HOW SHORT THE SPACE. By Frank H. Sweet, Flow short the space! How much to do! How few and brief the days of men! S80 much to learn of false and true-— And only threescore years and ten! So little time to do things well, So much—so very much to know! And while we labor in our cell The years do not forget to go. So many things that we might learn, If only time would stay its tide, And once again our youth return To keep the shadow from our side. But ah! what cannot be cannot, We'll do the little that we may, And in some time-ignoring spot Perhaps find what we lose today. The Criterion. —————————————————— — Where the Man . . . With the Hoe Won. . . It doesn't often happen, aud no one gave a favored few, knew why it hap pered this time. There is a little sun burn in this story but no varnish, and let those who like a lacquered tale turn the page. She was a bud last winter and this winter she was mar ried. Most of the buds stay on the stem a little longer than that, but con sidering how many there were who wanted her the quick piuckering and bearing away is not to ba wondered at in anything save in the personality of the flower lover who did the picking Frances Marvin's fatner had no money, but he held a place in society by force of intellect and family here are not as many of those cases there used to be The girl was beauty. If a novel writer were tell ing about her he would say she was regal. James Parker, L.aSalle street stock broker, was not a novel writer, but he thought Frances was regal nevertheless. He had a thought of this kind from the moment her. Parker followed Miss movements as as he tape in the stock ticker He member of every club in sight drove and rode, and did ali things that a man of wealth in does when he knows how James Parker was a cat body said so, and the fact w strongly impressed upon the family, bar Marvir who didn’t care whether Parker catch or pot. for Frances was to bb? allowed to make her own choice. Parker became the girl's shadow He paid p however, unobstrusively and with fect tact. Frances was flattered a bit by the attentions of this man, for whom all tae other giris had made & cast. to use a piscatorial sin and had failed to get a Now, there was as Parker one John Meadower oweroft had a big truck farm yond Bowmanvill but Meadowcroft himself. He was thing more than a with a fine head and a goo had an cation and cept that Was repres some acres of onion, carrot and beds and ndreds feet glass, and carnations reached perfacti when the winter blasts howl! and the optimistic snow bunting whistles in the fields. John Meadowcroft was a graduate of the Amherst ultural College. Just what had turned him to farming people did not generally understand. A zoo. guess woul made it that Meadowcroft country better than the town and toox to gardening so that he could at all times where he could smell the soil and see some clouds besides those of smoke go drifting by. One summer day a number of young | people drove out beyond Bowmanville to see the massed color and beauty of a great fleld of flowers, which the newspapers had made pictures of and | written about. It was “the thing” to go out to that spot of joveliness dur- ing the monh of blossoms. It was there that Frances Marvin first saw | John Meadowcroft, farmer. He had! a pretty place for a home. It was naturally pretty, and John Meadow croft knew how to enhance its attrac. | tiveness. James Parker was there that | day, and being a man of acumen and worldly wisdom he saw that Meadow croft, the farmer, thought that Fran- | ces Marvin was more to be admired | than any flower of his field; love them | ail though he did, from the tiniest | slossom to the big flaunting peony. | Meadowcroft had friends in the city. They were of some of the good old New England stock, who in their ear. lier days had known his father and mother. Meadowcroft had a way of | overcoming obstacles, His friends say | that some day he will be growing | green chrysanthemums, and will do it without feeding the carth with dyes. | At any rate he met Miss Marvin again and again. She was rather amused than otherwise at the attentions of this “farmer man” as her mother call- ed him. There is something in sin perity that wins a way in all kinds of things, and finally Frances Marvin grew to like John Meadowcroft. One day Frances had been shopping with her mother. They had no car riage, and the North State street cars were luxurious enough for them. They met James Parker, and he walked with them when the shopping was done. It was one of those afternoons when the sun and the general bright pess of things oan make even & walk in the smoky streets of Chicago pleas ant. Parker suggested that they walk as a he saw Mary did Was in's the a he closely and t é other i WH iety Every pretty Marvin 1% pere, Was 2a court mile strike. James Mead well as aft Curious worked his a big fellow, trifle awkward i face capital edu no which nted by potato some nu of square under the r which the roses of on a ARTI 1 have loved the ive corner of South Water street their way as usual waa blocked by great sacks and boxes. Parker had had one or two reasons of late to actually look with just a suspicion of jealous appre. hension at a certain farmer from Bowmanville. He could not forbear pointing with his cane, with a sort of a smile to make it appear that he con- sidered it in the light of a joke, at some placards which appeared above the sacks and boxes at the South Wat. er street corner. The pointing was hardly