re - .
WINGS OF A DOVE.
At sunset, when the rosy light was
dying,
Far down the pathway of the west,
1 saw a lonely dove in silence flying
To be at reat.
Pligrim of air, I cried, could T but
borrow
Thy wandering wings,
blest,
I'd iy away from every careful sorrow
And find my rest,
thy freedom
But when the dusk a filmy vell was
weaving,
Back came
nest.
Deep in the forest
was grieving
There was true rest.
the dove to seek her
where her mate |
Peace, heart of mine! no longer sigh |
to wander:
Late not thy life in fruitless quest, |
There are no happy islands over yon- |
der:
Come home and rest.
—Henry Van Dyke |
§
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aaa wWrACTRRAR
AAA AAA AS " |
THE LITTLE
WHITE WOOLLY
DOG.
|
|
h
nx
Christmas
ring, a week or so afte
Jamie wag whirling round
and reund on a stool in front of
on gloves,
round until
bad to si
it look
ahead for a
still and
long time.
When was quite
again, it suddenly
with a flash what
It was that large apen way near the
elevator, through which his
had taken him before Christmas, and
there he had discovered—oh, it seein-
ed like hundreds dolls and hun-
dreds Teddy and woolly
lambs d engines tin
and dogs,
Quickly Jamie jumped down from
the stool and ran to the large door:
but, as entered, he was amazed,
instead of long tables covered with
Teddy befirs and soldiers and drums
and things, there were towels and
piles of white stufy and briglag-colored
cloth, Jamie looked from oge end of
the room to the other, Not even so
much as a Teddy bear aft He won-
dered where in the world they could
tave gone, .
But yes, there was
Jamie spied it, just
ter, one white
like the one he had received for
Christmas. There it sat with its head
cocked on one si le,
As Jamie ran to it
tightly in his arms, he was surpri
to see it its and
his face. His little white
at home had
“Will mv little white woolly
learn to wag hi
ed Jamie
dog.
Just then
up, looking all pal
“Jamie, Jamie,”
ran away
him gen
Jamie
woolly which
at him softly, and
around his mothe
ever and ever so
run away without
where he was Boing, because he told
me so aft He knew that it
was not a nice thing to do, because it
makes your mother
and she has
time before she finds you
I wag sitting in Jamie'
parior the day he told me it
from beginning to en I—from his got-
ting dizzy to how sorry he felt bo.
cause his mother had to search for
him all over the store, and was afraid
he had been killed on the
“What was that
dog « 12 to
foupd you,
he
came over him
of
of bears
and
an
shaggy
ho
it
8, something
behind the coun-
woolly dog, just
litthe
it
sed
A re TTT
and grasped
tai try to Moi
WAZ
woolly dog
never done that.
do:
v
oy
t ask-
iS ail
1 and bark?"
of this little white
from mothe
to her.
dropped
dog
tiv
the
had i
put
little wh!
en barking
his arms
neck He wag
sorry that he hai
telling her first
-*
8
rwards
wWOrre
WOITy
tant
100K
and
you a long
worry,
to for
8 mother's
about
elevator,
little white woolly
you when your mothor
Jamie?”
Jamie looked the
sald, “On. nothing.”
“Tell me, Jamie,” | said.
“You won't tell any one.” he asked
“You know 1 won't, Jamie”
Jamie lowered his voice,
“You know, I asked him i my lis.
tle white woolly dog would ever jearn
to waz hig t
live dog.”
“And what did he say? 1 urged.
“He said to pierce his ears and tie
& green ribbon through the hole in
one ear and a yellow ribbon in thas
other, and that would make him see
bettor. You know people have their
sars plerced and wear earrings when
they don’t gee very well”
“Yes,” I sald;
“He sald to get some one to write
Uncle Grif's name on a plece of paper
and wrap it tight around my litt]a
dog's tail with a red ribbon—you
know Uficle Grif is such a wag”
“Yes—and the bark 7
“He sald to make him a collar of
birch bark. Bee, I've done it al.”
and Jamie brought forth the little
white woolly dog. He looked gay
with his red, yellow, and green rib.
bons, and pretty birch bark collar,
“Now we must walt,” 1 said.
“Yes, we must wait,” sald Jamie,
solemnly,
Bo we waited. Every time I saw
Jamie, I would say, “Has he bark.
ed?”
