Does his best from day to day!
That's "bout all that you kin say,
Wasn't built fur gettin’ rich,
Never bought no bonds an' sich,
Never made no speeches fine,
Never quite could git in line,
In life's hurly burly guest:
Joes ahead an’ does his best,
Does his best. In hours of pain
Bends his an’ won't complain,
And afar from envy's sneer,
Men an’ children hold him
Safe from praires misapplied
he the mockery of pride,
fe seems noble as the rest;
Goes ahead an’
head
aenr;
does his best,
Washington Star
Dudiey Barrington’s Lesson
i.
illy Barrington was only
e came to live at Holly Lodz
IN when
Very
nng to be married, said the gossips
still 10
the neighborhood,
nme all cares and responsi
lities And there
re not lacking doleful prophets who
lared, rolled up
nths that Mrs,
ton “get on”
ald gentleman.
{fe is so
younger
of the
of a household,
and
Bar-
with
with eres
drawn down,
never would
fastidious,” said one
So difficult said another,
His ideal is
lared a third,
to suit,”
S40 impossibly high
perhaps a little
Milly and her
.
hest of friends
ut to their gurprise
to their disappointment
father-in-law
from the
they looked
Milly was
comprehend
the
were
very first moment in which
upon each other's faces
ansious to learn, so eng
and
old house,
3
the Ins Outs
to
he great, roomy S64)
uitious to I every housekeeper
the old
to
the neighborhood, t! gentie
smile his son
« jittle
Drudles
Dudley Bar
man sald, with a
“Don’t let
mach,
snd
with
OO
“There's no
ladies of Hollis
been first
And
spending
if a
ing.”
Mr.
garded his son sharply for a
“Io wddicted to
Barring
moment
you
either of
he asked
don't they?
his shoulders
‘Not at all”
And in
if Dudley was really worthy of a
his se wondered
Jewel as Milli
So
ent
amd
until
the weeks Milly
¥
l
stood bravely tu one
old
kitchen
the gentleman,
bright October dav
chancing to pass the low win-
dow, where the vines made a
looked
of moving shadow
to
work.
smilingls
where his daughter-in-law was
‘Have you g
for me, little g
Milly brought the
“Ree,
papa,” she Jumphantly,
t
king
pointing to the ble “what a ba
[ have done tons Chree apple ples,
fF 3
loaves of bread i
three a pan of bis
cuit, a cake, and a dozen plam tarts!”
“Bravo!” sald Mr
Milly, why are you
Hannah?”
‘Hannah wanted
said Milly, rather
fey sald it was
Zirl when 1
work.
“Bat
he said. “In
thing, I mean?”
“Yes, papa.”
Barrington
baking Where
Lier WaAKesR riised.”
“And Dud
all nonsense Keeping n
fond of
1
soberly
Was BO Lots
Ro she has gone.”
of
me
are you fond housework 7
itself, as an abstract
Milly answered, with
some hesitation. “But I'm a little tir-
od this morning I rose early and
swept the house through before break
fast, so as to time
ing.”
“You are a good little girl” said the
father-in-law, “but Jeet
work too harl.”
“Papa,” said
have
we musn't
Milly, with downcast
ing over her cheek, “I've been think.
ing for some time that—that io
“Well?” sald Mr. Barrington, encour
agingly.
a little money,” faltered Milly,
“Money?’ he echoed in
“Doesn't Dudley give you
want?’
Once more Milly hesitated.
“He wants to know what everything
is for,” said she. “He thinks two shil.
lings Is too much for ribbon, and he
all yom
clares it's all nonsense to buy kid
gloves when cotton will do as well.
And I do need another hat since the
rain spoiled my best one, but I don't
like to ask him for it.”
“Do you mean to say,” sald Mr. Bar.
rington, leaning his elbows on the sill,
“that you don't have a regular allow-
ance every week?”
