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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 189?-190? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1895)
AN OPAU I j " " " wr,mlil llt tr lla pale wit hers. ( h lrv,M1iMU bnttitt lira rvftolMi , unfwl dwlh- Ueulf . , .,,, iirolh lir rrhlif white. h,h T tint she Jl' lil' th iiw "Wr l1" ,,M'' h" lniiliM 01K riUST CASK. . ..iiiiij In nnr little room J'Jll 'h ,,,,"'f A ;i"T . ..i .... liiiliiiiftiiti.lil Iv V.'h .i'li' ' . n,mf!i-l "uVn ""r f"r"M'". ''III mil anoni 111 11 In .i liiir"4" ' . ... al.i.. t-iulillifiiil IiIiki -j, ml'"'"1 ""- " '!L1-i.r ,,f l,Ml1 '' . ..i.linllr Willi unit iniiM'tii "". i ,.,il Unit wo vvern J""t ''" L sunt"' "' , . m .1 ...I. u Mull MfTuril lit alii -l) T"l '""'" " ' . ....Lf" nAil Knlhl'fii P" . - I . . ..r..l IVlll ll". .C,iii' uiH'ii" M'ericiiee, 'Awl win "'" "i""- - u " 1 addnl. "Tli" woml of II I Ilm h.,inn "" J""'' "f ,,,ir 'lu. '" "" 'i,,"" w ""y dy-" .jllllu'll hlldll.ilV.I. in the nr-xt few . II ....I In i.llllH Kit Ml. ill lllll ift" I mill "Such thing oceinlunal- Ml"''1 . . .... .fLur nil I if lea. Ainu. tine nf --.--.- . J K.illil'" ll- rullHHU to lit . .i . ia i ' drank Imlf "' '' I ". I ktn'l l'ur Uiy wwilJ .ijr taii'll'w'r """K IK'" ,,",,l""r' "U,J . hkt I'lirnl III Uh'U Ud wa wi nfrniil 1 nlintiM flntl sunt." I'" riil Ho u.t Irili d ,ai; n lo Imvi" Imlliliir, " iiniil "Al Imihl liao lli ViTJf -1W T' nt thlx Urn " f l'i.'" H Lhc IwhiI l u kIk'uIiI" hiivn ,,4 pm tiH-w ll"r. Hiiro" ii vit -;iir Bt 1 1 ovlm-k. Nmiiiir. llmiik a. m1,,i liiniMlf iiuiifiirtitlilT l-fir Ljr. uihI i.i'l-l In ll" l''l'v bmix-lf l'"i """ iln.nvil i if III In lilllill K Jit ll I,"JW"H ,8i.l I f.irrnlniniKKl imtry wrU l' u "Vlll ' - - u-il "I iiiii'IhiwU ymi Mliiiil'-rliikd i vi'ry (niiuful i'ii" ' J' i lUrtUiiil I v. r hiviril uf liiini'" Nil." I IHIHWI-Il'll Thul mini mi lil l vn Iih-ii il''i'l j,P if lii IiikIh t li(H'fii"l nil , Tin in"" l' " tf" M"ii"ilii!ii I Afrt U 11 'II I" uf lllir- f'T ll"'!. ? i w l.y rnmk Will ynu uiiili rtakn Tull "iii nnir nlxwt h". Hit livr III IliirtlnlKl Hollow 1 Hwjriu know tlml jurl?" So." fcUil Kuililii.iul lr 1'in kla ml nlnviil, ll n inlli. Inimly, but I UHwn y.m 'iminil llnil"'" hi tlio li-iwl." i'l I "Woiirti iiVrof ih trm 1)!h1 Willi ihtviw I" iff the I'-ii. " V.m ll iiml mi mill thiTrt I'tit tlm ihmiin nml hi wtfi', nil ol.l ciiijiIh. i ll Imvti lo tlocvitrytliintfyoiinwiviii, j fmnL Whim eiui yuu l rcmly? '(juki tirp'tit. " sTdlinmiiMil to K tluit nnrnioii mm m lr I'm-kln l'ft . Kiithlii-u ftii'l ld a lailuwliiliriiiuiu In Imnoritf oiir iam. ifefuuiul ourwlvin In-furo n low. rnm ImililuiH Ml oVI.K-k tluit nfi'-r-m Tlm wiillu w-ro thickly covtiml Hty mill riwjwrw; tnlt lw anted It, wliirli lout nn tiirof myK'i7 the i1uii A mili'iiin himli wiw on it, "Itln'i'liillv iifU'niiKin f"K wii riHiiiK I ho- ihiTK'n a K""'' ,lri''" wIHi'r' Kathlinn, hIivitIII Tito k.iijmI of llm ImlUvnmniinW and '! to ismiii frtiiii uiiili'rjfroiiiid n- i Wo hiul to rm tlir" tuiif my oim ili.mht ot niiMWiTiiiK our -amoim. Then thoiloor wan '1hi IMioniily. nml nn ohl womiui jioohhI MOUl llf linr M?tlM!lOH "Oh, bo yon tho iiiihw'?" he mum "4 "Yon tuny oomo In. " "Unw kind I" mkI Knthlocn lu my ' " Don't yon fiil Krt"'io1' Atn"'. tllia irr nM iwivanluillllll V Kiin.i"un R' Sb wmttMl till our trii woro dcp 4 in the hall, iiiim ahut ami loukwl "One ncrpr knowa what may hnp- ho iiinnniinMl. njioaklng w ,1, r" Her flUllilllCIIHt HUHpiclouHBluulow if. tlie low, (tiu k ImlL we ''" tlm iImm! nf ainm lU WO followed hn,,...i .......... -I Kim told W HHi.H up n. 11, , FPwuiiKWie (Jin'unuit nxiinn and iu- IrinaJ t. Imm U'Offt I'imj uh VII lib WIU1U vt fnited, but alio didn't rightly know aica. i. i. I" vifld I "iiui a nmiRimui mmnc. -fwhliwn aloud, mid her roioo n-iioi'd 'May and dmturhod the lirootunK 1 wuiitwl to IiiikIi hor, for 1 kept lingM if 1 worn al church. "Sochuor- rmiK out hor votca " "That u v.i.ir .ni.1 our irnlde. 