SP , AY . « 1 | show ed no lack of Soa preserved ! AN INTELLIGENT GOAT. : IRI y | frais, lies and ali the little knick- i gn Oo cts Bill is His Name and Me Leads Sheep On ATA I4N MRS LONGMAN S i k1 ich she cou 1a muster on such of Cars > . eo 9% 9% ’ 0 short notice. By the Editor of Labor and Capital Tobir Dodies. sanager of tie sheen 2 7S “oN . : : : n 1 ley, manag § BE 950 52 Mrs. Longman took a quiet observa- UCCESS does not come to any man without effort; without op-| _-.. 0 \r 050 toh Miles west of Kan- 52 25 URPRISE PARTY = tion of the whole company while help- position from others. six City. on the Atchison, Topela and oS %S 288 ing them, and sue observed one puzzle The man who accomplishes things in this world necessarily Santa Te Railway. nses a coat as 'g $5 — eer \ - a: . : * : % . . ia » < a ay, SOS «¢ < B 22 226 ——0100 5% for which in her own mind she could makes enemies. All mediocrity rises against him. His boll wether that is known by all the DX B = S22 find no solution, and that was that the achievements are minimized; his failures are magnified; his train crows frem the Missour! Riverto oXyoveou y MARY E. IRELAND Gos blind boy, while evidently enjoying his plans are stolen and his methods are adopted without credit. 1. Junta gravy had carefully laid = s pieces of Where it is possible to do this, vituperation, ridicule and is ho Same of the snimdl aod .. | poultry aside. malice are employed to detract attention from the plain evi- ter Work in 6 Rion and a irih 4 ERE oY long s “Why y i » mamma, don’t : its 2 Cliente | Re does work that two men and a tribe oS Hpne hod been a long spell . W hy, we id tell. 2 ath , A ly “Here is one exception to Dridget’s dence of lack of ability on the part of those who thus display Names f of rainy weather. For six | you remember? We told you tuat ‘| rule,” she thought to herself. “Do you their character. : hoon 1 be unloaded Bill is sent im © days the sun had not| Reisinger told our class last Sunday ia an a LET = s sheep is to be unloaded Bill is se Hi & 1 eising Id © : i in not like chicken, my boy?’ she in- g Criticism is easier than accomplishment. to lead thom out. The door 1y opened $3 *hown glimpse of him-| that we were not jon much ia ; | quired. Honest emulation is open flattery, but carping criticism is the handmaiden lt i i Ie it wes tt Winono the pr everything u 2 Wor i re invi oys & eas “x spose . s 5 * . : “ oy - S & a) < | ie ag self, and everything, out| the world if we invited boys to a a “Yes, ma'am, I love it,” he replied | of dishonesty. But notwithstanding all this, the successful man mounts to iabiae sheco. slowis. und witht Or and in, wore a look of clammy de- | who had plenty to eat and wear, and | 4) omphasis, “but and he hesi- | higher planes over the shoulders of his critics. He saves his breath for re-| ~~. = 2 Melati spondency. Moreover, Mrs. Longman | who could invite us in return, and he creating any excitement, he makes his was having one of her gloomy spells, and was looking at all created thi herself included, through the kind of spectacles. For several days she had gone about the house with a dull aching at heart, a cloud upon her brow, queruleus tw ang in her voice . mn Diuest her d a , until her husband—Xind, forbearing man as he ras—began to lose patience, while Bridget, in the kitchen, muttured al- most audibly that “a would find herself ¢ trying to plaze her.” Mrs. Longman was not by nature a bad-tempered woman; on the contrary she possessed many noble and commmen- dable qualities, but her spirits were not equable; she would have her gloomy attacks, which, had there been any apparent cause, might have been looked upon in the light of an affliction aorthy of sympathy, but as it was, even the most lenient of her friends characterized them by the name of “dumps,” which, though Webster cc being an ‘“elega demns it as not saint from hiven lane bate out wid word, was in 1 opinion quite good enough to express the state of her case, Her family m have been: ren- dered miserable her despoundency had they Leen of the ma of being made miserable, each one accepted the itation in his or her individual way. Mr. Longman stayed out of the house all he could, 3ridget contented herse her prayer book and beads in the commfort- able kitchen, while the two boys, who were too young to go to school, except in fine weath amused themselves in their playroom in the ¢, or in Brid- get's