A SENSE OF PERIL The country’s full of railroad trains; the city’s full of tracks; every now an’ then [ hold breath and say “by zucks!” The water's full o’ microbes an’ the air is | full 0’ germs, An' quinine is the only thing that brings | the brutes to terms. i matter what the season trouble "twill unfold-— You're threatened with a sunstroke, or else you're catchin’ cold. | An' that is why 1 fold my hands con- | tented-like an’ say | I'm thankful, if fur nothin’ else, that I'm | alive to-day. | my An’ No is, some | I hain’t no outomobble fur to ride along | the pike. I never played no golf at things I'd like. I've had to git along without an’ be con- tented jest To see the other folks takin’ rest, when they're buildin’ battle-ships an’ throwin’ dynamite, 1zkin’ calculations fur left an’ right, It ain't no time to istence isn't gay— I'm thankful, if fur nothin’ » I' malive to-day. Washington Star. all. Alot of snjoyin’ life or But An’ n a carnage, scold because ex- that else, ANANSI THE OLD BELL Arana anand | “Hullo, Marie! I'm awful glad to see you out again!” Joe Page's greet- ing as he caught a glimg Menard’s small, frail fig step. Without replying, Marie, of her cru! a short d “Why, what he Saw was as v childish face ought to |! ought that 10 “Oh, ] have prayed 14 O:G —for the suddenly, herself, “If stayed with Well” what's can.” EAT WM Aw, the ‘ she me. [| Ir ju me Well" “The whisper, leave me water { werea Illinois, nearly ter resided and nati In 1880 through to the town upon ters are now what house overgrown vent, ters of the even the and were cat The Catholic church pair, but the few once where When severe Marie had a and though now thirteen years old, she was unable to walk without the aid of crutches and the greater part of the time was con- fined to her bed. Her grandfather was her constant companion, waiting upon her and entertaining her with stories of “Kasky in her prosperous youth.” During the fall of 1891 her grandpa died, and Marie one care for her. She lived in fear of the fom- ing waters, and that fear was fast wear- ing her tender life away. three yea yd, ls fF sicker attack ot sick had no to Father Farnin often went to talk with her, and his good housekeeper sent many nice things to eat, but this only caused | the hard-hearted aunt to be jealous, and | to inflict new suffering on the already over-burdened heart. i A month passed. Little Marie was | too weak to leave her bed. The water | was slowly creeping toward the group | of houses—all that was left of old | Kasky. “Here, Joe" said Mr. Danis, “help | me load the skiff. "Pears to me the | water's going to come pooty hard to- night, and I'm going to git out of here. Don't ketch me a-staying here and run- | ning a resk with sich snecking water. I'm set on being in a place that's high | and dry before I close my eyes to-| night.” It took but a few trips from the house | to the skiff to get the most valuable possessions of the old bachelor, with | whom Joe lived. “Jump in, Joe,” said Mr. Danis, as he seated himself in one end of the skiff. “There's no time to lose.” “Can't you wait a minute?” asked Joe | in a hesitating manner, “No! Didn't I tell yer there's no time to lose? Jump in, if yer going to.” Moe stepped toward the skiff—stopped turned and went back to the | house they had left, and watched the now steadily advancing waters, As darkness gathered over the island the people became alarmed, and as fast as moved into the houses, to the second stories of which they ex pected to go for safety. To one of these Pete Morin moved his family. To-night, as usual, he was in yossible I “Well, Marie, I guess you want to go, manner. “Here, from his Pete” wile in angry tones handed him a that brat came as she of clothes. “Leave alone and take this, Like a child he tten “You're sich a t Farnin to save vou,” was the last blow from the aunt she closed the door—and Marie was alone. cruel as the room in little streams, "I himself. At the stopped not ti voice in praye “Well, sir, they did do it, Marie he never you min ' 1 said he te I'd better go.” Morin house Joe within " mean business, 3 the From came the pleading AC S didn’t they, mo entered. “But fool "em fur once ves. was a Sevan. Joe teen, and Marie the light-—to pered rd eves « losed Joe walked to ending night, int gleams of light rough the window, Joe H ily written ried to drive the pres ih them with stories of the ?" asked Joe my! I'm , and so much water- sup-<there” she but hot! tp only had a As the morning advanced bright roses came on Marie's and in sleep she would talk of grandpa and the cheeks, But hark! what was that? In his joy Joe screamed: “The rescue boat!” Nearer and nearer came the sound. “Will they come to the church?” was the question which darted through Joe's mind. The boat whistled at intervals, and to those in danger its shrill notes, “help is coming.” were the sweetest notes never to be forgotten. To his screams of “Help!” Joe ex- He threw back the lid of the organ and beat with wild force upon the keys. All was useless. The orgiun, whose tones had so often reverberated through the church and far out over the island, made no sound. There was no one at the bellows. He ran to the open back of the organ and stretched forth his hands towards the old bell, the rope of which was tied just beyond his reach out of the way of curious or mischiev- ous hands. Many years ago on a frosty morning it had been cracked and was now used only on special occasions, The boat was leaving. The sound of the whistle grew more distant, “Oh, God!” cried Joe. “Why did ¥ bring her here? Why didn't 1 let the water take her away quick? She will starve.” The sound of the receding boat grew fainter and fainter. Back to the organ Joe rushed. As the last sound of the boat died away he dropped on the stooi, For hours Joe never moved. Again that faint sound caught his ear, “That whistle makes me mad” said Joe. “Yes, they'll find her when the water goes down! Will they blame me?” As he raised his head from the keys ed on the large pipes, stand. y mock him in his moment did he hing to the top of the organ m position the longest of moment more, one end was organ the other on the pocket-knife forward on the forth giants te But a himself and threw WOON FEATS OF a CRZAT TRAILER, Wh an Ordinary Trail the Plains Revealed to Frank Courard. at on each side ling along width and hh of the other. ns Gour- al exactness, precaunts £, Squaws and pa- *d along a trail, in ion to the tribe they belonged to and other particulars which were hidden from the ordinary observer, and the de- rmining of which, to those who did ot know the extraordinary capabilities seemed wholly impossible. laid upon of the scout, would notice two sticks for their people. There are very many the Indians counsel each other. “In short, Gourard had reduced the faculty of observation, which most civ. ilized people use so carelessly, to an ex» act science. The Indians, also as you probably know, are keen observers. You will never be able to catch their eye, perhaps, or to know just where they are looking, but they will see much more than the average white man. The only occasion when an Indian's gaze is fixed is when he descries some object at a great distance. They have a way on the plains of sweeping the horizon, shad- ing their eyes with one hand the while,” «Washington Times. Culture and Conscience. One effect of culture is to make the voice of conscience too polite to inter rupt~New York Sun. The United States produces as much borax as the rest of the world combined, FEW MEN NOW WEAR BOOTS. VIANY FARMERS OF THIS CENERA- TION NEVER OWNED A PAIR, Tops ~The Rubber Boot Still sively Used. “Boots, ence commonly worn by men ind boys, are now,” said a man acquaint- ¢d with the shoe trade, “worn oly by old and middle-aged men, and by only though it is a fact that the sale of fine men who wear boots are men Anyway. the 200ts tO shoes, and Lhe didn’t forable to when the 1 1 aupber, indeed, of middle-aged and nged bi shoes seem natural or them. Oftener, older man he far the ay fee , and by men, wear shermen wear : and then there UDOT speak me of the boots by the mnumera thn | Lac a once universally wom written about In pictured in many pictures, tops commonly described frat boots.” "Why, hity years ago, every gave his son at that Christmas ti birthday, when he had as become boots, which little Johnny put on and wore about with joyous, youthful pride. been considered complete unlese he owned a pair of red-top boots; and the red-tops were as staple goods in the shoe stores as drums and sleds were where they sold toys. “But you would have to look to find them, to get a pair of red-tops now, for what once no boy thought he could do without has now long been practically out of use: the vast majority of the small boys of the present day never even heard of red<top boots. They are still made, a few, or they might be found in wholesale stocks, carried over, but held to meet oceasional demands which, if they did come, could be likeliest to be from some dealer who wanted a pair for ome foreign-born customer. For the red-top boot was an institution in foreign lands, perhaps before it was here, cere tainly it flourished there later, and for. tign-born fathers, most likely, are those who make the far-apart demands that still straggle in for them. There is mo more demand for them in remote parts of the country than there is here at the metropolitan centre, regions where they still cling to them; for everywhere , Just as they are y are they up-to- rk Sun, no throughout the lot] and in clothes ’ shoe country hats Ng NEW Creat Progress Has Eeen Made in the Last Fifty Years. But what of the m#s of is education, or } such, doing for them? fifty years in E faint-hearted since steps were taken by the toward the instruction of its citi- up to doned to private enterprise and the s It nation, in “toe fate zens—a duty that time | of religions parties. 1s nearl years since the the act of 1870, for the first ti 4 gy » 1 4 fay 1 ” + TIA to manage its own schools and inaug rated a partially national sy cation The been abroad throughout the 4 { cRoOmaster § 1 as 1 % the result that aimost read and and the en - Ene sh Coroners. neral was left at the ap- man’s body on %. When the vessel had teamed med bevond ithe three-mile limit § MLACQ the hods IU YOU Y was come London Maul, to the deep - President a Cood Storv-Teller. The Cabinet has a new rule of proce- dure. It used to be the law that when i that illustrious body assembled at 11 o'clock on Tuesday and Friday morn ings business should be taken "up at once. But that is not the practice now. Instead of getting to work at once on the supposedly great questions of state the President fakes, from fifteen to twenty-five minutes to tell his advisers the experiences he has had with the gentlemen who have been giving him “hot air” sbout offices and schemes they want him to recommend to Congress, The President is a good narrator, and therefore the first half hour is unusu- ally interesting. He doesn’t tell stories io illustrate a point he is making, as Lincoln did, but tells everything that has been happening that has impressed itself upon his mind. His sense of hn mor is good and the humorons side of the pictures that pass before him is not overlooked. Pittsburg Dispatch, aa One in every fifty persons over eighty i 3 : i § years of age is blind, 1 PENNSYLVANIA ‘BRIEFLY TOLD. The Latest Condensed Dispatches Frem Many Points, COUPLE PLANNED TO DIE TOGETHER Fire Destroys Three Busivess Building on the “Square” in Wilkes-Barre, Causing Damage to the Extent of $160,000-.Got Certificates But Preveoted Successful Vacclastion— Mother and Daughter Perish is Fire. Pensions granted Pennsylvanians: Urban L. Durst, Connellsville, $6: Robt. E. Lytle, Franklin, $6; Wm. H. Stucky, Everett, $24; Benjamin Stoy, East Hick- ory, $12; Augustus Hawn, Huntingdon, William Conkling, Soldiers’ Home, ie, $12; George W. Morrison, Flem- ng, $10; Archibald Spratt, Leechburg, William Remley, Beaver Falls, $8; ‘illiam P. Kirkpatrick, New Castle, $8; seph Noland, Mount Union, $24; Re , Athens, $8: Dorothea ‘urnen, Nauvoo, $8: Rachel Skinner, ‘ashington, $R: Sarah Stewart, Three Springs, $8; Kate R. Buckley. Antrim, $8. Ey A. Kerr, Kittanning, $8; Eliza- beth 1. Small, McKeesport, $8: Clarissa A. Wald, St & Gerome William Smith, Latrobe, Elizabeth j Altoona, $8; M. Kifer, Corry, 8; Emma Van- wyoe, Tyrone, $8; Lavina Wheeling, «ckard, $12 urtevant das sett, Corry, $17; Caraher xploding dynamite killed Jo Plusko il at Mahanoy City nt occurred on the f 1 where were driv- ymitis was ite in- ‘ Michael firemen leave the child, ran hurrying The result k and there sther of a smallpox tH re- i a , caused a loss Corn Exchange containing Weitzenkorn's shoe general furnishing stores and many the Langfeld Building, contain- mg the Globe dry goods store, and the Simon Long Building, occupied by the Simon Long clothing store. were de- stroved. The fire started in the Globe store, an electric wire in the Christmas display window having ignited some cot- a” £8 Wn. 8 were issued from the headquarters of the National Guard, an- nouncing that upon the recommendation of the First Brigade Examining Board, Captain Charles J. Erskine, Company K, Second Regiment, is discharged from the service Second Lieutenant Edward Jones, Company L, Ninth Regiment, is alzo discharged Knauer Amole, of Coatsville, aged about 30, and Mary E Irwin, aged 43, of Malvern, Chester county, attempted to commit suicide together in a hotel at Reading. The womean died, but the man may recover, Several veins of coal have been un- earthed on the farm of Urias Barry near Hopeland, Clay Towship. The veins are being worked to ascertam their value. William O'Gara, of Shamokin, aged 21 years, whose back was broken in a foot- ball game at that place died at the State Hospital, Ashland. John Solick, of Ashley, while stealing a ride on the planes, was thrown off a truck, run over and killed. The following fourth-class postmas- ters were appomnted for Pennsylvania: Seitzland. Charles C. Bollinger; Vetera, Frank V. Sayder. August Misal, a brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, fell under his train at Haines’ Station, on the Fred- erick Division, and was killed. Fire destroyed a barn and three tobac- General orders co sheds on the North faim, ast of Columbia, tenanted by J. J. Eisenber- ger. The loss is over $8,000. ; %
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