The Frontier
Published by D. H. CEONINt
KOMAINE SAONDKKS. Assistant Editor
and Manager.
91 fto the Year 7ft Gents Six Months
Official paper of o celli and Holt county.
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If your New Year’s resolutions last
a week its probably longer than you
intended.
Tile Fremont Tribune pulled oil a
New Year’s stunt in Lite shape of a
thirty-two pager.
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The year 1908 promises to be a his
tory making year. You should read
The Frontier and keep posted.
Georgia became a prohibition state
at midnight Tuesday. The forces
which broaght about the enactment
of the law expect soon to advance, on
Milwaukee.
A district judge at Omaha holds
that Nebraska’s blue law is constitu
tional. It may reasonably be expect
ed that some dozens legislators will go
to the next session determined tore
peal or amend the law.
There was no more truth in what
the Independent said about Bob
Ohittick a year ago than what it said
about Judge Barnes, but it hasn’t
taken it back. It hasn’t been fright
ened into it by a libel suit.
The last Nebraska legislature at
tained some notice as an economical
body in the matter of appropriations.
Down in Missouri they have just dis
covered a deficit of 81,260,000 because
of the extraviganee of their last legis
lature.
It seems that the state oil inspector
once in awhile rejects a consignment.
From the way the kerosene refuses tc
make a light along about the first
shipment of the winter some people
have come to think that a state oil
inspector is more of an ornament thar
a servant.
Business conditions are promising
for the year 1908, though presidential
years are considered necessarily “oil1
a little in this respect. The resurap
tion of business after a partial shut
down occasioned by shortage of cast
in the banks indicates a good yeai
ahead.
Is it not high honor to once or twlci
serve your oountrymen in the exalted
office of president? That’s enougl
without pensioning them after re
tirement. If the pay while in offlc*
is inadequate, raise the salary, bul
any efforts to increase an alreadj
burdened pension roll should be d!s
couraged.
Bassett Leader: A Minnesota pure
food inspector recently tied up a ship
ment of groceries from a Chicago mail
order concern and out of eighty-twc
samples taken from one shipment onlj
two complied with the law, the other)
1 being short in weight and in many in
stances adulterated. Coffee marked
fifteen pounds weighed only thirteer
I ponnds, eight ounces, and the sam(
thing occurred down through the lisl
of spices, rice, etc. The coffee wa!
j adulterated with roasted beans, th<
spices were adulterated, and black
j berry cordial contained forbiddei
drugs. The mail order pleaded guilt;
! and was fined 150 and costs.
The list of speakers for the dem
ocratio dollar dinner at Lincoln, Jan
uary 15, given in honor of William J
Bryan, includes such notables as Gov
j ernor Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma
Jerry B. Sullivan of Des Moinn
Henry Warrum of Indianapolis, Gov
ernor N. B. Broward of Florida, foi
mer Senator Thomas M. Patterson c
ft Colorada, M. F. Harrington of O’Neil
Neb., and William J. Bryan. Cot
slderable interest attaches to th
speech of Mr. Bryan, as outlining hi
views of the coming campaign and h
idea of what should be some of th
planks of the democratic natiom
plrtform. Our friend Mike will pri
bably elucidate the railroad owne
ship question, tell them how to g<
cars if they want to ship hay and po
sibly venture some tips on coppt
mine investments.
what will McGinnis do?
The Independent takes it back. In
a double-column editorial, adorned
with a “slug” head, it admits that
the slanderous article printed about
J. B. Barnes of Norfolk, one of the
judges of the supreme court, was a
fake story manufactured for political
purposes. The article got the Inde
pendent publisher into hot water lie
wasn’t looking for. Character assas
sin and slander has been the chief
characteristic of the populist organ at
O’Neill since it was founded and it
had been carried on with impunity so
long that the directors of the editorial
policy regarded themselves as immune.
A slanderous attack on one of the
supreme court judges brought the
Independent publisher face to face
with a criminal libel suit, something
that hadn't been anticipated because
the slanderous course of the news
paper had continued unnoolesled since
the day ttie paper was started.
Regarding the article published
last summer the Independent now
says in retraction, among other
things:
We are now satisfied that the state
ment concerning the discharge of lire
arms was not correct, we are further
satislied from a painstaking and thor
ough investigation of the matter that
no improper relations were being sus
tained between Judge Barnes and his
stenographer. We are thoroughly
satisfied that the rumors and gossip
which caused his wife’s jealousy had
no foundation in fact, and that an in
justice was done to both the sten
ographer and Judge Barries in that
respect.
