CHILDLESS,
The West is as pink as a baby's toes,
The stars from their coverts peep;
Kissed by the white moth nods the
rose;
The breezes are breathing, “Sleep.”
The shadowy bat through the maples
flits;
The street is still and dim;
‘And there in her window my neighbor
sits,
Singing her cradle hymn.
1 know those words that she gently
Croons—
Do you wonder, forsooth, that I
Stould shape my mouth to the moth-
er's tunes,
The flow of a lullaby?
I know, { know! In my dreams full
oft
Have I entered a dear, sweet and
And cuddled a body, dimpled, soft,
And fondled a tiny hand.
Oh, God, my dwelling is bare and lone,
Though riches its walls invest;
Take all—and give for my very own
A watch o'er a wee one's rest,
Or show, I pray, to my aching eyes
Why thou by thy will has wrought |
That my heart should brim with its |
lullabies,
My arms hold naught, hold naught!
—Bdwin L. Swan in the
Home Companion.
————————
AIS TSS RTI TRITSTT
ANGELE’S RUEE
AWAKENING.
Woman's |
1"
Why She Married One Manan? 3
Loved Another. a t
fu
rama RnIaIaRRnnRd
There were two of them in her life
—one, her lover, was a man of her
own class, the son of a neighboring |
farmer; the other was an English gen- |
tleman. One toiled from the pale
gray and pink dawn to the dull leaden
darkness trying to extract a living
for himself and his bride from the
barren hillside farm; the other em-
ployed some twenty Taborers to beau
tify the grounds about his summer
home on the crest of the ridge
had given his heart and soul into An
gele Delamater's hands, and account.
ed himself blessed when she had plac
idly accepted his gifts; the other had
noted her thought her a
pretty girl, told her so 48
irectly, and,
sald, awakened the
er been
peals.
And the
nearer and nearer, while the
of the rich Englishman was enshroud
ing her in its filmy mist. Only eight
or ten times had she seen him. The
first time—perhaps the second-—even
the third had made little impress on
her mind. He was as far
from her as the hilltop pines
distant from the scrub oaks and chap
arral of her future home. Then came
the day when he drew rein at her fath.
er's gate, to speak to the old mar
about a boundary fence. Angele
meling her bread by the open window,
listened to the well-modulated voice
so different from Jim’'s—that was the
first thought that occurred to her. In
answer to her father's call, she took
them the outline map of the farm, and
Seymour sprang from his horse, com-
ing half-way up the walk to take the
papers from her—for the sun was hot,
80 he said. She wore no hat, and the
blistering rays would burn her face
her hair— What was it that he
did say or suggest His own head
was uncovered while he spoke to her,
and he looked like some glorious
blonde giant-—like the golden-haired
knight of her childhood dreams. Who |
had ever thought of saving her a step
-0f sheltering her from the ordinary
sunlight of her hills? Not her father,
not her brothers, not Jim.
The next time she met him she was
carrying some brillant scarlet quince.
blossoms, and what wonder was it
that he compared the livid blossoms
with the living scarlet lips above
them? Then it was, too, that he told |
her that the night before, as he lay in|
his hammock watching the moon slip
out from the entangling arms of the |
pines, he had remembered that her!
hair matched the marvelous blue-black
of the night sky. He had thought of |
her up there in his wonderful home! |
He had remembered her! Remember: |
ed how she looked! Could her imag |
ination do otherwise than run mad |
riot?
The next meetings, quite accidental |
on his part, carefully planned on hers, |
were in the redwood circle through |
whieh the trail ram, from which it |
dropped down the sandy slope to Ben |
Lomond. There were few words!
spoken, but these the girl's heart
translated into its own language, and
in so doing enveloped them In won
Jdrous beauty. Her mind, hearing only |
through her heart, was quite uncon
scious of the matter-of-fact, common:
place phrases. It heard only love.
When the wedding morning dawned
the Delamsater farm was enveloped in
a sea of fog. The sun stretched him-
self lazily over the hills, and slowly
the mist withdrew into the canons,
valiantly held a hillside for a moment,
and then gkurried back In undignified
retreat. But vanquished it would not
be, and all around its masses stood in
close array. The farm itself, encir
cled with roses that gave place in
ever-widening rings to blossom-laden
orchards, seemed an oasis in the
gnarled and rugged hill-sides on which
it lay.
