Washington County news., December 08, 1904, Image 6

I
“ Fourteen horses were shot over ms
JU D IC IAL DECISIONS.
and I shook off the last horse;
AN
ANTARCTIC
RESCUE.
The
possession by an officer o f a
“ And It was two hundred m l!«* unto
warrant Is held In McCullough vs.
the town wherefrom I could send the
Greenfield (Mich.), 62 L. R. A. 908, not
news, yet I walked an hundred miles,
and swam fifty miles through a river,
As dramatic as the famous meeting to Ju ,tlfy an am w t o f
» « u s e d by
o f Dr. Nansen and Mr. Jackson on the the 1)01100 department o f another town
and ____________
skated fifty ___________
miles upon thin Ice.
And bought a mule with my last Ice o f Franz-Josef Land In the summer under direction by telephone to It by
nickel (please cable $1,000), and rode It o f 1806 was that o f Captain Larsen o f 11)0 ° ® eer holding the warrant,
A New York broker canght a thief
sixty miles until It fell and died by the the Swedish steamship Antarctic, Dr.
A bank cashier Is held In T aylor va.
end then let him go. There la honor
among them, then, after all.
wayside,
Otto Nordenskjold, the Swedish ex- j Commercial Bank (N. Y.), 62 L. R. A.
“ And then I rode upon a load o f hay plorer, and Captain Irlzar o f the Ar- ^ 783, not to be acting within the scop»
Hobson tactics are spectacular, but
until It was come unto this town, and gentlne gunboat Uruguay,'am ong the o f
authority In givin g lnforum-
they can hardly be denominated as suc­
then I got off and ran upon my feet Icy bills o f the Louis-Phllippe Land tlon a* to the value o f notes execut-
the remaining thirty miles.
cessful In Ice cutting operations.
last November. The Nordenskjold ves­ ed by customers o f the bank so as
“ And I alone am escaped from all sel Antarctic, which left Sweden In to render It liable In case the state­
them that were fighting.
The Japanese hare wisely decided
October, 1001, and had taken on board ments prove untrue.
"And It la generally conceded that a lieutenant o f the Argentine navy at
that cigarettes consigned to the Rus­
A bank which purchases a draft
never before was such a battle.”
sian army are not contraband o f war.
Buenos Ayres, hud lauded Dr. Nor- with bill o f lading attached is held.
Whereht the editor sendeth word to denskjold and his party at Snow H ill, In S. lilatsdell, Jr., Co., vs. Citizens’
A conservative man always adds “ or
him. asking;
( Louis-Philippe Land, In January, 1802, National Bank (Tex.), 62 L. R. A. 968,
whatever you call It” after staggering
"W h o licked?”
; with provisions for tw o years.
The not thereby to become a party to the
over the pronounciatlon o f a Russian
And he bath gone and cannot be steamer had then gone to the vicinity sale so as to be responsible to tho
found.
o f the Falkland Islands for an extend- consignee In case, nfter he has paid
name.
And the editor teareth out the rest ed cruise.
the draft, the bill o f lading proves !o
The correspondent who telegraphs
o f his hair and then advancetb the sal­
According to the plan agreed upon, be fraudulent, so that the considera­
from the far East that Oen. Ma Is the
ary of an office bov,
the Antarctic was to return for the tion falls.
father o f the Chinese army must be an
On condition that the office boy exploring party In January, 1003. On
Neither a bank which purchased a
Irishman.
shall permit his hair to be pulled out the 4th o f that month, however, while
d raft for a consignment o f grain with
for the good o f the office.
passing between tw o Ice fields In T er­ bill o f lading attached nor the payee*
The oldest man in the world has Just
Yea. the war correspondent doth all
ror Bay, It was suddenly nipped and who indorsed and delivered ‘it to the
died In a New Jersey poorhouse at the
this and much more.
held fast. A hole was made In the bank are held, In Hall vs. K e ller
ago of 132 years. The people o f New
H e beareth heavy firing off the coast
quarter, through which water poured (K as ), 62
R. A. 758, to be liable to
Jersey should boll their water.
