A STREET INCIDENT. I
H fJ with Uffluf at-p along th busy.
""W ;;
HU mrr wan ts4 weary, to 4 fall bair
tills sod rmj;
III tuniidrrs but Lrt,ath th wrf-lit cf
ra rf patlrut toll; '
Aa triiilrM aim, ,ulj tade ef brotiM tuid
war a rrtm tunuull. ,
H chw with Usalua ,p, ,ntii Be
I ntttl of war tone from busy fif
an drain.
II slopped la watch th players aa ther
u.arrhKl alouc thr atrrvt
Tk ahriillBf of tii Bf waa coaling mt
lb drum a awift lt.
Tb Olrl I Left Hfhlud Me" waa tba
wioflus tuag thry played,
Aad aa b stood and lUtrord. from bla eye
went all tb abade;
HI shoulder straigbtrnrd qnlckly; bla
bwd rt f rm aud proud.
And be looked far and far away beyond
tba beedleaa crowd.
He turned and vest bla way again trttb
steady, sturdy stride
to tune and tiai to that old tone bla aol-
dler feel replied;
Om band swuug asllantly aa though It
reated u a aword
A a, w-ho ran know what memories were la
tbnee dnim beats atoredl
What Tll'ranl ectaoe of tba past fame
ruabliia: to bla brain
Whrs be walked "with tbe boys" araln to
that old war refrain!
HIHHtXHIHHI Mill
AUNT BETTY.
! h i i if ii i n m
THKKK waa a iot of red on both
of Aunt Hetty' cheeks and a
apark of excitement in ber faded
blu eye aa ahe hurriedly limped up
tba steps of the large veranda of the
County Poor House.
"I wonder why 1 hav not thought of
It before." he tmirniured to berelf aa
he hobbled on through the long corri
dor. "Mr. Young- la always so kind, I'm
ore he will let me unless he thinks the
walk too much for me, but I know It
Isn't. See how spry I'm getting to be!
It make me think of my young days to
get around like this after my long ill
ness." She hurried on until she found the
manager of the poor farm, Mr. Young,
Who was enteritis the home through the
back, having Issued order to some of
the workmen nUut the place. Aunt Bet
ty approached Mm rather timidly, and
ter courage- almost fulled when she felt
bis keen questioning fart on her.
"flood morning. Aunt Hetty, what's
(he flintier? You don't look like your
self this morning. Why, really, you look
year younger; have you heard any
good news?" he stked.
"No, but to-morrow is Peroration
I lay." she answered.
"Well, whnt of Unit; don't we have a
elemorin! Isy every yenr? Nothing new
about thflt."
"I thought I'd j'it ask your permis
sion to go to the city in the morning and
Spend the day in the old graveyard with
t!ie soldier boys. My boy isn't there,
but b )i buried somewhere; he died
fighting for (he (lag, and so Ilworntion
J 'ay is the greatest day of nil the year
to me. I haven't been blo, you know,
tor aevcrtil yejirt to attend the exercises
pr watch the little girls all dressed in
white strew flowers on the graves. I
khonld like to see them once more before
I die. I have no flowers to offer, but I
t-an shed a few tenrx at each grave, and
in that way I can show my love and
rratitude to the noble boys In blue; my
oy, the noblest, truest, beat of them
fill."
Mr. Young was touched and, taking
the old withered hand lu his, said rather
tuskily:
"You shall go, Aunt Betty, even If I
tnust neglewt all my work to take you.
Good thing If there were more such loyal
Vearts eager to honor the boys who died
fighting for their country. I'll take you
to town aa aoon as you want to go,
Aunt Betty."
"Thank yon ever ao much, but I would
rather walk. See how atrong I am and
iow well I can walk with my cane!"
And the lam old soul hobbled up aud
(own the ball quite briskly.
"You remember bow far the boys bad
.o walk, tired and hungry aa they were.
Why, my boy wrote home one day that
lie was so tired and sleepy some time
fpe couldn't help sleeping as they march
ed along. Surely I can walk two mile
to help decorate the gravs."
Aunt Btty arose earlier than usual the
xt morning, snd after putting on the
Very cleauest calico dress she possessed,
at down to wait for breakfast She
was too nervous anticipating the great
pleasure before her to sit still long, ao
he limped from door to door arousing
fh other Inmates, and when they were
ft 1 assembled in the ailtiug room, she
ried to Induce them to Join her thin,
UnhUlK oi iu ... j j ,
TIs of Thee."