“No."
“Nor wagged 1”
“Na.
other way and
And, If a day went by without our
seeiny elich other, he would call me
over the telephone before he went
to ‘bpd, and say,
“No wag and a9 wark yet.”
That was all for fear some one
would find out, our secret, Every
one was trying so hard to discover
it. Jamie thought that we had never
had such a good one before in all
our lives,
The days went on and still Jamie's
message was, “No bark and no wag.”
I taught Jamie all the littie verses
I knew about patience, so gs to cheer
him up during his weary wait. He
learned, “Where there's a will, there's
and “If in the first you don’t
try, try again,” and “Pati
its own reward,” only I re.
membered afterwards that it was
virtue instead of patience,
One day, as 1 was going abont
looking for a rubber doormat,
little black-eved newsbhoy
on the holding his
papers under one arm, And
vii think had under the
? A dear little white curly
succeed,
ence is
corner
do v he
other arm
ried
and
doormat
“Papa, lady?" he c
“Not today.” I said,
1 found rubber
this
been to inquiring for
passed on.
my
fifth store
it, an
was the
As I passed the corner, there stood
the with
I stopped and
little newsbhoy his bundle
of papers and his dog
said, —
“1g
“Yeos."
dog?
answered
“Would sell it to me?” ask
ed. “It is for Jamie. He has walt-
patiently twenty-five. days for his
white woolly 4 that
Christmas to learn t
i tall and bark.”
Then I told him
| things Jamie had tried.
| The little newsboy was very much
| interested in Jamie and his methods
1 1 did not 1 h
dog in
that
he
your
1
you
rd he got
O wag his
of the different
ear he unders
white
i right,” I gaid,
tle catch about it
i done just but
{ to think isn't
“or there is some
that
I've
going to work,”
Jamie hasn’
right;
that
both sighed to think of Jamin
little that
TEAIY
it
{and wy
| with a woolly
| would never bark or wag
“1 will sel] mine, if it's
i finally said the
and In a few minutes I was
street ear, hastening to Jamie's house
with under one
arm and Jamie's little woolly
{ dog under the other. The dog waged
t his tail 1 barked so
| that every on the ¢
{ing at him.
or
white dog
for Jamie,’
black-eyed newshoy,
on the
my rubber door-mat
white
an continuously
one ar was look-
xz
Re
at geveral hundred pounds. As a fact
the Indian biack pearl is not. altos
gether rare, but natarally the spect
men presefited bythe Maharajah of
Patiala to Mr. Priestley would be one
of ‘tha finagt fh ithe wordd. !
If this contemplated “boom”™ in
Eastern pearls comes off the result is
bouad to be enormously interesting,
for there is a vast field to exploit.
Near by the coast of Kathlawar are
the far famed pearling grounds of the
Persian Gulf, which will have such
a rude disturbance in the event of an |
attack upon our Indian possessions at
any time. Among other Eastern po
tentates to be named, the collection
of pearls belonging to his Majesty
King Chulalongkors I. of Siam |
which I have a'so visited—is
the seen of mon
of t
amonz
rarest to be Cortalin
hese gems were procured upon the
Buropean markets, bt
of they
come
Westminster
cases
directly
fority
have fr
Suez.”
TAXICAB MECHANISM
Just What Stould Be Done to thas
Meter Un in Front
Probably not one person
ling
in ten
ri in a taxir
idea how the meter
course not
alike, but
in the m
In Lorde
upc
ty
passed
before they
in service,
the words
ial, and
“Fare
means
driv
$
the
or
tras.” such
luggage, ete
items
Cann
out he passenger’
Whe
th
ie
n
tracted.
{ pleted and
the
dications
Loves
~Vhen I got to Jamie's house, 1 was
too excited to ring the bell. but
in. Jamie was sitting on the
floor, looking at
and 1 th
rush
ed right
fairly
and the
ly dog barked
ed
and wagged
Te
OQ
was named iv. of course —-
«fd
Helen Wilson, in Id and new
FAMOUS PEARLING GROUNDS.
| «$11 tha
until tae
other hand!
{ Purpose of wis
i ism
y
mn
| fect
additi
the
tions Owned by Indian Princes.
ks of
¥ leased his pear!
wort of Salava, on
Arabian seacoast.
