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Show A Western exchange says high nuMOTHERS OOUCHNU IS. VALUES. struck squarely on the platform Instead of entering the mouth of the shaft. ance is ruining our credit abroad. and rffulnMi of the Thumb If you think theres no trying The chains loosened and fell off. aud to this may bo added and our reputa- Comparative To do anything of worth; anti Iu CyVorkr BT -- IBS f. COWAS. think you're but a cipher If the great steel hook swung loose. you The Thumb The different fingers tions at home, From out the mat ci finished years With joy my brothers voice I hear, In the multitudes of Instantly Mahoney leaped up, showare far from having the same value Just remember mother earth; Teel sister's fond caressing, loud memorys voice a stealing, doughnut 1 smile to see my mother's tear, liaised by the sound that past appears ering his curses upon the poor And press onward to the goal Being the subject of a compliment with reference to their fundamental Finest 1 hear my fathers blessing. And wakes the fount of feeling. devoted head. doughnuts in creation, utilization. Much the most It brings before mv raptured gaze Hold on, Mahoney!" interposed the which you dont know about is Ike Is the thumb, for without it important They were made around a The young, the fair, the tender, prehension Anon, where leafless locusts wave. Thats smoking a cigar with your eyes shut. would be very imperfect. The hand is If the patch is on your garment And lights the scenes of childhood days qniit voice of the timekeeper. And wintry winds are blowing. With melancholy splendor. Above affection's lowly grave. your fault. You signaled for a quick You cant enjoy it. Where it never was betore; no longer pincers, but merely a claw, My birter tears are flowing. your pocket book is empty drop and you got it. Youd ought to when deprived of the thumb. It may If Of Ah. me! what scenes of joy and grief Through intervening time and space. its boarded little store; send that car down steady, or. you'll As if swift pinions bore me, Toet Laureate Austin declares that be estimated that the thumb represents Just remember mothers doughnuts Are waked bv memorys power, break some of the men's heads. Like blossom bright and faded leaf. I journey to my native place. When the clouds of trouble roll fully a third of the total value of the While memory flies before me. The sunshine and the shower. break your head! roared the there have been no great women poets. hand. Ill Sweetest doughnuts manufactured. Again before me lie spread out hole. Ail were Unit around face This opens the way for the retort that boss, turning his passion-inflame- d The total loss of the thumb Is estiGreen hills and woodland allev. Here, like the garlands of the spring, has no man. been laureate the there upon young poet great resounds the Shine joys that once delighted. r Again mated by Brouardel, secretary of the If von think your joyous shout neighbor That echoed through the valle' But the timekeeper smiled sarcastic- since Tennyson. There hopes lie strewn and withering Had a better start than you; Societe le Medecine Legale, as fifteen Like leaves by winter blighted. a If perhaps you made taiiure ally, and stepped gingerly down upon to thirty-fiv- e per cent, for the right But, from the earth on which thty he. Again to early vows of faith And success is hard to woo; Yon aint fit for this the platform. ten and to Behold bright faith is springing. flfteeu the left for cent, My inmost heart is thrilling. per Set your teeth the way you used to, What so makes when mad me people in he said, disgust. "Let And to the fideless bowers on high. place, Again before afflictions breath lAy the comfort to your soul hand, except for workers In nrt, when Her angel flight is winging. catch that hook. If ; ou're not going to; their Investment proves a failure is he estimates My aching eyes are filling. to fifty for the right Recollect the grand pel fection forty That was circled round a hole. itll do some damage to those pipes that they might have had a lot more and twenty-fivto forty per cent, for McLandburglt Wilson, in Tuck. The heavy hook was swinging to -- nd the hand. schedule The Austrian left the money themselves fro across the pipes, hanging from one fuu, spending fifteen to twenty-fivtier cent. to another. Mahoney rushed at the than In giving it to a board of direc- gives In Germany twenty, thirty-eigh- t nnd to tors squander. nervy young timekeeper.; and had the and three-tenth- s up to thirty-thre- e per latter not stepped aside he might have cent, has been awarded. Oil account been thrown from the platform. At one time French was spoken all of the great difference resulting In our What are you about? he demanded, over the world. In 1005 It Is the lanopinion from the use cf both hands, seizing the swinging chain with one we prefer, in the professions not reof I suppose