A ROA BH SA THE HOMESTEAD. Girt all about with fence of white The low-roofed cottage stands; There, stretching f nks of green, And yon are fallow lands. Skyward at eve the swift bird wings Along its meted way; There, stars of love look down by night, A sun of love by day. singing woods; till; g out Unchanged the wild and The glad brook dances And echoes as of yore The music of the hill. And where we played the violet grows; The trout leaps in the stream; And just as fair as long ago I see you in my dream. * ¥ * * All things in e To olden day 3» true, O playtime maiden, naught has changed, Or p ed away, but you! —Amy Kingsland Pennington, in Youth's Companion. and sky, and breeze, eke te Fe tear Sete Mea ie Bi teste te sate lo egertetefeteots geotelesfesgelete dol deatotefelotolok EAR kA v.\% ID iA LEAP PROPOSAL. RR By A. G. G. Tose 030 20 Je ood Je Je Je Re Jee Re RT Fe 1% 1% s% 3% Te a3 fe rfe sl Te o¥e +3 fe vie se sfes! Te s¥e 1% s¥e 0 Les3e jorge * eageesterde She came into the study unanounced. It wasn’t a very unusual thing for her to do, but today I was busy and didn’t look up. “ed!” she cried, standing by my side. I started and dropped my pen. “The same old book?’ she inquired, passing her fingers over my head. “Same old book,” 1 repeated. ‘T’ve got to Chapter X XI. now.” “Does it really interest you SO much?’ she asked. “I don’t know,” I answered, wearily. “It gives me something to do, and something to think about when you're —"'1 stopped. “Well?” “When you're not here, I was going to say,” I went on; “only that sounds so foolish, because you're so often not here, aren’t you?’ She didn’t answer, but she suddenly sat down in my great chair. I put down my pen and thrust the MSS. away. “Any trouble?’ 1 inquired anxious- ly. “I’m twenty-four,” she burst out, “and father's an old man.” “Both your statements are undoubt- edly true,” I rejoined smiling. “Tell me all about it.” “He’s old-fashioned too,” she went on, tapping her feet on the slender rail. “Yes; that’s true as well.” “He thinks a woman—a girl’s—an old maid if she doesn’t marry at twen- ty,” she told me, eyeing me anxiously. I felt a sudden sinking at the heart, somehow. Though it was the most natural thing in the world, I had never thought of Una marrying. “He wants you to marry?’ I queried at last. ‘ “Yes,’ she assented; “that’s it. He's always praising Algy—" “That young—' I ejaculated, stop- ping myself just in time. “He's rather a young—, she answered, lawzhing ruefully. “That's what I tell father. But he always says that ‘the young man is attached fo you; the preperty dove- tails most conveniently’ —”' “I thought the old property-dovetail- ing argument went out in the fifties,” I remarked. “Besides which, it is so generally applicable. There's old Gen- eral Felgate—" “But he’s married already.” “I know; but he fulfills that one condition,” I continued. ‘“And there's’ Andrew Ainsley—” “A mad recluse!’ she retorted. “What a fine set of prospective husbands you're giving me!’ ‘1 didn’t cite them as husbands,” 1 objected, ‘but only because they pos- jsii’t he?” sessed the property qualification. Why, | if it comes to that, my paddock cut into your eight-acre field so he might just as well—" : “Mightn’t he?” I glanced at her hurriedly, but she wasn’t looking at me. There was a pause, and then I said: “So he wants you to marry Algy?” “Yes.” “you don't like him, do you?” 1 asked. “Of course not!” viction. “And you won't consent to marry him?” “N-no,” she replied, more doubtfully. “Oh you mean you will?’ I cried. “Oh, I don’t know how to explain!” she exclaimed. “But it’s father—every day and all day! He says it’s duty. He talks of marriage night and day; tells me it worries him—is killing him. Oh you know what an old man is; and I'm fond of him, Ted—ever so fond of him, and—and— Oh, I don’t know what to do!”’ “You shouldn’t marry where your heart isn’t,” I told her gravely. “I couldn’t bear to see you married uxn- happily.” “You see, there's something that makes things worse,’ she went on, look- into the fire. “I'll confess to you, be- cause youve always been such a dear friend to me.” She put out her hand and stroked mine gently; but somehow Ler words and her actions hurt me; they seemed to have destroyed some dearly beloved illusion. “I'm—I'm fond of some one else” she went on after a while, “and I want to marry him.” I gazed out of the wir dow across the lawn to the waving linc of thé Downs, and the view grew misty, and 1 pulled myself together. t she said, wtih con- “Little Una,’ 1 said gently, “oh, how | I pray you will be very happy!” “1 will if he will have me,” she said half involuntarily. “Why, hasnt he spoken yet?’ 1 2 with surprise. I’ve come to you.” “To me!” 1 echeced know about lox “I thought Y “What do’ 1 L0 w'd know more what I should do,” s caid. “I think he’s fond of me, and I—I'm very fond of him; but he hasn’t said anything.” ‘‘He never Lg “Not straight cut; and yet 1 know— [ am perfectly sure—that he cares for me: and he would be happy with me!” che cried. “Now, what can a girl do?” «Only wait, I suppose,” 1 answered. “You can't very well propose to him yourself, can you?” “Ah. but father,” she said; “he’s the trouble! I'd wait a lifetime for him if I could, but can’t with father like this—doubtin'z, That's why I came to “What 10?” 1 asked looking over her head at the photographs on the mantelpiece. “Couldn’t you explain to father?” she begged. “Tell him that it's only time I want; tell him that I'm in love —for I am, Ted—and that 1 can't ruin my life and let all my happiness slip away.” “I'll do all I can, I said at last, with .a catch in my voice. “But I'll tell you frankly, Una, it won't be easy for me. Somehow I can’t bear to think of your getting married. Our friend- ship has meant so very, very much. And to have it ended in this sudden fashion is something of a shock; for I suppose it will have to end. Good-bye, Una. I'm so busy this afternoon; I must get on.” I tried to keep my voice calm and steady, but something in my tone made Ura look at me. “youll tell father?” she said. “Yes,” I promised her, “and I think he’ll understand.” “] wonder if he'll ask who it is?” she speculated idly, standing up. “It doesn’t matter if he does,” I an- swered. Anyhow, I don’t know.” “I wonder if it would be better if you did?” she muttered, looking away from me through the window. “Why should it?” «1’d—I’d like to tell you,” she mur- mured hesitatingly. “Then do,” I said encouragingly; but I knew I should hate the fellow. “His name’s Edward,” she began. “Like mine,” I put in, trying smile. How foolish one’s lips lips are to tremble so! “But I always call him ‘Ted,’ she whispered. “Like—me?”’ 1 said slowly, lifting my head till I could see into her eyes. “He—he—he is very like you,” she said in low tones; “so much so that—" She stopped, and suddenly I saw it all. I picked her up in my arms. “Una, Una!” I cried. “Oh, can you mean—"’ “Yes, yes,” she answered, hiding her face against my coat; but he wouldn’t ask me—he won't ask me!” And then, of course, I did.—McCall’s Magazine. worrying. to ELEPHANTS OF LOMAGUNDI. Protected Beasts That are Destroying Property and Killing People. The Rev. Mr. Grantham, who is in charge of the Welseyan Mission at “No,” she answered; ‘‘and that’s why | pi ; Oliver Evans, The Scientific Miller Bv Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. (2 rr prenmrrmmingin cafe | N the farmer has harvested his grain and got the golden stores safely into his garner, the next question is: “How shall his wheat be prepared for food and for shipment to the distant parts where it is wanted?” It is known to all that the ancient method of grinding grain was that of the hollowed stone, or the mortar and pestle. By such means did the cold Hebrews, Egyptians, Phoeni- cians and Greeks grind or crack their grain. It was a long time after the building of Solomon’s Temple before the Romans improved upon the ‘very ancient system by inventing the running stone and stationary grooved one—the “upper and nether mill-stones,” which were, of course, at first operated by hand. In the early part of the eighteenth century the millstones invented by the Romans were made much more effectively by the process known as ‘‘dressing,” or grooving, the meeting faces of the stones. Crude as these means were, they were all that men used in milling until well along toward the beginning of the nineteenth century. It was in 1790 that Oliver Evans of Delaware, wrought his great revolu- tion in the milling industry. , By Evans’s system. from the moment the grain was emptied from the wagon to the final production of the flour at the close of the process all man- ual labor was dispensed with. The grain was first put into a box hung on a scale beam, where it was weighed. It was then run into an elevator which raised it to a chamber over cleaning machines, from which place it was run