The Corvallis gazette., November 20, 1896, Image 4

BROWN'S THRNKSG1VIH6
It Made This Speculator Think Life
Worth the Living,
AND TO A GAY TYPEWRITER GIRL
It Brought Sweet Peace from Out Life's
Diziy Whirl
EORGE CALDWELL
rowu of Gotham
town the morn be
fore Thanksgiving
From sleep awoke, so
nearly broke life
hardly seemed
worth living.
Now this man Brown
bad been thrown
down by Wall
street's fluctuations:
To rise again seemed
to him then beyond
all calculations.
"My race Is run, I'm
a nlte nndone."
Blown mnsed as he was dressing;
-I never knew things quite so blue nor cred
itors so pressing." , .
And then he took his pocketbook and count-
'- ed np bis money.
The dollars four, there were no more, so few
were they seemed funny.
It made him smile that little pile and then
his blues departed.
For Brown had pluck, believed In lurk for
othose not chicken-hearted.
And to his breakfast gaily down went spec
ulator George Caldwell Brown.
While he drank his coffee hot to his hand a
note was brought,
And the writing on Its cover made him turn
It o'er and o'er.
When at last he broke Its seal Its contents
fairly made him reel;
Made the blood ruBh to his head, for this
was what the letter said:
"George Caldwell Brown. Esq.:
. "Dear Boy It gives me several kinds of Joy
To send a check made out to you to pay the
hundred, long since due.
Ton Madly loaned when I was broke,
"Most sincerely. R. T. CHOAK."
As he picked his way down town, thus
mused Speculator Brown:
On the day before Thanksgiving. Ufa is
always worth the living.
Every cloud has Its silver lining; somewhere.
always, sun Is shining.
Now It really seems to me I should very
. thankful be;
Testerday the sky was murky; now I'm sure
to have my turkey.
But holy smoke! As I'm a sinner, no one's
asked me out to dinner.
Last Thanksgiving I'd a lot of bids to feed.
but this year not a soul, so far, re
members me.
Jlmlny crickets! Well, we'll see."
Thinking thus. Brown stood before bis six
teenth story office door.
"Would or would It not affright her If I
asked my young typewriter
Bow to work this plan," thought Brown, as
he went and sat him down.
And as be read bis letters o'er, be thought
about his plans the more.
And as he thought he grew perplexed, until
at last she thought him vexed.
"To-morrow's Thanksgiving," ventured she.
"A day when all. It seems to me.
Should eat lots of turkey and pumpkin pie,
and all sorts of fixln's that money can
buy." -
Thus quickly to the girl's amaze. Brown
made reply In following phrase:
"And," be went on, "I have a plan, and you
must help me if you can.
Then he told her how the borrowed money
came, .
And how he sorrowed much before It came.
He said: "The landscape blue, it turned to
It filled my heart with thankfulness. It drove
away my wretchedness.
But." he continued, "then I thought of other
men dead broke.
I ought to see some other luckless sinners
furnished with Thanksgiving dinners."
The maiden listened to his words. "You
want my help to buy the birds.
The celery and the pumpkin pies and other
things," she said, her eyes
Bent on the floor. Then he replied: "That's
It exactly; If you tried
Ton could not closer speak my mind.
And further, if you'll be so kind
And help me at the dinner, too.
I'll always grateful be to you."
neach.
and
as sne ustenea to uls speech.
Into it crept a rosy pink, so comely, that It
made him think:
"Well, I vow; In all the city there Is no other
girl so pretty."
So to the market forth they went, on benev
olence Intent.
On the way the girl observed: "Where
will you nave the dinner served?
If you havr not got another place, I'm cer
tain that my mother
- Wotfirt be .happy If you were to have It cook
ed and' served by her."
"A very good Idea, my child." said Spec
ulator Brown, and smiled.
"How many guests, then, will there be?
Have you asked them yet?" said she.
THE DOIXAB3 fOTJH.
"No, by gracious! 'I forgot. When we have
the dinner bought.
I'll find fellows out of work, and bid them
come and feed on turk."
80 they planned and so they talked as to the
market place they walked.
At the market place their eyes filled with
wonder and surprise.
Food was there from all creation; food
enough for half a nation.
"Where does it come from? Brown pro
pounded. Thus a market man ex
pounded :
"Should you ask me whence those turkeys.
Whence those birds of rounded plumpness.
Stripped each one of ruby wattle.
