THE MAN WHO WINS, 5
The man who wins is the man who
works
The man who toils, while the next
man shirks;
The man who stands in his deep dis-
tress
With his head held high in the deadly
press-—
Yes, he is the man who wina,
The man who wins is the man who
knows
The value of pain and the worth on
Woes
Who a lesson
who falls
And a moral
wolls;
learns from the
finds in his mournful
The man who wins is the who
stays
In the unsought paths
Ways;
And, perhaps,
then,
To help some failure to rise again.
Ah! he is the man who wins!
man
’
and the rocky
who lingers now and
hears
The curse of the envious In his ears,
held high
by~—
For he is the man who wins.
Henry Edward Warner, in Baltimore
News,
AUNRRNRAE Ae,
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5
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When my old friend Geoffrey Lan-
caster bought a house and a good bit
of ground in Wiltshire gave me
a sort of general run
down there for whenever
I felt so incline further
formality than a post-card to announce
my arrival.
later I received so
to come as
felt fairly c
amiss, or that he was not
fled with his surroundings
The town kad never in
been remarkable, so I may
ed for admitting that until
casters selected it the
which they would
what remained to them o
think I had ever hoard of |
Certainly the situation was pictur
esque; the buildings rising in ranks
one above the other on the hill, and
a view from the summit many
a mile of wooded flelds and the valley
of the Avon.
The house which had captivated my
@Briend’s fancy dated back to the reign
of Henry VIII; it had not been spoil
ed even In necessary restorations.
ha
ion to
But some three months
urgent an entreaty
that |
was
soon possible
as
stain something
quite satis
foy
be pardon-
Lan-
place in
gnletly
life, |
way
the
as
settle for
lo not
over
“It is most interesting.” | i
I had visited every room and duly ad
mired the oak staircase and
painted ceilings. “but a little
for so small a family, fsn't it? The
sort of place
needs grown
to enliven it a:
big rooms. Th
why vou might
or a hundred
several
ioneily
to my thinking
up and
Geoffrey Lancaster
his shoulders. No
born of that marriage
think he regretted
opinion that the
over populated
true benefactors
who did not cont
bers.
“It's just
ought to hav: a ghost
“Do you boast anything so gruesome?”
My host slightly shook his head
“1 should not, personally, o
a ghost,” he answered
deed he always
interesting. Jit
cles she has heard and
she does rot like it. To tell the truth.
that was in a great measure my reason
for hurrying you down—I want your
opinion upon the matter.”
We were sitting together in the I
brary after inspecting the place thor
oughly. [ settled myself
ably In one of the big easy
and begged for enlightenment.
“lI tell Mrs. Lancaster it must
mere fancy; but she will not believe
me."
“What has
enquired.
“80 far, she has seen nothing. She
the sor 136
bject to
quietly. as in
“It
be
my fan
something
poke. would
well, wife
she seen
stairs.”
“And just as the clock strikes the
orthodox hour of midnight?” |
laughed.
“Not 80,” rejoined Lancaster, seri
ously. “At one, at two and at three
in the early morning. And as my
wife is neither a timid nor an imagin.
ative person, I should much like to
get to the root of this mystery and I
want your assistance.”
“Delighted, I'm sure! Is there. any
record of a murder, or some otuer
crime connected with the house? Wes
it ever inhabited by monks or nuns,
whose spirits might be supposed to
come back and make things uncom-
fortable for other people?”
“lI have read up all the books and
records I could obtain, and I can dis
cover no mention of crime In connec:
tion with this property. In early
times—though of course the town was
Catholic—there seem to have been no
monasteries or convents here. But
this was the Chantry priest's house,
snd that old tank which I showed you
(by one of the doors leading to thegar-
den) was, as some antiguarians sup-
pose, used for the keeping of fish
caught in the river for his reverence's
use?"
I inpsed into silence for several min
utes; before | spoke again one of the
maids came to say that tea was wait
ing for us in the drawing room,
After some preliminary conversa
tion, | to Mrs. Lancaster
my admiration for her house,
“Yes, an interesting old place. i:
it?" she sald. ”
“Not quite perfection,” 1 hastened
| to remark. “Well, 1 suppose it may
be a trifle lonely toward evening and
in the dead of the night, for instance?”
