GREEN MANKS OF A RIVER
Green banks of a river, an’ takin' oi
my eose—
honey
huntin’ bees,
An’ blosoms drappin’ roun’ you when
the wind creeps through the trees
Green banks of a river, an’ takin’ of
my ease,
Green banks of a river—do jest as you
please—
Friend to all the singin'-birds,
brother to the breeze,
No bullets whizzin’ roun' me—no forts
to shell an’ seize—
Green banks of a river, an’ takin' of
my ease!
an’
Green banks of a river: clover to
your knees |
In medders cool with shadders the |
blossoms an’ the bees
The singin’ of mockin' birds
“howdy” of the trees
Green banks of a riv
my case!
FRANK L. STANTON.
th 3
the the |
an’ takin’
“Can't have said Farmer Colt |
shaking his
no use a-talking,
have it.
the rain has ni:
that there cow
and help is not o:
charges more'n
fore. Silk, indeed
never had a
She had too
orter tasted he
It was a striped
that had
stock at the store
the lecture wi
her father's
tainly earned
“her salt,” with
hands. Morning
she was busy, t
ers all the wi
had done
help to
dairy.
winter
amusement
a lecture or
is it any
perienced ti
finery that
Kind? Can on«
did for wishing
really nice dre
fate
just arri
inn
speak
It
came
wa oo
tearfully
Perhaps the
ou
haps ti
tenderly
pretly sd
the ta!
standing out
low laugh
“Well, 1
body can see
You sot the
ed?”
“Oh, come
bie, too cro
sit dow
matter,
how clos
shabby
you, I
up 1
NOL T
all
horrible
color
The very
ter. Sally
were a
is rich
“Old sik
said Mrs. Fi
of all, 1 do
but what th
your
stuck up
would let yon. here 1
to do now, and old Marthy
do up chores for
ways giad to hire
“Oh,
fad
idaed
after
roa
areas,
tO ears
Grey would
you. She is a
round for her keep
a dish
Mrs,
“Well,” ha
in her pock wel
here it ia! Old Doughty,
the hill-—first-class family,
and regular stylish house—ghe's |
her sight, you know—that is pretty
nigh. She can see go about, but |
‘tain’t safe to go alone; and she can't |
read, nor sew, nor nothin’. We! to. |
day her son was speakin’ to me, and he |
sald he'd like to get a young lady to!
wait on his mother. Not a servant.
says he, but a companion-—one that can
read well and would do everything a
daughter could. It wouldn't be for
long—only a couple of months—for
they're going to Europe then: but
meanwhile you'd earn your dress {or
quite a speil. Ih, here it is—his card
I was lookin’ for. He wrote down
what he was willing to give, and all.”
Debbie took the card and regarded |
it thoughtfully.
“It's September now.” she said. “and |
at £40 a month I should have £80 by
November. 1 never have had so much
as $10 at a time in my life. I'll do it
Mrs. Fish--that is, if 1 should suit, |
ean read aloud nicely, I know: and
perhaps I shall suit. Pa’s consent I'm
gure of.”
And so, after an interview with old
Mrs. Doughty, the matter was settled.
Debbie was a pleasant girl when she
was not tormented by undeserved re-
proaches, and the life at the house on
the hill was new and pleasant to Ler.
The refinement of manuers—the ele-
gance of all arrangements—were new
revelations to her, and she was adap-
tive by nature, Unconsciously she soon
apoke in jower tones, moved more
elegantly and lest those bad habits of
of
Mrs, up on
+
Ost
to
speech which wera the result of aseo-
she did her duty well and was kind
and faithful,
The old lady needed her every hour
of the day, but she did not weary: and,
womehow, there was compensation for
all fatigue in the pleasant evenings
when Mr. Charles Doughty, coming
home from the city, made himself as
agreeable to the new inmate of
house as though she had been a guest
“If I only had a brother like that.”
Debbie often thought; “if this were
my home, how happy I should be!”
So the days gilded by.
month's wages were pald, but
had lost her desire for the striped
silk. A heavy black silk, llke those
worn by Mrs. Doughty, had become her
now, Two month's
buy this. So she hoarded
notes carefully, The
have a train and a little
t should fit her neatly and
shapeless that Miss
salary
the
dress
object
would
crisp
should
and |
be the
not bag
going to lunch first, You must ve
starved. And so the money is gone,
poor child?’ and he patted the hand
upon his arm, and Debbie's color rose.
Her soft little face with the flush
upon it—her blue eyes shining through
long lashes-—the golden hair kinking
ples, as it would, being naturally curly,
not erimpled-—made a pretty picture,
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“Little one,” he sald, tends riy, “have
been happy with us?
Happler than I ever have
before.” said she, from her heart.
“And you like my mother?”
