box
were pla Ceg
lptie
eller
George Shafer, a
lor Township, aged
and killed several
town by an Itali
James T. Stutzman, }
Italian, who went bs ¢
larber, were riding to S
on a wagon by S
dispute occurred and the Italian
the wagon and challenged
come down if he wanted
fer did so and the Italian
¢r and shot When he
had his revolver in hi
time to use it Italian esc
officers are searching for him.
owned
s hand,
Th
ihe
Lt "
Aont
The resources of omery «
as shown b i
missioners Cl
Number
real estate, J
iR.026; value, $545.570;
of
value of
1,325. AERTeRate
for
number
showing
Chelten
{ persons li
Of this
t
of the
ham is second, with 044,
contains
with 1304
] and Abington
Judge William Butler : d the in-
ked § the
Company
structed a
Whitford,
Union's
has been
its own office
The
for a death at Connellsville
Lewis, aged 13. daughter of Mrs Han-
nah Lew:s } a restaurant for
the steel workers. has had no work in the
restaurant since the strike has been on.
She spent most of her time in an apple
orchard and died from cating green
apples.
Thomas A. Hall W. H Zimmerman,
Wm. Reppard and E. O. Zuern, ex-
councilmen, convicted of conspiring to
defraud the borough of Shamokin, com-
pleted their sentence of four months in
the county prison and were released.
They were required, however, to give
$1000 bail each for their appearance
should the Commonwealth decide to
press the bribery charges.
Governor Stone reappointed Dr. J. To.
Forwood, of Chester, a member of ihe
State Quarantine Board. The Governor
also reappointed the following managers
of the Morganza Reform School: Thos
Wightman, Pittsburg; Alexander J. P.
Panticostt Wm. S. McKinley, Hay
Walker, Jr, Allegheny: James McClel-
lan, Morganza: John T. Iams, Waynes-
burg, W. D. Wallace, Newcastle.
A fight between girls occurred at the
Blue Ridge camming factory at Luzerne.
A number of the girls there are on
strike, and they tried to get the other
workers 10 join them. Blows resulted,
but the strikers were butnumbered and
were compelled to retire.
Thomas Murphy used up most of his
clothing in three attempts to hang him-
self in the lock-up at Uniontown, and
the police got tired saving his life
and took everything from his cell, leav-
ing him naked until morning.
Cornelius Gorman, of Olyphant, was
instantly killed by falling from the un-
finished Delaware and Hudson bridge
which spans Eddy creek, near Olyphant.
Gorman was one of the men employed
in building the bridge.
Mrs. George Tunis, of Brooklyn. a
mining settlement near Mahanoy City,
discovered a burglar in her home, She
seized hold of lum by the coat collar
with one hand. and with the other
struck him in the face. The burglar
struggled and finally escaped.
After being beaten by highwaymen,
james McClune, mail earrier between
olemanville and Martic Forge, was
robbed of
2 The lay
are i.
ship, was destroyed
loss of $5000.
A cave-in occurred at the Lance Col
liery, Plymouth, which necessitated the
suspension of work while repairs are
bei
vy a schoothouse in
steel
who keeps
barn on the farm of Theos
oodward, in Kennett Town-
by fire, a
Pottsgrove and wrecked
wall of the bun gol spell
on