t, lolJ i n'ir tresms, my boy. for yooreyestosee, iu tm to worm or jot 0VE3 THE WAY. Mod of tbeOught-to- in tin Hunt that your feet will tn.U (;lxim on the wayside of lnr.r'l to grace your head 112 to crown you ns you puss. i irbln cnt)easr.rt broad estates, ' 01 Its to every wish fnlflll. 1 i hi"t nt the castle gates J and cnger to do your will. 'jjllrg springs to renew your lei tot your least re- fc-ifnl stiiilei .;,to fun y with love and ruth, , jbft lUal LSOSSUin lino iiw woo. !01"fi(5woo.' tinging with songs of Hk ti:nrituoiu feast where I 1 1 are Diet '4 '"c THE FARMER'S To (treat yon with tanderand honest words. And never a theme that you might re gret. Ah! over the way of your dream It lies This land of the Onght-tn-Be, so fair; This parndliie of the eloudloss skies, Where the Boat and Right nrn every where. Tonr childhood Urea In thin happy land. And the lored one lost In the year ago In the glow of Its glorious sunlight stand And tenderly beckon yon thero, 1 know. What eare If your present path Is bleak And the shadows clutou at your gar- ments' hem? It's over tbo wuy that your soul must peak For t ho light that will ever banish them. Jnt over the way of your dream", my hoy, Are wondrous thing for your eyes to soe. And wonderful paths to a world of Jov And the marvelous land of the Ought-to-lle. Chlengi Record. LOT. Ho kaons a wauon and a span with whloh to drive to town; His wife was never known to bo without a gingham gown; His children, too, ar fat and stout they're not brought up on cake. And never ry all night tecuuso their little stomachs aahe. IIo needs no money In his purso, his credit's iilwuyv g od: i'iu tuk'is the weekly paper and he pays for it In wood. The merchants furnish him dry goods, and groceries ns well, nncnusii tuny know somo day he'll have some pork or whoat to sell. unit of clothei, and All, hnppv Is 'ho man who dwells upon the the farm, apart From the noisy elfins, nrowJoJ towns and commerce's busy mart. Snrenn hn llvos, nor glvo-t on) thought to hoarding pllos of imlf. My dearest hopo Is that dome day I'll hnva a farm myself. K. II. Smith, In Minneapolis Journal. t a happy man or should bo, is know. ii.ivea u lag to do but plow and ,'l';'if?iur o eionk each morn, then nt hi inks, ' f'jnnre meals each working day. It all be asks. "mn to do bis work, when he "' tne pries, """'a portt and Johnnycakn, pota-,:-Sli and rice; tk.i. e'lito the towering hills, ho k! Hwn and votes, , ,.lp his winter's bllis by Issuing has orv B-llBstWO,. lb proiars a bool, nnd never jl'Jies'.im :i.Sr comes ho sheds his 0.-Ul the lieiif, lc' .In.... i.-dou his cast when lie "'I k to o:-:.,' tlBING THE NIGHT g bLo-i'i 1 H- lit- nt. I ay . 'lit lio I i n ,, .. R HarroWina Predicament. i By Neil Wynq WlUiam.3, p IKE many on otbor raau, I nave nn ai- ; Unity for awkward i predicaments, and to Bubmit to what ,; ' is popularly known i as an ."experience" . is it not exactly A my daily lot in life f my very freqnent ""the out that I am about to fpaid half A ni-nwn T li n ,tllrthtt!; that half a crown iPCme were in excess of what ,.ipatd, and strained every It; y body. Yet I am not a ul lD one it in bis own estima sii . ':!Kovenibor day tbe time 9 ""Bie evening. I was in a Kuot ..: i .ju, nuu iini4 JUIJI. Vltjwvu autiea, a bow window in bnng up a card with lu,U to Let" printed upon it. powledge that I wanted a night, nnd witk tho card '" Vhat oonld be more natural uJthe ordiuary lot of man , rt jfcnd tae flight of steps that iplno, knock, ring, entor and a.td for half a crown, paid in nf4To mf mind thero waa tejhora of vulgar inoident in J 4oniKmbor the transaction Hint I was received bv a !b1ib was middle-acred. I escortod by bor to a com- , oo the second floor; jjoft tharo with pen and ink; jjij'dfor some writing paper --iie.l Upon by a girl, who i6 wo.dd ask her father for wlurighe bad brought it ' itese eral letters, and after ,' b all this is fixed -,k. niy mamory by its simili on. iny enotbor night that- I i jfl if or a hired roof. Theu ituhj blank, which grows into sti-baiu with the lugiibrions '"proloaged howl a dog's. " fci k, ! dark that the our jpow of my room offered but it np,;gestiou of the fog (,,Ight without. Again and I n. tfessive silonoa and tn T J wd me wore interna. se ' connciousuea.1 bv the ut djing down to a whim. Inotioa, A nervous feeling sicu of mo, and fed upon lus. I sat mi in ftvt brostlh to froo myself of idf- What was there foul ill Ull. tb' 1 US. VP cm, Uht Uiat it came so heavily F? i'Or ia ... l r vuo uiiimmn i was Hit oalv for tlm n,r,.t bmr suffocated, I ejaoula- B'"', ibere is au escaoe e,t Pf my arm, I threw 3 011(1 HI fin ...:m. V P' - Jeda foot to the floor, tooil np nd hesitHtod. B'wir .knnl.l r i i 'wmu x can? "a yoelf, as I reflected than lirnlmlil.. n,..i a BiriUo a matl to nr j inir- in "tup and n. T ..n V i ,B" cal1- (t. .u tail was an it Mi t"ll me. InURLt lapsed into instinct, e. euperveued. I orep i'k with the caution of a p'niw.Dg the door into the luf1 '' y f0"1". ced tue blaok y .ter ltty outside it. ,Tl i,,tWUh u