KEEP AGOIN !
If you strike a thorn or rose,
Keep a-goin’!
if it hails, or if it snows,
Keep a-goin' !
"Tain't no use to sit an’ whine
When the fish ain't on your line;
Bait your hook an’ kesp ou tryin’!
Keep a-goin’ | |
When the weather kills your crop,
Keep a-goin’ !
When you tumble from the top,
Keep a-goin’!
N'pose you're out 0’ every dime?
{iittin’ brokeain't any crime
Tell the world you're feelin’ prime!
Keep a-goin
When it looks like all is up,
Keep a-goin' !
Drain the sweetness from the eup,
Keep a-goin’ !
See the wild birds on the wing!
Hear the bells that sweetly ring!
When vou feel like sighin
Keep a-goin’!
{Frank I. Stanton in Atlanta Constitu
tig
Lion,
Her Celestial Adorer
sing
and
pretiy.
lit
tle,
was so dist
She was prim IS,
She ractingly
Three of these qu
usual combination.
of note.
She came up to New York to study
Her
ni
alities are an un-
Therefore worthy
bookkeeping and shorthand.
name wus Alice Pearson, ane
a mania for converti
The whic
was kept by a stout
Brown
house at
voman-—Mrs.
the essence of
let the boarders freeze all
by
1 may
That i havi
nificent had able
to stand ravages of Mrs, Brown's
pork and beans the longest. He was
a medical t. and his name was
Caldwell. He was very gzood-l
by-the-by.
There were sixteen |
Brown's establishment
Miss Pearson came d
Two weeks afterward
twenty-one, and within ¢
Brown's li
reached. The newecom
ticed, were all me:
n who
' who
ai
on heen
studen
MaRing
Wi
IL —— th
snouct
enough,
York
Worry
me
Chung bli
washed and ironed
was noticed that wh
be { with
linary work,
whole of
+ 9s #1
Sixth s
De compared
been
had a mania
She tried
waitre
made strong
tal 4
Lilie
has
abiee
turned her attention to F
“How do you lo. Mr. Chi
greeted him with one
he came for the Inundry
**Ni cha,’ replied the Cel
“I guess he means ‘How
Pearson,’’ struck in Millie
sweeping the room
“Oh! Ni cha, Mr. Sing.”
The Chinaman did not
facial muscle.
estial.
dy Miss
who was
change a
He did not want to
look sad, and he could not grin any
harder than he was already doing.
The left side of the six padded coats
gave a great beat outward.
That was getting on,
The loved one could now converse
as fluently in his native tongue as he
in hers,
That was getting on.
The next time he came he brought
one of those little reeds with a bunch
of hair fastened in one end, which
thn Chinese use for pens, and pre-
sented it, with his immovable grin.
That gentle smile of his was so fixedly
wide that Oaldwell declared the top
of his head to be an island surround- |
ed bysmouth. A somewhat exagger- |
ated metaphor. Still it was what one |
might call a generous smile,
The following week he lnid on her
shrine a packet of Chinese firecrack- |
ers and had learned to count up to five |
in English. She had eight articles |
in the washing, but he began over
again at ‘one’ when he reached the
place where ‘‘six’’ ought fo be, so
that was all right.
Miss Pearson never got beyond
“Ni cha’ in her study of the Chinese
tongue, but Fah Chung applied him-
self with ardor to the mastery of
English, and went about his laundry
practicing—''One collie, one collie,
two cuff, two cuff, one collie, two
~ ecufl.”” When he got so that he could
say, Aloo lightes, washee soon, done
sSlatteday,’”’ Miss Pearson thought
it time to begin her spiritual admin-
istrations. Accordingly she took
him down to the boarding house
drawing room one Saturday,
he got the draughts between the fire-
less grate and the door beautifully,
and discoursed to him, ,
The girl was sincerely in earnest,
and it was something of a shock
when he turned toward her that un-
smile and affably re
“*Meo likee Melican gal”
Fah Chung slept in a tiny box of
the back of his laundry.