Stripped of all Its glorious feathers.
Drawn and ready for the oven.
There to bake and brown and sizzle
Till the cook, with wise decision, takes It
from the torrid recess.
Beady fir Thanksgiving dinners.
I should tell you, answer I should:
From the plains of Illinois, from the hills
. of Pennsylvania.
From the vales of Massachusetts, from New
York and' from New Jersey,
Where the farmers feed and feed more.
All the summer, all the autumn.
Till Thanksgiving Is not far off;
Then tbey send them to the city.
That New York may not bereft be
Of the pleasures of the table."
"That's enough of rbymeless rhythm; send
two turkeys, and send with them "
Brown began, stopped, perplexed. Turning
to the girl: "What next?"
Then the maiden skillfully filled the order
out. and he paid the bill admiringly.
How Brown went out guests to Invite would
be too long a story quite.
But he scraped up half a dozen, and him
self, the maiden's cousin.
And h-r mutner. all sat down next day to
feast en turkeys brown.
.Who was there? Isaiah Stout, who for six
weeks had been out.
Next to him. contented, sat Candy Maker
Israel Pratt.
With bis wife. John Henry Stiles, employed
in good times making files.
TJIK DINNER.
Jnst across the groaning table sat the boot
black. Billy Cable.
At his right his face a-grln, was the news
boy. Tommy Qulnn.
Ne'er was dinner better cooked, never maid
en sweeter looked.
While the guests devoured and gorged. Cu
pid shackles lightly forged.
Brown's heart was the heart they bound, as
he very quickly found.
And before the meal waa over. Brown was a
devoted lover.
When the guests had gone away Brown ask
ed If be might longer stay.
And to the maiden, with a flush, he told a
tale that made her blush.
"Won't you help me. If you, can, with this
better, sweeter plan?
Don't you see. a wife I need? Most I with
70s hopeless DleadT'
;
Said the maiden: "Of the other plan I coun
selled with my mother.
If to this one she'll consent, to marry you
I'll be content."
Nothing more this scribbler tells; listen now
to wedding bells.
THE night before Thanksgiving the
city was ablaze with lights. The
first snow had fallen and the: air
itself seemed light hearted. The massive
mansions, that surround (iramercy -Park
'were brightly lighted.
In muffled silence a yrjng mnn cloak-
less and gloveless hurried by the iron
bars that fence In the little acre of the
rich towanj his lodging place. "
For five years Jack Fleming had lived
alone. No one knew very much about
him, except that he was a thriftless, in
dolent genius. When his father died the
fortune that might have gone to him had
endowed certain wealth" charitable in
stitutions. His mother had died in his
infancy, and Jack Fleming had grown up
with the servants and hi books for com
panions. He had never seen enough of
his father to love him. In his childhood
Jack had had one friend, Dora Goldth
wait. She was a beautiful girl, several
years his junior, who lived in the house
adjoining his father's, nnd every day one
or the other would climb the. fence that
separated them and drop over Into the
little yard for a romp. Dora was proud
of her protector and plnymate, for even
then Jack was foil of book knowledge,
and Dora soon learned to love Shakspeare
and Milton as read aloud by her hero.
Another great tramping place for the
little people was Gramer.T Park, for both
houses faced the handsome playground
and Mr. Goldthwait and Jack's father
were among the favored rich who pos
sessed keys to the great iron gates that
shut out the children of the poor, who
often 'ined the iron fence and peered
wistfnlly between the bars at the smiling
lawn within.
The children were irsepnrable until
Jack was 15 and Dora 12. Then Jack
went to college, but every holiday found
him at home again, and often books Went
by the board and Jack came home on the
sly to see his little sweetheart. Of course,
on these occasions be was smuggled into
Dora's home, and good-ratured, easy-going
Mr. Goldthwait would have thought
it the basest treachery for any member
of his family to infom his next door
neighbor. Jack's father, that his son was
playing truant.
After three years at college Jack was
hopelessly behind in his studies, and his
father, still ignorant of the reason, called
him a blockhead. One day Jack received
tender, loving letter from Dora asking
him to come home at once, as her father
had jnst received word from England
that he had fallen heir to a large property,
including a theater in one of the large
cities, and the business of the latter was
In argent need of his immediate attention.
