Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905, July 14, 1904, Image 4
AN IMMORTAL SONG. A poc labored patently and long. H) i a be trusted' an lamiuli! frfig. Hn lint girl disturbed Litn nitb L p; j, Ami angrily he etit the efaiid a ay. Tbe poem at cinnpieied and forgot E'en by the poet's friends remembered not But the hard word tbe tender-bej-ted maid Bre ia her brast till tbe in dust wa laid. .Vaieri. aa Agrlcnlturiac inn tin inn Out of the Judge's Hands 1-4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 I H 4 rrjj O uiy mind," spoke tbe Judge jH soberly, "Incompatibility U. in itself, no ground for divorce, aotwithstanding the fact that tbe de lire of both husband and wife is to tcver the marriage bonds." He was speaking to William Sprig I, a till, handsome man of 35. Spriglee had attained fame and for 'tune a an inventor. The scene mi the divor-e court, and there were but four other persou in the itwu. Une was a woman, plainly though neatly dresd. Her paie fai-e V time wa lighted by a ray of wt bes as she smiled upon the two little i-oy who nestled closely to her if tu fear of the strange solemnity of their surrounding. F.ucb of the tot took turns putting a chubby fist to his tiotith. yawning, and then looking up It fhe woman with a pretty smile. An attorney the woman's attorney oc tupied a neat near ber. When the judge ceased speaking. 1 prigsl.ee sank back into hi s-at with i nigh of disappointment. It was not 1 he liud expected. A silence follow M. broken only by tbe regular "t.ck: In k:" of the big dock over the ata'.u rd glass window. Tbe Judg" continued: "In nature t'lere are a few things Incompatible. Vbl so-called incompatibility in the domestic life of man and woman is tiore often the Inconsistency r the Incongruity of one or the other, or tuaybnp. lxith. It is easily rem' died, tiongli not in the divorce court. In l.utb, the thing, the very thing, that tiake man and woman Incompatible l the divorce court itself. You come ., re seeking a divorce what groui.ds lave I for granting such a decne for t-itying the sacred bonds and aiding ron in breaking the vow yon snore before God to keep? None, absolutely iiouel Incompatibility, you say? But why that? Has not this woman, the mother of your children, been a good nd loving wife, fulfilling br duties Is wife and mother? No. on the Itrengih. or rather the weakness, of four argument, sir, I could not grant I divorce:" And Sprigs! sank deep Again there was silence, a!i2 jue at' lorney arose. "If yourfbonor please" laid be quietly, as if anything but loftly spoken words would again dis turb the Hon that slumltered In the old Judge's breast, "I wish to present a few words in behalf of my client. Vou aid a moment ago that tbU woman had been a loving wife and a devoted mother; that Is true. But has the jnan whom she promised to cherish and love reciprocated with equal affection? Has f'a .been a loving husband and a devot ' ell W"Pr? I dare say, if yon oueotion- ed 'iiiiii, he would tell you there have - been weevs ana months that he has Dot spoken h. kiud word to this patient, forbearing wvian. "WheB these bjvo wft-e marrlel sev en years ago they ayere neighbors, and bad grown up together. They attend ed the same school, and studied from the same books. The first months, the first years of their married Jfe, were one delightful harmony, for they were jret, as they had been In childhood, on Uie same level; they undrstood each other perfectly. Tlieti a change came. Success and fortune smiled on the hus band. His name became a household word the nation over. The ptwsg were loud In ther praises of him; he was landed and adored, and everywhere be went he was received with pomp and ceremony. He was no longer the! loving husband he had been a short tjmaefore. The fine ladies, tbe tal nt.eTndies, the women who bestowed, their praises upon him ia the worl ov cupide a higher social level tha the. simple, plain little woman who bad walked with him to the marriage altar, he grew to loathe her, to avoid her, to JJespise her. tiu could no longer caressu and love her as of old. Iler very pre- ence Is now