7
i
He lacked refinement, culture,
He had no charm of form or face,
To see him read would pain your sight,
“Iwas misery for him to write
And vet, like all that's human, he
Had one trait humanity
And that the best, I might here state
At making money he was gread
grace;
ol
rad
i flocked
Wherefore around him all met
i not
And women,
shocked
At things lu ‘d do om
In his rough,
They merely smiled indulgentl)
And said: “How free fre
He doesn't have to
We love bis eccentric ties,’
Philadelphia North A
too, and were
things he'd sa)
coarse and brutal way.
yin guile is
try to pleas
S THE BLESSING OF
JIM ROBBINS.
tie was quite too ready
he was just
That was
What he co
30 average
really
shirank
He
quite
wis
Iectural
TT
i ie
(;oing
next fal
tinued
man of
Hall
feed giv
tis tier}
our Cong “%
Dwight Perkis
West,
the House, is
ane f
occasion. Better go over
“Guess 1 will”
like to sve old
table You sav
“All the credentials you
bill” Inughed clerk,
Spencer went back
donned his suit, \
later he ascended the
mond Hall. He
ladies in the
marched into the hall, and
ather glad to find that the banquet
wis not to be of the usual political for
men-only character. At the head of
the stairs he noticed a door standing |
open, and looking through into
brightly lighted anteroom he saw his
old friend The impulse was too
strong to resist, and he passed in the
doorway and held out his hand
“What's the matter with
erts?’ he laughingly called,
In an instant his friend's
gripped his,
“Spencer, old man, glad to
you!" He pushed Spencer off a little
amd held him there, “You are looking
prime.” he said. “And, by George, you |
are just in time.” He laughed as he
spoke and looked at Spencer with soch |
# comical expression that it instantly
recalled to the latter some amusing |
expériences of the dear old school days, |
“What mischief are you up to?" 2
cried. “But, here, U's in the way. |
Don't let me bother you, Hl see you |
in the morning.” i
“Hold on,” cried Jim, with a plunge |
at him, “you don't get away from we |
to-night. You stay right here until 1
can properly dispose of you.” i
wid Npencer
Can ge
need is a KX}
thie
to his
room and
dross half hom
stairway of Ras
of
steadily
noticed a number
crowd that
he was
a
Jim Rob
hand
wo sere
i
crumpled telegram in his hand, bat he |
Spencer into the room and foreed him
lato a corner. A moment later there
then Spencer found himself with ils
hand on the arm of Palmyra's Mayor,
closely in the
Robbing and the
of the evening they
the long the table
worved for distinguished guests
Hon, Jack Speed
right and Spencer at his left, much to
latter
banquet
footsteps ol
distinguished
passed
HE
down aisle to ye
The
was seated on Jim x
¢ inereased uneasiness, Then
the
amd for an
chatter
the commenced
continued
delight
and
Jim
hour the clatter
without break,
ful dividing attention
very equally between the nest of the
fatter
distrust
i Was is
is of yore, his
evening and Spencer, but the
heart was filled with a
When t
rapped on the
told
He
¥ welcomed
Ague
ceased Jim
nice Ht
of the
Mayor,
Hon
Then the Hon
Speed responded in a brisk
hig delight
to such friends aud such a wel
tinunlly
tables,
of tii
introduced
he clatte
and in a
tle speed purpose
the
hanguet,
who brief back the
Speed to Palmyra
speech,
stify to in returning
ing
come. a sentiment which was greeted
fond Then Jim
aeain, with a erompled telegram in his
He much regretted, he sald, to
obliged to announce Hon,
Prwight Perkins with
them A
celvid annound
hlocked
Perkins sixty
th applause. Aros
hand
In that the
could not Ine
telegram he had
el
the
railway
road and
miles
consid
I what
Presently
arm
it's
fast
tlerm
all ’ he
pied
np
By the
from
tow to-night,
her to her
Mhe's 01 Miss
said, Wi
M
wav.
amd hunt
Mr, Jim
Young
fil
Minn
hag a
overgrown
get © finite fi
nie Pa
whe woman
Voit
fown in and
lhiave escort
know her?
we'll fo aunts
home, Anna
Goldie.”