'ipping at the top of tho tnir to n, "and tlmt'a me now"" -tlmuho turned and went into the 'ilk Wit Kionn wo hud left bohiud. ano wo i ij 1 m V.IIMM1IL70 u.irw'ivoa aukimiiiK " Idill l i..i- II tnmn. With -v- ujr a allium biiiuu "- J bag in onr hnn.U and our hearU p'UR mthcr rapidly. . I "I thoiiK,t there niunt be iomething Pw about it," said Kathlocu- hri( . " In... -m-...nA "NoW. M iutroduoe oureelvM to our pa- ''"or to onr room?" L, .."or rootn Brat." aaid B-amuj-kwp the beat treat till the end. wa not an ideal room wu"-" -f prepared for oh, nor overelean ;bnt, K2iki. ; j Ki.ih able tw n1,fcii,.irttfl(,r((lir,llw Itrul( H...i.i.wir,,,i,,,wll(1,,lWi,lHl)Mt))) J Ilf-lli fllili, ,! ' " 'I'" !'"!'"! Ilmt Hwiw III fur iiim ll ;;lt;.,tl.orr,l,ly,,1,l'.m,,,)1,mi,)H W.ill. n.y .l.,,r, ,v,Ut nil ttllV( iK f.im y.m flint llii.wiiw Whi.,1 tmt old Imjf'a liUl,t., lllir ,Uv tW(llinK, Imlf liml " 'liMillii!,,.,,",.,!,! I. "that mm,,,, a well hKl.i it imm-lvi. If vrnwuiit,,,,,, at all " '"riii'ii..iM a miK.ral.iiiiilUiM-i,f . ""I nml crimtniK UiIiikn," .u, KiiiIi M o, v iimnliiM ihiMiiriiora of Dm p,,,,, 'I'm rmhiT fund nrniililrr Am yiHi?" "n Hit. whi.l..." mmwiTi-il, " pro fcr iny iHilrmuii fnm nf Hi. in. ' 'That In a pilr." mild Kiillilmu. "U-t ik imw pi mid iiiiikn tlm ac nn i it t ii in i nf nnr .iilii'iil," 1 hiki-hIciI tur K.mln km. k wim imt aimwi nd. an wo wi lit In in, 1,1,1.1, n, J. .lull iluitliiiid wiu tyiii)) In mh hri'iithiiiK In iivily III, wan an old limn llm Kkiu wiw im ynllnw an a liiiinu f.ijj, hm cyiw wnr wi miiiki'ii undi-r ulniKKy brow Hint at fln.t mht Im fui'mnd to Imvn iiiiini Tli r-h nn wuMciinif.irtlinii hi i-uii' Thp Urn wim in-nrly out, nml an iiiilrliiiiniMl lit in p Kiiiokiil iipnn tlm tiil.ln hy Inn ImiI. lb tiiiiHil nn, I ulunil at iu "Twiinf you I" lmrt imt anluirp, thin vnlii', KliirtlniH in "Two I I don't wiuil two tlni' iiiilnrnnliiill. I 'ill lint Kollig to pay two to do tlm wurk fur nn. " " lint nun i f ua him to Nit tip with you at uiKht," Kind I In a i-hivrful, mkiIIiiii tmii' "Wlniidn y.m wuiitwith alwp?" lm irttiwlid, " A Kr,'"' Mnippln jjirl like y.m oiikIiI to !' nl'l" to do willmut it II. n Jiiiiiimi i-iiiim in?" "Wim In .liiunur" "Jiiiiiih, Iiu'n my pniii lmiuii, of riuirMv Who i-mi did y n think hn wiih'i' Kihk ll,,' I-II, nui't yim't I trll y,m I want J.iiiii In itiinc up IIo'n Ihi ii riillii-tinu my riiiiH I wmit to im-o Ii in ulxnit tin-in " "It'a rnilti-r Into in tlin dny to Ut do lii l.ntni'." :ild Kuililii'tt ll.i iiirnii. nml unrrd at her. "WIio'n tli.il ' ' ho adkiil, xiiutiu ill hrr ilh a U'liy linger. "She I yniir iitinn," Mid I. "Krinl Iht nwny, thi'ii. Onn'a quite fin hikIl I tu m it K"H'K I" ny wo nurHCH, I iill yoit I eiii.'iii,i d ynii, but I iitvcr ptiKHrPtl bi'r Scud her awuy I" "JiiHt now," I niiiiwi'ird, "I inn Koinu awny. and your imvoiiiI Hum" will hIjiv' Willi you. 1 uliiill ait up with you to uiKht, i I urn K"ii'K to rent now. " K.illilix-n folliiwitl nu'toihixlntir.look itiK h(htly K'iireL "I winIi you Joy, diiir," aaid L "Wo Imvn n lb I.Klitfnl ciim for our flint !" When I awnLn from my nap. 1 found Knthlifii by th Urn in our room nml a un-ti liltln tmvil waitttift fur inn "U.n'1 iluiiik Mm Juinn for thnt." wild ulin. "or t-jpift to find mu h thiiiK ! isrowliiK in Hit Iiounm. If you are him- j;ry. ymi iniiM K i'ni" iiimuh in thn hu-der for aotiii'thiiin to oat If yon ilm eeniiiH which distill- j kiiikIiih cvcnihliiK I do, probably you won t find ouytliuifl At uu ni-iim, tnkii fni-ly now. for yon Imvn a lonu uiK'ht Ix-foie yu. " Shi' wii very tired, and I left her to nIi nn