A Rene
oh A
yawn.
| Yom bave met, perchance, with the chronic
| Who 530 you the tales he bas told be
; Yio have triid to smile as bt mann
. And dered poarly burst with en mo
yawned yawn,
| Or Be youth who comes six sight in|
seven,
woos the maiden sit half.
Who tia, ag she ¢ thinks, “Will | ey
_ dawn
sr Tg loge Bh ll og
T on
| And inwardly groaned with an wsyawaed |
yawn.
1m at Chareh — but here woud be
yor ak; Tod ktow,
can't stay awake in chanh dom’t
Es cet mie er tt a
i And the frame eomvulsed with am wn
yawned yawn.
Aid ut, or aur sm of scivnes wy
[ Them is _sothing thats lout, ar Wastes
Scere § in the yawning depths of space
| All the unyawned yawns may have found
: hey face.
VER on the West Bide--No. 48
DeKalb strest. to be definite
~Jives a bacdoome. cleanout |
young [silow, Just of age. and
| whose name fs Michael J. Bodinger
Haw many people are there 1a whos
tha name means saything, or wlio after
| thought can remember having beard
{It before? Budinger Is a Chicago boy,
and be cathe ack In the city the
5! other Qay stor a Pile more than thres |
years’ siwence, snd outside of the
members of hie family, the mother, the
father, the sisters and the brothers,
wie live In the Little home on the West |
Side, no ome met him with any great
amount of scelaim. Yet this boy Bud |
| inger suffered mors personally for his
| country “40 8 recent occasion than did |
soores of men whose coming te Chit
: | cago wonld mean many winings snd
| dings and nanny Interviews io the
* 9 9
Bodiager was only one of the boys
behind the guns. In the battle that)
gave the Philipploe Islands and many
| millions of people to the United States |
{ Michnel J. Badinger sufferad mote than
+ any other wan fo Duwey's great Beet,
RE.
DIDN' T any ANY BEEAKF ART.
: »e Budinger did not hear them. In
1 fact, the surgeons and his messmates |
“| fully believed that the boy wonld get
Bis first knowledge of the American
victory fn another world. The Chicago
18d was shell man of one of Se an
i get 8 free ride. I know of one woman
six-inch rifies on board the TU.
Baltimore. Captain Dyer an,
Up to the time that Dewey gave the
| order to withdraw temporarily that bis
men might have a cup of coffee Bud.
Inger had stood behind the thin shield |
1 of the six-inch rifle and had passed a
wot the ip took a
rord war over the
into twe River
some ree fect.
1 shell every minute or two info Ha
yawning breech. Then for reasons
1 anaply sufficient to himself and to his
i commanding officers be ceased pass.
ing shells and took no further Interest
in the proceedings. Budinger was one
of the seven Americans who wire burt |
| In the Baitle of Manila Bay. All theses
men were on board the Baltimore and
all were‘serviog the same gus. Bad
Inger was the most serfously injured
one of the lot. and it was bellived for
several weeks that his pame would
£0 on the record as being that of the
“only American seaman killed in the
conflict.
The other night Captain Joseph W. |
O'Donnell, a man who has seen service, |
ran into Budinger. O Donnell bas a!
long memory and the name strack him
lite & flash, He questioned the boy
and goon saw his Manila medal, his
| discharge and record papers, and the
| scar that circles the eye from forehead |
to cheek hone. O'Dosnell toll of the
sailor's presence. The boy hax a Hite
Store on the West Side, and there
{ when pressed a little, he told his mod.
‘est tale of the first part of that Manila
| Bay fight from the standpoint of ene
of the little group of men every one
#1 of whom was sent to the sick hed by a
Spanish shell.