A little later in the
open alr, Anna walking with Speacer
and Mr. and Mrs, Jim going ahead.
“It was splendid,” murmured Anna,
“splendid. You see, you can do some
thing well if you really try.”
“I'm you doubted
they were nut
ROTITY KR.” mur
“i never doubted it.” said
regretted that youn lacked for
give my piain speaking-the incentive
fo try.”
“Well Inughed let's
glad that we ean charge it to pure in
dotence. It might have been something
worse, you know. Next week 1 take a
position in the bank.”
“Good,” marmared Annan,
Spencer, Iyer
Iwo know what
led me through that speech to night?”
“No,” she softly
“You.
A halt
she
woking
down here’ you oil
mnrnmred
1
hour later he stopped Mrs,
exensed sir
fhe
ie
Hianed
mp of i
thrashing to
Jin as hier to the
library
wid =]
utally
husband a sound
Hiherty with
bit I've found he
favor, I'm
I'm even going
He held
ngratuliate me, dead
feud th a radiant
wy happy and very for
mien in
One moment wind
vou to know that 1 HiT prom
sid youn
fh hie took
HY nite 10-nig
bBlundered into doing me a
gaping to forgive him
o far as bless him ont
hath hands fn
friends,” he «1 Ww
“tile,
[RETERRE
vd told
{levelnnd Plain: Dealer,
then he them about Anna
THE ARMY RATION,
Present Food of Our Soldiers Unsuitable For
the Tropics.
Wa fw
which lu
A |]
partment
officers at 1
Washington,
been listening to re
wird ©
ue
in
ih
ports on the adapta
army ration to sery
has decided to recom
changes The ration,
consisted of hardtack, bacon,
ar cand beef, and potaloes,
foimnloes or onions, wis siiit
ng in
and ample for campiigh
i nited
in the 1
place of hard
canteen
it
contra
re bet
the
fate
coun
i]
ration of
e tie
Ost
departments is the
a ten days’ supply
woldiot
an carry
tHe marching or the
imfantryman « with
thout
mobility.
campaign
important
impairing his
when
that the
nourished sufficiently
that he shall en
Cx in
mach mors
shall be
work
woldier
to do his than
joy what he efile
Ihe Ancients and Gems.
Ancient writers
more especially on the occult qualities
or rather than their value,
seem
gens on
them. Onomacritus,
founder of Hellenic
MK, in speaking
sald that
this
a priest
mysteries, B.C.
of the erystal, once
goes Into the temple
hand may be quite
“whose
with in his
The Romans were at one period very
me for the Legislature, with the un
derstanding that this is to be a step.
ping stone to Congress,”
“After hearing you this
anid Anna softly, “I think
field you are fitted for”
There was a pause,
a little farther.
“Do you know,” hie asked abruptly,
“what it i= that has awakened me?”
“Nao” she answered,
“It 1s love,” he sald,
He looked down at her
was averted,
“Po vou know whit
this is the
They fell back
bronght rae
a ————
according to Pliny, they drank out of a
ass of gems and their drinking ves
formed of emeralds, Cone
wae the first sovereign who
The
digtmond today ranks third in value,
precedence being taken by the pearl
and the Burtmab aby. This is due to
the great abundance of the diamond
uinee the opening of the South African
mines. Hardness is the test of the
diamond if a mineral cannot be cut by
a ruby or sapphire it must be a dia.
wond Chicago News,
stantine
1850 there were 71,000 fons of
in the whole world, In
United States alone made
in
steel ade
NOTES AND COMMENTS. |
A Bouth left nll his
irl who had refed ted hin
Carolinn ru
fon
What a mark of {
touching gratitude!
holes
richest
{eel
the
flag
axRet i . Cectl
Rly
got over th reducing
Lis patriotisi (oo a comer al basis
The neutrality of the gre Powers
Europe ean hardly be looked on as
fous
ofl
it
holding thelr
Afr
afraid
They
the
they
ire
in south ann business
ure of ench oth
Aw fod
satisfac
demonstra
fier has
on thant
GW it aleohol
tut what's the good of sued
ix long a there
The
York
year
ts of ET)
annual
Post Office a
writ
rece]
and
£3,700
hundred
i Were | tle over Of
Philadelphia
office vi . 113146 { reneral ton
about
Fran} headquarters The
KE) EMM) IMM
revenue Wis over
ciation Of soni th i
rial effecty
to follow th
Hipor
hu
ndnst may
state
i= becoming n
small 1
been a
place for many ba
rapidly
to the
Tonrs
develon in the
stone hus
Eight millions a year isn't enough for
William. He mil
in hix twenty-four palaces he
keeps 1.500 lackeys and more than 2,
000 maid and there are his
royal stables and kennels and covers
and cotex and playhouses, ote, not
mention his family Hix expenses
Emperor wands ten
SOTVanis,
io
He
this swelling King
feels that Germany
high,
Prussia,
Comes
of
but he
him
What a lesson of contentment for
men of moderate means is taught by
the story of George Smith, who, with
a fortune of 100000000 behind him,
supplied all the want of life on $3 a
day! The late Cornelius Vanderbilt
hardly spent more for hizx personal
Russell Sage probably spends
Jay Gould lived chiefly on tea
aid toast. The Duke of Westminster |
was a man of frogal habits, No ordi |
pary business man lives more simply
than Rockefeller or Carnegie. This |
is an important lesson. It should be |
preached and explained and insisted
on for the benefit of the’ scheming
giragglors after wealth-the lesson
that wenlth has its limits, that it does
not bring happiness, and that all the
truest nid highest pleasures of life are |
within the reach of men of moderate |
means, and that they are deuied to the
lords of millions,
needs,
Joss,
“Rtep lively!” the ciy of the street
conductor, has been judicially ap
feast to 8 cortain extent
len
in
ed, 1
the Common Cunt
Philadelphia,
frojiey ear
devikion tl
lu is hot
wiper «
tran
port
portation
wx
sagt
Ilse
oe
=
Tr
jonds 1
ry
“HOw and logs
fons
of
varying from twenty io in .
That is the
of the
winter work
hauled wit one
new applications
the r0-
jdea for heavy in
extension of it in other directions
will not be long before auntotrucks for
heavy haulage widely
asad. and then will cote some applica
tion of the
The British automobile wagon has al
ready made a good beginning. being
in cities are
game idea to
short distances, Rigns point
this as the next phase of development
in this line
The truly ambitions workman will
work with good materials when he can, |
but with poor materiale rather than |
with none. It has been said of a fa.
mous painter that he made a fine pie
ture with a burnt stick on a barn door,
and of another that he could produce |
noble artistic «ects with a hiruxh
wade of halr from his cat's ail We
read of mathematicians too who have |
worked out intricate problems on a.
pleee of leather,
perior to clreumstanees,
fiening ix always su.
philosophines |
The ten tal |
mental or moral endow.
with %
single talent of wealth, physical
strength, or other sori of capital.
A
man in
i
Perhaps no figures in the forthoom:
ing census will prove fuller of interest
4
more accurately
the lephons
tele
NEW USE OF EXHAUST
How Waste Steam May Run An Auxiliary
Fagioe
fuel 1
poun 1 eng
im and returned ti
: hollers
fuel
“Why man in u
Riates with 14.000 soldier
HY THM) :
don’t
War!
uh! There wasn't
hour of war in Cuba
"Were you ther
‘No. Were sou’
"No. buat"
A shout from the passengers ended
New York
An Alligater's Tough Hide.
The older an alligator gets the bigger
it pets, and higger it gets the
pher its hide is bat there was never
the
one of the modern small calibre pro
jectiles Formerly 11 was the conse that
the sanrian must be struck in the eye
The old mwuzzledoading rifle,
not have the force to penetrate
The Winchester, however,
will go throngh if it strikes fairly and
pew 3030 will throw its nickel
The alligator
ern weapons, The Winchester rifle, or
carbine, 1s the best they have been able
and many of them are still
armed with muskets left in Louisiana
as & heritage from the Civil War, Even
with weapons so crude, It is possible
for a ‘gatorioan, as they are locally
called, to go out and earn $5 three
times a week, Por one Jiving down here
known, but it is certain that If ondise
furbed they will go over a hnodred. |