ACROSS THE WAY.,
joa no friends across tbe way!
Mjr littW city darting laid; -''And
wnao there comes a rainy day.
Can't you look out. and nod your bead
To some one else, as I can do
To Will and Fred and baby Sue?
I beard you tell mamma today w
.' Ton bad -no friend across tbetay.
"But Thare friends dear friends." I cried.
With quick, remorseful thought of home.
"A band of brothers, side by side.
To ereet me if 1 co or come. -
Bow dear they are. I cannot sayl ' . .
Nor how it cheers me day by day
To see across the valley far.
Bow strcng and beautiful they are!
"And you should see the robes they
Their mantles thick and soft of green.
, Thea rainbow tinted, yet more fair.
Or ermine wraps with, silver sheen.
But yet I think 1 love them best
When, all in somber shadows dresV
Their broken ranks in siience lie
. Beneath the solemn midnight sky.
"Sometimes a misty curtain drawn
Betweea'us hides these friends from me;
But when at sunset it is gone.
Dear child, how fair the sight I seel .
For where the nearer ranks divide.
The gates of glory open wide; .
And lo! in that unearthly light
The farther hills transfigured quite;
While yet another and another
Peeps o'er the shoulder of his brother.
And smiles through rosy mist and seems to sav.
'Heaven lies beyond us such a little way.' "
- . 13uch friends are nice," she softly said,
"For any one as old as you;
And when I'm old and you are dead.
Perhaps m go and see them too.
But now I'd rather watch to see
Children across the street from me;
And nod to . Will, and play peep-bo
With canning little baby Sue.'-
Susan H. Ludlum in Harper's Bazar.
Two Doctors.
Almost every one has made his jest
about the pronenesa of doctors to dis
agree, the one prescribing exactly an
opposite conrse from that ordered by an
other; but not every one has had anop
portunity to conduct such an experiment
on was uiaus oy me tare tsaron i-iutz,
formerly rjrime minister of Rv-ri
The baron was once severely wounded
m Dame in ootn legs. The wound in
one leer was much lilrp t.hnr. i-n fVia ntlior
It struck him that here was a chance to
study the ways of the surgical profession
anu oegnue ine long Honrs or his con
valescence. He accordinclv mllori ir.
one doctor and gave him charge of his
right leg, but told him nothing about
ine wouna in the other, and then called
in another surer eon for hin lnft. loo- bann
ing him similarly in ignorance about the
a a , ,
wouuueu ngnt leg.
The doctors ado-ntod
method of treatment, but both wounds
healed at about the sune time. When
the baron's legs were quite well he de
rived a great deal of amusement from
getting the doctors together and mysti
fying them with questions about the
way each had treated ' 'his leg. " Tooth's
Companion. .... -W.;.
Curious Old Indian Kln-n.
. About five miles above Morven ' is a
mystery which the people of that com
munity cannot explain. In a hummock
near the river are two complete circles,
one 90 and the other 140 feet in diameter,
the smaller circle inside the larger.
The circles, which are much like those
left by ' a circus performance, are com
pletely barren of vegetation of all kinds.
These circles have been there since the
xecoll'ection of the oldest citizen, and
jjoue know how or when they came
there, ft must be that they are Indian
signs, relios pf by gone days, when the
svage warrior WW lord tf all he sur
veyed. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. .- ' .
L Hich ruyallup Indians.
- There are scores of Indians on the
reservation worth from $50,000 to $3!0,
000 each, und when the reservation Is
thrown open by congress, as it will be
in a very few years, there will be in
Pierce county a dozen or two of the
richest Indians in the United States.
Following are the names of some of the
wealthy Indians:
Mrs. Joseph Douette, a full blooded
Indian widow, with $250,000; Chris
Laughlet. a widower, with 120 acres and
G0,000; Joe Coates, 1C0 acres and $30.
000. and the Coates family, worth $123,
000, are some of the richest. Puget
Sound News.
Hebrew Choirs,
In such of the Hebrew synagogues of
- this town as employ paid choirs many of
the singers are Christians who are totally
unacquainted with the Hebrew tongue
and alphabet. By way of aid to such
members of the choir hymn books are
printed in Roman letters.. The lan
guage, however, is Hebrew, and the
singers really sing what to them is non
sense verse. Musically, however. , the
result is fine and the choirs of several
synagogues are famous. New York Let
ter.
Tomato Pol ho nine.
A singular disease has just been called
to notice by a prominent physician. It
is a form of recession of the gums of the
superior molars, which is said to be due
to the use of tomatoes as food. Great
sensitiveness is manifested along the line
of recession, similar to that of an ex
posed nerve. The only remedy has been
xouna to De aDstmence from tomatoes.
If the disease continues the teeth fall
out; not usually more than one being
lost in a season. New York Commercial
Advertiser. .
Washington's ThankogivUiff.
The first Thanksgiving proclamation
of Washington as president of the United
fc tales was made in New York on Oct 3.
1789, setting apart Thursday, Nov. 26. of
that year, "to be devoted by the people
of these states to the service of that great
and glorious being who is the author of
all the good that is. that was, or that
will be." Exchange.
-. The most interesting feature of Mr
. Gladstone's face is bis eyes. 'They ai
described as of a "splendid, flashing.
dark brown color.'' They show his tire
and genius, and give bis face an ever
changing expression.
.Mexico is cauea a republic, but as a
matter of fact it is governed by an
oligarchy of landlords. Some of these
men own vast domains, one possessing
6,000,000 acres of land.
1.4 ilNo,.VottU.T U W :VTad.J !j- ,
There are times when wc.-d -fail ade
quately to express the force of pent up
Feeling. A portly, elderly , gentleman
itood at the Brooklyn bridge ticket win
dow, got his ticket, and, glancing' to
ward .the . step, saw the vanishing heels
of several scainp?rin passengers flying
nn m hrnui m,. arau -mt fm I, n Pr
ing up his change he dashed past the
ticket box, dropping his ticket deftly in,
and, cording up hisr tendons. b"gan the
ascent of the ' steps as rapidly as his
portly frame would allow. He wheezed
and puffed and gasped, but struggled on.
His ears caught the rush of a train com
ing down along the platform, and he
felt that to catch It his time was short,
' He strained hard on up the stairs, the
veins on his forehead standing out like
cords with the effort. Finally with a
deep gasp he gained the top just as the
cars rolled up to stand stiU. A broad
smile of satisfaction spread itself slowly
over bis glowing features as he stepped
toward the cars. It was a hard pull,
but he had gotten there. He was no
doubt mentally congratulating himself
upon his success when the voice of a
bridge policeman suddenly sang out on
the night air with, "This tram don't
gor New. York Times. ,
Bridget and the Speaking Tubes.
There never was anything like that
girl's terror of the bell-and-tube arrange
ment in our flat. The first time a caller
came she rushed in to me with eyes like
soup plates and gasped out: - "Mann!
Marm! There's somebody a whistling
somewhere, and, if you please, I don't
Know where! I explained and encour
aged her to put her ear to the tube and
get the message. She never did it with
out first crossing herself: I know she
was convinced the whole process was
operated from a place considerably south
or our lower hall.
I urged her the next time she heard
the call to -go to the tube and call "Yes?"
The whistle came; and, my dear, the
roar she sent down that tube would have
raised the scalp of a Pawnee Indian. 1
fled downstairs in terror to see what ef
fect it had had, and Mrs. De Nerfs yon
know what a shattered condition she is
in, just recovering from nervous pros
tration! was sitting on the lower sten.
quite limp and faint, clasping her vin
aigrette. "Martha," she said, "even if
you didn't want to see- me, why need
you fire a gun down the tube?" Boston
Commonwealth.
- Slim Jim's Strategy. '
.During a lull in. business the dealers
in the "Ma'sh market" occasionally get
together and swap yarns to kill time.
The other day a German butcher gave
in his experience of a "beat" as follows-.
"Dere Vas a tramD Used to hanir arnrmrH-
de market vot we called 'Slim Jim.' He
looked like he vas yust about starved
most of de time. He come to my stand
und picked up a string of sausages and
hoHt it up and say, 'How much is dis?