LS Se
2Oulside of the actual personal ex
perience of one of those who got hurt
a little,” sald the sailor) “the story of
the battle of the bay Is wearisomely
old to everybody. We went into the
down by the fac of the eu.
any drawing ther fire fret ut a dis
a an. and tet
“ ng | 1000 broadsides as we went past The
| And Tors: thunk : ought, net dead, yet |p
Pus rer has wept for he siyyswned
at we made are old stories
I was shell man of one of the
six-inch rites. This gun bas a shield
ghont the breceh to protest the men
mance. The Baltimore was hit only
five times, but the Soanish shells went
iy. They made mie pervous: they made
j everybody nervous at fra, snd there
men world duck thelr heads when
something etrnck or thers was an ei
i» pot a success. Every fimo that we
{ taken ar sone aliip, 2nd our Dervoue
{ness soon wore off in our anxiety to
soe If we cond follow the Sight of our |
shells to their destination. We thought |
wa did & lot of damage with our rifle,
bur whers things were fiying so thick
shell that did that which wa took
eredit for.
fast getting bevoud the front of the |
enetny’s line prior to going ont to get
thing happened. A short distance fram
ish shell went through the side of the
knocked the beams upward asd oul
and bit and expioded that ammunition
thom of a crash. AH the rest 1 jearpsd
| subsequently. The chances nmre that
the seven of os who were behind the
shield of the six-inch rifle were
manition which the Spanish shell ex:
i ploded.
“1 didn’t pet any breakfast that
gmorning. soy supper that night or any
breakfast the next morning 1 was
wdenmcions for more than twenty-four
hones A places of a shell strack woe
BGuarely Af the shies of Ge fl oye
Si =. Tw ’
there 1a fo the
when you waked up after tweniy
ars” sleep”
“The bovs told me that 1 opened my
pliad Bedingor
Pig we lek them? That Is the Srt
safer. Nd we lok them?
Record-Herald.
i
People Who Attend Fanersls.
said 3 Washington undertaker a few
days ago. “This may seem strange,
not an underisker in this oity who
oes mot come in contact with this
clidi of Jovy gearly every dag in tis
week, 1 them pests. for that is
the only same that consistently ap |
plies to them,
bood, or in any part of the city. for
that paatter. they lose ne time In get:
ting to the Louse of motrning They
| tlways evince sn interest in the fame
fy, and, of coprse, desire a final look |
at the deceased.
“They are prompily oan band at the
funeral, and. as & rule, are dressed In
inte sents reserved for monrners-in-
dead. They are as a rule. among the
first to got to the carriages, and wi
dot fail to riog themslives In” for a)
ride to the conietery,
friend the family does not care to make
& scene, snd the professional mourner
in Washington who haa attended as
many as three funerals in a single
day. Bhe evinced the sarge intersst
at each, and believe me when 1 say
that, although ashe was not connected
with any of the familirs she actually
trim! and “took on’ ax if each dead
“Undertakers know these wolgen,
and many of thers have tried to put
a stop to the morbid practice, but it ls
coe that 1s bard to contend with. It
would seem that the professineal
monrner bad rome to stay with oa”
Ww Ashington Bitar.
Pension Manet.
Unele Sam sends peasion money al}
over the workl Every country Is mi
presente, and geariy every inhabited
island of the ses. Un
! toners are on the Istand of Comers,
Beal the eoast of Routh Afrien; on the
Reyvobelles Island, in the Indian Ovean:
‘in Blerra Leone, near Liberis, and on
the Island of Manritiox. In Grea
Britain there are 570 of Uncle Sam's
: pensioners. In Ireland 427 receive $360,
ik annually: England bas 328 who pet
(845 5050 Scotland bas 102 with 817.000,
{mhile 15 in Wales receive $140d0 Ip
| Guremany theve are 810 wands of the
' United States. who draw SE05000.
| France has T2, who get $100: Rus
gig, 0 who receive $1400. Norway, 45
drawing 87x and Denmark, 27. re
ceiving $581 Down in Spain 7 pen
stoners get S835. and Portugal bas 4
i who take $346. So it gues into Italy,
i with 33. drawing $4300; up into Rus
gis, where 00 ref 246058: over fo Turkey
where 7 receive $1000, and down inte
Africa, where 13 are pald B0000. Om
(this eontinern:, in Canadas. Mesico. and
South Amicries. there are many more}
in proportion. Every cammunity holds |
Shem =
Baltimore into an officer's cabin,
*In all cities there are persons whose |
one great alm is to attend funerals”
but ft is true, nevertheless. There Ia
“If there 2 a death In the neighbor |
black. Same of them have heen known |
to get 20 bold as to crowd themselves |
mediate members of the family of the
=f course, at the hisr of 8 dead
person bad boen her nearest loved one. |
sgaisst small arms fre but it owas
practicnlly useless against heavy onde |
ver ux around apd alent Be omstant.
