OE es 0 AO A SA
THE NAME LESS HERO,
Bere are countless heroes who live
and die,
Of whom we have never heard:
For the great, big, brawling world
goes by,
With hardly a look or
And one of the bravest and best of all
Of whom the list can boast
Is the man who falls on duty’s call,
The man who dies at his post.
word;
While his cheek is mantled with man.
hood’s bloom,
And the pathway of life looks bright,
gloom
Surrounding the final night.
He buoyautly sails o'er a sunlit sea
And is dashed on an unseen coast
Till the ship goes down at the helm
stands he
The man who dies at his post.
Who follows the glorious tide of war
And falls in the midst of fight,
He knows that honor will hover o'er
And cover his name with light,
But he who passes unsung, unknown,
Who hears no applauding host,
Goes down in the dark to his
alone,
The man who dies at his post,
fate,
Who bears with
draws near,
Who faces his
Yet to
disease while death
fate each day,
girives comfort
cheer
His comrades along the way,
Who follows his work while
may do,
And smiles while he suffers most,
It seems to me is a hero true
The man who dies at his post.
he yet
There are plenty and
with bays
The hero who falls in strife,
But few who offer a word of praise
To the crownless hero of life.
He does his duty and makes no claim;
And to-night I propose a toast
To the silent martyr unknown to fame,
The man who dies at his post,
Denver News,
to laud crown
PROVIDONTIAL.
At sunset in a little town of Queens-
land the proprietor of hotel
the place could boast of was surprised,
not to say flattered, a gentle.
man, gold headed as to his cane, and
evidently rich and influential to judg:
from his servant and luggage, alight
from the coach with all the appear
ance of one who was going to stay at
least a week in the place. He was dis-
tinctly American, with a twinkling
gray eye. a long aquiline nose, a clean
shaven upper lip and a small
which he smoothed meditatively
stood like a long legged Colossus
Rhodes, In trousering a very broad
check pattern, surveying the pride of
the proprietor’s heart ho
tel,
“I guess it's not u
Connecticut.”
proprietor
*You must have fine
was the reply offered gently in the
hope of turning away ] great
man himself, but only his
“We have, sir; our stables are
erable. And I say
shanty that it reminds
bies in Connecticut
give us a loose
be?’
The landlord recognized the free and
easy American with plenty of money
the kind of man who was never slow
to give offence because he was master
of the situation by reason of the al
mighty dollar: he recognized the “col
onel” and the “general.”
travels as he lists the wide world over,
and gets ready respect and
from everybody.
“Certainly,” he replied;
or as much longer as you like.”
“Well, I guess I only want to stay a
week. You see I arranged to wait here
for Viscount Thurlton, who ls going to
the best
10 See
goatee
as
of
of
namely, the
y stables in
he cid presently. as the
him.
then,”
ame down to meet
stables,
not the
wrath,
consid.
it in praise of your
me of my sta
I suppose you can
box for a week may-
as the friend of Viscount Thurlton, and
a wealthy American who was going to
“work it" as an ordinary man might
work a potato patch,
The prisoner was standing in
conclusive evidence
him, Presently he raised his
bench.
then gripped at the air and fell
the
gered,
When at last he was brought round
gaspea for breath and fried to
said the
I ask again,
in your own
“What is it, my man?’
Judge. “Steady yourself,
have you anything to say
“Oh, Your Honor!" sald the prisoner
“1 am saved—-saved at the last
I have already said that 1
nt the time the rob
the man
of
bery, and there is who can
prove it.”
All eyes followed the direction of
and rested upon the
started, looked confused, then ir
and finally bewildered, as if he
must be mad,
his
stranger,
who
fancied the prisoner
“If that gentleman will answer my
question,” resumed the prisoner, “I
think I shall be able to prove to every
I was in Brisbane at the time
I said.”
The
ously,
shifted in his seat nery
an-
stranger
aud at last sald in tones of
the place is worth working on a large
scale as we do it in America. But |
say, boss, this place is real dall after
Brisbane; isn’t there any theatre or
place of amusement? 1 reckon I shall
die of dullness right here.”
The landlord, already under the dis-
tinguished patronage of
Thurlton, became oily, almost greasy,
Was no troupe at the theatre
ent, and that the only excitement was
to be concerned in a daring coach rob
in the neighborhood.
“Ah! that would be interesting,” said
the stranger. “I should like to see that.
Stuck up the coceh, did he?”