haml touo1' 4!I. J crept outward and J lingers were caught hollow 'twas a door! ' kudle, and whispered I ntl.y through the half- It I, Mr. Snipe, the t strike a inutoh. pa of gas. The house e you there? Do you escape of gng " .''"t again the dog "u I felt a nervous na b I entered the te bed, and found it wacmtof the walled "u.iher mom and an- -Iheu up thb Hlairs, "r, and back again u through tho dark f light in u hall glass, !'"ubl and there a t basemeut, warm aud I" odoriferous with kitchen odors tainted with gas. Verily I and only I was in the bonse. Sndlenly the dog ceased to howl, and I heard the drip ping of a watertap drip, drip, drip. And with tbe fall of the water come to me a measure of time, and I thought again: "What does it mean, this empty, black house?N Why is this stifling gas seething aronnd me, and only me? Ah! there is a fonl evil in the night away and out, out of the house!" With a rush, I fought my way np step and step to tbo hall above, and groped toward the dim light shining pallidly through a narrow glass win dow abovo the door. "Will it be locked?" I thought fearfully to my self. "Is thero not something fol lowing on my track?" I tamed the handle and pulled it fiercely toward me. The door yielded and I rushed into the open. "Anything wrong, sir?" and with the words came a broad flash of light whioh, settling Momentarily on my face, dropped as quickly to my bare foetand baok again. "Anything wrong, sir?" and the voice drew closer, the light flashing past me into the dark hall behind. Theu the outliue of a helmet and cloak loomed darkly upon me, and I found my voioe in the pres ence of a constable of the law. "Yes; the bonse is full of gas, and they'vo gone. I might have been suffocated; perhaps they wantod tosuflbcate mo. I don't know I " "Who'vo gone? What's their name?" the con stub! o iuterrated ab ruptly. "The landlady tho landlord the daughter. I don'l kuow thoir names, but look here, coiiHtablo," and I pro ceeded to giro my late ''experionce" to him in a woof of wordH. The mail evidently did not know what interpretation to place upou cither me or my story (and small won der, I hardly knew myself), but, ex tinguishing bis lantern, proposed that we researoh tho house together. This we did oa'relully aud cautiously. At tho initial stage of our exploration wo, or rather ho, discovered that the hall gas burner was turned on full and tho gas issuing from it at a high pressure. "Might have been lilowu out by the draught," suggested the constable as he turned into the Bitting room, which I bad already searched, and threw open the windows to sweeten the atmosphere. "Yes. it might," I aiseutod, "especially if they loft by the ball door, whioh, by-the-by, was uuboltod wheu I came down stairs," iiut to make a long story a short one there was nobody in the house. Not a living thing, with the exception of a dog chained up in the back-yard, which was suronnded, so far as we could see, by high walls. This was the poor brute whoso mournful howl ing had first aronsed me, aud that now seemed irantio with joy at the delusive prospects of a sooial termina tion to his gloomy reflections. With tho discovery of the dog and the yard our search eudod, and the constable intimated to me that ho should sum mon additional assistance. A shrill call on his whistle from tho ball door trausluted the deoieioti iuto ac tion, and with the arrival of another constable upou the scene I was culled upou for a fresh explanation. Tho second oflloial head throw no more light upon the case than the flrBt, but oil'ered a suggestion "Let's knock up tho neighbors, p'r'aps they know sumiuut about it." To tho right and back, and thou to tho left, went that constable. itat-a-tut, tut-a-tat! went the kuockers. Up went the windows, out came hcada, "Who's there?" "What d'ye wont?" "What d'ye Bay who's my neighbor? What neighbor what d'ye meauV" Aud theu doors opuued, aud other doors caught the infection, aud they opened; in short, there was a pretty "to do," and a half-dressed crowd boou shivered around the steps of No. 113. I was quite harriod with thoir questions. I had no sooner arrived at the end of one Berios than I was plunged into another. I had no sooner uutiuted one individual's desire for knowledge than I was culled upou to feed hoiuo ono else. Whether my brnin And my temper would have stood the strain for very loug I etiu't say. but I may add that this is a difficult question to propound, even to myself. Happily I was extricated from the un pleasant sitnation by being lod off to the nearest police station to be de tained there pending further inquiries, as the result of those just made showod the existence of a local caste feeling which took no note of thecxistenoe of the occupants of No. 11!), nnd it ap peared well to tho "Foroo" under thc-.o circumstances to bold me fast for tlm present. At the station, I told tho inspector on dnly alt about myself quite liko a little boy. But he did not appear snt inUod, and muttnred somo word to himself that rounded to me like "sus picious," and