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    SULLIVAN J&SI REPUBLICAN.
W. M, CHENEY, Pnbllnhsr.
VOL. XI.
.Mexico took OVOf fI.OOO.WW bushels
of earn from tliih country last jut.
tn Atlanta, On., in January, IB7J*,
cotton brought twenty-one cents a
pound. To-day it in about seven
cents. _____________
The Minister of fnbltc Instruction
Jii France libh itwiilwl to establish 1000
more experiment fields in addltiofi to
the (>OO that now exist in connection
with the primary schools.
Governor I'nttison, of Pennsylvania
lias vetoed the compulsory educational
tiill |mused by the Legislature on tlie
ground that, "free attendance upon
free schools Seems to most benefit a free
people."
The Turks who are on exhibition at
the World's Pnir do not hsve « surfeit
of the luxurious esse of which their
Nation is proverbially fond. They nre
employed most of the time in carrying
people nliont in pnlanqnitis, mid some
times the burden proves oherons. One
who with 112» companion wns thus trans
porting a corpulent woman wns heard
to murmur: "Af cursed am I, snd I
kick my bones for the day that I first
heard of Columbus."
Thomns A. FdiSoh, the Inventor, says
that no person can be brought In close
connection with the mysteries of nn
ture, or rnnke n study of chemistry or
of the law of growth without, being
convinced that behind it nil there is n
Supreme Intelligence. He says thnt
he hopes to bo able some time to dem
onstrate the existence of such Intelli
gence through the operation of these
mysterious Inws with thecerfninty of a
demonstration in mathematics.
A l/owell (Moss.) man gave a sur
geon now practicing in Great, Falls,
N. H., a deed some years ago, dispos
ing of his body for anatomical pur
poses, nt his death, for $lO in hand.
He hns since been in South America,
has made n great deal of money, nnd
is now anxious to have a decent funeral
and interment when bodies, but coun
sel whom he hns consulted, advises him
that the deed holds good unless he
buys it from the holder. This he has
♦ rted to do, but the doctor has refused
*,— ■
. nchces in England
unit Wales affording a less income to
the incumbents than #IOOO a year.
There is great complaint at the poverty
of the clergy, It is almost as grievous
today as in Sydney Smith's time, and
the New Orleans Pienvnne suggests
thnt the witty and sarcastic jibes of
thnt reverend satirist on the policy
that permits such conditions might be
reproduced. If FjOgland is to have sn
established church she should not give
princely incomes to bishops and leave
the humbler clergy to abject poverty
and misery.
The other day a drummer on the
Chicago and Northwestern Road pre
Minted his milage book to the eonduc
tor. atid the latter after ask inn him *
few ipiestion, put the book into his
pocket, sayinif, "Will see you later
After a while the drummer asked f"r
hia book, ami the conductor refused to
surrender it. Thereupon the drummer
got <iff nt a station and t <legraphe.l
abend for an officer to arrest a thief
The officer boarded the train and the
drummer pointed out the eon doctor,
who was arrested in spite of his pro
texts and taken before a magiatrnte,
who fined him §7 and costal, and re
turned the book to its owner As they
were both leaving court the conductor
*aid, "I It smash your fact for this'
Thereupon the drummer immediately
had him rearrested and taken before
the same peine, who put him under
boa la In keep the peace at utofe coat*.
That souduetor met his mat< h.
bitftaf the Ashing <•' I***
the |fa>t*<| State. fl-h t
which t>MMM Itself solely with the pfo
pagat. « -led.M. Ash !• th wal- .. all
•peele . H W to the region. l.„|| tbul.!.«
MS* su » y.uiitg S.I. to the and
•mi w<*iK>, and « iiiii|) lit t raat n iu>
faat of «a*« to tu< -a* »*-l. hotfibtili I
• total >1 *»• to M4 fry an I
tat* a.fc * f«y. i <g*« <sa*
<d «## I *#-4 t inixwlni <* *
#| Umi ' t> -I»ia**.•<<♦
HANDS OP LOVE. j
Hands thst woe and win you,
(Nona those hands condemn \
Till the heart within you (
' Wrings Its wsy to them! I
Wring* it* way, and like * dove,
Westlff In those hand* of lota l
Little hands -too tender
For the thorns of life j
Buck of nil th«> splendor
Sheltered from Hi" strife.
