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The Man Who Feels
The man who feels 18 n happier wlght
Than the IIIlIn who 18 callous and Bold ] ,
For If ho weeps In the gloom of night ,
Ho inuglls In the 'IIInhcIIJn'H gold :
And If the tide of his life rums low
It reaches the summits of cheer :
Ile known the hllhtll : , II" the depths below .
low ,
And ho smiles through ! n pitying tcnr.
AIIII utter It nil , when nil is don ,
'rho world ] has most of the gladdening
sun ,
t For the twlllhl lingers when tiny Is
dune ,
I 1 i AIIII the sun'l benediction II l1'nl'
Y 1 The man who feels ! IH hnJllller fnr-
! I say It ugain and 11111111-
1 ' 'rhll over can \u \ 01' ever lire ,
, 'J'ho JlIHleHs ROIIM of lIIell :
L For It ho sighs for his own gray woes ,
He sighs for nnother'l . too :
If the lllInt ot pain In his besom grows ,
Il III covered by 1I'JnIJllthy's Ilow
AIIII lifter II all . when all Is said ! ] ,
Still pity fIIlll love forever lire teed :
That the heart . unfeeling Is chili and
dens
Is true , and forever Is trlle.
The man who feels III 1\ dear God'lI gift
1'0 n sorrowful travailing world :
By the hands / that the burdens \ oC liCe
uplift
111 the flag of our pence \1nfllrlcll.
" ' 0 need not the 80uls thaI urn cllllous
nR Fate
Allll selfish 111111 wedded to greed
But the pitying tear for our fallen estate .
tate
We lIeed-lIl1el wo ever shall IIced
And after It mill . what all Is past ,
"l'Is the deed oC love ) thaI alone many
last ,
Allll the lest is chaff In the winnowing
hlllst ,
In the garden of life , n. wccd
-Alfrcd 'lItorhollso In Succcss.
Use for Her "Begglngs.
It was Sister Francis of the Order
of the Sisters of Charity who rebuked
northern general with the following
words , after ! ho had sloleon ) severely
to her when she asked for supplies for
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wounded \ men
"Robel or federal , " for It. ! must bo
. remembered that the sisters made no
distinction between northern and
southern soldiers In their mlnlstm-
tons , " 1 do not know ; Protestant or
Cathollo , I do not ask. They are not
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soldiers ) when tlloy come to us ; they
are ( simply suffering fellow croat\11'es.
Hlch 01' poor , of gentle or of lowly
birth , it Is not our province to Inquire.
ununiformed h , unarmed , sick and help-
less , wo ask not on what side they
fought. Our \ work begins after yours
In clone Yours the carnage , ours the
binding UI of the wounds. Yours the
battle , ours the duty of caring for the
mangled left behind on the field , Ice
I want for the sick , the wounded , the
tl 'ltJg , I plead ) for all , I beg for all ,
l pray ) ; for nil God's poor suffering
creatures wherever I may find them. " !
"Yes , you 'can beg , I'll admit , " 1'0'
IlIrned the genoral. "What do yon do
with all your hegglngs ? It Is r.lways
more ! more ! never enough : ! "
Finally ho gave the sister an order .
on the commissary with the remark ,
"Don't come bothering mo again ! "
In less than three weeks the gen-
t'al was taken to Hotel Dlou , a hos-
Jltal ( In New Orleans , which was In
charge of the Sisters of Charity. It
, was Sister Francis who nursed him
tenderly back to liCe and strength.
Two months afterward ! she received
a : check from lie ( general for $1,000 ,
with the penitent acknowledgment ! , "I
: think I know now what you do with
your begglngs "
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. Last to Surrender.
The following letter from the last
noted Southern general to surrender
It : the close of lie ( civil war , will bo
round "mlghty interesting reading , "
to quote from Horace Groolo ' , Gen
Smith was one of the compamllvoly
row confederate leaders who attained
the full rank of general , Longstreet
and several other , of note having
teen lieutenant generals.
. "Sowanoe , 1'01111. , Fob. H , 1893.