The family would sail for England imme
diately, but Dora wanted Jack to go with
them, if he could. few hours after
receiving the letter Jack stood in front
of the Goldthwait residence-on Gramercy
Park. It was closed. No servant an
swered the bell, and Jack's heart fell like
lead. Again he looked it the letter. It
was dated two days before and had been
delayed in the mails. A' home he found
his father, but In a mood in which he had
never seen him before.
"You young rascal!" he,- shouted, as
Jack entered. "So yon nave been wasting
your time next door, instead of studying."
No pleading on the part of Jack could
induce the turbulent old man to tell
where the Goldthwaits had gone.
"Never mind," thought Jack, "I will
hear from her soon, and then "
But no letter came. Weeks lengthened
into months and Jack grew tall and thin.
One day he went np to his college town,
and an inquiry at the postoffiee elicited
the fact that several letters had come, up
to a month ago, but they had been for
warded to Gramercy Park.
That night father and son faced each
other for the last time.
"Where are the letters Dora wrote to
me?" demanded Jack, as be leaned over
toward the old man. who stood smiling
sarcastically in his face.
"I told yon that if yon refused to return
to college you would regret it," was the
reply.
Jack turned on his heel and passed out
of the house.
He fonnd it a harder struggle than he
expected. His income fluctuated from
next to nothing to nothing itself. He be
came first a wanderer among apartments,
then among boarding houses, and at last
an Inhabitant of "furnished rooms," who
ate at cheap restaurant when he could
eat at alt . -
, He had lived a week in a rear hall bed
room on Twenty-second street before be
discovered that its windews were only
separated from those of his old home and
that of Dora, on Gramercy Park, by the
brief New York back yards in which they
used to play together. The Goldthwait
house was dark. It had been ever since
the day Dora left. Next to it, where his
father's mansion loomed up againsf the
trees beyond, lights ware often seen. - But
strangers occupied the familiar rooms.
On Thanksgiving Eve just five years
since l.e had left his old life behind him
Jack went to his dingy little window to
gaze at the two mansions. He shivered
with cold; but the blood rushed qnickly to
his face when he saw the home of the girl
he still loved,', brightly lighted np. For
an instant he stood still, amazed. Then
he sat down on his bed to think. Finally,
downhearted and discouraged, he turned
to a great pile of manuscript and rubbish
on the floor, and picking a book from the
nondescript mass he turned over the
leaves. -
"'Twelve plays ont," he mattered to
himself; "fiveof them probably lost." Only
that day he had sent' his best and latest
comedy to the new English actor who
had arrived the day before. As soon as it
was rehearsed (as he doutted not it would
be) he would send the others in rotation.
For months he had expected success to
come with the dawn of every new day,
and to-night' as he threw himself on his
bed, hungry and broken-hearted, he real
ized the mistake he had made in living in
a dream. He made firm resolutions to re
form, but as his fingers -jlinched in new
born resolve his eyes strayed across the
way again. For the second time that
evening his heart stood b ' ill. Behind the
soft lnce curtains of the Goldthwait man
sion shadows of, peop'e flitted to and fro.
The house was inhabited again but by
strangers, of course,, he thought.
Thanksgiving Day found Jack poorer
and hungrier 'than he had ever been be
fore In his life. For forty-eight hours he
had mt tasted food, but he determined to
breakfast in spite of the almost total
emptiness of his pocketbuok. He turned
his face toward the lowr portion of the
city, determined to accept whatever work
offered itself, but it was a holiday, and
after several honrs spent' in tramping the
quiet streets Jack turne-1 his face home
ward. As he trucged np Broadway a
clatter on the stones behind attracted his
attention and a driverleas cab dashed in
to sight. An elderly, mnn was gesticulat
ing wildly f rom thp Window. With a
bound Jack responded. In another mo
ment the runaway horse stood panting in
the roadway, and Jack's sinewy hand
was on the bit. s
"One dollar to drive me np to Del-
'jjfr
. . "IS THE MTTI.E BACK YARD."
monico's," shouted the man.
"But your driver?'' asked Jack. '
"Drunk in a saloon," was the response.
Without another word Jack leaped np to
the cabby's sent and whipped up the
horse. It was the first time he had ever
earned a dollar by manual labor, and as
he clinched his teeth firmly a flash mount
ed to his cheeks.
When the once familiar restaurant
came into sight Jack thought, with mois
ture in his eyes, of the many times he and
Dora had lnnched in the great dining
room. As he reined up before it, hag
gard and mud bespattered, totally differ
ent from his old self, he started with
amazement. There, standing on the side
walk was the subject of his dream not
the Dora of old. with hhort frock and
curling hair streaming In the wind, but
the beautiful woman into which the years
had changed her.
