COLOMBIA,
BY PF. 8 GILMORE.
Cutumbial First and faivest ge
On nature's brow-—a diandem,
Whose lustre bright as heavenly star,
The lght of freedom sheds afar
Like Noah's ark, a God-sont 1
In search of land through das
First found thee held by nature
The red man in his wigwam wild,
m
and dark,
's child,
Columbia!
Of what Columbus saw and said;
The eyes of man they turned to thee
The new land, risin
Fach spread his sail before the gale,
Boon the tidings spread
from the sea;
To verify the wondrous tale,
And thus begin what waa to
The hope and home of liberty
Columbia!
A crown
With fields of
With fifty million lov
Who ching to thee
To guard thy pea
Who, man to man,
And in the Lord pla
Columbia! Lift thine ex
tee Him who dw
The King of GI
Whe I
Car
iS in Yor
A home in heave
I with our 1
Our debt to Him.
At morn
Oh, Lord!
That we Th
at noon
And feel th
MY FIRST PATIENT.
I had
been
A
change. reputat
and sOo0n ¢
sultation-room would }
I should soon
carriag
ven by
deed, then
Tush
All the time
whenever-f had
struggle
Marie's dear
: ende iy
rected me upon ms
‘“*Herr Doctor Er
p into her dear eves
and said more “Frau Doc :
hardt.” Then
r her far
he windos
Now and
lags, I had
rie of all the ho
young physician could bui n his empties
dwelling; Hut [ dared her of
my dream dn regard to the future don
There blue
tors wife,
$11
dear Si
mck my words, when
found ut had no doubt
ti-at Marie would eve ntually be my wife.
i med as if a lack of confidence
i y ability as a physician lay in her
glance, That increased my pride, and
induced me to remain silent and await
the time when the report of my first pro
fessional achievement would
ability to Marie.
With my thoughts
these things, I sat on
+
the next few
to speak to Ma
pain whicl
not inform
CYes of
vhich ke pt
they almost
ny in the
expression
even
ranee I
!
absorbed in all
the afternoon of a
room, and at first failed to notice n faint
ring at my bell. Then I arose to open
the door myself, as I had sent my errand
boy to market, ;
I confess that during the few steps
which were necessary to bring me to the
door, a flood of strange thoughts came
over me. A caller was seeking my help.
Very likely it was a patient of high birth,
and I should certainly receive a rich re-
ward and fame, and 1 was already mar.
vied to dear Marie. I opened the
door. In the half-dark of the late
August day stood a poorly-clad woman
before me. Out of her haggard and
charcoal-blackened face looked a pair of
great, dark eyes beseechingly at me,
“Doctor,” said the woman in a tremb-
ling voice, “Doctor, be merciful, O
please. My little Mario is so sick."
The name atoned for the woman's un.
sromising appearance, which coincided
badly with my latest dreams,
“Who are you! Who sent you to me?”
asked,
*No one,” the woman answered quick-
Iy aud ju alow voice. “0 Doctor, do
come! I have been earrying coal all da
live over there in the courtvard, M
child has been sick since yesterday,
found her so much worse that 1 came to
you at once.”
I hesitated somewhat
ment was so great
the disenchant
blackened hand.
It was
many furrows
trials,
“1 should have
physician,” she said, wearily, ‘but yow
servant, Doctor, is a child of the shoe
maker in our courtyard, and he has told
evervone that you are sue
Oh, do help my little gi
I decided to go with the woman,
all, one is a man, and most of
caused by sorrow
Ont
ha good man,
After
all is he a
man who has learned to do his duty
I went with her, aft I had gathered to
er. the v instruments: ith a
which astonished half
shamed even mysel
Across the street
erent ourt
r the necessary
pom posity and
OH
{ behind i
up five
darker ind
through
softly h, dot sir. 3
stand before k bed as 3
stood here, w here the Lord will not hel
She looked fixedly at the little co
“I have loved her very de arly I have
ween
i
many a «i
Whenever I came home from my work |
found her so pretty, so charming! For
hours she would lie in bed or on the floor
and play with almost nothing, and she
{sod
me He loves her
more than I do, but, oh, I shall be so
lonesome !”’
I pressed the woman's hand, but could
not speak. I dropped some money on
the table, and silently went out. At home
I laid my instrument case away, and sat
down disheartened, 1 could eat no BH
I went to bed and tried to get to
But the picture of the gloomy
proach with which I thought over every
thing that I had done. My first
|
{
feigned a headache and escaped the ne-
cessity of having to see a sensational
play at the Court Theatre. Tired and
worn out, I went at last to my own room.
