MIDDLEBUEG POST. A SUNSHINY WOMAN. the always seems so pleasant that I Often wonder what good fairy. By magic cf some wand's flat. Decreed her mxla and manners any; Bvnd smiles I marvel much thereat When care's gr at cross Is hers to carry. Tet, be dull grief or gladness present. She hath the urt ! tot mlng iilmsant. To beauty slight would be her claim, ' Likewise to grace and lofty station. And, though she bears an honored nan. Her heart ne'er felt that quick pulsa tion That comes with picking- fruits of fame And earning critics' eweet oblation. Her placid life hath known no wimple. Vet smiles keep e'er her cheeks a-dtmple. I think the fat. s fairies must Have, when with graces they endowed her. Pethnuuht how beauty Hies as dust And fame tintli crumble Into powder, TVhile Mr.il, s mi, and, being Just, This printer c it. an all allowed her A grace must mi.i1 In i"' en or peasant. The nr.e f nlv,.iv l.rlrtg l.ns;int! Key Farr.'ll Crcne, In Minneapolis 1 '.. . ,.. r. CGX-.;:77ED TO THE DEEP. :o:q:o:o:g::::: i; . ' i. UHOl K. T ii ; "l a i in i ; jinrlcil, "Y IV llr." :,L; i; 'Jcsk il'lilal..' "WhntV ll.' "Dllll'lln. t if. "L'Miai t h ; i "No, sir. .ut lie cnlnc ali.:l'i cl.eil. all'l put Lis ii.H.f. sir. 10," lie re-ities.-like brevity. dl up fi'mii his m. iter with liim'.'" riicummciii bud,"' . I SII1IIM'V'' asick. Queer when stenlav, I thought. lleen in 1m i iiny. Wouldn't let me get him aiiyl liim; --lill just now he MsUeil nit: to Icii li you." "No. 10, you say? All right." The ftcwanl withdrew, and the doc tor only dcliivcil to linish the iirst paragraph of a letter he had been writing when he was interrupted. It was not precisely an urgent lct ter, for he had no intention of doing anything with it until the ship ar rived lit Liverpool; but it was a let ter that required a deal of consider ation, anil, though he was in most things phlegmatic, he was impatient to have it all ready to post immedi ately he lam'ei!, for it was to con-' tain much, that he know he could not possibly put into speech, and it was to tell the recipient that he wnuld arrive lets than half a day behind it. Few of the passengers were, in bed yet, for the night was young; the ea was quiet and the outer air pleasantly warm, and through the rhythmic throbbing of the engine he "ould henr Clint rcring and laughter and, footsteps pacing overhead' as he '-vrnao'e his vfctr hc-tVeon decks to -hjj-1 patient.. s j Ihe lamp that shone from the wall liim a haggard man .' .. li'MiU apparently i man- not much lii features were i-i wiili hard living il.er. and his hands as with manual cm !cpt uneasily, and his stertorous and dihV was tailing this he coughed and of Xo. IT, show utretelied on tl asleep. lie was a y.m over :,i, anyv.a iratint : ll I i::ir and viivr!, wra Were c..;, i-Cil'-il ploymi nt ;. lie breathing was cult. While the doctor preliminary survey awoke. "Steward:" "I'm I he doctor. You sent for me. What's wrong'.'"' "Oh, thanks. I don't know, doctor, I've felt awfully knocked tip for days past, and thought I could throw it oil- but I can't. My head's nil afire, and mv hands, too. Feel that." The doctor took his hand and laid a finger on his pulse. The hand was hot and dry, the pulse was galloping furiously and a brief examination was sufficient to diagnose his ail ment. "A touch of pneumonia," Bald Ynldcn. "You must take more care pf yourself than you've been doing lately. Yon were not fit to travel; you must have felt ill before you started." "I wanted to get home," the other answered, wearily. "I've been away a long time." "We must see what we can arrange about nursing," the doctor concluded. "I'll give you some medicine; you've pot a good constitution, and, with care, you'll pull round all right." "Think so?" "Oh, yes. He mustn't be left, Harrow." The doctor turned to the steward. "Somebody will have to sit tip with him to-night. I'll see him iigain before I turn in; and I'll get the captain to let you have ns bistanee." After fulfilling which latter duty he retired to his cabin and resumed the laborious composition of his letter. A glimpse of what he was writing would have amazed any man who knew him. l'or to everybody who knew him, with one possible excep tion, 1'r. Yahh'ti was a matter-of-fact, rather unsympathetic, wholly unroinantie man, of nearer ."0 than 10; whereas the letter that was slow ly developing under his pen might almost have been written by a senti mental youngster in the rapturous agonies of Iirst love. Nobody would have credited i!,e doctor with pos sessing the smallest streak of senti ment anywhere in his robust, sub stantial person. He never suspected it himself even until three years ago. Three years ago he met in London the girl he told himself