The Chickasha daily express., December 10, 1900, Image 7

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voT-V STRENGTH.
That I am strong, nijr friends, oh! pity
me;
' Nor think me blwwed that I can bear
I alone
' Mure than my she e of burden without
moan ;
More than your praise I need your aym
puthy. I am iu servitude, while you are free.
Who bills the unless hand to toil or
f br'ng?
I .What hunter pressed hard the broken
wing?
s In your soft helplessness is liberty,
And your the gift of U-ar the aweet
relief,
For all life's woes, the stricken heart's
oiitc-y.
I may not voice the r.easure of my grief;
The strong their riht to weeping piust
deny.
I But credit nie, a deeper pathoa lies
I I Behind the sterile anguish of dry eyes.
J. "-Juliet C. Islmm, in Harper's Bazar,
f SISTER ROSE :
Jt Its 111n I'nrrpftl firm.
i '
THE sunshine was keeping nil
the meadow lauds la gold; the
wild-roses were opening their
pink cup along the course of
' the little brook, and a fragrant rnlu of
daisies auJ buttercups followed the
"swish" of Harry Hut ton's scythe, as
he worked on the LIllHlile.
And little Barbara, perched on the
fence, with her lap full of wild straw
berries, watched him, with a sort Of
dreamy delight.
Harry Huttoa and his ulster Bar
bara were all alone In the world. A
llttl to the south, half hidden In a
tangle of brooding apple-tree boughs
could lie awn the steep gnble-roofs of
the old Hutton farm bonne; and uiore
tiinu one blooming village maiden
.-romlcred that Harold could be con
tent with oily old Betsey to keep
bouse for him, aud Utile Barbara to
be eouipnny In the big, echoing rooms.
s "He can marry If be chooses," said
'Alice Ie, with a sidelong glance at
the mirror. "He's rich!"
"Yes, If!" said Amy Yokes, saucily,
"But you know be has never seen the
right one."
So there he was, all unfettered by
Love as yet straight, manly, beauti
ful to look upon as Apollo's self, with
the glittering scythe swinging through
the high grass, and little Barbara fit
ting ou the fence, with her brown,
gipsy-like face half in shadow,
"It was so nice!" said Barbara. "Oh,
ITarry, if you could only have seen It!"
"Nonsense!" said Harry, flinging
I tiowa bis scythe and leaning up for
moment against the feuce. "A com
mon traveling circus! I can't thiuk
little Bab, how Uncle Totter ever let
you go to such a placer
"But the lions!" cried Barbara. "And
the elephants! Aud the lovely young
lady that rode on the white pony, and
Jumped through the garlands of roses!
Oh, Harry, do take me again! Just
once, dear Harry!"
And she threw her arms around his
reck, and pressed her strawberry
stained Hps to his bronzed face.
"They're going to stay In Mlllvllle all
summer, Harry," coaxed the elf. "And
Uncle Totter Is going to take the chil
dren once a week, he says!"
, Harry resolutely shook bis bead.
"Not I!" salB he. "A circus. Indeed!"
'And nothing would Induce hi in to
go and see "Mademoiselle Rosita
Uaven, the Dauseuse and Equestrian
Queen," who fonv.od the most attrac
tive stcr of the traveling circus.
"Her very name Is enough for me."
unld Harry, with a shrug of his broad,
finely-modeled shoulders. "A pa luted,
spangled popinjay, risking her life to
tunke the gaping crowd stare; No, I've
no curiosity at all to see Mademoiselle
T.oslta Haven!"
There was a little one-storied cot
tage, however, on the outskirts of the
village a rudely-built nwk, with a
impular reputation of being "haunt
!;" and alxnit this time It obtained a
tenant a drrkbrowned, solierly
dressed young woman, who was usu
ally mending stockings or hearing les
sons for two blue-eyed, golden-tressed
little maids, who played around the
door-stone; aud as Harry nutton.
whose business frequently took hi in
Into the village, rode past the humble
domicilii", he looked with a sort of
pleasure upon the moving pictures at
,the cottage door, and wondered, vague
ly, why the little blondes and their
olive-faced young protectress were so
tiulike.
