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Show UNAFRAID. So deep in the night, my brother; Jtiit bright the omi-iAnd thu Hum fur dawn and aunrlae Is never far away. I'm watching here In the valley To cati h the first glad rift In the night clouds Hanging over-G- ray cluud. that soon ahull lift. Whenever night .hades are deepest Then lotideat Is in Bong, In the Hhndow of the valley Ilupe aiaeda my feet along. Aye, deed Is the night, my brother, llut bright the coming day: And the time for dawn and sunrise la never far away. C. Warnack in Los Angeles Henry . weeks hwas dead. James was mast devoted to her during It all, paid all (he expenses, and had hor Interred la the family burying ground. They say Le took It very much to heart Algernon waited with malicious expectancy, for he knew what was coming. Leila was too much absorbed In her thoughts to observe bis manner. When he paused, she asked: "What was she to him that he should do that, and take it so to heart, as you say? Well." and there was an Impressive pause, "she was his wife! His wife!" cried Leila, unable to check the cry of astonishment. Algernon nodded in a satisfied manner, and then said: He marYes, sho was his wife. ried her when he was a young fellow. She liad It In her blood, and went to the bad. Then they parted. Later he beard that she was dead, and did not now better until he saw her on the street. Algernon sank back In his chair, satisfied that he had done well For some minutes Leila was silent The man finally became Impatient, and, to break the suspense, asked: "Well, what do you think of it? Pretty rough on James, Isn't It? In reply the woman arose and opened the door leading to the ball. Then she turned her great eyes upon him in dazzling scorn. There! she said, pointing to.tha door. You had better go home. You are a mischievous little cur, and If I were a man I would thrash you! The man stared in (lead consternation, not believing hls ear3. Before he could compose an answer, however, he was left alone In the rom, and the sound of I.ellaa light steps came hack to him as she ascended the stairs leading to her room. That night she wrote a very apologetic little note to James, begging him to come to see her next day. And CHOSEN " SAMUEL GOMPERS AGAIN A. F. OF Lr. PRESIDENT OF THE Tables Turned on Hunter b. When H, UIS Hi. Gm Milton Reynolds of Manor, N. Y took his gun day and went out after rabbitf A big one got up. and Reynold-- . it until It disappeared in a hole p,!?4 ground. The hunter laid his gUn a pole, and punched It ln the tJ 8ot to route the rabbit out. The Bn cocked all ready for Reynolds m 'k It up and shoot the rabbit the ment It came from the hole. The cotton-tai- l came out with . den rush. Its first bound landed on the gun. Its fore feet trigger. The gun was dischaJ? both barrels going off at once. Reynolds was in a stooping his dog near him. He was a enough out of line of the gun to e cape the full force of the charges ! it, but two fingers were torn from l, left hand, his left calf was bad lacerated by shot, and his left chI filled with them. One of the dogs legs was shot off The rabbit went on and is still at large. New York Sun. t R 1 Barkdale Smytbe was Algernon known locally as a snob. Some little sense wa9 credited to bis account, but bis debts fan high. A great many things were unknown to him, but one fact stood out so clearly In bis feeble brain that what others he chanced to burdened with were quite overshadowed. There was a woman In Algernons town with whom he was well acquainted. This woman well, even her anomies said she was beautiful. Algernon loved her with the unreasoning love that Is the love of fools, and sometimes of strongmen. In her particular circle she was known as a flirt and coquette. Men who distrusted their ability, along with having a certain regard for their peace of mind, fought shy of her witching glances. . To show and emphnslze the Insincerity of her character, and Its the case of Jamos was always brought up. lie was one of those men quiet, reserved and Intense who love not often. lie had met the woman, Leila, some years before. A service he did for her cemented an Incident friendship, which soon began to ripen Into something more. James was slow and methodical, and ho knew somewhat of women. With women of Leilas type he was, however, not so familiar. Therefore