Angele, a dull, only partially com.
prehended misery in her heart, was
dressing for the ceremony. She had
asked to be left quite alone in her
little white room on this last morning
at home, and now she stood by the
window looking out blankly at the
One
carelessly,
more or le
iit
qu t
aroused by
wedding day was
creeping
r
glamour
removed
were
pom
ii A ONS SBI. WES A
white, misty wall that shut out the
view of the vineyard nome to which
she was soon to go, and the columned
verandas of Seymour's house. She
was listening, too, half-heartedly
the sounds below, to the mother and
!
i
preparations for the
She heard her father talking to Jim-—
feel that she
him. For the
if she did not
with
her up
could be content
STREET CAR CONDUCTORS,
Diplomacy That is Required in the
Collection of Fares.
“That man will not last long as a
gtreet car conductor,” sald the observ.
er. “Strange,”
markably good-looking fellow he was,
quite above the average in intelli-
gence. What do you see wrong in
him.” “Simply that he lacks the fun
damental qualification for the posi
tion. He is not a harmonizer, and |
am afraid he is lazy, for he yielded to
a petty temptation. See those two
her life.
gee him: there would be time enough
for all that afterward, she
self;
she sent to him,
She leaned forward to caress a rose
riding slowly down the
A sudden rush of blood from her heart
the aisle in the front seats? [I happen
to know those men are violent person-
al enemies and have not spoken to
each other for years. When the con
ductor went to collect their fare one
was holding a nickel in his hand, the
The carman gathered
crossed his right arm
the nickel as change
The coin
hand of his
blood rise to
and 1 believe he
loose if he had
in the
over
coins,
and gave
hot from the
and 1 saw the
the man's cheek,
would have broken
He had come!
That was the mess
age that flashed along the crimson
stream. He was on his way to the tryst
She
With feverish
rejoicing in the
of her traveling-gown.
Had she
reason.
she dressed,
pretty details
Were they not all for him?
they were for him? Poor Jim! But
he would get over it. They always
did, and— She stopped
ey in the face of the railroad man or
the hated passenger. He fingered the
nickel as if it were infected and final
ly dropped in into his “outside coat
pocket to cool off. Now, of course,
the conductor was not supposed to
passens
summer night
dimmed all vision. Poor little
mother! Would she get over it? The
girl tore a scrap of paper from the
box that had held the wedding hat
and wrote a hurried note to her moth
Then once more she went to the
window. The fog was again shutting
down and enveloping like a bridal veil
the green trees under which even now
Seymour must waiting for her
Hurry! must hurry to him
And then she saw that Seymour
i standing by the gate, and
r was walking down the
is long, white hair gleaming
Courteousiy the
the
er.
be
She
elf was
enough
adding
Mr. Dela
come with me
land? We may
1 come to terms about it today.”
not The old French
lost its cringing
i
fo
eted him,
waundary line,
uldn’t you
tO 100K over the
to-day
had
broadening
hat
knew nothing
American li
the rich land
cared
in his
he understood t
nothing
» personal affairs of the poor
= Angeles
1y daughter's wedding day, and
he explained is
Miss Angy's wedding day
Surely, 1 had forgotten Seymour's
held a note that might almost
have been an apology. 20 kindly were
his fee his
tone
lies va
HINES
toward
Of
no place today
to the
I think
these poor
business has
Give my best wishes
Thorne is a fine fellow
and I am sure that Miss Dela
manter and are both to be con
gratulated
He rode away into the fog, never
glancing at the shutters behind which
the white face was hidden,
dreaming that in the bride's heart or
mind there was place or thought for
him.
The Lares and Penates in the jittle
white room watched her through her
half-hour of agony. through her hour
of conquest, and then saw her pass
out from among them forever, ready
to face her little world, ready to take
up the honest burden of life.
The ceremony was over, the toasts
were all drunk, and the bride had driv.
en away
a pretty bride!
neighbors course
bride
you
never
These were the com
a true conductor in
would never have taken the
and would have dumped the
into his big prcket, even if he
brought it straight out again.
