DEFEATED. “What of the way, old man? What of the way ahead? The dew of death is on your brow, Your eyes are closing even now, But no one hurries here to bow In sadness at your bed.” “What of the way?’ he sighed. “What of the way ahead?” | "Tis clear—but, oh look backward, where I've passed—the world is unaware That I have ever traveled there! He trembled, and was dead. -S. E. Kiser, in the Chicago Record- | Herald. i i a 10 THE TWELFTH ~~ § i FLOOR AND BAGK. § L A RERRRIRNRERREREERERERERE RR 1st ! or hye y arg £ { hands a 3 and haggard this were red, and Homt worry “Are you i the bov : Quite sure 4 I difficy You waite the big clock « ground floor. and to the twelfth flo made no y sb wasnt vator. ites entrance, on wait, bu rge knew the tin he car skiilfuily When the tenant eK he rted himself to catch the directions wey gave him. They stared hard at the perfectly dressed summer young man, and nobody began (o come in but he was a new med to know him. When he descend- the ground flear he found agent of the building waiting to upward journey “How's this?” he asked. “Where's the boy Can't say, I'm with ner S$ ' eu 2 the take | the ure,” replied George much calmness. “He was called | away by a sudden domestic affliction. | Going up?” Fhe agent stepped into the car and the iron door clicked behind him. He was a short man and quite stout, and he had a red face. His face grew red- der as he stared at George. See here,” he said. “this won't do, | You are Mr, Garvin, aren't you?” : Iwelith floor,” said George; “ail | mt.” He looked hard at the pompous | title agent. “Going down?’ he asked, and pulled the descending rope, “Mr. Garvin,” said the agent, “yon ought to understand that we can’t have | our employees interfered with in this meaner. You are evidently trying to thield the boy. It won't do. I told him that the next time he absented himself from his post he would be discharged without further notice. By your ill-con- sidered actions you have simply helped to deprive him of his position.” “Ground floor,” announced George ; all out.” He unlatched the iron door and pushed it open. “Going up?" he asked, as he turned and glanced at the agent, “Mr. Garvin” said the latter, with dramatic earnestness, “I must request you to leave this building when your month is up. I will gladly refund the rent you have advanced if you will leave ut once,” “Couldn't think of it,” said George. “Not even to oblige you, Mr. Abbott. No, 1 mean to stay—and the boy will € 1 i wi stay, too. Twelfth floor. “Why, confound it, sir,” cried the agent, “vou talk as if vou owned this building !” turbable, The agent drew 1 ne stared at him and “What do you mean?” cried, “You get from Attorney Jethro Browning.” said George And Attorney 1 nere your authority mn. “Yes “What of that?” “1 am the Francis said the agent sharply, estate, “Ground said George This the heeded the nouncement and His florid face “The boy stays? the slightest interrogative inflection "The boy the “Good morning,” lita} LEY an Car, LHe agent stepped was pale. asked George, with from the stays,” replied agent satd Gee Irge, po- official passed radiant vision Armstrong and Miss F genliy : is any rule agai herself, is *1 do a patron King to He di not 13 running an elevator’? there? answer I wonder why he she softly I UPpose it & be aAuse Of 2 Men always do queer things Is Was gentieman ished the was doin’ un ‘That will do, | and turned from hin And confronted him Car “George.” said Mics Mary Armstrong It was the first time she had called him by his first name, old friend that +} ” tNen a4 vison inn white suddenly y “dear.” her, his hat. he He looked around at flushing, and lifted his “George,” 1 said, as face go with me to luncheon go with you, Will you take me?” He bent forward quickdy and whis- “Going up?” called Master Jamie, as he clicked the iron gate. But they did not heed him. —Cleve- Marriaze in Scotland. In Scotland the path to matrimony is The great holiday time in Glasgow is the Fair week. All the shipyards are closed and man has time to marry. But many shirk the toll gates of the high road. Seventy irregular marriages took place this Fair in Glasgow. The method is simple and inexpensive. The couple take each other for man and wife be- fore witnesses, and then they go to the sheriff and ask for warrant to register, There is an absence of fuss and wed- ding cake which appeals to the eco- nomical mind. | Besides miners, laborers. engineers and) shipyard workers gener: ally the seventy numbered a ventrilo- quist, a physician, a valet, a school board officer, a lapidary, a hotel keeper, a coachman, a sdldier, a sea captain and a motor-car driver.