1\1r Dear Sir-Yom' letter has long
been laid aside unanswered Thank-
big you for Its kindly tone and inter-
ast.I owe you an apology for appar-
ent neglect. For over two months I
have been pulled down and wGI\ \ : ened
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and Incapacitated for work hr : chronic
bowel trollhle. I belong to an oM and
l'onor11 Yankee stock , which have hr
horlterl , nntongst other English and
Pttl'itlln characteristics , that or great
pertinacity , it may ho obstinacy , and
of never knowing whets wo are
whlped )
"I 1 was opposed ) ) to secession and
the war , at Its incipiency , but nacri-
Iced everything In Us advocacy ,
through a sense of duty , after It came
I never would have given up , and preferred .
ferrel lentil to RllrrolHler. 1\Iy trans'
J\tlRslssl)1111 ) army , after the capture or
\11' : Davis and the surrender oC the
armies east of the Mississippi , disbanded .
banded 'and went to their homes , and
there was no alternative but accept-
ing ! a conclllsioll already establish
My surrender was made with the fllll
understanding that J had no army and
I1CJ means of resistance , and was done
more for the benefit of the men who
had disbanded ( and scattered ( than for
m 'self.
"I 1 have great regard for your pee
pie ; they are my people and I know
their great and good qualities. I
know their had ones , also. I have my
tall ( share , I expect , by inheritance ,
for every drop of blood In my veins
Is New England and Anglo-Saxon. The
first governor of Connecticut was a
gmnilfather. 1\ly own grandfather was
distinguished Connecticut man and
n general the rovohilion. Both Gov.
Seymour I1f Connecticut and Gov. Seymour -
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mOllr of New York were cousins :
. "I 1 hO)10 ) my physical disablllly will
be ! an apology for my long silence and
apparent nQglect.
"Vor trllly yours , .
"E. Kirby Smith
"To Co1. D. C. Pavey , Boston , 1\1ass. "
Masked Batteries In the War.
'rho great bugaboo In the army In
186J , " said the major , "was the
masked baltery. The boys seemed to
believe , and the people at home did
believe , that to manic a battery 01' to
conceal it was contrary to army regu-
inllons and the laws of .war , and was
a sneaking , contemptible lrOcoClllng ) ,
characteristic of men working to destroy .
stroy the Union.
"In AI1I'1l and May , 1861 , there was
more news In the papers about masked
batteries than them was about sldr-
mlshes and marches. The men In
front rarely madc a forward movement
without coming upon'n. . diabolical
masked hattCl'Y. The masked battery
and the black horse cavalry were like
a nightmare to the army In Virginia ,
and the boys talked as wildly about
hem as the Londoners have been
talking recently about those vessels
of tile Russian volunteer fleot.
"Ono day our company ) , out SCOIlt.-
lug spied on a distant ridge what was
tit once pronounced ) a masked hattery.
It seemed to me an ordinary Ohio
: 'ackwoods brush heap , but men of
more experience Raid It was a battery
bidden hy innocent looking brushwood .
wood , and dispositions were made to
attack It. We opened fire at long
range , but there was no roply. Then
wo closed In , firing as we mn forward.
"Our blood was up ) and we were
ready for a charge when there came
from the brushwood three large blacksnakes -
snakes , or mountain racors. There
was confusion In the ranks , and then (
a wild chase after the snalws. The
masked battery was a common brush
heap and the experience of that day
raised the question if any man In the
regiment had ever seen a masked battery .
tOl'Y.Vo asked the captain , an ole ! '
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veteran , about It. He said he had
eon lots of masked batteries. In
fact , ho said It was the rule In 'defon-
slvo warfare to hide a battery 01' to
place It ( where It could not be seen
Ly an approaching enemy.
"lIe showed IJs > that our own battery
at the falls was masked , and that
'ur howitzer batter on the mountain
to our rear was hidden In the brush ,
and finally laughed the bugaboo out I
of our minds. A few days later he
r.tatloned us on either side of a mountain -
taro road to ambush a company ot
rebel cavalry , and after nil was over
r stiod If a masked battery was more
reprehensible than an aliibusht " . -Chi.
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To-Day.
\\'o f-hall 110 so much In the years to
come ,
But what have wo done to-dn7
We shnll give out gold 111 It prince )
nil tn ,
Bu whu dill wo give to-tiny 7
\\0 shall lift the wlIl'l ) and dry the tear ,
\Vo shall plant 11 hope In the place ) oC
tear ,
We shall scale with words oC love and
cheer ,
hut what have wo done 10-l1a7
\\'f' shall hn RO kind In the after while ,
But what have we been 10-eln7
" ' 0 shall bring to each lonely ) life n
smile ' ;
Bul what have wo brought 10-lln7 ?
\Ve slut ll give to truth It grander birth ,
And to sll'\CICnst faith a deeper worth
We shall feed the hungering souls of
cUl'th ,
Dul whom I1n"o0 fed to-Ill\7
Nixon Waterman .
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Has Its Troubles.
