~ AN' | BUT TENT THY FAITHER'S FLOCKS. In summer time the wee lambs broose, "The loch lies blue in shadow, An' little breezes tell thy name To a’ the ferny meadow. When mither left me, puir lone lad, a' the warl’ “was dreary, oe td thou cam’st to comfort me Wi’ blue eyes, soft an' cheery. It is na wise to love sae weel, An’ thou sae grave an’ tender, But whan thy blue eyes pitied me Twas a’ ane holy splendor! ‘An’ I but tent thy faither? Auld Angus Donald's laddie, Sae meanly clad the bitter wind Sweeps thro’ my scanty plaidie. s' flocks, I maun’s weel try to gain a star As thy sweet lips, my dearie. I maun’s weel trv to clasp the cross Of gold on Kirk o’ Mary. —The Bohemian. By The Tie of a Bootlace. murder, wired or there had been a tensive robbery. I was hastened to attend. tor informed me that thes a man on suspicion and V dence was very black against him. The murdered man was a very tric character, a about fifty. the excepticm Of man, who waited . alone, being a sonar man-ha *“The old man,’ I burst in, ‘cave arrested him?” The inspector ers. “He is eighty not possible for him his prime; besides, there ar severe strugg No, we: ha rested him. On the morning the old was his usual custom, some warm water. - He kncx but, finding there was no opened the door, intending the jug inside. An awful sight met his eyes. The master was dead, and he had evidently fought hard with. so pcerwerful assailant. “In the ‘library there. was superior man of the mechanic he was lying unconscious, “There was nothing to got out of him yet, though, so I went and examined the garden. I found fcot- prints leading to a window which had been forced, and closely examined them. Then I went back and measured the arrested man’s bocts; they corres- ponded exactly with the footprints. That's my case; what do you think of it?” “1 see,” 1 replied. “By the should like to have an intervie the arrested man.’ ow T found him an ordinary type of the better class British workmen. Some- how, the moment I set eres on him I felt sure that he was innocent. He swore that he had no knowie the crime or of how he entered the recom. “Well,” 1 said, “you. must tell me everything you know. I shall possib be able to arrive at some conclusion.” “I know very little, sir. I was walk- ing along the road in front of the house when, without a second’s warn- ing I received a severe blow on the head. I remember nothing mor “What seems strange tc me,” “is the fact of your Rl across the garden.” “My footprints, mean?’ I told him that he had been traced over the garden, and he looked rath- er perplexed; then he lcoked down his boots, and blurted out: “Sir, some one has taken my boots off and put them on differently.” “How? 1 said, “I tied them in a bow—now they are in a hurried knot. —and he held them up for my inspection. He was quite right; they were tied in a knot as he said. “Are you sure you tied them differ- ently?” I inquired. “Positive. I could swear it in a law court.” 4 - I put that down in my note bcok: it was one point in his favor. Another thing that impressed me was,. where could he have put the stolen property If he had fallen suddenly after partak- ing of the drugged wine? The spoil ought to have been in that room. It was not, for I had examined it. All this time the man had been si- lently thinking; now he said: “Look here, sir. In front of the house the grass is rather long, I was walking on it at the time, and when I received the blow I was right in frent of the gate. You examine that grass and see if there are any signs of a fail cn the grass, or if any one has been dragged along it, for I feel sure that I was carried from that spot into the house. “I will go and examine it,” 1 said. much struck by his intelligence; “and now good-by for the present, and don’t get down- hearted.” I reached the front of the house and carefully sesrched the grass. Scon I found a place where it looked disar- ranged, and getting out my lens I carefully examined it. Yes, there was the mark of the fallen man; a little farther back was the mark of another man who had evidently stood there some time. But, search as I would, there were no signs of any one being dragged along. Suddenly an idea struck me; the footprints seemed very deep. I made one or two beside them; mine were not nearly so deep. What did this point to? The maker of them had been heavily laden. There could be no doubt of it, the villain had taken off his own shoes and put on those of the arrested man; then he had carried him across the