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So— srs .
SEND SUT THE SUNLIGHT
Shine on earth’s sadnpess-till ills disappear==
Souls are in waiting this message to hear.
end cut the sunlight in letter and word;
Speak it and think it till hearts are all
stirrel—
Hearts that are hungry for prayers still un-
x heard, :
-
fend out the sunlight each hour and each
day, Rn
«Crown all the years with its luminous ray;
Nourish the seeds that are sown on the way,
Bend out the sunlight! ’tis needed on earth,
Better than gold in its wealth- riving worth!
‘fend cut the sunlight on riclf and on posr—
Silks sit in sorrow, and tatters endure—
_All need the sunlight to strengthenand cure.
end out the sunlight that speaks in a smile,
«Often it shortens the lonz, weary mile,
«Often the burdens seem light for a while,
Send out ths sunlight —the spirit’s real gold!
“Give of it freely—this gift that's unsold;
Shower it down on the young and the oidl
Bend out the sunlight, as free as the air!
Blessings will follow, with none to compare,
spair!
Bend “out the sunlight, youn have it in you!
«Clonds may obscure it just now from. your
view,
Pray for its presence!
come true.
* ==Ellen Dare, in the Metropolitan,
Your prayer will
A Race Between Tongue and
Hoof,
OU want anything?’
in a decidedly tersely
tone, was the greeting
old Joel Gringer gave
the tall young school-
master, who stood
fumbling the latch of
the front gate.
That wasn't the
. right way to encourage
/ = the - young man, and
¢ "shrewd Joel Gringer
knew Tt. Te wanted to make him go
through the torture of telling him plainly
‘that he had come to see his daughter so
that he could put an end to the thing
then and there. :
¢Hm! I—I—just wanted to know if
Miss—hm—hm-—is at home,” and. the
“young fellow relieved hisnervousness by
«digging up the gravel walk with his left
“toe.
¢¢] thought your business was to teach
the children to speak the English lan-
guage, and here you can’t do anything
but him and haw. I’m at home, and so
Anything else?”
“No, sir,” with a loud ahem; ¢‘I was
_ just going up the road to Mr. Mason's,
and I wanted to know if the family were
all well—that’s all.” And the bashful
young fellow seemed to have found his
‘wits somewhere, for he turned coolly
AWAY. :
The old farmer's eyes were not so sharp
as he prided himself they were, or he
“might have seen the flutter of something
white, three distinct times, from the nar-
rowest opening in the blinds above, and
have guessed why the young man was so
“easily satisfied.
He watched the straight, lithe young
form until it seemed only a shadow
_against Neighbor Mason's barn.
**Gone on to Mason's,” was his gruff|
answer to his wife's questioning look.
+:Only wanted to inquire after the health’
-of the family. 8’pose he thinks the dees-
trick is assessed to pay him for goin’
round an’ doin’ that—ha, hal We'll see
how his fractions will. work in this
house. Much good it will ‘do him to
talk it over with John Mason,the old—"
¢¢Sh— 1” hissed cautiously into his
«ear, and a warning finger told him to
leave uncomplimentary references to the
neighbor—with whom he had been em-
broiled in a bitter lawsuit, and between
whose farms a ‘‘devil’s lane” prevented
any joining of line fences—unsaid.
4¢There’s Mason's hired man again,
“Well”? :
¢+The old man sent me over to say
them there hogs o’ yourn’s been into the
back cornfield ag’in an’ he won’t turn
“em out t1ll doomsday nor let me. They're
there yit an’ making the interest on
£5000 fly like sixty—that's what the old
aman lows the field’ll fetch him. = Better
not take that there pup along, had yet?
Hi! wait till I can get out!”
The last exclamation was caused by
preparations for unchaining the huge
bulldog Growler; and Ben Stone made
.one leap over the fence.’ = .
s¢Said my say out.
witnesses enough, I reckon, tothe scrim-
mage there'll be. Laws! but there’ll be
smash to pay for to-night, sures my
mname’s Ben Stone.”
