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THE BEST ST
LocAL NEWSPAPER.
VOL. 4. RED LODGE, PARK COUNTY, MIONTANA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 14,1. 893..0
SECRET SOCIETIES.
I O. O. F. GARFIELD LODGE, No
" 36, I. O. O. F., meets every Satur
day at 7:30 o'clock p. m. SojourningBreth
erea are cord ally invited.
HENRY MCINTOSH, N. G.
JAMES TURNBULL, Secretary.
K OF L. MEETS EVERY THURS
1 day at 7:30 o'clock p. m.,at Black
burn's Hall. THos. PRICE, M. W
DAN. SUTHERLAND. Secretary.
A F. & A. M. STAR IN THE
" West Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Reg
ular communications first and third Wei*
nesdayin each month at 7:30 o'clock p. m.,
in Blackburn's Hall.
Visiting le ners are invited.
J. L. BURNS, W. M.
J. S. Duvs. ,N, Sec.
K OF P. MEETS EVERY TUES
day at 7:30 p. m.
ROBERT RAY, JR., C. C.
GEO. M. JONES. K. OF R. AND S.
CHURCHES
M E. CHURCH SERVICES HELD
a Methodist Church. Preaching
every alternate Sunday at 11:00 a. m. and
8:00 p. m. Prayer meeting every Thurs
day 7:30 p. m. Sunday School Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock. Class meeting
after morning service. All are heartily
welcome to these services.
J. POPE, Pastor.
SONGREGATIONAL C IH U R C H.
. Preaching at 10:30 a m and 7:30 p.
m.; Sunday-School at 12 m.; Y. P. S. C
E. 7 p. m. Tuesday Junior C. E Society
4 p. m. Wednesday Choir practice 7 p. m.
Prayer;Meeting 8 p. m.
W. H. WATSON, Pastor.
(IALVARY MISSION.---SERVICES
/J Every alternate Sunday i. e. April
Ith and 21st. Matius and Sermon at
81l a. m. and Evensong and Sermon
7 p. m. Sunday-School at 3 p.m.
HERBERT G. SHARIPLEY, Rector
PROFESSI;NAL CARDS.
DR. A. C. McCLANAHAN,
Physicia ,n.d Sar~geo
RED LODGE, .lMontana
J. H. JOHNSON, M. D.
BELL BLOCK, Hauser Avenue
Diseases of Children a Specialty.
Red Lodge. - - - Montana.
W. H. ALLEN,
PAYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Red Lodge, - Montana.
ANDREW P. McANELLY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
OFFICE
On. - I .ain. - tret(
Red Lodge, Montana.
W. F. Meyer.
A.TTOrK NE Y AT LAW.TT.
Red Lodge, Mont.
Thomas C. Ross. -
Attorney at Law,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Agent for all the leading Insur
ence companies.
Member of all the leading Mer
cantile and Collecting Associations.
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY.
Abstracts and Titles Examined.
Pension claims given prompt attention.
RED LODGE, MONTANA.
0. F. GODDARD.
." ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office Over First National Bank
BILLINGS, - - - MONTANA.
The Livingston
ASSAY" OFFICE
Gold and Silver - $1.00 Iron - - - - -$3 00
Gold, Silver & Lead 2.00 Tin - - 5.00
Copper - - 1.50 Coal - - - - - 3.00
Nickel - - - - - 5.00 Fire ('lay $10.00 to 25.00
Address HARRY L. GLENN,
Livingston Mont.
References fNational Park Bank Livingston.
, W. D. Wheeler. assayer in .charge U.
Assay Office Helena, Mont
Hanly & Fleming
DEALERS IN
WINES, A
LIQUORS,
CIGARS.
AN ORDERLY HOUSE AND
GENTLEMAN TO SERVE YOU.
Give us a Call.
Red Lodge Montana.
& co.
WEIGH,
COUNT,
MEASURE
Every article pur
chased, is the advice
often. held out to the
dealer, but we think
it applies to the conn
sumrer as vwell. See?
WE ARE BY SPECIAL AP
POINTMIENT
PURVEYORS
Of .verthin.g a.eed
ful to satisfy the in.-'
n.er man.
Clothing,
Boots & Shoes,
Dress & Faaay
Dry Goods,
Crookery,
AND IN FACT EVERYTHING
USED IN EVERY WELL
REGULATED FAMILY.
Mowing Machines,
Hay Rakes, etc.
NOW IS TIHE TIME TO MAKE
HAY WHILE THE SUN
SHINES. WE ARE NO
RESPECTORS OF
PERSONS.
ONE PRICE
AND THAT THE
LOWEST
CONSISTENT WITIT THE
QUALITY OF GOODS
WE HANDLE.
A CALL AT OUR STORE WILL
CONVINCE THE MOST
SKEPTICAL THAT
We Are the People
TO DRAW TO.
IF YOU ARE LIVING OUT OF
TOWN SEND US YOUR
ORDERS AND WE WILL
ATTEND TO THEM
Carefully and Promptly.
J. H.
CONRAD
& CO.'S
IS THE PLACE.
A CROW THAT COULD TALK.
He Was Hatched by a Hen, Raised by
Hand and Taught to Tell Time.
"When I was living at the foot of
Pinxter peak I had a tame crow that
was worth considerable to me," said
a Loyalsock man. "The way I came
to get the crow was a little singular.
One of my boys was flying his kite
early in the summer, and when it
had sailed high up over a piece of
woods on my place the string broke.
and the kite lodged in the top of a
hemlock tree. The boy bawled about
the loss of the kite, and I had to climb
the tree to get it for him.
"A crow flew off her nest near the
top of the tree while I was climb
ing up, and when I reached the
nest I found one egg in it. After I
had unloosened the kite and let it
drop I placed the crow's egg in my
mouth and kept it there until I had
backed down the tree, and then I ran
to the barn and put the egg under a
hen that had been setting a day or
so. The old hen offered no objec
tionsc-and several days before she
came off with her chickens she
hatched out the liveliest little crow I
ever saw.
"We began to raise the baby crow
in the house. When he was big
enough to run around on the floor I
named him Kite. He learned to say
a good many words by the time he
was a year old, and one morning that
summer I heard him yelling down
the unused chimney at a lot of swal
lows that were nestling in it. The
swallows were making a great rocket,
and Kite was singing out, 'Iold your
tongue I' as loud as he could yell.
"Kite could teli the tiime of day by
the clock, and when the weather
was cloudy I used to send him to the
house from the field to see what time
it was. Instead of asking my wife
the crow would look at the clock
without saying a word to her, and
then sail back to the lot and sing it
out to me. When the sky was clear
I could tell by the sun within ten
minutes what time it wis, and the
crow got so that he could guess al
most as close as I could. (/no san
shiny afternoon I told Kite to fly to
the house and bring nme the time.
The crow cocked his head to oune side,
glanced up at the sun and said, 'It's
five minutes to 11, Jnd:n!' I told
him it was later than that, and he
flew to the house and back and said,
'It's two minutes to 11!' and he was
right.
"The crow got feeble the winter
after he was 5 years old. He couldn't
stand the (cold, and I kept himr in a
box half full of shavings behind the
stove. He lost his appetite s,,oon after
New Year's,"nd one night when I
had got ready to go to bed lie caledid
me to him and said, 'John, Kite'il be
dead in the morning.' I fussed over
him and told him he was good fior
another year, but I couldn't imke
him believe it. My bed w'as near tihe
stove, and in the night the crw
crawled out of his box and askci d me
to take him in bed with me. 'Kite'
almost gone'.' he whispered, and when
I awoke he lay dead on my breast."
- Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
The Small Boy's Protest.
A young lady traveling in a Main
street car the other day was ap
proached by a conductor in a weak
moment and with most disastrous re
sults.
"Not five yet, is he?" queried the
knight of the fare re:gister, ref~rlring
to the young hba- ;.,; by the lady's
side.
"Not quite," replied she, grasping
readily at an idea.
"Why, yes I am too. I'm nearly
seven," rejoined the youngster rc
ferred to, with injured pride, and lno
amount of expostulation could change
the reply. So two fares were col
lected where otherwise there might
have been but one, and the people on
the car enjoyed the joke.-Buffalo
Courier.
Reading and Thinking.
The things one merely reads about
never stick. Those on which one
thinks become permanent acquisi
tions. Hence the man who is not
afraid of thinking and who does not
dread "that cursed hour in the dark,"
is at a distinct advantage on every
ground. He passes the time without
being bored, and he strengthens his
mind. To say this may no doubt
sound slightly priggish, but it is none
the less true. The man who can en
joy and make use of his own thoughts
has a heritage which can never be
alienated. Even blindness for him
loses some of its terrors.--London
Spectator.
Thousands of Intoxicants.
"There are no less than 6,000 in
toxicants of different kinds known to
the custom 'iouse officials," said an
attache of the customs collection de
partment. "Ninety-five per cent. of
the foreigners in this country drink,
and none of them has ever heard of
total abstinence. They have all their
native liquors, which often cannot
be procured in this country, and they
soon make arrangements to have
their favorite tipple sent to them. In
this way the custom house people ac
cnmulate a very wide knowledge of
fntoxicants."-Philadelphia Record.
Honest Advice.
Young Man-I should like to ask
your advice, sir, as to whether youm
think your daughter would make me
a suitable wife.
Lawyer --No, I don't think she
would. Six and eightpence, please.
-London Tit-Bits.
The enemies of silver are trying to re
pe:l the Sherman law.
c!ence ard Induistry.
Scientific research has contributed
much not only to the saving of hu
man life, but to the accumulation of
wealth and the diffusion of comfort.
Millions of francs are saved annu
ally to the French nation by the ad
mirable investigations conducted in
the interest of her wine industries
by M. Pasteur. There was a time
when the wines of France were
liable to turn bitter or sour. No one
could .tell whether the wine of a
given year would turn out good or
bad. Ruin threatened the whole
grape growing district of France.
Pasteur discovered that the wine
would be ruined whenever he could
find in it certain micro-organisms.
He proved that it was these organ
isms which destroyed the wine-by
producing a certain kind of fermen
tation. He next discovered that they
could be destroyed by heating to a
temperature not at all harmful to
the wine itself. By this simple proc
ess the grape growers have since
avoided the degeneration of their
product.
The silk producers of France and
Italy also owe to Pasteur their pros
perity. The silkworms became of
flicted with a paraiite twhich killed
them before they had spun their
silk. Through unceasing study, coom
bined with a renirhkable insight,
Pasteur discovered j us. t Iat wht stage
of the life of the ,silkwirm t'e pra-e
site mighrt e dChtroyed. -- Youth's
Companion.
The Slhuhi's Pipe of State.
Somebody hans :seen and g'hrifid;l by
an admiriC g desc..-iltin tthe "kal
lian," or pipe of state, which th'e shah
of Persia smokes on high impcrial
occasions. It is set with diamonds.
rubies and emeralds of the costliest
kind, and is stated to lbe worth as
much as .£,tOo. Such a pipe is pos
sible enough in an e 'tern palace,
since not only may the mouthpie.ce
and the upper rod lower poron of
the "snake" be of pure g.-Ai, enam
eled and set with iihe finc=t g.ns, but
the water bowl an,1 pipe bowl might
be equally splendid and rich with
lavish jewel work.
The shah's pipe orf state, however,
is only a trifle to the treasures in l)re
cious stones wh ich his imperial maj
esty possesses in the palace at Tehe
ran. He has a pair of large globes.
terrestrial and sidereal, wrought en
tirely of jewels upon a gold founda
tion. The terrestrial ghobe shows all
the countries of the arth d(lone in
differently colored gems, the seas and
oceins being of sap)phires and tur
quoises. Persia is all made of emn
eralds and Enghlad of rubies, Prus
sia of malachite and a and ted, and so
on. The sider"eal spIl-re represents
the constellations in di:amonds and
brilliants upon a ground of dark blue
enamel. -- L:nilcn . "igraph.
An Iitle.-r;tin ;Lay.
A yong.i a,'tor in Li,. d ,1n !rot E.
H. Sothern. the c'na!c ian. th-re lland
they went to the_ theater together.
Says the youvein:r ; .ly:':.. "The aver
age London .o,'iiincne is a treat.
Frequently :'s betto r than the
show.. Suh : ups: ch hIowe'ling
swells and howling id(iots in the so
ciety rows! Such puffy old mer
chants and vul,,ar wives ! Suci prinm
old dowagers and ', ty old buhffcrs!
I used to think a New York crowd:
was interesting, lut it itsn't a patch
to London. We!!, durin'g the per
formance, as I was looking about, I
saw a lean creature with featbers in
her hair and a b)ony face, and I
nudged Sothern. 'Look at it,' sai:i I
'Did you ever see anything like it '
" 'Ahl, rare old gill. that.' said he.
" 'Look at the k.'--bby forehead
and the queer clothes; notice that
neck, like a lot of whipicords: loiok at
those bony wrists; se the way she's
fixed her hair.'
"'Yes,' said Sothern: 'that's my
aunt.'
"Then we both att nded to the
play."-New York Recorder.
An Awkward M.oment.
It was on the avenue. A young
Harvard man walking rapidly down
from the new bridge o,'ertook a pret
ty girl he knew. The two walked on
together toward the shopping region
of the city. The girl had to stop to
inspect a flat in a new building, an
errand for her father, and the young
Harvard man stopped with her. But
they got through the errand in no
time at all, for the janitor asked
them how large their family was and
how soon they should like to move
in. And now this girl makes her
father inspect the flats in his new
buildings himself. - Boston Tran
script.
Salaries of Cabinet Oincerg.
Cabinet officers are not to be con
sidered as well paid officials when the
expenses which the requirements of
their posts call for are taken into
consideration. They receive $8,0 00 a
year, the same as the vice president.
but the dudies of a cabinet chief are
onerous and protracted, whereas the
vice president has very little to do.
He has few responsibilities, and has
besides always the possibility of sue
cession.--New York Sun.
Quickly Learned.
Little Johnnie-Folks say you can't
teach an old dog new tricks. I taught
your dog one today.
Aunty-Did you, really ? Whet
was it?
Little Johnnie-I taught him to isit
up at the table and eat off a plate.
Good News.
Gov. .l1rwling, the populist governcr.
of K.cnsas. has been inaugurated.
IMPOSSIBLE CLASSIC HEROES.
The Characters Drawn by Old TWriters
Not at All True to Life.
Some of the older novelists in deal
ing with old Rome, the feudal days
in France, Germany or England, or
with pioneer life, make their charac
ters beln-_z to another time in the
New \';ld. ii eezal1 of to another
race .. vi,, of their own. In en
deavor ig to reproduce scenes and
social ccni.d::ions w ich have passed
awa y many i:i:- tric-a novelists con
fuse the cnd .tions and perennial
human nature. They label their
characters according to their social
station and confuse these sociaj dis
tinctions with the qualities of the
spirit.
They give us men and women
whom God would fail recognize, but
whom the critics, more acute, readily
hail as models and types for all other
students of human nature. Their
characters are nearly all mounted on
stilts, they are animated by motives
and considerations which are quite
impossible, and they talk as human
beings never talked in this world.
They deal not with the exceptional,
which is possible and artistic, but
with the impossib:le, v hich is carica.
ture.
Their old Romans and barons and
highwaymen, etc., stalk through the
scene mouthing platitudis and "sen
tihents," whereas we may be quite
certain that they cc.upicli themselves
chiefly with chea-ting, lying, cring
ing, stealing. scheming, dimnig. drink
ing, dissipating, working, gossiping;,
gaming and talking siaug. Just as men
are doing in the streets, narts, pub
lic offices, theaters, etc., of Paris,
London and New York today. And
beneath all this action the re was al
ways a crude philosophy cla.i'-ifying
and analyzing both motives and ac
tions.
One would imagine from the ro
mantic representations of tiese
phases of life that this reflective
habit of mankind was an invention
of yesterday, and did n:ot really date
beyond the decline of the Roman
empire to the pi:iis.o!,hy and (c-vili
zation of Greece. These same virtues
and vices exist today. and never will
be entirely eradicated, no matter how
high the tide of civilization rises:
but except in the.veriy lowest plane
of human life, where the relation to
humanity is scarcely more than tihat
of the human form, men in all ages
have sought for a solution of the rid
dile of exrstence, and hence have, in
a more or less crude fashion, reelected
upon action.--New England Maga
zine.
Buying a i'recious Stone.
A good story is told of one of the
Vanderbilts. While abroad recently
he was visited by a rich Berlin
jeweler, who, without waiting the
usual formalities incident to g:inii:
an audience. marched in on iMr. Van
derbilt unannounc.'d.
The intruder was an elderly- man
with an intelligent face and attired
in faultless evening dress, the fash
ion prescrib-ed by European etiquette
for visits to potentates, emniassadors
and other highi dignitaries, irrespect
ive of the hour or season.
Mr. Vanderbilt was surprised but
not overwhelmed by the jeweler's
evident attempt at continental com
plaisance. He listened to his tale of
the "greatest ruby on earth," which
the dealer was willing to dispose of
at a sacrifice, with a courteous air,
and then offered him one tenth of
the price demanded.
"I have five stones of e:acdtly the
same dimensions and coloriing," said
he, "and I amn willing to co:np'et.
the half dozen at a fair figure. N on
may send mie your ans'ver within
two hours. Good morninlg."
The answer arrived eighty min
utes before the prescribed time had
elapsed. It was in the afirmative.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Procuring Tortoiso Shell.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals would find a wide
field for its operations if it would
send an agent to the West India is
lands, where the tortoise shell is ob
tained. The natives do not generally
kill the tortoise to gets its shell, but
fasten it to the ground by tying i~s
head and feet to pegs, then lay hot
coals on its back. The scales are thus
loosened and come off very easily,
and the turtle is turned out to grow
another supply. The process is un
speakably cruel, and the ladies who
object to wearing bird plumage in
their hats ought to also reject tor
toise shell combs. --St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Volume of the Gulf Stream.
The enormous volume of the Gulf
Stream has long been a subject of
curious investigation. The latest cal
culations on the "rTeat ocean river"
informs us tir :., least 90, 000,000,000
tons of water pass Cape Florida every
hour. If this enormous amount of
sea water could be evaporated the
residue would be a quantity of im
pure salt so large that all the ocean
vessels now afloat would only be
equal to the task of carrying the one
hundredtlh part of it. And all this
vast amount is held in suspension
and passes a `iven point in a single
hour.-St. Louis Republic.
A Souvenir Spoon Collectsor,
A western traveler has a large col
lection of souvenir spoons which he
secured in a peculiar manner. At
every hotel and restaurant he stopped
at he has made it a point to 'hook" a
:;poon.--Philadelphia Ledger.
Ice gorges in the Ohio river at Cincin
uati have d-e great dnamnage.
HEARD AT THE HOTEL.
She Had Things All Her Own Way Until
a Boarder Interposed.
She had kept it up for two morn
ings. She had been harping on the
same old subject, the thousandth va
riation of the old theme, and both
mornings I had been awakened at 5
o'clock by her high pitched voice.
My room adjoined hers in the ho
tel, but the other part of the dia
logue came in such muffled tones
that I could only guess at the re
marks made by her husband from
the drift of her own conversation.
"You know he didn't treat me
right," she began again. "He at
least should have deferred to my
opinion and not have spoken up as
he did before all those people"
A muffled answer.
"Provoke nothing! My reply was
all right. Of course it is just as I
said. The guitar is
"How do I know? How do I know
anything? How does anybody knowv
anything anyway? Why shouldn't
it be? Of course it is. The very
idea!
"What's that you say? iHe meant
no insult? Meant! It was apparent
enough to me what he meant, and I
should think that you as a self re
specting man would resent such an
affront 1 ; your wife. But you don't.
Any husband-
"A friend of yours? And he didn't
mean anything, and I don't under
stand, and you can't see what I'm
making such a fuss about? Any man
with common sense could see that.
You he no spirit, John, absolut A;
no spiriL, or you'd never let anybody
treat your wife like that. it was an
insult-his snapping me up so, all be
cause I said a guitar was a nmusical
instrument. Of course it's a musical
instrument. I'd like to know what
it is I've been playing on all these
months if it's not an instrument.
What does that fellow suppose it is?
A machine, an agricultural imple
ment or a piece of bric-a-brac. I'd
like to know what it is if it's not an
instrument.
"I didn't unlderstand what he was
driving at, and I don't want to under
I stand. A man has no moresense than
to say that the guitar is not an ins- :u
ment. But it isn't that I am object.
ing to. I don' tcare whether he:
thinks it an instrument or not. I
didn't like the way he snapped me
up. That's what I'm furious about.
And to think you would sit there
calmly flirting with anotier woman
while that man was insulting youri
wife. Why, he thel same as to( hd me
I didn't have any sennse !"
"What's that? You guess he we.;
about right!" Here she fairly
screamed. "You do. do you: I
should think you'd be ash:aedl (of
yourself to talk like that. Tlo think
I ever married you-a man that"-
Here the conversation was brou~:ght
to a short ston. A door across the i
hall opened and an angry voice thui
dered:
"For heaven's sake, make that a
serial!"-New York Herald.
An Old Trick Recvivcd.
Berlin papers are full of the doings
of a certain crafty clothes hawl.r,
who is in the habit of sticking pu:'s.
into the pockets of his stock in trade
by way of tempting unwary cu:stoni
ers into buying a worthless aýrlicle at
a fancy price. No fewer than lI',
dozen purses were latetly bought by
him for this purpeo::. The story la:y
be true, but it certainly i.. not new.
as a similar device was a.opted y irs!
ago by an old clothe;s dealer in tLt
arcades of the Jnihllenldailn.
This honest tradesman used to sew
odd coppers into the lining of his
coats, etc., hung out for ,ale, and
when showing the garLents to his
customers he did it in su. .h a way
that the latter could not fal t. 0:. detct
the hidden treasure, and o'ii:. ;0 that
the said coins could be nortL.ne; hs
than Fredericks 'or or Lo is ( or
they took the bait, paid alvii ft.
their purchase and \w..:t off rcoi,'
ing.-Allgemeine Zeitu:.g.
White FIxes.
A Vancouver fum ri.r -..
ing a short time a`. ,:.
to be the pelts of f:e
The man is an expert In;;i.i',
has been dealing in lu's ! til:
northwe:-t for fr y ycars. L, ..
these are the firit .ilite f,.. e
ever heard ofL but he is al,-outel:
sure the pelts are gen-ouie foxabr is
The conformation has bean carcfully
preserved. and the li- l.rush is of
course attached. T.i f*ur is snow
white, spotless and beautifully soft.
The furrier bought thrmn from a seal
hunter, who caught the foxes at the
last station to the north of eastern
Siberia, several hundred miles north
of Petropauiovsky. - Rochester Her
aid.
Safe and Sound.
"So you are reaily engaged to old
Miss Flypp. are you. Charley,"
"I suppose so.'
"How the dickens did you happen
to get tied up like that?"
"Oh. I was too blamed ,-mart. I
thought the comet was going to wipe
us all out and proposed just for fun.
The comet didn't wipe, and I'm land
ed.-Buffalo Express."
Few Eclipses in Loudon.
There has been but one total eclipse
of the sun at London since the year
1140-that of 1715, and, according tc
Professor Holden, there will not be
another until after the opening of
the Twenty-first century.-St. Loi.
ReDublic.
Henry Clay Evans of Tennessee was
confii med as a'si' tant pr'mst at' r gener '.
NATURE'S SWEET RESTOREr..
Sleep Comnes to One and All na a Peace
fiul Mcaenger of Oblivion.
The great hotel is falling into si
lence. The last of the dancers came
up nearly an hour ago. The loud
voiced man across the hall inter
mitted his talk for a time and then
left off altogether; the click of the
billiard balls stopped a few moments
since; only an occasional voice or
step is heard in the corridors; the
little dying baby in the next room
has ceased to moan and sleeps for a
space, I hope.
The two who have come at last,
through weary ways of doubt and
uncertainty, to so full and sweet en
understanding have separated with
many whispered farewells and kisses
in which the long repressed yearn
ing of each heart met with anm;wer
ing love. Their sweet remembrances
melt softly into the margin of slceep
and shine back again froto its mi.ty
depths, a tender, etherealized refiet
tion.
The foolish boy who lost his all at
the gambling taile no longer cudg
els his weary brain for :osme pos
sible plan to recoup himself and es
cape disgrace. His years are I it a
child's years; the tired young body
and brain rebelled and chirned their
need of rest. Hie sleeps with a
grieved look about his; mouth that
used to tell of son e baby sorrow,
and the little drops beading hi,; fore
head where the pretty yongg mother
used to lift away the soft ha.ir t1(
kiss.
The woman whom folly and van
ity counseled to listen to words she
dare not remember afterward, hen 1
mg over her little sleepers, has
cooled her burning cheeks, thrust
back the fear, regret and remorse
that crowd upon her and kopt
trembling beneath the blessed cur
tain of oblivion.
The morrow will awaken them all.
The mirth paus:es, the scourge is
withheld, the menace staid for a mo
ment. Joy rests her fluttering wings,
pain's sting is withdrawn. and sor
row knows a brief surcease.
The door next mine opens silently.
I hear the mother sobbing as the
nurse's footfalls die away down the
corridor. So it was toni2ght for the
baby instead of tomorrow. And for
the others, not tomorrow perhaps,
but next year or another they shall
fail upon that sleep which has no
dreams. --Alice MacGowan in Short
Stories.
Ihy tie Sea Ebbs and FIlows.
Do you know why the sea el;bb
and flows? 'Tis this: The army of
drowned twice daily gatior their
for'ccs at the bottom of ie ,ieep and
march toward the fonr poi.t:; of the
compass to lay their weary boines on
earth and escape from their watery
tomb. You can he"ar their tramlping
-they call it sea moaning-and see
the waves being pushed on before
them in great water hills, which
dash against each other in their furi
ous flight from the escaping host,
and when they break and hurt
clouds of snow white spray high in
air it is caused by the lashings
from the swinging, honiy arms of
the army drowned. And did you
ever listen to the weird noise as
these mountains of water leapl up on
each other
That is the cry of the victims of the
sea.
On() and on the waves are driven;
farther and fariher they e-eroach on
land, and the feet of the mighty body
can be heard scralping for foothold on
the smooth, shifting pebbles. Only
another incouming wave and escape is
theirs-- but it is just too late; the re
acted undertow sets in and you hear
their bony feet slip from under them,
and hack they are carried, the se.v
holding them tightly in its arms, ex
hausted captives.
Then look when the tide has run:
far out and see the prints of their
feet, and you will know why the sea
ebbs and flows.--New York Herald.
English Postoilice Rules.
In the postofhce during illness the
female clerk ., like the male staff,
are paid foil salary in illness (luring
the first six months and half pay
during the second portion of a
year'sabsec::c.. The other ladies era
ployed behi;td 1:e postal counters
are pIaid t),,ir wasga if i he illness ex
tends to a C:week; if it is a small
affair and they are able to be back
again in a day or two a deduction is
made from the salary for the time
of their absence. This is an evident
inducement to a sufferer to persuade
herself that a week at home will be
better than a day or two.-London
Tit-Bits.
A British Treasure.
In the jewel house of the Tower
of London. the place where the crown,
and other royal insignia are kept,
there is a book bound throughout in
gold, even to the wires of the hinges.
Its clasp is two rubies set at opposite
ends of four golden links. On one
side there is a cross of diamonds; on
the other the English coat of arms
set in diamonds, pearls and rubies.
St. Louis Republic.
What Mill Feared.
John Stuart Mill could get little
pleasure from music in the later
vyears of his life because his over
strained Inci'l re.aMo l.-od that "music
was only a :,ml,inati)on of notes. and
nmathemati .:a;iy considered the time
must come when all such possible
combinations wouhl have been ex
hausted."
The national quarantine bill has boeo
favorably rported to congress.