v Rpnin has slowly bnt surely been forced to abaudon its stand in consid ration of prld and "glory." The foreign demand for trnilHtuff continue to be heavy, and the sup ply in still equal to the demand. A great country thin, nrnt the limit of ita resources in not yet approached. Apropos of Knglnnd'a warlike ac tivity it is timely to recall OladHtone'a famous reply in the House of Com mons: "Xo, we are not at war; we are conducting military operation." Coal mining is now one of Mis aouri'a chief industries. The annunl report of the United States' geological survey credits her with producing in 1897 2,fiG3,02 tons, the cash vatue ol which is placed at 82,887,824. The scheme of American popular education will not reach its highest development until every hoy and girl shnll be fitted, before leaving school, to use every power to its highest ca pacity to rightly perform the duties of family and civic relations, and to "make a living" by some handicraft the elements of which have been learned. . Time was when to have w ritten book gave a person some degree ol distinction. Men and women were pointed ont as the authors of certain books, and these books, once named in educated circles, were recognized. But that time has measurably gone by. To have written a book nowadays is to have done what thousands of others have done, and are busily engaged at this very hour in doing. The state ment amounts to little more than does the statement that a certain person has designed an oflice building, has invented a labor-saving machine, has constructed a new kind of street-car rail, or a wagon. While Porto Rico is densely popu lated, yet, in view of the great wealth of the islnnd, there is still room for thousands of immigrants of the right sort. Under the stimulating effect of American ideas Porto Kieo will soou begin to astonish the world with her growth. So long as she was fettered by the tyranny of Spain she could not do this, but now that she is permitted to inhale the atmosphere of freedom, she will speedily make up for what she has lost. We will miss our guess if Porto Rico within the next ew years does not become one of the most coveted gems on the breast of the ocean, observes the Atlanta Con stitution, After struggling for a long time with the problem of over production, the butter makers opened n central warehouse at Sydney, New South . uto imcio mcj nuuk nil IUVI1 uill- . ter, and whence it was sold at whole sale at certain fixed prices, varying according to the season of the year, but never falling below sixteen cents. What butter is not sold at that price . is shipped in cold storage to London. In this way the price is kept up. Co operation among farmers is admittedly one of the most difficult of social problems. Farming is generally car ried on with insufficient capital, which makes the farmer a long-credit man, and places him largely in the hands of the middlemen. Farming really j requires ajiberal education and large executive ability. Whut the farmers of New South Wales have done, how ever, might be done by American farmers, especially since the London market is much nearer America than it is New South Wales. Bnt it en li t be done with cotton, for the obvious reason that the London market is glutted at the start. The Abstract of Statistics of the Railways of the United States, for the year ending June SO, 1897, just is sued by the interstate commerce commission, gives some interesting figures. There are 181,128 miles oi railway in the country j of seoond, . .third and fourth tracks 12,705 miles, ud of yard and track sidings 40,221 miles, making a grand total of 243, 444 miles. One-third of the rails in yards and sidings are of iron, and 93 per cent, of all others are steel. There are 10,017 passenger locomotives, 20, 898 freight and M02 for switching; 88,620 passenger and 1,221,780 freight oars. There are 623,470 men em ployed by the railways; the amount paid them represents 61.87 per cent, of the totaf operating expenses. There were 489,445,198 passengers carried, and 43,168 casualties oc curred, of whioh 6437 resulted in death; 1098 railway employee were killed and 27,667 injured. O ie ont of very 2,204,708 passeugei j was killed, nd one out of every 175,116 was in jured; of employes one out of every 486 was killed, ud one ont of every 9 vm injure J. MESSMATES. 