A CHAROB. ' Uftit ttiat for mil must dlk bawrn to the hllud mnn'i ev. Shine where no pnth it mew, Biiow where brave deeds have been! Tmith that must 1mv me, Way they receive thee Who In good works are itrong, l'hat lliey may labor long. Joy that must toon depart, Enter the broken heart, And to the vum-nlslied Rive , Hope, that tiny still limy live, Iieve that from me must go, Ah, that It must be so! Bpeed, speed from coaKt to ronnt, Bless him that nocda thee most. love, yo'ulli. 'and joy, and Unlit, Pass not Into t lie nlEltt! Ilnlo my brother come, Enter lila heart and home! Archibald llulledge, In Youlh'B Companion, A 'SPECULATIVE ENTERPRISE' I By Max Adder. ( "If you only hail a lltllo capital to Invest," Raid tho young man, as lie took a chair nml sat down rlose to my desk, "I mlKlit put you In the way of a pood thing." "M'lne?" "Oil, no. It's a petrifaction com pany; the Columbia Petrifaction Com pany, of Clarion County. 1 could Spare you a hundred sharps." "What does the company do?" "Why, you know, It owns a llme Btono spring up here In Clarion Coun ty. That spring used to belong to a man named Herkimer Jones. One day, when his well ran dry, Jones went olt and brought a bucket of water from that spring and the family drank It What was the consequence? Next morning when the neighbors called, Herkimer Jones was sitting at the sup- per table turned to solid stone. He tad had a sausage In his mouth; tliat was turned to stone, too. So was Mrs. Jones, and Ellen P. Jones, and Herkimer Jones, Jr., and tho baby. The limestone water did It. The heirs closed the whole lot out to a sculptor named Ferguson, who arranged them In a group and sold them to the Grlt tsh Museum as models from the an 'tlque. That Is, excepting the baby. v He put plaster parls wings on the baby and passed him off as an original design of a Cupid." "What about the company?" "Well, you see, the company at nee bought up the spring property, and they intend to go Into tho petrify ing business upon a large scale. For example) S'pose'n you get a contract ' from Congress to execute an eques trian statue of General Washington. First you find a horse; you make that horse drink at tho spring, and there he Is! Perfectly splendid! Then you find a man who bears a sort of a general resemblance to Washington. " You, arrange a picnic; get that man tip there In the woods; offer him a drink; and in eleven minutes you can chip spalls off of him with a stone chisel. Then you mount your man on your horse and there you have a group of statuary such as Greece in her palmiest days would hare given her bottom dollar to get." "I see.' ' "The company, you know, purposes to have the county poorhouso located near to the spring; and as the pres ident of the board of trustees owns Blxty shares, we calculate to solidify paupers right along, without Intermis sion, say twenty or thirty a day. Do you not seo what a magnificent pros pect It opens up for high nrt In Am erica? We can fill any order. Bay ,,you want a statue of General Jackson, and the only available pauper Ib too fat. What do we do? We petrify him, and then we chip him down and touch vp his countenance maybe, with a chisel. Suppose you want a pair of saints to work Into the front door of a church. We select a couple of ven erable vagrants, harden them, turn their noses down, to give them dig nity of expression, and the bricklayers then can build them right into the door jambs." ' "Suppose tho demand for that kind of statuary be small." "Then we come down to a basis of utility of once. S'posln' i'aere's a pauper with inflammatory rheumat ism in his leg? We petrify him. We eell him to a doctor. That doctor cuts off the leg with a marble saw, and there he has that lnfammatory rheu matism right before him turned Into granite. S'posln' one of them has a torpid liver? In two hours the doc tors can examine that liver Just as if it was a brickbat, with the torpldty sticking out all over it. Mind you, if the suddIv of Dauners holds or, I lYenture to say that the day is not far distant when you can take petrified livers and hearts,' and muscles, and brain pans and build a story-house wfth them, with all the modern con veniences, a mighty sight - cheaper ""than you can build tt out of common etone. Imagine living in a bouse made of ossified livers! Be unique, wouldn't it? It would attract atten tion. But you buy into the company and I will guarantee you such a house, with all tho mantelpieces made of a mosaic of