It was that he studied her long carefully, era ha committed him self. After persuading himself into the belief that he Knew her, he promptly asked her to marry him. To his surprise and her own as well she accepted him on condition that he wait to long as she might see fit No lover could refuse even such a qualified acceptance, so they were engaged. All went well for a year, so far as Leila was concerned. James was very docile in his obedience to her carefully veiled commands, and was equally meek In allowing her to do as she hose. Then, one day, the heavens fell, and James was never the same her laugh was not to be understood. Algernon himself attempted to look wise when a friend told him, but It was a dismal failure. lie was rich, fair looking, descended of a family content to spell its name Smith, and of average character; therefore. It is not strange that the rumor was currently credited. It was during a call that Algernon made on her when the heavens fell for him. He, poor fool, unconsclonsly knocked out tho props himself. That day he had come upon an explanation of James behavior the night on the street. It savored enough of James " Egyptian Runners. came. HOW LAWSON GOT EVEN. Boston Millionaire Is a Bad Man to Antagonize. Thomas W. Lawson, Bostons copper operator, la a man of very warm likes and dislikes, especially dislikes, as many who have come in contact with him have reason to remember. Just now they are telling In Boston how he avenged himself on a florist who took occasion to press him for a bill at a time when he had his hand3 full looking out for the clubs of his enemies In the stock market, and Incidentally swinging a few clubs of his own. The florist in question was one with whom the millionaire had done a great deal of business in years gone by. When Amalgamated Copper took Its recent slump someone went to the florist with a straight tip to the ef: fect that Lawson was In a bad way financially. The florid straightway hied himself to Ioiwsons ofilce with a demand for his bill. Lawson told him to keep cool, adding that he would send a check as soon as the bill was Even her enemiea said the was beau- checked up. The florist, however, tiful. wanted a certified check at once. the disreputable to be a delicious The Insistence of the man was remorsel for his palate. Besides, he had warded, and he went on his way rea secret fear that the woman had not joicing, his Joy being turned to woe a yet forgotten James, and he was few days later by the resignation of eager to so poison her mind that her his chief lieutenant, who announced heart would forever cast out the like- that he was to start a store within a ness of the man she had once loved. block of the one in which be had So It was that Algernon dug his little worked for many years. pitfall and coaxed Leila to cross It. And the knowledge that came later Dont remember fellow that you Mr. Lawson's money was back of that man afterwards. ah let me what was his name? the magnificent new store did not It came about In a very simple man- Yes, I have see, It James. Dont you re- make him feel any better. It wa ner. Leila pul Janies off one night, member him? Lawsons way of getting square. with but the skeleton of an excuse, She flashed a glance at him that New York Times. with to went the theater another and would have been a warning to a man man. James look It all In good part, of average Intelligence, but Smythe Across the Hills. reIn said acd nothing. That night. did not see It. Aerois the hill end far beyond, where turning. Leila and her escort passed daylight dies and yet again la born. true, she said; there was a man and a very shabbily dressed suchQuite Thera lies a country wond'rous fair. man. a of him? What and wanton faced woman on the Beyond the purple rim of mlat that gird Nothing of Interest, nothing at alL the valley down below atreet The two strove to pass with- I chanced connecIn to think of him There Ilea a land I dreamed about, a out having their faces seen, but they tion land I longed to know; with something I heard failed to acrompllsh this. One swift The stars stood sentinel aj dusk and Yes? with Inflection. rising to Leila. revealed it all With beckoned. V glance you heard set you to Yet I dared not go. a startled little cry, she dragged her Something Is him? of That flattering." oscort after her In freuxled haste, and thinking Not at all." denied Algernon, Ignor- Across there hills n wandering soul cam when she arrived home she dismissed n ing tho thrust "But. dont you know, It to aa child andof It grew him with a curt "Good night!" return. sung promise was It something that cast a light on Till the life's great hope became a chain The next day James received a very exhe ho knew and the but bitter pain. something paused spirit hot and scornful note, which sent him Its tasks undone were fetters of lead For pectantly. reof business without about his hope and a wenry life seemed all In vain. Leilas face was a mask, and Algerthe master pnsMon would not be stlU non could not read her thoughts. For Nor the soul at rest again. Something that ho did? she commented, tentatively. "What can It all It was out of bounds In a realm unreal, ns a summer siar In a silver sta moan? felts Its light; That "Dont you know? he said desper- Unrealcountei and hopeless and afar. Fata metOf was woman It he that that ed out and gave It mo ately. And bid me accept this lonely thing and seen with on tho street on life and be free smile Oh, yes. she made answer, as If And light of heart and happy aye It all was now clear to her. "There for all eternity. was such a woman. aloud In my hour of grlel She wasn't exactly er nice, you And 1 cried for a comfort In my gloom know. he blundered on. To frighten death away. I heard so, was the disdainful InAcross the hills stole a kindred soul fron s, t&t ? did" Samuel Gompers, presl-dent of the American Federation of Labor, has been tho executive of that organization, with the exception of one year, since 1SS2. lie was one of the founders of the federation and since hi3 fifteenth year has labored earnestly to organize the working peo 1 A Mr. Gompers was born In Engon Jan. 27, 1S50, and when a s .voting man learned the trade. He is a copious writer on labor ple. land cigar-maker- topics and edits the official magazine of the Federation of Labor. It Is said of him that he never Indulges In inflammatory utterances. WOMANS IDEA OF HELL. MEMORY COOD AT 133. Drawn From a View of the Crater of Vesuvius. Vesuvius dominates the whole landscape. He finally got the better of us, drew us like a magnet; so, finding that the ascent can be made from Sorrento, as well as anywhere, we gave a day to it. The road, an ascending spiral, embraces the great black mountain like tho colls of a serpent. At first it leads through pleasant vineyards; when these are left behind the dreadful lava fields begin. The weird forms of the petrified rivers of lava, once red and molten, now grim and black, suggest human bodies writhing In the clutch of horrid monsters. Here a huge trunk madly wrenches itself from the tolls there a vast body lies supine and agonized, the last resistance passed. When we left our carriage at the foot of the funicular railroad I felt 1 had passed through several circles of the Inferno. Dante must have received from Vesuvius many of the Impressions he transmits to us. At the summit when 1 looked down Into the crater, at the slippery, slimy sides, with their velvet bloom of sulphur, I saw where tho fathers of tho church and the early painters, Fra, Angelico among them, got their Ideas of hell. Marcus Aurelius, my guide, bibulous, muscular, with a grip of Iron, found a point from which, when the wind lifted tho veil of thick white smoke, I could, by leaning well over the crater, see the flood at tho bottom surge, seethe, toss lip from Its depth big, red-hostones, which dropped back again while the mountain roared and scolded. It was an awesome day. Vesuvius has given me not only a new understanding of the poetry and religion of Italy, but of tho Italian character, which Is has had a share In formlug. Maud Howe in t The shadow cast by an Egyptian runner Is grotesque enough to frighten children. Colored Woman Smokes Pipe and Tells of Washington's Army. Mrs. Mary McDonald, probably the oldest living person In the United States, celebrated the one hundred and thirty-thiranuiversary of her birth last week in the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons at Philadelphia. In spite of her great age Mrs. Me-- l on alii has a wonderfully clear memory and relates Incidents of General Washington's camp at Valley Forge as if they were the occurrences of a few days ago. Among other things she tells how the patriots were supplied with food by the women of the neighborhood. She was horn at Frogtown, near Valley Forge, and raised In a Quaker family, the descendants of whom have corroborated some of her statements regarding dates. She has outlived every member of her family. Mrs. McDonald Is an inveterate smoker, and one of her chief delights is an after dinner pipe. d White Woman's Un:que Honor. Mrs. Hariict Maxwell Converse, a chief of the Six Nations and tho only white woman ever so honored, died at her homo In New York City last week. Mrs. Convir.