7
A GIRL'S WAKING.
RVbat marvel have her still eyei looked
upon?
. In what new wonder hath the grown
naeptr
Hath aome bright miracle but lately
wept
Across the common sky? From what dim
lawn
Of fairy woodland hath ahe jut with
drawn r
What secret tenderness that long hath
slept,
What love unrealized, what pain un
wept, Now stirs and dreams and trembles for
the dawn?
BTea, marvel, wonder, miracle are hers.
And hers all treasure of wild fairyland.
And hera a new god's intimate com
mand;
Tor see! she holds, still tranced and listen
ing:, Al listens one to unseen messengers,
A gray old volume where dead poets
sing.
SI. Lcnnah, in The Atlantic.
THE OFA
TaleTHTalei
KL. .Hi By Edith M. ISU . ,
wnient.
It started on the small sofa In tha
alcove beside the reading lamp, and
there were only two people In the
room. One of them stood on the
hearth rug, with his back to the fire,
looking down on the other as she sat,
fingering the MS. on her lap.
"Why do you want to read It?"
he asked.
"Because you wrote it," he an
swered, with great simplicity.
She frowned. "You ought to say,
It's because my other stories have
been so successful, and I get such
nice puffs In the papers!"
"Those reasons may suffice for the
rest of the world, but they don't for
me!"
"Perhaps you expect too much!"
she said, and studied her MS. deeply.
"Do I?" he asked, and studied her
profoundly. The clock ticked loudly
and the fire crackled.
"By the way!" she remarked. "You
Fill be the first person to read this
story of mine, so that I shall be im
patient for your verdict!"
"I'll read it to-night and report
to-morrow," he assured her prompt
ly. "Does the first necessitate the sec
ond?" she asked, raising her eye
brows. "As far as I'm concerned," he an
swered, lowering his, whereupon she
held out her story with a heavenly
smile; but he being of a grasping
disposition, took first the MS. and
then the hand that held it, and oh!
-well!
The clock ticked loudly and the
Ore crackled.
Two hours later he stood in his
front hall, turning his pockets inside
out by the light of the midnight oil,
then he searched the front steps and
examined the pavements outside, and
finally patrolled a certain street to a
certain house till a certain small
hour of the morning, when he re
turned to his abode uttering unholy
Words.
"What are you looking for?" she
demanded on entering the drawing
room the next morning.
"Nothing," he answered, rising
hastily from an evident inspection of
tfts carpet. His face was pale, and
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over the furniture.
"I thought you might have
dropped something!" she suggested
casually.
, "Oh, no!" he responded defiantly.
So she sat down on the sofa, her
face very grave, but the corner of
her mouth slightly twitching.
"Well, what do you think of it?"
he inquired.
"Oh!" he said with a start. "That
tory of yours? It was great, real
ly absorbing! I assure you it kept
me awake until four o'clock this
morning."
"And yet it is comparatively short.
Ton must read very slowly! Do tell
me what you like best about It!"
"Oh, well," he floundered; "J. IJked
It all immensely, but what appealed
to me especially was that er
cene where the heroine er gets
the best of it." v
And paying no heed to her blank
looks, he hastened on into the safe
waters of abstract literary criticism,
aying: "In those few passages you
how a breath of view, a right ap
preciation of value, a sense of the
tonal significance, which, if I may be
permitted to say so, is quite above
the average."
He felt that he was doing well,
!but at this point she brought him
pack to earth.
"Do you think," she asked him,
earnest And wide eyed, "that Gregory
ought to have done it?"
"Who?" he asked, staggered for a
moment. "What?" And then recol
lecting himself "Yes." This stout
ly. "I think Gregory was perfectly
Justified; I don't tee how, nnder the
circumstances, he could have done
otherwise. I am quite certain that
In his place I shoudd have done just
the same thing."
"What thing?", she asked, as she
poked the lire with her back turned.
Then, as he did not answer imme
diately, she said gently: "I don't
think you quite understand what
cene I referred to, but I'll show you
In a moment, -If you'll Just hand me
the MS."
"The MS.?" he queried, blankly.
"The- MS.!" she repeated, deter
minedly. He took two turns up and down
the room, then faced her, crimson
and crestfallen.
"I'm extremely sorry to tell you,"
be said, hoarsely, "that your MS. Is
(the arctic blue of her eyes frose
the truth upon his lips) ia left be
hind." He finished. "I hope you
don't need it Immediately?"
"N no," the admitted; "not to
day, but I must really dispatch it to
the publishers to-morrow."
"All right," he said; "I'll call In
the morning!"
"With the MS.?" she asked him
smilingly.
"With the MS.!" he echoed, des
pairingly. And as he went out of the house
he held a brief Ineffectual conversa
tion with the butler, punctuated with
a five-dollar bill, and then paced the
street for many hours a prey to
thoughts of forgery and flight.
It was the next morning and he
had been talking volubly and long
on different subjects when she at
length managed to get in a word.
"Well," she asked; "have yoa got
it?"
"What?" he answered quickly.
"The measles? No! Although you
seemed to think so judging from the
way in which you avoided me at the
reception last night, and again at the
opera afterward. You wouldn't give
me so much as a bow!"
"I didn't see you," she told him.
"Where where was I?" he inter
rupted to explain. "In the dress cir
cle, on the opposite side, with my
glasses leveled on your box."
"That was a waste of time," she
said impatiently, "and so is this.
What is the use hiding the truth any
longer? Why will you not acknowl
edge that you've lost my MS.?"
"Because I haven't!" he an
swered doggedly. "No!" (As she
stared at him in amazement.) "If
that MS. has disappeared, vanished
irreparably, you are responsible, and
you alone!"
He strode to the door, then wheel
ing round, faced her.
"If I forgot your story," he said
harshly, "It was because I was think
ing of you. It I was absent minded.
It was because you were present. It
I er lost that MS., it was because,
well! I suppose I know it I had al
ready lost my heart. That's all.
Good-bye!"
And he turned to go. But she was
already at his elbow, and there was
something in her hand a typewrit
ten parcel a MS.
"It has been a pretty bad quarter
of an hour, hasn't it?" she asked
him, and her eyes were twinkling-
thanks to your stories and mine.
But you're not going yet?" (For he
was turning the door knob.) "It
Isn't late, and besides "
Here she looked at him, and ah,
well! The clock ticked loudly and
the fire crackled! Valley Weekly.
Odd Facts Abont Sew York.
That New York City is the metrop
olis of the United States and is the
second largest city in the world is
known to every one. But New York
really is much more than that. A
writer In the Search Light says:
Greater New York, the second city
of the globe, might be called "the isl
and city of the world," for It con
tains forty-five islands, as many isl
ands as there are States in the Urrion.
The city pays each year to run its
government about one-third as much
as Uncle Sam spends to govern the
nation.
New York's annualbudget is great
er that that of any other five Ameri
can cities combined.
New York is over twice the size of
the Danish West Indies and is larger
than Chicago and Philadelphia com
bined. The most crowded block in the
city Is on the west side, where over
4000 people live in less than four
acres of ground.
Its population is 4,014,304, its in
crease in five years being a larger
population than that of the city of
Boston.
The Germans in New York, by
birth and parentage, would make a
city equal to Lelpsic and Frankfort-
on-Main combined; theAustrians and
Hungarians, Trieste and Flume; the
Irish, Belfast, Dublin and Cork; the
Italians, Florence; the English and
Scotch, Aberdeen and Oxford; the
Poles, Poltava in Russia. One-seventh
of the population are Jews, and
they equal the population of Maine.
There are more people living in
New York City than in fourteen of
our States and Territories: Arizona,
Delaware, Montana, Nevada, Indian
Territory, Idaho, New Hampshire,
New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode
Island, South Dakota, Utah, Wyom
ing and Vermont.
One out of every twenty-one per
sons In the . United States, or one
member of every four families, live
in New York City the others live
out of town. Scrap Book.
Smoke Nuisance in New York.
Electric light is a great conven
ience, and even a necessity, but we
need not barter our glorious sunlight
to obtain it. There are some nuis
ances entailed by modern progress
which must be endured, but for the
smoke nuisance there is no excuse.
Bituminous coal can be burned with
out this willful waste of carbon, and
it is strange that those in charge of
power houses and other large con
sumers of soft coal should not see
that the prevention of smoke by sulc
able devices, or even by more careful
stoking, would effect a very appre
ciable economy in fuel. They should
be made to see it. One by one the
great cities of the East are being de
voured by the black smoke beast
even tidy Philadelphia is becoming
grimy and soot-soiled and it New
York is to be saved speedy and ener
getic action must be taken by the
health commissioner. We have gone
back to dirty streets, but let us at
least keep the air clean. From the
Medical Record.
5
No
in every way as
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Milwaukee, Toledo, Minneapolis
and Louisville are making a hard
fight.
Fred. Abbott, the Toledo backstop,
will he back in one of the big leagues
in 1907.
" The percentages indicate the Amer
ican League to be much more evenly
balanced than the National.
Young Barbeau is playing a fine
third base for Cleveland, but he isn't
a Bradley yet.
The attendance at the Chicago Na
tional grounds has beaten by far all
records for that city.
"Doc" Casey Is not hitting In his
old-time form. The little third base
man is also throwing poorly.
There hasn't been anything the
matter with Cy Seymour's batting
since he joined the New Yorks.
The Cincinnati Club has purchased
for September delivery the young
star St. Paul pitcher, Charles Pruitt.
Sparks and Eason are both pitch
ing good ball this season. Both are
discards, one from each Boston club.
Pitcher Beebe, of the Cardinals,
has equaled the strike-out record
thirteen set by Rube Waddell this
year.
An expert dopesterhas figured that
$4,000,000 is spent every season by
professional clubs playing the Na
tional game.
In Billy Hamilton and Jesse Bur
kett the New England League has
two former champion batsmen of the
National League.
Wrlgley's dally work around Co
lumbus' second base is so corking
good that all other A. A. second
basemen are forced to suffer by com
parison. The substitution of Strang for Gil
bert at second base on the New York
Nationals was no surprise, although
just before the shift Gilbert's fielding
showed marked improvement.
,From the blue grass ot KentucKj
to the Canada line there is not a man
with a spark of liking for horses in
bis soul who will not sympathize with
Mr. Keene over Sysonby'B death. Ht
was an alien, to be sure, but what
boots- it where a good man or a gojd
horse was bred? While the line from
which he sprang was English, he was
suckled by his English dam in Ken
tucky, says the New York Sun. II
Mr. Ke'jne so decides, bippophlllstt
will applaud the feeling that may lead
him to give Sysonby a final resting
paco in the Blue Grass country, where
be was born.
An inspector of London police, wno
had had an opportunity to note thj
behavior of the 600 Japanese sailors
during the time they were being en
tertained In the metropolis recently on
their way to take over two new
Jnpanese cruisers, was asked hU opin
ion of them. "Little gentlemen, every
one," h- replied.
THE CLEAN
PASS IT AL
Here's the chew that
passed by!
chow so soft, so sweet, so .juicy so desirable
In SCKAPNO you get a great
big package of clean, pure to
bacco full-length long leaf
soft to bite, easy to chew.
paper wrapper inside a flat en
velope that fits your pocket.
Lasts three times as long as the
usual live cents' worth.
SOLD
EVERY
WHERE
THE LAIJOK WORLD.
The elevator men in New York are
forming a union.
The strike in the Russian naphtha
Industry is spreading.
San Frailcisco, Cal., is to have a
building tradeB temple.
The cutlery forces of Southbrldge,
Mass., formed a union recently.
Garment workers, the majority
Italians, are on strike at Utica, N. Y.
The Quarry Workers' Journal re
ports trade as good with a scarcity of
help.
The matter with Kansas this year
Is scarcity of labor in the harvest
fields.
It is said that Manitoba will re
quire 50,000 men to harvest its crop
this season.
Employment In the British engi
neering trades generally continues to
Improve, and is much better than a
year ago.
No less than S246 artisans and la
borers were employed on New Zea
land co-operative works railway and
road making.
Alien tailors in thousands have
gone on strike against the sweating
they are being subjected to in Lon
don, England.
Twenty-six thousand miners at
Abertillery, Wales, struck, owing to
the employment of non-unionist
workmen in the mines.
Announcements of wage increases
ranging from two to seven per cent,
to cotton mill operatives were made
In nearly every New England State.
Kelr Hardie, the English labor
leader, is organizing an Agricultural
Labor League on the lines of the Na
tional Agricultural Union founded by
Joseph Arch in 1872.
The Boston Newsboys, a protective
union affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, has voted to
send one of its members to Harvard
University in the fall.
REQUISITES FOR CLEANING.
When the inevitable washing day
comes round see that the necessary
materials and u'enslls are at hand.
If the soap, soda, blue or washing
powders are out of reach much val
uable time will be loBt. Arrange the
clothe for soaking the day before,
says the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Every housekeeper should Bee that
proper requisites for cleaning are pro
vided. It should not be forgotten that
there is economy In having proper
tools to work with, as well as much
less expenditure of time and strength
and possibly temper In performing
the daily task.
Worn out brushes and soiled dust
ers will prevent housework from be
ing properly done, and "What Is
worth doing Is worth doing well."
The new Vlrchow Hospital In Berlin
will have 800 beds. The total cost ol
construction will reach. S5.000.000.
CHE
ONG ! m
is passed along never
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Kept fresh and clean in a wax
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trains leave reynoldsvillk :
For New Bethlehem, Red Bank, and prin
cipal Intermediate hi ill Ions, Ull City and
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p. di. dally.
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Or.o. W. Boyd,
General Passenger Agent.
HOW TO MAKE TEA.
The correct way of making tea,
according to a tea taster, is to extract
as much of the thelne from Ihe leaf
as possible and aa little of the astrin
gent matter. This presents a difficult
problem, for when boiling water Is
poured on tea leaves It becomes
tinged with astringent matter long
before the wLole of the thelne Is ex
tracted.
By powdering the leaves the thelne
is made more accessible. The travel
er who discovered this Invented i
special teapot which allowed the
water, after Infusing the powdered
(eaves, to pass Into the well ot the
pot, leaving the leaves high and dry.
He found, to his satislactlon, that
three-quarters of a pound of tea sc
treated would go as far as a pound
Infused In the ordinary way.
Ilepiesentatlve J. Adam Bede's sup
pestlon that Texas should be divided
Into five States Is described as
"novel." In fact, says the New York
Tribune, It is as old as the State of
Texas itself, and older. The original
design of the Texas annexationists
In the days of "Old Hickory," was
to make five States of It, so as ta
balance the five free States at the
North, which they then saw Impending.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Brook vi lle, Pa
m. Mcdonald,
attorney-at law,
Notary public, real estate agent, patent
lecurcd, collections mmle promptly. Otlice
Id Syndicate bulldiHg, Keynoldsvillu, Pa.
W. C. SMITH,
ATTORNEY- AT-LAW,
Justice of the peace, real estate anetit. col
lection! made prompt ly. Office Id Syndicate
building, Keynoldsvllle, Pa.
SMITH M. McCREIGHT,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Notary public and real estate agent. Col
lections will receive prjmpt attention. Otkce
In the Reynolilxville Hardware Oo. bulldlLg,
Ualn street, Keynoldsvllle, Pa.
DR. B. E. HOOVER,
DENTIST,
Resident dentist. Tn the Hoover bulld!tf
Main street. Gentleness In oeraliug.
DR- L. L. MEANS,
DENTIST,
Office on second floor of the First National
bank building, Main street.
DR. R- DeVERE KING,
DENTIST,
office on second floor of the Syndicate build
Ing, Main street, Keyiioltlsvllle, Pa..
PRIESTER BROS.,
UNDERTAKERS.
Black and white funeralcars. Main street
Beynoldsvllle, Pa.
J. H. HUGHES,
UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE FRAMING.
The U. 8. Burial League has been tested
and found all right. Cheapest form of in
surance, fecure a contract. Near Public
Fountain, Keynoldsvllle Pa.
D. H. YOUNG,
ARCHITECT
Corner Grant and Fifto sts.. Reynolds.
vllle, Pa.
JOHN C. HIRST,
CIVIL AND MIXING ENGINEER,
Surveyor and Draughtsman. Office In Syn
dicate building. Main sueet.
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