EVERY YEAR.
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fife is a count of losses,
Every year;
Yor the weak are heavier crosses
Every year;
Lost springs, with sobs replying,
Unto weary autumn sighing;
While those we love are dying
Every year.
The days have less of gladness
Every vr:
The aifht more weight of sadness
. Every year;
Fair springs no longer charm us;
The winds and weather harm us;
The threats of death alarm us
Every year,
There come new cares and sorrows
Every vear;
Dark days and darker morrows
Every vear;
The ghosts of dead loves haunt us,
The ghosts of dead friends taunt us,
And disappointments daunt us
Every year.
To the past go more dead faces
Every vear
As the loved leave
Every year;
vacant places
Everywhere their sad eyes meel
In the evening's dusk they gr
nd to come to them entre;
very year.
» OT ine old
KFOowing oidqg,
“You are
“Every year.”
“You are
“Every
You can win no new affection
You have only jon,
Deeper sorrow and dejection,
more alone,”
year:
recollect
Every year
The shores of life are
Every
And we are
Every
Old places, changing,
The living more forget
There are fewer to reg
Snr.
seaward drifti
year,
Every year
drimwvs nig!
But the life
Every vear;
truer
And its morning star climbs
Every year
Earth's hold on us g
And its heavy
And the days in
James W, Covert
Jerry Duncan's Philosopny.
NELLIE
BURNS
AS
doorvard or
need to be pu
“Jerry, 1 1
he said
“Well,
ed
<}
bor returned,
be a gre
held stro
» goodd comes ont o
happuns.or in figer
cloud has its silver
couldn't see nothin’ Ino
tine after ths!
could
ole
a long
got so | Season
thought Polly a-witt
how she suffered from neuralgy,
her teeth wuz al! ont and we not able
to git no more how her eyesight an”
hearin’ wuz going’. an’ thought
o' her bein’ out o all sech miz'ry, why.
gir, 1 saw the plain ernough
then.”
The old man pavsed an instant, thrust
his wooden leg forward, and continuo.
od:
“Now, like as you wouldn't
+hink there wuz any bright side to a
feller losin’ his leg an’ havin’ to hobble
eround on a wooden stump lke this,
Bat there wuz, with me. "Fore that ae
cident when 1 lost my leg, 1 use to
gufer tur'bul pain in it from rheumer-
tis. When I lost the leg 1 lost the
rivnmertism. Can't you see the silver |
Luin’ there? Put erbout the
confess the eloud looks pooty black; |
an’. as yet, there ain't a sgn of a
linin', that I can see. You see, I ain't |
ns young as I once wuz. The fact is, |
an’ I might's well own it, I'm just er- |
boat laid on the shelf. 1 ain't good for
no kind o bard work. An’ Betty wuz
all that stood between me an’ the poor |
house. That trip over there has been |
a starin’ me in the face a long time. |
I've put it off from year to year, fer |
seems like t'wounld choke me to eat |
dependent bread: but, after all, I'm a- |
feared I'l have to go. sn
OV]
how wuz
how
then
blessin’
not
cow, |
Good evenin'.” |
Jerry turned abruptly and walked |
foto biz voice, and he wag too proud a |
man to let the world see such weak-
HERS,
The neighbor, Henry Boone, a man of
a minute in silent then walked
away.
The unique originality of Jerry Dun
pity,
His hopeful,
independent nature com
preciatiop was practically evineed hy a
ot
of his quaint
problems life
entertainment,
The application
the
much
queer
to of
wis a source of
He claimed that Ged
introduced Adam to the world as
Adam, not Mr. Adam; and he wanted
po better authority on etiquette than
So he addressed all persons by
their Christian and in indul
gence to his whim every one called him
Mp, to his name,
names,
Jerry.
Jerry
his
a sent
re
Cons
entered the house, took
arm-chair,
time in
great where he
for
templation
The
resticoss, 50
in
mained some moody
from his great loss made
he got up and went
He had traveled
he h to the
grief
barn
he pra i
. and sold stuffed
8
the espousal of
cow, the
8 neigh
followin
i. and Mr
was fairly
Jory HT he door
what?
reature
confronted him
“Why, Jerry, what is this and
did you get it? he asked, in
ment
“AK to
shall
where
ARtonIsi-
what it is”
call it
where 1 got jt
witty,
replied
antlered
it's
stuffed,
Jerry, “1
As
simply
SOme
the to
COW
wii Jost
ms cow, with
moose horns on.”
When Mr. Boone comprehended the
full significance of the achievement,
he leaned against the wall and Iaughed
convulsively,
“Jerry.” he said, “don't think I am
making fun of your cow, for I'm not. It
struck me as being such a funny idea
to staff a cow, and she is so queer look-
ing that I just couldn't help laughing.
You are really a genius, Jerry. The
is splendidly done, and you've
an entirely new creature. There
anything In he whole animal
mde
isn't
“Well, you ser,” returned Jerry, “1
used to do a sight o' sech work in years
gone by, an’ when Betty died it jes:
seemed a8 tho 1 couldn't give her up.
You don’t know how much Betty wuz
fo me,
no kin-folks to sot my feelin's on. An’
Betry had kinder filled ap the vacant
thought come to me that I could keep
Bitty to look at by stuffin’ her. I b'-
Heaven,
erlive is the pleasure I've
had in fixin' her up like this”
Mr. Boone was a man of keen busi.
ness faculty, and possessed that intu.
itive
whether it is obscured In stocks or in a
dead cow,
following out
havin' Betty
madd no
val
fine
his odd fancy,
and that might be turned to
count in the old man's support,
while Jerry was talking a plan
forming in his mind.
“Jerry,” he “I belleve you will
able to make some money on your
stuffed cow’
“How?” asked Jerry, eagerly.
“By having a kind ef little museum,
and charging for admission. You
krow the County Fair holds here nexi
week, If should
booth on the grounds
wus
said,
he
small
your ant
lered cow low ad
niission charge 1 really think you would
have a
with
you
on exhbition at a
mnke something on her.”
The old n aggered at the
the
dumb joy
win fairly st
suggestion, so great was surprise
He
then sald
“Tenry, I'm
for a moment in
stood
much erbhiecged to vou
should a’
I can make
1 never
we, 100,
sOmnetd on her ve seen
mus ums
that |
last
hing thi uit in
fue’
in’
need the
doll
I don’t deny
help. It tuk
grit materials
Hos my
fer fixin' Betty up,
troublidd to Know
Kiat Fair
the proprietor tine the
he
wonld
LOOSE ANG Saw
decided it
acquisition to his collection,
of
of
patronage
od. he be a
Fair he
hundred
the old
until he
wits his kind peighbor.
“Yes, indeed,” said Mr.
it. by all
close the
for
would
dollars
man
had
Nn
creature.
dispose of it
ane
but not
counseled
Joone, “sell
means, Jerry. The money
imal. And I will have a talk with you
this evening as to how to invest it.”
Ra the made, and Jerry
went home with his old heart relieved
amd gladdened by his success,
trade
was
old man ai the close of the day.
“Jerry,”
in three good cows and go a little heavy.
fer into the milk business, Then you
will be able te hire a boy to deliver
milk and drive your cows fo pasture.
Iivery one knows how clean and care.
ers among the neighbors.”
Ax Jerry comprehended the full sig-
| nificance of this suggestion his old
face lighted with joy.
“Why, Henry Boone,” he exclaimed,
| with eager, excited voles, “what a mas-
| ter hand you are at plannin’. Three
| good cows an’ a boy fo wait on me!
1 never 'spected nothin’ to equal that
losin’ my faith so when Betty died! T'a
orter been ershamed oF myself, Haln't
He sald that not a sparrer shall fall
to the ground 'thout His notice? How
for think
ns could
onreasonerble then me to
big a critter COW
die "thout
ins my
I never shall
W hy should
Dark at
have eround
they'd Hit
the silver linn’ has always
His seeing it?