domain, where they were always t 11 capable but as it was, o if with welcome, The short Nov aa: close, kX on the oat ste it to be quly 4 o'cl too dark for Mrs. longer upon the was languidly aside she wa ad Piss ock, it was ge Longman to sew any little cloth suits sh mend so laying ndered ito kitchen, where Bridget was folding newly ironed clothes from the the glowing grate. “Mr. Longman will not until this evening, Bridget,” she said; “business will detain him down town, £0 you may just set up anything for the children; I do not feel as though I nlessly the the rack by he at home could eat anything; everything tastes alike to me and nothing tastes right.” What the reply would have he never be known, for at that m there came a resounding knock upon the alley gate, and 1 wing an old shawl over her head Bridget hastily re- sponded to the call. “It is two boys, ma'am,” she said, re- turning almost immediately, “and they have come to a party here.” ~ “A party!” echoed Mrs. Longm astonishment; “who in the world o them there was a party here?’ “I don’t know, ma'am: I will go and ask them,” said the willing maid, who apparently would rather have got wet than not. BE ! “Bring them mn ouf of the rain, Brid- get,” called” Mrs pT from the door, “until we find out what it means. “Of course.” thought she to herself! “it is a mistake, but what possessed them to come to the alley gate?” dget’ came in, followed by the boys, who had-been in the meantime Joed by a third, and who, notwith- standigg the soaking rain, were not ag wet as might have been supposed, ow- ing to their having a piece of oilcloth around them, which upon inspeciti proved . tc be .old carriage curtains sewed together, while the last arrival sported a gentleman’s old swallow-tail ss coat, which made a useful, if not handsome, overcoat for the seeking lad. They did not appear to think it expected of them to re: their dripping hats, and stood the good fire and Mrs. com placent smiles. ‘You say rou ca will oment n, in told fc ICN nove eye Longman w the lady; “have o take?’ ! on, no, ma this is the e told us tof th o house a an a scrap of the ms ret r from his po r, sure propor tions Tong nan was 3 as soon Your papers. What do } “Why, you Sce, we ¢ malay every éne of us. a could get off earli Telegram and. the nd we said we ought to invite poor boys whom such things were a treat. said ' Jesus loved the blind, and if we wished ve must do as He did. me told all the newsDbc come to 2 party here to-ni ail th met S we had paid but little boys in any way, and she reflected— “Shall I let the good seed sown by a stranger in the hearts of my children for want of care from their mother? Will T let my own selfish ease rob these poor boys of a pleasure which might always be a pleasant re- membrance to them? No. I will rouse myself and make thé best of it.” Bridget, in the meantime, had been summoned again to the alley gate, and had rescued two more pale little cripple on crutches, guests, one a carefully sheltered from the rain by the Even- >» Bulletin, who not only suc- ceeded in obtaining substitute, but rowed an umbrella, which um- seen its best days to be minus two stays and patched with a different color; but de it was, it did not pre- ts it sheltered from being welcomed by their compatri- dy under she The cr in particular was warmly received by Mrs, Longman, whose heart went out in sympathy to suffering in any form. She had just been upon the point of proposing that the boys should until supper was ready adjourn to the attie, which, like the rest of t warm and comfortable, eration for the lame boy, she »d her plans, and sent two of her s with her to bring down h playthin as they desired in the in with I usual good joy fully ots alrea 1 i 1 - DOY he house, but out was Sons whieh, sense, she had not! » too fine for use, The boys were ensconced in the parlor when a ring from the bell sent them all scampering to the hall deor, where stood three boys, one of whom, the Evening News, was spokes- man. “I hope you will excuse me, ma'am, boy not coming to the alley gate this id he, bowing over the boys to Mrs. Longman, who was coming to method of announcement “Buddy here,” pointing to one of his followers, “is blind, and I thought vou would not mind our coming to the 'C £ and I could not find a-lame continued he, apologetically, to the er an boys, “so 1 brought the charcoal] man’s boy, who is deaf and dun 1b.” see