Tet they hold the heavens ahovo
Lightly- Mid i» mother's lore!
80, they woo and win yon
In the dark and day :
And the heart within you
Flutters beats away,
'Till It nestle* like a dote,
Oently, In those hnnds of lore!
-F. L. Htanfon, In Atlanta f'onstltatlon.
CHRISTINA."
tS JIB wn« i» Ocrmnn
girl who landed in
New Orleans from
an emigrant, vessel,
M| friendless and deso
late. Her mother
[r Imd died on the
voyage, and her
brother, Hans Her
jiJy VgffiSg. kel, wlio had come
to New Orleans
*'rPnWnllllwli fhree yearn Lefore,
*i ' to make a home for
fhein, hftd gone, no one knew where.
The woman with whom he had board
ed, and whose address Christina had,
knew nothing of his whereabouts.
"Ach, Gott!" Fran Werlein ex
claimed. "But Hans said you would
come not for two year."
"No," Christina answered, trying to
choke down her sobs. "Hut the m< tiier
wanted to see him, ob, so ranch, awl
she got weaker and sicker all the time.
Then the mother says, 'I must see my
boy before 1 die,' and the good neigh !
bftrs, oh, they feel so sorry. They sell
our things for us, and they give much
money to pay our way here. And the
mother is at the bottom of the sea, and
Hans is gone, and I am alone."
The poor girl burst into a passion of
tears, while Fran Werlein sat much
troubled in mind, between sympathy
for her conn try woman's grief and pru
den Hal considerations. Rhc was not
an ntikind woman, but a long struggle
with poverty had blunted all delicacy
of feeling, and in trouble or not, she 1
could not afford an unprofitable lodger.
Rhe had found out that Christina was
penniless and friendless, and she must
be made to understand that she, Fran
Werlein, could not give her a home ■
without some equivalent.
"Rut then, what will yon <1o?" she j
cried. "I am poor, and I can keep
►oil not without the money. Hans will
eornc not back, perhaps, and how will
you live?"
Christina took her hands from her
eves and looked up. Rhe had been too
ranch stunned by grief and disappoint |
ment to have given a thought to her
own situation. Hut she was practical
and sensible, and it did not take her a
minnte to meet the emergency.
"I can cook, I ean wash, I can nurse
children, I can embroider, and I make
fine Iscc Ach ! I can do many things, ■
snd in Ihis great city there must be
plenty of work. Ami then when Hans
comes back."
"Ah, ves, yes," Fran Werlein said,
much relieved. "If you can do all those
things yon will not starve. We will go
to morrow to the intelligence-office,
and yon may git a fine place
I happened togo to the same office
thai'las in search of a nurse, and heard
Frau Werlein's voluble enumeration of
Christina's accomplishments
I saw i. short, stout girl with large
feat urea anil pale bine eyes. Her cos
tnme, a short blue skirt, velvet jacket
with innumerable silver buttons, long
earrings, silver rings on her red,
stumpy Angers, only seemed to in
tensity her remarkable ugliness Hut
she was clean, strong limited and |
healthy, and there was a frank, good
humored etprcsaiou in In r pale eyea
that look mv fancy I thought I
con Id safely trust baby Moth to her
ea ri
ller Fngliah waa almost nnintelli
gle but that would Improve every
day, sothi-n alnl there I made arrange
meats with her, or rather with the
frau, that her protege.' was to i nter
Upon her duties the nelt day
i "t'pi imy word, Hi len, my litis
band sad to me whan the new nurse
arrived, "where did you pick up that
frightful specimen' That girl ia as
ntntaay aa "he la ugly Whe look* like
the Id wi.lest, of Hai.bary Or .a* with
rings in her ftngrra, ami t *iiap«t-| she
tea lulls og her aa well
"I M«et «i | ah. waa han l—we, I
a*a«.r~l Hut I h< think Paul, »h>
kaa a g.*«l •»< u eoaut. nam -
"Op. a. ml. • I in laugh. I "Very
.pee Mi«w, w-uth eye. «t».t.h.l
la lk*ll «l4r>< W. It lay I.••
-ai, , tt ig a.,p. ,k< «ill .|>. 1., tin thau
she l.Hika "
Alt I *k> ltd la hef .tt >u« ai ti.li
ttan l* tks *>>«k tk> |UWi; Imi am.
