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tell.
Nor how. nor when OF those forgotten
only vasne echoes from the darkness swell
Bringing familiar ns1rmurs TO my ears.
The gl,ostly Image of hat misty past
Enfolds me like a s. low; and my sense
Strives all IN vain TO grasp and hold it fasts
Only in me is memoryis evidence.
All human language feeble IL and cold.
To paint the fieeting visions that arise
Beguiiing me with memories of old.
OF other lives passed under other skies.
And stiIl the echoes ring. the voices call
IN Wild confusion. like crowd of dreams;
Then twilight shadows. dark and darker. fall
Til not a ray through the dense blackness
CLEANS
But still again vague. melodious song,
With scattered, broken measures fills tho
And shadowy forms. in shadOwy distance
throng
wrapt in the sable mantle of despair.
Ny soul mounts upward into loftier spheres
Where. beyond boundaries OF time and
space.
lived and loved before these earthly years
Chained me, an exile. in my present place.
see, fin flee ing rays of heavenly light.
The glory OF u distant paradise:
Then all is overwhelmed by starless night
My anxious questionings meet no replies
Heavy my heart with memories of old;
My power to live and strive is overcast
By wild desire the mystery to unfold,
Which binds my present to that vanished
past.
This is my heritage of sorrow now.
That yelled and unknown form which once
/ wore:
I can not fathom when nor where nor how.
lonly know that have lived before.
L ellen : toonnpt n The New York Sun.
IEon Industry OF PcnnsS lvasHA .--As ths
South.
One of the mos6 noteworthy facts of
the present census is the growth of
the iron industry within the past ten
years. In 1880 the total output of
pig-iron was less than four million
tons. In 1890 Il had increased to over
nine and a, half million tons. Penn
sylvania is credited with 4,712,5I1
tons of this product, or forty-nine and
nineteen-hundfedth4 per cent. of the
whole. Ohio follows next on the list,
and after her Alabama. which in ten
years, as the Philadelphia Times points
out, has jumped from the tenth to
the third place. while Missouri. which
at one time was believed to be the
coming rival of Pennsylvania. and
whose iron mountain was thought to
offer an inexhaustible supply Of ore,
has declined to the twelfth place.
That Pennsylvania still produces
nearly one-half of the total supply is
owing to a fortunate concurrence of
circumstances. Without the discov-
cry of natural gas, which has enabled
ser materially to cheaper production,
she could not at this day compete with
the forges of the State Of Alabama by
reason os the fact that she is compelled
to draw her ores for mixing from long
distances, while the Southern furnaces
have all the materials for making iron
clustering closely about them. Their
only drawback is the longer haul to a
market. Even as it is, they have be-
gun to make such innoads into the
Eastern markets, where Pennsylvania
had monopoly, that the latter has
been compelled to call upon the rail-
roads to lower the rates of transporta-
tion, and to preserve this important
traffic it is reported that the railroads
have either agreed or are about to
agree to make that important cession.
The mere act of calling for cheaper
transportation shows that the Pennsyl-
vania iron masters are beginning to
feel the increasing competition, and
that although this competition is vet
in its infancy, the South is destined
within ten years to receive large orders
from the East which are now filled
from Pennsylvania forges. 1t is,
moreover, a serious question as to how
long the supply Of natural gas will
hold out. Already the Pennsylvania
Natural Gas Company, which controls
the larger part of the natural gas field
in that State, have increased the price
to private consumers, and the best ex-
perts declare that it is only matter of
time as to when the supply viii be ex-
lausted. Il is true tia there are other
natural gas fields in Ohio and Indiana,
but if the Pennsylvania supply were
exhausted it would either force the
iron masters to fall back on coal, or to
remove their plant to the Ohio or Indi-
ana gas fields or to the South, where
the facilities are such that iron can be
made there cheaper than anywhere
else. From the number of new fur
naces which have been put up within
a few years in Virginia and in Alabama
| it is no. without reason that many
thoughtful men believe that the future
seat OF the iron industry is at the
South. or that capitalists are buying
coal and iron lands in that section in
anticipa icn of the time when they
will become immensely valuable. TAX
ing into consideration the very short
time during which the South has been
actively producing iron-for even Vir-
| ginias while she was bampered for
railroads, only produced iron IN a
languid sort Of way--and considering
that last year the Southern output was
one nliilisn seven hundred and eighty
one thousand tons. it must be evident
that the time Is not far distant when
the South VIII be running a race with
Pennsylvania for supremacy IN the
production Of iron, with a fair and
almost certain prospect Of ultimately
surprising her.
Flour has lately taken a rise. 6ut
the probability Is that housewives
viii have to use as much veast as ever