ATT ESE TO ELIZABETH. Bweet and warm is the summer’s breath, Warm and wide is the summer’s sea; But the heart of the summer 1 find in thee, Barefoot baby, Elizabeth! Little brown legs and dimpled feet, Little brown dimpled arms and hands, Child of the sun, child of the sands, What hath the summer so sweet, so sweet! —Edith Colby Banfield, Little brown face where merriment plays, Soft blown hair in a golden mist, Sweet little lips so Rewly kissed, Dear little voice and darling ways. All that babyhood means, thou More than summer can al ve, Love lies hid in thy tiny I And thy unrolled future, dear little heart! in “The Place of My Desire.” THE SECOND ENGINEER RAIANAANLARK 03%. HE morning was fine, and , ¥ the sun sparkled on the sea rm © in a thousand dancing points of light. A soft wind Ox blew the clouds above our heads across the hills of Crete, which lay to the north on our port beam. I stood on the starboard side of the bridge, and the third officer came and joined me there. “If all days were like this, doctor,” he said, ‘“‘the sea’d be a life worth living. © One could forget the storms and the food and the flies and the cock- roaches and the doctors we get on board, and one could enjoy life. It was just such a. morning as. this, and just about here, too, that old Hoskins came up to me on the Lively Mary some ten years ago. We were taking tier out from England for the first time, and it was a gqod six ‘years béfore we saw the old country again. ‘“‘I had a letter from the owners at Gib, George,’ he said. ‘We're to take a passenger at Port Said.’ “ ‘A passenger, Sir? “ ‘Yes; a young woman, George. It seems she’s going out to Singapore as a governess. She's a bit short of funds, George, but her people have fonfe in- fluence with our crowd. So I've got instructions to take her from the P. and O. boat at Port Said, and she saves her passage money for the rest of the way. See? “1 see, sir,” 1 says. ‘I’m a Dif sorry for the girl, though. She'll not take Kindly to this ship after the P. and O. * “That's all you know, George,’ says the old man. ‘I'm going to make this ship a home for that poor girl. I'm going to be a father to her. “ “Well, sir,” I answered, ‘it ought to come easy enough. You've had some practice since I’ve known you. Quite a nice little family ‘you've had. ‘“‘He grinned a moment, and then he went on. ‘Don’t you make no mistake, George; I'm going to protect this young girl. I look upon it as a sacred duty. That's why I'm speaking to you about it now. I know the sort of man you are and how little you're to be trusted when . there's a girl about; so I want you to understand that this one is under my protection.’ “Just then the cook came forward to report that the second engineer was ill, and had to go to his bunk. We ‘didn’t carry a doctor on the Lively Mary, and Hoskins went off to see what he could do. By and by he sent for me to his cabin, and I found him scratching his head over his medicine chest. “ ‘The poor chap’s pretty bad,’ he said; ‘but I'm hanged if I can tell what's the matter with him. Here's cough mixture, but he’s got no cough. Here's stomach mixture, but he’s got no stomach—for .fopd or anything else. This pink stuff looks nice, but the label's come off, and I can’t tell what it’s meant for. Here's salts. They can’t do any harm at any rate. I fancy if I can mix up some salts with a drop of Irandy and some “Ken- nedy’s Painkiller” that ought t8 fix him. *1t qi, “Of course I can’t be sure that it was that that did it, but the poor chap died next day. He was nobody’s enemy but his own, and we all missed him. He went over the side under the Union Jack, like many another good man has gone before him; and it's a comfort to think that, wherever he went he was likely to find it cooler than we did at Port Said when we got there. “At Port Said Hoskins went ashore —first, to telegraph to the owners; sec- ondly, to go on board the P. and O. boat and find the girl who was coming elong with us. After about an hour he came back, bringing her with him, and showed her into the spare cabin he'd had prepared for her. “Her name was Mary Price. She vas a pretty girl, with a nice figure. and black hair that curled about her temples and around her ears. She looked a bit sick when she saw the ship; but when she heard that she was to be the only passenger she bright- ened up wonderfully. I guess she was a girl who liked a bit of attention, and now she knew she was going to get it, “I went info the old man’s cabin for some orders, and I found him very pusy taking down a lot of photographs from the walls and putting them away in a drawer. ¢ «Clearing George,’ he ever loved. ‘“ “What about the engineer, asked. : “Oh, that's.all right,’ he said. ‘I’ve wired the owners and we’ll hear some- thing at Suez.’ “We went through the canal, and at Suez the old man got his wire. We were instructed to call at Perim Isl- and to pick up a man there to take for only decks ‘The the says. action, girls 1 sir? 1 the plaee of the one we'd lost. Th= man's name was Wilson, and he'd only recently been engaged by the firm, and bad been at Perim carrying out some repairs to one of the boats that had got piled up there. “ “It's a bit rough on the chief en- gineer, sir,’ ‘He'll have to take the ship through the Red Sea short- handed. I don’t envy him.’ ; “ ‘Neither do 1, George,’ he said. ‘1 ghank my stars that I'm on the bridge said. A AAJA QAA[ANR and not in the engine room. and that my officers put in an amount of work that wouldn't be seriously missed, even if the whole lot of em were to fall overboard at once.’ “It was a beautiful sunny morning that saw us steaming down the Gulf of Suez. The water was like a carpet of green grass, and on either side of us rose the hills and promontories of that desolate land. Far and near there wasn’t a spot of vegetation to be seen; only purple hills and patches of violet rock and long yellow stretches of naked sand. Hoskins was on the bridge, and I needn’t tell you that Miss Price was tLere, too. She was sitting in a long cane chair; dressed in white, and look- ing as though she enjoyed the heat. Al the time that the old man could spare from conning the ship—and it was a good deal—he put in talking to her. ‘“ ‘George,’ he said to me that night, after Miss Price had turned in, ‘it’s a sin and a shame to see that girl wast- ing her life on governessing. She ought to get married to some good, honest sea captain (I expect he was thinking of himself), that would know how to value her and make life happy for her. I've half made up my mind to ask her myself. H“ I wouldn't be hasty if I were you, sir,’ I said; ‘you just be a bit cautious, and let the good, honest sea captain have a chance. “He didn’t catch what I was driving at. He just tugged at his beard. “ ‘You think I'm too cautious? he said. “It's a thing I've offen about you,” I answered. “ ‘From your point of view, I dare-! say you're right’ he replied; ‘but Young men are rash. It’s only natural, There's the whole voyage before us, and I want to see what she's like in a temper, George. That's a tip I'm giving you free, gratis, and for noth- ing’ “So all the way down the Red Sea he flirted with that girl, and, to do her justice, she wasn’t backward. The afternoon we reached Perim Island I was on the bridge with the two of them. We slowed down, and ran up a signal. * ‘What are we waiting for, tain? said Miss Price. “ ‘A new second engineer,’ kins. “We watched a small boat come out from the harbor and put off toward us. As it got nearer we could make out the figure of the new engineer. Miss Price suddenly recollected that she'd forgotten her handkerchief, and she would have to go below for it. She left Hoskins and me on the bridge waiting for the new arrival. “He was an undersized, hatchet- faced man, dressed in a dirty suit of white drill. He camz up the gang- way and touched his hat to the old man. * ‘Come on board, sir,” he said. ‘“ ‘Glad to see you, Mr. Wilson,” said the skipper. ‘The sooner you're ready to take your trick of duty, the better the chief will be pleased.’ “Wilson never said another word, but turned and went off to his quar- ters. “The next time I saw him he had just come off his watch. I never saw such a sight on a steamer in all my days. He wor: a dirty blue shirt, open at the neck to show his chest, and a pair’ of blue trousers turned up above his knces. He had bare legs ending in’ a pair of dirty gray socks that fell down slackly over an old pair ct tennis shoes, in his mouth he held a piece of cotton waste he'd been cleaning the engines with, and he seemed to be sucking at the oil with which it was soaked. He hadn't shaved, and his face was like a cheap brush. : “I went forward to Hoskins. “ ‘We've got a rum sort of ash-cart on board, sir,” I said. ‘I’ve seen some funny sights in my time, but never one to touch him,” and I gave him a short description, ‘His mouth opened and then it shut sharply. “1 guess I'll go ‘and talk’ to him like a parent,’ he said. ‘That sort of thing can’t be allowed—with a lady on board.’ “When he got to Wilson's cabin he called him out, and the chap came on deck chewing away at his oiled rag. Hoskins very nearly bust. “Mr. Wilson,. , he sharply, ‘what sort of rig-out do you call this for an officer of a ship? “Wilson looked down at himself and then up again. Then he took the rag out of his mouth. “ “What's up with it? he sajd. “ ‘What's up with it? yells Hoskins. ‘Oh, nothing—nothing. It’s all right in its right place—in the middle of a tur- nip field on a pole.’ “4f you find tbat I duty on this ship, sir.’ ‘you can tell me about it. or the rest, i. was specially told that there .were no regulations as to uniform. So I'll trouble you not to make rude remarks about my wardrobe.’ “ ‘His—his—what? yells old Hoskins to me. ‘His—oh, my precious eyes!— his wardrobe! There's a wardrobe for a lady to see! “He stopped suddenly, as Price came round the eng noticed cap- said Hos- said don't do my says Wilson, Mary rine room sky- that,” he said; light. She was pretty and fresh in her white dress, but I don’t think she expected to see either Capt. or the engineer. For a moment the three of them looked at each other, and then Wilson spoke. “ “Why, Mary!” he said. “She colored, but didn’t look particu- larly pleased. : : ¢ “Mr. Wilson—Tom,” she said. “ ‘Funny, your coming out on this ship,” he said. . i “<And you being on it, too,’ she an- swered. “wall, here, aren't you kiss? i “She colored more deeply. I rather fancy she was a bit ashamed of his appearance. As for him,. he didn’t, seem to consider it. He didn’t: seem! to know that there was anyibiwg out! of the way about it.” “<1 don’t think I ought to,’ shyly, with a glance at Hoskins, he ssid, ‘n-w that ‘you are going to give me ai she said,’ ‘be- ‘fore the captain, I mean. “ «Quite right,” said Hoskins firmly. ‘I don’t allow my officers to kiss girls in my presence. Some of ’em wouldn't knew where to stop.’ “ ‘I'm off duty,” said Wilson, ‘and this is the girl I'm engaged to. I haven't seen her for a month, and now I'm going to have a kiss. If you-don’t like it, captain, you'd better turn your back. I don’t want to hurt your feel ings : : “+You infernal ash-cart! yelled Hos- kins. ‘Go to your quarters at once. And, Miss Price, I must request Fou, to go to the cabin.’ “Now then, Mary,’ neer; ‘I'm waiting.” “She hesitated a minute, and then made a little sort of pecking kiss at him. Then she ran forward and Wil- son, as if satisfied, turned and went into his cabin. “ ‘George, - said Hoskins to me, there’s something wrong here. ‘Taint in nature for a girl like that to marry a man that looks as though he was a rag-bag struck hy lightning. Mark my words, George, that poor girl's being forced into this engagement by her cruel parents. But I won’t stand by and see her sacrificed.’ “After that he took extra care of her. She spent more time than ever on the bridge, and when she wasn’t up there he was down on the lower deck with her. It was exactly as he suspected—at least, she told him so. The engagement had been of her par- ents’ making, and she had come to sea, not to escape—she really was very fond of Mr. Wilson — but to find out whether her feelings would stand the test of time and absence. “ ‘From the beloved object, George,’ said the old man, with a grin. ‘What do you think? « “well, sir,” I said, ‘if I'd seen any- thing like that chap Wilson once, itd take me a long time to forget it.’ “All the time these two were flirting that engineer never said a word. He went down to the engine room and he came up to his cabin, and he scarcely ever showed up on deck. When he did he never seemed to care the toss of a button where the girl was.- : To my mind he showed his sense, If he'd given any sign of jealousy that giri would have gone on a lot worse than she did. As it was, she began ‘to be: uneasy—to feel that he didn’t care; and now and again, I'd find her com- ing around his quarters to get a word with him; but he hardly ever spoke to her. “Not until we reached Singapore did he have it out with her. She.and Hos- kins were on the bridge, and the old man was pointing out the beauties of the harbor, when Wilson came up the companion and touched his hat. For once in his life he had a clean, ‘white drill suit on. “What do you want? said the old man. ' : ? «Shore leave, sir, said the engi- neer; ‘I want to go on shore to get married.’ “Mary gave a start, and I saw her face flush. Hoskins-was puzzled. He zot the idea from the chap’s manner that there was some one else on shore. and that he was doing this to punish the girl for the way she'd treated him on the voyage. “7t'd be hard to keep you from ‘you may go.’ said the engi- “Wilson touched his cap again. ‘Now then, Mary,” he said, ‘come along.’ .- “1 won’, said the girl, indignantly. ‘The ideal “very well,’ said Wilson, ‘but just listen to me for a minute, my girl I'm here now, and I’m willing to take you before the consul. If you don’t like it, then I shall consider myself free again. If you think I haven't noticed your behavior on this ship, you're mistaken. A girl like you want's looking after, and when I'm your hus- band I'm going to do it. As for the captain there, if you think he has any idea of marrying you youre wrong. He's not a marrying man, I shall be ready to go on shore in a quarter of an hour. If you're ready to go with me then, well and good. If not—~ “He nodded significantly and left the bridge. “Mary Price had taken a look at Hoskins while the other was speak- ing, and that told her all she wanted to know about the sincerity of the old man’s matrimonial intentions. So quarter of an hour afterwards, as that engineer was going down the gangway, she slipped her arm into his and went with him. “Hoskins looked after them rather enviously. « Wonderful, George, wonderful?” he said to me. ‘If I could be as firm with women as that chap is, I'd have had a lot less trouble with them. He's taught me a lesson, George. He shall have a wedding present.’ * * * * * * ® “And he sent —J. Sackville Martin, in the him a suit of clothes.” Sketch. Hoskins | | Harper's Bazar. The Broken Dishes, ‘A French housewife does not throw away her broken dishes, unless their condition is hopeless. She saves them until a mender of faience and porce- lain comes to her door for work and he repairs them, Tip to the Housewife. Chloride of lime and water will re- move ink stains from silver if well rubbed on the stains and then washed off at once, the silver being then pol- ished as ordinarily. The solution for the purpose is four ounces of chloride of lime to one and a half pints of wa- ter. This may be bottled and kept ready for use.—Indianapolis News. For Wicker Furniture. Wicker furniture which has been var- nished will not take enamel until the varnish has been washed off with boil. ing water in which there is a little washing soda. After it dries rub it thoroughly with a piece of flannel dipped in turpentine, and after this has been aired for twenty-four hours rub with sandpaper, after which the wicker may he either painted or dyed satisfactorily. Cucumber Milk, - Best thing in all the wide world for a complexion that is yellow or speckled with freckles or dulled with tan. Also very nice to use as a cleansing agent. Slice, ‘but do not peel, three good-sized cucumbers; add haif a cup of water and boil until pulp is soft; strain and cool. To ome and one-half ounces of the cucumber juice add an equal amount of alcohol. This makes three ounces of cucumber essence. In this dissolve one-fourth of an ounce of pow- dered castile soap. Let stand over night, next morning adding eight ounces of cucumber juice, one-half ounce of oil of sweet almonds and fif- teen ounces of tincture of benzvin. Pour in the oil very slowly, shaking the bottle well. Keep in cool place. ¥at Plenty of Al:monds. ‘According to a celebrated health ex- pert, blanched almonds give the high- er nerve or brain and muscle food, and whoever wishes to keep her brain pow- er up would do well to include them in her daily bill of fare. Juicy fruits give the same in less proportion and are eaten by all those whose living de- pends on their clear headedness. Ap- ples supply the brain with rest. Prunes afford proof against nervousness, but are not muscle feeding. They should be avoided by those who suffer from the liver. But it has been proved that fruits do not have the same effect up- on everybody. Some people have neve er been able to eat apples without suf- fering the agonies’ of indigestion: to others strawberries are like poisor.