i on RE A VIRTUOSO. He was far from How he ever got a His guit was rude and His oe &000 But the 4 When, bearing an seccordion, he And they vowad an awful vengeance ing, and 4 the wondered, ons and all, nee to answer to shambling and | ng depredations were most aiws pproval didn't feaeh its climax th gaily hove in pountry’ s onli. eyes were smill and dim, traced ty He. sight: to ba wrought withoat delay When trangafily be sat himsel! beneath the stars to play. But they pansed again to Hsten tothe notes 0 harsh and shrill, And presently the voless that had uttered wrath were still, The fustrument was sounding strates that mothers used to sing When childish eyoilds answered to the twilight shadowing, That ‘Nellis Was a Lady” #2 And “Hard Timex Coma No Maps’ 1t sing strateht to thelr hearts, and ears that on In sweat retavmbrance Hetened as the old arsor ti Oh, kappy organ builder, If tho oraatara you would hoarsely teil them all, Cand “When the 5 waves Baglin to Pali 3 ind boas dismayed played, orp juan {contempt | road brides is down—swen' 4 tthe fresbhat--and the follows fro I anyway. Can equal those eruds harmonies that tattered to the shies! Oh, thrice triumphant muster il = As yon rest your loving shes arainst your [all ale plandits you san win hind vindin! The storoest mood grow gentle ax with vojess soft and iow They joined and spug in shoras the ome deartuses of Jong ago. And thelr favorite masiofan will forever ba tha seamp Who found the old accordion and brought i into camp! 0 CE LESTIAL HERE was a little old-fashioned sale in the depot at Damphy's Glen, but everybody knew that it never oon- tained anything of r ol. special valme. It 5 served well enough bo Bold the books and papers of the office-and a little loose change; there no business done at y's. it had been otherwise he station would never have been left in charge of a mere gir) like Lena Btearns. Fifteen years ago it was quite an- a tpt At that time Dumphy's ~ Glen was the midst of its boom as a A dire sumer resort, and when ; ‘s father bought the barren little plot of gravel and bare granite upon which he had erected his store he had paid for it nt the rate of $10 a front and had trouble in getting it at that. Bat he had died long since, broken in fortune and in spirit. The dismantled “Sanatorium” on the was utterly abandoned. Hall the fn its dark, dirty windows are ken; squirrels scurried over the § verandas; the warping blew down from the roof in storm; the eaves were a hive for wasps and hornets. The streets that had been so hopefully laid out led mowhere, ‘Park avenue” started well, but soon lost itself among bram- bles and bushes; its pretentious name hung Sakav from its rotting post, held ~The —. however, was still kept up, for there was a little country trade. Mrs. Stearns lived with her ‘daughter in the upper story and man- aged to sell or barter, across the dingy ‘counter, cotton thread, nails, molasses and t medicine enough to pay the interest on the mortgage and live. Lena, who was eighteen, had to do , of course, and as she was unmistakably a bright girl and bad mastered bookkeeping and telegrapby she easily cbtained the unimportant position of station agent at Dumphy's, Where she sold half a i tickets » week, flagged a train when there was senger, and bodrded at home. ‘was not only bright and efi _¢ient. but decidedly pretty. This fact bad been discovered Ry 3 obo Sturgin, ‘the station sgent st Pine Ridge, teu miles above; it was a soures of regret 0 him that he was not the only dis- ‘goverer. As it was, he perversely turned his back on the well-stocked stores ut the Ridge, and did a sus- cious amount of trading at the Glen, also did more telegraphing at ‘times than business seemed to require. The wires must havefelt a queer thrill as soms of those messages pulsed through them, though the words were as trivial, and as renicte from the “sentiment they voiced, as in any other Though scarcely any money ever found lodgment at Dumphy's Glen, a passed through it. Abort elve miles below were the