For a moment Jacik could hardly re
strain himself from rushing forward and
declaring his identity. But a thought of
his clothes and his work made him stop.
He became as anxious to hide his face as
he had been a moment before to tell, his
name.
Dora and her father passed into the
restaurant and Jack earned a second dol
lar by getting a new driver for bis pas
senger's coupe. He passed and repassed
the restaurant in an unsuccessful attempt
to get another glimpse or the woman he
loved before he even satisfied his hunger.-
It was dark before he went back to his
little room and stationed himself once
more at his window to gaze at the lights
in the Goldthwait mansion. He was filled
with a conflict of love and pride. He had
no reason to believe that Dora had not
forgotten him, but his love for her was as
strong as ever. He longed to go to her.
but the knowledge of his poverty and
shabbiness kept him back.
The windows of the great old dining
room were bright with light and their
raised curtains gave him a clear view of
the place where he and Dora had spent
many happy Thanksgiving reunions to
gether. He saw her flitting about ' the
table as of old, putting the finishing touch
es on 'he arrangement of fruits and flow
ers. He could see her plainly. She look
ed even younger and more beantlful than
she had that afternoon in her heavy street
wraps. , '
Half an hour passed and some one else
came into the room a tall, handsome
man. Dora seemed to forget her house
hold duties,' for she hang on the man's
arm and seemed to plea 1 with him. At
lftBt he sat down, and 'hen still another
person came in; it was Mr. Goldthwait.
They sat by the fire, with Dora between
them. She was talking earnestly, . and
the handsome stranger seemed to be lis
tening intently. Occasionally Jack could
see -that Mr. Goldthwarl spoke. : Then
Dora would beam with happy smiles.
Suddenly she jumped up from her seat
and a memeat later when she returned
she had in her hands a flattering man
uscript. She read it. The old smile played about
her lips. The gestures waved the grace
ful hands. It maddened Jack. He felt
that he must be near her once more must
hear her voice again.
A wisteria vine ran down from his win
dow. Clasping the strong, dry stalk. Jack
descended until he stood on the fence so
dear to his memory. Softly he crept along
until he reached the little veranda at the
rear of the Goldthwait mansion, and
peering through the window he feasted
his eyes on the face of the girl he loved.
Jack was overcome as he saw again all
the little details of the room which once
had been so familiar to him. He bowed
"HK SAT ON HIS BED AJTD THOC8HT."
his head. He pushed against the glass
of the swinging window. The window
opened a trifle. Jack started back fright
ened, but the air was stilt outside, and the
Inmates of the room had not noticed.
How he could hear Dora's voice. It said:
' "Now, Mr. Langdon, let me read the cli
max to you before dinner is announced."
Langdon was the name of the English
actor to whom Jack had sent his play, and
as Dora's sweet voice read on, Jack real
ized that it was his own comedy she was
reading.
.The climax was read-red with telling
effect. The two men leaned forward
with interest.
"Capital! Capital!" cr'ed Langdon.
Jack was filled with intense excite
ment. His hands were clinched.
"Do you accept it?' asked Dora, tri
umphantly, of the actor.
"I do," was the reply. ""It is the com
edy that I have been waiting for."
"I will write him to-night, then." said
Dora. The beautiful girl sank back in
her chair and went on: "And now I
will tell yon a story that will explain
why I was so anxious 'o have you take
the play." . -.
1 Jack listened breathlessly. '
. "You see," said Dora," I used to have
a friend here named John Fleming. When
we went abroad I wrote to him, but he
did not answer my letters. I lost sight
of him, but I did not lose my well, my
regard for him." .
"A splendid fellow," interrupted Mr.
Goldthwait.
"There never wao one like him, said
Dora. Then she went on: "Well, when '
- X" vr 1. I . 1. nuA. I
and I began to look aim np, and we found
in the first, place that the reason he had
not answered my letters was because his
father, who was angry at both of ns, had
intercepted them; in the second place,
that father and son were never reconciled,
and that the old gentleman disinherited
Jack when he died, and in the third place
that Jack had been ever since barely
making a living out of literary work and
trying to get some one to produce his
plays.
