”.
—— mess wn oa
“Friends of the Fair Old Days."
i
Friend of the fair old days,
Have you forgotten me?
Back through the pleasant ways,
Oft in my memory,
Gladly | turn again,
Hearing the sounds that blew
Over the meadows then—
Oft at the side of you
Dreaming old dreams, I gaze
Jorshipping all I sce—
Friend of the fair old days,
Have you forgotten me?
II.
Friend of the dear old past,
Do you remember me?
Holding a child's hand fast,
May vou in memory
Hear a child ask again
Deeming you great and wise—
Questions 1 asked you then?
There where the green hills rise
Often your gaze was
Down on me tenderly
Friend of the dear old past,
May you remember me?
E. Kiser, in the Chicago Record
Herald.
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5 The 1:45 Express.
ACIS IIE ES
HO EE
CAS.
—8.
JPA “P
AAS Cad
~
@ ERI
Two
ing room
tall, athlet
hair and
slowly
air as
chair. The
clean shaver
face an
looking
smok
One, 2
y
¥
men were in the
low with bla
features, was
blowing rings of smoke
he
inkling
once,
“what
The
prise,
“Toppy Ru
what in the na
derful ever put
into your
“The paper.”
and triously I asi
think f train
dropping
10 you thi
tall man
head?”
““
robl
ellows
and valuabl¢
Glad
rogues at
they rob
admirable;
heard
like
who
one or
COWa
always
to my
try one of these
trying, if 1
“Only one
Russel, as he took
“You laugh at the
elers act in these
how would
were sudde
cheek and insinu:
watch! No one
alone in the
you do?”
“I'd knock
hand while pretend
his demand, ar
window after i
Caruthers sa h uietly
terminedly, and Russel
well to pect
only laughed lightls
fon's emphati
envelop hi if }
“Well,” sal he tall
at his watch, and
be going ‘he
en-forty-five, and
couple of pl
station.”
and over
“Now, Gerald Caruthers,” said his
companion, az Gerald was being
helped into his coat, “remember what
you have told me. If | hear of any
attempt at train robbery on the seven
forty-five express | shall not write to
you, but shall at once have the track
examined, and the body of the robber
discovered and interred I suppose
you will be willing to do that much
for your victim, won't
“Oh, certainly,” laughed Caru
and the next moment he had
Russel's hand and had gone
At the station he secured a first
class ticket, and then set about to
an empty compartment if possi
As luck would have it, the second
coach he looked into was unoccupied,
and he quickly stowed his portman.
temu away and, settling himself lux
uriousiy in the corner, uttered a silent
prayer that no one would come in to
interrupt, with the usual traveller's
commonplaces and platitudes, the nap
he had in prospect. He looked at hie
watch; only one minute remaining
carria
the
brow him out the
and
Knew him
sus braggado«
10, 80
slarting up.
express
I've to
fore
nakirs
rang
you?
thers
wrung
ble
the doors being banged
guard went his rounds.
And then-—then, just as he was put
ting his watch back into his pocket
with a breath of relief, the door of the
compartment suddenly was jerked
open, and, framed in the narrow
opening, appeared the figure of a man
of slight stature, with gray hair and
bent shoulders. He peered curiously
into the coach, and his eyes traveled
quickly and with apparent indiffer:
ence over the big frame of Caruthers.
Then he stepped in and, with a slight
nod to Caruthers, dropped a small
handbag on the cushioned seat, pulled
his soft wool hat over his eyes, sunk
down in one corner of the compart
ment, and thrust his sands deep into
his trouser pockets,
Caruthers witnessad these move
ments with some satisfaction, and, af.
ter a glance or two at his companion,
and an instant’'s look outside at the
yellow lights which were flying by as
the express gathered speed, he spread
to
out his legs, pulled his coat up about
his ears, and proceeded to make him-
self comfortable for the hundred and
twenty mile ride before him. Five
minutes later he was sound asleep
and making that fact unmistakable by
the most tremendous snores,
But if Caruthers snored loudly,
brain was fully as active
lungs, and, for a time, he passed
through a series of adventures
dreamland which were anything
unpleasant. Then, suddenly, he
his
as were hi.
but
waa
into what seemed to him to be an im-
mense haberdasher’'s shop, where
found himself unceremoniously
down before a little old man, who in
sisted upon fitting around his neck a
most prodigously high and stiff
lar.
