DREAMING OF HOME, It comes to me often in silence, When the fire light sputters low. When the black uncertain shadows Seom wraiths of the long ago; Always with a throbof heartache That thrills each pulsive vein, Comes the old, unquliet longing, For the peace of home again, I'm sick of the roar of cities, And of faces cold and strange; 1 know where there's warmth of welcome, And my yearning fancies rangs Back to the dear old homestead, With an aching sense of pain, But there'll be joy in the coming, When I go home again. When I go home again! there's music That never may die away, And it seems the hands of angels, On a mystic harp, at play, Have touched with a yearning sadness On a beautiful broken strain, To which is my fond heart wording When I go home again Qutside of my darkeninz window Is the great world's crash and din, And slowly the autumn shadows *iftin > " rifting in, Come drifting, Sobbing, the nigat wind murmurs To the splash of the autumn rain; But I dream of the glorious greating When I go home again, ~ Eugenes Field, in Chicago News, A WEDDING PRESENT. BY CLARENCE C. CONVERSE. ACK BROW- NELL and Hugh Morris, two chums of mine, and | were hing it West » camp we had WW You tv Know ti why | have lo in the last tl a pound weeks, It climbing these perpendicular he old ogre wants to foree uarrying some lout of a lord It is a wonder I have not mad ie billet.dcux and ** ‘His name is Claverhouse, and two or more castles, and is one ot papa likes him my foot down against [ would rather my-—'" stopped there, blushing hotly, “ded not to read further x | as [ would if I happened gold up in the hills,” he “If we were in New York ni fellows down to Del's and give you the best supper he could serve. “But as we are not?” queried Hugh, ) “Come in and burn a pipeful of boot. tos tobacco with me,’ he laughingly ex- nmortelles, and but | marrying him es : hugely, put Jack and de I feel on to 0 H excl [ would take ¥ almneq claimed. He led the way into our little eabin as he spoke, and soon we were sit. ting around the shaky table puffing our corncobs and chatting merrily about Jack's good news, a cloud of blue smoke banging over our heads, gasly “Somehow this subject suggests one I | have intended to broach three or four tines before,” said Hugh, after a while. “Nog it n't sagthing like Jack's an. nouncement,” he added, as we started to jcke him. Blowly he knocked the ashes from his pipe by striking it against the edge of the table, nnd then tilted his box--that cabin had never known a chair--against | the wall. He bad an unruly mustache, and he tugged at it as he said; “Monti.” “What of Monti!” asked Jack, “f am afraid he will do some mis. chief before wo leave here." “Nonsense,” lpsisted Jack, ns reliable as any greaser.” “I hardly like his looks,” I acknowl. | had tried to murder “He is | “You remember 1 advisod not I think we edged, hiring him, at the first, should get rid of him.” “But I am learcing a lot of Spanish from him,” exclaimed Jack. “And we three athletes need hardly fear one thin greaser, who appenrs us weak as the pro- verbial eat.” “I have heard you say ‘st senor’ once or twitted Hugh, “I hardly think vou will gain a hoard of knowl edge from Montf, and 1 say with Cad, get rid of him, You are likely never to see Belle Hastings again if you don’t; I run a chance ol never putting foot on Broadway, and Cad the same, Shall we { give him his walking papers when he twice," | appears to-morrow?” **No, no,” pleaded Jack, “I rather like him, too, for his Castilian airs. We Let us keep hun, ' have weapons, he is useful you cannot deny.’ We finally gave up arguing with Jack, and let the drop. Monti's ser vices were not dispensed with the next He continued tutor Jack in Spanish, carry our packs wheu we made matter to day. | our little excursions thereabouts, and to atid religiously collect his pay at eve each day Thus did a week slip th ravine's our rambles during at time, {upon a fissure in a | where we thought gold might be found. It lay | in a little bit of timber! and. We had worked =a the shafts sunk by the miners of the camp, | the experience this about two miles east of the camp gay or so in for the novelty of we discovered 1 that s if we could lay bare any veins of he tion received with favor, and we settled on day for the Un when openin put a blast in of us suggoeste we and se precious propos experiment, the morn for the pre ing a can of powder and Hugh ane reach and a half, for the blast, with us, Wi lullaby. ++] should have bad dreams with such i said Hugh looking down at head rest | 1 lock ’ niling fa Don ya say making it elle Has 0. . and our efractory intment he ' ‘ NAIK { en bend the ravine I us When we turned it preceded me. minutes brought us to where Jack we be. 1 a tableau I shall long remember. Jack and him bent the paather-like form of Monti. i a fendish Dore knee, and in lay sleeping quietly over The greaser's sallow face smile. He rested oa one his right hand he held a burniog mmtoh, | He had not heard our approach, and he was on the point of applying the match to a bit of fuse he had inserted in the stopper of the powder keg on which Jack's head rested. Hugh threw bis rifle to his shoulder and pulled the trigger. Monti sprang back and fell with a low groan. I would have fired if I had not just unloaded my weapon, Jack started and looked about hum in surprise. “Your Spanish professor