necessary, for Frances Mar- vin's quick eyes had caught their sig. nificance. This is what they read: Moadowceroft's Mild Onions. Meadowcroft's Prime Potatoes Se SE S8 ws se gg People all had it fixed that Frances Marvin was to marry James Parker The girl half way thought so herself She knew that several times was On the point of a declaration “Not yet,” the gir! had said to her wolf. and she had averted diplomati lly the crisis, though she was begin to think it would and she would say Her urged her and her own knowledge told her of an easy future as the wife of a man had what was needful and plenty more One day board of managers the Mortimer Pierce Hospital for Crip held a meeting Funds were neaded and a number of the young women of society who were interest. ed in tha.charity agreed to ask some of whom they knaw well abie give heip along the cause Prances Marvin was one of the solicit Perhaps the most in her genera suggested to Frances that they ask James Parker for a con tribution She and her mother went lowntown and at the mother's sug ent into the office of James kholder. Mr. Parker was who was a office sald that one day Yes who f the of pies those were to to pumittee mother than she ing Was wiser tion, for sy i new Mr boy, snuff, his other “You'l th the him on gald the find ornar, and daughter did that James Parker had two third w as a din a rather dirty glass door Loans They ante-rooms with her the floor it hed ding rea r bui i J. Parker, here was an berond separated a glass partition. A and Mr a fow rooms y sit down at leisure in sn~~they conversation of a man and a « was that couldn't help {it a The hose + man’s vol The cant mie 1d what conversation t. mad what are You an heip 1 a nth is you i have thou This can’t pich have my re madam and the law and must ire want mon in ey or your furnit goes.’ There something like a dry sob from the With a common Marvin and her daugh 1d left the room, f not placed a card gaying softly “Tell " When th reach root and we=e hurrying along igh get away from a neigh of contamination, the girl Mother, I have heard of such that men in busin made of their money in other Lusi sf which only a small part of iid ane was inner 1 srs Om mptlse or rose al hough ach had before oo boy, were here oy ed the st as tho borhoo i tO amid things, As much not of the world knew anything. | know that Mr. Parker was these.” Some time after this a little party the flowers. John Meadowcroft the visitors at the gate He wounded squirrel! in his hand. There he examined the little animal and at ita injuries. Miss Marvin something else that had in a downtown office not thought of happened of comparison went through mind. and not even the fact that a faint odor of onions came from from the full knowledge that here was the man People don’t know yet how it came about, but just hefore Ash Wednosday some who didn't know about it, one Marvin, and asked when it was to be ried the ‘man with the ward B. Clark, in the Chicago Rec: ord-Herald The Oldest Shovel The oldest shovel in the United States was made for the State of Massachusetts in the early part of the nineteenth century by Oliver Ames, It was recovered from the State Ar genal at Watertown, Mass, over fifty years ago, since which time it has been in the possession of the Ames family. —————— The through trolley lines In Ohlo carry passengers at a cent a mile and sometimes run as fast as sixty miles an hour. we It upsets a bookkeeper to lose his home. When they had reached the ’ SOUTH AFRICA'S WEALTH | Known. Tae declaration peace in Africa, which is to be followed by the reopening of the greatest gold-produc of ably by a general revival of business in that greatest consuming section of Africa, lends especial Interest to a monograph entitled “Commercial rica In 1901." just ury Bureau of Statistics. list of the grand divisions of the world in its consuming power in rela tion to international commerce, imports of the grand divisions, being as follows: Europe, $8,300. 000,000; North America, 000; Asia, $500,000,000; S006 000; $125.000,000, Of the cent, Oceanica, of $11.,630,000,000 supplies 5 Africa, 10 States of in of pet per cent. Case of the imports of Europe and 40 cent the of of eX per America imports of the United iusive That the gold and diamond mines of South Africa and still have been il | § The Kimberley about 600 miles from Cape Town, now cent. of the diamonds although thelr exist was unknown prior 1867, and have thus bee Opera: about thirty years estimated that $350,000 G00 worth of rough diamonds that sum after cutting, have been pro duced from the Kimberley mines since their opening in 1868.9, and this enor would have been but for the fact that the owners of the various mines there formed an agreement to Hmit the output so as not to materially ex- Lion. supply of ance 98 per commercs, to in tion but It is worth double mous greatly production increased ceed the world's annual consumption Equally promising are the great Witwatersrand” gold flelds of South ca. better known as the Johannes mines Gold in 1883 and gold + was about increased startling product of 1888 being of 3! } (MM) R45 fe f1 overed value of $50,000, rapidity, $5.