In a hollow in the road, not twenty
rods from Joel Gringer’s house, the thick
green turf by the wayside served as a
cushion for the feet of two restive steeds
that would stamp at the troublesome
fies. The nervy fellows—two of the
anost tireless travelers John Mason's sta-
ble could boast—champed their bits rest-
lessly and tossed heir heads.
Adown the green, thorny breastwork
that defended Jodl Gringer’s possessions
from the Wayside grazers fhtted a slight
figure, crouching and. halting, and then
darting swiftly forward toward the little
dell which seemed to be the rendezvous
sought.
$4]s that you, Nannie?’ a hoarse, ex-'
«cited whisper met her a few rods distant
from the horses.
¢:Sh—] Yes; but do let us hurry!
Tm afraid every minute those hogs
haven't done justice to the obstinacy of
heir nature, and, father—" :
s«Well, give me your foot, and off we
' .go. We'll show Joel Gringer whether I
‘am competent to teach a girl addition.”
¢sAnd are you sure the preacher un-
derstands?
« &t8ure, darling, he's to be at Brother
Btillwell’s to-night, on his way to the
Kildeer appointment. Now, old fel-
“dows, do your best. | Lh
two fleet coursers, like two weil mated
He'n the dog's |
2
neck and nostril to nostril skimmed the
birds of flight.
Away back on’ the last ridge, a mile
or more away, the moonlight glistens on
something bright—a silver plated buckle
or saddle decoration—and then there
comes a clear, ringing sound, as when
steel strikes flint.
As the clatter of the hoofs rang down
the road past John Mason’s two unusual
night incidents might have been wit.
nessed, the gleam of a light across the
fields swaying and flickering as though
carried by an excited, unsteady hand, and
a man leaning against the door of John
Mason's stables, whittling a stick and
musing over something which evidently
pleased him much. ¢‘He, hel I never
helped take them out of here. Can't
prove it by me who's takin’ to stealin’;
h’ain’t I been behind the haystack tryin’
to hammer the bung in that barrel?
There's one consolation; if them there
horses have to go fur, the've been well
fed an’ every shoe is as sound as a trigger
—ha, hal”
¢¢He's coming! Oh, hurry, Dick! W
cannot reach Mr. Stilwell's in time;
it's—"
«Three miles yet, and—"
«You know Fleetwood's gait; Mr.
Mason never had a horse that could out-
run him, What shall we dot Ob, if
only we were—"'
«Married, and I could call you my
own; thea I would not run a step, but
conld defend my right to you in the eyes
of the law. = Listen! what's that ahead?”
«The Corners are just down there, you
know, and some one may be coming on
the cross-road.”
«That is the direction from which the
preacher comes. What if it should be
__But no; he's going straight ahead
of us. Yes, there he turns! Whip up
and let’s overtake him.”
A quarter of a mile; half a mile; three-
quarters. The sound of hoofs in both
directions are growing distinct.
y ¢Call him, Richard! He may stop.
Oh, if it only is!”
«But your father will hear, too, and
hasten! Hello, there? Waki”
In a moment the overtaken party was
seen, sure enough, to be the very preacher
they were riding hard and fast to find.
But while the situation was being -ex-
plained, the footsteps of the pursuing
horse were heard close by, and in a min-
ute another ‘“Hello!” rang on their ears,
hoarse and infuriated: ¢‘Stop!l stop, I
command youl. Young man, I'll horse.
whip you on the spot if you don’t give
me my daughter?”
The two looked at each other in de-
spair, But the preacher, backwoods-
man that he wag, was ‘a man of wit and
resources, and of heart as well,
‘Keep on,” said he quietly, ‘and ride
as fast as you can. Join your hands and
sit firm in your saddle when I tell you.
I have it all on the top of my tongue.”
Clatter, clatter—clink, clink! rang the
sharp hoof beats! Nearer and nearer
they came together; but the word’srolled
off the preacher's lips, as he rose and
sank in his stirrups, faster than the speed
of the racers. :
Nearer. and nearer sped Fleetwood
until his hoarse panting almost drowned
the preacher's words. But a few rods
separated them.
_¢¢Join your right hands,” came the
sharp command.