iHWt iin could in our Hpider IiiiiiiiKhI room Wu HimplynMoniKhcd nt tho rlimiRv Kathltt'tl Imd wniiiKht in tlm hickroom. The only thinn which hcciihnI the mimii wim our patient, nml he lookinl cleiincr. Kiithlc'titif'"rW11"1 told melliutaho hud never found it ho difllcult to a.wuiulo wiy oil" to let her wuwh him. "Ha nlie K"n,'?" tl'li'",, J1'11'1 "Ye; Nhe' koiiO to Intl." miid L "(lonoto IhmII WIiow'ImhI? I won't have her alecping in ono of my UhU. " " Yea, if all riBht." I Haul, and now you must let mo ""t'lo fl,r ,hc "'"Yon aren't K"'K to wanh mo !" be cried "Tho other one hua just done it "No. no, if all right I won't wash Ton attain tonight " . When he had taken hi niedicitm am', wna aettleil comforUibly. I 'l by tho Uro in the darkeniHl room, nml Htnmgo oughtacamotoma How wa. it that y life had drifU'd into thin? Five years I w,i a thoughts girl, with H.,.rce I r a fiiitt iH-votid droM ami plcnKiiro and ,ri0 w "waxte" my youth like tin T ,ey were a.n'-.Hod. and could not nee thruuKh 'y ,0 d0 on,othl,W ,nW" f, n in tho worl-l However it wan. bore fo ,, mwlf. Klrlwho hn.1 born .1.1. h I, fr-'"" roughing w" So ot life, in the very presence of Sfforing and death, playing '-.nm 1 not im conm'ionH of hia condition, fi? SZo in hi IhW and lonely 'mHo w thout one friend or Relative .to Sttohiui. Itwa amid caof,r our first t Uwmore and more mlcnt A. my bm-k. Tbn , nu(, the d.Htanco 1(, Uavwn. Aft- U,an the w.nd- P'.tcr Tm not aniili- ignorance, and tiia f ought to dmpj B I l had th"w 1 i t,.h me mv rent book. " ..(jo and fetch me my I nearly ("creamed. "18TU" a nereuade him to lio dovii that to quiet hint I Wiin oIiIIim to yield. "Whern Im 1(7" I askeil It wiw down tnlrd In one of thoM liorrlliln ii. wi I ei ridiiiiM. "Wnulihrt yoo riitber wait till the niomlugi'" m.ki'd. "No, fetch It now, now I Ihwldo, Iheii you etui imk round and m-e thnt there am mi burglar iilxiiit. T hey know I'm ill, and that I've got u great aiim of money her. I'm only waiting till 1 get td'llor hi tnkn It inym lf to tlm bank. " lint voice grow wilder ami wilder. He urged inn on, and I went, fur nothing I Imi could quiet lilui 1 took alighted ininlli) with inn, ami un I found my way down tlm creiikiiig Maim my heart thuii.H'd ngaiiidt toy alihi I iiiii Hum heard a low growl at the foot of theHtuim. Ah the dickering light nf my caudle moved onward liitliiul.u k liN it Keenied to ilinierKe count Ichm dlind iiwn that hiul dim HliaiM-a. I thought I mi w the out line of a grinning head Mm. Juiii-k hail ."aid Noinoof tlnwo room were lmiintid iqiKiiiig thin one wnal Something MMitt led away. I Net my en ti ll In down, af i aid 1 nil, mid drop it, my hand wtu. treu.hllng ho. Hunii'tliing fell with a thud mi the table, and that wait Phi much for tn. Snatching up my can die, I turned and lied. T'hccandl.t went out, but I lie f.fhlo flicker of the lamp up Hi :ii rn guiilod me, and 1 Mumbled on, not during to take, a breath till 1 found myw If nine mure in tho Hickroom. 1 have dinrii found out that the library wiih HWiirining with cockroachc and mien. Old Jiwlah had fortunately fallen into a .Wit', hii 1 nettled iiiym-lf in my chair again, having gently mado up the lire. Would iIiih uwful night never pttMN? It wan now il o'clm k, and it a.Mmcd like the beginning of eternity. Tick, tick, tick I What waa that? Tick, tick, tick I I knew it wiih the death spider. I had heard of the horrid thing before, nod hud not ln-lii'vi-,1 in iu cxiMoiicc. lint 1 had never lieforo sK'i.t a night with a dying mini in n hiiuuled liouwi. I stole softly to the U'dsidc, but lie wiih sleep ing nicely I In hud several day U) live still. "Well, how did you get ou? What sort of a night had yon?" Kathlii'ii was liko a breeze. Iler voice swept off the vaHirs of the night "lleuutiftilly," said