In the morning,
In a torrent. The steam-pumps were the drawees, the consignees o f the
And he denyeth It at night.
started, and for more than a month grain, who accepted and paid the draft
A New York man has Invented an
H e sendeth word o f a victory at
kept the vessel fairly clear o f water for failure o f title In the drawer to-
Instrument with which the music o f
noon.
while she lay In the Ice. Meanwhile the property shipped.
the stars can be heard. It Is perhaps
And he salth It Is a defeat at mid­
all on board were ready to abandon
well to refrain from balling such an
Injury to a passenger mn a street
night.
ship.
Instrument with Joy until It Is found
car by the conductor Is held. In Koh-
W ith bis fountain pen doth he sink j
out whether the stars are producing
A t last, on Feb. 12th, she went clear ner vs. Capital
Traction Company
the
cruiser
and
o f the Ice and headed for land, but (D. C.), 62 L. R. A. 875, not to ren­
ragtime.
with his typewriter
j began to fill quickly. Captain Iairsen der the company liable as a matter
doth he blow up
T w o magistrates on the west coast
ran her against an ice-fleld, and laud­ o f law, where the conductor expla n»
the battleship.
Of Africa were arrested for riding their
ed the men and stores Just before the his conduct by telling that In passing
With his lead pen­
bicycles at night without lanterns.
steamer sank. The party succeeded In along the footboard on the side o f the
cil doth he lead
They were the only tw o officers In
reaching Paulet Island,
where the car he lost his balance and, to save
great armies over
»own vested with authority to try the
crew wintered with great hardships. himself from falling, reached for the
the
mountains.
Case. So Judge Smith mounted the
One sailor died.
stanchion, when his hand came In con­
And
with
his
bench and fined Judge Jones five shil­
Meanwhile, when his rescuers failed tact with the plaintiff.
mind’s
eye
doth
he
lings. Then Judge Jones took his seat
to arrive, I)r. Nordenskjold wintered
In a proceeding by a magnetic tele­
see other great ar-
i on Louls-I’hlllppe Luml, only 60 miles
and fined Judge Smith ten shillings
graph company for the purpose o f ap­
mles going Into winter camp In the away.
Both the culprits were undoubtedly
propriating to Its use a part o f the
middle o f July.
guilty o f contempt o f court
When the summer o f 1903 went by right o f way o f a railroad company
d,P,oraa‘ what about without word from the explorer, the It Is held. In Cleveland, C. C. & St.
a n
/
1 tha nmloma t tol lott\ him
It, and
the diplomat telleth him,
“ No one has a nobler mission than a
Swedish government took alarm and L. R. Co. vs. Ohio Postal Teleg. Cable
And
he
turneth
In and wrlteth an
Journalist of to-day,” said the Pope,
fitted out a relief expedition. Before Co. (Ohio), 02 L. R. A. 941, to be nec­
article
that
showeth
that
this
Is
not
It,
as he returned, with his blessing, a him or to give an occasional evening ,na“ 7
. . . . . .
.
. .. ..
It could sail, however, the energetic essary and Jurisdictional for the court
nor even about I t
foe striketh
fountain pen which he had taken from of your own to bis entertainment. For ! Showing that I f the
Argentine Republic had commissioned to hear and determine, and so enter
Even so.
a visiting newspaper man. "M y prede­ the well dressed boy with money In here, then It Is all up;
Captain Irlzar o f the gunboat Uruguay o f record, that the easement sought to
cometh
over
If the
And his heart Is happy and his mind
cessors consecrated the swords and his pocket the street Is
the devil’ s But that
.
„
.. foe
..
.
to sail at once for the South Rea and bo appropriated by such telegraph
shields o f Christian warriors; I choose school and too often the open door of a* alnat th,a Talley then will the de­ is glad,
find Dr. Nordenskjold.
Accordingly, company w ill not In any material de­
For
his
expense
account
flourlsbeth
hell.