«Halt, I command you, in the name
ofem? a Ta
. ¢4Pyt spurs. Foreasmuch as Richard
W. Anderson and Annie Gringer have
consented to—" .
© Hold up there! I'm an officer of the
law!” demanded another voice, drown-
ing the rest of the preacher's ‘‘foras-
much.” :
But the wild wedding party dashed
forward, and the preacher's lips worked
fast.
«In the name of the Father—”.
s«¢Halt, or you suffer the penel—"
¢¢And of the Son and—"
st(Give me my daughter, you villian.”
¢tAnd of the Holy Ghost, I pronounce
that they are husband and wife. Amen.”
. There was & halt then, and explana.
tions that disarmed ‘the man of the law
and sent old Joel Gringer back to his
belated supper with vain cursings of his
luck.
The supper at Stilwell's was flavored
with pleasanter reflections, and Ben
Stone had many an opportunity to won-
der aloud in his sly way:
«How under the sun them hogs ever
did git into old man Mason's cornfield
jest when Dick Anderson wanted to steal
Joel Gringer's daughter,” —New York
Press.
The Greatest Eaters.
The Korean is the greatest eater in
the world, and, more than any other man
inthe world, he lives to eat,” The aver-
age man the country over eats anything
he can get his teeth on, and he will take
chance. :
I had sixteen chair-bearers in a trip
which I took into the interior, and these
bearers stopped at every village and at
almost every house to rest and feed.
They would dart off, one by one, into
fields of turnips by the wayside, and for
the next half-mile would go along eating
raw turnips.
The bigger a man's stomach is in
Korea, the more wealthy he is supposed
to be. Some of the wealthy ones wear
bustles over their stomachs, in order to
increase the size of theirfronts, and the
King usually makes a present of food to
those who have audience with him.—
Yankee Blade.
renner REI rene,
A Monster Building.
The great cathedral in the City of
Mexico is the largest in America, and
cost nearly $2,000,000. Its foundation
was laid by the Spaniards in 1573 on the
site of an old Aztec pyramid, and the
building was finished in 1667, Against
its western wall leans the celebrated
séOalendar Stone,” covered with hiero-
A cast of this remarkable work of an.
tiquity was exhibited at the New, Orlear
Patter, patter! click, cli
‘Exposition of 1884-1885
a dozen meals a day if he have the |:
glyphics and weighing twenty-five tons. | test,
POPULAR SCIENCE.
A great deal of indigestion is due to
the foolish drinking of icewater at every
meal.
Virginia, Maryland ard North Caro-
lina each has two species of lizard pro-
vided with three eyes.
STATE BASE BALL LEAGUE,
burg of the murder of Wm. Miller. «=
by falling slate. -
an incline at Derry a coupling broke an
John Nagle was instantly killed.
Seranton k
an Irishman and a negro.
meeting., White is still at lar ge.
someone used buckwheat ins
crop of the grain has sprung up.
Thiel college.
H. Dill, President of the defunct
the U. 8. Court at Pittsburg,
ty Mr. Dill's friends and
by doing so they lose all they had in
$100,000 capital.
Mr. Dill and bis friends just $100,300.
instances have been ruined.
in some localities, itis feared, will go.
OSSIFICATION, as the
some years 2zo to extreme cold
Speer, aged 72.
burned to the ground.
with very little insurance.
Mills, Pa. the largest plant in
store were destroyed. The total
reach $250,000; insurance, $30,000:
him three horses; a hack, a carriage
of the stable.
to Jonnsonburg.
paid board bill,
bushels of grain and barrels of
burning a cooper mill, two dryin
and about 300,000 feet of lumber.
40,
without attention. He will die.
ieve Mr. Greenawald.
into an excavation.
to railroad companies.
Shen Pescione, Tecently arrivin
taly. The wedding will be’
week .
partially insured.
weeks.
1
from its effects.
a club that it is feared that he will die.
char,
daughter.
compelled the chil
nights in a stable.
side of Pittsburg.
ZACHARIAH JACKSON,
wounded.
Company near Uniontown.
| PEOPLE'S PARTY CONVENTION.
