A ——— i Soi
ATER THE BATIULE.
Bing banners and cannon and roll of drum!
The shouting @ men and the marshalling! |
Lo! cannon struck |
dumb!
Oh, battle, in song.
to vanpon and earth
is n glorious thing!
Oh, glorious day riding down to the fight!
Oh, glorions battle in story snd sony!
Oh, godlike man to die for the right!
Oh, manlike God to revenge the wrong!
Yes, riding to battle on battle ‘ay
Why, 8 soldier is semeihing more than a
king!
But after the battle? The riding away?
Ah, the riding away is another thin gl
[Joaquin Miller,
THE NEW DOCTOR
“ Gentlemen,” said Colonel Fereuson
Pride, addressing certain othor promi.
ment citizens of New Chicago then gath-
ered in the single room of the combined
real estate, loan,
office and of the
speaker, ** are confronted by an
epoch. Heretofore it has been our policy
to welcome immicration with
80 to speak, but now the time
tived for the exercise
What do you think, Fanshaw?
* I reckon,” returned
shaw, sontentiously .
insurance and collection
bachelor }
|
residence
we
open Arms,
has ur-
of discretion.
Mr. Hank Fan-
“ That's se.”
ai K. - The
go.
assented
new
Messrs. Banning and Benson w
their heads in affirmation.
‘* Exactly ! resumed the
“* While werking for the adva
our city as a whole, we must
ider the ;
Lh
best interests of its
abstract.”
*¢ Shorely!”
“ An’ we'll stand by Harry,
doctor will have to gu.” :
‘Mobby he'll try to cut up rusty
began Banning. ;
“Let him cut!”
“We're able for him.
hiatal)
Drisxiv.
said Ike Fosdic k.
The
new
in Fosdick.
broke
nh
As the ancient adage has it. two of
trade rarely agree. But it is rare inde
that onc of any trade or profession i
gessed of partisans 80 prejudic
they will voluntarily take it upon them
selves to purge |
ais path of professional
3 . 5
ns Fi ny
big with
d rately
ada; i
- . i
promment as themselves
the advancement a
i ratum of
s boom, I
f amazing tl
geif-convieted |
should coolly tu
+
t
z
{* y >. 3
comer in whom,
be the material
tisans are made.
Conflicts
his
¥ nature
ot doubt.
measures (0 avail: the ses
tilence had been sown broadcast t}
the settlement hen
i when des
the eve of a grim battle bef
pe t of
i
<
rough
ensued a litte
ir reigned,
WL OTe
asan of Clinos
which strong met
ittle while and tremi
080 wondering oh
with dread.
$
5
Bi
it inaction
w hile,
reicned bat
and then the ng men tarned
squarely toward the issue. They volun.
tarily isolated the settlement from the
world around and begin the grim battle
with the pestilence, :
wir
Then had come to them vo ing Harry
Wakefield, 8a now.fe ged graduats from
an Eastern medical college, who, while
secking a location in the West for the
displaying of his maiden “ahingle,” had
horrd of New Chicago's extremity and
hurried thither. What he lacked in ex-
perience he made up in will, The set.
tiement took heart, and presently the
pestilence was con juered, but not until
it had claimed for iis prey more than one
poor soul. And from thenceforth Nowy
Chicago called Harry Wakefield blessad,
and his fame soon extended all over the
adjacent county, and sometimes a whole
day's ride was necessary to bring him to
& more remote pationt,
And now there had com» an alien in.
professional presirves. They knew lit !
tie about the new.comer, nnd eared even
lesa. Tho rising son of the morning |
upon which t e conference was held in
Colonel Pride's office had shown them,
nailed to the door-frame of a modest cot.
tage, this sign: *J. L. Ransom, M.D."
And that told them all they desired to
know. Fo fur ns they had known, the
only comers to the settlement within the
last fow days had been a young woman
and an older ono mother and daughter
they believed —and it had been rumored
that they wero to occupy alone the cot-
tage which now displayed the offensive
ign. Noman had thus far been seen
about tho cottage. Tt was now sup
that tho new doctor had arrived during
the night and at once thrust out his sign.
