The Exeter Advocate, 1892-1-21, Page 7," Maggie Murphy's Hone."
(,A. song that was asked fora
$ohind a grammar school -hof se,
In a double tenement,
I live with my old mother
And always pay the rent.
A bedroom and a parlor
Is all we call our own,
And you're welcome every evening
.At Maggie Murphy's home.
•
-Chorus—
On Sunday night, 'tis my delight
And pleasure, don't you see!
Meeting all the girls and all the boys
That work down town with me,
'There's an organ in the parlor,
'1'o give tho house a tone,
...and you're welcome every evening
Ataggie Murphy's home.
:Such dancing in the parlor,
There's a waltz for you and I;
Sucir mashing in the corner,
And kisses on the sly 1
• Oh, blessed leisure hours
That working -people own!
And they're welcome every evening
At Maggie Murphy's hone.
<Ohorus.
It's from the open window,
At the noon -time of the day,
You'll see the neighbors' ohildren
So happy at their play.
There's Jimmie with his Nellie,
Together romp and roam;
And they gather in the school -yard
Near Maggie Murphy's home.
porus.
I walk through Hogan's alloy,
At the closing of the day,
To greet my dear old mother.
You'll hear thenoigbbors say:
Oh ! there goes little Maggio,
I wish she were my own;
Oh, may blessings ever linger
O'er Maggio Murphy's home!
SUPERFLUOUS WORDS.
Plumber Farmer autl the Cod Fish Sign.
Monetary Times : " Office Boy " writes
to us from Hamilton in a holiday mood,
saying : " Your amusibg article about the
' Barber's Sign ' in your issue of 18th Dec-
ember reminds me of a somewhat similar
story, which I•enclose" :
A grocer in la—, named M
having received a consignment of codfish,
pied a quantity in front of his store and
placed a black -board on top of the heapwith
this inscription :
"COD FISH FOR SALE HERE."
A well-known plumber named Iv—, who
is quite a wag in his way, happened along,
and accosted the storekeeper, a friend of
his, with 0° What's the use of wasting chalk
writing the word " here," as no one Respects
you to advertise the stock of a merchant in
the next block ?" The accommodating
grocer at once rubbed out the superfluous
word, and the sign rea
" COD FISH FOIL SALE."
Even this did not satisfy the critic, who
at once remarked, " Whet on earth is the
use of the words ' FOB SALE'; do you sup-
pose people think you give your goods
away ?" Two more words disappeared
from the sign, and this is what remained, in
pure, unvarnished English :,
" COD FISH."
The grocer, perhaps, thought this would
satisfy his tormentor ; but no, the hard -to -
please one let fly his parting shot, " Do
you imagine, sir, for one instant, ,that
the inhabitants of this Ambitious City do
not know a cod -fish from a sardine ?
The plumber did not wait to seethe result
of this crusher, but history tells us that the
sign on the blackboard for the rest of the
day was :
A GRAND COLLAPSE.
The Liberian Emigration Room. Among the
Negroes of the South.
The laborious attempts to induce the col-
ored people of the South to emigrate to
Liberia that were begun early this year
have come to an end, and have ended in
failure. The emigration boomers held
. meetings in many State ..of the South,
' especially in Florida, Louisiana and Miesisi
sippi. They told the colored people all,
about the woes they endured in this coun-
try, and all about the attractions of Liberia;
ani in midsummer they declared that hun-
dreds of thousands of then were aflame
with the desire to rush to the' continent of
their ancestors. The movement culminated
in a farcical way two months ago, when, ?ss
the grand result of the agitation, 68 emi-
grants, most of whom were preachers with
their families, sailed from this port on a
trim little barque for the African port of
Monrovia. The tale has been told. They
got to Liberia ; they found it to be unlike
Florida or Alabama ; several of them
raised enough money to pay their passage
back to this port, and most of the others
would like to be able to do the same thing.
