To a Child,
O little child -
What mysteries, what pure
lovely’ things
Wait vet, and rest with calmy fold-
ed wings
Within thy soul untempted,
and
undefiled ?
What noble song
Deep-toned with
made seraph-clear,
What word of faith to
doubt-duled ear
in thy ‘heart,
through dages long?
love hy truth
witke the
Bleeps unguessed
What
To
mighty deed
conquer war and end a nation's
woe,
loose the chain
man go,
Unknown within
ment's need?
To and bid a bond-
thee walts the mo-
a
O unbeguiled,
Time runs apace to speed thy fate
ful hour.
That sleeping
rouse to
the
little
thought will
power
ona day
And world through thee,
child!
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It caused a nine days wonder among
the Twalli am whe n
aews got about that Mr. George
tersley had left his wife
poorly
. a ls
shake
thou
people of
and
ers so jed for that
would be obliged
lous home,
provi
to
and live economicall
house. For
leave their
small
lassed
Mr
a very
neome
exha:
plantati
terived
~a d
od
expen
plain
surate, who
justify ma:
for years
pretty th
been
one,
ter's
sale
Da ssed to
with
a roomy
home
her; and
most of her
now
as it
apartment in the house
“Mother,” e med Al
from her little bed, “leave
that old sheet,
ghosts in this room
exorci by human
a practical turn. I have
alip and sli
been very qu
thing, not about
can that when 1
find some paying work
You were a baronet's
and have never m
ancestry It ought
rich snobs. Prin
devolve
the pes
shared
haspened
open
xcla
talk! Ther
who
and
and
sed Convers
sation
heard them
ie when the place haa
let Talk about some
We
and
hore!
bat our poverty,
better
Look
gran
enough
help us
g dear old Sir James
Affington’s re in your dis
course with visitors!”
“Never, my dear! replied
Battersliey, firmly. “His name
only remind people of that scandalous
woman who was his third wife. Be.
fore now illnatured persons
sald she was my own grandmother
~ghame on them!-—and ha made
me afraid to talk of relations. She
disgraced your great-grandfather’s
name forever!"
“How interesting!
invalid. “Oh, mother, do cheer me
up with the awful tale, and so make
me forget my aches! She was called
lovely Betty, wasn’t she, and became
the most talked of woman of her day,
the ido! of princes, poets and paint.
ers? Began life as a tramp's child,
did she not, and ended It as a bar
onet’'s wife, after dukes and all sorts
had gone mad over her? How came
great-grandfather to marry her,
mother?”
“Because he was sillier than
do got
of
3 your
name 1m
Mrs
Yo
gy
exclaimed the
the rest”
dignantly,
but once,
Jar She
replied Mrs. Battersley, in
“I never saw the creature
though I heard all about
wast getting very stout,
losing her beauty, and taking to
drink; and she married a foolish
man to have a home and behave
actly as she liked. Well, she
more and more, spent and gambled, |
beat him and knocked him about if
oxpostulated—and then die
week before he did.
an inguest and scandal
and very,little of the
came to my mother,
socond wife's daughter!
that of three wives,
and worst should the title
Lady Affington be remem
bered.”
The mother
the daughter
free from
feeble; and
might pass
about again.
with dingy
turned
stood
he
fit
was
Mri
without
Affington
wads
un-
last
one
end:
fortune
the
fair
who
So
t00, the
make
one to
room, and
Though
quitted the
left alone,
pain, Alice
feared
before
She
was
bodily was
she that months
could be
would have to
wall paper to
to her right,
old
she
lie
there
at she while
on
robe
many
Coming
path were
wife of
as
the ft
left larg ward
the ze,
had been her
YOQrs.
along
four
chaplain to the
chaplain hims
naval officer
1 poor Alice some
and a you 1g Jay, a
his hol
which
the narrow
persons: Mrs,
tha
m: the
brotl} the
admire
years ago,
for
had
80
Maria warmly wel
and insisted must
mother. It was
they
see her
with nice peopie
after all, to
keep up
them in
and
fini
pat
SCream
OW
o dragged nearer
‘Av Ami
see you,”
oothingly ffice, you know
© nirit
id
And
cat
againat
and
hing queer
have a
noing and things, cou
explain away
is mice,
room
Rev
wife's
with
John
request,
laughed
haunting the
and fin
shake
few
herry words,
of a ghost
tapped the
warhobe a
“Of
walls, ally
good
there is a noise!
cried. “It is Miss Maria's b
necklace, broken and rattling
the cupboard, the dish running
away with the
in this little old
Course
¢ hea
about
or
movement
hel
Any
house will
SPOONS,
p thease
sounds!”
that necklace
roan
res
On being assured
spoons were for
r, Mr. Jay gave a few more raps and
humps, and then asked if his brother
and son would be allowed upstairs
for a minute,
The chaplain,
no
or snsible
the
old
Mr.
the inside,
the captain and
schoolboy, having pulled the
wardrobe closer to the window
Jay announced that from
part of the back seemed to be slid
ing down, revealing a gap behind,
which was apparently filled with rags,
A roll of these rags being pulled out
by the achoolboy's daring hand prov.
ed to be an ancient and much dis
colored pair of corsets, of very large
size and extremely heavy; and anoth-
er palf then followed, much the same
in quality, and with gold coins escap-
ing from the patches in which they
had been sewn.
The ladies screamed and shuddered
at these objects, and the quest now
became so exciting that the men
soon broke down the remainder of
the false back which hid the rest of
thé treasure.