obnoxious to him, and the woman, though ever patient, loving and ievoted. must live her life in misery. You say, your honor, thre Is no tn fvTrintlh!l!tv in tlie domestic life? Why, if you please, this is the very :4xtreine of innompatibKlty. .Not wo ab 'atances, no two things in the universe tould react with greater foree, cowl e more npellant more disagreeable tone to the other than this one case of the world-renowned, ambitious, thoagh conceited husband, and the plain, sim ple, loving and devoted wife and moth er. To -keep them joined aa man and Wife is like condemning each to a life of torturing servitude. There la but Me remedy; that is to grant decree of divorce; and to this end my client ask that she be allowed the custody and care of the cblldreiL, Thla agree nent ta mutual tietweaCthe two." . The attorney went back to bl aeat The two little bora fawned la nut- ml a ad each cased apologetically Into pate face of tb aaothar. Thla &m ate Aid not aoslla at tbetn. Her taA wm traar with otkar titlnfa, and . p wlCJi fSewftr ,ajiaaaa a aoo. in ffittt i 4 4 I HI I II II II carefully wiped them with the corner of his big silk kerchief. It was eri dent he was wavering between two convictions. During the long silence none in the court room saw a thin column of smoke creep, as noiselessly as a reptile, up the stairway and enter the corri dor. It kept close to the floor, and glided up the aisles between the rows of empty lencbe. When It crept lie iieath the bench where the woman and the boys sat a little pugglsh tuse gave a curious sniff, and the ominous silence was broken by the childish re mark: "Mamma. I smell smoke." All raised their heads, for all were bowed In thought "Fire: Fire!" came a loud, startling cry up the stairway. The Judge closed his look with a start, thrust his glasses into his vest pockrt, and looked atiout him dazed, horrified. 'The building Is on fire." said he In alarm; "we had best make our ewufie to the lower floor." As be skurrleil toward the door he uncon sciously picked up one of the Isiys. The attorney snatclnd up the other, and in a moment they were down the stairway. Mr. and Mrs. Sprigslce sat mute, as If TioTlet awake to tneir peril. Then prlgi!iee. ran for the door and was confronted, by a stifling column of black smoke. The court room was on the ttdrd floor, (ind be gained the first landing In safety. As he turned to the lower stairs he suddenly" thought of Mrs. Sprigsbee. bis wife ah, yes, his .wife; the thought brought a smile to bis hardened face. But the smile passed ipilckly, and in Its stead a look of horror. f fear, of anxiety came, not for himself, but for the woman he hud thoughtlessly, cowardly left in the court room. He whirled on his heel and dashed back lip the stairway, three steps at a bound. Mrs. Hprigsbee was running almt the court room frantically, aim lessly when her husband entered. "Oh, where are my children, where are my loys?" she walled In agony. "They are down. They arc safe," .Sprigsbee cried and took ber by the hand. "Here, come with me. We must get dwn Instantly." The woman was faint and weak from long suffering suffering that he himself hail brought upon her, and now, as he gripped the delicate fln gprs In his own, Sprigsbee rIizeiil It all. She could but slowly descend the stairs. In spite of bis effrts to hurry her. Tbe smoke roiled op In murky, choking griefs, and the sharp, Inces sant crackling' of flames came from below. "We mnst go fatter," Sprigtdwe cried desperately. Tb woman tried to larrease Iter pace, but could not. The raging smoke blinded her, stifled ber, and before the first landing was- reached, she fell ia a swoon. Sprigslee canglii ber In lis arms. He was surprfwd to find how light and frail she was. With his burden press ed close to him. he dashed down tfco lower flight. The hot breath of the flame scorched him face and lrom I-Iow he could hear the shouts nail yells of the firemen. "You'll never make it this way."' he beard someone cry. "Go back to the other stairs!" But he was deaf to the warning cry. He wrapped the wom an's cape about bc face, pressed her closer and rushed on. For a tlnie, an age It seemed to him, he was wading through a furnace of Ore. lie closed his eyes, leaped, and fell headlong Into the arnm of two big firemen. A mo ment more ami he wm In the refresh Ins air, safe, with bla burden still pre sued close to him. He lay ber dowa on the cool grnss and fanned ber white face with hla bat. He believed be had Mrer aeon a aweeter, prettier face than thla. He raised ber bead oa bla arm, and abe opeaed ber large bine eyea. "Wbera ara little Tom aa4 Harry r abe asked faeMy. 