THE AFTERMATH.
en from my weary fall
Away
The thread of
tangled so,
ice, and say
today,”
fingers
life which I have
“She
And do not
flow.
ar hearts,
on that day
When first my eyes
earth and woe;
all before me
Weary ‘way
which, however
feet must go
let one tear of sorrow
the time for tears was
unclosed
hen stretched the
Q'er weak,
my
Weary
because Death holds
was good:”
the way
have trod:
I've sinned my sins:
stood.
| I answer
Heap not,
my
Bay not, me,
“She
Praise not in which my
feet
but be it under-
for them only to my God
nor scatter flowers above
grave;
The offering
sO poor!
Give to the living hearts that mourn
and crave
Who have so much before them to
endure,
seems so useless and
The way has been so weary and so
long! *
to see the
strained eves sought
i
141;
longed for death
My
far-off en
And I have
-88 one
For sight
Xe pie sie oR
ste ste she a%e
SNES
ad adie adltad
3 Silk
“dugout” w was a palace
Though but a cellarlike
hole ground with walls of
sod tv feet high
boasted a board floor an
pane glass
on hinges, and the sides were
with tarred
Bit ther over
Qugout. for mo sick,
when mother was sick, the
shone iohtly y vi
miles of
Yost
The
dejected
thinking
“Lot
nice
“Yes
some wild
toast, or
“Toast
Met's buy
“A silk cried K
Mollie, hast was as if
had proposed buying the
white star hone in at
out window night
But the idea fasci
ertheless and presently
face it more cal
Fred had a
Kitty a two-cent piece, }
ured silver half-dime, and little Chris
a big' old-fashioned penny with a
hole in it. None of them had ever
had any other money, but Fred was
to begin next week work for the
blackemith on the adjoining claim,
and he rich already.
“Dear me, how dreadf-ly fine it
would be,” sighed Kitty at last, “but
we couldn't ever get enough, unless”
“—ghe hesitated, “unless Hal would
help.”
“Hal.”
lined
paper,
the
and
that
and
shadow
was
sun
{les
¥ 3
rags seemed to have
ry wink
BOgwicks sat
the barn
silk dress.”
itty
beautiful
the dug
avery
ated them,
they
nev
could
mly.
precious gold dollar.
{ollie a treas
to
felt
repeated Fred, with fine
scom. “He never spends a cent on
anybody but himself. He doesn't
care whether any of the rest of us
ever have any good times or not. 1
houldn't wonder if it's worry over
Im that's making mother sick.”
Silence fell upon the little
for awhile, and then Mollie rose.
“F muess I'll go and make the
“oe sald, “we're sure of that
anyhow.”
I get her some wild flow
ried Kitty.
fry
to market her butter and
upon these occasions she always wore
|
had alwaya worn.
she always look-
ed to Hal she
And yet somehow
ed “fixed up” in it. How would she
look in a new silk dress?
What if he should take hold and
help the youngsters out with
dream?
Whether ft
flowers or
found in
it was because
marked that he
go to the city
was that
morning,
old glory.
Mother
two months
her hand
bouquet of
tonst or the
chick
whether
re-
to
was the
the prairie
his trap, or
Hal had casually
had decided not
after all, certain it
mother was better next
and the sun shone with its
morning,
put out
Kitty a
bache-
her birthday
later, had
receive
on
just
from
lady's slipper and
fresh from the garden,
and golden shower
her, completely en-
to
button
purple
about
her.
in the world”
a handfu! of the
over which purple
lor's
when a
fell all
veloping
“What
grasping
low. silk
were rioting
Such a shrief
five
began,
heavy vel
roges
she
as a rose from the
young Beswicks!'
Fina
“A
aught the words,
mother cs
dress—for
you!
gazing first
» gasped,
ired sil and then at
faces
iO Ca
herself
had gx
v, while she
And the
elegan Bic
into this
me
they
money
i
ndor, were
when
wien
and ato
come from”?
tticoats kings!
had it Whe
Just then Hal slipped a ten d¢
bill her hand “It's for a
and and he
thought it
was time juit spe
everything on m3
needing pe
And where
ilar
into hat
linings things.” said.