"They are like t win daisies." he said,
to himself; "but she !s a royal rose. I
Wonder who they can be?"
One day bis horse dropped a shoe
In the road. One of the little lassies
ran after him. with It held aloft In
her hand.
"Thank yon, 'my girl." said he, stoop
ing from his horse to give her a colli.
"Will yon till me what your name
Is?"
But the child shook her head, all
dancing with sunny curls. -
"Sister Itose don't let us talk to
Alrrngers," Mild she.
Blood rushed to Harry Iluttou's
luce; but he smiled, iieveilhch gs.
"Ulster Hose Is quite right," said hp.
'Nevertheless. I am much obliged to
you. my pretty maid!"
And the next time he passed the
collage, the picture he snw through1
the half-closed lattice was pretty be
yond .expression Sister Hose at her
wwlug. the queenly brow 'Imlf inni.:.
the black braids drooping on ihe neck, j
nm! tl,e children reciting their cate
chism i t flu-Ill chorus, to her, chirping i
out:
" 'To get mine own living, and to do
my duly in that hUAo of life to which
It thall ph :;se Cod 1o call UK'!'"
"And th.it Is a lesson." (he young
man thought, lo himself, "which a
gr.-at tunny of us arc slow euotirli to
learn. Sister Rose Is bringing up her
little ones In the right way. I won
der how she came to be living In Tol
lard's cottage, though ?"
So thut when, a week after, little
Barbara was nearly drowned by the
upsetting of a boat In the pond below,
and they carried her to Tollard's cot
tage, the whole thing seemed a curi
ous coincidence.
Barbara was sitting up, all wrapped
In blankets in Sister Hose's big rocking-chair,
when her brother, who had
been sent for, came hurriedly In.
He raised the hat that shadowed bis
pale face when he saw the beautiful
young brunette who was bending over
his little sister.
"I am not Intruding, I hope?" be
said, with all chivalrous courtesy.
A"d she answered. f
"Not In the least, sir."
"Oh, 'Harry, Harry!" cried breath
less little Barbara, "she has been so
good to me! I was dying, and she
brought me back to life!"
"I thank her from the bottom of
my heart!" said Harold Hutton, with
a quiver In his voice.
So the acquaintance begun; and one
month from thut hour, Harry Hutton,
the owner of Hutton Farm's broad
acres, the Adonis of the village, the
murk of liuiny a matrimonial schem
er's flower-garlanded arrow, asked
Sister Hose whose real name he had
discovered to be Hose Blauchard to
bo his wife.
"I cannot marry, Mr. Hutton," she
said. "I have my brother's two orphan
children to maintain and educate. I
vowed It on his death-bed."
"Nor would I have you break that
vow." sald Harry, eagerly. "They
shall become my sacred charge, also.
They shall be brought up, carefully
and tenderly, with my Barbara."
But still she shook her head.
"Mr. Hutton," said she, "we think
differently ou many subjects. You
were born to a peaceful competence,
while I have always bad to fight my
own way with the world. Our life
paths He apart."
"By the sun that shines above us at
this moment." cried Hutton, "they
shall He together henceforth!"
But she smiled that sad, Madonna
like smile at his eager enthusiasm.
"Ycu do not know who I am," said
she.
"I know yon are an angel!"
"I am Mademoiselle Roslta Haven,
the circus girl," aim said, speaking
with a little effort. "The company
leaves Mlllvllle next week, and I must
go with them. The children's mother
was a circus girl, also. My brother
saw her, and fell in lore wltb her. He
was a sceue-jMi Inter of a theatre; and
when they were dead, there were the
children. I had to do somthing for
them, so I turned 'Equestrienne
Queen. also. It was cot a lofty walk
of life, but It was all I could do, and
I have done my best. I would not let
Barbara tell you who I was, because
I dreaded that you should know. But
It would have been letter had her
childish tongue betrayed her, for now
I have to tell It myself."
"Rote-my Hose!"