what this might por- them to the cir wet wrappings s, and then took into the parlor, where the other s were sitting rather silently; gt the nario and ifs .c thet sons - mga 5 of unaccu she avent back in the world will we get, said she. “There are eight of ere besides our own, which as many too wet world, mside the in the parior, thing in the been cs You were st have same while ing There's the chickens in the yard, that > fatter iing in the world d £7 suitabler than them.” ; 1 one kind aps s > of chicken; and now them , ma'am; I never t could aot eat his only give the immediately ma'am. ound 1 will of my cakes; a lot et 10 a chi jai! Herald and-the News ¥ soon as they can hire s for. them, and they them with somethin if you please, ma'am,” che rful confidenc rs. Longman attic, 10 to the i d own,” company a ut could be ior: aw, she be much to be to He lame and the to be like Him So Johnnie and to ‘it and bring e lame and blind boys they could selfish thoughts the past week that she attention to her while the he 2p nd in a mute tated while his pale little face flushed. A moment or so later he slipped from his chair, and with the unerring accur- acy with which the blind calculate dis- tances, he cane to Mrs. Longman and grew ma'am, may I touch your find. Don’t you remember now, “Certainly, dear,” she replied par 1 1 Very gently and speedily the little Poor Mrs. Lon gmay he ered, | soft hand of the blind boy examined : : i: he he cen s , with a pang, that she had been so each feature and then, apparently sat- wrapped up in her own gloomy and isfied, he whispered: “I would like to take it to is so good to me; she is not get good things to eat. Quick tears of sympathy filled Mrs. Nancy, she : and can- Longman’s eyes. Truly she was re- ceiving many lessons this evening. She was giving, but it was being re- turned to her an hundred fold. She kissed the boy, and whispered in re- turn: “Yon no bers others. Eat all see that your friend has some aiso.” After supper was the table cleared away and the other boys deep in the enjoyment of mu rames, in which he could take but little pars, Mrs. Longman and the blind boy had a long and confidential conversation. She gathered from his earnest lips that even the poor in purse can be rich in spirit; that the milk of human kindness sometin made fertile hearts which had never known anything but stern, unrelenting poverty. The one he called » had received him from the bed- shit. » of his dying mother, and although she had to work early and late to sup- port her own helpless ones, she was to the best of her poor ability faithfully fulfilling her promise. ble little boy to remem- you wish; I will over, many The Taman were not rich, but Mrs. Longman sadly compared her own selfish life, with its means of rood, with that of the poor wom- an whose opportunities were so few, and yet life was a continued sacrifice of self for others. In the meantime Mr. Longman came home, and the cheerful smile upon his wife's lips, so different from what he was expecting, delighted him, and he gave the an even more cordial greeting than was his wont. When his wife had informed him how it all came about he resolved to do his part toward giving them a good time, so an abundant order for apples and the be- loved peanuts, the delight of the news- boy's heart, and told them to help themselves, which they did to a man. Mrs, Longman, with Bridget’s ass ance, spent the balance of the evening making packages for the boys to take home with them, and the substitutes were not forgotten. With her huse band's” approval, she made a proposi- tion to tie boysat the ¢lose of the eve. ning, and {hat was that they ‘should all come one cvening in every month and take supper with the boys, pro- vided that all who could go to some Sunda hool would db sof To her iad surprise the most of tl hem agre ed to the a rangement, and those who held ie found upon inquiry were constrained to object on the score of clothing, a want she engaged to sup ply. . She. went further than; exerted herself to obtain admissign for the blind boy into an institution for the blind, and ce each of the monthly parties she’ paid him a visit, taking bim h 1are of the good things, al- ways companied by her own rhiose boys sent «oF Ste hack, ~ SONS, Tele- and sometimes by the Evening gram, Bulletin or one of tie dailies, and one of the most useful lessons gman received fiom her “There is no n doing which Mrs. surprise p Tong ‘ty was th surer remedy for low spirits tha good to others.