"We finally got track of him this morn
ing, and this morning also I saw the man
uscript of this play lyirg on the table
where yon had left it when yon brought
it np from the theater. The words "By
John Fleming' : caught my attention at
once, and I picked it np and read it. It
seemed to me so strange that I made np
my mind that yon shouldn't send it back
without reading it, so I read it to yon
myself. And now I shall send for Jack
to-morrow,, and when L. comes I shell
have good news for him. And affd good
news for Jack is Is good news for--for
me," yon see. So I am very happy."
There was a noise of an opening win
dow, and Jack, wild eyed and unkempt,
but rsrj joyful, stepped in. For a mo
ment they did not : re-ognixe him, but
when lliey did
"Well." said Mr. Langdon. -'this elimax
beats anything in your play." -
"Ye." added Mr. Goldthwait. "and it
is doubly good because it will be followed 1
by a real Thanksgiving dinner." New
York Press.
A Tragedy in Turkey.
Through the corn a turkey rustles.
On a fence a small boy sits.
After him the farmer hustles,
v Terrifying his few wits.
" 'Tls the boy." thus thinks the Tnrkeyt
" 'Tls the turkey." thinks the bey.
And the farmer's efforts jerky N
. Fill the wicked youth with joy.
Now that Turkey Is not living.
But no loud lament Is heard, ' -
For the boy upon Thanksgiving
Dined upon that noble bird. , : .
OT1- 1..m. Mil.nlu.ln t? r4m T-li w
and other foreign cities try to keep their
1 j 1 . i : '
national oaj Lj itraai wilu yyc9ptii
dishes.
. "Give Me the Wishbone." ,
A HAPPY MAN.
A USED-UP OLD MINER RENEWS
HIS YOUNGER DAYS.
From the Report, San Francisco, Cal.
.Among the afflicted who have for
years visited San Francisco to braoe np
their shattered constitutions is the
well-known William Shore, of 28
Minna - street, familiarly known as
Daddy Shore, because of his affection
ate disposition and kind-heartedness.
Mr. Shore is the head of a family. He
has a happy home, a loving wife and
children, oity and oountry realty, pay
ing mining investments and a pretty
substantial bank aocotmt For years,
however, he has laoked one thing
whioh all bis wealth could not buy.
He laoked health and spent thousands
of dollars for doctors and medicines to
obtain even temporary relief.
Mr. Shore's greatest and most pain
ful ailment was rheumatism. For
ten years he suffered terribly. At
times the pains were almost unbearable
and he writhed in agony. His limbs
would swell and his head would aohe,
so that rest was impossible.
These spells of sickness were as dis
tressing to his family 'and his friends
as they were weakening to the sufferer.
In San Franoisoo be had the best of
medical skill, but all that the dootors
could do was to afford temporary re
lief. All the health resorts and all
the famous springs of the state were
visited in turn without effecting any
permanent good rsults.
Mr. Shore was about to give up in
despair and settle down with resigna
tion into being a life-long sufferer, when
a San Famoioso friend at whose home
he was stopping told him of some
miraculous cures made by the use of a
certain pill, the name of whioh at the
moment he oould not remember.
Clutching like a drowning man at a
straw, Mr. Shore requested his friend
to make further inquiries about the
wonderful medicine. Next day he was
presented with a box of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People.
Scarcely two days had passed before
Mr. Shore seeemd to get some relief
and he felt very much encouraged and
continued his treatment with steadi
ness and faithfulness. Before a week
was over all signs of swelling bad dis
appeared and his limbs were of normal
shape and size. Relief from pain was
gradual nntil it all went away. The
sufferer was amazed. He could scarce
ly believe his senses, so pronounced be
came the oure in reasonable time. To
say that Mr. Shore is a happy man
does not express the situation. ' He is
brimming over with joy. Although
an old-timer, he is as young as the
youngest, dancing and prancing around,
singing the praises of the medicine that
wrought such a miracle.
There is no secret about his cure.
Mr. Shore is one of the representative
men of the Pacific coast, with hosts of
friends and acquaintances, all of whom
can testify to the truth of the circum
stances related above.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain,
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ica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, the after effects of la grippe,
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complexions, all forms of weakness
either in male or female. Pink Pills
are sold by all dealers, or will be sent
post paid on receipt of price, 50 oents
a box, or six boxes for (3.50 (they are
never sold in bulk or by the 100). by
addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine
Company, Soheneotady, N. Y.
The Show.
"What would you take to see that
performance again?" asked one man
of another as they filed out of a place
of amusement.