garden and thrown him through the windcw unconscious, pour- on shrugged his years of to kill a e «i VE Servan tcok his n a rather class he tr EW said, right sir! = What do you at See!” ing a glass of the drugged wine down his throat; then he had robbed the dead man and departed. Search as I might I could find no more traces and the matter became more puzzling. The burglar seemed either to have flown away or to be still in the house. When I reached my lodging and thought the matter cover there was only cne possible conclusion. The murderer must still be in the village, and some of the stolen property ‘must be still hidden in the house or grounds. About’ ten I cautiously crept into the garden and scaled a tree which stcod in a direct line with the old man’s bedroom. Presently I saw the’ light in one of the bottom rooms go‘'out and soon af- ter the old man himself came up to bed. First he very carefully drew the indow curtains together, which shut me out from view. I cautiously descended and began to ciimb up the creeper which covered the house, and was as thick as a man’s wrist in some places. My heart beat violen his window, the stem was getting thirer and one false step might ruin all, but I reached it at «st, and, by bending under the win- dow, had a fine view. that surprised me was that he had nc begun to undress; but a greater was in store, for after walking across the rocm and locking the door he touched a ‘board in wall—which was cf nneled cak—and it sprang open, re- vealing a small, secret chamber. It might have been Aladdin’s cave, for it ttered and shone, even in the pale ht. It contained the stolen proper- tly as I neared of the creeper the 1 watched with great interest for the next development, but I am bound to admit that it almost staggered me. The old man fumbled with his beard for some time, when it suddenly fell off, revealing the face of a man about be then the wig followed suit, and the metamorphosis was complete. It was a young man in disguise. The mystery was solved.—New York Mail A BLUFF BY JAY GOULD. Brought the U. 8. Express Ccmpany to Terms by Buying Safes. Recalling early days in the express business, an officer of one of the larg- est companies recently told this story: “Gould and Fiske then had hold of the Erie,” he said, “and the United States Express Company had all the express husiness on the road. The contract was about to expire and Gould wanted an arrangement more profitable to the Erie. ‘“ ‘The Erie's doing all the work and you're making all the money,” Gould said to the express people. ‘You ought to do some of the work and give the railroad a chance at the HShey. “The express company officials de- murred. Their profit, they insisted, was no more than they were entitled to and they refused to shade the con- tract a penny. Gould insisted on a decrease, but they remained obdurate and eventually let the Erie president understand-—what he very well knew— that no other company would ccriupete against the United States for the Erie business. All the companies at that time were in an agreement to main- tain rates. ‘All right,’ said Gould at the con- clusion of the interview, ‘you’ve no objection, I guess, to my going into the express business for myself. It looks better than railroading.’ “The express people replied that Gould could organize all the express companies he wanted to. They thought it was all bluff, but things that came to their attention soon weakened their faith in this idea. Gould was going arounl among his associates talking up an express company scheme, offi- cials of other rcads were told that a new company would be in the field to bid for their business and the papers began to talk about the new Gould Express Company. “The express officials, however, caw none of Gould's money going into the enterprise and stocd pat. Pres- ently it was reported that he had bought twenty-four big express safes. Was this talk: or was it business? the express men asked themselves. They set to work investigating and they discovered that the report was true. Gould had actually bought and paid for the safes—safes cost money in those days, too—and he was nego- tiating for all the other equipment required. “Now, thoroughly convinced of Gould’s sincerity, the express com- pany came to terms. Gould got the best contract from a railroad stand- roint that had been known up to that time. The clause in the contract that the United States Express Com- pany considered most valuable to it- self was one stipulating the