—Waverley Magazine, tonished the Barber. ies have been told of but this, which cropped up in Philadelphia, is the very latest. Qut in the district over the Scl kill live two men, twins, and it is with difficulty their friends are able to tell them rt. One morning one of the twins went to a barber shop to get shaved, and a new Barber shaved him. In the afterngon the other twin went to the same shop and placed him- self in the new barber's chair. The barber looked at the man and then went over to the be of the shop. » he sald, *I think Till go cliess there's something the me.” matter?” twins, West Many ¢ ( ie 1d § OSS, home. I matter with “Yhat's the boss, “Well inquired the “see that him only with two Suess 12 nhlied the barber, I shaved here he is beard. I hia Pres r and wn iH Forest Lore. leaf is thc Ernes ntury, take squirre Seton in Ce crow’s bill and make h coon’s ear and as wide Then plant your ripen before the ches woeodceht sle Pp. Toothbrush iri 11 For Chilc . f the Hampstead i ywvided with a to ho tvainsd 1. —L.0nacn newed effort, while they waste theirs in empty vaporings. He acts while they hesitate; he works while they wait. That is why there is always one man in the community who is conspicu- ous by contrast, and why also one interest, one corpors tion, or one association overtops all others. The best banker in'a town did not inherit his business genius—he worked. If he had stopped to listen to his ¢ s he would have fallen far short of the mark. He would not have escaped nein even then, for failure is a fertile field for malicious comment. All of which goes to prove that it does not make much difference what people say of us, for, if we are honest and work, success will come. We cannot escape the critic, but we can reap whatever reward hard work brings—which is more than the chronic kicker can do. The man who acts, therefore, the man who works, will not only bring re- sults, but he will be a power in his community. Do nat allow criticism to discourage or deter you in your work. Your pride and a high regard for your good name should spur you cn to greater and beter things than you have yet accomplished. The right kind of pride keeps us up to the high standard we have set for ourselves, both in our social life and in our business life. Pride helps us to merit the good opinions already gained from others. Pride sustains us through many a struggle and storm, and it is as potent an incentive as was ever fixed in a man’s qualities. The lack of it is as great a ilmitation as can be put upon a man’s abilities. The kind of pride to have is the pride that stands for progress, the pride that stimulates a man to action, that straightens him up, so that he can meet the world erect, every man face to face, and that will gain him courage to over- come every obstacle. Avery man should have a deep sense of obligation to live up to a record for honesty and integrity, a record for things done; for superiority of attain- ment, which should be his beacon light to lead him to the heights of succe Lay out your work for each day and devote each day conscientiously that work w ith all your strength and ability. Be the man who acts and you will be sure to achieve results commensurate with the efforts expended and creditable to both yourself and to society.—Labor ke Successful Farmer 15 Educated books, and iF tic to By C. 0. Witter. HE successful farmer is the one who keeps a set of p knows what every crop and every head of stock costs him, and what each yields in return. Some men do the same thing year after year, whether it pays or not, simply because they have gotten in the way of doing it. Such farming does not pay, and farmer wastes a deal of brawn and muscle which a little calculation would save. So much for the practical, money-making side of the ques- tion; but isn’t there something more than that? Isn't it worth an education, so that when one sits by the fire during the long and of poets? Isn't n hat grea more to have winter evenings he can appreciate the words of wise men it worth something to understand how the great undertakings of the world’s history makers are carried on? Isn't it worth something to know, as you toil under the boiling sun, how the sun and air and all the elements work together to produce the ruddy apple, the flinty wheat or the golden corn? Give us the educated farmer, with his steady integrity, his frank and oj heart, and his fearlessness in overcoming obstacles, and we have a man who is capable of filling a thousand spheres of usefulness which he alone who lives close to the great heart of nature, and who sympathizes with his fellows, can fill.