that when you go home 45,000,000 including guage people, hand and stopping its pendulous mosflf M hand skill, thirty per yonr father will kill the fatted calf? quiring the French colonies, while German is cent, for special tion. the right and twenty per rent, I wouldn't wondir, replied the prodr was rather a responsitue fellow, who usually had a Joke for fie But Mahoney was not to be held spoken by 100,000,000 aud English by for the left. jM. The percentage is based igal son, but Im afraid tie might m position for a boy, but Boss men, a ml he was known to be a rela- now. lie picked up the nearest Imple- 150.000, 000. on lot) as the total industrial value of think I'm lost. T O Mahoney looked at the tive of the contractor himself. McAdo ment to his hand a heavy shovel O the hand previously to the accident, a Vv Ra, why to you always insist on my face was the name of the man who had nnd came at the other a second time, p pinched, Russia doubles her population every loss of fifty per cent, representing half when Mr. Spoozleton eouies singing of the applicant and decid- been flagging, and Corny knew it and The timekeeper could not pass him and of that value and a loss of twenty-fiv- e here? Well, I don't like the fellow, reach the street; and behind was the fifty years, Norway and Sweden in ed that this hoy, at least, trembled. etc. cent, per Gerfifty-tw- o and I hate to conic right out and Great Britain and years, feet in shaft would not skylark, and he saw a yet nearly depth. thirty no "Hes The Index Finger The total loss of good, an Ive fired him. tell him to go. Chicago Record-Herald- . But Corny, from the crossing half a many In fifty-fivchance of clearing a good tlfee dollars Mahoney declared, Belgium in seventy-nthe Index causes nn Incapacity estiHe belligeiently. block away, saw the overseer's mad ine, on the weekly payroll. So he offered never seemed to like the Spain in mated at ten to fifteen per cent. In AusItaly in eighty-foutimekeeper; So your wife does not approve of Corny half a dollar a day, and the lat- perhaps because he feared the latters attack and realized the young mans 104, Austria-Hungariu 110 aud tria; sixteen to twenty per rent, in ter took the place of the dollar-n-dabaseball? No, answered Mr. Meek-toeyes were sharply concerned In his em- danger. to fifteen twenty-fivper Germany; 1S3. Henrietta can't stand It to see man, who drank too much to hod his ployer's interest. Hang to the hook! he shrieked, and France in cent, by Thiersch; twenty per cent, for Job, and accepted the ofier and the "I dont believe Mr. Butterworth will his shrill voice rose above the noise the right and fifteen per cent, for the any mere man bossing people around of the steam drills and the rattle of To live in a modernized city, with a left does. red flag with an eagerness that almost stand for a boy to flag. Washingby the Italian courts; fifteen per the wiiy the umpire Something the cable. made Mahoney wish he had knocked might happen. minimum of taxes and a maximum of cent, by the French tribunals; ten to ton Star. At the same instant he signaled the off an additional half dol ar. If money talks' Now, you let the lad alone, Maconveniences, one must do his full fifteen per cent, for the right and five to draw up the hook. I wonder why engineer was w narre at the Cornys place honey blustered. to fifteen for left the cent, Hes all right. liy per in maintains the preliminaries, 1 only hear Fortunately, the ilmekeeper was a duty crossing at Blank street, where a plat- Bsides, he tells me he needs the place; In nrt. for workers Brouardel, except It say "good-by- . Record. Urban imform of heavy planks had been built theres a raft of young uns to home young man of quick brain as well as These flguris differ but little from Philadelphia Public Ledger. action. When he felt the chain over the deep ditch of the subway and no father nor mother. Ill provements Is the order of the age one another, and the figures from ten "There are too many grafters in the keep my under his hand lie realized tighten what throughout the world. works. At one end of the excavation eye on him. to twenty per cent., according to the world, said the patriotic citizen. was the hoisting engine house, and And who'll keep their eye on you, Corny's words meant, and slipping his answered Senator side, may he adopted. Unquestionably." foot into the hook he allowed himself overhead the heavy wire cables carried Mahoney? demanded the The Middle Finger The total loss of Sorghum. "Pretty soon there wont The government of the Netherlands timekeeper, to be the trolley ear of earth or broken with a laugh, and walked away. Maliterally snatched up out of be enough graft to go round." Washhas instituted a competition with the the middle finger is regarded by the range of Mahoneys shovel. stone from the further end of the ditch honeys fondness for liquor was as more than often pretty ington