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Show VITAL IMPORTANCE Pa. Pa I do not like to rNe at six oUnk Ihat vinn to me the proper time to sleep I much dislike to wake up wltn a start And hate the downy mattress with a leap I like to lie abed till eurht r nine Or eun ten, if 1 tan hate a ihante And much it troubles me to haw inv r st Distuitnd by some unkind, discoidant oiee. 'Pi 'p 'la t 'in It makes me angry when a needless noise Awakens me befoie the tmu In such a case the awful propti things think Could hardly be referred to m tins a rr p tr. i it u - rime eveiybodv In the neighborhood Will kindly due precautions take To lit no tareless Yoke distutb mi rest And let me sleep until I choose to wake! Somerville Journal So 5 Pa S tr e Oltt, MT 0 ZZJ? SmZ4T?. breech-loader- p.a. ).oo to to (Ctpyright, 1905, by Dally Story Pub. Co ) days had brought through the meal, but she was disscint.s of woods and fields. turbed secretly at the serious face Susans and mien of the young farmer. and Black-ejeThe grass crackled After supper he went to the barn roadside. to harness Black The russet oaks and Beauty, and hts looked gaily down on mother said, impulsively, !jwn Rose, my fields of richest boy needs cheering up. See if you plowed Tin se were busy days on the cant put some spirits In him. Rose promised, but the ride was bethe corn to be shocked, be p eked, beans threshed and gun in silence, which seemed to be to dig. Finprotracted beyond endurance. cool evenings ally she spoke: ie crisp, ire spent hj Ward Driscoll at The Ward, why havent you been over dubbed to see us for a week You never stayshell, as he had always ed away so long before! pretty little cottage where Rose She was "I thought you wouldnt care to see lived her young life. and he had always me, he lepiied. Your thoughts and eet and fair, interests seemed elsewhere. light of hi as his sweetheart, until summer, when her last fateful "Oh, you noticed, then! she said, ents bad admitted to their hearth abstractedly. Who could help but notice! he rehome a summer boarder, a young You could hardly excity, but he had gone plied, bitterly. jt from the sr now, and Ward was patiently pect me to enjoy witnessing the pleasure you got in your letters from Paul ;ang until Rose's thoughts' should uiturn unto him. 0ard the last of the month the The bustle of work droned. i work w as over the corn shock-h-e apples gathered, the cider and ie butter made. said ps fall in earnest. Rose, j. one clear, cold night, looking at the sky streaked with Northern is, the silvery frost on the grass the heap of squashes on the Of'flier 8,0(J M, ister, ' j res ol has id sei-'- e Keen-aire- coo tL m iii. i m th les," she sighed, It's kind to have all the work of lone-i- e done a of Saturday night feeling. When frost is on the punkin' doesnt ap-- ! to me The first part of the fall ?orst, though. It has such a fading a woman just beginning to iher youth, but late fall is hale, the tonic of middle age. Rose, I believe Paul Wendell you with his poetic fancies, tied her mother. rheyre fine nights to sleep thats see in them, said Ward, use sighed, and wished the young were not so intensely practical, te next night when Ward was at Nutshell, he saw a transforma-!Rose. The dreamy she had worn of late had given to sparkling, happy eyes and a essed excitement of manner air of one who has heard good s With a pang Ward wondered t had wrought this change. Two iree times she seemed on the r of telling him something, and evidently reconsidered the lm- - "Ill read them and not laugh, n far-awa- next visit chanced to be In the tug when the Rural Route deliv-ta- s made. He noticed how eager-- watched to see if the man stop at the box and how quickie ran out and seized the-- letters. k of pleasure flashed into her 1 she selected one. caught the fine His ob-a; station-mi- ! the city postmark. he called that evening, Rose so absorbed In writing that she tot hear him enter. When he she quickly turned over the of paper on which she had been tg, and it seemed to him that ore an expression of detected Throughout the evening she casting surreptitious, longing "s at her unfinished work and fiuite distrait of manner. cut his call shorter than 'and went home depressed and artened For a week he did not r The Nutshell, or any of the s where he would he apt to en-e- r Rose, but remained at home tfn e, i I J j Wendell. I knew, of course, that he cared for you, but until lately, I had hoped that your liking for him was but a passing fancy. She stared at him in bewilderment Then she laughed a mirthful little laugh. Oh, Ward; dear Ward! Paul Wendell was engaged before he came here to a beautiful girl who has been travShe has eling abroad for a year. come