1 Be gsve ns all a goodby cheerily At the flrst ilnwo of dsvi W dropped him ilnwn tho side fnlMroarlly When the Unlit died awny. It's a dead dark wntch that he's a-keeplog there, And a long, long night that lairs a-eroeplng there. Where the Trails and the tides roll over Mm, And the grout ships go by. Bo's there alone, with green seas rooktDg him For n thousand miles round; no's there nlone, with dumb things mock Inn him. And wx'ro homeward bound. It's a long. Ions watch tbnt lie's a-keoplng there. And a dead cold night that lags a creeping there, Wnllo the ifionths and tho years roll over him, And the groat shlpj go by. I wonder it the tramps fomo nsar enough, As they thrnsil tn mid fro. And the huttln-sliln's belts ring clear enough To ba hsard down below: It through all the lone wntch that bo's n-keeplng there, And the long, cold night tbnt lnjrs a-ereep-Ing there, Tho voices ot the sailor-men shnll comfort him When the great ships go by. Horiry N'ewboit. O30303C03S jooooosoGoaooooo oi ni mrnm nn n i mmnnnri a i3 sjLrAUiururrAiiMsios 8 C03333OOOO3O3OO3OQ3O98OO&C E was looking at May's por traita lovely little miniature when the housemaid brought the packet to him. The girl en tered timidly, with a furtive glance at her mastor, for whom her heart was bleeding. Bat if her timid ity had nviseu from the fear of seeing some exhibition of terrible sorrow, she had alarmed herself needlessly. No signs of tears, either past or pres ent, was visible in the young man's eyes. They were hard and bright. Hard, also, was his face, and the clenched lips like adamant. He took the thick envelope off the salver, glanced at the clerkly writing and at the back, upon , which was stamped in blue letters "W. Robin son & Co." Then he flung it on the table, and as the servant left tho room the sound of harsh laughter broke upon her astonished ears. She fled to the kitchen and with scared face whispered that she though poor Mr. Ord must be going mad. Small .wonder, perhaps, if he were! lie had written a few days before to William Robinson for those patterns that he might choose the materials for his wedding suit. What a weighty matter that choice would have been I May was so particular about what he wore. He used to be a little careless about his dress once going about in coats with creases in them, and far mer's boots. Then, in his endeavor to gain May's approbation, he had overdone it in the opposite direction, sporting collars of absurd height, and impossible ties, enduring like a martyr the pinch of patent leather shoes a size too small for him and get ting himself a little chaffed by ap- pearing in suits unmistakably in ad vnilt'V VI luu tuauiuu May, with gentle tact, had changed all this. Novor hurting her ardent young lover by open condemnation of his apparel, but by artful suggestions had first roused him to an interest in his attire, then toned down his some what crude tastes, and finally schooled him into that quiet perfection of dress ing whioh is the attribute of a gentle man. He had written for the pattern from Robinson's tew weeks before the important suit should be needed, as he wanted to have May's opinion with regard to the materials. Already the little, laughing, gay girl had be gun to be more than a mere piece of loveliness for his admiring eyes to rest upon. , He consulted her about every thing. He bad no sisters, and until tho last year when the death of an uncle and the inheritance of a fortune had made him his own master he had lived a solitary life in a remote coun try town with the relation by whose sndden death he was enriched. May Carden, one of the first young ladies i he came across in town, had taken bis ' heftrt bT torm. The mixture of I 'riToli7 and onnd practical sense in ed. The one broke the oruBt of a cer tain moroseness born of an unloved life, and the other steadied the pro penalties to extravaganoe of taste and living whioh unexpected wealth had Dot unnaturally aroused. After that laugh of harshness, whioh had so startled his servant, Laurence Ord went back to the study of May's portrait. It was indeed a veritable "May" faoe. Cheeks like young roses, hair brown as hawthorn