An—— —— My LITTLE BUNGALOAFER. A little bungalonfer is a-snuggling close to me, His little face face can be: There's jam upon each rosy cheek and on his chin and nose, arms are brown as beechnuts and there's mud upon his toes: barefoot, wades the brook near by, whene'er it pleases him, eyes are bright as dew drops and he's full of life and vim; hat is ragged on the edge, his hair sticks through the crown, There's grass stains on his rompers and perhaps | ought to frown: oh! how can I when he laughs, £0 happy, glad, and free, snuggles up all jam and and loves and kisses me. Mf. Winchester Adams, in the NN York Times, is sticky as a little His He, His His But, And mud OW +P @ POD +B 90 QO The Transfiguration? of Agricola BY ADELAIDE NEWELL +9 @0-0 0-0-0000 -Qo Two girls sat beneath shade of an ash tree by the bank of # pleasant stream. One was sketch- ing the lovely piece of nature before them, and the other sat with her back against she tree trunk with a writing pad on her knee, even and anon sighing heavily. Beyond the gurgling waters stretched a sunny hay field, whose sweet fragrance was wafteg gently across by the summer breeze. A tall young farmer making hay. An especially disc from the girl with the writing fetched a rebuke from the artist "Go to work, Constance, and earn your week's board money.” “Can't,” eomplained the other. plot | had worked out in my ialls flat on paper. 1 haven't a thing for days sSugge thing, Sephie.” "Where is vour manded Sophie, See yonder hopper blithely mowing the sward. Make a story about him looks every inch a with those shoulders and muscles. If he'd come near I'd like to paint him : no need of succumbing to writers’ cramp with all this raw material ly- ng around loose waiting to be manu- factured into a finished product. Now, go to work and tell Agricola.” There this. The 0-0-0-00 0:90:09 0-0-0-0- ¢ the broad onsolate sigh pad “The done Io st some- romantic eye?” clod- hero was a long silence after artist looked and was amused to see levelling the field glasses unconscious young farmer, ‘How near the stance. “I can see the color cyes He does look a hero, to sure What a magnificent head a farmer.” She abruptly drop; \gricola had to look straight vgh the and into her eyes Hut before she could had smiled In « he raised her glasses ng ostentatiousiy at lands but ng haymaker sophie next looked at sgiduously plying h The au f literature the warm. green field her friend upon the he seems.” ught Con- of be for wd the gl seemed len Hg mbarrassment again, point of the hand I. When she DOK every ape where worke her was untain wh the ie ot thoress, a novice in descr ene, the with and in she described the farmer into the tale the epi field glasses, elaborating up seting of the and cauzing b to the who tu ook, tail Y Ov © She sode of the on the charms of be even, ervine to tile countryman, a rusticating m Blinn, after nal experiences tone each other's necks in a neyed style, and are py ever afterwards She called the story “The Trans formation of Agricela” and sent it to The Dally Gallop, a newspaper published im her own distant city, and, the spell of inertia being brok. en, straightway reeled off other gtor- fea which she despatched to various periodicals When Sophie was not looking for fresh scenes to transfer to her can vag, the girls spent their time under the favorite tree. As long as the haying In the meadow across the stream lasted, Constance surreptiti- ously studied the young farmer through the field glasses. But all things temporal must end, especial ly grass, and the hay field soon was stubble and knew the young Agricola no more, in a few weeks the story appeared. Almost simultaneously with the re cept of the paper containing it, the girls were startled by seeing the un mistakable figure of Agricola, hand. gome as Adonis bul arrayed In a clerical-looking garb, crossing the stubble field toward the stream. A mischievous whiff of wind suddenly caught his Panama hat and whisked it into the water, where it proceeded to float down gtream. The girls al most involuntaMly sprang to assist in the rescue. The wind had borne it toward their side, and as they reached the edge of the water the hat was lodged temporarily against a SUCCUHn ms out to nister, by name somewhat fall rather presumably nee and orig upon hack- hap- BRIT from rock to rock and selzed the runaway just as it was slipping from its mooring. Here was now a dilem: ma. Hew was she to get the hat to this troublesome person who was with difficulty repressing his laughter? But he ‘was soon making his way to her side by means of other rocks. It was a perilous trip as the rocks were far apart and slippery, but he finally reached her, when she straightway fost her fooung and slipped into the brook. The clerical-looking person, of course, could not do less than fish her out and escort the ladies to thelr boarding place, a near-by farmhouse. As he uncovered his shapely head in parting, he said with extreme grav: ity, “1 am the Rev. Horace Blinn. May | have the pleasure of calling?” Constance turned the color poppy, and without causing her the embarrassment of a reply, the rev. erend gentleman departed. The situation good lady where they laughed till tears stood “You needn't he afraid assured them. folks live about here. the joke on you and any tales about him. boarded. She in her eyes. of him,” she has tell But he I shan’t You ing vour stories, did you?" continued to laughed immoderately The next morning Constance and her friend were sitting orite spot under the