“It than that.” The lady
glanced at her husband, who had just
strolled across to the inner drawing
| room, and was ferreting among a col
expressed
ul
“Still
is worse
{to
me
he would expect
“Geoffrey does not
gpeciren
mire.
me
like
| viction is that—' and he
| ly paused, then in a lower
“it {8 haunted.”
I raised my ey
head,
“I think are mistaken,” 1
swered in an undertone
her own
up to this
have
should enjoy doing
feving,' I
t believe in them
tone added
brows und shook ny
i
you an-
which matched
confess that,
existence, |
T
i
“I may as well
my
ghost, much
Therefore
need
period of
never secn a as
as
scarcery
What
rest
80
| ‘seeing is bel
| add that I don
people usually attribute to those
less spirits 1 be get down
to rat old
creak, and so 1«
Mr
viaced, but as
nay generally
that
boards crack and
r+ hy
ast did not con
to
ng out a
the
husband came
{ ward us at that momen*, beldi
plate
choi
which he considered as
turn
that
valuable ar
§ treasures I
TESUTANCY
most
but, frankly sp ng. old
es
ed to
it
ticle
t among 1
him wit
Wis evi
china
was a matter which | was
hopelesely ignors
It i
and 1 ore a-a-tote in the
when
runing
was ) 6st
imoke
room was again re
mentioned
want the
opinion of
I particu
a practical
ii, Marsheil
sense man like
sald. “as to wheth-
er the any sound in the passages
Of ipon the
ie Is
staircases of this house
untad for If
which cannot be ace
well, what {t can
|0
! *1 sald the
charm of
ter.” I admitted, “and
belief that it
conversation
a few w is about
the hou to Mrs. Lancas
she asserted her
But
interrupted
haunted our
was just
then, so she
‘A very
frey impatiently
an gets an idea
hopeless. Every diss
gave me no details.’
good thing. too.” sald Geof
“When
into
once a
her head
3
Only
wom
is
roots
fs
it more firmly 4t plan i= to ig
nore the subjed rmst to her for
getting it in
thing newer”
I rose
1
own
began
and
the room
th
ne
cheas
said
hours
this
from
med
Ww
and
until the
stairs feeling chilly,
untrue
11 t
saw nothing
I heard nothing
ing kept my watch
clock struck four, I went
sieepy, disgusted
with things in general, and confirmed
in my unbelief.
After some hours’ repose and a cap
hav solitary
ip
ever, | felt better—even
eager to solve the question of the step
{on the stairs,
With my friend's permission | made
| another survey of the commodious
secre: chamber which could anly vue
approached by means of a sliding
| panei in the wall and a concealed
| spring.
Any author at work upon a sensa
tional story of murder and violence,
would have been delighted with the
place. But I. being a prosaic individ.
ual accustomed to dea! with facts,
wished only to convince my host ang
his wife that the supposed mystery
was no mystery at all,
Otherwise, one could describe some
child heir to the property, drowned in
the fish tank (it must needs be a
child, as four or five feet deep of warer
would not drown & man, and the
guilty relation hiding In the secret
chember and dying there, prior to the
nocturnal wanderings as a lost spirit
about the premises,
i sald something of this sort to
Geoffrey in the prescnce of his wife:
but he looked more solemn than usual,
and Mrs, Lancaster's face betrayed
such real alarm that I rogretted my
words, and made a lame effort to turn
into a mere joke,
I sat listening to every sound
through the second night of my stay,
i
i
i
but I heard absolutely nothing except
the wind In the chimney and the
voices of two cats outside whose tones
seemed to indicate a somewhat angry
digcussion,
Geoffrey
when
next
appeared disappointed
walked around the gardens
morning and I had nothing to
tell him, ali the more go because Mrs.
Lancaster hal been again alarmed,
and strengthened in her
viction that was
premises,
we
Was
some ghost on the
not be expected to unravel this per
plexity at the first or second sitting.”
That third night, in spite of strenu
I fell asleep, But for long, as a
And
not
showed me.
