THE CANDY HEART.
from out her little dinner pail
8be took a cookie plump iind brown;
She "lipped it underneath my desk
And I, bumpkin and a clown,
forthwith proceeded to invite
My iqipetito nnd dull its amort)
But ere 1 put it out of night
X raw it bore candy heart.
Ah! When her ghiniiy pigtail curl
Made way for frizzes, why deny
Bhe managed both by hook or crook
To pa e comfit on the alyj
At receaa when we stood apart
Anil wove the dpiay chain, nh! she
Broke with her teeth the candy heart
And gavo the better half to uie.
eHtttKt4
- 1 By HERO STRONG. 1
)t)imtmniimmnttmmi4titmnmw
Sho snt on the shore of the sea and
idly threw pebbles Into the surf, as
it beat up the rocks and almost
washed her feet.
The sun waa going down in a mass
o( lurid red clouds; the eastern
breeze was freshening along the
bluff J, and now and then a stray drop
of rain fell on her.
Geraidine Vane drew her shawl
closer around her, with an Involun
tary shiver. Something there was in
the night closing arouni which re
minded her of a dead day.
Her mind went back to the time
with a throb cf pain. She would
gladly have avoided the retrospect
but who can control thought?
Eleven years ago bhe was sixteen.
What an old, old woman she must
be grown now! Sho stretched out
her hnr.d through the shadows and
looked at 1. earnestly, half expecting
to see it wrinkled and withered like
old Grandmother Holt's, and she was
upward of ninety.
Eleven years ago she had walked
these very sands, Just as golden. ;.ow
as then Just bo the summer waves
had broken their hearts in music on
the shore, Just so the salt sea-breeze
had swept her cheek and tossed the
rocks outside the harbor.
But ther. Thane Richmond was be
side her, and youth, nnd hope, and
love were hers, to say nothing of a
trust which was perfect. What more
could a woman ask for?
They were a pair of lovers Just be
trothed, loving each other as no other
lovers had ever loved before so they
said and thought, and it was very
real to them, and wondrous sweet, as
it always is when the dream is new.
But, after all, there was bo me
etuse of sadness; and when would
love be love if there were not?
Richmond was to leave her in a week
for China, to be absent three years;
for his future was yet to make, and
he was too proud a lad to accept a
wife whose possessions were greater
than his own. Geraidine was an
heiress, 'so it was out of the question
to marry nothing, and live on cheese
parings and kisses in a vineecottage,
as both the young people would have
been glad to do.
Colonel Varley, Cleraldine's father,
was a high-bred old fellow, and he
had said to audacious young Tbane
Richmond, when he had asked him
for his daughter:
' See here, young man! Money is
the thing needed nowadays, and my
daughter has ulways worn her dia
monds and ridden in her carriage.
She must not marry beneath her.
When you can come to me with a
fortune sufficient to support a' wife
and keep her in the gewgaws that a
woman finds necessary now, Geraid
ine is yours; that is, if she has not
chnnged her mind and married some
body with a fortune ready-made."
All of which was very cruel in the
unsympathetic parent, but the par
ents of heroines have always been
made of stern stuff, you know.
So it was decreed that Thane Rich
mond should go out and seek his for
tune among the Celestials, and Ger
aidine was to go to Paris and finish
her education.
But they wero to write so very
often twlco or V rice a week, which
was very moderate for lovers'; and,
beside the sea, with the dim light of
the stars around them, ono night in
June, they said their farewells and
vowed to be true.
The lonely woman sitting there to
night on the shore, and going back
over the ways she had traveled, drew
a Bigh something of the tenderness
of that olden time lingered with her
still, and flushed her pale cheek with
a soft, bright crimson.
But to return.
For two years after Thane's de
parture his letters had been regular
and they had satisfied the heart of
the woman who had loved him, and
not one man in a hundred, no matter
how loyal and touder, can write
letter of love which will Just meet
the requirements of a loving woman's
nature without being silly.
At the end of this time the letters
stopped. No word of explanation
nothing to break the dull suspensa
wmch IB always so hard to bear.
Geraidine, proud though Bhe was.
wrote to Thane to usk the cause of
tls strange silonce. Sho received in
reiurn a iew urlef lines; he was
weary of a youthful folly, asked her
to forget him, and volunteered the
information that he was Boon to be
married to the daughter of an at
tacho of the American legation at
renin.
Well, uch breaks as this are han
penlng all the time around us; they
ere common as births and deatte(
ana excite about as much attention
The world does not suffer the anculah
of heart which sometimes comes of
thera to people so unfortunate as to
be possessed of feelings; and go the
worm wags on as ever.
ueraiuine was ono of those
wretcned women who cunnot trans
iu. iiieir anections as one would
transfer a house or other piece of
property, ana in consequence she suf
lerea aeepiy.