twigs, lips which were akin to the deep pink buds of the apple blossom, and eyes . Tlnet with azure, like two erystal wells That drink, the blue complexion ot the skies. These latter laughod back as if in mocking merriment to the hard gray ones whioh were looking down on him. A sob of anguish broke in a groan froia Ord's lips. He tried to realize that these danoing eyes were closed forever. Tried tried as many and many a bereaved one bad striven in vain to do to grasp the fact that the dear lips would never speak again; that no more until the day of resur rection would so much as the faintest color tinge the still white faoe, The picture before him, bubbling over as it was with life and mirth, gave the lie to snch a thought. The idea of May May, the merriest little person in the world, lyiug cold and silent was too muoh for the young man who last had Man bur having a wild game with kitten ou the deck of friend' '"Wix He had trended that little orutse more than he could say. He had all but asked her not to go; but from this he had refrained, deeming it mere selfishness. "You don't mind me going, Lnnrle, do you?" she had asked, when the trip had been suggested, and with little pleading look in her eyes wbloh was irresistible, especially as he had not jret the absolute right to give or withhold permission. "I'll only be gone three weeks, dear, and then il you s ill have a mind to you may take me and keep me forever, and for ever! A large order, Laurie! Shall von want me for so long, do you think?" ' Ord, never a backward lover, had answered that question by' a quietus lo the sweet lips which spoke it. He had gouo to seo hor off on board the Orchid; and she had stopped in tho middle of one of her airy whirls with the kitten and a piece of scarlet ribbon, to whisper, "Mind yon have the patterns ready by the time I come baokr Tho patterns were ready, bnt never more, thought poor heart-broken Laurence, would May come back to to him again. "The yacht Orchid, which was wrecked Inst night on tho dangerous reef outside Alwyn Bay, is the prop erty of a Mr. Griffiths, of London. All on board were saved except the unfortunate, whose body was washed aoliovn early this morning. It has been identified as ibat of Miss May Carden. This was the paragiaph which had caught the eye of Laurence Ord as ho had run over his morning 'paper at breakfast. Afterward he had come upon the first and longer account, but this was evidently a little paragraph inserted when further information had been received. It was evening now, and as the slow hours passod young Ord began to writhe beneath the weight of anguish which crushed his heart. His senses had at first been blunted by the shock. Now they were awakening to full consciousness of the immeasurable pain. He laid the miniature down and began to walk about the room. He moved things here and there. He wound the clock then his nerveless fingers dropped it with a crash. He lot it lie where it had fallen. He pulled up the blind and looked up at the starry heavens. Bnt it was of no comfort to him to think of May as dwelling among their mysteries. The sight of them did not bring tears to his scorching eyes, or soften one atom the hard agony whioh held him in its merciless grip. He had sort of feeling that little May would rather be with him. He began mechanically to settle the things on the table, to fold up the nowspapers and open his neglected letters. He was fighting his pain. The letters were read with out his being a whit the wiser as to their contents. The pocket of pat terns vras the only thing that re mained. With nnother of those piti ful .laughs ho gripped open the en velope The laugh changed into an indescribable cry. i There was no pat terns in the euvelope. Iustead there wore three thick sheets of note paper, eaoh of which had "Walter Robinson & Sou, Solicitors, Alwyn Bay,1' printed upon it. The writing was a peuciled scrawl a dear, familiar scrawl. Laarenoe read it on his knees, sob bing out his thanks to Qod. Threo sentences and the'iiignature will suf ficiently explain. "I was brought ashore half-drowned. ' J l Mr. Robinson, a lawyor, has kindly given us shelter. . Mr. Griffiths is addressing this Your loving May.'' POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Money