Star. But the enraged buss flung the im- object of discovering a process of cut- that of the index. Thisprejudicial to the dumping platform near the en- well known among the men, and Is nn isolated on Why, askeil the fat polleemnn, do several occasions the boss had been plement after him, nnd then began ting diamonds which will dispense opinion. Almost ail the authorities gine. say the prisoner Is a man-leyou rock of at the swinging with the use of an alloy dangerous to ascribe loss Importance to the middle Beside the engineer was a window, within a narrow margin indeed of los- throwing pieces HecnusiV replied the great man? and through this aperture he could ing his lucrative and responsible posi-tio- figure in the air. Another signal from health. For a complete solution of finger than to the index. Y'et a great detective, lie is wearing safety plus the watchful Corny, however, sent the see the boy with the flag at the crossHartthis problem a prize of $'1275 is of- loss of force is observed in the hand instead of suspender buttons. ing, a long Mock away. lie governed The ford Telegram. Thereafter, for several days. Corny timekeeper sailing along under the trolwhen the finger is amputated. the speed and the raising and lowering shook in his broken old shoes whenever ley cables toward the pumping plat- fered. following are estimates: The Austrian Young Kallows time seems to be of the car according to the signal of the timekeeper made his visit to this form, and ns he whirled above the five to ten per cent.: Brouardel, An lias been Hows of statistics pub- tariff, array his head he waved occupied Just now." fully flagboy's that flag. actually of the works. But the young portion five to fifteen per cent., except for nml left lias lie college, of horse to hand that? him. to the lished just danger prove Corny received his signals from the flagman was not molested, and it even workers in nrt: Thiersch, ten to twenty gone to work yet. he As for Corny himself, he almost traction on our hasnt certainly man who stood directly above the spot seemed that the jolly clerk took a likreThe cent. highways. per cent.; the Italian law, five per but lies raising a mustache. fainted from the fright of it all. A where the men were excavating, and ing to the solemn-faceturns are brought down to the end of The figures eight to twelve per cent, No; boy at the ate as as he little who did wasnt Philadelphia Ledger. hoy who guided the swinging box among crossing. nearest the are often truth. able to stand many such shocks. He the year 1004, the whole period covAnd when you told him I was marthe great pipes and drains and conduits Don't you ever laugh, youngster? The annular (ring) finger Is the least which seemed to hang in a perfect he asked one day, stopping beside him couldnt even run when Mahoney, ered being two years and four months important. Its total loss often does not ried, said the girl who had jilted him, Yes," rescrambling for the ditch, and still seek- foe which period the figures are: 0507 cause Incapacity. The Austrian tariff did lie seem to he sorry? network above the heads of the labor- for a moment. on to some vent his was apsaid he very one, he ing ers below. fury the other, Corny looked confused, and blushed accidents; 0035 persons injured; per- assimilates this finger to the middle plied the know he didnt Besides keeping a sharp eye on the furiously. although I I dont see anything to proached him. sorry at loss one. Brouardel estimates the sons killed, 930, or more than one death Led However, a couple of brawny policeman Philadelphia man, Corny was expected to be on the faugh at, he stammered. personally." five to ten per cent.; the Italian law. summoned by the excited shouts per day. lookout for vehicles that wished to I dunno, said the other. cent. The French and Ger- ger. Most men, per eight of the spectators, quickly overpowered cross the ditch and to allow none to boys of your age would laugh if Edwin man judicial decisions are often in acIm poor, dearest. We shall they Bridal parties of the future may not cord In cross while the loaded trolley was run- got six dollars a week, and he went the madman, and he was marched Angelina have to live very simply. considering Indemnity, refusing Falls in Its present beau- the Incapacity resulting from the loss Why, of course! When were married ning overhead. A bit of rock might on, leaving Corny dumbfounded, for away to the nearest station. That endfall from the car, or a horse might he didnt know that Mahoney was ex- ed his career as overseer for Contractor hut they need not be unhappy. An as very slight. I'll golf nnd yacht just lots! Because and in the general ty, Become frightened by the rattle of the tracting an extra he one can do those things In such simple generous commis- Butterworth, The auricular may (little) the finger of Argentina says that sion from the pay envelope of the straightening out of affairs the time- explorer trolley. to the annular, except In the dresses, you know. Chicago Dally compared a thousand of about the Ignassii, The flagboy certainly earned his half flagman. keeper learned how Corny had been falls professions In which it serves ns a News. his out cheated of are dollar. There was no time for skyBuenos half week of miles north pay every Ayres, But collecting a tax upon the wage point of support for the hand. AccStranger "Is the cashier of the local larking, even had Corny been so in- of the laborers employed on his sec- by the boss. larger than Niagara or the Yietoria idents of Travel. a tall ninu? Nntive-'Thysle- ally bank clined. But Mahoney had been quite tion of the work was not Well, we'll just tflake that up to Falls of the Zambezi. Whether or not speaking, yts. Stranger "Physically correct In his judgment of Cornys only sin. The man was a Mahoneys I've the timekeeper declared. Two Cats That Go to Church. good work- you, otherwise Native-Y- es; Is speaking! face; life was altogether too serious man when he let liquor alone, but he been telling my uncle about you, and if the statement Is exaggerated, there on Old York lie is short something like $50,000. Tark, Hunting Opposite excursion a to him for the flagboy to enjoy him- grew both reckless and .abusive can a want new, have delightful at you eight evidently place when you road, resides a family, Torpey by Thats why he has taken a trip self as did other boys. he drank, and as the contractor himself dollars a week down to the offlee. Ive for the newly married. name. The Torpeys own two eats abroad. Chicago Dally News. told you I need an nssistant. and youre When a person of fifteen feels the seldom visited the other cats In piece of ditching different from are that Its fellow a I sort of want. the funny, said the little pig, responsibility of forty five resting on there was nobody to AGorman geographer calls attention that they go to church. As regularly Mahoneys just Thty didnt build me right.as was timeall his shoulders skylarking Is a long way lapses unless it was report And that the although the big And make my stomach just to the fact, known to few, that the as Sunday morning arrives the pair of ever said about being grateful from his thoughts. The pitiable three When that individual was timekeeper. As is my appetite. the keeper he seen following the Torabout, felines water from may some of its Rhine Press. gets dollars a week Mahoney allowed him boss was for the service Cornys quickness had Philadelphia usually very circumspect. peys to St. Stephen's Church, Broad So thats really yout was expecled, with what Johhny could Miss McCall To oversee the various gangs of men rendered him, the flagboy was amply Italy. Some miles above the Via Mala and Butler streets. No matter what the Miss Newrlch earn doing chores for the local store- and plan the work a mans head should satisfied. Classmate. the Rhine is augmented by n turbulent weather or amily transpirings on hack fences -- Yes. Miss McCall Whats that keepers and Ben could make selling be clear all the time. Corny was immountain torrent, whose chief tribu- the two pious cats brave possible atMiss The Value of Laughter. papers to clothe, feed and house seven pressed by. this fact, for at first the nicer device In the centre? is a brook that comes from the tacks by Impious mongrels and set on trade-nartary more women realized the saving If thats tr pas pwrlch "Why ravenously hungry, active growing bustle and eonfusiou the steam drills of laughter there would be fewer Val de Lei, which politically belongs example that many humans would do lie insisted upon ringing that boys and girls. going at several points along the ditch grace well to follow. Neighbors will attest had not always been so. Six where veins of rock hud been tragedies and heart breaks in this to Italy, though separated from the to It found, world. the truthfulness of the statement months of trial and privation had made the rattle of the rest of that country by glacier covered that the church-goinBrackett, it appears, was unable to trolley overhead, and felines spend to were If dear able a very you. madam, bey indeed of the shouting of the underbosses and into any of the college fraterna to get is there trail which Sunover mountains the very early morning hours of Cornelius Harney. laborers seemed quite overpowering. make your lover laugh, you might conities. Why was he so unpopular? "Oh, that into themselves in licking day The Hanleys had only lived a year He began by being afraid that he sider yourself clever indeed. But if Cbiavenna. state of cleanliness which Is said to be I guess the lioys didn't like him and a half In the city before the father should transmit the you can keep your husband laughing he studied so hard that his pitchto signals wrong only to godliness. Their findied. They had come The German tue old the engineer; but that individual told you should be enrolled among the Liuliprnn Immigrant secondary and the team lost most suffered, ing is and their glossy, paws immaculate, country, and after her man was him before his first week was up that seven wonders of the world. Society in New York has just begun not a whisker is out of place. Arrived of the games when he was In the box. You see, a mans life is usually full taken, the mother pined more and more he was the best signal man they had build- at the church the cats content themChicago Rccord-Ilcrald- . of duties and cares that you, possibly, the use of its new and splendid for the old English village where she had on the job. the engineer, door. In Perhaps at the cannot realize. If you could, perhaps, ing. After the fatigues and trials of selves with peering had been born. She coui.l do but little who was a Glsrlen Give Up UmiI Ilodlea. fellow, said to delegate to help support the family, and soon a word in Cornys favor to the time- you might try to chase the heaviness a steerage passage and after running They are seemingly content The recovery of a guides body after owners. to Ther their the praying the orphaned children saw her laid keeper, and that Is the reason he was from the spirit of moodiness from the the gauntlet of the inquisition oil Ellis t twenty-eighyears entombment in a they slip Into the vestibule of the mein of your best beloved in place of allowed to keep his position. away also. Island It will he no little comfort to priests house adjoining, curl up nnd glacier of Monte Rosa is tlie third silent and grieved at his want hisCornelius was the oldest boy. Mary, Everybody seemed to like the time- sitting German immigrants to have the assurdoze until church is out, when they restoration of the kind in Alpine who was two years his senior, kept keeper but the boss, and when Ma- of cheerfulness. him saw his tourists In 1877, Sometimes you feel that so much ance t tin t they will not he without follow the Torpeys home and live nor- tory. house for them and tried to keep the honey, as the men said, had the drink disappear in the crevasse, nnd the body mal eat lives until another Sunday. merriment demay be beneath yonr dig- friendly advice and assistance. This in him, he was ugly to garments of the younger children could not then he recovered. But dureverybody. believe it; men often long soeiely has been in evidence for many Ihiladelphia Telegraph. seemed to One afternoon the half-tipscently patched. Nobody overseer nity. Dont ing tlie interval the slow movement of want a boy of Cornelius age until he sent the mail who stood on the plat- for tlie joyous spirit that so charmed years. anl by its watchfulness and tlie glacier has been continually bringCraze For Pattern had drawn the attention of Boss Ma- form above the end of the ditch where them in sweethearting days. it down, until it has been disgorged desiring of multitudes has saved energy All the real has artistic taste that It seeni3 a little thing to provoke the shovellers filled the trolley car honey at the underground works. his ice axe still in the dead last at Those three dollars looked big indeed away on another job and took his laughter, does it not? Somehow you able immigrants from wrongful de- been expended on the guidance of our man's hand, his pipe in his pocket. people has not been able sensibly to The two to Corny until he began to try to ap- place for a time. At once things be- think it hardly within the lines you portation. previous incidents occurred check the craze for patti rn. When have for the drawn a conduct of wife. so them out much the toward d- s IJossnns, beneath Mt. portion gan to go wrong, for Corny not always Glacier at the of But it is a saving grace, you may deWhen a new consul had been ap- one goes Into the drawing-roomrent, so much for food, and such a understood the boss' signals, and the tlie remains of the vicwhere Blanc, 111 ill nor off neither very little for clothing, and nothing distance was too far for audible com- pend; a man rarely reaches a period pointed to represent France in Han many persons, tims of flip Ilamel catastrophe in 1S20 of life when there is no more of the educated, and turning one's eyes wearat all for extras. Johnny's and Ben s mand to be repeated. years, and Francisco, before leaving Paris be ily about from patterned carpets, pat- appeared after forty-onincomes were not to be depended upon, Once Mahoney walked over to the boy left in his nature; the mischievof Captain Arkwright (lost in those ousness is still there or, rather, the called on the official having charge of terned rugs, patterned walls, patfor they varied according to the num- boy and gave him a tongue-lashinPerhaps this ISdtti, after thirty-one- . , ber of errands Johnny could run nnd which very nearly paralyzed him. Of spirit of it and you need but give the consulate affairs, who said: Oh, by terned elmirs, patterned the hope ease strengthen third may no finds absolutely the number of papers Ben sold. of Ta- patterned china, the course the boss blamed all the mistakes opportunity to bring it forth, with the way, the Governor-Genera- l been some have ns predicting, Ilia!, quiet surface to rest upon, one regreat benefit to the family generally. And to make sure of those three dol- upon the flagboy. in lost Francis Lord of Douglas, mine. friend is of a If hiti you alizes with envy that 'a sturdy In- body great lars Corney had to be up at 6 every MatterBut when he had gone back to the Chicago Journal. ever run down there to spend Sunday difference to sense impressions is still the first ascent of the historic morning, rain or shine, warm or cold, further the be given up near Zermatt. platform timekeeper A Joke on the Doctor. It takes only the portion of not a few English peo- horn, may be sure to call on him. and he did not get back until ('. at stopped beside Corny. He had been about four weeks for a steamer to sail ple. The Queen. A Baltimore physician says that renight. There certainly was no though! in the engine house and had seen the Machine Urtck Laving;- of play In the flagboy's mind. Tue re- whole occurrence from the window. a a recent Canadian invention he boarded Charles to This Francisco' Tahiti. street car San from cently By Cauftftian Bee Brought to America, brick-layinis done by machine. The sponsibilities resting on his you.-Dont fret yourself over what that that was sadly overcrowded. He soon recalls the remark of Robert Louis shoulders spurned Corny to do his best brute says to you, he said, seeing the observed a big German sprawled over A race of bees has been brought to machine will do all plain work and do He quickly learned the signals by tears running down Corny's pinched an area sufficient to seat two persons Stevenson in regard to Samoa, where this country as nn experiment by the it more firmly than is possible by which the engine was governed, ami cheeks. He isn't so big a man as he at least, wbilejustiu front of him stood he lived so long and eentually died. United States Government, that has hand. Each machine is managed by he was never inattentive when the thinks himself, if he has got a brother a poor, wan woman hanging to the While the novelist was paying his last been found the gentlest in the world. two men anil a boy and does the work The one great drawback to beekeep- of six or seven skilled bricklayers. It trolley was in motion. Mahoney ad- in the City Hall and a pull in Four- strap. Indignant at this exhibition of visit to his native land a friend, whose mitted that the kid was a good find teenth street. selfishness on the part of the German, ing for most people has been the fear operation can be learned in two weeks. recollection of geography was rather of for him; but he still appropriated the Then he went on to the end of the the physician tapped him on the shoulstings, but recent experiments at s laky, asked: Where the deuce Is A il use Task. other three dollars in Corny's envelope ditch. Mahoney was.bellowing at the der, saying; Washington. D. C., have proved the It's the second Causa ian bees to be the most remarkon pay day. After ten years incessant labor Mrs. See here! Why dont you move a f imoa, Stevenson? men in his usual aggressive style.' The The timekeeper, who came up from timekeeper stood near-birii to the left after you leave San able in existence for their gentleness. Lizzie Hoffman, of Anthony, N. J.. has and watched little, so that this tired woman may the contractor's offlee every afternoon him unobserved. have a seat? F rancNeo, said Robert Louis, whose We do not mean by this that the bee finished what is probably the oddest to get the details of the day's work are stingless, for they possess this or- bed quilt iu the country. It is a patch For a moment the German looked r Just then the empty ear ran along of maps only ran to reeoliec-leniory so necessary to their welfare, and quilt made of 14.000 pieces of silk of from Mahoney, gave poor Corny a seri- the cable and stopped over the plat- dazed. Then a broad smile spread over gan on that in going to Samoa from the so seldom do ous fright the very first day. they resort to its u.--e that all kinds and colors, and every piece form on which Mahoney stood. The his countenance as he answered: first they are for all practical purposes non of silk came from a different bride' r, "Where's McAdo? asked the boss motioned for a "quick drop, and Say, dots a joke on you, all right! Pacific Coast one always hat. sUnging. Country Life in America. t Honolulu. briskly. He was a lively young the Car came down on the run and Dots my vife! Harpers Weekly. RETROSPECTION. flag-boy- 's h'-J- next-doo- e e The Boy With the Flag JP one-fourt- r, y n. e Gole-biews- n. - d ? k. sa good-nature- d y s e g chair-hacks- g y 1 tine-keepe- sed |