ash tree the Rev. Horace Blinn, in an appro priate outing «© suit came field, gracefully skipped they sat With a murmur of apology and an agreeable smilé, he handed each of the girls a ecard. They read, ‘Mr And in one coraer, “The Daily Gallop.” As they stared at the dawning comprehension, he said, “I edit the fiction department. stranger than Miss Constance fiction: a was in the hands of The editor left much that summer. lop farm. He and Constance played Agri- fleld by the Post and he again in the hay gurgling stream. -—Boston The Satire of Holmes. peculiarities which most amusing those which he himself shared. is indeed an old prudential maxim to the effect that people who live In The Dr were This takes for all enjoy glass if we in natural saving, that we should neighbors’ could insure the safety Holmes was of a different dispo- sition. His satire, like his charity, He was quite proud time he enjoyed If he broke a win and at the same that it was his own. No one valued more highly the intel lectual character stics of Boston, but he also saw the amusing side of the loeal virtuea. You may have watched prestidigitateur plunge his hand and then touch match to it hold it aloft like a The quick evaporation yrmed a film of mols ture sufficient to pr he hand from the thin flame. So. Dr. Holmes's sa- tire played round the England Conscience and did not the least harm M. Crothera, in the Atlan ing a of the ether & oteet t New it.—8 A Watch Problem, ‘Every night at 12 p. m.” says a writer in the Magazine i wind up ms watch, giving twelve turns. Should 1 forget to wind, the watch will run down at 8 o'clock the folowing morning. It occurs to me that { may be overwinding my watch and | determine to only ten and commencing to go on a Monday night Wiil the watch run down, and if so, when? Turns in wind'ng are all of value.” The following Is the answer generally given, though 1 is incorrect: As twelve turns carries the watch for twenty-four hours and till 6 o'clock—that is to say, for thirty hours-——ten turns would carry it twenty-five hours, and therefore the watch would never run down. The correct solution is as follows: The Strand give in hand. The problem starts: “Ev. ery night 1 wind my watch, giving twelve turns.” If every night twelve it for twenty Monday night carries Wednesday morning. Ten Tuesday night carries Wednesday evening and two hours in ning, when the watch runs down. SA Ready to Do His Part, An eccentric country squire agreed of flies, the terms being board, lodg: ing and beer for three days. At the end of this period there were more files than ever, and the squire interrogated his new employe thus: You contracted to kill all the flies” “I'm walting for you, gov'nor,” re torted the wily rustic; “you've got to catch ‘ems first. 1 only promised to kill ‘'em."—Jondon Daily News. A ASA an ly Darby. was appointed to perfect a fire drill for the Darby schools and to intro- duce it to the pupils at the opening f the fall term. The committee, which i8 composed oi Herbert zart, Alonzo H. Yocum and William kk. Bucaman, willl secure the principal schools throughout the country and will formulate a fire drill, second to none in the country The Darby schools will open Sep- with one session for tin ee first week License Not Excessive. Colwyn Borough obinson, of an opinion to Councils that he regards the license of $1 per pole for telegraph or telephone excessive, despite ii of William |. Shaeffer, solicitor a telephone company, that it was il- legal to charge more than a rate, based upon the bare the inspection of tae poles Solicitor y Colwyn cost of Robbers Strip Stable, Darby. —For the third in the past year, thieves broke the stable of the Griswold Worsted Darby, and cleaned the place of harness and other equip- ment, Not satisfied with this, they threw feed and grain over the after which they made thelr es. time with- floor, Cape. Foul Ball Kills Player, Wilkes-Barre er for a local suffering from was struck by jury affected sald, and the John Roski, catch- baseball club, while an ulcerated tooth, a foul ball The the heart, a physician victim died Register Trade Marks. in an opinion rendered tary of the Commonwea'th McAfee, Assistant Deputy Attorney QGeneral Harges decides that labels, trade marks, etc, must be registered at the State Department. when appli- cation is used in proper form, er the corporation applying is doing yusiness in Pennsylvania or not. Mr Harges also dgeides, in an inion rendered to State Treasurer Sheatz that interest on corporation tax due the State ceases when the corpora- tion makes an assignment fo Secre Plea Releases Prisoner, aville Through the off Eckley B. Coxe, widow coal operator from the region, Mike Polax leased from the Schuylkill County Prison, where he had been trial for drunkenness and attem to commit suicide Po'lax wor op for seventeen fare for the (Coxe family Woman's Pott Mrs - millionaire rig of of the upper await ting Say Caff Is Not Cuff. Pottaville — With Stuart and Hughes the extradition papers for Cuff, the fugitive Shenandoah election officer, who is jailed in the Tombs at New York City, the attorneys for the ac- cused man put up a plea of mistaken identity For this reason Willla Wilhelm and David R. James left for New York to identify Cuff both Governors having signed Injured Chopping Trees, Carlisle Daniel F well known farmer, Green Spring, west of probably fatally injured ping away the limb of a had fallen against some wires near his home The Ii when nearly severed, rebounded fron the wires and