Loving once with her was loving
ur mi nine, sua mough she had suit.
ora by the Bcore as what beautiful
and wealthy woman has not? she
lurnea irom tnem all iu quiet cold
uessr
After a while Colonel Varley took
the matter in hand. No daughter of
Uig should pine her life away for a
yeggany rascal like Than ftichmond
And when the daily lemnna were
All anid and done and put airay, '
And we strolled hand in hand along
The maple lane at close of day
We leaned upon the rustic rail '
To watch the rivulets below
Scatter their bubbles in the trail
Of the pale moonlight's silver glow
To-night the little candy heart
I find among my treasures;
A something sacred, nh! it seemt
To me a kiss from paradise.
A candy heart, a golden tress.
Ah I ns my fingers gently twine
The silken curl with soft carets.
My lips they sigh : "Sweetheart of mine,"
Horace Seymour Keller.
h- said, and Geraidine was command
ed to marry Archibald Vane, at that
time the wealthiest and most do
voted of her admirers. She de
murred. She told Vane plainly that
she should never love again; but he
was deeply Infatuated, and would
risk anything for the sake of pos
sessing her.
So they were married.
Mr. Vane'a wife was the envy and
admiration o. all the country round
about Templemore. Her house was
a palace everything about it waB
superb in its appointments; she had
not a wish ungratiiled, and her hus
band was as devoted as a lover.
But Geraidine never varied from
the cold statellness, which had fallen
on her like a mantle at the altar.
Often and often the kind, honest
heart of her husband ached for one
loving word from the cold Hps whose
kisses he would have died for; but
he was true to his agreement he
never complained, and he did not try
to force her love.
'hen her child her beautiful lit
tle Annie was born, she softened
toward her husband in some slight
degree. The new nnd wonderful hap
piness which motherhood brought
her made her kinder to the father
of her child. And poor Vane was
raised to a felicity altogether un
known to Mm when she put the little
girl In his arms and suffered htm to
kiss the white cheek he had dared
draw to rest against his shoulder.
As Annie lived and developed char
acter, she was the strangest of all
children. .Old far beyond her years,
lovely In face and gentle in temper,
full of quaint sayings, and caring for
no playmate but her mother.
As Geraidine sat there on the sea
shore, thinking over these things I
have told you, something crept up be
neath her shawl, in the timid, coax
ing way one sees sometimes in a pet
animal.
Mrs. Vane folded her arms around
the little creature, and kissed the up
turned white forehead.
"What is it, my darling?" looking
down at the serious, questioning face
lifted to hers.
"Mamma, tell me truly, Is there
anything In dreams?"
'My love, do not bother your little
head wltn such idle things. Why do
you ask?"
Because, when you left me asleep,
mamma, I dreamed of sinking ships.
and sh.-..p rocks that tore the great
timbers apart, and then they went
down, down, down; and, oh! mamma,
I heard h; cries of the drowning
men, and I saw their dead, pale
faces, and papa's among them! And
screamed, and nurse woke me and
told me I had only been dreaming!"
In spite of herself, Geraidine shud
dered. She was not in any degree
superstitious, but there was always
something about thlr child's weird
fancies which Impressed one. She
held the Blight form closer to her
side, and even as she did bo, far off
over the waters came the dull boom
of a gun!
It is the ship! And they will be
drowned!" cried Annie, starting up.
'See, see! It is on fire, and it is
floating in on the rocks below Egg
stone light!"
The child spoke truly. A great
ship an ocean steamer wrapped in
flame and smoke, was drifting shore'
ward. A projecting point of land
just then hid the steamer partially
from view.
Annl? sprang forward down the
rocks like a cat, .from one rock to
another, until she was yards from the
shore, and the incoming tide, now
growing fierce nnd angry, was beat
Ing around her. Geraidine followed
with terror In her heart.
Drenched with spray, the child
was clinging to a pointed rock, lean
ing over wit wild, fascinated eyes
fixed on the burning ship.
"It is my dream over again!" Bhe
Bald, solemly.
Geraidine gathered the child in her
arras, and ail unminaiui mat tne
tide was cutting them hopelessly off
from the shore, she watched the fated
ship.
One mass of lurid flame, her
scorching Bides hung with fated hu
man bolngs; even there she could
hear their vain crlee for assistance,
Suddenly the blazing hulk reeled
and shuddered; for an Instant the
flames seemed to die away, and the
smoke lowered its blood-red banner;
then all waters for fathoms around
seemed to scintillate with liquid Are!
One fearful pluuge forward the ship
gave, one cry of mortal despp.lr went
up to the black heavens, and the tide
rushed in like squadrons of white
horses, each eager to win the race!
It was all over and the waters were
full of despairing, dying men fight
ing vainly -or that which was lost to
them forever 1'fe!