I fancied 1 had
could not rememb
boon dreaming,
r the dream--! only
knew that some sound, like the quiet
closing of a door, had roused me,
It took me several seconds to recall
Lancaster's
the
were
when the
my own
that it
three
irey
hands
library,
clock and of
perfectly agr
minutes
of
ed
to in
the morning
Then, recalling everything
the side
the hall
I took a
table, lit it,
to well,
the
like,
lamp
went
there
credulous would
that it
that
from
hand
and into goo
yes, was a form such as
ghost
WAR sr in
consider
seeing white
pery, and
suggested
back 80
mind the
a good
swiftly
118
Pause
went
but
penetrate
chamber with
my
Afice of
own
BAW to tl}
Way
Mr. an
first ste
after
housek eer
$ ON
however
s 33 A
Geoffrey
that he
property
{ thank
iAancaster
for
was really
casing
thus
~
attempted
cheers broke out again
It was these cheers of triumn
rang in the f the
Cars failing con
for
effort was made
save him, but in vain: and not
least sad accompaniment of this
thetic incident was the fact that
lying conductor's own son and daugh
ter
choir
A gloom spread over the great and!
as he lay in the anteroom
he was dying Every
to
the
pa
the
Were gingers in the victorious
closed with deep sorrow.
Got the Better of rotel Clerk.
“With all his faults” began Mr.
Fairchild, “the hotel man
class follow, who will be a long way |
to keep his guests from shining too |
much in public or from being goon |
by doubtful guests. [ recall an in.
stance which happened to me in New
York not long ago. | had registered
in the morning and, leaving my key |
at the hotel, came back again In the
evening. Finding the night clerk on,
but not on to me, I asked him, giving
him my name, if I was in. Not know-
ing the number of my room, | decided
that was the way to find out.
“He looked at me rather suspicious
ly. Evidently the result of his in.
spection was not reassuring, for, after
making a bluff at feeling in my hox,
he replied stiffly,
“'No, sir; Mr. Fairchild is not In,
I sat down on the lounge, and sald
calmly.
“Well, when he comes in please tell
him that he is here looking for him
self.’
“The porter carried the clerk up-
stairs." New York Tribune,
Lots of people bave their wits sharp.
ened in the nick of time.
One of the Astor family
ns having that no one can
called a gentleman who has not
joyed a university education,
much money hesides
the distinetion
a "poor
is reported
ba
en
How
for
but
eaid
is necessary
mentioned,
gentleman’ is gradually be-
coming a misnomer It not ap-
pear, however, that the honest old fur
dealer who was the first of the Astors
had more than a common school edu-
cation, and little of that; but he was
more of a gentleman than many of
his descendants, remarks the Philadel
phia Record.
not
18
does
The British ves
recently got into
South America,
late Queen Victoria
Scotland had made
their language {
and as “righ” (pronoun
Gaelic for king, a
out of the
prefixed; the
“woman,' so
Woman King
Ban Righ,
much t
which
in
the
sel
rouble
named after
The Celts of
no provision in
Or a reigning Queen,
: is
had to be found
“ban”
“falr
means
850
was
ed ree’)
Way
difficulty, and
Was
word s or
that
heat has found an ex.
t
lien ihstitutn
which
The
grinding
provea so
farmer
the
has re
an
tain
States aver
annual
trotter
iraught
f all sorts
vantageou breeding purposes.
An
effort ill be made
an appro
rminate
of ate
the water hiya
years spread
58
Chase in Cincin
simple pear
and
(OVE
stone
lines,
Senator,
: an inscription of four
iting that he
or, Se of
Justice of the U
who
was
the
mm
retary Treasury, Chief
daughter idolized him, rests be
gide him.
The Literary Digest asks the
tion: “Is fear mental or
The Kansas City World explains that
it all depends on the nature of the in
dividual case. If the object that in
gpires the fear is a bill collector, it's
mental, but if it is a footpad, it's
ponysical.
Change {2 the salt of life, and the
aphorism may be applied with equal
force to food. Persons who are slaves
to their stomach will find in time that
that organ is a hard master, and will
regret that they ever put themselves
under its rule.
A book that came from the press of
Caxton, the first English printer, has
been sold at auction in London for
$11,000. The same amount of money
would stock a big library. The higher
books come the more the collector
wants them.
The results of the census show that
the population of Italy fs 22 900,000.
In the north only a slight percentage
of the people cannot read or write, but
in the south and in the Italian Isl
ands from five to sixty per cent, aro
flliterate,
In Humboldt and Mendocino Coun
ties, Cal, there are sixtysix saw
mills at work upon the famous red.
wood forests, which are gradually dis
appearing, the value of the output for
the year 1900 being nearly $5,000,000,
COMMERCIAL REVIEW,
Gieneral Trade Conditions.
Bradstreet's Review of
“XA ‘
Weather conditions have
Irade says:
seatodd ir.
operated ar
$
tapies on
of
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
@
ST r S2a8S11
association and
and up, close
and light
8 50.
Cows heifers
1.50a82.50: bulls, 1
20a$5.80; Texas-fed steers, 5.2%
Hogs-—Mixed and butchers’,
680a87. 30; good to choice, heavy, 7.25
$7.40: rough, heavy, 6.00a$7.15; light,
6.73a87.00; bulk of sales, 6.9%5a%7.20.
Sheep—Good to choice wethers, 5.2%
$6.00; Western Sheep, §75a$5.00; native
lambs, 4.75a3685; Western lambs, 5.350a
canners,
¢als Cs, 2
yo0a$y.25. Hogs—Mediums, 7.35a87.45:
pigs, 6.80a$6.90 ; roughs, 6.73a$6.00 ; stags
4-50a88.25. Sheep and Lambs—Top
lambs, 7.40a87.350; fair to good, 7.002
$7.26; culls and common, 5.758678;
rearlings, 6.50a$6.75 : sheep, tops, mixed,
00a$6.50 fair to good, §50a8$$57s.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Textile is our leading industry
Chicago hod-carriers get 35 cents an
hour.
Cincinnati street car men want better
runs.
San Francisco mechanics are agitating
an allonight car service there
Indianapolis bricklayers secured their
demand for 50 cents an hour and an
eight-hour day.
t. Louis painters numbering 1,500,
who wanted an advance from 17% cents
to 45 cents an hour, compromised on 4
cents. .
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Dispatches Boiled Down for.
(Quick Reading.
Continuous Trolley
Ride From Slatiogton te Philadelphia Wo-
man Tries Suicide. Raid Reveals Plunder
Hazleton Operstors’ Oriers Considered 23
Challenge by Some Unions Other News.
chigh
over
ited smn
had
The
time
Irch-goers, Was
heard A moment after, wile
were looking around to see where
t was, a young man appeared at the door
building, and in a great hurry
sprang down the steps and was lost in
the crowd The police were mnformed,
and they found the body of Purvis lying
on the floor of the pay office and a revol
ver by his side. He had been shot
through the mouth and the bullet had
lodged in the back of the brain. The
revolver belonged to the company, and
had been taken from an open drawer
in which were several others.
The remaining link of twelve miles of
the Lehigh Valley Traction line be
tween North Wales and Chestnut Hill
is likely to be finished by June. This
will make feasible a continvous trolley
ride from Philadelphia to Slatington, a
distance of seventy-six miles for 7s
cents. The ride will require about four
hours
The committee preparing suggestions
for the Carnegie Polytechnic School in
Pittsburg has arranged for special night
courses ; Mo workingmen.
Judge Archbald, of the United States
Court, at Scranton, set aside the indict-
ments against certain sportsmen charged
with violating the Ipeey game law, the
court holding that while the shipment of
game out of the State is prohibited, prep-
aration to do so is not an offense.
An absent-minded man was shot at
Pottstown while trying to enter a house
from which he had moved a few days
before.
aged
Lalla 1
r Was Kiiiex wi
ered the
outside was Cros
i and
office
th chur the shot
1 3
amiy
yisle
I
of the
Walter Strack, nine of
Hazleton, while playing baseball fell and
sustained a fracture of the skull. The
lad died without regaining conscious
ness.