down to a room over the hoppers of the millstones. When ground it fell from the millstones into a receptacle which carried it to the drying floor, where an- other contrivance kept it in steady motion until it was thoroughly dried, when it was conveyed by machinery to the bolters. The Evans system—between which and the older one there was no com- parison—prevailed in the Old and New World for more than three-quarters of a century. Within the past generation there has, of course, been a revolution in the milling business greater even than the one made by Evans at the close of the eighteenth century. About thirty or thirty-five years ago it was discovered that the coarser portion or kernel, of wheat, which lies next to the skin of the berry, and be- tween the skin and the heart, is the most valuable and nutritious part of he grain, as it consists largely of gluten; while the interior is made up chiefly of starch. It was s#ch knowledge that led to the modern revolution in milling meth- ods and gave us the “roller” process in lieu of the old faced stones. The new process consists of removing the outer skin of the wheat and its adhering impurities from the “middlings,” then separating the middlings from the central part, and then regrinding the middlings into flour. Under, the old system the coarser part, known as middlings, was thrown aside and ground up into cattie food or into what was considered an inferior grade of flour, by which arrangement the cattle got the cream of the wheat, while the man, in his ignorance, was eating the poorer part, thinking that he was getting the best.—From the American. of) pathos oii e XaAB wea Son Martti Smal fos : Parties and Principles Ey A C. McLaughlin. rAflprmn i Pramas POLITICAL party may be truthfully defined—or its content roughly suggested—in some such way as this; it is a body of men, somewhat fluctuating in personnel and in numbers, who have begun to work together to attain some political purpose or to oppose other men to whom for some reason they have felt antagonistic. This body, acquiring organiza- tion and gradually devloping esprit de corps and a sense of self, continues in existence even after-its first purpose is accomplished or abandoned, inde€d after it has lost a dom- inating purpose of any kind; it accepts new doctrines to wrest office from its opponents; its activities rest largely on tradition, on party name, on personal pride and sometimes on a dominating principle. We should not be far wrong if we should declare that there are two or more great armies in ex- Lomagundi, has again had occasion to complain of the destructiveness and viciousness of the elephants that rav- age that district. A few years ago there was only one small herd of about a dozen, but to-day Mr. Gran- tham places their number at over 100. This has been ccrroborated by oth- er gentlemen, who have placed boys at various points of the country for the special purpose of ascertaining the numerical strength of the brutes. They | zo about the district in small herds of | about fifteen, and have for the last nine months been a source of terror. Nothing is safe from them, and they -re apparently fearless. They raid the kraals at night, scattering the fires in the lands and what they do not eat of the crops they destroy in rure wantonness. Already three kraals their frecuent visitations. of the Umvckwe Range, which ex- tenls for a good many miles, bears traces of their depredations. Teces are rooted up and broken down all over the hills and the vleis are covered with the pits made by the animals wallowing. Almost every herd contains a number of calves, and the older elephants are vicious in the extreme, and woe betide any unsus- pecting native’ who happens to come upon a herd. Their agility and the rapidity with which they travel is wonderful, and they can glide through the veldt almost noiselessly. The natives that have already been injured were usually unaware of the presence of the brutes until they came charging down upon them. Viec- ious and destructive, they are being 1 source of danger to life. Represen- tations are being made to the Govern- went and it is possible that special steps will be taken to rid the district of the pest.