oR AS “JEST OUR JM” At the school examination when we sot back fn the erowd, : Watchin’ of the huil proceedin’s, we was goshamigt ty proud, * I notiead that his mother had a teardrop in her eye, An" my own ol’ gray-fringed blinkers wa’n’t oncomfortably dry, * Pur the one that graduated at the head of aff the school ~ Wasn't any goldfish swimmin® in the ‘ristoeratic pool No, there wasn't any sky-bine-blooded podigres in him, For the boy that tak the honor cake was Jest Jim, up yonder In the court when he pleadod his frst onus, : 4s ih got a verdick without risin’ from their place, An’ the ars a ‘round him an’ the jade came off his seat Fur to compliment his talent, [ could scarce santrol my feat. Conldn't hardly kes oep | from dansin’, an’ I wanted fur to whoop At the way he put the lawyers far the plaintiff in the snp, Bat altho he swam fa honor an’ they made a heap of him, In the of his ol’ daddy he was Jost Our Then when me an’ his 0° mother went to hear a famons case An’ wo saw him there a-sittin’ on the bench with a solemn face, An’ the lawyers was a- Salling him “Your Honor’ an’ “the Court’ How we 8 Jot our bosoms swellin’ an’ our sascy hearts cavort! There he sot jest like a statute, fail o' digoity an’ iaw, Jest the v a picter of a man We over saw, An’ eer our hearts was swellin’ foil o’ pride clear to the brim 1 kop’ whisperin' to mother it waa Jost Car Jim. Bat the golden fires 0° glory seemed a-blaziag In our souls other Bignt when I come singin’ “Yankee Doodle” from the polls, hollered out to mother they'd elected of our son Far to go an’ set in Congress in the halls at Washington, Ort to snan us hag each other sn’ a-kissin’ jast jifka kids, An’ the tears a.verfowin' of the dam beneath oar Hds, An’ ar ing an’ a-waitzin' till cur heads began to swim, An’ tela * of each other it was 7 ost Our Jim, —Drenver Post, H ILE THE “TWO SISTERS” BURNED. BY BAY STANKARD BAKER, PE AE ES a a od ~ bod of AEN wn Fn nat ad PE Oe OTe Be Ho ’ q PN a A Xr A BIN oP “Axow™ shonted the hoarse voice of twenty’s lisntenant. Instantly Christianson, Scanlon, Greenman and the others lined np be- side him. “Cnt down that wall!” Scanlon struck a terrible blow on the springy pine boards that formed the north side of the room. Gies fol. lowed. Their axes rebounded as if they were striking a stone wall, they never pansed for an instant. In ten seconds the wall was down. Oat side of it the plates of sheet iron stiil held firm. “Btand firm!" shouted Wendt, The trackmen leaped back. Wendt's big body drew itself np to its full neighty his ax swong high, and then crashed against the iron. The handle snapped short, but the head was driven through. Wendt's big boot finished the work. Ten half-suffocat- ed men crawled out on the main roof of the elevator. Far below, blurring together into ove vision of white, a thousand anx- ious, upturned faces gazed at them. A faint shout of relis! came np. In one swift glance the firemen saw the fire-tngs, the pride of the department, | frond coughing and granting in the river below; they saw twanty's leads cooling freight cars on the siding; they saw the tops of the streams of water that came almost ap to them, then opened like white blossoms and fell back in spray. They could hear the shrill Leia PA sent in that the were on fire Perry, the of timbers, a rash air, snd from out of » rn the fire there rush and roar of the fire, and then the | shouts of the marshal, borue up to! them faintly above the din: “Come down! come down!” But going down was pot such an easy matter. At their foet the edge | of the slate roof, built something like a mansard, pitched on a steep angle a dozen fest downward to a narrow, ledge supporting the rain. gutter. Six {yards from the bottom the top of & four inch stand pipe crooked over the edge of the roof, Down below the marshal was eail- ing their attention in pantomime to this pipe. It was their only salvation, They knew that well enongh. ‘an you do it?" asked Wendt, | without a quaver in Lis