“The case was an extreme one, but
every day the carman is called on to
use discretion in handing out money
To collect a fivecent from a
filthy track hand and at once transfer
man with
stinct,
chance,
piece
only the mother eyes had seen the
pain and, seeing it, had known that
her uneasy fears had been realities,
that Angele had married the one, lov.
ing the other with her whole heart
Through a rain of tears she watched
the dustcloud move stowly down the
mountain until it mingled
fog-cloud, and then she turned into
her own room, and on her knees. by
To her, there, Angele’'s note, written
intolerable anguish, was brought:
ing away with the man [ love.
other was all a mistake. Nothing but
misery could have come out of it, noth.
ing but joy will come from this. You
will know that I am right in time.
ANGELE.
The mother eyes read and the moth-
er's heart was comforted —Kathryn
aut,
Gallantry and Repartee.
Professor Syle of the State Univer.
gity of California cannot tolerate
snobbishness, on the part of his
scholars, and any such offense ia sure
to call forth some sarcastic comment.
The other day, ile calling the roll
of one of his classes, he came upon
the name of a Miss Greene. He paused
and expressed his disapproval of the
final “¢” in her name by saying:
“Greene; does that spell Green or
Greenie?’ Miss Greene promptly re
plied: “S-y-le; does that spell 8yle
or Silly?’--Philadelphia Record.
Gypsies in England are, it is stated,
desirous of special representation at
the coronation. They claim that the
modern van-dweller, uy good behavior
and honesty, has lived down the evil
reputation of former days.
the limit of indiscre
I have seen even that done
than once, There {8 something
especially offensive in the oily warmth
of a coin that has been held for sev
eral minutes in the hand, and it is a
cardinal principle in ‘street railroad
that each piece shall be
through the purifying money
way from passenger to passen
ger. | saw a curious violation of the
rule the other day, when a pretty girl
a new conductor, who
is about
but
crust
tion,
more
ies
ponc h
on its
gave a nickel to
passed it
The
coin
BCTO88
at
no
opposite
man that
WAS
ent
youn
I woman ringing
the
Once
good
out
ant ored
Viol
altercation, which ended in
the il and
leaving
Car,
New Times-
way home.
Democrat,
White Hors
About ten ves
rent a saying whic
and Red Hair.
*i3 the
re
was cur
into de that whenever
girl
1
uetude
sunk
you red-headed
geeing a white hor
afterward
The saving had
the United States,
likely that
SAW a
of
you were
sure g¢ imme
lintely
its widest popularity
but it
it was of English orig
“old game
and downs)”
been the inven
road.’ or
seems to have
ups
which
mers.” It is still known to English
children To amuse the tedium of
travel on the old-time stages, a couple
or more of bagmen would divide them
into two parties. One would
take the “up.” the other the “down”
side of the road, counting one for
every ordinary object and five for a
white horse, until a certain number
agreed upon carried off the victory.
but a red-headed girl or a donkey won
the game at once. Now, it {3 a well
known psychological fact that curious
coincidences are remembered with
undue persistence, while the memory
refuses to tabulate the more frequent
cases where coincidence does not oc
Hence it would gradually grow
into a superstition that wuen ever
one party had scored five by the ap
proach of a white horse, their triumph
brought to grief by the
gpeedy appearance on the other side
The
being the readiest
provocative to humor, it can easily
be seen how a lot of Britons would
shout out, when their opponents had
scored on a white horse: “Now look
out for a red-headed girl!” And if
once in ten or twenty times the girl
selves
rod-headed girl
Puss's Telephone Message.
There was a banquet in Chicago not
long ago to which one of the guests,
a lawyer, had taken his office cat, a
feline being the emblem of the organi
zation that gave the dinner. The bau
quet was given in the Great Northern
Hotel, where the cat the lawyer had
taken to the dinner became lost. The
next day the lawyer called up the hotel
on the telephone, and asked if they had
his cat yet. He was told that the bell
boys had hunted all around among the
cats kept as cat-catchers in the hotel,
and that they had finally selected four
cats, one of which they felt sure be
longed to the lawyer.
“Well,” said the lawyer, “I haven't
time to come over and pick out my cat.
