IF YOU SHOULD FROWN. ;
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If you should frown,
Though all the world seould smile,
What seas of grief could drown.
What joys beguile?
Sad skies would weep,
The sun be clouded o'er,
And would in darkness keep
| Until you frowned no more,
If you should smile,
Though all the world should frown
In what a little while
Would care die down!
Laughter would rise
And ripple round the earth,
And the transfigured skies
Exult and shine in mirth.
aette.
THE MAD ELEPHANT OF
MYSORE.
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RRRERRRRRRPREERRRRREY NNR
Rererrre
Day dawned bel
of the Western Gh
breakfast, i
his guest.
the ground,
ff peaks
ere, atter
cherry-wor
hands in
loung
edly
panthers—
kind—th
the wail
“T will
pair,” decl;
SWer
he add
temptis
cuts
daily lal
through the ope
them loom
next insta
hands had
timber gate.
mankilling
Quin,
<ome upon my
ihe mad elech
ally the property
had
lurk about here for
Brahma, preserve
An idea had taken root in Quins
roused from ¢ mber, seized his rifle and
hurried to the veranda. He was joined
here by the zemindar and several of the
servants, and they listened for a moment
to the tumult. A pounding began on the
stockade, and a voice called loudly:
“Help! help! master! The gates are
He has killed Jahan and is at
village,
tacking our homes,
“How came the
Rampal Singh. “Sahib, this is surely
deed of treachery.”
“We won't stop to talk of that now,”
Quin exclaimed. “Come, we must pro
tect your people.”
The zemindar was pale with fear and
man.
lowed.
gate, slipped through,
the street The din
They unbarred the
and pushed down
and clamor
moon the terrified natives, men,
1d children, were seen fice
abruptl
hives, Quin stop y
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ped
wy must gO back
he =aid.
found and |
siranpeg
trappe
ing the
chamber
mnfuriate
his rifle,
and zs ke leaped out ¢ ne way he knew
that Pet had ne home. With
the roar of the gun, great brute stag-
the bu
form with the zemindar, who harangued
the natives, bade Jahan keep the gates
fastened, and gave orders that no person
should pass out of the village that day.
Then he tottered back to his house and
sank into a heap of cushions.
“You must have the brute killed.” re-
marked Quin, as he puffed complacently
at his pipe.
“Soul of Brahma!” cried Rampal
Singh. “How is it to be done? My
men are armed only with matchlocks.
And they are cowards, Quin, sahib,
You are a mighty shikaree—rid me of
this pest.”
“For a consideration, yes.”
“I will sell you the panthers for 300
Yupees.”
“Not much you won't. I'll tell you
what I will do though. I'll give you 1350
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with those pea-shooters,” e5'd
“They were badly needed, old man.”
“1 knew they would be.”
your message.”
Thus terminated the career of the
rogue elephant of Coorg. Gooroo Khan
in due course received his just dues from
the law, confessing to his crime.
which the watchman was a sharer.
The craf-
ty brute was doubtless waiting close out.
tide and dashed in so quickly when the
gates were opened that the unfortunate
but guilty man could not escape. As for
the rogue elephant in the bargain.”
After some haggling the crafty old
Hindu accepted the offer,
A few minutes later Naryan the na-
tive shikaree who had accompanied
Quin to Harikar was smuggled over the
rear wall of the village. He was the
bearer of a letter addressed to Carruth-
ers and his instructions were to hasten
with all «peed to the camp,
Darkness fell and by degrees the peo-
ple dwindled away to their beds, leaving
Jahan, the watchman, to keep lonely vigil
by the light of his flaming fire. This wag
a matter of course. Cates and walls
were much too strong to be forced by
even a mad elephant, and Rampal Singh
and his guest, doubly protected within
the stockade, went to sleep with un-
troubled minds,
The night wore on peacefully until
about two o'clock, when of a suddes the
silence was Shatin by a single, blood-
curdling ocream @f anguish, Quin,
rested with Quin illiam
Graydom, in Unique Monthly.
Murray
Wise Wit,
a man will turn his back on for-
in contempt she will begin to woo
him. But by the time a man can act
thus Fortune has nothing to give him
that he cares for.
It is much easier to let a thing go than
to make it go.
There is more to be learned by listen-
ing than by talking, that is why the ma-
jority of us learn so little,
Competition is the life of trade, but
often death to the trader,
Honesty is often the impediment
which the succestful man has cast be-
hind him, and to that his success is due.