is the root of the manufac turing plant. . Gossip is always short lived unless it is properly ventilated. Wise is the famous man who doesn'l overwork bis popularity. The present is the child of the past and the father of the future. . The more vanity some people pos sess the easier it is to make them happy. Time may be suceess as a wound healer, but it seldom removes the scars. An old baohelor says the average wait ot women is until they are asked to marry. Money brings ' happiness to soma men because of the interest they de rive therefrom. We never heard ot husbsnds and wives quarreling about which loved the other most. The bigger tho bore a man is the smaller the hole ho leaves when his days are numbered. The courting of an heiress is a business suit, but the courting of flirt is'merely a masquerade suit. Many a man who wouldn't think of making a wife of his cook - has no scruples about making a oook of his wifo. An old baohelor aays there is bnt one thing sweeter than love's young dream, and that is to wake up and find yourself still single. Nothing disoonoerts girl more than to braoe herself to meet the shock of a marriage proposal and the shook fails to materialize. Chicago News. Tba Child's Candid Opinion. A widower, says the Chioago News, who had at five-year-old son, married seoond time, and bis ohoice was a rather plain woman of about fifty. After the wedding they came home, and the father introduoed her to tba little fellow, saying: "Charlie, this is the new mamma I promised to bring yon." After taking a long and ateady look at her Charlie vent over to his papa ana exoleimed in an audible whisker: "Papa you' ve beta iwiu ew at ail," irt j j ; ( i j ; . r v7 V-T7 new york Ixi THE LATEST DESIGNS Nw Yoiik City (Special). There never has been a season when so iimtiy different styles were in fashion, par ticularly for cloth gowns, according to Harper's Hazar. It would almost seem impossible for a woman to be nnfashiouably dressed, provided the sleeves of her gown are small, and the skirt has no particular fulness except at the back. Velvet and cloth are combined in many of the new gowns with very satisfactory results. A T.ADIKS' AFTEIINOON TOILETTE. favorite combination of color is the light wood-color with dark brown, and a very charming gown of wood colored cloth, the cloth with a satin finish, is quite odd in design, and is trimmed with deep brown velvet. The cloth is in an over-skirt or polon aise, while the under part of the skirt and the upper part of the waist and sleeves are of velvet. There are four rows of narrow velvet ribbon outlining the cloth. There is apparently no way of gottiug either in or out of this costume, but the gown is fastened at the left side with invisible hooks and eyes. The sleeves are small, with a cuff of the velvet at the wrist, and are cut so as to give the effect of a very long shonlder seam. A smart cloth gown that is simple in design is made of blue Venetian cloth. The skirt is out with a circular flounce effect, fitting very olosely over the hips: The flounce is not scant, as is generally the case, but, on the con trary, is exaggeratedly full. It is made in clusters of pleats at equal distanoes apart, and the pleats are only fastened a short distance, leav ing the flounce to flare out above the foot. The waist has three rows of tucks put on to give the effect of pleats below a plain square yoke of the deepest blue velvet that is finished with stock-collar and side tabs. The sleeves are very nearly tight-fitting, but have some fulness at the top, with rows of tucks across the fulness. There is no finish at the wrists aud the sleeve is very long. The belt is ot fancy metal. A Favorite Willi Glrla. The pretty combination of plaid and plain dark blue lerge, shown in the large engraviug, is attractively dec orated with rioti ruby velvet, a color ing shown in the plaid. A narrow frill or satin ribbon matches the vel vet edges of the graceful Bertha that flare apart iu front and back. The stylish waist has a full front that is gathered top aud bottom on eaoh side of a centre box pleat. The baoks are gathered in like utauuer, and close iu centre with buttons and buttonholes. The front and baoks are "arranged ver