- JAMMER FOL over $40. about $55, was dis i884 the brie UTE there in tho Lake produ It with the fy THM) about that 15330 Wi) 000 and 1897 ‘ % 1852 over HE) i and 183s, FHM 1M) nes has been prac suspended during the war production of the “Rand” an over $300.000.000, Work in these mi tically The gold gince 1584 has hee and careful surveys of the fleld by ex perts show beyond question that the ‘gold probably amounts to 33 the large num ber of mines in adjacent territory, larly those of Dhodesia whose output was valued at over $4 500.000 last year, gives promise of additional supplies that it seems probable that South Africa will for many years to t ts now, the larg t id prod of the es guiqQ i i in sight’ 500 000 0080, while particu 0 tinue ye, as it #1 ection icing # worl INDIA, Military Preparations on the North. west Frontier. Naows the last Indian mail was interesting chiefly because re preparations that the northwest recorded Con- have Uy of the military along are of money markable gums been yworiated for for the troops that are to re the garrisons of Nowshera 4 Abbatiabad north of the railway Rawulpindi and Pesha Attock, where the above. crosses the Indus on ree ine between At railway wur named erful batteries have been constructed for its protection, heavily armed and principal one, Fort equipped with electric the been lights Large sums of money have been ap The rearmament be completed with as little delay as been appropriated for the purpose, heavy field artillery and the division and brigade staffs also absorb a con. requirements, the rolling stock on the railways is to receive The army experi montal balloon corps i8 to be ex. ercised among the hills of the Yuzuf-. gal country by which the road from Nowshera to Chitral, In the direction of the Russian frontier in the nort' passes, Pussy Saved Hag Life By Eating rver ail, Workmen building a new house at First and Nell avenues, Columbus, Ohio, have been worried over a noise they have heard in the plastered wall of the structure. They became nerv. ous and tore the wall out to ascertain the cause. Here they found a cat, still alive, but worn to a skeleton, and the strange part of the affair was that the eat had eaten her tall off bit by bit to sustain life during the three weeks she had been a prisoner, The feline had evidently strayed in- to the space between tne plastering the night before tae flooring was nail ed on and had been there until dis coversd by tearing out the wall Ime dianapolis News. ni. * . gts MMational.”, BY JAMES B. DILL. “ fidake Tru Formost Organizer of Industrial Organizations, movement has its origin, in part, in the desire of the soung cor porations to draw a line of demarcation between itself and the corporation otherwise situated. A national incorporation law would truly represent and be the formulated public opinion of the nation. It should be optional with corporations, as In the case of the Banking act, to organize under State acts if they choose It should prohibit the name “national” to any corporation but national cor porations, compelling other corporations which assume the titie to relinquish it. A national corporation should be protected from State attack to the same ex tent that national banks are protected. National and commercial privileges guaranteed to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States and the constitutions of the several States should be subject to taxation the State only the amount actually in the State. and then upon the same basis as an individual The national! corporation should be subject to national supervision and ex amination, and at by to least private publicity should which eventually result in a proper degree of public be compulsory, publicity. ities and furnished to the taxing officers of the various States, in order that the corporation might be justly and correctly taxed i News Happenings of Interest Gathered From All Sources. * Patents granted: Jackson D. Carring- eceased. New Castle, J. S. Whitla, Stratos automobile Lenton hickering, Oil City ; John Davis rates purifying Deitr, Coudersport, display ca Dempsey, Keating Sumit yeorge H, Everson, Pittsburg, pub-drilling machine; El Harrisburg, string laster Henry F. Freed, Harrisburg, electric . (let D sand Appa Frank B. ae; Jas anmnier, metalls Flower », device; | a4 SPOOL 101 Pittsburg water; reels, ete for # § 111s i 1 tem in Pittsburg, stop S. Head caroureler AY 5 il 3 Wm irobe £ 1 Bradiord, 1 + an George pole and shad Ma stem property is situated from taxation of every nature Its stock ANS ALND ANAS SANS ASSIS ANS No Danger of Our Wheat Crops Failing. BY W. 8. HARWOOD HE fear which was quite recently expresse Britain that the to was already in it ontif ntif d In scl of a of ation to laid for on for the past decade at one of © Northwest This the rieties of wheat ena our capacity sight, & Very time hy greatest ad The however, wheat, in had fatarl disturb. ultimate stary for large number of race ¥ hives ail 3 2 have been all the gations which have invest he stations the wheat region of Agricuitu testing old ing grain, he grain of in great o station, a department h in con va nf : : of the 8 0 re nection with University of Minnesota, has been work Wheat, number of at and itaelf periods would, realing new ones a golf fartili i a i eri centuries T through any Adami planted the through if if same wheat must « To stigma grown in that aid of Natur [1% heat, ¥y t from « . time ew wheal, man ame the to create a wheat flower placed on ning, the of another wheat flower dawn of a8 summer the tilized wheat {2 and and, plish has been done world Hundreds one essential encased in a mask of tissue paper to keep Away bi ould plant life insects due season, that which Nature alone 0 a new wheat hs added to th of the ¥ also have been found wanting, when tested, some or t of bu