—London Chronicle, Where there a will there's always go ot of lawyers i the way. ¥ ESAU BUCK AND THE BUCKSAW. That Saw Esau Saw. old farmer of Ark: whose had all grown up and left him hired a young man by the name of Esau Buck to help him on his farm. On the is An SOS 111534 loaded them between the garden the barnyard, Fhe next morning the old man said man: “Esau, I am going to and while I am gone you that wood and keep the old the garden.” old man had gone Esau saw the wood, but when he When that he Esau but only saw he saw it, When the « ays to Esau: “E d?" Esau said : aw ti wood. bu wouldn't to the hired town to-day may ram out When went saw the saw SAW up of the out to he wouldn't Esau saw the couldn't saw it with that looked around for another SAW ras the SAW it. saw, he saw $2 WW «aw, SAW, +03 didn't ‘ame home he au, 214 { Sa Ne Woo I saw supremely feare great Shakes Was Was and And that ctraming men, even them : for to gis | what small or great i he great mer ely 5 whet 3 °¥ bring them far bevond us that Mr. academic our higher the task he learning ! scholarg of wood and horny- mea » power is in take care How t forth- Schurman’s reproach and fantastical: and if institutions of ng of them Com», entice Nature to seems “all lear: bear i hey may produce scholars, but are mere hewers After Dinner, Too. The three characters in this little com- edy are two young artists conmuinumg schools during the summer and a young woman in the higher walks of active social iife in the city whom they often of and sometimes meet at semi- public functions in the winter. One of terms with her. Economical reasons a city restaurant largely patronized be- cause of its wide range of choice at low prices, Into this enters one het night, while the young men were dining, the aforementioned young woman. The artist wih a speaking acquaintance step- ped up promptly. “My deur Miss Blank. In town for the day, 1 suppose. But do not remain here. There is a ladies’ room upstairs, more comfortable and cooler. In fac, I have not ordered yet. It would give me great pleasure if you would dine there with me.” “No, thank you,” as she smiled sweet- ly. “Mother and I came np to the house just for the night, and 1 just ran in here to get something nice for my dog.” Philadelphia Times. From the Atlantic Ocean to the head of Lake Superior a vessel may sail in Canadian waters a distance of 2,260 sta- tute miles. C—O Some species of African antelopes are sharing the fate of the American buffalo, and are kept alive only by special pro- tection. | i st law in the the Massachusetts has the fis prohibiting vivise Cio in i hool 8. An engine the Great Northern Railway of England has completed 4.- ¥0,000 of running in thirty-one years—probably the greatest distance ver traveled by a man-made machine, on miles Epidemics of disease do not always greatly increase the rate of mortality. I'be reason is that the epidemic sets up 1 sifting process, and often removes only other cause, The made in England trans in that country will in a few years be running at the rate of 120 miles an hour Thi of British en- ergy, though it is at nly imaginative, is VETY encouraging. prediction is that outburst even present uneral fs 2onarinesd = ry, England, a hearse, wiz including the tirpl fi 1 ntirely of horseless 1 carriage v the automobile nas n and heavy of Jamaica has re sive triumph for the the steepest 3 ' § schedule time a load t budge at all, nrokil. i game iay elsewhere, a range shown in the But uries, disease shell. In British army in Africa in April tl were about four een hundred cases of typhoid. and near iy two hundred were fatal, Fo more corpses than powder. greater anything so svaal or as cen | $ tds svlie in fs cariiey L deadlier than bullet or the South ere YET Claling dress, 1 Women's love of employment to fully 1,400,000 persons in France In Paris alone there 75000 persons employed in the making establishments of the city! Add | the individuals who design and make the materials used hv the dressmakers, | and you will have the aggregate of em- | ployes named. Americans are the mbst profitable customers of the Parisian | dressmakers, not that they get anything | better than can be had in the United States, but that Paris appears to set the fashions, The exercise of a little com- mon sense upon the part of Americans would serve to keep the dressmaking money at home, ———————— Timber Rafts on the High Seas. The regions on the west coast of America are badly in need of the timber that grows so plentifully in the north. western parts of the United States. The transport by vessel is expensive and the matter of transporting the wood in bulk has been much discussed and some ex. periments have been tried from time to time. Recently a system of cigar-shaped rafts, built in a central hulk and se- cured by chains every twelve feet, has been tried and has worked well. Logs of about feet in length are used to form a raft some 400 feel in length and some thirty feet in diametor and the raft Is towed in the open sea. Such a raft contains as much timber ag can be care ried by a dozen ordinary timber ves. sels, and twenty or more rafts of the is said, gives are | dress sort havealready arrived safely at San Francisco from the Columbia River. SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. One railroad employe was another fatally injured by the derailment Of a passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Burton Tunael, W. Va Near Gerardstown killed and W. Va. Mrs, Wil. i cidentally shot and Fdward Fairel lam Faircloth Wis a fatally wounded by her brother-in-law Ellison Virginia