Ths Executive Committee Issues a Call
for Five Delegates Per County.
on Saturday and issued the following call:
To the People of Pennsylvania:
ne 22, 1892,
November election. In the absence of an
county would be a fair basis.
action of the St.Louis Convention to meet at
el
ernment from
ruption that have c
same by the D
years. :
Pittsburg... 5 0 1.000[Lebanon.... 2 3 .400 | by Siemens Brothers in 1878, fourteen
Harrisburg 3 2 .600|Danville.... 2 3 .400 | years ago.
Reading .... 3 3 .500/Altoone.....1 3 .250 Ld 2 .
Allentown. 3 3 .500Johnstown 1 3 .250 Dr. Tanner, of fasting fame, thinks
OLIVER SMITH was acqmitted at Greens
GEORGE WORKMAN, an employe of the
Mammoth mines, near Dunbar, was killed
WHILE a train of five cars was descending
the cars coming in contact with a mill at
the bottom were scattered in all directions.
THE cavile in of a water works trench at
illed three men yesterday--a Pole,
Thomas WHITE shot and instantly killed
John McHenry, a colored man, at the Wil-
low Grove school house, Rodgerville, Greene
county, Thursday, while attending a band
WHEN the faculty of the Grove City col-
lege plowed a lawn, intending to sow grass,
ad, and a fine
Mgrs. Jeremian Fritz, of Litchfield, who
died ‘last Monday, bequeathed $5,000 to
Tue embezzlement suits Sgaiust Rev. W.
Clearfield
Bank, which were to come up for trail in
were with-
drawn and the ex-bank President will leave
Pittsburg a comparative poor man, but freed
from the charges which imperiled his liber-
relatives will
make good all deposits and stock, githonsh
e
bank, which was $57,000 of stock out of the
This settlement will cost
THE recent rains have swollen the creeks
in various parts of Westmoreland county
and great damage has been wrought. Along
Sewickley creek the growing crops in many
Many of the
sinall bridges have been washed away, and
should the rains continue the county bridges
result of exposure
was the
cause of the death at New Castle of Isaac
At Milesburg, dwelling of Wm.Gassmyer,
with four other dwellings and a barber shop
Loss very heavy,
DoRFLINGER’S cut-glass factory- at White
the United
States, was destroved by fire. The loss will
reach over $100,000. Twelve large buildings
attached to the glass-works and O’Conner’s
loss will
NEISE ANDERSON, a Swede, a half partner
in the livery business with Burgess McIn-
tire, Johnsonburg, dissappeared,taking wi
an
some harnesses, comprising the whole outfit
He and his companion were
overtaken near Smethport and brought back
Anderson also leit an un-
Tur large grain warehouse of Gerberick,
Hale & Co., of Bellefonte contalning 40,000
200 flour,
was destroyed by fire. The fire spread to
the lumber yard of P. B. .Creder & Son,
‘sheds,
he loss
is estimated at $60,000, with an insurance of
SyrLvestEr Connerry cut his throat at
Beaver last Friday and lay nearly a week
. Frrperick Sooner, of Philadelphia, has
been appointed chief clerk in the audito:
eneral’s office at Harrisburg, and will re-
Tur borough of New Brighton was sued
by Henry M. Close, of Beaver Falls, for $15-
000 damages for injuries received by falling
ATToRNEY GENERAL HENSEY has given an
opinion to the governor that special police-
men cannot be appointed for street railway
companies. The law he says, only applies
CARMINE JULIANA, of Pittsburg, came fo
Lawrence county a few days ago and is said
to have paid $100 for the hand of Mar-
from
on Sunday, but
the wedding feast will progress. all *this
Tar Judge Brownfield mansion at Smith-
field, occupied by Mrs, E. Feather, daughter
and sister, was burned. The occupants nar-
rowly escaped. The loss is about $2,500,
THE Acme cocoa-matting mills, just out-
side of York, was destroyed by fire. Th
mill had only been in operation about three
Loss, $25,000 to $30,000; insured for
CHARLES MYERS, aged 63 years, a resident .
ot Mountville, while despondent, swatlowed
a quarter of a pound of paris green and died
James GrirrIN died at Johnstown, leaving
his property, $25,000,to the Catholic church.