to i in many out the 3s a few, less than dozen all told, Lired qualities have been found w superior t » trom which they better in yielding power in food Work, disease, rich {feature stronger 10 resis as of rioner s 2at brim N . . Selection, too, bas been an the the important choosing of the choicest types for seed and breeding. —S« if wes i BY SARAH WILMARTH LYONS, EALTH equilibrium is a perfect equilibrium Ovanllvan® » ‘1h van fleas) through a knowl < system Is now one of the leading ’ 0 science phase or manifesta This store Investigations tion of electricity up heat and energy to the t i in foods, when and energy LOGY well '% as but is operated upon and given action through r of foods The used and exhausted various elements in f by the parts or iseased i sr mt § ood mus in man as the equilibrium is daily 1 and tis uch the gues that hese ¢ disturbed and th lements nourish time All places true flesh tures of the body and in tissues of the body gradually weaken and organs of action follows, and a diseased the body acts in sympathy with the others tion. A pure government can only result from pure laws and pure men to make those laws. Pure thoughts are nourished by pure and healthy blood, which never nesds a more powerful stimulant than that which is God-given, and that is oxygen weaken, in become d Su alcoholic drinks make The fatty particles ellular struc je fiber. The enlargement of the organ of ntrud time break down stro 3 WACOM ngested 4) COUE condition This re resuils, as every PMR RR ARR Astounding Statement About Rockefeller’s Riches. RRR RRR RRR RRR REIN RRR RRNA R IRR BY CAMILLE FLAMMARION, The Well-known Writer on Astronomy. tween January 1 of the year 1 and April 16 of the year 1902, just one thousand million minutes have passed The statement suggests a realization of the meaning of a thousand mil t= Christian era has just completed its first milliard of minutes at 6:10 p. ma, of money. at about two hundred million dollars, or, say, a thousana million francs. We all recognize that this is an enormous quantity, but the trouble with most oi us is that a single million seems almost as remote from our possibilities as s thousand million, so that the greater sum does not differentiate itself suf- ficiently from the smaller. Let us see, them, what Mr. Rockefeller's fortune of a thousand milliop francs means. It means that if a man had been working steadily day and franc a minute his total earnings would just now have reached the amount of Mr. Rockefeller's pile. A franc a minute is very handsome pay. It is $12 an hour, or $300 a day. A man getting $300 every day, from the beginning of the year 1 to the present time, and consuming none of his earnings would only just now have as much as Mr. Rockefeller has. Or, putting it in another way, imagine a town containing 300 working people, each earning $7 a week. The total wages earned by the people of this town, in successive generations all the way from the time of Christ to the present day, would not exceed the amount which one man has managed to put by in the course of a single lifetime. Truly, a thousand million is a great sum. was hatched on the jurm of John Fitz. gerald, near Strinestown, eleven miles from York. The freak fowl is able to run as swiftly as any other fowl on the farm, occasionally bring: ing a third leg into requisition.—Bal- timore Sun, . One County's Yield cf Freak Fowls. in York County, Pa, in the past two months, a headless duck, a horned chicken a onelegged chicken and three fourlegged chickens have come {nto the world. All of these freaks save one dled. The survivor is a healthy six-weeks-old chick with four fogs, all of equal length. The chick In real estate transactions | speak louder than words. i elplua William Pratt, who was der o West C another trial, the court 2 of his coun he pleas were manv, based upon he argument that the verdict of guilty was not consistent with evidence, that testimony was admitted that should been rejected. and that several urors were ineligible because of their a f his fee me I Nis wild as F am »d the peution +4 tae Pratt's guilt prior to their being drawn Hon. William S. Kirkpatrick, of Faston. notified the Bard of Trustees of Lafavette College that he will accept the invitation of the Board to act as president of Lafayette during the leave field, who will go abroad until next year to regain his health, I'he York County Historical Society elected bo new members, one of them being Senator Quay. The society has just finished tatiloguing and labeling its collection of books and relics {lie Presbytery of Chester met at Roberts Guy as an evangelist to go on thie mission field in China Thomas LL. Fawley, a commission merchant of Chester, narrowly escaped death from paris green poisoning, re- sulting from cating new apncots on which the shipper had placed the por son to kill insects The home of Lewis Greiner, on the Cressona road, was entered and robbed of $300, Mrs. Anna M. Given, a resident of Renovo for the past 40 years, was found dead in bed. She was 73 years old. The huckleberry season is opening earlier than usual this season owing to the wet warm weather of the past three weeks, John Reilly, 3 youth employed at the Woodstock Mills, Norristown, is in a recarious condition as the result of a all of twelve feet, While cleaning out a vat at the works of the Sharpless Wood and Extract Works, Chester, Morris Maris opened the wrane valve and was fatally scalded.
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