The women were probably his mot
and sistor. Further than this the promi-
pent citizens neither knew nor es! od,
new doctor was there,
An’ the new doctor must gol” said
The
Aud the others agree l with him.
elect. lke Fosdick was for turning the
learn
The
It would be well to
that Harry would be gind to purchase,
and besides it would be buat fair to ollow
him to witness the downfall of his pro-
fessional rival.
It was dull waiting, especially as Fos.
dick continually fretted to be and
doing, and so they decided to meet afar
olf Dr. Harry, who was expected to be
night's visit to a
up
They did not meet him coming, and
when they found him it was in a desper-
ate plight indeed —lying insensible and
in the grass-fringed prairie
They understood the situation at
frightened perhaps
at on blowing tumble-weoed or the sudden
bleeding
road.
a glance— his horse,
bursting of a janck-rabbit from a clump
of iron w had
and dragged him eruelly
kicked him, before his
oy ined fas i
remained { mn
ods, unseated his master
and perhaps
had
bad
x ) :
foot, whieh
the stirrup,
been rele
They bore him tenderly to the settle.
ment, up the one short street,and knocked
at the door beside which was di i
the offensive sign.
himself,” growled lke Fosdick.
I'he oman-—now that they saw
ier betterthe prominent citizens, knew
young w
she was very voungz, bi
er teens opm ned the door,
‘Bring him right in,” sha =
They did so, and pl
| that the ng g
n to examine his
)
Yrs
woin le d head
in a prompt, business-like
‘We want the
ily.
iow Od
doctor.”
thout turning her |
n basin of
‘a3
hinder ri
Colo
heered th pravin’ § r | ry 1 $i
homely, earn
Harry’
You migh iil customary fe
§
or n
for ns it's what
oT a doctor to
Pray patient, but, sez I to myself.
f a doctor mises pray ine |
: i ith t 1
recks £5"
+
wi 1164
in the combi on ish sant.
I say, “that
girl wants to be she's
body 1”
aru
a doctor got
as good no right to os any
“1 reckon she has,’
{ little mother said, with moistened eyes,
Then, when Jean graduated, they had
presently win a modest measare of fame
and fortune. There were great oppor-
tunities in the West, they felt sure, and
and the perusal of one of the grandilo-
quent and mostly foundationless boom
circulars sent out by Colonel Pride, had
been led to seek New Chicago.
“And here,” continued the little
widow, “we have found friends, and
Jean will be appreciated, 1 feel sure.
It hus been a long, hard struggle, but |
think brighter dayx are in store for ns.”
Then Colonel Pride came away.
“ An’ this,”
the doctor we air goin’ to run out!”
“* Who BRAVE BO demanded lke Fos
dick, briskly.
No OHO ANswere 1.
When next the pr
in conference in Colonel Pride's office it
was upon the afternoon that found Dr
Ha ry so far recovered that he had been
little he
and walk weakly over to his own
said Benson, slowly, “is
wninent citizens met
able to leave Jean's modest Hise
Colonel Pride was reticentand |
Hank Fanshaw taciturn, Banning
Benson well-nigh damb, and lke Fosdick
grumpy almost to pugnaciiy
‘Gentlemen,’ began the colonel, awk
bom n ot
Lor i * 1
“I reckon,
Poe”
uh
ngreed F
swontinued
anshaw
the
Vision
§
our
mother!
And there he
‘But Harry,’
ething.
“While |
beg
al maintained,”
have
that wom
Sys
in should n
of her proper sphere in life
where
Ike
$ at
ia jest
her proper sphere |
pleases to go!” broke in
reckon it is!” agreed Fanshaw,
(Frank Leslie s,
Finger Tip Evidence.
way, she ke pt on a-pravin’ kinder as if
she was tellin’her dear Lord all about it
Harry must live, not only for all that it
meant to him, but the much that it
meant to her, too. 1 8'pose she was that
tired and worn with watchin' that her
courage had kinder given out. an’ she
felt as if she must tell it all to some one.
an’ it seemed, too, as if her dear Lord
was about her only friend I judged
times had gone pretty hard with her, an’
that if she failed to make a livin’ start
here, it was all up with her, so to speak.