Toward the rock where Geraidine
and her child still clung, drifted one
of tho ill-atarred vessel's passengers.
One arm disabled by a blow from
some of the burning rigging, he was
fast losing strength to battle with the
waves, and death was very near him
The woman tore off her silken scarf
and flung it toward him. Fate per
mltted htm to catch it, and she drew
htra to the rock!
It was yet light enough to see, and
on that narrow shelf of rock, growing
narrower every moment, for the first
time in eleven years Thane Rich'
mond and Geraidine Vaae stood face
to face!
Both were pale both were deadly.
calm. He held out his right hand,
and she touched it lightly with hers.
Geraidine," he said, as if they
had been parted only a day, "we shall
perish here. Let its have no pride
between us. You thought me false,
and so married another man?"
"Yes."
"You were deceived. I know you
will believe what I say.' 'Ah English
lady of rank did me the honor to
prefer me; and she it was who, learn
ing of my love for you, Intercepted
our letters, wrote the cruel note ot
renunciation which rou received, and
showed me the notice of your mar
riage. Seven weeks r.go sh died,
confessing all her duplicity, and that
day I left China to seek you and tell
you the truth."
"I am married!"
"Yes, I know It; but now It mat
ters little. Another moment, and
we shall be washed from the rocks.
It cannot be wrong now! Surely not!
Look in my eyes Geraidine, and tell
me that in all theso years your heart
has been mlno, as mine has been
yours!"
She looked In his eyes, and bowed
her head slowly, her face crimsoning
even there, with death so near her.
A sharp voice at her side brought
her back to herself. She saw her
husband by the side of the rock, bal
ancing himself iu a frail boat, which
It seemed every dash of the waves
would break in twain.
One glance at his pale, set face
showed Geraidine that he recognized
her old love. But Richmond gave no
word ot salutation. His injured arm
was bleeding fast, his strength was
ebbing; his head fell on his breast,
and but for the frenzied hand of Ger
aidine, he would have been swept
away by the tide, which now beat
over the rock.
Archibald Vane's voice was cool,
calm, and distinct.
'I saw you from the .shore, Ger
aidine," he said, "and came to the
rescue. My boat will hold but two.
You have never loved me, but I have
lived in loving you. T. will prove it!"
He reached over and lifted the
limp body into the boat. Then he
put Geraidine beside him, and gave
her the oars.
"You can steer," he said. "You
will be saved you and he! I will
save our little Annie it it lies in man's
power. If not, Heaven's will be
done!"
He leaned over and kissed the
white hand his wife stretched out to
toward him in wild entreaty.
The boat shot away on the tide;
the words she uttered were all un
heard by Archibald Vane, as, clasp
ing his child to his breast, he dared
the fury of the waves!
They found him a mile further
down the coast, in the early morning,
a smile on his white face, and little
Annie lying against his heart. They
had died together.
Geraldlne's boat eached the shore,
and both she and Thane Richmond
were saved.
It was weeks before she knew ot
aught passing around her, for the
shock ot Annie's death had been too
much for her..
When she remembered It all, per
haps she was nearer to loving Archi
bald Vane than she bad ever been be
fore. Richmond went away, and was
gone two years. He owed that much
to the memory ot the man who had
saved his' life in preference to his
'n.
And when he came back, could the
world blame Tbane and Geraidine if
they made each other's life happy?
New York Weekly.
A Japanese Itntliroom.
A tiny space four by six feet. In
it were four objects, a stool to sit
upon when washing oneself before
getting into the bath, a shining brass
wash basin, a wooden pail and dip
per, in which to fetch the bath water,
and the tub. The tub, like most
private baths, was round, casket
shaped find made ot white wood. It
was perhaps thirty inches in diameter
and twenty-seven inches high. A
copper funnel or tube passing
t' rough the bottom went up inside
close to the edge. This, filled with
lighted charcoal, supplied heat for
the water. The pipe was higher
than the tub, so the water could not
leak inside. A few transverse bars
of wood fitted into grooves and
formed a protection bo the bather
could kneel in the tub without com
ing in contact with the hot pipe. The
wallB of tho room were of white
wood, with a pretty grain, the floor
of pine, laid with a Blight slope and
grooved so the water mlnht flow into
a gutter and through a bamboo pipe
to the yard. A moon shaped lattice
window high up let in air and light.
As a provision, for more ventilation
the two outside walls for a foot be
low the celling were lattice of bam
boo slats.
As my eye traveled from object .o
object I quickly sized up the cost.
For the tub eight yen, and it would
last indefinitely; two yen for tbd
brass basin; fifty yen for the pail
and dipper, and twenty-five sen for
the stool. Eleven yen would fit up
my bathroom, and I asked for noth
ing nicer. From the Craftsman,
Free Haircuts.