— Indianapolis News. \ R23 at 5 2 I 3 E I'g Gs RECIPES pe Preserved Peaches—Peel and slice a pound of peaches, sprinkle with the same weight of sugar and leave twelve hours. Simmer in the syrup till the fruit is clear, and putin jars while hot. Betty’s Jumbles—The following recipe is quite famous in a Pennsylvania town where an old negro cook makes what are known and delighted in as “Betty’s Jumbleés.,” They are made with one pound each of butter and sugar, two pounds of flour, three eggs, nine teaspoonfuls of orange juice, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, salt to taste. Handle lightly, roll rather thin, d and sprinkle with granulated sugar be- fore baking in a quick oven. They will keep—if locked up—for several months.—Harper's Bazar. Cornmeal Batter. Cakes—One and three-quarter cups of cornmeal, a scant half cup of flour, two eggs, one and one-half pints of sour milk, two tea- spoonfuls of sugar, one-half teaspoon- ful of salt and one teaspoonful of soda. The meal must be the coarse corn- meal, not the bolted variety. The milk should be thoroughly soured. Soak the meal over night in the milk. In the morning beat the eggs well into it; mix the flour, sugar, soda and salt, and sift into the first mixture. Beat thor- oughly, let it stand a few minutes and bake in small cakes on a hot griddle. Cucumber Catsup—Before the frosts have killed the vines and robbed you of the last of your cucumbers, make some of them into catsup. This rel- ish is really very good, and makes a welcome change from the familiar tomato catsup. Take three dozen cu- cumbers, pcel them and chop fine. Take also four onions (good size) and chop them fine. Add three-quarters of a cup of salt. Mix cucumbers, onions and salt very thoroughly to- gether. Pui the mixture in a clean cloth placed over a large colander and leave it all night to drain. The next morning add to the chopped cucum- ber and onion a half-cupful of white mustard seed and a half-cupful of black mustard seed, two tablespoonfuis of celery seed and two tablespoonfuls of whole peppers. Mix well and pack in glass jars, filling the jars only half full. Boil enough vinegar to fill the jars. Let the vinegar cool and then pour it into the jars. With a silver fork stir the cucumber as you pour in the vinegar, to make sure that the whole mass is saturated with the vinegar. Screw the tops on Your jars and put them awdy in a dark plade.— KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS BiG COAL DEAL CLCSED Large Tract in West Virginia Bough! by Pennsylvanians. for $2,- 500,000. One of the biggest ccal sales made by Uniontown capitali has been closed. About 25,000 acres of coal in Moncngalia and I counties, West Virginia, passes to a syndi of capitalists who pay about $ tor holdings which cost the ior about one-tenth that amount. All the 25,000 acres, except about 3,500 acres, was controlled by Uniontown men. Colonel J. M. Guffey of Pittsburg had about 2,000 acres. The coal lies in what is known as the Batelle district. Judge Edward M. Paxson, who died at Bycot, Bucks county, on October 12, left part of his fortune for the endowment of a college of agricul ture. The college is to be opened to boys between 12 and 18 years of age and a regular course of study is to be arranged sc that mental equipment as well as soil tilling experience will be given. Judge Paxson’s estate amounts to more than $3,000,000. The affairs of the institution are to be controlled by a Board of Trustees. It is said this board will consist of Dr. L.. Web- ster, of -Philadelphia; former Judge Harmon Yerks, Dr, Wm. Erdman and C. Howard Atkinson, of Bucks coun- ty. One million and a half dollars is the price paid for 1,300 acres of coal lands in. the central part of the Con- nellsville coke region by Roy H. and Pauli J. Rainey, of New York. They bought the property from Joseph V Thompson, of Uniontown. The land is in Menallen township, adjacent to the holdings of the Brier Hill and Orient coke plants. Developments indicate that the Raineys, instead of selling out, expect to expand their operations in the Jenncliaville re- gion and to become a permanent fae- tor in the coke production of Fay- ette county. After hearing the petition for a writ cf mandamus presented by the lead- ers of the Citizens party to com- pel the Westmoreland county com- missioners to file their nomination papers, Judge Lucien W. Doty dis- mised the writ at the cost of the chair- man of the Citizens party. The com- missioners refused to file the nomi- nation papers alleging that they