Pefore I could sav a vort a lean enr
dog jumps up, snatches abondt dree
pounds of sausage, and was off.
"De man yelled and say, 'Take off
VOUr doT. j Vat for VOIl 1mn tano-arnim
. w- -- - " wru..' vw
animal to bidte your gustomers?' I oga-
piainea aot it vos not my dog, but he
Vent awav shwearinc Dot Tollm- aa i
aftervords foundt ondt. ownedt rl An
and had him trainedt for dot biznesa.
He followedt him to th KmitharvmaT,
grounds and got de sausage. Pooty goodt
trick, don't it? But I bate von rW. 'sn
Jim' don't come aronndt bv mv stall
some more." Washington Post
What's In a. Name.
In the Massachusetts Reports, if one
would take the trouble to look there or.
indeed, whether one looks for it or not
there is one of the coincidences which
do so much to keep the theory alive.
Therein it is recorded and set forth how
one Aquarius Breen was convicted of ad
ulterating milk. It must be evident to
any theorist that the name was respon
sible for his departure from the paths of
probity. How could it be expected that
a man with the name Aquarius would
fail to water his milk? - -
His whole conscience might rebel
against the sin. but bis destiny was set
tled when he was christened, and how
could he resist it? Had justice been
done punishment in this case would
have been meted out, not to Aquarius
tireen, but to the parents who by inflict
ing upon him such a name had made it
impossible for him to do otherwise than
to water his milk. He was the victim
of circumstances over which he had no
control whatever. Boston Courier.
It Didn't Work. .
A HallQwell husband tried a suicide
scare on his wife with ill success. The
couple had quarreled, and the husband.
taking a bottle of red ink, 6trewed part
on the floor and daubed the remainder
on his throat Then he laid down on
the bed, feigning death. , The wife came
into the room, saw her husband and at
once comprehended the - trick. " "My
God!" she exclaimed, "he's committed
suicide. I must get the neighbors to
help lay him out."
She then left the room, and returning
& few minutes afterward saw that her
husband had moved. "He has turned
over; I guess he'll -live," she remarked,
and he did live. Cor. Boston JournaL
Transplanted Britons. " .
Transplanted to new countries, such
as Australia, the British race becomes
very much more vigorous and of better
physique. i Yet in Australia, strange to
say, the children of British emigrants
are more likely to nave decayed teeth or
to lose them earlier than their parents.
Probably the soft foods requiring little
mastication with which we are pam
pered in modern times is one of -the rea
sons for dental decay. London Tit-Bits.
. Heretofore reports in relation to the
comparative power of different illumi
nants, as seen through fog and haze,
have been against the electric light
Lately,-however, .three, prominent En
glish scientists say that when the elec
tric light is deprived in a measure of itg
highly refrangible ways by the haze ita
further progress is not more cut down
than the light from oil or gas.
BLESSEDNESS ' OF ferVINO.
Philosophy of Blakinz Gifts and Why
:t -j . Doing So Gives One Pleasure.- ) .
There most bo something yery good in
human nature or people would not ex
perience so much pleasure in giving:
there" must be' something very J? ' m
human nStnfe otmonj people would try
me eipf i lLu-ui vi giyuig. 'iuosb wno
do try it become enamored of it and get
their chief pleasure in life out of. it; and
so evident is this that there is some basis
for the. idea that it is ignorance rather
than badness which keeps so many peo
ple from being ' generous. Of course it
may become a sort of ' dissipation;, or
more than that, a devastation, as many
men who have what are called "good
wives" have reason to know, in the grad
ual disappearance of thir nrirlrnlw if
they chance to lay aside any of it temrj
poraruy. ; . ;..:; , .
The amount that a good woman can
give away is only measured by her op
portunity. Her mind becomes so trained
in the mystery of this pleasure that she
experiences no thrill of delight in giving
away only the things her husband does
not Want. Her office in life is o teach
him the joy of self sacrifice. She and
all other : habitual and irreclaimable
givers soon find out that there is next to
no pleasure in a gift unless it involves
some self denial. ......