He advanced boldly, his arms out
She stood still a second; thee uttered
a little sobbing cry, aud fled to the
safe shelter of his breast
"Yours!" she cried "yours, forever,
If you love nie still, now that you
know all! But I had been told that
you spoke disparagingly of me."
"Not of you, dearest. In particular."
he exclaimed, with a pang of remorse
"only of the stupid Idea I had formed
of you. For I never had see.' you
when I spoke those silly words. And
my self-asserting Idiocy stands re
buked before the noble purity of your
true presence."
So Hutton Farm got a mistress, nnd
little Barbara plays in the sunshine
with the two golden-haired orphan
children.
And Sister Rose grows sweeter and
more beautiful with every day; aud
Harold Hutton Is firmly convinced
that he is the happiest uiau In all the
world. Saturday Night
Cmm of I nunlty.
The difference between a man's
heart and a. woman's is shown oddly
and well In this year's report nf the
Pennsylvania Hospital, in the table
giving the causes of Insanity among
11,5(10 patients, tilOi of whom were
men nnd 5-150 women. Women, this
table shows, are nearer to nature than
men. The things which drive women
Insane are the simple, elemental
things, those things which the Bible
and the great poets regard as most Im
portant In life, though men are apt to
hold them lightly. Homesickness mnde
Insane eleven women, but only one
man; domestic trouble 137 women nnd
fifty-five men; mental anxiety. 402
women aud 2Iifl men; grief. 345 women
and niuetytwo men; fright, sixty-four
women and twenty men. On the other
hand, vicious habits aud Indulgences
made lusauc 125 men, but only sixteen
womeu; business cares and perplexi
ties, 41.1 men and elghty-nluo women;
excessive study, fifty-one men and
twenty women; intemperance, t."8
men and seventy-eight womeu. From
the opium habit an equal number of
men and women thirty-one became
insane. Among the occupations of the
Insane men, that of fannlir; was, as
usual, well to the fore, there being 508
farmers among the patients. Philadel
phia Record.
CIipBterfiVM'n ltetort.
During the great Chesterfield's wan
delinks abroad he once rested at an
Inn which was kept in any but a neat
cond'tion. Not only were the rooms
untidy, but even the dishes from
which the guests w.tf-0 expected to cat
wire dirty. This was too much for
Lord On -sierfleld, and he soundly
rated the waiter.
"Every one must cut his peck of
dirt." the hitter coolly observed.
"True," was the instant retort, "but
no one obliged to cat It all at once."
ENCOURAGINC THRIFT.
A Builnen Man Who Has Found That It
1'ay.
"I always have confidence In people
who save a little money out of their
salaries," said a prominent Western
merchant, "and I do what I can to
encourage habits of thrift. I employ
about seventy-five clerks in my estab
llshineut.to whom I pay weekly sala
ries rauglug from $10 to $40. Natur
ully enough more of them get the for
mer than the latter amount, but they
are none the less worthy ou that ac
count. In the beginning, when I em
ployed only two people, I lived pretty
close to them, and I knew how thrift
less they could be when they were not
encouraged to be otherwise. I have
discharged more clerks for that sort
of thing than for any other cause.
They spent their salaries, large or
small, as might be. In a reckless fash
Ion, aud let debt accumulate quite re
gardless of the rights of creditors. As
my business increased, aud with It my
profits and my force of people, I be
gan to give the matter more study,
and In the end, when I felt able to be
of material assistance In encouraging
thrift aud honesty, I proiosed a year
ly recognition of those who would
save something out of their salaries.
It was small at first, but was so suc
cessful that to-day I haven't a clerk
who has not some kind of a bank ac
count, aud not one who wilfully re
fuses to pay his debt. When we get a
new one who refuses to take advan
tage of the opportunities afforded we
let him go at the end of his first year.
