AT THE SET At the set of thie sun, When our wo is done, With all its (an d web; ‘When the cl drift low, And the strea:n runs slow, And life is at its ebb, ‘As we near the goal, When the golden bowl Shall be broken at its fount; With what sweetest the Shall the hour be fraug What precious most shall we count? Not the flame of the sword » stored Nor the wealth we In perishable things of earth— Not the way we have trod With the intellect broad Though that were of precious worth, e achieved arts we have grieved, d by the way, » laurel of fame, Whe for worldly acclaim, We toiled in the heat and the fray. Ah, tis not these Will give our hearts ease, When life sinks low in the west; But the passing sweet thougha Of the good we have wrought, The saddened lives we have blest. no! And the love we have won, And the love beckoning on From His islands far and dim; J.ove out of the light, Shining into the night, The night which leg ljeth to Him. — From Boston Transcript. SG rp 2 ; LISETTE'S MISTAKE. By HELEN FORREST GRAVES. RIA «Of course I shall not marry him!” said Lisette Norman, haughtily. I~ Lisette was just the kind of girl up- n whom a little hauteur sits with not unbecoming grace; tall, well-developed and featured like a Greek statue. . Ernestine Grey, blue-eyed and soft- voiced, was as unlike her as possible, ‘as she sat there, her delicate cheeks flushed and her restless fingers work- ing nervously at the fringe of her scar- let shawl. ft “But why not, Lisette?” she asked, timidly. “He is noble, refined, well- educated—all that a man should be in this exacting age of the world.” b “In short,’ laughed Lisette, mocking- ly, “he is a perfect gentleman. Why don’t you say so, Ernestine, and done with it. I do believe youre in love with Henry March yourself.” Ernestine’'s face grew as scarlet as her shawl. “I respect and admire him, Lisette,” she said; ‘a woman may do that with reference to any man.” | “So do I respect and admire him,” laughed Lisette, mockingly. | “Then why do you refuse him?” I* «grnestine,” said Lisette, proudly, “do you think I would marry a carpen- ter? Are you mad enough to im- agine for a sinzle instant that I would become the wife of a common me- chanic? No, indeed! When I marry it will be to elevate myself in the so- ‘cial scale, not to sink among the pleb- ian herd.” 1 “Lisette,” pleaded Ernestine, “1 think you are wrong. It is the man you marry, not his social position or rank.” “They can hardly be dissociated.” “But, Ligette, went on Ernestine, “1 have not given credence to the report up to this time, but people say you are receiving the addresses of Mr. St. Ar- mand.” “Well, and supposing that I am— what then?” “Oh, Lisette, he is a bold, bad man.” “Nonsense, child; he’s no worse than other people,” said Lisette sharply. “He drinks, and he gambles. I know it, for I have brothers.” : “Every one takes a social glass now- adays, and as for gambling, why, I've none of the stiff, starched New Eng- land prejudices against an occasion- al game of cards. He is a younger son of the St. Armands of Worcester- shire, and if his elder brother, Leon St. Armand, should die, Hubert suc- ceeds to the property, and’—she added with a conscicus smile, and a slight deepening of the carmine color on her cheek—*I shall be Lady St. Ar- mand, of Armand’s Hope.” “Lisette, has it gone so far as that?” “As what, you tiresome little lect- urer?” “Are you really engaged to that sin- (ster-faced man?” “I really am,” answered Lisette, de- murely. “Then it is of no use for me to argue further with you.” . “Of no use in the world. My mind is fully made up on the subject, and no amount of arguing will move me. 1 have .some ambition in the world.” Ernestine Grey went home, sad and thoughtful. True, she had seen but lit- tle of Hubert St. Armand, but in that little time she disliked him with al- most instinctice antipathy, and the idea of her lovely, wilful friend casting her Jot with his dark fate was repulsive to her in the highest degree. She was sitting alone at her sewing when Harry March was announced— the young carpenter whom Lisette Nor- man regarded with such inveterate SCOTn. He was tall and handsome, with a face whose frank, pleasant expression seemed in itself a letter of introduc- tion to the world around him. Ernestine’s welcoming smile and blush were an earnest of her pleas- ure in seeing him. He sat down beside ber work table, and began to play earelessly with the scissors. “1 suppose you have been to see your