Let one consider seriously whether he
ever gets as much satisfaction out of a
gift received , as out. of one given. It
pleases him for ? moment, and, it is
useful, for a loiV, -Amo: he turns it over
and admires it; he may value it as a
token of affection, and it flatters his self
esteem that he is the object of it But
it is a transient feeling compared with
that he has when he has made-a gift
That substantially ministers to his self
esteem. He follows the gift; he dwells
upon the delight of the receiver: his
imagination playsabout it: it will never
wear out or become stale; having parted
with it, it is for him a lasting possession.
It is an investment as lasting as that
in the debt of England. Like a good
deed, it grows, and is continually satis
factory. It is something to think of
when he first wakes in the morning a j
tune wuen most people are badly put to
it for want of something pleasant to
think of. This fact about giving is so
incontestably true that it is a wonder
that enlightened' people do not more
freely indulge in giving for ' their own
comiort. it is, above all else, amazing
mat so many imagine they are going to
get any satisfaction out of what they
leave by will. They may be in a state
where they will enjoy it if the will is
not fought over; bnt it is shocking how
little gratitude there is accorded to a de
parted giver compared to a living giver.
He couldn't take the property with him,
it is said; he was oblisred to leave it t.n
somebody. -
By this thought, his generosity is al
ways reduced to a minimum. ' He may
build a monument to himself in anma in.
stitution, but we do not know enough of
1 1 . , . . . .
iuw wwiu rc wmcn ne nas gone to know
whether a tiny monument on this earth
is any satisfaction to a person who is
free of the universe. , Whereas ' every
giving or deed of real humanitv done
while he was living would have entered
into his character, and would be of last
ing service to him that is. in anv fntnra
which we can conceive. Charles Dudley
warner in tlarpera.
Bress of Americana.
Americans are the best dressed men of
all nations that wear what is known as
European attire coat, pants and vest
The English are outlandish and the
French too foppish, but the American is
known throughout Europe by the quiet
richness and practical fit of his clothing.
I often reflect upon this when lounging
about the brilliantly lighted assembly
room of the Southern hotel, as I note the
faultless attire of the gentlemen, partic
ularly those from the east and the large
cities of the central states, as they spend
a half hour before going out to the thea
tre or other engagement. The English
tourist, with his abominable "fit," is as
easily recognized as a western miner. A
New Yorker can be told at sight; so can
a Chicago man: the latter more by his
manner perhaps than his clothes. Inter
view in St Louis Globe-Democrat
American Shears tbe Best.
' English scissors are still called for by
ladies, but tailors and others using scis
sors in their daily work have long since
ceased to look for the Sheffield mark.
This is very significant, and the fact
that a tailor insists on American made
shears is a great compliment, as the very
best article is needed in cutting out gar
ments. - Ten years ago English scissors
brought double an apparently similar
article of American make. Now. the
most costly shears in these days are of
home manufacture, and every year a
greater quantity . of them is being ex
ported. It is the boast of an eastern
house that they ship shears regularly to
Sheffield, and by so doing discount the
oft repeated story and fable about "ship
ping coals to Newcastle." Interview in
St Louis Globe-Democrat .
. A Speech That Was 3iot Heard.
Once a speech that was to be delivered
by a well known political orator in Mu
sic hall never reached the public, al
though it had been carefully prepared
and was in type in the offices, of all the
morning dailies. The speaker was pres
ent at the meeting all ready to address
the great audience, but the. time con
sumed by tho speakers who were given
precedence was so great and the audi
ence so wearied that the hall was cleared
before the presiding officer had a chance
to do more than to shout after the re
treating forms that the meeting was ad
journed. -r-Boston Transcript
Thomas Silver-thorn, "a hotelkeeper at
Coral, Mich., has a spectacle case five
inches long that dates back to the misty
past . The lid and bottom are of brass,
the sides of copper. On the lid and op
posite side are seven . rude engravings,
and under each is written in the Polish
language tbe scriptural account of the
birth of Christ. It is claimed to be from'
BOO to 600 years old.
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