A FROWN AND A SMILE.
a silly little, foolish
naughty little frown-
Too small to do the slightest
you'd think,
the nursery ple
made a pleasant
black as ink.
Nurse scolded--Jamie
Kitten ran and baby
(You scarcely can believe
true},
Every smile was blotted out
With that naughty frown about
Jusgt how much a little frown
Such
harm,
down,
home
ure
And as
gighed—
cried
it, but
think
can «do!
little little
gmile
the sli
pleasant happy
little
do
Sdch a
jo
‘Too small to
you'd say,
that happy
nurcery
‘heerful as
ghtest 2004,
Yet kept the
smile
while
little
all the
the sunshine and as
singing like
and Kitten
can believe
was
cooed
(You scarcely
{rue),
that
1
mile
dat Emile
went
content
little smile
small
easure and
much &
brougt
think how
can do!
It
Just
RATTLE THE RATTLER
AND THE GIRI, WHO
GOT RATTLED
{ spent my vacation last year
livan County near the banks of
Neversink River, where
many kinds abound.
On the second morning
I went for a walk,
a stout pine stick
I cut a notch at
ened the other to a
well equipped to
I had walked
saw a garter
long «
taking
Then | ic
stone wail
When I re
mentioned having
if It were an
One of the be
I would run
tler,” and I boldly
day I would
stick just to
afraid.
After th
on the
nothing smaller or
terested m an day |
warded. As I was walking along the
river road eatin lackberrie and
listening to
rushing
warned
near
I looked to
hind me and
ing. I Hi
not
ward,
from
there, sun:
was a rattier
laughed as
would minus
softly approached and
strike, but the reptile
tionless. [ scorned kill my
while it slept, so, after openi
big blade of my jackknife, § tou
his body with the point of my
Then quick as a flash [ struck at
head with the notched end and sav
agely rubbed my stick gcross the
neck, first toward me and then f
me. It was an empty skin
I stopped and dropped
First 1 heard a giggle, then a snort.
and then peal upon peal of derisive
laughter. It was too much to bear |
I stalked off, the picture of outraged
dignity, resolving, however, to get
‘square.”
Next morning before anyone was
up I started for that ill-fated spot
When | arrived 1 found my mountain
stick smeared with red paint and
mud, and attachel to it was a post-
card, bearing a drawing of a rattle a
snake and a girl, with the ins ription:
“The Rattle, the Rattler and the Girl!
Who Got Rattled.” Pittsburg Dis |
patch.
THE
in
the
of
wx
Sul
SHaKCSs
4
1
my stay
avine firat
Raving iirsg
one
meet
about a
snake abou
rosing the ro¢
turns
some
my
she
I was
rattiesnake
at on my daily walks
lookout {
dangerous in
Was re
on,
me
the
hat,
before
ened,
repeated
sound was
for.
and
that some one
that day. 1
prepared
remained
be
to
mo
tim
ng the
*
0
vi
hed
ck.
the
sti
rom
my atick
TEACH
SHOREMAN.
rhe student days of Jacob, a long-
shoreman, are almost as picturesque.
Jacob is only fifty odd, but he is
greatly aged by hard work and poor |
food and exposure, His face ig!
weatherbeaten, but he has kindly |
eyes, and he can tell sea stories that |
make men wonder. For all that, un-
til recently, Jacob had not learned to
read.
There is a little family of
children, down on Canal street, whose
aflection for Jacob is In nowise di-
minished because he is without learn.
ing. He has lore, which is better in
their eyes, and their happiest even.
ings were when the laborer came
stumbling up the stairs to their
father's flat to tell them stories of
rivermen and starfish indiscrimin.
ately. One night, by accident, they
discovered that their friend could not
read. Neither could they, excepting
lennie. lennie was eleven. and
could “spell,” and even Alle and Ma.
mie knew their letters. What could
be more natural that the three should
teach Jacob? When with surprising
delicacy, the plan was confided to
CHILDREN A LONG-
three
thas Foland Ch we un ' ~
WG o— "ey won a a
and they found that the longlag
life had been to learn to
way behind,” he admit.
| ted, and so they set to work. Every
night that he was off duty he came
happily to their home, and, out of the
game primer Allie and Mamie
mastering, he laboriously learned
alphabet. They sat at the
table, all four, bending over
books, the longshoreman’s
finger tracing the lines,
baby voices directing and
Lennie, vaptly imp
the whole. Jacob's
as bending over bales and kegs
never made it ache; his arm was
by the unaccustomed exer
of writing and he breathed hard
copy book But night after
he patiently took his place, and
shone with the joy
roud day for Jacob
he could spend a
and swagger
glancing at it
a time, But it
ime for Lennie
had help-
the Light)”
cess
went,
of Jacob's
read. “I'm
were
the
kitchen
the
rough fore
shrill
correcting,
wripnt, con
back ach:
the
ducting
ht,
3 face
it It
at leng
at the newstand
ith his paper,
letter at
proud
Mamie,
For
always
was a p
rth,
fe
¢
when,
cent
off w
careleasly,—a
who
y “Ru
TREES BROTHERS WHO BE
AME Th
(As Indian
were on thers
Life
I One
enough, wi to be tall
{fe had tried in wavs
himself taller, bed e¢ he
be up
love
There
who went Lord of
and hearts’ desires
though
er still
to
wished
shed
make
adm looked
ribe
than
into his
feet
stand
he real
MOCCAS
and he
and on
But
when the
they
the Earthqual
him to ze
slat :
panied
Lord
desired, he
heir feet
fast
when this
and
brothers
was done
were turned t«
Lord paid
them
the
hold
time
close
large
Gr
of
back
log, the
ul towards
are enough to
oan
the
it a good
“
start, and
worse th
poked w
The “Drowning Commission.”
The comm of English physiol
Ogists appointed to investigate the
itation of the apparently
Irowned found that all the methods
the
tte
AE
Fosus«
have
performance
whica been suggested for
of artificial respiration
result in drawing into the lungs at
least as much air as enters during
the ordinary respiration: hence, that
which at the same time most aide
in expeliing the water should it
seems, be adopted—that is with the
lying face down, instead
back. By far most impor.
tant feature of any form of artificial
respiration, however, is its immediate
application. Without artificial resp!
ration even the most powerful heart
stimulants are unavailing. No time
should be wasted in taking off the
person’s clothes, or in applying smell
ing salts, or giving drugs, but every.
thing subordinated to freeing the
lungs from water and giving them a
full supply of air. In experiments on
animals, a great lifference was found
between individuals of the
species. Bome dogs were killed Ly a
two minute immersion, while others
could be resuscitated after eight
minutes or even more under water.
Cure For Obesity,
The “trotting” cure for obesity is
being tried in Paris. A gentle. leis.
the
time until half an hour or more ls con:
sumed in this novel exercise, is the
latest method for reducing avolrdu.
pois. Athletes have long since dis:
covered the value of this mode of
activity, but they accompany It with
the training tabie, which so far does
not appear in the regimen as prac
tined in Paria
ADVICE, BUT NO DRINK.
Thirst of Seedy Individual Remained
Unquenched.
He was a seedy ing
and as he stood upon the
ing wistfully at the disappearing form
of the newsboy who had just picked
up a good sized stump and was making
off with the prize, there wag a vague
aspect of despair in his attitude
which was very touching. Perhaps it
was this which attracted the atten
tion of a mild-looking party who was
passing by, and perhaps it was some
thing else, but however this may be
the mild-looking party stopped, and
gazing at the solitary figure, address
ed {t thus:
“Old man, wouldn't you
have a drink this morning
“You've read me as accurately as
though my thoughts were on
an open page.” replied Solitary
taking his quid from his and
passing a dilapidated coat sleeve over
his lips.
“I thought 80,” murmured the mild
individual,
corner gaz
loo!
like to
printed
the
mouth,
looking party, while a tear trickled
down his cheek; “but conquer the de
sire ight It as you would &
of devils, for drink has ruined many a
man who had a sive fore
head th you've got.”
And Aen
lacie
Bgion
more expan
the mild-looking
WAY, the
Bpace
pariy
Soll
and
continued
gered
muned
on his
dreamily
with himsel
DE WET SAW THE POINT.
Former Boer General Appreciated a
Compliment Paid His People.
Genera! Christian De Wet, formerly
fighting In
Ar
the COT the Boer
p i
ana
d me
AWAY
dozen
hinamen :
True
if that which
Chinese famiiles
Boer he
of a year
one of the heathe
De Wet
“Perhaps,” he
“the
eg during t!
sald the correspon i
wou {wel
were ted by one
RECHT
AcCcery
would not
¥
able at t}
ft
to defend himself
be e¢ end
against
+s
d th 0
more
that
mpiiment
pleasantly
the discard
would
of the Chi
“Il
appreciate
said
meant
ed toothpicks of the
make the
nese”
Perhaps
traveler
Americans
chop sticks
COrrespo
the
undent
quered fierce
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CANCER,
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Hones, Palos, Itehing
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ie, braling
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EB
20.000 persons in Japan
Yes
The Qldest Verry.
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from Ca
in
cenfuries,
r erbaps hie oldest
is the cross-channel
jais to Dover It
for more than
and the vessels which have been en
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shipping, from Caesar's high-peaked
galleye, propelled by banks of oars, to
the new turbine steamer,
service
been
fwenty
has exist
enee
cos s—
Uatarrh ‘Cannot Ee Cared
With wocan arruications ss they cannol
reach the seat of the diseases, Catarra fsa
blood or constitutional diseass, and in order
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
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Hall's Catarrh Cure is not 8 quack medicine,
It was prescribed by one of the best physi
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A
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oa
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