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Projecting. from the itop of the:ma-
' eltine'is, a'thin beans rod,. and on ,the
end Of tile rod 'is a' little brase' Inta
'brelleed• The umbrella hangs directly
Deer the girinalicad. She has loosened
her hair, and it falls slowly over her
neck and shoulders in a thick:yeave.
PresentlYr all% is treadY, - the proper
switches are Virile& on, and we wait
for the:thunderbolt. , , , . i
"Etas something gone wrong?'i, .9.
" feel•nothing,•'-sa ys .tlie 'girl': "Oh, defter
. 811e oriole" in the next breath. "My, hair!
My hair! What is it?" ,
An intense sizzling sound as of fae
frying :is heard. The girl presses her
hands to her temples:- - t
I
.Her hair is 'rising.- '
' dn. all aides. of her -bead thei long
strands seein 'sfiddenly to beca.niq en-
dowed with individual life. One 'by•
`• ' One :theYer*inli heele' into the air until.
the whole mane stands straight, up,
waving trk-and fro under the inflame°
of the stoic breeze like graiu egi a
wind swept Feld. • ' -,
-.,
\61-1i,f‘k.N1TNOF D ATH.
A PailiterlEalle Frelit a Steeple 1)u-
ing a. Iteartiferau Misers.
I '' ' . el, ' . 't ' ' I t.
3V.1.111e1,,t e pries seweretc mu ing, a re
-
quiet') Mass in St. Patrick's chinch at
..
Lowell, Mass., Thomas 'McDermott of
Pawtucket, R. la fell from the steeple
above, a distance of 170 feet, and met
death upon a picket fence. ' , '
,
St. Patrick's steeple is 220 feet high
and has a gilled cross at the to.
Workmen have been making repairs
upon it nedently, anna local newspaper
man bib/fined to the' dizzy, height and-
wroteea storythat attiacted censidera-
ble attention., , ... , ,
• Th gaia`the i6p of the steeple et is
t neceseary,tie Clineb te. the top of the,bel-
•*' r tr5; clittin,iivetd.ilie •chluieS and then,
iir. weinam„, es. jsjng. reeentiye ex-
Piained to tiie Noir Woeld hatinhe
came, to iliseaVei•ithatelebtrie currents
tere enpable of dveloping the,strengtle
of,musclee. „ .
"Soine Menthe ago, after having
treated d•cas'a of left handed' heiniplea
Ma forte. number of- montbs,", said he,
'I was surprreed te finds that, the left
dicle measured more than the right and
ttliat On an 'aelimi test of -strength' the
Let eide was as strong as ehe.right,ala
ileough the man was right lumped and
lerevioue to his hemipiegic attack said
11e was much stronger in his right than
NeIttenn
• his left' hand.: The fact that h• aVeas,
1:10w 'equally, strong in both" trends wn s -
las eevadit eyerneise ;to iiji as-eto
'The "beiplanfitierr nvaS' easy: -
,treated the:muscles of the." left hincl
longeanter the brain clot Iasi, disappearn
e „eand the eleetripay had' by in:Crean'.
Lttg the autrion senCligthe.aecletbern
4rnatil13r. Since Amp 1 hand treated
inetSele‘S:eveaken-
',ed",:dna naripieS waysn..The stete.ngthening
4.0g healtiit dieuscles elle Meet interest
fil4 'part of nhe
Of my teSts inns 'en a young
, nman, aged 30; in_ good health.' When
-first tested On the dyntinionieter,* no
!registered 225 in the niglit and 19O in
:the 'left arra: 'After 'dellY treatment
• for three: weeke. an increase .of • five
t,pointS was noted, At the end of three
ere weeks there was a further ina
creaseOf fine points, • '
• "Another healthy Toting man tested
the sande way sbowed Merease.of
15 points, in three weeks and an in-
:oreage of ten paints' during a second
appriocletehree weeks. Iteeated &man
year olenand gat an:increase of 25
;points intelie right arna..and 20 iii the
O dleft arm.- The results Were repeated in
nanny caees. , . •
•'"There is no dotibt that 'the passage
,01 electric cureents through the arm
anuselee. and through ,the muscles of
:Silly part Of tbe body will increase then'
istrength. It.bas, this poveee independ-
ent bf the benefit yciu get, from the
...contraction, although the active ener-
°Cleo which conies feeM the latter is of
'the utmost, benefit. If you keep iip
theee applications for some time, they
twill Make yori taucle stronger than you
.are now Try the ,dynamometer arid
`See 'What You have geined."