% tfidi hill» a #»i e»i. folly
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tt.,l it *«* m ha 1., tt.lt. tt.ai all Ik.
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LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1898.
H gave mo rather nn uneasy feeling,
for the inlnttd WIIH tvidently of recent
formation, and who eould say but
what It might tie submerged again
during Home storm. But Paul laughed
fit my fears.
"For fifty years Tirtftt Inland has held
Its own against wind and waves," he
fluid. "It Isn't- likely you're going to
play tho #ouah and sink It."
AH for Christina, Hhe looked at the
strange country with dread and nur
priHe.
"Aeh (lott," Hhe erled, "hnt It 1r de
wanner all round, and do erf no higher
as dat. Whoti de wares come, what to
do?"
"They hare never come over asyet.,"
112 nnswerod. She nhook her head, hnt
day after day alio took her way to the
beach. The scene neemed to hare a
faHeination for her, hnt the fascination
(if terror, for elm wan nlwayn measur
ing the height of the tide on the snnd.
It became a common thing to hear her
daily report.
"l)e wasscr come two flngern more
high dan yen'day," or "l)e wanner g<i
down HO far."
"That girl lias water on the hrain,"
Paul said, impatiently. "If n mighty
'lagre' shonld conic and sweep ns Into
the gulf she wouldn't he a hit sur
prised."
Meantime life went on as it usually
doeH at those seaside renorts, hnt pleas
nnt an It all was I was not Horry when
the 15th of September, the time de
elded upon for otir return to the city,
arrived.
Paul had come for UH, but the FLF
teenth wan ushered in by micli a ntorin
of wind and rnin that the daily steamer
did not arrive. The mainland was not
at n great distance, hnt in a storm the
sea between it and the Inland was ex
tremely rough.
Toward noon the gale increased. I
noticed that Paul became restlenn, I
hurrying out to the beach and exantin
ing Uric or two little llnhing Hkiffw j
moored there. One of them lie drew !
up and fastened near our cottnge, nay
ing:
"I Huppone there in not a bit of dan '
ger, but it's well to be prepared, you
know.l think," trying to speak In
differently, "1 might an well knock to
gether those old shutters lying in the
vnrd; make a kind of raft Not that
there's the lenst danger, but- It's rain ;
ing and storming so that I want some- 1
thing to pfins away the time."
I watched him with a sinking heart.
Rut Christina wan alert in assisting,
nod, in fnct, did more than half the ;
on the raft. Hhe seemed sudden
ly to have lost all fear in the presence
of real dsnger and looked brighter
than I had ever seen her.
Night came hlaek snd starless, hnt
when supper time Hrrived, Paul In- .
sisted upon my going to the dining
room. We were In a small cottage,
iibout two hundred yardafrom the main
building, Hot the wind was HO high, it
wn« with difficulty 1 traversed the short j
distance.
You can imnglnethat I had little ap
petite for supper that night. I heard
rniiHic in the ball room, where the
voung people were dancing, as they
did every night, but my one object
wan to get back to my baby, whom I
bad left with Christina. The two elder
children were with nn.
Suddenly the utmost fnry of the
"tnriii burnt npoti the island, an we
resetted the door
'■Mv (tod," cried Paul, "the wind
has gone round to the north! field
onto rue, Helen Take one of the
children; I have Mary.'
(Mir flrnt step WHS in water above the
nf'kles. Another tremendous gust,
mill we heard ft ersnh behind ns, inited
with piercing shrieks, and knew the
hotel «vnn gone. Half fainting, I wan
I ragged through the water I knew
ii..t where or how. When 112 revived, I
wnn tossing in a skiff with my husband
Hlid children
"My bal.y, where is my baby ?" I
cried
'Von have two children, Helen,"
I'aul said in wchoking voice "The
cottage *'«s swept away with the hotel
If it hadit t been for ttn jni<-* Hushe*
•I lightning, I never could have found
the bout, mid W'- would all hav# been
drowned "
"My baby, »n» baby!" I cried,
wringing my h*H<fs.