L "I have had a delightful night. " "When shall 1 get better?" asked our patient " What'a the gissl of paying a couple of nurses and a doctor if they can't cure mo quicker than this? Why can't you si ak, ihs'tor? Answer mo. " "ll.irtland, it ia t ime to prepare your self for another world. You cannot get better. " "1 must I must I've a great sum of ,, ,i.v Ill I'm hntise that oiiL'ht to Ik? banked. Ami Janies hasn'tgot inall the j rent, lie 'a a foul at it bend linn up to mo at once. " I)r. I'ucklo told ns thnt this pcrpotnul worry iug nlsmt hi businesa was hasten ing tho euiL He said it could not be far distant now, and Kathleen mid I deter miiHHi to try to get the poor man to think of other thing more appropriate nt (hi solemn time. "You cannot tuko your money with yon," I said, "so why worry uhout it now? You are dying, Mr. Harthmd. Surely you can leavo your money mat ter alone. What importance can they jsissibly be just now?" "Much yon know uhout business, sneered the o'.d mini. "Business is busi; ness, whether a man ia dying or not. " Then ho burst out crying like a child. "All my life." bo wailed, "all my life I've sK-ut in getting it, and now I've got to leavo it It isn't fair. Send James up to mo nt once, I want to know whet h er bo's mado that villain Richards paj up. Why, the fellow owes two quarters It' infamous." I looked ut Kathleen in despair. It wim always like that Sometimes he cried and soblied, sometimes he rail ed ngaiiist tho justice of life. His ono and only idea was still hi money, that money which he had made himself, and which ho loved with a concentrated pas aioti. Ho looked at tho cold, useless thing, and i'vor missed tho warm, hu man faces that ought to have been round him now. Ho hud no relations, no friends. His money hud come between him and all the softer joys of life, and in dying he cured for nothing except that he had to part with it Kathleen started at the little heap of salt she bad Rpilt , "What's the matter, Kathleen? "Oh, nothing," she answered, start ing "Of course I don't believe in any such nonsense, hut I saw a crow this morning now I've spilt some suit. "Throw a pinch over your left shoul der," I suggested, laughing at her "Goose," she retorted, "do you think I'm so silly?" I stooped to pick up my nrvietto, and she made a rapid movement as though throwing sometJiing over her shoulder. "Kathleen!" I cried sharply. Put your knifo mid fork straight " "Why? What's wrong with them? She looked at them, thou suddenly snatched np tho fork and laid it down besido tho knife. . "I do not believe you were frightened bocanse they were crossed, " she said. "Did you hear the screech owl last night?" I asked. "No but I heard a dog ho-lmg. and when I got np to see the time I saw a shooting star. " "Suis'istition is such uonseue, said I. "Yes, isn't it? , f was sitting by him, and in the dark ened room I saw his bony hands grop t about aimlessly or picking at his sheet When I had washed him. he had fret fully declared that we nurses did noth ,,g in tho world but wash h.nx. an "the other one" bad done it that yerj morning. I tried to persuade him that S o morning had nothing to do with the evening, but he didn't see it He was new muttering to himself or lapsing in- 0 unconscious... Ho did not know mo. His mind seemed to be wandering 1 to Uie money getting past, for I could Lear snatehos of calculations and some thing about the fltoek Eehaj.go which I did not iiiiilcrstiuiiL Then all won aileuce, but for tho beat ing of my heart There came a tapping at my window. I Nat up straight, clutching tho arum of tlm chair. Dcnth himself might have liecn kunrkimr for admittance I I knew, I wits sure, that it wan but a bird, but I hud heard thut w hen a Nparrow tap at the window it mean death. A few minutes after there Hounded a bind crash down stnlm, end I sprang npand rushed Into our room, having just presence of j mind left lo son that our patient had not been distnrldxL Kathleen was sitting up in Ih'I "Did yon hear that noise?" I gasped. "Ye-es." said she, through chattering teeth. " Do you think there's a burglar here?" "Well, perhup you'd better go and see," said I "I would, but I cannot leavo Mr. Harthmd." "Oh," said Kathleen, "I would, but I'm not dressed. Whut's tho matter, Ag ues?" I tixk her shoes, which she had left on the tublo by accident, and threw thsiii down. Hho started. "1 I tumbled np stairs yesterday, Agnes," she said, seizing my arm. There was nnot her crash. I had knock ed over a hand glass I Next morning a largo picture of Jo sinh Hartlnnil wa found on Its fnco in tho dining room. Mrs. Jones said it had fallen several times Ix fore, for (Jio cord wiih rotten mid kept breaking, but Mr. Hartland wouldn't bny a new on We wiid it hud better not be hung again, as wo did not like going t seo what was tho matter iu the middle of tho night. Hho seemed surprised and evidently wondered what wo wero hero for. 1 told Kulhleen that she looked pale, and sho said I looked ghastly. I asked her whether she thought wo could en dure nnother night of it, and she Mid Hho could not, but if I liked I might stay, and sho would give mo fl) the prollts. There was no need for us to stay. Mr. Harthmd insisted on looking nt his rentbix.k to see whether Jumes had collected all the rents. I brought it to him, and hogroiicd about with his hands to feel it "J can't quite see," he moaned "My 0yes they urcn't so good as they used to bo. Road it to me, you nurse. What aro yon here for, wasting my nioijey, if you can't road it to me?" "Let me read something else," I en treated, feeling tears rising in mj eyes "Kathleen, bring mo a IViblo. " " Business is business," gasped tho dying man. "Read the last pago to me. I want to know whether thut villain what was 1 saying?" Kathleen cume nearer. We looked at each other. " Wim! .ilm n: know about business?" He glared at us and struggled with his brcal h. His hands wondered over the quilt. They touched the rotitbook. A grin crept over tho wrinkled face and Axed there. His eyes rolled and shut "Agnes, now we can go homo," whis pered Kathleen, creeping to my side All tho Year Round. The Preservation of Food. Tho great advance in the preservation of foods is perhaps most clearly shown in a recent urticlo in a French mugazina Tho article discusses the preserving of provisions from the military standpoint It states that 40,000 rations of vegeta bles can bo stored in a cubic space pf 40 inches each way; that millions of ra tions of soiid soups and presen-edVmeats ore continually stored in Paris, while the quantity of flour and biscuit is fabu lous. Milk during the last siege of Paris was worth its weight in gold. Now tho method of "pasteurizing" milk and putting it in hermetically scaled cans is found to preserve milk indefinitely and insures against suffering those classes of the community that suffer most from scarcity of milk the feeble, aged and infants. Compressed fodder and the silo system are the safeguards used by the govern ment to protect animals in case of njege, while an enormous cold storage ware house at La Vilette insures fresh meats for a long period. The application of science to the food problem has reduced tho perplexities of families living on small incomes, but it may force .a com plete change in military maneuvers, starvation of the besieged being made almost impossible. Outlook.