—Brethren Evangelist. LZ & pd What Code of Manners For the Home? Ey Nlary A. Livermore. HAT code of manners should prevail in the question, for law itself is but “a reflex of are gathered out of nurseries and nations Jen home? It is a great homes,” and peoples are but the outcome 3 of homes. Manners are indeed but minor morals, and are of more importance than laws, which are but their exponents. .Good manners .arvé simply beautiful behavior. They are the out- cone of kind.hearts—the courteous Shee of kind feelings in-our intercourse with one another. ‘iat we call etiquette is a substitute for good manners, and is vor offen only their coun- terfeit. Yet, without it, society would be insufferable, at times, for the artificial laws of politeness, upon whose observance society insists, softens even natural angularities and asperities, and held rudeness and ill- breeding in check. In the home, it is prcbably most important that the married couple shall maintain the courtesy and charm of manner, and the recognition of equal relationship which invested the days of courtship with delight. There should not be even when the husband and the wife are in entire seciusion. It should extend to matters of dress, and reg: ulate attention to each other's wishes. It is fatal to the happiness and perma nency of married life for either to drop the loveliness of manner and the engaging courtesies of the ante-nuptial relation. Nothing is too trivial {o be considered that tends to strengthen family afi: on or prompts its expression in unselfishness and loving acts.—Success. LZ £7 any lack of courtesy in the home habits, 4 LZ An Argument For the Early Retirement of Business Men and the Cultivation of Leisure! From the Bankers’ Magazine the United States leaders in every line of activity, in politics and business, have been conspicuously prone to die, as it is said, in harnes The death of Mark Hanna is a c in peint. But the lost of those distinguished for their successful attainment wealth and fame, who have continued their activities lo ater the advance of age and the diminution of physical ength must have warned them of the approach- ing ond, - long one. In the older countries of Europe, on — civilization that of the United States is founded, it seems easier for en who have more or less successfully attained the object they aimed at to retire and enjoy freely the prizes they have gained, although even there the old barbaric struggle is in many cases kept up to the end. Until within the last twenty-five years the idea of retiring from active life and settling down to a life in which personal tastes and proclivities could be fol- lowed, was regarded as at least eccentric. There have always been two necessary from active life could with safety be acco: of wealth, and the other provision for ses the second and more important s steps to be taken before: ment plished; one was the acquirement safe keepil civilizat nro- ) can be more easily mana The its ion or red. individual no longer has to depend upon his own efforts to guard the store set aside for his future support. The power of corporation, originally directed cimply to the accumulation of wealth, is now its conservation. The existence to a very great extent app class able is a check on the wilder of a leisure tly and willing to enjoy their lives ration- ally and intelli exhibitions of leisure on the part i of suddenly acquired wealth. It also holds out something beyond mere money- | cetting as the geal of a succe essft 11 life. It encourages retirement after reason- abl discourages to some extent the piling up of Vex: ct of a more philosophical view of lif | the part of our I n will tend to a more even distribution of and a leveling of jualities now so frequently pointed out. Ti: Endless Pursuit of Wealth) i two da way along the walls of the car. The inquisitive sheep follow in his wake. Along the side of the car to the end, and along that wall he makes his way, and so on until he gets back to the door, where he makes his egress, the sheep following. By his leadership a procession is formed, and within three minutes