The Liberian boom in the South has col-
lapsed ; the emigration boomers do not hold
any more agitation meetings ; the multi-
tudes of colored people who were said to be
anxious to get away from this country must
have changed their minds.—New York Sun.
Avoiding Disgrace.
Puck • —Upson Downes (7 a. m.)—Great
Clesar ! A sneak -thief has been in our room.
and taken all our clothes. What'll we do ?
Rown de Bout—Not all. He has missed
our dress suits. We can put them on.
" What? Dress -suits in the morning.
''We'll be eternally disgraced."
"Can't be helped. We roust put them
•'on and go out to breakfast. Perhaps our
',friends will think we've been out all night."
"By Jove ! Good idea ! We'll pretend
•to be drunk."
Sir Edwin Arnold can say something that
but very few, if any, of his contemporary
'newspaper writers can say. lie says that
'-in his thirty years of newspaper writing he
can not recall a single sentence which he
would wish to erase. ,
'BRIDAL FANCIES.
Married in white, you have chosen all right;
Married in gray, you will go far away;
'Married in black, you will wish yourself back ;
Married in red, you will wish yourself dead;
Married in grreen, ashamed to bo seen;
Married in.blue he will always be true;
Married in pearl, you will live in a whirl;
Married in yellow, ashamed of your fellow;
'Married in brown, you will live out of town;
Married in pink, your spirits will sink.
Olcl ,thymes.
—Alexandria possesses the largest arti;.
1fioial harbor in the world.
These are brief sketches of two of the
probable successors of Pope Looe Raphael
'Monaco La Valetta, cardinal -bishop, was
'born at Aquila February 23, 1827, and is
therefore 6t years old. He was created
'bishop of Ostina and V'elletri in 1889, but
cardinal in 1868. He is the doyen of the
-Sacred college. Lucido Maria Paroochi
was born at Mantua in 1833. He was
created cardinal, vicar in 1'877 and bishop of
Albano in'l889.
—In proportion 'to population, exactly
throe times as mueh spirits aro drunk in
,SSootland.as.in.England,
A Gimp ROY sTOlplif.
1!i0 a Poor Apprentice Soy Beeasi.e a
Partner.
Why city boys are preferred to country
boys. This is what a lawyer said about the
story that I am aboutto relate to you, "It
is the best boy story I ever heard,' " We
have a good many boys with us from time
to time," said Mr. Alden, the senior mem-
ber of a large hardware establishment in
Market street, Philadelphia, " as appren-
tioes tolearn the business. What may sur-
prise you is, that we never take the country
boys unless they live in the city with some
relative, who take care of them and keep
them home at night, for when a country
boy comes to the city to live, everything is
new to him, and he is attracted by every
show window and unusual sight. A city boy,
accustomed to these, cares little for
them, and if he has a good mother
he is at home and in bed in due season. And
we aro very particular about our. boys, and
before accepting one as an apprentice, we
must know that he comes of an honest and
industrious parent. The best boy we over
had is now with us, and a member of the
firm. He is the one man in the establish-
ment that we could not do without. He
was thirteen years old when he 'was ap-
preniced to us and he was with us for
eleven years, acting for several years as
salesman. When he first came, we told him
that for a long time"his wages would be
very small, but that if he proved to be a
good boy his salary would be increased at a
certain rate every year, but as it turned out,
when, according to agreement, we should
have been paying him $500 a year, we paid
him $900, and he never said a word about
an increase of salary. From the very out-
set he showed that he had an
interest in the business. He was prompt in
the morning, and if kept a little over time
at night it never seemed to make any differ-
ence to him. If information was wanted it
was to this boy, Frank Jones, that every-
one applied. The entire establishment
seemed to be mapped out in his head, and
everything in it catalogued and numbered.
