ha ot them in the Caited
present, with 63.567 depost- |
amount deposited since the
ablishing these’ bunks be- |
anvary 1, is placed at}
hich $235,000 remained
on the date named. The
teaches the children how to
ice are © consider
{ loved her quite ax I did; and,
{ wasn't a beauty. I had muscles of iron
Oi a Frogh You mt bt ly
Person's phiz,
And what an astonishing
Thing it ia?
A beautiful face
Bb S something whie
ie owner _—
In grerything
id admires,
That raohey burs
And brain inspires.
But a hatnely face} :
You look & sic
And at x15
Not a little bit, “a0:
I it hurts,
And will it soon be well
Or is it ite
Tucurable,
That is the way
You think and where
To the owner
You are hardly fair,
For the homely face
n't have & cali
To hurt either mas i
Or woman at all,
~William J. Lampton
It ma bumpy
Eo and rough
no every way coral
: Homely enough;
But the owner
Doesn't seem to care a whit
And acta just ax if
He were used to it.
He's ant comnefous
Of his homely phiz,
Ard thinks it as fine
As snother one is;
Bhe takes it with her
Wherever she goes,
Plainly not knawing
What every one knows,
It feein just the same
Wine a pretiy one
lane better perhaps,
Bon the truth were known-~
And the owners alter
~ Bame years of wear
Consider the feel
Ax good ax fair.
And still you wander,
And have to think
That a pkiz like that
Waid drive you to Arink;
Yeu'll vow it's the worst
¥ oy have ever ween,
But the person behind the face
I# dprene
in the New York Sun.
0 you know, sir, 1 can never
fonk at that steeple without
turning cold all over, ai
thal 10s nearly forty years
since It happensd-and the old man
pointed towards the distant city, where
the tall, slcader spire of Bt. Mark's,
izing higher than the rest, was sil
hontied agains! the glow of the set
ting sun, whose last rays made the
| §ilded vane on the summit burn as
with fire.
It's forty years since, he continued,
but it might have been yesterday, »o
vivid Is the horror of it; but come in:
{ side, and UI tell you all about jt
She was young enough then, and as
bonny a girl as there was in all War.
wickshire, while [ don’t think there
was a plainer, more awkward lad than
myself in the whole county. But I
{ laved her—as a dozen others did—ounly
1 don't think they could ever have
ir 1
and nerves of siecl, and “Steeplejack
Jim” was known for Afty miles round.
She would never let on that she
eared for we; she was too artful a
, | puss for thai, but I thenght 1 had a
would head the poll
majority.
chards cause Wide
hes are tainly abundant.
Qittle consolation in that.
unless they are canned
«lo not abide with us in
months, Apples do, and
ake their place, remarks
Trihun
of the » railroads to fam-
Is treated exhaustively
Wd of India ln a recent
his journal blames the Indinn |
ir parmitting the expor-
grain to such large extent,
ng, It declares, should bave
> stop this.
of a severe arraigument:
country the population of
mainly dependent upon
subsistence,
for their
en ordinarily liable to
and which can not fmport
t famine prices, can
or safely export its sur
ction from year to year
int of any gort, Ix a
ch seems to us, on the
Jess than insane.”
cl trrigation has
od oy private enterprise in
h of the West way be
to those in other portions
: hose impressions that
ine bas been done way
bored from the reports |
gitation for Govern
: iWork. | : Nebraska
Authentic
1t says at the |
“Ngo,” and then
chance, and 1 went for it for all 1 was
worth. She used to drive me mad
with jealousy, flirtlog with this man
and smiling on that, until 1 could have
killed the whole Jot. But I never let
her see it: 1 was much too deep for
that
Only let a int know you're jealons:
And she'll make your life a-well,
forment, just for the love of rn
{und showing her power over you. I
always came up smiling. and she
couldn't wnderstand it, buat It eon.
quered her in the end, and for nearly
forty years, bless her, she's been the
gweetest, most loyal wile a man ever
had,
But this Is an old story, yon say,
and so it is, but still it's always pew
and I'l get on to the tragedy quite
soon enough,
The only man 1 was really afraid of
was my partner Jack-—Jack Harding
as fn
saw In your life. tall and sirafght as a
lath, and with a face like & young god,
but he was a bit Inclined to be will, |
and that's a fatal thing in my Jine
Ruth was fonder of him than of all
the others-—what girl could help 7%
and If he'd only played bis cards weil |
be might bave had her, w
any of us a look in.
