luis AND DEATH CO FORTH EACH DAY. Life and Death go forth each day; Which one would you meet? Death is grim, but Life is gay, Hey, but Life is sweet! Yet, when Fate hath adverse mina, Many cry with heat: “Life is cruel, and Death is kind; _ Hey, but Death is sweet!” Life or Death-—what need to care Which it is you meet! ' Death is kind and Life is fair; Hey, but both are sweet! Geraldine Meyrick, in “New” Lippin Everything « wouldn't have happened if poor little Bobbie's first discipline had not that morning, and if not been “on the school opened. Bobbie pal’'s only and ed in kilts. Frances Wylie chief brewer Miss Virginia room, Number Seven. “It was awful!” groaned the principal under his breath. He spread his hands out on the green baize of his table and regarded them with horrgy, as if there were blood on them. Could it be they had punished Bobbic—Bobbie? He had looked so bewitching and inky and naughty! His little crisp, sun-yellow curls had stood up round his reproach ful face so becomingly? “Awful! Awful!” the principal groaned. Me was in no mood to begin the day's work in his “Supreme Court,” on the ground floor of the Malthie High School. There td be punishing to do, of course, asd to think he had pun- ished unny-haired Bob bie! It's going to i 1 bad dav. I in France Wylie's eves!” gr Miss Trapp, Frances from her back seat gazed about studied. mnocent wonder. She was half again as big as little Miss Frances was been warned that one or would send Court. inces Wylie had again when princi and the rainpage was the idohiz son, was mis- oi [rapp's win Bobbie—little see it aned little imwardly. with almost I rapp. " She had rsdemean on her hought, serene could put her in ‘I'm not afraid.” 3 ~ § 1 “She's so little. 1 y pocket and run away with But tiny, gentle-faced Virginia came of Puritan and dowed with courage. her small white fingers nervously, but she would not draw back. Let Frances Wylie beware! her.” stock. Was en- School, with a sore-hearted, self-re- proachful father in the Supreme Court, and in Room Number Seven a mischief- loving girl and a tiny, troubled teacher. So the day went forward until the Ver- gil class was called. Then— “Miss Wylie!” “Good moming The two figures edged a little the room For embarrassing silence, rincipal from behind | vaguely the tall dignity "iy iy "es . he said, absently way into there instant an was while the 1 3 ' 1s desk OLserved of Frances and > curly brown head of the tiny teach There was no Even to question as to ident: unspectacled h. the stress of excitement Vi ginia Trapp's tongue sometimes plaved her false. Now as she opened her to speak, she found hereelf incapable uttering a syllable. tongue tered soundlessiy. “Well 2” Her wanting. He would give her time. It was a source of grief to him that he was held in such awe by his teachers. This tall, stately woman must be the new teacher in Room Nine. to me? She has been—er—transgress- ing, I see,” he said, gravely, turning his he toward the to gasp with astonishment, waved her peremptorily “Prisoner’s Dock” Frances. “You may leave her with me. I pre- he said, gravely, possible time. look in his pleasant gray eyes, and the ridiculous contrast between herself and the tiny, cropped-haired teacher. A reckless spirit seized the girl. The end of the world was at hand, in any event: why not make the most of this last op- portunity ? Frances drew herself up and bowed with digwity. “I will leave her here, then, with you —and her own conscience,” she added, in little Miss Trapp's best manner. Then she closed the door behind her and sped down the hall, stifling her laughter. Straight into Room Seven she walked, and then she dropped into the chair behind the teacher's desk. There was dead silence in the room, while from one girl to another travelled a look of mystification. Then Frances rose to her feet. She had recovered her breath and was quite calm and serious. “Young ladies, our beloved teacher has unfortunately been arraigned be. fore the Supreme Court, and I have been put in charge of Room Seven, in her place,” she said, impressively. “1 need not ask you to remember that it is study hour, The class in Vergil may recite,” | : od ri He J | A ripple of merriment ruffled the calm surface of the room, but Frances arrest ed it with a sharp tap of little Miss Trapp's ruler. “Be quiet!” she commanded. “There aren't but fifteen minutes left before the noon hour. Don't any of you dare tc make a disturbance till then! 1 shall report every living, breathing soul that does! Now somebody recite.” Frances Wylie and little Miss Trapp will not soon