An’ she prayed on an’ on jest as if she
was tellin’ all her troubles to a pitvin’
friend, an’ then her head dropped for.
Colonel Pride, never of a rotiring dis-
lowed the accident, made himself as fa-
of the girl doctor.
pour the story into the sympathetic oars
of the colonel,
She was very proud, in a meek way, of
future.
privation, but sho felt sure that Joan's
triumph was not far off. The little
widow and the fatherless girl had hoard-
ed their savings long and well before
Jean could begin her course at the
medical college, and though mother and
daughter practised self-denial to a piti-
ful extent, their little savings were well
nigh exhausted ere the completion of the
en,
Further evidence as to the reliability
of finger tip impressions for indicating
character or establishing indentity, a
subject that has of late attracted a great
deal of attention, has been compiled and
published by Dr. d Abundo. After ex.
amining the fingers of seven idiots he
found that the markings on the tips of
all the fingers on each band were identi.
and
of
between those of idiots of sune
people. The thumb tips one idiot
had the same markings as those of his
fingers. There was a noticeable smooth.
ness of finger tips in all idiots. In one
caso there was a perfect resemblance be.
| tween the markings on the fingers of an
| idiot and on those of his mother,
twenty cases of imbecility, in foar only
fingers, in the remaining sixteen a ten.
considerable extent, In homiplugia,
when the lesion was of old stand
ing of good impressions. A prominent
| medioal authority is of the opinion that,
| rosenrches may ultimately have an im.
portant bearing on orimes of a sanguin.
| ury nature. For instance, if drawings
wero taken of the impression of a hand
bathed in blood the fuarkinge would be
most clear, more especially if the erim-
inal had not merely nid his hand on any
apers, but had actually fingered them.
Kho evidence of crime would be still more
valuable if the criminal had any peculiar.
ty of finger tip impressions. —{Courier
ournal
IT IS CUT WHEN A CHILD
COMES OF AGE.
The Ceremony of Its Being Cut From
a Prince’s Head Described By an
Eye-witness.
DE.
he Siamese have a quaint and pie-
im
family wealth
I etending to
ones
of ug» of eatting the top knot This top
kuot is a round pruteh of hair allo
grow on th
the
unre
top of the head, wii
head is closely
round i
with a pin and surrounded on fos
ns by a tiny chay f
vhito lowers It in
the boy is to become inn men
in the ¢
marringe ible
rest of shaved,
locks wound into a ¢
ened
OCCHsI et of swe
sooented Worn un
sure inde
£ ris till th
to draw near
the funey of the
pendent, or ise Of
age berins
The dure is regniated by
family, controlled in
the tamil insayer,
nine, eleven and thirteen vears: but the
even numbers 0 uvol {
But
ROTI
i »
Ha ranges irom
pitious
the top
Sl
prince,
Epiondid
tho crow
h Mr Fog Prins
the pal
hausted
il
rifles
the
who had seen actual
feet a
fe
ir
mit and
1d Jess to near ‘
ght the ranks [rigs
sutly endless array, th
¢ 4
feming wo ©
flag
ant
brown shoulder shining out like burnished
bronze from the f
Biones
attitude
folds of bright scarf
ntie,
= nt
or
wary, und ing Ia beauty of
figure and in the lithe grace their
movements the Siamese fens eseelied
all present, and
costumes, though more subdued in color
and adornment than their neighbors’,
were in more perfect taste,
At the sides of the procession marched
nobles clad in green anl blue. sooth
sayers in flowing white robes with tall
somical pink and white hats, sprightly
youths of high-born rank in elose-fitting
costumes of searlet and acoouterments
blazing with precious stones. Then
close at their heels followed the roval
white elephants clad in gorgeous trap-
pings and carefully attended by trained
servants. The male phalunx came nest
in representative uniforms, which had
evidently made a sensation in court cir.
cles and tickled the royal fancy.
of
mai
their light, almost classic
and trews, stumpy little grenadiers ap.
promly top heavy ‘neath their bearskin
wad gear,
uniform of the Prassian army, Goorkhas
fn national rig and Sepovs in fanciful
regimentals, with scores of costumes and
uniforms copied from all arms of military
services and representing all the prin.
cipal nations of Europe. The uniform
of the Uuited States armed forces was
conspicuous by its absence. His
majesty of Siam had evidently tossed the
plates contemptuously aside ns too tame
and unpretentious for Siamese tastes,
Surrounded by the royal body guard
was borne the royal palanquin, Followed
by white-clad angels crowned with ringed
and pointed crowns and bearing a sort of
thyrsus representing gold and silver flow:
ers. A Sad of drummers, pi and
trumpeters was Snterspered at intervals,
making the air 1 with their efforts,
and half a dozen brass hands rendered
Earopean airs at appropriate occasions.
For three days in succession the pro-
cessivns nceompanied the king and prince
to the most sacred of the palace temples
ut on the fourth day,
yard before noon. As the king and his
son took their seats on raised thrones in
the central the pagoda the
scene was both grand and unique, The
entire space in front was occupied by the
foreign ministers, full uniform, to.
gether with naval officers invited
, all in full rig.
As the Siamese national anthem pealed
the ki
prince passed into the pagods
: i
iy the
facade of
in
and
riuests
thiroueh the erowded Bpace 1 an i
slowed
The
top
h consecrated
r no longer a
blood,
other princes of tho
the
i
forming prince's
severed
Crown
were
and the prince
i for-
mulities
At
yard apposite the prgods
the far en ace courts
+ had been con.
structed an artificial mountain glittering
with imaginary
Uy
TaN
snows of Himaphan
on were seocn
and «
its peaks and ridges
the 18 tree of
papruk,
stones;
# 3 3
and the
Washington
BILL, SUDDENLY APPEARED,
\ Kodak Man's Sad Experience with
a Long Island Farmer.
out of th
n with a g
You can hear Bill =
Home! Look out for Bill whe n you hear
him sis
He's achin
was
in’ hymuase, to chaw
body up.’
I'd like to get ag
vityid r the tr ©,
looked around
“Better let ‘em
old man.
“I with I could make you understand
u.v idea. You must bave had artists
along here before. You must know
“Yes, 1 do. We've had lots of artists
along here. Ome of ‘em stole a sheep-
skiv, ns 1 tod you, another went off
with fourteen feet of log.chain, and the
ote who came last week got a bad silver
dollar off on the old woman fur his din.
ner. Bill's a-raising his voice all the
time, and that means he smells a fight.
Jetter walk on, stranger!”
“Oh, if you are as obstinate and proj-
3 on
don'town all of Long Island, however, 1
suppose 7’
“Mebbe not, but I'll ask Bull
knows where our line is bettern
Bill! oh, Bill”
Bill suddenly appeared in the open
barn door. He appeared to be eleven
foot high, As be caught sight of the
artist ha appeared to cover 21 feet of
ground at the firet jump. Down the
highway flitted a dark shadow carrying a
kodak. At his heels was a something
bareheaded and in his shirt-sleeves, and
yelling ot every jump. ;
And the spotted cow under the leafloss
maple swallowed hor cud and switched her
tail in token of ponce on carth and
will to men, a the picturesque dells
and groves and hillsides of Long Island
softly gurgled to each other that if Bill's
wind held out for four miles he would
beat the game. —[M. Quad, in New York
World.
sO
the artist, as he
alone!” warned the
He
I do.
Farming in tobe t t at Ratgors College
in a — Ae aRAht 2 Rutgive
He Would Be Busy,
A censor attached to the imperial
court in Pekin, having suggested
that the Emperor should take up the
ancient practice of having the class
and other sacred writings ex.
pounded to him daily, his majesty
published this decree. “Bince we
have undertaken the task of govern.
ing in person, we have daily received
in audience the officials of the mes
tropolis and the provinces, and done
y utmost to rightly discern the
tdgment on
as remains
transacting the
affairs of State, we de.
historical
jes
Our ver
proper men
their actions. Such time
at our disposal after
and
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