His memory of facts was equally remarka-
ble ; he knew the name of every man who
came to buy goods, what he bought and
where he came from. I used to say to him,
` Jones, your memory is worth more than a
gold mine ; how do you manage to remem-
ber?' ' I make it a business to'remember,'
he would say. ' I know that if I can re-
member a man, and call him by name when
he comes into the store, and ask
him how things are going on
where he lives, I will be very likely to keep
him as a customer.' And this is the exact
case. He made friends of buyers. He took
the same interest in their purchases as he
took in the store, and would go to no end of
trouble to suit them and fulfill to the letter
everything he promised. Well, affairs went
on in this way till he had been with us
eleven years, when we concluded to make
him a partner. We knew that he had no
extravagant habits, that he neither used
tobacco, nor beer, nor went to the theatre.
He continued to board at home, and even
when his salary was at its lowest he paid
his mother $2 a week for his board. He
was always neatly dressed, and we thought
it very probable that she had laid
up $2,000, as his; salary for the
last two years years had been $1,200.
So when we made him the offer to become a
partner in business, and suggested that it
would be more satisfactory if he could put
m moneyin the firm,he relied
some
` If $10,000 will be any object I can put in
that much. I,have saved out of my salary
$9,400, and my sister will let me have $600.'
I can tell you I was never more surprised in
my life than when that fellow said that he
could put in $10,000, and most of it his own
money. He never spent a dollar, nor 25
cents, nor 5 cents, for any unnecessary
thing, and kept his money in the bank,
where it gathered a small interest. I am a
great believer in the Bible, you know, and
always keep two placards in big letters up
in the store. One is this text : ` He that is
faithful in that which is small, is faithful in
that which is much.' On the other :
" He that is diligent in business shall stand
before kings, and not before mean
men.' And Frank Jones' success was the
literal fulfillment of these two texts. He
had been faithful in the smaller things as
in the greater ones, and diligent in busi-
ness. That kind of a boy always succeeds."
continued Mr. Alden. A small boy of .,en,
who had listened to the story with eager
eyes as well as ears, said, " But we don't
have any kings in this country for diligent
boys to stand before." " Yes we do,"
laughed Mr. Alden, " we have more kings
here than in any other country in the
world. We have money kings, merchant
kings, and railroad kings, . and land kings,
and business kings, and publishing kings,
and some of them wield enormous power.
This is a great country , for kings."—Wide-
Awake.
How to `Vin. a Husband.
Here is some suulight for the girl that
wants to be married, if there is such a girl
in these days, when political economy has
overshadowed household economy and conic
sections are more than kisses : "If I were
a girl on the lookout for a husband I should
play the game by adroitly flattering my
contemplated victim, listening with rapt
attention when he spoke, and generally
seeking to create the impression that I
thought him in wisdom and charm not in-
ferior to the angels. At the same thime I
should endeavor to bring home to him the
fact that in me he would find a person with
a heavenly temper, brimming over with
domestic affection. I should take care to
be becomingly dressed, but my get-up would
look as if it cost nothing. In my movements
I should cultivate grace. My likeef and dis-
likes would be chose of my victim. In the
present day a man rarely deliberately con-
emplates marriago. The fly has to be very
adroitly thrown to catch him. Men are just
as vain as women, and it is by keeping this
fact well in mind that a girl gets a hus-
band."—Ladies' Home Journal.
The idea
Chicago Press : Mr. Wayback—I want
to buy a brush.
Drug Store Clerk Tooth -brush ?
Mr. W.—Naw. What would I want a
tooth -brush for ? They ain't no hair on my
teeth.
:Proof Positive.
Comic : Melinda—Pa, that young man,
Mr. Charley, is awful fond of kissing.
Papa—How did you find that out, you
naughty girl e
Melinda—I had it from his own lips, pa.
A Needed Effort.
New York Herald : Charles—I'm trying
as hard as I can, darling, to get ahead.
Clara—Well, the Lord knows, Charles,
you need one badly enough.
William W. Wilhelm, the travelling
baggage -master of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, has travelled nearly 3,000,000 miles,
without accident, during his long service
on the road.
Mra. Rump who has been President of
the Alleghany County Farmers' Club Weft
its organization, has managed its • affairs
with marked ability. She now retires to
give her entire attention to the publishing
business, she being the editor of the Every
Week and Belfast Champion.
T.�
li#LUNG. A lilAN.
ri
A Soldier Relates His Experieneg and now
Ire Felt About It.
They do not call it murder when mon
meet to slaughter each other in battle.
They simply report so many dead, wounded
and missing. When you fire into the smoke
concealing the other battle line you fire in
the hopes to kill or wound. It is your
duty, Battles cannot be won without
killing. You load and fire—load and fire;
move to the right or loft ; advance or re-
treat, and when the battle is over you may
have fired fifty rounds and yet you havesnot
had a near sight of the enemy ; you have
simply fired at him, and you cannot vouch
that a single one of your bullets has found a
living target.
Here is a brigade of us in battle line
across an old meadow ; our right and left
join other brigades. We have thrown down
the rail fence, gathered logs and brush and
sod, and erected a breastwork. It is only a
slight one, but enough to shelter us while
lying down. A division of the energy
breaks cover half a mile away and comes
marching down upon us. The field pieces
behind us open on their solid columns, but
they are not checked. Under the smoke
we cannot see the work of the shells, but
they cannot halt that mass of men. The
grape and cannister does awful execution,
but there should be a dozen guns instead of
the
They are going to charge us. The guns
can not prevent that. Orders run along
the line, and we are waiting until every
bullet, no matter if fired by a soldier with
his eyes shut, must hit a foe. I select my man
while he is yet beyond range. I have eyes
for no other. He is a tall, soldierly fellow
wearing the stripes of a sergeant. As he
comes nearer I imagine that he is looking
as fixedly at me as I am at him. I admire
his coolness. -He looks neither to the right
nor to the left. The man on his right is
hit and goes down, but he does not falter.
I am going to kill that man. I have a
rest for niy gun on the breastwork and when
the order comes to fire I can not miss him.
He is living his last minute on earth. We
are calmly waiting until our volley shall
prove a veritale flame of death. Now they
close up the gaps and we can hear the shouts
of their officers as they make ready to
charge. My man is still opposite me. He
still seems to be looking at me and no one
else. I know the word is coming in a few
seconds more and I aim at his chest. I
could almost be sure of hitting him with a
stone when we get the word to fire. There
is a billow of flame—a billow of smoke—a
fierce crash and 4,000 bullets are fired into
the compact mass of advancing men. Not
one volley alone, though that worked horri-
ble destruction, but another and another
until there was no longer a living man to
fire at.
The smoke drifts slowly away—men
cheer and yell—we can see the meadow be-
yond heaped with dead and dying men. We
advance our line. As we go forward I look
for my victim. He is lying on his back,
eyes half shut and fingers clutching at the
grass. He gasps, draws up his legs and
straightens them out again and is dead as
I pass on. I have killed my man ! My
bullet alone struck him, tearing that ghastly
wound in his breast, and I am entitled to all
the honor. leo I swing my cap and cheer ?
Do I point him out and expeot to be con-
gratulated ? No 1 I have no cheers. I feel
no elation. I feel that I murdered him, war
or no war, and that his agonized ' face will
haunt me through all the years of my life.
A Man With a Heart.
" Yes," said the station agent to the
preacher, who was waiting to take the train
for Atlanta, " talking about kind-hearted
men, there's none of 'em kin beat Lawyer
Jenkins."
" Good man, is he ?"
" You're right, he is. I kin tell you a
little story which'll show you what a heart
he's got in him."
" I'd like to hear it," said the preacher,
looking at his watch.
" Well," said the station agent, whittling
a corncob, " you see it wus this way ; Bill
Jones wuz a mighty poor man, an' the rail-
road took an' cut off his leg."
" Well ?"
" Well, he got Lawyer Jenkins to sue the
road an' the road compromised with him
fur $$200."
"Well?"
" Well, sir, what do you think Lawyer
Jenkins did ?"
" Have no idea.' •
" Well, his charges in the case was $250,
but as Jones only got $1.).00, blamed if he
didn't let him off with the odd $50, takin'
only the $200 for himself."—Atlanta Con-
stitution.
It is Said
That some men keep everything except
their distance.
That the most wonderful flight on record
was when the chimney flue.
That some men should be called Lily—
they toil not, neither do they spin.
That some men are born great, and grow
smaller every day of their lives.
That we should always forgive our enemies
—especially those we can't whip.
Than an hour -glass is made smallest in the
middle to show the waist of time.
That time softens all things ; but a
railroad sandwich is not included in the
list.
That the man who wants the earth need
not expect to get it unless he advertises.
That the world is but a fleeting show, and
to most of us the good seats have all been
taken.
That happiness begins when wishes end ;
and he who hankers after more enjoys noth-
ing.
That if there is one thing that quicker
than another will drive a man to drink it is
thirst.
That a man is always reedy to listen to
words of wisdsm when he is speaking
them himself.—Chin.
Paradoxical but to the Point.
New York Press : " You don't seem to
be as friendly with young Wilde as for-
merly, Maude." r,
" No , I am trying to cast him out ofmy
thoughts,, he is unworthy."
" Do you find it hard to forget him?"
" Well, the more I think of him the leas I
think of him."
Preceded It.
"Now, gentlemen," asked the professor
of literature, " what preceded the 'Mid-
summer Night's Dream 1"
" A few early harvest apples," suggested
the class wag.
—All petitions to the British House of
Commons must be in handwriting, and may
riot be printed.
At a recent meeting of the Shipmasters'
Society of England, the fact was brought
out that one fireman 011 board ship commits
suicide to every 900 employed, as against
one in 10,000 among landsmen. It is sug-
gested that the high temperatures in which
the mon are compelled to work is, to a
large measure, responsible for the great
percentage of suicides.
"Lady Leapyear" wishes to know if we
think wile should propose. Net unless they
tan support a httaband,
FUME, llWEE'I i1Ol1l1S.
Sentiinentul Definitions oftbe .'lace Loved
by .All.
Tid Bits offeredbay
prize for the best defi-
nition of home. Here aro some of thebest.
of 5,000 answers sent in e.
The golden setting in which the brightest
jewel is. "mother."
A world of strife shut out, a world of love
shut
An arbor which shades when the aunshine
of prosperity becomes too dazzling ; a harbor
where the human bark finds shelter in the
time of adversity. ,
Home is the blossom, of which heaven is
the fruit.
Home is a person's estate obtained with-
out injustice, kept without disquietude ; a
place where time is spent without repent-
ance, and which is ruled by justice, mercy
and love.
A grand old mirror, through which both
sides of us are seen.
That source of comfort which youth does
not fully appreciate, which the young men
and maidens lovingly desire, which the
middle-aged generally possess, which the
old rightly value.
A hive in which, like the industrious
bee, youth garners the sweets and'memories
of life for age to meditate and feed upon.
The best place for a married man after
business hours.
Home is the cosiest, kindliest, sweetest
place in all the world, the scene of our
purest earthly joys and deepest sorrows.
The only spot on earth where the faults
and failings of fallen humanity are hidden
under the mantle of charity.
An abode in which the inmate, the
"superior being called man," can pay back
at night with 50 per cent. interest every
annoyance that has met him in business
during the day.
The place where the great are sometimes
small and the small sometimes great.
The father's kingdom, the children's para-
dise, the mother's world.
The jewel casket containing the most
precious of all jewels—domestic happiness.
Where you are treated best and you
grumble most.
Home is a central telegraph office of
human love, into which run innumerable
wires of affection, many of which, though
extending thousands of miles, are never dis-
connected from the one great terminus.
The centre of our affections, around which
our hearts' beat wishes twine. . ,•_„
A little hollow scooped out of the windy
hill of the world, where we can be shielded
from its cares and annoyances.
A popular but paradoxical institution, in
which woman works in the absence of man
and man rests in the presence of woman.
A working model of heaven, with real
angels in the form of mothers and wives.
The place where all husbands should be
at night.—London Tid Bits.
The English soldiers in the Soudan were
supplied with. St. Jacob's Oil.
HAN SHOULD NOT LIVE ALONE.
Chief Inspector Byrnes a Strong Advocate
of Second Marriage.
Inspector Byrnes has very decided views
in regard to second marriages. To a New
York Mercury reporter he said :
"I would not have any man or woman
live alone, if I could direct things a little
more on this planet. My dealings are
chiefly with people in trouble, and when I
get a fellow in a corner, if he has never been
married, I say to hien the first thing, ' Why
aren't you married?' and if he has been,
and his wife is dead, I say, ' Why in the
mischief don't you marry again ? You
wouldn't be in this hole if yon had a
good wife and a home.' ' And it is always
so,' said the inspector. ' Many a
good fellow has gone to the devil, where
he'd have kept all straight if he'd married
again. He feels he has no one to welcome
him when he gets back, and there's always
good cheer and a welcome to be bought out-
side. That's the slippery road, and he takes
it just to kill time. He doesn't know where
it's going to take him, and he gets landed in
a bad spot before he knows where he is. It's
not good for any man to feel the domestic
responsibility lifted off him. That's his
safeguard, and where he hasn't it he's very
often apt to shake off social and moral re-
sponsibility as well.
" Yes," said the inspector earnestly, " I
strongly advise second marriages."
Across the Continent.
Wm, Renwick, M.D., M.R.C.S.E., Vic-
toria, B.C., writes : I have used Miller's
Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil in cases of indi-
gent patients with the most gratif,ing
aesults. It does not upset the stomach, is
easily assimilated and possesses 'undoubted
power in rebuilding weakened constitutions,
where the ordinary form of administering
Cod Liver Oil is not admissable. For the
future, whenever I have occasion to pres-
cribe any preparation of Cod Liver Oil, I
will give Miller's Emulsion the preference,
being perfectly satisfied with its therapeutic
efficacy. In big bottles, 50c. and $1 at all
drug stores.
Changed His Nalne.
There is a man a compositor on one of the
old dailies here who very suddenly bad his
name changed. This was nearly twenty
years ago. He went into the office for
work. The foreman gave him a case at
once, and he set type for a week. When
the foreman was ready to make up his pay
roll he asked this man his name. The
printer is a Pole and is or was blessed with
one of the most jaw -breaking ones of its
class. In reply to the foreman's question
he said : " My name is Kantzenwokowski."
" Not by a jugful," said the foreman,
realizing what it would be to put that
name on paper every week ; "your name is
Brown." And as a matter of fact that
printer has been Brown ever since. He
still works in the same office, but Brown he
became and Brown he always will be. It
is doubtful if he himself can even remember
his real Polander name.—Chicago News.
Novel El etioneering.
Washington Post : This is how John 0.
Kyle, the new member from the Second
Minnesota district, secured his election :
He made the rounds in a buggy, with a big,
stout negro to drive him. He went right
to the fields of the white voters, and, driv-
ing up to where the sovereign was plowing,
he would introduce himself and then he
would make the negro take hold of the plow
and turn many a furrow while he and the
farmer took a smoke under a shade tree and
talked over the situation. It worked like a
charm, and though Mr. Morgan tried to hold
on through the Farmers' Alliance he was
" not in it " at all when it came to " show
down." Kyle and his swarthy travelling
plow hand had captured the horny handed
voters.
How many English speaking people who
read of the attempted suicide of the famous
French author, Guy do Maupassant, know
how he pronounces his . last name. The
English "Guy," pronounced to rhyme with
"high," is familiar enough as a clang term
and as a proper name. But the French
eeins by the very best authorities to be cor-
rectly called to Gweo."
The timeliest pariah in England is Wil.
cot, Oxon. It contains seven persons.
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Story of Ileal Life Which Reads Like a
' Romance.
That was an interesting party that sat
down to dinner on New Year's Day in the
neatly furnished home of Mr. and Mrs. Hall,
on Hanover street, Boston. The party con-
sisted of Mrs. Mary Hall, the mother ; on
her right was young Charles, on her left
Minnie, a pretty miss of 14, while opposite
the mother sat " Jim " Hall, the husband
and father. This was a reunion dinner, for
"Jim " Hall had been absent for 10 years,
and during that time etrange occurrences
had taken place. The day was also the an-
niversary of their wedding, and when the
elder couple looked back over the events of
their lives since their marriage fifteen years
ago, tears of joy and sorrow strove for the
mastery as they fell from overflowing eye-
lids.
The story of the lives of this little family
is worth telling, for it is very strange and
unusual and shows a new phase in the affec-
tions of human families. "Jim "Hall was
a fisherman, and alter five years of happy
married life, he shipped on a Gloucester
vessel for a trip to the Western banks.
While away from the vessel in a dory, after
striking fish, a fog set in, followed by a
blinding storm. There were two in the boat,
and row which way they would they could
not find their vessel. Two days of suffering
and his companion died. Another day and
Hall became unconscious. He awoke in the
cabin of a New Bedford brig, bound to the
Artie seas on a whaling voyage. He was
rescued, but terribly frozen. Misfortunes
and disappointments followed. The skip-
per of the brig held him a prisoner for two
voyages from the Azores, and five years had
passed when "Jim" Hall returned to his
native town. He sought his wife and child-
ren, but they could not be found. He
learned that the fishing smack on which he
left Gloucester returned in due time with
colors flying at half-mast, and the report of
the loss was duly made. Then he learned
that his wife mourned his loss for
three years, and, . becoming satisfied
that her husband was lost at sea,
she, for the sake of her children,
accepted an offer of marriage and had re-
moved to Belleville, Kan.
The money saved from his long voyage
gave "Jim" Hall the opportunity he
wanted. The first train he could get, after
his inquiries had elicited all the information
necessary, bore him to the West. He
located his wife as Mrs. Winsor, Iiving very
happily with her new husband. The rest of
the story may be given in Mr. Hall's own
language :
" Then came the crisis of "my life.
Would I call at the peaceful home and
announce myself, or wait and try to out-
live the man who married my wife and
cared for my children during the hours
of need ? I got a job ten milea out of the
city, and my only pleasure was to keep n
watchful eye over my family and stand
ready, if need be, to lend a helping hand.
Nov. 15th he died. I attended the funeral,
and after waiting a few days I sent a note
stating that I was near, and would call the
following evening."
The aequel of this strange story is the
reunion of the family around the family
dinner table on New Year's Day. " May
they live long and • prosper," will be the
wish of many who will read this remarkable
chapter from real life.
The OM, Old Story.
Troy Times : The preacher who merely
turns the sermon barrel the other end up
when a new year rolls around must not be
surprised if most of his congregation consists
of empty pews.
Not as Ile Looks.
Rochester Herald : Mrs. Gobbs—It is
very strange that your friend Dobbs never
married.
Mr. Gobba—Oh, you don't know Dobbs.
He isn't half such a fool as he looks.
A mechanical le,ter-stamper worked by
electricity is being tested at the post•office
in Washington.
The ten lines of railroad centering in
London send out 2,210 suburban trains a
day, carrying 400,000,000 passengers a
year.
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