New York Sum,
If
tune
As the British coins that bear Quees
Victoria's portrait will soon cease to
come from the mint, if they have not
already done ro, the coliectors have be-
ann to bard them,
WCRK OF A TORNADO. ‘«:
wo——
Curious Details of Destruction Wrought
Near Naper, Neb.
seldom repeats its freaks. Here is
other day:
Killed one man and seven children and
injured two others. Every bit of cloth-
Rolled up a man's body inte a ball,
twining the legs and arms about the
Killed twenty head of stock, tearing
the horns out of the heads of a third of
Stripred the feathers off every young
chicken in a flock, while the feathers of
One of the small children of a stricken
imber,
Almost immediately the cloud descended
timber and threw it
killing her in
to pay for
1
Was carrieqg
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ing has been
Furniture Made of Match Boxes.
€i Kooper out west
d
T& minute examin
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of furs
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uraily attracting much
Hure are
attention,
ant
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sound A
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to dispose of
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rola sen
obtain a hi
inarg furni-
paid for ord
York Herald
How the Dinner Turned Out.
A tiny girl of seven gave a dinner par.
ty the other day. for which
ers were laid, and that
maidens
twelve cove
: mail
down to dine. a8 a
dinner, ttle
is at the
head of the table. She had teen very
to
5 §
sal
do everything as it should be done
“Mamma,” she asked, “shall we say
“No,” said mamma, “it will be a very
not do that”
That meant one less ceremone to be
gone through, and was a reef bot the
Little lady was anxious to have ali her
small guests understand it. So, as they
were gathered about the table, she ex-
plained :
“Mamma says this is such an infernal
dinner that we need not have grace to-
day."—~New York Mail and Express.
Wanted More Vacaticns.
More time given to innocent pleasure
and healthful recreation jis the very
thing that the average American needs
to offset the hurry and worry of his
business life. He needs it to keep his
head clear and his heart true. He
needs it to prevent him from degenera-
ting into a sordid, sel dry-as-dust,
with no thought nor ambition above that
of money-grabbing. Rightly considered
and properly spent, the vacation period
may claim a place in every well-ordered
life as truly as the time devoted to busi.
ness duties, No other view can be taken
of the matter by any man who has ra-
tional views of the reali objects of hu.
man existence.~Leslie’s Weekly,
It is better © be honestly mistaken
and own wp than to blindly continue in
the same olf way.
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WHICH DEAD MOTHER PASSED.
Hides Away Rare Treasures Simplston.
“Down East” in Maine,
The fact that Charles Oakes, of West
Hampden, Me., always enters and leaves
his home through a window instead of
through the door is not the only pecu-
liar thing about the man, and his actions
are a continual source of interest to the
neighbors,
A few years ago Oakes was a healthy,
bright young hiving
mother in one of the largest and finest
farms eastern Maine. He has
the f{: buildings, but old
mother
farmer, with his
in still
rm and its the
y
i
and
death
es in the hurchyard,
her
ta C
Lately
y hunters ha ven
Oakes seems t changed
mind, for every few
the with a
or some other bit of the ¢
pocket, offering to
though he has no
Another recu
although his credit ic good for thou-
sands, he will not owe any man a cent
over night. The other day he came ints
Hampden vill and purchased pro-
visions to the amount of $3.27, and when
he came to settle found that he had
just $3 in his pocket.
“Oh, well,” zaid the storekeeper:
into village cup and saucer
lection in his
sel} for
need of money.
mio
ge
ww
all right But Charles would not do
any such thing. He made storekeep.
er take out a little from each package
until the value was reduced to exactly
$3. and then he chouldered his bundles
and trudged home.
He 1s by no means foolish, nor so in-
capacitated as to warrant the appoint.
ment of a guardian for him. “He's just
a little queer,” the villagers say. But
they would like to know what he nas
done with his “money from out West"...
that's what they would like to know,
The Latest " Craze.”
At last there is something new under
the sun. Fads and crazes and enthu-
sinsms of many kinds have arisen and
have swept through the world, whirl.
ing the most sedate off their feet. But
never before has humanity seen a true
“rich man's craze for giving.”
It has always been known that ex-
ample, whether good or bad, is conta
gious. But who ever suspected that the
example set by a few rich men a few
years ago would develop such an in-
tense rivalry in philanthropy among the
very rich?
In this country the passion for
Purposes,
to especially for
strong. It
back there when a few cler
public ig
1
BY
ed
cation, has always been i
gan
away
the founding
has sho
and
tor
It
grant
taxes fo
of Harvard Col
1
ries
1 itself in
ege
public
wi ENOrMmon
enormous levies of
b tal
hospitals as
and w
their
schools, colleges,
like. Also
generously
the
given
little,
Therefore it is not surpri
we devel ped a
men
of
omen
much
ing that a
-~
of
SOON as cla malts
millionaires, giving should begin on the
scale, Sut
r this ri
to make
1 1
$0103] as
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CHANCINGC A RIVER'S FLOW,
Cunnison's Torrent to be Sent Through
Mountains
feet
ugh to
erage of 2800 feet of rock in the
A Typical American Lad,
Jim John Rippertoe was born on a
Kansas farm. When his education was
finished at the country school he decided
that t know much, and so he
worked his way through a high school.
