WHEN FANCY COES TO SEA.
The toil of towns is left behind,
Their restless energy:
Adl fetters lose their wonted
When Fancy goes t
sway
sea,
Fhe freedom of the unbound slave,
Untasted liberty,
mine in those sweet
When Fancy goes
intervals
to sen.
Is
1 hear the wild bird's haunting note,
Its unchained: minstreisy;
The murmurs of the deep are mine
When Fancy goes to sea.
The fragrance of the far-off isles
Is wafted here to me,
\nd lulls me into slumbering
When Fancy goes to sea.
Clara Louise Heald in Boston Ti
cript.
ans-
NSN JNJ
sixty yards ahead of him. Feeling no
exhaustion, but with increased buoyancy
of spirits she bounded over the fence
touching it with neither hand nor foot
and then, turning, she gracefully waved
her hand at her competitor, saluted the
onlookers, and coyly vamshed into the
cabin,
Fairburn paid his bet, and it was no:
difficult for him to persuade Miceo that
he was entitled to visit the cabin that
night to smoke a pipe with him and pre
sent his felicitations to the fair winne:
of the race.
That this visit
to either «of the
by the small hour at wh
0
Was no
late rivals was evident
«1
stay which he made in the neighborhood
with no other excuse than the fine hunt
which this sport loving people had dedi
cated to the uses of Terpsichore,
Here they were wont to
in line and move around to the
music of their
took his
assemble
line
own Voices
leader place in the
By Henry M. Wiltse,
swif t
a race noted
and strength of limb
man. His fasher
Indian
was the ran
1erokees,
Miceo Morg:
ner of all
for fleetness of
iibeit the sor
had ied
man,
The fame of je atl,
young fellow had spread far and wide,
and one day a young Virginian who fair.
ly rivalled him in physical grace
manly beauty appeared at his cabin door,
and asked if that was the home of M
Morgan, the fleet of foot.
“Yes, and 1 am the
plied.
“1 have
,
the
1 O03
a full blood wWO-
mart
litle, handsome
and
CeO
man,” Morgan
challenges you to a
race, “you have never
teen defeated, | am told, and I want to
show y that the spirit of speed can
dwell as well as
cone
said the visitor:
on
1
with the whit
with the Indian.”
“In me it dwells wii!
plied Morgan: “but
you wish to run?”
The question was a natural
the Indian is a born gambler.
“I will race
ars,” answered Philip Fairburn.
“It is a pity that 3
tune,” said Miceo, “for
ering from a
as heavy of foot as
But if you will come to-morrow [ will
arrange a
ired dollars
for
one,
you for five hundred dol
\ : .2
in ave come at this
I am just recov-
has
wounded
fever which made me
buffalo. |
match with
pretensions to shame.”
“Do you mean tha
I» 1s
i Hp.
I mean it, most
with some
gan, “We
kees are not greatly given to the folly
nnpaticr
of jest
There was one person who could out-
strip Miceo Morgan in the but this
known to none save him and his
ister, Cynthiana, a girl of eighteen
who combined the graces of the wood
nymph with the activity of the
tiger.
Cynthiana and her br
educated. She devoutly
and it was with difficult
race,
Was
LInewy
¥
her were well
was religious
that Miceo per-
and
misrepresentations c¢
waded her to enter the race. not
without sone
cerning the terms and condi
mn
ns.
in meci.
day, but
Young Fairburn was punctual
ing his engagement the next :
greatly to his disappointment he was
Kiven no opportunity woman
who was to be matched against him.
All of the details were arranged, and
he next Saturday was fixed as the day
f the contest. The ground selected was
a narrow strip of level land
near the Morgan cabin, which stood on
he banks of the Watauga, in one of
the fairest and m f valleys of
Fast Tennessee. to be
covered by the races was half a mile.
The news of the coming event spread
rapidly through the Cherokee sbttle- |
ments, and when Saturday came there
were several hundred sport loving peo-
ple, including a few pale faces, to wit- |
ness the novel match.