An open confession is admitted to
be good for the soul. The Independ
ent might further relieve itself by
public apology to a few of the citizens
of Holt county it lias slandered.
The Independendent says that in
view of the retraction Judge Barnes
has agreed to drop the matter and the
cases against Miles will be dismissed.
The charges and retraction were
traced by one and the same hand. It
is generally understood in this com
munity that a former populist spell
binder, now masquerading as a demo
crat,is the real editor of the Independ
ent and this is thought to have some
thing to do with securing a settlement,
out of court, thus avoiding unpleasant
publicity by having the authorship
established in court, especially in view
of the fact that Lite chief figure in the
prosecution is a member of the court
to which the “dark horse” may have
occasion to appeal a case now and
then.
We suppose Judge Barnes’ agree
ment not to prosecute applies to the
case started in Madison county, as it
is not clear how he can take the in
itiative in dismissing the case started
by 9tephen McGinnis here. Steve,
you know, became very indignant
about 10 o’clock one night and had
Miles arrested for slandering aud
libeling Judge Barnes. His case is
now pending in the district court of
Holt county and if tho interest man
ifest by the complaining witness one
night last summer has not died out
he will probably give us the next
chapter.
What will McGinnis do?
The Lincoln Observer is devoting
what space it can’t sell to the brewery
and harvester trusts to an assault on
the president. It prints a lot of stuff
from a corporate tool atChicago about
"Theodore Roosevelt— Destroper.” In
i view of the fact that the country has
i enjoyed the most phenominal pros
i perlty in its history during President
• Roosevelt’s administration it's a query
i where the title "destroyer” is appllc
’ able, unless it is that some "buneco”
games have not been allowed to
nourish, spoilers of the public domain
‘ have been run down and outlawed
trusts brought to time.
The Lincoln Star notes a prosperity
, item at the beginning of the New
,» Year. It says: “Isn’t that cheering
- news from Havelock, to the effect that
- the shops are to re-open this week,
f with *100,000 worth of machinery
, added to the equipment and with 685
- men employed in the various depart
e mentsV Does that sound like ‘hard
s times'!” ”
s
A negro of Brownville fame has
j brought suit against the government
| for pay from the time the regiment
was disbanded by order of the presi
. dent until the date of his enlistment
t
expires. *
r Norfolk passed the week without a
shooting scrape.
What Have We Done Today?
We shill do so much in the year to come.
But bat have wedene toda"?
Wr»b; II give our gold in a princely sum,
iiut hat did we give today?
We shi II lift the heart and dry the tear.
We (hell p'ant a hope in the place of fear.
We shall speak the Words of lnve and cheer.
Hut what did wc speak today?
Wc slo II be so kind in the after-a-while.
But what have we been to(la>?
We Sh i,I bring to each lonely life a smile.
Hut what have we brought today?
We shall give to truth a grander birth,
And to steadfast faith a deeper woith;
We shall feed the hungry souls of earth.
But whom have we fed today?
We shall reap such Joys in the by and by.
But what have we sown today?
We shall build us mansions In the sky.
ltul what Iiave wc built today;
Tls sweet In the Idle, dreams to bask.
But here and now do we do our task?
Ves. this is the thing our soul must ask;
• What have we done today?”
— Met all s.
Democrats Began It.
Leslie’s Weekly: The democratic
papers which have been raising a
jiamor about the contributions which
they say were made to the republican
campaign fund in 1904 are unwise.
They are unwise because they are apt
to provoke inquiries as to democratic
practices in that connection. The
inquirer " ill not proceed far in his in
vestigation before he will discover
ihat die democrats and not the re
publii ms were the original sinners in
Jiis field. “We Fremonters in this
town iiave not $1 where the Fillmore
e s and the Buclianiers Iiave $10 each,
tod we Iiave Pennsylvania and New
Jersey both on our shoulders.” These
Acre Horace Greeley’s words in the
tampaign of 1856, in a letter to James
5. Pike, the Washington correspond
*nt of the New York Tribune.
Current, report had it that the South
put *150,000 into the canvass in Penn
sylvania that year in aid of Buchan
m, Pennsylvania being a "pivotal”
state at that time, and Pennsylvania
vas carried for him. Wall street
iontributed several hundreds of
thousands of dollars to the demo
iratio fund, to be used chiefly in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York.
