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FAVORITES
Bieaal to the Roaiai,
Friend!
( come not here to talk. You know too
well
Ilia atory of our thraldom. We an
slaves!
Vb bright iua risae to hie count, and
lights
A race of slaves! He lets, and bia'last
brum
Falls on a !av! Not uoa M, ep
By the full tide of power, the conqueror
lead
To crimon glory and undying fame,
But base, ignoble ilavea! Slaves to
hurdw
Of petty tyrant, feudal despots; lord
Itieh in some hundred speannea, only
great
In thnt strange apell a name! Each
hour dark fraud.
Or open rapine, or protected murder,
Cries out against them! But this Ttry
day
An honest man, my neighbor (pointing
to I'aolo) there be etande
Waa struck struck lik a dog by one
who wore
The badge of Uraini! becauaw, forsooth,
lie tossed not high hia ready cap in air,
Nor lifted up hia voice in servile ahouta,
At aight of that great ruffian! lie we
men
And suffer such dishonor? Ilea, and
wash not
The stain away in blood? Suck bamas
are common.
I hare known deeper wronga. I, that
speak to ye,
. I had a brother once, a gracious boy,
Fall of all gentleness, of calmest hope,
Of aweet and quiet joy; there was tha
look
Of heaven upon his face which limners
give
To the beloved disciple. How I loved
That gracious boy! younger by fifteen
Brother at once and son: He left ray side;
A summer bloom on his fuir cheeks, a
smile
Farting bis innocent lips. In one short
hour
The pretty, harmless boy was slain! I
S.'IW
The corpse, the mangled corpse, and then
1 cried
For vengeance! Hn.ni ye, Romans!
House ye, slates!
Have ye brave sons? Look in the next
tierce brawl
To nee them die! Have ye fair daugh
ters? Iiok
To see them live, torn from your arms.
distiiilicd.
Dishonored, and, if ye dare call fur jos
lice.
Be answered by the lash! Yet Chi is
ltnine,
That ant on her seven hills, a in from ber
throne
Of beauty ruled the world! Yet we are
Itomaus!
Why, in that eldcT day, to be a Human
Was greater than a king! And once
a gain-
Hear me, ye walla, that echoed to the
tread
Of eirher ISnttua! once again, I swear,
The eternal city shall be free; her sons
hal' walk with prince.
Muey Basse!! Mitford.
flier of the Kvenlnsr.
Benutiful rtsr in heav'n so bright,
i.ftly fulls thy silv'ry light.
As thou movest f piuii earth afar.
Star of the evening, beautiful star.
Chorus:
Beautiful star.
Beautiful star,
Star of the evening, beautiful star,
lu fancy's eye thou seem'st to say,
Follow tue, come from earth away.
Cpward thy irit' pinions try.
To realms of love beyond the sky.
Shine on. O, star of love divine,
And may our oui's nffts-tion twine
Around thee as thou movent afar,
Star of the twilight, beautiful star.
-James M. Suyle.
OUR SOLDIERS DRIVEN MAD,
Philippine Climate ami Isolation He-
poneible for (tiiicblal Mania,
In an Interesting article In tlio New
York Herald Stephen Bonsai, the fa
m oiis war correspondent, discusses at
length the remarkable prevalence of
suicidal uiiiiilii among our soldiers In
the Philippine. While nduiltfing (hut
whisky tinil liathe pulMUi'Uis drinks
of which our soldiers luie become
enamored nro responsible fur h purl
of the ninny eas of midden madness,
which nro ko often attended with mur
der unci suicide, he maintains thnt
fully twice ns ninny lire due lo the
climate, t 111. terrible lwinllou which
the nun sometimes undergo; mid to
1be awful hi rn In to which (Vy me
sometimes Hiilijwiiil In buttling with
n wily and bldilen foe. To the deir us
ing Isolation he Hltrlbu( s most of the
cases of suicidal find luurderoiiH mania
which results In ol!h cr and men nllke
running amuck. We quote from the
article one Incident from which Mr.