great saw mills at Babine Falls, and every week y cash box was expressed from the city wy the men. train which conveyed it, however, Joaroely ever stopped at the little flag station; but there was one notable ex ception. ‘was about the middle of March, vy rains had stripped the hills white winter cloaks. “They're like ho lay off their wraps hought Lena, drawing her {ascinator” more ‘closely about and shoulders—for the sky look as il they were ges e car slid open and the agent out, dragging the cash box al- “Shall have to leave this here to- night, "helexplained. ‘‘Bad washoutat Tamarack Creek, three miles down, nnd we onn’t getithrough to Babine possibly; orders are to run back at once, Have wired to the mills to send men around by the road and they'll be here soon. ~ IYIl be all right; nobody else will know the stufl's here. (Come, we'll putit in he safe for you." Bo Lena opened the safe, while the , With the help of a brakeman, brought in the box. It was a snug fit, ough she pulled out allithe books to ¢ oom for it. Then the men boarded rain, which slowly backed up the line until it was ont of sight. » girl re-entered the depot, locked the or, threw a fresh supply of coal - on the fire snd waited alone for the messengers from the mills. An hour ~ passed, and another and another; at § STRANGE STORY OF | It would not do to waste time. ‘edge, and barely escaped plunging SIH AHS OIE TELEG RAPHY. Jast the hand of the clock stood at 11, and still they had not come. John Sturgin was also sitting alone in the ticket office at Pine Ridge. Thoughts of Lena were nppermost in his wind—a thing not aprecedented— but to-night his head was fall of fancies. He knew abont the cash box, for he had spoken with the express agent as the truin passed through. “I'm afraid the little girl was wor. ried about that money,” he mused “She isn't used to that sort of thing. Bat it can't have been in her hands more than hall an hour.” The telegraph at his elbow was tick- ing in an ufiensy, irregular fashion, but he had scarcely noted it All at once the signal sounded loudly. This was followed by an anintalligible rattle; even kis practiced ear could make nothing of it. Then, after a moment's siletice eame words broken and fluttering-—but to his quick appre- hension they sounded like an inarti culate ery. “Oh~Oh-—Oh—Help!” Then = confusion of elicks—and again the in- strument seemed to ery out: ‘Oh — Oh —Save—L—" He sprang to the key and tried to telegraph a question, but he could not get any response. The wires seemed badly out of order. He was much alarmed. Something was wrong— borribly wroug—at mphy's Glen. He ran out of the depot. "Look after things, Mase,” he called to the baggage-man. His bicycle was leaning against the building: he had brought it out that day for the first time since winter set in. With a uick push and a leap he was in the saddle, bounding along the dim, frozen road, Dita—yet for mere starlight the night seemed wonderfally luminous. Bat the light was fitful; there were moments when all seemed buried in darkness. Then the landscape bright- ened and glimmered as if the moon had emerged from behind a elond. But tirere was no moon. Ho knew that the moon would not riss uatil MOTHING WAS Dear. The railway circled the foot of the hill, bat the road ran straight over the summit. By strenuous effort be had already reached the crest, and the hard driven wheel leaped forward with a fresh burst of speed as if it felt the downward slope. Suddenly tho sir seemed fall of | rosy light, as if tinged with the glow of dawn. Though he was now ran. ! De i we have ter, | excitement. ning at & bronkneek pace be glanced upward, The sky was aflame with | the flickering pennants of the sarors | borealis, Near the horizon lay a bask of dusky baze, through which stars gleamed faintly. Above wavered a pale phosphorescent enr- tain, which shivered as if shakin by gusts of wind; from behind which ruddy streamers shot up to the very zenith and flickered and waned and brightened, It wes a» magnificent display; but as the descent was be. coming steeper every moment he was ohligad to keep Lis eves fized ou the road. He was now rushing down the rough track with a viclence that al- most defied control. The overstrained tubing gave under his weight to the very limit of its strength; the ma- chine heaved and palpitated like » frightened horse and shied wildly amid the ruts and stones that he could not avoid. At a sharp turn of the road he swung ont so far that he felt the hind tire on the icy the i down the embankment; then the depot windows flashed into view. After that the bicycle must have chosen its own eourse, for 8 a was not conscious of guiding it. the sash was raised and against the yellow lamplight he saw the dark out- lines of & men crawling in through the opening; another followed. The last figure had scarcely dis appeared when his wheel came to a stoop in tue deep sand of the station yard, He dropped from the saddles, Yad a forty-four calibre revolver from his hip pocket and sprang to the window, The depot consisted of a single room; the safe aud telegraphic appa- ratas were om the farther side. In the middle of the floor stood Lena, defiant, with clenched hands and { wore right —8t glowing cheeks, looking straight down the black muzzle of a pistol that a huge desperado was holding her face, “Yon unlock that safe right quick, and no nonsense,” he was say- | in i won't; I :an’t,” cried Lena. Ths other intruder, a seedy little fellow with thin lips and a hatchet close tw ; face was by the safe examining tha lock. He turned toward the girl: “Yo might as wel save trouble, he said. ‘We know what's here, -r’ we're goin' to have it, behave,” The girl glanced at him with angry Her blood was boiling, “There ain't goin’ to be nobody to help ye,” the fellow continne 1. Th AWRY Ly oa wsiils won't gat hore ye! awhils mas too far off, an’ she ain't Wa pot to hare key, fer we ain't got any tools | lively now. We Ise ve Ein With a sudden motion Lens pulie {the kéy from her spron pocket i bag rian Le her snatesed lowering his pistol as be did so with the quickness of a cat she the little piece of steel throug open door of the stove, whera it slipped down among the glowing coals, The fellow picked ap the poker and plunged it mass, but the key Bad disappeared. This is biz, | anderstand. We shan’t hart ye if ye | | do road mending on the same prinei- { ple that he repairs his fences and | baildings. foes! as ashamed of a choked sinive or {a mud bole that can be drained as neg. ected cattle or a display of fAlth. | 18 not necessary to wait for the road. Lean into the red hot | With a ery of rage Le sprang toward | toward the girl, bat while his back was tarned she had darted across the | room and jerked open a drawer, “Throw up your hands, you seoun- drei!” The command eame in a hoarse roar from the open window. Tha desperado wheeled, saw a fierce, livid | face glaring in from the outer gloom, | saw aiso a leveled weapon, and sas posted more behind. Ho dropped | his pistol and obeved. Laying his left band on the wl], John Stargin leaped through the win The SER WOT if athe working scasot to come around, most profital COBYBION dane 5 Jift & ata Line Fight & frre Drraifing i oF He Tid 1% he havin 15 3% a GRIIEr. snl end if roads are tobe Watering trotighs ngs are the most fom. nding water, yet itis a very simple thing to train the water in the Way it sheonid go, A a joose board, a chonk of mu 1 washed down against or end of a slaice may choke it ap so that it is nothing bnt a puablis DaisAncs. ir stone, ins pro TF shannel, It i» not nnsommon to ses water fol. lowing the wheel rots for rods when a man with hslf an eve can aloo sea that & mers onl throagh the ridye edge of the rond would lead the water junto the diteh or down s bank. a half day spent in dropping into s very bad hole a few of the namerous | stones that infest the highway, wonld | work a double headed blessing to all who pass that way. Hearing out a | gow stubborn old boulders would work detriment to the blacksmith and wagon | mender, buta big savmyg to the farmer, If all such patching were thus well dow, with one bound. There is no record breaker like love and anger in things athletic. Meanwhile, the lesser | villian was straggiing with the fasten. | ings of the nearest window, but when | he glanced over his shonller and | rmin | gent sconomy, a mers looking out for ecanght the glint of another revolver in the hinds of Lena as she stood by the open drawer, he desisted, “Crive it up,” he said, nelly. “Ye got me, sure, little girl; though how them fellers got acrost so Resin beats me. Now, don't git narvous with that popper of yourn; I'll rest easy, an’ l ain't go no gun, any way.’ “Give me your pistol, Lena,” said kept up, the yearly toll of pablidwer. vice would count more and more toward the god roads of which all are talking and dreaming. This view of the subject is mo mors than one festare of practical farming, istell no apa how many , eA EAATIOND nambear obe, others are also benefite Agrionitarist. Practical Boad Tmprovement, It is sometimes said that wheeimen are ready enongh to talk good roads, and sven to distribute good roads Lit- | practical Stnrgin, bis voice still quaking with | ‘Now, you two brutes stand here, face to the wall, hands ap. Lena, please send s message through to Grandport for a train nad a posse.” bat that, when it comes work or making say substan. tis! contribmtion to the canse they are found wanting. This, however, 18 nc eratare, more true of cyclists than of any large class in the community, or She sent the message as she was bidden; bat the steadiness was gone from her hand and the eolor from her cheek. She felt faint; she threw open the door and gazed up the track. The night had grown very dark, though » filmy veil of auroral light still flisted now and then scross the starry back- groand. engine was beard a welcome sound to Sturgin, whose arms were so palsied with weariness and nervons tension that he could hardly hold the pistols, It was just as well that his prisoners wero so placed that they couldn't ses him. of mem hers of political 1 parties, for the sctaasl workers are always limited in num bers, no matter how great may be the | intarest of the body at large ws At length ths rumble of an Among wheelmen, however, a vary large percentage are actually willing to do active work for road improve ment, but in many cases they do not know how to go about it or lack lead- ership. For those wes » are ready to assist in the work, the plan of the Georgetown (Mass | cd lists may be | suggestive, Soon, however, they were in the | hands of the Deputy Sheriff and the | strain was over, loose chetrad tiona a sation Stargin sat holding toth Lena's hands in his. it,” he said. “How did it happen, dear, that you telegraphed me for help 80 long before those villians reached the depot?” “I telegraphed,” sho eried. "Why, I Ladn't the I didn't; 1 enide’t smallest sbance—until after you came, “1 can't usderstand | The wheelmen of that town have nadertaken to improve the condition of its strests by dividing them up into small testiony, each whrelman under. taking to keep clear of stones aad in the This is direet, and wiil amity of his home. practical, and not laborious, . insure an imprt saved condition of the inst in the nick of time, and saved me, John.” “Ach? exclaimed burly Mae, who | was standing by. ‘It'll be them North ern lights done it, likely. Ye hats fiddle-faddle th ey il make "i ong 3 the wires, ah’ met all the moun’ Cachin’ i’, AB I'm thinkin’, Miargn BOTH EIR w Dam w LAA rent. “It was a saan slrag atl heaven,” murtsiared Less, And Jdoubtless both Joga y Star Ra Aon Erm PER lags Patrols , Styles in Tattooiny, The barbarie old custom of tation ing has lately taken a patriotic tars, aah ai the in keeping with the Unies, among inmates of the Jasper County Jail. This tim beart, ring, or name, or some symbol of Lis ocon- pation neatly tattooed o on lis breast, arms or hands. Bat now the forianes of war have even affected the convict, though dead to the world, and he evinces