at
Eee
$EAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS."
If any little word of ours
Can make one life the brighter,
It any little song of ours
Can make one heart the lighter,
God help ug speak that little wo d,
And take our bit of singing.
And drop it in some lonely vale,
To set the echoes ringing.
If any little love of ours
Can make one life the
1f any little care of ours
Can make one step the fleeter,
If any little help may
The burden of another,
God give us love and care
To help along each other
sweeter,
ease
trength |
and
If any watchful thought of ours
Can make some work the stronger,
If any cheery smile of ours
Can make its brightness longer,
Then let us speak that thought to-day
With tender eves a-glowing
So God may grant some weary one
Shall reap from our glad sowing.
BY HOWARD HALL
1¢
1 1 YS TY v
it Was a lovely sumine!l
Zermatt. Dinner was just
huge Monte Rosa Hotel, and
of visitors were settli th
the chairs outside, 1
of the sunset
pleasures of black
On the little raised
posite side of the
of five English
round one of the
Perched on an
seat and solemn
Robert
the fia
climbed than for
in the law courts
people
was
noted fou
friend, George Poll
journalist,
rough penci
burned face
by Bert Jeffre)
the mir
They were
in the valle y for
{
had climbes
od on the
in
than in
peaks that
though
come Lo Zermatt
Anal +)
lard
had
tion ol
possible,
>
ne, wario
ot to please you
pleas
tcl Frit
said Jeffrey
}
ellow
ie
i
no ami
soil above a beaten,
Even my
than yot
i ve been
protested Pollard
hotigand feet
“Yes, seem Lo
ten that you had a mule most
way,” laughed Barton
“Then I have
ciers, and up to some of
“have you »@i. ni
IT)
dusty
sisters hav
i have.”
to the top of
and that
have forgot.
of the
but you
been on
he persisted, strivi
self.
“But that was only bes
Mr. Pollard said the
Miss Jeffreys. “You lenve Zer-
until you our new
ice-pick on some peak
“1 am not to blame for having bought
it. Barton made me get it. That is th
drawback of having an alpine ciul-
man for a chum; he always thinks you
can enjoy yourself only when climb
ing up impossible mountains.”
"But what have yvau really
for?” protested Miss Jeffreys
“Well, I have dug up a lot
ers for you.”
“That is merely a degradation to a
self-respecting ice-pick. What elge
have you done with it?”
There was a moment's pause and
then he replied:
“I ran the sharp end into my hand |
the day I bought it. and last night |
killed a cockroach in my room with |
the other end.”
A roar of laughter greeted this an.
swer, and Barton complained in an ag- |
grieved voice:
“No wonder I could mot go to sleep |
when you were stabbing at that crea |
ture over my head.”
“I thought you might hear me. The
beetle was very nimble, and I am not |
used to such work,” answered Pollard,
“Well that absolutely settles the mat. |
ter,” Jefireys urged. “You must con-
quer something bigger than a cock-
peach with your ice-axe.”
“Why not go up the Unter-Gabel-
Born with us to-morrcw 7" asked the
younger Miss Jeffreys, who was more |
absorbed in watching the red glow die
out on the mountains than in listen.
fag to the conversation.
you do it, elde:
cannol
have
inatt
used it
of flow
*That's & good idea. Barton Is go-
ing to try and do the Monte Rosa from
here, to-morrovr.” added Jeffreys. "So
if you come with us we shall be a par
tie carres”
“The Law on Monte Rosa, and Jonr-
interrupted Barton.
are going with Bert, too,
added Miss Jeffrevs,
hen beauty will
replied
profund bow;
with more
Jeffreys
firet time I won't
At what unearthly
asked Pollard,
“But we
be on the Unter
but he quickly
sat force than was
agreeable, as
"Well,
luzy on a holiday
down
for the be
hour do we start
Kaufmann
it? We'll
“There's
there, ask him)”
isn t
shadowy figures standing
off the came to
quiet “Goodevenings, gen-
One of the
a few paces in street
them with a
tlemen.’