“Well, they say he did, but he him.
golf swears that he is Innocent, and
that he was in Brisbane at the time
the coach was stopped. If you would
care to hear the trial, sir, I can get
you a seat easily.” :
1 guess I'll take you up,” returned
the stranger, and it was agreed that
the proprietor should escort the great
man to the courthouse on the morrow,
and by his Influence secure him a good
seat, just to enable him to while away
the time until Viscount Thurlton came
along.
it so happened, however, that when
they arrived the body of the conrt was
full, so that the distinguished looking
American was accommodated with a
seat on the bench, where he hot only
had a good view of the proceedings,
but was seen and known by every one
i
I've
on
“Your honor,
edge sot
and I don't see
innocence, desides,
here
of a
never to my knowl
the prisoner
how 1 ean fix up his
I guess 1 didn’t
to be questioned by every
gun that holds up a mall
beg your pardon, your honor
but you'll the annoyance Is con
siderable anvhow.™
His
aight
oves before,
come
SO
allow
honor admitted t was, but
*
i
way appealed to the stranger's
best feelings on behalf «
he what me
if he thinks it's
can start in, and I'll
questions. 1 don’t mind
th
of the prisoner
and
was some ilified,
“Waal,
ht wire
until
remarked,
he
straig
answer his
taking him up on that.”
The
he
hen
box
stranger was 1 sworn, and
stood in the witness the
him.
said,
pris.
addressed
Le
ird of
one
r
I
“ir.” you nbhoer
man running ¢
in Br
“do reme
on the th July a
ur street inba
and brin
pavement?’
“1 can’t say that 1
stranger, after a little ti
ging
on
wugh
remember
of work
were
children starving’
ean you not recall gis
eign and sayl
you'?"
The str:
ad to ren
ng.
inger silent a
was
wish ember the od
but pre
and
be mista
urrence,
¢ shook his head slowly
“No. 1
1
swoently b
sald
Killg
Fisoner
for
remember
Was
108,
You
PEIN
his last chance “To
the
the that
in the Cri
before giv ROVEeT
had f
vill
helped
wouldn't
beer
at the back
ing eign,
man told you he
war
iad
country
st
fougl nt
nean and « show wounds
hi country, but
hel;
You
the soars
Ofte of
another on his right breast
interrupted him witl
Iamation. “I do do!
your breast is a long one—a
Your bonor, I rem:
meeting this man! 1 m apol
his life was in my hands, and I nearly
him fall through, He is the man
I saw in Brisbane.”
There was a profound sensation in
court as the prisoner steadied himself
and wiped the cold moisture from his
brow.
“Can you remember
which this happened?”
‘he stranger
sudden ex¢
CAr on
bre
aa
cut miber
nst
RARE
the date
asked the pros.
on
=ARh, the strang
this-—it
Castle ar
I'm afraid I ean't.”
“but I know was
what date that was”
The newspapers of the first week-in
were then consulted and it
arrived
that
(33141
at Sydney on June 30, so three
date required.
pequitted
turning toward the
“In the interests
wir;
is one of those re
here today
which are seldom met with,”
That night the acquitted prisoner,
the American gentleman, and his serv.
frame of mind. For reasons best
put as great a distance as possible be.
tween the township and themselves
before morning; and as they wont
they planned how they should hold
up the mail a second time at no very
But It was the last time
the trick was played successfully in
that neighborhood, for the distin.
guished American decamped without
paying his hotel bill: moreover, Vis.
count Thurlton never arrived, and a
rat was subsequently smelt and seen
floating In the alr of the neighborhood
of the cout house—a rat which had
grown considerably beyond the “bud”
stage.
——————— nig
No fewer than seventeen well identl.
fled diamonds, varying in weight from
one-half to more than twenty-five car.
ats, have been discovered in the region
of tiie great akes,
Lake Superior Is the largest body of
fresh water In the world, covering
32,000 square miles
PUZZLES FOR JUDGES,
r————
Decisions That Have Been
Evidence.
Made on Not
Presumption of survivorship const}
cases. If two or more relatives,
mon accident—e, g., shipwreck, fire or
a falling building
forthcoming as to which
to die, the question of survivorship,
important to the executors of each, has
to be declded on purely presumptive
grounds, and the arguments brought
forward when such come into
court are often in the highest degree
ingenious and interesting.