Soon Bfter breskfiist she waved a fare-L-a.il
to them nil and hurried with the
fager but stiff old limbs down the dusty
road to the city. It was only two miles,
tut It seemed ten, and often she ssnk
down with weariness and puln, rearing
ihnt after all she had undertaken too
touch and that she would have to ask
lome paKser-by to help her back to the
poor farm. While thinking thus she bnp
bened to spy some daisies in a fence cor
ner close by. She crawled to them, and
with a joyous laugh plucked thorn and
nearly crowded them with loving ca
resses. "Now I'll hnve a share In decorating
ih graves, too," she murmured. "I be-
ieve 'iod had these to grow just for me.
I'll select the most neglected soldier's
. . . .1 -.!.. . 1
rrnve in toe cemetery ami put uiec
in It My boy Is in n unknown grave,
mt I hope ooine one will think to put a
few atirb aweet blossoms on his grave
to-day."
With tears In her eyes and renewed
Itrength and determination, sho arose
to continue the tedious Journey.
At last she found herself In the old
remetery: the place seemed ao still and
ralm. and ever) thing looked so beautiful
In the fresh monilug light that the old
ieart swelled with reverence. Kneeling
on the hard gravel walk, she offered a
prayer, then with awed feeling and quiet
etep abe dragged herself from one aol
dler'e grave to another, stopping at each
long enough to rest the tired limb and
to carea the aoil covering the grave.
When ahe ram to what seemed to her
the most neglected and forgotten grave
he kissed the withering daisies and plac
ed them at tb head, murmuring, "For
th saks of my boy." and than sat down
M the brack near by to est ber lunch.
Early Id tb afternoon tb people be
gu to fthr( and by aud by cam the
iro essiou. First th old soldiers with
life snd dnnu, thru the apraker, resting
W.urriy iu a cab, tbeu the cadets, and,
lat ol all, the lit t law flower girls. How
her heart throbbrd with the pleasure of
it all, snd bow she longed to Join in the
patriotic song the littl girls were sing
ing as they paesed! Never had Auut
Betty enjoyed auy thing so much for
many a year.
But ber joyous heart, so full of ten
derness snd lov for all the brave who
bad suffered aud died, waa soon pierced
by th thoughtless band and tongue of
one of the fairest little flower girls, who
was standing by the neglected grave.
"These ugly, withered daisies ar not
fit for anything." ah waa Baying. "I'm
going to throw them awsy. Here, bring
on of our plain bouquets, we want to
sav the prettiest for the nice graves."
And selecting s buueb of commou yellow
rose she threw it csrelessly on the
mound.
The tears sprang to Aunt Betty's eyes.
"Not much reverence or lov In such sn
offering." she sighed. "Ah, well, she Is
only s child, snd does not yet fully com
prehend th meaning of it all." Y'et ahe
could not forget the careless speech,
aud a shadow fell over tbe day that had
so far seemed the brightest and happiest
of ber old age.
The speaking having begun, she made
her way toward the atand. Tbe orator
of the day, although a very young man,
spoke very eloquently of th brave heroes
resting under th sod; also of those who
were still living and of the young boys
who were wearing out their lives so
nobly In the far away Philippines. But
Aont Betty was grieved to notice that
the close listeners were chiefly those
dressed in the blue uniforms and their
aged wives. Those representing the
younger generation seemed to consider
MEMORIAL DAY.
the occasion a time for a good social
chat with friends and acquaintances.
Most of the cadets, whom she naturally
supposed hsd more respect for Uieir sol
dier sires than most people, were flirting
with pretty blue-eyed giris. One in his
eagerness to reach a fair maiden who
hud smiled and bowed to him, deliber
ately walked over a grave bearing the
sacred red, white and blue. Another,
anxious to please his sweetheart, boldly
took a rare and very beautiful rose and
presented It to ber.
After the exercises were over, her al
ready much grieved heart was again
pained when ah noticed th young ora
tor and a few other fine looking men,
whom she supposed were prominent in
the city, sest themselves among the soft
cushions of the cab, while tbe old sol
diers, many of them crippled with rheu
matism, took np the wesry march
through th dnsty streets to their hesd
quartera. "I wonder why they have no carriages
for them?" she asked herself. "Are they
not to b honored, also, to-day? They
pretend to pay tributes of love and re
spect to thos lying in the grsves and
then forget and Ignore the poor, feeble
ones as they sre tottering to the graves."