Just hold those animals one by one
up to the telephone receiver, and pinch
their tails and make them yowl”
One oi the bell-boys dutifully held
up the cats to the telephone, and made
each one of the felines give a good,
resounding wail. The lawyer dismiss
ed each eat until the third cat s
put up to the receiver. It gave
yowl, when the lawyer enthusiastically
exclaimed:
“Yes, all right; that's my cat, 1
know that voice. Send her over right
away.”
his missing pussy Chicago Tribune.
MAN'S INDEBTEDNESS TO HELP:
ERS HIS EYES CANNOT SEL.
Such Good Servants That Without
Them Life Would be Impossible For
a Week—Gunpowder We Owe to
Microbes—Harnessing These Evil
Growths,
Microbes kill about fifteen million
human beings a year, Every one who
dies of smallpox, fever, plague, con-
sumption or any other of the long list
malignance,
the greatest boon which could be con
the abolition of microbes from the
face of this planet.
actually accomplished and all
other things. Like fire, microbes are
such good servants that without them
life would be impossible for a week,
declares a writer in the Washington
Times.
Ever since the first farmer turned
cream into butter man has been mak.
ing microbes work for him. A mi
crobe shaped like a little rod ferments
cream, and without it no amount of
shaking or churning would turn the
cream into butter. A similar microbe
converts curd into cheese. The but
ter and cheese microbes must have
air, and like Roquefort and
Gruyere differ in flavor from having
been exposed to the air for a longer
or shorter time.
Bakers would be badly off indeed if
millions of slaves in the way of mi
crobes were not ready to work for
them. A morsel of yeast is put into
a mixture of flour and water, and
masses of little workers immediately
turn to and convert the starch of the
flour into sugar, and-—when this is
done-—the sugar into alcohol and car
bonic acid gas. The gas and
turns the stodgy dough into a light
sponge, leaving the nothing to
do but mould his loaves and put them
into the
Another useful little microbe is al-
ways toiling away turning cider or
wine into vinegar for our pickles and
salads. “Mother
little creature
magnified, like
with rather 4
work quite unaided
pt
cheese,
rises,
baker
oven
§ { So” * a {a
Of vinegar, as this
iz known, looks, when
series of tiny chains
It
it asks
great pid Vv
of vine
ten pints of
does its
1 £04
i5 10
¥ 1 “ .
be K¢ from inegar
usually put 100 nts
Pils
barrel, with
g » se
wine. In a week this is all
vinegar
pints of
wine added, and the work be
Gunpowder seems an odd thing to
to gunpowder
could not be made without saltpetre,
microbes: but
continued industry of millions of mi
crobes. This special microbe feeds on
aaimal m and,
where there is any potash near by,
produces saltpetre. All those enorm-
which made
es
Mier,
Saltpetre, or nitre, in some form is
absolutely necessary for the growth
of plants, so here again, the microbe
is doling good work for the farmer. A
certain kind ~f microbe is so fond of
nitrogen that it steals it from the air
A fleld of wheat, the soll of which has
been inoculated with
grows magnificently,
splendid crops.
and produces
boy got well, and sipce that time
these microbes in harness have been
used to save hundreds of lives year.
ly. Only five per thousand of Pasteur
patients die,
CRIMINALS DREAD SLEEP.
Confessions Made by Them During
Hours of Slumber.
Criminologists say that the greatest
terror that afflicts that fraction of hu-
manity suffering from an uneasy con-
science is not dread of the police, by
any means, but awe of any other ac-
knowledged enemy or law deflers,
What the criminal dreads is sleep,
says the Topeka Capitol
Sleep is, it appears, the friend of
the righteous only. To men with the
knowledge of dark deeds stored with-
in them, sleep is the most treacherous
of foes. The countless poems that
have been written in praise of It very
naturally appear as so much cold
blooded mockery to such as are in
hourly dread of betraying themselves
under its influence.