“1 her,” sald Debbie,
311
‘
been
love looking
at
Doughty
ed to leas:
he wonld
in
be a polonaise. Once,
let Charles
this nce, at least,
n she
nld
that she co like
Ereell merino now wi
beneath
, Bhe
"OVE look a
hide it wh
ight
tiness
aprons could
hide LB
And y Doughty was so ite
poi
0 kind
R75}
Will
the
mons v.
who had
try ¢
Lia a
dent foreigner leered |
man approached and!
He only meant to
girl's nerves wore quite
im
dingy
unstrung by this time, and she gave a |
little scram and turned to run. This
some one caugnt her hand. i
“Oh, please don't kill me” sobbed |
Debbie,
But the hand was clasped more tight- |
“What iz the matter, Debbie? Don’t |
you know me?” said a voice, and there |
was Mr. Charles Doughty.
“Oh, thank goodness!” sighed Deb. |
bie, and clung to him as though her!
life were in danger, i
“Take my arm, little country girl” |
he said. “New York is enough to dis
tract one unused to it. And what is
it? Are you Jost? Have you been!
“Not exactly,” said Debbie, “but |
I've been robbed, and I began to think |
I should not get back home, Oh, how
good you were to find me! But, I de.
clare, I wonder you are not ashamed
of me in this shabby dres, as if my
father were a beggar, not the rich
man he is—and so excited, and all. 1
think perhaps you'd better not let me
take your arm. I shall disgrace you,
Mr. Doughty; 1 shall indeed. I declare
it's bine in some places and yellow in
others.”
“I'm not looking at your gown, Deb.
ble,” sald Mr. Charles. “I don't think
any one could If it were shabbler than
it ia.”
“It's well for me, for I shan't have
another soon” esid Debble, with a
sigh for the lost purse. “Is this the
way to the depot, Mr, Doughty
“Do you like me?
Doughty.
Debbie looked down; and for the fir ¢
time she knew that might hava
given him the same answer,
He knew it,
“Debbie, darling.” he whispered.
vou like me enough to be my wife
can all to
tended sk
events, but 1
bean was not before me. T
is there, Debbie?
like
whispered Charles
she
100,
“it
wa
in-
all
t omono
here
SHOT
Furop«
together I
vou hefore |
£20
toa at
could not be sure
village
ig no one
“There is
world
And
together:
no one in
I Debbie
then t
you
sae
hey
went in and
LAWS OF ABYSSINIA
an Eye”
Cooks
large seal but when it comes to
wholesale i i
Idss, on
ong
isied,
barbecue h since, an
which at
whole
boil
me
one time was quite common) .
more as an experiment than anything
¢lae This is how they did it: A large
hole was dug in the ground and lined
Inside this a tank large
enough to hoid the ox was built. The
carcass was then lowsred {nto tht
tank, having been first placed in
case formed by heavy cross bars tn
Pulleys
raise and lower the ox Many vegeta-
carrots, onions, cabbage
and potatoes, boiled with the
meat, thug making many golions of
The boiling re-
Chicago Record.
were
quired seven hours
Gold Fish Raising
In Oldenburg, Germany, is one of the
largest gold fish farms. More than a
hundred small ponds contain the fish
in all stages of growth, the little ones
carefully kept from the rapacious big
fellows of eight inches, which would be
delighted to eat their helpless brethren.
In spite of this, the gold fish is a
great coward, and a tiny fish with the
courage to attack it can frighten it
almost to death. That the demand
for goldfish Is large is shown by the
fact that from the fish farms of Old.
enburg over 300000 %sh are sent to
market every year,
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THE GOVERNMENT DRAWING HEAVILY ON |
THE COUNTRY’S FOOD SUPPLY. !
One of the Most Difficult Problems of the |
War is How to Feed Soldiers im the |
Field--What Constitutes a Ration.
One of the most difficult problems of
war has always been the feeding of an |
army in the field, Various plans ha
been tried from time to time by the
different countries of the world to sup-
ply the troops with a food that would
uwourish and sustain them through
‘ong marches and hard times and at the
same time be as compact and light as
possible, go that it could be easily car
ried. The Governments of the United
States, France and Germany have ex-
pur
tity. es
‘0
perimented for many years for the
of finding out what
a food, but with no
pose
such
sults,
Nu;
Vis
Vi
con
definite
nberless beef tablets ar
been manufactured ax
fo
ha
substitutes r what tl
5, but all have beer
id that
arm
in here every
beef extracts
offer in the hope
| buy from
na New
$ hry
Ley
place pound
doubt if it d« I don’t
want to live on this stuff,
“You see, the principal thing
aring food for the soldiers is
something which is as free as pos
8] from water, To compress the
meat is the way to get the
water out of it,
Wd
4
in
.
nl
ible
proper
and the canned beefs
which are made by the Weatern firms
are about the best thing yet offered
‘or an army food which has the gnal- |
ities of being both light and nourish- |
ing.
