Jonas was cooking a bit af bacon on the little stove when the door open. ed and a rasping voice spoke famil- larly: “Goin’ to sell out, 1 see, Jonas, eh?" Jonas looked up in evident displeas- ure. He was a slender, old man-—per- baps seventy years of age. His hair was thin and white, and his beard and moustache grew long and straggly, showing the pink skin beneath, for Jonas was in prime health as a result of his regular, active farm life. Now his cheeks were pinker with irritation, Bquire Barlow was not a welcome vis- itor. Jonas's glance encountered another old man—as advanced in years as himself, but not as well preserved. He was short and stout, with black beady eyes deep-set in a yellowish, leathery face. He looked the mean, hard-fisted man he was known to be; and as Jonas was not pleased with the interruption he turned again to the stove, giving curt assent to the Squire's inquiry: “Ye see right, Guess ye know the meanin’ of red flags jes’ as well as I do, seein’ as how gen'raly ye happen to be ‘roun’ where there's bargains. Will ye shet th’ door, Squire? 1 ain't got no plans for heatin’ all out doors.” Jonas spoke impatiently. Then, as the Squire closed the door with an | whipped the groun’ from under my {feet with ye're consarned pretty man- [ners an’ { Ann Eliza out o' my arms, an’ her, damn ye. Mebbe ye don't remem ber that, ye—-ye whelp, ye lyin,” dirty, low-down." It was well for the Squire that his breath failed, for Jonas was up in an instant, his eves flashing, his nostrils white and dilated with sudden, virile anger He leaned with one {the table, and in his grasp was the long bread-knife. His voice was ome inously quiet: “Steady, Squire. I man to insult me in nor anywhere else, 1 ‘bout enough. out an' stay.” don't allow my own guess ye've no house, said ly. He picked up his hat, buttoned up his coat over his still heaving breast, and laid a heavy hand on. the door- knob, Then he minute the two men about to spring. The were drawn In a sneer, yellow stubby teeth, “I weepins,” door. “But row ye won't Squire's lips showing ain't mebbe this time to-mor- be so quick to ask me git out. 1 jest called to give ye , THE PRE meat out of and put it on 1 ontinued his prepar He gave a fina the pot and meat on the table, and cut slice of bread. Then, as he to eat he looked up at the 8q lire 1d, hard eyes: ‘1 didn't n' I'll not ask ye to ave yerself.” He spoke almost as though he were himself. And as the Squir reddened with suppressed anger he had expected Jonas fo cringe fore hi Jonas calmly stirred hi fee, looking meditatively ent of across the bleak, frozen coffee set sat CoO in, § long very quliet- talking face for bee f. ask ye to « ome at go Fd ns ye I 13 to 8 00 the hill m) wind gids Jonas's Ww indifference was too much for the Squire's temper and he let him. golf ont with an oath. “Ab-h-h!" snarled. “Ye may well say ye didn't ask me In, Jonas Updyke. But ye dassent nsk me why 1 come. For ugh we've lived here in this valley nigh seventy year, boys together, and men togethe this Is the fust time In forty year gone that Iwe crossed this here doorsill ut it won't be the last, Jonas, it won't be the last, me boy." There was an unctions sneer In his volee that grated on every fibre of Jonn's being “There wouldn't be no tears shed, Squire, If ye wasn't to come back no more An' as for crossin my forty year, nobody knows bettern’ self how that happens.” The Squire opened his coat, adjust. el his collar, and began impressively, emphasizing his words by tapping on the table with a fat forefinger: “Jonas Updrke, let me ask ye a few questions, Maybe ye don't remember how old ye're gettin—mebbe yo've forgotten Ann Eliza that lived in this town as a girl some forty year back.” He waited for reply. Jonas nodded his head “The best girl that ever lived, peace to her ash- v8.” he replied reverently, “Aud mebbe ye don't remember” went on the Bquire in a louder voice, “thet for nigh five year I was a vis tin’ Ann Eliza Wimble every Satur day night, and takin her to meetin’ ever Thursday evenin' In good weatLer and goin’ drivin’ with her, to say nothin of buyin’ her gum drops, an cologne, an sich.” Again and again Jonas nodded of the window sadly, for Aun had been his wife for forty years, less than two years before