voice. ““Ithink 1 can,” was Quirk’s an- swer, “IU's better than burning. Quirk's lips set tight. A fireman ia trained to take chances, bnt chances as these, He sat u on the edge of the roof, with his feet hanging over. He anst slide down the steop slate mansard, now slippery with water covered with cinders, and he must stop, if he could, at the gut- ter ledge, which was only & fow inches wide. If he did not stop—the lit- tered planks of the court were a han- dred feet below, A fireman may not think of his wife or of his babies at such a time. He must sct without a tremor and take his chances. Quirk slid. His rubber boots struck the ledge, his body bounded up, for a moment he stood balanced like a tight-rope walker on the gutter ledge, sud then he fell back on the slate mansard, sale. Below, a thou- sand men with clenched hands and bitten lips groaned their relief. Gies came next. Quirk, who had steadied himself, caught him. Then Gries canght Christianson, and Chris- tianson caught Fuller, It was Green- man's turn. Greenman was blue about the lips. He told Scanlon that it was a terrible risk to take. “Steady, now,” shouted Wendt, hoarsely. *‘Don’t look down.” Greenman slid, He looked at the same moment. His rubber buot struck the ledge, oaught—then slipped, “I'm lost!" he shouted, as his body shot dizzily over the brink. ~ “No, yon ain't,” growled Faller, ] grimly. He bad caught Greenman by the collar. A moment both men tottered on the ledge, one below and one above. A mercifal burst of smoke shot up and man to the top of the ” said the marshal ititwe can, The south Suamty's lieutenant, window. I ladder erept with twentiy's at the windlass. d axes, and behind strugg company ha lead of hose, thay senrried up » y to i belt room at } bed like a pigm ¢ broad plain or th a foet away blazed the ue there was amoke | — dense, J w, smoke of ~ burning grain. - choked with it. ot the friend! Delt | crowd. When it passed Greeman was | - { lying limp on the ledge, with Fuller's | n | Lang A708 iwisted ia his collar, ‘and slid swiftly downward, ‘eame (Hes and Faller in order, 1% going to fall I's only the belt inmoke and flame {were singed. But hes other men followed withont ae > | { cident, Wendt Inst. Then began the | perilons journey along the eighteen | feet of ledge to the stand-pipe. Quirk led, sliding along the slippery slate mansard, never trusting one foot in | ‘ the narrow gutter nufil the other was | | firm, : i From below, it seemed as if the ten So close to AYR men were walking on air. the edge of the roof did they tread ‘that the crowd saw the bottom of each foot as it was lifted, At last Qnirk clasped the stand. pipe Then Hurry, there!” shrisked a voice above the roar of the fire. “The roof At that moment there was a crash and a bright barst of flame behind them. Greéeman, stilt terrified, redcled wildly, “Steady, romred Wendt, honse-—not the | thers ' roof." Greenman, Seanion, Christianson want one after the other, spinning down the iron stand-pipe like boys on a peeled pole. until only Wendt was jeft. “Hurry! hnrry!” came again the marshal's voles, A great stream of | water drenched a flame that had sprang out mat helow the gntter wheres Weniit stead, The erowd was silent, with every musole tense. Wendt grasped the stand pipe, now almost burning ho! and alid. An in- stant later he was swallowed np in There was the growl of yielding tumbers, then a snllen roar, and a voleano of fire ponred np- ward out of the elevator's pit. The roof had falien, Two firemion ran forward with their 12 | helmets tothe heatand dragged Wendt away. His hair and his eyebrows His hands vere raw with barns, “I guess I fell most of the way,” he said, laughing weakly. There the incident ended. It had lasted just twenty minntes from twenty minutes after twelve o'clock an Ootober 26, 1896, when the Bangor ladder tipped the elevator window, to forty minates after twelve, when Wendt came down. The Two Sisters were destroyed, and more than a mil Hon bushels of wheat were