wis something fanny in the way the |
plosion. Ducking as a means of safety |
‘fred. of courses, a definite alm was
| it might have been some other fellows
ia bite of something fo eat when som :
us on the deck was a box of three |
potinder shells just seat up from way | Topas
down in the ammunition bold. A Span. Jf
ward, took a glanciog direction itself |
box. 1 bave a sort of a dim recollec: |
knocked out by pleces of American am |
Here in the parlor I sit)
ina moment or Two eel be downy”
ge, Be iy privk just & bit—
i neler # _y —_
or enh.
B +b % i
pi it 3 ausrier
be koew that Td wall oh an at . es
ies 3 Hite TETAtion, I yom.
I re mot doonwd to be late!
But, then tha a goddess, a cuern-
A rR, at beet. ow die, #0 1
Predestined to pale, all serene,
Man wait or beatir, 3% her will.
Fight hissy? Great Caiwar! (lame on,
5 we're ming the fan
A round doen parte cold 1 don
While Fou ave been Pasing with poe
And thin is “8 moment or two’
! 7 # deem that
Than sitting here prot ng fn my hat’
245
& z
ricther place Bit me in the chest, and |
still another, a sunaller hit, Bit me dn |
the hand. I was in the hospital for a!
A guarier tn mine’ Faith snd | Ives!
B's more than ot ad
AR! There's a rastie ahs
A frofrog of silk on the stair
“We Bad made the last Joop and were She's coming quarter a nine’
I must emile and peetand. J supose
“I never | Sw ot
God Blows her! As wt BA 4% poses
wElwin I.E Sin, § is Puck.
di Re
The Millionaires After all. my
amey hasn't brought us happiness”
Who does not fear 49 fel] the truth
Is pretty brave, but, my!
More heave iv he wha'u not, forscoth,
Afraid tor teil a le
“Philadelphia Prem.
She" Mr. Niblack i & very skill
(fal golfer, n't he? He-*1 don't!
koow about that bat Le cortainly Is
Hest Hal? the wash doesn’t
Now York OC bp Ther hssgne walt,
firtnd with smooth eaderars pores
rials far better than any other sort
for occasions of formal dress As
| wadet and tie entive eostanie
Ths waist proper is
plein asl smeoth at the back with
and sxivoding slightly over the skirt
eults many guns and mauy mate |
: ualvictis boapnts T= | tive viriting dress of dark green velvet
pitted” with white is richly rbmed
ol elie,
are trenrtnd By the deesapaker precise
i This smart Muy Manton model in
His Wife~Nut it has made us ob | (WIS thes dewirable features and at)
joots of envy "—Lifs | the Same time has a fapey front and
; Lo sleeven that regder it elaborate 2nough
white pitting on hrowns. Undersleoven
4 vestep qr BMonse front or collar and
cuffs are all mwde of pitted velvet, to
combine with cloth of fanned. Ag ee
with dark furs.
A Pink Homespun,
The wand “homespun” strmests §
“Backabomt™ or general gtiiity cose
tre. BL this season we have them
in trae evening shades Ths new year
brings os <ear pink and sky blue
Sompreptine as well ax the “water
greens pearl and biscuit shades
ranged ander the generic name of pase
Thess arty homespuns
7 He doth gownn. They have border
deseratiog of binek velvet or dark for,
‘aad are Dep word to afternoons teas.
Chillon, Pink Eoses and Lave,
A fea gown of sirpassing lovelinesy
is of fine white chiffon over ping wating
falling to the feel, where it rosts on 8
ruche Of plak roses This agains is
| vedled by a lace ovendess axguisitely
embrakiered with garlands of pink ©
tin riblon and ohiffon fowers the
os hatiging from a beri of pink
roses: i {leh Jdecerateldl la the same
; manner. the lace adaed with tiny
{ shown the material is Saphio satin in! .
pastel blve with front and sedersiseros
i of cremm Jace over white and tay edge!
trimming of fancy werolled brald, but
: pumherless manriabexnd combinations |
ut I might De suggested both for the odd |
8 very Saent goifir-Philadelphin
bonillonnes of pink chiffun. completes
Lhe costae,
Shiree.
