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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1899-1-12, Page 3r MOUNTAIN ROBE. Oo1d end reels► the nurtk wind blows. Mace b W meet tag early. Wbu should I mss$ M► Mountaa A S Amens the Mehl• Mole, t All the wurtd emilerwa Blowlag 'tL and s•se'1N• Who ehuuld 1 meat bat llaaalala Rase The way tba/ I was *lag! !foe a 1ea1 on the poplar tree, Nota dower os. tbe heather. !fountain Row tucked shyly at me ee we stepped oat together. Mountain Row, vestry and fres. Where are ruses blowing? Ruset sleek, half lurued from ms. The row of love was allowing. Mlaok and uuld the north wend blows. Never • bird 1. singing. Where's a lilt to the voice of Rosa Sweat as the skylark ringing. Wlater's black on heather and broom, Where shall 1 and homgl Row's mouth le the honeycomb And Raw'. laugh 1. bonny. Slack and cold the north wind blows. Winter come+ 10 fairly. 1 keep manner with Mountain now Antoci( the etubbte barley. --Yell Mall Gagetaw THE VOLUNTEER. The mother would not be pacified. "Not yon," she said; "not you. 'Thr Only .on of his mother, and she was ■ widow' -remember that. War is net Mr you." "The country calla," argued the young mall. "Must lconsider myself at such • time?" The girl wbo was to lis bis wife spoke op. "Yourself l" the said. "Is It only yourself?' "You, too," be answered. "I fight for those 1 love when I fight for my soentry. „ "What do you know of the bell and horror of war?" demanded his mother. "War made your father an fuvalid fur life. 1. not that enough for me to give ay country? There are otbers who should go -rich men's sons bred in lux "try, who sbonld meet bardehip for onoe In their lives -but you, with your me. gar pay, which barely provides for o.1" "My work is more than that," he frowned. "Yes," she said, "you Mould make 1t more; there will be your wife to pro vide for." „ "If you love me"4- began the girl, when .be broke down, burying ber faoe 111 ber bends. "If you would only understand," be piesded. "You know bow It is --our countrymen murdered, the flag insult. ed, men going to the front. Most 1 easy bore grinding out • daily existence 1n work that gives me mere food and abetter wbile Oboe brave fellows stake their lives for me" "And what will become of yon," tried his mother, "if you should return after the fighting is over? The position you have is mean, but it is something Will it be held for yea till the war is ended? I bave teen war, and I know what comes afterward -struggle, pov- erty, inability to earn daily bread." "I love you," said the girl, "bot bow •.n you tell that I may not forget you ter some one else, wbeo you tree so easily leave me?" "If I tbcngbt," returned be, "that you 000ld be false to me" - "Not that," she interrupted. "Hoot women gives trust for trust;'ehtivata- sot wholly obliterate herself when she finds that she is held anwortby. For am I not beld unworthy wbeo you Oran leave me against my wishes?" His motber ought ap the word. "A worthy son does not forget hie mother In her boar of need. Yon are all 1 have." He looked about him. He saw the peace at borne, the sen shining in at the window, the peace outside of field end brook and wood; be beard the dis- tal* low of cattle, tbe peaceful nog of acted birds. "Then," be sigbed, "you Would rather 1 sbcold be a coward?" "The brave man," said the girl, dry- ing ber eyes, "is he who stands behind the woman who loves bim. " She smiled h at him. "Stay with as. You are no Imp a soldier in being our commander." She placed ber arms about bim, draw - fag him to ber. His mother came and stood beside him. "Stay,witb as." she echoed. "Listen!" It was a new voice that spoke. The weeds came from a small, cramped torso crouching Lerida the stove in the earner. It was the old grandmother. More than fonncore years bad bowed bet head. Tbey bad not thought that ebe understood. Her blind eyes were filmy. There was • smile upon her ebriveled lips and one shaking land was wised above her bead "Listen 1" from afar off came a sonnd that oat; other than Mist of lowiog kine and song et birds. "Dram - dram - der-om, dram. drum I" The young man straightened. The old grandmother nose to her feet S he swayed a little and caught at the well. Sbe groped about the room to • tall chest of drawers. From it Sbe took a bag, narrow package. "My son," she said, with feeble voloo, "w•. shot In war and died from the effects of bis wounds year after. It was an honorable death. While be was fighting 1 picked lint. I tore ap all my Ibsen to make it: than [ went to the hint and nursed the wounded. My bus- load was a midehiprnate ha 1819. A autism' severed the sinews of his arm. I was • girl when I met bim, and his helpless arm made me love him. L1. - tan 1" "Drum - drum - dm' -nm, dram. drool" The sound was a little nearer. "My grandfather," quavered the old g7lwadmother, "waist Valley Forge. He was made prisoner. It was winter. His nether went to see bim, carrying • We- b* tb1 of food. The joerney was many Miles Sometimes a fanner let her ride a way in his Dart. Thereat of the way she walked tbroesb the mow. When she reached the prison, the guards took her basket from ber and divided the emtents. They world not let her on bar son. She ran pest the soldiers rip kr prisoo-.door. 