he Insied her in the little village church. a y The Squire's volce rose in passionate climax. His gestures became emphat le: ‘Mebbe ye riccollect, then, Jonas Updyke, that ‘bout that time ye yer. ir B06 looking out Ella | gin, he | | ther: step In | Wimble | he paused, | and | had | CIOUS BUNDLE CLASPED IN HIS ARMS not! ce, notes, com Jonas, 1 08 I've b ! | for thirty n the fust mort fay 1 ye're duds my turn now He dodged the oot and hastened walk to his buggy a Jonas went bas he kit : nd cleared up the br he sat own with ever d his pi pe to think it over The Squire's words were no Ir He knew that Barlow had bought the notes: he knew that there was no hope for | fter morrow. He had packed his clothes In a grip 1 was ready To-morrow, hefore the wild be he would walk out and leave the old place, with all its memories, to its new Owner. Jona's nature was and he did not sho rise up alrend ni sale oo fow self-contained, w his emotions, Yet, as he wandered about the house, thinking of Eliza, he came very near to tears. It was all so lonesome and for lorn. The dust | thick on the par lor table, something he had never known in the 1 days His mind went back, as it had done a hundred times during the to “Sonny. his son Bill—and sob welled up in his throat If Billy re only but he put the thought reso away. Billy was not there Milly was but a memory, and Ann Eliza was dead, and home was home | no longer, Jonas was up long before dawn the next morning. As Bquire Barlow had predicted, he cooked his last breakfast, and by sun-up he was ready to depart. He stepped out of {the yard without a look back, The air was sharp with November frost but he swung away Jown the road at a gait that set his heart pounding joy- ously. Over his shoulder, on a heavy cane, he earried his carpet grip-sack In his pocket was money--not so much to Le sure, but enough to keep him for a month, And why worry beyond that, even at seventy If you had asked Jonas whither he Oke week a great we lately but he felt In his heart that he could | young. It was his boast, | his ne Ighbors, that he day, In look or manner, | ten years. Bo he strode on with a | light step, and for a week covered | about twenty miles a day, putting up in the past | Uke wine; a delight. He lived agn'n the days of gixty-three when he tramped up and down the State of Tennessee, fighting and being fought, day after day, through that terrible cawnpalgn, ye're bank account, and took | married | band on | Ye might as well git | The Squire ealmed down Immediate | turned and for full a | looked steadily | each into the other's eyes like animals | his | got no | he said finally, opening the | years of age? | was bound be could not have told you, | make his way to one of the large cities | and find work, for his spirit was yet! admitted by | had not aged a | at country hotels, The fresh air was | the varying landscape was | Have you ever thought, young man, | what it means to be dubbed “old and | no good?’ Have you an idea of the hopelessness of age when the only out | look Is continued peed and reduced | earning capacity? The truth came home strongly to Jonas when he began to seek work. There was no work for him. They wanted young men, He was too old; he couldn't stand the racket, And some were gentle with the rebuff, Gradually fund dwindled, and at last he made Lis way by begging at farm houses along the road He found shelter in | Igy ricks and barns, sneaking in after | dark and leaving before dawn, Lack of food began to tell. ‘The wrinkles deepened In his face; his eyes took on a hopeless expression: his gait was slower; his back began to bend. In a | few weeks Jonas was an old, old man. And with weakness enme the feeling | of dependence. His pride melted, He wanted a strong arm about him. But there was only one in all the world ou whom he might call-“Sonny.” And where was “Sonny” now? Joss There was ample time for Jonas to As be plodded along | | the frozen road he recalled the occur | when | “Sonny” had passed out of his life. | On the boy's shoulders had fallen the | { burden of the farm with its mortgage. |! Together they had worked, Bill doing | the encunr | | | regret the past, rences of ten years before, | the lion's share, brance; and when the money was al- most In hand, Jonas