"My preSent plan is to double the
savings of all clerks who receive $10,
$12 and $15 a week; to add twenty-five
per cent to all who receive from $15
to $25, nnd ten for those over $25. A
clerk on $15 a week or under cannot
save much, but us a rule that class of
clerks have no one to maintain but
themselves, and If one cannot save
more than $25 out his year's labor. It
Is rather pleasant for him to get $25
clear profit. Those who receive the
larger amounts usually have families,
and their savings are nut large, but
whatever they are they are comforta
bly Increased. One of my $1200-a-year
clerks, with a wife aud two small chil
dren, save $100 last year, aud my
check for a hundred additional was
deposited to his account the day after
New Year. A young woman In
eharge'of a department at $900 a year
has almost paid for a nice little cot
tage In the suburbs out of her extra,
and so the list runs on through every
branch of the business. I make it a
condition that all current obligations
must be met at the end of the year, so
that the savings are actual net profit
Every year some of the clerks are not
entitled to any extra, but If this Is the
result of sickness I assume a part or
all of the doctor's bills. You may say
it costs something for me to do it, and
you are right But I have the best
class of clerks in the city, and as a re
sult I have the best class of custom
In the city, and I guess I don't lose
enough by It to necessitate an assign
ment at an early date," and the mer
chant smiled with very evident satis
faction. Washington Star.
Her Knowledge of Chinese. IP
A young woman at a watering place
this summer made a reputation as a
profound linguist in a rather odd man
ner. She called one day at 'a Chinese
laundry, where she bad left a shirt
waist, but it could not be found, as
there was no entry in the look of
hieroglyphs corresponding to her pink
slip. After a half hour's search the
Chinaman found the entry. A mis
take had been made, the entry crossed
out and a new set of hieroglyphs In
tiny characters' placed below. She
was told that that waist would be
laundered immediately and she could
get it the next day.
The next day the young woman
called for it, accompanied by three
other young women. At the seashore
the excitement of a visit to the Chi
nese laundry is not to be despised. The
Chinaman to whom the pink slip was
presented was not the laundryman of
the day before and be experienced the
same difficulty in finding the identi
fying characters, finally saying, "Not
in book." The girl answered calmly,
"I can find It," aud the Chinaman al
lowed her to take the book. Turning
the leaves until rhe came to one that
had an entry crossed out, with another
in tiny characters under It she handed
It to the Chiuaman. "There it Is," and,
to his surprise, he found It.
'You only, lady I know spik Chi
nese," lie said. And the other girls
looked upon her with admiration.
Kansas City World.
Caved the Chirken't Life.
Mrs. WMliuin Dltchneld, of Upland,
has not studied medicine or surgery,
but she has performed a surgical oj-
er.it ion on a chicken at her home and
the chicken Is now living and weii.
having entirely recovered.
Mrs. Ditchticld prides herself on her
ehlcKens. The ether day one of tliein
wus taken sick. After diagnosing the
Ihe case she determined that if tha
chicken's life was to be saved an op
eration was necessary. Accordingly
she whetted up a knife ami, screwing
up her courage to tha necessary notch,
she cut open the chicken's craw and
there found imbedded iu tb-j side a
s-iiall sliver or bone. After much trou
ble she succeeded in removing it. Fin
ishing the thing l:i a style almost pro
fessional, she r.rntly sewed up the in
CISloll Willi FIlK tlHVill'.
The chicken Is to-tiny running ,..v. . 1
as lively us any o? the brood. Mrs.
Ditchiliid if! row locking for more
chickens with bones in ill ir craws.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ct'.nnibi has no crematory ss yet,
but bodies r.iv cccaslon.illy scut fur
cremation to Bustoa or Frtid I'oud,
Long Maud.
Wouldn't it look better If John Bull
could take his defeats on the turf more
gracefully?
Those Immortals who were left out
in the cold should get up a Hall 'of
Fame of their own.
Every farmer should bave an agri
cultural library, if only for the influ
ence it would have upon the boys and
girls in increasing their interest in the
farm and the duties upon it.
The most touching contribution to
the aid of Galveston sufferers is $84,
donated by the Inmates of the Dun
ning poor-house and insane hospital.
Illinois. This sura represents the sac
rifices of 2500 unfortunates, who gave
up smoking and other small luxuries
to swell the fund.
It Is a great pity that every attempt
to propagate the blue Joint grass of
the Western prairies is a total failure.
Could it be placed on the list of tame
grasses it would be a most valuable
addition. It will soon disappear entire
ly from the prairie section of the West,
being unable to hold Its own with the
blue grass in the pastures and mead
ows. French gallantry, of late years said
to be banished from the earth, seems
to have found an abiding place in the
French courts. The Judge who res
cues a distressed American heiress's
millions pnd restores them to the care
of her anxious family is surely a beau
chevalier, though he does not wear a
sword and take great pleasure to die
for one. ,
Tresldent Jones, of Hobart College,
thinks that too much money is spent
nowadays in furnishing college under
graduates with enervating luxuries
and not enough In paying fair salaries
to college professors. The professors,
he says, are sadly underpaid, but for
the lads whom they teach and who
never pay the cost of the education
they are getting, luxurious clubhouses
are built and furnished, and a manner
of life made possible which Is unsuited
to their years, and not conducive to
profitable training.
The latest development of science
provides that ships can go to sea with
frozen ammunition. A method of util
izing liquefied air on warships has
been discovered which will render the
explosion of a magazine, even when
the ship Is in action, almost impossi
ble. The method is to so place the
liquid air that it will freeze the am
munition to several hundred degrees
below zero. In that condition it could
not explode, even if a shell should
burst in the magazine. Wonders will
uever cease.
Coast defense is the most important
topic dealt with in the annual report
of Chief of Engineers Wilson. He
points out that the war with Spain
had the effect of hastening the work
on the coast defenses to such an extent
that now, ten years after that long
neglected work was tegun in earnest
he Is able to report that fifty per cent
of the work is complete. Twenty-five
of the principal harbors of the United
States now have a sufficient number
of heavy guns and mortars In place
to offer an effective defense against
naval attack. Existing projects con
template the mounting of a great num
ber of additional guns.
The cost to consumers of the anthra
cite coal strike calls attention to the
benefits resulting In England from the
Co-oieratlve Wholesale Society. This
society Is a federation of 1046 retail
co-operative societies, representing
1,053,504 individual members. By the
operation of this society consumers
are enabled to supply their wants at
a purely economic cost that is, not
subject to the penalties of "Jobs," com
binesthe common tricks of trade that
affect prices under general conditions.
During the first thirty years of the
society's existence a profit was real
ized of $0,731,725, that went back into
the pockets of the consumers.
Vienna Is excited over great jewel
robberies that have deprived some of
her finest dauies of their gems. Not
long ago the wife of a nobleman
noticed while at a ball that her dia
monds did not sparkle with all the
brilliancy their cost demanded, and,
looking closely at them, she discovered
that they were not diamonds at all,
but paste gems of the cheapest kind.
She made a great outery, and all the
other women Instinctively looked at
their jewels. The outcries became
general. It f,?enis thai all the women
who live in the same quarter of the
city discovered that their jewels had
been taken, anil had been replaced by
cheap Imitation". The work is sup
posed to have been doue during the
summer mouths.
6oJ Joads fofes
Aid to Kural Highwaya.
"T "T EW YORK wants good roads.
I This fact has been deniou-
strated In no uncertain way
" (J" by the number of petitions
for road improvements which have
been presented since the passage of
the Highble-Armstrong law. These
petitions were from all parts of the
State, aud speedily sliowed that the
appropriation of $50,000 for State aid
would not meet half the demand.
In the law are incorporated the
most desirable features of the Slate
aid laws of other States, while the
objectlonal ones bave been eliminated.
The following notes of explanation
are by William W. Armstrong, who
Introduced end helped to secure the
passage of the law.
The nighble-Arnistrong Good Roads
bill is the result of several years of
hard work aud earnest discussion, and
from year to year has been altered
and modified to meet criticism and op
position. On account of the changes
so made from time to time there
seems to be some confusion about the
provisions of the act which was finally
approved. An intelligent considera
tion ofthe subject, therefore, requires
at the outset a brief statement of the
provisions of the law.
The act provides trmt any board of
supervisors "may" adopt a resolution
declaring that public Interest demands
the improvement of a certain piece of
highway not located in a city or vil
lage, and that upon a petition of the
owners of a majority of the lineal
feet fronting upon such a highway it
"must" adopt such a resolution.
A copy of this resolution Is then to
be transmitted to the State Engineer,
who shall first determine whether the
piece of highway indicated is of suf
ficient public Importance to receive
State aid; if so,. he shall map the high
way, cause plans and specifications
for the improvement and an estimate
of the cost to be made, nnd transmit
copies thereof to the Board of Super
visors. The Board of Supervisors,
with these facts and figures before
them, "may" then adopt a second reso
lution, declaring that such a highway
shall be Improved, or it may refuse
to go any further with the matter if
it so chooses.
This plan was adopted after a most
careful consideration, so as to preserve
the principle of home rule to the coun
ties of the State; so that no county
could be compelled, if unwilling,' to
improve any portion of its highway;
and so that no county should be per
mitted to do so until It had all the
facts and figures before It
If a county, therefore, desires merely
to know how much it will cost to im
prove a certain piece of highway, it
need only adopt the first resolution
aud get the plans and estimate the
cost, free of charge, without going any
further. If it chooses, after ascer
taining the cost, to adopt the second
resolution, it may, but it cannot be
compelled to do so.
If, however, the Board of Supervis
ors adopts the second resolution, it
must transmit a copy of It to the State
Engiueer. who then advertises for bids
for the work. If no responsible bid
is made within his estimate, he must
make a new estimate and transmit it
to the Board of Supervisors; and, If
the Board of Supervisors then adopts
a new resolution, based upon the new
estimate, declaring that nevertheless
such highway shall e Improved, the
State Engineer must advertise for bids
as before.
When a responsible bid within his
estimate is made the State Engineer
awards the contract; but if the town
or county desires to do the work Itself
It has the preference over all bidders.
This provision enables localities hav
ing scrapers and other appliances for
improving their roads to utilize them
in doing their own work under this
act, and so keep all the money expend
ed at home.
Each Board of Supervisors has, un
der the general highway law, the pow
er to elect a County Engiueer. If it
has elected such an officer the State
Engineer must act through him. If it
has not be must supervise the per
formance of the contract himself.
When the work is completed he must
draw a warrant upon the State Treas
urer for one-half the cost of the work,
and certify the other half to the Board
of Supervisors, which must levy thirty-five
per cent of the whole cost of
the work upon the county. The other
fifteen per cent, is payable in one of
two ways, namely: If the Board of
Supervisors adopted the first resolu
tion for the improvement without a
petition from the adjoining owners, the
Board of Supervisors' must levy the
fifteen per cent, upon the town In
which the Improved highway is; but if
the first resolution was adopted after
such a petition, the Board of Siqier
visors must cause the Town Assessor
to levy the fifteen per cent, upon the
property owners on the Improved high
way. Such, In brief, Is the plan which has
fiually been approved by the Legisla
ture for affording aid in the Improve
ment of rural highways. New York
Journal.
Valne of Good Knnds.
It has been figured out in New Jer
sey that land values tend to rise
thirty per cent, iu value wherever
good roads are introduced, irrespective
of other natural benefits. They are
Invariably the forerunners of other Im
provements, such as the electric rail
ways, free mail delivery, increased de
mand for country residences and so
on. They create far greater social
unity, they spread intelligence, they
give to the Isolated citizen a political
significance uot otherwise attainable.
STOOD BY HIS BARGAIN. -
Tha Chariot Seemed a Bit Candy, Bnt Ho
Wm Willing to Vao It.
"It's a hard life," declared the old
circus man, according tv the Detroit.
Free Tress, "and I always say at the'
close of every season that I am
through with it. But there is some
thing in the life, the smell of the saw
dust ring, the glitter and noise, the.
changing scene, that appeals to a man
who has once been in the business, and
it is seldom that one leaves the life
until death sieps in. There is a good
deal of humor in the business, too, aa
we are brought into contact with all
sorts aud conditions of men.
"I am reminded of a funny thing
that happened to nie a good many
years ago when such a thing as moving
a circus by rail was not thought of.
It was part of my work at that time
to drive our great $10,000 chariot, not
only in the parade, but between towns
as well. What little sleep I got I had
to catch here and there ou my seat
while we were on our way to another
town. One night my doze turned Into
a sound sleep, and when I awoke I dis
covered that the team, left without a
driver, had turned Into a farmyard
and come to a s op before r. haystack,
where they were quietly eating. While
I was rubbing my eyes aud trying to
grasp the situation the old man who
owned the hay came out where I was
and walked around the chariot and
looked It over with a critical eye.
" 'Well,'- said I, with a grin, 'what
do you think of it?'
"'Gosh, said he, 'ain't hit jes a
trifle bit gaudy?'
"'Well, what do you expect?' said
I, indignantly, at this implied reflec-
tlon upon the great moral show that
I represented.
"Well, I suppose hit is all right,'
answered the old man, doubtfully, as
lie looked It over once more. 'I or
dered bit and I'll stand by my bar
gain. Hit seems ter me that hit is
Jes' a bit loud. But I suppose I ain't
used to city ways.'
"It was now my turn to be surprised,
and I was about to ask him what he
was driving at when he added that I
might as well unhitch, as the funeral
wouldn't be until two in the after
noon. "Then there were explanations all
around. It seems that the old man's
wife had died, and he had sent to the
nearest city for a funeral car, and had
mistaken our great $10,000 chariot for
It There had been a good deal of
rivalry in the neighboruood in regard
to funerals, and the o'd man had made
up bis mind to outshine them all, and ,
I think he was disappointed in the end
when he discovered that he had been
mistaken."
WORDS OF WISDOM.'
A good conscience is to the soul
what health is to the body. It pre
serves a constant ease and serenity
within us, and more than countervails
all the calamities and afflictions which
can possibly befall us.
To meditate daily, to pray daily,
seems a means Indispensable for
breaking this surface crust of form
ality, habit, routine, which hides the
living springs of wisdom.
Never be discouraged by trifles. If
a spider breaks bis thread twenty
times, he will mend It as many. Per
severance and patience will accom
plish wonders.
To commiserate is something more
than to give, for money is external
to a man's self; but he who bestows
compassion communicates his own
soul.
Despise not auy man, and do not
spurn anything. For there is no man
that hath not his hour, nor bf there
anything that hath not its place.'
Mere ideals, unsecured by deeds, are J
like nnfrauied pictures. They do not
long retain their freshness aud whole
ness and beauty. , . . .
Generosity, to deserve the name,
comprises the desire and the effort 10 .
benefit others without reference ,o
self.
The loveliest things In life are but
shadows, aud they come and go, and
change and fade away as rapidly.
An avowal of poverty is a disgrace
to no man; to make no effort to escape -from
it is indeed disgraceful.
In friendship, as In love, we are
often happier through our ignorance
than our knowledge.
Nothing can be further apart than
true humility and servility. .
Cnbaa Xnsliah.
Many of the visiting Cuban teachers
during their stay in this country
picked up a few worOsand phrases of
English, the meanlug of which they
hardly understood. Near the Univer
sity of Tennsylvania a coal cart driv
er, who was standing beside his team,
started a conversation with a stout
Cuban Seuor, says the Tulladelphii
Record.
"So you're a Cuban, are yoa?" he
asked. t
"Sure," was the rather slangy repty.
"You like this country?"
"All right."
"Were you born In Cuba?"
"Sure."
"How old are you?"
"All right"
This ended the conversation, as the
coalcart driver apparently felt that
his well nie? nt efforts were not ade
quately rewarded.
Ihe Polite Phydt-lan.
A lady of literary fume once re
quested Dr. Reil, the celebrated medi
cal writer, to call at her house. "Be
sure you recollect the address," she
said us she quitted th- room, "Xo. 1
Chesterfield street." "Madam," said
the doctor, "I iu too great an admirer
of politeness not to remember Chester
field, anX I fear, too selfish ever to
forget Number One." Argonaul.