"I'd take opium!" was the quick re
sponse. New York Recorder.
A TI5ACIOB8 CLUTCfl
Is that of dyspepsia. Few remedies da more
than, palliate this obstinate complaint. Try
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, however, and you
will find that it is conquerable, along with its
symptoms, heartburn, flatulence, nervousness
and loss of flesh and vigor. Biliousness and
constipation frequently accompany it. These
besides malarial, rheumatic and kidney com
plaints, are also subduable with the Bitters.
Bowan jelly is one of the most indi
spensable adjuncts to game in Scotland.
DKAFNESS CANNOT BK CUR
By local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an In
flamed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed
you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is
the result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever ;
nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed condition 01
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars; free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Bold by druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Fills are the best.
Cod's roe outlets are a special deli
oacy in England.
My doctor said I would die, but Piso's
Cure for Consumption cured me. Amos
Kelner, Cherry Valley, 111., Nov, 23. '95.
In Dae Form.
A man was arraigned in an Arkansas
court many years ago for stealing a
young pig out of his neighbor's pen;
said pig, or shoat, being alleged to be
worth a dollar and a half.
The evidence was conclusive, and the
Jury, after a brief retirement brought
In their verdict "Guilty of hog-stealing
In the first degree."
The judge remarked that the finding
was proper enough, except that it fail
ed to assess the value of the pig; and,
further, that there were no degrees la
hog stealing. He must ask the jury to
retire again, and bring in a verdict In
due form, r
The Jury went out with pen. Ink and
paper, but were badly nonplused over
that word "form.' Finally one of them,
who had formerly been a justice of the
peace, drew up a document to which
the other eleven assented, and with
which all hands returned to the court
room. This was the verdict: "We, the
jeurey, pusllanlmously find the defend-,
ant gllty In the sum of 1 dollar and a
in favor of the"hog.w
"Take away woman," shouted the
orator, "and what would follow?"
"We would," said a man at the back
of the audience, promptly.
Schilling's Best tea is in
packages, sealed air-tight to
keep, full weight, and right
It is cheap besides.' ,
If you don't like it, your
grocer returns your money
in full ys pay him to do it
A tgjHiSfaomeany
TRUMPET CALLS.
i'S) Horn Sounds a Warning Not
to the Unredeemed.
TO be a .'ion is to
have a lion's en
emies. To give less
than we should Is
not to give as God
would.
The man who
gives help to an
other learns how
best to help him
self. No gift will be
t o o small, that
has a heart full of love behind It.
Blessed are the meek. The rabbit
survives, but the wolf is gone.
Suffering of ten. puts into the human
voice a tone that seems divine.
The strongest of all men Is the one
who takes God to be his strength.
Something is sure to be accomplished
by the man who sticks to one thing.
If we see nothing good in others, tbey
will not be likely to see much good In
us.
Not until we know a man's heart
have we any right to say that we know
him.
We would all have less cause to blame
others If we had fewer faults of our
own.
Only God can tell how much wrong
doing is prevented by one man doing
right.
Before we can know much of God we
have to find out a good deal about our
selves. As much bitterness and hate can be
expressed In a word as can be fired out
of a gun
It Is better to be able to suffer long
and be kind than to be able to talk like
an angel.
The man who says no to himself In
nothing has the devil for a traveling
companion. .
The Christian who does not look
happy when he gives dims the polish
on his gift.
The man who would have a large life,
must work and pray that he may have
a large heart
A good man finds good wherever he
goes, because the good In him brings
' out good In others.
I The slothful man can never find that
sweetness In bread which God puts in
It for the diligent man.
We often call upon God to take away
our trials, when what he wants. Is to
give us grace to stand them.
The devil almost gains our consent to
stay, when he proves that nobody else Is
doing anything to make him go.
. There Is probably a time in the life of
every man when his hand almost
touches the philosopher's stone
There will be no revival when th
people can see clear across the house
that the preacher Isn't expecting much.
Every mother should train her chil
dren as carefully as she would If she
knew they were to be kings and
1 queens. .
( Many a man cheats himself out of a
blessing, because he Is not willing to
trust God with the way In which It
shall come. '
I David found the valley of the shadow
' of death a better place than the green
pastures, but it is hard to convince
those who have not tried it that it Is
that way., . . ....
Curious Collections.