I
f
all
of
Secretary
Shaw’s
Ideas
i0nd0r
c
o
m
m
o
n
Urn
Ilk.
a
gas
bill
rather to beg blessings upon the Chris­
early In November— the opening of gree Interfere with the practical uses
as
the
grass
o
f
the
field.
tian Journalist's pen.” Rather a neat, are a . sound a . his notions about boys aud ahr,vel hlm wlth deapalr’
spring In those latitudes— Captain Iri- to which the railroad company Is au­
H e snlffeth the bottle from afar and
And waxfcth great as the flowers of
and certainly an Impressive way of he will adorn the Cabinet and guide our
zar landed on Lmiis-Fhlllppe Land, and thorized to put such right of way.
he tosseth his head and cryeth. “ Aha! the field, which may not be cut down.
saying that the pen Is mightier than finances to prosperity.
had the good fortune In the course o f
A plain limitation upon the authority
Though he eateth hardtack from the
Let me get at t t "
the sword.
a short walk to meet tw o o f Dr. Nor- o f the medical examiner and solicitor
H e hasteneth unto the clothing store army wagons, yet doth he get pay for dengkJold> men> wUo were huntl
for
L A W R E N C E IRVING’ S P E 8 S IV I S M .
o f a life insurance company o f which
and the place o f them that sell circus porterhouse steak and truffles.
penguins for food.
Bilk-designers o f Japan look to the
an applicant Is bound to take notice
N o t E v e u E n t ir e ly IH s p e lle d b y I l l s
J o - d a y he putteth a hero upon a
tents and things,
Mikado for suggestions for new pat­
and by which he Is bound Is held. In
H a p p y M a r r ia g e .
and be b u y e t h
terns, and he does not disappoint them.
| mounds to the camp where Dr. Nor­ Metropolitan L. 1ns. Co. vs. Dlmlck
Laurence Irving, sou o f Sir Henry many garments (at
And to-morrow he forecloseth upon
Each year he selects the subject for
denskjold and the others were. They (N. J. Err. App.), 62 L . R. A. 774, to
Irving, Is o f a very gloomy disposi­ somebody else’s ex­
the pedestal, and the hero wondereth
the new year poem which all loyal sub­
where he Is at
had hardly exchanged greetings, and be made by stipulations In the appli­
tion. He Is a disciple o f Tolstoi, and pense).
jects are supposed to write. Last D e­
And when the cruel war Is over the [ be. leaf r
J'1Ht « 7 ' " * ‘ hat the cation that the statements contained
Is troubled with many theories with
Also a tent that
cember "Plnetrees on the rocks,” was
regard to the changing o f present con­ he may eat In, and
war correspondent, whose name Is Le- i Antarctl° h a d “ 0t b00‘> 000" . when In It, and those made to the medical
announced as the subject, and before
over
a
hill
on
the
other side came C ar­ examiner, are true and correctly re­
ditions for the betterment o f mankind. a tent that he may
glon, cometh home.
the poets had finished tlielr verses the
In addition to his work as an actor, I sleep In, and a tent
And the lyceum bureau and the 10- tain Larsen, the Argentine lieutenant corded, and that no Information not
merchants of Tokyo had painted silks
and five o f his sailors, who crossed on therein contained, received or acquired
he has written several plays. They ( that he may write j j ®
cent magazine sit upon his front steps
In their windows showing rugged pine
the Ice from I'aulet Island, seeking at any time by any person shall be
are all o f the gloomy sort, however, | In,
and plead for an hour o f his time.
trees springing from wild rocks. The
their leader or some rescuer.
binding on the company or shall mod­
and have not been successes. Yet his
Shaking large and juicy wads of
And a tent that he may have his pic­
subject for the 1003 poem was "Cranes
The reunion was as Joyous as It was ify the declarations and warranties
friends predict for him a great future ture taken In front of.
money in his eyes.
among the pine trees,” and three or
dramatic. The Argentine lieutenant, therein contained; that the persons
us a dramatist when he shall have
Yea, he also garnereth in the gun-
And he taketh the time.
four years ago It was “ Snow-laden
bareheaded, roughly clad, unshorn, writing the answers and statements
shnken off the morbidness o f thought shops.
Also the money.
bamboo." I f one keeps track o f these
that now envelops him.