:Now. the altruistic; „,featere .of thee
• .1eattecte -strengehening process ls that
..anY old galVanic batterYi•and•ann one
with a swiftly -.acquired, knowledge of
-the motor points of the body can pro
-
educe all of the contractions and hence
eedo all the tinisele..'streiegabeting nec-
essary to the ,•bueiness•-of ulantifactur-
-hag serongernem,
There' is; liewever, little or nothing to
O prevent the practice of electric muscle
:streinetliening being f,tclopted 0 inell
O gyinnneitims and' loe; -prizefighters in
'Wbat the: Hat ••Of etrength
O • -production Might -be caun�t ',now, be
edetermined, as ,ho teeatinent.oyer veyy
,'„,•illomalperiocis of time, has as, yet been
'sun clertalt en. -
During the call of the newspener
,abandinen Dr. ;Klieg -a young girl conies
• lista the Office to take' an •oleetrie treat- '
going out tbroeigh a. little alder
, e,e-ho-clevan, would theenfOre,,
gill*. in the. air; With a iito iabbAtt'seat
ing harmony ..ber, the •'fists, -the
en wan 0
DERIVATION AND ME'NINC OF THE
* TERM IN ENGLISH.
roeularity of Socrot Societies Having
Their Main Glijeot the !Extermination
of All **Foreign Devils', -- 'Reasons
Chinamen Give for alio Favor With.
Such Siicicties 4.re Regarded
by the Chinese l'eopie„ '
The present internal disturbances in
Ciaitia are due te the reeistance to
foreign aggressions offered' by the so-
ciety of the 'n'eeeat 'Knife." The
soceetY is called ia English the "Box-
The,thembership, is supposed to
enceed 100,000, Aostrong public son-,
theent, .exisitS in' China against the
foreign despoliatioe of the kingdom
flow in progress. The effort ta 'dis-
member China by foreign. powers :ner-o-
:wises- to .1Pe ••the, international . -tra-
gedy of the twentieth 'century. The
"i3oxers", Society is, a secret • organie
eat ion, supposedly ,encouraged by the
ruling Chinese: dyeasteal aed has for
it principal 61-aleeta the driving of all
foreigners out, of the .empire.
-(hinese race has an antiquity of at
leest 6,000 years, , •
It is, diflieult to get at the China -
man's version of the origin of the
"BoXers." ' "No experience of his, jij
thre,past lnetines, him in being. f -rank
with his ,Caucasian • brother. Still,
es
tift4_.
it, wee written of her people "tbeY
aro eivilietat, inild, just atid frugal." I
1101.01 n i v,•• rote of thein \vhen
they bore the name leltei a•they , are
`kindle' ' poliehed folke enough."
Their population itt the present thee
'Is about, 4,05,000,000, or one-fifth
that of the globe. Pekin is the. earn -
tale situated in the province of, Chi -
Li -and SlirrOuride0 by eighteen other
CIIINSE FOREIGN aerICE,
there is somethihg at hand to ehow
•why "Boxer" in •China itself is a
eatienal patriot, eVeri though abhor-
red .1n, the diplothatie and religious
cettters o/ other nations. ;
Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister
at Washington, was -asked: .
,
•.•What is the meaning of the term,
'Boxers' in Chinese, or • what is it's
derivative analysis?:'
He replied; .
have •seee. from . tlie Chinese pa-.
pers 'that the local word applied to
• EWANG WAI.
instiecting Pupils la the nerorm Doctrine.
provinces that comprise China Prop-
er. The Clii-Li province has an, area
of 5899' scalar° miles, The ponula-
tion of Chi -Li, where the "'Boxer's"
haVe come into conflict with Cossaults
and same other invaders, is 85,000,-
000. In Chi -Li there are 453 p.eoPle
to each square mile, sainaey needing
food and life, that the dead must be
buried in the gravel pits Where nothe,
ing.can.ipossibly grow. In Shan -Tung
Provinee the pbpulat1011 Is 467, 10
the Square mile, in. ShaneSe, 262; M
Ho -Nan, •869, and so on. The people
transported ,siteh a distance, .aridl 11
follows that the foreigner' ban no re-
etraint ) bie peesions Out
of tins ceiise secret, a societies have
arieen, \\Mese meinhers arc hostile to
the ,Ming dynasty, and who find 'the
easiest inode of emeaerassing: 'the
goverement to be to attack the for-
eigners/' • ,
As to weet effect, tee war with
Japan" had upOn Cliina Mr. Denby
writes;
"This demonseeated the tuiexpeet-
ea weakness of China and she became
the Prin• of the European po•veers,
There \vas elvalry us to which should
faost, thoroughly rob en inoffensive
• Tam Pu t -Shue, Chinese diplomat,
said welle 00 a recent, visit to the
United Stal0S:
"You had in this country .years
ago a `knowniething party.' It was
Is, menet:emit against. foreigners. ,The
'Boxer' movement an China has the
same poll teal and, pleilesophical
cause, but founded probanly on More
aggravating grounds. 'There ehave
been rumors and rumors of the par-
tition of China 'by the foreign pow-
ers. As these• rum.ors have been
,broadened and exaggerated among
the inasses; .boetile feeling oe the
-are theiftye honest when -hemestly STREET TN,FEKIN.
treated, Posseesaa literature of great Showingenritih Legation In the central
Age arirbeauty,'and a phonetic 'Ian- • Backgreume,
upon the -par ,than the eye. The funda.- part Qf the people against foreigners
guage whose mastery ,depends more
mental prencones. of their, religion, and missionaries anci their converts
. cora_ ,haS increased. Hence the 'Boxers'
at ni,oyetnent.''
morality, social :relations and
mercial ethics may be , glimpsed ,
through their ancient' definition of Rev. F. 11. Royell, a Baptist mis-
tha word "emperor,"-e-ona who' rules sionary from China, says: . • ;
himself. That is, one must.be able to "The hatred of the Boxers' was
. . , . first directed against 'the Catholic
Their capacity for ,great things . in missionaries' 'but in a - short time it
rule hims'elf before fit, to. rule others,.
literature may ba found in the• fellow- indluded all :foreign devils/ as they
Ing lines On "The Drought-," call the foreigners."
from the works of one Of theirtinakaesil- ' There 'appears to be no `doubt that
fere: certain foreign civil engineers who
The. demon of the drought have been? at ' work in Chi -LI and
Shan -Tune have treated 'the natives
Destroys eikenue wile scatters fiery' itaMes,
Me ,mouraing 'heart, seems all consumed to provoke the uprising. . Lines have
great 'severity and done much
Terrified by the iburnIng heat my hart, .'wi-1-3-1
been run across farms without let or
„ . .
-The many dukes and niinisters of the past hindrance, hOmes despoiled, property
_ . ,rights disregarded, crops destroyed
Oh, God! from Thy great.herrven
Send me permission to witedraw mySeif
, ,
the 'people that ' your papers call the Into seelusion.
•
'13 ON erS' is ''S. SO-h0--Chlfart. Yee ,
eiteens . ,eigeeeeeteneee.:. ,He, , reedne , For at 'least a century past China
• , . rhas been rended within itself .by elesa
Pay meino heed, ,
s Jisi
feet Irene tli6 di!colisa, 'nails -2:u inn° darai luirrunnn. °bean mean
V olve the righteous idea of ,Irninlet•-
,attaelned,' Anfter 'that the'ci".
'the haled -intiht leiniselfe up by
aleans of a pulley rope, Lis feee hug -
dine Steeple ICReen h al Self froii
being. blown frein the eleeare:', to; his
death. •
'MeDermottnies.s ino Went
,
to 'Loeieell ,,,few clays before:dte enter
the.employ eta. Asd.e chanc-
ed, be 'was fi:elet 'toepaint hose near
the, church, 4c1 he/saw the at per-
korMedby the newspaper marfeelt look -a
likerain early the'f'atalliadorning,
and S6 the Paintere-Were lalideciftt for
the- day. McDerreott was 1.1,atanding
where he &mid see the steeqe Of tbe
chtirch: 'He Said he believed elie &nil&
limb it hiniseef, as he had, had
eousuess frone the. harmony,
'with. the fiSts, as an ineidental means
to nii6od .eii4.1„ -The kerm,:undonbted-
ly arose in cOnneCtioia withettehletic
.Sieorts land teachers of the art of
.boxing or defenee by the fist."
The Caucasian may tfe indlined to
sneer at tlfe simplicity of this 'defied-
•
fireedireawaw
e--
_
-1E71=1
11
THEN PITOICED FORWARD.
ence in that line: His companionsd d
not take him seriously and went their
several ways. ,
MeDermott went into the echnrch.
There was a flood of music krone, the
pig organ, and he could see the priests
moving „about before the, altar.e:Bat he
turned toward the belfry tower, 'climb-
ed fliglit after flight and finallyStood
upon the top of one' of the bell. It
'swayed with his weight and gaye out
one warning sound., 141cDennott:jetinp-
ed for the little windew. OutSide the
board was dangling'at the end let the
ropes, and he let himself down into it.
, 'Mont. She steps oa-the,platforni, the Fax below a little crowd gathered In
;glass, legs of ,which insulate her en- tlte street to watch what they: Stinnes-
. etirelv from the floor.. The glass, plates ed was the ascent of a steeple,nlimb0r.
'In the machine-ethere are 16 of' them—
' ear? spinning , areued at grectt, speed.
•In front nang.teva lenge Leyenin jars.
'The electricity -mentiletettireci by ,this
,e 'machine. 'le of forge voltage and small
aainperage. It is Siniiintain iftiality to
'aighteing. The heavy 'spark whieb
lean* across beWeen the ,two ' bra ko
knob teeminals, 'two feel. -apart, is, in
-Incl.. miniature lightning, find the deaf-
ening noise it melces 35 1'001 -thunder on
wa small scale. Its steength:'says the
'attendee -I t, 10 a p vo imal ely -1,000,000,
'Tants, This is to be .sent throughate
bady.
She is -about to be struck by 'light-
."11Ing.
She is nervous, and once she screams
stray spark from the ma- •
,ehine reaches out to.her, eitle tee, first
reintnerience. _one,
A Stiff breeze bletv'frourthe neirtlieaSt.
It swayeel the ropes end the lean half
Sway around the . steeple. For 11 mo-
ment he Swung back and fottle• and
then lie pitched forward, turned over in
tbe air two or three times and stilick''
upon the .,roof with an awful .cresh.,
The eitgly 'recoiled, nigh into the tier:end
bolt npriglit. 'Ilea it eame down upon
a picket fence 25 foot below and was
impaled in deaths , • de
, The oeganist ran In horror frog his
seat: .
NotGoad A./erne:neut.
She was plaiming foe a. little sufrimer
outitig,
' "The Mouelain air," she ened, "would
inal;ent new Woman 01 100."
Teo late she saw hod mi.stalt•e. The
"new woman" was his pet aversioii—
Chicago Post,
• Beeeelue TitAiNiso .
tion, but .it lis notto be forgotten
that , as; a matter of indisPutable his -
:Gory the word "righteonsexess" and
-the weed "rightn lute A foundation
in the Chinese vocabulary more solid
than rock. . Anyone who has had in-
tiMate and himest business relations,
with Chinamee in this country knows`
that.. A Chinaman in this country
who has not yet :1;earned the worst
O featurbS of- American or English. or
GStillah' commercialism in his 'clean/1gs
„with his white brother invariably
'starts. out with tli:e query, "'What is
right?" He puts it.. in his own way,
but that is what he Means, 'and' be
;neyor betrays, until he has been l,e-
thile
Chinaman before he became an
agriculturist was a sheep raiser and
herder. , His word for truthfulness,
upriglitness, the t wh ich 'stands for
righteousness coneposecl of two
parts—tti6 first and the second form -
Mg th,o phrese "my sheep."i appar-
ently pointing to- a time when -upon
the` rightful ownership of 'flocks—de-
monstrationi of Abe same—one wes
in the right, thennote upright, there-
fore- had' a rrighteoue cause.' , Trans-
pose this- to possession of the land of
China, for eVhich the great poweers
,
are now uncoveriug their armaments,
and the "Roe,:ees' " use of' the avOrd
'''rightepuseess.", (Mee not seem so far-
feLphed„ , The Word "right", dre the
Oninese' tongue es from, "tsee," mean-'
ing 'ore's own," and "yang," mean-
-Mg "sheep." niake that land, or the
privacy , a the home, or the
right to •eirorshi . Confucioue, or
the right, to , resist foreign
invasion, and error ieedifficult to de-
tect. The "Boxer" therefore', iby all
justification of his peat, "rightfully"
usee• his fist for, elef,ense -of, this own,
and. 'when he `beca`ines. heated in pas-
sions it is, not surprising if fier the
fist- heesubStittiteSin, weapon. Nor is
agreements' as to policies. of govern-
mentelritriguee in and out of cotut,
claehes between the conservative a.nd•
the peogressine elein.atils; the conser-
-vativeS 'appearing tie be thoseevvho
stand for the old order of ehings ansi.
the maintenance _of China • as an in-
dependentepower„ treating with :Other
nal -1011s„• 0111Y ,as dt se eS fit. , The pro-
•gressive •element seems to loe'cone-
'posed largelY of 'those who have en-
eexed into the pay Or come under the.
control of •forpign powers, 'eager far
new, territory under the' ,guise of
"coinmercial a.clvanceinent,',", •••01.1t of, .
this jarring of' interests the
ers" have arisen, standing for the
conservative element,• and meeting
the front of armed -men and ebins of
war, sent forward under one pretext
tend another, :by all. "the grbat,powers
with aisassination, open assaults
and conflicts with •the Caucasians al-
ready in Chinese eon. :If s,oine-hor-
roe is felt over the,Chinese belief in
assassination as •an effective arnd
rightful means of removing Chriete '
lab. invaders, it ought not to' he for-
gotten that it is scarcely 250 years
since it was tolerated in Europe and
made uee of by crowned heads and
diplomats of an age not yet far' re-
moved from our own. •
As to what the "Boxer" is, com-
petent testimeny comes from various
sources. Edwin Wildman, late vice
consul of the. United States at Hong
Kong, says:
"TheYare divided into lodges and
have •conunori signa and passtrords
n")
...v1-0.7 •
CENTRAL 1)0055 503 STREET IN PERIN.
It eurprising, if Inoked at With dis-
peeeion,
‚11)01 10 killing' the invaders
I;e 'fails to, draw' a; discriminating
line betteet.N. Canettsiaa, missionaries,
te,tilpoad• engineers, dipioniats or, sol-
eiera. In his mind' theY ,aln stand for
tee eame thing—invasion and con-
quest. ,
Mem China bore the names of Soros
'CHILDREN'S COLUMN 1
-11oW to Train Moues.