The most disconsolate fellow that
walls the beach Is the hermit crnb
whose shell has become too snug for
comfort. If It were his own , as the
clam's , it would grow with his growth ,
1nt1 I always ho a perfect fit ; but to
the hermit there comes often a "moV-
"moving
ing day , " when a new house must be
Rought. Discouraging work it Is , too.
Most of the doors at which ho knocks
are slammed In his faco. A tweak
from a larger pincer ) than his own
will often satisfy him that the shell
ho considers "distinctly possible , " and I
hopefully ventures to explore , is :
already occupied ) by a near but coldly
unsympathetic ) rolatlve.
Finding no empty shell of suitable
Else , the hermit may be driven to ass , ,
a brother hermit to vacate In his
fayor. The proposition Is spurned indignantly -
dignantly , and a fight ensues The bat-
Uo Is the stronger Often the attacking .
tacking party has considerable trouble -
hlo In cleaning out the shell , having I
to pick his adversary out In bits. A
periwinkle or a whelk may be attacked .
ed in a like manner by a hermit who
hI hard pressed and has taken a fancy
to that particular sholl. If the house-
I older bo feeble , the conquest Is easy
If lusty , ho holds the fort.
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A Water Treaomili.
The men who work In the great
logging ! camps In the West and North-
west , where miles and miles of great
logs are floated down the rivers to
sawmills below , have a peculiar
. EIrt. They grow so at home on slip-
pOI' , shifting logs rolling and tossing
about in the swift current that they
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can leap from one to another and ride
oa them like circus performers while
11roctlng their course around a bend
i or bad place In the rlvor. These
"loggors" make 11. specialty oC standing .
Ing on a log and making It roll , first
forward , then backward , by leaning
one way 01' the other , and standing on
the log nearest the direction they
wish It to roll. They can even make
the log roll through the water like
a wheel 01' hoop rolling over the
ground.
Sometime when you are "In swim-
mlng" or bathing find a good sized
log , put it In the water , and try tC1
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find how difficult It Is to do thIs , and :
the first time you try It the log will a .
probably roll over at once and dump
you In the wator. But you will very
scout get the knack of It , and then '
you will find that by standing with ,
your feet on ' one of the sloping sides
of the log you can make It turn in that
direction , and by moving your feet
just as fast as the log moves you can
not only keep your upright posltlo
hut can make the log move through \
the water Try It.
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Plndertoy.
Scissors and a pin only needed. This :
prattling parrot if cut out and faston. '
cd together with a pin will make a 4
very attractive to ) ' . It you push the , ' ; 1
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lIck and paste the pieces ) on an old
visiting card before the pieces are cut J
cut , this pindol'toy will last longer
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Origin of Names of Doge.
There not boys girls , '
are many or 1 .
or grown folks , either , for that matter .
tel' , who know how the breed names . , ; ' ,
of dogs first came into common use. 1
For Instance , the spaniel is so-called
because the first hopes of thIs beaut !
fun and Intelligent animal arrived In
England from Spain and were called
Spanish dogs.
The beautiful Blenheim spaniel 18
rnmed after Blenheim palace , where
this dog first was made fashionable
In the time of the great Marlborough.
The King Charles , as might bo guessed -
ed , owes Its name to the merry monarch -
arch
The slQ'e terrier was originally bred
in the Isle of SI'e , and the Scotch
terrier , of course , in Scotland.
. Many other dogs show the original
place of their breeding or develop-
: nent by their names , such as the
Great Dan , the Newfoundland , Slbo- t
Tian bloodhound , and so on.
The mastiff means "house.dog , " no
d 0111 , t , because of his great strength
and 5,0 : and ability to guard the
home.
Poodle means "waddle , " although
these pretty little pets of today don't
seem to partake of any ancestral
clumsiness.
A Cat's Revenge
A gentleman who was very fond of j
fishing , and who usually caught a good
lot of fish , frequently promised . \
next door neighbor to give him part
or his catch , but never fulfilled the
promise The cat of the next door
neighbor evidently overheard the
promise and thought the fisherman ;
ought to bo made to keep his word , L.\ '
for one clay when the people oC botl -w.4 .
houses had gone out for a little while
she sneaked Into the fisherman's
house , took two fine large trout ho
had just caught and laid them on the
ltchon : table of her own mistress.
This lady returning and finding them
there , supposed ) that her neighbor had
at last kept his promise , so she pro-
ceeded to clean and cool the fish for
the next meal , thanking him , when
5113 : next saw him for his generosit.y.
The fisherman Is now trying to find
semel secret method of killing the oat
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