Now, if there was anything against
which Caruthers was for all time and
col
the objectionable neckpiece. But all
to no purpose. To his surprise he
found his arms weighted down as if
with lead. His persecutor on
tinued to fit on the collar, and finally,
having done this to his satisfaction,
hed over his head until the top
edge of the collar cut into his neck
and was choking him
Caruthers u every endeavor to
raise his arm in vain Great
drops of sweat scemed to drain down
his face at his
bonds time he felt
coolly «
pus
i
sod
but
1 ny hile
he tugged invisible
the
: which
a minute
the gold «
alize
uff -buttons he
arf pin
stone-st
from the
iis diamond s
at a
were
udded
little
CHrious
lisappeare
iis left hand
all bad gone; where?
recollection old
seat,
eye
opposite
caught his
was a handker
but
noticed on hioro
told Caruth
{ Saruty
however,
He
one
picked it
innocent
mar
¢ instantly
The pungent odor
1 he needed It was a
mation of the theory which had
hed upon him at the first. He had
robbed, and in all likelihood by
little old man who had
t oupatios
Car 16ers
the riadow
the coun
was
he
out
Rings, sm ing strong
“a
Ha
been
ithe
been his
pressed his
He
through
passing, and
was. The express was
of the metropolis, and
ule must have made a stop at R
about ten miles back It was there
he decided, that the thief had got out
The next stop would be made
twenty-five miles farther on, and
would have to wait until then to com-
municate the knowledge of his
face against
was familiar
which the
sS00n
+14 By
with
try train
he
fifty miler
by sched
joss
whether he could pre
news of the robbery from
spreading so that he should not re
ceive the taunts of Toppy Russel;
telegraph or otherwise, upon this
doubly trying experience.
As soon as the guard had opened
station, half an hour later, Caruthers
jumped down and dashing into the
quickly despatched ¢
statement of the facts to the chief of
police at R——. His message offered
a generous reward for the apprehen.
sion of the rascal and the recovery of
the stolen articles, with the least pos.
gible publicity.
Two hours later, arrived at his
destination, he left the train, took a
hansom to police headquarters, and
notified them that despatch ad.
dressed in his name might be received
there from Rew, if such a de
apatch did come it was to be sent to
the B-— hotel, he ordered. Then he
was driven to the hotel, and, having
engaged a room, turned In and quick
ly fell asleep.
It was seven o'clock in the morn
ing when he was awakened by a knock
on the door of his roem, and a tele
gram was handed him. It was from
the police at R—— and ran as fol
lows; «
“Have got thief, and received all ar
ticles, Thief disguised. Young man.
Think he is an old hand at business.
Communicate at once
Caruthers sent the servant double
quick for a morning paper, and hav:
ing satisfled himself that the news of
and of the capture of the
least not gained cireula-
he dressed him-
he ate a com-
a cigar with the
and strolled down
thief had at
leisurely. Then
fortable breakfast, lit
satisfaction,
To
despatch
theme,
“Come
was the
and
you
his surprises he
from R-—
He read:—
and get me out of this. 1
old man who travelled with
gtole your things. I wanted
throw me out of the win
acknowledge the corn. Come
This confounded place is
and they won't believe my
TOPPY.
In amazement, which rapidly gave
way to laughter he could not restrain
Curuthers read the a second
time, and then he telegraphed to the
chief of police at R
“Hold thief. Dangerous man. Pay
no attention to his story. He with
you to-morrow. CARUTHERS.'
It was a we pegone and irate
specimen which Caruthers saw when
the “dangerous man” was led forth
from a cell at police station at
R next But Caruthers
smothered hi at the sight
Rt as pos
paid
poli @
found another
awaiting him
see
damp,
story.
message
smoothed
gible b
having
the ts and fines which
th
Line
uld pay
awaits »
the map
“CRIME” AMONG ANIMALS.