Finding that his knowledge was still de-
he didn’
GT
worked his way through Stanford Uni-
scourged with the “divine discontent.”
With
quered, approximately, of course, and the
lucky accident of his peculiar name, the
future holds out great possibilities for
this typical Western American lad,
Tears. Bottled Tears.
A physician who has recently returned
from Persia says that the natives still
believe that human tears are a remedy
for certain chronic diseases. At every
funeral the bottling of mourners’ tears
is one of the chief features of the cere.
mony. Each of the mourners is presen.
ted with a sponge with which to mop his
face and eyes, and after the burial these
sponges are presented to the priest, who
squeezes the tears into bottles, which he
keeps.~Family Doctor, -
Refisction of a Bachelor.
Romantic love has been put away in
camphor along with the rest of our
grand-mother's things~New York Sum,
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS.
The Latest Happenings (leaned From
All Over the State.
CHURCH A PREY TO INCENDIARIES.
Methodist House of Worship im Clearfield
County Set on Fire at Several Different
Maces--High Schools in Townships -To Take
Land for Sehool--Two Men Lost tn a Mine
Race Discrimioation Suit--Other News.
The following pensions were granted
Pennsylvz tarr, Wash-
ington, $6: Pottsville,
Pottsville,
ans: George
Thomas 1.
Charles A. Kershner,
yd,
Wesley Barker, New Haven,
R. Hudgins, Harisburg
Arnold, Towand ”
Houtz, Lemont
State Soldiers
$6: Chas.
$12; Seneca L
Cornelius D.
Edward Pentz
rie, $12: Glenn
$6: Caroline
Phebe Keil
Rung,
K
Mitchell,
Kel-
¥
Ma-
W. Christy,
E 1, Wavn
atherine
Smith,
4 ry
npson,
D
s, Pitsburg,
Carlisle, $8:
$10; Jacob
irg, $10;
Liber
Lr
YY.
l.anagan,
Monongah
A dng
tabiish
are likely
avoed makin
townshiygrs where
N ’ viol
wirse of study
ugh schools now
and
the experiment In
Ingh school cannot succeed
or sudden
reco
MICCT
ot
alec
in
The Methodist ch
Ay east
The
work
arrived at
the
fetected an odor
wis evedent that the
ved at several differ-
face a2 foundation
had been removed directly under
} found ablaze
savsng the
the clmrch
stone
the frame wark
Several
organ. E
had just been comy
Arthor Sevmour, a voung oodored man,
entered complaint against John B. Peo-
Nes, manager of a roof garden in Lan
Gl ster nm wilh vsolaung an
act of i88y, which
1 5et
men
Xichosive wh
tietors
i to any
color oF Peo-
hearing
were issued at the State De-
iolkows : 1 Star Street
Railway Company, Mechanicsburg, Com-
beriand County. The line is theee miles
long to Bowmansdale and the capital is
$1000, South Bethichermn anf Center
Valley Street Railway Company, six
ale
he
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to Soudersville, to Colesville, to Pried-
to Center Valiew and return,
Capmal, 823.000
The School Board of Nether Provi-
dence has awarded the contract for a
new $12000 school building. The ste
has been selected, but the owner of the
land refuses to sell at the school board's
figures. The board intends to take the
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Three blooded besfers straped from
the farm of David A, Verne, in Up
per Providence township, s-veral weeks
ago and diligent search Tailed to reveal
their wherenboms Their carcasses
were found in an anoccupied house on
the farm of Samuel Morrow, (wo miles
iroan Verner's place. There was 3 heavy
storm just after the hetiees wore miss.
ed, and it 1s supposed that they ht
sheker in the building and being unable
to get out died of thera and banger.
Alired Jones and Frederick Heize.
man wers shat off in a gangway at
Burnside Colliery by a isdl of rock. Not
being amiliar with the various passage:
ways they lost their way alter climbing
into an abandoned breast. From there
they walked slong various gangways
and openings unl they had covered
fully filteen wiles. They grew exhaos-
ed toward morning anf! {caged they
would starve to death. A: they had
aboot given wp all hope of besng found
a rescuing party appeared and took
them to the surface.
H. C. Seivert, a butcher, of Mahanoy
City, was returning from a drive
Sirough uakake Valley and as he
neared Vulcan Hill the horee became
frightened and dashed down the hill
On crossing a railroad track Seivert
wat thrown into the road on his head
and his skull was fractured. Mrs, Mi-
chael Leazy, who inppeasd to be Groat,
ing the street, was knocked down and
dragged a considerable distance, sus-
taining cuts and bruises
The Springfield Water Company has
begun Jroceadings to condenm the
water of Crum and Ridley creek for
use in ite business,