M. Nosskoff, a South Side barber,
will open his second annual free hair
cutting period next Monday morn
ing, and all boys and girls under six
teen years need not want for a hair
cut. Nosskoff and his assistants cut
the hair ot 2000 children last year.
It Is expected that the rush will be
even greater this year. The first day
last year it was necessary to provide
police protection iu order to keep the
prospective customers In line for
their turn, and in order that no one
be kept waiting long four new bar
bers have been added to the staff.
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Like a Dog-Wt tch.
Mamma bad not noticed the clock
striking during all of the afternoon,
and, thinking perhaps It had stopped,
she asked little Rita to go Into the
hall and see it It was running. After
a hasty survey of the long pendulum
swingles back and forth, Rita ran
back and announced: "Why, no,
mamma. It isn't running. It's stand
ing still and wagging its tail." Har
per'i Weekly.
A CENTURY OF Flit KM.
High Figure of the frfv and (he
Insurance Payment.
In 1838 David . Dana published
In Boston his work called "The Fire
man," In which he gives a list ot
what he denominates large fires (to
day they -..ould be called conflagra
tions) which had occurred in this
country in the previous fifty years.
The record as a matter of fact, be
gins with the fire in Boston, Mcrch
20, 1760; but this is the only city
where any data are given previous to
the year 1800, hence the list given by
Dana may be said to represent the
fire Iobs for the first half- ceutury
from what were called large fires.
Dana does not enumerate any lire
where the loss was less than $20,000.
There are, however, a very few pos
Blbly not over five per cent. as low
as this figure, and from that point
the upper limit is $17,000,000.
There were two fires in the first
half of the nineteenth century which
reached this $17,000,000 figure, one
being the fire in New York City In
1835, while the other was the fire In
San Francises In 1851. Dana's sta
tistics appear to be quite complete
probably as complete as could be
gathered. The aggregate produced
by his researches makes a total of
$191,000,000, caused by so-called
large or conflagration fires.
Fifty years later or, to- be exact,
forty-eight years the National
' iard of Fire Underwriters, In their
i ,ort for 1906, publish a list ot
wnat they call conflagrations, which
occurred between 1866 and 1906.
In other words, they practically cover
the fifty years succeeding Dana's
record. No fire enumerated by the
National Board involved a loss of
less than $500,000, and tho largest
were, of course, the weil known Chi
cago fire of 1871, of $165,000,000,
and the Boston fire of the succeeding
year, of $70,000,000, while the third
Is the Baltimore fire of 1901, with a
loss of $50,000,000. The total
amounts to $557,000,000.
It should be noted that the mini
mum fire enumerated by the National
Board is twenty-five times greater
than t-j minimum fire enumerated
lv Dana; and yet, in the second half
century, with a minimum twenty-five
times higher than In the first cen
tury, tue loss from large fires or con
flagrations is nearly three times as
large as It was in the earlier period.
The maximum fire enumerated in the
first period is $17,000,000, while in
the second period it is (Chicago)
$165,000,000, or practically ten
times as large.
The statistics for the last period
are from the National Board of Fire
Underwriters up to the close of 1905.
Since then the San Francisco con
flagration has occurred, and with a
fire loss ot $250,000,000 a new max
imum is established. This maximum
is fifteen times greater for the latter
period, as compared with the earlier.
The first period has twenty-six fires
with losses equal to or in excess of
$1,000,000, while the second period
has to the close of 1905, seventy
eight such fires. Tnese million dol
lar fires thus show an increase of
three times for the latter, as com
pared with the earlier period.
The totals given above are the
total fire or property loss, as dis
tinguished from the insurance loss.
The first represents the total loss
caused by fire, while the latter is
that portion of the loss which Is re
turned to the Insured by the insurer.
In the long run the insurance loss is
about sixty per cent, of the total
property loss. Thus, for a period of
thirty years 1875 to 1904, inclu
sive the Chronicle fire tables report
a property loss of $3,600,000,000,
while the insurance los3 was $2,207,
000,000, which is -,ixty-one per cent.
During this same period 1875 to
1904, inclusive the property loss
from large or conflagration fires, as
listed by the National Board, amount
ed to $272,000,000, and the insur
ance loss, being sixty per cent, ot
this, was $163,000,000 practically
seven and one-half per cent, ot either
the property or insurance loss caused
by all fires. Journal of Fire.
Travelers.
The popular notion that the con
tinent of Europe subsists on Amer
ican travel receives a rude shock
from heartless figures published by
an official 'of the Chemin de Fer du
Nord. He also shatters another su
perstition that the English have al
ways, beyond all people, been the
fondest ot travel. Some 250,000
travelers leave America in a year for
all Europe. Let us hide our dimin
ished heads. One million two hun
dred thousand Englishry go annually
to the Continent.