Evil Deeds Among Brutes Correspond
ing to Those Ameng Humans.
. ] bev 1estion that
in
are
many
me among
under st
cannib
revised
feed
Vor
crocodiles
their
are
parents,
Warrior
ants they
A certain
nt
in the
Gardens was
tine cannibal
guilty of
parricide, matri
ageravatin
alism in the
are crimes
which the
appears
reptile
the
not
gerpents have been
Infantici
fratrici
§
qe,
stances of 1 i
There
calend
hief mot
ar of
ive
be the like of
inveterate dis indi
yr another (the
strange antipa
animal world, and
sf assault and battery
» death of both parties
and monkeys furnish
» proce odd ing
sudden gusts of
which impel the
through his na
} one
vidual (the assailant) for
and
i the
aanited ) these
many
from antipathy. The
uncontrol rage
Malay to amuck
High ot, seize at times upon
of animals, and the re
much the same as in the Ma-
Peninsula, unless the subject of
brief, terrible, madness, can be
canght or slain Different are the
cases of animals proverbial for their
patience, whick may be goaded into a
fury.
The
exampies of violonc
lable
rin
tive 3 §)
the
suits are
lay
gentlest
dromedary, ordinarily a model
is sometimes teased
by his drivers until they are com.
pelied to fly before his rage or to strip
off and throw him their garments
that he may tear and trample them to
pieces. Every one knows to what a
pags the docile elephant will carry his
desire for revenge, when his dignity
has been badly insulted or his good
nature abused. More curious it is to
note that, among animels as among
men, some of the worst offenses that
can be committed have thelr origin in
the passion of love. Jealousy burns
fiercely in mary a brute’s bosom, and
when affected with the “universal dis.
temper of love’ the whole animal cre.
ation, from the tiger to the dove, is
capable of anv excesses against its
disturbers, whether of its own or the
human kind. Association for deliber-
ate purposes of wrongdoing is not
rare among animals, both of the high:
er and the lesser order of intelligence.
Other animals steal in bands. Baboons
go out in troops to rob orchards diffi.
cult of access. Conditions of climate
and change of atmosphere have their
influence upon the temperaments of
animals. Speaking generally, wild
creatures inhabiting very hot coun
tries are more savage than those In.
habiting cold or temperate climes,
Loadon Leisure Hour,
Mosquitoes are fond of anything
blue. That is a scientific discovery
that is furnishing an argument for
changing the color of the United
States army shirt.
HANDLING REVOLVERS.
AN EXPERT TELLS ABOUT OLD-
TIME AND MODERN WEAPONS,
“} Make It a Rule Never to Fool WIth
a Pistol,” Says a United States
Revolver Than Knife,
“The longer a man carries a re
volver the more careful he will be |
with it,” remarked Secret Service Offi
cer Thomas E. Halls recently. “I
have earried a revolver about
two years. For one thing,
a rule never to fool with a pistol at
all. I never point it toward myself
or anybody else,
unloaded.
“1 believe there has been as much
change in revolvers in the last thirty
years as in everything else I know of.
Bhortly after the war, when I was In
the government the
that I carried, which was supposed to
be the best in use at that time, was
a Colt's revolver, It was a six
ghooter and loaded with powder and
ball from the front of the cylinder.