Bat jealousy! Why, my worst at
tacks were mildoess itself! compared
frthout ziving
with Jack's—and he esuldn't conceal
them as 1 did. Ile bad rome Spanksh
blood in bis veins, I always thougil-—-
he looked lke a Spanlard--ami if sip
even smiled at another an bis oyes
flashed as if be would strike them both
dead, and more than once he Jest his
temper and sald things to her that vo
i 4 chair, with a sheer,
girl would stand, least of all Ruth,
‘Well, to come to the point,
chance was small enough, 1 wasnt
Zoing to lose her for want of asking.
If I live to be a hondred 1 shall als
ssavs remember that evening when |
asked ber if 1 had a chance, and if she
sould marry a clumsy, ugly tian lke
Roe,
“Chance? she sald, as she looked
Wp at me roguishly ont of her bine
$yes. “Why, Jim, you donkey, you've
t every chance, and if you hadn't
Pen bMnd you'd have seen it months
she laughed, a kind of
Mysterieal Inugh, and hid Ler blushes
én my shoulder.
Well, sir, if she'd knocked tae down
3 couldn't have been more surprised
it was all so sudden and unexpected. |
but 1 had the presence of mind to put
iy arm round her and to draw her
face up to mine to kiss it, and then
why, sir, there wasn’t a man in Eng.
land half as happy as me,
“But what about Jack?" I said, when
T'd come to a hit.
‘About Jack! sho sald archiy, "well
when you say you're tived of we, I'll
begin to think about hin 1 1 live long
enough.”
- When Jack heard of it he went mad
welean mad-swore he would kill us
both, and flung himself into a wild or-
gle of drink and dissipation. [I saw
next to nothing of him for weeks, and
when we met he passed on the other
aide of the road without looking at me.
1 was sorry for him, but it
of war, or rather of love,
Lown
a promise to run in io the evening,
sa young fellow as yon ever
j 1 scon i
Saw that the prize rested between bin
and me, and though 1 thought my | 8
i know
occupied to have any fears for what
hie might do to we.
Then one day he seemed completely
changed: came to me.!with ah out
stretched band and asked my pardon,
saying that I'd won fairly, anid wizh-
ing me Inck. Bul somehow 1 didn't
Hike the looks of him, and didu't trust
him, and 1 had good ground for my
detrust, sx | war soon to prove, Dur
ing his drinking bout 1 bad to hire an
assixtant for any lob that came wy
wity, but when he offered to join me
azain 1 touk him on just as if nothing
had bappened.
My little gir] wax very nervous about
me now that I was so much to her,
aod begged me to give npstesple- climb.
Ing and work on solid grouad, but
there is wore money in the ale, for ae,
at any rate, and as I wanted to save |
for that little pest 1 bad In view, 1
thonght 1 would stick to toy steeples a
a little longer,
Then came the Joh that coxt Jack
his jife and nearly cost me mine-re.
gliding the vane on the top of Bt
Mark's seeple. How well 1 remeny
her that morning in May. when every.
thing-my keart incinded -seemned to
| ance for joy of living and oviog. 1
found time (o run around fo soe my
little gir] before beginning work, and
found her sad and tearful
8be had dreamt the previous night
that she saw me fighting with a man
tn midair, and then all at onve 1 foil
down, and strock the earth
with a sickening thud at her viry feet,
“Don’t go to-day, Jim,” she pleaded,
as the tears chased each olin: down
her cheek: "I know somelking will
happen to you”
In vain 1 argued and ohafied, and
when at last I tore myself away with
she
soversd ber face with her hands and
stood mollontess nt the door BLT was
ott of sight, us i shutting sore Lor
vid spectacle from her even
Jack was specially cheerful when 1
joined bim-too gav, 1 theughi, as 1
gw the rorkicss light in Bis eyo
ought he had been drinking.