A grim collection of relics periodical
ly offered for sale in the French capi
tal, attracts the attention of curio hunt
ers. These collections are formed of
the pieces a conviction accumulates, in
the criminal courts. There are skele
ton keys, packs of cards, roulette-tables,
betting-books and a motley host
of stolen and unclaimed goods. ' The
Assize Court of the Seine, Paris, con
tains revolvers, bludgeons, and such
ghastly souvenirs as the garments of
murderers and their victims. The cu
rious museum ' of a Stafford celebrity
has been visited by thousands, who
have been attracted and amused by
its contents. These consist of gro
tesque figures of birds, animals, and
men, formed from roots of trees,
strangely-shaped stones, and allegori
cal subjects carved in oak panels by
the eccentric owner. A queer collec
tion was formed by a gentleman in
Berlin of boot and shoe heels. The
idea Is said to have been suggested to
him when once on a visit to an ancient
castle, in the company of a Swedish
lady, who happened to lose the heel
off one of her boots. That particular
boot heel became, we are told, the first
and most valued item in the entire
collection of over a thousand speci
mens. A more than usually interest
ing collection was the exhibition of his
torical gloves in Paris. There were on
view, to the delight of relic hunters,
gloves from the time of the Romans,
also those worn by a Greek lady of
rank at a public festival, besides old
French and English gloves. Among
the latter might be noticed three pairs
once worn by Queen Elizabeth, which
proved that the band of good Queen
Bess was anything but a small one; in
fact most of the ancient gloves were
remarkable for their size. .Either
gloves were much looser then, or small
hands are a peculiarity of modern
times.
The Ball Before Waterloo.
- Wellington's conduct is a riddle.
About the middle of the afternoon he
was informed, through the Prince of
Orange, as to his enemy's movements.
With perfect calm, he ' commanded
that his troops should be ready in their
cantonments; at five he issued orders
for the divisions to march with a view
to concentration at Nivelles, the east
ernmost point that he intended to oc
cupy; at ten, just as he was setting out
for the Duchess of Richmond's ball, he
gave definite instructions for the con-.
centratlon to begin. About twenty
minutes after the Prince of Orange had
reached the ballroom Wellington sent
him quietly away, and then, summon
ing the Duke of Richmond, who was
to have command of the reserve when
formed, he asked for a map. The two
withdrew to an adjoining room. Wel
lington closed the door, and said, with
an oath, "Napoleon has humbugged
me." He then explained that he had
ordered his army to . concentrate at
Quatre Bras, adding, "But we shall
not stop blm there; and if so, I must
fight him here," marking Waterloo
with his thumb-nail on the map as he
spoke. Century.
Woman's Reason.
Surprised Dame What? And you
have refused Mr. De Goode? I thought
you liked him.
Lovely Daughter I, did. but to tell
you the truthb none of the other girls
seemed to care a snap for him. New
York Recorder." " , : ' 7 . 1
V man without enthusiasm Is a very
poor friend, bat he takes good care of
himself. ' ' - '
This Is the season when those per
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kBj fr"lt.
Aniflo-Saxon and English Languages
The English language In use to-day
in books and newspapers is the lineal
descendant of the Anglo-Saxon, spoken
and written by the people of the time
of Alfred the Great just as the French
now spoken In Paris descends from the
French used by the subjects of Louis
the Stammerer, who lived at about the
same period as Alfred. Both have
changed, but the changes In the French
have been by what may be called inter
nal development, while in addition to
this factor, the English has accretions
from many sources. The. wonderful
success of the English-speaking peo
ples as merchants and colonists has
had its Influence on their language,
which now contains words from almost
every language and dialect on the globe.
War Between China an 1 Japan.
The recent conflict between China
and Japan began with the declaration
of war by the Mikado July 27, 1884,
and closed with an armistice, after
ward made permanent on March 29,
1S95. Ostepsibly begun by the Japan
ese for the purpose of forcing reforms
in Corea, then a dependency of China,
but In which Japan had large commer
cial Interests, It was really one of those
contests for supremacy which, sooner
or later,, are bound to come between
neighboring and rival States. The dif
ficulty In Corea was merely the occa
sion; the real cause was the Intense
rivalry between China and the Japan
ese empire.
Bis Other Eye.
"Ball one!" yelled the umpire.
"Good eye!" shouted Chimmy.
"Strike one!" the umpire called.
"Dat's his odder eye," explained
Chimmy. Indianapolis Journal.
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