- A Wonder In Minute Writing-. A recent writer on tho subject of wave lengths of light, in describing the ap paratus used for taking measurements of such lengths, mentions the "Nobert test plates. " Theso plates ore made of glass and have the scale thereon so finely graduated thut there are often as many as 150,000 lines to the inch. Such In finitesimal magnitudes are totally be yond our powers of conception, yet much more wonderful things in that line have been accomplished. An artist of the name of Wobb, a regular manufacturer of these "Nobert test plates, " once tried his hand in microscopic writing on gloss. Tho specimen turned out, which is now in tho Army Medical museum at Washington, is the whole of the Lord's Prayer on a pieco of glass which is only 1-294 of an inch ono way and 1-t40 of an inch tho other. In the Lor&'s Prayer there are 237 letters, and, as shown above, they were put on a piece of glass having an area of but 1-129,653 of an inch. Had an entire inch of space been used at the same rate, the engraver would have put no less than 29,481,458 letters upon it The entire Bible, Old and New Testaments, could have been written on that inch of space eight times over. St Louis Repuhlio. Are Vlnltln LlaU Too Lonf? Mrs. de Fashion (average society lady making her round of calls owing to average society friends) Is Mrs. Wig gins Van Mortlande at home? Servant No, madam, she's Mrs. de Fashion Please hand her my card w"ien sho returns. Servant She won't return, madam. She was buried a month ago. New York Weekly. FOR LITTLE FOLKS. A FIVE-YEAR-OLD POET. he Uaa Nurrr learned a Line uf Teres, but ComniMi-s It Cleverly. There I a Holmken tot who will some day nhiiie among the women pot ts of tho laud if her preeoclousniwii at tho present time count fur anything. Ger tie Walker I the little girl's name, and all duy long, from tho time thut her big bluo eye I lustily from behind her long mown luiiies, vi mo iiiouieui. wu the miiidmuii come scattering his slnm- i ....... ...u tL.iin in tmiiv mnlrina id-r nmwii ifci .. rhymes not mere childish nothings, . . . ........ it. i i . tlllinl you, Olll gOOU, CHIHUIO Itljuiai about tho things she sees about her the sky, a dog, a trolley car, a ferryboat everything thut goes to make np her narrow worliL The gift for versifying came to Gertie quite naturally, and some of her simple childish stuiizo put on paper make very pretty reading. Indeed you would never Busiiect thut tho verses were mado and originated by a mere babo of five short summers. You see, little Gertie has never learned how to read and could therefore uevcr know just what poetry means. Just tho same sho goes on making her rhymes almost always in perfect time and always about tho beautiful objects of nature. At no time is tho bright lit tle damsel more happy than at night fall, when she sits in her tiny rocker and builds air castles of verse to the amusement of those who are listening to her. We may all hear from this tot over in Hobokeu some day. New York Recorder. A Brave l.lttle Busier. Every war brings out stories of hero ism that last long after many other in cidents of the conflict are forgotten. Boyish bravery in the heat and smoke of battle in particular is always told of and seems to have more distinction than that of the older soldier, who is trained to do his duty under all circumstances. From the Japan-China war has oomo a story of a brave little bugler that is like ly to be told over and over again. It was on one of the battlefields, which were not frequent in that war, when the Jap anese troops were somewhat panic strick en and were retreating before the Chi nese, that the little buhjer was mortally wounded. Stricken and dying as ho was, the brave hid did not forget his duty. He saw the troops flying and knew that the Chinese were gaining a victory. With splendid courage he raised himself, and grasping his bugle sonnded a loud and stirring "charge. " The troops heard and rallied under its message, charged valiantly