was getting a little too officious’ exclaimed Hugh n up grimly, to him, as we came forward, and | he told Jack of what we had caught Monti at, while I made sure that the treachc ous villain's match had not ig- nited the fuse, “What's up here!” cried one of three men, from the camp, coming upon us just then. “We heard a shot.” Monti lay groaning and cursing by the maple's roots, and crying out that we him. So 1 told thew the facts of the case; and Jack's pocket book which fell from Monti's pocket confirmed our suspicion that Monti intended to rob Jack aud have the powder explosion cover his crime. The miners listened attentively to the ex. planation, and then one of them seined the wounded greaser and started off | campward, beckoning for his compan. jons to follow, which they did, alter a “Good by, gents,” to us, “A mise is as good as a mile,” oried Jack, shortly, picking up the deli Monti had brought while we were away. “Now for our gold mine.” + You will not engage another Spanish | instructor!” queried Hugh, “Not if I live to be a bundred!” re. | turned Jack determinedly attacking the | rock, with an extia vim, “lonce was That | foolish enough to think only the story book greaser was a villain, Now l place no reliance on one of them.” Woe drilled and blasted the rest of the day, aod that rock-pocket yielded enough gold for a really massive solid table-set for a present to Belle Hastings. we Yankee Dlade, —————— The Utilization of Niagara. It is quite likely that the first large contract the company will take for the delivery of power at a distance from its | central station will be vo light the city of Buffalo. This will require 3000 horse power, The present value of a horse power generated from steam in Buffalo 18 835 per annum. The company is now willing to contract to furnish on | grounds at Niagara Falls horse power per annum of twenty-four-hour days at these rates: For 5000 horse power, $10 per horse power; for 4500, $10.50; 1000, 811: and #0 on down to 300 hors ! power, for which there will be 821 per be charged horse power per very great lo Buflalo ann | there not a in the very likely rat no din $ of power transmission to ms that the company in underbidding using will have ulty cern now power for the ele | by transmis steam as light 8, 1 ] ’ | - 1s considerani About the tric S100 twenty x i walter power of the go r cent, within a year When it shall be York is } there are or so ioubt, New that improbability as t for power hs ! ectrically very 1 has been thr Weekly. Fee of $200 for Advice of One Word. Not long ago Mr. Morris Butler, son f Jolin M. Butler, who had just arrived » from an evening party at 2 5'clock y morning, he A carriage drive 1p to the house, and a woment later an- A young swered a ring at ta neree Butler, closed $200 for fr un This is rd ever pad for legal advice, Tt divides into $100 per syllable and n $3.33 per letter. ) Vews, probably the [Hest rats Indianapolis Ss ———— - Home Loving Bees. It appears, from a letter from one who that the black fellows of Aus. tralia knew long ago of the home-loving knows, instincts of the bee, and made use of the knowledge thus: They used to wait till they spied a bee sucking honey from a flower, and then geutly dropped upon his back a piece of swansdown, bee, immediately feeling something was amiss with him, started for home, per. | haps to seek a bee doctor's advice as to | this strange malady, Owing to the little bit of white upon his back, the keen eyes of the natives were able to fol. low the insects in his homeward flight, running, of course, their hardest to | keep pace with Bim. At last he reached his desired haven, and then the natives knew where the horey was hidden, aad, of course, availed themselves of this knowledge to help themuelves to as much | ns they wished for. London Figare, Bamboo Cuts Are Paiefal. A cut inflicted with a blade of grass or & sheet of writing paper is bad enough, but the most disagreeable wound that | can be inflicted on the human body is | that made with a strip of bamboo. The | outside of the bamboo contains so much silex that it will cut like a knife; in fact, the Chinese and Japanese do make knives of it, which are cheap and for a time tolerably effective. A cut made with bamboo is exceedingly hard to heal and obstinate ulcers are to result, Whether the silex poisons the flesh or the bad consequences ate due to the : wound is not certain, but anybody who has cut his finger with a bit of cane or torn his hand on a fishing-rod will have some idea of the unpleasant effects of a cut with a bamboo silver, — Globe Democrat, ita barrel. i an immense body, very short bow. legs, long | black bair all over his body, a flat nose and for i . '“ | scription of a gorilla of the largest size. + MH} The | HABLIS OF THE GORILLA THE MOST FORMIDABLE ANIMAL IN EXISTENCE. Gorillas Live in Family Groups Their Appearance and Great Strength Fierce Fighters, The gorilla is probably the most for- midable animal in existence. Imagine a man six feet two inches in height and measuring four feet and a half across the shoulders, Give him a girth about the chest of seventy inches, and arms long enough to reach nearly to his ankles when he stands erect. Make him muscu- lar in proportion, with huge canine tusks and a jaw strong enough to crush a rifle Buppose him to have no neck, feet like hands. There you have a fair de- Ordinarly these