left soak. ing in the river or smoldering in the ruins-but po hives were lost, The searred marshal was asked after squealing of the engines for coal, the | are badly rusted and in most of them ot such | the fire if such cooiness and daring shonld not be rewarded. “Rewarded!” he said, graffly “Indn’t they escape? It is a part of the business "Youth's Companion, ANCIENT FORT UNEARTHED. It Was Ocenpied by French or Spaniards : Two Centuries Ags. Buried a dozen feet nnder a Neo braskas sand hill, twenty miles west of Sionx City, Towa, the remains of a stone fort have been discovered. Ia side the walls the searchers fonnd a quantity of haman bones and frag. ments of arms and armor at least two centuries old. The patterns of the weapons gud ar: mor indjpate that the owners were Frenchmen or Spaniards, though there is no record of any settlement in this region of either nationality at so early a date, The find was made by John Ham- mond, & farmer, who stumbled on one coraer of the fort while excavating for a drainage diteh. Stone is » rarity in North ate Nebraska, and Hammond was 80 much surprised that he carried bis investigation further, and has now uncovered au area about 150 feet by F300 feet in extent. The fort itself is built of bard red sandstone, much like that so exten. sively quarried now at Sioux Falls, Sonth Dakota. The walls are about three and one-half fest thick and twelve or fifteen feet high, with small towers, evidently for sentries, at intervals of twenty or twenty-five feet. The armor includes a half dosen breast-plates, two or three steel caps and 8 morion, or helmet, of the pat- tern much worn by French and Span. ish soldiers of the fifteenth and early part of the sizteenth centuries. All many holes are eaten completely through the metal Amoug the weapons are several two- handed swords, the head of what was evidently a battis-axe and the wheel: locks and barrels of ancient maskets, The bones sre much scattered, and from them it would be impossible to say how strong the fort was garri- soned, Wp en Spr, Canadians Buy American Fruit. Consul Graham, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, says that the fruit growers of the United States (chiefly those of the Pacific slope] supply at least four. fifths of all the green fruit consumed in Manitoba and the Northwest Terri: tory of Canada. Canadians now, however, are making a vigorous effort 10 captare their own home trade, Cold storage plants and packing houses are being constructed and transportation lines are being worked, The United States system of packing | fruits has been adopted, and a much stronger bid will be made for these | markets than heretofore. Still great- er care in selecting, packing and ship- | ping will be necessary on the part of | American fruit growers if they would | i continue to bold their supremacy in| the market. Instead of a Striag on His Pinger. “Williams,” said Flint, who had! been in a brown study for several | minutes, “what is the name of that British General they have been mak. ing so much fuss over?’ “‘Kitchener, isn't it?” responded Williams, “That's it!" exelaimed Flint, delightedly. ! “Kitchener! That brings it up alli ve | wiped out the horrid sight from the right. I know pow what it was my wife asked me to attend to this morn | ing. She wanted me to advertise for | in cook, "Chicago Tribune, rail highly purposes for 1893-19000 and the n gress has already heen made, ten years ago it was emphatically as- eause the roads were so poor. | America is the greatest eyeling coun: Waste Froon Deficient Care. The best roads are sometimes se. | verely injured by very heavy storms, | but, as a rale, they do not suffer | nearly az mueh as either roads which neglected or those which worked” in the sdf tions will reduces the Cominimam. Thera are, however, oanag | whieh will hold water; [2 left fat, or very nearly so, ani meaMeiont orown to shed water: grass aud wends along their edges nntil fa} water not kept clean and open, and (4 than