His entire family was lost in the flbod.
During a row at Manordale, William
Glunt beat his brother David so. badly with
Daxier Carsox and wife, of Rochester are
d with cruelty to their three-year-old
It is alleged that the mother has
to spend days and
McKeesport issoon to have an $80,000
opera Douse. the finest in the county, out
: of Hollidaysburg,
while endeavoring to escape from Constable
Lyman, wasshot by the officer and fatally
Anam Fisurr was fatally injured by a fall
of slate in the mine of the Redstone Coke
The leaders of the Peoples’ party of Penn-
sylvania met in executive session at Indiana
In pursurance of the action of the State Executive
Committee, the undersigned hereby call a State
@ Court House at Frankiin
V or the purpose of
nominating a full Sta e ticket to be voted for at YH
esta)
lished basis for the representation for this first con.
vention, it is believed that five delegates from each
e hereby invite all
our fellow-citizens who believe in and indotse the
ontl Gov-
the mi-management, fraud and cor-
haracterized the conduct of the
emo-Republican party for the last 23
a ary 2 os 3 ¥
The trolley system of electric tram-
cars was infroduced in Berlin, Germany,
that to go without eating, for forty days
once every ten years would add to the
lifetime of man.
Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell, the Philadelphia
specialist and author, is said to be one
of the foremost living authorities on the
subject of snake poisons.
A German physician of some note has
given it out as his solemn conviction
that civilized man is gradually but surely
losing the sense of smell through dis-
use.
The true physiological method of
treating burns or scalds is to at once ex:
clude the air with cotton batting, flour,
scraped potato, varnish, white of an egg,
paste, or anything that is most quickly
obtained.
Dr. Daniel Brown, of New York City,
uses a new method of his own in apply-
ing bandages, and it 18 being favorably
received by the profession. His method
is to take the place of the roller bandage,
The injured part is wrapped with cotton,
or, if required, a splint is applied, and
then a single or double piece of cheeze-
cloth is sewed on.
For ten or twelve years. endeavors
have been made in Europe and America
to utilize the storage battery for the run-
ning of street cars; but each attempt
made or systemintroduced has developed,
or been accompanied with, serious ob-
jections and difficulties which have so
far prevented a practical success of a
storage battery car.
A fest has been made in California of
a mixture of ramie and wool in the
manufacture of cloth, It was perfectly
successful. The result: was a fabric
stronger and lighter than pure wool,
which, it is predicted, will take the
place of silk. Those who have labored
to introduce ramie culture in California
are greatly encouraged.
Dr. T. Potapenko, who has been in
Russian cavalry regiments for several
years, communicates to the Vrach some
remarks on the periodic ophthalmia of
horses which appears to be of malarial
origin; for on examining the blood of
affected animals he invariably found
both within and without the red corpus-
cles micro-organisms which appeared to
be identical with the plasmodia found in
the blood in malarial fever in the human
subject.
A simple mode of purifying water is to
sprinkle a tablespoonful of powdered
alum into a hogshead of water, stirring
the water at the same time. This will
precipitate all the impurities to the bot-
tom, after being allowed a few hours to
settle, and will so purify it that it will
be found to possess nearly all the fresh-
ness and clearness of the finest spring
water. A paltul containing four gal-
lons may be purified in this manner by
using no more than a teaspoonful of the
glum. : :
3 i
It Ticked Through the Revolution.
In an old-fashicned, low, Dutch style
stone house on the banks of the
Hudson, at Nyack, N. Y., is the home
straight as an arrow and unusually
SOLDIERS COLUMN
A NIGHT IN A STORE-ROOM.
Sharing Poor Quarters With Dorothy
L. Dix.
In the winter
of 1864-1865, the
Union forces were
concentrated in
front of Peters-
burg and Rich-
mond.
There was more
or less skirmish-
ing and fighting
all the while be-
tween the two
\ = great armies fa-
Ne
ve
fl
(7% S :
LR £ cing each other
N Bo No the last des-
= perate struggle.