Securing horse pistols, cow pistols,
For he telleth all the people how he hailed as an old comrade and superior shall be deemed the agents o f the In­
subjects and the year In which they
One o f his best friends and most ar­ dog watches, and Krupp guns, and told the winning army how to go about the commander o f the Uruguay, and sured and not o f the company and
Were published, says n writer on Japan,
was delighted that the rescue should that the oompany Is not to be deemed
dent admirers Is E. H. Sothem. Mr. daggers, and swords, nnd other arti­ It.
he can tell the age o f many silk pat­
Yea, verily, my son. he Is as the have fleen achieved by his own gov­ responsible for the preparation o f the
Sothern hns known young Irvin g since cles too numerous to mention.
terns and how many years a woman
he was a boy and chuckles over this
Bo that when he goeth aboard the north pole seeker, who stayeth away ernment. The relief o f each party on application, even i f the stipulations are
has had a gown of a given pattern.
story, which he tells on bis fellow actor ship that la to take him unto the field long enough to write a lecture and learning that the others had come inefficacious to make the employes o f
through almost unharmed may be im­ the company the agents o f the Insured.
nnd playwright.
o f war the captain thereof nsketh that some magazine articles.
According
to
the
astronomers,
My sou, there is nothing like unto agined. T w o days later the rest o f
"Laurence Is married
now,
you he wait until the ship bath another
there was fierce conflict o f forces In know,” * says Mr. Sothern, “ and his
P O W E R O F T O R P E D O -B O A T S .
war correspondeuting except it be the sailors were tnken on board the
hold upon it.
chaos before the worlds were thrown moroseness Is rapidly disappearing un
writing the story o f a debate la a Uruguay from I ’ aulet Island, and soon
Yet
the
war
correspondent
whose
Off from the nebular mass; and then der the Influence o f his happy mar-
from Southern South America news o f S t r u g g l e In E a s t W i l l P r o b a b l y L e a d
name Is le gio n goeth speedily unto the woman’s club.
to I n c r e a s e in N u m b e r .
there were many a mad flight through
And the war correspondent, whose their safety was flashed to the world.
riage. Still, he finds It hard to let go place where the war is advertised,
There are two types o f torpedo craft
space and frequent collisions before
Besides valuable meteorological and
his old role o f a pessimist all o f a
And he saith unto the warriors: “ Get name Is Legion, everybody wanteth to
the force o f gravity set the planet*
lend what.be wrlteth and nobody be- magnetic records, nnd notes and maps now In the navy— those that confine
sudden.
busy. For I am here.”
their movements to the surface o f the
moving In their respective orbits. On a
A short while ago I had luncheon
„ e putteth upon lllg hgad a khakl lieveth him.— W. D. Nesbit, In Chicago o f canoe and inland explorations o f
small scale, natural forces are still nt with him and Mrs. Irving. A ll through
the borders o f Louls-Pliilippe and Os­ water, carrying small caliber guns and
Tribune.
work bringing about a stable political the meal he was In the happiest, helmet and he strappeth about him a
car Second Lands, Dr. Nordenskjold torpedoes, and the submarine boat,,
equilibrium on this point. Chance and brightest humor, laughing and Joking belt, whereon he hangeth Ills gun, and C H A M i OF A M E R IC A N WOM EN. brings back fossils which show that which cruises on the surface or sub­
war, chiefly war, have thrown together as I had never known him to do be­ his sword, and pistol,
those now frigid regions were once merged, and carries only torpedoes.
And he has his picture taken to send P o sse ss H ey ,m l A l t O t h e r s t h e G i f t or possessed o f a beautiful and bounte­ T o the form er type belong torpedo-
groups o f people with unlike Interests. fore. I was so struck with It that I
home to the folks.
1 xpresston.
boats and torpedo-boat destroyers, the
W herever the Interests conflict, their remarked upon the change.
ous vegetation.
The American woman Is delightfully
And he letteth his whiskers grow.
difference between the tw o being on »
effort to get along together succeeds
’ ‘Oh, yes,' he said. ‘Everything Is
lovely, but
Then he goeth unto the hotel nnd pretty, often extremely
P a s s in g t h e L o v in g C u p.
o f size only. Up to and Including 350
but Indifferently, or falls altogether. changed now. The world Is bright and
Beyond
showeth the bartender how to make rarely clnsslcnlly beautiful.
Senator Lodge, as one of the Alaskan tons a vessel is rated a torpedo-boat t
The most recent example o f failure Is gay. No more gloominess for me.'
the hilarious highball and the ram­ all women, perhaps, does she possess boundary commissioners, attended a having a greater tonnage she becomes
the break-up o f the Republic o f Co­
“ And,’ chimed In Mrs. Irving, 'Lau­
the g lfls o f expression and genius for large banquet at the lord mayor’s in a destroyer. W ith but few exception*
lombia. wldch occurred when the peo­ rence has written a new play. It Is pant rlckey.
And when night cornel h he sitteth pose. With her the sense o f knowing London.
Ancient customs, strange the torpedo-boats are o f less than 2W>
ple In the department o f Panama de­ full o f sunshine nnd humor, and Is sure
down aud taketh out his fountain pen what Is proper to do under certain con­ even to the eyes o f well-traveled Amer­ tons displacement, while the destroy­
cided that they would submit no long­ to be a great success.'
and wrlteth six pages out o f the en­ ditions seldom fails. Bhe knows her icans,
are
scrupulously
observed ers are o f more than 400 tons, having
er to neglect by the central govern­
“ 'Is that so, Laurence?' I asked.
ment, a neglect of which the rejection 'W hat Is the name o f your new play?1 cyclopedia and sendeth It by the ca­ strong points physically and how to throughout.
a relatively greater sustained speed
ble ($1.38 each word and punctuation throw them Into most striking relief.
The great loving cup was passed. and guns o f a larger caliber. A t o *
of the canal treaty was only the cul­
"The old, gloomy look cam* over hla
minating Incident. The struggle Is still face as he thought o f his work. T t Is mark), so that his employer teareth An American woman’s taste In dress As It started near the Massachusetts pedo-boat destroyer carries tw o 8-lncb
going on In Austria-Hungary, where called,' he said slowly. T t Is called out much hair and speaketh curdling Is as perfect as anything can be in this Senator, he, noticing that the gentle­ guns (14-pounders), five 6-pounders,
words.
imperfect world. O f her genius for men next him were rising, was like- four Whitehsnd torpedoes and two tor­
two nations, differing in race, are try­ “ In the Depths.” ’ ” — New York Sun.
l ’eradventure the next dav he meet- adapattng herself to her environment I wise about to rise,
pedo tubes, ten rifles and seventy-two
ing to live under one government. Tha
eth another war correspondent— and there can be no question. Such a mere
"N ot yet," said Lord Alverstone In revolvers.
emperor-klng Is able to keep his em­
A torpedo-boat has three
By Elimination.
pire together only by making frequent
accident o f birth as the one which a friendly undertone, but when It was 1-pounders and the same number o f
One day, as Pat halted at tha top 1)1* na 1110 is Be* lon a'*°-
Now, the other war correspondent gives her a pork butcher or a patent Mr. Lodge’s turn to rise he marveled torpedoes and tubes as a destroyer.
concessions to the Magyars. His con­ o f the river bank, says the Christian
sent to the larger use o f the Hungarian Advocate, a man, famous for his In­ asketh If there Is anything doing.
plllmaker for her father is no draw- that ns he drank one gentleman stood There are now sixteen destroyers !n
And the first looketh wise and salth back to her ultimate career.
language In the army was forced from quisitive mind, stopped and asked:
In front o f him and one behind him. our navy, all in commission and It
that he hath prom-
him ns the price o f breaking the dead­
One secret o f the American woman’s Thus the cup passed on. Every time seems probable that the recent devel-
“ IIo w long have you hauled water
- Ised the chief of all charm Is her Individuality. She Is al- a guest stood to drink the one imme- opments In the struggle between Rus-
lock which had left Hungary without for the village, my good man?”
Tt the warriors not to ways original and gay and merry, gen- diately on his right and on his left sia and Japan w ill lend to the building
a ministry for several months. Ger­
“ Tin years, sor."
say a word about erally amiable, and more often than stood also.
many has a similar problem, although
o f a torpedo cra ft In greater num-
"A h ! IIo w many loads do you take
It.
the Issue there Is the proper relation of In a day?”
not good tempered. All American wo-
The Senator was naturally curious hers In the future.
So the other war men are born talkers, and they pos- to know the origin o f the custom. H e j The term torpedo Is sometimes ap­
the various states to the central gov­
"From tin to fifteen, sor.”
correapondent rush- ses* the faculty o f Interesting their was told that It dated back 1,200 years piled Indiscriminately to any explo-
ernment. Bavnria has resented the In­
"A h , yes! Now I have a problem for
eth unto the cable llsteners In subjects no more occult to the time o f a Baxon king. The lov- sive designed for use In the water, but
terference of the emperor In Its local you. H ow much water nt this rate
office and maketh than a visit to the milliner’s or “ mom- j ing cup was passed nt a banquet where lu the navy a torpedo Is a mechanical
affairs with so much vigor that the Im­ have you hauled In all, sir?"