When the crowd began to disperse
Aunt Betty, with aching limbs and dis
appointed heart, turned toward the road
leading to the poor farm. But she had
gone only a very short distance, resting
often, when her limbs gave way entirely.
There was a piercing pain In her head,
too, so she lay down in a shady fence
corner to wait for some compassionate
traveler to pick her up. "It has all been
too much for me," she whispered to her
self. "I should have stayed at home. I
would not then have known about the
heartlessness of it all. Still, I have had
the joy of decorating that poor neglected
grave with those God sent blossoms. Af
ter all, I'm glsd 1 went."
But the sun that had arisen so bright
and gloriously for Aunt Betty that calm,
May morning, was not to set behind a
cloud. While lying there suffering, a
stranger passed along In a carriage. He
was a farmer and a soldier, for he had
on the army blue. As soon as he saw
her he stopped and helped her Into bis
carriage.
"I knew you would help me as soon as
I saw you," she cried, gratefully, "for
you are an old soldier. A soldier always
has a kind and teuder heart, God bless
them all!"
She told him of her day's experience
and of her life at the poor farm. "What
Is your name?" he asked, for he had be
come Interested In her story.
"Kllzabcth Armstrong," answered
Aunt Belty, rather proudly. "It Is a
gooil name," she continued, "for the Arm
strongs were once a proud, influential
family. They are now all gone. My boy
and I were the only ones left, and now
he lies in nn unknown soldier's grave,
aud I have to spend (he remaining dnys
of my life nt the poor house. I would
have hiul a good home had my bo not
given his life for his country."
"Armstrong Is a good name. Indeed,"
answered the stranger. "I have rensons
to remember it with tenderness and rev
erence. There was a young man in our
regiment, a mere boy of eighteen, who
fought by my side through many a se
vere and bloody battle. His bravery was
astonishing In one so young, and his
cheerful hopefulness always put new
courngfl and strength In those about him.
At Oeltysburg we both fellhe with a
bullet In bis side and I with several In
my right leg. W hsd fallen about the
snme time, and so were lying close to
acb other. I nrr will forget th pa-
tience with which that boy stood bis suf
fering. Never a murmur, neter a cry
of pain pasted from bis lips. It provok
ed me a Iitlle, and so i said to bilu:
'Arnustroug, what makes you so quiet) I
know ycu are hurt worse than I am, and
yet this old leg psins so I can't keep
froui howling.' Never will I forget the
expression of bis face aa be turned to ms
snd said: 'Why, I don't think of the pain,
I only think of how glorious a privilege
it is to die for one's country. I know
my desr old mother will be proud of ber
boy when she bears of bia death. Th
only pain I feel la the thought of leaving
ber alon in th world.'
"Here I noticed that his eye reated on
something that he held in bis hand snd
that he raised it to Lis lips snd kissed it
Whst is it T I ssked. "My mother's pic
ture,' be answered. Take it, comrade,
and keep it, and if you ever see a lady
with that heavenly look in her sweet
eyes, be kind to her and tell her of her
boy; tell her thst his very last thoughts
were of her, that b died loving her bet
ter than boy ever loved mother.' Again
he kissed it and then gave it to me.
" 'No wonder you suffer,' he said, af
ter a few moments of silence. 'You have
auch a hard, hot place to lie iu. Here,
let me help you to my place; the ground
ia much softer and the July sun is not
quite so warm because of the shade of
thia small tree.'
"He crawled to me and lifted me care
fully to where be waa lying. 'I am dy
ing.' he aaid, 'so it does not make much
difference where I lie, but you are going
to get well, ao you must be cared for.'
"Soon after he died, and I have al
ways carried the picture and carry It in
this pocket, and have tried to find th
mother of that brave boy, but never until
this day have I seen anyone with the
same sweet resigned smile and-"
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But Aunt Betty did not wait for him
to finish. Aa soon as she caught a glimpse
of the picture in the stranger's hand she
cried out joyously: "My boy! I felt, I
know it! It is my picture. Tell m
where my boy is buried. 1 must see his
grave, even if I crawl there."
He could not tell ber, for it was un
known, but be took Aunt Betty to hit
home, where he treated her as his own
mother, and on the next Decoration Day
he took her to visit the old battlefield at
Gettysburg, and showed her where her
boy had died, and Annt Betty, with her
heart full thanked God for the life aud
death of her noble soldier boy.
Psalm of the Old Soldier.
Tbe blue la fading Into gray,
Just ss when sunset comes
With bugle calls tbst die away
And softly throbbing drums;
Tbe shadows reach across the sky
And bush the cares of day;
Tbe bugle call and drum beat die
The blu fades Into gray.