friend, Miss Norman, today?” he said. “Yes.” Iaa:sYandl maidHashrd s sh etaoseta «you have heard, of course, then, what a fool I’ve made of myself!” he said, with slightly contracting brows. “I have heard that she refused your offer of marriage, Harry,” she answer- ed, with gentle remounstrance in her tone. «] was a fool, Ernestine,” he said, gravely. ‘1 can see it now, mysszlf, as I look back over the course of events. Lisette is. lovely and fascinating, but she would have made 10 fitting wife for me. I think I must have becn under a spell for the last few weeks, and the glamor has at last passed away. ) It was a severe lesson, but I am thank- ful for it, nevertheless, and I shall profit by it, Ernestine, if you will allow | me.” “1f I. will allow you, Harry?” “Jt is all in your pOWer, Ernestine. Will you accept a second-hand lover? Lisette has rejected me—will you do the same?” “But, Harry,” began Ernestine, pale and breathless, “do you really love me?” «I was fascinated with Lisette Nor- man, but I love you, Ernestine. Can you return the feeling even in the slightest degree?” And then Ernestine Grey burst into tears, and confessed to Harry March how long and how entirely her heart had been his own. So they were married very quietly, and the cozy little cottage which Harry himself had built, received for its mis- tress a blue-eyed girl, shrinking and shy, as Lisette was self-confident and haughty. Miss Norman arched her pretty eye- broks when she heard of this marri- age between her former lover and her friend. “I dare say they'll be happy, how- ever,” she said, “Ernestine Grey hasn’t a particle of ambition about her, but I should not think even she would have stooped to marry a common carpen- ter.” “Must be deuced low!” said Mr. St. Armand, who was smokinz a cigarette, with his heels on Lisette’s work table. “It won't do for us to visit ’em, when we're married, Lisette.” “Oh, no, of course not!” said Lisette poutingly.- “But now, Herbert, tell me more about Armand Chase, and its delicious old towers and splendid turrets, and the lonely ghost in the unused wing of the house. It’s exact- ly like a story.” “Well may it be,” inwardly reflected Mr. Herbert St. Elmo St. Armand, “considering how much of the element of fiction it contains.” But he was particularly careful to keep this sentiment to himself, and went on with a flowery description of seme old chateau he had read of in some novel, greatly to Lisette’s de- tight. The courtship progressed most fav- orably, and one day, about three months subsequently Mr. St. Armand came in, looking flushed and excited. “News, Lisette!” he cried, “great news!” “What?” “My brother Leon has kicked the buck—I mean, he has departed this life, and I must start for England at once. “At once!” “Yes: but don’t lock so grieved, my pet! We must be married immediately, or the gov—I would say, Sir Grey—will be sure to have some high-flying match or other picked out for me on the other side of the Atlantie.”’ . Lisette’s face brightened. Here were disinterested love and devoted affec- tion. “And can I go with you?” “Of course—that’s the main idea! Do you suppose I would @o back to the ancestral halls of the St. Armands without my wife?” “Dearest Herbert! I might have known the generous impulses of your heart!” cried Lisette, smiling and blushing, as she thought how soon she should probably become Lady St. Ar- mand. What would Ernestine Marsh, the carpenter's wife say! What would be the curious verdict of all her little world! And Lisette’s heart leaped tri- umphantly within her at the mere idea. “Yes,” said Mr. St. Armand, “but the fact is—you see, Lisette, I've had no remittances of late, and in his dis- tress and confusion at Leon’s death, Sir Grey has forgotten to send me his us- ual drafts on the banker. It’s very em- barrassing, but—" “Oh, Hubert!” cried Lisette, generous by nature, like all women, “don’t let that annoy you for a single moment. I have money of my own that Aunt Pa- tience lent me—a thousand dollars. It is all at your disposal. You can easily pay it at any time after we are mar- ried.” So Mr. St. Armond pocketed Lisette Norman's thousand dollars, and a bril- liant wedding followed, to which, by special faver, Mr. and Mrs. Harry | March were honored with cards. The St. Armonds took passage for FEurope in the next steamer, and Ernes- tine said softly to her husband: “Well, 1 suppose we shall never see Lisette .again. But, Harry, it may all be an unfounded prejudice, but