Dat is goot. It a very nice climb,
We must go by four o'clock,” he
low speech of one not
iss
£3.
swered in the
language,
steep and
Pollard
used to th
s E21 Nh
ked
a long couloir,
and makes step 0," the guide
sat to explain his mean
} hardt
rocks 1838 not
How one
shon
Ah, peautiful, It
1
il repeated the guide
& wunde:
aglish?
reased vocabulary
of us, Kaufmann
nother
chalet, §
d the hotel
smfortable
When the
kled on and
fastened they start-
haufmann tied t
Hil
he
t to ‘ is snd led the 16
der Mise Pollard came in mid-
die, and Pollard was fastened to the
end of that rope The vounger Kauf
man, with d his
nade
way, tl
+
the
jeffreys an glater roped
ond
the
up the gee
and
hard skin of
sarily slow
is Ka y ke i+ ‘ t oy "te
is Kaulimas ih $ wie] ep
The sun had not
in t}
in Lae
the cold seemed
the
entered
intense Liv comparison with
had
guides
gine
shine
The
ferent
showering the loose gnow on those be-
low, and it
which should reach
which glistened
tween two rocky peaks,
elder Kaufmann drew
brother, so that Jeffreys and his sister
had only struggled some
Way up
they quitted
two chose slightly dif-
routes up the couloir, to avoid
L00N
the little
above them be-
from above and saw the first three sil.
houetted against the sky
the Trift glacier
of the gully the sun shone brightly
upon them. To their left was the
climbed, and on
the far side rose a steep face of rock,
up which lay the track to the sum.
mit.
“We must go, or when we climbs
we makes stones fall on my brother,”
Kaufmann said, as soon as they had
regzined their breath: and he care.
fully walked au ross tie litti> col, prob-
ing each step with the long handle of
his ice-axe before he advanced, “Yon
must go in my steps always," «gd,
half turning torward Miss Jeffreys,
#
who was following him. “Dis iss a
cornice here--all spow, no rock be-
low.” and he drove hig axe deeply Into
the snow to his right, to show where
“Rock here,”
front of him,
And once more
the precipice beneath
he added, pointing in
“hold de rope tight.”
forward.
Pollard followed behind, treading in
the gulde's footsteps, and holding the
rope tightly, so that it id not trail in
snow between him and Miss Jef
freyvs He was about half-way across,
and Kaufmann had already begun to
climb the rocks in front of them, when
he suddenly felt himself beginning to
sink He glanced down and saw 2a
dark crack open in the snow on his
left and stretch some distance toward
his companions. In an instant he
ed he was on the fatal ledge of
snow, and that it had given way be-
neath him. Instinctively he tried to
step forward toward the firmer
he shrieked, “Kaufmann, I'm fall
SNOW
as
ing
He had a momentary
Miss Jeffrey's horror-strick sn faceand
he felt himself falling, falling, as
dream, He was suddenly stopped
a jerk that seemed to cut him in
and he found himself dangling by
glimpse of
then
in a
the awful he-
he heard
sound of snow
waist
th For a
ing b
over space
moment noth
ft nissing
SNOW, and
fell from the
ed
tit the #«¢
sliding over felt gentle
blows a
Inmps
az
broken
and shaken by the
watched the
edge
pel 61
ugh the alr and his
te
downward
the
to prove
vou Bow
began to
him
DOVE
t the thread
jother blow
love and
ited
“It's
joved me and I p
sipiess woman
give me any mes-
die together. O
sobbed In de-
all
she
HOW happe ned
Tell Barton 1 never
although 1 knew he would
Then raising os
Are they coming Kaufmann?
and I clip now,’
hated
im
win you volee he
led
N¢
cal
two minutes
back
then
in a
t
back.
Good
Hold
bravely:
bye,
he shouted
lower
on,
and
love
voice,
my
Another tremor in the cord and sud
the strain was taken off, Kauf.
man gave a gasp of relief, while the
woman half buried in the snow shriek
ed with terror. Cautiously the guide
made his position firm and dragged
her toward him. Then he saw that
the rope from her waist was hanging
over the edge, and in a hor-
he asked: “Where
Hysterical sobs were his only an-
swer, and as he drew the loose rope
toward him and saw the frayed ends,
he muttered in amazement, “Gott in
he reverently raised his hat and cross-
ed himself.
An Englishman and his wife aiways
come to Zermatt each summer, some-
times only for a day, but they never
leave without laying a wreath on that
grave. In the early spring, when the
first flowers have blossomed in some
sheltered nook, a litile bunch Is al-
ways on this spot; and even late in
autumn, when the snow is low upon
the mountain side, the little Kauof-
manns try to find a tender nosegay to
place upon the grave of the “good
gentleman who fell to save our fath-
er.”"—Nickell Magazine
MILLIONS OF MICE.
