COMPANIONS.
through the crowded streets hy dav
And under the stars at night
There is one who walks with me,
Who keeps me cver in sight;
And often 1 feel him clutch
My arm as he bids me stay
From the ways that I turn to take,
And often I fiercely shake
His hindering hand away,
In the crowded streets by day
And under the stars at night
He seeks to lead me where
High pillars are gleaming whitey
And often I see him frown
As, silent, he looks at me—
When I'm doing the best that 1 can
He smiles—and he is the man
I know that I ought to be.
E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
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S.
I THE MADMAN.
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RRIEPRERERREPERRERRRVARYY
i-of-the-way places
bell Ti it was
had
when cailed at ¢
no ancommon
hile on seve
vered astride
. and once on
while acting under
he was intelligent and
ihe
aiways respectful to his
slept under his bunk,
passage
had run down
the Atl
Parson's
a 1
a quick
ioe questions
mates. But
tomed to see his ecce
nearly ceased to regard them
or anxiety. }
source of amusement to us.
“Loco,” said a little Chileno, Augustin
touching his own forehead w
cal leer.
“Ay, you may weil say it,”
the man-o'-war's man.
est chap that ever I was shipmste
That is to say, he shifts his bal-
the oftenest;
again."
Presently the ship came flying up in-
to the wind, with head-sails slatting.
“All back, forward!” sang out Bolt.
“Parson’s star-gazing,” he added, in a
lower tone.
“Mind your helm there, Parson! What
are you doing?’ shouted the mate.
“Hard up, quick, or you'll have here"
The sentence was cut short by the
¢ound of a heavy fall, and the next mo-
ment the Parson, hatless, with his long
hair flying in the breeze, dashed among
use with a gleaming sheath-knife clutch-
ed in his hand.
We needed to ask no questions,
A single look was sufficient; we all
felt that we were in the presence of a
madman, ’
We involuntarily shrank back to give
him room, as he rushed through the
group. Old Bolt received a back-handed
cut in the face from the sheath-knift:
Augustin measured his length on deck
under a blow from the swinging left
arm: the maniac cleared the windlass
at a bound and leaped down the open
scuttle into the forecastle,
There was no light burning below, for
we were on allowance of oil. The par-
son had as yet uttered no sound. but had
flashed among us like a meteor, and then
vanished into the blackness of darkness,
where no one dared to follow him. We
shuddered as we thought of our com-
Jades of the other watch sleeping be-
OW.
1
we had ‘ome
#s and had
with fear
said ol d
but he always rights
The captain, as well as everyone else
in the cabin, had been roused by the
unwonted sounds overhead, and had
found his way on deck to learn the
cause, Armed with all sorts of weap-
ons, we mustered forward in a sort of
irregular phalanx, ‘to beat the jungle
for the tiger,” as the second mate, an
old East Indian cruiser, quaintly expres-
sed it.
Tonawanda, who had been slyly lis.
tening near the scuttle, reported having
heard the sound of someone moving the
fore-peak hatch; but after this ceused
all was still as the grave.
“Steward, bring a light here from the
cabin,” said the captain. “It won't do
to go down there in the dark.”
But at this moment one of the men
below, disturbed by the bustle, roused
up and crying, “What's this row about”
struck a match and lighted the lamp.
“Look out, Jones!" said half a dozen
voices from deck. out for
Parson; he's crazy!”
“Parson be blamed!’ muttered
the “Look
Tones
with his eves half open and out of tem
iterrupted
Why, Pars
'
hallo!
per at having hs slombers n
"1 don't see
mn
ws F "wm
relieved ng
¥ : 1s »
Hales, Lack
of
was thu
One after an
Ole i
ang rod
SOTLS O11 §
HICGH-SALARIED MINISTERS.
New York Pulpits Are Prizes in the
Clerical Profession.
To be the minister in one of New
York's big churches is a lucrative and
desirable position. Ihe salaries are
large, and the perquisites often double
the salary. It was said that the late
Dr. John Hall had an income of be-
tween $35000 and $60,000 a year. Of
this his salary was $25,000, and the rest
was for marriage fees and other inci-
dentals,
Dr. Morgan Dix of Trinity receives
$25,000 per annum, and his perquisites
are quite as much as were Dr. Hall's,
He has also about twenty assistant cur-
per annum, Not less is the income of
Dr. Greer, rector of St. Bartholomew's
Episcopal Church, for, besides a large
salary, he officiates at more fashionable
weddings than any minister in
New York. Dr. Huntington of
Church probably comes third
other
Dr. MacArdwir of
best paid Baptist minister
although his salary does not
i the Episcopal
warge. and he is
i
weddings
THROUCH AIR ON A DCOR.
powder magazine
Our eargo. which consisted
ind hide necessarily
¥ re |
Yara
ast,
laden,
hilian ©
heavily fron
there was pl
pen space in bulk, and it was easy to
and aft
hatches
yo
anywhere |
1 and we were |
they
high
into
K. Tt
LHre . sq
S05
| pushed
“
ihe |i
wer hatches were
An uniooked-for reinforcement now
ioined us in the person of Austin. the
Chileno, bearing in his hand a few fath- |
{ slender line and a short torch. |
Of
Handing the te mate
Os
welt to the second
two led the advance
The torch threw a wide glare ahead of |
us, lighting up the whole width of the |
between-decks. The madman, crouched
against the forward bulkhead, was
brought to bay
His eyes were fixed upon the torch-
light. as he gathered himsel for al
spring. But he was not quick enough |
for Augustin. With a slight twirl of the
wrist the lasso passed over his head and
dropped exactly where it was wanted,
A single jerk brought the victim to the
ground. He was easily overpowered and
secured hand and foot. He was kindly
treated on the voyage and placed in a
doctor's hands when we arrived in port:
but the poor fellow never recovered his
reason,
Strange Building Material.
At one time, not very long ago, there
was on the Lancashire coast, near Ly-
tham, a cottage and boathouse that were
made almost entirely from the remains
of a score or so of whales that had been
driven ashore some years before, The
frmework of the edifice consisted wholly
of whalebone, and the dried skins of the
huge creatures were neatly and strongly
fastened as a covering for walls and
roof. There is another building of ex-
actly the same kind at Peterhead, in
Scotland, and in this case the skulls of
the whales and some of the heavier
bones are used with great effect as out-
side ornaments,
Australia has more than 1,000 news-
papers, :
Impromptu Traveler.
named person when
across Celina in May,
Johnny's
graphic and
ng at th
Ione cription
hy
Hing
¢ time eight miles
3
ss pi
if
n the nigh
Bryan's
to}
vf the
seemed
'
field uninigred,
ave for the hes inflicted upon him
] the
V0
top ot
trees
FAs & lie ONEr a guarier
Mr. Bryan's house, and
wandered around in the dark
ng he met a
party, among whom was Mr
3
Tw" y 3 1
Wie, i 5 $i us
of a
and driv rain until
entire
opportune
to the cellar.~Chronicle Enguirer.
Grow'er "Leys ” a Chast,
Cambridge is never without i
it was the brown-tail moth
{ with that terrible itch): t : the
gila monster; then it was the Philippine
kangaroo; then it was the Brattle street
ghost. This white and spook
has for several weeks made his abode in
the water tower of the deserted reservoir
as was well known to many respectable
and cultivated residents of the locality,
who had heard his mournful groans and
seen his shadow at the top of the tower,
But last night three men and a dog de-
termined to investigate, Of course, they
came from the vort. Their nates were
mahcney, Murphy, Patrick and Growler.
They had fear neither of the groans
nor of the apparitions in white, but mov.
ed on the ttower in a body. A figure
in white appeared at the top, but they
kept bravely on. A groan rent the still
air, but they mounted the steps. Sud-
denly from within came wild shrieks,
bumps and horrible supernatural yells,
Three of the psychical researchers turned
and fled. The fourth held his ground.
It was Growler, He started a little
groaning on his own account, and the
ghost decided to vacate. He vacated in
three fleeing sections. and when Growler
returned from the chase he bore in his
mouth a bit of torn sheet. The reser.
voir is quiet again~Boston Transcript.
Flexible Sandstone.
Flexible sandstone, similar to that of
India, has been found near Charlotte,
N. C. A man in New Hampshire has a
slab of it about two feet in thickness,
It ends Judes ts ows weigh, A and when
supported only at the ends it sags per
ceptibly in the middle, ug De
hen it was
classic
A MIRACLE,
Love had fled and Hope was dead |—
He sat beside the way,
Not caring what the future brought
He gave up all, that day.
He at last, to totter past
The corner just ahead,
Lo! Love sprang out with merry shout—
And Hope got ont of bed.
> —~Chicago Record-Herald.
rose,
ONLY ONE OF HIS KIND
“What 1s the excitement on the piazza,
Cholley 2
“"Fellah just arrived without any golf
subs." Boston Commercial Bulletin,
EXPENSIVE FLIGHT.
11
I shall go 10 Europe.”
SURE ENOUGH.
Elmer. —Papa, w
is what
of oth
SPECIALTY.
departmen
Inkslinger
fut
beileve
creature a
disgu
}
i
wit
ted
"answered Senator Se rghn
ct But he's
ine for
a bright fellos
promotion,
ho thought his
asked b
enemy to prescribe fo
“All the medic necd,”
yfter listening
Rm
you
VISIT.
1
Hostess at
csn't seem
a fact"
bashful,
Won't you have some
anything 2”
Willie replied ; “y
up before 1 « ‘cause
heard ma tell pa we wouldn't get mu
here. Philadelphia Press.
—
INOPPORTUNE
cried woman,
“1s beginning to
vo, ma am.”
on cookies ne
*
fie
*The
baby.”
¥ fa
+5 %e
is
joy,
I'he man, her husband, reeled as if he
struck a blow.
“And just when | need friends most
Her suggestion that he did not have
to tell everybody everything the baby
extremely silly, just like a
woman in fact. Detroit Journal,
*
IN THE TIME TO COME,
“Unless there is a change.” said the
cook, “I will have to leave you"
“Change!” exclaimed the mistress,
“What do you mean?"
“Our union,” said the cook, “has de-
cleared a boycott on Mrs, Smith in the
next block.”
“But how does that affect me?”
“She is on your calling list, and a
sympathetic strike has been declared
against all who associate with her.”
“hicago Post,
ARCHERY.
“The lanky suitor hath an evil tem.
per,” sighed the white-armed Penelope
wearily. “Alas, 1 would that Ulysses,
my cagey husband, were returned.
“Fear not, my mother, nor be at all
out of heart,” returned Telemachus.
“Foreven 1, thy son, have attained sone
huskines, and am well able to look after
these gallants.,” ©
Whereupon the youth descended into
the courtyard of the castle and found
the noble suitors engaged in archery
practice.
“What, ho! Gentles!” he cried. “1
shall take a hand in your game.”
Saying which, Telemachus fired the
long cross beau. —New York Sum,
i
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
General Trade Conditions.
New York (Special) —R. G. Dun &|
Company's “Weekly Review of Trade” |
says: “Even in cotton goods, which
have been the slowest to respond to the
vigorous tone of domestic trade, the past
week has brought distinct improvement,
“The crop year ends with a visible
supply close to a million bales, by no
means the severe scarcity estimated
earlier in the season: but a still more
depressing fact is the decrease in takings
by Northern spinners of about 200,000
bales, as compared with the average of
the three preceding years.
"Quotations of steel products are still
nominal, owing to the difficulty experi-
cnced in securing prompt delivery.
“Consumers of tin plate have secured
supplies abroad, so that their work is not
badly handicaped.
“Woolen mulls are crowded with or-
ders, even the smaller concerns partici-
pating and the wool market is steady, de-
spite weakness abroad.
“Failures for the week numbered 202
in the United States, against 175 last
year, and twenty-one in Canada, against
nineteen last year.”