8s This
Kathiawar
Tr
cegsionaire. fishery—the only
was never
neither by
nor by the last
It is,
aluable adjunct to
of divers
proper.
developed be ore,
Jam-Sahib
Chief of Jamnagar.
a most v
the
armorclad
too has ita
do not
rally |
Madras
but they
known and famous Ceylon pearling
grounds are to some extent exhausted
Not long ago 1 visited the collec.
tion of pear! and diamonds of his
Highness the Maharajah-Gaskwar of
Baroda. These pearls are truly mag
nificent—[ never expect to see
finer—and perhaps the gem of ths
collection is a necklet of immensa
pearls and emeralds in a gorgeous
setting. The Gaekwar is justly proud
pearls Among his
possesses, by tho way, the cele
brated Star of the South, being the
of hig
he
possession of Napoleon Bonaparte,
after whose fall it passed to a Par
see merchant of Bombay.
The Nawab of Rampur, In central
India, is a Mohammedan chieftain
who owns such magnificent pearls that
in a few years he has expended a
sum of about a milllon and a half
sterling Is their acquisition. This
now represents a far larger sum than
£1500000, owing to the elreum-
stances that Indian pearls have gone
[up in price by leaps and bounds.
The Jamnagar collection {Ranjitain.
hii's) 1s very famous. but oddly
j enough it Is more renowned for Its
emeralds than its pearls. The pre.
mier ruling chief of India, the Nizam
of Hyderabad, has many precious
stones in the pearl, ruby and emerald
line. He hag also the enormous dia
mond known locally as the Nizam.
When a few years ago Arthur
Priestley, M. P., was fn Patiala on a
shooting expedition with K. 8. Ran.
Jitsinhjt, as the guest of the late
Maharajah of tnat thriving State, he
was much attracted by a magnif.
cent black pearl which his Highness
Was wearing. The Maharajah thers
upon removed It from his vest and in.
sisted upon Mr. Priestley accepting ft,
This he did with much reluctance,
having admired it (ah he sald) In an
innocence, and: it Is one of his cherish.
1 ‘ .
| miles travelled engaged
a fare
whi!
| therefore while earning
By means of thesé indications
earnings of
1 can be
lone
| sler's Magazine
the the
and
computed. —(
day
rea Hiy
IS ALCOHOL A POISON?
This Physician Says Emphatically
That It Is Most Virulent.
Is alcohol a poison the animal
j organism? asks Dr. Henry Smith Wil
llams In MeClure's Magazine
| poison being, in the ordinary accept
i ord, an agent that may
affect the tissues of
{ body, and (end to shorten
Students of pathology answer this
fnuestion with no uncertamm voice
matter is presented in a nutshell,
| by the professor of pathology at Johne
{ Hopking University, Dr. William H
Welch, when he says: “Alcohol in suf |
ficent quantities is a poison to all iiv i
| ing organisms, both animal and vege !
j table.” To that unequivocal pro
nouncement there Is, I believe, no dis
senting volce, except that a word |
quibble was at one time raised over |
the claim that aleohol in exceedingly |
small doses might be harmless. . The
obvious answer is that the same
thing is true of any and every polson |
whatsoever. Arsenic and strychnine
in appropriate doses, are recognizel
by all physicians as admirable tonics: |
but no one argues in consequence |
that they are not virulent poisons.
Open any work on the practice of
medicine quite at random. and wheth
er you chance to read of diseased
stomach or heart or blood vessels or |
liver or kidneys or muscles or con
nective tissues or nerves or brain |
it 1a all one; in any case you will
learn that alcohol may be an active |
factor in the causation, and a retard |
Ing factor in the cure, of some, at |
least, of the Important diseases of the i
organ or set of organs about Which |
you are reading. You will rise with
the conviction that alcohol is not
merely a poison, but the most subtle !
the most far-reaching, and, Judged ;
by its ultimate effects, Incomparably
the most virulent of all poisons,
A woman can deceive overybody
about how she trusts her husband, |
enpecially herself, snarls the New
fo
j ance of the w
i injuriously
life,
a
& it
York Press. !
COMMERCIAL COLUMN
Weekly Review of Trade and Latest
Market Reborts.
Somom——
Bradstreet's says:
“Wholesale trade, crop and indus-
trial developments are generally in
the direction of Improvement, there
is less idle machinery and the tone
of affairs generally is still cheerful,
but there are numerous {irregular-
ities In conditions in different sections
and industries. The situation as a
characterized {it
Most optimism and
strength is exhibited in the lead-
ing lines of domestic manufacture
and wholesale trade, particularly as
the outlook for next year, and
while
of
of most
wholesalers
materials,
evidences
raw
report
goods, for spring and later de.
“In retail trade there is a good
deal of irregularity, though the ad-
vent of rains and snows, followed
by colder weather, helped to im-
prove conditions as the week ad-
vanced Southern trade, however,
was rather dull throughout, due to
warm weather and the low price
of cotton, and even in parts of the
West, as well as the entire eastern
half of the country, retail trade buy-
ing might be better In some lines
of trade, especially iron and steel,
there is a disposition to regard tariff
discussion as a bar to fullest activi-
ties Collections are better, and
money i8 in better demand for busi
ness purposes,
“Business failures in the United
States for the week ending November
26 number 193, against 273 last
week, 258 in the like week of 1807,
174 in 1506, 188 in 1905 and 184
in 1504."
Wholesale Markets.
York. — Wheat — Receipts,
112,600 bush.: exports, 183,123
bush.; spot firm; No. 2 red, 1.11%
@ 1.12% elevator; No. 2 red, 1 12%
afloat; No. 1 Northern Du-
luth, 1.16% f. o. b. afloat: No. 2
hard winter, 1.15% f. o. b. afloat.
Receipts, 81,700 bush.: ex-
bush.; spot steady;
elevator and
New
Corn
ports, 1
No. 2 new, T1%
f. o. b. afloat Option market
without transactions, closing ec.
net lower December closed at 12,
May closed at 71 July closed at
70%.
Oats Receipts,
Spot steady; mixed, 20
643%; natural white, 26
be4% @57; clipped white,
ibs ’ 55% el
Poultry Alive
chickens, 113%; fowls, 11%: tur-
keys, 14; dressed unsettled: Western
spring chickens, 12@ 20; fowls, 11%
@ 14; spring turkeys, 136 21.
Butter—Steady; receipts,
process thirds to special, 21 6G
Philadelphia, — Wheat — Steady:
contract grade, November, 1.04% @
1.056¢
Corn-
68¢c
i, 5350
~
ie
was
LP
27.000 bush.;
iba.
iba.,
42
to
to
34
“5
-
<9
32
to
steady: spring
139;
”
»-
"or
“a
Steady: November,
Firm: good
white natural, 55% @
Butter— Firm: good
tra Western creamery,
nearby prints, 24.
Eggs Steady; fair demand: Penn-
sylvania and other nearby firsts, f.
ec, S4c. at mark: current re-
ceipis, 324 33 at
Cheese — Firm:
New York full 13%
@ 14c.; do, fair to good, 13@ 13%
Poultry Alive steady: fair de
mand fowls, 10@11%e.; old
oosters, 8; spring chickens, 106
ducks, 11@ 12; turkeys, 14@
BE 10.
Oats
ox -
do ’
demand:
S2C.;
do
mark.
good
creams,
demand;
choice,
r
il 1% *
15; meese,
un.
Baltimore. ~Flour— Dull and
i ox-~
winged. Receipts, 14.861 bbis. ;
431 bbls.
Wheat—Firmer,
1.04%: spot, No. 2 red Western
1.06% : November, 1.04 1%; Decem-
ber, 1.04% ; January, 1.05 % ; steam
er No. 2 red, 1.01%. Receipts, 45.
043 bush. Southern, on grade. 1.01
1.04.
Corn—-Steady New spot, mixed,
68% @68%;: new November. 68 14
68% ; new year, 67% G68 1%; new
January, 68% @ 67%: February, 67;
steamer, mixed, 65% G@65%. Re
ceipts, 73,173. New Southern white
63% @68%;: new Southern
yellow corn, 63% a 68 15
54%
Epot, contract
Oats—Firm. No. 2 white,
@WH5; No. 3 white, 53% @54%;
No. 2, mixed, B3@53%. Receipts
1,600,
Hye—Quiet,
port, 82@ 8215.
Hay-—Steady and unchanged.
Hutter——Firm. Fancy imitation
249 25; fancy creamery, 32@33;
fancy ladle, . 20@ 21; store packed,
i1I8G 19,
Eggs—Firm and unchanged, 32@
33.