comfortably fitted linings faced OIRL'H C03TUME. t"t wtt t-wt t-vt Fashions. FOR -WINTER COSTUME'S gj at the top to round yoke deplh with the plaid. A stmiding collar of plaid completes the neck. The JJertha is interlined with light-weight canvas and finished at the lower edge before it is applied around the yoke outline. A belt of velvet flninhes the waist, over which the front pouches slightly, and three decorative buttons are set at evenly snared distances on the box pleat. The closely fitting sleeves or plaid have a gathered pnff of the plain goods gracefully disposed at thn top, the wrists being completed with bands of velvets and frills of ribbon. The skirt shows tho very popular graduated circular flounce, a favorite with girls as well as with their mam mas. The skirt is somewhat of circu lar shaping mid may either reach to the lower edge or terminate at the top of flounce. The front and sides lit smoothly, gathers causing a pretty fulness in centre bank. The skirt is sewed at the lower edge of wnist and held easy at the front and sides; it closes with the waist in centre back. Possibilities for remodeling dresses tbnt have been "grown away from" are suggested by the mode; the dress may also be all of one material in silk or wool and trimmed with velvet, gimp, insertiou, braid or ribbon, plain, ruclieil or frilled. Fine tucking or all-over lace may be used for yoke, or the dress may have a low, round nock and short pulV sleeves to wear with or without vari ous stylos or guimpe. To nmke this costume for a young girl will ictiniro threo and one-half yards of mntcriul forty-four inches wtde. Hljlrs III ilnlrilreaalng. It will not bo the fault of the Paris hairdressers if finger pull's aro not worn this winter. One of the models they show has the huir nrranged a la Fompadonr over tho forehead, with three small linger pull'H above the ears. The hair will be dressed high, as it has been, which gives another chance for the uso of the finger puffs. 1'laln Hklrl l-'avnred. Already the reaction has set iu in favor of plniu skirts. Home- of the most eminent fashion designers and autocrats have emphatically deolared against so much trimming and the consequence is that the death knell ot the ultra-elaborate skirt is sounded. We may indulge in a moderate amount of frills, but the line must be very sharply drawn, and under no circum stances is fashion to tolerate anything that has the appearanoe of fussiness. There is also some objection to tho skirt that is made in two lengthwise sections. Very few women, and surely no prsctioal ones, like to cut hand some material into suoh shape that it is absolutely worthless after the stylo A HKIBT WITH I'IKC'ULaU FLOVNCB 09 VNIPOHX DEPTH. of the moment has passed by. There fore, the out-in-two skirt is always short lived; iudeed.it has scarcely at taiuad the prominence with whioh it has been accredited. THI MARKIT3. PITTHIIfJIta Craln, Finn and Fecit. WHEAT No. lMNl No. 8 red COllN-Nn. 3 yellow, ear Nn. 3 yellow, sbe.lwl.,.. Mined ear Oath- No. 1 white No. 8 white IIVK No. I Fl.OUlt Winter patents 8 Fancy strnlKht winter 8 live flour 8 HAV-No. 1 timothy 8 rinver, No. I 7 FEKD -No. 1 white mlU., Ion.. HI llmwu middlings IB llrnn. bulk li BTltAW Wheat, S Ont a SKF.UF Clover, CO ms. 8 Timothy, prime I Hairy Product BUTTER ElRln creamery.....! Ohio creamery. , Fanny country roll L'HEKHE Ohio, new New York, new Frnlta and Vegetable!, HEANR-I,lmaTit 1'OTATOKH Kani-v White. V bn f,f SH , 89 m Ri 60 9U BO 84 7 53 60 17 00 II 7 l:l 75 6 7S 6 60 8 20 1 !lr n 14 10 8!l oo i CAHHAGE Per 100 heads .... 1 ONIONH Choice yellow, V ba 1'onltry, Ktr, CHtCKENH I'er pair, small... Tl'KKEVS Par H KOUH I'd. and Ohio, froth.... 45r? n 81 CINCINNATI. Ft.ocrt..' a I0f 3 no WHEAT No. 8 red (13 70 IIVE-No. 8 47 COHN-Mlxed 84 OATH 8 81 EOOH , 1! 11UTTEU Ohio creamery.. ... .. 80 PHILADELPHIA. FI.OOT 8 60 3 WHI'AT Nn Q rl 7-1 7.1 4'OllN- No. 8 mixed 8 ! UA'IN No. 8 Wblte 83 34 IIUTTEll Creamery, extra.... .. tuua-1 enoByiTania nrsis... m NEW YOIIK. Fl.OUn Patents 8 81? 4 81 WHEAT No. 8 red 70 77 COIIN-No. 8 40 OATH-White Western .. 8J lll'T'l Ell -Creamery. 