Every one has been told since
childhood that the French are a stay-at-home
folk. That idea is now driv
en back among the disillusions. That
small portion of the French popula
tion which is dependent on the Chem
in de Fer du Nord, representing, with
Paris and its Buburbs, ten or twelve
millions ot inhabitants at the most,
exchanges with northern Germany
and Belgium more than 3,500,000
passengers, three times more than
the visitors from England to the en
tire continent. Boston Herald.
Savings Banks in Mexico.
Savings banks are practically un
known institutions in this city. If a
man has a small amount to deposit,
with the expectation ot being able to
add to it from time to time, he will
be at a loss to find a bank that will
be willing to take care of his appar
ently insignificant sums and pay him
interest on the money that is thus
gradually 'deposited.
As a matter ot fact, there are only
about two places in the entire city
that will Bhow any interest in his
small savings, one ot these being a
little bank for working people, which
was organized a couple of years ago,
and the other place being the Monte
de la Piedad, which receives deposits
ot any amount and pays sis per cent,
interest per annum on them. The
little savings bank has had a hard
struggle to maintain itself. It is a
noticeable fact, however, that the
bank tn question has tew Meilcan
working people as depositors, most
of lta patrons being Spaniards who
are working tor wages as grocery
clerks and bookkeepers. Mexican
Uerald.
COMMERCtflL COLUMN.
Weekly Review of Trade and Latest
Market Reports.
New York. R. O. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review ot Trade Bays:
"Wall Street provided the only
important development in tho busi
ness situation during the past week,
prices of securities rising within an
average of $2 per share of the high
record established last January,
while the general public becamo in
terested to an extent that lifted mon
ey rates for all periods to the legal
maximum. Trade reports indicate
wholesome activity, with no evidence
of reaction, even those industries
that nre of necessity quiet at this
season contributing to the general
confidence by reports of large orders
In Bight.
"Crops are now almost beyond
danger, and their movement Is be
coming a difficult traffic problem.
Railway earning In August show an
average gain of 12.1 per cent, over
last year's figures, whllo foreign
commerce at this port for the Inst
week provided gains of $2,275,692
In Imports and $1,446,521 In exports
as compared with 1905."
Wholesale Markets.
Baltimore. FLOUR Steady and
unchanged; receipts, 2,588 barrels;
oxportR, 10,054 barrels.
WHEAT Firm; spot, contract,
72r72; No. 2 red Western, 75 V'
75; August, 72 72; Septem
ber, 72 72; October, 73
73: December. 70; steamer No.
2 red, 6767; receipts, 45,115
bushels; exports, 40,000 buBhels;
Southern by sample, 45 70;
Southern on grade, 67 72 .
Corn Quint; spot, 54 55; Au
gust, 6455; September, 54
55; year, 4S48; January,
48 asked; steamer mixed, 53;
receipts, 40,152 , bushels: exports,
140,571 bushels; Southern white
corn, 58 60; Southern yellow
corn, 50 (a 58.
OATS Firm: new No. 2 white, 33
35; new No. 3 white, 34
34; new No. 2 mixed, 33 34;
receipts, 23,800 bushels.
RYE Firm; No. 2 Western ex
port, 58(5? 59; No. 2 WoRtorn domes
tic, 61 62; receip'ls, 2,694 bushels.
BUTTER Strong and unchanged;
fancy Imitation, 20 21; fancy
creamery, 24 25; fancy ladle, 18
20; store-packed, 15 10.
EGGS Firm; 21.
CHEESE Active and unchanged;
large, 12; medium, 13; small,
13.
SUGAR Steady and unchanged;
coarse granulated, 5.10; fine, 5.10.
New York. BUTTER Firm.
Creamery, common to extra, 18
23; State dairy, common to fancy,
17 22; renovated, common to ex
tra, 14 20; Western factory,
common to firsts, 141S.
WHEAT Spot firm. No. 2 red,
78 elevator; No. 2 red, 79 f. o. b.
afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth, 86
f. o. b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter,
80 f- o. b. afloat.
CORN Spot firm. No. 2, 57
elevator and 57 f. o. b. afloat; No.
2 yellow, 61; No. 2 white, 62. Op
tion market was weak early on
more bearish crop news, but recov
ered with wheat and closed c. net
higner. September, 55 56,
Closed, 56; December closed 53.
OATS Spot barely steady. Mixed
oats, 26 to 32 pounds, 36; natura."
white, 30 to 32 pounds, 36 (ft 37;
clipped white, 36 to 40 pounds, 40
42.
EGGS Firm. State, Pennsylvania,
and nearby, fancy, selected, white,
26 27; mixed extrus, 24 25; West
ern firsts, 19 2 0; seconds, 17
18.