Her i'ha nee* sre *« ■< mil as ours.'
I'rtiil Mild Hatly "If this boat is
Invert out to ken, it *>.!. t Itv* »n
hour I think Hie wind IS billing It
little, though Oh if IhvlikM would
~n|y conn
I do n<<t know how that night
■ I Hint I, mbbi night that ev. n
n..w Intnl. I* my dreams My Inyllgt.l
I'. Is . , .e I w.. i ... t -if
hlmo in couipafstivaly calm water
I .oh, look 11. tel. ' Paul cried,
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I think t wa« wild when t heard that.
I can just, remember entreating the
captain to take us to the Oem, It, might
lie Christina and my baby. And then
for hours I knew nothing distinctly,
until the voice of my faithful nurse
wan in my ears, nnd baby Ruth in my
arms.
"Aeh, but when de wasser come t
put lintiy on de raft, and I hold it
tight, tight nil de time, and de wind
blow as never was, and de waves come,
but I hold it tight, tight."
A man with staring eyes enme rush
ing up to Christina as she spoke.
"Christina! Christina!" he cried.
"Meln bruddet!" she screamed, and
then there wan a scene I have no space
to relate, 112 had found my bnbv, and
Christina had found Hans, who wns
employed as second engineer on the
steamer.
Paul's gratitude to Christina took n
substantial form, In the shape of a neat
little cottage just, outof the city, where
she has made a pretty liotne for Hans,
who, through his new friends, secured
a position in a manufacturing estnb
lishment. We often see each other,
for the "henvenly sweet baby," whose
life she saved, is the darling of Chris
tina's heart.
I have heard that a hotel has been
rebuilt at Last Island, and that people
go there. Rut one tragedy satisfied
me of its insecurity. The islnnd has
too recently come lip out of the sea not
to be reclaimed by it time and again
| until many years have pnssed.—Tlie
Household.
Russia In he Pamirs.
Close upon the announcement thnt
Oreat Rritain has lately practically
recognised the Chinese claim to sov
ereignty in the Pamir country, in
Central Asia, comes the news that Rus
sia has already established a garrison
i in the disputed territory, and that she
is preparing to move n large number of
| troops into the region during the com
' ing summer.
The Pamir strife is generally recog
nized ns being without the Russian
sphere of action in Asia, and it is com
monly accepted as certain that neither
China nor the Government of Oreat
Rritain can assent to the occupation of
the territory by Russian troops.
Threatened raids into the country have
i already been the subject of urgent
! protests on the part, of Oreat Rritain,
nnd once already this same subject has
tieen the cause of seriously strained re
lations between the two countries.
Theclaimof the Chinese Government
to sovereignty iu the disputed territory
would seem to point to trouble between
1 China and Russia should the report
! of the Russian occupation tie confirmed,
and as Oreat fi, tain h»« practically
assented to the Chinese claim, and has
j herself already protested against the
j advance of Russia into the Pamirs, any
I trouble that may grow out of the affair
| is sure to involve that power,
j The news from Central Asia will,
; therefore, be watched with interest,
; the more particularly as there is a
deep-seated conviction that the next,
war is likely to arise from Russian ag
gression in that part of the world,—
, New Orleans Picayune.
Chalcedony.
"Here is something new and neat
and sure to be popular," said a dealer
in crockery ware and china to a Mail
and K*pressman
"It is called chalcedony, and is the
latest product of the kiln."
It was a beautiful piece of ware and
looked as if it.was cut from agate,
i There were the same pretty veining",
fractures and seeming cracks with
| gold moulding.
"The manufacturers are turning it
| out in all aorta of shapes and for every
kind of use," continued the man,"and
it is finding considerable favor
"Here you see is a complete dinner
aet from sonp to coffee These white
and gold pieces are for soup and meat
and then, of course, these plates with
the fish designs are for the Ask. The
same ides, you see, is carried out with
lhe plate-, for game, all of them being
decorated with birds ami things of that
kind, and then here we have the salad
dish like a cabbage lettuce leaf ami
little lettuce leaf plates to match
"Makns a very dainty act, doesn't
it 1 I th, there are constant novelties
in our busings* as in all othera and
ehauge* occur (HintinuotiHiy Olatw
ware is being decorated now, too, with
Harlands and wreatha and other things,
but it will never crowd out cut glass
That baa a Held entirely its own,
New fork Mail and Kipresa.