the rowd-bed and C Bpon at, f Thess defects are maialy due to the | impression that a stone road onee laid | peads no attention for a year or two, ara | fashioned way, | It is practically impossible to prevent | injury in case of storms of extraoe- || ; dinary severity, but proper preeau- |) dancer to a! a Ri. si many miles of | stone roads in this country which are { not fitted to resist heavy rainfalls be. i (1! the sarfasces ars allowed to | get ratty and 15 retain depressions | they are || have | are allowed to grow | cannot | ran off freely, and the side ditches are | a in places the earth at the aides 19 higher | or i oWgy I turns th: water i Table Nov, 20, 15908 Main Line Yenvie rest Faerun, wn Sho Express, saws » wri Ax ovmaneeiation, wee da va win Fane Fox press con MiB a om Selig i Ww Ga om badeiph a ® ii Te nve dinedenn ys Sapitie ¥ £3 pow dal p Pasoor od Hee Fx Jes + entae So hh rerey Wel 4 SA ne, dnily “to we ¥ i ays FRAY ¢ ambris and ciearfield Juve ik} i he 1 iat far $1 Aut? ys and after that only an annual looking: |’ Over and perhaps a scraping and a few | repairs, The result is thst the roads deteriorate very rapidly and are an as they econid and shonld be only for a few months when new. This method is neither practical por economical; it does not Reap roads in good shape and it costs mach more in the end Proper road tusinte nance 18 as amporiant as correc! oon struction; we casnot do better than pe fit hy the experience of Faropean ountriey and follow in principle if not detail, the thoronghk system of eon. stant care and repair that has heen so developad 1» France —L. A W. Ballstin, A T govonid To Convert the Farmers, A shrewd League member has a scheme which he thinks is great for the purpose of winning over the farm. ers who oppose road 1mprovemvent, first, booanse they do not hike to be tated, and, secondly, because they dislike “them siokle fellers” Thera i* novelty in his ides, and, provided the expense could ba borne and the proper labor devoted to working it ont, it wonld probably he a success The plan 1s to dnd a few farmers in every township who live on the rogds which need rebuilding and present to each of them a bieyoie on condition of their jearning to ride and then attend. ing to theirinstraotion. ing the enthasiasm that the wheel be. Understand. gota, the scheomer argnes that the few furmors will first learn how poor their roads are, then become good rosds souverts, and flaally convert their seighbors who are oppositionists, The argument seems to iw a sosnd one far ax the likehiliood of the few bacon. tng converts is soncernsd and also with rear fo the probability of their max in: converts but the cost, aven if 1 was atiempted on a bDmited sosle, makes it prohibitive, nnless, indesl, some of the manafacturers, wioss b Raion it would grestly sonid be indaesl to ec-operate. The seheme has not been formally pre sented to the Leagae oBoers and there. fore is not taken seriously «Xow York Sun, Sores se, Proposed Californias Laws, The next California lagistatnre will bave to consider several mils looking toward road 1 sersasnt in that State One of them proposes to elassif iy the roads o as State highways, couaty- thoroughfares aad distriet-roads, Twenty sight principal roads are ann. merated to comprise the the most important roads in each eonnty will be set apart to form the second-class and the remaining roads to constitute the third clans, Another ball provides that when Sve miles or more of highway of the fen. glass shall have been properly con. structed In any connty, the Sate shall secept and maintain it and that $104, 000 shall be appropriated for such SPR sary sums thersafiser, Existing jaws are to be atendad to arrangs fur tha Blate to take possession of roads da. elared to be State-highways, and for the expenditare of haif of the annnal ey $0 Bag : rond tax in constricting and maiatain- ing permanent roads, Ansevicanw Hosds Are Improving. America 1s & conntry of poor roads, - and those workiag for