An untold number of crimes
been confessed by their perpetrators
during sleep. Is it any
those conscious of irregularities
prefer to remain awake,
It not long ago that a
known New York detective happened
to be traveling in a sleeping car.
detective, who chanced to be occupy-
was
above
winded
daring jewelry
had taken part.
official kept an eye on him
inquiries proved that the
had been an exact record of
taken place.
forth into a long-
regarding several
robberies wherein he
Much impressed, the
him burst
confession
house was
ceriminal’'s confession. The
cupled by himself and one other—a
young sailor. While the sallor was
lying awake he suddenly heard a curi-
ous and ghastly
room
the scene of a sleeping
room oc
companion’s lips. The Iaugh
yv a long and rambling
description of a murder he had com-
mitted, horrible in its details
The sailor crept downstairs and in.
formed the what had
The
a policeman
landlord of
curred.
who the
the
recognized
“wanted” for
At the which
sleeper as the man
crime in question trial
followed he was fou
AB
AR Conus
i guilty and sen
tenced to death or the s
came in for jerable reward
BACTERIOLOGY OF MILK,
Prof. Conn, of Wesleyan Reports for
Rockefeller Institute.
The first rex !
Of I'ed
h has been made
earch «
‘onnecticut State
of the
ing a period of several months at that
University. He has had charge of the
experiments at Wesleyan
Storrs Agricultural College
i ul experiments cover
and at
upon milk
bacteria.
in America where
Prof. said
“It been long that
there no bacteria in milk,
would keep indefinitely without sour
ing. The growth of bacteria in milk
found to present many prob-
lems. In every quart of milk allowed
to stand twenty-four hours there is
a stubborn conflict of bacteria, similar
this
was studied,
Conn
has known
were
farm in a small glass bottle, instead
of hauling it by the ton with heavy
horses and carts,
cautions, to exclude alr germs. furn-
ishes numbers of living microbes.
huge existing beds of that very useful
substance to a microbe,
life.
Now that every existing disease,
from leprosy down to a boil, has been
found to result from the misdirected
energy of some microbe, science has
harnessed these evil growths, dwarfed
parents,
|
|
i
crobe. Lady Mary Wortley Montague
wrote home to England from Belgrade
in the year 1718, telling how her boy
had been inoculated for small pox.
That was, of course, long before Jen-
ner had discovered that cowpox mi
the smallpox microbes themselves,
Vaccination having proved such an
immense success, Pasteur and others
considered that all diseases might
possibly be fought in the same kind
of way. Pasteur's most famous ex
periments have been for the cure of
hydrophobia. This terrible form of
madness is caused by a poison inocu:
lated by the teeth of a mad dog or
other animal. The poison from a
wolf's mouth is the worst; from that
of a dog, next in virulence. Pasteur
discovered that hydrophobia germs
from a monkey were not so virulent
as those from a dog, and that, by in
oculating a rabbit or a guinea-pig, the
poison might be still further reduced
in strength.
Ths first human being saved by
these weakened microbes was Joseph
Meister, a boy of nine years, who was
bitten by a mad dog on the 4th of
July, 1885. During the next ten days
gradually stronger and stronger. The
curs everywhere in nature If an
acre of land were cleared of vegeta
tion and allowed to remain fifty years,
have sprung up. An exactly similar
the bacteria of milk.
with no vegetation. It contains no
it as seeds do into the soil.
each other is like that
century on the soil
ed out. Some species, abundant at
first, disappear in ten hours.
questions of where these
come from, how they
greatest to the
health.
others noxious.
importance
New York Sun.
The Three Ages of the West.
Twenty-five years ago, says Emerson
Hough in the Century, potatoes were
so high in price in certain towns .of
the Rocky Mountains, that the mer
chants handling them often reserved
in turn. were sold for planting pur
poses, the eyes of the potatoes thus
having a considerable commercial
value, obviously in proportion to the
diftance from the nearest railroad or
steamboat line. This situation could
not forever endure. There must come
a day when we could afford to throw
our peelings, and throw them away
cut thick and carelessly. Equally true
fg it that the time is coming in
America when we shall gather up our
potato peelings and cherish them.
There you have the three ages of the
west.
Another instance of changed stand.
ards in the West may be seen in the
revolution as to petty prices. Up to
twenty years ago, in most Rock Moun.
tain communities, the quarter-dollar
was the smallest coln In circulation.
With the railroads came the dime, the
pickel, and at last the penny; but they
came to a West that was no more,
the borrower keeps the interest.
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Condensed Special Dispatches From
Many Points.
