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Show I 'V s. i ... ' t V ED TO KNOW, ' . 4 KINDER like the old songs. The songs I used to know In the deur old country t village. y?1j iFvsA ts2J& S4 KM 4k - 4k ft :: ::J V k4 tt it mnrm 4 ft 4k H: u4kr4a t( vr ft h -- i- ? Of the dear old long ago I kinder like the music of Ren Roll, and oilier tunes tho They taug among crdais In the scthted, amorous Junes When the corn began to taascl. When the lary summer hi i eie Shook the perfume from the flowers As It filtered through the trees. With the sunlight of the season Glinting where the grasses spread, here the roses fell In clusters. Blushing sweetly, deeply red Ah, yes, I like the old songs. The kind tney used to sing When life was like a primrose Just bursting in the spring. Somehow I like the old eongs Yes. The Maple on the Hill, Some Twenty Years Ago, Turn. And dear old W htppoc, will, And Starry Might for Ram hie. And Coming Through the Rye, And other dear old melodies They sung to ou and I Ah, yes, I like the old songs. The kind they used to sing When life was like a primrose Just burstlrg in the spring. Oh, how I love the old songs I heat'd at mother's knee, The sweet, entrancing melodies She used to sing to me! The dear old funny Frog song Miss Mousle by hie side And the aong of Old Aunt Nancy, The old gray goose that died. And the songs about the foxes. And the things the foxes stole Oh, the mellowing c&dencee! How they sting a fellow's soul! Ah, yea. I like the old tonga, The kind they used to sing When life was like a primrose Juat bursting In the spring. New Orleans Tlmea-Democra- L 4 V sett 4k .3A 4k V 4 k 4 4k If 4k A4 b 4 4 ture and adoration at the feet of tae younger girl. ' Nor was she .less f attracted by the - dark faced foreigner with the soft black eyes. As Miss Anna watched them it all came to her and she saw; not as through a glass darkly, but as in the glare of the morning light, how it all was and would bet She had built up these two, had given them sustenance from her own nature, had fed their souls and warmed their hearts, for this very thing. And what could be oetter, she thought, than that these two young things, full of life and love and the sunshine of the present and promise of the future, should love each other. Nothing, she told herself, nothing could be better. It was natur&L It was right As she stood In front of her glass she looked closely at herself, scanning her features critically. "Yon thought you could be young again?" she said, "but you had more than ten years against you." She looked closely at her heavy brown hair and noting the few gray hairs about the temples she smiled a little sadly to herself. She looked lovingly at Saldie, asleep on the bed, and said softly: "He Is her Johnnie Morgan, and then with a weary sigh, Oh, how glad am that Wellesley needs another drawing teacher next year."' If Saldie had been awake instead of aaleep ahe might have seen above the head of St. Anna,--thring of white light which crowned the heal of thla Pictorial Rumor UK KNEW WHAT TO TAKE. "Now do you understand! You ie are to attract the farmer and his wife to the front of the house and. give me a L clear field. Yes, I'll pound the front door and while groan and get a. you break iu the back way.-Ye'em youre that's right. Tell ' ' very 111. But can I hold em long enough for you to ransack the house! "Pm not going to ransack Ahe house. All I a ant is time to get Into the cel- lar But aint you going to get their money ! Money! their .. , Rpottlo. An KdvirIi) Fair Teacher "So you wUb to bring school. a little comrade to Sunday Has he a good reputation! Pupil Good? .Why, aay, loldy, dat kid kin knoik any feller In de ward n ball player an hea de best . on de lot. , all-rou- HwW.do believe care would kill a cat. She-- Probably m, but a cat dont care. If "Whit 4k 4 4k . Of. course ndt. Pm after Plain Cleveland potatoes. Dealer. e. k4 - DIFFICULTY. THE fMhlufi Fftd la the nature of this malady ahich they call the new-fangl- fd golfing iplne ? "TbntiT responded Cynicns. Is easy. Golfing iplne is what the old man used to hare after a hard day plowNew ing, but he called It backache. YorlJ Times. If ft . SS r-- If ft If mwm ; He Said No Mor. Great Scott! When a womu goes out to samples she peg half the day." Jim Bender "That is nothing! Why, I have known you to make a round of the sample roonjr and spend half the night. Mr. Bender gt it M f ; matter; all Learner Is money matter? MOUu Eddy There la not matter. Leaner-W- ell, I have a million dollars b my mind. W1U you please cash me check for a hundred thousand? Mrs. Eddy Yes, in my mind. Learner Ko matter, never mind. Jfit Eddy There Is no la nhtd. "He is her Johnnie Morgan. saint in this her supreme hour of Her iolmnle Morgan. f BY WILLIAM WENDHAM. (Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Pub, Co.) Uii name was not Johnnie Morgan; It was Antonio Pansada But from that day almost a year ago when she first heard and aaw him, a very dirty and very Italian violinist, jrtff . . Addling- - hiepicturesque tlehtned yty ttreegk the purse strings and into the hearts of all? Who heard him, she had christened 'him and to herself had called him "Johnnie Morgan." Almost a yew it was and to her the shortest year she had ever lived, for it seemed as if this Antonio had brought with him Into her life the blue Bky and the sunshine of his own Italy. Miss Anna Gilbert was the teacher of drawing and painting In the Girls College at Madisonvllle, and was more beloved than any teacher of the college had ever been before. The title which the girls had given her, "Saint Anna, was truly deserved, for so thickly did shsow the seeds of goodness about her that had her harvest of thanks from poor struggling students been wheat at the right time of the market it would have given her a princess Income During her youth, tor it must be confessed her youth was mostly behind her, she had worked and sacrificed for her parents until their death, and then she struggled for the education of her younger brother and sister. One gray October morning on her way to work she had been struck by ' Italian violinist. - the evident geniu of the young Italian, who was playing his violin on the street. Alwaye attracted by music she -stopped to Haifa and was struck by the combination of poverty and genius . In the handsome young fellow. A picturesque hand- ' He certainly . was unusually some and he looked even younger than be was for hie face possessed a great sincerity and ingenuousness of expression. The soft dark eye and "olive akin were enhanced by the exceeding thinness of the face and by the hungry look In the eyes a hunger for spiritual and mental as well as physical food, which, shining from those dark eyes appealed directly and powerwoman. fully to this warm-heartKnowing of an opening in the college she quietly put th man and the opthat portunity together, with the result the Italian, within a month, was giving lessons to a class. And the class ed grew Immediately from three to thirteen. To his patroness he owed all, and never did fid cease to pour out to her his gratitude.. He treated her with the greatest reverence and when walking home with her or meeting her coming to hdr duties he would hold open the gate or raise his hat as if she were s princess. Then she got Into the habit him- - to In when he walked home with her and of making a cup of tea (n her little bachelor room, which alwaye seemed cosy and pleasant to them both, and had made his thanks overflow to "Mees Anna." She discovered that he was saving almost all hla warnings toward a sum which would enable him to bring over his old father and mother. He poured out his music to Mist Gilbert, as he did hie troubles, with those "foolish girls who will not work nd to all hla plans at se lessor and troubles ahe listened with sym pathy, as she alwaye had done to any of the atudenta In whom ahe was taking a special Interest But sympathy and friendliness in a womans heart toward a man, when the man is young, handsome and manly. Is going to grow Into love as surely as the acorn which Dame Mature aIbp planted is going to grow Into an oak. One June day after he had walked home with her she sat in her room and with many blushes faced it faced this fact that she loved the. violinist The song was all true: She loved her "Johnnie Morgan. And why notf she asked herselL Had ahe not worked hard for others all her life and been faithful in all things! Was it not right that the sunshine of love and happiness should come into her Ufa She dreamed that night of a cottage filled with the music of a violin; and never had she looked so Radiant and so young as she did the next day. "I had a letter this morning from my little sister, she said to Antonio the next evening as he walked home with her, She la coming next week to spend her vacation with me." "Ah, the little sister. I shall love the little child tor the take of 8alnt -Anna, exclaimed Antonio. Saint Anna laughed. "Oh, she's not so email as all that, she replied. Saldle is eighteen and a greattall girl,-- but I call her my little sister because she always has been my baby. She has been at Normal school and next season she will begin to - ' teach. t Saldle came, and a rosebud of rare perfection she was a perfect type of blonde beauty, with a warm heart and a vivacity which charmed all who met her. To her physical charms she added a character built on strong eat foundations, for to this baby sister had Miss Anna given all the loving care and earnestness of thought, all the building up of Ideals that ahe had missed in her own girlhood and acquired in her hard battles with the world. The next time Antonio wallced home with hla "St. Anna she Insisted that he come In and see the "little sister. He came and they had a cup of tea,' and Antonio, who was prepared to make himself agreeable for the sake of his patroness and friend, noon forgot all about her In the presence of the sparkling youth and beauty of Sal-di- e. He came morejoften than ever after that and eat Jn undisguised rap of-mal- rtti x CCULO KING AND A PEASANTS COW. Italian Safer Quart! Aged galmal "How do they expect me to lay when they have taken the china net-egg, the only thing in the world I had to measure by? Scribbler"! wish I. ' Wobm. Some days ag6 the King and Queen of Italy took a long promenade in the neighborhood of their chateau of their summer residence. The Quqei suddenly became intensely thirsty.. Pf rcelvln g an old woman meat who waa watching a'eoW'TBCTnpg requested her to give him a little' mllC The peasant. Ignorant of the quality of her guests, pretended that her cow gave no mtlk.; "But you have some water at your house, continued the King. "That yes, replied the old woman. Could you get some for me? If "you would keep my cow while I went for It" "Agreed, replied Victor Emmanuel in the most serious fashion In the worldrAt the end of ten mini utes the old woman returned with a bowl of fresh water. "But how does It happen," demanded the King, "that there are so fdw people in the country!" "They have nil gone down to the chateau to see the Klng.the Queen and the Uttle Princess. It is only we old ones that one leaves at the house and who will never sew them." "But you wee them, my worthy woman," replied the King, giving her a new gold piece. "We are the King and Qn'eh." The peasant woman began to tremble and In despairing voice eried: "Pardon me. Sire, I did not know The Quden had all the trouble In the world to calm the poor woman, who kept repeating: "To think that I have given my cow to guard to the King!" Ran-conl- .Clever Ua4o Cabby. , A London "cabby" saye that once two distinguished strangers balled him at Westminster palace and bade him drive at top speed to Marlborough house. After a moment of recollection he recognised the Prince of Wales end his friend the King of Belgium. An awkward attempt At an obeisance from the box was promptly rsbaked, and the cabby settled down to his business of driving his royal guests as fast as a hansom may go In London streets. They stopped at Marlborough house and it was time to pay. Well driven, cabby," said the prince;' "whet do I owe you! Please, ilr.Jva already ad a sovereign And A Art In the an sorae, replied cabby, bowing to the price end the king of Belgium. "Heres for the king of Belgium, then." said the prince, handing the driver a sovereign; I dont count, you know. . UiIm mi the Tuc London la rapidly losing its position as a port, for the absurd people controlling its docks are pitifully .behind the times. Grimsby and Hull are seising all our trade. Liverpool and Southampton are fast beating London; and Rotterdam, Havre, Bordeaux, Bremen and Hamburg are also benefiting. London la no more the warehouse of the world. Rotterdam Nieuwe Cour-af School Work la FhUIpplae. Education In the Philippines promises to be the most Inspiring feature of school work under the American flag. It is worth while to go there and do noble school work. Journal of nt knew-whethe- . r the editors read my poetry or send it back without looking at It." Friend' "They dont read it" "You think so because they always decline it? Because they alwaye decline it with e for FRIEND. YK CANDID LIVE CX IT. thanks " " Hr Vlw of it. th girl in blue. vigorously," and still tht h protested kissed her." "Now, doesnt that Just show the luck that some girls have? asked ths girl In white. Tvt tried it twice and 1 lost' the kiss both times. Boston l Tnveler, A t ' , of Woasoa. There is one thing about modern society that puulee me, said the philosopher. Tho W; .. ' What's that? The older women are all the time anxious to get In; the young and pret" ty ones want to come out" 8mart Bet Sponger says he can drink any number of cocktails. "Any given number, you mean," Ufa." Jlgiby I wish I bad your nerve. Dlgsby What would you do then? Jlgsby I wouldnt have to do anything. ROT EHordH LCCI BRASS "Tee, weve all ready the story about the man who picked up a pin on the street and thui attracted the attention of a rich man, said the chap with the red necktie, "but things don't work that way in real life. I wanted to get solid with a railroad superintendent and strike a conductorshlp. I knew at what hour to look for him at his office, and 1 was waiting tor him one morning "with a brass collar button in my fingers.' As he approached I let the button fall, and as he came near I picked it up., "Ah, young man, J you- - have, found he said aa he halted,- - - -Something, ! "Yea, sir. It la only a brass collar button, but I nver overtook- - small things." Thats Is right. Keep that in mind And you will succeed. Are you out of work Just now? -"Yes, sir? I replied, with my heart ' In my month. "Then you might look for the mat to that button and so make a pair! be said aa he went upstairs. There le an element of success In but he seldom gets It in operation until some smart woman la begin to tread on his heela. every man, Penn-ylvan- Grit. Bright Otlok. Silas "Heow Is yeour son gettln on at college? masCyrus "First rate! Hs has tered French now an he says ben soon be able to get a Job as waiter an . unfieistand the menu." mi BLACK 6AL. He Wish ws wus sardines, loveyl She Why, dovey? He Cause den we might be packed in de same can! Bfothariy AmIiIum. Rodrick They say that Beaker was held up by ihasked men the other 1 Tk Pity, .4 III1. "Are you any relation to my sister? He blushed and stammered until the young lady, taking pity on him, solved Van Albert "Yes, It was at the mas- th matter by sayingr i "No; but youd like to be, wouldnt querade balL It they hadnt held him Boston Traveler yon, Alfred up hed never got home." night" r Agalaat ffvr 0ra Frivclplv. In AbwIMi "I thought she was a temperance "Are there, indeed, to many eligible vocate." young women in America? asked the n She Is." count bow She Intoxicates but "Ah, thousands!" "There are countless with bar mniles."-replied the other. Detroit Free Pre- v ClmM ad- itll Optimist "Well oldman, did yon enjoy Europe?" Pessimist "Nor I wasnt dlaap-potnt- ed in half ns many things at expected tahe disappointed la. t |