“No, papa,” said Milly, lifting her
prettily arched brows. “Dudley says
women don't know how to use money,
and that a wife should always receive
every halfpenny she spends from her
husband, And I can tell you, papa,
because you are so kind to me-I am
little things that men haven't any Idea
of, It's a little hard sometimes.”
Mr. Barrington took his purse out of
pocket and laid it on the windowsill
“Here, Httle girl,” he xaid, “you have
earned the that a dozen
times over.”
Milly reached up to Kiss him through
contents of
the vine leaves,
“Oh, pupa, you are such a dariug,”
she sald.
He only patted her cheek in reply.
he has got.” he pondered as he kept
his walk up to the front véranda,
ering its blooms over the and
the balmy sunshine slept on the paint
ed floor. “He Is making a Clreassian
Steps
and stretched
in the
And he took his hook
out ham
I.
his
where a
It was the next day that KON
fo
for a chilly,
him in the library,
had
all the yellow maple leaves awd
northeast rain blown
is and
the obsenrs«d ln driving
stnsiine was
clouds.
“Well, mn
iy.
kind
“you
pose?
“Yes, sir Barrington
a tall, straight, handsome Young man,
complexion and spark
“And
had better give me a check if it's
with a
Drown
ling eyes before 1 3 perhaps
convenient
“A check?’ said his
what?"
father “For
“I'm said
Dudley,
“and a little spend
ing money very handy
for expenses,”
current
the old
“The
Yon
gentleman
Dootmaker,
Young
“0 many fot wants
But, as |
the bills be
nowadays waid before, let
all
for spending
pres
drew
for the
He
handed §
ent.”
ot
on such
went on Prudles
inrpls I'm custome] to IL”
“Not
miortabily
mbroiderssd
not ae
agreeable, eh?” said his father,
adiusting his feet on
an
rest Chen why do you
tice the with wife?
“1 give her all that
spend.” Dudley, coloring up.
La] sien your
she needs to
said
“And I have given you all that you
need.”
“1 am a man!” =aid Dudley
“And she is
father
“1 am manager ware
house, and I claim my honest remun-
“I am
no beggar. There 14 not a penny I ask
for that 1 do not earn.”
“That is Millicent's
a woman!” retorted his
the of your
case exactly”
“She does
She is an economist in every sense of
the word, Is it right that she should
receive merely her board and clothes?
Is she not entitled to a regular allow
ance to spend as she pleases? Do not
think me a meddlesome old foges, ny
he added, rising and placing his
kindly on his son's shoulder.
“But I have been observing all these
You a personal application of this les.
to be called upon for an account of
penny one wishes to spend,
position as that,
the firm of Barrington & Co.”
Dudley stood still a moment, ponder.
ing, and then he sald, earnestly:
“I will, sir. You are right!”
And Milly was delighted, that very
sum of money from her husband,
“Is it all for me?’ she cried, with
glittering eyes,
“Yes, all,” Dudley answered, laugh
ing.
“But what am I to do with so much
money 7
“Lock It up in your desk, dear,” he
answered, “and spend it for your needs
as they occur”
“But I never had so much before all
at one time!” exclaimed the amazed
Milly.
“No, vou never had, more shame to
acknowledged Dudley. “But |
to the conclusion, Milly,
that yon are no child to be given a few
shillings at a time. You are my house
keeper and deserve your regular sala-
I shall give you five pounds for
your own personnl expenses at the be-
ginning of every month, and you shall
and economize It as you choose,
The household expenses, of course, will
be pald out of the common stock.”
“Oh, Dudley, I never felt so rich in
my life,” said she, “Now 1 can dress
lke other women, and give a little
money to the church and hep the poor
and feel independent! And I can lay
by a little, too, Dudley, month!
Oh, what
manager [ ean be”
Dudley Barrington looked
young wife with a sharp prick of con
hiz heart. Why
made her so innocently
me,’
have come
use
every
you shall see an excellent
ut his
had he
happy
Simply because it had never
at
before?
occurred to him
And Milly ran eagerly to her father
in-lnw
cried I am to have
all for my
account
“Pupn. she
month own
of
five
self
poids a
1erY ery £1)
and
of 1, unless please! It
offer
And Colonel Barrington smiled and
mitted her head, and suswered, with a
I
touch of sure
nd
isin
“Very ki flines
Herald
indeed.” ‘hicago
AN ANCIENT EMPLOYMENT
Tells a Curious Story About
German Lapidaries.
Walter
Our Consul
From
Mainz
Stor
Consul Shi
(Gsermany
of the lives
to follow
nings
#
Fhe operator
+
Histone, or n if
=ra one
§
ment of t
This represents an juyesd abou
and a skillful lapidary can ear
from X15 to R25 Hr Wee
usually
£5)
Kk fie does not
cut and polish stones on his
own account, but generally contracts
with manufacturing jewelers, who fur
the
a certain price per
the
of
him the stones in rough, to
cut and
gram,
rough,
money,
must Iw
polish at
As
represent
the stones even in
outlay
workman
for
many
certain
an
the
upon,
grite
the honesty of
greatly relied no
body can in advance how
grams of fished
piece of opal, amethyst or the like may
yield
any
stones i
Jesides these half precions
precious stones such as diamonds, ete
are cut and there: but
also polished
the industry
in with modern
Another branch of the industry in
these parts i= the cutting of cameos,
Pearls are also polished, drilled and
and is chiefly carried on
factories machinery,
all countries, including the
Mates, involees covering single ship
ments of the value of $0000 having
Atlanta Constitution.
Luxerions Raliways,
ways In the world, The ralls of the
Mexican Golf Railway are laid on
sleepers of mahogany, and the bridges
are bullt of white marble, On the
west const of Mexico there is another
line which has sleepers of ebony and
ballast of silver ore drawn from old
mines beside the track. The reason
for this apparent extravagaance in that
the engineers had no other material
on the route, and found it cheaper to
use these than to import the ordinary
plant,
The natical young man someti wes
comes to naught,
YAQUI INDIANS AS TRAILERS.
fhey Ought to Make the Best
the World
Scouts in
Indians wonderful
" puld a former Mexi-
‘an trader, “They ought to wake the
est scouts in the world, Some years
igo | wus stopping at a place cahed
Ysletl, near the of Yuen
an, when my cabin was robbed one
aight of several hundred dollars in
I hired a very intelligent Yaqui
Pedro to help me the
and we started out Sogether on a
old trail. The fellow who did the job
had fled on horseback, striking north
west, and before long my guide had a
pretty accurate of his
He picked up his infor
scrap at a time,
“The Yaqui ire
fusl const
anmed chase
idea personal
beginning
When | knew,
he pointed to a willow tree from which
the lower branches had been
broken. The rascal had dis-
mounted there for a rest, and several
flat were plied on the ground
under the broken branch Pedro sur
mised that he wanted a whip and had
to the reach
limb, which was really not very high.
od the
seemed me at
nsked how he
me of
recently
stones
stand on stones to the
incident be
the time
but it
mention ause it
to to he very
turned ont
afterward to be absolutely correct, He
knew the of the saddle
blanket from a few shreds canght
a thron bush, and learned that he ear
riled a native
in the soft dirt
astonished Ie
the
anil
far-fetched guessing
color minn ws
on
water-bottle by its print
What
However
near a spri
SRD ially
wis ease with which followed
the ir of the horse over flinty,
where
sun
not the faintest
We caught
second das
{100s
were
Bron
i
siudent
throug
COrreciig
as Mr. Wood
cide
mun
tars
times
poleon
t RET
prepar
rygvert ti tet
regine
on th yxion 1)
ates] the famous general
Fhe
tically a deserter.”
axiom in
him
More
later a
order saidier who kills
self pro
than a quarter of a century
dozen
as wail in
the Hotel des Invalides Paris
nail removed and the
ceased. - London Telegraph
veterans hanged themselves in
one of
The
nidemic
many days from a
in
was
-————
vad the Future Life.