Ordinarybeue mice eau be trained to
perform little 0:hits if caught when very,
young.. They grow up then with no moral
fear 01 their enemies than a cat or dog.'
Trained mice should he A feature of eve'
ery home meaagerie. They can be taught),
to race after each other, to drag minitt--,'
ture carriag,es after them, and to go
through various, drills and evolutions;
MOUBIL DRAWING A CART.
dhey need to be tre*ated with the same -
kindness and care as the others. Cages
with revolving wheels come foe perform-
ing mice, and it is always amusing to see
them turn the wheel their bright little
eyes shining, like ,beads. With the agil-
ity of monkeys they can be taught to run
up • sticks and poles, jump from them
through small circles and to chase each
other back and forth 07er a table or in
anel out of holes formed with papers auti
cloth wrinkled up for the purpose.
O A Brick Hearted Elan.
In New Brunswie.k, N. .; is an elm.
tree that literally has a heart of stone, if
fiintlike bricks and mortar may so be
classified. A long time ago the elm was
one of three large trees planted around
the grave of a famous Indian chief, but
with the growth of the town two of the
trees were cut down to give place to a.
street. The remaining elm at once began
to die at the heart, and in a few years
the trunk was honeycombed by insects.
Then at a Fourth of July celebration the
punklike heart caught fire and burned
out. Supported by a 'thin shell of a
trunk, the tree threatened to fall in any
high wind. Then it occurred to its own-
er, Mrs. Elinendorf, to have the inside
filled with brick. and mortar. This was
,done, aed for years the big, tree has rest-
ed on its stony support, getting its nom-
nisimpent through the bark and shading,
the home of its benefactor.
14..4.ND/el:TN YUAN%
Cninese General Iri adrinininsi at tile Army,
and Mongolian given a fearful
ee'iample of what "ethninercial
rights" mean in the language o'f the
Caucasian. The "Boxers" are but
one of innumerable secret societiee
which. have organized, not enly to'
•fight invaders of his type but also to
further the intetests of one or the
other political patties of the empire
tself
'NATIVE CEINESE SiISSIONARIEs.
The special Object of the '13exers'" Hat.
. red.
known only , to' themselves. . They
have certain methods of interrogat-
ing each other and recognize peculiar'
m.anners in placing cups ,and dishes
at the table; of wearing their. gar-
ments. and salifaing each other. They
hold their rneetingS usually in peclud-
ed . places in the dead of the : night
and drawblood from their bodies
mixing it ,with Water and` pledging
each other, to oaths . of vengeance
against. their :enemies. The Boxers
have
have adopted a flag nearing the. mot -
ti `Up with the Ch'ing dynas'ty and
down,' with the "foreigner.' ,The for-
eign 'tradesman in' China, to the mind
Of the native, is a barbanian„ and
the average celestial is as incapable
of tairning back the pages of hiStory
and restorieg idol worship and burnt'
sacrincee. The 130xe1' believes in im-
mortality, and in a.' heaven-sent mis-
sion.' I -l0 is a lee to fear, and the
present alarm felt by all foreigners
in China is fully warranted''
"Mr . Denby, a former United
States Minister te China, writes':
"The chief cause of this dissatis-
faction is jealettsy against the for -
signers. China seems herself power-
less to control in any wise the for-
eigners we o ate swarming on her
borders. 'Eileen people are under ex-
tra, terlIto1)cll j er 1 sd ir ei on and can-
not be tpuched by the Chinese 011-
th or ities, no in ea ter what cranes
they may commit. A laindred or five'
hundred miles a,evey from a coasul
,
the foreigner is safe from any judic-
ial action. Witnesses cannot be
Their revolt may yet provoke the
partition of tha enfpire
Daidn'e; in .the Middle Ages.