Tbe gray la blending Into blue
A snnrtse glad aud fair,
When, In the richness of the dew,
Tbe rosy riot there,
Tbe bitterness of yesterday
Is lost to me and you;
The blue Is fading Into gray
Tbe grsy blends Into blue.
They're sleeping now the long, long sleep,
The boys who wore the blue;
Above the gray the grasses creep
And both were good snd true;
And in the twlllxht of our life,
The ending of the way,
There comes forgetfulness of strife
Tbe blue fades Into gray.
Above each mound the Illy glows.
And humble daisies nod;
The ruby glory of the rone
Hheils luster on the sod;
The tearsthe tears they are the dew
That greets the coming day.
The gray Is blending Into blue
The blue fades Imo gray.
lwittluLt-C AiHeiivttii.
Gratefully Jlcmcmherexl.
The annual occurrence of the day
when the nation pays its tribute to and
reveres and honors the dead who fought
for the preservation of the Union, who
suffered and slaved and sacrificed every
thing, even life, for the country they
loved, brings to the Attention of all pat
riots the fact that those who serve the
nation are not forgotten. Though they
have parsed away, the boys who wore
the blue are remembered, and their
graves are decorated by loving bands,
that appreciate and respect and honor
their courage and services.
Flora oi the Vellowstono.
Five hundred nnd four different
kinds of flowers grow wild In tbe Yel
lowstone National Park.
Opinions of
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Ihe Russian Power.
HE Russian power sowars
e" I teutlous bubble, wuku the courageous Japan
I lese have pricked. Russia has an enormous
'w l.pinv tint wherA la it? Ifow enn It u eor tru
gether? An army that cannot be concentrated
la no fit object of terror. To be sure, we have
bad a few weeks of war, but that has been
lluie enough to cripple and bottle tbe Russian fleet In tbe
last, and the Baltic fleet and the Black Sea fleet dare not
r cannot, leave their stations, while one gunboat refuses
to leave tbe port of Shanghai, and two larger ones bave
keen hiding themselves In a French port of East Africa,
die Japanese are masters of tbe China seas. And the
kussian mighty land army of four million men, where has
t vanished? A paltry hundred thousand inpn, or possibly a
lundred and fifty thousand, are scattered along the Man-
Ihurian railway, or split up between Port Arthur and the
talu River, unable anywhere to offer an equal front to
Jie Japanese advance. Even the rumors that come from
It. Petersburg are all of Russian losses, and most reason
Ible they are, for It Is Impossible for Russia to hasten along
ts ill-bullt railway three sleepprs to a rail the needed re
uforcementa, or even the food and stores for those who are
l;read along the front. Japan was
die Czar. It is Russia that lias been
s-orld. However it may be In the West, it Is sure that
Hiern Is nothing to fear from her In Asia, either on the
llam hiirliui or the Indian border, if any
Inly pluck up courage lo resist her. This the New Japan
k.is dared to do, and the black bear Is utterly demoralized
before the swarm of yellow hornets. It looks as If Russia
sould have to put off for a century, which mpans forever,
ler ambition to have four capitals St. Petersburg, Moscow,
"Oiistantliiople and IVkln New York Independent.
School Teachers' Salaries.
SUMMARY of the salaries paid to the school
I teachers In tbe chief Kuropean countries ap
I ;ea red recently in several American newspa
teachers In England ratine from an average of
.'r) for men to ?i"0,or even as low as $'Jx), for
women. Hie lowest annual salary piml to a
fiil!-hVdi,'ed teacher In Belgium is !fl!)'J. In Denmark city
leacliers begin with ?J3H and village teachers with $182.
I he average for a country or village teacher In Prussia Is
'1S per year, although Berlin teachers receive from 5315 to
pii."o; women are paid from fl40 to J KM). Trance has an
Irreducible minimum of $'JJ0. Holland $100, Portugal
or the country and Jl'W for the city, and Sweden nnd Nor
hay $13ti for men aud less than for women. The
Iverage salary in Switzerland is $.'!IO for men nnd ?27."i
for women. (Jreece divides lis teachers into classes, those
In Ihe first receiving n maximum salary of $2fi per month,
those In the second $10, and those in the third $13. Teach
trs' salaries In Spain vary from $1W per year In the villages
lo $1S0 in Madrid. Montreal Btar.
Labor as Joy or Curse.