POULTRY Alive, steady. West
ern spring chickenR, 15; fowls, 13;
turkey?., 13. Dressed, Irregular.
Western spring chickens, 1416;
turkeys. 1 3 ftt 1 4 ; fowls. 13 14.
FLOUR Receipts, 20,7 SI barrels;
exports, 6,985 barrels. Steady and
unchanged!
HAY Quiet. Good to choice, 90
1.00.
COTTONSEED OIL Firm. Prime,
crude, 23 24; do., yellow, 36
36.
COFFEE Spot Rio steady. No.
7 invoice, 8. Mild quiet. Cordo
va, 9 12.
SUGAR Raw firm. Fair refining,
3 7-16; centrifugal, 86 test, 3 15-16
4; molasses sugar, 3 3-16. Re
fined firm.
POTATOES Irish steady, un
changed: sweets weak; Southern, per
barrel, 1.75 & 2.25.
Live Stock.
New Tork. BEEVES Dressed
beef steady at 7c. to 9c. per pound.
. CALVES Fairly good veals, 8.50;
grassers and buttermilks, 3.75
4.25; dressed calves Bteady; city
dressed veals, 9l-1c. per pound;
country draased; 6 12c.
SHEEP and LAMBS Sheep steady
lambs strong and 10c. to 25c. higher.
Sheep, 3.505.50; cullB, 3.00;
lambs. 7.00 9.00; choice, 9.25;
culls, 6.00raC25.
HOGS State hogs quoted at C.90
f.00.
Chicago CATTLE Market steady
but dull. Common to primo stoers,
3.750.75; cows, 2.85 4.75; holf
ers, 2.60 (if 5.35; bulls, 2.00 1.50,
calves, 3.007.50; utockers nnd
feeders, 2.00 4.35.
SHEEP Market' shoep strong;
lambs dull. Sho-p, 4.25 5.75;
yearlings, 5.00 6.50; lambs, 6.0')
8.00.
WORTH REM EM BERING.
Egypt is the only country In tho
world where thero are more men
than women. The males exceed tho
females by 160,000.
Though willow grows in wet places
it is ntaurally ono of the driest
woods. It contains only 20 per cent,
ot water. Oak contains 34 per cent.
Under a new law In Norwny every
would-be bride must exhibit a cer
tificate that she knows how to cook.
In Norway a dyspeptic is regarded
as a natural curiosity,
On October 18, at Washington, the
military monument In memory of
Gen. Goorge B. McClollan, former
commander of the Army ot the Poto
mac, will be unveilod. The Genoral's
widow is now 71.
Sea serpents again. Says a news
item: "The officers ot the Cavlanl,
which has arrived at Jut)klao4, New
Zealand, from Raratonga, report hav
ing, when oft the Kedmadeca Is
lands, twice passed close to a sea
serpent. They estimated its length
at 60 feet. Its color was a reddish
brown, and its head the shape of a
gurnet's."
STATl OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Latest News Gleaned From Various
Parts.
Hiram Royer, one of the oldest
residents of Pottstown, died In thaf
city, from ailments Incident to old
age. He was 80 years of age, anJ
until a month ago was actively at
work in a machine Bhop. He was
the father of former Burgess Wash
ington S. Royer.
Three mine workers, John C.
Green, Stanley Franckofskl and Au
gust Koakowskl, were bo severely
burned by an explosion of gas In the
Auchlngloss Colliery, near Wilkes
Bnrre, that their recovery Is doubt
ful. A runaway coal train on the Penn
sylvania Railroad at Shamokin col
lided with three empty cars, com
pletely wrecking one and demolish
ing part of the locomotive. The crew
escaped by Jumping.
Jacob Harshbarger, charged with
the murder of Tom Jaun, the Aus
trian peddler, was acquitted In Lewis
town. The Phoenix Bridge Company has
been awarded the contract for build
ing the bridge across the East River,
connecting New York city with
Brooklyn. The center span of the
bridge will be 1470 feet long and
the two Bide spans 725 feet.
Fred Haupt, Boyd Meyers and Wil
liam Miller, of Bellefonte, were given
a hearing before a Justice of the
peace, charged with killing fish by
the use of dynamite and were sent
to Jail for six months. i
Mrs. Maria Rudy, a resident of
HUltown Township, Bucks County,
for 45 years, rode In a steam car
Wednesday, for the first -time In her
life.
'i ue Eastern Pennsylvania Rail
ways Company, embracing all of the
trolley lines In that part of the State,
Including the system of the Potts
vllle Union Traction Company, has
awarded contracts for extensions and
reconstructive work aggregating $1,
315,000. The Reading Railway Company is
changing the lettering on its cars.