in obedience to it, and the day was theirs. But tho little bugler had died as they fought and did not even know that his effort had been successful. His comrades knew, however, what he had done, and they bore him from the field in triumph, and already the "uta, " a poem of honor, has been written in his memory, while his mother has ar rayed herself in robes of state and honor, and wound her hair with flowers, the proudest woman in the empire, that her only son should have thns distinguished himself. New York Times. A Good One. How is this for a conundrum from a boy of 5 years old : "Mamma, what is it has four legs and only one foot?" Mother It must be some strange ani mal. Boy Give it up? Mothei- Yes. Boy A bed. The boy was using the foot of the bed for a horse, which suggested the conun drum. Louisville Courier-Journal. Little Ben' Bequest. Little Ben lives in a new house, one of the most modern of modern houses. where light, water, heat and other things are all to be had by turning a imnh nr tonehimr a bell He lives in a state of perpetual marvel over these tilings, and the otner nigni wneu suuer i..cr fmm a headache the little fellow said to his mother, who sat beside him: "Please turn on the dark, mother. Aiy eyes hurt me. " Frank and HU Shoe. Frank slid his foot hastily into his button boot and shouted : "Quick, mamma, hand me the shoe key. I want to lock my shoe, ' Youth's Companion. Ann, Mann, Mora, Milt. In an empty room we three Ploy the games we always like And count to see who "it" shall be Ana, mans, mons, mike. Bound snd round the rhyme will go Ere the final wo:-d shall strike. Counting fast or counting slow Barcelona, bona, strike. What it all means no one knows. Mixed np like a peddler's pack As from door to door he goes Bare, ware, frow, track. Now we guess, and now we donbt. Words enough or words we lack. Till the rhyming brings about. Welcomed with a farewell shout BaUioo, ballico, we-wl-wo wack, ontl Toronto Truth- MIMICRY AND REASON. Ia4leatlim Thai This Monk Is Eatknreel With a SI. era of KaeK. "That the monkey potuuwuww IntelM freiire to a considerable degree is proba bly true," said a hotel proprietor wh has a small menagerie on his premise. "I behove, however, much of the Intel ligence with which that animal Iscred-' Ited is due to hi love of mimicry. "The other duy two young men with Iwo girl were at the monkey's cage teed i tig hlin peannt. One of the girls wu ehewing Rum, and one of the mem miggesled that she give the monkey nnii, expecting thnt if be took it in bis , month it would stick to hi teeth, and lie would make sorry work of trying mew it The girl at once parted with the sweet morsel she was so industrious ly chewing, extending it toward the sage. The monkey grabbed it instantly nd put it into his mouth, but Instead jl chewing It, or attempting to, begaa pulling it out in small ribbons, as chil dren are frequently seen to do. When bo bad it all out of his mouth, he rolled it into a compact ball between hia band, throw it into his mouth and be gan the operation again. He appeared t to enjoy the performance as much as hia visitors. That wa imitation. " "Thot's all right," rejoined another, "but I bad an experience with that same monkey wherein he displayed rn telligonce. I was by tho cage smoking one day, and I thought to annoy him by blowing smoke in his face. I was much surprised to find that, instead of being annoyed, he enjoyed it, as was evi denced by his edging up as near me as possible to receive the smoke in larger volumes. Soon ho began scratching himself at the point where most of the smoke came against him. When I had ,mi,u mio siila fur a few minutes, he would turn eqnarely round to have the other side treated In me same way. Tl.or, l,n m.t- nn Hirpetlv in front of me and