A few examples, culled from the rec.
ords of the last three centuries, are
well worth consideration. In 1620 a
Indy and her little four-year
old daughter were drowned in the
River Loire. Some important property
was involved, and, the par-
lament of Paris that
daughter succumbed first,
the weaker of the two i
other hand, a also
was decided in a
few years later, A
children of tender ¥ § were
in the dead of nigh The
claimed his wife's
ground that
her, and the
judged to him, the
that the
the vietim
A singular case was ree corde d I
A father and son,
French army, whicl
that of Cromwell
ards at battle
during ngagement
menced
father,
came 0
dead in law,
tle which of
cided (1
law) first,
Cases
on appeal,
decided the
heing by ful
On the
in F
way on
irties
CHRO, rance,
contrary
and two
murdered
widower
the
mother
property on
the children had #
property
argument adm]
r would
thelr mot
t1ed
murder first
©
he feared most,
1608
dispatch
the
on
a and the
the tha
That
becau
intary, was
ously, wherea
not hav
sistance
fore
survived, A «1
the last came on
of Chancery fift
=i
ing the physi
possessed hy
him:
inwix, his
and
probably
on deck his
was sas
shred
He
of
CASe WAR 80
at a conclus
ft the par
adopted
the
in despair of fon,
advised 8 com betwee
promise
ties, which was eventually
Where drowning has been Cane
death the
ties and not
sometimes adda
rhaps,
of fact that one of the
par
the other could swim is
of
the
drowned with her
contended th in
Lis wife the man
himself and
cel, and the height
nuity was reached by
executors of a lady
husband, when they
his efforts to
doubtless exhbansted
sank first
Cases sue
at
save
#0
continue to arise
although they
out going into
at it would be an ad-
bh as these
not infrequently. and,
usually settled witl
is felt the
vantage if the law on the subject were
more clear than it is at present,
are
court. it
Bright Sayings of the Wee Ones,
any of you tell me the use of
peked the teacher of
junior class in physiology. “It is
r to rest on” prompt
fit the foot of
“Can
the
£ olla
gsinall boy
the class
“No, Tommy,”
piece of pie
sald bis mother,
gh for you." “Well,
understand i”
“You said the
is enon
Tommy, other
and now
you won't give me a chance to prac-
tice”
“Mamma,” said small Johny,
Jones
man.” “Yes #0 he is"
very wise
#20," said Johnny, “ 'eause when 1 told
him I was in school he wanted me to
tell what time it is without looking at
his watch,” “How can he tell?” asked
the lady. “1 don't know,” replied the
little fellow, “but when 1 ask him
what time it is in the morning he says
it's time to get up. And when 1 ask
him in the evening he says it's time ¢
go to bed.” Chicago News,
A peculiar “explosion occurred Sun
day at the home of Mrs. R. 8B. Garnett,
She had seme potatoes baking in a
stove. In the oven was also a roast
of beef and other good things, With.
out warning an explosion occurred,
blowing open the oven door. The toast
eae tumbling out of the oven, follow.
ed by other eatables. Upon investiga.
tion it developed that a mildeyed
Irish tuber had swelled up and let go.
A similar accident occurred near Mon.
terey, In which a potato exploded In
a kettle, throwing hot water on the
Indy of the house and seriously wound.
ing her.—Owenton (Ky) News.
T BRIDE OF THE ADMIRAL.
She Is Wealthy, Vivacious. Middle-Aged
Rosy, Stout, Theosophical, Enter.
taining and Popular-~She Se-
lected the Future Home of
the Hero of Manila.
On the morning after Admiral Dew
ey announced his impending marriage
the Washington correspondent of the
i New York Sur wrote:
| Now that Admiral Dewey has in his
i characteristically matter-of-fact way
his engagement to Mrs.
| Mildred B, Hazen, the public {8 begin.
ning to wonder just a little, although
the inevitable few are present who
proudly say, “1 told you
strangely enough, so they did, for more
than newspaper published at
time of Dewey's arrival the
sip floating about nn knowing
ones in Vanity Fair,
BO,
ane
home RON
Ong the
The
gossip was the fact, which
through a
gallant adm
message on his
of
ed
age
Indy residing
Washing Mele on
avem Neventeenth
nfAmiral’s headquarters
being officially
Mrs. Mclean
Hazen,
were addres
le at the country pl
basis of this
leaked out
government oflicer, the
iral had a brief
went ube
own account from
the Olympia
nd deliberate
from the fi ast, certain
home of Mrs
Connecticut
the posts where
on her his VOY
to 4
ian an
hich
while
io
and her
ie and street, wi
was the
he w welcomed
the capital,
daughter, Mrs,
ble
meanwhi
R. Mcla
appe
r, preferring to t
were
as
to whom the ca
IESE Les
subur
ared in ve the report
eve hink
due
Adn iral
=. oa
tween
140
fH
n
gi
the
Wash ag?
y Washington
§ hud
on
ago. where
nvestodd
since been assume
SANs son
1
Ider
fayette
f onnectiion
rectea by
residence
Washing
mayor,
of public
ton, when
on
comm
works
a striking resem
wife of Cap
navy.