he had been looking for till his life. She was nearly 20 years his junior, but what did that matter? Her people had been rich and proud, and now, through recent financial disasters, hey were poor and pxonder, btrt ivhat did all that matter either? He oved her, and cared for nothing else f bhe could only love him. lie had been impelled to tell her to; for hit ingrained hardness and telf-reatraint had (ailed him at the Irst touch of this bewildering pas lion that, ao long a-coming, subdued ftim utterly at last. She heard him with pfty in her eyes, but not lore; nd she told him, with only pity in her tones, that the man she loved was dead and hr heart was burled with Vim. Later, he learned the story that lay behind her words, and saw more hope In it for himself than she had given him, for surely his living love of her could, in due time, win her away from the memory of a dead rival. Ileginning to flatter himself that she was already relenting toward him, he had appealed to her again before he last left home, and she had seemed to waver she silenced him trem ulously and had seemed to hesitate; and feeling that each new day put a new barrier between her and her past and removed one from betwixt himself and her. he would not lake her answer then, hut begged her to think of all it mii-t mean to him and let him a-k her fur it, once for all, when l.e came from his next voyage. lie a- speeding homeward now, and ti e Idler was to prepare her for his ci.lllillg. He wrote it with so many pauses for re'!eeii..n il.at by ten o'clock it was still iinliid lied when, mindful of his patient, ho n locked it in his desk. No. HI was awake, but drowsy with sheer weakness. "The chest's still troublesome," he answered, with a feeble cheerfulness, "but I'm a trifle better, thanks." The doctor was not so sure of that.. "We've got to keep your strength up somehow," he said; adding to the steward, "iict some beef tea for him, Harrow. I'll slay here while you're gone." The dim, stuffy little cabin was si-' lent for awhile, except for the la bored respiration of the sick man, who presently, becoming aware of the doctor's ruminant scrutiny, rncfd himself to speak. "If I don't pull through this, doc tor " "Don't worry about that; you will." '1 In t if I don't I'm not afraid of dying. I've been near it too often for that; and yet, now, it seems harder; than it ever did before." I "You'd better not talk. I don't want you to excite yourself." "Not rue! What I mcun is, it would be hard luck to die on the way home I've been away nearly nine years. Ii went away as poor as a rat, and I'm going back rich. That's something, Isn't it?" "It's a great deal." "To me it is, I didn't go out just because I'd got the gold fever. It's out- to - the - ZJondiJce-. J'ye - been, doctor; away beyond Dawson City, np the Yukon LordI it's the kind of country you see .In nightmares. I've been seeing it over and over In night mares ever since I've been ill." "Don't think of it " "I wish I couldn't:" He laughed, but there was a feverish brightness in his eyes, and his voice quavered with suppressed excitement. "I haven't had time to think of it till now." He went on talking, and Yalden lis tened absently, with strange doubts troubling his mind; and, so listening, ho half-unconseiously fashioned from the other's words visions of vast snow wastes stretching into the night or the day, now silent and lonely as death, now blurred, and whirling and howling with the fury of a storm, and, always deep in the desolation of it, a desperate little band of adven turers struggled forlornly, chasing a dream, starving, and falling, and dy ing, some of them, in the track of it; and here, at last, with the unimag inable terrors of that bleak wilder ness left behind him, one of the few survivors had emerged triumphant, with his dream realized. Triumphant, so far. The doctor eyed him gloomily from under a frown. "And I'm not dead yet, though I'm supposed to be!" the other chuckled grimly. "One everlasting, terrible winter we were snowed np miles away from anywhere, and we were put down as done for. The wonder is that we were nor. Only two of us managed to worry through, and we wandered Heaven only knows where, and we lived well, wo didn't live. Hut we worried through and I'm going home." His eyes closed and he rambled on dreamily: "Nine years! but she'll be waiting. I told her that it wouldn't be more than two and she said, 'It's till you come, Ned; and if you never come I shall wait, till I meet you, at the end.'" He lay quiet a minute, and then opening his eyes and finding the doe tor regarding him intently, he con tinued: "We've never written to each other. We promised her people we wouldn't. She was to be free to