Committee, appomted of Charman of the State Democratic J. G. Hawkins iittee Henry Beckerman, of Richmond, drunk, shot and killed William Fletcher at the Adams House, in New York The Virginia Constitutional Conver tion, a close ! COTetary the « while by vote, decided to aboli the committee of the whole George E. Wright, a tock exchange broker, died in Chicago, of paresis The congregation of th Church in Woodstock, Va call to Rev. J. E. Shenk. Rev, Thomas W. Shields, of Lebanos accepted a call to First Moras Church in York, Pa Otis Green shot and kil and then fatally journalist and at his home of the Lutheras $1 extended the wife in wend led his wa COrresy na Daily Mail durin arrived in this ¢ remain ! ondor r. has land - 1 this fair mesting of Pole lems unced kK resigned as pas o Fereigo. Miss Joseph Philadelphia. was of 30t a 4 London the hearing be tf on the ch ng adjourned A Panama mol Nie leinon tion at the residence of Venezuelan consul, whe took refuge the § of the Governor of Panama Reported that a in ala mountam in North ern Japan sank to the level of the earth immediately after a volcanic disturbance Rev. Joseph Speicher, Baptist mission ary, that 20000 people died of plague in Chan Yang During the big fire in Foo Choo, Chi na. looting soldiers were mowed down by the soldiers The Venezuelan fleet was reported to be bombarding Richacha, an important town on the north coast of Colombia The United States battleship Iowa ar rived at Panama. Colombia's financial straits are so serious that she cannot go to war with Venezuela with any hope The government owes the 1300 troops on the isthmus $45.000 in gold, back pay. The attack on President McKinley has stimulated the French autheriies tn extraordinary measures to protect the Czar when he comes to France The Filipino mmsurgent leader Angeles has surrendered in the Camarines with 19 officers, 42 men and a quantity of ammunition The Boers have looted Barrydale, 140 miles from Cape Town, Li Hung Chang has notified the for. eign ministers that the edicts for the signing of the peace protocol have at last eso: | It is believed that they were withheld to induce Emperor William to waive the kotow ceremony on the, part of the Chinese mission - - Financial Larse Shipments of gold from France are ¢xpected shortly. The American Bankers’ Association will meet in Milwaukee September 24. The United States produces 37.0 per cent. of the steel and this country and Germany and England produce 80.4 per cent, . JBradstreet’s index numbers repre. senting the average price of commodi- ties show a gain of 1 of 1 per cent. in the month of August and 2.2 per cent. above the low point on June 1, writes LATEST HAPPENINGS ALL OVER THE STATE. GOVERNOR MAKES APS OINTMENTS, Saved a Mill Girl's Life Josephine Murphy's Fair Caught in a Textile Machine Harris burg Man Says Farmer Spread Smallpox New Pennsylvania Corporations Ready to Begin Business Pensions Grated, sem Brey sure Potisville ry lkald iethT ses rom the st Of he: whe died ! for eon Schuyl Butler which N i Act of ited the spread ] the ex en with hat 1 by its ind agents, kome plaintiff and against her protest r husband's forcibly took posses the lauer and iemoved Jam in FONCT Prowes Dulles Lown ere van the Ciecied to jor. oer ntdicine, sapyish- nurang and protection 15 18 { xind ever netituted il county courts. Its dis. will solve the question of the borcaghs 2ad 1ownshin te to ' rick . ts ough came 10 tix wagon thom ; the YN permitted | be &i pero : } } deat) h lim with pr the first sot of 1s huylk } HMRI breanice boards of Lealids. Cravernor Stone announced the fallow - Trustees of the Bek. Scraaron— Jas Hallstead, E. BH Ripple, Thomas Sprague. O. S. John- Fuller, Rev. O'Reilly, of Auditor-General Harden bergli, of Honesdale. and CC. Fred Wright, of Montrose, State Dental Exammiog Board--J. T. Lippincoy. of Philadelphia: H. N. Young. of Wilkes- Barre rustees of Oral School far the Peal, Scranton— Judge Charles E Rise, of Wilkes-Barre, and E. N. Fuller, of Scranton Caught in the hair by a the Lincoln Woolen Mille, phine Murphy, of Chester. was being drawn to her death whens a workman saw her danger and threw the selling irom the shafting. Mis: Miwphy got mder the machine to cee wha cloeged t when a cog caught her Ip Lar Charters were issued at “ae Sai De- ctment as follows: The Hrriak Con sumption Cure Company, Ali~gheny: rapttal, $2000. Athens Creamery Asso sation, Athens: capital, $6000 The A. F. Smith Company, New Brighwn; capital, $30,000, ; The Lehigh Foundry in Fullerton was destroyed by fire e building was 500 feet long and Bo feet wide ant was ormerly one of the rolling mills ©! the Catasauqua Mansfsctring Comndany, Many valuable patterns were destroyed, Neither Presideat J. E. Elverson nor Superimendent Wood could give a2 es. timate of the loss. bet it is believed to be nearly $100,000 and only partially ine sured. ; io Jamily ‘of Henry Bartholomew, ilkesbarre, ate green watermelon, A year-old daughter died and Bare Ww. F Scranton, machine at Miss Jose tholomew and his wife are in a critical condition,
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