human remains. Perfectly beautiful, too!" "I don't care for such things my self, but". "General Bangs, he tried some curi ous experiments with the water out of that spring. He threw a bucket IfoJ en a cat that was jumping about 'n his back fence one. night; and .there she is now, fur up, tall elevated, ' mouth open, picturesque and natural ' . as life! Next ' night he soused an- ether ne; same effect, of course; and jnow General Bangs has thirteen ex- :: . guislte statuettes of cats in various .attitudes ef grace ranged around oa bis few.ee. Ferguson, the sculptor, told him he couldn't have tad then cats done In Carrara marble in Eu rope under 15" 000. . But of course you have to be" cureful when you have the Columbia water around. General Bangs kept his In a barrel, and the other day his molherln-law filled a pitcher from it accidentally, and took a drink. One hour later it took six men to carry her to the window so they could lower .her to the pare1 ment with a derrick. She weighed nearly a ton, and was so bard you couldn't crack her with a sledge' hammer. Tho general was sorry, of course; and after ho had her mounted on a revolving pedestal he kept her in hi front parlor for a while, palming her off 011 his friends as an Imported 8talue of Minerva. But, finally, as she excited unpleasant comments, he had her cut Into slabs and put Into his cemetery lot as tombstones. He has tho gratifying perfection that she Is nenr Ihoso who were dear to her. Let mo tell you that If our company once gets to work, and paupers are plenty, a mnn who wants a variegat ed tombstone can get something that will plcaKo his taste at rales that will wake the niarblo-yard people sick." "It looks like a good thing, but I I believe 1 don't care to go Into it." "I'll tell you what I'll do. I'm a lit trie pressed for money now, and If you will buy thirty shares, you may take them at hulf price, and I'll petrify any of your relations you say for noth Ing. How's that?" v "I have no relations that I want in that condition." "No aunt, or grandmother, or any thing that would work up well Into a table top, or a slab, for a fixed wash stand?" "No." "No." "And. you're going to throw away this chance of promoting aesthetic culture nnd of encouraging the love for the beautiful In your own coun try?" "I'm afraid so." Tho young man shook his head and sighed, as if he could hardly bear to think of the degeneracy of the times and then he said; "Could yo ulend me a quarter, any how?" I lent it to him and he went away with a solemn promise to repay it on the morrow. But he must have gone to Europe to sell bis shares, for he never returned. New York Weekly. THE OLDEST ATTIC LETTER. And What It Reveals of Life In Those Days. A little leaden tablet, tarnis-bed, ug ly, and otherwise trivial In appear ance, was sent a few years ago from Athens to the Imperial Museum of Berlin. Oq one side of It was some writing which only recently was de ciphered with precise correctness by Adolph Wllhelm, an Austrian savant, who lives In Athens. The tablet is tne original of a private letter that was written about the time of the or ator Demosthenes. The writer of the letter lived in a rural neighborhood and wished to send a commercial order to a town The form of the address was: To be taken to the pottery market and to be handed to NausJaa, or to Thrasyklos, or to the son" (perhaps the son of the writer was meant). The weekly mar ket, to which the Attlo countrymen had gone to offer their produce and wares for sale, may be imagined ai In progress. There the boy who was bearer of the letter was to find the stand or booth of one of tfie three per sons to whom it was addressed, and deliver it to him. The text It the letter says: "Mnesiergos greets you cordially he greets your family with the same esteem and wishes them good health, and he says also that his own health is good. Please ' be so kind as to send me a mantle, either of sheepskin or of goatskin, and let It be as cheap as possible, for It does not need to be trimmed with fur. Send with it a pair of heavy sole also. As soon as I have an opportunity I will pay you." So much for the letter, to th mo tive of which the reader can point with as much precision .as the author. Apparently it was written in winter, poor Mnesiergos having been surpris ed out in the open country by one of those icy snowstorms which some times even at this day cover the tem ples of the Acropolis with a mantle of snow. Therefore he desired to