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
State's Income During 1991 Nearly $18,000,
000 in Revenues Collected, Part of Which
Has Been Returped to the Counties Cone
science Money $2.02 Farmer's Freszy
Causes Disaster Tries to Kill Himsell
Pensions granted: William Putnam,
Stoney Fork, 3$io; Thomas Griffith,
Claysville, $10; ‘Addison H. Simmons,
Banksville, $8; John Thomas, Bradock,
$12; James H, Vores, McConnelisburg,
$12: Jacob Dutra, Kerrmoor, $8; Oliver
S. Rumberger, Warriors Mark, $12;
Jeremiah M
Robert Mil
$6; Mary
y, Lewistown, $10
Wibley, Port Royal, $12;
ler, Soldiers’ Home, Erie,
ville, $8; William D. McTeeters, Black-
$10: David Putt, Saxijan,
iO
Coalport, $10; Bell
$8.
Harry W.
Jacob Zimmerman
Baker,
Patents granted
ker, Allegheny, brake beam; John T.
Blake, Pittsburg, rail joint connection;
Burtwin L. and W. P. Brington, Brad-
piston alr COMPressors;
glass pot
valve for
Dixon, Pittsburg,
Simon J. Freeman Bradford
coffee or tea pot; Edward E hey
shoe lace fastener Jo nm W
Frye, Oil City, casing head for oil wells;
Franklin R. Heister, Centerport, steering
mechanism for m Julian
Kennedy, Pittsh coupling ;
; plant for
Fair-
el: Herman Moon, Grove
Brie
vehicles ;
shaft
spirit les
clutch: George R
mail bag catching and delivering me-
chanism ; Josph Morgan, Johnstown, ap-
paratus fer metal rolling ; George Saylor
Mattawana, grate; Edward A. Schooley
James Shel
Tiede
st Fa-
Moore
mann, Pittsburg, rail joint
Tyrone, bolt fastener
Cha Riley, a bral
fall
Tamaqua lo
erans’ Associa
with abou
maqgua, :
are
The
Kili
Clewell,
officers
SENI0
D
B
Kershner
ended
nues $17.72;
During
the State co
432.40, d to source about
$2. 000.000 ving about $15.000000 for
the payment of all expenses. Of the per-
sonal property tax three-fourths
turned to the counties and
ments which imposed lected them
received all of the fines for maintenance
The School Directors of Upper
Gwynedd have received $50 bequeathed
by the late Lizzie H Jones. of Bonilla,
South Dakota, with which to purchase
library books for the West Point and
Gwynedd Western Schools. Miss Jones
was for a number ef years teacher of
was re-
the depart
Of ©
William Kinkus was killed and Rollis
plosion of dynathite at Primrose Col-
liery, Mahanoy City. The men under
took to tamp a charge of dynamite with
An explosion followed, which
hurled Kinkus and his comrade down the
breast.
Joel Troutman, aged 65. a farmer of
son at Reading charged with assault and
ard, aged 35. As an outcome of the trou-
The prison-
er is supposed to be insane
The Schuykill County Medical Socie-
ty elected the following officers: Pres-
ident, Dr. Joseph P. Morris, of St. Clair;
vice-president, Dr. George Little, of Ta-
maqua ; treasurer, Dr. David Taggart, of
Frackville; censor, Dr. J. S. Callen, of
Judge Johnson, at Medis, granted a
new trial in the suit of J. E Johnson
against the Chester Traction Company
for damages for the loss of a leg by
being run over by a car. It was showh
that an official of the company was seen
talking to a juror. Johnson lost his case
The business offices of A M. Well
mer's Sons, wholesale grain dealers, and
Knerr & Bowman, coal dealers, Lebanon,
were entered by thieves, and at both
places the safes were opened by means of
the combination. Little booty was se-
cured.
Mina Inspector Edward Brennan, of
the seventh anthracite district, reports
that in 1901 there were 158 accidents, six-
ty fatal and ninety-cight non-fatal In
1000 there were 140, forty-nine of which
were fatal and ninety-one non-fatal.
A charter was issued by the State De-
t to the Keystone Silk Weaving
rl Philadelphia; capital, $30,000.
The Laubach grist mill, at Northamp-
ton, owned by Eastern Milling &
Co, and managed by ex-Senator
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fully insured.
Edward M. B. Shepp, Tamaqua, was
i elected captain of Compa-
Regiment, to fill the vacan-
resignation of Captain
It was announced at Potteville that W,
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