'Hare t ara, mamma." And four jtmttitil.ttmM CMUped bar sack. ,7 a' inr-Jtc is BUT (;E BEMEDT. ' "And you. Will, y,a won't leate tnt tor m whiie, will j? 1 feel so weak and faint." "o. a-.j dear, I shall never leave yoo." "Biea you for those words. Will, my lore." Their iips met in a long. yulTennj kiss. The Incompatible had becom compatible. The Housewife. JONES'S RECITATION. He Hd Woadcrfal Memory uu Brought Down the Hone. "Ladles and gentlemen." be began. "I'm going to give you a recitation. It' it's called -The Schooner Horatius. No, I mean 'The Village Ro""k.: No, that isn't it Its 'How tbe the Blacksmith Kept the Bridge.' I mean It's It's a thing by Ixngfellow, you know; that Is, I thick It was Tenny son! "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck," whispered Blake, loud enough for him to bear. "Yea, that's It," went on Jones Then he fixed bis eyes on a point in the roof and blurted out in jerks and starts, as tbe odd liitea came befori blin, the following effusion: The boy stood on the burniof deck. He be stood upon his head. Because his arms and legs were off, to he wared his arm and sold My name U Norval. On tbe Grampian Hill Tbe riling? smithy stand; Tlie smith, a mighty uju, rn wm wrecked. On the pitiless Goodwin Sands. And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmlne; Teh doctors Lad given him up, sir, The darliug of our crew! And and the cheek of Argyll frew dead ly pale. And we niched for the signed rockets. I.et'i fire them quick," we cried. And the g'xxl Abbot of Aherbmthock plunged headlong into the tide. Then who will stand on either hand and keep the bridge with me? On board the schooner Hesperus that tails the wintry sea, I. with two more to help me, will l-ol.l the foe in play. For 1 am to be (jnen of the May. mother; I'm to be Queen of tl. May. When It was all over, and the roars tf laughter bad subsided, Jones rushed of! the stage and bid himself for the rest of the evening. And the memory of bis famous recitation Is still an ever green one In the annals of the school. Tit-Bits. Names of Fabrics. Tbe origin of the names of popular fabric Is even more interesting than the tracing to third lingual roots of ordinary words. About the year 1.121 the woollen trade of England became located at Worsted, about 15 miles from Norwich, and It was at this place that the pa Ufacture of the twisted iotTTiTe thread of woollen, afterwards called worsted, was first made, If not invented, I.lnsey-wolsey was first made at Llnse?, ?d was for a long time a very popnhtr fi?rjc. Kersey mere takes Its ;iame from tks vl!lag of Kersey, and the mere close If It, In the county of 8uffolk. We have to thank Gaza, In Palestine, the gates pf which Samson carried away, for gaze or gauze. Gaza means "treasure." Vol taire, wishing to describe some Intel lectual but dressy woman, said, "She Is an eagle In a cage of gauze." Muslin owes lta name to Moasoul, a fortified town In Turkey In Asia. Tulle obtains Its name from that of a city In the south of France. Travelers by rail in Brittany often glide past Gulngamp without remembering that It was here that was first produced that useful fab rie gingham. Damask derives Its name from the city of Damascus; calico from Calicut, a town In India formerly cele brated for Its cotton cloth, and where also calico was printed; cambric, from Cambray, a town In Flanders, where, it was first made; and tweed from a fabric worn by fishermen upon tho River Tweed. Button Out of Fruit Heeds. In Central America there Is a fruit producing palm which has quite meta morphosed tbe button business and formed the