abandon- ment of Gould’s express plans. “It was all a bluff on Gould’s part, except buying the safes. For that matter the purchase was, of course, part of the bluff, but Gould had ac- tually bought and paid for them un- conditionally. Nevertheless he lost nothing on the deal, for as soon as friendly relations were established with the express officials he persuad- ed them they could use the safes in their business and sold them to them at a little better than cost.” “Was Thomas C. Platt at the head of the United States Express Com- pany then?” the man telling the sto- ry was asked. “No,” was the reply, ‘neither Platt nor any_other Senator. "—New York Sun. ’ A large cocoanut tree ylelds as many as a hundred nuts a year. Natives use ‘the nuts for dishes as well as for food. CORDAYLIA OF THE ALLEY. corner o' the Sits Cordaylia McNally At the corner o' the alley where the peo=- ple come an' go a penitent procession Passin’ to an’ from confession In the ould Church of St. Joseph that was builded long ago. Oh! 'Tis well she knows Has the charitable penny More convaynient to their than any other: day, her tongue it is so sooth'rin’ so mastherful deludth'rin’ are mortal few whatever she’ll be lettin’ get away. For, Oh! the Irish eyes of her They twinkle at ye so, Ye hate to think the sighs of her Are part o’ the disguise of her, So, faix, she has yer penny gathered in before ye know. At the alley there's many fingers then An’ An’ There There's small use in walkin’ fasther Jisht to hurry in a-past her. Shure, she'll let’ ye FO; ~unneoticed, * little ‘load o’ sin. Oh! man, she has ye st yer penny good as potted, Fur she knows that yell be softer comin’ out than goin’ in! Fur there's nothin’ but good nature In the m’'anest Irish crayture Whin he feels the ul inside 0’ cleansed of .iv'ry: blot. Cordaylia then address ye 1 her sootherin’ *‘God bless ye!” not. you will dare to judge if she's deservin’ it or not. wid ted, him is For Oh! the Irish eyey. of her They twinkle at Ye hate to think Are part o' the So, faix, she in before —Catholic ithered ye - Standard aad Times, Als | THE WoRLD j LAUGHS WITH You” “And what is your “new little broth- er’s name?’ “They haven't found out yet.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. First. Physician—Has hereditary trouble? Second Physician —Yes. I hope to hand his case down to my son.—Harper’'s Bazar. She—Would you rather walk or ride there? He—Well, I've ben out in the motor car so much lately that I think I'd rather ride for a change.—Puck. he got an “Sir!” exclaimed the ponipous indi- vidual, “I am a self-made man.” “I ac- cept your apology,” murmured he of the patrician countenance.—Philadel- phia Record. Muggins—I hear you are having your daughter’s voice cultivated. Bug- gins—Yes, I'm afraid it can’t be cured, so I am doing the next best thing.— Philadelphia Record. “Has your wealth brought you hap- piness?”’ asked the philosopher. “Per- haps not,” answered -Mr. Dustin Stax; “but it has at least stood between me and a lot of annoyances.”—Washing- ton Star. First Author—Oh, the monotony of existence! I am thor- oughly disgusted with it all. Vould that I might completely disappear for a while! Second Author—Then why don’t you marry a famous woman?— Judge. . “I thought,” said the jilt, were refused you.” unutterable “that you going to shoot yourself when I “All in good time, ma- dam,” answered the jilted, icily. “I have already sent to three jobbers for price-lists on revolvers.”—Cleveland Leader. Mrs. Browne—Those new neighbors of your are pretty lively. 1 never met people who indulged so much in repar- tee. Mrs. Malaprop—There 3in’'t any harm in that. I'm fond o’ tea myself, only 1 prefer Oolong.”—Philadelphia Ledger “Bridget,” said young Mrs. Bridey, “we’ll have fried eggs for breakfast, and ? “We can’t, mum,” replied Bridget, “there's not an egg in the house,” “Well, then, just make an om: let. I like that better anyway.”—Phila- delphia Press. “The first thing Columbus did on landing in America was to kneel and express his gratitude.” *Yes,” an- swered Miss Cayenne, “I suppose he was thankful to get here under circums- stances that did not bring him into contact with the customs officers.”— Washington Star. “Mamma, what’s the use of putting all those things for the baby in that sterilizing machine?” “Why, Willie, so that no bad germs will enter his sys- tem.” “That's what I thought. But I know an easier way.” “What's that?” “Why, while you were out I sterilized the baby!”—Life. Ascum—You're a literary man, you say. Woodby—O'! yes, I do considera- bly writing for the papers. Ascum—I never noticed your name Woodby —O! no, I have several pen-names that I use; usually Constant Reader or Pro Bono Publico or Old Subscriber,—Phil- adelphia Press. How Whistler Spied Him. Of Whistler, the famous American painter, an artist said at the Groller Club in New York: “I knew and admired Whistler in the early days of my career in Paris. He lived luxuriously; I lived in a gar- ret. Though he liked me none the less for that, he did not permit any false delicacy to keep him from pok- ing me about my poorhouse ways. “One day, in a very shabby suit, I was strolling on the Boulevard des Italiens when some one hailed me from the rear. I turned and saw Whis- tler hastening toward me in his tall hat and his lemon-colored gloves, wav- ing his long black cane. ‘“ ‘Ah, said I, rather flattered, ‘so you recognized me Irom behind, did you, master? “ ‘Yes,’ said Mr. Whistler, laughing maliciously, ‘I spied you throuzh a bole in your coat.” ”’ Witches of Old Salem By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. FTER having had a world of trouble with their ministers, the people of Salem finally ordained their first settled pas- tor on the 18th of November, 1689. This pastor, the Rev. Samuel Parris, had two negro slaves that he had brought with him from the West Indies. Of a low grade of intelligence, these negroes had brought with them the “charms” and “conjurations” that were com- mon among the blacks in Barbadoes and Africa, and to learn their Black Art a circle or 12 or 14 young giris was Parris’s house during the winter of 1691-92. The children were apt pupils, and it was not long before they were able to talk gibberish, go into “swoons” and repeat all of the outlandish tricks of their ebony-hued teachers. They would go down cn all fours, crawl under chairs and tables, go off into fits, and speak all sorts of senseless jargon, But the Salem of 1691-92 was a most staid and circumspect community, full of the ‘fear of the lord” and of detestation of all frivolity, and finally the children were severely upbraided by their elders for their silly and ‘un- seemly action. Then, as Fiske remarked, “seeing themselves in danger of getting whipped for meddling with such uncanny matters, what could he mere natural for theni than to seek an avenue of escape by declaring tha they were bewitched, and could not help doing as they did?” Little did the silly young creatures realize the enorminy of th They were But who bewitched then Out of the that question was born the country’s history—the Salem witch trials, in which 19 Lhanged, several of whom were as noble men and women as have ever hon- ored the name of humanity. Among the victims were Rebecca Nurse, the venerable and gaintly head of a large and prominent family: the Rev. George Burroughs, a Harvard graduate, a former Salem pastor, a man whose char- acter was as fine as his intellect was powerful; and John Proctor, manly action upon the scaffold shows him to have been sonfe of the earth.’ When the girls began fotriad at Mr. answer! lah: st page in our innocent persons were whose of the “salt > to accuse the “witches” and “wizard&™ thé min- isters gave them hearty encouragement. The devil, they claimed, having done about all the harm he could in the Old World, was getting ready to entrap the New E ters and the “bewitching” of the bevy of girls at the house oi Rev his first work in the new field: ™ with the ministers, and when Governor Phipps ap- witcheraft trials they sprang to the work before licht. To be accused to be adj ed guilty, thick and rast the cxccutions came. Finally the , growing overconfident, the pecple were opened. Between Jun, 1692, whn the trials be and Jan- uary, 1693, when they were discontinued, 19 persons were oxdented and w fon the court was abclished 59 were lying in the jails wai 10 be tried.—New York pointed the the them with ala and de was ang tl struck too high, and the eyes of American all. P0000 OP0000O9OORS6000905S CIC mmastvis efi fine pment ST Happy Wedlock § Sympathy in Tastes, Harmony in Temperament. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. g 10 O far from accepting the theory that marriage is justly be regarded as a business transaction, 1 should claim it to be one of the best means of securing happiness in married lite that young people should net only love each other warmly, but should begin poor, if possible, and thus have the discipline of mutual sacrifices, and have the pleasure of making their way upward in prosperity by’ gradual steps. It is one of the merits of human nature, or at least of American nature, that a young girl may be brought up to every luxury, and may still, after marrying the man she loves, take a posi- tive delight in sacrificing, for his sake, all her previous ways of living; and she will do the honors of the log cabin as if it were an ancestral hall. I am conscious of no stoical aversion to wealth, but I think it is a bad thing for young people to begin with; that they are better off without it, and that it always gives them a sense of security to look bac ck in later life on their day of small means. The next secret of success in marriage is to cultivate sympe tastes. Let the married pair have congenial cccupations, if not the same pursuits. One of the happiest wedded pairs I know of is a ccuple, no longer in their first youth, who devote their leisure time to pursuits in which they find absolute sympathy. The husband is a hardworking business man, and not'a college graduate. Out of business hours, he and his wife have two lead- ing interests—music and the study of nature. His special department in the atter field is ornithology, and her's botany. In winter they have the sym- phony concerts and her piano, on which she is proficient. In summer they are out of doors. in all weathers. This unity of purpose is not accidental. Yet far more difficult than the mere harmonizing of opinions is, in mar- ried life, the harmonizing of tempers; since, while many people have no opin- jons worth mentioning on any subject, the huniblest or most ignorant can set up a temper. Nothing can deal with tempers except conscience and time A great aid to the harmonizing of tempers is to study mutually what may be called the equation of preferences—that is, to form a habit of considering, when husband and wife differ about any matter, which of the two has really he most reason to care about it. Many a household jar which would have prolonged stings behind it, if made a mere test of will and persistence, is settled easily when the equation of preferences is applied to it, and each is ready to make a little sacrifice to save the other from a greater one. But, after all, the ideal success in marriage is to be feund in a mutual dependence so deep that it was best described by that fine old Englishman, Mr. Cambridge, who used to say that, after 40 years of married life, the high- est happiness of which he could conceive was that of seeing Mrs. Cambridze enter the room S ithy of 0900090000060 900030090000060 Art of Being Well Born By Havelock Ellis. yr) 1 UGENIC certificates, according to Mr. Francis Galton’s pro- posal, would be issued -by a suitably constituted authority to those candidates who chose to apply for them and were able to pass the necessary tests. Such certificates would imply an inquiry and examination into the ancestry of the candidate as well as into his own constitution, health, in- telligence and character; and the possession of such a cer- tificate would involve a superiority to the average in all these respects. No one would be compelled to offer him- self for such examination, just as no one is compelled to seek a university degree, but its possession would often be an advantage. There is nothing to prevent the establishment.of a board of examiners of this kind tomorrow, TRA E oe and we may be sure that, once established, many candidates would hasten to § present themselves. There are obviously many positions in life wherein a certificate of this kind of superiority would be helpful. But its chief dis- tinction would be- that its pessession would be a kind of patent of natural nobility; the man or woman who held it would be one of nature’s aristo- crats, to whom the future of the race might be safely left without further question. KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS DEMPSTER DIES SINGING Washington County Murderer the Penalty for His Brutal Crime. Pays Elmer Dempster, colored, was hang- ed January 17 at Washington, and was pronounced dead 14 minutes later. He had been found guilty of the mur- der of Mrs. Mary E. Pearce and her three children on July 29 last. Dempster early in the morning ate a substantial breakfast. He walked un- falteringly and as he neared the scaf- fold he burst into song. Before the scaffold had been reached he had sung the first verse of a hymn. On the scaffold he asked rmission to say a few words, and, facing those present, engaged