1808,
the
of the
arried in
having been
first husband
Bugher } have been quite
prominent in Washington society
perhaps because of their wealth, which
they inherited from their father, they
have been reported as being engaged
to almost eligible
has appeared on t carpet,
those perennial beaux, General
Wheeler and ex-Secretary Herbert.
Mrs. Hazen lived while her husband
the head of the signal corps
of the navy in thei
and K streets, which was recently the
home of Secretary of War Alger,
The social and
RIRTOTR
eve ry
incinding
Joo
an Mmfluence in Washington society and
in official and political
Join BR. Mclean about fifteen years
Edward F. Beale, a galiant army of
ficer and Republican politician, who
was prominent in the politics of Cali
fornia,
The widow of General Beale
at the corner of Lafayette Bquare and
H street, in the same block where the
Washington McLeans formerly lived
The Beale residence is known as the
Decatur house, having been built by
Admiral Decatur. General Grant used
to stay with the Beales when in Wash.
ington before and after his election to
the presidency. Soon after their
marriage Mr. and Mra, John McLean
moved to the Fernando Wood house,
once the residence of Hamilton Fish
and Roswell P. Flower, apd to which
they have made extensive improve.
ments, Including a large art gallery
and ball room. Mrs, McLean is prom.
inent in all charitable and social move.
ments. The brother of Mra. Mclean,
Truxtun Beale, Minister to Persia un.
der Harrison, married Miss [Hattie
Blaine. She has since been divorced
from him and lives here ouring the
winter with her mother, Mra, James G.
Blaine,
Neither Mra, Hazen nor Mrs. Ludlow
has been noted either for personal
beautly or intellectual brilliancy, but
perhaps because of their unasuniing
manner, strength of character and
attractiveness have been quite
populnr, Neither bas been a society
rendezvous for what is perhaps
Hazen Is something of a stu- |
and is, moreover, a Theosophist,
Mrs,
but has contributed articles to the
Admiral Dewey was quite devoted to
Hazen while he lived in Wash-
ington before going to Manila, and she
of the first to cable congratu-
Mra,
ly injured while fox hunting on Long
A year ago,
since lived in retirement, her sister glso
being in mourning, They were con.
spienous figures in thelr widows
weeds as they drove about the streets
of the West End, and thelr resem
blance was so strong that the general
public was not able to distinguish be-
and referred to them fre
as the “Mclean widows”
Admiral Dewey and Mrs. Ha-
married they will of course oc
cupy modest but handsome and
well located i the
presented
contributions of
quently
When
Zen are
Lie}
home by
people, and which
develops Mrs. Huzen and not
al finally selected, Had this
not been purchased, however,
and his bride not hi
ithout a f to shelter tl
Hazer ther, her broth-
Ler HOUSES
to spare,
the
it nOwW
admir
house
would
Dewey ive
been w JOTI),
Mrs.
er and
and
mar
1
ner mo
have
HE
Bister enough
al indeed will
wealthy woman, charming
to have won two gallant
and old enough to
The admir
ry a
€£not gh hus-
bands
own
1 wr »
Know he
WHEN GROWING THE BEARD,
Spectacle the Human Face Presents at
That Period.
to do |
yw aceld
All Mrs.
is that
will
arruthers
ahmerved
nt
husband had
days, and tho
1 that toilet tex
When
her lege lord
» Le
she
You're
«i OF
sald
tend io ge shave
“No,
{
ie first week
rned Kiond
i hrs
speak to him which saved
wiween £10 and $20 that week
worse and worse as the
went on and Carruthers
his former haunts and
fo his stenin
forsook the club entirely, and spent
is odd half hours gazing into the mir-
at the which his chin
cheeks presented He began
Along in the third
Carruthers conquered ber
« And said
James, are
Thursday
NES got
Worl
own CO
stinset scene
10
prid
" in
going the Hart.
night as we promised
we
ley's
certainly.” said Carruthers in
“why
“Well, er-=do you intend to go calling
friends with those—with that
ful condition?” she
“Why,
not?
“Well, 1 don’t know why I shouldn't,”
sald James, caressing the bristly
spikes which now looked like a wheat
field after it
reaping machine,
“Well, if you will, I won't,
wife decisively. “If wv.