Cheese — Firm and unchanged
New large, 14%: new flats, 14%:
new small, 14%,
No. 2 Western ex-
Live Btock.
New York, —RBeoves. Receipts, 71%
15e. to 26c. higher; bulls, steady to
strong; thin cows, steady:
4.256 7.00; oxen, 2.35 to 4.60; culls,
3.00 to 4.05; cows, 1.25 to 4.00.
Calves — Receipts, . £07 head.
steady. Western selling more free
about all sold. Veals, 5.00 to
9.50; choice, 9.75; culls, 4.00 to
4.50; barnyard and fed calves, 2.50
@4.00; Western, 3.50 to 6.00.
Sheep and Lambs — Receipts, 2.
663 head. Choice sheep steady;
common and medium slow: lambs
firm to 26c. higher; about all
sold, Sheep, 2.50 to 4.00; culls
1.50 to 2.00; lambs, 65.75 to 6.75;
culls, 3.00 to 4.50,
Hogs Receipts, 3,829 head. Feel.
ing firm. .
Chicago. ~Cattle—Receipts (esth
mated), 25,000 head; market 25¢. to
dc. lower. Bleers, 4.60@ 7.75;
cows, 3.00@5.25; heifers, 2.50
4.60: bulls, 2.75@ 4.560; calves, 3.
21.30: stockere and feeders, 2.50
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TET TMYTYTYT
WENT FOR A GUN.
story about how they got em.”
Captain Sam Lyman, of the
Creek country, down in Potter Coun
ty, Pennsylvania
out after bears,
logs.
“Palen had
along with him.
his
dog,
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Loostion : One mile Bouth of Centre Hall
wishing to enjoy an evening given
attention. Meals for such
janes an short notice.
the transient
RATES : fimo PES Div.
in it so that Jim and Joe went to set
what It was They fount
the dog all bristled
all about,
the
al
| The hole
roots had
accumulation
| leaves.
“Jim Palen gave
debris a whack with
the ground where
covered by
ticks and
BLICKS
in
been
of
was
dome
axe,
this
his
oO
instantly a bear shoved its nose ou
of the hole and began to snarl an
gnap its jaws,
“From a hole on the opposite glide
| where Balch was standing, a second
bear stuck its nose out and Enapped
and ql. These apparitions wer
80 unexpected that both me
thelr axes Palen’s axe
the hole had made in th
leaves and sticks and Balch's
down among the roots of the tree
“The men had s« before
and as soon as they recovered fron
the start Lhe
gave them and
themselves for
| dropping thelr axes
cudgel each and
the noses of the bears, which os
| the noses to disappear within
i mound of leaves and sticks.
snarie
n dropped
ped
it heap o
1 dropped
en bears
and home was three miles away,
wanted those bears, but there was nc
. Way to make sure of them without
Eun, so Palen said that if Balch woul¢
£0 home and get his gun Palen would
stand guard over the bears and kee
! em from getting away until Balcl
: got back.
: “Joe started on a run for home
He ran all the way there and all the
way back with the gun. he says, and
Jim says it must be go, for Joe was
gone less than an hour. But thai
hour had been a tense time for Jim
“Joe had scarcely started for his
| gun before the bears attempted tc
| Bet out from beneath that roof with
fire in their eyes First one bea:
would endeavor to come out at one
of the holes, when Jim would whack
it on the nose with hiz club. By the
time it wag beaten back the othe:
bear would make a break to get ouf
Of the hole on its side of the mound
“They kept Jim Jumping from one
side of the mound to the other, tc
and fro, and constantly swinging his
(club. If Joe had been gone ten min.
; utes longer, Jim would have und tc
drop and surrender to the Lears,
| “Joe got back with the gun in time
| to relieve Jim and rescues him. Jim
‘dropped his ¢lub and slepped back.
*' Now come out, blame ye," he
yelled to the bears.
“But the bears wouldn't come out.
| Whether they were shocked at Jim's
, language or knew there was a man
| out there with a gun Jim nor Joe
doesn’t say, but they wouldn't even
, show the tip of a nose at either hole.
“After vainly trying various means
( to induze the bears to come out, Joe
| Balch dropped a plece of blazing pine
into one of tho holes. Both bears
then came out of the den with a rush
that dismantled it, and Joe killed
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