forget those fifteen min. utes. In Room Number Seven they passed with fearful slowness. Frances watched the hands of the great clock expzciation of avenging That it did not come filled her Where was the scan- with Miss Trapp his heels? Why doom. principal, and gray, at fun!" thought Frances in never enjoyed myself so [—1 guess I'm getting “Call this little in my life! scared.” In the Supreme Court the fifteen min utes dragged their length out monoton- The principal had turned sumed his writing i back to his quietly. It factors t eir own thoughts for a desk and re to leave male sea : ¥ 1 “ 30M. thought f this particular one, sitting Prisoner's hed in were be straightening paralyzed wilderment and 3 r into steady soning. Miss faring a behind Frances she and cleared the principal had waved Irapp had not succeeded m ut word. As the her throat desperately. | hand depre catingly “Not had said calmly. determined to of the this trouble Miss yet: we wail afternoon session, and then sett! Frapp consulted her she folded her hands rested, with a and of her Vergil and in the corners of her mouth ted the prin SINC ‘ "” a “A hardened case,” reflec cipal, dimly will aware mile. “But we praciice pat tainly, patience,” It sorely afraid he had vel, yes, morning with Bobbie, anc 1 Was sensitive on the pond her a chance to There was just the one chance should have it, “You may go young you will return at the openin We will ta The principal's voice was although he did not look up work, it was certain there were friendly lights in his eyes warmed to him, Room Seven was i. . 1 the corridor in its usual orderly give now, Miss Trapp's heart emptying Frances stood soberly at the d little teacher touched her arm There was a x1 Migs beckoned her asi cion of a laugh in i her lips iTApPp 5 yes were grave Judgment is SUS I am to she sand back this” afternoom I thought 1 would ared to RO, 2 Miss Trapp Frances lessly, catching at both the and if you instead gre “Do you mean he doesn’ That-——that there is some You t told.” the for me? haven't en’ little teacher "Lhere was a chance to I thought yo i lace this afte ; “I do I will! I'm going to bed Frances, in a tempest of tears, Pa I'll get down on Trapp. 1 didn't or any- breathing world bat tell every single thing knees! OO Miss think of mother then. thing in the living, You, or Bobbie, in his little blue kilt. It avgured well for Fran- ces. Youth's Companion Japanese Caution, Among the characteristics of the Jap- anese an American at once notices their Japanese child ever got a whipping. An American woman who became ac- that she allowed her little children to ramble about the streets at will, and one day commented upon it, “Why,” said the Japanese lady, “what harm can come of it? Our children nev- er quarrel and no grown person would harm a child.” “But,” said the American, “the child might get lost.” “That would make no trouble,” was the smiling reply. how in little children's apparel there were inserted cards conmining their name and address, and explaining that should they stray any person finding them will first give them a full meal and then bring them home, Craclousness of Royalty. Benjamin Constant has been giving his impressions of Queen Alexandra as a sitter. “Your queen,” he told an in- terviewer, “can never grow old; she has perennial youth and perpetual beauty, Ah, what a sovereign!” And them, with a quaint laugh, he added: “Sometimes, when I visited Buckingham Palace, she kept me waiting for a quarter of an hour, and I was glad of it, for her apology was so charming and her man ner so delightful that I could never I had the heart even to look cross.” Professor Mead dwelt upon the need for an irrigation code and for a deter. mination whether the State or Nation is to deal with the question of the control of the water courses, MANICURING AN ALLICATOR, His Corns, When Removed, Weighed Half a Pound Each. A reptile is the last member of the animal kingdom to receive the benefits of modern surgery—a fact in itself of enough importance to attract world-wide attention. Mose the big alligator in Central Park, is happier to-day because of the discovery of anaesthesia. He had corns as a result of grinding his paws against the concrete bottom of the tank where he has been confined, and at last hie suffered so severely that he lay al- most helpless in one corner, seldom mos ing about. And no wonder! His corns were indeed corns for an alligator—or clephant—as large as big potatoes of the California variety, and nearly as heavy for after extraction they were found to weigh about half a pound each. They were extracted small army of doctors and helpers by William T. Hornaday the Zoo, who has be Hobie aii an recently director animals thought he kandling the a of Mose's axed and Ing tied hi him securely wit sack Even then was f with cocaine, Fhree ounces ministered, howeve er, the veterinary submissive a 1 ! grows entirely, . 4 fered, Weekly Raising Lions or the ac 1 and the busine scale very fcw hunndead § oes aunareg Han two and the Gardens tl t 15 now yield a Fesources tion to gdp black mane, invariably South occur. African aC lima however, the production thrive and one bs did not the pure male, answerin A Nul three lions and six lic Tried by Fire. knot Of A little naval four holding points of the an were “1 was with Farragut,” said one His a boy of twelve years, was on The lad had been teasing father to send him to West Point, old man seemed doubtful son, Fp ug to I don't know about that the man would answer when the boy tea him, ‘1 don't know whether stand fire. “‘Oh, yes, 1 would, father would answer. ‘Just try me. “So just before we started to g the fort the father called the Ix “Now, son,’ he said, ‘come wi and we'll see whether you'll soldier.’ “The great admiral and the little boy climbed up together into the maintop They were lashed to it side by side, and together they ran the gantiet of fire at Fort Fisher. When the fort was passed the father turned to his son, “All right, my boy, you'll do,’ he said. ‘You shall go to West Point. “l wonder how many boys of the present generation would stand that kind of a test ?’—Chicago Tribune, “we the y h make a ’ The Terrible Turk Quite a Carpenter. The Sultan, when a prince, learned carpentering and became an expert car- penter himself, and bas always contin. ued to take a great interest in it. One of his first acts when sovercign was to establish a complete joiner's factory at Yildiz, in which he superintends the mat ufacture of all sorts of articles of furniture, mostly of his own design These are by very elaborate secret springs, in the invention of which the Sultan takes great delight. He has just send to the Russian embassy a speci. rien of his work as a present to the Czar, It consist {f a table richly in- laid, with the arms in front, where there as drawers, By touching a spring the top flies open and che center rises, bearing a silver plate ori which is to be found everything ne- cessary for smoking, in silver and amber I'he inside of the top has a medallion, in which is a of the Sultan's son, surrounded by a frame of brillianis porirant BURCLARS NEVER BOLD. !'"Critty” Foster From Joliet Gives Up Professional! Secrets. “Bold burglars, bold of any sort, are much more scarce than their victims have any idea of. They don't ause they are bold or have bravery O1 ‘crooks’ bec that sublime assurance, succeed amounts to more than but becavse the great majority of their vic § are cowards.” | hese Charles F. Foster, alia words of and Were “Oritty" numerous he himselt reached Jersey et, Ill. where burglar with visions of Of hie 15 fight. course, if 1 like a rat in Fresh Loaves Not So injurious as 1s Cen erally Supposed. } F m ihe Longon y little to- seyond re- snient form for swal- or, seems io hat the dog's teeth are for chewing, and that i reason for his meat Another curious fact which he calls hat stale bread is not sew. This 1s shown overs constructed this is most hikely the dispo of Ha 10 1% that than 1 slaic more dry submitting to a high temperature. Under such con- ditions it cs soft and plastic, re- gaining its newness, and this despite the moisture nmst be driven He thinks this is bread for a short time 1 " $ becom HNC new bread there is free water present but that in stale bread, while it 1s still inn a state of true chemical combination. In general, he concludes, it is a sound physiological plan to thor- oughly masticate every morsel of food before swallowing it. . Revival of a Simple Craft. Wood mosaics are not by any means modern in their origin, but the invention of veneering machinery makes possible a wider application of the work which should recommend &. The methed of producing the wood mosaic pictures is not difficult after the wooden blocks are secured. The latter arc thin and nar- row, varying from cne-twelfth to one- twentieth of an inch, and the narrow edges of the blocks must be finely fin- ished and polished. If on: secures the necessary supply of different kinds of woods and takes them tc the veneering factory the cost of cutting them into woods most commonly used for mosaic work, because of their colors and com- parative absence of sap, are mahogany, the plum and tulip, the American birch, the American and Spanish walnut, rose. wood, snakewood, bird's-eye maple. laburnum, Others are occasionally em- ployed to produce certain effects of sky and land.~Adrchitect and Builders Magazine, i A Rl A TRIOLET. Her beauty and her grace, Soon led I praised unto her face Her beauty and her grace . The next thing that took place “Twas Daddy and no more Her beauty and her grace That led me to a door! [Detroit Free Preis. me to adore, FISHING. What kind of husbands ? lie men do make the best She lem / . ’ ; Bachelors and wi ile. ON THE S Mrs, Piff breakfast? now SURRCstie : hunderstorms London Fun FICIAN have | 3 2 h reach across the table things ] papa. ‘What do “He says figures, and 1 Record-Herold, vou miear never was very odd at Chicago ne NO MONKEY BUSINESS. He offered act her escort, she declined the offer “You as full of as a organ,” he spitefully declared. “Possibly,” retorted, the same [ don’t go with a crank." — Chicago Record-Herold to as but are airs hand she but just HER LOVE EXPLAINED. He-—If you did not love me, why did you encourage me’ Shel? Encourage vou? He—For two years you have accepted every one of my invitations to the theatre, etc She—That was not hecanse I loved you; it was because I loved the thea- tre.~lllustrated Bits, THE RIGHT MAN. Mr, Bloomfield--Did you hear that Snaggs was going into amateur farm. ing? Mr. Bellefieid—No, but it's all right Snaggs can afford it—Pittsburg Chron. icle-Telegraph. "AN ESTIMATE OF SUCCESS. “And how is my old school friend Bimson getting on?" said the man whe long absence. “Oh, he's doing first-rate.” “But he was such a bright boy we al- ways expected he would display es- pecial ability,” “Well, 1 don't know that he hasn't displayed especial ability.” “1 never heard him mentioned in connection with any of your elections.” . “No; that's just the point. He has shown ability to go ahead quietly and build up a business, He doesn't have to run for office.”—IWashington Star, PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFLY TOLD. Spreading of Rails Causes a Locomotive to Jump the Track. PENSIONS FCR PENNSYLVANIANS, ilchard Koll Held on a Serious Charge st Nore ristown— Girl Knocked Down the Man Whe Called lier Mother Vile Names Blow at Haziog Westminster College Faculty Sus. pends Ten Upper Classmen Other News. granted : Fd - Clinton Jones, Reitz, Ohl, Pittsburg, $8; Mar- $8: Rebecca E. Margaret E. Hare, pensions were Sayre, $6: Catherine H % 4 «1 $2000 i the Tosgtn inst toward ution by the brutally as- ng several Freshmen 2 a 3} ago. a parole patient of the Hospital for the In- wm the charge of as- of female residents It is claimed that a Ih's description has iserable for the wo- i frequent lassmen for for ort time to of Dr. Charles attacked near the hospital injured. A man crept up struck her on the head nstrumen The wo- but her screams frightened Nathan John, were bot} Mrs and her son, seriously injured in a runaway accident at Mauch Chunk. By giving away of a trestlework at the Tidewater Steel Company, Ches- ter. a shifting engine fell to the ground, a distance of 15 feet. The engineer, Ed- ward Lane, stuck bravely to his post and narrowly escaped being crushed to death. Fireman John Cole jumped and was badly bruised. Engineer Lane was picked up senseless and 1s thought to be nternally injured. Alderman Donohue. of Wilkes-Barre, praised Miss Elizabeth Smolinski for knocking down Paul Rogoski, whe was calling her mother vile names. Ro- goski had the girl arrested, but when the Alderman heard the story he dis charged her after saying she was a brave and noble daughter, and made the man pay the costs. Through the spreading of the rails on the Kutztown branch of the Reading Railroad an extra passenger train eom- sisting of two coaches filled with pas- sengers jumped the track and was hurls ed over a ten-foot embankment near Topton, and a dozen or more were more or less injured, . A stock company has been formed at Akron and will erect a large building for the shoe factory recently started. Robert McGraudy, aged years, committed suicide at Jamison cutting his throat from ear to ear with a rasor, almost severing his head. Bold robberies were committed by tramps in West Bethlehem, Several resi. dences were robbed of silverware, jew. elry and valuable: amounting to over Louis Boninski, aged 6 years, was drowned in the canal at Reading Tie was playing on the towpath, when a vouth who was passi pushed hit down the bask and ting “Now swim,” ran away. at nd aid, Stermer the
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