—Rhodesia Herald. | | | | | | Fort Amsterdam Site, The New York Society of Founders ard Patriots has replied to the treas- ary dcpartment for permission to place apon the walls of the new custom house at Bowling Green the following ‘nscription: “On this site Fort Amsterdam was =rected in 1626, and Fort George, until 1790. In commemoration of the settlément of New Netherlands on ery of the Hudson River by Hendrik Hudson on September 2, 1609, and the | ~rhievement of American Independ- ce, 1776-1783, this tz was erected v the New York Socizty of the Order yf the Founders an iots of Ameri- | »a.”—New York Evening Post. i have been deserted owing to | Crna enfin ‘ The whole | .~hich was erected later, stood here | May 26, 1626, by the Dutch, the discov- | istence, each controlled by a select few whose main ambition is victory, and that objects of the people’s desire are attained by the organization’s accept ing a principle as a means of winning success. This does not mean that a party government would usually throw over a principle which is believed was unpopular and likely to bring disaster. If this is not true, why condemn Mr. Bryan for adhering to free silver, when its advocacy had not brought suc- cess ?—Atlantic. NALRRIZLAARR Glorious Things to Talk About for a Year By Chancellor Day. Aflre nip 0) ALK of nothing for a year but the great and glorious things of America. Talk of the thousand varieties of handy and cheap forms into which meats and fruits and vegetables, all edibles, are being put for men in all places and pursuits, from the day laborer to the North-pole explorer. Talk of the difference between kerosene at 15 or 20 cents a gallon and kerosene at $1 a gallon and évery gallon at that time might blow you into kingdom come. Talk of the by-prod- ucts once in the dump heaps that are adding hundreds of millions annually to our country’s wealth and the comforts of the rich to the homes of the poor. Talk of unnumbered forms of manufacture, those most active agents of civilization, which must be credited up to our great land. Talk of the railways, which from opposition in their inception to persecution throughout their history, have pushed on, opening up states, filling the nation with teming millions, transporting us for a fraction ef the cost of conveying ourselves in all directions, hurling our papers and letters off at every wayside village at a mile a minute, and taking to the tidewaters for the markets of the world the products of our fields and the work of our shops and factories. Talk about these great things a year and see how few things there will be to complain about.—From Appleton’s Magazine. Rp ACY Precocity and Degeneracy Ey W. A Newman Dorland. Sonor Le RECOCITY is not always a thing to be desired. Indeed, it may, just as surely as a prematurely ripened fruit indicates decay and early death, mean an early degeneration and loss of the mental faculties. By many biologists it is considered an- expression of premature senility. As Lombroso has in- dicated, many of the men of genius were subjects of degen- eracy. There is a period of antenatal growth known to sci- entists as the senile period, embracing the fourth and fifth months of prenatal existence. It has been found that a i slight arrest of deyelopment at this period is characteristic of the class of be- ings known as degenerates, and precocity is recognized as one of the expres- sions of this development defect. Relief de la Bretonne, who composed at | | RUTSEK’S SHORTAGE $90,000 Foreigners Who Left Money With Him May Make Trouble. Uniontown.—It is that the alleged shortage of Peter Rutsek, who operated foreign changes in Uniontown, Connellsville and Brownsville, will reach $90,000. The trouble has been expected by a few who were acquainted with the manner in which Rutsek’s was conducted. When the foreign- barrassment they came into town in crowds. ‘Some threatened to break down the doors of the closed bank here but were prevented by foreigners who understood the true situation. It developes that Rutsek received money last November to be sent to points in the old world and this, as the holidays, never reached its desti- nation it is said. The money received on deposit and exchange amounted to about $15000 in the last seven months, and this has disappeared. It is thought Rutsek has joined his fam- ily in Hungary. BIG CEMENT ORDER PLACED 60,000 Barrels, and Pittsburg Concern Will Supply It. An order for 60,000 barrels of ce- ment has been placed with a Pitts- burg firm through the Stewart Supply Company of Williamsburg. The cement is to be used for the construction of the new Rasstown Water Company power dam a few miles above Huntingdon. It is to be delivered by carload lots and calls for 600 cars, the deliveries to be started at once. The Raystown dam is to be built a short distance above the power dam near Huntingdon, which supplies pow- er and light for the surrounding dis- trict, including Altoona. The ce- ment order is one of the largest that has been placed this year. Reward for Murderer. Greensburg.—The county commis. sioners decided to offer a reward of $1,000 for the capture and conviction of the wretch who murdered 10-year- old Volsta Sluchek, near Mt. Pleasant. Sheriff John E. Shields and District Attorney John F. Wentling went to Mt. Pleasant to aid in the investiga- tion. Charles Williams, a young ne- gro, who discovered the child's body, was arrested and fearing a lynching, Sheriff Shields brought him to the county jail. Williams told conflict- ing stories of his whereabouts on the day of the murder. Taken to Asylum. Harrisburg.—Frank Irvine, formerly traveling auditor in the Auditor Gen- eral’s department, who had been a de- fendant in the capitol conspiracy case now on trial here and was granted a severance fron: the other five defend- ants because of illness, has been re- moved to the State Hospital for the Insane at Norristown. Irvine broke down mentally during the third week of the trial. He was one of the au- ments on which the indictments were based. From Days of Bicycle Craze. New Castle—County Treasurer La- Fayette Baldwin has $439 that he does not know what to do with. It was collected from bicveie owners years ago, when the machines were popular, under a law levying $1 tax to estab- lish a fund to ‘construct bicycle paths. Now* there is no demand for the paths, but the money cannot legally be used for any other purpose. Woman Hangs Herself. Meadville—Mrs. Mary Jane Regal, 537 vears old, a widow, hanged herself at her home in Randolph township, while her three sons, for whom she kept house, were at work on the farm. She had suffered temporary periods of insanity and frequently talked of suicide. Bank Clerk Gets Three Years. Williamsport.—Before Judge Archi- bald in the United ‘States court, John V. Harris of Carlisle, entered ¢ plea of guilty to making false entries in the books of a bank in which he was employed. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and undergo imprison- ment for three years in the peniten- tiary at Atlanta, Ga. Big Wheat and Hay Crops. Bellefonte.—A problem that con- fronts many Center county farmers this year is where they will house their immense crops of wheat and hay. Present indications point to the largest crops of both ever known in this part of the state. Charges Wife With Cruelty. York.—Alleging his wife took ad- vantage of his blindness to ill treat him, Walter Hawkins brought charges against her. Hawkins lost his sight in a railroad accident some time ago and since then, he alleges, his wife has beaten him. Gettysburg.—At the annual meeting of the trustees of Gettysburg College President S. G. Heffblower announced a gift of $100.000 from John E. Firch, of Oakland, Cal, for a Ww science hall. President Heffblower reported the promise of a like amount from an- nthar source. Students to Teach Foreigners. New Wilmington.—A dozen West- minster students will work in camp schools for foreigners in Western Pennsylvania this summer, teaching foreigners English and coaching them in American customs. Jury Pares Damages. Washington.—Because his stable fourteen a poem on his first twelve loves, is a remarkable precocity. “A wit of five is a fool of twenty,” is an adage founded upon the popular appreciation of this unpleasant truth —From ‘The Century. was searched for stolen corn, Theo- dore Reed, of Midway, brought suit against his neighbor, Henry Doehre for $10,000. The jury awarded Reed six and one-fourth cents. reported here €X- | business | ers learned of Rutsek’s financial em- | well as large sums received during | ditors who had made the measure- FORGERY CHARGE ADDED | More Cases Likely to Be Started Against Pittsburg Bank Official. Pittsburg.