received the smoke squarely in the .. . L.lL. face nnd neck, i oon t Know wu,ir be held his breath, but he did not cough, sneeze or wince a particle. To comnlete the job be then sat with his back toward, me, and it would have done yon good, to have seen him throw his hind feet ntror hia hack and scratch. It made me think of the kickers of a bay tedder ia motion. Now that monkey Knew, through some sort of intelligence, that nothing will send fleas and other insecta to the surface or stupefy them as effect ively as tobacco smoke," Utica Ob- , server. COLLEGE GIRLS AND MARRIAGE. Bits of Confession That Throw a Light aw, the Question. I have no doubt that the remaining the low niarria&e rate is that many men dislike intellectual women whether because such women are really d ieagreeable or because men's taste is at fault I shall not try to determine. And even among those who like them as friends mauv feel as the young man did who made this confession : "I never expected to marry the sort or ,vi t tirt Vnn know I alwavs believed in intellectual equality and all that and had good inenasnips wun me col lege girls. But, you see, you girls hadn't any illusions about us. After yon had noon nn hnnffins a t the board on problems yon could work and had taken the same degrees yourselves, youcouian timagins na wonders inst because we had gone through college, and when I met a dear little girl that thought I Knew every ihino whv. it iust keeled me rich over. It was a feeling I had no idea of. " And the college woman answerea : "Twill hetrav somethins to you. Lots of us are just as unref ormed as you. We want just as much to look up to our hus bands as you want to be looked np to. Only of course the more we know the harder it is to find somebody to meet the mint Prnhnhlv the eanal marriage ia really the ideal one, and everybody will come to prefer it some day. per sonally I like men to be superior to me. Only I'll tell yon what I don't like in them the wish to keep ahead uf. us by holding us back, like spoiled children that want to be given the game and then aamirea tor tneir sen. n umn- nnn1i1 onnnnrnon nn to do OUT VeiT best. and then do still better themselves, i ought to be good for civilization." "The Marriage Bate of College Wom en," by Milicent W. Shinn, in Century. Mo Precedent. During a session of the territorial le f Mnnitina. held more than 80 uia.uig ..... , years ago, a measure was introduced which appeared to some jkjuijio iw m constitutional Questions. One man, who was supposed to possess great oratorical powers, declaimed fierce- ' ly against the measure, claiming mi was "clearly in opposition to the great principles of Magna Charta, which tha brave barons in days of old had wrested from King John, a blessed result of a bloody conflict." A lawyer, more famed for his sturoy Aftmmnn BAT1RA than for erudition, rose immediately to reply to this burst of fiery eloquence, evidently Dent on iuait 4 if iWr that he for one was not te- be overcome by high sounding words or bscnre allusions. "It's of mighty little importanee what the opinions of King John and his man McCaithy were," he announced firmly, adding that it was high time for legislative bodies of Montana to think and act for themselves without any refer ence to the prinoiples whicn governed the remote authorities quoted by his colleague. The first orator's speech had made some impression, but the retort was re ceived with the enthusiasm which is deserved, and it was owing to his in fluence rather than that of his mora brilliant predecessor that the measure was defeated. Youth's Companion. Consoling Hint Old Bullion It galls me to think that my money goes into your spend thrift hands when I die. Young Bullion Never mind, goT ernor. it won't stay there long. In dianapolis Journal.