He
oan
began “wasting his
riotous’’
Chinese
grecn-inde
hairpins, which
ISO
he took her washing home,
Oriental dealer, and gave
him a half dollar for one of the pins,
and would have none of it, she took
it that it was below his price, so re-
turned the pin, ahd pocketed the
money herself. Finally it dawned on
her that he was making her a present.
She promptly deelined the gift, but
the vext week it turned up again,
i
he much-refused
every
article ‘bob up
gerenely’’ Saturday that she
it to rid of it, and Fah
Chung grinned harder, worked later,
The fever of the New
seized him. He longed
took ret
and ate less,
World had
to amass riches.
With all her primness, Miss Pear-
ff a somewhat adventurous
The great town to her coun-
I, was full of wonders:
Wola
In Was «
and
2.848 8 fi young
pret an, if she
as independent
ne . VY woman oi
choose, in New York
life if i re hi
reel her nDassion
I OWn prother
for
Her studies usually
"We
exXpior-
but on those ever
il engaged
by
other
house
nw»
*Uisne sinner
gray bonnet
an
fortunate
nderoed out int
ht wo
why, bu
itt
ii raid
11, particularly after
Miss Pearson fasten a rose inl
ton hole,
There are some things that change
it neither in America nor in China,
anid the heart of the
Fah Chung
In with
tions, to
‘Feast
f
religious festival
r is one,
Fourth of
fire-crackers and illumina-
be a kind of American
the Lanterns’ '—a great
fact. There he
love
might take the
iy.
of
in
mistook. Decidedly.
But Fah Chung was right when he
euessed that the object of his pas
regarded him more in the
light of a lover than she would some
old woman who chose to wear a pig-
tail and unusoal shoes,
The change in dress shadowed
upon Miss Pearson's mind the fact
that her laundryman was a man, and
her manner toward him became some-
what reserved. That was good for a
beginning. He wrote her a
—=she took it for a laundry list, by
the bye-—in his native tongue, of
which he declared his
passion. He knew she could not
read it, but it was an outlet for his
feelings,
He got his lodger to address the
envelope. As it stood she could read
and he the inside, so
that made it even.
It was rather a pity that Fah
Chung could not have learned a little
more of the customs of his adopted
country earlier. The knowledge
might have saved him from making
two great mistakes,
The first lay in the fact that he
had not curtained his laundry win.
dow.
Strolling down the Bowery one
bright afternoon and enjoying to the
full the rush and roar of life in that
Broadway of the lower class ‘‘Goth-
amites,”’ Miss Pearson was amusing
herself by counting the different na.
tionalities represented in the shops
and so on. At the last corner she
came upon Fah Chung's laundry.
She stopped at the window to admire
the scrupulous cleanliness and to
sion no
Now the ways of American launs
drywomen ure not as the ways of
Chinese laundrymen.
i The former sprinkles the rough
dried clothes by dipping her hand
into a basin of water and flirting the
{drops from her linger tips. Then she
rolls the garment up tightly aud lays
it away for an hour or two to absorb
the moisture evenly.
Not so the Chinaman, He fills his
at the same time as he is ironir
2 it
with his slender yellow
ironing with ardor, was probably
never so thunderstruck in his life
when it was snatched from his hands
and a lovely little face as red
rose with anger and disgust disclosed
to him Miss indignant
brown eyes, The rest of her things
lay on a shell near, and, scolding
fast as her tongue could wag
gathered them up, thrust them into
a piece of paper, threw a half
j upon the table
the amazed Chung in the
standing bewilderment
his cheeks puffed ont with his mouth
full of water, and his black
staring.
After that Miss
things to an
scrubbed
month,
Chung
fingers,
Pearson's
she
and marched away,
meantime
in helpless
CVes
Pearson sent her
Irishwoman,
them to within a
and the of Fah
knew them Alas !
mistake—a fatal one—
pieces
laundry
no more
His second
sprang from a national difference of
views regarding death and all thin
appertais which exists be-
tween th xtreme East and
West,
He sent
comfortable
or
ng thereto
Wel
the Bowery.