18 8-1 EtlOH b'.ale ot l'enn 83 M LIVK STUCK. Central Stock tarda, East Liberty, Pa. CATTLE. Prime, l.SOOto 1403 tbt t 4 SOW 5 00- (loud, 1200 to 1.S00 lbs 4 ) 4 70 Tidy, 1000 to 1160 U.S. 4 8) 4 60 lulr IlKht steers, WH) to 1000 lbs 8 70 4 lommou, 700 to 000 lbs 4'J nuos. Medium 8 43 Heavy llotiKns and stags 8 73 SHEEP. Trlme, OS to 103 lb 4 43 4 r0- Oood, 86 to 0 lbs 4 85 4 .10 Fair, 70 to B0 lbs 1 8 HO 4 10 Common 8 00 8 si& Veal Calves 8 00 7 80 LAMUS. RprlDfter, exlra 8 10(? 5 83 HprliiKer, L'ood to cbolce 8 111 a 3 1 4 70 4 S3 4 ar 3 i Common to fair 8 60 Exlra yearling. Unlit 4 63 Oood to cbotco yearlings. 4 40 Medlnni 8 88 common. 8 00 TRADE REVIEW. Surprisingly Few Failures In Novtmbtr Ores Demand lor Btetl Kails. n. Q. Dun & (.'o.'s weekly review of 1 1 tide reports as follows for Inst we-l; The report of failures for the month of November Is extremely gratlfyliiK, because It shows not only a decrense In number und a smaller amount of liubllltles than In any month, excepting- three summer months, since the monthly record began, but because ru refill anulysls shows a striking Im provement both In the small and In tho Inrge failures, and In nearly nil rlasses of Industry and trade. Considering that failures are usually smaller In summer months than In- November, the monthly return may be ronsldered about the best ever made and shows a condition tit llnanciul soundness ru re ly surpussed. t Nobody can estimate the gain for the Iron and steel Industry which will result from the past week's trknsaur tlons In steel rails, which are said tie exceed 700,000 tons. The makers hav il 6.1 8 ll'l 3 00- ing failed to agree, and to complete: -y the consolidation under which a singlo wiling agency was expected to sell all the rulU for domestic use or for ex port, the western works entered Into on agreement by themselves and fixed, their scale of prices at $17 for Pitts burg, $18 for Chicago and $18 for Colo rado, und the Illinois steel works are Bald to have taken orders In a Binglu week covering much the greater part of next year's capacity. Hut eastern concerns have not been Idle and have taken such large orders that tho output of the year Is now ex pected to exceed 8,000,000 tons. Uessemer pig Iron is stronger at Pittsburg, where purchases of 30.0tH- tons have cleared out stocks held out side the association, but is selling at $10 40 there, while the association d nmnds $10 at Valley mills. Gray forge1 Is steady, and other pig is In better de mand at Chicago and Philadelphia. Finished products of Iron and ateel are unchanged in price, although; plates and bars are In remarkubl heavy demand, especially for car building. Bales of wool have been large In No vember, 39,876,800 pounds In live weeks against 34,122,400 pounds last year an 26 831,000 pounds In 1892. but they hav been effected by Important concession in price. Manufacturers nave sonu what larger orders and are met hopeful, but a considerable share at th machinery must Inevitably remain idll until material Is cheaper in comparlso with the .cost of wool and goods 1 other countries. - , The rise of cotton to 6.62c, which h no other basis than an Impression th cold weather and storms late In P vember might do much harm, reac a sixteenth, but rose Friday and ylis m wiv iup price, wun improvement tne goods market. While prices rrlnt cloths are unchanged the prlc oi some neavy goods and bleach shirtings are a trine higher. The wheat- market has been weak' w 1th heavy western receipts, and r. declined toe Atlantlo exports hu been 6,123,056 bushels, flour lnclud for the week, against 6,187,633 busli last year, and 1'aclflo exports 1.810, pusnuis, against 1.867.808 bushels year, and for five weeks the total (.oris have been 28,304,863 buv against 26,122,708 bushels last year ntv nine nolo tura have been 14,490,283 bushels, 12.881, 032 bushels last, year, uf price has risen hie. It is a mil nlflcunt fact, which all Interest keep well In mind, that expV wheat about equal the great known In any crop year thUsV ere accompanied by corn expdV but slightly exceeded In the ym i greatest movement heretofore. I possibility that foreign dependency American food supplies Is pennant Increasing may b worth oonsldel 79 OS S7 Sit M :i:l 00 00 AO 41 Off 0l 00 oo- Oft 0(V (Mi 40 8 J 11 111- 49 00 to 50 14 81. V
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