"
have no
you owe to me than to go about that
oh, dear, I don’t know what 1
she continued and retired in
They didn’t go to the Hartleys', but
ak the fourth week drew on the forest
acquired sufficient length to permit of
pruning, and Carruthers came home
ohe night with
beard. And his wife, with charmingly
and be never looked better in his
life. ~Chic ngo { “hronicle,
ix,
Why Chestaut Coal is Scarce.
A Milwankee conl man explains why
there is often a shortage of chestnut
coal and why that ize of coal is dear
er than some other sizes, There Is a
great demand for chestnut coal. while
the supply bere Is Hmited. The coal
man, who is noted for hig veracity,
says that the consumption of chestnut
coal is 60 par dent of all hard coal,
while the production of this kind of
coal is but 24 per cent of all hard coal
In the transportation and handling of
conl many of the larger pleces are
broken, In sereening the coal in the
yards additional coal of the coestant
size is obtained. Chestnut is the size
the poor people, who are supplied by
the county, use. On account of its
scarcity coal men say they had to put
up thelr figures pretty high In bid.
ding for the county contract or else
remain out of the Sompetition. Mul:
FREAK TOWNS,
Citles of the Old World with Very Queer
lahabitants,
About one-third of the population of
deranged are sent
Continent, the
mentally
which lives on lunatics, will
Yet the cure
on a very Improbable
king's daughter Laving,
Middle Ages, eloped to this
a forbidden lover, was fol
who, chancing to
corner, promptly
Two junaties passing
«1 by this
reason,
help to cure the patients,
legend, A
city with
meet her at a street
cut off her head,
at the time
act that they
and the
The town of Gibraltar,
position in regard to Spain,
tically been in a state of glege
two ©
bridges
80 shocks
regained
town got its livelihood.
owing to its
has prac-
for over
snnKet draw-
sunrise they
tune of the
kept un
but Eng
enter with
residents un-
i io
allowed
wore
their
At ne
fned,
down
ituries
and at
to the
town is
ule, none
are ra
again le
file. The whole
der strict military
allowed t«
but
lishmen being
out a pass, and none
der any tions being
leep withi s fOW,
1 Ameri
4.065)
“eq,
dock
build
Atlantic
sailing
Amazon,
io
ity of
#penk one
It is A «
qe deposited in
having left
the spirits
as
«1 them.
i r of whose
seen God's sky
and Wie
vorkers In | are also inhabitants
Many fam back three or four
¢ any of their number
ilies date
generations sing
world-—from the outside.
centaur have passed since a
far town
cost of Mace
nated by a
woman is ever
Even the
ards are
greatest
have seen the
Many
won the
of (
in wa
THrYes
Th
large mo
donia
all lowed 10
inhal
blige a
punist
be Be
ment
nt to Cary
I ¢ i n of
oud’s Isla coast o
the State f Maine { {02 om
point of
boasts of
army
one
i It
no pol uling power of
any kind, and, quently, Bo taxes,
This town, which has a population of
nearly 1.000, was started by a deserter
Iritish navy, one John Loud,
to-day the
well this
town that no m has been
committed there, and only have
the inhabitants been called in to settle
a local dispute, and then the evidence
was so strong for both parties that to
it was decided that both
g, and if they did not
Om Rd
from the
and his
aristocracy.
are
for
ever
once
descendants
It
speaks
rder
restore
were in the wron
peace
up their right to live in Loud’s Town,
The Cat and the Cuckoo.
of a good Christiun
A few days
Do you know
home for a cuckoo clock?
ago I installed one at my residence,
has been to pay there
Slumber has been sadly in
and at the midnight hone
ever since.
terrupted,
his longest and most effective solos,
Every one In the household but my-
golf mentally vows to wring that
neck before another sun-up,
Even the house cat has joined the ma.
jority in a conspiracy to extinguish the
interloper who has disturbed the se-
renity of this usually quiet home.
When the cat first discovered the
“songster”’ be made an unsuccessful
effort to capture what appeared to him
would be a choice morsel, And he
hadn't had a bird to eat since frosts
ame. Patiently be watched for the
bird, who appeared “on time.” From
the floor a music box and then on top
smashing of the globe on the lamp,
The little door on the clock “blew
shut” just as puss got there and the
bird wax raved this time, bot | am
apprehensive of the future, hence r
inquiry.Correspondent of Har
Courant,
AA AOL AB
Considered a Business Partoersbip,
In Maoriland and Barmah there ia
no ceremony, marriage being regarded
as a business partnership, It is cald
by one who has lived there that all the
gods and of Masriland help
the Maori whose wife betrays or dis
honors her busband. But she may
trade or exchange him to suit her own
sweet will,
-
The United States stoamer Michigan
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