back now and they are to be married soon. Rose! Really? Really, you sturid! But what has made you so so dlf ferent of late? And the last night I was at your house you were certainly so occupied in writing a letter that you didnt want me around. Well, Ward, I'll fess up. I wanted to tell you all along, but I was afraid of your ridicule. I have always teen addicted, more or less, to the habit of scribbling rhymes, and when Mr. Wendell was here he read some of them and insisted on sending them to a magazine. I just got a letter that day you were there from him, saying they had been accepted, and the editor wanted more, so that night I was trying my art again. I wanted to snow them to you, but I knew your contempt for poets. Rose! he cried happily. Maybe I have a contempt for poets, but not for poetesses. If you will only be my wife, your whole life shall be a poem. And you will read them and not laugh? she asked anxiously. Ill read them and not laugh, he replied heroically. WaS How the Woodchuck Took Water. One of the best story tellers of his time was my uncle, Han" Thompson of Auburn, Me. The following is what Han told of what he and his brother John tried to do in the way of catching a woodchuck. They had tried quite a number of times to capture the animal, but unsucAt last they decided to cessfully. drown him out. So, procuring four palls, each took two, and they carried water for two solid hours and poured it into the hole ln the ground in which the said chuck" had taken up his abode. Getting tired, they sat down. After about half an hour the woodchuck cautiously left the hole and deliberately walked down to the brook and took a long drink of water, and then scooted, much tothe disgust of the two boys. Boston Herald Rose appeared In the home, radiant and Confusion About the Churches. Four miles beyond the village of nights to sleep that' them, said Ward. " ln tl e afternoon 0 his he replied heroically. is eye Se all Bethel, Vt Is an old Episcopal church, the earliest In that part of the ,c 8 he state. A clergyman who was a stranquoted, lau ger ln town recently undertook a walk hat ?er 6cnt me over was lonesome fc to the church. Losing his way, he 5 3oor voice. stopped at a house by the roadside to ask for direction. )irkUn'ls ln Wards hea Unaware that the family who lived J..e. at the sight of his eetheart He found no in the house was named Church, he said to the woman, who came to the to supper, door: Madam, can you tell me where said his Rose," Ward will drive you to find the old church?" Tun haven't been here ln ages. To his great surprise and embar. . Oh, sir, my 4 ,mru' accepted the lnvita-P- t rassment, she replied: up a gay chatter all father died a year ago! 'fountain won't come 1 s , The First Swiss Guard. In October, 1303, he brought from Switzerland 200 Swiss youths commanded by Caspere de Silenen, a nobleman of Lucerne, who subsequently died in Rome He constituted them bis owp petsonal bodyguard, designating them officially "Pretoriani excubi-tore- s Pontificis corporis et palatii Pretorian guards of the person and palace of the Pope. The idea of such a guard did not originate with Julius II, but with hts predecessor, Nicholas V. This Pontiff, however, was afraid to carry the idea out in face of the opposition of Louis XII, who threatened to do a lot of unholy things if the project was not abandoned Julius II was not easily intimidated, and, finding the idea to his taste, lost no time in giving effect to it. But tiie poor Swiss subsequently had to pay for his rashness with their lives In the Pontificate of Clement VII the terrible Constable de Bourbon led a force against Rome and sacked the city. The guards barricaded themselves in St. Peters and sold their lives dearly, but he got them all; not For twenty-onone escaped. years thereafter no effort was made to reform this guard, but in 1548, under It Paul III, it was again organized. has existed ever since with two short interruptions, during the French occupations of 1798 and 1809, but it returned with Pius VII, and is still here, clothed as of yore and quite as ferocious looking The design of their peculiar uniform, of yellow, scarlet and black cloth, which in print suggests a harlequin, but does not look like one, has been variously ascribed to Michael Angelo, Raphael, Bramante and other artists. The Swiss themselves like to think that it was the illustrious Michael Angelo who dressed them, and there is no reason to suppose that the great artists diverse talents did not also include proficiency e e d as (Special Correspondence.) That most picturesque relic of the long been domiciled In the Eternal days when the Papacy exercised some- City thing like real temporal power, the Swiss Guard, is pieparing to celebrate Duty Is Not Onerous. the fourth centenary- of its fiumation The Guards themselves sign for five There are four other papal corps, and years' service, which can be renewed one of them, the Noble Guard, is of if they wish. After twenty-fivyears still more ancient origin, dating back service they have a pension, but they to 1488, but the Swiss Guard has long can cinly rise from the ranks to the attracted the most attention among grade of colonel. The men, on the visitors to the Eternal City. whole have little to complain of. Their The Swiss Guard now consists of 100 pay is $16 a month, and, as they are stalwart young Catholics from Ger- obliged to be unmarried, it quite sufman Switzerland They watch over fices The officers, of whom there are the various entrances to the palace six of course, get very small pay, the and are responsible for the personal position being more honorary than safety of the Pontiff They are armed anything else and bringing piestige as with Remington and al- compensation. The corps is lodged in so carry halberds which, with their magnificent quarters in the Vatican, quaint starlet black and yellow uni- near Porta Angelica, with every mod forms, supply something more than a ern convenience The service, al hint of the medieval times which call- though somewhat heav; cannot be ed them into existence said to be of great responsibility, and The Guard owes Its origin to Pope the men have many free hours in Julius II, who was known as the fightIn fact, he is said to have ing Pope thrown the keys of St. Peter into the Tiber, having more use for the sword of St. Paul and the halberds of his Swiss Guard. He also loved the arts, patronized Michael Angelo and Bram-mte- , added to the Vatican Library, and laid the cornerstone of the new Basilica ot St Peters. Guard of the Pope. which, in mufti, they are often seen about the streets of Rome. Their flag, which may be seen waving over their barracks, is of red, yellow and very dark blue stripes, with the arms of the reigning pontiff on one side, and on the reverse those of the actual commandant. It Is a highly artistic production, as are, for, that matter, the Guards themselves, and I am afraid It is only in this light that they are regarded by strangers, who are apt to think that they are put in their places only to look pretty and appropriate. The whole army of the Pontiff is composed of five armed corps, the Noble, Swiss and Palatine Guards, gendarmes and firemen, comprising 390 men, more or less, probably a few more. During Leo XIII's pontificate Rome was startled one day by an enormous headline in one of the leading papers, Mobilization of the and, Army, thinking that war must be upon her looked feverishly for further news, whereupon the words of the Pope were revealed in much smaller type, and the Eternal City breathed freely again. These maneuvers, announced with such pomp and solemnity, were a new thing in the Vatican since the In the sartorial art. fall of the temporal power, and occupied a month, in the Vatican garden. in Noble Command. Swiss It must be confessed that the men Their commander is Baron Meyer and officers showed themselves somede Schaueusee of Lucerne, as whoever what rusty from long disuse and came holds this commission is obliged to be out of It with aching bones and someSwiss, a noble and of a Lucerne family. what stiff limbs. Leo XIII used often Baron Meyer himself married into the to go into the garden to witness the Roman aristocracy, while his son has maneuvers, and it Is perhaps just as an American wife. The commandants well that he was not a military man, father, the late Baron, also command- as he might have seen much to critito had the of much do in ant, quelling cise, while in reality he was greatly a little mutiny among the Swiss Guard delighted. on the accession of Leo XIII to the papal throne. Even then or rather, Everything Limited. especially then the finances of the The old farmer went to one end of Vatican were not florid, and the new the swaying coach to wash his hands broom, as was satirically termed the He could find only a few remnants of incoming pontiff, decided to make a he drawled, there dont Boy, soap. clean sweep of one of their privileges seem to be much soap here? which was not set down on paper, No, sah, chuckled the porter, you This though sanctioned by custom. Ebhything was the payment of $100 to each mem- know dis is de limited. ber of the force for his extra work abohd am limited. Then the old man tried to fill a glass during the conclave, or sede vacante," as it is called. Thirty of the boldest, ftom the water cooler. He could force out only a few drops. Wheres the water, boy? Not much water, sah. Dat am limited, too. Presently the porter brushed the old farmer down, and the latter handed him nine coppers. Why, boss, protested the porter, you gib de porter on de udder train a quarter. I know that, chuckled the old termer, but you know this is the lim Ited, and everything should be limited Chicago News. Spoiled in Transit. There is a Philadelphian, having a summer home near Cape Cod, who takes great pride in his cranberry meadow. On one occasion this gentleman was entertaining an Englishman at dinner when the latter partook for the first time In his life of the delicacy known as "cranberry sauce. Corridor in Vatican. backed by the moral support of their comrades, took their arms, barricaded themselves in their barracks and de- He was delighted with It. Indeed, so much and so often did he express pleasure that, when he had returned to London, the Philadelphian sent him a barrel of the finest Cape Cod cranA month or so passed, and berries. then there came a letter of acknowledgment from the Briton. "It was awfully good of you," said he, among other things, to send me those berries, and I thank you. Unfortunately. they all soured on the way over. Harper's Weekly. war! Neither prayers nor threats nor bribes could move them. Nothing but their money would satisfy them, and when that, after three days, was forthcoming, they came forth, too. But Leo XIII had his revenge, as he years kept them waiting twenty-fivfor the next sede vacante, while the A Georgia Humorist average length of a pontificate Is only Don t you want the Life of the from six to eight years The colonel of the Guard Is Karl President? said the book agent said the Blllviile man. No, sir, Pyffer dAItishofen of Lucerne, whose Its- as much as I can do to look after family Is Inextricably mixed with the own life." history of the Swiss Guard. Already my Youre real sharp, aint you? nine of the same house have held the No, sir; I'm Jim Jlnklns. post of commandant, and there Is no unWell, show me the road to the next 1652 ln held the a doubt PyfTer post der Clement X. The family, of course, town, will you? AtI aint ln the show business. comes from Lucerne, but the branch to which Colonel Karl belongs had lanta Constitution clared e - Sleep, as a factor in physical economics, tanks In Importance with respiration aud digestion Those who live normally, who throughout ail ordinal y exigencies maintain a natural attitude tow aid life, its strains and responsibilities, may expect to enjoy a full measure of this restorative function. How much one needs is not to be de, termined by dogmatic rules or nor does each one requite the same amount under every condition or circumstance There must be enough, daily and weekly, and of suitable character, to restore the balance of nettwil energy reduced by whatsoever of follows upon daily act iv it ns, otherwise the sensonum resents this deprivation in one way or another. In those whose lives are full of repeated and emphatic demands upon them fo- - concentration ot attention, the habit of taking shoit naps is found to be most refreshing and inv igotating. Many physicians, some lawyers and other professional men who peruse literary work find it satisfactory tot secure a brief sleep some time during the day, often in the middle of opeta-tionwhen an opportunity offets When to sleep is again a matter of piece-dents- OF SLEET opinion. Early using is by common consent a salutaty custom, (specially when the day comes tally, not other- wise. It is agreed that mote sleep is required in winter than in summer. The best situ p is had during the hours of daikmss The mind is clearest in the early morning md these who can utilize this pet toil ior intellectual noth are capable of mining out the best The deeping room si ould be cool, abundant air This should Icung always admired mu he ml rpned to mtan that the room mav xjto'v remain intensely cold In the me hr:, neatment of t'tsli air is lecogmed to le in peiativei.v i.eedt-- all day aud all night Aittlieuil heat can and should be supplied a'ong with the flesh air till the tempeia'ute of the room be at or near 50 or 55 degtees Kihietiheit, for Kahienheit. some even t.o d gives Above tilts no one in health is likely Babies to slop in leificl cointoit end invalids need a in at of from CO decries Fahrenheit to 70 degtees evi n more at times, yet all the liesh air, or fullest t. Af THE ENCUlEt.hS ON RU.4 His Story of Ho.v s LiveJ liis Life All Over n a Finch, Drovvrnm ix to t'u y evpiti ence that uu-- . x a ii io u i ! i v own Itomaihv in tin l, ef a see ond," (.till F. ( ilolidi a lot not I v c engineer was t nun n g h, tin- iabxottg l , , train btw.... ,;aetm souial n,.n ii an!1, I o meet the noitlibnun sta ,n at turn on He mF ,t was nil ,i. I nY iailll III d, ;,tn jid; main s, ant! on nst i mi was m tin e ill 'll ,,,, io diat vve made Inline tbi- - c of which iniiu I spt ak tin fi ill in ha to waive me n.il t, 0 ahead vvas up w in n tiie it received ill my foil to , . , i 1 - . Ir I , 1 cat. As vve appio.Ktcd t' e next s'ation the eom'oetiM nun hue ignaled u.e, as Ik damn d Ik- di,it lap we dashed Ihtough the town at about foitj miles an hour In foie In aid the down 'I lie hiakts signal nmin'e I heard it I saw tin ahluiht oi tiie northbound train h ss than Sim yanis away, ruining mount! n tune I thievv on the air initios mid reversed, but it all looked toe late. The fireman was paralyzed. The jumped, tint two gient i up m s, one bearing a special nain, like togeihor anary bulls, and I was fiozen there, untl while those tiains rushed tosaw every lnrident of my gether, life just as plainly as (he day It happened. That's all I know about it. . I.outsv ille t 1 POSSIBILITIES IJI CLOCK TICKS the Speaking of queer things, clock in our office cut a curious caper the other night, said an old newspaper man, and I was just thinking ot the romantic possibilities of the happening. Lately the clock has not been working well. In fact, it has refused to run for some reason, and repair work has failed to put it in anything like decent shape On the particular night I have in mind it was absolutely dead, and, I believe, had been perfectly still for several days. Along about the closing up time there was a sudden flutter in the clocks machinery, and then the funny, thing began to happen. The clock began to tick precisely like a telegraph instrument. It was a call from some point. Gee! shrieked a man near me who bad some knowledge of telegraphy. There's something doing. Hear that bet you Rojestvensky Singapore has bumped up against Togos fleet in the China sea. The clock kept on It kept on spelling Singa calling rm-iu- pore. At least that's what the man said. Its a hunch! he shrieked again and unless we get busy directly, around here we will just about get the life scooped out of us by missing the biggest naval engagement in Don't get excited, old man, said a quiet fellow over ill the corner, and just loop your eye oil the clock Vile pictures of the battle will ho flashed in a few mipuks ami you will be aide to see Rojestvenskv and Ills crowd hustling for the bottom Its funny, isn't it slid the quiet man after awhile, on what thin pegs we sometimes hang a taie? Ilete's an old, wurnout clotk, with a telegraphic connection, and in some way the wires get mixed, the machinery is jostled a little and begins to click and immediately the romantic mind I was begins to conjtite up tilings just wondering how many of the yarns about the wars ptogtess in the Far East, the losses in ships and men, have hem taken from dead clocks' Many, I dare say. 1 Courier-Journal- his-tot- MONEY IN ABANDONED FARMS. Life in America Points Out Important Facts. The great mass of conservative opinion seems to be firmly bet against advising the public to buy chi ap lands, savs Country Life ln America. acre land is no good for farming, the experts say. Farming requites more capital than formerly, and the day ot geneiai farming in the East Is past. A thousand dollars at least is necessary. The best 'abandoned farms' have been tiansferred into summer homes; the ottieis should never have been attempted. In the hope that there might be some exceptions to these pessimistic statements, Country Life in America which has began an investigation, brought to light tiie following hopeful facts: First Many people have sucR ceeded at general farming within the last ten yeats on land costing $5 to $10 An interesting story Is that of what fects weie examined for distribution an acre. Second General farming Is is known as the Prescott Fund of as she had directed, a quantity of gold often bi tter than special farming for Prince Williams parish, now parts ot and silver coins, said to amount to the beginner without experience at her were under non, about found South $40 Hampton ami Beaufort counties, least for the first year. Third There Carolina. It seems that in the early mattress It has always been believed is plenty of suitable land In New Engpart of the last century an old woman that this money had been given to the land and the South that can be bought who lived alone in an isolated portion old woman to keep by hotse thieves, for $10 an nr re or less. Fourth Much of what was then Beaufort District who either had .ied or been tun out of this land is not abandoned; it Is was on her deathbed, and sent for a of the country and had been afraid to still worked for profit. It can be had to It. to to of return draw her will get dispose lawyer at bargain prices for three permanentAbout the early part of the last centhe little hut and the few acres of land rt asons old age, ill ly legitimate she had. tury there were several gangs of horse the settfi merit of an estate. After she had designated io whom thieves that operated along t he coast health, Fifth People do not know how to find these were to go the lawyer told her from Virginia to Florida, and it was out where these cheap lands are. tnat to avoid any legal trouble over from the hanging of some of these men disa a man named her will she should insert clause moli, headed by a by My Forces. posing of whatever else she might Lynch, in Virginia, that the term I'm no man. for I doarly can Ivneh law is said to have been deShe therefore desighave overlooked. Tiaco h ii torn that fashioned me Kmin the m'his long ago, when a babe nated that if there should be found rived. Mrs Prescott lived in a very m w hoi n. I Ia on ms mother's knee, anything else belonging to her undis- isolated part of the district, and it has God aln in His Heaven of love 11k so ln taken Thn should he been believed that always posed of that it To the .him N citithieves ujed to make her house their Life und filed of tills control little child charge of by a certain prominent Ami Uh bicathed in me a soul. zen of Gillisonville as trustee for the stopping place and gave iter the money to keep ,and that she was afraid to Then the ioe that lies in a mothers use of the white poor of Prince Wiltell of Its possession even on her deathliams parish. Then she died. Woke that soul to active life. When the old womans household ef bed. And from all alarms her sheltering arms Protected me in the strife Tier tender caie and her loving prayer As the hov grew into man, Mv nature dr w to a full growth true, As only a mother can. Ho straight ahead o'er the level plain, Leap on through the racing di, r w no college walK in no learned halls, In of it And st blade a the ribbon lies; In light ntwi rests, swirling Found mv Hr in im fmniing tool; As it btats out the long white way. And It may be wet with the driving rain, But in Hie pish of works hard Rtress, Or dry to the drifting skies, I learned in the worlds great school. But It lures me on to the lands afar, Now', on and up to the ice and snow. The god of life and the evils strife, Through the arch of the azure day, crag-- , it lcs, Oer the To the purple twilights swinging star. struggled on to find, a ipar fiom the With ol ft And the labor to gain, the woik to atAs I ride on the long white way. below. tain, Where torrent the pinioned cries, And Im out on the long white way once Sharpened and shaped my mind. While, shining Might In the blue above, more. the peak in their whiti ariay, Stand into life with its hardships rife Thn The path to the skies of blue And point the path to the land 1 love, When fcuoos was almost won. Of my broken prison, the open door, By the Ia.ss of the Long White Wa. Came a ketner Right and a brighter To things that are strange and new. I can see the light on its level track, light. And Im up on the long white way once As through clouds hurst the sun In the sun of a vanished day; more, Work lighter grew gray skies wexe blue, And the singing cities call me back. to the verge of sight That ramps A new light s trued to start From the end of the long white way. The danger track o er the Ices link. A heaven this of new found bliss With the thin snows crusting white And love awoke mv heart! Ho. straight ahead from the harbors Till the pass is won and the plunge Baltimore American. mouth begun. In a flurrv of foam. It lies: Down down to the glowing dav. A ship's white wake to the burning south. Ted's Beginning. To a land of orange and vine aud sun. With its blazing sapphire skies. And the dust of the long white way. She has dipped her flag to the fortress The new assistant rector was trying grim. to Impress upon the mind of his young Oh the long white way, with its endThe guard of the outer bay; less quest She has dropped the hand 'neath the son the difference between his own poOf distant seas and skies. ocean s rtm, sition and that of his superior. Now The anodvne to the soul a unrest, And shes off on the long white way. Kre she frees her wings and flies. Ted, he ended, "I want you to reAnd shes out on the long white way once By th great white moon in its purple member to be very polite to the rector more. night, And the' sun In its azure dav. In the salt of the ocean breeze. We are strangers, and I am only the To the strange new worlds, that are The long white ride to a distant shore, assistant; it becomes us to be exOn the backs of the long white seas; rising blight, n billows smok At tire end of the courteous. Some day, perhaps, wav Where the tremely Bertrand Shadwell. Ing crests I shall be rector myself. The next day the boy was walking with his father when they met the dignified rector. Hello! began Tedd. promptly Speaking of beggars, said the man much, and for which he was duly thankful. Pops been tollin' me 'bout you smoking, "I know of a But it couldnt continue forever, as how you're the real thing, an he's street west woman ln Seventy-fourtas he may have wished it just the hited man an we got to much used as she so who isnt One morning as he came up knuckle under. But some day he may might. to be at least, as far as one New from the basement entrance he was be It himself, an then youll see! York beggar is concerned. met by a friend of the family who Womans Home Companion. "Some time ago a Weary Willie ap- was making an early call on business. peared at her portals and craved a This man, who was as hard-h- t arted Break by a Nervous Husband. crust for breakfast. He got a good as the lady was not, recognized the After the execution of Prof. Webdeal more meat and potatoes and cof- tramp anl made some Inquiries about of Harvard for the murder of Mr. ster fee and rolls and an invitation to call hltn of the lady. She told his hard luck Mrs. Webster went away, Parkman, again in case he did not find the em- story, and the man inwas gone for a long period. On and formed her that the tramp had been her return to B ston two of her old ployment he so anxiously sought. He had told a good story, and he riding up to her house every morning friends went to call upon her, a genlooked the part, so that it was not sur- in the street car to get his breakfast. tleman and ills wife. Both were in a That ended his snap, and where he state of nervous excitement while prising that he made an impression upon the tender heart of the excellent is getting his breakfasts now I can't waiting in the parlor for her to ap lady. Employment seemed to be diff- say, but there are many women in New York, and he Is no pear. icult to secure and for the next several whispered th6 "Now, remember, days Willie showed up each morning doubt feeding his morning face right wife to her nervous husband, don't about 9 oclock and had a cracking along for the price of a car ride. say anything to recall to Mrs Wegood breakfast, which he enjoyed very New York Herald. bsters mind the awful experience she has been through. Just then Mrs. Webster entered and the nervous man exclaimed, with Why, my deal Daniel Webster had a habit, while spectacles and placed them before the outstretched hands: I ara so glad to see extoo wbo on was in much orator, of Mrs. Parkman, great court, putting speaking spectacles, whose arms rest- cited to notice. In due time he had you back! ed over the ears. After reading any occasion to read again, and seized the Followed McCiintocks Orders. spectacles before him As a matter passage desired, he used to raise the of the the course, shared third A pair young man who afterward be spectacles from his nose and push same fate as the two preceding, and came a successful reporter on a Bos them up over his forehead until they Webster was astonished to find everyton daily relates one of his first ex rested on his head. bodys face wearing a broad smile, and periences ln endeavoring to get work One day a waggish member sitting especially the face of the man whose as follows: In the next seat to Mr. Webster placed arguments he was answering. "I walked Into the office of John Webin of front own his spectacles The gentleman may smile and N. McClintock, editor and publishei on one his ster, who bad already pair smile, Mr. Webster roared out, shakof the Granite Monthly, a New Hamp bead. Bending to take up some book ing hts head angrily and pointing a shire magazine, and asked for an op be picked up the new spectacles at finger at his opponent, "but he only to show what I could do. I portunity the same time, and adjusted them to makes of himself a spectacle for the was asked what I could write about read. Then up went the second pair derision of his countrymen. and with a John L. Sullivan con to join company with the first pair At the same time the three pairs of fidence replied: Oh, I can write about forehead. massive above the spectacles fell upon the orators desk, anything. Like a shot came the re The wag, grinning over the success and there w as a general roar of merriWell, right about face, then.' sponse: of his trick, borrowed another pair of ment. London Answers. That settled me. I did. TAINTED MOJiEy FO Country CHARlTy o THE LONG WHITE WAY -- 1 night-bhu- k star-strew- wind-whipp- BEGGAR 'ROBE TO BREAKFAST kind-hearte- d h kind-hearte- d hard-hearte- kind-hearte- d WEBSTER A JIB THE SPECTACLES - |