—Two charges of forging | | i notes in violation of state laws were made against William Montgomery, former cashier of the closed Alle- | gheny National bank, now in jail | awaiting trial in federal court upon charges of abstracting $500,000 or more worth of the bank’s funds and securities. ’ The charges were made by Bank | Examiner William L. Folds. One of | the notes alleged to be forged is for $10,000, dated August 12, 1907, and purports to be signed by Young & Co. The other is for $15,500, dated September 4, 1907, and bears the | name of J. B. Bryar. ORE PROSPECT IS GREAT Hundreds of Men Return to Work on Bessemer Railroad. Greenville—Hundreds of men re- turned to work on the 8th on the | Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad when | the ore-hauling season was inaugurat- | ed. Every locomotive owned by the | company was put into service and the | forces in all departments greatly in- | | creased. At Couneaut harbor 500 cars will be loaded daily and next week the num- ber will be increased to 600. A Car- negie Steel Company official predicts that the ore movement over this road during July and August will exceed last year’s record. | SEY CATE AGAIN CONVICTED | Not | Second Trial for Killing of Police Chief Ends. | TUniontown—For the second time a Fayette county jury has found Will- jam L. Cate guilty of murder in the first degree for killing Chief of Police Thomas Guess at Bellevernon in May, 1907. Cate broke down and wept. The jury was out 12 hours. Award Damages in Three Cases. Washington—Damages aggregating $8,249 have been awarded against the Pennsylvania, Monongahela & South- ern Railway Company in three suits growing out of appropriations of right of way between Brownsville and Mills- boro. The plaintiffs were the school district of East Bethlehem township, which was awarded $4,350; William Allen, who was awarded $3,094, and William T. Dougherty, vf Fredericks- town, who was awarded $805. Postal Agent Under Arrest. Pittsburg.—E. F. Woodward, clerk |in charge of Postoffice Station No. | 22. in Rebecca street, North Side, was | arrested, on a’ charge of embezzle- | ment, preferred against .him by Post- | office Inspector ' George V. Craig: | head. Woodward is proprietor of a | restaurant, besides being in charge | of No. 22 station. It is alleged the | inspector found a shortage in the | postoftice funds amounting to $184. — | Loss of $3.500 in Mt. Pleasant Fire. | Fire at Mt. Pleasant caused a smal] | panic among guests at the Ruder Inn. Several frame buildings directly in ! the rear of the hotel were destroyed. Ernest Ruder, proprietor of the inn, lost a driving horse. W. H. Lozier’s tobacco warehouse was burned, and the Smith Hardware Company’s store. containing buggies and wagons, was partially destroyed. Aged Woman Observes 3irthday. Kittanning.—Surrounded by her two sons, three daughters, 38 grang- children, 46 great-grandchildren, 18 ereat-great-grandchildren and other relatives. Mrs. Mary Van-Dyke of Clintonville. near here, celebrated her 101st birthday June 11. She remem- bers the administration of Thomas Jefferson. the third president of United States. Gets off With Light Sentence. Uniontown.—After hearing the tes- timony in the case against Nicola | confessed to killing Pasquail Mondi, | and upon the agreement of the attor- | neys and the defendant, Judge J. Q. | Van Swearingen . instructed the jury |to return a verdict of murder in the | second degree. Judge Van Swearin- | zen sentenced Mondilio to 13 years lin the penitentiary. : . | ree —— | Women Plead Guilty of Theft. Uniontown.—Hattie and Emma GoT- don pleaded guilty to the theft of goods from the summer home of J. H. Sorg of Pittsburg, located on the mountains five miles from this city. Bach was sentenced to 60 days-in jail Their father was tried on a charge of receiving stolen goods and was sen- tenced to four months in jail. Wool and Grain House Burns. Waynesburg.—A large wool and grain house, owned by Elmer Grinage at Woodruff, was burned at night. The building contained 1,800 pounds of wool, farming machinery and grain, all being destroyed. The loss is placed at $30.000. = The fire was in- | cendiary. = Bloodhounds will be used in an effort to locate the fire-bugs. The roickn ‘wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smalley of near Saxon- | burs, Butler county, was celebrated | with a basket picnic, attended by 300 ! relatives and friends. Killed by His Bosom Friend. Stroudsburg.—Wilson Busch was | shot and probably fatally wounded {here by Dayton Osborne. Osborne, {and the wounded man were | friends. Busch called at Osborne's | home. Osborne claims he did not Lif who was trying to enter. Armory for New Brighton. Harrisburg. — The state armory | board decided to erect an armory at | New Brighton. 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