NATHAN HALE,
One hero dies,—a thousand new ones
rise,
' As flowers are sown where perfect
blossoms fall —
Then quite unknown,~—the name of Hale
now cries
* Wherever duty sounds her silent call;
With head erect he moves, and stately
pace,
To meet an awful doom,~—no ribald
jest
Brings scorn or hate to that exalted
face,
His thoughts are far away, poised and
at rest;
Now on the scaffold see him turn and
bid
Farewell to home, and all
holds dear,
Majestic presence,~—al
hid,
And all his strength in that
made clear,—
“1 have one last reg: that is t
But one f my
" may
~William Ordway Part
Harper's Weekly,
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VAS NAS
A BETTER OFFER.
Fa
his
1 man's
own
The junior riner
Clayton & Son looked up.
man of per i at
seemed a little older. 3
bright and his nerves were iron
had grown old, as it were, in the
ness, the business that w
on alone, for his father
active management the r bet
was a rich house, a
that took few chance
had retired from
He, al
1
to its reput
square deal
He was
important letter
er in Paris
saw the cause
even smiled
Then he waves
that
perhaps,
charm of
grow old very
leave Claytor
“Going to
satisfied ?”’
“No,” the girl
have a better
“Oh!” said
new house has
There was a little
that the girl was quic
“Yes,” she :
“Please unde
he said, “that we are ¢
the new house.
people, and our
to them, I
to say.
meet offers of
The girl colored
“I think you quite mi
Ing of my call,” she said
had no intention of using th
the Stapleton company
fact, I had decided so
leave your employ at
tunity. Pray do not ask
son. It has nothing
business relations
away with only the kindest feeling
all my associates, and I particula
want to thank you for your many
tesies—and I'm very sorry I
tained you so long.”
She turned to retire,
Clayton called her back,
“Miss Ronalds,” he said.
ment, please. 1 want to apologize for
my rude speech of a moment ago. We
We shall
their
WO
y
'
Bere
but
people that I suppose I must have felt
a little irritated when I spoke. Kindly
forget it. When do you want to leave?”
“Next Monday,” she replied. “The
first of the month.”
“And you are determined
them?”
“1 teld them 1 would come unless I
received a better offer.”
“And you will not entertain any offer
from Clayton & Son?”
The girl shook her head.
“No,” she answered.
“Very well,” said Richard Clayton, as
he turned back to his letter. “I have
no doubt I will see you before you go.”
The girl bowed and took her way
back to the glove department.
Richard Clayton's cyes were on the
Paris letter, but his ears were strained
to catch the last sound of the girl's
footfalls. Then he sighed as he tried
to fix his attention on the business in
hand. But somchow the figures seemed
to dance aside and a pair of big brown
eyes looked up at him from the page,
As far back as he could remember his
thoughts had never wandered as théy
did this particular morning. He was a
methodical man and his mind was a
well-trained machine. It had been run-
ning in one groove so long that he had
supposed it never could leap to another.
It was quite extraordinary. His face
suddenly glowed as another thought as-
sailed him. Was he in love?
And then his mind came back with a
sudden swerve to tHe fact that Helen
Ronalds was about to leave Clayton &
There had been nt various times hua-
dreds of girls in his employ.
of them was dropped from the payroll
the fact had never disturbed him, What
was there about this girl that was dif
ferent from the others? She was hand-
some, that was undeniable. He knew
she came of a good family, because he
had heard the story of her brilliant and
erratic, and financially unfortunate
father. He knew that with her
ings she supported herself and mother,
and that had been educated for
something quite different.
He would admit that he had been
interested in Miss Ronalds from the
first day he saw her at the glove coun-
ter. Probably it was her father's story
that awakened this interest, He remem-
bered the very day of her appearance.
He remembered how he had gone back
asked the
1
who the new girl was, and the man 1
y
elin-
she
FE!
iim her stor A little later he ha
spoken ti + trivial matter o
he ha
advanced he Helen was an ex
: :
np}
wd passed along
he next day s Sunday. and it was
ie next day was Sunday, and it was
ring at the
small boy
ciose i a ell
little enveiope into his hand and van
ished.
And this was the message that came
Richard Clayton:
2237 Cremona street, Saturday
s, Clayton & Son, for Mr, Richard
Clayton:
Dear Sir:—Your kind letter of re
commendation and inquiry has been
duly considered. In reply, 1 would say
that I have mailed to Messrs, Stapleton
& Co. this evening a message which may
briefly condensed to these words:
“1 have received a better offer.”
My mother and 1 would be pleased
to have you take tea with us on Sun-
day evening at 6 o'clock. Sincemely
yours, Helen Ronalds.
You dear, foolish man, do you think
this quite formal enough? Helen,
~Cleveland Plain Dealer.
be
a
Wants the Thames Strairhtened.
This fatuous letter appears in a con-
temporary :
“I became highly indignant to-day
when, on looking at a map, | discovered
how devious the Thames is. Cannot
our English engineers, who are so well
versed in canal making, straighten out
this noble river, thus shortening the dis-
tance between points, decreasing the
friction and increasing the flow? In.
ventor." London Globe.
The sun is traveling at 40 miles a
second, about 40,000 times as fact as
an express train.
i ¥
MENDING POCKET KNIVES
Se¥imental Reasons That Lead People
to the Cutler's Shop
A man of an inquiring turn who had
read on the front of a cutler's shop the
sign, ‘Pocket Knives Rebladed and Re-
handled,” and who recalled the fact that
when he was a boy he used to get a
new blade put in sometimes when he
broke one ort of his knife, found, upon
inquiry, that boys still get new blades
put in knives just as they used to, but
that as a matter of fact, the people who
have pocket knives repaired are mostly
older persons, and that the knives are
likely to be valued for their associa-
tions
“I've carried that knife for fifty years,
says one gentleman, and he
that he's carried
and that he'd have
or 1 7 J
hands knife
boy,
Over ‘a
Was 4
to lose
es brought in repairse
or
some foreign coun-
the
for
use they are gifts;
Halli Caine as a "Key."
Hall Ca
191,
quite sO
Mr
votes to
I observe, by
“Key.
y determine why
has become a
1s not easy t
the twenty-four who form the executive
branch o fthe Legislature of the Isle of
Man are called “Keys”
The term is old. It appears in the
Latin form of clavis, in 1Lu8 Four
years later there are English “Keys”
But the Manx statutes did not rec 2
nize “Keys” till long afterward, in 1588
From that year to 1734 there were the
“twenty-four Keys” But Gov. Horne,
who must be taken to have known how
to address that assembly, did act, m
1718, address it as “Keys” but as "Gen.
tlemen of the Twenty-four Keys”
I turn to our friend Phillips of the
“New World of Words,” 1716. Mr.
Phillips opines that these twenty-tour
chief commoners, “being. as it were,
keepers of the liberties of the people,
are called ‘Keys’ of the island” Your
“as it were” definition is necessarily
somewhat fanciful,
However, Mr. Hall Caine is a “Key”
of sorts. Once upon a tome his fel
low “Keys” would have been his elect
ors. But in 1866 "Keys" consented to
submit to the popular vote. Then the
act of 18% abolished a property quali
fication for “Keys,” granted houschold
suffrage in town and a £4 owner and
£6 tenant franchise i nthe country, Fur
ther, it seems, it admitted women to
vote. I should not wonder if this lat
ter circumstance had a good deal to do
with Mr. Hall Caine’s election Pall
Mall Gazette,
Japan has two imperial universities
one at Toyo, the other at Kioto, The
fatter is only three years old
HEALTH IN SCHOOL
& Subject That is Yerrly Receiving More
Attention,
Many people who are scrupulously
careful of the of hildren
in the home are strangely
the conditions prevailing in
school. Hygiene in the public schools
15 a subject that is
more and more attention, with the re
sult that new school the
larger towns and the cities conform gen
erally to the sanitary standards, but this
true of many of the old build-
ings and of many schoolrooms in small
places. It is the duty of all parents
to know how far they fall
why, and what is needed to make
health
indifferent
the
4
yearly
buildings in
them
The rules as
should be
to
strict
mtagious diseases
or rather strictly
enforced, and parents should remember
more
. Ff ali} $ ane nee
fen of shght importance,
is
LOADING STEEL
Labor
Minute.
CARS.
ow Ten Hours’ is Done in a
one
body of the
adapted for
be spread in any
ways by one ore
spreading is regulat by the speed of
the train. The average car has a capa-
city of eighty thousand
car has also a convertible
made of steel, it can be
minute into a well-armored
military operations with narrow loop
holes and well-covered defence. It has
therefore a double advantage for armies
in the field—Arthur Goodrich, in The
World's Work.
— Wr
car
i i
and
use
Inequality of the Sexes.
Taking the country through,
there is an average of men and
boys to every 488 women and girls
Hence the normal state of things in
America is a slight excess of mates
over females. In the majority of the
States this standard is pretty closely
adhered to. In some cases, though, the
men are in such a small majority that
the scales are about even. Thus in
Connecticut, out of a population of
nearly a million, there were only 172
more males than females las; year,
The women are distinctly more num-
erous in New Hampshire, Massachus-
etts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland,
the District of Columbia, the Carolinas
and Georgia. New Hampshire's excess
is 820 out of over 400,000 inhabitants,
New York's 30,334 out of over 7,000,000,
New Jersey's only 140 in a population
of 1883600, Maryland's 0.404 out of
1,188044 and Rhode Island's about 7,
500 with a total population of 428.556.
This last mentioned State gives a ratio
of 500 women to 491 men. Massachuse
etts beats them all, though, with an ex-
cess of 70400 in a population of 2.804,
346, or 513 women to every 1,000 ine
habitants,
The excess of males is found chiefly
in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Ore.