his patriotism by submitting to the pricking of the needle which works in red and bine the outlines of ehiolds, flags, American cagles, guns and soldiers under the caticle. Charles Little, a Joplin boy, awaiting trial for burglary sud grand larceny, is the tattoo artist. He does the work with common sewing needles and India ink. Nearly every fellow prisoner in his corridor has saked to have a sym- bol of war worked in his skin, chiefly flags, banners and eagles, snd ome young convict adroitly displayed the shift of his fancy from love to war by having the fase of his sweetheart, which had been over his Leart for five years, worked into that of a soldier wearing a regulation cap aud a row of Lirass buttons and shoulder straps. — Carthage (he) Press, Women in Old Egypt. The religions Egyptian believed his ulterior happiness and his everlasting phnion with the divivities in the eter nal world to be wholly dependent upon Lis preparations beforehand, AL d with these the wile had much to do, was, in fact, £s the mother of his ehil- i dren, his savior sad liberator, {or sons ‘ but a son could peay for the father's soul on ils way paradise, and she { was entitled to and received his hom age and loyal obedience. Iu those days the “‘gray mare was the better horse,” and she was treated accord ingly. know | » last year nearly every long | 1 that ‘ * ule 5 p reread LA MALY Of term prisoner came ont of jail with a ¥ hrs AfTee ; A} Many? 1 § 23 ine 9 4 : ER OERS © his sweetheart s pileture | now being used ars Ar i €X0ess C p pat mito om the £ : tandard that, she and Mae | lower the i supposed | determine tha masimaa mit, ba streets in at least one respect. 1 | earried out thoroughly, it will show . the valine of snch work and probably lead i A to larger and better thugs. —l. W. Ba tletis. a ein A Maxim in Read Making. Macadam, the man whose nama bs now used for tha characterization of ao many rosds, both good and bad, once made & remark that has besome A Maxim in & enmusering world, He satd: "Any stone that | cannat ¥ ha 1d mot pat i way he sel 8 Learets cally, bas bean P Tas Tiouliy 5 maa Some of the siones * 5 2 3 LLG A Than A seeped i Bray ters are diffe tial eo YS S0RG The wtine: yexillaeg macadan roads. pr the city are rotgh screens that at a private conference yesterday lie tween some embers of the Consnlate the stones 2s pias th the regulation dimensions, and it was alieged that some of the stone being used was refuse stuff that contractors managed to work past inspection, al-. though previoansly rejected by tha city. ~— New York San, foeret of Bad Roads, Roads are bad becanse: : They are not properiy graded and shaped Adequate drainage ia not provided Repairs are too long delayed. Unsuitable material is used ia mak. ing them. : Too much material is put on at one time, : The work is dose at the wrong ses- son, Too much is spent for material. Too little 1s expended for labor, The work is done by incompetent Lands, Coustant Supervision is not enforced. Natew of the Crusade. st life 18 necessary to pecople’s Nothing stimulates it more goad ro hel, : Cat-dog wellare, than Newspapers in New York State are already sdvonating 2 a State Appropria- | ya § 535 IO w i lronevy and ix ok ’ must be th ughl entavaciad, each ol the thres levers of stone must be made perfectly frm and hard and the | final dressing of stone sereenings | must be rolled into the interstices. A land owner ought to | Is Five minntes work | woald send the water rashing through | Cenc is the Flals zed Come of the mow widely at the E He toak his of “Y8lU i iain Usescia Milla | Fhtlipeburg. | Philtpebarg. Useenia Mile, i Hustalale . Sa Bead Dowa, Bead Up. NEW PRESIDENT SCIENCE AS. SOCIATION. a i Dr. Edward Orton of Columbus O., | i the new president of the American Ase The individual farmer can afford to | DRE ORTON sociation for the Advancemant of Sel Tea ar oat THONED in geology in the o of New Yarg * Pro ny Pers £ native father NITY Tate Where WER a giergymean, ia Hamil- snd afterward studied Lanes Seminary under ihe fam Lyman Beecher [Fosling cal profession of solence, Dir, C pd the Lawrence Sohen! When he (oft that institotion himeeif up to aducation and any onlleges in the chair of the pro- sor and the president president of the State Agricaitaral fn 1RT2 and at the same Time professor of geclogy in that sched 1881 he gave uD the presidency but tained his chair. Doe year later {irion was made glate geoinge: be has filed with distinetion { bis splend ty tom of + AF rape ag #A n ’ ~. te rent Mil 3 and SOT RIIOND ON O45 ine RTS ton rolisge gag Tar a! Harvard + £43 - Dir a post EVEr pipe ir Hon Versity {hton Hall is hls bnildings of the stare un! ghyon tha nae nf Ras gr. The geologiets have been very forward in the work of thw suacciation and Dr Orion's rane with most of the emi gistas who have the asmoriation sine ta lo reseRrehes are YnOws wo emt soverned with gadaiion. Hig Sey *, 4 eid ah SL a x 4% Xia ¥ seid i SA "e GOWNS FOR KLONDIKE BELLES Boils Nilks, at * i 0 Hd 1ittie S015 As Fitmy Laces vould Fabuions Freed A ¥ re with shim Ing silks garie fay: aspen the Ham RareyY. A Woman who has been in Ing for another trip gf the far no the gus jek wh faintly tr of thirty iagt sammer, 8 of Mrs ba tae Redryend young ma a pregas- for 18 Geis the reel Dawsons * Lams hall nretly, inte the my? % rea. KAA Laziness asda nek AWRY Sos. Lia in trade diag ar did Be Lem REIne teslly i B # Mr garaged gree Lh #RYVE brag wo bogh - ¢lai0G 2 & that or the Gane ud) tact ¥ yaptuar df from larg capita aid Feattle | Gl ov “ *. ar a oy WME A thes oF A&% av iNinie LONNK i most forced 10 ry ol my back. Une oid worn oat scold for $200 brogght as high as $105 eaod ghoes 1 asokd for $80 a pair Post Intel LC Foam 2 for 32 geil the ve hi molt =spvers! hats faadies’ toma & cowpENsED rinx TABLE. Ey Ia effect December}, 1897. Eastwasn— Weak Days AM. AW Noox 13 a 11 C187 an un 754 281 8 , 8.50 3a.23 Lia AX AN PFW Wersrwanp Week Dura AM, AN BE PN S20 11.13 Led AON £33108 241 Al L850 1150 aim 33% 200 200 2S SA RUNDAY ThRaTwe Pe PEASE ERY YY + 304 rm. 3 il ia 3a r.% Ramey. ra 100 Li Ramey. Houtsdale Uhre im Mills Faiipsbarg -— * gw mp Furiss Seypar Taarss AH. Ban AY, HL IS JAD par Lurk Ep tae i LRrWRLAT Le, DB Riigway, Bosdived, Po nx vn Pula usd niles 1 : gochestar, A: Osomola for Hontadaie and Ramer with BR trains jeaving Tyrine st 7.30 P.M @. MA H GOOD, General gaph Pennsylvania Railroad Time Table May 16, 1408, Main Line. Leave © “remsodl- Fawtwart, wel deve As , tron due #2 Mats fine ¥ Ad Ao LX pre ized ox- He is | nig | in | ied ty the | rion enter Ha waz made | wae in ra. | id services | Re American | repatation | oud 3 Hee the © | Peweh Lingerie { rpoiis | her nolire | “ i he xind : I had slimes "ecg uatile | Pittsburg x i ftaian Station Matsfer % o £9 3 hw LEE » z § y4% > B sr ST 4 o We Poof Hate Fare $e w mosey 1 3 Law ile ¥ Er % “4 : : 2 : azide fo theket agent i hr nddrons Them. 5 i: 3¥ ei a Firs sven re he avs sonryed | Firm Spaniard The creature ah. so | magnificent’ Who it 8?" Second | Spaniard You do oot know? That ie the commandant of First Spaniard | ~=Al, ah! Ees he not well fod ?—Cleve- | land Plain Dealer. | Deneral Shaveter, | the Toress American. Closely Welnted. The Bpectiator (ells a story {o show Bow elpetic are Iriel eax of selntion- shi “1 yoga Enow Pas Meehan ™ a “if eruree 1 do” "Why, he's a near Ie wance proposed ” - peasant was asked, was the Rnewer, relation of mine far my sister Kate Baffule, Fochestor aod PHisbhurg Ry. £m and sfler 2 a, piss will rer Daeped, fe Fo aw 0d Eves HEY for EE > til bi “Hag, sort oon hous K and d oF ERE Cade, “ling wt Tsien fn med Lark and Ba coy Fae id Psy. ipl Hs b Railroad. LH. Lassines, ‘sudeneed Time Table. < os Bo Co + al § 3x a £498 5 38 Bn dws ¢ Phils Wiser 0 y i Philne 5 MEaards Paid thal ad pifivend sand Easter . - 10 TAKE EFSIICT May 23 1898 Westwa rd Lave A = -_ Haome ty 4 Yong J 0 Ma hadley fatbatharst © Mat wus MEER Woersel corks A es a Pu Har BID & girnakevasssnt’e ch Ah eR shh ag eh Nad Nos 3. 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