change if she would: they said it was best. I had no money and no prospects, but if I went back n rich man and she had not changed. I knew she never would. Whether I lived or died, she said she would never chnnge and she won't." . "Did you say your name was Edwin Ashton?" The doctor was startled by the alien sound of his own voice. The sick man nodded, and, pointing across the cabin: "Uer portrait's in my bag, doctor," he said. "Do you mind getting it for me? My will's in there, too. I made it as soon as I struck my first luck, in case. Oh, what I wanted to ask you, doctor, was if I don't pull round, will you bar my bag and rerythlng sent her? TouH find her id dress " "Yes, yes. But not now," Yalden nUrrupted harshly. "You've talked w much already. Come tlong, Barrow," he hailed the advent )f the steward with ineffable relief. 'Call me if he is worse in the night." He was dazed and stupefied by the tnowledge that had come upon him to unexpectedly, and yearned to get tway and be alone where he might think of it. Yet he could not think of it even when he was alone, for every thought is it touched his brain flamed into madness and became an incoherent Kicker that dazzled and baffled him. One thought only burned to a clear ind fiercely steady blaze a sinister, hellish thought that he dared not face and could not distinguish. "My God!" he muttered, pacing his cramped room like a caged animal. "It's more than I can bear!" He lost all count of time, as n man does when he sleeps, but when the steward summoned him hurriedly an hour after midnight he had evident ly not been in bed; a light was burn ing in his cabin, he was still dressed, and his frioe was wan and his eyes heavy as if he were in pain. "Mr. Ashton's worse, sir. Kdwards Is with him, mid called me to fetch you. He can't sleep. Keeps sitting up, l'dwnrds says, staring as if he could see people, tin' talking very sing'Iar. Delirious, 1 expect, sir." "We must try a sleeping draught," said Yalden dully. "I'll be there di rectly." Harrow being gone, he busied him self in the medicine cupboard, and hastened after him, carrying some thing in a glass. Drawing near to No. 10 he cotihl hear the sick man babbling monoton ously, and the very sound of his voice stung him and quickened that lire of hell to a fiercer llttnie within him; till sin' v he caught a word of what tin' man was saying merely a name, but the utterance of it checked him instantly, as if a hand had plucked at his sleeve. He stood trembling, and in that same instant saw, shaping white in the darkness before him, a sweet, sad face, grown pale with weary years of longing the pure, wistful eyes looked into his, and their calmness calmed him, and their sadness made him ashamed. He was sane again; he could not go on, but yielded to gentler impulses as readily as if the utterance of her name had conjured her there in very reality to turn him back, and he had regained his better self in her pres ence. With a something breoking like a sob in his throat, he swiftly retraced his steps, pausing in the unlighted saloon to open one of the portholes and fling the glass he carried far out into the dark. - Tveoitw, -ks-asfc-tiM wctf vinto the day watching and tending the man she loved nnd had loved so long. He shrank from trusting himself alone with his own thoughts again yet; and, because she loved him and her happiness was bound up in his life, all that unhappy night he fought with death for the man he hated. Going on deck in the morning ho leaned over the side to tear up the letter he had written and scatter its fragments into the sea. It was the burial of a great hope that had died in the night. As he walked away, the captain, coining from breakfast, met him and lingered to make inquiries. "'.Morning, doctor; how's the pa tient'.' You're not going to make a funeral of it, I hope?" "Not quite," Yalden laughed care lessly. "He has taken a turn for tbo better." l'.lack and White. 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Were lacil In Connection With ItrllKloim Kite of lalnm nnd Destroyed tty Spaniard. In Spain, while the Moors were in the ascendancy, luxurious hot hatha were established, says Medical Talk. They were used in connection with the religious rites of Islam. The Is lamites were required to bathe fre quently. The manner of bathing was as follows: After undressing, the bather is wrapped in a woolen coat, sandals are put on, and he walks to the hot bath. After a thorough hot bath, all parts of the body are rubbed. The soles of the feet are rubbed with pumice stone, then the body is annointcd with oil and sprinkled with perfumed pow ders. ,hen the Moors were driven out of Spain, the first thing the people did was, to destroy the