Tract re d the base of Miller's skull Miler, who ia 64 years old and unmarried, ir vive the injury Miller, @ living near Carlisle, was while chop- tree which telephone mb, cannot Strick By Train, His catching while he was walking the Philadel. Compan Pottstown foot the guard rail across the cross phia & Read 4 Arthur Kulp 1 16, was unable 1«¢ extricate } down by the its way foot had wreos on to Bridgep right was so badly cru that it to be amputated ort Wife Gone, Suicides, Reading. Albert H aged 39 vears, a prominent can politician, committed He drank cyanide of potassigm. weeks ago his wife left him fo! ing some domestic trouble Rauenzahn, Republi- suicide Two iow . Ten Injured In Train Wreck, Wilkes-Barre. —An on the Lehigh Valley Railroad carry- ers’ organization of this city to Lake Carey, was partially wrecked two The two rear but were pre- vented from turning turtle by a high Ten persons were is said the ac- cident was caused by spreading rails ————————— Corry.--At the point of revolvers, | trainmen on a Pennsylvania freight | were driven Erie by two masked men. They the doors and fossed off a message for ald at Jackson's. The police here surrounded the caboose Just what | Bible Reveals will. Washington. Turning the pages setler discovered her husband's will | covering an estate vauled at $55,000! over which two branches of the fam. | ily have bitterly fought since the man's death was set aside by the Court and one made earlier, in which a daughter was the chief beneficiary, | was declared valid, If the new will is upheld by the Court, the wife will ‘ $3,000 Heart Balm, Allentown. —Tarough her attorneys, Miss Anna Sciariver, of Betlilehem, began a sult to recover $5,000 dam- breach of promise from seph Keiser, also of Bethlehem, the young woman to home Willlam Meckes, sen- to a term In the county jail for burglary, went after his second escape from prison several The girl Induced Meckes nder and, at that time, it was understood that they were sweat- iearts, Keiser is a well known resi. of Bethlehem and is reputed to wn considerable property whose 100 Feet To Death, Alfred Hutton a was Instantly killed at Iron Company's plant at atasauqgua, He was at the top of a stack one hundred feet high when ae lost his balance and fell off H« ‘anded on the ground a few feet from other workmen, who rushed to his side to find that life had been snuffed out instantly, Hutton was about 29% years old ¥ Allentown wilermake!: the Crane Capitol Chairs Hot. of the heavy ed chairs, which the from the late John H astonishing prices foot schedule, are being replaced bent wood cane seated chairs for use of clerks in the Capitol, who have been complaining that spe- designed furniture is too hot comfort in summer time Some euthe: Mate Sanderson, under the COver- Lot the for Bethlehem Allen Dorn, while his way home from work at the Min- eral Spring ice plant, took a shor cut along the canal tow path. When opposite the station of the deliberately jun clothes all fer, a 12- boy, fishing, ran Je ses iped William into and year-old to the man's fsEsistANC and managed to hold b above ti water until other help came It is believed Dorn had a "brain storm. who was Fell From Hoist, Allentown While be hoist, to the top furnaces of the Crane {ron Com Alfred Hution, fell from the ond, and resulted in his Hutton ing raised in one of the PAN BE 4 ¥ 3 Clergyman Carpenter, Rev. J. E the deposed Lutheran ministe this place, who insisted on remaining in the church parsonage awaiting for a divine call to leave, and who was finally évicted gone to work at the North He is Franklin « now a carpenter, and is making good Trevorion The has olliers Hurled Fifty Feet, { Chester —Plegedi Fran young Italian workman, was by a New York express train on the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad near Ridley Station and killed. His bod) was thrown fifty feet He was work ing some distance ahead of the regu lar gang of track repairers and had his pick ralsed above his head when struck One hundred workmen wit nessed the tragedy Cesco, a struck Fish And Forestry, The new digest and forestry laws prepared by Chief Game Protector Jogeph Kalbfus, is ready for free dis ribution It is of pocket size, with oR Each got of laws is treat SepAT ately with a separate in One hundred thousand coples been printed for distribution may be obtained through of the Legislature the game, fish Penneyivania of of Robbed Benefactors, City State police are ftweniv-year New Hoston after being grant. ride in a baker up the drive re, John William Kan », Bt the point of a revolver and hs: d them of the day's collections The hold up occarred at a lonely gpot om the mountain Mahanoy the w iam Jones, who, it is alleged ed permission wagon. held Hassell and uring old Wi wule for of to shoots Himself, Lansdowne While walking to- believed Dorn had a brain storm.’ Lansdowne, John White, a young Man, accidentally shot himself through the left hand in order to reach his home he has to walk through a dark section and he car- ried the revolver as a protection. He taken the revolver from his pocket to examine it, when it wen Murder And Arson. Pittsburg. —The body of Robert Staub, 45 years old, a wealthy dairy farmer of Wilking Township, was found at his home with a ballet wound in the head and the legs bad- ly burned. It is believed the man was murdered and the house fired to hide a probable robbery. | Kills Snake In Mine. Shamokin —I'rank Delbaugh at the Buraside colliery, when he ‘the dark. Moving forward, he dis. a York.~