T is worthy of note that all the great historical
religions of the world whether of the millions
of Egypt toiling under the lash to build the
pyramids at the wages of a couple of onions
and a piece of dry bread a day, or of the mil
lions of India working Iu the rice swamps amid
swarms of pestiferous Insects, or of the millions
m
f the Semitic race whose traditions bave been gathered
together" In the story of Eden and of the fall in the Book
If Genesis all have been rooted and grounded In the prob
lem of the common doom of man that he must eat his
bread In the sweat of his body and the sweat of his mind.
None of these religions affects to treat the Issue flippantly,
rhetorically or with commoplaee platitudes, but with awful
seriousness. The enormous overweight of the burden of
the work in comparison with the strength, spirits, Interest
nnd reward of the worker is what oppresses the minds of
these teachers and prophets and brings them to the common
ominous conviction that this must be the outcome of some
WHALEBONE WHALES.
Their "Baleen" the Most Valuable
Product Obtained from Whale.
Another group of whales have no
teeth, but the mouth is provided with
several hundred closely packed horny,
flexible plates or slabs suspended from
the roof of the mouth and hanging on
each side like a curtain, so that when
the mouth Is opened as wide as pos
sible their ends are received within
the lower law. These plates, which in
some whclcs are nine or ten feet long,
have pointed, frayed extremities, and
nre lined with long, stiff hair. This
peculiar substance In the mouth of
whales, which la called baleen, or
whalebone, although It is not bone, Is
now the most valuable product which
is yielded by these creatures; and to
obtain it thousands of men brave dan
gers of the seas, of the Arctic Ice,
and of the chase, killing the whales
by hurling harpoons and shooting ex
plosive bullets into them from a small
bout.
Among tbe vnrloiiR kinds of whale
Lone whales is the right whale, which
reaches a length of (K) feet nnd yields
200 barrels of oi's nnd 1,000 pounds of
long, valuable baleen; the humpback
whale, which Is sometimes 75 feet
long, but has short bone and little oil;
the finback and sulphur-bottom whales,
of largo size put comparatively little
value; and the bow-bend, Greenland, or
polar whale. The last Is at home
among tbe lee fields, and Is now the
most sought of all the whales on ac
count of the excellent qualify and
largo quantity of its baleen. The max
imum length Is (15 feet, and its bulk Is
Immense; the huge hend represents n
third of the length, and the tall is 1(1
to 20 feet across. The largest bow-
hends produce several thousand pounds
of iHine worth $5 or $0 a pound, nnd
(5,000 or more gallons of oil worth 40
cents u gallon.
Iu feeding, the bnleen whales drop
the lower Jaw and swim forward rap
idly, nnd nil kinds of Rmnll floating
nliiinls fish, shrimp, winged mol-
lusks pass Into tbe fawning mouth.
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
1 1 1 1 1 4 I 1 14 4 1 t
to be a buze. por-
"blufling," they to'd
bluffing the deluded
other Power will
SIX CHANGES IN WOMAN'S
FIGURE IN FORTY YEARS.
"Well, I'll have to give up and Just adopt that hopeless" style of figure
described as a pillow with a string around it," announced the Woman who
at 50 was the proud possessor of a shapely figure, and who had Just learned
on good authority that tight lacing was coming Into fashion again. "No less
than six times In the last forty years I have completely changed the outline
of my figure, and I am afraid I nm now getting to an age where comfort is
almost as much of a consideration as appearance.
"I well remember when I was 16 how pretty the fashionable figure was
with Its neat, small waist in the place where a waist ought to be. How trim
and dainty we were. But I'm afraid a little tight lacing wiis needed to get
the desired effect
"Next we had those short walsted shapes which brought the squeezing
away above the natural waist line. Absurd enough they would look now,
but we thought tliem charming when they were In fashioiu,,-, .
"Then ca me those long, slim figures of the '80s with the bust unnaturally
high, the waist compressed as far os possible into the hljw. Pert, smart, and
saucy they looked, and they were only acquired at the expense of a good
deal of squeezing all along the line, ,, .
"In the '00s we had a genuine hour glass figure,, girt tight around the
waist nnd bulging above nnd below. I always thought it stupid. V '
"The low bust and sudden hip effect which came In next was thought to
be free nnd natural, but was really decadent and' the little girdle corset
then woru could be drawn as tight ns any other , ,
"The straight front wide walsted fashion bless It! is .the only one I
know which combines comfort and style. O, why can't it fast?" Exchange.