Moorish bath houses. This was clone because of religious prejudice against the Moors. It was a bad thing for Spain, however, from a physical standpoint, as that country has been noted ever since for its wunt of personal cleanliness and the entire absence of the facili ties for bathing. Curlou I.o nnd Recovery. At King Edward's coronation the duchess of liuccleuch lost a bracelet in a singular manner. It had become n'tached to a lady's dress, was folded away with the garment and not seen until the unconscious finder had been away for a holiday and had the robe out again. That, however, is com monplace compared with the experi ence of an English clergyman. A ring which was an heirloom in his family was stolen from his keeping. Xothing was heard of it for eighteen years. Then it turned up inside a glove at a bazaar in New Zealand promoted by a relative of the original ownrr. It had passed from hand to hand and finally been left in one of the Angers of the glove which had been sent to be sold. T TEST NT-W JERSEY GAM'hXX Phtladelphlan Fined $143.40 For Carry ing Rabbits Out ef the State. Camden, N. J., Nov.' 17. Former Judge Carrow instituted certiorari pro ceedings in the Camden county court to compel Justice of tho Peace Barr to show cause for lining Dr. J. H. O'Con jaort of Philadelphia $143.40 for carry ing game but of New Jersey" " This case is practically a test of the constitutionality of tho Jersey game law prohibiting gunners from tarrying their prey out of the state. Dr. O'Con nor wps arrested in the ferry Klip on Saturday by Wan sin-I Post, game war dens, and Fcven rabbits liRving been fuutid in a piu-haire he carried ho was j talieti before Just lee Parr and fined. The iloetcir Immediately retained I Ji!i!:-'i ("arrow to he::in proeei'din'.-t t') j recover the an. mint of his fines, lie says i!:.it he was ni'Tciy a common car rier ruirl had been asked by Ilobirt Delaney, an Atlantic City hotelkeeper, to cany the rabbits to a Mr. Murphy at the Hotel Sott in Philadelphia. Tho outcome of the trial will be eagerly watched by sportsmen. The law In question has created n great deal of discussion in sporting circles, and its defeat would bring joy to the hearts of many an ardent gunner who has been obliged to rat or dispose of his luck In New Jersey. lmpucnLed. Downing ten tne city a week ago, ostensibly to go to Suffolk to raise funds with which to pay off part of his indebtedness. He has not been seen since he departed, nor is there any evidence that he went to Suffolk at all. He leaves a wife and two children here. SITES FDR ZION"CITIES Cowle Is OJfarad 4,0D0,QC0 Acre For One and Another. Near New York. Chicago, Nov. 16.-"I have Just re ceived an offer of 4.000,000 acres of land on. which to build another ZIon City, but the site must bo kept secret at present." said John Alexander llov.le, s!Hing.tnJliIs followers la Shlloh TabcnuieWrton City. "What is more," Dowle continued, "I have an oh'er of 10,000 acres of land within 35 n.iles of Now York city for the same purpose. That docs not look as if the New York trip failed, does it? I nm goinc; abroad January 3, after men and money," h said. "When I get back in June I will have planned a number of Ziuns. Then all Zion will start its work for building up Jeru salem. " ROBBED BILTMORE ESTATE The Cashier and Timekeeper Indicted For Embezzling $11,000. Ashevillo, N. C, Nov. 17. Daniel C. Champlain, former mayor of Bilt more and cashier of the Uiltmore es tate, and Ctcorge II. Tennant, hereto fore timekeeper for the estate, were indicted by tho grand Jury of the Su pnrier Court for embezzlement of $11, 000 of the funds from George W. Van derbllt. lloth men have left the state and their whereabouts are unknown. The finding of the grand jury is the result of Investigations which have been conducted for tho last two months. When the rumors of pecu lation of the estate moneys were first tarted a general denial was made at the offices. The sudden return of Mr. Vanderhllt from Europo and the em ployment of expert accountants to examine the books are said to have resulted in open charges being made against tho men, who were dismissed from Mr. Vandorbllt's employ for "vio lating tho regulations of the office." Tho master of liiltmoro mado no effort to prosecute the offenders, but at tho Bpoclal terra of the criminal court last month Fred Hull, expert accountant, and E. J. Harding were summoned bo fore the grand jury. BANK CASHIER MISSING J. H. Downing, of Portsmouth, Con fesses Shortage and Disappears. Portsmouth, Va., Nov. 17. John H. Downing, cashier of tho Portsmouth Dime Saving Dank, Is missing and the board of directors of the Institution are In possession of his confession to defalcations extending