All freight and coal cars and ca
booses are being inscribed "The
Reading," Instead of "Philadelphia
and Reading," as formerly. The
name Is placed under a large black
diamond.
Farmers In the Northern section of
Chester County have become excited
over the finding of rich deposits of
graphite on the farm ot Samuel
Neeley, near Coventryvllle. Four
shafts have been sunk on the farm.
The prices of the farms have advanc
ed. The Merchants' Protective Asso-
, elation has taken the initiative for
the formation of a substantial and
permanent Board of Trade. It is
proposed to secure the names of at
least 200 citizens who will contrib
ute $1 per month for that purpose
and at the same time inaugurate a
vigorous movement for a greater
Hazleton.
With the clerk of the courts at.
Pottsvllle, A. B. Garner,, of Ashland,
Republican nominee for the Legis
latuer in the Second District, filed,
under the new law, his nomination
campaign expenses, $100 registration
fee and 65 cents for postage of cam
paign cards, which he had printed
without cost.
Mrs. Leah Kauffman, a young
bride, was found dead by her hus
band headforemost in a spring of
water in the cellar of his home at
Elysburg. Kauffman had been ab
sent from the house for some time
and returning could not find his
wife. Instituting search he discov
ered her body in the water. Hastily
extricating her he sought to resusci
tate the woman, but was unsuccess
ful. How Bhe met death Is un
known. It is thought she wanted
a drlng of milk, a crock containing
the latter resting alongside the
spring, which is narrow and deep.
She evidently became unbalanced and
fell In, becoming wedged in the
small space and slowly drowning.
Mrs. Kauffman was one of the most
popular and esteemed residents ot
that region. Her husband Is almost
crazed over the unusual sudden end
nig of what virtually was the honey
moon period.
Citizens of Fernwood have sent a
petition to Congressman Thomas S.
Butler, entering a remonstrance
against the efforts made by the resi
dents of East Larisdowne to have
the postofflce moved from Fernwood
to their town. The postofflce has
been located in Fernwood since 1871
and scores ot people residing in
Fernwood have written personally to
the Postofflce Department at Wash
ington, praying that the proposed
removal man not take place. Betting
forth that It would prove exceeding
ly Inconvenient for the people of
Fernwood to be compelled to walk
to East Lansdowne.
There Is a rumor that the Read
ing Railway Company may complete
that portion of the Allentown Rail
road between Port Clinton and Kutz
town. This road was surveyed and
partly built years ago. Bridges were
built and the piers for the bridges
across the Maldencreek at Vlrglns
ville are Btlll intact. A fine stone
bridge was erected near Hamburg,
but when the Lizard Creek Branch
of the Lehigh Valley was built the
project was abandoned. The line
starts at Port Clinton and it Is said
that If the Reading had this line
today It would be a great convenience
In the handling of coal and freight
to points east and north.
At attempt to wreck the north
bound passenger train on the Blooms
burg and Sullivan Railroad was
made near Forks. A rail had been
fastened to the track at a point
where is was impossible for the en
gineer to see more than than two
rails' length -ahead and an ugly
wreck would have been certain had
not Edward Karns discovered the at
tempt a moment before the passen
ger train rounded the curve. While
removing the obstruction Karns
roard a noise In the underbrush
and accompanied by some ot the
passengers made ou investigation.
Alma Wheeler, a maid employed
by W. W. Hall, of West Pittstou,
drove oft a burglar whom she found
trying to enter the house. When
she opened the door leading to the
back porch early the 'other morning
she found him trying to get-in, and
without an instant's hesitation struck
him with a chair, knocking him
down. Then she hit him again and
he rolled oft the porch and ran away
as fast as bis legs would carry him.
At a special election held in
Womelsdorf, by a vote of 148 to 146,
decided to borrow $7000 to complete
the borough's eleutrlc light plant.
TILE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
IXTKKNATIOXAL LKSSOX COM
MENTS FOR BEPTEMBEh O.
Subject: Senan Enter JcrtiRalem in
Triumph, Matt, xxl., 1-17 Gold
en Text, Matt, xxl., 0 -Memory
Verses, 9-11.
1. Preparations for the triumphal
entry (vb. 1-7). 1. "Drew nigh."
This was Sunday, commonly called
Palm Sunday. Jesus and His disci
ples left Bethany and journeyed to
ward Jerusalem. "Betbphage." The
location of this town is not definitely
known; It was between Bethany and
Jerusalem. "Sent two disciples."
Supposed 'to have been Peter and
John. After they left Bethany Jesus
sent these disciples on ahead.
2. "The village." Bethphage.
"Ye shall find." Here we have a
wonderful Instance of Christ's pre
science in very minute matters.
"Leone them." The -animals were
tied; and so men's possessions are
"tied" by pleasure, or greed, or gain,
or habit, or the gordlan knot of sel
fishness. 3. "Straightway He will send
them." Our Lord did not beg, but
borrowed the colt, therefore this
should be understood as the promise
of returning him.