A Clergyman’s Unpleasant Encounter with ze
Army of Rodents,
“An Incident which came under my
own personal observation is not with-
out interest,” writes Ernest ingersoll
in the New York Evening Post,
“While I was waiting for a train at
a small station on a branch line of the
Southwestern rallway, a clergyman,
with very long hair and beard, who
was waging up and down the platform,
stopped for a moment and raised
end of a canvass which served
cover for a large quantity of
which was waiting shipment In an
instant a mass of mice sprang at him,
and his beard, hair and cloak were lit
erally alive with them, To brush them
off was a matter of some time, and
when my fellow-traveler at length
thought himself free, he was dismayed
to find a mouse in each of his trousers
pockets.”
as 1
wheat
The cause of these pestif2rous
tions mice
same in all cases
natural enemies
hawks, owls
little rodents,
prolific, to multiply
favorable
1842
irrup
lly the
The destruction of
of seem substantia
wildcats
the
exceedingly
guch as
snakes, eld allows
naturally
unduly
inter, as
in Russia
favorable
COMes
Very
unusual season of
when all
their life and
conditions are
increase
sudden augmentation «
yilows There is then
in the woods, and they
learings and ecultl i lands
spread to neigh-
wappened in 1800 in Kussia, they
extraordinary
d grain
3
ow, thrive
A DYING TRADE
Influences which Threaten to Revolalionize the
Medical Profession
of
be set down
You gO
you are sn there is
ter You have i
symploms got
matter don’t
until
the ma
the some
before you know which specialist
L
0, and
whole
mends itself
oul and
In old times in New York when there
were family physicia ‘ou sus
pected
peters
were , the family physician gol
the benefit
it does
" $44) tha anadi
the doubt. but the spe
not Every one who haa
this
friena
§ . ass vs ori fads ond t
n a disunguished, bu
had experience knows that
To
tt}
4
call in a familiar i2 one
ing. to
unfamiliar gentleman is
things that cause us
things that never happen
that brought physicians a large part
perhaps the most—of their pecuniary
reward were {llnesses that didn’t real-
ly materialize. The family physician
got the benefit of the vis medicatrix
naturae. He got there in time to stand
by and see it work, It was his friend
and ally. The specialist benefits by
it in less measure, for he is leas
promptly summoned, and it is liable to
finish up the job before he gots there.
There seems to be some reason to
anticipate when New York families
will contract with a syndicate of physi-
cians-—comprising a complete set of the
necessary specialists—for the super-
vision of the family health at a fixed
annual price—Harper's Weekly.
call :
another
most anxiety are
The ilinesses
Malae's Biggest Tree.
On the banks of the Androscoggin,
in Maine, Is a tree which rivals some
of California's redwoods in size. The
circumference, four feet from the
ground, is 23 feet, diameter 7 feet,
About six feet from the ground there
are seven branches radiating from its
trunk. which are from IX inches to 24
inches in diameter. The branches
spread over a space of grouna 270 feet
in cireumference, or 0 teet in diame.
ter. Where the branches leave the
trunks of the tree, about seven fest
from the ground, here has been erect-
ed a Band stand, which seats twenty-
five persons.
WIT AND HUMOR,
Up-to-Date Jokes and Witticisms From ihe
Comic Papers.
CONFIRMATION,
Hee
5"
“How is your health now’
**Bo so,”
““1 heard you were on the mend.”
IN THE SAME BOAT.
Little Clarence, — Pa, is there really
“honor among thieves
Mr, Callipers. —No, my son
are just as bad as other peopl
Gee
thieves
KOT HIB SERKING,
Warden Look here,
you're not doing that right.
Conviet (earnestly) Say,
I didn’t apply fer this job, an’ if
work don’t suit, why don’t yon dis
charge me?
my
Warden,
my
A HARD NAMP
Zim] that
going around calling we hard names,
Is that true ?
Zam Well, I said youn were a brick
: '
Sweet reconciliation
hear you have
THE BEST OF RE
Clerk
to lay off next week.