had against Billy's earnest protest, friend on an unseMured note, at heavy interest. And when the friend failed, Billy saw the fruits of his labor swept away in a night. Was it any wonder, then, that he proposed giving up the farm and moving to the city? Were | the ¥ to continue there, with noses to { the eternal grindstone, merely eking out a living? The mother agreed, faith in her son being deep and abid- ing; but Jonas said No, and when. after months of argument. Billy an- nounced his intention of going alone, rose in wrath and showed him loor, bidding him with a curse to and stay, and never show your iain.” Now, in hb bitterness, nd weary, Jonas sat down by of the road and wept quie ty- time In yes Oh, If he could “Som “Bont yy" wonl forgive His heart nt back the old home; to the sorrowing mothe r, who Ee pined away grieving for her son. He did not know that on the day of his departure, Billy, prosperous ane generous, having ily of the ap proach] had appeared before the astonished Squire Barlow and up- set that individual's prophecy by satis fying all demands and rendering the sale unnecessary; nor that for weeks Billy bad been advertising all over the East for his father to come he It was New Year's een on the road over a m ut knowing how, or, indeed, proceeded steadily nort to raise the first only iTS. ] wi 0 nd ana ng sale, me, eve. Jomas had Wit why, he , through nth the and him fire front The &¢ v : ied on it with his fists IRE!” he shouted; and again, “FIRE! ' od sud show seared agen y, a aps VOT lame told was on to the h we \ rope face of “ Women and hither and : His | W hy Jonas hurried up tl As he turned into ] ( loud of fmoke env ol tered the ran now ing stairs hall a He en to the : ited Into “FIRE! FIRE™ He ef, but as In a dream, wan He back or die, like rat in a he groped his way he fell bed. A tiny vo startied was a baby, choking in the dense smoke. He reached out blindly; his hands en: gl ng beneath grabbed kets, and little one’ « ly k e broad upper oped | and ran 1 r © room ut it stifiin Hm. © he coverings. He it up. d ‘ned ng off the bilan wrapping them around the and body, 1 the door, stag. 8 head ymehow he cl gered Into the 1 ar wny. As Le started down he tripped over the end of a blanket and rolled | down, down, over and over, His he ad | struck a sharp corner at the foot of | | the steps, and he lay still, the precious | bundle clasped in his arms An immeasurable space of passed--then Jonas awoke slowly knew that he was warm {lay on a soft hed: heavy and he could | Then a familiar volee soun ears, “Father, father that was “Sonny's” time He and that he not rt the Dds led In his "it sald Rurely volee, and he wan fo get up and milk the cows He struggled against the heavy His eyes opened and looked up Into Billy's face, "Bouny, is it you? he asked, weakly, Where am 1, Sonny? “Yes, father strong, familiar know me, father? you everywhere home, my home” Slowly the truth dawned upon him. He closed his eyes again, trylag to remember. “Sonny, there was a fire, and—g-a-~baby-" volee, "Don’t you I've been hunting You're right here at | child whose mother is his little | loaned It, | to a 1 nnon : Yi child strug! 1 found the stalr | the wiseacres of that date but his even were | back In the ld home, and It was time | was our baby, sleep its we, Billy" tame the | HAUNTED CASTLE OF KIMBOLTON The Queen of England Stands God mother to American Baby. When Queen Alexandra stood as godmother to the son and heir of the Duke of Manchester and his American wile, it was the first occasion on which this royal lady ever assumed respon. sibility for the spiritual welfare of any y 4 native of the United States. King Edward, while still Prince of Wales, accepted the BPOLSOT hipgof quite a number of chil. dren of Anglo-American unions. By th bye, the Duke of Manches ter is the present head of Drogo de Monte Acuto, who was a famous warrior in the immediate train of Rob- ert, Earl of Moreton, at the time of the Norman conquest. Among his ances- tral home rescued and restaurated with t d of his American father-in- law, Eug Zimmerman, of Cinein- natl, pre-eminent stands the tradition filled, association-baunted Kimbolton Castle, tle The cas Is an ancient building, standing stone at the head of the FREE! LADIES THIS Handsome Fur Scarf GIVEN AWAY Send us your name and address and we will send you free and post-paid 24 pleces of our jewelry novelties to sell at 10 cents each, Bverybody you show them to will buy them of you. When sold send us the $2.40 snd we will at once send you this Handsome Fur Scarf ft is pesarly 48 J Jiches long, made from black Lynx fur, has six full, bushy tabs, very Istest style, and ve kaow you will be more thas pleased with It When y receive it we know you will say it is the most elegant jou thoroughly good fur you have ever seen. Nothing similar] to this scarf has ever before been offered as a premivmyg Ie will give years of satisfactory wear. It gives a stylish, dressy effect to the wearer's appearance. only reason ve can offer them is we hed a large number of them made for us by one of the large furriers during the summer] h< en trade was quiet; this is the only reason we sre able to offer such an expensive premium. We hope you will take advantage of our offer without delay, This is an extraordinary offer and cannot be duplicated by any other reliable concern. We trust you with our jewelry usd} sold. It costs you nothing to get this fur, Address, COLUMBIA NOVELTY CO... Dept. 655, East Boston, Mass. gand | sand Fen country, ed park, close don. in a spacious, well-wood- to the town of Hunt centuries ag of Queer ur op- » of pro- 1tior one of the Am in col z ngs in the great hall, and its oriat. 1] is sald to keep a nightly vigil for | rues and pon accommodating | mself inclination and ml ig sited astride wall or secretin g himself un- shadow of the mighty Fac Probably the ghost of § CNRe KAY { 5 10 the ers of r ». her ®, to . Li | ecording by eith ng game ke 4 : ducal purse. well remem. yuntry from his visit in Boston a few years ago, at the head of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Comey of London, 1s the citer of the f vy to } ich the famous povelis } ding, belong ne « Co ! 1 in this « perial | this | Jd byl, alogists, King tholie 14 the ) add they with from iTo It 1 up of mons lux uric Rox nding a ow far m n Balmoral; and Mar Lodge rather. Princess of Fife's ¢ into insignificance compared | h it | ¢ Bradley-Marting have been wo | in England that or In their rise world. Theirs is last, so It f an in fact, such success makes fmpreasion on the thoughtful when yon look into it, you find things that arouse your admirat it is no mean thing to make an trance In the London world of fashion It requires a deal of tact and knowl edge of men and women ‘he Earl of Craven, the son-indaw of the Bradley. Marting, passes most of his time look. ing after his forty thousand acres, and in attending w! his duties as county magistrate near his Warwickshire home. lady Craven W keenly inter in poultry farming, and at Coomiwe Abbey has bred birds hat have stirred up the keenest sort of competition aumongst English fancers Moreover, it 1a agread on all hands that the boy-and-girl marriage of 1803 has turned out more pleasantly han predicted, Erows nt we the 5 o or pa w to riehos-at : en ested And the Countess of Craven | pre tier as she grows older Prince Nanszeta Pehassnes Monte gum who claims to be the lineal de. scendant of the famous Aztec King of {that name, is small, olive-skinned ee) | Fabulous Cost of Solomon’s Templo | Was , te, Bolomon’'s Temple flourished before the days of modern “Graft,” but it may be wondered what became of all the jewels and precious stones, for the taleats of gold, silver and brass used in the construction of the temple were 1 at about thi of and the jew + game, according to Vill * CONRe- crated vessels of gold amounted to two | and three-quarter billions; of silver two apd one-half billior the vest | ments and musical Instruments to | ‘un and one-quarter millions, There were ten the ploy« i to hew tin sand as burden earrier hewers of stones, t nndred overse all oyed for seven year Bolomon bestowed rs Music Lessons Free IN YOUR OWN HOME, A wonderful offer to every lover of muse whether a beginner or an advanced player. Kinet desire Banjo to m ns - six less her | song (or a less pur Orga dolin nber if you Nang : r Mar will strur in one lessor ing the time cost of pow which = & much { upon | as a gift] | lions of dollar Adding the | wages the total would be hundred and fifty millions | 2. The stone and tim- | squalied twelve bill more and whole total has been carefully estimated as $77.521,065,650, co usand men em- n thou- | nty thou- | nrty-three | whom were | 8 and as re of to you lace you under { yon pever wr "and fou " cost ly warveis of ai ple nt had the Joast ister writes: comes I a more ar Race Do mistake In We have been ’ becoming your pupil.’ Crow and Parrot Fight. a 4 ’ Pa t Fight blished seven years have Adam hundreds of pupils from eight years of age to . work seventy Don’t you cannot jearn musie till in, 1 a wil d for our free bookie et and tuition offer. 1 to say, "One at a twill be nent by wall free, Address men, don't crush,” acquired, of course, | 1 4 L 15 Union Square. n tl {ood n New York City. from tlie ticket seller One day the parrot got lost after a long search Mr. For overjoyed to hear Forepaugh, the veteran show- and paugh wide and defending claws, was repeating ‘One at a time, gentlemen, oie at a Don't crush.” him i r Ov nd over, ne and the cartridge times, Hhirows the instead of to Be Colorado’s Fine Capilol. State Capitol of Colorado was a cost of $3,600,000 and is | ted entirely of Colorado ma ' terior is of selected Er ay nt ' ed the cen. Biron . sed, MARLIN yaetion works om gon ever boil pare catalogue, 300 M- t in for smplete. lr in t our corner drug- roport “Goods a drug on the market, eh? PHOTOGRAPHERS Throw Your Bottles and Scales Away O YOU KNOW that dirty bottles and scales cause you trouble? Obviate this by using our Developers, put up READY TO USE. Simply empty our tubes into the developing tray and add the water we don’t charge you for the latter, Large quantities of developer made up at one time oxydize and spoil. With our developers you only make up enough for immediate use. Send 25 cents for half a dozen tubes sufficient for 24 ounces of devel- oper for Velox, Azo, Cyko, Rotox, or other papers, or 60 ounces of Plate and Film Developer—a Developer which will not stain the fingers or nails, and is non-poisonous. We have a Sepia Toner for gaslight papers, 6 tubes, 25¢. NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMICAL COMPANY 11th 5t, and Penn Ave., Pe Washington, D. C. Wake Up, Old Man, Wake Uy | BE A BOOK-KEEPER! BE A FIRST-CLASS BOOK-KEEPER You Will Never Fall Asleep Over Your Work youth, with largs hea vily fringed gray eyes, a full, hair He wears civilian broad-rimmed sombrero, and carries an interesting, carved cane. van Calava. An ee gh “Yeu, father. It was right hore clothes, a The fire's out, There's no And I've bought the old home, and you ean go back pever work or want any more! But Jonas did not hear. A great peace came over him. He knew ouly that "Sonny" held him; that “Sonny” would take care of him; that his long Journey was at an end. Through the midnight alr came the sound of great bells. All over the city the Joyous message was ringing--ring Ing In “Sonny's” ears—that Jones had come home, red mouth and long | usually It i and you saved it for on | danger, | father, | if you want, and | AXY set of doubieeutery books in tie ngle to double.entry: looate errors in wld fm prove systems; "uN accounts; " RCOOUD! A CO Peeping: carn oar a fi export: nave on e-thi Inbor; make * balance sheets comparative statement; keep books for or manage & SIKK Company or how to open, keep and dio sted) h “ manner; change © conccra, and more—MUCH more | Why Go to “College” to Learn Book-keeping and spend from $60 to $600 of Moncy sd from § 10 14 months of to learn an, antiquated system, ful of superfiuition, when the undersigond, who 51 years’ practiosl experience at an aooountant, will, for the small sum a hay he rer within 6 weeks’ time to fill ANY position a or REFUND MONEY! Could you ask for an rie BR a and nd you oi 3.00, Send for further particulars, or get your moncy's ad I Find Positions, Too, Er Freel The undersignad suppl pplies more business houses with book. Reapers ay any CEPER RS shan hich eomid be named, and there is Rt Aespand { KEEPERS than “for any other kind, Distance and ox ¥ MONIALA from PUPILS! Perhaps | oan place of Goodwin Practioal Instruction for XL band wd ron advert R, " ii. GOODWIN worth ONE DOL Room 436, 12185 Broadway, » NEW YORK
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers