ONLY A LITTLE WHILK. Only little while we travel life's weary war. Only a little while we look on the light of day, Only a little while we want end wish and wait, Only a little while we vork at our daily tasks. Only a little while we wear our usual masks, ; Only a little while we trouble or please our friends. Only a little while we seek our Hellish ends. Only a little while we stntBgle and strive and fail. Only a little while we bulTet agninst the gale, Only a little while we worry and fusa ana fret, Only a little while we grumble at what we tret, (July a little while we join in the great world's strife, Only a little while we share in the joys of life, Only a little while we put up our daily bluff. Only a little while but isn't trav ve- a 1 Tritt lilAJNT lAx. j Bjr Fisher In marching order the professor Irresented a complex appearance. A .greenish veil hung from the rim of his swollen and spotless helmet to his houlders, which were clad In a coat pitted with an extraordinary number tpf pockets. On the lower half of his person he wore tweed knickerbockers and cloth puttees with white spats. 'A minnow net and a camp-stool with w pneumatic seat were bound upon his back, and in his hands he carried a heat of rods and a repeating rifle. By his side young Boiling, with a fclt of shark-line round his waist to keep his shirt down and his trousers up, and with plenty of tanned skin visible, seemed a figure of barbarism, but the contrast was only external. The Boston professor and the brown Florldlan were pupils at the same school, and youth knew at first hand aome of the wondeful facts that age bad met only in text-hooks. The professor had come to study marine animals, and when he met Boiling on the beach and talked with him, he beamed upon the tall, lithe boy whose eye was as keen as a heron's, and offered him three dollars ft day for his services. Five dollars - would not have been enough to banish the repugnance Boiling felt at first lght of the knickerbockers and spats, but when be foun out the sort of man the professor really was, he sur rendered to him completely. Those were pleasant days. They explored reef .and shore and pot-hole, mnd gave, each other of their own knowledge and learned new lessons together. One day they dropped an chor on a shoal between two man grove points, where the yellow glint of sand quivered up through the water. It was warm there and pro tected, and many smaller species, of flsh swam busily about in its com parative quiet. It was good collecting-ground. The professor, with eyes snapping behind the green veil, dropped a close-meshed seine over the tde and began to draw it through the water at the end of a long bamboo rod. Perhaps the light disturbance of its passage was the attraction. At any rate, he had made but two or three Attempts when a broad under-water hadow drew down upon the launch and paused below the next, which the professor in his curiosity held mo tionless. "What Is that?" he asked, and pointed. Belling looked over the gunwale with no more than idle interest. "What did you see? Where?" he aid. The shadow stirred at the mo ment, became more distinct and opaque, and the professor gazed down with startled eyes at the rising bulk of the most repulsive flsh he had ever een. "It's the devil!" exclaimed Boiling, stepping hack from the gunwale. The professor had lost his ruddy color. "Mania blrostrls!" he breathed. He caught Boiling by the sleeve. "What are those big spots? What they're eyes! Look at them!" The gigantic ray rose until a scant Blm of water protected it back, and peered upward with cold eyes set shallow and wide apart. For a mo ment It lay there, undulating like a ail in light air; then with a supple folding of its huge pancake body, it curved downward and became a shadow again, that drifted over the wavering yellow bottom and disap peared. . The professor drew a long and sat isfied breath,, and looked up at the sun, then across the topas-hued water. "Nature is wonderful!" he said, gently. "We must get that fellow." I "Get the devil-fish!" cried Boiling. "Certainly," said the professor. "I've seen pictures and read descrip tions, but " He waved the memory C them aside contemptuously. "Jim, I never, imagined anything like that since I Teas a small boy afraid of the lark'. Look bere." He held out bis band, and bis fin gers danced like the prongs of a tun-tag-fork. "Urn! Tou-all are scared," said Boiling, appreciatively. "Interested, Jim! Excited!" cried the professor. "I don't know whether I'm afraid or not. It's Immaterial. A ray twenty feet across! I must get that .fish, dissect bim, know every inch of bis monstrous body before I do anything else. Will you help me?" Boiling's eyes suddenly glowed. - "Sure I'll help you! You're game, all right, professor. This shoal would t a heap nicer it we beached that old ' sterll somewhere. " The ray, apparently so open In Its snovements, proved a difficult quarry. It seemed to have none of the activity, the daring Impetuosity of the game abbes. - Boiling and the professor, sjaartertag back aud forth across the shoal, with the engine down to the luieteat notch, saw nothin ilti to it long enough ? ' Somerville Journal. ""a mi w A T Ames, Jr. i. jr. g) their mullet and glistening squares of pork but an occasional dull sand eiiark. Somewhere, basking placidly upon the bottom, lay the devil-fish. and doubtless, with more or less regu larity, it moved about In the search for food, but the occupants of the launch failed to detect Its presence. Day after" day went by. The pro fessor's face grew longer behind the green veil. His time was limited, and In this paradise for collectors there was much that he was neglecting. Every slow crane croaking over head, every necklace of drops flung up by a leaping flsh, every prolific patch of sea vegetation roused im pulses that he had to quell. The devotees of science must be dogged. "There is so much, so much!" sighed the professor. "Jim, boy, I envy you all this. What a field to work in!" Boiling yawned. Ho wao lolling In the stern, his fingers clutching a cord, on the farther end of which a mullet was fastened. It seemed such fruitless business. "We ain't doing much now, sir," he said, lazily. "I reckon that old devil's gone up Ko'th; Just keeping his left fin close to shore, so's he can kind of feel where he Is. No trunk to carry and no ticket to to get!" ' He broke off, every flaccid line sud denly stiffening, and eyed he water close abeam, which had grown Is It that the styles In titled foreigners are changing? At all events, where formerly the dukes and counts purchased by our girls were candidly bankrupt, this season's Importa tions have been especially quoted as enormously wealthy In their own right. But all the while It Is to be observed that love is to-day, as it was yesterday, the sole actuating motive. And the man who, whether he needs the money or not, can manage never to fall in love with any but a rich girl, discovers breeding. It Is the accumulated restraint ot generations, flowering in superlative gentility. Ramsey Benson, in Die. opaque, as It struck by a slant ot wind. But there was no wind and the surface was glassy. Very quietly Boiling leaned for ward and stopped the engine. The dusky patch darkened, grew sharp in outline, and then the devil lay awash upon the surface, staring at the launch. Its huge, wing-like append ages stretched beyond both bow and stern. "Give it to him!" said Boiling, id a shrill whisper, and rose, harpoon in hand. It was impossible to miss so big a mark. The lance struck the fleshy back, and sank as if into blue mud. The professor, with his feet wide apart, rattled out a couple of shots from the magazine rifle. The ray struck out with one great wing and then with the other, lash ing the water white and throwing spray clear over the launch. Before the eddies had smoothed It was gone. The next moment it shot up ahead, broad as a sail, the harpoon-line streaming behind It. As it bung for a second, flapping, the professor fired again. "Look out for a rush!" cried Boil ing, and reversed the engine. The ray fell' back with a resound ing slap, and instantly the line leaped over the bow. The professor hardly had time to brace himself before the shock came. The line snapped taut, and the launch, in spite ot her re versed engine, sprang forward, two sheets of water flaring from her de pressed nose. "He'll tear the bow out of her!" bawled Boiling. "She won't stand it, sir." - The. professor, soaked with flying brine, roared back at him: "1 11 buy you a new one! Sit tight there, Jim!" It was smooth In the 'shallow cove, and fortunately the great ray did not try to Lead toward the sja. In rough water the launch must have filled or capsized in that terrific rush. The devil-fish drove straight for the mangrove' point, as it to hurl itself upon the sedgy flat a half-mile in thirty seconds. And then, as sudden ly as it bad bolted, the line fell slack. The launch, half-full ot water, stead ied to the kick of Its propeller. Boil ing stopped the engine, and she lay drifting and spent. - The professor shook himself and peered cautiously about. "I don't like this," be said. "Where is he?" "I'm glad we're near shore," said Boiling. ' The bottom here was muddy and the water opaque. They could not see below the surface. The line hung over the bow limp and motionless. A heron rose from the sedge and flapped away, tralliog IU long legs. A drum- fish boomed solemnly; but the giant 1 ray gave no slgn The professor moved uneasily. "Tbere'B plenty of horse-power left in that brute yet. This waiting's un pleasant." "Look at the line," said Boiling, soft'y. It was moving, almost as it caught by some quiet current. It ran out very slowly from the bow, then swung to starboard and pased astern, length ening toot by foot. It was so gentle, so unlike the former evidences of the huge fish's power, that it chilled the nerves of the watchers. It seemed as If the creature were meditating some crafty plan and working it out with human cunning. The professor Jfollowed the moving line with the muzzle ef his rifle. "I think I hit him that last time, he said. "Big as he is, I don't see how he can digest three of these long bullets. They'll rip their way through a foot of solid oak." "Here ie comes! Look!" Boiling pointed with a shaking finger. The line had swung back abeam and slackened. Bloody bubbles were rising and cracking on the surface, and the water itself seemed arching upward with the quick rise of the huge bulk. But when the ray appeared, It backed off and began to circle the launch, rasping the tightened line along the gunwale. "Cut away, Jim," said the pro fessor. "It that line catches on any thing, he'll upset us In a minute." Boiling severed the line with his clasp-knife, but the ray continued to circle.. Round and round the launch It swam, like a tiger creeping upon Its prey. Four times the professor fired at it, and the vicious spat of the bullets told that he bad not missed. "Toss me that box," he said. "I think that beast means to rush us." He tore open the fresh box ot cartridges, and hastily filled the mag azine. "I reckon we'd better run for it," said Boiling, with a white face, and opened the engine to her highest speed. The launch surged forward, head ing for the near line of sedge. At the moment the ray was astern, moving very quietly; but as It heard the swash ot the propeller, and caught its 9 meaning, its tactics changed.. It shot forward with tremendous rapidity, passing the boat as if It were anch ored. Then it wheeled with an up- toss of water, and seemed to gather Itself for a rush. . Boiling threw over the tiller, but before the sluggish launch could turn, the ray was upon them. Charging furiously, it sprang clear ot the water, outspread like a gigantic bat, its enor mous mouth distended and Its two great fleshy fins flapping. As Boiling and the professor sprang overboard, the ray tell upon the launch, smoth ering it and beating Its broken tim bers under water. Boiling bad taken a long dive over the side. When he came to the sur face there was no trace ot launch or devil-fish, except the violent agitation ot the water. But the professor's head was visible, minus hat and glasses, and it nodded at him. With' out a word the two turned and swam In toward the sedge close by, and crawled, dripping, among its crack' ling stemB. The professor wrung himself out sadly. "What a pity he got away from us! "he said. "Why, I reckon we got away from him!" Boiling's tone was rueful as he stared at the spot where the launch had been. "Perhaps you're right, Jim," said the professor. "I suppose we ought to be thankful. You'll get another boat, and I've got material for paper that will make the Ichthyo- logical Society sit up," Youth's Companion Parents and Delinquent Children. The story of delinquent children is, as often as told, practically the same. Judge Frazer, whose expert' ence In the Juvenile Court covering a period of a few months has brought him in contact with 700 children who, in a greater or less degree,, fall under this head, sounds the old warning, saying: "The dangers that surround a blowing child are not fully appre ciated by ouiiy parents. They allow boys and girls to go out alone to theatres aud other amusement re sorts, and then wonder why they go to the bad." This, he added, is aim ply a matter of carelessness upon the part of the perentB. It would seem, with an army of 700 children ap pearing before the court for reprl mand ot counsel within a few months. that parents of the city should awake to the sense of responsibility re quired and restrain the liberty which Is so detrimental to boys and girls who have not yet come to years of discretion. Judge Frazer says truly that the need for greater parental care cannot be emphasized too strong' ijr.. Portland Oregonlan. The New Marching Through Georgia. Your tongues will feel like blotters, boys, and closed saloons you'll spy, And your anatomy will warp because it is so dry, Unless at druggists and at grocers yon can wink your eye, While you go marching through Georgia. New York Times. Accurate Figure. Ttellyez, he's a smart feller. tie knows a thing or two." "That's about all he does know." Judge. Enough Said. "Are you a member of the Sunshine Club?" "No, " sir. I sell umbrellas."- Cleveland Plain Dealer. Correct, Redd "What is the first step In automoblllng?"' Greene "Getting used to the smell." Yonkers Statesman. Placed. Knlcker "Was he among those who also spoke?" Bocker-r-"No, he was among those who said in part." New York Sun. Something Like That. Stella "Who Is the temporary Chairman oi a convention?" Bella "He Is the man who makes the keyhole speech." New York Sun. Spoiled It. "The latest London play Is called 'The Thunderbolt.' " By Jove!" "No. by Pinero." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Knew Right Away. Charlie Lovedv "17m ah er er er! He! he !" Jeweler (to his assistant) "Bring that tray ot engagement rings here, Henry." Spare Moments. They Fell Out In It. "Judith and I were swinging in the hammock last night, when we tell out." "Out of the hammock?" "No, la the hammock." Chicago News. Innuendo. , "His contour," began one of the politicians adherents. "Do you mean his whirl around the country?" one of the opposition made all possible haste to ask. ''Washing ton Herald. The Connoisseur. Little Willie "Say, pa, what Is a connoisseur?" 'Pa "A connoisseur, my son, Is an eminent authority -who admits that anything you treat him to is the best ever." Chicago News. Belongs to the Largest. She "Are you sure we didn't run over somebody just then?" He "Oh, very likely. One dt those cyclists, no doubt. If they will use our roads they muBt take the con sequences." Plck-Me-Up. 'JiiRt As Good." "Does this car go to Twenty-fourth street T" inquired the elderly lady. "No, ma'am, but I have something just as good," replied the conductor. who was formerly a drug clerk. "I can let you off twice at Twelfth street. '" Bohemian. Men Only. Lady Applicant "I see, sir, that you advertise for a partner, and as sex wasn't mentioned, I called to" Merchant "Pardon me, madam, but I thought the question ol' sex was quite covered. My advertisement calls for a silent partner." Boston Transcript. Making a Show. "A man has to draw It fine these days." "What do you mean?" "Staying ten minutes after office hours each day will probably make a good impression, but staying fifteen is liable to excite suspicion that you are monkeying with your books." Kan sas City Journal. 4 His Finest Act. "How was your speech received at the club?" asked one of Chumley's friends. "Why, they congratulated me very heartily. In tact, one of the members came to me and told me that when I sat down he had said to himself It was the best thing I had ever done." Youth's Companion. On the Contrary. The Sociological Investigator "I suppose the prevalence of the divorce evil has a strong tendency to decrease the number of marriage?" The Probate Clerk "No, ma'am. Quite the contrary. All the divorced people promptly marry again and that gives us twice as many mar riages, don't you sse?" Cleveland Plain Dealer. England's Domestic Upheaval By SYDNEY BROOKS. Half of the householders in Great Britain are in a panic, and all of them are frantically insuring themselves against 'liabilities ot whleh they know nothing except that they are bound to be bothersome and may be overwhelming. The cause of their precipitate anxiety is an Act of Par liament that came into force on July 1. The title of the act looks harmless enough. It is called the Workmen's Compensation Act. We have had many such acts before and they have not disturbed the pease of the Eng lish fireside. But this one is both more stringent in its provisions and far wider In its scope than any of its predecessors. When 1 say that for the fh-st time in the history of British Industry It makes householders le gally and financially responsible for any accidents that may befall the domestic servants they employ I have said enough to account for the na tional alarm. It is not often that legislation touches the home, or that the averay.e man, still less the ser vant woman, is affected in any vital and personal interest by what Par liaments may do or undo. The prin ciple of employers' liability Is an old and familiar one. But hitherto It has scarcely ever made itself felt outside the spheres ot business and Industry. A man could forget all about It when he reached home, and as for women, there was virtually no occasion for them even to think of It. All that Is changed by this act. Every one who employs a servant is now doomed to study the beauty ot employers' liability In his own household, and will count himself lucky if his experience of how it works does not make vast inroads on his balance at the bank. And what applies to men applies equally to women. The mistress ot the household suddenly finds her respon sibilities incredibly enlarged. Hither to they have revolved mainly round the problems of food, furniture and feminine "help." Food and furni ture will continue to make their ap peal In the future as. In the past, but from now onwards the servant ques tion Is enormously complicated and expanded. Not only has the mistress ot the household to find servants, engage them and keep them, but to be prepared at any moment to find herself liable for any accidents they may meet with In the course of their employment. That Is something ab solutely revolutionary. No act, ln deed. In my time has affected any' thing like so huge a proportion of the people of. this kingdom as this act promises to or has affected them so intimately and unescapably and with such Impartial comprehensive' ness. Naturally for months past every householder In Great Britain has been making a wild rush for cover. The insurance companies have never done such bustnesV Whether it will prove to be profitable business no one as yet can say with any certainty. There are very few data to go upon. No statistics that I am aware of have ever been compiled of the number of accidents that annually occur In do mestic service. The insurance com' panles In fixing other premiums are frankly plunging into the dark Everything about the act Is for the present hidden in obscurity. You will hear a dozen different opinions of what Its clauses mean, of the effects they are likely to produce, and of the classes of labor that come or do not come within their scope. Some people think that when the peo ple realize by conctete experience the results of the act they will rise in great wrath and sweep the govern .ment that passed It from power. Harper's Weekly. They Didn't Have To, Mrs. Goldveln, of Cripple Creek, having unexpectedly come into a for tune through a lucky strike, set up a country home near Denver, where she lived in style. One day while she was showing some of her old-time friends about the place, they came to the poultry yard. "What beautiful chickens!" the visitors exclaimed. "All prize fowl," haughtily ex plained the hostess. "Do they lay every day?" was the next question. ."Ob, they could, of course," was the reply, "but in our position it is not necessary for them to do so." Llpplncott's Magazine. Prndence. A tall man, impatiently pacing the platform of a wayside station, accost ed a boy of about twelve. "S-s-say," be said, "d-d-do y-yu know h-h-how late this train is?" The boy grinned, but made no re ply. The man stuttered out some thing about kids In geieral and passed tnto the station. A stranger asked the boy why he hadn't answered the big man. "D-d-d'ye wanter see me g-g-get me fa-fa-face punched? D-d-dat big g-guy'd t'lnk I was mo-mo-mocklng him." Everybody's. A Concise Tale. In a Tennessee court an old colored woman was put on the witness stand to tell what she knew about the anni hilation ot a hog by a railway loco motive. Being sworn, Bhe was asked If she had seen the train kill the hog in question. "Yassah, I seed- It." "Then," said counsel, "tell the Court in as few words as possible just how it occurred." Yo' Honah," responded the old lady, T sbure can tell yo' in a few words, it J'.wt tooted an' tuck bim. BUSINESS CHRD9, E.'.NEFF . JTJSTICR OF THR PEACE, Petslon Attorney and Real. Estate Agent, RAYMOND E. BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BltOOKVILLK, PA. 0, m. Mcdonald, ATTORN EY-AT-LATf, ' ueni on it i o bkvuu, fiaiisi lOLurDu. 1,11 tectums mud a promptly. OQlc In 8jnalci4 uiiuing, fteynoausvuie, r. SMITH M. MoCREIGHT, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, Notary nubile and real estate acent. Col lections will rece ve prompt attention. Offloe In the Reynoldsville Hardware Co. building, Ualn street Reynoldsville, Pa. QR. B. E. HOOVER, DENTIST, Resident dentist. In tbe Hoover bmldlal Ualn street. Gentleness In operating. QR. L. L. MEANS; DENTIST; Office on second floor ot tbe First National bank building, Main street. DR. R. DEVERE KING, DENTIST, office on second floor ot the Syndicate ball 4 Ing, Main street, Keynoldsvllle, Pa. JJENRY PRIESTER . , UNDERTAKER. Black and white f uneralcars. Main stress, ReynoldsTUle, Pa, MARKETS. ' PITTSBUPO. Wheat No. 2 red t 85 Rye-No.'.' 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I SO U 00 7 il I 01 The annuel report of the bureau of navigation shows that all records for snip-building in the United States were broken last year. The gross tonnage built was 1,588,027 tonti of which 304,739 tons were for the Great Lakes. ICE CREAM COXE3. One-fourth of a cupful of butter, one-bftlf of a PMiful of powdered su gar, one-fourt.il of a cupful of milk, sewn-elghts of a cupful of flour, one half 'teaspoon'ful or vanilla. CreaiK the butter, adil the sugar cmd cream them well together; then add the milk slowly and last add the flow and flavoring. Spread thin with a broad bladed knife on tie bottom c a cmiioi-o nr nhVmr tin Rlkf until brown, then cut In large squares and! roll up, beginning it one corner, lfW rrmnrinliL If tho snuare9 becomeS too brittle to roll up, place them In the oven again ,to soften. The lower end must be plnohed together. New York WorW. Red Eyed Kentucky Chicken. George Ladoa'burger haa a sure enough curiosity In the possession of ft red eyed chicken. It Is not tho eyelids that are red, as might be in ferred, but the eyes thsinselves. The eyeballs are not bloodshot or Inflamed, but are of a 'brilliant crystal red, while the sights are also red, but of a dart er liue. So transparent are the eyes tiat when the head of the chicken 19 held between your vision and the su It appears as It the sun were smning through from one eye to the other andl the .head lighted up inside, 'me cnicn Is as healthy ami lively and can sea m perfectly as any in the brood. Dover Nows.