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Show r y k BEECHER NOT FOND OF MONEY. Cheap Passenger iBvGtUlt.& Xi.WARUfM. There -- Rates Via "Santa e Routa" - Tslis Good Story To Boston, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Famous Olvlns, Detroit, Atlanta and other points. For The Isto Major James R. Pond, partlru.aru, addiexa C. F. Warren, who had many stories to tell of the General Agent, A. T. & 8. F. Ry., 41! famous lecturers whom he managed, Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. was especially fond of Indulging In HARD TO FIND AT' HOME. reminiscences of Henry Ward Beecher, for whom he had a great admiration. One of his favorlto Beecher anecdotes Why Kansan Met None of New York Four Hundred. was this one: C. P. Townsley, who is visitEditor "Ono day while I was making a New writes to his paper In York, ing with Mr. long railway Journey aa follows: Kansas "We had the pleasBeecher, be happened io put his band ure of on Mr. Vanderbilt a few calling Into the little watch pocket of. his but to find him out ago, days regretted He drew from It a sealed trousers. so of the town, distinguished looking envelope, gave the envelope a puzzled A little gentleman at the gate informed us. I look, and then tore It open. while later he passed it to. me. say thought be was a fresh duke just arv rived, but on asking him his name he Major, see what is Inside. said lng: It was James Thompson, the man Some weeks ago I officiated at the of a great railway manager, and who was in charge of the premises Mr. Vanderbilt's absence. I after tho ceremony he handed me that during find is it almost Impossible to catch envelope. . I hurriedly slipped It into 400 at home at this season. of the my pocket and then forgot all about any are either at some summer relb Just now I happened to run my They sort in or Tho next time I fingers into the pocket and discovered come to NewEurope. York I shall try the winI opened the envelope and there it. so as to find people at home." ter, bills! lay five Great Bend Tribune. New Ybrk Times. Pond . . wasn't much originality among American composers even as late as the cfvll war, and for their songs they went to the foreign com posers, adapting tho music of other peoples and taking airs and melodics from operas and Tho beautiful German student melody, "O Tannenbaum became the musical setting of the verses which James Ryder Randall wroto under Jho title, Maryland, My Maryland," but the air was too popular to be used on one side only, and northern poets set words to the melody so that the song was heard on both sides of the Mason , and. Dixon line. . ' "When Johnny Comes 'Marching Home" was set to music which bears close resemblance to "John Anderson, . My Jo. In Its opening phrases. "John; nle",was written by Louis Lambert, a Connectlcut'boy, who at the outbreak Lion Not a Brave AnlmaL of the civil war offered his services, Men who have shot nearly all of th but who on account of his youth was dark continents animals have, as not accepted. Very Neatly Turned the Tables on Hla I nothing but contempt for the I " At the beginning of the war poels Half. gjied "king of beasts, the lion. To I T see I've can how don't you say the hunter he Is a cowardly, skulking and musicians were encouraged to wastbeen and neglecting my home brute, far mere dangerous to - the write an anthem which would arouse lng my time attending club meetings, torses and oxen at night than to the patriotism and military ardor; but to protested Mrs. Dorcas. "You men are human part of the expedition, always outline such a task is one thing and so sordid in your views you cant see ready to slink off and escape a fight If ,to execute the order quite another. good In anything unless theres money riTen a chance. There is nothing king-iLouis S.'Elson In his work bn "The' it. lay about him, and a single man can Well, what good Is there In that I usually put half a dozen lions to flight National Music of America" says of club of yours that keeps you awayl such efforts: I Curious Little Animals. from home most of the time? n "No man has ever yet A. naturalist at Hanover, Cape Ooi "Intellectual good, my dear, re-- 1 with, the deliberate intentions of turned his better half; something ony, describes many remarkable small writing a hyinn with the single exmore to be desired than all the money I animals which abound there. Among ception of Joseph Haydn and the Aus- In the world. For instance, our club them Is a gecko, called by the Dutch trlan national hymn and, produced has gone in for nature study, and I farmers "getje ,' whose tail comes 'one! A national anthem comes by Inhave learned all about the habits of I off wh a slight touch, ana remains spiration and sometimes by accident; the interesting little creatures of the Jumping about on the ground, attract-Insesometimes a piece of very worthy lug the attention of an enemy, while world. music Is a failure as a national song; l, I You, have, eh? sneered Dorcas. tbe animal itself slinks away and sometimes a work which may strictly new tall. a all I can say is that if youd tnally grows be- classed as trashy bepomos a na- kept away from your old club and tions war cry. ABOUT COMPLEXIONS. studied Insect life at home, I would When the war opened a number of have been spared the shock I received Food Makes Them Good or Bad. patriotic northern gentlemen offered on opening the wardrobe and finding Saturate the human body with a prize of $500 for the words and holes. coffee and it will In time show music of a national hymn, and they strong in the .complexion of. the coffee 'placed the election of this wonderful' In Classic Boston. hymn in the hands of a committee of Bliss Carman, the poet, tells of a drinker. This is caused by the action of thirteen persons. Abotft twelve hunyoung friend of his. who. was seeking, us throwing part dred manuscripts were submitted and ,t,he lv.er' apartments In Boston's .aristocratic of blood. Coffee bile into the the to the and consigned section. Beacon . Hill., At one, house sallow" are and the committee retired in disgust, demuddy he was received by the landlady, a, complexions coffee and is will until way that stay claring that no poet or composer had spinster of uncertain age and aggresscalled work a to up given be entirely. worthy produced ive' refinement of manner: Awed to .a The sure way to recover rosy cheeks national. great degree by the ladys manner, and red lips is to quit coffee and drink So' much for design. . Accident the rather, nervous young man stamFood Coffee which makes red Postum The Tigers did not go the .war as mered: fared better, for the greatest of the And would It be possible for me to , blood. "I had been for more than 20 war hymns, Mrs. 'Julia Ward Howes a body, but were scattered through seiure' In your house, Mrs. lTte,rat9 00199 danker .Inspired Battle Hymn of the Repub- different companies of the Twelfth Blank? apartments and It Is absolutely true that Massachusetts Regiment. They took , lic came about by accident. so saturated myself with Whereupon the spinster held her- thiscompletely of the writer a William Steffe, song with them, and the regiment popular drug that my complexion toward even straighter than before ahd Sunday school tunes, claimed the air carried it to the war. .Then It under- self the last became perfectly yellow and as bis own, and as no one disputed went another . metamorphosis. Edna replied with haughty reproof: . Miss from every nerve and fibre in me was Miss Blank, Sir! him, he probably Is entitled fo the Dean Proctor wrote words which j affected by the drugs in coffee. New York Times. credit of writing Glory, Hallelujah. breathed the spirit of abolition into choice! "For days at a time I had been the foundation and source of the call the music, but they never gained compelled to keep to my bed on ac8enator Burton's Answer. to patriotism. This hymn was sung much' popularity. .However, In this stom-achA story is. going the rounds of count of nervous headache and not by the southern negroes at their camp form the song was heard by, Julia trouble and medicines did To him meetings as early as 1856, ' and the Ward Howe, Dr. James . Freeman Senator Burton of Kansas. me any relief. I had never com give firemen of Charleston, S. C., sung it Clarke, and other distinguished men a mischievous lot of school girls wrote U,'M 9 . Prslclan In regard to my concerning their high school at their perilous work. Then "the war and women. Dr. Clarke was so im- a letter , ' headaches and , terrible complexion Seca club' to attached the began glee pressed with the possibilities, as was I only found out the cause of Our topic is The Racial Relation and ond Battalion of Massachusetts In- Mrs. Howe, that he implored her to them after I commenced the use of Egypfantry, known as "The Tigers, took write new words for it She consent- Between the Early Hebrews and which became known to me Postum up the song, because of Its rhythmic ed,' and "Mine Eyes ' Have Seen the tians, their letter ran, 'and we need through Grape-Nuts- . We all liked the a simile for something that is very cornswing, and in the trenches of ah old Glory of the Lord was f00d ra'9:Nt .ad It helped us so fort which the battalion was. ordered The other class of war songs those pier yet simple, sweet yet thous p?,tum to repair they set new words to the which 'tell of home and family were fined. v Won't you send ms fomedlatJ"9 merit and we BU,Lr,tal? have z. one from a such inexhaustible your ofIy the glee many times interdicted on the battleair, using the name of one . it so delicious that we ..Jilt We found use ..n " club members , a Scotchman named field and in the campS, for they were k, the continued altogether although point, I never John Brown. It became known as the prolific ' 6f suicides and desertions. ;:The answer, short and to help my health. it expected Mince pies, such lias mother "John. Brown Song, but it was not In this Charles Carroll Sawyers was: a months "After few my headache until long, after the inception of the "When This Cruel War Is Over and used to makel New.' YoirtcTlmes;'" were all gone and my complexion had fyifj j.X' ' ' sqng that this term .was made to Stephen C. Fosters Suwanee River cleared wonderfully, then I knew that Gentle Hint? mean the John Brown of Ossawa-toml- were ofttimes under the ban of official trebles b4 keen caused by cof-Jack-So-me wls men fiavildac&rsd displeasure. Chicago Tribune. and had been cured when I left that microbes cling to the ring? you fee off and drank Postum in Its coffee wear. Fair. Division. . Ail Ready. Name given by Postum ' Co., er I dont guess they place. -Emlly-W- ell, Baltimore says that if the national Every thoughtful wife has a susMich. t Battle Creek, conventions will meet in that town picion that a million dollars may fall mean engagement rings. Postum will change the bl&d of crabs will be plentiful. The conven- into her hiisbands lap any minute, any coffee drinker and rosy cheek Home of Flour Mills. tions are doubtless expected to fur- and she has the list of the. things she Minnesota leads In flouring and and health take the place of a yellow! will buy then all made out. nish their own lobsters. skin and disease. mills. folk-song- s. mar-riag- e so-Batt- er n . . sat-dow- ct 1 even-Wel- t - i , -- -- i waste-baske- I t, . . . .... 1 I , 5 e, . -- ? . - - - the-result.- - . I - t6-th- e -- e. I -- f' , grist . |