"l
ling
assed from
overspread
we dear
I do with it°
ress in mit—and such
And would laugh
cried, over
of her riches
One morning in
through a
Indian sum
Next
ward
mbarrassment
the sun
haze, as
had come
day people were gaz
for millions of tiny par
be in motion high
immer,
shone ellow
though
earl
ing sky
ticles seemed
in the air.
Could it be volcanic
On the third morning
particles had begun to settle,
hoppers!” exclaimed Hal, coming
with an anxious face.
Sure enough, inside of an hour the
air was full of them.
Mother spread sheets and aprons
over her cherished marigolds and
lady-slippers and over some of
choicest vegetables, and then
treated to the house to
of the things that filled her sunbon-
net and caught in her hair.
Hal
ing in
mer
to
ashes?
the moving
“Grass
in
“smudges” of half dried priarie
smoke the insects out of the thrifty
ing himself by chasing a great tum
ble weed that was leaping and bound:
port of the family until next year.
But all night
could be heard in the cornfield, grat
ing, grating,
moth gater, and all next day the alr
was so thick with them that the chil
high south wind, while Kitty picked
anemones and yellow Johnny-Jump-
ups and purple sprays of “shoe
string,”
“buffalo beans.”
womething in the trap he had set
ast night.
! All this time, Hal Beswick ley in
the barn loft, face downward in the
. The shadow of his mother's
|
By the next morning the haze was
in the alr again, and the unwelcome
visitors had disappeared, ieaving des
olation In their track. Not a veg
etable remained, even the onions had
vanished, leaving only little holes to
y his
door.
janybody but himself."
en now he was planning a forty-
ings on fine “store clothes,” and
ving a good time.”
| Did mother ever long for pretty
‘clothes, he wondered.
The very sheets and aprons moth
er had put over her flowers had been
eaten through, while the cornfield
stood like a skeleton army, with only
the stalk and the middle rib each
blade to tell the story of the plenty
that was to have been.
The little Beswicks sat again on the
barn doorsill. Hal stood near by,
stroking buttercup’s nose.
They all understood now serious
was the situation and the same
thought was in all thelr minds.
Finally, he spoke oul,
“Being's we gave it to her, she
wouldn't want to suggeat it. But if
she was willing to sell it, with what
I've saved up to go to the state falr
there'd be enough to carry us over
wos
gratefully waited
went about with
the welght of
So a committee
upon mother as she
a weight on her heart,
til the crops should come again.
The committee hesitated and stam.
mered, She mustn't think they would
go very much {if—well, the
his mind
and-—and
another
change
silk
if he should
gelling the
they could get her
dress another vear.
As if silk dresses grow
bean stalks.
Mother's face
she could spare
year.
And
weeks
with
know
about
on buffalo
radiant, Yes,
dress for
grew
the
did; but when a
brand-new silk
trailing over
aisle the
of eves looked wist.
and five
she
later a
purple roses
rustled down the
church pairs
fully after it,
sighs arose.
Mother, sitting between
son Hal and little Chris,
black alpaca had
since Hal could remember,
but hers was a sigh of relief
contentment Congregationalist
Christian World.
dress
of
five
her
she worn ever
and
and
we ————
OUR BUSY RICH,
Only About 76,000 ; Fariiere Now Own
Automobiles.
Ever been to Hays Clty, Kas.”
when you go there t agk for
41 i
Thomas Kedd
'r8 and
that
wn autor
Ones
The
by farmers
of ten
owned
ut
lows,
five th farmers
» owned by
spent $3,200,000
luring 1908, $2,750
Nebraska town
forty
and
In one
population, au
Year 1o if
LACK OF FILIAL RESPECT.
of Most of Our
Tribulations,
At the Bottom Na-
tional
manifest to the most careless
th the public
thoroughly
American
determination
“housecleaning.”
ned no
or state; it pervadea the entir
politic from ocean to ocean.
shall result in Governors who
execute the laws without
judges who will
lence
ised
CON a
aro
peopie are
to have
general This
sentiment is to section
e body
confi
It
ix 3
will rigidly
fear of favor:
justed, speedily
jurors who will do their duty,
to the offender and Iynx-eyed to the
a new era will come to bless
our land.
Our tribulation is all
of the people themselves. Nowhere
else in Christendom are found chil
dren with so little reverence for par
deed”
the average American family. It
not look on his daddy as an imbecile
or a fool. This is the observation
and the testimony of pretty
every foreign observer who
a boy sitting while a decrepit man
ten Is standing, painfully holding to
a strap.
town, the capital of what we fondly
Let us take
read: “He that spareth the rod
hateth his son: but he that loveth
him chasteneth him betimes.”
And remember chaos in the fam:
fly makes anarchy in the state.-
Washington Post,
—
Milk for the Young.
The venerable Julla Ward Howe, In
the interest of the infant population,
appeared before the Milk Investigat
ing Committee of the Massachusetts
Legislature, Mrs. Howe sald: “There
is no substitute whatover for milk
as a food for children. The milk
Question concerns many, and espeo
fally Infants, for it seems fo be actu
ally a question of life and death.” Tip
asks if she means a cow's milk or
human milk. Indeed, and certain, there
is no substitute for mother's milk
for infants, but from the attitude of
many sanitarians one might think if
we had pure cow's milk the question
of baby foods would He sattled for
good. Tip in the New York Presid
PENNSYLVANIA
Prevents Explosion,
Pittaburg.--While firemen
powerful streams of water upon him,
W. A. Weaver,
the Atlantic refining plant,
daringly through fiame
and shut a valve, which
fire spreading from a burning still
of benzine to great tanks of
nearby. In the vicinity over 30,000 |
barrels of petroleum in various |
stages of refinment were stored, Two |
hundred people, called from their
beds by the peril, cheered the super-
intendent as he came, scorched,
from the burping still. What Hkely
would have been a catastrophe simi-
lar to that at Sheraden several years
when 200 persons were serious-
ly Injured in a gasoline explosion,
was prevented and the loss confined
to the benzine still
dashed
Orchard Inspectors End Tour,
Womelsdort The
Bpectors the Division
have completed thelr
orchards for the second
Summer, Most of the
excellent and in every
instructions of the
have been followed,
above the average.
est peach orchards
Franklin 8. Merkel,
and Livi ngood, of Robesonia.
One of the ines orchards lg on the
10 te Asylum, where
of Malcol
dition
orchard in-
of Zoology,
of the |
time this
orchards look
where the
inspectors
conditions are
Among the fin-
are those of
of Flee LW vd .
of
tour
Cane
Ee
Mate
Romance In Tobacco Bag.
id Two weeks
Pr
jester REO Bpencer
per, of ) Park, found the
and ad 1d: ws Of a young wou
Jersey Oity, N. J., inclosed in
iage of smoking tobacco, with
asking the finder to write
replied and received a re-
he forward
photograph to writer, who
Quite a number of facts regard.
herself. Harper, who is an eld-
batchelor, intends to comply
the request
Har pen f
name
an of
& pach
& note
Harper
him
told
the
Girl Dies For Love,
Shamokin
son, 20 years,
ieged to have beer
intent
a 10
becuse
affair
Fredri
resident
ung
Ye
n
%
an id
a4
On Heat Victim,
Falis Dead In College
Frank Fi
} ident of
a pleasure
; the campus and
high Univer fell
Memorial Hall Heart disease caus-
ed his death i daughter was
with him at the time he was strick-
en
Bailding.
nich, a
Dunnellen,
while visit.
buildings of Le-
dead in Brown
tr
ro
rig
sity
Man's Miraculous Escape,
Mauch Chunk Andrew Ruf, a
butcher, was being slowly smother
ed to death in a smokehouse when
his cries for succor were heard. His
escape from death was miraculous.
The door to the smokehouse has an
outside lock This door Ruff left
open when he entered the building,
but a sudden gust of wind slammed
it shut, Joshua Harlan happened
by and heard Rufl's faint cries
help.
far
s OX
Hits Hor Father With Hammer,
Pottaville Because her fataer
objected to her going out nights ac
er nightfall, when ae entered his fin.
al protest Myrtle Conrad, aged 17
years, struck him during a fit of an-
ger on the head with a hammer, in-
flicting serious injuries She was
placed upder arrest and after being
arraigned before Justice of the Peace
Freller, was put under $300 ball
for her appearance at the next term
of Criminal Court
Woman Tries To Kin Herself,
Lancaster, —— Declaring that he:
could bear, Mrs. Sophia Miller, aged
55, of this city, drank a big dose of
oxalic acid and then sat down on
for the death summons. Neighbors
notieed that she was {ll and medical
The woman
was removed to a local hospital,
wheis it is stated she has a fighting
chance for her life.
$100,000 Fire At Dunbar,
Dunbar. Two bulldings in which
were some of the principal stores
and offices and several dwelling
apartments were burned at a loss
of nearly $100,000. Aid from
Uniontown and Connellsville saved
the rest of the business section.
The burned structures were the
Qurham Building and the Wilson &
Wishart Bullding, on Main Street.
Boy Burned To Death.
Ashland. — Three-yearold
Welst was so badly burned while
playng with matches here that his
death followed very soon after his
removal to the hospital. The little
fellow, after getting matches, went
into an upstairs room. Shorty aft-
orwanrd the father was attracted by
the baby's shrieks of Agony.
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FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
aron said two rich
girls ha
the
» University of Illinois conferred
: Mrs. Ella Flagg Young the degree
of Laws at the commence-
ment exercises
OF
Pyrapst
of Doctor
Announcem
A. Murray Youn
widow, both of
made in Paris
Mrs. Arthur Brady, of Westchester
County, N. Y., was a vietim of a mys-
terious shooting in her residence near
iden # Bridge
ent of the betrothal of
1g and Marion Btory's
New York City, was
Go
President
order
lorough MecAneny with-
drew his discharging men and
women who clean municipal buildings
in New York City
The will of Miss
leaving $4.000.¢
Anna T
Various
f the P
Jeanes,
chari-
ennsylva-
Thompson,
onaire, of rookiyn, N. Y., was
off pennile ” raths
O 80ns and nephews
ill beque
millionaire
of United
ane, and Will
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
siovanni Schiaparelll
who No-
of
died
estate
seman,
$08, left an
Fey i -
The portrait bust of John D
feller William Coupe:
finished and sent to be cast
The funeral of Bishop McVickar
was held at Providence, R. 1, five of
his colleagues officiating at the ser-
vice
J. P. Btuart complained of inade-
guate protection given by the Italian
Government to
aries
George Turner
the United States in
ndiand fisheries case
ue
Rocke
made by was
argued seven days
the New.
at The
for
fou
Hag
Eugene Zimmerman, of Cincinnati,
sald if Colonel Roosevelt should be
elected President again he would be-
come a British subject.
In administering the oath to the
newly appointed Chief Magistrates, in
New York City, Mayor Gaynor urged
men out of business.
Thomas A. Edison, Archduke Leo
youog men of the country.
nearly thirty-three years,
two years more he will have served
Supreme Court at Washington, D. C.
Ton Members of an Alabama
Concern Accused of Swindling.
Montgomery, Ala.--Ten indict-
roents were returned by the Federal
Grand Jury which investigated the al-
leged gigantic jewelry swindle in con
nection with the bankruptcy proceed.
ings in the City Jewelry Company.
Those against whom indictments were
returned are: George H. Shreve,
Hillard C. Shreve, Jesso H. Shreve,
Reuben T. Shreve, Joseph E. Shreve,
Archie C. Bhreve, Daniel H. Shreve
Luther N. Johnson, A. F, MCKIE ang
Samuel Coplans.
OTHER THINGS.
"Remember, my boy. there are
other things worth’ while in college
besides athletics.”
“I know. The mandolin and glee
clubs aren't hall bad."-Loulsville
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