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TUB FATAL HOLD MIME.
CHEROKBK INDIANS OAMVtTLLT
OUARD ITS SBORBT.
Only One White Man Ever Bavr It,
an<l He Paid fbr the Sight With
Ills fdfe.
IT appears from a dispatch which
was sent out from Wichita the
other day that there is to be
another attempt to locate what
are sometimes characterized ns the
fabled gold mines of the Indian Terri
tory. Many people have faith in the
existence of these mines, while many
more smile when the subject is
broached, and are inclined to think
that they have no existence outside of
the fertile imaginations of the space
writers. But I belong to the first
mentioned class, and feel that, I have
the best reasons for my belief, says a
Pueblo (Col.) correspondent of the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Many years ago a white mah, whose
name has been long ago forgotten, an
adventurer with more dnring than pru
dence, stumbled npon the mine, when
there was not n white settlement within
hundreds of miles. He was not a
miner, but had found the quart*, filled
with native gold, cropping out of the
ground in a most unexpected location,
and although he was entirely alone
and without facilities for mining, as it
is usually eondueted, had taken out
and separated from the quartz within
the course of a few days more of the
precious metal than he eould carry.
Realizing that he had made a dis
covery that would give him wealth be
yond the wildest dreatns of avarice, he
determined to retrace his steps to a
settlement, organize a small party and
return, fully equipped for working the
lead and taking awav the gold. He
filled his pockets and his hunting
pouch with the virgin metal and
started for civilisation, first carefully
noting the landmarks, that he might
have no trouble in guiding his party
to the spot upon his return.
He bad got some twenty miles away
from the locality when he was dis
covered by a party of Indians, some
ten or fifteen in number. They took
him in charge and conducted him i»to
the presence of one of their principal
chiefs, to whom he told the story of
his discovery. The old chief listened
patiently, and, realizing thnt this was
an important matte r, called certain of
the sub-chiefs Into conncil. He made
the first speech to them, and called
their attention to what had first oc
curred to him—-that if the gold hunter
were allowed to return to the haunts
of white men with his precious burden
1 their country trowed lately be
I overrnn with miners, their hunting
j spoiled and their tribe eventually
! forced to vacate their accustomed
range.
'flic Indians were at that lime pence
able, and were extremely averse to
taking an action which wonld precipi
tate trouble with the whites, who wcro
, just commencing to plant feeble settle
; ments in the lower Kansas counties,
| just north of the Osage and Cherokee
I Nations. Yet it was a serions matter,
j for it seemed almost impossible to
i allow the white man to return to
; civilisation and spread the news of his
i wonderful find, of which every one
else, even the Indians themselves, had
been in utter ignorance up to that
I time. It meant all manner of evil for
j the w>d men. atid the matter wns care
fully discussed pro and con by the
heads of the tribe, the conncil lasting
' fsr into the night. The decision wan
j e* last arrived nt that it was better
that one life should tie taken than that
the peace of the whole tribe tie
1 destroyed. And so, for nontf other
| than prudential reasons, the council
, passed the sentence of death upon the
i hapless discoverer of the mine. The
1 result of the deliberation was, how
! ever, kept from him nt first, and he
was iitdnecd to guide n small party to
1 the locality of his find. Three of the
leading chiefs of the tribe were of the
party, and under their direction all
traces of the lead wcr tovered Up, lest
some othi r white men .raying thron »h
tie* country iu search it pelts might re
discover it Then the nnfortuuate
i white man was executed on the spot
not by torture, however, bnt in the
most merciful manner and the party,
being for from home struck camp for
' the night far in the night, when all
the others were asleep, the three chiefs
arose, having secretly determined upop
the course before leaving the council,
and with their keen Minting knives
treaehf.italy took (hi lives of their
, brothers, also. I«st in an imgiiardad
moment one of th. m might divulge
j the fact that «i-h an enormously rich
< Ml«» ..tinted and sll the ills which it
so «*rae«tly to avoid t*
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burie t mar th. untie, and th* thiM
-kief* after taking upn tlim«<M-l«e»
an «th of a»*r««y, returned fa. the
tribe, Mbt>i I know »ot what *tor# to
aeoounl for Ike a II tpy. arane. of
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SCIENTIFIC AHn IKDUOTRIAIi.