Not until the very minute appointed |
for the start did Fairburn set eyes upon |
his antagonist. Then she emerged from |
the cabin, suitably dressed for the oc- |
casion, with many a little suggestion of |
feminine weakness in her attire: coy, |
tawny, slight and beautiful, the very|
sight of her gave Fairburn's susceptible |
heart a flutter that did not augur well |
for his coming effort. The girl wore al
i ct cloak, which she deftly threw |
aside when the signal for starting was |
given, and away went the contestants, |
0 sce the
re
Iie
O
cleared,
i
The onlockers were as tense with ex- |
criement as were the champions of fav-
orites at horse race or regatta, but there |
were no noisy demonstrations,
The start was made from the end of
ile course farthest from the cabin. The
koal was only four feet from the pole
ience, five feet in height, which enclosed
the cabin and the little patch of maize
which grew around it,
It was at first no very uneven match,
=nd from the start each racer knew that
the other was a master of the art as well
as the possessor of the natural advan-
tages which make winners in all of the
contests of life,
Fairburn ran as if all that he had or
oped for was at stake. Five hundred
dollars was not so much to him, but
he had somehow conceived the fancy
timt he was running for a better stake
than money; that the girl herself, her
heart, her future, his future—were side
stakes.
But he soon discovered that the train.
ing of an athlete just out of college was
no safe reliance in a contest with this
wood spirit of motion—this awny Cam.
ila of the forest.
After the first fifty yards the , girl
gained steadily, steadily drew fafther
away from him, speedily, as light, as
tro, 2s direct, toward the goal as the
arrows of her fathet hil for centuries
sped to their mark, and when ghe reach.
ed ‘the end of the course she was nearly
vities
of
of the fest:
movement
assumed control
They followed his
iy \
re 1
stein Fhe ©
of his rat mn
Was a
under
of the gourd rattler. Then there
be wilder i quicl
swaying i
1 absolutely
music
until! the scene
‘ 1 1
10 an onioGker,
Si y
was ure
to overcome
with a ¢ ]
1
urious charm, a
than
than w
It was an inpovation upon Indian cus
throuoh
tArougn
toms, but quite of en, the med a-
tion of Miceo,
to accom 3 \ the ‘dance.
When the time came that he
strained t« epart from the settlement
1. was permitted
felt
he visited
return to his
“But f
another
may have a
injured reputation i
mere
redeem
Cynthi
“Oh,
replied.
uppose.”
“1 de
5
trength
it, and her nerves
athing as calm,
erely taking
i
had been i
Ming exercise upon the ban
Ber
mo ks of that
beauteous
$f te
$ AW
y
the ©
At one
ds from the end of
wirse she tv vards ahead
A
hundred she had no ground
inst
vy
if it had suffered a
She seemed 10 be tugging at her
grasped her foot Ag
spram.
dainty moccasin,
of her being in danger. or
in pain; he thought only of the priceless
prize that the moment's delay might win
for him. He clencl i
her
sed his teeth, bent his
more upon his toes,
strong enough for arrow shafts.
athlete in arena or race course, no ath-
lete of the Greek penthathlon ever strug.
gled for success as |
the prize of this contest. He shot for
ward like an arrow hurled by the bal.
lista, and by the time the girl had re
sumed the race he was fifty feet ahead
That odds could not be over.
come.
he placed his bands upon the fence and
vaulted over it.
Then he bethought him of her peril.
and turning, said
“l have won the race, and you are
mine; but what has happened to you,
dear? Are you hurt?”
“Not at all,” she said quietly. “But
an Indian maiden must not run in the
race with her mocassin half off.”
When he tried to take her in his arms
she eluded him, and with a roguish smile
glided into the cabin and to her apart-
ment.
Whatever hapoened to that moccasin
escaped the notice of all save the girl,
and she gave no further explanation
than the one hinted.
She was true to her promise. The
young people were married in a week
and lived together in almost ideal hap-
piness until the white man's war came.
and Philip fell, fighting. beside his bro-
ther-in-law, Miceo, under the leader.
ship of their uncle, the Confederate
raider, General John Morgan,
It seems something like a eoinci-
dence that the little place where he fell
was called Cynthiana.—-Waverly Maga.
zine.
The woman who trifles with her hue.
band's affections we ildn't hesitate to
rifle his pockets. :
CE ——————— -—
ROCK LICHTHOUSE KEEPERS.
Incidents of Their Severe and Dangerous |
Service. :
Daring the storms that rage intermi!
tently around our coast in winter, the
landman’s mind {urns in sympathy to
ward those who in ship or lifeboat are
fighting the waves for dear life. Bu
how often does he give one thought to
the men who immure themselves in the
lighthouses that stud our line?
“I would rather spend my life in a
settlement than be a lighthouse |
keeper,” a man to the writer
the Bishop lighthouse,
‘A convict does |
but
coast
declared
visit to
off the Cornish
COA St
a lighthouse keeper sees nothing but a
xpanse of I am not sur
hat many should los
water,
of
balance.
the
thes picture,
1
: i 3 ther
prised t them
their mental
The Bishop lighthouse
It
read of the
also off the coast
Visitor io
not overlook was
one
Cornwall, having been completely
isolated for many weeks in con
torn
Sequence
of fearful The keepers had been |
ig coffee, hops and tea
fortunately
frequently find
1
iar predicament,
iY
of guns
the
keener 1s
the |
was afr
8
is peculiar to
retirement
sient sen-
iMustrated
1
sh . E of :
¥ the case « th Mshop
lighthouse
aforementioned, which stands right out
Atlant) Not once in a year is
ugh for the
stores at the lighthouse steps,
irs the
superintendent
3
lass from above
the place
way. one
noose at
own
s '
a the end rope. whic!
! rat,
ping the rope firmly above his head
3
pr we as
i.
called
thr wn ft his be and,
he
to the
lig
drawn up
h around
thence b
1% “sea © the |
plint the Ithouse is
e clitnba pervendicular |
AI perpendicular
London
a
dder to the door of the he
Hise
Pater Pindar's Ruse.
One of the more difficult tasks
The less known to fame the more
Press.
A man like Kipling may dictate terms, |
while publishers bend the knee before |
of Dr. John Wolett, better known as
“Peter Pindar,” #% succeeded in get-
ing. The publisher proposed an annuity |
Failing to agree, a day was appointed
arriving at the doctor's room found the
uichral cough. When he refused to give |
more than $1,000 the doctor broke out |
into a violent fit of coughing, which sro
duced an offer of $1,250. This was re-
fused, and the cough came on worse
than ever, At last the publisher, think.
ing that with such a cotigh the old gen- |
tleman could not live long, raised hss
offer to $1,500.
The doctor, having secured the extra
$3500 for life, rapidly recovered and lived
more than twenty-five years,
For the Sprinter,
A visitor at an East End home found
the lady of the house engaged with her
mending, a task she faithfully looks aft-
er one morning every week. Among the
articles was a most atrocious pair of
white cotton trousers, and the caller
feebly wondered whore they could be.
She had never seen anything like them
in shape or make. Finally her curiosity
overcame her and she said:
“Are those something new in rainy.
day wear? Or are they a part of a ra
tional bicycling, or reform bathing cose
tame?” :
The lady laughed until she cried:
“Bless you, no,” she gasped, “these
are John's running trousers, He's a
sprinter, you know, and he's going 1a
race on the Cake-Reserve field day.”
Then the visitor wished she hadn't
heen so curious.~Cleveland Plain Deals
or
DEVELOPING RECRUITS.
WITH NEW SOLDIERS.
Surgeons Conduct
the soldier. It does not cod
dle him or make him a child of luxury
but it improves him physically, men
tally and morally by a system of train
ing which develops the worthy charac
teristics of a man and makes him
ter fighting unit. hen
physical training of a soldier was
the brawl,
with new
a bet
the
Lime was w
to such exercises as
what muscular d
personal encounter
of his
more quar
rel me
drill «
I nature was nur
chaplain who preached per
for
tured
oted his
oid fre
before
1
Wilo €
m tl
Cry
OF the men whose ¢
stituts vy lend themselves to
1
35 In
period, to have increa 1
of
y outgrow their original
s :
oe Obhiects
i
ridicule
f.2%
clothin
ihe
ing, mt
nto which they squeeze them
heir great discs
hem
author make
as
whenever
The military ities
exercises entertammsg
hey furnish music
As possible
it can be
in shape of athletic meets
and the officers take «0 great
commands as to provid
rec
the
an interest
tf
wilds
for those who
of the
A
the Post ex
surpass
gathered by
hange 15 always used in
f a gymnasium
ake the greatest pride.
for
fund
In the cavalry
a part of t
come mn he
The well«drilled troop of United States
avalry in some of its mancuvres fur
1
of
riders the
Fire-Proot Paper.
Fire-proof paper, for printing
and
in Berlin by a new patented process,
Ninety-five parts of asbestos fibre of
the best quality are wached in a solg-
tion of permanganate of calcium and
then treated with sulphuric acd as a
bleaching agent. Five parts of wood
pulp, as used in paper factories, are
added, and the whole is placed in the
wgitating box with an addition of lime-
water and borax. After being thorough-
ly mixed the material is pumped into
the regulating box. and allowed to flow
wut of a gate on an endless wire cloth,
where it enters the usual paper-making
machinery. It is easy to apply water
marks to this paper. which ordinarily
has a smooth surface, but which can be
atin finished, this being more prefer-
ihle for writing purposes. Paper thus
sroduced is said to resist even the di
tect influence of flame and renming un.
mjured even in a white heat
ASR
Holland has 10,100 windmills, each of
which drains on an average of 310 acres
of land.
MAN AND HIS EVERYDAY LOAD.
| Compesite Burden Every Citizen Bear
Without Noticing It.
I “Man
these
to think
mind
carries
i modern
of nt”
has an
ir
Wie
and analyze
hang about
at th:
civilization in
standing in the
y
and in
and
by (respasss
10 prevent
ditches by
olga il 3.
roadside, MIsequence
i
cpaired
and the
i
§ Ve
i
i
ill farther
has Aar.sen the
thousand wears
hollows
i proverb
{ old
1 hose whose lands are used for roads
naturally prefer to h roads
along the edge of their farms instead
if cutting them, and this ac-
nts for the fact that Chinese roads
are often so crooked that one may have
to go considerable d
place that is really but a few
faway. This always interests
ger. Church Eclectic
3
{ that 3 oad a
becomes
ave (ihn rn
across
Civ
a 1stance to reach
miles
sirans-
{ @
| =
AC
in Memory of a Very Remarkal*ls Poet,
“Dan” Dawson died than a d
cade ago, at the early age of 8: he wa:
Admirable Crichton, a poe
{ of great achievement and of still greater
romise: yet except by those who knew
him personally, how little is he known!
His was one of most remarkably con:
[‘posite natures. In the business world
| he was known as 3 successful iron-foun
| der and contractor: he was one of the
finest all-round athlete: in the country :
an erudite student of literature in gen
eral, with a wonderfully extended ac.
quaintance with the poets. The fol.
lowing diary of one day of his life
shows alike his marvelous power of ace
complishment and his equally marvelous
versatility :
In the morning he went to New York
5
less
LATEST HAPPENINGS
ALL OVER THE STATE.
New Oif Wells Create Excitement in
Fayette County,
PENSIONS [TOR PENNSYLVANIANS,
Andrew Carnegic Pays $3000 for a Silver
Image of the Santa Maria Jacob Rebm, Dis-
graced Veteran, Lived in Laocaster— Killed
Himself by inhaling INuminating Gas
Child Burned to Déath at Hazleton
Pensions granted tc Pennsylvanians:
Michael Motor, Pittsburg, $6: Martin
| Campbell, Lilly, $6; Wm. Parker, Alle-
gheny, $8: John Sloan Olvia, $6; Jos
Jacobs, Ennisville, $6: Wm. DD. Collins,
Uniontown, $6: Wm. N. Henry. Peru
Mills, $12: James E. Norris, Collier,
$12; Winfield Scott Hamilton, Coal-
mont, $8: J. R. Rollins, Canton, $10;
Horace Parker, Erie, $8: John Simp-
son, Jackson Summit, $10; Wm. E.
Hudson, Ellisburg, $14: Carolina Reb-
ertson, Altoona, $8; Margaret Senning,
| Titusville, $8: Sarah E. Dowden, Flat-
! woods, $8: Frank B. Fuller, Greens
burg, $8; John T. Twigs, Philipsburg,
{ $12; Joseph Cupp, Tyrone, $10; Lewis
{ Huber, Derry Station, $10; Spencer
| Brainard, West Warren, $10; John
| Critchficld, Fossilville, $10: George W.
| Troutner. East Bra $10: minor of
Beighley, Zelinople, $10.
dy
Gibbons,
age, killed
Scrant
in a inght
been insane
man, 60
wife their
mutilated the
Gibbons
the
are
an ns
his
and
manner.
at periods for
j last thirty years. The indications
| that Gibbons hit his wife over the
| head with a water pitcher, clubbed her
: with the rung of a chair, and then muti-
{ lated her body with knives
A broken rail upset an engine and
{ twelve cars over a twenty-foot embank-
| ment at the Pennsylvania Railroad im-
provements being made at Duncannon.
The brakeman, Wylie Fields, colored,
| was instantly killed; Charles Jakeway,
! the engineer, and Thomas Sigleton, and
Harry Kretzinger, who were on the
train, went down in the wreck and
| made narrow escapes.
| Steve Barie was shot and killed by
| George Missenouch at Export. Both
The killing oc-
ane
od
on
|
ful
{
ad ¢
i
| curred
| signer:
tied between Barie and
pistols brought
murderer escaped
during a quarrel between for
An had to set-
Missenouch and
The
i be
oid are
were into use
found-
Em
he pres
site. A
served by the congre-
hare
church
The 160th ar
{ the Salish
was celebrated Sunday
sf 1} ar
ji AUS
ent church is the third on the
ni courcn 3 2 i ia On
5 .
iree dian
| gatons on
The Crum Lynne Station on
Wilmington \
broken into
fr Was
the lawn
adelphia,
BCE Vas
& :
| ofthce Ked
ng
or mol
Tansa
VRINC Was 1akcer
n the Phil
the
the Erie flyer,
at Sterling
engineer,
killed.
int ht tran
nd Harry Snodgrass
freight, was instantly
War
wed from
trophies
Pitts-
Revolutionary
to be rem
ith the the Al-
ny Ar by the Government
remain there to adorn the parks.
Were
abandonment of
senal
train of
lymouth,
legs,
they had
a
PV
over his
thai
prevails the
of Fayetie covnty over a
Greensboro Na'-
' ch yields at the
barrels a This is the
well the company has drilled,
1
Great oil excitement in
cuthern end
y the
Lras Com
ural pany,
{ Tate of
Any
known. Leasing is going on
Js Ruddy. of Palo Alto, was in-
stantly « in Potisville by being
struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad shift-
ing engine. With a companion he was
crossing the tracks when struck. Ruod-
dy's body was hurled fifty feet over a
bank
Jacob Rehm, one of the five men re-
cently dishonorably discharged from
the Dayton Soldiers’ Home for speak-
ing insultingly about President McKin-
ley after the shooting, and who com-
mitted suicide by hanging at Dayton,
was a native of Lancaster county
A man believed to be Lucien Auman,
of 787 Franklin avenue, Deckerton. N.
J.. was found dead in bed at the Hotel
Wilkes-Barre. He had committed sui
cide. The gas was turned on and the
man had wound 3 sheet around his head
to make certain of suffocation.
A model constructed of pure silver of
the Santa Maria, the vessel in which
Columbus discovered America, was re-
ceived at the Carnegie Institute. The
model was purchased at the Glasgow
Exposition by Andrew Carnegie for
$3000 and sent by him to the museum.
While riding on a freight train near
Newton Hamilton, Charles E. Barr, of
Virginia, {ell between the cars and was
instantly killed. The accident was
caused by the train breaking where he
had been sitting.
The Newton New Century Club has
elected Mrs. Joanna B. Crewitt and
Mrs. Fredda H. Bryan as delegates to
the State Federation soon to meet at
Reading. Mrs. Sarah B. Knowles and
Mrs. Alice Afflerbach are the alternates,
The following fourth-class postmas-
ters for Pennsylvania were appointed:
East Riverside, Finley Hagerty: Hade,
Luther H. Leiter: Monitean, Wm. J.
Graham; Sunset, C. 1. Baker.
William Thew's roadhouse, between
Shamokin and Trevorton, was destroyed
by fire. Loss $4000, partly covered by
insurance. Four pic) ou were rescued
with difficulty.
Thomas Collins was severely burned
Tames
to give instructions for carrying out a
contract for building a creosote factory
in Harlem: in the afternoon the Au-
thors’ Club gave him a reception, at
which be read his latest poem as a topic
for discussion: then he went to Sheeps-
head Hay to see his famous steeple
chaser, Rushbrook, in the race. In the
evening he lectured before a select hit
erary audience on “Norse Mythology.”
after which, before the New York Ath
letic Club, he whipped their champion
amitenr middleweight pugilist The
at the Harry E. Colliery by an exp
sion of gas and Thomas Nolan, a driver
at the Woodward, Kingston, was i
squeezed between a car and the rib.
Mamie, a child of John Scanlan, of
Weatherly, pulled a lighted lamp from
a table and was burned to death. The
shid's mother was also seriously burn-
tients was burned to the nd.
building was vacant when it burned.
The Rey county soldiers’ reunion
a
»
Literary Ero.
will be Blain on Saturday, Octo-
ber 12. a NE