“You lucky dog” be
slapped me on the shaalder.
aad
is warm on your bps. Ab well 1
shall have my turn of hick some day
~ay be pooper than you think’
1 hope so, ton, may Ind) 1 sid sxe
patheticnhiy, 48 we set to worll, ©
thin sooner the
A few hours later we wire
pended, one on each side of toe steeple,
a eouple of huadred feel nlawe the
plzniies {Bat eyawiing
ue. We were woth busy as esubl be,
eidine the ball fret which the vape
sprang Jaok ole one sade
thie sipor,
Each of
wmatiorm, little droar than the seat of
Hazy drop of
nearly seventy yards bepeath vs
cach, Tor additional saferr, Was pi
vhod 10 the stee ble by a Lie line ran.
Ring under his anus
Jack had pot spoken a word far
pesriy an hour, bot 1 thought peihing
of that. as we wore working saline
time, spd the darkness was beginning
already to chery over the 3ky. You
when youre working at thet
belzht, resuoved it were, from al
the world and with nothing bat sb
ence above and around you, the slight
oii Boise sends a sheck through a man,
however sirong Lis nerves may bw
You can imayine then how startled
I was when all 8 coce | beard a loud
shriel of Jaught er. almost as 4 sesmed
al my very ear. There was seasiething
uyneanny about in too, that ot my
licart thumping and py dosh Creeping
4s they bad never done or
Rinee,
When the laugh ceased
Same Bonin as
“AVhut’s the
it to yourself
“Jake!” he sald “I should think it
would be 6 loke I was fanervisg yan
shooting down lke 8
ment Jdewn thers. aml what
world think wien she saw the
What a rummy ideal” 1 answered,
with affecied coolness, though my
beart wag beating faster tho
and seemed as if it would sullacate me,
“But I'm going down a little slower
than that as soon as I've finikhed this
bit of work. But pull yourself to
gether, Jack, and get your gold on,
and then we'll soon be down there on
our two logs.’
"No. alrr he shouted, “I'm going to
‘aud
hotter”
she.
ere
Ped 4
nk
DRLOTe,
amd allenece
swial rei of ald,
JACK TY Im’ Beep
ay %
wit
foils,
Ruth
C prieces!
TR aL
LYE,
{ pended on keeping cool
{ had eased the hiteh of the Hne round |
had been seen hy the people
feet,
4 kaye me,
sald, am hie |
Youre! a.
Been to see uth, I Boos, and her Kiss
of Sree,
iar lool bp
Beneath
i
reas 5 HAR op
i BYRbh oino
L patel:
al we on
us was sanding op a tiny i
and ;
take,
Cleveland, Ho
stone to the pave: |
1 said, pickiad
quickly.
gether.”
“As he sald this he etaned his eck
round the corner of the gieeple fo get
4 look at me, and o single glance at his
wild eyes showed ine that the man was |
raving mad. and that 1 was alone In
midair with a muniac who hated me
and would certainly kill me If he could.
1 was powerless, If 1 called tor help |
1 might be heard, but who could come
té my assistance poised as 1 was at
| stich a giddy height above the world?
And in a single moment 1 might be in
the throes of a ifs and death struggle |
with a men quite as sirong as myself
and made ten time stronger by mad
Desa,
He was slowly and purely working
round towards me, apd there was not
a moment to waste. Something most
be done quickly, and everything de
In a moment
miy hafd, awd was swing ronnd to
meet him. Before he had time to pro
toot himeelf 1 had seized him by the
throat. and had forced him down ob
Jils saddle board.