'Child,' Sbe n•Iled, 'klm' the kcybole on your side! I will tries 11 os mine Hear opo Be brave' (#odblere you! Your mote, prays for Eand thinks of you with • smile oe tips Lint lit a tear to ber eye.' " she spoke the old woman lora the wrappings from Ibe package "bo held and disrlo.ad • dim blade. "le was my grsedfatbee'.i" abrtbriIisd "Dram - diva - 8m'-ts h drum, dram I" some the sisal stud Reeder yet. "Drum -dtom--ser-am, driL ram 1" "Mother!" paged the yeast man. The old grandmolb u stood in the middle of the room shoo* erect. A tinge of Dolor was et her Wink and wade her seem almost youug. She beld out the sword "Your 0000try, " she said, "aud your God 1" "The God of peace!" the young girl whispered. "The God of honorable war!" cried the old grundmetber. 'rbe young wau turned to the gill. "My sou!" Hu mother spoke. Iler e yes were kiudled. "1, too, Dau nurse the wouuded." "And 1 can at least pick hut," the girl said. The old grandmother turued ber sightless eyes toward them. "There mast be uo cowards In my family," she said "Love knows no oowardioe; affec- tion bar its pride in bravery. Remem- ber Valley Forge! Remember 18121 Remember your father Listen!" "Drum - dram - der -um, dram, drum!" The recruits were marching through the village street. C "Mather l" cried the young -7 Mata. "My love?" "Goo" said big mother. "Got" sobbed the girl be loved. He bent over and kissed the girl, theu his wotber and tented to the old graodwutber. "The sword -kiss the sword," she mild, "and go and do your duty." "Dram - dram - der -um, drum, dram I" Flags were flying; crowds were fol- lowing the recruits Lute the dust and swirl rushed the youth. His hat was off ;the son threw its beams un his curl- ing, fair hair. Tbey in the doorway flaw that. He looked back et his mother, with her arm about the girl beloved, waving her handkerchief to him, though be knew ber eyes were streawiug. And back of all be saw the old dim sword held ap by the blind grandmother. "Draw - drum - der -um, dram, drum!" And onward he went to do bat- tle for his coautry and bis tlag.-Rob- ert 0. V. Meyers in Every Mouth. Tie Meer Cost elf War. A calculation as carefree. is possible places the total cost of war daring the Ian 8,000 yeerr ai the epp•lJior egm of 8190,000,000,000. If it were posafble to pay this enormous till in gold, we should require 4142,867 toles of sover- eigns and an army of over 800,000 borne. to draw it. If it had been possible for all the mints now existing throughout the world to begin ooiuing sovereigns at their preempt rate in the year of Christ's birth, they would .till have to oontinoe for 879 year. more before their tack would be completed. there sovereigns could be reared into one sky piercing column at a me- morial to those whose blood they bought, the column would stand on a base of 100 .quare feet and would ries into the cloud. nearly 4,000 feet blither than the summit of Moot Blanc. Tbey would equally pave with sovereigna a road 78 fest wide, yyptretcbing from Charing Oros. to oirer 100 miles beyond Oon• . tantinople. And Obie lathe appalling price which men bave paid in gold and blood for the privilege of killing each otber.- Loodon Standard. .. • Seemally Unpleasant. Many are the trials encountered by the un?nrttn ate man wbo, in time of domestic turmoil, is forced to vist an intelligenoe office. "My dear," mid Mr. Roberts, his youthful Lace numbed with heat and symptom. of irritation in hie voice, "I really should prefer to do the cookies myself rather than go to that intelli- gence Deice again. "Have I ordered a cook?" he went m. "No. I have not, Mrs Roberts. I escaped from one dreadful cratore. wbo even asked me whether oar hoose was 'owned faee or mortgaged.' And as I turned from her I saw a respectable looking woman who bad just entered the room. She looked comparatively pleasant. So I stepped ap to ber aud staked meekly : " 'Oen you fill the position of 000k Ma family of four?' "She looked at me as if she'd like to wither me with one blighting glance aid said haughtily: 'I am trying to 011 that of coachman in a family of two. 1 think you would do if you have proper reoommeodatiooa' "-Youth's Cui- panion. we Obeyed t..treetle.a The Club Women tells an amusing story of a party of women who recently visited Pike'. peak. A youth, stili in knee breeches, although be wore a cel- lar of extranrainery height and stiff - nem, was their guide, but his knowl- edge of the points of interest appeared to be .light. Every few minutes be stood ap and shouted the names of certain bowlders and streams. When we were nearly at the top, be called out: "On the right I. the Lion', Mouth!" "Why 1. it oiled the Lion'. Mouth?' asked a skeptical lady who bad pestered bim with "whys" all the way. 'Aw, I dunno," said tbe lad, tired of being asked for information. "I was Mid to boiler thea names. I dunno wby Delhi*. II'a my job to holler, and go i bol ler. " Wow That Alt the World C7•Iee. Dletingnished Foreigner -it most be verity bar-rdtor se poor fellows! Intelligent Worrier - 'Ardl Why. bleu yer, air, it's a hit of wbeelln prat tire for 'em. They fairly love It. When their time's op, thea 'ere cbeye'll tw breakin e11 the road reconla.-Nuggets. A Is/reeele.e. "Dnidtb I saw • beautiful gown le • .bop window tnd•y. " 'What was it, Jenne?' "Well, it was that sigmggy kind of doth, and i1 bed those heeded thinge softer the front and down the bank and NINO awful stylish pointed things on the skirt --1 wish yna would get one 'nth like it. "-111Mnklye Ufa !ONSTROSITY MAKING. (hifdren Crushed Out or hae and Compeffed to Be. "INTO THIS FOIsEVER YAWNING JAW ONE PUT 11I8 PENNIle78." Had you been In Havana In the weeks baeWesn the. atitrdel at Skye Jtlalse and the first shot of the war, wly■ the Pbll•delpbta Times, you would have ween two boys and two girls day after day begging In the gayest portions of the city One of the boys moved about on ".11 fours," frisking, jumping, trotting, lying down and rolling like • og With him was a Ilttle girl. who dig oothtng but crow like • enok. Every time the dog boy finished a aerie, of antics the girl would set up a clamor- ous crowing like a rooter on a barnyard teno. Every day at breakfast time these two performed In (rout of the ingla.rra oafs While the girl crowed the dog toy would trot from window to window, bold np his hand. or rather boa forepaw, and bark his request for alme He would whine like • pup, growl like a feroolgap bound or howl Ilkea prairie wolf AI the sight of Alto r..l doge fled Then there wive ...ether buy whom every joint seemed t, hate leen dielooated- In- deed you would ray that he had bees boned He 81 peered 1n hate n0 frame Hs seemed 'Miley a lump of flesh. He mover walked , ht tumbled He would tum- ble ap the Prado e11 the way frrogm the Hotel Pae•je to tilt Ioglaterra wlthotil • stop. Then he would wound on his bead •r walk around on tie hands. collecting pennies with tots, which served es fingers. The fourth and leas of them beggar oh11• den was the laterite She was • little g irl who made her living -and probably • Helen for otbers-not with ber bands, bat having no hands. Not over 19 yeen old, she bad the face of an unhappy woman of 40-a face haggard and Impetus, and in which there was • permanent impression of reproach. At sight of her arose an In- clination to laugh, but It was that pecul- iar laughter which choke, and turas to tears, for this beggar girl, unable to re- ceive pennies Ilk* an nrdinary mortal, had her mouth propped veld* open, and into this forever yawning jaw o.o pat his pen nice Few could resist her horrible appeal Near her •n old woman. • crone always hovered To give the individual history, the trag- te olroumetanoeu, of these young lives Is impossible Even the little beggar them- selves remember nothing When question sel, they told all they knew -that le, theft once they were put to sleep, that they woke up and then -that they were oured Curled of what? They did not know Bet we knew 1145 at Nest the four monatna- It1es jest &Scribed were m..tmrpleoea of tbe dlabenial art of Cuba's oompraobloos That 11010 boy crawling around on all fours wag net born with paws, but wltb feet and hands. Hs. • child, bad been re cast in the mold of an animal Moreover, he was born with a human mien In In- fancy his pharynx had been operated up- on, and now listen -Instead of speech, • bark, Instead of • human voice, • whine or a growl. That little girl who stowed like • barn- yard fowl -she, too. In Infancy bad ander- gone ndergone an operation of the pharynx The other boy wbo never walked and always tumbled -how artfully his join. had been dislocated In order that be might amuse Seca. pity and gather alma. How did the child Mestere produce thea fiendish effect -them offsets as of the transmigration to lite of • child Into .n animal, this metemorphnsla of • human being Into • monstrosity, thfaohanging of the beautiful Into the hideouaf The Weah- afgte of such an art Is too revolting, tea horribl4 to sell down here Simply there t1 the child in the clutches of the band of Sends, the artist., Men is a sudden ap- plication of chloroform. • quick hot care- fully studied burning with sulphur, • skillful incision with a hot tin'.. a short turn of that instrument of the Inqulsitta. Invented by the Spanish and celled • reek -and Nae is still plesty MA for you M imagine. No one who has takes the trou- ble to learn the local history of the eom- pr•ebfooe of Cuba eon look upon the 111W defamed baggers la Havana sat .1211 doubt that they w the prodeotr et see fie the dreadful promos or at Me of tie in- ternal machines Jost meali.Mel When •seerimas asoma a ntrel b Our 1•. the child Modem will he d'1rgM Rath, and then will we babel* New aid ksrrlW bps d 1111 mlmi.d alma Is M OM.- �+s�1�mi' Mem will M discovered • leas lM •re�-the art 0* eealptareg llamas ease. Them Med manger know beer s disfigure • ab11d se that les owe mocha 'anent ruengnlss 8 Tb.y mold aeew the legman form; they give a eblld a sew face they change • enon.n•nee and] the Lase Itself Mas • mask, where God bas pet • leek Nair art pots • squint; they take • CZpeas and make an shortie. Ha- Che remit --e MOM ,, oseeea • este ▪ thing, all ugliness asmpraohlcns have thrived 1e Cuba .11 lbroegh Ohl...ntnry, Ibo.gb ea • tribe Wei set 514 ling beton Odembes desert seThe d Celia. ovsertng eel of Hamm le whims 1st 1M eemjlMlA$1M hem Mtprlleed their art through the oenturfe, The crlm Inals have lett their footprints in Isidore like the footprints of vWiwi In the for set Moet of them were Spaniard& sum• were gypsies. • few were Italians But what are the proofs of the eminence of the oblld steals% in Cubet Evidence ' maid be gathered during tbos• weeks of the reign of misery 1n Cube's capital by arty one wbo would take the trouble b � follow the tour beggars described Dr Dudley, the American sanitary *speeder undertook the task It was aMadlfflrtit one Every night the ohiidren crowd tee ferry to Bogle the Jersey City of Havant Regia, fever stricken the year round, Is • elty of silence Over thyro one never bean • laugh or • song The streeta ar deserted. No ons comes and no one goes as If all were quarantined The hotter are like so many tombs The Haseneee never go to Reel& excepting on business or to ase the bullfight To a house in one of them mournful streets he followed three of the little beggars A ponderous door opened for thein, and they want In A moment later we knocked on the door It opened, and • lean, lank. hungry looking Chinaman confronted us In Spanish be - said, "Welcome, genera' "1 want to *epees this douse," said Dr Dudley "1 am the health oMloor and am told that there are Americans ber " "Enter, senors," said the Chinaman 'Then are no Americans hen.' Fier men lay on heaps of rags in differ- got ifferant parte of the room They sat ap and surveyed Dr Dudley • moment ourloue ly Then they lay down again Indifferently A• he .fterwsrd learned. all five were Spaniards The Chinaman was their sere ant. He 000ld bear the children mumbling In the courtyard. The room was so vilely odorous, so evidently fever infected. that after • few questions that were answered by one or other of the Spaniard. IN DM - My departed That they existed and had their heed - quarters fn Havana was known to the Spanish •ntborftles, a fact I learned from the (thief of harbor police when he oonls e•ted photographs of the deformed ch11- dren-a mn6scatlon acoompanled by a comprehensive grin Why. then, were the oompr•ohlons left unmolestedt Why were they free to pursue their hideous crimes* For the .lmple reasons, first. that the ohthl Maiden stole not from the rich, but trent the poor, second, that they robbed mover • Spaniard, but always • Cuban g.4ek Week tem a W.rento. The bugle sounds What • scene of or- derly bust. follows The officers •re buckling on their swords, the •.*,nen and marines run to arm racks, fetch rifles and eatl•sees and sileg them behind the guns In readiness for a possible hand to hand combat Every man has girt hinteelf with an ammunition pouch, and the gun. crows fall in by their own pieces '1'be pore are opened- the guns are swung round end pointed over the sides The boleto for shell communicating with the magaslnes are opened, the torpedo tutus are manned, and In four minutes from the sound of the bugle the eblp 1. ready to speak In tone, of thunder to an enemy I have said that with • new crew every thing wee ready for action In about four minute's, but In • well drilled ship the broadside could be fined In lees /ban two minutes tram the last note of the bugle's warning, and In time of war everything would be In tomb • state of readlnem (a +srtsln amount of ammunition needy on deck, etc. ) that the ordor to come Into en Mon and the Brine of the first shot would be almost dmultaneooa-Chambe s'Jour a 1 A Matter et tedltere.re. Mlstrvas-.thy on earth, girl, don't yon answer the front door -you sorely bent the knorkingt Bridget --An ph.d 's the knoekln to do w1d met 01'in hot expecttm any smilers today, mum. -Ally Slops Rem a• Mr re. "No," said the Managing editor, "we do not want any poetry Ws have it on hand in .tacks." "Alined Austin has It In 'Pax,' " said the poet mournfully as be turned awe,. - Cleveland Plain healer Clearly. An eptImlst/e poet says we are going to have mewl times "when the world Meng mend." Evidently he le one of the fel lows who Willem It bee been *tending . 1111 for some time. -Atone Com•tito Yoe. Th. T.N. TM modiste held the interne in In. lips d the prostrate wen.aw sada try of de g p•h' escaped her as faint traces d mote. sew (Mesad upon the polished stns. "1t dowel gut" trimmed the modiste Clearly the gown the prostrate woman wee trying on would Rd* to h., ripped out awl 1111/011•••••. Rhe eauld breathe In 1t The tlMtware ea the allow, proved 1t. - Tows 'hew s FASHION -AND FABElIGD .. Among the novelties In winter waists le a nortolk cutaway with • dere yoke teem Military effects continue tq apl„•I among wlatse Magus bodkin* j(pete and meals Nearly all thei bog R(tfroulal mime are enlahed with • deo unur al the edge. Some of 111.1.11.1 French bea5& twdlcee have oddly scalloped, open twine. with fancifully finished sleeve tope to bat b. Fine velvety ladles' cloth p uqulslu light and deep Dolor ls lin po ed 1t 11 figured with email or medium stead dote 1n silk olesuilIe. One of the very popular winter skirl models Is formed with five gores, sheath chapel at trb11 tam and • deep climate: lower part, edged et the hem with two narrow ruffles. Unlike those worn seasons agee the new winter redingotes do not mese down the front; but, while reaching Is the skirl pain .t the beck, jhey, with but few ex• eeptions, have the rounded front* whish fashion so much affect. Br ltaohwans is one of the most flesh tenable, pliable and smart looking of the popular fun of the winter. From Brun• Mllds's are aanti"'over eobu shaped capes, g ook coats and cutaway jackets formed of thews rather abort pelta Fashionable modistes are now ticking many of their dress sklra at the back, of sloe they plats the placket on the left side of the front breadth under a trimmed tib, • paseementerle device or other decoration that conceals the means of egress and in gess. A plain cloth dross of one becoming oolur, trimmed simply with marrow build and shall tailor buttons and silk lintel, 11 p,erible, 1s by all weans the lint aud beet choice where the soasuu's outfit it In any degree limited and no great variety of gown* possible. A11 the new toques are much larger than they have been fur several years, aud the greater portion of them turn back from the face dlructly In front, with a sparkling gem set buckle holding a clue• ler of wmyio et, eat.mee and steers ed osprey feather Orr center: 'New.. 1t' Post, GLEANINGS. The Tartareanalphabet cont•Ins 002 les Jere, being the longest 1n the world. Among every 1,000 bachelors there nn 88 criminals. Among married men the ratio 1s only 15 per 1,000. Tokyo, Japin, resemble' Venice In one respect. It has 80 wooden and ten Iron bridge, each aztsed t nga length of 761cet. The Pawkier tnetitute fn Paris bas as- sumed such dimensions and twpbrtaoos that a second building has become neces- sary. Ao Ifnglleb newspaper recently offend • prize of L6 for the beet reply to the quer- thin, "Who makes the bed wlfel" Cue of the replies received was es follows: "Deer air, mine. Yours truly, Bertram Boggs." A k w years ago • Dublin official had • kind of oensuetahoey,of the city and Lound that 82,000 families *ere located In about 7,000 houses, affording 1'4 rooms per family. 0., the other hand, the remain - lug 22,000 families of the afar occupied 17,000 houses. --. - Seven oburcbes tea ObIsy/ Mie Y gal* some of them having bat n at one Um" *tong tbe most proal erous In the city. One is used a• an armory for cadets. A religious newspaper Is printed In another, a dancing hall and • negro fortune tiler occupy • third and Miall seats Our the others for meeting place,. NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, Greater New York has • population of about 8,000,000, or only half an many more as Chicago. Greater New York's budget for 1899 al- lows $98,590,082 for all departments. Chicago's budget for 1898-9 allows $15,929,637 for all department.. Grater New York appropriates *11,- 797,691 for pollee. olLwChicago appropriates $3,260,000 for po- llee. Grata New York appropriates *4,675,- 100 fur street cleaning. Chicago appropriates lam than *1,600,- 000 for Its entre public work. department Greater New York appropriates *4,443,- 064 for Its fire department. Chicago appropriates lam than *1,450,- 000 for the moat etliulent fire department on earth, In which alone of all our city de pertinence the merit 53 stem rules supreme. Grater New York w111 have to roles 506,600,000 by taxation next year. For municipal and sbonl pdrposes Ch1. sago .111 raise only $12,106,317. By tante don for cleric purposes exclusively we os.• O nly rales $4,601,317 -Chicago Pock VERSATILE LI. It does not look as 1f Li Hong Chang will even land anything "equally as good. " -Toledo I1lnde. If IJ Ilueg Chang continues *slide down the Ernie, he ell! eventually land 1,, • toUrtb class petoMm. - Washington Poet. LI Hung Cheng has had another of hie Snn.uwhat celebrated removals from pow er. The mein trouble about them Is glad they do not keep bin' rewoved.-RSIs, more American. LI Bung 1. bung chows a dleptaltlot t, refuse his oeeigniu et an of .lid dna].I of a: e Y,'low rt::fir. Evidently L1.1.,. . 1 ,.:1241N% hat Il tri N. 1: ado out of the att ago dtedgi o g , ,, r, I nu. t Philately. Pb11na1Lf.-I mnderttnnd that you •se tnterreted In stamp collecting? Idtr. Topknot -(,h, I'm crazy over 151 Philatelist -Aro your Hob touch a • eolleetlon have you, 1f I may ask 1t? Miss' Topknot -Ob, I bnven't begnn to sailed soy stamps yet. But I was read- ing the other day that .nmebedy or other had got • collection of I don't know how many stamps, and, do you know, I was really Interested In the subjeot.-Banton Transcript. Don't R. 'aft Rome people don't know the difference between mseknam and sweetness. There 1s • wood dal. A meek man Is not an am that lee averhody saddle and bridle him, nor • docrmet that lee every clod• hopper wipe his boots on him. The creep- ing, wobbling creature that adapts his l000metlnn to every new surrounding is not • meek men, but • weak nlan. A meek man baa Necklet* Miff enough to keep hos bead atralgbl and pliant enough le get through an ordinary doorway. No one admire, the aggressive noisome, oleo disturbs and demoralizes etsrybode and everything with which be mime. la non• tact, but we hate no patlenre with the simpleton, who hesn't enough oonfldenoe in blmmlt to wipe his own neem withonl being 1et don't in around apologising for being on the earth. if yon •re a roan That Is arouse stonah. Mend else for the treatment • man ehnnld melee and get It Beware of being med. • foul of by them who w111 Waffle In your innocence and mein s 1f they gN the Mist chane. Remember "the ro • pie hellivath every word, bus the pre., est man )ooketh well b MM edng-" Tbls dem not masa ten ,ors Amid be mpletelse of everybody, het keep your weather eye open for Tone talo latatese. Don't be foaled with sugar retake ere lox elk Ile meek In the sense a being above or receiving wmng, bel beware et Meng week. There 1e all the didereeea 1. the world henries the twee. WON A DAILY ON DEUCES. A. Poker Genie 1. u'wteb Twee 11.t - ere Y"uabl to a eta.dst111. "When I lived in Nashville, some years ago," said Banks Voter, the minstrel, "I saw $90,000 su the Nish elite Amerioau, a big daily swsp.,p. r, change ownership on a pair of dam=es. 'Duuc Cooper owned tbe ooutrclllug stock to The American aud was colloid eyed quite vteslthy. 11e was one of that ohms, who are numerous throughout the S tate, who, as the sayiug goer, 'bave money to born,' and who enjoy nothing more than sitling behind a tine here., unlace it is sitting bebiud several stacks of blue obips. "When the legislature was in session, there were plenty of games golup every eithe 1n the Maxwell and the Duncan, the ti--ioFila slily• .plana. In wbioh thousands of dollars changed bands in a Single night. "Dano Cooper was one of the boldest players of the state, and next to him perhaps was Jerry Banter, a leading oitizen aud politician, and a very wealthy fellow. Both were good at blaftug, sad when they raked in a good pot it jest seemed to tickle them im- mensely. "One night Cooper and Baxter got in- to a game with a number of the rural lawmakers, and I obauoed to be in the room. Things went along et • pretty good gait for awhile, but honors seem- ed to be nearly even. Cooper and Bax- ter, I could see, however, were laying for each other, aud as they never play- ed with r limit, the proepOct was that 11 they did lock horns there would ie some pretty tall betting before the hands were torsed up. "It was not very long before the op- portunity showed, and the two got at it hammer and tongs It was ■ big pot, and by the time cards were drawn aud the betting cuwmeooed tbere were four In. The bets started at $100, but the thing did not get around before Cooper made • plunge, and Baxter gave it a boost that madatbe other two drop ant. "Barterer -le t wig 55,000, and It hadn't got cold before Cooper Dame back bard. bio mired the bet $8,000 and then remarked in • half jesting way, 'That's all ub.aw.1 Vie eid here, bot I'd like to bet my dock eu The Ameri- can.' 'Without the leant show of nerv- ousness or anxiety Baxter retorted, 'Put op 6 dab' bill for it.' Oooper took bim- at his word, wrote a due bill for the stook •fie pat it in the pot. Baxter thought • minute, drew&card from his pocket and wrote on the back,of it: " '1 0 U an amotlnt equal to the value of your stook in The Amer Dan.' "He pushed tbecaro into the pot and called. " 'Fee got • bobtail,' said Cooper. " 'I thought so,' rtotted Baxter. 'I've got just a little more.' And ho turned over his band, allowing a lona pair of deuces "Somebody asked Baxter bow • be came to risk .o mach on s pair of deuces, to which be replied: 'I got • bunch that he was binttiug. I set bio down am drawing to a bobtail, and I couldn't get the idea out of my bead. Dreg., Coo fir 1. the last wen on earth L'4lIM YI ii�IK.iltlrat' ^ .a tibi - eago Inter Ocean. Keelr's Ca In samming up the career of the late John W. Keely, the Pbiladelpbia Lexie fir says: "He would have been wel corned by scientists and given a begh place in the temple of fame if be had simply demonstrated that be had really discovered a force beretofore unknown to them. They would not have oared whetber be bad or bad not harnessed it for nen But Mr. Seely never gave the desired demoostration. Those who think be could bave done so will continue to believe in him as • much abased dis- coverer and inventor; thole who feel smeared that be was • charletao will not have that belief disturbed by his death. Mr. Keely bad been ootorioor for 26 year, but in all that time be bad not added a line to the knowledge of the world, tbongh he lived in a period covered by the invention of the electric light, the telephone, the phonograph and the kinetoeeope and the discovery ofthe lrays. " America ■.d Eeglaad 1■ Milan. The. receut collapse of China has opened up one of the greatest goestlene of our time. Ie this vast onanny, with untold mineral and otber resources and with a poptiletton of 400,000,000 of frugal, industrious people, to be rarti- tioued among European nations? Is the greatest potential market of the world to be perwaueatly doled ,to general trade or is it to remain open with it. lncalcalab,e possibilities to all nations on equal terms? ''1'be interest of the United hales In the decision 1. the same es tbat of •Great Britain. If it sbonld ever be necessary to enter into negetiglions in order to 'secure to all the world an cereal opportunity in regard to this commerce, it cannot be doubted that they would be infinitely more in fluent fat if backed by the joint action of the United States and Great Britain than if either of these powers held aloof. -Right elm. Joseph Chamberlain In Scribner's. Jef 'a Idea of M.ele. A record letter of Joseph Jefferron mutates this iutere.ting .passage: "i bine always loved mimic, and I would not give away for • great deal the little that 1 know. 1 pretend. and I declare it without shame. Diet after theology tbere 1■ no art c•'ruparaldt. to innaic. Wbtp esters! mi'ie 1. 1„ , i , !eel' 'hy wrh,-ive see as far It We ere ,Lir the great apart perfeot wisdnt,t of : .,d 1e. his bee u.• da" Regetar. "Little boy, do you attend church regularly?" "Yes, pit, every Cbrlstta•s, dr." - Cincinnati Enquirer. Raab. "Why did the young dnette call 1t sinallptx?" "It was • rash gness "-Oleveland Pain Dealer Dear Girls. Biwa- 0h. 1 know hew i look! My looking gl•ea always tells me the troth. Kate -The looking glee. dovetail abase antes teed, does it1- Horton Transcript. JUST n aao COLD, A sharp stinging pale i in the back- you think it i doesn't atuount to any- thing -bet all right in • revs days -but it d,'caa't, get all right- kidn' s are not doing their duty, sat" the poiwonoue patter the' they ought l0 remove going all through Ute eye tem -causing rheutn.,G.m,, gout, dyspepsia, lewd• aches, ba kachd't-.ell sorts of ills. v, DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS Cur the disease by removing We cause. W. D. Popham,Tal teat Rt, St. Tbomee. (Int, says: "1 have or • long tome had ,erl"q b.' -k and kidney troaW. My hock wee se 55111 rod painful that when 1 sat d.,wn 1 had 10 hivr ."'nethuog to roma au 10 Ket rip. 1 bave taken toot boars of leen'- K, n.! Pi lly end they hay.4alten-alta-1101fitemi p.tn fremr ntr back wed -..ah. ,4 --nor 10 -- Straighten up without pale or dtibeulor " Price pe. a bo. 3 for az r1..11 ttfeVtolatlt"` The Loan Kidney Pill Cu., Toronto. ting, M*CHAlieter IN8TITOTI:. uDellICH IIANICt' 171871 T 01 7 U"LIBRARY MIT' BIdAI)INO 11068*, e5• of Est street rod Bows" 4u4,au+nt Open trout 1 to 6 r.a., and freest to In rsr .\ is 1'1' 2000 VOL'S IN LIBRARY. Leading (>✓1 Weekly and IlbWralol fetes. nagastoes, 8'•., ou 1riMt. MExtIIEWIi11I' TIt.KKT ON 1.T 11.01 Or•nttug Ree use 0 Library and Readies Ap1Jtreelou for membership noel red y Librarian. in room. A. HA M Secretary Librarian. I I la0tal, H. CtrLB•rRNE, Oo,irich. ltarok 18 lin& SWEET et -UMBER. • Oh. a -Iles sad mate of bole In • sew, Acres 0[ cotter:toe white as .iw,w. 1'1:low% sad anew*. riot afire„ Rlrukws and ee:lte et the ha,dn•.I wore-. Ab. three are the sights that ,Nuh.. rig* steel 1tn• "'Area wbo so to Slumber Street. • li.h"a-bel keel, a bra melt Sad 1-wt- 11,11.41:14111 •.w-1t,tlwrlvl notonun. both het aria I,ftl lour sM br'me teem, betide tour,.. -- itl.ledl•• gay and .Ith pylaluthr 1.l iIat.er tender wed oat ami - 'Flits 1, the twist' of Slumber Rte,.,•:, Vletoo. drt!cbtfut. happy gird rev. Of a'ntlleron. toy. and merry1'7, .4 - renrnl nt't'we. 4 rare delight. these IT. the Arline the etelidr.n inert lt-bo travel yeah Dight to Slumber Mort. Oh. scores omen ',,ares M weary h'-ud. 1'. erefnllt' re -t Ing n, mitre of M.4; Pe'1l noir of nr,•11d' 1. ,I,we,1 mo tt.bt. Aol earh mkt of ru•n I. hot from 4.11i. Rooting 1.,,lb• sed ttn'l 1'111• frM-- 714a 1. the buten,. of Rlwrlrr wen. . TRAINING CANARIES TO SING. ate Month. of 1 et Care b It. entre! fun u,.• trot k. The u,n.;oal ncadnuly of the cellar, bonder hue Iia Infoe.nr., the staelp d whom etylr to left ":; the pap:ls a,' d:*•• tihcily as flint of the ,ore! expert Infill• lances the student. of the enervator7. Every breeder make, it hie Misname ew constantly be ou the la'kont for oN Dock bird* of repute an ton2,lan. Thant are never used for breeding. but are tweedy kart in small, darkened 'ogee. They are tee vaster, on which the ,:.t..1 - cal edn,4ttlun bf the p0ons Ic,rd+ u,•pt n,.a N hen the nealln.' are about ,It week" rill the ruck, err 1,1:011 away. .,•- the tetrolt Free Poe• and put In o lest* vino unlit !Ley have drreloped properly. After two m,ontl.e they are put •Ir.gly Into wailer ergo. end Melia in tt ,nnha with the mr..trr tont yet too chit they cannot eau each over. Now comes the tooting of the young vnlsev an,t tbe hre, der '1•ten. ,',dully to noire their q uelly end proper. Ike Mrde are snaking. 'the beet singe: s are picked not and put Into what are Iailel "mingle boars.' •wall wits. dal keu,al mere ...pl.tasd In.i:e a tin box. At one 611a 1ea our - min which 1s withdrawn when the butt 1. to sing. The ereatr.t rare la token that the canaries never bear'•'an.tnfeiice lint nr, In tact env other sora of bird, e• they are apt quickly rn learn wrong note, .n1 e0 .pull thein rung. 'I be birds, torr aro kept ver, quiet, aud allowed to gine nay ander pleawut conditions, as it is ,ora ,,,ot that any Lind of dlalnrhhnte or fright le likely i. n•, are a broken jerky kind of n.el.edy. '1 no exrelleger of tris goer .,envie** eM . o much in t8. I'ndnu,e, rr iron in 11s tone ae in tarfe:l rep-tftl. ns of mingle st, a'n. !' aoh nu•lh 17 hate It, epeeist n on,. end the hit t= Are classed &connllas to the lune. they. rine' There are i' ' diT.:,tant strafe.' ant 'tome Muds I'ivr s• ceimpaee et foes-`.. cot,vc.. 7 he 'hieratic',of the canary 1•- - _ vnlvee six month.. of inn'esant watobfu►• nee. and activity on 1!.o part of the breeder. Whrn the I.Ini brie r aeM':.•r+tys 'row h. h' in eapp.•oel to have tcooired hL sumo, nl ednc..rt n r,l'1•an••h n erten.. MI pnp,l 1. o,fteto 'kit w..:1 tl1 • nester •r,m.wiv,I ling., 1, oder to cast epee- bd Helot Well supplied. "What are you wr ting!" "A preen to Dewey." "Say, he's, got his F1110.-pamene."•-• Cleveland l'Ialn Dealer. .1...h I14l.lnt.• 1'1•11owon.. A snob it a private party who neeratea himself .and under,ttes other.' The :oat. who huy no phynk:.l ,•on,nga hate huh very little moral rnnu,.e The man who Ie determin•d to win ls sore CO; thao aln-t had Ink ennl In the world to beet him The w.cye't man 1 knn m 1, a hen- pecked husband -.hen he 14 away from home A e•rrlet. man In a ?sully Iz pimple • n ooanee, bot 2 thllflres and sluttish woman Is woes than a l,Oetor. Low 1s a Phenomenon: it kant be de- fined nor (controote& and too often, like the wild row, "it wau.. 11 swertnees op the de.srt air." We •11 or us think, If we reek, Ilse our live, ores again, we should make fewer blunter.. This prnbnbly we should only make different ones. A sedate Christian 1 ken nndetee•e to be one who perhaps propperly muff prefers the ebaddows ny piety to the ens - shine; but the sad and morose ()bemuse le a party who 1..s ml.takee his Galliag. What rile Ill A. -My, Iwtt ynnr We he bunged upb B. -Yee, my wife threw some rook all ma yMerdey. r A. -Roses didn't do that, 8. -No, but the vasa thee were Is did. -- New Teak World.