4. "Might be fulfilled." Was the
chief motive of Jesus merely to ful
fil a prophecy, and did He turn out
of the way for that purpose? Rath
er, let us see that this was the right
thing to do at this time. It was
necessary in order to fulfil His mis
sion for Him to offer Himself, on
this last opportunity, to the Jews as
their Messiah King, so that they
might accept Him and be saved. "By
the prophet." Zech. 9:9. 5. "The
daughter of Sion." The church.
"Behold." Give attention and look
with astonishment and wonder. "Thy
King cometh." Jesus Christ is ap
pointed King over the church (Psa.
2:6), and is accepted by the church.
6. "Did as Jesus commanded."
What a blessing it would be if every
one did as Jesus commanded them,
without stopping to question, or sug
gest a different course. 7. "Their
clothes." They spread their loose
outer garments on the colt and sat
Jesus thereon, thus acknowledging
Him to be their king.
If. The triumphal procession (vs.
8-11). 8. "A very great multi
tude." Vast crowds were present at
the Passover. In the time of Nero a
census was taken and it was ascer
tained that there were 2,700,000
Jews present at this feast. "Gar
ments in the way." An Oriental
mark of honor at the reception ot
kings on their entrance into cities.
"Branches from the trees." This
was a demonstration of their joy.
Carrying palm and other branches
was emblematical of success and vic
tory. 9. "Hosanna." Hosanna is a ren
dering into Greek letters of the He
brew words, "Save, we pray" (Psa.
118:25). It Is like a shout of "Sal
vation! Salvation!" It is used as an
expression ot praise like "Hallelu
jah!" The disciples rejoiced and
praised God with a loud voice (Luke
19:37, 38), and the Pharisees with
unconcealed disgust asked Him to re
buke them. But Jesus replied, If
these should hold their peace the
stones would immediately cry out.
Jesus here grants His people a li
cense to rejoice and shout His
praises. "The Son of David." A
common expression for the Messiah.
"In the highest." In the highest de
gree; in the highest strains; in the
highest heavens.
10. "Was moved." "Was stirred."
R. V. The word in the original is
forcible, "convulsed" or "stirred" as
by an earthquake, or by a violent
wind. The same Greek word is used
by Matthew (8:24) to express the
effect of a violent tempest upon the
waters of the Sea of Galilee. The
multitude was greatly excited. "Who
is this?" Well may we, as wel! as
they, ask this question. 11. "This
is Jesus." And thus He is the Sa
viour, the deliverer (Matt. 1:21).
"The prophet of Nazareth." That
prophet referred to by Moses (Deut.
18:18).
III. Cleansing the temple (vs. 12,
13). 12. "Into the temple." This
was the next day, Monday. See
Mark 11:11-15. Jesus and His dis
ciples went back to Bethany on Sun
day night. This was the second
cleansing of the temple; one of HU
first public acts, three years before
this, was to purge His Father's house
(John 2:13-17). "Cast out." In
the first instance He used a "scouree
of small cords," now His word is suf
ficient.
13. "It is written." In lea. 56:
7; Jer. 7:11. "A den of thieves."
The business was right enough in it
self, but they had perverted the use
or the Lord s house, and were rob
bing the people by charging extor
tionate prices. They were destroy
ing the very spirit of true worship.
IV. Christ's popularity (vs. 14
17). 14. "He healed them." In
tho presence of all the people He per
formed most wonderful cures. He
now shows the proper ubb of the
temple. 15. "Were sore displeased."
The leaders saw that they were un
able to check His growing popularity.
Even the children were taking up
the strain and were singing His
praises.
16. "Hearest Thou what these
say?" They were anxious to have
Christ rebuke them, but, instead.
Jesus quotes from Psa. 8:2 to show
that even this was tn harmony with
the Scriptures. 17. "To Bethany."
They again return to Bethany to
lodge.
Has No Use For Mail-Order Citizens.
Addressing a meeting of retail
merchants in Jefferson City a few
days ago Governor Folk, of Missouri,
said: "We are proud of our splendid
cities, and we want to Increase in'
wealth and population, and we also
want our country towns to grow.
We wish the city merchants to build
up, but we also desire the country
merchants to prosper. I do not be
lieve in the mall-order citizen. If a
place is good enough for a man to
:lve lu and to make his money in,
it's good enough for hira to spend
lis money in. No merchant can
lucceed without advertising in one
ray or another. Pa,tj-pnUe your own
papers, build them up, and they
rill build the town up in increased
xade and greater opportulttes. Do
lot be afraid that business is going
a be hurt by the recent, exposures ot
srrong-dolng in the commercial
world."