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«a*"od «Taji of V*t*r and mad, which
hr 4 taught tbr torts to out for hlui.
.fc' -hoy *ri» IwaatiftiUy ii! list ruled.
II- • W.1 . rui. >. Hr had —tue of
th not draw tag* there, and rotor
uf v ■>»! |*th»-t(*'. thill ! hate ever
•oefc is lay hfr I wot*-.ter who will
'hair Vilah'a arrupVwik*.
We.' to- n»;d hi* reading and hi*
W»!.r* t • re u» j#r..'.-»»i.it» au*i that
they i«»* h»r hour* awl two hour*
-■■*;- i. t t*f . s"h >iay . "Thro."
■ayud he, "r*r*f-y luiifc (i*».Id hate a di
ter*. * ii* well a* a j.r .f.-** iti. My
uatur; ! *Toffy i- toy direMon " That
•out two to uf> a day it.or* The «»*-o
• . :.. . i* and s«k. hut
trn a !«fcg *-r«iwe h- bad to satisfy hltii
—If With ■ it'-irl.-* sod <« kr>*»«'he.»
-nd **. ti -mail gator lie wa* Ihr only
li*t 1 ever met «h> kh.-w nay
g utaidt thr hahit* of tb* liou— tty
■ -<• thr IW*M)Uit*l Ail tin*— |—*|»lr
oa t.fc »..r they are L**j<i
ra .«r yttejeo^otera; hut as for
’• r . ... 3 .y can g*d rid of •l*eni.
>r V-w uj s,^ away from you when
Wfiy. l. ' tineU' knew
'hat *» John lot the idlof.
■ : 1 i'i u* fci,ij;*w trsadr Nolan *
regawr daity “*r -u|. • .*a.” TV- re*l
if th* 1. he t- • . or walke.il Tli
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SI*- ;.*^e j. h.. rx.eri —
-ud I »f**r heard Chet h* UJ. If
'• “'n* r ami. wai* iit, i» waa :ae land
‘'ap**- **• 'I**' »<*rW: ami i*r knew
*" *hatl lit: T t *-i • MB S'e> 4*b (to. Th'-II
owa- ei or died, or if the
.. •t* nat.t.d fain to on my other
,c* h w»* always ready to rend
1 I*1 ' e I* mart 4 tint hr
v, . ‘ •• - • • ie- w -fa Ft i't>
'to „tt .. •-■"fat y.-ar* sitt.r
„ ^ ,J' lir-ii t-oyage after I
** tv bt%! . :aan It wus
t.ssty. * l'!l*"r "nr slate trade
who-b 1,<,f "etgWlBg hHW,
had ** t „ “ '• «f 'Irginla.
•fcoa* Ha- » ' * 1 Vl'laienia ling
-i the *.. '.'*;» <* «V lewr.He
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- - done tlmt way. We i
v :‘l Allnntic on that
.it time I joined, I
■ • • 1 .ght Nolan was u sort of
chaplain wtth a tdue
■ .t. 1 ti. ver asked about him. Ev
-iiil* was strange to
I 1 w it was green to ask ques- ,
I thought there
a “I'laiii It-;:tons" on every ship.
•! I::." in our mess once 1
■ «• i. .1 tin "nution was given that
'ig was To be said 1
1 ■ • tint : they had told us
: ! to say nything nlxiuT the planet
>!• - r tin < • k of I ‘euteronomy, I
»h- .In hove ask'll why ; there were
-•••• ’ > things which seemed to
’ • h ■■< as liule reason. I first
. •• to u:. i TsTnud anything about
■ cr a country" one day
v : ■ u e overhauled a dirty little
• r v i had slaves on board.
.* • -or was -.-nt to take charge of
• • r few minutes he sent
! ■■ k Jj.s ic.iit to ask that someone
■ '• • him who con id siwak
i ' g — V. . w ore nil looking over
tit* • 1 »1, •. ih*- message came, and
■ sb.-d we could interpret, when
• ■ asked who spoke Por
. It." ion*- of the ofiicers did:
• a' ih. in was sending
!■ rd to ask if any of th‘- people
v dan s:».j.j»-d out and said he
- g.„ • tv. diterpre: if the cap
d a* he understood the lan
Th** rapt a in thanked him. fit
’ it notli. r fniat with him. and in
it wa« my luck to go.
••ti w* got th'-rc. it was such a
. s vo,! s. Mom sec. and never
t Nastiness ley..nd account.
