THE ENGINEER.
"Midst Maxims’ click and rattle,
Quick-firers’ crack and scream,
Dazed with the lust of battle,
Half blind with smoke and steam.
Men face the flying shrapnel,
And dare the bursting shell
When every gun's a shambles,
nd all the decks a hell!
But pent and caged, unknowing
Which way the fight incline
{ keep my engines going
Beneath the water-line,
No praise or blame to spur me
In this my hour of trial,
I stand and grip the
I stand and watch the dial,
lever
I know no battle-passior
To set my blood aglow,
I work in sober
But if we fall, 1 Know
$
flayed, or
the
‘mere non-combatant,”
1at boiled, or
mashed amongst gear,
I die, a
An
—J. H
tator.
in
RNOWn en
Adkin, ix
vn Claverhouse was a moon-faced
You know the
wide
h cheek-
apart,
the c¢ ks to complete
broad
the cir-
ing into
» perfect rour
pudgy, «
flatts
of the face like
Per that
hated him, r truly he ha
an offense 3 and
he earth to | red
nea AalNs 1¢ very
erence
ceili haps
the
d be-
i be
with
esence, mother
have bes the
and
shoulder
looked 1
at the 3
up
And
ly
town into
plaguy cachinnations
wont fort) viis
I went forth privii
turne
1 of 1
rneq catil
and
and in the morning
ing laugh as he drove
. he
beasties are
1t js
dumb
for straying
He had a
splendid
blood-hound
Mars
and they
bided
opportunity was ripe,
nto fatt
dog he
brute.
part and
was a gr
him
But |
when
nimal and settled
arsenic and beels
were always together
my time, and one day,
ured
the
ith
It made posi
John C
away for him w
aver
hearty and
tively no impress
house His
nt as ever, an
like the full m
been,
Then
his barn Jut
Sunday,
cheerful.
“Where are you going?” 1
iim, as he went by the crossroads.
“Trout,” he said, and his face
beamed like a full moon. “I just dote |
on trout, you know.”
Was there ever such an impossible
man’! His whole harvest had gone up
in his hay-stacks and barn. It was
uninsured, I knew. And yet, in the |
face of famine and the rigorous win- |
ter, he went out gayly in quest of a
mess of trout, forgooth, because he |
“doted” on them! Had gloom but |
rested, no matter how lightly, on his |
brow, or had his bovine countenance
grown long and serious and less like
the moon, or had he removed that
smile but once from off his face, I
am sure | could have forgiven him for
existing. But, no, he grew only ore
cheerful under misfortune,
{ insulted him. He looked at me in
slow and smiling surprise.
“I fight you? Why?" he asked slow-
ly. And then he laughed. “You are
so funny! Ho! ho! You'll be the
death of me! He! he! he! Oh! Ho!
laugh was as
i hit
i face as much
had
yon as it
always
I sat fire to his hay-stacks and
the next morning, being
he went forth blithe and
asked
Ao! ho!”
What would yon?
durance,
It was past en-
Hy the blood of Judas, how
I hated him. Then there was that
name-—Claverhouse! What a name!
Wasn't it absurd? Claverhouse!
Merciful heaven, why
Again and again I asked myself that
should not have
Brown, Jones
I leave it to you,
yoursel{-——Claverhouse,
to the ridiculous
question. 1
Smith, or but Cla
verhouse!
it to
listen
or
Just
sound of it
I ask
“No
you,
sald L
“No,” you say. And
I knew he would be unable to meet it.
So I got a shrewd, close-mouthed,
tight-fisted money-lender to get the
mortgage transferred to him. [1 did
not appear, but through this agent I
forced the fureclosure, and but few
days (no more, helieve me than the
allowed) were given John Claver
Ouse to remove goods and chat
tels from the premises. Then | stroll
ed down to see how he took it. for he
had lived there upward of twenty
years. But he met me with his :
twinkling, and the light
preading in his face till it was
law
his
aucer
isen moon,
ha! ha!” he lau
that youngster of mine!
hear the Lot
was down playing by the
» river when a | of the
hed him. ‘0
puddle
K iP
ghed. The
me
jece
stick
» of run
y chase me
ie
right animal,
1 Such eager
content
rst casual oppor-
ellona to John
what | was
of a little weak-
i and
» was regular
rivate
laced the end
as tied in
i."
he
moon-
1114
Fie
an
and
mouth
over his
STEVES i
open
all damnable
ind of thought, somehow, you
“Wasn't
a mis
he held
e me,” he explained
it funny for
take? And
his with laugl!
“What is her name’
me to ma sich
fit the hougl
glides ter
™ he
between paroxysms
I said.
he
managed to
Jellona.”
he!”
name!”
I gritted my teeth, for his mirth put
them on edge, and snapped out
tween them: “She was the wife
Mars, you know,
Then the light of the full moon be-
gan to suffuse his face, until he
ploded with: “Well,
widow now; Oh!
he!
I turned and fled
the hill
tittered.
be
of
Ho! ho! E! he!
awiftly away over
{ followed the crest along for a couple
y hills, where the little river raniped
of a gorge and stopped for
breathin a large and placid rock-bound
That was the spot! I sat down
croup of the mountain, where
all that occurred, and
my pipe.
Ere many minutes had passed, Johr
our
pool
the
I could
see
day evening 1 sald to him:
He nodded his head and grinned,
“Then you won't have another
chance to get a mess of those trout
you just ‘dote’ on.”
But he did not notice the sneer, “Oh,
I don't know,” he chuckled. “I'm go-
ing up tomorrow to try pretty hard.”
Thus was assurance made doubly
sures, and 1 went back to my house
Hteraily hugging myself with raptare,
Early next morning | saw him go
by with a dip-net and gunnysack, and
Bellona trotting at his heels, | knew
where he was bound, and cut out by
the back pasture and climbed through
the underbrush to the top of the moan.
tain, Keeping carefully out of sight,
Bellona
they in higb
snappy barks ming
with his deeper chest-notes, Ar
he threw down the
suck and drew from his
what looked Hke a large
But | knew it to be a
“giant;” for such was his
of catching trout. He dyna
He attached the fuse by
tightly in a piece
ignited the
into the
was
the
about
stream.
him, and
was
were
rived at the pool
div ret and
fat candle,
stick of
method
wrapping the “giant”
af cotton. Then he
and tossed the explosive
Like a flash
after it. 1 «
for
F118
Te
pool
iellona into the
mild have shrieked
pool
aloud very joy
but
Claverhouse yell
He pelt
and rocks, but
¢ on till she got the
her mouth,
and headed
ret time, he
started
BO
Mi OY
without avall
she
stick
when she
for shore
realize
to run As
me, she made
him. Oh
! As 1 have
pool lay in a sort of amphi
stream
pping-stones
up and down
out alter
great
Above and below, the
#1 on ste
ACTORS
and
believed tha
could run
llona hot-{
And th
WHOLESALE RESTAURANTS.
Where the Cheap Eating Houses
sked Food.
and
and
a liber
CROVDAEY
good,
cellent
delivery
wagons, upon a good
business
and
goft-ahell
1 pass an oysterstand
fried and
led upon a platter, and
gs of
» times you look
establishments,
business
ovators
decorated with HU le apri pars
ley, twice
at the
The tiny res
districts, and
cater to clerks
Wars
tauranta ix he
especial those which
workingmen, .de-
upon the
their food.
sell their
and
pend almost entirely
for
can
whole
Odly
cooked
gale restaurants
they
than what the latter would pay for the
raw materials. This comes from buy-
cooking on a large scale, and in
utilizing all the waste products. —New
York Post. -
Enthusiasm of a Dying Scientist,
The firgt penguin we met, says Pro-
E. Borchgrevink, the Ant
arctic explorer, in an article of Pen.
guing, in Leslie's Monthly arrived on
14th of October, 1509, at Cape
in South Victoria Land, thus
long before the ice had broken up.
I killed him at the request of my zool
ogist, who was dying at the time, The
man knew that his death was only
a question of hours, but he had look.
ed forward to the arrival of the birds,
and the news of this first arrival ex
cited him. He begged us to kill and
digaect the bird before him, although
he himself was to follow the bird into
the mystery of death half an hour af.
terwards, and he knew it! He show.
ed the utmost interest in the operation
and dictated scientific notes as he
watched it till within fifteen minutes
of his dissolution. "
CORSETS CUT HIGHER
From a
alarming information
Parl
the
come the
the fickle,
already
fight §
corset expert
that
has
bust, stra
and is going
in the highes
Our women don’t care a Lg
icnne
of low ont
in
upon
yf i
Corsets, arene
her way
i when they do decid
high
cut down
however, ant
of
have t
the
veal
one these new corset
1
hem iow
one o much liked for the
Or nore
HER
Mnora
NERVOUS DISPOSITION
Duse, the
An ent
tui
new i easent
nothing is taught
but, under the Kk
ageress and an old
gervant, her assistant
and d
breaki
lothes
how to sweep rooms thor
oughly without ng the
how to
them, and in general, hos
well and afford a topi
conversation to aggrieved
In the kitchen each
taught simple and
ery. and in the nursery
doll baby, with a complete
clothes, is dressed, undressed,
and generally experimented
The additional information
wash and not
not
girl
neces
ia
night to six weeks, according to the
aptitude of the pupil”
each girl must secure credentials cer
be considered
Such an
as having
institution as
“passed.”
this,
ing of envy in the mind of any Am
erican mistress who has ever tried
to train a servant in the way she
should go and spent months instead
of weeks at a hopeless task. Evident:
ly French girls who incline to dom:
estic service are better fitted for the
work than some of their sisters from
other lands. —Brookiyn Eagle.
aso
GENTLEWOMEN'S
“There are many quiet breadwin-
ners who, in the seclusion of their
homes, do work that commands its
price by its excellence on the market,”
sald a woman yesterday. “Preserves,
jellies and jams of domestic confec
tion have long been rocogniz>d by the
trade, and the names of certain gen.
tlewomen are consider~i by them as
OCCUPATIONS,
has been helped thi
many & girl provided
by the
mother,
duties
s and
{re
eau untiring {
find
thio
thd
who
for
there
hous
her other
that
nowaday
the early
dliework
for
had
torily,
women
ant
training
while a number
Hp
i
elp to
pay theirs
the profits
broidery., It geems a
the times that women
ey for one thing or
that
thing
trims hat cley
to
for a
the
i
ers’ bill by from
healthy
who need
another no
working for remund
ig a to be sensitive about Ona
and 1%
friends’
anoth
riy
make over her
consideration;
er ex manufactu cainty
thereby
Bu
i
pp
stock
in smart
natural
Silks in
and
be hionable in the
gowns and separate waists
ivory tinted hopsacks
bunches of flowers patterned on them
blacs
checked effect
fa
white
to very {ail for
. 111
with little
New walking skirts are made short
enough for easy walking, but the
flare about the bottom is more exag
The latest shoes
buckles,
are quite plain.
much stitching
ela,
Among the hats there are a great
many plateaux which are left nearly
flat, resting in front on flowers or vel
vet. Others again have a drooping
bend both in the front and the back
and are trimmed at the undérneath
sides,
ed with seroll work in gold. A pretty
shell comb is set with the coral and
scrolls of gold. .
asm
Government.
THE KEYSTONE STATE
News Happenings of Interest Gathered
From All Sources.
. Kirschman
Young at Reading, he
riser and hard
window of
Kirschman
recaptured
oe
as picked up by his p
d bodily through a
he Eagle Marble Works
though severely cul,
Coung
Martin Wheaton was killed and Wil
jam Kelly probably fatally injured in 3
vein at the Herriott sand bank,
sharon. : v
Pure Food Commissioner Cope. as a
eiult of the work of the agents of the
fepartment, has ordered prosecutions
nn fifty cases of food adulterations In a
lozen counties. Ten of the cases, mn
\llegheny, Westmoreland and Philadel
shin, are against men who, it is alleged,
save been selling oleomargarine
orty are against those who sold meat
loctored with boracic and salycilic acid
Ygposed of impure preserved fruits and
groceries.
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