which resulted in my seclusion. It was but temporary, as the result of the further inqniries proved satisfactory to me, that is to say. This was what they proved: That my landlady, my landlord and their daughter had left the house No. 113, and bud left it in tbe night. That they had left it in the night because they woro in debt for their furniture (which was hired) and for thnir rent, nnd because presumably and by the ovidonce of certain tradesmen, they possessed no money to settle those vulgar claims. To them my hnlf-a crown, paid it advance, had boon half-a-crown, at least so (again) it was presumed, for their whereabouts was never traoed.' THIS HORSEJS A JUMPER. Cteardd m Chaain of Twenty-one X-'ot to Kucepe a ii-lixlj. Not min v horses trained in steeple ohasitiii and rid Ion by skilled jockeys could m ike a clean jump of ' twuuty one feet. When Oeorgn Kino;, the cowboy, started ont to "rouud up" a herd of cattle that was pasturing in the val leys of tho Santa Ann River he invited an Indian, Juan Machado, to accom pany him an 1 help him iu the cattle driving. Mauhado was on tho poiut of nreeiug. when Kicg said jokingly: "We will take our guns along and we might get a fnt bear." Immediately tho Indian appeared to be iu a state of abject terror and re fused to take the trip, assuring King that the grizzly bear always overheard such threats and that hunters who announced their object wore sure to be eaten up. Laughing at the In dian's superstition, Kiug started on without bun. A day or two afterward ho was fol lowing a lonely trail alone. The trail led through a dense thicket and was near the border of a daugerotis gnloh. Suddonly the pathway made a sharp etirvoand disolosod to the cowboy's sight a monster grizzly gnawing at tho quivering flesh of a newly killed yearling. Now, of all cirouinstances calculated to excite a grizzly the in terruption of his meal is the surest. Thorefore whon the mounted oowboy rode almost upon him he rushed for ward with a terrifying growl. Tho little horse neoded no spurs, but darted onward through the brush with inorodible swiftness, tho augry bear following close behind. Iu a moment the horse and rider were on tho odge of the gulch, and there was no room for turning. King and the horse both knew that. There was bnt ono thing to do. King- raised the bridle reins, tho little horse gathered her logs beneath her, sailed straight through tho air and landed safely on tho edge of the opposite bank. The chasm was twenty-one feet aoross. And the Indian said: "I told you so. I told you the bear would hear you." St. Louis Tost-Dispatch. Com as King; nt Indnitrr. One of tho reasons why the French of Canada could nevor hope to maiu taiu themselves iu the contest for supremacy with the English and tho residents of the thirteen colonies was that corn oonld be grown north of the lakes and the St. Lawrenoo iu limited quantities only. This valuable Ameri can product, whioh tho Indians with their stone implements could plant between tho stumps of their rudo clearings or on the prairies, could bo utilized to an important extent by those Indians only who resided iu what is now tho United States. Tho more northern tribes could grow it only in trifling quantities, and their French allies wore thus deprived of a valuable aid in the maintonanoe of thoir power. Corn was one of tho factors whioh gave the victory to tho English nnd the Americans in the war whioh expelled the French from !Iorth America in 1755-63. II- thus reserved the better part of tbe con tinent to tbo younger and more pro gressive brauch of the Auglo-Saxon race, who appropriated it a dozen years after the French were driven out. St. Louis Globe-Demoorst. llreetllng Cattle In l'eru. Stock raising in Peru is confined to tbo breeding of cattle to supply tho local demand for beef, and the hides required for native leather work. The surplus hides exported in 1898 amounted to 2127 tons, of whioh tho United Statea purohased 50!) tons. Kheop are bred for mutton and wool, but not in large numbers; goats for the skins aud meat; llamas and alpn ens ns beasts of burden aud for their wool. Tho total wool shipments iu 18!) 8 aggregated 3133 tons; a consid erable quaulity is usod however in the woolen factories of Aroquipa aud Lima, and also by the Indians iu the munufuoture of native cloth and pou olios. Alpaca wool is valuable, but the uninmls are sheered onco only in two years, and the returns, therefore, are not large enough to tempt any great extension iu this branch of pastoral industry. Ilia-lit Kind of 8iorUman. , It was Jonathan Swift who suid that whoever could make two oars of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew! herore would deserve bettor of man kind and do more esiieutial service to hia country thau the whole race of politicians put together. Let me say of the spoi tsmau, if it has not beeu said before, that he who by his spring shooting has an opportunity to kill two birds, if he would wait until full will have a chance to kill seven. At the Pleasant Valley hatchery the Mon