“in the Franco-Prussian War the |
Germans thought they had discover. |
ed Lhe correct thing in a sort of email
sausage. It was found to be of little
ase, however, when it came to the test.
It has been the same way with every- |
thing else of the kind.” :
“What does it mean when we hear
that a regiment of 1,000 men has ten
days’ rations?” was asked,
“It simply means,” he aswered, “that |
fath man has rations for ten days, a
very unusual thing by the way. It
takes about 750 pounds of pork or ba-
con to supply 1.000 men, or 1.25
pounds of fresh beef, Mutton is someo-
times used when it is no higher in
price than beef, and a regiment of
1,000 men would need about 800 pounds
of that. Beans, rice and peas are car-
ried in small quantities, and we also
allow a little salt, vegetables and su-
gar,
“The food list 1s slightly different
when the regiment Is traveling from
what it is in camp. When a body of
men is on a journey we generally give
out what we call ‘traveling rations’
for so many days. After four dags of
pound of canned tomatoes, but
regular diet,
ing rations. This will suffice
men for one day: Boft
pounds, or hardtack
canned beef, 75 pounds:
1-pound cans, 33 pounds: coffee
ed), 8 pounds; pounds
(raw), 10 pounds.,”——New
for 1ix
bread,
106 pound
baked bean
{roast
sugar, 5
coffee
Sun.
TRAIN'S RACE WITH A CYCLONE.
An
er Came Out Winger.
ssenger on the Union Pacific
v an a race for hour with
tornado through Nebraska relates
experiences in
an
a highly
manner,
the
w.,” sald Mr.
sight 1
wy
and
“It was grandest
Snively,
Nes pass over me
but I n«
It was ¢
§ west W
began to darken
100k
round me
py
of "ood
{ 1 could not res
At the fune
mpany the
‘
Chickamauga.
The word Chicamanga. like
many
this country, is of Indian origin. It
WIT AND HUMOR,
| Up-to-Date Jokes and Witticisms From the
} Comic Papers.
DEWEYIZED.,
There was a young maid of Manila
of :
in the store
W ho asked for Hines Vanilla,
But the clerk
Was so rattled by
of nehill
That he Pave da mautl of chine hilla
KNOWS,
vy tHe
Pa, can You 16 what fame 187
“Fame, Johnny, is what 4 man gets
JORURNY'S ra
felin
{ for being civil to new spaper men.’
EASILY
Mrs. Gib
CREDIBLE.
berly—Is it true. David,
that swans sing before they die ?
Gibberly Of course Coulda ising
after they died, could they ?
AN UNSTABLE MAN,
Poindexter, —Handelbarr has chan-
ged politics again,
Tillingha t I'm not
nat He changed his wh i Jif
surprised at
t long
‘
enough
Or Ore pe
Yes:
MADE HIM
tendency to
guess
! As 11 were,
The eye 8"
ig,
: “have been
described as the windows of the soul.”
“Yes ¥' he returned,
“Have you noticed,” she asked,
‘how fashionable ground glass win-
dows have become ¥”’
she said,
“the
indians, the stream received
to a cloudburst.
hominy is another name of
Chicopee,
name of a town in Massachusetts sig
nifies
corrupted into Chicago, is
transiated as the “playful waters”
the “destitute place
THEIR WAY.
Askine—*I wonder why it is that
| these actresses always look so young
in their lithographs ¥”
Grimshaw-—‘"0Oh, when an actress
is young she has her picture taken,
and when she is old she does not de-
part from it."
WEALTHY YEAST.
i “My fortune is made!” he cried.
' “I will be rich beyond the wildest
j dreams of avarice. I shall start for
| the Klondike to-morrow. My chem-
istry will be my salvation.”
“How so; have you discovered a
compound that will aid in the detec-
leek.” or pole-cat plant, and which
the three transformations js
tie among themselves St Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Ds
The number of soldiers on duty ir
the Federal army during the Civil Was
iz given as follows: July 1, I18a1. 183.
ORS; January 1, 1862, 527.904; January
1, 1863, GOSN2; January 1, 1864, 611.
250; January 1, 1865, 620,924; May 1
1865, 707.807
On the Canadian Pacific Railway
there are carriages over seventy -seves
feet long.
will make six loaves of bread from the
flour ordinarily required for one.”
i EXTREME CAUTION,
| “I canght myself just in time this
| morning,” exclaimed Mr. Meekton.
| “1 came very near annoying Henri
| etta quite severely I
‘By some remark
a Wy i Narted 2 whistle ‘The
ir «ft Behind Me,'but I » )
before she could recognize hig
“*She dislikes the tune then
“I don't know that she dislikes the
tune. But [am sure Henrietta would
resent any insinuation that the girl
was uot away in the lead no matter
what the veeasicn might be.”