Show Jr I 4 l' l THE AINS AIN'S STORY You know Dago o who Stood on the burn In dock deck Because his father was too dead dood To bid him quit the tho wreck Some folks may think It fine to write A p pom om on Wat he did But Dut say he a n marker To 10 our captains captain's little kid Wo We was just off ot Sandy Hook A at nta at-a a markAn mark An little Jack stood on the bridle An thought it all nil a It lark laric Stay right up there his father tather said An know the tho little kid Would meet no harm because hod hed do doI I Exactly as he was bid bla When just like lIk that a Do shell with fuse ruso AlI Alight ht came rollin Iollie aft An men man an boys they skipped one ono side Just like as they were daft Just a silly s trick o some somo Mid Fresh But Dut it seemed all au dead In earnest to The captains captain's lIttle kid Ho He give ono one hasty look aroun Ills lip curled up in scorn Then swung down on oa the dock deck An true as ns you rou were born Ho lie crabbed that fuse In both His little hinds hands he did An yanked it out Say did we wo shout Then rhen for the captains captain's B kid I IThe The captain come an on he hs was mad How dared you disobey Well Veil Pops the tho little chap chao spoke out You see just this way yay You wasn't here but POP ops I knew Just wat you would a did didAn didAn didAn An so 80 I took my chances Was Vas WasI VasI I right Tho The plucky kid S The captain wy vy ho he Just jut broke down An fairly piped hs h's eye oyo An choked nodded he was that Twos all oil ho u could lo reply Thit's That's wy j tH the ae J Ju e men all alt stick to Jack Ho lie touched heir hearts ho did Say that D' D D fo wasn wasn't t In It tt with The capt w little kId I 4 Harpers Harper's Youn Young Youns People A A. White House Girl Quite a long longtime time ago there lived in inthe inthe the tho Whito White house a rosy fair sweet little girl who loved everybody and whom everybody everybody- loved ed She was sunshiny sunshiny sunshiny sun sun- shiny and laughing laug-hing and merry always giving a bright smile and a kind word to rich or 01 poor black or 01 white Her father was as a 30 great general in inthe inthe inthe the war and later a president nt of the United States Thousands of people from all parts of the world came to see her father and mother and to shako hands with with them in tho White house Sometimes this young girl stood close to her lien mother at great reat receptions receptions re re- re- re giving to all the people a abrIght abright abright bright smile and modest bow The servants called her My 1 little Miss Nellie She was gentle to every everyone one about the place and the thc old gatekeeper gatekeeper gate gate- keeper said Miss Nellie jest throws away smiles on the streets The big White Whit house to her was only a 30 d dear ar home with the m most st loving father and mother hel the happiest of families he east room rang rang with merry metry s. s The children played games and s sung ng and danced hunted ghosts in the great attic and wandered wandered wan dered over the pretty grounds unspoiled unspoiled un un- spoiled by praise or notice Albert Hawkins the coachman and Jerry the footman talk with delight delight delight de de- de- de light of Little Miss Nellie and her drives They rhoy loved to lift her hel in and out the carriage get gee her cart and horse ready for her for they say She was such a sweet merry little girl and and- always had a 30 bright word for us She drove up and anel down the tho avenues and f far r out on n the tho country roads with h her r small black blade po ponies and yellow basket ph holding the reins ems herself One autumn day the president president president dent with one or two of his cabinet was driving toward Great Falls with his ia fast t team when they saw dashing down the road tho the ponies with the thc yellow full of pretty girls Branches of scarlet leaves loaves hung over their shoulders The rosy merry driver drivel sat erect on tho the front seat and anda a sweet ear clear voice rang out as they passed the president Hello papa papal and away they dashed A quiet satisfied smile was on President Grants Grant's face as he remarked That was my Nellie She loves horses as I do A little lime lame girl sold candy and nuts by the treasury steps near to the White Whito house for years Her mother said one summer nos Rosie ie you must move over to the patent office you'll have more moro trade rade No Rosie answer answered cl I cant can't move away from Miss Nellie Nome But Mis Miss Nellies Nellie's goin to be married mar mar- ried i to a prince an move away Rosie b began gan to cry cr I dont don't care I cant can't move till site she goes She keeps me cheered up nIl up all day dayi Nobody is so good and sweet street as Miss 1 Nellie to me mel melBy By and b byj there thero was vas a great wedding wedding wed wed- ding cling in the tIle east ast room Under lovely bells of white hi e and pink flowers Miss l Nellie stood beside her hel young English English Eng Bog lish husband The Tho great general and president looked almost brokenhearted brokenhearted broken broken- hearted as as h he gave away the thc pretty young hr How l long n ago it all seems Last year a 30 faced w faced et-faced woman visit visited d Washington Washing on She came with her mother and flier er three children The eldest h lien her r s m n Algernon is 17 Rosemary Rosemary Rose Rose- mary wary an and l V Vare VIvian vian her little daughters are 14 U and 1 11 lii They Tho aro are English born and have clear English complexion and tho the fair r sweet look Ionic of Miss Nellie r American mother They are aro com coming in back to the capital to live and everybody is glad Old Ohl friends gave them beautiful dinners dinners din din- ners aol and te teai 5 invited them to drives and anel thc te IS sent bent them flowers vers a and d paid them delightful attentions Mrs Grants Grant's p parlors tors were crowded with friends They were welcomed wel- wel corned by 01 oIl friends and comrades of Miss 1 Nellie father whose last words before he died were My l little S e cried one night while hele heie bi t and said Oh it is so hard t find my father but how howit it goes to z r heart to hear hea the people who loved lo im say Miss Nellie Nollie I am to ee pu Nobody more than Uncle Terry wh still lives at th White hOl- hOl I et him ono one day and u ti both hands an and laughing lie e said lave you ou seen our Miss Nellie G. G G Giant ant She's jes' jes as sweet YO a 03 aae e or y S I peach Her shin jes' jes as fair an clear as a chile an she sho said Oh Jerry how glad I am to see you It jes jos set sot mo mft back to o them good days when I used to lift her hel into that little cart and watch he her drive away with Egypt I asked Did she seem the same Uncle Jerry I Jes the very same the same the very same sweet smile of Miss Nellie Kellie An she laughed laug-hed an talked jes' jes as merry as a a. abird abird bird I Ten len good years is added to my life for seem scein her Ise took tonIc on ou a new lease by bv that little visit an her mother looks splendid to too ton She seen mo me away down the tho street an Jerry well Then Thea Uncle Jerry drops his fine- fine looking face on his big chest and rubs his hands together and chu chuckles and laughs with a 30 heavy ring How flow do you like the children Uncle Jerry Oh splendid Yell Vell that son oi of hers liens hos ho's i a 30 head above his mother and she sho smi in at him so proud like an two beautiful little girls It certain was queer I Callin Vallin little Miss Nellie Mother Iother She's jes' jes as as' much a aI I sunshine as she us used d to bo be to Jerry Jerryl I Albert the tho coachman who first drove for General Grant has driven for or all tho the presidents until this second term of Mr 1 Cleveland's was vias first to togo togo togo go to the Arlington to see tee his peo pIe Such a handshaking and rejoicing rejoicing re re- re Albert declares Miss l Nellie Nellio is the fairest sweetest woman I know an is just the tho same annie lovely lovely- Miss Nellie She stood on tho the steps of the hotel I and visited with him while whilo callers waited up stairs up-stairs stairs the tha same unspoiled frank kind-hearted kind Nellie Grant A washwoman and one of the tho maids who used to wait on Miss Nellie Neme heard that the tho Grants were in Washington and came from across tho river to get one of Miss Nellies Nellie's bright smiles Now how many children could be bo out of their own country almost twenty years and be so loved and ana remembered remembered re re- re- re by the rich and most lowly lowy and humble remembered humble remembered for kind words sweet smiles cheerful helpful ways and a 30 lifo life of sunshine Chicago Inter Ocean The Tho Trusty Guardian Uan More than forty years ago in 1831 I visited a party of friends in ill the Bendigo gold fields of Australia where I was cordially welcomed Among the valued posses possessions ions of my friends was an English mastiff which belonged to one of the gentlemen The Tho good gooel understanding between myself and the mastiff appeared to te have become so well vell established during during dur dur- ing lug the evening that on the next day dayI I left the claim where my friends were at worK worE to fetch a a. kettle of tea from the tent without the least misgiving misgiving misgiving mis mis- giving as to my reception by him Rex who was always allowed tc run loose came forward to meet me He lIe allowed me to stroke his head and so far as I 1 could see f showed no interest in my movements as I entered tim the tent ar arid d d took a drink of the tbd tea But when I started to leave heave the tent with the kettle in my hand imagine my astonishment astonishment aston aston- when I saw saw- the he m Supposed posed friend Rex facing me and cl his teeth in a 30 very waI wa- wa way way- I put down the ke keitle I myself on the edge of t the tho e camp bed and spoke to him lIe He wagged his tail and looked so friendly that I thought ht I must have made a mistake about abott t his intentions Not at all The mo moment I attempted to leave the tent with the kettle I had hind reason to know that Rex's broad grin was ras no mere notion but on the thc contrary a real sign that he was true to his trust as he understood understood understood under under- stood it I talked to him again set down the tho kettle and attempted to leave without it Still Rex objected He had his doubts and anel determined to give his masters the benefit beneSt of them There was no help for it I was wa held prisoner and could do nothing but sit down and wa wait t patiently for one of the party to come to my relief No Noone Noone one ono came till nearly an hour later by which time my long absence had hail caused my friends to suspect that I Iwas Iwas I was was being being held prisoner by Rex I bore the dog no grudge for his faithful faithful faithful faith faith- ful zeal and in a 30 few days found he would let me come and go and take and tako I whatever I wished St. St Nicholas Believes Delleves In Self Made Men 1 Ex Senator Ex-Senator Senator Ingalls fi firmly believes that the self self made made men are arc the kind that move the world lIe He once said in ina a 30 private conversation n Among all my acquaintances at school and college college college col col- lege 1 I dC do not recall a boy born a 0 silver spoon in his mouth indulgently reared with all the money he wanted to spend and sure of inheriting inheriting- wealth without the necessity of an effort who has since done anything of note or achieved signal distinction in ill inthe inthe the world Those who have havo climb climbed d the highest are arc those who have havo traveled tray trav I the roughest road The last quarter of a 30 century has been the most important epoch in our history and perhaps the most momentous in inthe inthe inthe the annals of the human hutnan race Of the acknowledged leaders in arms letters politics and business dUli during g this period perio not ono one was was born in purple or lay in his youth among the roses and lilies of life liCe All traveled the road to leno Ad Ad rugged renown astra per aspera The rhe b bays ys of to today day arc to inherit all the possessions of this generation The Tho rewards regards are the prizes of life The rho honors and dignities dignities ties estates and emoluments will all descend to them in due season But it is safer to predict that the gilded youths of to-day to who we wear r fine clothes drive fast horses carouse carouso with boon companions and neither toil nor spin will not be the lenders leaders and rulers of the republic in the first half bait of the tho next century These rhese will bo be found among those those who are now slow striving to enter at the straight gate gato of learning who have sometimes thought the tho way was wac closed but who have havo strenuously persevered against poverty ty privation with self denial and under many discouragements dis dis' till they have havo attained ined the goat goal lie Gut Got the Dolt Doll Mary 1 is tho the proud possessor of adoll adoll a n doll that her younger brother has never been allowed t tj play with But Bat Bata Buta a short tuna tim ago Mary blY decided that i if f she married the doll to Harold lareM the tho dolls doll's happiness would be increased Harold old at first objected but finally allowed his sister to say the f few w binding words Then grabbing the tho doll he s started tart ou a n. run un for out o of doors pursued by Mary You Yon hav her an more I he lie called caneel back You d marl marry her to mo me and now she's mine min I 1 |