re ceive as quickly as possible the heavy and warm garment of the poorer coun trymen, a goatskin, which could be bought for four and a half drachmas, and the strong soles which were worn under the ordinary sandals on the rural plains and hillsides. A good pair of the latter could be bought for four drachmas, as a well-preserved bill ol that date shows. A noteworthy feature of this artless letter Is the formula with which It be gins, the very formula that may be found used In very numerous letters that were preserved by the Greek lit erature of later times. Even at the present day every letter written by a rural Greek begins with the same cor dial Inquiry about the health - of th person to whom the letter Is written and with the brief Information about the health of , the writer. Scientific American. Bat Why the Tastes? The unwisdom of employing bank cashiers with automobile tastes at street car salaries la still being occa sionally emphasized in the business circles of the country. Christian Sci ence Monitor. While the number of violent deathi a thousand among miners has under gone In European countries a decTQed decrease, in this country it is steadily Increasing, : ft Horrors of Slave Grown Cocoa By Joseph Burtt have traveled for hundreds of miles along the ancient slave route through the Portuguese colony of Angola, and y have seen shackles, skeletons nnd corpses, and I know that I iTf slavery include and must Include, every crlmo. It would I be easy to give stories illustrating them all false witness, ff M theft, adultery and murder. These so-called "contract laborers" are gathered from various districts of Angola, but some come from tho far distant regions of tho Congo. One must travel through these dreary plains and uplands to realize the sufferings of a slave who walks a thousand miles or more to the port from which he is shipped to San Thome. There are bitter, dewy nights, when the cold forces him so close to the log lire that he burns himself I have seen the pink scars on his brown body and his ankles, are chafed by the heavy wooden shackles that secure him for the night. There are days, with the merciless sun overhead, when his sore feet toll "in Immeasurable sand" Ill-fed, thirsty, fevered, In his heart a (lull despair that saps his life, and before his imagination the vague terror of the ignorant facing the unknown. k 1 have before me a photograph, taken by, a friend of mine, of a young slave lying dead. They found him In one of the little grass huts such as the na tives uso In the dry season when traveling. The large shackle, the staff he had used to aid his painful steps, tho lean, shrunk limbs, from which the prom inent joints protrude, make a striking picture of what slavery means. This Is only one case. It Is Impossible to say what proportion of natives actually reach tho plan tations. A slaver once admitted that he did well If six out of ten lived through the march from tho far Interior sometimes only three survived; and though now slavery is carried on with loss, open cruelty, It is probable that, for the 4,752 landed in San Thome and Principe In the year 1901, as many more were raided or betrayed or, in other words, for every laborer that reached the cocoa plantations In that year, one other died of despair, sick ness or violence. And these are but the things Unit one can see. The results of tho suspense under which the people live it is Impossible to estimate the distress of losing friends, the separation of children from parents, the fear of being caught while working in the flleds. The vague sense of overshadowing evil nun s them. Districts once well peopled are now almost depopulated. English, German and other firms of cocoa manufacttwera have now ex pressed their disapproval in the most practical terms, namely, that they will not buy Blave-grown produce. Now let the United States do her share and demand that the raw cocoa used In her factories shall be grown by fre labor. Leslie's Weekly. The State University By Henry 1 URING Its fifty years of history the state university has also suffered, as to Its standnrds and Ideals, from the same causes which have affected other universities the .prcvaiHng Amer ican superficiality and the rage for numbers. In this matter the state institutions have sometimes found themselves under stronger temptations than oven the privately endowed colleges. The strongest appeal to the legislator Jias hitherto been on the score of numbers. When the members of. the legislature has been tuld that the D .1 state university, or the state school of agriculture and mechnnic arts, was overcrowded by the hundreds of studonts which thKenged Its halls, he has not generally given any thought to the methods by which these students were brought Miete; still less has he appreciated that In many cases they were ob tained by the "ivnkest advertising and by openly robbing the high schools. For the purpose of impressing the legislature, a student has been a student, whether he happened to be studying elementary arithmtic in the sub-freshman classes or scientific agriculture to the college. The registration lists of stu dents In some of these colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts remind one of the Inventory of the Kansas farmer, wQio, In advertisement of an auc tion ele, announced thirty-two head of stock. When tlhe stock came to be sold, tie thirty-two foead were found to embrace two horses, one mule, one cow, and twenty-clgbt hens. No Institution which approaches a legislature with such an argument can reasonably object when the politicians seek to play the same game with the college. The Atlantic. J White Slave Dealers By flora Blatch De Forest Jgj 17R15I..Y no greater proof is necessary to convince ua that tne fsf opinion nnu ine mnuence 01 women are noi renecieu m um man-made laws of today than the present law bearing on the traffickers in white slaves. A lenient Judge could. If he wished, let oft the offender wthU the scandalously small punishment of one year in Jail or he may impose a fine of but $1,000. This horrible crime, therefore, of forcing Innocent girls into a life which stalls- ' tics show leads lo death in Eve years on an average this crime is considered by our law makers of today less than murder, less than manslaughter, less than larceny, less than theft. But our men law makers go one step further than Oils. The law further provides that "no conviction shall be had under this section upon the testi mony of a female." So if the mother or sister of the girl that has been wrong ed rises up to accuse the guilty, her, testimony is swept aside by men as of no account. . And yui. men say that we are well protected under the present laws and that they era preserve the purity of the home without our active publlo help! ! I aw m Qswaw ..77zt?.. wir-vDa Value of Though tjul Habits By Clayton Sedgwick Coqper J ' N the last analysis, perhaps the most abiding benefit of col , lege life is that Influence which is crystallized into habit dur- TT ing fche'so formative days. Tho college man may forget his college enthusiasms and his emotions. Much of the "college spirit," whatever that may be, of undergraduate days evap orates in contact with the practical nnd serious world. Hab its of these early days, however, are persistont and usually permanent in after life. Those Bible studies now used by students are arranged with a view to assist college men In M- the formation of haiblts of daily study things that are most morth while, this of students. I was greatly impressed tive leaders in an institution in the Middle West was rising at five o'cock in tb morning in order to spend an hour a day in thoughtfu meditation and study relative to one of these student courses. His room-mate Bald to me: "I attri bute the aelendld equillbrum and balanced judgment of this busy man to this thoughtful habit whioh he has practiced Ceatury. . 1 1 r S. Pritchett and meditation. As a reminder of the habit has become valued by thousands to find that one of the most representa for mor than two years." From Th AMERICAN VICTORY IN GERMANY Proiecutor Flndt Oil Company Hat Committed No Wrong. Berlin The long and venomous campaign waged by German newspa pers nnd rival Industrial interests against one of tho German hranchea of the Standard Oil Company the ueuiscno vacuum OH Company has Just been brought to a victorious nj for the Americans Involved. A Well known llfimbure- npwnnnni-r for months printed such a series of attneus on the "American graft meth ods" alleged to have been practiced by the vaccum comnanv in th enn. duct of its German business that the publlo prosecutor of Hamburg felt constrained to make an official inves tlgntlon with a view to eventual in dlctments. The prosecutor has now concluded his Investigation, especially or me worn or B. h. yuarles, Ameri can manager of th9 German com pany's sales department, and announc es that no necessity exists for pursu ing tne inquiry further. No evidence of anything warrant ing prosecuflon was found against Mr, Quarles, nnd the costs of the entire Inquiry will be borne by the State. The result of the Investigation con stitutes a notable triumph for Ameri can Interests in Germany. It is not the first time that Ger mans finding themselves unablo to compete with Americans on ordinary terms nave rsorted to mnmior. For the first time In four years, th union men of Pittsburg will par ticipate In a Labor day parade. The demonstration will be larger and of more significance than any other here tofore, as on that day the union La bor Temple, at Washington street and Webster avenue, recently purchased by the various trades councils of the city, will be dedicated. Labor men of national repute will be Invited to make addresses. The day s celebra tion will be brought to a climax with a ball in the evening In the temple. Plans for the celebration this year were formulated Sunday afternoon In the temple at a meeting of delegates from all labor unions of the cihy. About 125 persons were present. Each part of the day s program was dis cussed at length, the question as to whether the marchers In the parade should wear uniforms exciting the greatest Interest. It was finally de cided to recommend to each union that they refrain from wearing uni forms In the parade, although all the persons participating will have a badge. The union trades council does not have the power to regulate the ac tions of the various uaiobs in the mat ter of their dress in the parade, con sequently a number of the. marchers will probably don special garb. The general opinion Sunday was that the uniform idea should be abolished, a number of the men saying that after wearing working clothes and overalls all year, they liked to put on decent clothes on the day set aside for a la bor demonstration. A general committee consisting of one representative from every union in the council will arrange the de tails for the day, and will set the hours for the paraae and dedication exercises. Edward A. Maglnn, of the etjifiin fitlorn' titi?nn n i c sthnaon Milaf marshal of the parade after a spirited election. There were five candidates for the honor. The men were com pelled to go upon the stage where the delegates might "look thera over,' and comment on bow each one would appear on a horse. A debate ensued as to the charac teristics of each candidate. Finally a committee skirmished around the temple looking for a horse. No ani mal of the kind was in sight, but a "prop" camel was found. The "ship of the desert was brought on tho stage, and after one delegate had moved tho camel be given a drink of water, the candidates for chief mar shal lined along side the animal to show how they would look at the head of the parade. The delegates decided Mr. Maginn would fit the bill best. Every delegate was urged to work hard among his follow unionists to havo every member of the unions, if possible,' turn out for the parade and other features of the day's celebra tion. Another meeting to arrange the final details for the day will bo held in the temple on the afternoon of the 'second Sunday, in August XEWSY fJLEAXIXGS. A new Danish Cabinet was formed, with Klaus Bernstein as Premier. A record breaklngnnmhe'r of Amer ican travelers have arrivad In London. Pressure was brought to bear on th e State Department to stop the war in Nicaragua.. The social season Is dull and the opera Is suffering from lack of pat ronage in London. Secretary Nagel, of the Department of Commerce, is reorganizing the Lishtbouse Board. Prominent European financiers at 'sert that the prospect of a boom in (American securities is excellent. . i King George is expected to follow his father's policy In making his reign marked by pomp and ceremonial. ' Charles K. Hamilton announced (that he "was through" with the bi iplane and was having an aeroplane '.built. , Washington suffered from a scourge of caterpillars, which anpeared in greater numbers than for twenty years. Japan is emerging from her finan cial depression. Money is plentiful nd business development is progress- ng favorably. I Work was pnshed rapidly on the panama Canal during June. Opera tions show a material advance over the preceding month. The Vatican has protested against the Spanish bill prohibiting religion orders from entering Soain nntll the dispute between Church and State i settled. The Treasury Department at Wash ington, D. C, estimated that the im ports of gold from Europe woubi ? proximate 4(, 000,009 before t: Christmas lidors. FINANCE AND TRADE REVIEVlt QUIETNESS CONTIUE3 INTRADE AND INDUSTRY. Operations Are Limited by Vacation! and Shutdown of Mills. New York "Bradst reefs" will say: "Quiet still characterizes most lines of trade and Industry, with oper ations limited by vacations and sum mer shutdowns. The first of the fafi buyers are in the leading markets, but their operations are conducted with caution or conservatism ponding clearer views of crop outcome. Trade as a whole is claimed to be equal or in excess of last year at this period, but except where hot weather de mands or clearance sales have result ed ln broken stocks, shipments of goods are light. "Collections are generally classed as from fair to slow. Increased moist ure in tho NorthwcBt has led to' a more optimistic feeling as to spring i wheat, which has tended to dispel f some of the eropseare talk current for some weeks past In that section, en- ) courage some fall buying and restrict cancellations, though ni'-sch damage J Is conceded done. . In the Southwest uciiyj mnn earner expeciea re sults of the. winter wheat harvest and satisfactory progress by corn hava maue for a better feeling as to future'" trade, though Immediate demand has not yet picked up materially. "At the South the trade is quiet. At the larger Eastern markets trade Is still largely of a waiting character. Curtailment is still - largely in evi dence in the iron and steel, cotton, woolen, coal, lumber and coke trades. The . labor situation is rather more disturbed, owing to strikes of cloth ing makers at New York and the threats of strikes for higher wages on the Pennsylvania system tast and west. "Business failures In the United States for the week ending July 14, were 202, against 182 last week, 206 in the same week of 1909, 258 In 1908, 177 In 1907 and 188 In 1906. Busi ness failures in Canada for the week number 24, which compares with U last week and 36 in the same week: of 1909." MARKETS. PITTSBURG. Wbent No. t rod a ' Kje-No.2 Corn Nn 2 yollow, ear n No. Tallow, ahelled S7 ' Mlxoa ear M Oats No. i white 44 No. H white....- 43 Floor Winter patnnt 680 Fancy utralght wlntora Day No. 1 Timothy 1909 C'lovor No. 1 Feed No. I whltft mid. ton 2H50 Brown mldillliiKii X4M Bran, hulk 2600 Straw Wheat ) Oat 00 m m ft 4A 44 ( 86 19 16 2ft 1 26 ( 28 1 50 1 60 1 .Dairy Products. Butter Elgin creamery ,. Ohio creamery.- Fancy country roll Cheese Ohio, new New York, now Poultry, Eto. liens per Ib J$ Chickens dressed Eggs Pa. and Ohio, fresh Frullt and Vegetables. Potatoes Fanev white ner bn 24 IS 16 28 17 18 a 23 40 8 00 811 84 46 100 to Cabbage per ton Onions per barrel BALTIMORE. Flonr Winter Patent A 6 80 8 70 I Wheat-No. 2 red W Corn Mixed 84 86 F.te 'M 27 Bolter Ohio creamery tt M PHILADELPHIA. Flour Winter Patent f 6 67 6 74 WhnAt Nrt. 2 rrA 1 09 Corn No. 2 mixed 86 68 Oats No. 8 white 44 41 Butter Creamery 44 27 Eggs Pennsylvania firsts 22 26 NEW YORK. Flonr Patents 6 67 6 77 Wheat-No. S red I 05 Corn -No. 2 l " Cms No. 8 while 4fl Butter -Creamery HR jw Egga State and Pennsylvania.... 86 89 LIVE STOCK. Un'on Stock Yards, Pittsburg. CATTLE Extra, 14S0 to I GOO pound 78) 4 81 r rime, laut) to i-iuo n..n,i. ?s . 1 tMKHt, law to KM puunds- 7 16 7 Tidy, 1USU 10 1150 pounds. 1 7i 7 15 alr, KM to MM pounds 6 O 6 40 Common, 7UU tolM) pounds.. ....... 401 4 iuu Buns 800 4 0 81 cow. 4 auj .fttUuv ' HOGS Prime, heavy 0 1 " Prime, medium .i.h, " a., au Be,i lii-avy Yorker...... ! 60 tigut Korkera. f8, 4 !' JUSTICE OT TJTS FlAOl, Paulas Attorney and BeaCBst Ajpiatt. RAYMOND E. BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BnooKTrtxa, Pa. g.. M. MCDONALD, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, ' "Ktlons mad pmm.fK.ly. OtBca ta tfyndto-fcM winding, Key juhlxille. Pa. SMITH M. MoCHEIGHT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Notary nubile and real estate arena, IV actions will rer.e t prompt atlanuon. f 1 100 iteyuoiu-iTii-e narawarw uo, mut'lima, aln street Reyoo-lds-rtlla, Pa. QR. B. E. HOOVER, DENTIST, Mala street. Oentlaneaa In ap-rat-fca(. DR. L. L. MIAN3, DENTIST; OSloa on second floor of ha Flraa HaikMaal tank building. Mala street. DR. a deveke kino, DENTIST, c Hire on sneo-sd floor of the Ayndlcata kail Vtt. Uata au-eat, Bteyaoldavtlla, Pa. JJENUY PRIEST Eft " '. 7 UNDERTAKEa Blvt and whit fHa-eraleari. Mala slisaa, Hy a-MamtM, x-a.
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