nucleus of one of the most Important Industries. The seed of this fruit contains n milk that Is sweet to the taste nnd Is relished by the na tives. The milk, when allowed to re main In tbe nut long enough, becomes hardened, and turns Into a substance as ban! as the Ivory from an ele phant's tusks. The plant which pro duces these nats Is called the Ivory plant. Most of the buttons used In the United States, whether called Ivory, pearl, bone, horn, or rubber, come from this source. The Ivory plant Is one of the wonders of the age, and Is rewarding Its growers with vast for tunes. The ntrts are exported by th shipload to big button factories, from which they Issue forth In every con ceivable design, color, grade, and clas sification of button. Healthful Optimism. A certain lady bad met with a scri ous accident, which necessitated a rery painful surgical operation and many months' confinement to her bed. When the physician had finished his work and was about taking his leave, th patient asked, "Doctor, how long shall I hare to He here helpless?" "Oh, only one day at a time," was tba cheery anawer; and the poor sufferei was r- only comforted for the mo ment, but many times during the suc ceeding weary weeks did the thought, "Only a day at a time," come back with lta quieting Influence. We think It waa Rev. Kidney Smith who recom mended taking "short views" aa a good safeguard against needless wor ry; and One far wiser than be aald: "Take, therefore, no thought for tba morrow, ftaflcleot unto tba day la tba aril thereof." 4 M i 4 I- I OLD FAVORITES IHIIHIHIHHHttHIIII Muh'i ia the Cold, Cold Ground, Bound the meadows im a ringiog d darkies' mournful song, While de mocking birds as singing happy aa de day am kof, ft'bere de boy am a weeping oa d grassy mouud, Dere ok oiaa am a sleeping, sleeping in d cold, cold groaud. CHORt'8. Oewn in de corn field hear dat moarn ful sound, All de darkies am a weeping. Massa's io de cold, cold ground. When de autumn leaves were falling, when de days were cold. Two hard to hear old massa a call ing, cause he was so weak and old. Now de orange trees am blooming on de sandy shore. Now de summer days am coming, massa never calls no mora. CHOWS. Massa makes de darkies love biin, cause he whs so kind. Now they sadly w-ep alove him, mounting cause he lar-s tliera behind. I cannot work before to morrow, cause de tear drops flow, I try to drive assy my sorrow, pick ing on de old banjo. J une. And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come rfect days; Then heaven tries the earth if it be lu tune. And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we linen. We hear life murmur, or i-ee It g!it-n; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct wiiliin it that reaches snd tottern. And, groping blindly altove it for light, i Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling bark over hills snd valleys; Tin' cowslip stsrties in meadows green. The butler cup catches the eun iu its i Imliec, Ami there's never a h-;if nor a blade too mean To I some happy creature's palace; 5'lie little bird sits at hi door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among tbe leaves, And le's his illumine- l.inif o'erruu With the deliik'eof summer it receives; lis mate feels the eggs lieneath her in?s. And the heart in-her dumb breast flut ters and siut's; He sinus to the wide world, nnd fche to her nest la the nice ear of nature, which song ia the best? , James Uusscll Lowell. ? i IN AN UNKNOWN LAND. farts of Roman Kniplre Which No Modern Traveler Has Ever Been. Ksrw people appreciate tbe fact tbnt to-day. at the (Imwd of the twentieth century, there Ire 8?ffi p!tr; of the old UQinan empire where no traveler pi mouem limes nan oeen; jiiat there kre ancient towns which no tourist has seen, temples and towers that no lover of classic architecture lias We ighted In, Inscriptions In anient Ireek that no savant has as ytt de- sphered whole regions. In fact, full pf antiquities for which no Baedeker has been written, and which are not shown upon the latest maps. There are regions within our trmperate zone where no modern European