) Well, you ¢
you have an excellent reason
Well, Bir
salary for that week
If you please
Fmplover
, you see, #1
HEADY INFORMATION
Mian
weret ]
Miss De Fink [.et's
Odd Fellows and Red
‘Ancient
Miss De Blonds
Order of Dianas
Miss De Young
Order of Aerio ss
De
society
Order of
“1s
After
fier rosy cheek against hi
her soft
he had Kkiss¢ d HY; 5 and pre i §
round i
and asked
“(Ieorge. do 3
“Yes,” he replied
*“1 thought so,’ anid
face 18 the roughest | ever”
Then but it was too
iate, and he away with a
heavy Inmp in his breast.
$4
YON SHAVE VYOoursell
she
she stopped,
went cold,
A RAINBOW PRECEDENT
““Shiftless as ever, Thomas,” said
the wealthy uncle. ''Still making a
failure of life, as you always have
dene 77°
“I don't know that I'm such a
terrible failure,” sulkily answered the
poor relation,
“Why, you have nobody but your
self to support, and yon can't make
both ends meet.’
“Well, the rainbow has only itself
to support, and it doesn’t wake both
ends meet, either.”
Sad Joke on a Eamous Judge.
Roy Bean, High Judge of the Courts
of Langtry, where justice is dished out
to the living and the dead alike in
Judge Bean's own novel and distinctive
way, was in San Antonio last week, on
the occasion of which visit he was
made the victim of a cruel practical
joke. He met a drummer at the hotel,
try.
“pid you see my bear? How iu he
getting along?’ was the Justice's first
guestion.
Judge Bean's bear throughout West
Texas stands second in fame to the
Judge himself. The animal was chain.
od to a tree in the rear of the Judge's
beer shloon, and in its day drank many
a bottle of beer at a cost of Z5e. per bot-
tle, to the edification of the wayfarer
who was compelled to spend a few
hours in Judge Bedn's judicial dis-
trict
“Didn't you hear of 1t77
drummer, "The bear died
The drummer had old to
wipe out at Roy Bean's expense, and
he succeeded in convincing the judge
that his bear was dead
Roy Bean lost no time in making for
the telegraph office he penaed
the
ow
asked
last night
an BCOTe
where
these instructions
Skin the bear
and expre the skin
| to ine al once
To this he
i which is law In Langtry
{ at the
{and expressed the skin
ter that
nis signature,
Bean's man
killed the bear
in the let
fur was this
attached
galoon promptly
and
accompanied the
noe
| We hated to kill the
{ hated to die it
fore he gave
i and he
be
are now
bear
three shots
We
took
tgmoking the bacons
When Roy
sage he broke three chairs
sived the mes-
then
The
“arn
Bean
and
get out 1 er
Ling
mail
San
FEMALE POLICE.
They the Apartments eof
Siam’s
Private
King.
Guard
contact
an elder
allowed
number
Earaest Preaching.
reason for the [re
fz that it
NO othe:
If you ses
one great
f your congregation eag
of their heads
then
you you
or you are
only Archbishop
that a g preacher
has something to
he haz to say
something. That is just the difference
There naver can be much of the
dead-earnest preaching There i no
man so much in demand to-day as the
preacher all on fire with his theme
Whenever he comes, his welcome goes
before him. Even if men stone him,
gtill he sits his throne and rules the
hearts of men. There are no triumphs
of the past go great as the trinmbphs
| of speech, from Demosthenes down to
Gladstone, from John the Baptist to
Whitefield. Men bow absolutely before
the magic of speech. It is not in vain
that the highest revelation of God is
{ called the Word.—The Church Union.
! Cat With Earrings.
| Mrs. Anita Comfort, of St. Louis, is
| the proud possessor of a big, black pet
‘ cat, which she has decorated in a novel
| manner, She had its ears pierced and
| has placed small diamond screw ear.
rings in ite ears. The cat scems to be
proud of its adornment and to under
stand the value of the gems, for it rare-
iy ventures oulgide the house.
not
preaching
Whately
proaches because he
a poor one because
prosing
RAVE oO
say
100
| Firelighters are made in Germany
| by twisting wood into rope, cutting it
{ into short lengths and dipping the ends
| of the pieces into melted resin.
Ostrich eggs aré sometimes aaten in
Africa and California. They weigh
! about three and a ball pounds each.
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