An article in an Englieh technical
journal gives some curious 'details in
regard. to bread and bakers in the
middle 'ages.. Bakers wero subject to -
rigid 'laws aad close goverement su-
pervision. In London only faething
and half -penny loaves -were allowed
to- be made. If the baker retailed
his oWn' bread 1m, was not allowed.
to sell it in -his own house, before
it, or before the -oven in Which it 'was
baked. He was obliged to dispose
of it in' the market on. Tuesdays and
Saturdays, only, , aegl sometimes on
Sundays. A baker of white bread
was not' allowed to make bread of
unbolted meal', and bakers of the lat-
ter were not. permitted to have a
bolting sieve in their riossession.
They were not allowed to heat their
ovens with .feria.stubble or Straw or
to bake atnight. They were not al-
lowed tb take back bread from- huck-
sters when once it had become cold.
Hotels and keepers of longing houses
were Utile permitted' 'to take -bread.
Privath individuals ay' ho had no oven
of their Own were In the habit of
sending their flour to be kneaded by
their own servants at the moulding
board e belonging ,to the bakers; the
'the' loaves being baked in their .ovens:
The profits of bakers were strictly
deneed. The quality of bread made
Was in degree indicative of the rank
of -people' who ate it. The finest and
Whitest was ,ealled. "simnel bread"
and was only consturted by the most
luxurious persons occupying high
and in a,faitent circurusta.nces. The
-wealthy middle class used "waete
bread," evnich is sappose,c1 to have
resembled what eve know as the
French • '`gateen.'' Poorer mcliile
class people bought bread of ate die-
ferior quality -celled "cocket."1.A
still lower grade waf.i "t011ri3O," Made
of unbolted meal. It, was so called
because the loaves had a twisted
Teeete •wits used by the hum.;
bier classes arid the inmates of Men-
asteriese Three other inferior grade
of bread were made; by whom con..
attiriOd it IS not stated.
-Gave Her Hie Birthday.
Robert Loins Stevenson was visiting a
friend in California and speedily became
a great confidant of his host's little
daughter. • One day the subject of birth-
days was being discussed, and then the.
young 'lady bewailed her hard fate. She
had been born on -the 29th day of .Feb-
ruary and therefore had enjoyed only
two birthdays -in all her 11 years. The
kind hearted writer sympathized witli
her,. He meditated a few minutes, thea
at to the writing desk and drew up,
the following doeuraeet; "I, Robert Louie
Stevenson, in a sound state of mind and:
body, having arrived at an age when I
no longer have any use for birthdays-.
do give and bequeath my birthday, on the,
13th day of November, to Miss Adelaidn
Ide, to be hers from this year as long as
nhe wishes it, Robert Loins Stevengon."
ee,re
'A. City Kaiinek.
.) •
Oh, I'm a reenter farmer, for I got a hos la spade.
Aaa a bag of roasted peanuts, which I'm gala to,
plant, you het,
'Cause when they gets to sproutin an has al
their hushes made
They'll be loaded down with peanuts 'tut the
O best wes ever et:
/got a new wheelbarrer, with a wheel all peintetc
red,
An a pair of new jean britches made up lust
like any man's,
An ma says I'm a farmer sure enough—Jat'a whet
she said --
An purt' soon ru be raisin Cain an ripe tomatO
•
cans.
W'y, 1 planted lots of orange Reeds just yelfer
afternoon
Ann whole han'ful of raisins what had worms
inside their sidn;
I'm g,oin, to dig 'em up unlem they come up
mighty soon,
Fir gettin scared tor fear they ain't staid
whore 1 put '10 0,
Oh, 1 like t0 he a farmer an to work eta in, file
5)0_
I'm gain to buy a farm S01110 day an plant what
love best.
of• mans "ae ries an licorish relae a million
:An with oranges 511 sug,ar pliims 1 guess Plt
pisfit the rest. '
Course now I'm in the city, where there ain't a
bit of land
'Cent What'S in ourtback yard, an -that, is whero
I have to .plaY, t
IBilt we're goin to the country, an, oh, won't it
O be grand
You bet be a farmer then an plant mosk,
ever' dayl
—John Pangtava Chicago B.o.cdL,