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.
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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.
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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.