= The hospitals
7 were overcrowded
sr = at City Point and
Point of Rocks. Every cot was occu-
pied, every tent was crowded, and the
thousands of troops coming down
quarted wherever they could find a
vacant place.
I had not been quartered in the ca-
bin of a steamer bound for City Point
very long till Miss Dorothy L. Dix
came in. After the usual greetings, she
informed me that she too ,was going
to City Point.
Miss Dix was the stateliest woman I
ever saw, and was very dignified in
mnnner and conversation.
Although at that time she was
about sixty years old, she was tall,
slender. Her hair,which was abundant
wus very dark brown, almost black,
and was combed and coiled on thre top
of her head, except two locks in front
which!were combed smoethly over each
ear and carried in a loop up over the
coil on top of her head. This peculiar
manner of dressing her hair seem to
add to her height and dignity. Her
dress was exceedingly plain, but neat,
and her linen collars and cuffs were
always immaculate. She wore mo
jewels, not even a breast-pin. She re-
quired the same degree of plainness on
the part of her nurses. /
It was not long after the boat left
the dock at Waghington till we had
passed Alexandria and Mount Vernon,
and were steaming on to Fortress Mon-
roe at the mouth of the Patomac, with
the ocean in full view. There was al-
ways a long stop at this point, as it
was not only a strong military station,
well fortfied and strongly guarded by
troops and gunboats,but it was = great
hospital center. Thousands of sick and
wounded lay sorely stricken in these
great barracks and tents by the sea.
It was about 9 o'clock that evening
when we reached City Point. We had
discussed the question of lodging be-
fore we left the boat, and Miss Dix had
said:
“I have no concern. There are al:
ways plenty of cots, and I'll find room
in some of the nurses’ tents,” and she
urged me to go with her.
But I was equally as confident, and
assured her that the Christian Com-
mission elways had a nice place for me,
with every accommodation, and I could
get to'my work earlier in the morning
if I lodged there, and so we separated,
each going her own way.
When I reached the quarters of the
of the Sarvents, a family whose de-
scendents have occupied it for over
two centuries. - The house is filled with
relics of ye ancient tyme, especially in
rusty old swords, flint locks, muskets,
caunon balls, grape and canister shot
and links of the iron chain which was
submerged across the Tappanzee during
the Revolution to prevent the passage of
the British ‘fleet to West Point. There
dre many other relics, but the most high-
ly prized of all is an eight-day clock
which rings out the hours as regularly
and keeps as splendid time as it did
when it was first placed in the old house
by Philip Sarvent in 1755, when he
bought it from Whitlock in New York
e | and conveyed it by sloop to his house,
The clock hasa history, as it ¢‘fit inter
the Revolution.” Twenty years after-
ward, when the old house was shelled by
settlers and patriots, the clock was con-
remained for over seven years.
/ .
now resides in the old.house. He was
sands, would tempt him or his children
to part with the relic.
equal to the task for another century.
—New York Advertiser.
eee ERs Vol
The First Iron Ship. |
The story of the first iron ship is told
by Mr. Lindsay in his work on ¢‘History
of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Com-
merce.” He writes,
Forge, near Bilston, about the year 1787,
vessel built of iron; and again in 1815,
boat on the Mersey.
he first iron boat that fic
New York Bun,
being
n salt wal
the British fleet -and the redcoats were
pillaging the homes of the honest Dutch
veyed back in the country to Clarkstown, |
and there buried under a barn, svhere if
Garrett Sarvent,a grand old patriarch
of eighty years, a grandson of Philip,
for many years Assessor and Mayor, and
widely known and highly respected
throughout Rockland County. Tn an
interview recently he declared that his
love and veneration for his grandfather's
clock and the historical associations con-
nected with it was so strong that no
amount of money, even if it was thou-
It has kept such
fine time for 187 years, and is possibly
$A steam vessel
was for the first time fitted into a vessel.
of iron; she was named the Aaron
Manby, and was constructed at the
‘Horseley Company’s Works for the joInt
account of Mr. Manby and Captain
Napier—afterward Sir Charles Napier.”