Jlonsnl (.In mis sponsor:
"The ollicer who lost Ills life In this
instance was one of the most prom
ising of iik n. I kin-w hltn well In tin
trenches before Santiago and In (lie
lonely Million In 1'"' Philippines to
which hewn aflerwnid assigned, lie
stood six fM I wo lw 'u s in his s-t ek
lllg''. Was magnificently piup; rtl.-lieii,
and was kbowu throughout th" '-r-vice
is the hotidi-onicst tmin of hi
rank, and din-re was certainly no one
who gave mors certain promise of nn
honorable career;
"He til a (Indent, and It seemed
to ma when I loft hi m In one of the
' lunelles! province of I.nxon that here
win a roan iimii whose hands the
time would 'not hang heavy ns long
us be had 4ils district lo police, his
men to take care of and bla military
books to Siudy.
"A few weeks after I left kin, how
ever, he run amuck In hia own gar
rison unl wounded ail men, two of
whom afterward died. The night be
fore the frenzy manifested Itself' he
hud shown himself kinder to and more
appreciative of hia men than ever be
fore. He visited the hospital, and with
hia own bands changed a bandage
which be thought the hospital stew
ard had arranged somewhat awkward
ly. "He went to the guard house and
liberated a man who had been detain
ed for some minor offense. Then be
went to bea, aud the ueit that waa
seen of him, and the last, waa the fob
lowing picture: At reveille ki the
morning, as the men hastened to th
parade ground, rifle balk came lip
ping In their midst.
"For a moment but only for a mo
ment there waa confusion; then the
hostile fire, which had already brought
down two men, was traced to the cap
tain's quarters. The first sergeant took
command of the company aud acted
promptly. It was evident to him and
the men that the insurgents had
sneaked Into the town during the night,
murdered the captalu and Intrenched
themselves In his quarters, becans
that was the most commanding position
In the town.
Rallying round the sergeant, the men
of the company In small skirmlshln
squads charged the quarters. Whaf
was their dismay as they drew ne:i
to see the captain Intrenched behind
mattresses and furniture, tiring upoi
them with bis rifle as fast as the mag
azine could be loaded. The sergeant
In imminent danger of his life, par
leyed -with him, but to no avail. Th
men withdrew, and a telegram was
sent to the district commander inform
big him of the strange situation and
asking for lnnLruetIons.
"Before these came, however, th
captain left his quarters and charged
down through the barrack yard with
a pistol In one hand and a knife In
the other. Sis men of his company
had been seriously wounded and fev
eral natives, when at last one of the
soldiers who was lying on the ground,
almost helpless from the wound lit
hud received, shot the captiiin in he
was approaching with the evident pup
pote of tinlshlng his victim."
"Send by Inclosed (Jirl."
An East Side druggist U preparing a
unique scrap book. It contains the
written orders of some ctiMomcrs of
foreign birth, mid these orders are
both curious and niuuslii;. Here are
some that are copied from the original
"I have n cute pain In Uiy child'i
diagram. 1'leie give my toii some
thing to release It."
"Iieur liocther. pies git bearer five
sense worse of Auntie Toxyn for garle
baby's throat and obleage."
"My little baby lias eat up Its filth
cr's parish plaster. Send an ancc
dote quick as possible by the inclosed
girl."
"This child Is my little girl. I send
you five cent to buy two sltless pow
ders for a groan up adult who ii
sike."
"You will please give the Iettle boi
five cents' worth of epecac for to throw
up In a tlve months old babe. N. B.
The babe hns a sore Ktummlck."
"I haf n hot time In mv ltisldes am!
wlch I would like It to be extinguish
ed. What is good f . r lo extinguish lt'i
The Inclosed money Is the price of tin
extinguisher. Hurry, pleas."
LinlergrouiKl Waters.
The earth contains an abundance oi
Wiiler, even in places like some of oui
great Western plateaus where the sur
face Is comparatively arid. Tin
greatest depth at which underground
water can exist Is estimated to In
about six nillis. Below that, it is be
lleved, the cavities and pores of thi
rock are completely closed. Tin
amount of wuicr In the earth's crus.