the car is empty. When it is desired to load a car Bill is sent into the pen. “Go in there, Bill” is the command given. Into ihe car he goes and soon both decks are loaded, first one and then the other. Itis a trick to cet out without the sheep following. but Bill is *‘onto” his job, and at the proper moment he juinps through a narrow opening left for him, and an attendant quickly shuts the door after him y During the flood Bill nearly lost his life. He was put into the lower deck of a sheep car. The flood was soon up to that level, and Mr. Dudley lifted him into the top deck. Still the waters The end of a big log floated into the upper deck, where Bill stoed up to his shoulders in water. He thougit the log was something to walk on and he made the venture, only to be tilted by his own weight into the water. “Get in there, Bill,” commanded his friend Dudley, who was coming in a skiff, and Bill serambled back. After- ward he was taken into the skiff and carried to dry land. — kansas Cily Times. : rose, Wants Bivds of Prey. A London ornithologist has a plan for getting rid of the overabundance of pigeons that brood in the tops of public buildings in that city. He thinks it cruel to trap or shot them, so he would reinstate in the par of London the once numerous kite, or, as he is called in the north, *the put- tock.” Once this bird was quite com- mon about Covent Garden and if he could induced to return he would thin out the pigeons and at the same time aiford Londoners an opportuai- ty for observing a display of natural falconry that would he a novelty. The ornithologist would also have jays and magpies rehabilitated, so that they elit keep down the sparrows and otiier small birds that threaten to be- come a nuisance. be a Gap in the Language. “Il have another complaint against the English tongue,” began tlie Liter- ary Man. “There are a good many gaps in it, of ccurse, but it seems to nie that the most absurd is that a lan- guage which has a dozen current names for drink has none for the young woman whom 2 man is engaged to marry. Most of Jthe terms that might be suggested are the basest of coin — ‘best girl, ‘intended,’ and so forth. We have to fali back weakly on the French fiancee. And yet the relation is English and American enough, I think, for us to have a word of our own. Of course, there is “sweetheart,” but that seems to have dropped out of use altozether.”—DPlila- elphia Press. : Uphill Walk For Health. The best way te get oxygen into the blood is to walk a Bile uphill two or three times a day, keeping th mouth closed-and expunding the nos- trils. This beats ail other methods. During such a walk every drop oi blood in the body will make the ¢ cuit of the lungs and stream, red and pure, back to its appojnted work of cleansing the repairing worn-out tis- sue The uphill walk, as a prophy- lactic and curative measure in many chronid ailments dependent upon a weak condition of the heart, lungs and blood vessels, would prove invsl- uable. Medical Brief. Rand Miners. Sir Gorfrey Langdon, South African commissioner for native affairs, re- ently stated before the legislative council that the native miners Rand were “as comfortable looked after as the Pio land or in any part of ! George Farrar, on the and well in Cumber- England.” Sir comiuissioner for na- tive affairs in the Transvaal, reports to the legislative council that the na- tive mortality in the Rand mins from November, 1902, to July, 1903, was 70.6 per thousand. Honduras Draft Animals. Draft apimais in Honduras are mules, asses, oxen and horses. These auin are all of a diminutive type and serve very of freight, but well for the carrying for the purpose of hauling carriages and wagons these little beas arcely do; and yet they carry packs of 200 pounds over the mountain trails. and throughi-roaring streams. Town Built Over a Coal Mine. Many buildings in Motherwell, land, look like the leaning tower Pisa. The little town is built over ths side of a coal mine. Some houses have collapsed, business is at a sta: still, and the town will probably soon be dese Pred > Scot t- Army Maneuver During the German army th maneuvers railroad in Ie were moved over oi , without suspendi 56.000 It the and that trot serg froc umi char they mar befc dres froc sma Pet pdt mB Ld w ik ther ma: sch tica Par oth 28.0! free is = Dut the sal me ju wi ex thi Ian
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers