WHO STAND AND WAIT.
The bare boughs stretch to the empty
sky, cold, solitary;
Xhey writhe in the shifting blast,
annot escape it;
with my heart—the trees and
heart are comrades of old.
Se my
The winds of April are filled with
joy of singing.
The blossoming peach-boughs feel
touches of light wings—-
Oh, that my heart sang, too, that
winter were ended!
harvest
waves
When the wheat ripens to
and bends in billowing
to the wind,
Overhead the clouds
swift,
pass, silent,
in the glory of summer, there
my iife
darkens it evermore.
sven so,
pas
which
sed o'er
That
Glorious, gleaming on ecrimsons and
russets,
On yellows and greens, the autumn
sun;
The corn sts
In orchards
cool,
Purple
ached in the rows,
ruddy and
ands ble
the apples lle
heavy and
ters hang
and
»
of frultage,
heart unfilled
Bennett, in Lippin-
I TORPEDIED
TORNADA,
POLLOCK.
LTLTLTLTA
36D
SCC
¥Y FRANK LILLI
3
lr
'riday Paul
within a
Fayett
himself
home, at
Ohio, and
and spend
Matthews and his
welcome sight in
town would not allow hin
within its limits, and he had
his wagon a mile outside.
This was due to no personal preju-
dice. It was because he was by pro
fession a “well-shooter,” and that red
painted spring wagon, with the red
flag, carried thirty or forty pints of
nitro-glycerine, in small tins packed
snugly in padded frames.
The business of the well-shooter is
well understood in the oil regions, and
his wagon becomes a familiar, though
always an alarming, When
oil-well flow, a chi
high explosive fired at the bottom of
the tube will often stimulate it into
activity again it is the iness of
the supply this st
lus,
Sunday re.
wagon were
that region.
sight. an
¢
ceases to Arge oi
Ht
VuUS
imu
from place to
wellshooter to
and he drives about
place with a cart-load
ine, and everybody allows
the whole road wi
had
nitro-gis
him to take
Matthews
ness
you
of lars
customed
to the
were not what
it had
at
become
of woods
age. The
by ong rop
walked out to
Thera was
meddiing wit!
5
had
up, but f 8 in
the sky
coppery tint,
clouds of dust
he walked up the and
reached his outfit he was
that a heavy thunderstorm
coming up.
This made him
through his duties,
3
had clouded slightly with
tint drove vast
face as
wind
Matthews’
before he
convinced
was
roadqd,
hasten to
he
get
for had no de-
such a disturbance. A thunderstorm
is on the terrors of the oildyna-
siter, for, apart from the
his wagon being struck, there is al
ways the possibility that a heavy
shock of thunder may explode the
cargo by mere concussion,
Wheit Matthews came out
among the trees to take another look
at the weather, however, he was start.
led by the appearance of the western
sky. A dense bank of dark-blue cloud
was rolling up rapidly, blowing out in
ragged streamers, as if torn by a
powerful gale. Already it was reach
g half-way to the zenith, and the sun
shone dimly through a reddish haze.
In a few minutes more this was
blotted out, and a strange and chilly
dusk fell upon the earth. The horses
ware snorting and stamping with
fright. The storm developed so rapid
ly that Matthews at first had hardly
recognized its nature,
But now the indications were only
too clear. Twice in his life he had
seen tornadoes, They are not so com-
mon in the middle West as upon the
plains, but veritable “twisters” do oc:
casionally sweep across that region;
and it appeared afterward, in fact,
that this was a sort of offshoot of
the cyclone that almost wiped out the
town of Pike Springs on the same day.
It was coming apparently straight
toward Fayette, and Paul's first and
a of
$a yp
bial oe
1*inciinati
sholter.
Hé was not much alarmed for his
own safety until the thought of
wagon-load of explosives occurred to
The shock of the cyclone
explode it. Should it
the resulting
would be comparatively slight;
certainly be lifted from
by the suction, and the
dropped and ex-
S0mao
tainly go off
gtood,
but it
vimost
the ground
all the
would
Fayette,
ploded over
certainly be car
and the tornado itself
ymparatively minor peril
Matthews stopped and tried to think
do. A hole in
ground, a cellar, would be the
safe for the dangerous
fit: but it struck him that the ravine
reek might furnish
ied to
depository ont
of Jackson's (
ding
them
ver a big
into his
down
stone
heart
ry f Fuiow
mage aim
sti ai 1s or
imping
slow
brought his
throat, and
again.
But before
of i ile he
could never re
he had
began
the
a quarter
that
ravine.
blinding,
gone
to see he
The
the
ach
wind and dust were and
horses were growing almost uncon-
In the turbulent
a blu black,
h igh, swi
the verdex
i thes
Matthews * them.
loaded wagon standing on
the hill
ing the
he top of
He bad no clear
going till he
at the bottom of the hol
opening
awled a few feet in,
the mud and water
a few seconds cowered
and quaked with fright.
opening at the end
nothing but obecurity,
filled with
idea of where
reached the culs
He di
16
rort
low.
i and
flat in
For he
he
and the air
cloud and dust.
then with redoubled and
uproar the cyclone struck
and went over. He was actually
dragged toward the end of the culvert
by suction,
One of the planks overhead was
ripped away and went whirling into
the air. The mud and water spouted
up round him. For one dreadful mom:
ent the earth seemed ground under
some prodigious force, and then the
darkness was split by a brilliant flash
and a paralyzing concussion. The
explosion was less a report than a
tremendous shock, with a rending and
dislocation of the atmospheres greater
than that of the tornado itself. Then
the air seemed suddenly struck calm,
and a rain of every sort of wreckage
showered down-—-shingles, boards,
fragments of trees and pleces of fence.
ing.
In his scattered wits, Matthews
thought the center of the cyclone had
gone past, and he peeped through the
gap over his head. The swirling
black cloud was no longer in exis
tence, It appeared to have been split
asunder, and to have broken into a
pumvwer of smaller eddies that swept
the flelds with immense velocity, but
ull, and
the
Tha
th
tne
little force.
broken, split b
with comparatively
aroal vawiox was
explosion as a
by a cannon-shot
blown up.
The sky was
broken
was
waterspout is
The tornado
ziren little
v rain
had begun to fall. watched
relics of the
and
inflicting any s«¢
glarced back
Where the wagon ha there was
but an immense pit in
would take much
road pa
The storm, in fact,
than uproot a few
ard it subsided after passing. No
gud! ye ty ’ 5 ¥ v . -
furtle lamage was reported fro
wiirlwind pass over
capa
damage
they did not look
bla of rious
the
i stood
toward hilltop.
the
inbor to
able again
did nothing more
tre in Fayette,
THE EMPEROR OF
An interesting Study of the Habits
And Characteristics of the Mikado
By D. W, Stevens.
ulty, and
fact th
exploitation or
rom the
no ement of
the Sov the
modern newspaper
il the most
communities
_p concerning
mingly harmless
personal tastes, hat
f1abils,
which
their
even that HE
about
afford 4
bjects of
apparently
loyal su
tabu
like,
re to the
legos,
sonal concern
cosas of
Japan
ments
Indians With Jewish Blood.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie had an
were partly Jewish in oriein.
Lake Athabasca in 1794 he se!
out a2 the head of an expedition "in a
Birch bark canos twen! long,
four and SEM,
and twenty.aix
y-five feet
foot
inches hold, with
and
French
Pacific
rig nos
three-quart re
thron
baggage
a crew of ning
Canadians He reached the
coast and returned The abe
he met were “for the most part pos-
sessed of strongly religious instincts,’
sald he, in his report With regard
to their origin, all we are prepared to
state after a careful survey of their
languages, manners and customs is
that they are undoubledly of a mixed
origin; come from the north-north-
west and had commerce In thelr his.
tory perhaps through intermarriage
with people of Jewish persunzion or
origin.”
nd pounds of
visions and
Hr
joi
The New York Medical Society de
clares there are 20,000 fake doctors in
that city. Fake doctors flourish only
where fool patients are plentiful.~The
Washington Post.
A Nebraska woman sold an urn con.
taining her husband's asnes to a Ger
man junk dealer for $2. She probably
wanted to make sure that he wouldn't
come back.
Some naturalists say that awans are
never hatched except during a thun-
derstorm,
A PALPITATING
thought
the things we
TRUTH.
sublime
KNOW
Here is a
Among
a fellow lov,
Will lay
STRONG
“How are
now?”
“Oh, fine™
“Broke
fens
WV ¢
any
THE WORM TI
The Artis
man?
A
A
old
He claims
once in his
iphia Press
CONGRATULATIONS ALREADY
EARNED,
Tess—Mr. Kadley is
to you. 1 suppose congratulatic
soon ba in
wogs-—They're in
fena-—Indeed?
Jega-Yen, | rejocted him last night,
~Philadeiphia Press,
THE NEW ORDE R OF THINGS,
“Have you ever witnessed a bat
tle?" asked the fair girl.
“No,” he roplied. “Yon must
member that [ have been a war cor
respondent during the greater part of
my stirring career.”"—Chicago Record:
Herald.
vers attentive
ns will
order,
order now
ro
S——
NOT A STRAPHOLDER,
“f think I'll move in from the out
skirts of town. I got so tired of sit
ting in the trolley cars.
“Sitting! Heavens, man, how do
you manage that?’—Philadeiphia
Press.
COULD MEET, BUT NOT GREET.
Caller~<Mr. Ardup, you said last
month if 1 would come on the 16th
you'd te ready to meet this note, and
I've brought it.
Mr. Ardup—Why, the fact ia, I'm
er-ready to meet ‘t for old acquaint.
ance sake, but it's simply Impossible
for me to be chummy with ft. Can't
you come again ome time next week?
~The Chicago Tribune.
PENNSYLV: VANIA , LR.
and Northern Central Ry,
Time Table in Effect May 29, 1904
NB LEAVE MON
TBS A, M.~ Train 64
Harrisburg, arrivi ng at
New York 2.08 p.m, Balt
ngton 1L.20p m. Parior «
to Philadelphia,
$22 A, M.~Train 80
Wilkesbarre, Beranton, Harrisburg and (uter
mediate stations. Week days for Scranton, Hs
¢} aud Potteville, Philladeiphis, New York
Baltimore, Washington Through passenye
coaches to Philadelphia
124 FP M.~Trauin 12. Week days
Vilcesblkres, Boratiton, JPotwville
burg and intermediate Sa 1s,
1 welphin at 6.28 p. m., Ww
imore, 6.00 p. m., ashiant wn at 7.1 p
roar through to Philadelphia, and pits —
coaches to Philadelphin Beltimore B13
snington.
$45 FP. M.
srre, Reranton Ha tnt Fort ry
r Harrisburg and 1 rusit
it Ph ¢ iphia
timore 4.48 p
un and Balt
Trui
PANDONR, EABTWARD
Week davs for Bufibury
Philadelphia, 11.454, m,
more 12.15 p. m., Wash
wr and passenger couch
TiAl
Daliy for Bunbury
for Bunbury
Train 32
Week days for Wilkes
ang as
M.~Train 31. (Dal
edinte stations
te arfield, Philips
i Arough cars u
rie liste stations
rain 67 Week dey
0138
for Phila
APE-LIKE GIANTS OF AFRICA
Etrange Race Met on Southern Shore
of Great Lake.
rd Grogan-—who traversed
whole lengt
Cdiro-met
the sn
ithern
These
nee on
Edward Nyanza
apolike ereatures, hiding
banana palms, are tall men,
th long arms and pendant paunches.
Such is the stamp of the brute on
tham that they may be placed lower
in the scale than any other African
native hitherto seen. Their face, body
and limbs are covered with wiry hair,
while the hang of the long. powerful
arms, the slight stoop of the trunk,
and the hunted, vacant expression of
the face make them appear more like
apes than human beings.
Northwards, near Lado, the same
party came across the Dinkas, a race
of giants, standing six feet six inches
to seven feet in height, and magnifi-
cently developed; and in the adjoin.
ing Toroland which swarmed with ele
phants of gigantic size, the natives
were simply stark-naked savages of
inexpressible degradation of charac
ter,
On Still Hunt for Ghost,
Ghosts are not confined to old cas
ties and longsettled countries. A very
tangible one was recently causing the
inhabitants of Pinery, South Austra.
lia, some annoyance. Dressed in
white and of human form, it suddenly
confronted a resident, who, with his
wife, was driving in a buggy. The
apparition so startled the horses that
they bolted. This added to the ter
ror of the wife, who wanted to jump
headlonk out of the vehicle. The man
suceeeded, however, in restraining the
horses and allaying the fears of his
better half, and then proceeded to
look for the ghost, but did not succeed
in eatehing it. The residents of Pine
ory are now out nightly with shotguns
looking for the mysterious form, as
they bellove the midnight prowlings
of the ghost are not altogether uncon.
pected with the disappearance of thelr
pring Mills Hotel
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