Caldwell
lover to sad
aon no account venture
¢ streets between
Bowe rs
when he wi
it lie Tr
wande
Or 8 while, at
ito any of
frondway and the
Ro, one oven
hospital, she
duty to do so,
Mulberry street
ter street, unex
that had been
last half hour.
From the top of Baxter street there
is a short, very narrow, very dark
turning leading into the brilliantly
lighted Bowery.
This turning is very quiet.
filled with gambling
and opium joints. The police rather
avoid It rejoices in the
deseriptive and suggestive name of
Dead Man's Alley.
As Miss Pearson wasabout to enter
it she was stopped by a Chinaman,
who motioned her not to come thas
way. Recognizing Fah Chung, she
indignantly brushed past him, and
| with great stateliness proceeded on.
Half way between
‘y ) 3
following her for the
It
dens
jw
Chinese
the place.
close behind her—another figure
quickly amd quietly ran between
j them. there was a muttered oath, a
| slight struggle, and something geam-
ted in the hand of the taller man,
(Just then Miss Pearson reached the
| Bowery, and in Dead Man's Alley
[one man was running swiftly and si-
{ lently toward the sheltering crowds
{in Baxter street, and the other, alit-
(tle Chinaman, lay on the ground
bleeding to death. When Miss Pear-
on, on reaching home, found that
her purse was gone, she exclaimed :
“There! 1 knew that a creature
who sprinkled clothes in the disgust.
ing way he did wasn’t honest!" ~[L.
Hereward in To-day.
AANA FA AO
Po AAAS AAAS,
How to Silence Critios.
en dn,
A t desirious of the laureateshi
was bitterly complaining to a frien
in a London club of the conspiracy
of silence that was waged by critics
sgainst his effusions. ‘How ought
I to meet this conspiracy?’ he asked.
“Join is, ’ replied the friend —| Lone
don Truth,
SIGNAL SERVICE.
cr
BEST IN THE WORLD.
it Is Right Just Seven Times In
Ten.-Moethod of Conducting the
Various Observations.
It has been shown that t! pers
centage of verifications of rain, tems
perature, wind and cold wave fore.
United States Weather
misleading only about
out of ten, and
uncertainty
which
deal
Jurean are
two or three times
considering the
with
prophets have to
must be admitted to be
In 1892 the predicted
within 24 hours in different places
$844 times, and 71.2
these forecasts were verified, tnin
within 48 was predicted 444
times, and 53 per cent of these rains
were In 1893
storms within & hours wer
!
elements
this result
re murkable,
service ram
wr ent of
per o«
hours
forthcoming.
rain
nounced fil B.5 We
cent o
Only 70 storms were {ore-
cast two days ahead, and 62.6
cent of them
Much bet
predicting the cl
In 1801
r forecasts w
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Weather Bureau.
Messages are also
ed
tel
railroad stations and :
places, and are sent by 1 3.065
points and delivered by re to
1.264 stations. The total number o
pla ¢s to which the forecasts or warn
This
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giirond
ings are sent is 9.3238. 11 beg
and places who get their information
direct from the offices
throughout the country, 1 it
take in 121 points on the ast
and the shores of Great
where danger signals are posted
There another branch of the
weather service of which the people
in large cities know very little, but
which is of great importance to the
farmer. This is the State Weather
Service, organized for the collection
and publication of information relat-
ing not only to the weather, but also
to the crops State bureaus are de-
pendent almost entirely upon the
voluntary efforts of intelligent citi.
zens, whose labor is furnished with
out compensation, and whose individ.
tal reports are receivea at the
central stations, compared and sum-
marized in such a way as to form the
basis of general reports. Monthly
reviews of the prevailing weather con.
local weather
or does
“On of
the Lakes,
is
ing, cultivating and harvesting of
crops, telling the most important
facts about the weather, with their
probable effect upon the growing
crops from week to week. This ser.
vice in many States also has the coe
operation of an agricultural station,
and the weekly bulletins contain in-
formation with regard to pests that
imperil the crops and the best way of
treating them. Many of these vol-
unteer observers are farmers, some of
them are doctors, and others are men
who have only a private interest in
keeping a record of the weather. It
may be sald that their work is gener.