When the lower Jnw Is closed, the
plates of baleen are forced upward
and backward, tbe water rushes
through the sieve formed by the hairs,
tho food Is left behind, and Is swal
lowd by the nid of the tongue.
Some of the bnleen whales are said
to attain a length of more than n hun
dred feet, and there are authentic rec
ords of exnmples measuring between
1)0 nnd 100 feet. The lnrgest species
of whnle, and therefore the largest of
all living animals and the largest crea
ture that ever existed, so far as we
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primeval curse and of some stupendous moral catastrophe,
redemption from which is the end and aim of all higher
spiritual hope.
Labor may be either joy or curse. AH turns on whether
it Is encountered with freshness, spontaneity and zest, or
whether It is draining to the dregs the springs of life. One
for all, out with it, fair, square and plump! There Is no
more dignity nor elevation In mere labor than In a mechan
ical pump-handle. What It lifts from the living, central
springs beneath determines all. Our joy must be In this
living water welling up, as we ourselves quaff Its refresh
ment or extend It to the thirsty lips of others. For this
sole joy that Is set before us must we endure the cross and
despise the pain. We think tbe poets exempt from this
moll, pure children of Inspiration. Never the weary pomp
handle for them, but only the leaping geyser. But bear
what Milton has to say: "No worthy enterprise can be done
by us without continual plodding and weariness to our faint
and sensitive abilities. Boston Herald.
The American Husband.
f"- N American young man does not as a rule look
I i9k I forward to marriage nor prepare for It by sav
I X1 ling any considerable portion of his ante-nuptial
l M Income. When he marries It is nsiiailv on short
notice, and because he has fallen very desper
ately In love with some one and cannot find It
In his heart to wait until cold caution declares
the venture advisable. Even when an engagement Is a lonj:
one he usually squanders so much on gifts and entertain
ments for his fiance that there Is only a very moderate
amount to begin housekeeping on. Thus before his mar
riage the young American of the middle class begins to
give evidence of what Is to be his chief national character
istic as a husband his unfailing, unselfish and .almost Im
provident generosity.
The middle class husband In America rarely Interferes
with the affairs of the household. He hardly knows the
cost of staple articles of food. Asa rule he does nt make
his wife a regular allowance either for household or per
sonal expenses, but gives her as much as he can spare,
freely, but with a lack of system that is not conducive to
the best outlay of their Income.
The young American husband is also very Indulgent to
his wife's fondness for fine clothes. He would far rather
have an extravagant wife than a dowdy one, and although
he grumbles occasionally at a millinery bill, in reality be
glories in the resplendent appearance of his wife in her
line feathers. The American husband Is rare who does not
concede his wife's right to expend a much larger sum with
her dressmaker than he does with Ills tailor. Indeed he
often leaves his tailor altogether and cheerfuly repairs to
the ready-made clothing house In order that his wife may
have more money for extravagant finery. London Telegraph.
The Evil of Worry.
"'lOL'BTLESS there has been more or less worry
D since Adam hid In the bushes, but It Is a curi
ous physiological indeed, It may be a psycho
aaaaawawmwaai logical fact that real worry, the worry that
has a definite cause, Is not so wearing as the
imaginary worries that we persist In taking to
Deu wnn us. we cannot rest ana De misy at
the same time, and it Is not hard to guess what will happen
to the brain that Insists on fretting and worrying when It
should be enjoying the serenity of repose. There are doc
tors who can examine your eyes and tell you whether you
have kidney disease, but how much better It would be If
some specialist could arise who can locate worry and pluck
it out, as It were, by the roots. It is a baleful source of
poison at best, and at its worst, It Is ruinous. Happy the
man who Is able to take the measure of bis worries and
troubles and value them for what they are! Happy, thrice
happy. Is the man who can present to their attacks the im
penetrable armor of sere-tyl His years shall be lonj and
full of charity. His he shall be in the sunshine, and
there shall be no shadow about his feet Old men will fol
low him, and little children shall be bis companions. At
lanta Constitution. r
know, Is the snJpqur-uottoin .tohnle of
the Pacific coast. One of these was 05
feet long Blid'3; teet: in circumfer
enee, nnd weighed by. calculation near
ly 300,000. pounds. - The ulphur-bot-tom
whale Is further .distinguished by
being tho swiftest p.f.,ali whales and
one of the mosti difficult to approach;
It glides over. tho surface with: groat
rapidity, often dlsptaying lti entire
length; nnd beh lftttjlresnf Im
niense volume of vapor which It throws
up to a great height Is evidence of Its
colossal proportions. St Nicholas. '