Is reckoned at nearly one-third of thai
contained In the oceans, so that I
would cover the whole surface of tin
globe to n depth of from three t
three thousand live hundred feet. Tin
waters underground flow horizontal!
after slnkl.'ig below the unsaturnte
zone of the rucks, but in the sands oi
the Dakota formation, which supplj
remarkable Artesian wells, the motloi
does not exceed one or two mlli-a i
year. The underflow toward the set
beneath I lie grent plains may some
llnien take i lit form of broad stretuni
or moving sheets of water. Hut tin
movement Is excessively ilow.
Italy's King's! bum in llnglish Throiu
When Klin; Howard went to ltalj
he met, nccordiiiK to the London Chron
Iclo," a King who Is more of a Stiuir
than himself. Both are deeenio
from James.. 1 but the King of Itnlj
Is also, through his mother, 11th Ii
descent from Charles I. In strhr
lli;lit, Victor Emmanuel has more rlgh
to the British crown than his roya
guest who wears It. But for tin
Catholic re'l'icn. the Savoys woul(
have been Installed to rule over Eng
laud, mid not the Brtmswlcks, w hei
the Smarts were evicted. After tin
children of .lame II, tin; next ll
blood -was the Kuchess of Savoy,
(laughter of Itcnrletla, the younges
child of Chillies I. But idic wns nf
n I'rotestant, ami she was debarred
Thus It was that the British crow I
was pnss d fo the House of Itnins
wl k by the act of settlement In 1701
Otherwise the Savoys would now 1
the royal family.
Cue Siunn Anvils.
So little have the Industries of Indh
been nlTected by the British oceupa
t ion that the native smith still forge
locally made Iron on a stone anv,
within eighty miles of the town o
Kluiln.
A married mau who tries to flirt, I
nlsiut as ridiculous as a woman win
tries to be coy after she hat reacbei
the rtouble-chiu period.
"The Adventures of Gerard" is the
title of A. Oonan Doyle's new book.
Mlas Caroline Brown has sent the
manuscript of ber new book, "On the
We-a Trail," to the Macmlllan Com
asua. It Is a tale of Indiana In the
closing years of the revolution.
"The Pool In the Desert" Is the title
of Mrs. Ever&rd Cotes' (Sarah Jeau
nette Duncan) new volume of short
storlea which D. Appleton & Co. will
Issue. There are four tales in all, each
said to be very Interesting.
Myrtle Ueed's new uovel, "The
Shadow of Victory," will be published
by O. P. Putnam's Sons. As has been
announced, this is a romance of Fort
Dearborn, the little trading post from
which developed the city of Chicago.
Bliss Carman's first book of prose,
"The Kinship of Nature," la announced
for early publication L. C. Page &
Co. It will be followed Immediately
by "Sappho, One Hundred Lyrics,"
with au introduction by Charles ii. I),
Roberta.
"Ferns." by Dr. C. E. Waters, Ph.D.,
John Hopkins university, Is to be
brought out shortly by Henry Holt &
Co. The book describes all the ferni
In the northwestern States anil Is In
tended to cover the same territory as
Gray's "Manual."
Arthur Severn, the artist who mar
ried Buskin's cousin and ward, Miss
Joan Buskin Agnew, has nearly com
pleted his "Recollections of Buskin,"
whloh should prove Interesting, con
sidering the author's Intimate associa
tion with Buskin and his great talent
as a raconteur.
The Macmlllan Company have just
published a new abridgement of I.iri
gard's well-known "History of Eng
land," brought down to the present.
An abridgement of this book has for
fifty years been used in most of rhe
Catholic schools of Great Britain ns
the text-book In English history.
It Is understood that Samuel Merwin
completing a new novel, which w ill
be called "His Little World." This
story Is described a including the
presentation of an original and strik
ing character-a real man doi.-.g a
man's work in the stirring shipping
and lumber life of Lake Michigan.