Immortality forms no
Chinaman’s belief, This may
strange in view of the fact that 1.
taoism is the oriental version of
ern spiritoaMsem, bot the Chinaman's
spirit-world is to him something of the
remote past, much as miracles are far
Chie
of a
sound
part
1
Woes.
Chinaman bak no soul in the
sense of that Hie is
material the earth « This
has been belief for of
years, aed it Ix so div ply rooted that
it ean never be removed. So when you
tell him that his soul
goes to hell he re
plies: “No sabe” materialist
day. The
Christian word
of arthy
his thousands
when he dies
either heaven or
Being a
him to be immortal, except his mates
Chicago Times Herald
Sea Island Cotton.
( erable sea island cotton could
be produced in Louisiana and in for
mer years this crop attracted much at.
tention, more particularly along the
pea shores in St, Bernard parish, and
this Industry could doubtless now be
very largely developed If it were
found profitable,
The experience of Florida io this di-
rection would InMeate the desirability
of our Louisiana colton planters along
the Gulf coast giving greater atten.
tion to this staple than formerly,
In Florida about 2300 acres of sea
island cotton are reported by thelr own
department of agriculture. South
Carolina and Georgia give some atten
tion to it, and in North Garolina 770
heen
1.8OK sores,
Nea Island cotton, or black seed cot
ton, called, can-
not be grown upon all kinds of soll, In
yours the Egyptian cotton has
interfered more or less with the price
have resorted, and in
as it is sometimes
recent
ing ite place in the production of the
well-known balbriggan goods, - The
Southern Farmer,
SUICIDE AMONG ANIMALS.
The Not Conlined Alone to
Human Belongs,
Impulse is
There is no longer a question of th
fact that the Impulse of suicide is by
to human
Many of the lower animals deliberate
ly themselves
no means confined beings,
destroy under certain
conditions—such, for example, as im
prisonment, which sees to give them
un of living It is Im
possible to keep a fur seal alive in con
finement will invariably
itself to death, refusing food
odd it Is that should be
inasmuch as hair
tractable an animal
nd of its human master and quick to
have known
starve nt
nbhorrence
becuuse it
starve
Ruther x1uch
the the weal is
CHR,
40 remarkably
rogs heen
to death
grief rather
destruction
refuse food and
thelr master’s graves, but
intention of self
than an
may be agecountalue such
The cra
in instances,
th hing a way of
amputating
fo
it happens
3% and does not hesitate
them away if
inured, Thix self-ampu-
crab | ia omplish
detaching the Hmb at a point
would naturally suppose, but
ide in the jen
a point wi
Saturday
How Moltke Began War.
memorable occasion of the
of war by France in 1870,
vil the
wildly
Count
sr who had rece
Ems
to the
from galloped
house of
rashed ex
general
offered him
opened a drawer in hi
and
mK fook therefrom
ranged indie of officis
reciarking, as he
adjutant, “Take
telegraph office
This
of
®G
despatched!”
put the vast machinery
man War Office in
entire arm) as Im
motion,
sbholizned
conld
re
“The Lady Palmist”
{ cording
mist, a« to tix
Kid
On
heard at
to
case just
fe tprt
prot p
derminst continues follow
lines when dealing with
those who are eager to gaze into futur
In this case ther visitor being the
wife of a detective sergeant) the mod
ern seer told the former that she liked
very much to have her own way, and
wax inclined to worry If her husband
wax for an hour and she did not
know where he was It was further
averred that she might live to sixty ot
and that married life had not
hen unalloyed She would
do a when had the
chance, and would not die of religious
inns the magistrates discharged
the palmist on ger promising to leave
the London
vont }
Yentionat
ity,
ot
seventy
all
ground
bliss
deed she
Globe,
town
Silence Reigns Supreme.
The most lonely highlands of our na.
tional territory are the sparsely wood:
od Rierras of Western New Mexico,
The clank of the wood centter's ax
echoes through the steepest glens of
of El Paso, there are valleys where
the moan of the wind in the branches
of the rock pines is the only sound
heard for days together. A kind of
marmot is the only habitant of (hese
politudes, and rarely leaves its bur
rows before noon, Birds are extreme
ly rare, though a silent vulture now
and then floats across the sky, on its
way to the cave labyrinth of the Glia
valley. InManapolis Press,
AAA BS
It requires about 50 pounds of wat.
er to make one pound of dry material
in the straw and grain of oats, This
shows what an enormous amount of
water a crop uses,
The pensive malden sometimes be
ontges an expeasive wile,
"THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
How the Plumber Works,
The plumber came down
like a wolf on the fold,
And made a big bluff
"Mong hot pipes and cold,
Nine hours by the clock
He made love cook
And that night dollars
We were charged on his book.
to the
eighteen
The Extent of His Knowledge
“What think is at
tom of the ocean, professor?”
do you thie bot-
“Excuse me, but 1 have never gone
into the subject deep enough for that.”
Plain
Cleveland Dealer
A Significant Sign.
What makes
intends
Carrye think that
Dick
night?
Edna
Jokes all
icle
you
to propose 10 you 1o
He's
afternoon. hid
, inughi at papas
been laughing at papas
ago Chron
Painful Uncertainty.
and
“Humor closely
lied
“That's
ure
pailios are
off
10 See
#0: when 8 man gels an
Oise joke it is pathetis nim
to laugh Detroit
ait for
Free
people
Press
Evidence to the Contrary.
Agent Our railway ma
up to date
i Very re
ook at this wo
Madan it
folder
man
Nonsense,
on ur excursion her
i
r +}
nave is
sleeves been out of style for three
Years Chicago Record
After the Ceremony.
ghd
mig ie ’
rysend
eOree whe
mber how
hair at papas?’
Wax
Only a Cheap imitation,
remarked Nanny
boastfo
y
look like tarry «
1
declared tix
victor
jonks
for I'm the best but
the one that
lowest oleo quotation
Philadelphia « ress
A Rude Shock.
He family
like me, but
She-—-Well, 1 should
He-~-Whew! 1
your
will you }
3 a
& rather a
should say got, but
t gengrally do
Yes "# Catholic
She—1 repeat |
girl in love doesn’
should I'll say
Standard and Ti
as =A
130K
The Hubbub Club.
“Julia and [I have organized a love
iy conversation club among the girls
“What do you call it?”
The Hab-bubh Club”
iracious! What does that mean?”
around in the morn-
ngs on one another's porohes and all
indianapolis Journal
We neet
talk at once.
No Encouragement,
Mrs Oh, dear! 1 do wish we
were tich, Just think of the good we
could do if we only had lots of money.
Mr Troe, my dear; but we
can do a great deal of good in a quiet
Way new.
Mrs, Sbort
will ever
Short
Short
but no
it.~Chicago
Yes, of
hear
COUrse
of
one
News
She Wanted Only Pins.
Friend (noticing the confused heaps
of goods of every description scatter.
ed promiscuously around the shop)
Halloa! what's happened? Been tak
ing an inventory, had a fire, or are you
going to move out?
Haberdasher-— That shows how little
you know about shopkeeping We have
merely been waiting on a lady who
dropped in for a paper of pins.
A Probability
fhe You know, Harry, so far as 1
am concerned, 1 am only too happy {o
become your wife, but my father, yon
know
He--RBut what has your father got
to do with it? Your father hasn't got
to lve with me.
Khe No, Harry, but you may hava
to live with father, you know. Boston
Transcript,
Just Saved Herself
“Do you know, Miss Point Breese”
remarked young Mr. Softley, “it is sald
that monkeys actually have a lan
guage and talk to each other.”
“1f that is tree” replied the young
woman, “1 should very. much lke to
hear the monkeys’ opinfon of «ou
Khe stopped suddenly, as one who hind
escaped a break Pittsburg Chronicle:
Times. i a
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