Thera his We a great deal of talk
shout ub skirts and they certainly
1d 1 Pare petting fuller. Ther are frog fron
The Hein is snugly ded 2nd fo
: Celeales donde davis wader-arm gores
know how the other Mil Dyer” Jow | and side backs,
ert-1 think you Arerastimate the
| mamber of people who i thelr own | smooth eipdherarm pores bat f= slighty |
Ee rn po
§
¥
at was the Ors thing yon all
eves and sald: Dd we Helk Tem? 7 re. :
Peal at rhe front The sest or full 1
“I wonder whe this pan 8 who!
ing round the feet, thourh #51] kenping
that graceful, clinging sppearanes
round he dip. We ail vine a ten
depey towand shortening the walking
REL An animely seusible ote. an
ig ae dees net Interfere wlth our
wants to know whether or sot life je |
warth living?” “Oh probably some!
Ctollow who haw mee ooensy than be |
| kows what fo do with tie
Lavra-"Yes you ses she fold him
her father haa fost all his wonlth, dus :
thought of every true sollier and men Ars Well, he wil koow | |
It is of such stuff that men are made, |
~Edward B. Clark, fo the Chicago
:
iter States pen |
conking school to Bit her for numrrisge.”
engaged to found it out Judge
sliger to Kaew she has lost her voles?
My. Praclere-"Its much nore tortur
| ite.
troyed hy fre!” Young Arntist-“Hip |
out expressed a drawing on that train
~=Ldfe.
thrown out of the Boston library.™
{mings apd was ser before Kir The
the wiiter: “How mach YY He turned
happened to be there and the young
azul to sit dewn and oper what be
to test Lie love for Ber” Adg—“And |
better next time" The Smart Set.
Mrs. A "1 send suv Saati to 8
Mrs. B"Was (be experiment a suo
cess Mra ADs homing she wad
If Miss Mineres brerved to slay
Football, ‘muds other studious cares,
Thows hang rushes, ME WAY,
Would ¥oon he sercom faire
~Wiahington Star.
Miss Gushlece—~"How tartariog. how
fenrful the thought most be for a great |
BY when she dossu kaow ie." Tit
Tee Rangle~"T've adviriised for 5,
servant for a whole week with no
result” Mra Comso— "Well I adver |
timed for a good-leking, lady-help, and |
bad thirty four to select from the first
day.” Tit-Bits.
‘Her Father-*Ahal 1 cagpght you
kissing my daughter, vir What
son mean by that ser: of business? |
He~"1 don't consider © business af all,
&lr, bat plegsare, purely plessare™-
Philadelphia Press
Bofuly who fell overboant and was
~faint when you heard them yall
Maa overbiard "Helen sobbing
“Noun, Cholly. 1 never once sus
pectad they could mean you” Tit Bits |
The Yisitor-"Horrors! The If hn
sing express wrecked apd totally de
tab! Good!” “Are you crazy? “Na
and I valued It at £80. Now fhe
press company will have to pay for it"
Backstop—“I'in glad 10 see that you
are making a name for yoursell as ap
author, old man.” Scribler mad 30
~"Yen, Honors are belig beaped o,
I learned that my latest hook bad Bees
Harper's Pazar.
Ordered » Canvass Back Dueck.
B was in a fashicoable restaurant
and at shout T o'clock in the evening.
A young man of ordinary appeannoe
sal at a table. and after studyisg over
the DUI of fare for soos thae, ordeperd
anvas-back dock. Alter a long wait |
B® oarrived In all ita glory and trim
gurgvousness. of the oslevy fed fowl
arousad Bis suspicious and he said to
pale a8 the walter said, “Three filvyy”
aml rushed to the desk with the bl
af fare in his band. The proprietoy
man showed him where a printer's
under had been made, and the aought |
dropped froma the LIL and explaiged
ghat be had but thirtydive cents to
pay with. He was excited and talked
+0 loudly that all in the neighborhood
Geant Rim ax be begged to be lot off
Pha proprietor said it was all right
sould aftond. The young man, Bow.
ver, Was too badly seared to temam
aos} left the place. An hour later the
lish was served to seine one who really
| wanted it New York Post.
California nan Buriey State,
California ranks Jrst anioug the
i faced fate the linimes but
dramatically rescued Hd -panoaw faced late the SR, Sh
STYLISH 8
NGLE-BR EARTEDY BLOUSE
amd walst edges and fs stitched into
ate the fell
ers at the bedt. Ar the fieok i 8 beg
and Sffortive The wuder portions gr
the uppw
portions ame quite separate and fal
froely over the deep ots
Toon thls waist in the medium sin
four and an vighid sards of water)
quarter yards thirty two laches wide,
deraleeved
Waman's Sage Bressiod Blovnwe,
than the stoaple blonwe Young girls
and women: slike hold It the most sat
isfactory of all medels, both for the
gut and the coat of velvet, velours and:
we. * Why, it was ouly yesterday that |
the like. The example shown in the
large drawing bas ihe merit of abe
lute simplicity combined with siuart
ness. The origioal fs made of broads
~ploth In bacco brown apd mak
i part of a suit. the extension bein
omitted]. but all suiting materials am
aniropriste ns wall a4 those already |
nyentinged,
Back be plain and wmeuth, withont ful
silphily over the edt. The eck le
ad natehed lapels apd oo poachiat dn In
meets] in the Bet fran The sleeves
at the bands, When the basque ex
bBonvath the helt
Too ent this blogse for a woman of
yards of material cwanivione inchos
ty-seven inches wide ope and three
quarter yanls forty fuar fnches wihiln
or ope and Sveelghth yards 8fiy four
gail yard of velvet for collar,
4 »Piaed™ Velvets,
Mach In favor are the new velvets
pith surface of black, blue op dark
green, “pitted” with white, You see a
chestnut brawn velvet pitted with am
States for the production o* barley.
A
| ber or Luff, and this looks better than
or two yards forty-four inches wide ee ak
will be required, with tes and a ball | ante wiieh Se Joke . Ee he
yards of all-over Jace for front sat yp | Which (an be cut away to yoke de
| when a transparent effect is desired
The foil partion is gathered at both ups
No ater panpent 8 more papules
+ ® Pa I havk. Phe sleeves are in Blagop style ¢
tension is used [bis Jodaed to the Mowe
| front of facw is guihensl at doth neck
place ar the righ wide hooked over:
The froma gre ald
| threes toe pach and avranged jp ogathe | :
Proneh snsdel aug litte 22 0 &
Jatin stock, The sleeves are noted
Lont Trackin which for grace aud SHarte
wus should always be fairly loog.
Child's French Dress.
The king waisted dress known as the
uicety aml 8 the Leight of present
styles. The very pretty May Manton
ample shown is made of nainsool
with yoke and trinoning of Hoe needie
twenty-one Delis wide, two amd (hrees
work, amd is worn with a richon sash,
all washanle materials are equally
sppropriate, white cashuere. henriet
4 albatross and simple siike are all
{tn vogae for the heavier Frocus,
Pa wails is ade over a A22ed lining
por amd lower edges. byt the waist and
A RSH A A
Uaing clase together at the centre
with pointed culls, and over the shoul
ders, fledshing the edge of the yoke, 8
A pointed berths tha: suits childish
feures admirably well Atl the peck
ia a stamding collar
The skirt is circular and fares freely
and gracefully at the lower portion,
while the upper edge is lained to the
axtrr. the seam wing concesled by the
x
RAs
oon thin dress far a old of eight
{ yonrs af nge five and a hall yards of
The Blanes fx peinently simple, Tih |
material twentyans inches wide, five
| vards twonty-seven inches wile, Tour
poss, bat the Greats, wile plan aor |
the shoulders have the fulness atyliah |
Iv arranged ar the walst Une and draw |
finished with a repdadion rent dallas
gre fa coat syie sliphitly Bellslapadd
ewqliam size three anil three-quarter |
whie, theee and a guarter yards twon- |
cies while will be required. with one: |
and a halt sands thivtyiwe inches
wide, or three apd dvewighth yards
forty-four inchex wide will de
SrA Bb £5 or SE I i OR A be et
FRENCH DRERSE YOR A CHILI
aired, with one-half yard of atbover
embrofdery, three of edging and two
and an ¢ighth yards « insertion to
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