I would | rather have seen Lisette dead than | known she was married to that man.” “You see, my love,” said Mr. March, “you are not ambitious.” Mrs. March was mistaken however, lin her supposition that she had seen [the last of the future Lddy St. Ar- | mand. { It was a dull, rainy night in early April, some two years subsequent to | these events, when a low knock came to the door. Ernestine, who was sit- | ting beside the cradle of her sleeping | babe, ran to open the door, imagin- |iriz that it was her husband. But it was not the young mechanie who was now on the high road to wealth. It was a bent, bowed figure in a shabby jacket and worn silk dress. “Ernestine, will you let me in?” “Lisette!” “Yes, it is 1. Ernestine!” She spoke with a bitter laugh, more sad by far than the wildest burst of tears would have been, Ernestine March led her in, exchang- ed her wet draperies for dry, comfort- able garments, administered food and drink, and established her in the easy chair before the cheerful fire, ere she asked any more questions, and then Lisette told her melancholy story. She had been the victim of impos- ture all through, falling into the glit- tering trap that was laid by a villain’s specious representations. The heir of the St. Armands had proved te be a bankrupt liquor-seller from one of the small seaport towns, and after squan- dering poor Lisette’s money he had heartlessly abandoned her to her fate, and she had continued to work her way back at last, wearied, poverty- stricken, and worse than widowed. “If you will only let me stay with you a little while, Ernestine,” she said, piteously, “I could help you to sew and take care of the baby, and—and I must starve else. “Dear Lisette,” said Ernestine, whose eyes were sparkling with sympathetic tears, “you are welcome to a home with us.” > So said Harry March also, when he returned to his fireside and found his old love wan, faded, and weary, sit- ting at his wife’s hearthstone. The warmest welcome the kindest consid- eration proved to poor Lisette that she had still friends left in the world, and it was not until she was wrapped in slumber in the pretty little “spare chamber” of the cottage that Harry said to his wife, with a curious arch of his brows: «I wonder what Lisette thinks now about the grand mistake you commit- ted, Ernestine, in marrying a carpen- ter!”—New York Weekly. I am homeless now, QUAINT AND CURIOUS. An express engine consumes on an average ten gallons of water per mile. It cosis the New York City Rapid Transit Company $101,400 a day to op- erate its lines. A Missouri. woman of means found her affinity in the poorhouse and mar- ried him in 17 minutes. Connecticut leads the list of states in the number of patents granted dur- ing 1907, when 920 were issued to Nut- meg inventors. The past season’s seal catch was the smallest that there is any record of. I+ amounted to less than six thousand — about half that of the previous year. Jackson Russell of Waldoboro, Me., cut an ocak tree in his pasture which was 110 years old, measured three feet across the stump and made three cords of wood. Twenty-five New York nolicemen have volunteered to take a course in foreign languages, so as to be able to converse with New York's cosmopolitan population. Recent experiments on shallow-draft stern-wheel motor hoats have indicat- ed that the stern wheel is a much more efficient propeller in shallow wat- er than the screw propeller. What is said to be the largest pro- jectile ever manufactured was made at the Krupp works for the czar’s govern- ment. It weighed 260 pounds. It was made for a gun which is placed in the fortifications at Kronstadt. Fishes have no eyelids and neces- sarily sleep with their eyes open; they swallow their food whole, having no dental machinery. Frogs, toads and serpents never take food except that which they are certain is alive. A curious barometer used in Germany and Switzerland consists of a jar of water with a frog and a little step- ladder in it. When the frog comes out of the water and sits on the steps it is said infallibly to foretell rain. A novel spectacle of a convicted counterfeiter filling a Christian pulpit is to be offered today at the First Congregational church of Wheaton, IL He is Rev. James R. Kaye, the pastor. He and his congregation contend that morally he is innocent. Mrs. Ellen Toothaker of South Harpswell, Me., has as a keepsake an apple that was threwn at her in a kind- ly manner by a young man while