California
550 to Goo residents out of every
2000 belong to the sterner sex.
right
512
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Ma———
Light Thrown on it by a Strange Assas.
sination.
Light may be thrown on the psychol
ogy of murder by a remarkable assass
nation reported from Riva, at the head
of the Lago di Garda, Riva is
ful, lovely, little Italian
still in Austrian posse
summer and
One of 15
waterfall, a mile or so
a peace
mans.
Ponale
the
out of
town lerr Ladenburger, a 5S
Germany city Judge on a vacation tour,
was returning from a walk to
ale, when he met on road
sian named Muller, a perfect
him, who drew a revolver and shot
dead at once, and
after pretending for a while to be
gave count of | f
from
uth
thie
Lilt
"Mall . P - * 2
Muller was arrested
3
maa,
an afl
came
Ge
PR 1
spared
The Peculiar Russian Cross.
g€r in Russia 1s puz
foot of
of about
seen ele
that the
dIWAYS
fact
our to
deformed, to have had one leg
than another. This, ther
priests teach them, was by his own wish
in order that He might suffer to the ut-
most the degradation of humanity,
“He
saith the Russian priest. “We did es-
teers Him stricken, afflicted and smit-
ten of God. It pleased God to bruise
Him and put Him to grief”
Strangers are also struck by the way
in which the crosses on the old churches
are usually represented as rising from
crescents
ters of Russia for two hundred years,
converted the churches
and placed crescents upon thejr spires
When the Grand Duke Ivan Vassilivitch
drove out the Tartars and restoied the
churches, he left the
the Mahometans had placed them, but
sewher
Russians
mnto
of victory, and the Russians still con-
tinue this
pondence to Chicago Recorvd-Hervald
The Conductor Was an Extra
Passengers on a Brooklyn bridge trol-
ns —
day at the antics of their conductor,
who had been an oid sailor and was
going through some strange perform.
ances on the rear platform to show that
he wasn’t all landiubber yet, although
he had been ringing up fares for sev.
eral years
The rejuvenated sailor said, “I ‘ad a
fine old time, "culing ropes when 1 ‘ad
a berth on the three-skysail-yarder
Stanhope. 1 takes on a ‘alvard like
this,” he continued, grabbing the trol
ley rope and pulling until the moter.
man rang for power. Before he was
through with his exhibition of prowess
the brake had been used as a capstan,
the rear seat as a forward deck and
the fender as a long boat swung from
its davits, Just then the Brooklyn end
of the bridge was reached, and the man
resumed his role of ordimary conduc
¥
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Many Points.
ployed at a Sullivan County Tannery Cone
tract the Disease Seven Masked Men ln.
vade a Hotel in Avoca-— Alarming Result of a
Lebanon Girl's Encounter With a Pet Cat.
Pensions
granted Pennsylvanians
$6;
armerie, Etna, $6; Joseph D
George
Gray,
Davis, $12;
Painter, Apollo, $8; Jonathan
$8; Conrad Sci
NV. Kin
ry Snively 3
V
Bo
Albert G
624 (eor ge
it. w
di
Was iS
wt entered
superb collects
1 contains 200,000 sf
lect America,
i $25,000
arrested at
jail
weeks
{ her KE ods
es of small value,
it is alleged, she
house and wan-
hort time later
house had a
:
mplete destruc-
few
&
.
jen:
of the
iillsgrove,
teamsters emg d by the
quit work Jenkins’
to anthrax, the disease
st appearing on his neck in the form
sf a small pimple. It spread rapidly,
ind he died in great agony. This 1s the
bcond death from the disease among
the temsters, and the others have con-
tduded to find work elsewhere rather
than run the risk of contracting the dis-
tase,
Seven masked men broke into the
Yotel of John Nealis, at Avoca, and
sfter beating the proprietor into insensi-
iis money. They
The meth-
watches and other jewelry
are the same.
Miss Rebecca H. Boyle, for many
Women's Christian
emperance Union work, was killed by
a fall at Phoenixville. Miss Boyle was
to a new home she had just
built, and in moving a table she fell from
her porch to the pavement. Her skull
was factured and death ensmed Mise
She was
Walter Harris, of Pittsburg, went to
John, whom he had not seen for thirty
two years. He learned that his brother
was living at Ringtown, two miles from
the
mountain he overtook a farmer driving
to that place, who invited him to a seat
in his wagon. Harris related his story
to the stranger, who suddenly threw his
arms around Harris” neck, saying:
“Why, I'm your brother”
; A serious fire broke out in Samuel
Blocks clothing establishment, Shenans
doah. Mr. Block places his loss at $12,
#00, partly ins :
Mrs. Carrie Cox, of Williamsport,
who is charged by William McFadden
with having attempted to poison his two
children by giving them biscuits spread
with Paris green, was indicted by the
Grand Juer, .
Fenton M. Travers, conductor on the
Pennsylvania switcher, while Tempting
to jump from a passenger train st
ton fell under the cars. Both were
tut off and he died from loss af bh j
Kaufman, president ow