August Belmont, a prominent Wall
itrcet banker in those days, the Amer
can agent of the Rothschilds, and
'ather of the present well known New
STork Belmonts (August, O. P. H. and
Perry), is said to have contributed
1100,000 to help Buchanan. If the
ate John W Forney, the chairman of
the demucrotic state committee of
Pennsylvania in 1850, who disbursed
the Buchanan campaign funds which
bad been sent to that state, had been
tree to tell the secrets of his prison
bouse (he told some of them a few
years later after he became a republi
can, but not all), he could have un
folded a tale which would silence the
assailants of Chairman Cortelyou, of
the republican iutioaal committee of
19M.
The use of money in presidential
campaigns on a large scale began in
i860, and the democrats began it. The
next time when money was used in
big sums in a presidential canvass was
just twenty years later, in 1876, and
the democrats—1Tilden and his sup
porters—were the culprits again.
Anybody who remembers the cam
paign of 1876 will recollect the expos
ures of democratic expenditures of
money for political purposes. In self
defense the republicans followed the
bad example set for them by the dem
ocrats, and the ‘‘blocks of five” and
other discredliable practices by the
republicans in 1880 in the doubtful
states, and the other revelations of
the same sort in some subsequent
canvasses, matched the democratic
contemporaneous doings in those
campaigns. Mr. Barmina,, for the
democrats, disbursed as much money,
in proportion <o the wealth of the
countrv iu his day of activity, as Mr.
ilanna and Mr. CJortelyou did for the
republicans.
Wo are not justifying the use of
money in large amounts by either
party in campaigns, although some
money necessarily has to be put up to
pay the rent of campaign headquart
ers, pay the expenses of printing and
distributing campaign literature, and
in putting spellbinders on the road.
Aside from the money needed to pay
the ligitimate expenses of campaigns,
its use should be condemned. The
national law prohibiting contributions
by corporations in elections, and in
the stale laws which have recently
been passed on the subject, will elim
inate much of this evil in 1908 and
subsequent campaigns.
The Pure Food Law.
Secretary Wilson says, “One of the
objects of the law is to inform the
consumer of the presence of certain
harmful drugs in medicines.” The
law requires that the amount of chlo
roform, opium, morphine, and other
habit forming drugs be stated on the
label of each bottle. The manufact
urers of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
have always claimed that their rem
edy did not contain any of these drugs
and the truth of this claim is now
fully proven, as no mention of them is
made on the label. This remedy is
not only one of the safest, but one ol
the best in use for coughs and colds.
Us value has been proven beyond
question during the many years it has
been in general use. For sale by Gil
ligan & Stout.
Notice—All accounts not settled by
January 15,1908, for blacksmithing at
Emmet, Nebr . will be given to a law
yer for collection.—G. E. Bowen,
O’Neill, Nebr. 27-2p
\ Millie's j
I Strategy. I
By W. Crawford Sherlock. |
H Copyright, 1907, by P. C. Eastmeut.
•‘.Millie, I have requested Mr. Mitchell
not to come here any more.” Mrs.
Thompson purred rather than spoke
the words, but her keen black eyes
were fixed Intently upon her niece as
if expecting the news would provoke
a storm. She was not mistaken.
“What do you mean, Aunt Iletty?”
demanded Millie, her blue eyes flash
ing and her voice quivering with
anger. “Why should you tell Jack not
to call upon me ugain? I am not a
child and can see no reason why you
should object to his visits if I don’t.”
“You forget yourself, Millie,” return
ed Mrs. Thompson in the same soft
purring tone. "I am your aunt, your
father’s sister, and he requested in his
will that you should make your home
with me until you are either married
or have reached the age of twenty-five.
That makes me your guardian, moral
ly if not legally, and I deem it my
duty to break up your intimacy with
Mr. Mitchell.”
“Why did you not object to Jack
when I first met him? Why did you
permit him to call here time and again
after we met? Why did you wait un
til we are engaged to be married be
fore you offered any objections to his
visiting me?”
itiiuit; uau auscu uuu mtcu luia.
Thompson. Her voice was calm, but
incisive, and each question was em
phasized by a sharp rap on the ebony
table beside her.
“I am not compelled to answer such
questions, Millie Gray, especially when
asked so disrespectfully,” purred Mrs.
Thompson, “but I will do so. I
thought Mr. Mitchell was a very es
timable young man when you first
met him. This impression remained
with me until lately, when I have had
reason to believe him otherwise.”
“What is your reason?” demanded
the girl sharply. “If any one has ma
ligned Jack, I have the right to know,
so I may give him the opportunity to
defend himself. What have you heard
about him. I wish to know.”
"I decline to tell you,” replied Mrs.
Thompson. Her voice was still soft
and low, but her thin fingers twitched
nervously as if she was imbued with a
strong desire to scratch the girl so
boldly confronting her. “Mr. Mitchell
shall not come here again. That is all
I have to say. Of course, as you are
of age, I cannot prevent you from
meeting him clandestinely, but so far
as my own home is concerned I shall
endeavor to do my duty.”
The suggestiveness of her aunt's
words puzzled Millie, but their purport
became clearer to her as she reflected.:
“I think I understand it all now,
Aunt Hetty,” she said slowly and
scornfully. “You have deliberately
planned this thing, knowing that my
father, who hated the very mention of
runaway marriages, provided that 1
must be married at your home If I am
married before I am twenty-five. If l
am married anywhere else, one-half
of my fortune will go to you. My fa
ther made this strange provision, be
lieving it would prevent me from elop
ing with any one before I had reached
years of discretion. You introduced
me to Jack Mitchell and encouraged
him to come to see me. Now when we
are almost ready to be married you
trump up some objection to him in the
hope that I will run away and get mar
ried, thus allowing you to become pos
sessed of half my fortune. Aunt Het
ty, I have never loved you, but I did
not think you were capable of such a
scheme.”
“Believe what you please,” retorted
Mrs. Thompson, purring no longer, but
speaking harshly and discordantly.
“Mr. Mitchell shall not come here
again. You may do as you please.”
“I am going to marry Jack Mitchell,”
replied Millie quietly, “and 1 shall be
married in your home. That is all I
have to say.” And, turning, the girl
walked to her own room, leaving her
aunt to reflect over the last words.
Bolting her door to guard against
any Intrusion, Millie reflected over the
situation. She was now twenty, and
by waiting five years until she came
into possession of her fortune it would
be possible to prevent Mrs. Thompson
from obtaining any of the property,
but the girl’s mind revolted at the idea
of waiting so long. She had known
Jack Mitchell for two years and been
engaged to him six months. Five
years seemed a lifetime, and she dis
missed all thought of such a plan.
Aunt Hetty should not profit by her
marriage to Jack—upon that at least
Millie was resolved—but how could she
possibly be married in her aunt’s
home? Aunt Hetty, having been dis
covered In her scheme to secure a part
of the fortune, would spare no effort
to prevent her niece’s marriage in her
home, and Aunt Hetty, small of stat
ure and not overly strong, usually ac
complished what she started out to do.
“What a jolly row there would be if
Jack and the minister would come here
and try to go ahead with the cere
mony,” laughed Millie as the ludicrous
side of such a possibility appealed to
her sense of humor. “I can imagine
Aunt Hetty taking Jack by the coat
collar and putting him out, despite his
six feet of length and 200 pounds
weight. Aunt Hetty would do it some
how, so I must be married here with
out her knowledge, but how Is that to
be done?”
There seemed no way to solve the
problem, and Millie" arose to take a
walk, thinking the fresh air might
bring some relief to her troubled mind.
As she stood before the mirror arrang
ing her hat she noticed the reflection
ui uien moving about the adjoining
house, and she turned to investigate.
Mon were taking up the carpet and j
moving the furniture out of the room
opposite hers, while others were on
the floor below, similarly engaged.
Could it be possible that the Jacksons
were going to move? If they were the 1
adjoining house would probably be for s
rent, and— Millie raised her window 1
quickly and reached out her hand. It 1
almost touched the window of the ad- t
Joining house. The houses were join- (
ed together in front, but in the rear >
a small space less than three feet
wide separated them to admit light ,
and air. A solution of the problem
flashed across the girl’s mind as she
lowered and fastened the window. It
might be possible to frustrate Aunt |
Hetty and not wait five years either.
During the next week Millie spent j
much of the time at home. Aunt Ilet- ^
ty, always on the alert, viewed this .
unusual proceeding with suspicion and
remained indoors herself to guard t
against any possible invasion by Jack ,
Mitchell. Instructions were issued to
the servant to admit no one, and Mrs. (
Thompson felt confident of being able (
to frustrate any attempt on Millie’s (
part to marry according to the pro
vision of her father's will. (
Millie smiled complacently, but said
nothing, as she noted her aunt's ac
tions. Things were progressing fine
ly, and at last the plan was ready for (
execution.
Locking and bolting her door, she ,
spent two hours in putting on her pret- ,
tiest gown. When this task was com- (
pleted to her satisfaction she raised
the curtain and opened the window.
A moment later Jack Mitchell's hand
some face peered out of the window
of the adjoining house.
“All ready, Millie?’’ he asked, re- j
straining a strong desire to spring
across the intervening space and take .
her in his arms. “Here's the Itev. Mr. J
Walker, an old friend of mine, and two (
witnesses, Bert Latimer and Frank (
Long. We are all ready if you are.” 1
Millie nodded, and the minister di- ,
rected them to join hands across the .
space of separation. The marriage r
service was read in slow, measured j
tones, and they were pronounced man j
and wife. Jack would have come over ,
to join his wife, but she prevented
him.
“Xo, no, Jack; this is Aunt Hetty’s \
house, and she has forbidden you to
come here. Just wait for me at the
door.”
Mrs. Thompson, listening, as was her
wont, at the keyhole, had heard the 1
sound of voices and felt that some
thing was wrong. Vigorously and
viciously she had pounded on the door -
of Millie’s room, demanding admit- *
tanee during the ceremony, but the i
Iter. Mr. AValker, previously apprised '
of the situation, had not heeded the '
interruption. As Millie unfastened the 1
door Mrs. Thompson’s angry face con- i
fronted her. 1
“Who is in your room, Millie?” de- i
manded the aunt, glancing around in i
quest of the intruder. She found no 1
one in the room, but caught sight of i
Jack’s face across the way. The bride- f
groom had waited to see what devel- <
oped when the door was unfastened. <
"AA’hat is that man doing in the Jack- <
son house?” continued Mrs. Thompson <
angrily. “I shall request Mrs. Jack
son to forbid him coming there.” i
Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Thompson :
were excellent neighbois, and the 1
threat seemed sufficient to prevent any ;
further visitations of Jack Mitchell to 1
the adjoining house. i
“Mrs. Jackson has moved, Aunt Het- i
ty,” said Millie calmly. “But you have <
been so busy watching me that you ]
failed to notice it. I. or, rather, we. :
have taken the house.”
“AA’e! AA’hat do you mean?” inquired i
Mjs. Thompson excitedly. “I have
nothing to do with that house.” i
“I mean Jack and myself, aunt. AA’e
have just been married. I stood in my
room and Jack stood in the room of
the house next door. 1 was married
in your home and have complied with
the condition of my father's will. Good
by, Aunt Hetty. Come over and see
us. AA’e will be at home on Tuesdays
of next month.”
But Mrs. Thompson was too much
discomfited by the defeat of her well
laid plan to make a reply.
Flats Harm Book Trade.
“Flats and apartments damage my i
business dreadfully,” said a publisher.
“The minute a family gives up its
house and takes to a flat that same
minute it stops buying books. In the
first place, flat dwellers are cramped
for room. Having little enough space i
for their furniture, let alone for books, .
they naturally buy no books. In the
second place, flat dwellers are nomads;
they move often, and your nomad hes
itates to buy a book because he knows i
it will be a nuisance to pack at the i
next moving. I
“We are all taking to flats and apart- <
ments, housekeeping in them is so !
much easier and pleasanter. We are i
all freeing ourselves of needless things
in order to have more space in our
cramped quarters. Books we free our
selves of first, taking in their place a
subscription to a public library. :
“Indeed, thanks to the flat, private ■
libraries in the future will be as rare ,
as private theaters or private chap- ,
lains.”—New York Press.
Then She Left Him.
“Ah,” said the young husband, “it is
hard to part!” I
“Are you going to leave me?” shriek
ed the young wife. I
“No, indeed!” replied he. “I was re
ferring to this biscuit.”—Houston Tost, i
Retribution.
Mrs. Peckhem—Henry, do you be
lieve that people are. punished right
here on earth for their sins? Peckhem |
—I certainly do—that is, if marriages ,
fcre really made in heaven.—Chicago l
News. I
LYDiA DARRACH.
.oxley House, Philadelphia, Where
She Played Eavesdropper.
One of the favorite stories connected
rith the Revolution is the tale of
,ydia Darrach’s patriotism, which
tory, like others of similar import, has
een discredited by the discriminating
listorian. Notwithstanding the cold
ouche thrown upon the tradition it re
nains popular with all who know it.
'he house where the famous eaves
ropping on the part of the Quakeress
ook place is not so well known.
Those who have heard or read the
tory of Mrs. Darrach hardly need to
ie informed that she and her husband
Ived in what was called the Loxley
louse, once at the southeast corner of
.ittle Dock and Second streets. Little
)ock was the thoroughfare which runs
u a southwestern direction from Dock
treet to Second street. The ground
ipon which the Loxley house stood
vas acquired by Benjamin Loxley, a
veil to do carpenter, who owned prac
ically a whole square in this vicinity,
rom George Clymer in April, 1759, and
he queer little house was erected im
nediately. It was a speculation, for
here is nothing to show that the own
r ever lived there.
The house gained its fame from its
leculiar facade, which was unlike any
hing in the city, and from the anec
lote which connects Mrs. Darrach
vith the place. The great preacher
Vliitefield is said to have addressed
he multitudes from the balcony on
ither his sixth or seventh visit to this
ountry—17G3 or 17G9.
The Revolution had long since been
ver and most of the patriots in their
jraves before the tale of Mrs. Dar
nell's bold adventure, which is believ-_
d to have saved Washington and his
rray from capture by the British, be
ame known. In the first number of
he first volume of the American Quar
erly Review, issued in March, 1827,
he tale was told for the first time,
"here it is credited to “Garden's Anec
lotes of the American Revolution.”
"he author of the story in the Amer
can Quarterly Review, however, must
inve had access to Major Garden’s
nanuscript, for, the story was not
mblished in his book until the second
eries was issued in the latter part of
he year 1828.—Philadelphia Ledger.
STORIES OF TENNYSON.
Showing Some of the Odd Ways of the
Famous Poet.
In the memoirs of the late William
Ulingham, the English poet, appear
ome interesting reminiscences of Ten
iyson. Allingham’s first sight of him
vas at Twickenham, where Tennyson
vas then living. lie says: “Soon came
n a tall, broad shouldered, swarthy
nan, slightly stooping, with loose dark
lair and beard. He wore spectacles
ind was obviously very nearsighted.
Iollow cheeks and the dark pallor of
lis skin gave him an unhealthy appear
mce. He was a strange and almost
pectral figure. The great man peered
■lose at me and then shook hands cor
lially, yet with a profound quietude
if manner. He was then about forty
ine, but looked much older.”
In 18SG Alliugham visited Tennyson
it the latter’s home, Farringford, In
freshwater, Isle of Wight. One moru
ng they were talking on the downs to
gether, and Allingham said that he felt
lappy. Tennyson said gloomily, “I’m
lot at all happy—very unhappy.” The
eason, as Tennyson afterward explain
'd, for liis particular unhappiness was
lis uncertainty regarding the condition
ind destiny of man. Alliugham was
-ery anxious to photograph him on
his visit, but Tennyson positively re
'used. “You make bags under my
iyes,” he said.
At another time during this visit, as
Ulingham writes, they talked of
Ireams. “Tennyson said: ‘In my boy
lood I had intuitions of immortality—
nexpressible! I have never been able
o express them. I shall try some day.'
said that 1, too, had felt something
if that kind, whereat Tennyson, being
n one of his less amiable moods,
growled: ‘I don’t believe you have,
toil say it out of rivalry.’ ”
Allingham describes Tennyson's fond
less for strange antics, such as jump
ng round and round like a pigeon, and
idds, “He is the only person I ever saw
vho can do the most ludicrous things
vithout any loss of dignity.”
Feet of the Ancient Greeks.
A walk through the British museum
ind a close examination of the pedal
‘Xtremities of ancient art there show
hey are ail had about the feet. “The
Disk Thrower,” a celebrated specimen,
las particularly bad examples of in
cipient bunion joints. If the foot of
he Farnese Apollo, used as a model
n most art schools, represents the foot
if the average Greek corns and billi
ons must have been common in that
ilassical couutry.—British Shoemaker.
The Earnest Word.
“You never can tell,” observed Uncle
Ulen Sparks, “what lasting results
uay be accomplished by an earnest
vord spoken at the right time. Many
i man has had the shape of his nose
■hanged for life by calling another
nan a liar.”—Chicago Tribune.
Clever Retort.
“Yes, I am going to marry Mr. Bul
ion.”
“\t by, lie Is old enough to be your
atker!”
“1 know he is, but unfortunately he
loesn't seem to care for mother.”—
.ouisville Courier-Journal.
Black Eyes.
Miffkins—It is said that aggressive,
mpulsive people usually have black
■yes. Biffkins—That’s right. If they
laven’t got them at first they get them
a ter.—Exchange.