The { rivate
hoard
bags,
Lovely Betty's p
bare, In three little
the corsets first di
nines A
of a shabby
neck! yet
cardboard
diamond
in the narrow
an unframed oll
painting, which Cap extricated
carefully from its hiding-place
picture represented such a
BWent of
gen
hen
1tniocus
was laid
added to
cuvored, were ve many g
small
silken
of a
box
rings.
ry
composed
contained
value:
two
bundle
skirt
certain
od
ting
available
| Hees,
x- | and a
| plendid
| clogo]
space was
al : tain Jay
9 i)
The
} beautiful young woman,’ so
| aspect and fair
ral ery of admis
| first shown, T
of the
next
of face
ation greeted It w
, evi
of
ag
wo minature One
other
came t ight: and,
packets of letters
the dy Af
made a great sen
imced by ex
painted eo!
paid a
would gladly
of Lovely
Atel y “high figure
sama girl, the
finish, several
The sale of notorious lu
i
|
a
1
| Angton's portrait
ation, it being prono
}
lp rt to be Wt ever
her as
nrice
fannmpy
fancy 1
millionaire
and
have secured other relies
Jetty at a pr
howevi I,
y» of the Bten-gr
portions
to the exquisite
at-grandmoth-
proved ol
: nefi «1; and
Maria took jewelry
¥
letter
advice of the Rev. John
+} had } ¥y 4 Prey
they had 18t
MAKING THERMOMETERS,
Which There Is
of Difference
Instruments in Great
Amount
them
Another
a0 on,
guide
«© in stan tly
takes then
al ing degre
Then thes
frames and
and their
Philad«
ITALY'S FINANCIAL STROKE.
and
each
to }
SRTOGE
low for
mark ve put
de.
off
have other
fractions uarked
iia Record
Ted
| Her Debt on a 3 34 Per Cent. Basis
A Financial Rehabilitation,
event of first rank the his.
of European public fa the
financial rehabilitation of Italy as reg.
istered in the conversion
of her 4 and 5 per
3% basis OM the
{ 000,000, only £740,000
were prea nted
instead
In Januany,
were down to 72
and Premier Crispi had admitted
{ Italian finances in pretty
{shape. Step by in little
{than twelve years, the work
cuperation has proceeded,
A 20 per cent. tax on the interest
coupon forced a considerable con:
version of the 5 per cent. to 4s, The
budget was cut ruthlessly. A sun
plus began to appear and the king.
dom gtopped borrowing.
Three years ago Itallan currency
reached par of gold. When a few
weeks ago the conversion plan was
broached German holders of Italian
rents began to sell and the purchases
were made for Itallan acosunt in pro
portion,
When the conversion went through
the Italian rents were found to be
held largely in thelr own country.
This feat of rehabilitation was ac
complished at a time when European
money markets were under heavy
pressure.~Bcloctic Magazine,
in
debts
An
tory
gaccessful
rents to a
of $1,620,
the securi
redemption,
cont
total
of
| ties for
of conversion.
1864, Italian rents
on the Paris Bourse
that
bad
more
of re
were
gtep
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIL
Latest News Gleaned From Various
Parts.
While
knocking
che
8 Clyde
up In a
g off bur:
old on of Joa
nn Township, was
wounded by
ad without
the boy wa mista
animal by some hunter
or wrether he was shot
taking the che not ki
John Rider driving along
i saw the boy
tree H went to
and found his
and cuts
from
i
tnut treo
Auman, the
Auman,
shot and
person who
detected
a RP
B yeur ph
of
some
iether
vild
for
and
for
1OWnH
the
lving
gee
ken
winuts is
was
and
body
and
the
died
con
cious and
EAInIing
was along the
1
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}
far from the
ugh the
no one
aut] oritie
gation
\ecording
rad
Martin
thirty
1
Fahy,
Years an
employ of the higt
Ea
evervhody
Led
and known to
, dropped dead
ia Mauch Chunk He
pre ff his engine to
heart failure ended his life
One big black bear was killed and
another badly crippled in Clinton
on the opening day of the
Andres Wilson, of
ghot and killed a
on Rattlesnake Run, ir
end of the county, which will
steaks for many of his
for aOme time come
NNnaware
and was
io
along
at the statio:
had
oil
road
tha HH
fust atop
up wher
County
Lock
ind
the
SEASON
Haven,
bear,
upper
furnish
friends
400-0
4 DO
tn
foraging
killed be-
put up a
of Far
Bruin was caught
along the stream
fore he had a chance
fight Charles Allabach,
randaviile, the champion bear hunter
of the county, started out Monda
loaded for bear.
He selected Fernev
Run as his battle ground. He espled
an old bear and two cubs at a dis
tance and endeavored to sneak up
to them The old bear saw him
coming and he was forced to fire at
long range The charge took effect
and the was badly wounded
judging from the loss of blood,
she got away. The cubs also es-
sapped
While William Hoffa, a boy, was
riding on an elevator in a Shamokin
livery stable he was caught by a
ploce of timber and erished to, death,
"or
Linn
DOAr
but
John Berger, of Shamokin, did not
move when his mother called him to
go to work Woeoednesday morning.
8he went to his bedside to awaken
him and found him dead, probably
from heart disease.
While about to say
supper table Hillary Epright, a
wonlthy farmer who resided near
Brownback's Church, Chester Couns
ty, fell dead. He eat at the table
with his head in his hands after his
usual custom before saying grace and
his long silence caused his wife to
glance at him,
grace at his
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