golian pheaaaut is breeding with grat ifying success. This riug-ueoked fol low is one of the fluent of game birds, and every chance aud encouragement to multiply should be given him. Victor Smith, iu New York Press. POPULAR SCIENCE. A blackbird will stand at this sid of a banging wasp's nest and deliber ately tear it in pieces in order to get nt tho larvtr, apparently nndistnrbed by tho swarm of angry insects. The German exploring vesset Mown stopped on its last cruise at two small isolated inlands, Matty aud Duronr, the inhabitants of which strikingly re semble the Japanese, though the inl ands are only a short distanoo from New Guinea. In a recont paper by Francis Oalton on "Finger-prints of Yonng Children, ' be demonstrated that clear prints of all ten Angers of a baby would aiiffico for after-identiticatinu by an export, but by an export only. Although new ridges may appear in iufniitile life, the type of eaoh pattern persists all through lifo, nnd is never doubtful to a practised eye. The ArctioOcaan, says Nansnn, is a kind of lagoon separated from the At lantic by a submarine tidge, stretch ing fron. Spitsbergen to Greenland. To this ridge is dne a curious condi tion. The Arotio is covered with a Inyer of slightly salt water from the Siberian rivers and Bering Strait, and under this is the normally salt Gulf Stream water. If the two Inyers were mixed, the average temperature would full, but this average would not bo as cnld as the surface layer. This ac counts for the enormous formation of uolar ice. There is a wonderful spider in the Transvaal, which has apparently beeu discovered for the first time by Mr. Distant. It lives, we are told, in large communities, and bnilds itsolf a nest like a bird's. The nest is of irregular form, and in the interior are several artistically constructed galleries, which serve as homes for all the spiders of that particular family. One of these nests may be seen in the Lon don Zoological Garden. It is very large, and is deftly covered with dry leaves. The spider iu constructing a nest takes tho utmost pains to make it of such a color that it will escape the eyes of its enemies, and iu this laud able task the ingenious little creature almost always succeeds. Astronomy in tho nineteenth con iury has not only successfully culti vated, but has greatly eularged, every field of investigation which it inherited from the proceeding century. The in struments nnd the methods of re search have been groatly improved and to them have been added celestial photography and spectroscopy, whioh are distined to prove no loss potent ana oiucaoions than tbo teloscope. Photography has shown itself to be a valuable adjunct to the tolosoope, anu the application of the spectroscope bos not only rectified the ideas of preceding centuries as to the constitu tion of the universe, bnt has created nn absolutely new branch of soieuoe that is to say, the chemistry of cjles. tial bodies. Cat Can Swim. "Can Cats swim? was asked of an old fisherman. "Why, certainly," was the reply. "nnd ttint reminds me of a cat 1 once tried to drown that swam ashore. Surely there must have been hundreds or thousands of people who have drowned cats ill the same way, but nevertheless this was an experience of my own. We had a cat that we wanted to get rid of, aud as humauo a way as any to kill it was by drowning. So I pat a conple of bricks in the bottom of an old grain sack, and put in the rat, and tied the bag np carefully and seonrely and walked down to the end of a wharf and stood there and swung the bag with the cat and the bricks in it round like a sling nutil I could give it a good momentum and then let it go, aud slung it out to full and sink in the water, I should say twenty feet away. "I supposed, of course, that that was the last of the cat; but the noxl morning the first thing I saw when I went out of the bouse was tho cat sit ting on the veranda. "I suppose the bag had a weak spot in it somewhere, the bricks were heavy and sharp-ooruered and swing iug the bag round that way started it more, and the cat was desperate; and with the bag that way it scratched, and tore its way ont and got to the wharf and clawed its way up aud canio ashore. "Can n cat swim? Why, sure!" New York Sno. In Another Character. If clothei do not make the man, they may be said, in a certain sense, to make the dignitary. A railway train came to its destination in. a large oity. As the passengers were filing slowly ont of the oars one of them, a lady of somewhat severe as pect, was observed to pause at tho top of tbe steps. "What do yon mean, sir?" she said, sharply, to a man Btandiug ou the platform below. "What do I mean?" he responded. "To help you off, madam, of course." "You are an eutire stranger to me, sir," sho said. "I prefer to get off without your assistance." "I am the conductor." he explained. "I think not." "But I am," he peristod. "This is the end of my run, and I have changed my ooat and hat." "Thon you are not the conductor, sir. You ere not in uniform, and are merely a private citizen. Please stand aside," "I don't know but you're right, ma'am," he said, complying with her mandate. Perhaps she was right, as a matter of prinoiple, although she might havo beeu a few degrees more oivil about it. Youth's Companion. Mlatukeu For Clilnuuia-i, General Fitzhugh Leo received much attention during his reoeut visit to the United States. He had storios to tell, and one of them oouoornod his name. It was after he had gone to Cuba, and the manipulators of the telephone wero not very familiar with his name aud reputation. "What name is that?" asked one operator. "Lee Fitzhugh Lee," was the re sponse. "Spell it, ploase." "F-i-t- h-u-g-h L-e-e." "Thank you. Plague take these Chiuameu I" Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. KEYSTONE STATE. LATEST JtEWK OI.KAEll FROM TARI OI PART. BURGLAR SHOT MERCHANT. Overpowered ,. p. Htler In Ills More In Northampton County llerks C'onnty f'onimlmilnnera Object tn Qulnter Trial Kiponrirs I'lpe Mill Project ltmulu from Illxpule llptnrron Company anil Trust. John F. Btlpr, of Johnsonvllle, bad sn en counter with a murderous burglar and was tK-aten and shot by the Intruder, who es caped, though help was speedily nt band. Mr. Ktler keeps a gennral country store. He was closing up bis place when a masked man suddenly sprang Into the storeroom and grabbed him by the throat. A revolver was thrust Into Mr. Htler's face ami his money demanded. Mr. Htlor threw up his right arm nnd knocked the revolver out of tbe burglar's hand. Then followed a florco strugglo, In which the burglar bad the ad vantage, for ho nearly choked Mr. Htler Into unconsciousness. The burglar was armed with a club and with this ho struck the mcr ehniit repeatedly. Finally he beat Mr. Htler down and then picking up bis revolver fired It point-blank at the i rostra to man. The bullet struck Mr. Rtler on the left sldo and went through a rlh. It missed the heartnnd innsed out of the shoulder. The burglar fled, and several men who were seated In the elgar store of William ltolmer across tho street, bearing tho report of the pistol, ran to the store and gave assistance to Mr. Ktler. Ho was believed to be fatally wounded, but ho rallied somewhat nnd his physicians havo some hopes of saving his life. He Is about 15 years of age and hns a family. Mr. Htler's place was robbed somo years ago. Ho has been In tho hnblt of taking his money borne with him over since. Ho had a little over 400 on bis person when nttneked. The Viurglnr Is described as rather short and stout. Ho was dressed In a grny suit. Model National t.uard. Adjutant General Rtewart, Ilrlgadler Gen eral Oohln, of the Third Brigade, and Major Iliehanlson, superintendent of the Ptnto Arsenal, returned from Indianapolis, Ind., where they attended the national conven tion of tho National Guard Association of the United Btates. The party took with them a large number of haversacks, knap sacks, uniforms, shirts, tents and other sup piles, manufactured at the Hlnto Arsenal, under the personal supervision of Major Klchardson for the National Guard of this Htnto. These supplies wero exhibited during tho convention for the purpose of showing tho officers or tho guards of other Mates Just what Is being done In rennt-ylvnnia, and how much cheaper these equipments can bo manufactured nt tho State Arsennl than bought. The National Guard ofTleers from tho other States wero loud iu their praises of Adjutant General Stewart, who Is recognized ns one of the most successful Nntlonnl Guardsmen In the United Hlatos. His in formation was of great value, nnd Pennsyl vania ldons for National Guard equipment will be adopted in a largo number of othoi States. A conference of the general officers of the National Guard will be held In Hnr rlsbnrg next month to select a site for this year's division encampment. Lewistown nnd Mt. Gretna both want It. Inducements will also be offered to locate the camp noui Chnmbersburg. To Hnllil Hig ripe Mill. The fliiHiuebanna Iron and Steel t'ompnny, one of the largest of tho Central Pennsyl vania steel companies, hns had a dispute with tbe National Tube Company, of Pitts burg, the combination of tho lube works' owners, and has decided to erect a pipe mill of Its own at its 'works at Columbia, near Harrlsburg. Tho Susquehanna Company has been making skelp which it sold to the American Tube As Iron Company, whose works are In tho tube trust. Since the com bination tho cost of raw materials advanced nnd the Susquehanna Company Increased the price of skolp. Tho Nntlonnl Tube Com pnny refused to pay tbo price demanded and business relations between the companies an strained. Tho new plant will cost t SOO.OOJ. Sues Druggist. Mr. Julia K. Lldgett entered n peculinr damage suit against II. Tj. Gutb, a Carncgl" druggist. Mrs. Lldgett charges Guth and blscierk, Louis Iteleliert, with the death ol her son by allowing a bottle of carbolic acid to stand on a shelf where the whisky w kept. The mother says that her 23-year-old son, alter having returned from the war with Spain, was tornished with wines nnd liquors Iu tbe drug st-re on a Sunday. He tried tn help himself to another drink nnd got hold of a bottlo of acid, which, tho pluiutllT snys, had been negligently left among tho bottler of liquor by the clerk. Tho ground of the suit is that Guth hired Incompetent belp, and tlint the liquors wero unlav fully fur nished to tbe boy on Sunday. Jury's Rill Hold I p. Tho bill of the Hotel Fenn for tho board of twelve Jurymen aud two tipstaves In the Quln er uvirder tiiul lias been held up by t In dium C immlssloners. It amounts to 1 2tU. 30, of which 3t Is for drinks, H for cigars, seventy-five cents for pluylng cards mid $2.80 for a reclining chair. To Knlarge Jail and Mergue. The Allegheny County Prison Bonn de cided to add a new wing to tho Jail. At the 3niue time, tbe Coroner put in a request for a larger city morgue, giving as a reason the increase In criminal population, which hns resulted In augmenting the number of mur Uurs and suicides. Grand Ktand and ftahles Durned. The grand-stand and stables of the Altoonii Driving Park Association, locnted near Al tooua, were completely destroyed by Are, unfailing a loss of (5,000, fully Insured. The fire was probably the work of trumps. 1 he association will rebuild. Killed In a California Mine. Samuel Simmons, of near Carlisle, has re ceived word that his son, John, was killed In a gold mine at Senora, Cal. The young man had left home II f teen years ago to seek bis fortune. News in lliicf. Zellner Brothers, grocers aud tobacconist!., of Allentown, failed on an execution In favor of C, M. V. Keck, trustee, for S,000. A milk wngon driven by William Jenkln of Toughkenainon, was struck ou a grai e oroealug west of that village by a train. Tin wngon was demolished, but the driver was not injured. While walking on the Lehigh Valley Hall. road traoks on his way to work, Edward 1'lahorty, aged u years, a miner, was struck by an engine, sustaining injuries about tho bead and body. Titer Baton to Col. Hay. A mulling KnultHh wrinimi nhi, prides herself upon her literary tastes, said to Bret Uarte at an aristocratic country bouse at which both wore guests: "My dear Mr. Harte, I am so riallchtAri to meet vmi! I hnva von r I everything you ever wrote, but of all your aiaiect verse mere la none that compare with your Little Breer.hes." "I quite agree with you, madam," Mid Mr. Harte, "but you hate put the. 'JUle feriiec&ea ou the wrong man." TIIE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR FEBRUARY" 4. fabjec'; The Klrst lllselples of .Testis. John I , n.1-4il-Oolleo Texli John I., .IT Memory Versus, .1S-87 Coinmen. fury nn the Day's Leason. IsTaoncflTios. The choioe of Ills disci ples was a matter of grout moment to Jesus. It was necessary Hint some of them hould be wltneises of III frt Bn(i work from the beginning of His puhlli) ministry. He did not choose those lo be His wltuesses who were bound by the tradition of tlm rnbblnlo schools, lis chose men ot simple, yet strocg mind, CoNSECTisn Lisks. Wo have here an ac count of John's testimony concerning Jesus. As soon as Christ whs baptised He hurried Into the wilderness, whero He re mained lorty days. Muring His absence John had continued bin work, but now at last ho sees Jesus returning from the wil derness. 85. "Again, tho next day after." Ou the day before, the day Ho returned from the wilderness, John had borue testimony of Him. V. 2:1. TlindUelples of John did not appear to be greatly Impressed until John on tho fallowing day (v. SS) repeated his words. Kdersheim argues, with suemlug accuracy, tint Mils was the Kahbnth. "f wo of His disciples." Andritw aud John, tlm writer, who carefully avoids using his own name. AO. "Behold tbo Lnmh ot God." See v. 20, spoken In reference to Na. :):7. AH the lambs hitiierto offered had beeu furnished by men; this one was provided by God as the only sufflele it sacrifice for the sin if the world. His word would ho lotliem equivalent to it command to follow Hun. How faithful John w is in his office ns fore runner! He did not tuiuk of his own de orense, he Is anxious to have Ills followers beooino true dlsalplo-t nt Christ. He did not reckon that he had lost those who went over from him to Christ. 37. "They followed Jesus." They under stood John's meaulug and Immediately did as they were directed. It would be well If nil would linme tiutoly folio Christ. We should follow Him as our It ulcemer, Tiit tern, Guide and rihepher 1. They m ly not have luteuded to leave John's leadership permanently. 8S. "Wunt seek ye." ,Ten knew, but We desired som" exnresslon f.-oin them. The meaning Is, Want Is your d -sire? your petition, or request? Mubbl. Teacher, master. "Among the Jews this title was a sort of degree." The thus at once reoog nljiod His superiority and their Ignorance. "Where dwellest Tbou." "WlioreareTliou stayiug?" Ho lin t no pennuuout place of abode In this locality, la asking this question they Intimate a desire to bo bet ter acqiialntel with Him. Where is the Inn whore you abide? We desire to rejclve In struction from you. 3i. "Corai ami hid." A kind invention to them to go witli Him to His place of nbode. If those who know not the salvu tlon of God would come at tbi command of Christ, they would soou sen that with Him Is the fountain of lite, aud iu His llirlit they would see light. "The tenth hour." St. John was so Impressed with the llrst In terview with Jesus that he remembered the hour. There Is a difference of opinion as to whether this was 4 p. in., uocordlng to the Jewish reckoning, or 10 a. m., accord ing to tho ltoinnn reckonlug. Ir Andrew nnd John spent the day with Jesus It must 1iave been 10 a. m, This was probably the Sabbath dav. 41. "He llrst fludoth his own brother." It is supposed that at the samo time Au drow went to find his brother Simon, John also went and found his brothor James and brought hl:nto Christ. This was a true mis sionary spirit. Ood's salvation Is so good that those who experience His lovo nre always auxlous to bring others Into the same holy relation. "Wo have found the Measles.'1 He spenks exultingly. Aroused by Jo in's faithful testimony concerning the oomlug Messiah tbey wore ready to re ceive Him when they snw a few true marks of his Messlahxhlp. "Being interpreted." Messias Is the Hebrew word nud Christ is its Greek Interpretation. 42. "When Jesus beheld him." .Testis nt once knew Simon better thau Shn kumv himself. "Cephas . .a stone." It. V. Potros, or Peter, has the same mo.iuing In Greek that Cephas has iu Syrlnc. The name was given lilm to describe his char acter. wilob was "stiff, hardy and resolute." 4i). "The day following." This, neeord Ing to Farrar, was the fourth day ufter His reluru from the wilderness, Jesus starte I ou His return to Galilee, and "on the Jour ney fell In with nnctuer youug fisherman, Philip of Bethsalda. "Follow Mo." This oommaud is, In the gospels, issued only by our Lord Himself. It is addressed to but ouo outside tho circle of the apostles, the rich young man whom Jesus loved. Mark 10:21. How was It that these Galilean youths were brought with ono look, one word, to the Savior's foot? Iu part by what He said, aud by whut John the Baptist had testllled oonoernlug Ulin, and by His very juiik. 44. "Bothsnlda." "Tho house of nets," so called because Inhabited mostly by llsh ermeu. There were two places by tills name. The town whom the three disci ples, Andrew, Peter nud Philip, were born, was on the west shore of theseu of Galilee, just uorth of C ipernauin. Tlieother Beth salda. wliori live thousand were fed, Is on the northeast shore of the sea. Andrew aud Fetor lived at Canernuuui. Matt. 8: 14; 17:24; Mark 1:29. 45. "Nathunaol." Elsewhere called Bar tholomew. Ho lived at Cana in Galilee, where our Lord performed Hl.s first mir acle. Cunn was about nine miles northeast of Nazareth. "Ot whom Moses nnd tho prophets did write." Sea Gen. 8:15: 22:18; Ueut. 18:18; Isa. 4:2; 7:14; Jer. 23:5; Essek. 84:2:1; Uun. 0:24; Mieuh. 8:3; ZucD. 0:12; Mnl. 3:1. These men were familiar with tho Scriptures, aud surely hero was a great array of testimony with reference to the Messiah, 48. "Good out of Nimarelh." The question sprang from more dread of mis take In a mutter so vital. Ho knew that Bethlehem fMlcnh. 5:2) and not Naziiroth was to bo the birth-place of the Messiah. It has boon usually considered that his mi swer was provarblul: but it m:iv merely bnve Implied, "Naxareth, that obscure anil ill-reputed towu In its little, uutroddeo valleycan uuytblug good come from thence?" Nathunnel's objection arose from Ignorance. Ordinarily nil we need Is n bet ter knowledge of Christ and any objections we may have will molt away. "Come and see." The same reply given by Jesus. V. 30. Philip could not answer his objec tions, but still his faith was iinshakoii; and Nathannel was not so lllled with prejudice that he would not luvestlgate for himself, Home things cannot be explained that we cau seo nre true. Ho who candidly ex amines the evldeuces nt tho religion ot Christ will booome u believer. No history ever published has so many Internal and external proofs ot authenticity as this has. Those who have never rend tho Bible, or bnvo road it only with n llxed purpose to galnsuy it, nre the ones who cry out gainst it. lie Should filielve Ilannu. Kansas City Star: As an evidence ot genuine good faith, Mr. McKlnlcy should express the wish that Bena tor Ilanna shall keep his hand out of the next convention. This would sot the public mlnrt completely at rest regarding the thorough political regeneration of the president and might convince even bis fnemlos that his feet hud been taken from the mire and clay and placed upon tho rock of ngog. Claims the Itecord for Long Tramps. A Paris gymnasium Instructor claims the record for long tramps, having walked 67,000 kilometres, or about 35. 000 miles, on ordinary roads. Among his trips were Purls to St. Petersburg, In 38 days. Parla-Oeneva-Venlce and Parls-Ucrlln. He tried to walk to Ma drid but was Btoniied by tbo Spanish authorities when he reached Barce-lona. This year's famine 'in India cover an area of ar.0,000 square uilloa. on which la a population of 80,000,000 souls. PACTS ABOUT AMERICAN CITIES Boa Data Refardlaf Health, Popula tion and Other Conditions. Anticipating the work of the census takers and acting on Instructions from congress, the department of labor at Washington bas Issued statistics relat ing to all tbe cities in the United States of a population of 30,009 or more. It was found that there were 140 such cities and the statistics col lected throw much Interesting light on their status and development. Tho oldest city In tbe United States Is Al bany, N. Y., which was Incorporated In 1686, Philadelphia dating fifteen years later. New York, Cblcigo anj Philadelphia are the only American citlfs whose population runt Into the trillions. Some odd contrasts are presented In the tables which give the area covered by the different cities. It appears that Taunton, Mass., occupies a territory greater than that of either floston or Haltlmore. New Orleans, a city of 286,000 Inhabitants, covers 12, 600 acrea, while Newark, N. J., with a population of about the same size, oc cupies less than 12,000 acres. One ex pects to And the manufacturing dis tricts of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts nnd Illinois closely packed, but It Is surprising to notice that Rlchrroud, Va., covera only 6,620 acres and Louis ville, Ky.j 12,800 acres, as com pare J with Duluth, Minn., and Pes Moines. Iowa, which, wlto much smaller popu lations In each esse, covers r?spectlve ly 40,060 and 84.660 acres. The health statistics show that McKecsport, Pa., Is perhaps the healthiest city In this country. Its rate of doaths from con sumption Is only 1.09 per thousand, as compared with 12 in Boston and New York and 26 In Denver, Col., due, ot course, to the fact that consumptive resort to Denver from all pans of the country. The rate of 13.60 deaths per thon.-and from old age (considerably the highest on the list) Is accredited to Salt Lake city, a condition to account for which no theory has yet been brought forward. In Pittsburg and Chicago deaths .from old age are only 2 per thousand. At a time when the extension of municipal functions Is occupying public attention It Is In teresting to note the figures which re late to city ownership. Nlnety-slx, cities own their water supply, among the exceptions being Indianapolis, New Haven, New Orleans and San Francis co. Four have municipal gas works Duluth, Richmond, Toledo and Wheel ing and thirteen own and operate electric light plants. lias an Aversion to Yellow riuwars. Each mistress of the white nous has had her favorite flower, except Mrs. McKlnlcy, who expresses little preference, except an aversion to yel low flowers and a great love for blu ones, In which the president joins her. A large bunch of flowers Is cut from the conservatory every morning and sent to adorn the president's table, while others go to Mrs. McKlnley's apartments. The plants that adorn the domestic part ot the white house are frequently changed, to glva her the benefit of the rare and beautiful variety that fills the great conserva tories. All of tbe finest plants share her admiration, each for as long a time as it can stand to be kept from real hothour.e atmosphere. ' Friendly Advice. Buff I'd have you know, sir, that I'm a self-made man. Gruff Well, I'm sorry for you; but keop it dork and don't worry, and perhaps you'll get along all right. Chicago .Xwa. , When men have more money, than they need they think they need more than they have. MARKETS. rsi.TiMome. (U1AIX KTfl. FI.OCII-TlalSn.'llestrat m 85 High tirade Kxtra 3 85 WHEAT No. Sited 7,1 COHN-No. S White .'II 37.S Oats Bouthoru k Venn... UH 2Mh It YE No. 2 M 65 HAY Choice Timothy.. lr60 HflO lood to Prime 14 50 16 0) M'llAW-Ilyoin car Ids.. 1H 50 14 00 Wheat Illoeks 650 7 00 Ontlllocks 9 00 0 50 CANNr.n noons. TOMATOE8 Stud. No. 3.4 70 No. a 5"i rKAS-Htandards 110 J 40 Seconds 80 COItNDry Pack HO Moist 70 iiinss. CITY STEEIta t I'' CllyCows 10,' 11 rOTATOKS AND VadSTAsr.KS. POTATOES Burhaiiks. 9 40 ONIONS 45 48 rnovisioNS, nOO ritODCCTo-shlat Jf 9 1 Clear rlbsldes 7 7J Hams 10 11J MepHpnrk. per bar 11 00 LAUD Crude M 4 Lest refined 7 SBTTSO, BUTTE It Fine Crmy . . .. 27 Under Fine art 27 Creamery Itolls 47 as ms rat CHEEBE-N. Y. Fanoy...f 13 18 If N. Y. Flat JHV !' tkim Cheese bl 7J xnoa. EOOB Ptate 16 is; 17 North Carolina 16 16 livs rooLTat CHIOKF.NB t R Ducks, per lb H 0.4' TOSAOOflk TOBACCO Mil. Infer s.. 150 t t 60 Hound common 8 0 4 60 Middling 01 10J Fancy 10UJ JV0J Livs root PEEF Best Beeves 429 ft 470 BHKKP B&O 4 00 Hogs 4 40 I &J ItUIS ASO SRISt MURKIIAT 10 Jl ilaccoon 40 41 lied Fox ;00 bkunk ltluck Ml opossum 2i a I Mink Ml Otter too KKW voiik FLOUB Southern 8 81 if 4 20 WHEAT No, ailed tit 74 II Yt Western t0 ri COHN No. a UU 4) OATH-No. II 8!) 81 llUTTKK Htal 1!) 4 E(K)S Htato 10 an CUF-LUK-Utat IV i 13 raiLiDixruic FLOC R Southern 8J m 0 Willi AT No. Sited tin 6U COltN No. 8 3 as',' OATH No. t 91 83 BU'ITEll State 81 H5 EGOn-Penna ft IS 19
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