Bradstreet :
“Wheat (including flour) exports for
the week aggregate 6,607,611 bushels, as
against 0,006.08 last week and 3.248.113
this week last year. Wheat exports July
1 to date (nine weeks) aggregate 57,286,-
032, as against 23 88R 477 bushels last
season. Corn exports aggregate 441.018
bushels, as against 523.883 bushels last
week and 3.717.400 bushels last
July 1 to date exports are
agamst 30.887 254 last season.
vear
year.
10,192,000,
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Flour—Be
Grade Extra
$200a1.10
Wh
High
hal :
innesota bakers,
Oats—New
adelphia, No
more, No. 2 »
Hay—No. 1 tir
timothy, $16.00;
15.00
Green
ples—Per
to good
100 bunches,
Pear
Ive,
Vegetables—Ap-
y, $1.00a1.10; do fair
ooca$1.00. Beets—Native, per
goca$1.00, Cabbage-—Na-
per Flat Dutch, $3.00a5.00.
upes—L{rems, per basket green,
do ripe, 25a40; native, large, per
Carrots—Native, per
Native, per doz-
Cucumbers, per bas-
Maryland and
Eggpilants
10x
Canta
10420¢
100, $3.00a48 00
bunch, 1a134 C
en, sugar, 4abc
ket, 135a20¢ Damsons
Virgima, per brl, $2.7513.00
—Per basket, 12%4a15¢
basket, Concords, 10a15¢c; do Niagara,
15218 Maryland and Penn
sylvania, yellow, per bu, 60ayoc. String
Beans—Native, per bu, 60265 Peach-
es—Maryland and Virginia. per box,
yellow, goabsc; do reds, aso. Pears—
Bartletts, per basket, 0a3sc. Plums
New York, per Bb basket, 15a20c: do
Eastern Shore, Maryland, per quart, 3a
4. Squash— Per basket, 20a23¢ om
toes—Per basket, 2%5a30c; native, per
measured bushel, —aro. Watermelons
Per 100 selects, $1200a13.00; do
primes, $6.00a8 50
ye
(Inionsew
TOW . per
le Rose,
i Penn-
goca$i.00: do
Virginia,
i i
red
nd under
y bellies,
m butts,
yvar-cured
1h and Over.
Cuts, 9%:
extra broad
hams, 034; hams. 100
+ 12 Ibs and over, 12¥:
mess pi $16.50; $16.00;
ham pork,
refined, 50 1b cans. 95: do do hali-
ace
rk.
4
lard
barrels and new tubs,
Hides Heavy steers
salters, late kill, 60 lbs
10K
association and
and up, close
selection, 1oari¥ic; cows ard Jight
steers, 2
Dairy Products—Butter—Elgin, 23a
—ef: Separator exiras, 22a23; do firsts,
a0azic: do gathered cream, 10320: do
imitation, 17at1y, ladle extra, tsar; la-
dies, first 1g4a18: choice Western rolls,
15a16; fair to good, 13a14; half-pound
creamery Maryland, Virginia and
Pennsylvania, 21a22; do rolls, 2-1b, do
20
Eggs—~Western Maryland and Penn.
sylvania. per dozen, —atblic; Erstern
Shore (Maryland and Virginia), —a
1645: Virginia, —at6; Western aad
West Virginia. —a16: Southern, —a1s;
guinea, -—ay Jobbirg prices of can-
dled eggs 2: to 1c higher.
Gag!
Live Stock.
Chicago~-Cattle—~Good to prime
steers $5.25a6 30; poor to medium $360
as.20; stockers and feeders about steady,
$2.2%a4.25; cows $2. 3084.23; heifere $2.50
45.00; canners $1.25a2.40: calves $£3.00a
5.40. Hogs—Top $6.35; mixed and
butchers $5.6za0b.28. Sheep--Good to
choice wethers $3.25a300; fair to cho'ce
LATEST HAPPENINGS
ALL OVER THE STATE
With a Ball in His Brain James A
Callan Will Recover.
EIGHT MEN HURT BY EXPLOSION.