--o came of a family which for generations had been intimate with Indian life in the New York tribes. Her father und great grandfather were both adopted by the red men. Nearly twenty years ago Mrs. Converse was adopted by the Senecas, wno made her a member of their national council and the Six Nations Senecas, Oiumdagas, Tuscaroras, Mohawks and Oneida. Sho spoke several of the Indian languages fluently. Cay-uga- s, Trouble In the Family. Dr. Bloomfield, who was for som years bishop of London, became i widower rather early in life and soon afterward married again. By his first wife he had several children, and his second wife was a widow, who also had several children oy her first husband. In due time other olive branches came to the bishop and his wife, and there now being three distinct clans of youngsters It can readily be Imagined that a good deal of noise and it umes unseemly quarrels disturbed the episcopal palace at Fulham. One morning while the bishop was engaged In studying some philosophical work, his wife burst into the Hurry, h uttj" ibrary and exclaimed: What Is the matter, my dear! to asked anxiously. Theres a good deal the matter was the reply, and theres not i moment to be lost, for your childm are arter murdering mine, and not theyre on the point of strangling our children. New York Herald. l- "Stitch In His Side. John Long, who was stabbed to the heart over two months ago, walked Into the Worship street police cow. yesterday apparently ln the best of health. It may be recalled that the nun's heart was stitched up at the London hospital, and ho has made a splendid recovery. The house surgeon stated that tier had been only three or four previous instances of such a case, and that there was at first only a remote c banco of saving Longs life. London Press. School Fees. One of the old schoolmaruiS of Sails bury. Mass., was Elizabeth Eastman, who received ten cents per day f tuition. An old bill for twenty-fouweeks ($2.40), which was a deduction of twelve cents for absences, found recently, dated 1824. It wastb custom ln those days for pupil 10 ww carry their fuel with them and It A bill case. In done this probably "Master Walsh, dutcr ten years tuition of the same pupil, gives tt price as $1.33 for schooling of thirteen weeks. Old-Tim- e Caught With the Coods." Halstead, a popular member of tho New York Stock Exchange, Is a student (.f human Hlldebrant Startled Congress. nature and Is Just as tho house was alsmt to take used to quick action. A few days ugo a vote on the Cuban reciprocity bill while on his way to Wall street he got Congressman llildebrant of Ohio rose caught In a shower and dodged ln a Old New York Hotel. to a question of personal privilege. In doorway. In a few moments a man There Is a hotel In the lower Pr answer to a question from tho chair emerged from tho building and began of New York which boast. a contln he said: "It concerns me as an in- trying to open an umbrella, it was year. On that he did not understand tho tied existence of dividual and no gentleman who wishes tta to Keep the membership of this body Listening on the rain shedder and .Mr. oi the tradition. of the place Is year of fola Halstead concluded It wa not piuoi hie started forty clean will object." Dead sllenco game tho M lowed and everybody felt sure that strang, rs l ;o , rty. So be ago is still In progress, althoughbce .-d the Infinite fir.-ago long amt long have in who or it rat said confidently: some story of boodle terruption. bribery wus Here, that's men my dream came true at last In jros "She was once of a fairly respecta- And heie my umbrella," about to bo sprung. The Ohio memTll(, limn kuuk,(1 ,t gathered to their fathers. In the afterglow, ble family," pursued Algernon, regainAnd you led me uwa.v across ths blut ber gtavely sent a resolution up to the our without a word and Mnried away. Whither I longed to go. Our Physical Culture Course. wlm read In Ms u.mi.iI dreary ing confidence, "hut she she fell. clerk, l'eicy F. Montgomery. Then she left her home, and her poo-pi- e one That Resolved. addi Too much attention cannot ho fi!11 Author monotone: Would Be Statesman. - r (onaa to tho proper exercise of the forgot that sho had ever lived. Aftional laborer bo employed In the bathDoyle h renewing his Smoking Competition. terwards they left their old home and To develop tho biceps and shouMr room of tho house during tho Se'ui h "ll',r ,'arllar""l through a muscles It i well to place the r " At a smoking club" la Thallfingoa came to thh pmeo congress." There was a sigh constituency, having accepted 4 a wag competition "Walt a minute," Interrupted Leila; (South Germany) about a slender, yielding object, of relief, followed by a laugh nil ""'I't Invitation to contest which tho wag to amoks around. of the I can finish It for you. hold, object came They Thr 'Zw?'bWiU ,nrs ' to this place, but she had preceded a cigar as long as possible without letAlgernon Barkdals Smyths was r Edinburgh, but Tho It go out. wis Knew them. she When of ting tiicir arrival Oldest Pennsylvania Citizen, a PubIM-rknown locally as a snob, too. Helm', smoked his cigar 74'i minutes, while she them hunted Is of of up, her Martin Princeton, Amo la repented !,ll'ai f him now. fur call, lie saw how It was, and made past misdeeds, wns readmitted to tho none of tho other competitors records the oldest cltlen of tli Keystone Hawick burgh are every effort to gain ailmltlanrs to her fold, and now raijJ w one hour. over as 1. live happily and state. Within a short time ho will r Thomas Shaw, aggressively the sitting presence; but he was denied. Then honorably. It they Is an old story, and sevone hundred und JiU celebrate Leila left the city end wits gone for Golden Sands. commonplace. enth birthday. He Is a Scotsman by months. James continued the dreary quite did "But months Alnot twelve turn In this Yarmouth, out so." Eng., birth and lias lived In western Pennroutine of his life, and strovo to forsaid triumphantly. 2,839 sylvania Mr more than seventy-fivderived a revenue of about Is gernon "It R.idroad o tli and all of gladness light get that Comply, Mistake, wor-than that. from Its beat h. The sale of sand and years, llo Is a shoemaker by occupaUitui t uiver. a cltlen U was no more. f Van Is Impossible." 504, and payments tion and up to a few mouth ugo work IHl U Oulliltv Worse? That produced shlugls Arm Exercises. M ' When she returned James chanced Mlt'd to place stalle on the ml at Ms trade. He retains nil his Sl 11,11 I, the tho for right exert a as see. will pressure. rWa no, When you Indeed, street. on was Phe the I, n, to pass her I,,.,. 700. beach times. This may bo difficult Mr . .,! faculties to a remarkable degree and V; with Algernon, and he spoke to them, James enmo across her It was by ace., at first, hut after a few trial )'0 has a wonderfully retentive memor.'. iui "'id'bt on it, ,i but they cut Mm dead. A great rage cident. bhe had not repented, but wns ' Vaccination. to went bo delighted at tho result. be "ol U .. her rd evil iAst Compulsory That f, f vI very jenr and sorrow filled Ms heart, so he continuing wajs. ' ':'l t Whir), tllO Three vaccinations nro now compul- Kan., to sell a piece of property and "'I. t! MT' and overtook retribution her, ado. night further without on m t !,, pa""od 1ms been In 111,1 U'lll "I'oun that Street Railway E"'P,oy,:u,j,nJ at, i , ,. Meantime the r dl s of Leila's set aho was stricken with some kind of sory In France. Tim first must bo made tie trip atom. He of two first in '',l Tlnj hoc-lie has the the felon. state year Five hundred nnd Infancy, every H'ai 1. m i ,, bad It that she uul Axemen were to malady, James too!: her to his boms made duringIn llm fr ' d ln a vur- - person i In the United ttrvt s rMvulh year, and Children llxl oi t Mr $ a She r.ml summoned tho best medical aid, the second be married It the spring. w In twentv first Cl,rl third the year, street no wns the of It but a In avail. fsw pendent upon the laughed when It cna.a to her ears, hut Llpplueotts. Dick later-lo- r evl-de- M.-p- fifty-eight- prize-winne- . e u i.i I 1 , port. , ixt |