were defective. The court sustained the commissioners. " Near the snot whe are Samuel T. Ferguson was West Middletown two about 20 sticks of dynamite were recently found. Ferguson was blown to his death by a dynamite mine in the road. A short time ago two shotguns were found at the same place. The dyaamite was found by workmen clearing the field of under- growth. Contractor killed at years = ago, A plan to rob the McKeesport Tin Plate company of its pay roll of $22,000 was discovered at the plant in Port Vue borough. The thieves worked under the office of the com- pany, directly under the vault. The boards of the flooring were sawed through, but the thieves then encount- ered cement a foot thick and evi- dently gave up the task as hopeless. Disguised as nuns and claiming to be members of a religious order con- nected with the Catholic church, two women have succeeded in collecting about $500 from residents of Home- stead. The Rev. Father Francis Wil- iam Jordan of St. Francis Catholic church, Homestead, learned the two women had canvassed the borough in their black habits and found many victims. ‘While Themas Foster, township, and John Lambert, of Pittsburg, were hunting near Titus- ville, both men fired at a grouse which arose directly between them. TI.ambert was shot in the right eye, de- of 0il Creek stroying the sight, while Foster es- caped with a few birdshot® in his hand. Rocks thrown by a blast ‘on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad near Creswell crashed through the roof of a shanty in which a number of lab- orers were sleeping, killing one man and crushing the head of a child ly- ing beside its mother. Several others were injured, one fatally. The victims are all Slavs. r Eugene Roach, 15 years old, was electrocuted at Franklin. He had climed an electric light pole to show his brother how the sparks flew when his knife came in contact ‘with the wire, which carried 11,000 volts. When Roach fell, the back of his neck struck the wire and his head was almost severed. A $5,000 verdict was entered for the defendants in the case of George W. Campbell and others against the Mountain Water company in the Fay- ette county court. The dispute arose over property taken by the water company. While hanging clothes in her yard at Mahoningtown, Mrs. David Evans was seriously wounded by a shot gun fired by an Italian shooting at a tar- get. The foreigner was arrested. Ray Champ was killed by a train on the Chartiers valley branch: of the Pennsylvania Lines West, at Houston station. Champ was 17 years old and was employed as the mail ‘carrier be- tween the reilroad station and the postofiice. Leonard Magnotta, injured in an explosion of natural gas at Seuth Sharon, died from his burns. He leaves a wife and one son, who were also seriously burned. Howard Graham, 28 years old, acci- dentally. fell down the stairway in his boarding house at Erie and broke his neck, dying instantly. Woman Maker of Violins. To play the violin is the accomp- lishment of hundreds of young wo- men, but few have constructed the be- loved instrument from which such wonderful melody can be obtained. Miss Grace Barstow, of San Jogo, Cal, has the unique distinction of being the only woman violin maker in America, if not in the world, and, moreover, she is a noted performer on the instruments of her own mak- ing. Possessing a fitting envircament and intelligent sympathy, when her desire to make a viclin became known, Miss Barstrow’s family gave her every encouragement, and sent to Germany for the necessary woods. Altogether, six violins: have been completed by her, each one a noted improvement on preceding effort, un- til the last instrument is said by ex- perts to possess a delightfully rich and brilliant tone. Miss Barstow has shown considerable inventive genius in constructing her violins, successfully experimenting with the native redwood as a base bar, and will use more of that wood. in her next violin.—Philadelphia Press. Training in Obedience. A fault of many of our young me and growing boys is their disregar for authority, whether parental or civil, and, accompanying this, a seem- ing lack of respect toward their eld- ers. Anything that will tend to reme- dy these characteristics without less- ening a proper independence and in- dividuality is a wholesome and useful influence. The essential of all things military is prompt and unquestioning obedience, and when this obedience is required of students it cannot" fail to inspire in them a certain degree of respect for authority and regard for discipline: results beneficial both to the individual and to the state. Such results are, in part, the object of the military training.