Blast of Dynemi ¢ Blew Out the Eyes of Ose
Miner and Irju-cd Seven OthersNear Sham-
okin-—As Omen of Bad Luck— James Mc:
Govern and Philip Hughes, of Mt. Carmel
Went to the Colilery in Trolley Car No. 13
Pensions granted to Pennsyivanians :
Leumuel M, Green, Saltillo, 12: Robert
A Hen, Huntingdon, $17: John M. Shirl
Meadville, $12; James McCormick. Ens
low, $12; Frank ( Calhoun, Pittsburg,
ames H, Kiblett, Somttdale, $8; John
gan, Aiwona, $10; Rudolph Hoo
$24: Henry W. Clay,
Francis M. Reynolds. Low
} Anthony, Geneva,
oy
Somerset
£2
> ¥
Fast. 1 v
Philander g
5 g
viel. ! 41 Ln
Mi Keespe rt
Callan,
he Altoona
Te
mMIiown,
£12
vhannon
WHO 1s
Hospital,
of 1
James
one
1 *
ely stated
vellsknow n
died 2t his
WON
Gamble went to
iarmer,
taking the
* yrds
{ 3
VO purcha
the
was sentenced
tovey
Years
ited
the
night
FSY
' cal and
Suppos it blasts had
bred
fieves ited
and West
Railroad
secured $3 in
a Sta-
Wil cn the Quarry
At Baumgardner's they
money and
the warehouse
Mellinger & Brother
they broke into the COuarr
2
i"
1
umaardoner’s
tobacco from
freight station and st
white lead and come clothin
to the station agent.
~
As the result of 3 sting of 5 hgrnet on
her finger Mrs. Joseph Sees, of jersey
town, nearly lost her life. Her condition
grew rapidly worse and for a time there
was no indication of life. The aitend-
ing physician succeeded in arousing res
piration only after working a half hour.
To be married and arrested the same
day was the fate of Harry Delp, of Read
ing. He was taken into custody at
Laver's Park while dancing on a charge
of robbing lis grandfather of $200 His
Frank Wilson, of West Bethichem. an
3.90; yearlings $1.23a4.00; native lambs
$2.7¢a5.15, Western lambs $3.75¢5.00.
East Liberty-—Cattle—Extra $3.40a
5.65; prime $5.20a5.40; good $4.90a%. 10.
Hoge steady; prime heavies $6.1%5a
6.2205: best mediums $6.10a6 1205;
heavy Yorkers $6.07%5ab.10; good Tight
Yorkers $6.00a6.05; common to fair
Sokens and : Eramens $5905.05;
: 00; skips $4.2525.25; rougs
a Sheep dull; best wethers %3. 20a
380; culls and common $1.2522.25;
yearlings $2.30a4.00; veal calves $6.50a
7.25. -
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
There is talk of the railroad uniows
amalgamating to resist the demands
that are sure to be made on them by the
recently consolidated railroad interests.
The new automatic weaving loom, in.
vented by a mechanic in Burnley, Eng.
land, is more of a revolutionizer than
Electric Light Company, was shocked to
death by conving in contact with a live
wire.
About the middle of May the ‘armers
throughout the Juanita Valley turned
§
to pasture, entering the Licking creek
range from Granville and McVertown.
Later the two herds ret near the Mars
Old Sawmills, where they were salted.
Shortly after getting the salt the entire
herd became sick and up to the pres.
ent about thirty have died.
A stray bullet from the gun of 3
: passenger train near Shame-
kin and grazed the face of J. Perey
Engle. editor of the Morning News of
Danville.
Because he saved his little sister from
drowning Morris Richards, 15 years
oid. is the hero of B ort” Wie
playing at the upper ca ’
Sod Nell Inte the. anal The amie.
: PY jon deep. | Morris, who wat close
not ng to divest himself
Pe plunged into the
was at first reported. person now
of shoes or clothing,
water, He went 10 the bottom and
arm brought her
grasping sister's
to eight, and at the same time produce
12Y4 per cent. more per
present system.
of
Ayres, who was killed
in
ian Wharton Township in