Bat it was only for a moment. for
gtrong as § was py strengih was ss a
With 3
. With a tihinks he
wreneh he was free, and had flung hie
child's compared with hb,
powerful arnis yind my clest,
face of the steeple 1 tried to call out,
bgt my vole stuck In omy throat, tay |
eyes felt as if they were being forced ||
out of my head, nnd my breath came
tiie, |
Gly
in convulsive gasps. All the
amid the horrilids siisnee broken
Ly ihe cresuing
steenle, hile eyed were piaring
face.
I foil my sensed rapidly leaving me,
when my band boy accident siruck oy
tool box and instinctively as 18 ware
clutched a wrench, With a last eflont
my remaiping strength full on
tenpleand then 1 remembered no
minre
in bed. and Buoth's eves were looking
down on me with just stich & look In
them ss an angel might have, hut she |
said no word, aml | sank info gnoon-
Aciousness again.
It was weeke before 1 wai about!
again or beard what bappened after
all became dark about me on ibe tap
of the steeple. It pesmin the struggle
of the |
sireet below: sn exeited crowd had
gathered, bot they conld do nothing
but Took and wonder anid wait.
had seen me strike Jack and fall bak
senseless in the eaddie as his arms re.
leased me, and then to thelr horror
they had seen hie slip off his platform
and drop like a stone reboonding off |
the steeple. and fall a shattered boap
on the globe pavebient almost ft their
ine in the strazyiesbat Tuckily pine |
years investigating son spots”
of the hope andl the |
grating of the saddles against the
Fates
mine and big hot breath was oun my
Pe Ti-Bils
r : { where you lite?
When I eare th myself I wae iving 2
bold the salt tozeth
They |
He must have slipped his jife |
and with great diffleniiy |
was ssfelr lowered dovo and cam
btmie
Weil! there's 1ittle more to tell. They
buries] poor Jack, aml three months
later the wedding bells were ringing
for me and the sweetest bride that ever
bark lo a life that has been all sun
$i ne na LT 44 Fi TE.
—————_— prisms
Trapping a Professor by Wire,
Among sone intensely amosing
lege scrapes told ky “A Graduate”
wd Las
by his pupils, who was to be married
The lady vied ia © ev eland, And 1b
students thet loved (7 him were
fnvitinl. Bot they deters
ined that ia some way Be should i
from them. And be dil OF fi
Brea: brtend tiie pressor took the
at-lo a wa to grrive at Cleve
About eleven o's
pyre fred the
andl sent off this
1&3:
Jim Townsend
w SEY 18%]
"“thisf af Pulice,
Man coming ot
free
Escaped
shrewd. therefore
Will say same FPipall
Tinks he 8 professor
calleze. Delusion. Escort to bu im §
iriends 8 Ni, pe Eu opt 61 ACEH. 1
This message reached desing.
tion long Iwfore train No, & reached | ,
that whem Professor
Figalll alighved It was to walk strals
into the custody of three
They would isten ta no wards of ma
eon. Lut escorted Nis out te the house:
un Euclid avenue, (he
waded brid
level
Na
silk
funal
hewarel
3 train
Crews, Lissa,
whiskers,
CHEN
its
dorteciives
One cf Man's Oddities,
“1 really belleve thar men Win wear
belts become
a man an old pipe” sald a
Ch Baberdasher, “Have
You pol wad fellows who are
otherwise aressed immacuisiely w
Saye belize, sollvdd and dix
Une of Jay regsias
Big and io
Haat
£0
sired
evel Dui
doce
astnnt
Sater
Cust dane
arm wid
. Se
fag Fras
In 18 1a
% Sasi
3 000 aw! Hs
¥ $i a bg. 5 a i HN
that be dismay the
We SION tur Rye of
a pew
ball
giv
NtGIne rs
shaved Lin
hss tialed,
pew,” be sald
that i= 3 Inles shabby ami sh
I finally bein sl One that bad
been | Fe ground for 8 long
He tool Us and pot it on, alte
ine crumpled I up as moch ag possi |
bie. “1 don't suppose you want this}
up the old belt that hel
had discarded. ‘Yes. [ do. he replied |
He made me wrap it up and
3. Philadel
EBL YOU SOL ule
porn?