On my way there 1 passed the window of
a brightly lighted flower-shop, 1 walked
in and bought a costly, white cameliaand
some sweet-smelling violets, | went up
the five flights to the room of the poor
I found the door unlocked. It
lighted, and a little coffin
middle of the room. In it
white gown
the wall had
was faintly
stood in the
The ribbon on the hat on
the poor woman came to me
“Don’t weep, doctor, you will stand be
fore many a sick bed as you have stood
here where the Lord will not help.”
I had been summoned too late: I had
not been able to save the child, “You
have stood here.” I laid my face in the
pillow. It was a terrible night; the tor
turing thoughts which made me so rest.
less were very different from the pleasant
dreams which had encouraged me in both
my waking and my sleeping hours,
Early on the following oy an old col-
lege friend came, who had sought me on
his way through the city. He dragged
me over the crowded streets, into the
Museums, into all sorts of restaurants,
He romnlained of we tasituenive 1
blonde
geranium was taid upon her breast
the table stood a lamp, and the open song
book lay near by it,
I laid the beautiful white flowers in the
little, motionless hand, and put the bou
quet of violets on the quict breast: ther
I looked at the open book. The page
was turned at an old song which 1 had
learned at school, and had
I laid the book away.
words which I had read, the
thie
pressed my he
king in the hous
interment,
i went
nd all
led forth by a
¢
ardent
hair, and the
(in
wgrotten
HOSS pea efully
art
to bed
disquiet
vords of an
Wolf Against Eagle,
“I once witnessed a battle Ix
eagle
Licut
% tf
ve £351
and a big gray timber wolf
Charles E,
had singled out
!
Crittenden
lamb for its
tm but just as he was
to gather it in an
upon it Before the bird
could rise into the air
the wolf attacked it viciously.
about a minute the air was full of festh
ers and hair, and then combatants
separated and sized each other up. The
wolf came to the scratch, but 1 regret to
say that the emblem of this great Repub
lic showed the white feather unmistak
ably. Instead of coming up with that
never-say-dig courage with which it is
accredited, it spread its wings and flew
screaming way, I do not believe that a
bird that a thieving wolf can chase away
from a square mes is a fit emblem for
would
mther see a game rooster ou our
standard. "~~ 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat.
day preparing
EW OO
i down
:
t
freedom
& burden
For
eagle
¥
01
with i
the
King of Se
rpents,
The largest serpent of which any acen-
ate measurements have been taken and
|
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fork of a tree during his travels in Mex.
It was dragged out into the open
by two horses and was found to be thir
ty.seven feet in length, Inside of it were
discovered the bones and flesh of a horse
in a half-digested state, and there was no
doubt that it had swallowed the animal
whole. Dr. Gardnor and other travelers
say that anacondas, pythons and boas at.
tain a length of over forty feet, but there’
is no recorded instance of one havin
been encountered longer than that hs
has been mentioned, though many per-
sons have seen serpents alive which they
estimato to be of considerably greater
won wed (Thine on EF punts
.
HUNDRED STANLEYS IN
CENTURY
A
Ploneers,
The World's Columbian Ex position
but
American history, We huive two things
to learn, First, that the pioneering of
American history was a national achieve.
ment absolutely unique in the world's
history. Ani did not
do it. No other nation
nnd 1 is made
sustaining heroism
second, that ons
record in
endured bard
sich nt
nnd
ever
of occupation, in conquest at
soldi rly and so hunune '
nation so ill repaid in the
its beneficiaries, And
1 hit wird of th Npani ured
the
Justice to Spain has never bs
Onee 80
HOY WAS Ver sa
gratitude of
that record was
rect
1'4 :
A Bat cariy dDpanis
ANOS
st Man-Eater Known,
as as he h
r had hidden himself
he foot of the tre
not be |
surrounded and
in order to
y out
ld In
in
the elephants ad-
trample the
of his hiding place. Ti
manoeuvre succeeded alter frequent rep
tition : the beast was driven out of cover
once riddied
will become a le i
i
CHOR0
and at with balls,
Hi
and perhaps a deity
gone in the district
’
Lucky Triplets,
“The wonderful Hill triplets, of Bensa
iem, Bucks county, Penn. are still en
joying the biggest Kind of a boom,"
old ‘Squire Dodwoith, of Bristol, as he
sat in a group of friends in the Bingham
House lobby, and swapped experiences
and pews with them. “They're about
ten months old now, and are still so much
alike that their mother goes on a-decora
tin’ em with red, white and blue ribbons
on the Geroflee-Geroflay plan, so as to
make plum sure that they won't get
mixed up in handling. Probably no kids
outside of somo freak babies in
museum ever had so many visitors call on
‘om as these Hill triplets. Why, there
ain't been a day since they was born that
people ain't been to ser ‘em, and since
the spring set in warm, they come in par.
ties and pienics in the grove nigh to
whero the babies live. An’ what's more,
them triplets is gittin'. rich fast.
er'n Constable Jenkins’ mare ¢'n trot a
quarter *f a mile. You see's soon as they
was able to be photographed all in a row,
aud ninety people out of ery hundred
that goos to sec’em want anywhere from
two or three to a dozen to give awdy to
their friends. The trips always coo an’
kick their fat little legs up an’ get pup'il
In the facod lauifisin: when folks come
to see ‘em, and just wakes the pho-
said
night, Plagued 'f 1 wouldy’t be
ready to say thegs kids was hoaman, they
ben strangers
they is just
ind #0 do all they're
seven brothers and sisters; but then
they're predgydiced, us is natural, All
drop in. Their mother says
the photograph money after the photo
bank
and I'm told that it's beginnin’ to bulge,”
-{ Philadelphia Record,
Columbus’ Personal Appearance,
and
and dig
Colummous was of powerf: frame
ge butid, of
nified in
formed ;
1
ti jestic bearing
gesture: on the w le
of middle height, inclining to
his arm i and
beaten ours:
SILICW S
bronzed
nign
like wave Nig nerves
strung and Bens
i
to tions
I: hi
A Transportation Scheme,
Sweet-Faced Japanese,
writer RAYS that perk ips ti
sweet expression and
¥ of Japsnes women can Iw
in their freedom from small wore
fwshion of the
of mind on that subject, the
bareness of the houses and wim plic ity of
diet makes housekeeping a mere baga
telle Everything is exquisitely clean,
and easily kept so. There is no paint,
no drapery, no crowd of little ornaments,
no coming into the houses with the foot
wear worn in the dusty streets,
ERYOR
dress never varying
wear and
that can be turned into balconies and ve
randas at a moment's
scenes on the stage, and let in all out-of-
doors, change the suites of rooms to the
shape and size that the whim of the day
or the hour requires. Well, perhaps
Buffalo women are not as sweet and se
| rene as they might Le, but Buffalo is not
| that can be turned into verandas st a
{ moment's notice. There are seasons and
lays in Buffalo when piazza life is not
{ inviting. The Japanese women, moreover,
| probably do not reside with “ladies” whe
[are continually giving them “a week's
| notice." Buffalo (N. Y.) Coramercial,
A
Batecher Girls,
Of all the masculine avoeations, “lst
of the butcher seems to be the last ote
which women would be likely to invads,
yot a Northern paper says that at Chester,
mn. twe young women, daughters of »
Mr. Long, may be found pursuing Ii any
day, not merely cutting up and selling
the meat hung in a . but actaal!
killing, skinning and cleaning the
SOTES AND COMMENTS,
expedition gives confirma
Taw Peary
of Nansen, the
to the declaration
with serious
wold to
the most route to the
Bione houses as sUppiY stations
and stored with
consaries at sufficient
the Greenland
sledgrs withont
Creeniand seem
ye constructed
other ne
heart of
and its marie and magnetic
ies unlocked, It is the last grand
our carth con-
pature of men
i ig Age to per
: rer with:
cavune |
NOP
projects
surface of
{ ‘ T $s Tif
®, anda i tin 1
peed and d
f 4
is
is
ee
far into
hoa cragey
Who
ite
OC IRTOS
feyw fry
1OTCsLry
5 0 he
vinhraces
ter area of
in the
miles,
United
miles and
Bordering
with a total
In these
x Cities
10.000
100, 000 each.
13)
ding
i riga }
ily, com-
letter, je
march of
pursuing his
onsiderable
“thronzh
profession at
band, and he or
your esteemed columns” (for which pur
pose he forwards one dollar) that the
remarks in question are injurious to him.
“we do not touch the poor who work
for their living, but only the rich. Nor
do we kill persons with a dagger, as is
infamously asserted of the man Cassetaro;
we shot him.”
Tre continued absence of Mr. Winans
who has not visited his vast Highland
deer forests for five vears, is provoking
the critic’sn of the Scotch newspapers,
Those preserves, in the north of Scotland,
stretch from sea to sea, and Mr. Winans
pays an annual rental of $23,000 for the
territory. The point is mde that an
American should not be permitted to
keep such a great tract locked up for
years when there is such a dearth of land
for pasturage and other purposes,
Tren are just as big rewards in farm-
ing ax in any other pursuit in life. The
men who get them are the ones who make
a life-long study of the business and
neglect no opportunity of gaining all the
information possible bearing upon it.
The most successful farmer must study
as hard as the successful lawyer, doctor,
merchant, manufacturer, or engineer to
master the intricate details which make
up success,
Ture city of Bremen has spent 30,000,
000 marks, or about &7, 000, in mal .
the Weser navigable, :
ged dl oA 3 he vity instead of
ng to discharge and
land at Bremerha von, ne necessi-
tating for
hE or $0.