The diamond drill is pointed with
black diamonds.
A whale develops 145 horse power
when It flops its tail.
Intense melatii 1y amounting to
mania is sometimes caused by intense
heat.
The condor, when rising from the
earth, always describes circles in the
air and can rise in no other way.
Some of the Comstock mines are so
deep that no Wans have as yet been
devised to overcome the excessive heat.
England reports a ten-ton cutter
about to be built of the new metal.
The theory is that nn aluminum hull,
with the usual lead keel, ought to bo
light and stable.
Comfort for tho fat and the lean can
be derived from some recent, medical
statistics which show that nt the age
of thirty-six lean men become fatter
and fat men leaner.
CocOSnut butter is now being made
at Manheim, Germany. Tho method
of manufacture was discovered by
Doctor Schluk, a chemist, at Imdwigs
hafen. It is said that the butter is
very nourishing and will soon lie placed
in the London market.
It has been estimated that, the firing
of a small pistol sets free about 60(1
foot-pounds of energy, while a watch
consumes only about 1-54,000,000 of a
horse power. The energy of a bullet
would be sufficient, therefore, to keep
the time for two years.
The Government of Queensland has
decided to establish a bacteriological
and pnthologicnl imrtitute in Rrisbane
for the special stndy of diseases pe
culiar to stock in that colony, nod an
effort ia being made to aecure ns di
rector a member of tho Pasteur Insti
tute.
There is a demand for a type writer
for travelers, the machine to be of the
better class, or two-handed, arid not to
weigh over eight or ten pounds. The
type writer has become a necessity for
many traveling men, nnd a light, por
table machine would find many pur
chasers.
A scientific paper describes how to
make ice on a small scale. Touch the
convex side of a watch crystal upon
water so as to leave a drop hanging on
the glass. Pthfr a little ether into the
convex, and blow npon it. The rapid
evaporation of the ether wiil render
the glass So edld that the drop of wnter
will be frozen.
An European dentist is said to have
had great success in curing toothache
within five or six minutes, and often in
less time, by applying one pole of nn
eleetrostactl' Jpto.'hine to the trouble
some tooth and the otheT pole to the
body of the patient. In seventy-six
cases thus treated by him only three
nre said to have been nnsatisfnetory.
How water, commonly called sap,
necessary to the life of a tree, passes
from the roots to the topmost lenf and
evaporates is a problem not yet solved
by botanists. It is known that the as
cent in made chiefly in cavities in the
sap-wood only, the heart and bark serv
ing other purposes. That is the extent
of our knowledge of the matter. Re
yond is mere conjecture, and every
theory yet advanced has failed to stand
the test of experiment.
Split Cane With Their Teeth.
There is one booth in .fackson Park
that escapes the collector of the de
! partment of concessions Reeause its
i profits are devoted to entertainments
in woman's building the salesroom
I conducted by the hoard of lady man
j agers escapes the twenty five per cent,
i tax. The booth did a rushing busi
ness last week, selling over wo rth
I of goods. They are sent by the
woman'a exchanges of all large town*
and cities, and articles arc replaced as
| fast as sold.
Home "nests" of baskets made by
two Attakpas Indian women are at
tracting much attention. These two
i old women, who are both over eighty
yeafs, are the only full blood survivors
of the Attakpaa trilie, which many
yearn ago wna numerous and powerful
in Southern Louisiana, where these
women live They found much diffi
cnlty in making these "nests" each
basket growing smaller as it ap
pr* .aches the center because they
have lost most of their teeth, by means
of which the eane is split The work
ia •fqnwitely fhie. distinctly Egyptian
ia design, and each "nest" represents
two years' patient tabor Chicago
Herald
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NO. 41*
TWIL-toHt.
filowly dies the long .Tune day,
Softly tolls the earth away,
lovelier Ifßht ftt length divining,
All a dream of misty bloom,
Trembling stars, and golden gloom,
barger heavens find sweeter shining—
Which Is dearer, dnsk or day?