irre !
bays
carried It away with bi
phia Record,
ried |
I think ®
Emad searcernw
Watkins
| early eighties,
| ation aholr You )
brought a man from the gates of death |
the
LE Now what did you do a1
{ of Gettyabinry ®t’
en.
ig | an whe always tol
& Home Journal i= the stary Brate Jogernal
oi a certain professor, not mach liked
ed said Mr
hid tder. It isd
! id
: ready cond
i of
bome of Lig in! L.,
| co iugian Bar
aitached to them Just asi
[gor aby mis,
the og
1 writhings spon the ground had
i
Ee,
fy
Pawere seven Mes
Cinodoensive,
- ht ofl Satay
From ie cheek, a8 1 roposed ”
Haw Horrid!” ered
Far iriend, Mise Did.
“Pd Like to see him Sd :
Raeh Srizis 20 me!”
i tridlarany
She apike, and so next day,
Wirth eyelids tlosed
And fips com a a
She, too, in the hamnanck lay,
A% ih 8 ance,
Jack aioli one gonee
And then he stole aay.
He "Why, thn professor ims
“Lovdiess’ And people say women
are inguishiive! «irk i :
“Pg. what is a philosenler?
philosopher, Jimmie, 3 8 man who
has mot
Bebhion Fy by
liion £ tn The tory pie
fea orphaned ¥ RehalarS Madi geo
graphy lessons bhatder” —~ Towh and
Country
Brown -- "Why 4d vom
your hook vo that the itinerant
would know what yeu pean Jones
~“What part of it is pot clear to you?”
Bex
mont
Traveler] say.
Ing most conloandediv”
tarer~""Es {zur
oti re razor pails
foacmt Tore
wid 01 tight
Tr
* kt.
1 to the chair, an’ well pet it af zum
I raised ty hand, sirvex him with all |
1he
bow." Punih,
Manhattan -"1 suppose, Sal
you get god ‘Butter itn
gn,
Suhlmbs "Yes,
there is enough butte,
“Oh, yeu, he adores The
it for & Partnight”
bothering you?’
me?
to Bud It ong snide life
1 love line gramshopyer- &
Exha ibd j
He bosw
H be lan
Nolo] had an awinl
wife this giernise overt a thy or
bolder shie recently gave he”
“What was the tronble?” Nedd
caught me using 07
“Then
“What's
what's
bot ering
4 pnd . wn OF 1
A re apn Reco spt Hl pentd
Ary.
He {rixingd ia 847 ga¢
I realiy must zo A
enfored myself mm
Maul (with frigid politene Sion
To glad, I's sure 1 have ei
Fou, to T- Lestiv's Weekly,
Hungry Hige us SW hist yon
A Woman ov ed pe An Gale
this oe be” Weary
Her Knowred you sn the
Du Hever seen his ani
o ” “T ir 354 LE
*1 bled fer my couniryl’
yeteral Pwo wars,
Hy wit
8
Ri 1%
exe aime]
al promily,
Gee amin,
ey ni) rnp 1
“1 feed for my Lite,” i le
GUsiE
“Hair sing, sr”
wiih a # ng fut
thi “Maker uit
Bee FOR ORD gel Tee oR
Tyte Phils SPRY
row R tun » Bl wpnd well
$f 7 fa
£1 al aa
Le
SEAR
Concerning Saalies.
hax dering
iE ine ane
pe
SHERI
4 ig A
S4¥
SHERER
tp
rattlesnake to the howdy of
3 tir sev Baw Bos
ig to Les Demet red b oo
ie ubeliinhnen I
The | result iw
true thin
ea
& Beolutely y
ded a
rege -
tigre i5
vB ERR
eisbil
pProdred ig
persistence, tn hi sxioenination,
pre sie mus
, but stake is really Too
sicabie an obiver to be worthy ef
Cairy and fantastie moods Was
The
¥ tha
Cau
Sms on ADS ir
Killed Tor the Last of Killing.
Biliv the Rid Killed Dicngss bi d8ed
By thee be was vixbeen,
roan of a viciin zit of Bis
Femme
affect hin nd sone
rivets io thy eddie Lisovin Couns
War, rode Uo a uf Mexis
cans who had caraped pear tue frail
tar Trop Seven Bivers, There
aps i the palty, all
ail sivgnzers 43
cent of any ria
Kid wud his cempatnions,
the latter. u% (ney do by drew
revolvers, ond eaanly asi] with
exucting sKHL 5007 Lown every meme
ber of the marty. Questioned an to his
wotive fur this scr. Billy thie Kid
later replied thas they bad shot the
Mesioans “just wo see them Kiek™
With a wan He this it Is sbvicus
that ordivary reasons aud erdivary
Hmitations faldl—Ecerybrdys Maga
a
Tae
Tad
tainly |
bP $3 LAME Eo]
Yet
thelr
gine
5 fet
1A SWHIGARD,
Shem
4 Huntingdon & Broad Te op , Mt.
wh being a
L fool, Detroit Fre Bs Prove,
a :
was squeezing the very life out of me.
In vain I struggled, as we swung
backward aml forward against the
fore: ifs tr 2a
38 Aone, ar
write
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, week days
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Main Lane Express, dail
Bf ones
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ig Expo daily a
el
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HEBERT DERERE
GOUTUTER WUTELS
RipEgae sEBuER
Lemire Piton--Sonthward,
wmin No No. 708 ad 708 a. mo. arriving ul Cresson
SAE.
Tontts Mov 76 at 548 p. ma. arriving && Crosson
LE po.
Lone Patton —Northward,
Train Mould at 047 a Jn. Sriving at Mas
Bader at LG a my. and of Giles Cacapiell a
Tomlth Nir TH at 857 poe = arriving at Mahat
wCampbell a8 TH
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m.
Some Hotel Figures.
Statistics are pol very extartaining.
and that of
For
‘mustard, during the year 130 one of
shaae hig hotals pant for meats
$00 B08; for ponitry. $113.000 for veg
taken $2 for frule $42 006 for
segs. $1200 far hutter $7505 and
or the Sowers used in decoration
are fowers on fhe tables
syery dae 330 aan The initial In
cwatmmwart im gilgarwars waa TH NA
the losses that, charitably,
w erndiitet ta the sonvenly trace and
ihe general wear and tear on fable
abot R400 3 yesr is spent
‘wn kee vinx this supply up to the hotel's
stareund
Young Men at the Head of Colleges.
The voungest college President Ws
said 10 be John H MeCracken, whe,
at 25. predides over Westminster Cob
fege. af Fulton, Mp, while his father,
Henry M. MeéCracken, is the executive
head of New York University Jerome
Hall Raymond, President of the Uni
versity of West Virginia was elected
to that office when 28 years oid. Presi
tent Boothe Colwell Davis of Alfred
University, New York was elected
when Ii years oid Rey Barris A
Jenkins was two years younger when
se became President of the University
of Indianapolis. Dr. Dusiel E Jeak
ns. President of Parsons Usilege, lowa,
was Just 30 vears of age when he took
the pisi=. In 1884 Dr. Jacob Gould
Bchurman was 3% vears old when be
{| wont ta preside over Cornell Univers
Hy.
Be A a en
Iseland claims the honor of the first
slectrie railway in the United King
| dom.