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
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the result that aimost
read and and the en
-
Ene
sh Coroners.
neral was
left at the ap-
man’s body on
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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,
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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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