she was returning from church one Sunday afternoon fifty years since. She picked up the apple, tool it home and filled it with cloves and today it is very small, but well preserved. a Composition of Joss-Sticks. The composition of the candles call- ed joss-sticks, which are used in all the religious ceremonies of Buddhism, has long remained a mystery, the preparation of the sticks being en- trusted to certain persons chosen from a limited class. Messrs. Decker and Hurrier have recently pegirned the manner of making joss-sticks in Indo- China, A stem of bamboo is rolled in a preparation containing 14 differ- | ent odoriferous drugs, two of which are significant, as showing a knowl- edge of chemical and physical proper- ties. These are aconite, which serves to protect the sticks against the at- tacks of rats and mice, and camphor, | which causes them to burn steadil; without being periodically extinguish- | ed. MUST SWEAR TO EXPENSES Auditor General Hands Down an Iron-Clad Ruling—A New Oleo Decision. Harrisburg.—Henceforth all ex pense accounts of State employes must be sworn to by the persons turning them in. Auditor General Young created a sensation on Capitol Hil] by issuing a notice to the heads of all departments of the state gov- ernment that the law provided for | affidavits in all accounts rendered for traveling and other personal ex- penses, and that after April 1 next warrants will not be issued fo pay- ment of such bills unless properly i sworn to. Deputy Attorney General Flietz has given an opinion to Dairy and Food | Commissioner Foust in which he holds that a state license for the sale of oleomargarine cannot be issued to a non-resident of Pennsylvania and that one so obtained and used by 2 resident to sell oleomargarine must be revoked. In the Dauphin county court Judge McCarrel dismissed the exceptions taken to an opinion by the late Judge { Capp in the equity case of the Com- { monwealth against the Beaver Val- |1ey Railroad Company. The effect of this action is to confirm the right of the company to lay a railroad track in the middle of a street of Beaver. This was claimed under its charter. EMPTY PISTOL EFFECTIVE Fleisher Knocks Down Burglar With Unloaded Revolver. Butler—E. G. Fleisher awoke to hear an intruder in the house. Re- volver in hand he crept silently to the door of the kitchen, where the burglar was busy. Fleisher took aim and pulled the {rigger several times, but the gun refused to explode. The robber worked on, not hear- ing the click of the revolver, and in desperation Fleisher threw the gun at the man, felling him. Fleisher found his wife had taken the cartrid- ges out of the revolver the day be- fore. BLACK HAND SCARED Cease Operations When Deportation Is Threatened for Them. Harrisburg.—At state police head- quarters it is said the Black Hand operations have almost ceased in Pennsylvania. The police officials attribute this largely to the recent decision of the immigraticn authori- ties of the United States government that persons writing Black Hand let- ters come under the anarchy provi- siong and can be sent out of the country Very few calls come to the state police nowadays for the suppression few months ago they were busy with that sort of work in various parts of the state. GROUND TO FRAGMENTS Imprisoned In Cylinder, Boy's Cri€y for Help Are Unheard. Johnstown.—Imprisoned in a hugh of coal, his cries for help drowned by the rattle of machinery, Thomas Rec; a Polish boy, aged 11 years of Cone- maugh, was ground to fragments in a coal crusher at the Cambria Steel Company’s Conemaugh shop. The accident was not discovered until Daniel Grove, ,engineer, while inspecting the crursher, found inside portions of a Human body. COLLIERIES RESUMING Twenty-Five Thousand Men and Boys Put to Work at Pottsville. Pottsville.—Orders were today sued by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company for the re- sumption of 55 colleries and washer- fes of the company on April 1, after having been on past two months. about 25,000 men and boys. is- Anti-Saloonists Endorse Five. Reynoldsville. — The Jefferson County Anti Saloon League issued a statement endorsing Hon. S. Taylor North of Punx date for state son-Indiana district can ticket, and the Hon. Robert H. wayville, and Horace G. Miller of Punxsutawney for the {nomination for assembly. The league senator in the Jeffer- on the Republi- ‘recommended the selection of A. D.