During one of his recent watidefings
abroad Clifton Johnson visited tin;
County of Wiltshire, where he sivuivd
twenty-five of the finest picture- of
nature and rural life. These photo
graphs will be used to Illustrate, the
new edition of Richard Jeficrles' well
known work, "Wild Life In a .Southern
Village," which Little, Brown i Co
rwlll publish under the title, "An Enh'
lish Village."
aii important utile volume Is an
iiounced by Houghton, Mifflin & Co
by the late George S. Morisoii. former
ly president of the American So-iely
of Civil Engineers und classmate and
close friend of John Fi.ske. "The New-
Epoch as Developed In the M.uiuf.K
ture of Power" is the cumprehei i-ive
title of the essay, which bids uir ta
iirouse no little Interest among selcn
tints and others.
James Otis Kaler, better known as
James Otis, the writer of, stories for
'young people, is now at work on his
ninety-fourth book, which is to be pub
lished by J. B. Llpplncott Company
When It Is added that all the Otis
rbooks are yet on sale, It can be under
stood that the author has made no fail
ures lu the enormous amount of vo:-k
performed. The new story from Mr.
OUs Is to be. called, probably, "The
Treasure Hunters."
Jean's ltevenge.
An avenger need not necessarily be
a naturalist, but there are cases where
lie would take his vengeance more fo
the purpose If he knew the habits ol
his victim. Llppeifcott's .Magazine
tells a story of Jena, the Fri-m-li-Cii
iiatllau gardener, who was found
slumping on a little mound of fit-sh
earth and chuckling to hlmsi If.
"Ah, m'sleu'," he cried, triumph
(intly, 'I inn not a one to be trilled
"with! 1 am a cr-r-r-uel man when
i.iice I inn mouse. .M'sii u' will renum
ber the mole that lias long time rav
iige the slrawbirry lusls of madamei
Every morning iiiiulume she say, '.lean
'why catchest thou not that mole?'
inn ine iiioio wiif wise; e Wiia
iiieck. Always I look nml look, 1ml
never can I find hcciu. But at insi
tliees very inoinitig I catch heem.
I hold heem tight In my hand-
so and I say, 'Aha-n-a! Is !t thou,
then that has vexed inadanie, nml rav.
aged her beds of the strawberry?
Alm-a! i ou shall repent of thexs wick
etlness."
'Then I wonder how I shnll kill
heem. He must be punished as well
as klll 'd. I wonder and wonder, but
at last I have the grand Idea. Ah,
,lt was cr-r-tiel, m'sleu', that way I
kill heem! But what would you? Did
he not deserve of the worst? But be
will vex liiiulame no more. 1 fix hei-ru
I bury heem nllve!''
Afraltl of EnuliKliinen.
The Moscow Gazette, warns the gov
iTiiineiil against allowing English
liien to aotfle In the oil districts of (he
rniiciisiiH, as the sltimtl, n may become
the mime as that In the Transvaal be
Ifore the war,
When you are passing a house, and
make remarks about the people on the
porch, did you ever think they are say
ing something about you?
38 EnDnTdDM als
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
Fuel of the Future.
aaaaiaB x waa recently calculated that the risible coal
Jrjl T I supply which is never visible till it is brought
VI I I to the surface, hence the real meaning is, the
paarAaraastl calculated aupply would last the world for
about a hundred yer.rs longer. But within a
few weeks reports of remarkile discoveries
of new beds have been brought from the Mid
dle West, where anthracite is alleged to have been dis
covered; from the South, especially in Tennessee, about 70
miles from Knoxvllle, and in the Peace River region of
Atliabasca, where it i claimed that 250,000,(X)0 tons are "in
sight." The supplies in China are also considerable and if
Grant Land and Grinnell Land can be
In future, there are deposits in those
may be worked at a profit
And In spite of the activities of forest choppers and
burners, farmers, and others who utilize the products of
the soil, the world is still putting forth so considerable a
quantity of vegetation that the making of new coal may
be going on, unconscious to us, and not to be completed for
centuries. Every bog la a possible peat bed, and peat is but
unliardened coal. The great fern forests and marshes of
calamus that we are burning now under our boilers and in
grates no longer exist, but we have certain of their ana
logues, and no attempt has been made by scientific authori
ties to estimate the mass or value of potential fuel that is
being stored In odd corners of the earth to-day.
But possibly the fuel of the future will be water. That
Is, we shall not turn much of it, but we shall use it for
heating purposes by converting the force of its fall into
electric currents, as they are doing already at Niagara and
on the upper Hudson. For our posterity the blazing hearth
shall not burn; the family will collect about a steel plate, on
cold nights, and do the cooking over a metal basket. Most
of the wood will be obliterated by that time, and with
them of course, the streams will go; hence we must look to
see the power of the ocean converted to electricity. But it
is a comfort to know that we have con! to burn for a few
years. Brooklyn Eagle.
Farms and rainier.
N a long and thoughtful editorial, the Chicago
Tribune of recent date dwells upon one feature
in our agricultural situation that is far from
reassuring to the man trained to think along
American lines. Statistics are marshalled to
sliowconvlneingly that the percentage of fann
ers who own and operate their land has been
IT
steadily diminishing for years, tenant farming showing
a corresponding increase, in 1880, 74.4 per cent of the
farms were operated by their owners. In 18!X) the per
centage hud fallen to 71.C, and by the census of 1'JOO is
shown to have dropped to 03 7. Coincident with this decline
lias been a gradual but very perceptible growth In the aver
age size of farms. It was 13(1.5 acres in 18!H) and 14li.G
acres in 19W. There can be no mistaking t he trend. It is
in the direction of larger holdings and an increase of the
landlord class.
All this is to be expected by one who has studied the
tendency of our people to flock into the towns and cities.
The strength of this tendency is amply exhibited in census
figures. Away buck in 1790 only 3.4 per cent of the popula
tion lived in towns of 8,000 people or more. By 1800 this
proportion had risen to lti.1 per cent. It was 22.6 per cent
in 1880, and no less than 33.1 per cent In 1900. There Is
thus outlined what almost amounts to a revolution in the
last twenty or thirty years. Our farmers, having secured
a competence, retire to the cities, where they may enjoy
advantages not to be had in rural communities. Their land
Is rented to tenants, and whatever of surplus income ac
crues Is forthwith invested In Increasing their holdings.
Their children, bred to city life, cling to it, so that farming
Is more and more given over to the hands of those who have
lot the Intelligence and energy that characterized the
farmer of twenty years ago or more. It is not difficult to
see In all this the operation of the same economic and
lodal laws that have developed conditions In the Old
STURDY AMERICAN FIGURE.
Thomas
Kwlnsr, Our Flrat
Secretary
of the Interior.
Certain events In the Indian office
have directed attention to that depart
ment and have caused comparisons to
be made between
the present head
thereof and the
fl r s t secretary,
Thomas Ewing. In
sterling integrity
they were alike; lu
the experiences of
their lives wholly
unlike. Ewing Is
one of those inter
esting figures of
iiiomas kwino. whom the student
of Anierlcnii history finds so many.
Horn near West Liberty, Ohio Coun
ty, Vu., Dec. 2H, 17K0, lie was the son
of a revolutionary father. It was In
the region of Athens County, Ohio,
liien unsettled, thnt he was reared.
III.-: sister taught him to read, nnd In
I he evenings he studied the few books
at his command. In his 20th year he
left his home and worked lu the Kana
wha Suit establishments, pursuing his
Kindles at night by the aid of the fur
nace fires, lie remained there till he
hud on mod enough money to clear
rrom debt the farm his father had
bought In 17!2, and had qualified him
self to eiiter tlie Ohio University nt
Athens, where. In 181,", he received
the llrst degree of A. Ii. flint was ever
granted In that section, lie then stud
led law in Lancaster, was admitted to
the bar In IKHi, and practiced with
success for fifteen years. In 1S:i1-:i7
he served as fulled Slates Senator
from Ohio, having been chosen us a
Whig. He supported the protective
InrllT system of Clay, and advocated
a reduction In the rates of postage, a
l ecliai ter of I he Fulled States Hank,
and the revenue collection bill, known
as the "force bill."
Senator Ewing opposed the removal
of deposits from the Culled Sttea
Hank, and Introduced a bill for the
settlement of the Ohio boundary ques
tion, which was passed In 183(1. Dur
ing the same session he brought for
ward a bill for the reorganisation of
the general land office, which waa
pnssed and ho also presented a me
morial for the abolition of slavery.
reached more easily
Arctic regions that
is
Hard
n1K.
Fresh
T r T--" T? TO
country every year.
In July, J8.'M, the Secretary of the
Treasury issued what was known as
the "specie circular." This directed
receivers In land office to accept pay
ments only In gold, silver or treasury
certificates, except from certain class
es of persons for a limited time. Sen
ator Ewing brought in a bill to annul
this circular, and another to make it
unlawful for the Secretary to make
such a discrimination, but these were
not carried. After the expiration of
his term he resumed the practice of
law. Ewing became Secretary of the
Treasury in 1841, under Harrison, and
in 18-1!) accepted the newly created
portfolio of the Interior, under Taylor,
and organized that department. Among
the measures recommended in his llrst
report, Dec. 3, 181!), were the estab
lishment of a mint near the California
gold mines, and the construct ion of a
railroad to the Pacific.
When Thomas Corwln became Sec
retary of the Treasury In I.sr(l, Ewing
was appointed to succeed him In (be
Senate. During this term he opposed
the fugitive slave law. Clay's compro
mise bill, reported a bill for the estab
lishment of a branch mint in Califor
nia, and advocated a reduction in post
age, ami the abolition of slavery In the
District of Columbia. lie retired from
public life in 1 sr. 1 and again resumed
ins law practice in Lancaster. lie was
a delegate lo the Peace Congress of
18H1.
During the Civil War Ewing gave,
through the press and by correspond
enceand personal Interviews, his couu
sel and Influence fo the support of the
national authorities. While he de
voted much of his lime to illticnl
subjects the law- was his favorite
study and pursuit. He early won and
maintained throughout his life unques
tionable supremacy nt the Ohio bar,
nnd ranked lu the Supreme Court of
the Fulled Slates mining the foremost
lawyers of the lmtloti,
In 182(1, just after his father's dentil,
General William T. Sherman, then a
boy of I), was adopted by Mr. Ewing,
who afterward appointed him to (he
Fulled Hlfltes Academy, nnd In 1S50,
Wherman married Ellen, the daughter
of his benefactor.
Every big girl In a family complains
that the children tag her when she
rnns over to the neighbor's.
World. They have been retarded by our institution, M
doubt, and in case we adhere to present ideals, their fur
ther action may not lie destructive to personal liberty and
national virility as in other countries, ancient and modemv
At the same time, there are few who will not regret that
the day of the small, independent American farmer H
giving way to that of the landlord. New York News.
Money in Fact and fiction.
HPCP ... . : , , . . .
. mmuge nines in me accumulation ot
I fortunes stranger than any fiction could ever
I have made them. Think of it for a momentl
anui-ew . arnegie, a canny little Scotcn Doy,
came to this unknown land a few decades ago
barefooted, and last year offered to settle the
Venezuelan imbroglio between Germany, Eng
land, France, and Italy and the South American republic
by loaning Venezuela the entire sum of these international
debts. And yet a fortune so huge as to permit of such
offers is as nothing to the power of another man. Mr.
Rockefeller, personally a quiet American citizen from
Cleveland, a simple liver, with few habits of luxury, could
easily buy half a dozen of the independent kingdoms of
Europe; could without feeling it to any great extent in hia
pocketbook take up the debts of all the republics of Central
and South America.