—St. Nicholas. fraTE OF OHIO, CITY OF Torro, is Lucas COUNTY. FRANK J. CHENEY make oath fol he [3 senior partner of the firm of F', J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in the City of "Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL- LARS for each and every cass Of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of HarLr’s CATARRH CURE. Fraxk J. CHENEY. sworn to bafore me and subscribed in my —~+—, presence, this 6th day of Decem- {sear. } er,A.D., 1886. A.W.GLEASON, —— Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cureista'keninternally, and actsdirectly on tho blood aud mucous sur- facesof the system. Send for testimoaials, iree. F. J. Cuexey & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75¢c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for coastipation. An Australian Mystery. With the death of Sir Augustus Gregory the last of the great Austrail- ian explorers has passed away. His demise recalls the most remarkable mystery in the annals of the common- wealth. Fifty-seven ‘years have pass- ed since an exploring expedition com- manded by a German scientist, Lud- wig Leichardt, set out from Sydaey to cross Australia from east to west. To this day no body knows what happen- ed to that exploring party. Not a scrap of paper, not a solitary relic of its fate has ever been discovered. It must have been either overwhelmed in some natural convulsion or abso- lutely annihilated by the blacks. Sir Augustus Gregory ied two expeditions in search of it, one of them organized by the Royal Geographical Society.— “Chicago Journal. A Queer Barometer, The inhabitants of Southern Chile are said to fortell the weather by means of a strange barometer. It consists of the cast-off shell of a crab. The dead shell is white in fair, dry weather; but, indicating the approach of a moist atmosphere by the appear- ance of small red spots; as the mois- ture in the air increases it becomes entirely red and remains so through- out the rainy season. Prices are High. Prices up in Nome correspond with the latitude. The Semi-Weekly News sells for 25 eents a copy or $1 a month. It appears from advertise- ments that milk brings 25 cents a quart and eggs $1 a dozen. OLD FASHIONED FARE! Hot Biscuits, Griddle Cakes, Pies and Puddings. The food that made the fathers strong is sometimes unfit for the chil- dren under the new conditions that our changing civilization is constantly bringing in. One of Mr. Bryan's neigh- bors in the: great State of Nebraska writes: “I was raised in the South, where hot biscuits, griddle cakes, pies and puddings are eaten at almost every meal, and by the time I located in Ne- braska I found myself a sufferer from indigestion and its attendant ills—dis- tress and pains after meals, an almost constant headache, dull, heavy sleepi- ness by day and sleeplessness at night, loss of flesh, impaired memory, ete., ete. “I was rapidly becoming incapaci- tated for business when a valued friend suggested a change in my diet, the abandonment of heavy, rich stuff and the use of Grape-Nuts food. I fol- lowed the good advice and shall always be thankful that I did so. “Whatever may be the experience of others, the beneficial effects of the change were apparent in my case al- most-immediately. My stomach, which had rejected other food for so long, took to Grape-Nuts most kindly; in a day or two my headache was gone, I began to sleep healthfully and before a week was out the séales showed that my lost weight was coming baci. My memory was restored with the renewed vigor that I felt in body and mind. For three years now: Grape-Nuts food has kept me in prime condition, and I propose it shall for the rest of my days. “And, by the way, my 21; year old baby is as fond of Grape-Nuts as I am, always insists on having it. It keeps her as healthy and hearty as they make them.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, There's a reason. Read the little book “The Road to Wellville” in pkgs. x1. ns - 1. xl. wi “ » . - a, prom momé¢ mean God. My young was 1 I stoc 1re4aso place and t My h been drear loneli I hac
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers