Show TOLD ON THE QUIET Judge Dundy has at last given the key to his now fairly notorious order in which he so kindly cut the salaries of the Union Pacific employees and then forbade their striking He says he did not mean that they could not quit work but that they must not interfere in-terfere with the property of the company com-pany or more properly the receivers If Judge Dundy does not know more about law than he does about strikes that is if he was correctly reported I then he should take a course in reading read-ing up Americans dont want prize fights yells the wouldbe reformer They I dont Well it looks as if they do when a paper like the New York Reorder I Re-order gives Corbett on his arrival in i Gotham two and onehalf columns of space or say about 3000 words See the young man on the street He has been to school and is just returnIng return-Ing I home Notice how he shivers at II ach blast and how pinched his cheeks and blue his nose He has no over I coat Is the young man poor Not a bit of ithe has three stripes on the I s eeves of his military uniform I i The bravest battle that ever was fought I Shall I tell you where and when O n the maps of the world you will find it I not I Twas fought by the mothers of men Nay not with cannon or battle shot With I sword or nobler pen Nay not with eloquent words or thought From mouths of wonderful men But deep in a walledup womans heart Of women that would not yield But bravely silently bore her part Lo there is that battle field No marshalling troop no bivouac song i No banner to learn and wave But oh these battles they last so long From babyhood to the grave I Yet faithful still as a bridge of stars I She fights in her tNd8Ie town g rlri 8Ie sW I tents on and on in the endless wars Then silent unseengoes down o ye with banners and battle shot And soldiers to shout and praise I tell you the kingliest victories fought Are fought in these silent ways o spotless woman in the world of shame With splendid and silent scorn Go back to God as white as you came The kingliest warrior born Joaquin Miller For the benefit of some of our own wells I beg space to say that theret i s now no longer any reason to doubt bat Helen Gould is engaged to be married mar-ried Helen has somewhere about 15 00000 in her own right However among others of a lesser grade there are still left Alta and Edith Rockec elJer tThese young women should their father die tomorrow would each have an inheritance of 35000000 John D Rockefellers fortune is estimated at 140000000 and it is increasing at I the rate of 15000000 every year Alta Rockefeller is not quite 24 years old and her sister Edith is two years younger It is reported that Rosini Yokes who was generally supposed to be quite wealthy died comparatively poor she laving acquired the habit so common with most of us in steadily living up to her income t The late Marshal Macmahon made the acquaintance of his wife by saving her from a fire at the risk of his own life She was not like the Boston girl who refused help while drowning because she had not been introduced to her wouldbe rescuer Farmer Hardfist What under the sun is the reason that boys are such no account critters nowadays Here is our son Jasper pretty nigh crazy to leave the old farm and try to git a job in town Mrs Hardfist meekly Perhaps he thinks the work wont be quite so hard Farmer Hardfist Work Why shucks Polly he dont skurcely know what work is Hehaint done a thing since supper but milk the cows feed the horses slop the hogs split and carry in the wood and kindlins shell a little corn ketch the colt and turn the grindstone for me about half an hour Hes had all the rest of the time to himself except a few minutes it took him to mend the bridle I broke this mornin What in the name o Tunkett makes all the boys so crazy to leave the old farmLlfe Well said one hackman to another the other morning I hear you have been let out Is it so Well Blank didnt seem to like the way I did business and I told him his old box was on the street and he could go and take it He went Why didnt you hang to it Times is j mighty hard aint they Yes But I dont care I never like I to work for a man that has not got more than I have Tou see when I I work for a poor man and need a couple or three dollars I dont like to take I it because I kinder think he needs it as bad as I do but when I work for I a man who has money then I dont care because I think I need It worse then he does I am not any too hon ost but Ill be hanged if Id knockdown knock-down on a poor man A man that will rob a poor man is no good but if a poor man needs a few dollars and takes it from a rich man well I aint one as is going to give him away Theres my principles and he gave his suspenders an extra hitch and shuffled down the street As I was walking up and down my room the other day said a man wrapped in thought and absorbed in L care with head lowered and hands i clasped behind me I heard a tittering and looking back I saw my children I following me each with bowed head Land L-and clasped hands they had tried I hard to be very solemn but had found Lit L-it quite impossible I couldnt help I laughing myself when I saw them but picked up my burden and marched l on Promptly the children fell in i I again and marched after me when I I E j turned a corner I saw them tagging on as before We all laughed again arid then the children and I played I soldier for a while When we got through with that I found that my serious se-rious friend Care had gone away A warning They dragged him from his platform And stabbed him through and through He was a car conductor who whistled I Two Little Girls in Blue DR FELL |