animals do not exceed five feet in height, with a breadth of four feet across the shoulders. Much as they | resemble men when grown, they are much human early stage of moe in the ing a like- App Arance during their being ness to babies in many slrixing. Gorillas Jive in family consisting of & male, one female and young. They ado not freq ent the same y 1 . sleeping -pince ten, usually sp nding the night where they happen to be. ing a full-grown tree to build a lodging bend the branches to bt of twenty fo hey gether at 2 sort of bed, whi I for the purpose tment bi Mueni 'y roses CAars. stands } nis bead erect upon and is frioht ore end a bullet is like the g gun barrel be wise, tweer thereupon te run woods, w pe oa AWAY is an The coarse black hair which covers the is fact x mistaken belief to gorilla becomes gray in age, and ti formerly caused the It is the ele phant and drive the latter's trunk with a club, knowing that to be the sensitive point of the probos. effect that there were two species said that the animal will assai it away by striking cidian. Probably the gorilla would be a fair match in strength for a lion, posing that it came to a match between them ; but thereare no lions in Gorilla Land. The gorilla has thirteen ribs on each side, whereas a man has only twelve; it has also one more vertebra in its back- bone than man has, Philosophers have been disposed to attribute the progress of mankind beyond the anthrupoids to his yossession of & serviceable thumb, upon which all his ability for manipulation mainly depends. Many of the great apes have most human-like hands, save for the thumb, which is not nearly so well de- veloped, and lacks certain important muscles. For example, a gorilla cannot possibly perform the operation known as stwiddling.” His muscular strength, however, equals that of at least hall a dozen of the most powerful men, The capacity of his chest cavity is more than one-third greater than that of a man, which contributes enormously to his en- durance. The rudimentary tail found in anthropoid apes not infrequently occurs with human beings, and this develop. ment is said to be hereditary among the Niam-Niams of Central Africa and also among the southern Malays. As for the prehensile foot, anatomists have called attention to the fact that the foot of a young baby has power to grasp and is often used to pick up and hold objects very firmly. Boston Transcript, sup. Take a pencil and multiply-twice two are four, twice four are eight, ete., and you will find that in the twentieth gon. eration had 1,048,576 ancestors, without counting the intermediate gen. erations, and in the thirtieth gen. eration you had over 1,000,000,000 ancestors, without counting those be- tween yourself and the thirtieth, A A New Haven (Conn.) man has worn tie same coat for thirty-five yoars, NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Tight sleeves cause red hands, A bow-knot is a rage in jewelry, Gloves and stockings correspond. New handkerchiefs have no hems, Lorgnettes are made with shorter han dles. More flounces in the near future, says the modistes, There is a rage for colored leather belts holding a wateh, Queen Margherita, of Italy, has just at- tained her fortieth birthday. Russian fur-trimmed cloaks are the fad among the women of fashion in Paris, and orna- Cameos are very much in are displacing diamonds ns ments, VOrue head There never was a iime when dressed with better taste women than they do to-day. 0s in right There are over one hundred re the world of suflrage. where women enjoy the 1590 and women w 1485 ) no burned ! yOArs in for witchcraft, yer ha s in Loweli home for young w Marion Crawford, the | } that ther ed NO naire, A remarka women i» nv Texio, Swede IVE Ar old bh of the years of age. h. y Smal The G will be u cussion in Prussian Landtag, proposes that turning shall be « ry in every girls’ school in Prussia, as it is in Berlin, a woman got Mr. Tennyson's auto. graph by writing understand the meaning of one of The Laureate immediately “Dear Madame poetry to the English people, not brains, Yours obediently, Alfred Teanyson.” she couldn't his ree I merely supply him that poems. ple i: London (England) spinsters are about to establish a club for ladies only. The premises rented are in a narrow street exactly opposite the Bachelor’ Club, The “‘Swags” and **Baches” will prob. ably be bitter opponents for awhile, but in the end the “Baches” will probably surrender, FastEating “Owing partly to irregularity in esting, 1 suffered greatly from dyspepsia, aooompanied ty Sovere Pain After Meals 1 took two or three bottles of Hood's Sarsapuriiia and entirely recovered, much to my gratification. 1 frequently have opportunity to praise Hood's Sarsaparilla and am glad to, for | consider Ita great medicine C. 1. Teowssipor, Travelling salesman for Schiotier hv We Nothing on Barth WILL S Y Make HEN LIKE Sheridan's Condition Powder! 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Almost the first dose gave me at reliefanda de r re- freshing sleep, such asl had not had for weeks. My cough began immedi- ately to loosen and pass away, an I found myself rapidly eaining in health and weight. I am pleased to inform thee—unsolicited—that I am in excellent health and do cer Asthma. Gentle, Refreshing Sleep. VIL a a. PATENTS j.hed ASTI IE Ree
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