foot has trod, so far as we are able to tell h-glons where the civilization of (J recce and Home once flourished nnd whore fine monuments of classic art and of an unfamiliar art that sup planted the classic waste their Isiiu tles upon the Ignorant sight of hnlf :Ivllized rmninds. according to a writ er In the Century. To realize the truth of this one deeds only to cross the range of moun tains that run parallel to the eastern ?onst of tbe Mediterranean, and, voiding all caravan routes, journey independently aliout the barren coun try that lies between these mountains snd tbe Eupbrabs. Here is a terri tory which, though not wholly un explored. Is full of most wonderful lurprlses. Here are cities and towns long deserted, not so great or so im posing, perhaps, as Palmyra, but far better preserved than the city of Zmobia, and giving a much truer picture of the life of the ancient In habitants than one can draw from those famous ruins. These towns are not burled, like the jreat cities of th Mesopotamian plains, uor have their sites been built opon in modern times, as those of the Jlasslc cities of Greece have lx-en; Uiey stand out against the sky upon high ridgf or He sheltered in sequest ered valleys, presenting to the view f tbe traveler as he aproaches them very much the same aspect that they lid In the fourth century of our fra, when Inhabited by prosperous, culti vated and happy people, or when de lerted by those Inhabitants some 1, J0 years ago. The ancients In these regions sem lo have had two general forms of private residence one long and low, leldom of more than two stories, and laving capacious two-story colonnade r porticoes with Inclosed courtyards jefore them; the other of tower form, !our or Ave stories high, with two or liree rooma in each story. Those of he latter sort are naturally preserved n fewer Instances than the former, for tbe reason that high buildings am, tenerally speaking, a more easy prey lo earthquake than low ones. Ex implea of tbe long two-story bouse ire common In every ruined town, taany of them In a remarkable state tf preservation. Tba data inscribed upon them range from SI to 510 A D. Tbe porticoes of these houses wcrt their most Interesting feature. Hr the ornament was massed, here !i Inscriptions were carved and bert doubtless the leisure hours of the in dent owners were passed. Between the columns of the upr story wa a parapet composed of rectaii'ilnl slat, paneled, molded and other iH ornamented. Many of these apparent ly thin slabs are. in reality, the l ki of the settles cut In solid stone, will comfortable seats and curving arm Tbe wooden floors of all oolonnadei like this have, of course, perished, si that now when one sits In one of thl settles, bis feet are necsriiy su pended In siiae; but these seat an an Index of the homelike ease Kn luxury that tbe ancient people en joyed In the open loggias of their ew residences, when the, floor were place, when a sloping, roof afforde welcome shade within the portico nii when clinging vln twined alsjut thl pillars of stone. Tbe bazaars of these ancient town which are still re.-ognlzed as such by these people w bo live among tbe ruins who have no bazaars of their own, hut have seen them In Aleppo, con sist of long, narrow structures facln directly UM,n the street. Often they occupied bo!) sides of a street of ttl usu-il width. The fronts of the s!i.,pl have two story (Mirtlcm-s of s,ji:.,r notiolithlc p.-rs carrying eiili.w' plain urchitrav-s. Behind the (sir-i Is a building, also of two stories, totrj posed of a series of small rooms wide I were undoubtedly storerooms in tl. ground story and living a part men' 1 aliove. The arrangement was not un like that of the colonnades of the Greek market place nnd. Indeed, tliey seem to have ls-eii called stone, as i learn from an inscription upon one o tbein. We may then suppose thai th li.wer story of the portio- was cm ployed for the display of merchandise ill the daytime and that the got.th were removed to the storer-sun ill night. THEY VURE MODfSI TllltMS. Away buck In the early fifties Ada u For-ythe set up a liitl- country store on the north shore of the Ohio Iliv'-r. It whs several mill s from any town, i-nd Adam drove a good business. At tirsi he dealt In groceries, tobacco and such other p-mmIs as were In cons aid demand and enabled him to turn hi capital over frequeiii!y In the course of u year; but as lie Is-canie mora prosperous he added dry g.stds. lints, cups and clothing, ami enlarged hi store yy lengthening It In The rivT-r road hm In fro: In the rear. mt of hli store, and for many years it was the principal highway. At last the river began to encroach en tbe batiks to such an extent that the road had to le moved back several rods. A succession of flood obliter ated this new road, and Jhe township althorltles decided to abandon tba rlv7r front and open a new road through be bojtom farms, a mils back. i Adam, now a rich inaii, fought Un? scheme with all hi might, but to m purpose, and the new ""road went through. Business at Adam's store, now off the beaten track, immediately sank al most to nothing, for a rival opened an epposition "emiHirliiiu" at an advan tageous point on the new highway. But Adam persisted. Day after day, and year after year, with a boy for a clerk, he sat on his counter and read his dally newspaper snd chatted with such customers as came in at long in t rvuls to make some trifling purchase. The goods that still crowded hla shelves grew faded with age, but ho made no effort to dispose of them. To all suggestions that he go out of busi ness, dispose of his stock by scling It In a lump for whatever It would bring, or advertise It for sale at auction, he turned a deaf ear. He had put Ida t.ioiiey Into that stock of goods, and he was not going to sell thein at a sacri fice, if he never sold them. Then came a.n unprecedented flood. The water covered all the Isittoin lund for miles round, and rose to thj depth of six feet In Adam's store, dam aging his gisMls. according to tli prices marked on Uiem, more than thousand dollar' worth, Adam waited till the flood subsided, then spread, them out In the sun lo dry, cleaned the yellow deposit off his counters and fl(sr, and went ahead as before. One night however, burglars broke into the building, piled his goods Into a promiscuous heap and departed. leaving thlR note scrawled on a she--t of wrapping paper: "Deer Sir: After looking at the Prhs?s marked on ytire goods we liar decided we cant afford to steal them, yuree, the Burglar.'' This was the last siraw, and Adam's proud will yielded. He disposed of his stock, some of which had been on tht shelves for forty years, to the own r of the rival store, at Uie la iter's ow n valuation, and went out of business forever. Evorythiag In Its Place. "Where shall we put all that waste material V a ska the track superin tendent of the yardmnster. "Along the belt line, of course," an swers the yardmaster without looking up from hla order sheet Judge. If a man la only attentive to hla wif. In public ahe la willing to overlook a lot of private neglect. lt'a as rilmcuM tnf uiisa .. . - .unitr men i sefi tbe point of a Joke as It la for t.. to get over It after they tumble. AS iMtttr ASSISUM. TIM among H-e correideti.-e "f le Lighthouse Board at Wahii gi'n ,re two brief epistles the dates of loch show that the first wa written I's-ut six months before the s-con.L Ihey look precisely like any ordinary - - . V. v art llisiliess eorr-IHi!!ueiict!. mrj - vived ill gl faith by the liard. and l.i one. reading them casually, would ni.pe.-t what a tale of domestic " iitngs thereby. An lniector, making lis usual rounds, disuvered tbe fads. An Irtshmau named McFadden had harge of a lighthouse near one of the ke ports. He w as a small, wiry t-k-ii of alsiiit 1" pound In weight. His sife more than made up for anything that be lacked In size or muscle, for (he wa a brawny, stalwart woman of iim jsjunds. She was, moreover. tb possessor of a violent temis-r. and here were times when the timorous. Undersized lighthouse keeper did not lire to call bis soul his own. His duties at the lighthouse were totiiewhnt arduous, so when Mrs. Mc Kaddeii happened to Is" in a pleasant 'rame of mind, she sometimes helpiil lor rather Inefficient partner with the .imps. She learned one d.-iy Ibiit her jusli.iiid was entitled t" ait assistant if his own choosing, and she stiggest d tl.nl since she did the work she, " -ell.v. whs the person who should . - appointed to draw the comfortablrt j .il:iry. Mr. Mcl'addt-li. however, ;-ri-iiiplly obj.-cted. saying that be was ! i rt.iin that the board would never ,'ive the position to a woman ' Just send in the application," slio urged, "and t -II them you're wanting t for your relative. J Md'ad-Ien. Sure, iiey'H never know whether It's f--r lohn or for .In tie. nnd I can do thft work us Well as any man." Mr. M I'adden reluctantly sent In th Ippllcatioii. and 111 due time ' J. Mc l aihh-n" whs regularly appointed first assistant at the lighthouse. The pros pect of the salary brought Joy lo t!. issjstant's heart, and all went well f-,r time. ATler a while, however. Mrs M---r.-iddeii. always a living person t- bve with, became so Independent on I lie strength of her e;.-irae income thul pis.r Mi I'adden found life with her entirely Insupportable. Affairs reached it climax one day when thrt Ma I wart Jane laid her superior o!!n er across her knee, snd In the presoiirQ of visitors (b-iilwriili-Iy spunked hiui w ith the hair hnHi. Mi i'addeli, of course, wn ui.alilg physically to retaliate, but mentally ho proved fuliy equal to the occasion. litf tirlng to the lightliou-. tower, w here he was safe from intrusion, be wrota the following letter: ''To the Lighthouse Board. "Gentlemen I reU.it fully request Unit my assistant, J. Md'ud-h-p, b re uoved for disobedience nnd InsiiWdb wtion. Faithfully your, 'Tittrlc Ick M.T'gd-lcnrJ keeper linT Tca As the lighthouse he Judge of the fitness of his own ns sislatit In the Is-glnning. tin- Isinril saw no reason w hy he should not now- ! a proper Judge of IiisiilM.rdln.-itlon. so J,.'; request was granted. "BRAiN FAG" A MYTH. It la K Btesln that Cu-. the tort dltifSK Complained Of. The so-called "brain fag" is a silly myth. The brain d'x-s not tire; Intel lectual work does not hurt under nor mal condition. It is eye strain that causes all the brain fag which tba newspapers have been exploiting of late, gpencer learned this lesson nnd escaped the tragedy of Nb-tzche and Carlyle by dictating hi writings, get ting others to do his research work for him, and by Is-lng willing to go with out vast realms of accurate knowl edge. Turkman wa driven to similar expedient. Hut all the rest groam-I and suffered even while they wrota little notes and postal card Instead of letters to their ls-st friends. The result In suffering wa Im-ab ui. able and horrible. There are biog. roubles of these people which do md allude to It; physicians . and medical editors have been known who smiled Ironically at the "exaggeration" of "vivid Imaginations;" and there ara filmtK-rless fool who think Ihcv nra excused from all sympathy wifb a Car. ij le or a MeUsche. They do not know that the misery of the pah, f om, at. tack of the nausei of sick h.n,iii,.i,. has not been equ.'iid except In soma mediaeval or orients torture cbamlM-r. wueu rr some profound reason n, dominant and oldest Instinct of the or-Kanism--that for food and nutrition- 1 violently reversed, it should be plain fveu to the stupidest mind that th deepest wrong exists and that the very pring of life are being drained. AdJ lo this another symptom almost equal ly terrible, intense pnln In th.. !,in the organ controlling both cl,r,..,.. nnd life processes, and what dlsensa rould be more desiH-mte? nw nmnT of our patients had sick headache It Is mpossmie to u,u vwiug f) (,)( t.clli.atlon, especially In letters and uiographles. to ,,ek 0f vomiting. robahly most of them did suffer from It 'lore or less.-Booklovers' Macs. Ine. As Compared. Illfklns-Have you noticed hoi luecrly young I'upuklns act. of I wonder what's the matter with him! Mlfklns Why. he's in .... aenrt, you know. Illfklna Oh. Ia that all! II- n-fc- is much fusa as If he ia 1. . r on a borne race. Although the - ----in uoesu 1 en- -- wuuierreiung, t employ a 01 Congreaameo who paaa bad bllla.