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and their observations valuable.
Some of them are furnished with a
sot of instruments, and teany others
ars hot,
As there are less than 170 meleoro-
logical stations in the United States
| that are conducted by paid observers,
{each one of these stations has io
{ cover about 22.000 square miles of
{ land, and the data supplied by
i means would be very inadequate were
it not for the information that is fur-
nished through Weather
The latter w began
Town as early ns 1875, and in Missouri
in 1878, but the
sufficiently
value
yenrs,
wenther
Lhe
1s
the State
t Service, ork in
stem has not been
tO he grat
twelve or thirteen
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are mailed b
spondents &0 as to reach th
Tuesday morning
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general of
for more than
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crop reports
now
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central stations on
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comments upon
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To the
(Ore
A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION.
How a Doctor Was Tempted To Be
come a Cannibal.
place le
Canaan
starved «
taken of their br
for a party of the ship
and when 1 saw then
away
“That terrible
doctor continued, was the ot
of all career that
gloomy whenever I think
I almost always think
Washington Post.
temptation
© OY
makes me
f
03
of
my
iteand
it, -—
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Promotion on the Field of Battie.
On the field of battle the Emperor
Napoleon would pull up in front of
“3
around him. would address each by
his name. He would ask each to
mention whom among them they
considered most worthy of promotion
or of a decoration, and then passed on
to the soldiers. Such testimony de-
bound the various regiments to-
gether with the bands of confidence
and esteem, and these promotions,
granted by the soldiers themselves,
had all the more value in their
eyes,
In the course of one of those distri-
butions of military rewards, which
were like family scenes, an under
officer was designated to the Em-
peror as the bravest and the best.
The Colonel, while agreeing that he
possessed all the qualitios necessary
to make a officer, added that, in
rendering htm this justice, he re
tted that, on account of a serious
rawback, he was unable to recom-
mend him for promotion, “What i
it?"’ asked Napoleon, quickly. *‘Sire,
he ean neither read nor write,”" “I
appoint him officer, Colonel; vou will
mors Baron de Meneval.
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Lord sa Fast ;
lords or the house « ommons, but
has =
and a
chancellor
the speaker of the commons
salary 44 filent to B25 O00
house : lord
draws n si
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of Preside
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gets 1.225, 000 from Prassia alone, and
saved
of his allowance from
his grandfather is said to have
£12 000 000 out
the state.
The Czar of Russia is credited with
receiving more than $12 000,000 from
his government. —{ Washington Star,
A Railway Cushion Car Cleaner.
The French have brought carpet
cleaning machinery to a high stats of
efficiency. One of their latest ma-
chines not only beats the carpets of
railway cars, but also brushes the
cushions while drawing off the dust.
With this machine, operated by one
man, 350 carpets or cushions can be
cleansed in an ordinary working day.
The machine consists essentially of a
strong frame containing an endless
band, beaters, revolving brushes, ex.
haust fans and suction pipes. The
carpets are attached to the endless
band, the revolution of which brings
them under the influence of the
beaters. These consist of ten stout
leather straps fixed on the iron arm
of a horizontal revoiving drum. Mean
while the cushion is being cleaned by
the backward motion of the table on
which it is placed while in contact
with cylindrical brushes. The dust
raised by the beaters and brushes is
drawn by the fans into the galvan.
ized iron pipes and di by tha
current of air outside the building, «=
[New York Telegram.
the statement that little George
ashitgton cut down the cherey treo.