.. run .. :n the midst of the
Tier.- were not a great
• tie j**-groes: but by way
w!. ' th*-re were understand
’ iie :■ Vaughan had had
a • ■. and am ie.-uffs knocked
•‘■i.d i--r *■ mveti.cm-c' sake, was
• itt ■ ■ mi Is of the
■ ••••I :• » • ;••••>>. Ti. • negroes were.
■ '■ ‘ -ut of the hold, and
•: - .. i ■ • 1 the dirty deck, !
a . ■ g siirrotindiug
* ■ -n a:. : nddr«—mg him in every
f : !•:.•••.* of a dialect, from
/■ • . h up t< the Farisiau of
it- .•''""..■creed.
As . a. on deck. Vaughan
; • n :: i a hogshead, on
. ! it. h: d mounted in desperation, ,
ate! said:
“For Uod's love, is there anybody
.a !.. tlii-s. wretches under
-w d s c jeti.ing'r The men gave tliem
did hot quirt them. 1
" ~ me mm n
__V» \ I 'I'M**- ,
Hushed the Men Down.
!.**d that big fellow down twice, i
and that '.id not soothe him. And then j
I 1: Choctaw to all of them to-j
. -r ; and I'll he hanged if they un
•••d *i.at as well as they uutier
st*«*«! the ling]ish."
N'lan said he could speak Por
■ .g — and one or two tine-looking ]
Kr ■ • . w. . drugged out who. as it
:.ad t.. found already, had worked
f"t th* Portuguese on ihe coast at
Fernando I*o.
■'T- I them they are free." said
Vaughan; “and tell them that these
rn-*: - ar* to !*e hanged as s*H*n as
we can g<*t ro[»e enough.”
N" n explained it in such Portu
g. - :: - th Kneitnen could under
stan*! and they in turn to such of the
i. _r <» as *-..uld understand them.
1 a* : " -t. •• . » such a yell of delight.
: :. :.g leaping and dancing
1.. » • g ..! .V Ian's f**et. and a general
: , .: d. *. the liogslieail by way of
.-..us worship of Vaughan as
ms ex : hina *f • he occnsioA.
■Kid Vacghaa. well
; •*— 1. "ihut I will take them all to
«Palma*.”
Mu' did ti'*t answer so well. Cap**
I*:: - pr: ‘ib-ally as far from
•j,.- i. - hud of them as New Or- |
. . I. .lao.'ir.* Was ; that is. thtty
,v<.- .I '• < 'a.: *!y - -parat' d from
. ,, »h**r* And 1hcfr interpreters. «s ,
v, t 'Uld uiui rstni'd. instantly said,
\. , • ]•; arid began to pro
1.. ... g.fg.ite other expedients in most !
g*!:.ge. Vaughan was rath
, r ,; - *.;, it**'l fit thi- result of his
I asked Nolan eagerly
l 7 th* • -aid. The drop- stood on
.. vwhite forehead as he
* i.-i d if. a.-'ii d"v n. anti said;
■Ji ,. -\.tt Palmas. He says.
Ts . u- :. *ii**. take tis to our coun
try «s • ..ur •'■•n house take
tis t<* **ur own picktininui ■> and ”ur i
.vi *i wo: .* '!.’ He says he lias an old
father anti m th r. who "ill die, if
ih* do t. : see him. And this one
suj* l * left his people nil sick, and
p. :• !*-d d"v.u to ctuie and help them.
and L'f.t these devils caught him Id
the t-ay just In sight of home, and
that he has never seen anybody from
home since then. And this one says,"
choked out Nolan, “that he has not
heard a word from his home in six
months, while he has been locked uy
in an infernal barracoon.”
Vaughan always said he grew gray
himself while Nolan struggled through
this interpretation. I, who did not un
derstand anything of the passion in
volved in it. saw that the very ele
ments were melting with fervent heat,
and that something was to pay some
where. Even the negroes themselves
stopped howling as they saw Nolan’s
agony, and Vaughan's almost equal
agony of sympathy. As quick as he
could get words, he said:
“Tell them yes, yes; tell them they
shall go to the Mountains of the Moon,
if they will. If I sail the schooner
through the Great White Desert, they
shall go home!"
And after some fashion Nolan said
so. And then they all fell to kissing
him again and wanted to rub his nose
with theirs.