The bullets were round pieces of lead
and they had to be pressed down close
on to the powder by means of a hing.
ed ramrod that was set io the under
side of the barrel. The other end of
the cylinder was furnished with nip-
ples on which percussion caps were
placed. Those had long
barrels, and for the fact
they were very s to
wea.
service, weapon
revolvers
except
ible
uscept
dampne were admirable
pons
"One
reas
for
ne
the fine
with a Colt's revol
the barrel and
ich gave the
*h
shooting
he dq
y 5) 1 oth
ver was the length of
handle, wh
the
then
7 of the
hand a firm grip on weapon. The
ency since has been to
decrease
to
shorten } barrel and
size of je gr 80 AS make
revolver easy "RY
havi
wWeapor ‘5
to
have large
be heavily
that the
ry and
changes tracted greatly
med
was
a big
Yyoenute
f
old
Ss
ay.”
opponent §
ioubtless
a
:
anda
g t
da t
that
¢ at whic to
which 1
worse
ir
Bas
th have
th
ae
i¢ iefects
get in heir
vat the
be victim's
merrily int
may be
“Now that
the smalles
and
case
is all The head
body, and,
, presents the poorest target
» best place to shoot a man to put
yut of action and the place where
are strexe him—where,
in fact, you ly miss—is
the lower the
region. of of
flour around in the
the way to
wear on
toward the
upwara notion
wrong
wrong
of the
purest to
CAN BOATCE
the bo ly
stomach
in
Instead
i revolver
and bri ng it
1s to a . draw
from the drop {it
ground, then make an
with the weapon, catching a line upon
the ground or floor up your
ponent’s leg, stopping st the stomacn,
there is little or no protection
pistol ball and the chances
from a wound are small
Here you have a whole vital region of
the in range. If you happen
ghoot a little Ligher than you intend
you are pretty certain to strike a vital
spot and disable your opponent, and
if you shoot lower——say in the groin-
you have him in about as bad a shape
In handling a revolver in this man.
ner you get rid of the unnecessary
downward motion. Another advant.
age is that the movement can be exe.
cuted so quickly and easily that
catches a man off his guard. He does
not have time to prepare himself for
the attack
air
de
down
the
Docket
up
where
against a
of recovery
body to
will, of course, last for years,
where a man carries it constantly, es.
tendency for the barrel of the weapon
to become loose In the hinge iust In
front of the cylinder, and this de-
of the shooting. As soon as | find my
pistol in this shape I lay it aside
and get a new one,
“My favorite weapon has always
been the kind that has a blue barrel,
and this for several reasons, the first
being that with a nickel or silver.
plated revolver the sunlight reflected
from the shiny barrel gets in one's
eyes and interferes with the correct.
ness of his aim. Then, at night, a
man aften desires to protect himself
without advertising the fact that he is
carrying a revolver and he could not
do this very well with a weapon that
gave off a glitter whenever the light
fell upon it.
“Among the improvements that
have been made in revolvers” con
tinued Capt. Halls, “are the loading
of shells with smokeless powder and
The
only self-cocking, but hammerless as
well, and, in addition, they have a
safoty device which prevents the
weapon being discharged by any acct
dent, such as dropping on the floor
HA
weapon,
revilver
"
is a very dangerous
paid the officer in a musing
tone, “bu I would rather face a re-
volver any time than a knife in the
hands of an enraged an. A knife
in such a situation is the most danger-
ous of all weapons and the hardest to
| guard against.”-—Indianapolis Journal.
I——————
FIGHT BETWEEN MOOSE.
treme Fierceness to the Death.
A flerce struggle to
tween two bull moose
near Mount Katahdin,
by George E. Stewart, of Boston, who
spent several weeks last winter, in the
brought with him a sou-
conflict, which he tells
death be-
in SNOW,
was witnessed
the
desp
venir of the of
Mr. Stewart left camp early in the
snowshoes, and when
miles away found evi
Although he had not
taken a rifie along, he followed the
tracks over the snow, and after an
hour's tramp heard the noise of a con-
flict. Reaching an elevated place be-
hind a big pine tree ne was able to
get a good view of the infuriated ani
mals
“There was some four feet
on the ground,
when telling
the
brought them
as th
When 1
on
three
dences of moose,
of snow
Stewart
venture,
of the an
sald Mr
of his a¢ “and
ight fmals
through f
ponderous we
14
down olid
ground ough been
water
moose
horns,
them
» next two or three
ward and
them
bach
For Farmers.
m Wash
Signals
A new order fro
for a trial
delivery carts |
AB
ington
sw the benefit of farm
practicable
the
ers SOON AS
ov "we
arming
delivery carts going into
sd with the
district wi flags
denoting
“tem
from the
warn farmers
“While my
ye
Ours
11 be equipt
local in 01 BHO
peratu re
rear
card
best.” d«
Brandenburg
idea i
in the
our flags. MI
sults of these
country.”
Three
be
dell
equipped at once. I
feasible, it expe
the postal and weather de
will join in having
built with room for a flagsts
display weather flags
postal very wag
cted that
proves is
partments
special wagons
af behind
Denver
Post
—
Long Island Peculiarities.
The
the
class in geography in
Brooklyn schools was being ex
“What are some of the natural pe
The pupils indulged in some heavy
but none responded. Sud
a fat boy with a red face, who
uneasily about in
his seat, received an inspiration.
“1 know,” he exclaimed, raising his
hand.
“Well, what are thev?”
the teacher.
“Why.” said the fat boy, with a tri
umphant look around, “on the south
side you see the sea, and on the north
side you hear the Sound”
He was moved up to the head of
the class on general principles New
York Times.
encouvaged
A Great Secret.
Feeble natures live in their sorrows
instead of converting them into apoth-
egms of experience. They are satur
ated with them, and they consume
themselves by sinking back each day
into the misfortunes of the past. To
forget is the great secret of strong
and creative existence, to forget after
the manner of Nature, which knows
no past, and begins again every hour
the mysteries of her indefatigable
productiveness.— Balzac,
—————— A ———————".
There is one thing to be sald in
favor of music It neves comes out
at the little end of the horn,
———— ————————————
| PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Dispatches Boiled
Quick Reading.
Special Down for
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
Rope-Jumping Feat Kills a Girl—Fat Consts
ble’s Dilemma Suicide Hired a Band
Missing Man Found Drowned Isjured io
an Automobile Accident Woman and Child
Burned Escaped Lunatic Drowned
A
H
Ed
for cars
Pittsburg
Leonard
haping
F erguson
patents Samuel
Bonnaffon, Erie, envelope: Herman
Bringer, Pittsburg, spike
B. Clark, Pittsburg, lifting 3
John B. D nmergue,
frame f¢ i
ID. Davis,
metalic
machine ;
a le
ack
i windows;
piercing and
1iliar n
Erie,
er
Kees
SDPO rt,
! capita
utacturing
Northe
O00
The Demis A. C v0
aped from the State Hosp for
nsane at Norristown found mn
iver. Clark was a promoter of amateur
sports and boxing bouts. He was pop
slash known mn the Schuylkill Valley
“Tossie” Six months ago he wa
2 omitted to the hospital
While burning waste paper near her
home, in Bridgeport, the clothing of
Mrs. Sallie Hayes became ignited and
she was badly burned. While Dr. A. V
Ellershow was relieving her distress he
received a call to another part of the
town. where he found that Mary, a three.
year-old daughter of John Culik, had
been burned at a bonfire.
Frank Ashton, of Easton, and his son-
in-law, Dr. E. W. Hubbs, of Philadel.
phia, were in an automobile which col-
lided with a farmer's wagon near Rie-
gelsville. The machine was upset and
both men were thrown out. Mr. Ash.
ton's right wrist was fractured and his
head injured, and Dr. Hubbs' right
thumb was broken
Michael Cherko was murdered about
100 feet from the Greek Catholic Church
at Freeland during the progress of the
Greek Easter services. George Smith as
charged with the crime. Smith, upon
entering the church, failed to remove his
hat and this started the dispute
The monastery of the Benedictine
Brothers, at Carrollton, burned to the
ground Sunday with all its contents,
causing heavy loss. When first noticed
a small flame was coming from the root
a a main building, and owing to the
high wind practically nothing could be
done to check its progress.
During a hearing in court at Wilkes.
barre Bn exclaimed that
she “would give her husband to any
oman who wants him, free of charge
He was born lazy and
to work. She had him arrested for
support. Judge Halsey dismissed the
case.
body of ars
the
the
tal
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