| ‘Meemer and Irwin Simpson, Prohib tion candidates for Assembly by the | Democrats of the county. John Shank of Latrolte, announced | | Shank Withdraws from Race. (his withdrawal {rom the race for the | Republican nomination for Assem- ly in the First Westmoreland dis- | trict, where R. W. Fair and E. E. McAdoo seek renomination on a local opticn platform. Herbert N. Smita of Mount Pleasant and W. C. Knox of Ligcnier are opposing them. Appointments in Armstrong. Kittanning.—Judge Patton has made the following appointments in Armstrong county: township, Richard J. Lew Flaccus; majority inspector in Gilpin township, G. A. Marvin; the First ward of Parkers Landing, Fred Fecht; overseer in falo township, H. H. Sipee. Laid Off at Harrishurg. Harrisburg.—Over 150 of the Pennsylvania railroad j here were laid off indefinitely is said that further reductions among yard and repairmen will be made. To Increase Capital. of Black Hand operations, whereas 2a revolving ecyclinder with several tons | half time for the | This will affect | itawney, as a cand’d- | candidacies of | Longwell of Brock-| Republican | Overseer, Perry | © majority | inspector in Burrell township, Howard | constable for South Buf- | employes shops | be | cause of the slackness of work. It} BANK EMPLOYES IN JAIL PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS | Two Men Arrested for Embezzie- | ment in Pittsburg Bank. | William L. Folds, United States | bank examiner made two informa- tions, under the advice of United | States District Attorney J. W. Dun- kle, against Henry Reiber, paying teller and John Young, auditor of the Farmers Deposit National bank, be- fore United States Commissioner W. T. Linsey, charging them with em- bezzling and misapplying $85,000 of | the bank’s money. Both men were arrested last night | by Deputy United States Marshals | Joseph H. Irons and R. H. MeBur- | ney, and were given a preliminary hearing by Commissioner Lindsey | and committed to jail in default of bail. Reiber and Young are both old em- ployes of the bank, each having risen from a subordinate position. Reiber has been employed 32. years and Young 25 years. TWO THOUSAND LAID OFF Pennsylvania. Makes Sweeping Re- duction in Force at Altoona. Altoona.—The Pennsylvania Rail road Company made a sweeping re- duction in expenses by suspending 2,140 employes, the largest number ever laid off at one time in this city. The 8,000 men retained. will go on 50_hours a week, which is almost’ full time, the ‘shops hereafter to work either nine: hours a day and five: on Saturday or 10 hours a day and” no work Saturdays. The suspension does not include trainmen and en- ginemen on the eastern division be- tween here and New Work, who will not be affected until the end of this week. The force will then be cut down to its limit. Some of the sus- pended men, according to local of- ficials, will be re-employed by the first of April and thereafter as rapid- ly as business warrants. To Hurry Construction Work. Butler.——Pittsburg, Harmony, But- ler & New Castle Street Railway Company officials issued orders to have the construction force work day and night to complete the main line between New Castle and Har- mony by June 1. The rails are laid and poles up for overhead work on this section. The power house at Eidenau is in operation, and ten cars, | capable of developing 70 miles an i hour, are in the barns ready for use. | Withdraw Their Papers. Harrisburg.—C. W. Hawkins, can- didate for the Democratic congress- ional nomination in the Adams-York district, withdrew his papers at the | | state department, Alexander Smoo- gens of Shamokin, Republican candi- | date for the house in the Northum- berland county district, and Josiah M. Landis, Republican candidate in the Third Montgomery district, also withdrew. | | Vicious Heg Killed Him. Greensburg.—Frank Lutz, aged 40, is dead from injuries inflicted by a vicious hog. He was leading the an- imal from a pen at the county home, when it attacked him, sinking its tusks through his knee. Lutz was unconscious when rescued’ and died later at the hospital. | Ask Damages from: Railroad. | Kittanning.—As a result of the pas- | senger wreck at Kelly’s station on the Allegheny Valley railroad last vear, suit against the Pennsylvania Railrcad Company has been brought by Mrs. Louisa Gerheim and Miss { Minnie Gerheim, asking $1,000 dam- | ages for injuries. Natalie Coliiery to Resume. Shamokin.