in praver Dempster’s sister r, employed in Can- onsburg, visited him in jail and the parting was very distressing, the girl, who is der, weeping bitterly. Dempster had a Bible which had been given him Ly Adjutant Blackof the Sal- vation Army. This Bible he zave to his sister told her he would meet heaven. ne and the best gas we just One of years ha completed three m cm K dt is 1.200 feet from the secler. gusher struck - last Septeinber.: and which could not be shct in until thousands of dolla worth of gas had escaped. The roar of the new well can be heard for miles. Glass houses at Kane had intended leaving there on account of the scarcity of gas, 1 the recent strikes cause re of plans. recent about about is of been Six ous. gas mines of -t pany €X] ercome by poison- inter and Home I'rick Coke Com- following an John Wacka- man Frank aleneio will likely die. Others ca unconscious from the pit were: Henry Edward Eckman, I William Jones. ne: losion in Pai ana ed Suttle, and 3. Stuart, an- cabinet = ap- General. 'M. Secre- Governor-clect Eds nounced the fcllowing pointments: Attorney Hampton Todd of Philadelphia; tary of Commonwealth, Robert McAfee of Allegheny: Adjutant Gen- eral, Thomas 5 Stewart of Montgom- ery county: Private Seeretary, Arechi- bald B. Millar of Phil adelphia. When the legislature: reconvened on the 14th, many investigation resolu: tions were offered, including one by Senator Rodgers for a thorough in- quiry into the business methods in the state treasurer's and auditor gen- eral’s departments and-others for new capitol and railrcad probing; a 2-cent fare bill was also introduced. Bishop Cortlandt Whitehead held services ‘at the Trinity. Protestant Episcopal Church in Sixth avenue, Pittsburg, unfrocking and deposing the Rev. Dr. F. E. J. Lloyd, who resign- ed ‘the ‘pastorate of St... Peter's Church, Uniontown, to enter the Ro- man Catholic denomination and be- come a missionary of that faith. the theft of sig- Jaltimore. & Ohio south of Union- the Five months after nal lights from the trestle near Outerop, town. which came near wrecking the Pittsburg Weston flyer, Thomas Stockton been arrested and lodg- ed in jail charged with complicity. The Forest and has at Uniontown, Coon Oil Company, operating in county, Tionesta, com- pleted a well which ig producing ‘*white’’ oil at the rate of 15 barrels daily. It is said to be the first weil of the kind in that s2ction. The Standard. offered $3 a barrel for the fluid. a depth of 2,200 Icet the Pitte- lass Company has brought gas well on the Huffman near Delmont. The company leased £000 acres between Har vey’s Five Psints and Saitsburg, and additional wells will be sunk. Lieut-Col. Hugh 8S. Tay Bellefonte was elected eolonel Fifth ‘reziment. N. G. P., Col... -Rufus. - C, ler, Capt. George W. raed; Jr. pany’ D, at: Blairsvilie was lieutenant colonel. Blair county claims the champion- ship cflicé holder of the state in How- ard M. Sell who in addition to being county auditor, is assistant: county treasurer, witness clerk in the pro- thonotary's: office and serves as a juryman. Philadelphia near lor «of of the succeeding resigned. of Com- ecleeted shows the largest in- crease of any county in Pennsylvania in the return cof personal property, subject to taxation for state purposes at the rate of four mills, to the state board of revenue commissioners for 1906. James Fitzpatrick, aged 50 years, was murdered and robbed at Newton Hamiilton and the body placed upon the tracks to hide evidences of the crime. It is known that he had con- siderable money with him. Stephen S. Gray, a pioneer resi- dent of Balivar, and one of the broth- ers for whom Gray station was named, was struck by a train and killed while crossing the railroad at that place. He was aged 72 The President sent the nominations of Pennsylvania masters to the Senate: J. G. Lloyd, Ebensburg: J. G. McCamart, Tyrone, and S. R. McMorran, Aspinwail. The Eichard Ceal & Coke Company of Connellsville purchased 20S acres of coking coal from James Clark in \ Stickel Hollow for $375,000. The Clark tract has been handed down in the family for many generations. Two hundred ovens will be construct- ed. : A deal is under way to consolidate 30 silk mills in this and adjoining States under the name of the Ameri- can Silk Company. It is said the capitalization of the merged concern will be $22,500,000, and that Matthew C. Collins. of York, will be general following post- manager.
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