highway reform are laboring in a wise and just canse, but it is worth noting what great pro Ab ns serted in England that the bicrels eonld never become popular here be To-day try in the world, and there has been | more advance in road improvement during the last decade than in any previous twenty years Baltimore | News, Items For Crusaders, The bad road's name ia “mud * Several of the main streets in San. tiago de; Cuba have been macad. amized, Macadamized streets should be scraped immediately after a rain if they | are to be kept clean. The New Hampshire Division, L. A WW, Las prepared a road improve. { ment bill to be introdoced at the next session of the State Legislature After May 1, 1899, all wagons in the i provines of New Brunswiek intended to carry ss munch as 8 ton and a half will be required to use tires at least fonr inches wide, The wheel, like many another good thing, Is an excellent servant an in | comparable ald to health but it 13 & terrible master, a death-daaler. : Ph i; Brat class: | For mtew maps, oi or fhrvsn Thom PF Finh syvsoe Piiisteim Pa cB Hote hineen Ln. Mgr Aitoona & Philipsharg Cemnesting CONDENSED TIME YAGLY. Pose, Mgt Egpets ia eer November 30, 1897. Tren Weel Taps RM Soy 200 100 rig Li 2¥ 10 Aa 247 LAT AN AX, PM. OPN you #0 ia ra Hamey Hout wedmie ii Wok 1 bo Lipp y 0 1.40 Foi Mili aX is 31. i Hontedals, B38 17.3 Hamev... S47 LAT rE , Fa A a 8 & io & 90 HOA 5 43 ®t EF frail In Ramey Hoatedaie Chemin Mis Philipsburg ax 552 rik 3 iam | sliam 0 en : ay +. + have their : same grape, the only vineyard of pa AM. fa Hea! U7 v Bamay | Houtedalwn Shun a Mills Phtlipabarg x87 44 «50 I Union (Satie YR Losec trong At Phillpalagep Fon | with ail fhwel Creel for nnd from Bedisfonte, Look Haven, Wit menort Readieg, iisdeigbin sed New | York: Lawrepsevtiv, Uarpine Watkins tiensvy and Lyons, Cleariiebd MaliaToe and | atten, Carwepsvitie, Dalle Pascsotsw: wey, Bidgway FHradlfont Baffals and! Boohewter Al Epvaialn Tor Bont dais PER traing Leaving Tyr For fail informa and Ramey with | » atid FX ET Go KH Goan Laws Fa ny *~ % te Se , nt bo es MRS, Mrs. James Brown Potter is & charming acires hb worninn, whe has ¢ Pepa tion Landon of being a most dotinh Last summer she in Barleish by 2 rather Sid fone. Hive wall be © ow Fe #51 (Rhy JAMES BROWN POTTER. ff fram the untahle word, ideally comfortable MRS Epgiring hero Within all was anid on the well shade of a spreading Shestun! Mra, Potter took her al fresco gad then wandered through fia quiet oid garden, arranged in curving flower beds but they are a source a light to Mrs Potter, iudes to them as “my pets” no live stack.” she explains. flowers are sufficient who tenderly ab “1 hava ! | Faller Ban ; Pakerneaen § i PAR Lek ; ¢ my TR el T La JAMES BROWN POTTER. sot only | We a feme-loving | in ful hos Heed quietly | in Bt John's wood, | 0 fringed with trees i ro Sha I Exp ay Pn -Rept lawn, beneath the | tree. Ang BOR iv Inne | redolent with the perfume of spire and roses. The flowers iu this whe ¥ A peaceful garden are old-fashioned and f pever-ceawing de PARTE IID LOG Or | the country, here and in Europe, "| them i the po | Paroside PA BE Sia | Ratiromd trains : + Heston Roan 1 i oad Time] ailiey | T he Speer Wine Company. Passaic N. J., ineya ards stocked of the 3m 3 tne K try. the vines { pli lanted here The Speer Br ay andy are now Ina In ? § reg ros the the world, | the Mr Tic ] character RR { strong and vigon Fa medic body and high cxnrelied. in- valids, weakly Ee renng, especially nales, and the aged are made nis by its use, as nal wine it has no equal; as a family wine it has no super. First class physicians all over . Ef who have tried them recommend as 150 ki A close study by effect of Gifferent on the system physicians on brands of wines convinces | them of the superiority of the Speer : | Passa wines for their patients. Sold by Druggists and (3rOcCers. pi ittsburg & Eastern Time Table 53 iC IAKE EFFECT NOV In 1898. 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