Mr. Grantham, in his work on ship-
building, describes an iron canal vessel
built bya Mr. Wilkinson, of Bradley
and this is believed to be an early in-
stance of a really working commercial
Thomas Jevons launched a small iron
* Bhe was built by
Joshua Horton, near Birmingham, and
fitted up at Liverpool, and is credited
wi ted
Christian Commission, Mr. Cole, of
| Boston, the Chief Agent, was standing
beside a tent,in deep§thought. When
! he saw me he lifted up his hand in
dismay.
| “I haveno place for you, every foot
lof space is occupied,” was his greet
ing.
“How about the little tent where I
stayed the last time?”
“Tt is full of delegates lying on the
ground on their blankets. I've given
up my own little corner to Dr.
and have no place to sleep myself.”
“How about the storeroom?”
. His face brightened.
“I'never thought of that; but it’s
full of barrels and boxes and is not in
order.”
“No matter, there will be shelter
and room, and there is a lock on the
door, and I'll get on all right.”
A candle and some matches were
procured, and, accompanied by the
agent and his assistant, I went into the
storeroom nearby. It was a great,
rough, strong plank barricks; barrels
and boxes were piled up nearly to the
roof. There was a vacant place where
they handled the supplies, near the
door. :
“There is not a cot on the premises,
they have been taken for the sick and
wounded; what will you do?”
“I'll sleep on the floor, of course,” I
answered cheerfully.
But they turned some of the boxes
around and gathered up all of the
straw and shavings that were in sight
that had been used in packing, and
put them together, and I placed my
satchel for a pillow, and after I had
assured them that it would be all
right, they left, and I locked the door
after them.
till there was a knock at door. I went
very close to the door and called:
“What is wanted?”
and she has no place to stay« Can she
come in?” 2 >
“Certainly. Of course she can.”
stately women, with all her dignity
a shelter as that. My candle lighted
bish that were all about us.
and with the stub
They had not been gone ten minutes
“Mrs. Wittenmyer, Mis Dix is here
And I opened the door, and that
upon her, which was really a part of
herself, entered, glad to find even such
up the building sufficiently to show
its unsightliness and the dust and rub-
As Miss Dix was old enough to be
my mother, of course there was but one
thing to do, and that was to give up
my bed of shavings and straw to her,
f an old broom try
to clean another part of the floor for
myself. She generously offered to dir
vide her bed, but there was not enough
to divide, so I spread my blanket-
shawl down on the rough, uneven floor *
tor my bed, and took my satchel for a
pillow.
I was weary and anxious, end for a
few moments I felt the service was too
hard to be endured much longer. But
there came another train of thought,as
I heard the booming of the cannon at
oo great distance. :
“How glad to the brave men on fhe
picket line, where to sleep is death,
the men in the trenches and working
the guns, would be to have a good dry
floor to sleep on, and the right and
privileges of sleep,” I said to myself.
Somehow my bed grew soft and my
pillow downy, and all the clouds of
care and self-pity cleared away before
the magic power of patriotism and
sympathy for the brave men who stood
so gallantly for my country and its
flag, and I never in my life had a bet-
ter bed or a sweeter night’s sleep.—
ANNIE WITTENMYER, in Home and
Country.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
© FarM work is much advanced.
Froops have damaged Cuba’s crop. 3
FrosTs in Illinois have ruined the peach
crop.
GERMANY decides to prohibit pauper im-
migration.
DuLuTH, Minn., is building ten “whale
back” steamships. :
THE crop of spring suicides was lager this
year than ever before. hh
NEw YORK CITY has grown $42,000,000
richer during the past year.
Frur is slightly injured by frosts in can
tral sections of New Xngland. i
FRUIT prospects are good in Missouri, anc
apples promise a good yield in Ohio.
THERE were last year 43,659 deaths in New:
York City agalnst 40,103 during 1890.
HUNDREDS of cattle perished in the re-
cent cold rains in Northern Nebraska. ==
IN Iowa tho season is some fiftson days
late; in Oregon, vegetation four wesks late.