[7 It never has failed me
the
till it
but
showed itself at last, thank God”
clouds closed
me seemed never
Cremation Growing in Favor,
The
movewent in favor of eremation
earth burial is growing in
The other day Mr. William
MP, stated in public that
he had mnde provision for eremation in
ns against
sugland,
Rathbone, ex
his ewn case on principle, and with a
At this
is almost
view to promoting the reform
new crematorium
int
moment a
ready for dverpool. It is a
at bullding of
Hise
red sandstone, simple
chaste in design. The main door
a small chapel
will
into From this
i be car
el,
apartment beyond, and there placed up
coffin
is I' into
frame runni wheels
an He furnace
nhode
wit
116) 8s 1 usly
rem the
iy
bottle of
swallowed
met hodd
ranged all
brains out
and drowning.
Card-Counting Machines,
Two of the most interesting antoma
Government for counting
postal cards into small }
machines were mode in Connecticut hy
the Dwight Noveliy Company, and
and tying
undles
ecards in ten hours, and wrapping and
tying the same in packages of twenty:
fs puned off a drum by two long
“fingers” which come up from below
cilage and applies iteelf to the wrap
ov ng-paper in exactly the sime spot.
Other parts of the machine twine the
paper around the pack of cards and
then a “thumb” presses over the spot
where the mucilage is. and the paci-
age is thrown onto a carry belt reas’
for delivery.
A Wolf Drive.
Wolves have become 80 numerons
near Pendleton, Or., that it is proposed
to organize a wolf drive, Both whites
and Indians will be asked to co-operate
and make an effort to rid the eoun-
try south and east of Pendleton of the
animals, which pester the farmers by
INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.
A Hew Cotton Mill to be Bullt at Bpsr-
tanburg, B. C
In its week'y review of the business inter-
este of the South, the Manufacturers’ Record
shows that the assessed value of property in
the Southern Btates from 1800 to 1895 in-
oreassd ¥857 800,000, or 7.00 per cent. : w hills
the increase in the Westorn Blates
Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne
sota, lowa, North and South Dakota, Neb-
raska and Kansas 290,125,000,
per the Pacific
Coast Btatos and Territories was $88 300,000,
ten
wis or 1.05
eent,, and the increase in
or 4.1 per cont, ~the increase in the South
being four tunes as grost as the ten Western
States named and twice ns the ten
Western Btates and the
Territories all combined.
show that the
1805 was over 6.000 000 tons,
000 tons
a8 gront
Parific Siates and
Special reports
of
and coke 1,000 -
conl output Alabama for
wi increase of the
over 1804 of
two combined
The total
end pig iron
1895 was
about 1.500.00) tons,
fron ore. coal, ¢
handled by Alabama
ever 11,000 000 tons
poke, Hmestone
raliroads In
Among industrial matters reporied for the
weok were the closing of contracts
ower equip nent of two imu
or the
and Baltimore,
6,000 H, I, of
electric road Washington
the
hetwean
aggregating
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There Is a bank hier in Chicago
who was the hero of a wonderful per-
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books of the back in which he was
employed were entirely destroyed by
the flames, and with no data except the
passhooks of the depositors and his
memory, this man restored all the 1,500
accounts so successfully that every de-
positor was satisfied,
Effective.
Mra, Ferry—Dear, that necktie is gets
ting frightfully seedy,
Mr, Ferry—1 guess it will do for an«
other week or two
Mrs, Ferry—George Ferry, if yon
don't come home to-night with a new
the I'il buy you one myself,—Cin-
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On,
— wo
There wouldn't hava
in a
nad the construction of it
Deen any mii
had
cocoanut if some dalrymen
- so II ——
The Unforeseen.
If we
might be
could only foresee,
One
what misery
of many
evenis in the life of Napoleon
pain in his
thereby jor persons
It is always the un
bert anticipations,
men, aboring
Or BUCCess, Are
own suddenly Nothing comes more
uly than alineck of lumbago to
or twist the muscies of the spine and
Iny one uy In ten minules, however, Bt,
Jacobs Of will cure the soreness and stiff.
err nnd mal he back supple and strong.
i* Napoleon eonld Pave hind trix great remedy
it the ha we changed,
of Europe,
prevented, the
hroniciers of
ivi he Jost Waterloo from a
Arg
Hires
being unfittad
tion of the battle
that roars the
Us SO many
women, primed
1X Je {ed
und t}
nen or
Huvn
business
An
ut | fern
right time, he would
perhaps, the map of 1he whole
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