over a compara tively recent period. There has been no run on the bank. Downing was bonded by a Baltimore company for $5000. The shortage was first suspected two weeks ago, and an investigation was made. Downing was confronted with the facta ' and acknowledged having used the bank's money. It la under stood that another outside party Is Resigns Pulpit to Go Into Business. Pittsburg. Pa., Nov. Ifi. Kev. Rich ard S. Holmes, for 1C years pastor of the Shadyside Presbyteriau Church, one of the leading churches of that denomination In the city, has tendered his resignation, to take effect Juno 30, 1904. Mr. Holmes will not discuss his action further than to say that ho in tends to go into business after his re tirement from the pulpit. Rev. Holmes was prominently before the last gen eral assembly as a candidate for mod erator and for many years has stood high In church cttrlcs. Mad Dog Ran Amuck. Harrisburg, Nov. 17. A dog suppos ed to be mad ran amuck through the streets of Steelton and Lochlel, and Is said to have bitten a dozen people, three in Lochlel and the others in Steelton and along the pike as it fled, pursued by a crowd. AH of the vic tims were bitten in the hands and one will be sent to Pasteur Institute. Sev en dogs bitten by the mad animal will bt killed, but the rabid dog escaped in a swamp. FOUND DEAD IN BATHROOM Chevalier Petich, Ex-Italian Ambassa dor to Mexico, Died of Apoplexy. New York, Nov. It!. In the bath room of his home in Ninth avenue was found the body or Chevalier Luigl Petich, former ambassador of Italy to Mexico. He had been dead for three days, and apoplexy is said to have been thecause of death. Chevalier Petich, who was 03 years old, was a man of many attainments, a scientist, Inventor nnd scholar, but withal a recluse. Only one person of the neigh borhood in whicltKT'tived is known to have ever taljid withthe chevalier. Chevalier Petich can ts the United States a few ye,arjBgoVith the in. tendon of recouping mt fortunes so that he might go tjf Bustos Ayres, where his wife Is Ilvfng 'A dispossess notice was served upon him last Wed nesday. Among his effects wars found a small amount of money, a Jeweled sword and chapeau and a handsomely engrossed set of resolutions euloglstlo of tho chevalier, signed bf 100 dele gates of a diplomatic convention held In Antwerp in 1886. Health Articles. Rclijicu? A- . Children's P.tj,. . N Sample Copies of 1'hr v, Companion will be - :;: apy address im-. M yThe New Subscriber whocJ out and sends this slin .,J . -J .. ..... . K '1 9i.s or i ne month's Cm panion for 1904 will recent addition all the remaininjti$sJ of 1903 from the time olsj scrlptlon TREE, IncluJinj i Double Holiday Numbers-ai The Companion Calendar I 1904, lithographed in 12 cob and gold. ! New Subscriptions Received a this Office. THE YOUTH'S COW BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, Schroyer & Smyse fire insurance AGENTS. Represent only flrot-elass.StnckJ panies liiguung Clause aud 'Ihreshlng permit granted. We are commissioned by i Canies- to issue policies usluess at our omce stun office. All business entrusted to oar I will be promptly attended to by or otherwise. OFFICE CHESTNUT STRE In behroyer s KuiMing, uwirM SKLIXStillOVK, Knyder County. PES IDE 99 iAfAOBtaraamflwi A J ituMt quickly arm u . cmt. W train fliml'ii'-1 . wiifittlif-m truim-l. It -i- -im. ton. (Jnoil pay Jul; jHMth" . , ull irrfttluatt'M. or inuin v pfin.!- Illiist mtt-iT cntulntftn n:- t'HM Eastern Brfauul of Tflrrraph. H i i Uta Stesr, Bull or Horse hid- Cali sL::i. V-: -m m skin, or any other l:ind Li of hidu cr ;:a, r.tii! ! .t 3 us tan it with the ha.r fj. on, soft, licrht. ocor...T. andmoth-proof.forrobe, p rug, coat or gtoves. But first get ctir Cntatoiriie, giving prices, end ourshipping tags and instructions, so as to avuiu iuisuikcs. Ul&U UUJf (T. raw furs and ginseng. ' -J THE CROSBY FRISIAN FUR tw 116 Will Street, Kotneiltf.Kli Xo. 7003. Trcasurr Department (Offia i troller of the'Currcna Washington, D. C, OA Whereas, By satisfuctorjcl presented to the uudersignw been made to appear that "E National Bank of Swineford, In the Village of gwinefort County of Snyder, and .State sylvanla, has complied nit provisions of the Statutes oftl States, required to be eoniF before an association shall M ed to commence the busim1 Inc. Now, therefore I. Thomas Deputy aud Acting Coiupt Currency, do hereby certify j First National Bank of s located In the village of S' the Couutv of Snvder. State' sylvauia, is authorized to the business of Banking as p' Rectlon Flftv One Hundred' Nine of the Revised Statu 1c testimony whereof band and seal of this offlM teenth day of October, 1903. rsEAL.1 . T.Ti Deputy and Acting Conip' Currenne. V