THE caterpillar plague has reappeared
along the southern ev of ‘North Caro-
ina. :
THE class of 1892 in the Divinity School
of Yale University graduated thirty-seven
men. Sa
' THE new rifle for the United States Army
will be of thirty caliber and uses smokeless
powder, ; i
FRENCH emigrants to the United States
number 1000 per week on the Grand Trunl
Railroad. :
REPORTS show that bees throughout the
country have, with few exceptions, wintered
unusually well. x
LARGE numbers of Chinanen are going
from Canada to Havana, Cuba, where they
hope to find homes. Tot
SECRETARY ELKINS has directed that the
new military post at Helena, Montana, be
named Fort Harrison.
LAST year 147 people were killed outright
and 6000 wounded in the streets of London
Some of the latter died. £
THE State of Hermosillo, Mexico, has
made iv a felony to employ Yaqui Indians
and has ordered a war of extermination
against them. 3 3
THE marriages reported in New York
City last year were 15,764; there were 14,-
992" in 1890. Five colored men married
white woman. ~bige :
SECRETARY FOSTER has given his endorse-
ment of the plan to issue 10,000,00) fifty
cent pieces of special design as souvenirs of
the World’s Fair. AL
THE exports of petroleum products from
the port of Batoum, Russia, in 1891,
amounted to 268,000,000 gallons. The pres-
ent price for crude oil is as low as five cents
a barrel. =
THE recent fight near Mier, Mexico, be-
tween Government troops and Garza’s men,
in which ten of the latter wera killed, has
completely wiped out the so-called revo-
lutionary movement, ;
DETECTIVE CHARLES W. GARDER and
Miss Florence A. Collins were married a
few days ago in the head of the Bartholdi
Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, by
the Rev. A. H. Claflin.
Tax United States Court of Claims has
given the heirs of General Robert E, Lee a
verdict for $217,000, as damages to the estate,
caused during the war, by cutting timber off
of it by the Federal troops. |
Ax Indian who killed a squaw at Kyo-
quot, British Columbia, has settled the affair
satisfactorily. He gave the {ribs an Indian
girl to replace the one he killed, and this has
evidently been mutually agreeable.
THE warm sun; are starting the nsual
snow slides and avalanches in the Cascade
and Olympic Mountains, in Washington.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
5 Tas Emperor of Austria is learning short 3
and. a]
GALDSTONE is emphatic in his opposition
to woman suffrage. 3
_CHAUNCEY. M. DEPEW was born at Pecks-
kill, N. Y., on April 23, 1834. :
PierRE LOT, the famous author, whose
real name is Julien Viaud,is a Lieutenant in
the French Navy.
FANNY CROSBY, the author of “Pass Me
Not, O Gentle Savior,” is now living in New
York City atthe age of sixty-five. :
GENERAL BooTH, of the Salvation Army,
is about to make a tour of Helvetia,
many, Denmark and Scandinavia.
PROFESSOR Sousa, the well known leader
of the Marine Band in Washington, has
been offered a salary of $10,000 to go to Chi-
cago. :
T. JEFFERSON Cooripek, United States
Minister to France, will occupy in Paris the
house formerly occupied by ex-Mini
IGNATIUS DONNELLY'S book on the
Shakespears-Bacon cipher proved a loss 0
his publishers, who are suing him for money
advance : )
CoLoNEL JoBN TEMPLE GRAVES, of Rome,
Ga., accepted the invitation to make the
annual oration over the graves of the Union
, soldiers at Andersonville. | Si
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON has been
honored in Chicago by having a schoolhouss |
named for him; and a bust of the story -teller
was unveiled therein last week. :
Miss E. JEAN NELSON, who won the hon
ors of the interstate collegiate oratorical
contest at Minneapdlis, is only : mineteen
years old. She is a member of the junior
class of the DePauw University, in Indiana.
HARRY EVERETT BABBITT, a young lawyer
OO he Wass ass huse
recently appointed a CO Of ace, is
a deaf mute, and desired the DDB
for the convenience of people who are
ilarly afflicted.
CHIEF-JUSTICE FIELD, of the
setts Supreme Co! is ex 5
of children, and on Yelurning to his home
romping wi
bor! :
Iris said that Andrew Carneg
from the active management
Li iron concerns’in favor
Frick, the second largest owner
an