-—Official notice was made that the Natalie colliery, which has heen idle four years through war- ring stockholders in New York and Pittsburg, would resume operation on April 1. giving employment to 700 men and boys. Increases of Capital Stock. Harrisburg. — The Elizabethtown & Florin Street Railroad Company filed notice of an increase of capital stock from $30,000 to $220,000. The Donora & Eldora street railway in Washington county increased its stock from $24,000 to $150,000. | Reading Lays Off Men. Reading —The Reading Railroad Company indefinitely supsended 300 men at its car and locomotive shops | here. More, it is expected, will be i laid off. The company’s monthly payments here have dropped from $350,000 to less than $200,000. Point Breeze Presbyterian church one of the wealthiest in Pittsburg, whose pastorate has ~ been vacant nearly a year, has extended a call to ! Rey. John Alison, pastor of ithe { North Presbyterian Church, Bing- hampton, N. Y. Washingten.—The miners’ hall at! Meadowlands was destroyed by fire {hat started from an overheated | stove. The loss is $1,500; partially covered by insurance. Harrisburg.—James W. Blessley | who conducted an employment agen- cy here and is alleged to have viec- timized a number of foreigners was today sentenced to six months in jail. Killed While Driving. Washington.—While returning from | Waynesburg late at night Joseph | Crayne was thrown from his buggy | and killed. It is not Nencosar| known how the accident occurred. | i Crayne was 45 years of age and | | leaves a wife and three children. ey | . Pcostmasters Recommended . tepresentative Bates recommend. i ed the ppointment of Captain 7. | 21 to be postmaster at | end B. L. YVenen #} The Evolution of Household Remedies, The modern patent medicine busi- ness is the natural outgrowth of the old-time household remedies. In the early history of this country, EVERY FAMILY HAD ITS HOME- MADE MEDICINES. Herb teas, bitters, laxatives and tonics, were to be found in almost every house, compound- ed by the housewife, sometimes assisted by the apothecary or the family doctor. Such remedies as picra, which was aloes and quassia, dissolved in apple brandy. Sometimes a hop tonic, made of whiskey, hops and bitter barks. A score or more of popular, home-made remedies were thus compounded, the formulae for which were passed along from house to house, sometimes written, sometimes verbally communicated. The patent medicine business is a patural outgrowth from this whole- some, old-time cusiom. In the begin- ning, some enterprising doctor, im- pressed by the usefulness of one of these home-made remedies, would take .it up, improve it in many ways, manq- facture it on a large scale, advertise it mainly through almanacs for the home, and thus it would become used over a large area. LATTERLY THE HOUSE- “HOLD REMEDY BUSINESS TOOK A MORE EXACT AND SCIENTIFIC FORM, * Peruna was originally one of these old-time remedies. It was used by the Mennonites, of Pennsylvania, before it was offered to the public for sale. Dr. Hartman, THE ORIGINAL COM- POUNDER OF PERUNA, is of Men- nonite origin. First, he prescribed it for his neighbors and his patients. The sale of it increased, and at last he established a manufactory and fur- pished it to the general drug trade. Peruns is useful in a great many climatic ailments, such as coughs, colds, sore throat, bronchitis, and catarrhal diseases generally. THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES HAVE LEARNED THE USE OF PERUNA and its value in the treatment of these ailments. They have learned to trust and believe in Dr. Hartman's judgment, and to rely on his remedy, Peruna. Taming Elephants. The efforts of the Kongo state au- thorities to domesticate the African elephant have brought out some in- teresting peculiarities of those ani- mals. During the wet season, which lasts four months, the ele- phants are not worked, but are turn- ed out into the forest. Instead, however, of rejoining their wild kin they seem to keep apart, as if con- scious of the difference that their training has produced. . Their pres- ence sometimes attracts wild ele- phants to the vicinity of. their scene of labor, but these wild animals are usually, too vld and intractable te be used as recruits. LANGUID AND WEAK, A Condition Common With Kidney Trouble and Backache. Mrs. Marie Sipfle, 416 Miller St. Helena, Mont., says: “Three years ago my back grew weak and lame and I could not stoop without a sharp pain. It was just as bad when i tried to get up from a chair. ,I was languid and #l listless , and had much pain and