*
obeisance to the ma’s” love o f "tomaytoes.”
perial chancellor has thought It wise
To her this king attended. H e stood to drink device which Is fired from a tube by-
The driver of the watering enrt t "
censor.
to announce that the Kaiser does not Jerked Ills thumb backward toward the
husband she may be capricious, incon- unguarded. As his Ups touched the a charge o f powder and on striking
And sendeth a slderate, selfish, exacting, but In her bowl a woman stabbed him in the the water Is propelled toward the tar-
desire greater centralization o f author­ river and replied. “ All the wather ye*
message stating that a fleet o f war­ relation to her children all the nobler back and to the death. Ever after nnd get by It* own mechanism. A sta-
ity. The British Empire Is a vast neb­ don’t see there now, sor.”
ships hath come up over the ocean. quallttes o f her character come out. to the present day the repetition o f tlonary torpedo, or mine. Is anchored
ular mass, which Is to la> held together
Until It solidifies Into a homogeneous
N ot M uch o f * F igaro.
nnd hath " unk a11 tho warships t h a t In them she forgets egotism and Is such a tragedy has been
guarded in places where the enemy Is expected,
unit. Mr. Chamberlain fears that It Is
"W h a t do you think of that new j f ° ,na agalnat '*• and that now the war ready for self-sacrifice. As years lay against by drinking In the manner and explodes on anything striking It
In danger o f flying to pieces unless the W illie boy that Jim Drummerd brought Is over.
hold upon her she become* more Tind mentioned.— Washington Fost.
or can be exploded electrically from
And the first w ar correspondent, more disciplined by her children and
force o f gravity, operating through up to the dance last night?"
------ TT7~II------ _ ---- y
shore. There Is a record o f an auto-
whoee name Is legion , hasteneth also more and more unqueatlonlngly obedl-
Use A ll Y o u r Teeth.
self-interest, can he made to bind the
"Zero Is nothing, Isn't It?”
______
_____________
mobile ________
torpedo _____
being
effective as _____„
long
to
the
cable
office
and
glveth
the
cen­
Colonies to the mother country. When
"Y es.”
ent. In this phase the American Is at
** la a cu^,OU!, fnct that the teeth #g j anoary 25, 1878.— Leslie's W eekly.
sor
a
cigar,
and
sendeth
a
message
the United States annexed the Philip­
“ W ell, I think he’s about seventeen
once a pathetic and curious spectacle. that ar* “ ldo,n used deoay n,on? raP'
----------------------------- -
stating that there hath been no bat- — London World.
I<by than those that have daily work
C hinese A rs H eat P roof.
pines It annexed, along with them, the below.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer.
! tie.
_______________ _______
to do. I t la a fact, however, and, be-
Chinese firemen teem to be Immune
problem o f harmonizing conflicting In­
That's the tjuestton.
tng a fa c t the thing to do la to take to the fierce heat o f the flreroom on
Y e t again, the w ar correspondent
Adam and E ve probably visited the
terests the same with which other na­
" W e women never believe more than Palo* to eat on both sides o f the mouth ocean steamers, and stand up to tem-
tions are straggling
It wtll g ive to tree o f knowledge for the purpose o f getteth news of a figh t and he run­
neth with speed to the telegraph office, half we hear."
equally.
pera tur* that would prostrata w hits
the officers In Washington many an studying the higher branches
and sendeth tidings thus:
"Yes, but which half ? ’—Cleveland
anxious night before tt la solved.
H e W ae R e a l Rude.
m eD ’
____________________________
Let a big horse go by. and half the
"Behold. I was In the thick o f It.
Plain Dealer.
“ Are you in favor o f clubs
for
w a y B lsaed by M lsslonailea.
men
who
see
It
w
ill
qnarrel
over
Its
"Yea,
the
ten
ton
guns
shot
muchly
It seems that Secretary Shaw Is not
wom enT’ asked the female with the
Dr. F. P. Noble says that "N o fol-
about me, and the bayouets were
The short-sighted girl who wears
merely a financier, but a sociologist w e ig h t
square chin.
-
low er o f scientific progress has ever
and a lover o f bis kind. Hs talked to
Do you want all the sympathy, or thrust against my cheek, the points glasses may not be vain, but she knows
"Sure,” answered the old bachelor. ^ taken a locomotive Into A frica before
I thereof being much blunted:
she looks better with them.
as assemblage o f Washington women are you willing to divide?
“ Club«, sandbags, or any old thing.” ' missionaries had prepared the way.
not long ago on boys; a subject that
OUR OWN 8 OLOMON.
used to be able to speak for Itself and
H e C o a e ld s r e t h t h e W e r C o r r e s p o n d ­
Is so still In those ranks o f society
e n t e n d M e r v e l e t h e t H ie W o r k .
where the mothers do not belong to J
M y son, didst see thou the paper yes­
clubs and hare neither the education
terday afternoon?
nor the means to give a fair chance to
And didst thou see It the day before,
the boys whom they bring Into the |
and even the day
world so plentifully. Secretary Shaw
before that?
said that the boy was altogether the I
Hast thou taken
most valuable product o f society, and
heed o f the black­
yet that society to-day, and the home
face rumor and the
as well, made no adequate place for the
scarehead report?
boy to grow In and become the useful
Hast thou given
citizen which he ought to be. That Is
eye to the victory
all because the boy is noisy, rude and
which Is cabled at
destructive; all forms o f expression for j
1 p. m. and dented
that energy without which The boy !
at 1:30 p. m ?
would not be worth raising. The gen-1
Knowest t h o u
eral w elfare o f society upon the boy I
who It
Is that
began with the crowding Into cities, j
roameth up and down and putteth
This movement has cut off the boy’s I
tacks where they will attract the a t­
free play grounds and those broad
tention o f the seat o f war?
spaces in which be can let off his en- j
Knowest thou who It Is that ken-
thuslasm In all sorts o f noise w ith ou t!
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i noth the secret thoughts o f kings and
disturbing hi. elders. The cities have th# lBn#rmogt 1Jeag of w arrlori?
Just begun to turn around and make
It Is the war correspondent, and his
playgrounds for boys, as well as parks
name Is Legion.
for their elders, but that move Is mere- I
Yea, Legion Is his name— John B.
ly In Its Infancy yet.
These play- I
Legion.
grounds, however, are a resource chief- j
Consider now the w ar correspond
ly for the boys o f the crowded tene-
ment sections. They are needed there ent- how he taketl1 hla fountain pen.
and ought to be multiplied. The boy and hla breechloading lead pencil, and
who is in the greatest danger Is tl.eboy 1)la »ubmarlne kodak, and bis rnaga
from a w ell-todo home whose father ilne lunch box.
gives him too much money to spend
And whoopeth .d ow n the pike to-
and whose father and mother shunt ward 0)0 Plaoa where tha dUtaut fir'
him off Into the etreets to spend I t ln® l* r f an~
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The home, that such boy. com . from I B* hold- wh0n ^ 0r0
are usually handsome. They have thar0 la noth1" * *>*"*• ^ e“ doth tlle
beautiful furniture, which the boy and
l , ! i '*
i of the city and In the market place.
his friends must not mar or soil by
Baying that the country la going to
playing In the house. Not one In a
the dogs,
hundred o f them has for the boy a
And telling how he gat the news of
gymnasium, a carpenter shop, a bil­
the battle o f Bosky Dell before It bad
liard room or even Just a plain den.
been fought.
where he can entertain his friends, re­
But when one statesman and anoth­
arrange the furniture and decoration
er may not agree as to the ultimate­
to bis own taste, or drive nails If be
ness o f an ultimatum, then doth the
wishes to. A ll o f the natural expres­
war correspondent sing merrily and
sions o f the energy which Is to make
go about with a glad smile.
the boy a powerful man are out of
Looking for an expense account that
place In a
fine home, unless a
place Is especially made for them. It he may call hla own.
H e taketh unto his bosom the maps
Is easier to send the boy Into the street
than tt Is to provide such a place for o f the world and he drawetb thereon
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