Whero tho glory died the dark,
Loot In light tho ruby spark,
Violet gleam, and saffron splendor,
Melt and Ingle Into one.
When the long June day Is done.
All tho depths throb clo:e and tender—
to It day, or Is It dark?
I.ove! the long ,1 nno day had life,
Silver showers and sitnny strife— , *
Now Its rosy wraith fades o'er its! V
Eld's vast twilight Alls our pyeu,
Yet what freedom of the skies
Parts the star-sewn way before us—
Is It death, or Is It life?
—Harriet P. Spoffnrd, In Harper s Baair
% HUMOR OF THE HAY.
A call to arms—"Come, .Tohn, and
take the baby."—Troy Prewt.
Even the worm will tarn. If given
time, into a butterfly. Puck.
Ijittlo doga bark the moat, becstise
that is al! they can <lo.—Texas Sitt
ings.
We don't envy the alligator, al
though he has a great mnp,- Elmira
Gazette.
Tho perpetually irascible man is
known by his standing eholer. —Bosion
Courier.
How we nl! admire the wisdom of
those who eome to us for advice.—
Ram's Horn.
Ijuek may be defined as that which
onables our neighbors to surpass our
selves. Puck.
He—"Do you know, darling, F have
never kissed any one before?" She—
"Well, this is no kindergarten."—
Life.
Herdso—"Do yon believe in the
faith cure?" Saidso "Yes; one treat
ment eured all the faith 1 had."—
Vogue.
There are more than a thousand dif
ferent things made from petroleum,
including angels.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"With all her money there is ono
thing Mrs. Oldgirl doesn't own."
"What's that?" "Her age."—Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
"How about this new neighboT--ia
: she agreeable?" "No; she had three
new dresses inside of a month."—Chi
cago Inter-Ocean.
He—"Now, darling, what kind of
an engagement ffftg sbftH I yon?"
Rhe— "One that won't fit any other
girl's finger." Detroit Eree Press.
"Poor fellow. Did he lose his eyes
| in the war?" "Oh, no. He tried to
pass a woman on the street when she
had her umbrella up. "- Detroit Tri-
I bune.
"Does you teacher get out of temper
I easily?" "Ooodness gracious, no; she
has enough to last her if she lives to
| be 100 year% old."—Chicago Inter
; Ocean.
"Why is it," she asked, "that stolen
: kisses are always the sweetest?" "I
guess," he replied, "it is because they
I are taken syrnp-titiously." Boston
i Courier.
Stranger /addressing an old brick
layer)— "Uncle, who's building this
house'" "Mr. Hirschbng, he build
de house, but Queen Anne she drawed
de plan." Reformed Messenger.
First Tramp—"l found this here
bottle o' spring bitters in a bar I thi*
morrtin." Second Tramp "T'row it
away, Fitfley. S'posen (ley was to cure
you of that tired feeling' ! You might
want to work. Puck,
Officer Flynn "Come, now, if ye*
don't get away ffom there I'll run yen
in." Boy /peeping through fence|
"Say, cap', if yon II !e' me see dia
double play out I'll let ye take me to
de islan' fer life." Puck.
"Is Diggin* an old baseball player?
I see that he has a mask hanging ill his
library ' "No. He puts that on when
ever he wants to have a talk with hia
wife about cutting down household 01-
penses. " Detroit Free Pre**,
1 Is h« a young man of good ad
dress?" a*k«d the propriel tr when the
applicant for a position had lefli "I
should aayao," replied tho bookkeeper ;
I"he lives in one of the awelleat purls
the city " Washington Star.
Mr* Neveraee " What made yoi
uie ha wan the carver of hiR ovrry for
tune, when he got ev> ry dollar ha has
h* marrywjf w heir»»« " N, v<-rtee
"Hump' tC- had t • cut "<it half a ln««
fellow* to get her, didn't he' fhilfaii
(lnnrt»r
Out Plaee "Of onutm y..,i have
ar'ait'txidy to "lean th< boots »nd ki)i«F«a
and Hnni,«b, lv to |< thu kit*'h''t. '
| "till, of eonrae, and I ». Nt th< he,hi
»>it to Ih- ma I' I wanted aotujlxidy
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