Again, in 1844, Alexander Dumas published a book
called "The Count of Monte Cristo," the basis of which la
the fabulous wealth of an individual. The Count finds a
cave full of almost priceless jewels. He buys men's lives;
he spends money everywhere; he comes to Paris with a
notice from his Italian bankers giving him unlimited credit
on a Paris bank. There is no limit on what he can draw
from M. Danglers. It is entirely unprecedented. Nothing
like it was ever known before. He draws five millions of
francs, and ruins the banker, and still no complaint fronts
his Roman house. He rights wrongs; he saves more lives"
he punishes the guilty by the use of unlimited wealth. Andy
then by and by he leaves Maximilian on the island of Monte
Cristo with his bride and sails away. As Maximilian sees
his ship disappear on the horizon, he finds Monte Cristo'a
will leaving him his whole fortune. This fortune, Dumas
suggests in two or three places, was one hundred million
francs $20,000,000. It is the greatest private fortune the
Frenchman could conceive of in 1S44 it is considerably less
than the income of John D. Rockefeller in 1903. Harper'i
Weekly.
Working Human Heart.
.t u -
Siu-ula " wuu an apiuuue ior statistics has
I been doing a little calculating on the subject of
the human heart and its activities. The nor
mal ueu.ii, ii appears, ueats about seventy-five
times in a minute, so that an hour's record
would be something like 4.320 ben
iug that a man lived to be 50, his heart would have beaten
1.8'j2,1G0,000 times. If a son of this man, more robust thaa
his father, should fill out the Scriptural allotment of three
score years and ten his heart beats would number 2,(i49,
024,000. It is easy to understand, after such a computation,
why this hard-working servant of the human body so
frequently wears out. Harper's AVeekly.
Air and Sound Health.
am ri.m. 1 . .
, a icinuiis who seem airaia or
" I the fresh air. A little rain, a little wind, a
I little fog, a little chill in the air will keep them
vviiuui uuuia. uoing out, they bundle up In
clothes so thickly that one would think they
were tender shrubs transplanted from some
more genial clime. The henlthv nnu i
ever, are not the health cranks, not the people who run to
the doctor every time they feel an ache. They are the peo
ple who walk a great deal in the fresh air, who live in the
open as much as they can. and who t!ik- a mi;., i
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San Francisco Bulletin.
Wordsworth and His Neighbors.
The worthiest of Wordsworth's vil
lage In the lake country of England had
their own ideas of his value as a man
and poet. When questioned after hia
death ns to his personality, they read
ily admitted that he was kind to those
who were In sickness or need. They
could count on him on a pinch. Bnt he
did not hobnob with bis neighbors.
"He did not notice them much," said
an old man, in answer to questions
asked by the auftor of 'Lake Country
Sketches." '
"A Jem Crow and an auld blue clonk
was his rig," continued the old man,
"And ns for his habits, he had noan.
Xiver knew him with a pot i' his
hand or a pipe I' his mouth."
After deep probing the author
brought out:
"Yes, Wordsworth was fond of a
good dinner at times, if vou eouiil
get him to it; (hat was t' job."
1 hen the poet's aloofness was again
touched upon.
"Ho wns forever pacing the ronda
and his own garden walks, nnd always
composing poetry. He was ter'ble
liming In visitors nnd folks ye mini
ken at limes, but If lie could get awa
fia them a spell, he was out upon his
walk.
"And then he would set his head a
bit. foiTnd, nnd. put his hands behlnt
his back. And Mien lie would start a
bumming, and it was bum, bum, bum,
and go on bumming for long enough,'
right down nnd bnck ngnln. I sup
pose, ye ken, (he bumming helped him
out a bit."
Dale Man a Quick Wit.
The Unlled States ship Dale, belong.
Ing to the Maryland Naval Hrs;rvea,
presents a very "homelike" appear
ance, and has often been referred to
facetiously by strangers who beheld
her for the first time.
While passing through a lock on (he
Chisapeiike and Delaware cnnnl some
time ngo a bystander cnl.'ed (o one of
the Dale crew:
"Well, I sec you have (he ark and
all the menagerie on board!"
"No," replied the quick-witted Re
serve; "we lack one monkey. Come
aboard!"
And the Dale floated on In peace.
As a rale, the man who fusses aost
about taxes, la moat sMe to pay.