But he could not stand it long; and
getting Vaughan to say he might gr.
back, he beckoned me down into out
boat. As we lay back in the stern
sheets and the men gave way. he said
to me: “Youngster, let that show you
what it is to be without a family, with
out a home, and without a country
And if you are ever tempted to say a
word or to do a thing that shall put
a bar between you and your family
vour home, and vour country, pray
<Iiid In li.s mercy to take you that in
stant home to hi< own heaven. Stick
by your family, boy: forget you have
a self, while you do everything for
them. Think of your home. 1 v; write
and send, and talk about it. Lot it
l>e nearer and nearer to vour thought
the farther you l uv. to travel from it;
and rush to it. wl n yon tire free, as
that poor black - ive is doing now
And for your country, hoy." and the
words rattled in ! ' throat, "and foi
that flag." and he pointed to the ship,
“never dream a dr< am httt of serving
her as -he l ids you. though the serv
ice carry you through a thousand hells.
No matter what happens to you. no
matter who flam rs you or who abuses
y >u. never look at another flag, never
iet a night pa-s hir yon pray God to
bless that flag. Rememht r. bey. that
behind all these men you have to do
with, behind officers, and government,
and people even, there is the country
herself, your country, and that you
belong to her as you belong to your
own mother. Stand hv her, hoy, as
you would stand by your mother, if
those devils there had get hold of her
today I”
I was frightened to death by his
calm, hard passion: hit 1 blundered
"tit that I would, by all that was holy,
and that 1 had never tl'might of doing
anything else. He hardly seemed to
hear me; hut he did. almost in a
whisper, say: "< »h. if anybody had
said so to me when I "its of your age!”
1 think it was this half-confidence of
hi*, which I never abused, for I never
told this story till now. which after
ward made ti- great friends. He was
very kind to me. Often he sat up, or
even got up. tit night to walk the deck
with me when it was luy watch. He
explained to me a great deal of my
mathematics. He lent me books, and
helped in* about my rending. He nev
er alluded so directly to his story
again; hut front one and another offi
cer I have learned, ir. thirty years,
"hat I am telling. When we parted
from him in St. Thomas harbor, at the
end of our eruise, I "as more sorry
than 1 can tell. 1 wa* very glad to
him again in 1 s:p■; and later in
life, when I thought J had some in
die w in Washington. 1 moved heav
en and earth to have him discharged.
!’• it "a< like getting a ghost out of
prison They pretended there was no
- e h man. and never \v is such a man.
They will say so at the department
tew I Perhaps they dt- not know. It
will not be the first th ng in the serv
ice of which the department appears
to know nothing!
(TO BE CONTI NEED )
FARMER BEHIND THE TIMES
His Wife Tells How She Has Lived
for Many Years Without Modern
Conveniences.
In the American Magazine a farm
er's wife tells of some of her experi
ences. She says :
“My husband does not, or will not.
realize that tlie world has moved, and
that what were luxuries a generation
ago are necessities now. One of my
children died of typhoid fever, the
germs of which were, nrt doubt, brought
by flies from the house down the road
Where they had the disease; for we
haven't a screen door in the house, and
only a few cheap adjustable screens.
"We sleep on feather beds, because
mattresses cost money, and the feather
beds were in the house—a part of the
furnishings that I married, when I took
my husband for better eg for worse. We
have ehairs with rounds missing, worn
carpets, nicked dishes and cooking
utensils that have long since outlived
their usefulness.
"Tlie house is inconvenient, and for
that reason alone housework is much
harder than it ought to be. and house
work is hard enough in all conscience
mi a farm. We have no water in the
house. For 25 .-ears I have fetched
and carried water. There are two
steps between tlie kitchen and the din
■:• — room, which, by tie way. was for
merly a bedroom and his no place for
i stove. The ‘parlor’ is across a halt
tr< -a the main part of the house and is
uily opened on special occasions."
South’s F^rm Production.
The Manufacturers' Record says
•'.at the total value of the South's ag
ricultural products, including animal
products, in 1916 was more than $4,
triiiiHioonu. or only S per cent less than
the total for the United States in 1900.
Tlie total value of the South's crops,
uiiirting live stock, in 1913 was $3.65s,
(32.. or $1,072,280,800 over 1915. To
his < ntribsted $1,079,596,000,
grain S1.2S3.o(i9,000. and hay. tobacco
ind potatoes S-410,494.000.
Debars 2nd Sens?
A poet has been known to n-ufrr* dol
lars out of lines that ordinary iccUais
could not make sense out of. ■Ulu-gn
nati Times-Star.
VIVID DESCRIPTION
OF FIRST-AID WORK
BY RED CROSS MEN
An American Pictures Scenes in
Subway Dressing Station
Near Trenches.
SURGEONS LABOR ENDLESSLY
Captain, Priest, Private and German
Lad. All Dying, Get Tender Cara
From Overworked Hospital
and Ambulance Aids.
The work of the Red Cross surgeons
and stretcher bearers at the front in
France was never more vividly illus
trated than in a recent letter forward
ed to America. It was written by
Philip O. Mills to Mr. Eliot Norton,
head of the Volunteer Motor Ambu
lance corps which Mr. Mills was serv
ing. The communication was private,
but was made public because of the .
clearness with which it sets forth the
scenes amid which the surgoons and
ambulance workers labor, day after
day. The text follows:
“Tonight I am siting In a small un
derground cellar of a public building,
acting as a sort of timekeeper for the
cars (ambulances) going up to our
- ".'T”’
turns to the wounded man. gently feels
his nose, lifts up his closed eyelid, and '
at his nod the stretcher is again lifted j
and the wounded man is carried into
the operating room, and soon after into
the little room of sorrows.
“In answer to my eager question, the
surgeon shakes his head.
“ -Not a chance.’
“A hrancardier and I gather the sol
dier's belongings from his clothes to
he sent to his wife, but even we have .
to stop for a few minutes after we
see the photograph of his wife and
their two little children.
“An hour later, as our night's work
is slacking up and several cars have
driven up and been unloaded, the in- j
firmier comes in from the little room
and says something to the hrancar
dierr. Two of them get a stretcher,
and !n a moment the ‘blesso from
Belleville” comes past ns with a sheet 1
over him. They lay him down at the
other end of the room and another
hrancardier begins rolling and tying
1dm in burlap for burial. As I look
he chances to a shapeless log. Then,
out to the dead wagon with it.
“Soon after. I go into the little ward
again to see how the others are com
ing through the night, and am glad to
see them ail quieted down. Even the
little Berman seems in less pain,
though his bren'hing still shakes the
heavy bed he lies on.
“Through a chink I see that day is
beginning to breuk, and I hear the
chiefs car coming in from the sap. and
know that the night's work is over.”
Tl.is is not a sketch from the imagi
nation of a novelist—it is the actual
Red Cross surgeons and orderlies give first aid to wounded in little
underground dressing stations in the front-line trenches. War records
show that as many Red Cross men are killed by enemy fire as regular
soldiers in the trenches. Red Cross field service is not a pastime.
most dangerous post, and handling the
reserve ears for wounded in the town
itself. The whole world is passing
here—French. Americans; living,
wounded and dying.
“A long, heavily arched corridor,
with stone steps leading down to it;
two compartments off to one side, lined
with wine bins, where our reserve men
and a few French hrancardiors
(stretcher bearers) arc lying on their
stained stretchers, some snoring; be
yond. a door that leads to a little sick
ward—the most pathetic little room I
have ever seen—with four beds of dif
ferent sizes and kinds on one side, and
sis on the other, taken, evidently,
from the ruined houses near by: and
one tired infirmier (hospital attendant)
to tend and soothe the wounded and
dying.
"In the bed nearest the door a
French priest, shot through the lungs,
with pneumonia setting in. his black
beard pointing straight up. whispering
for water.
“Nest to him a little German lad. '
hardly nineteen, and small, with about
six hours to live, calling—sometimes 1
screaming—for his mother, and then
for water.
“Nest to him a French captain of
infantry, his arm off at the shoulder
and his head wounded—weak, dying,
but smiling.
“And nest to him a tirailleur (infan
tryman) in delirium calling on his
colonel to charge the Germans.
“The infirmier is going from one to
the other, soothing and waiting on each
in turn. He asks me what the German
is saying, and I tell him he is calling
for his mother.
“‘Ah. this is a sad war!’ he says, as I
he goes over to hold the poor lad's ;
hand.
“A brancardier comes in with a mes
sage: a blesse (a wounded man) at
Belleville—very serious.
“This is a reserve car call, so one
slides out and is gone like a gray ghost
down the ruined street, making all the
speed its driver can—no easy marter—
with no lights. In twenty minutes he
is back. The brancardiers go out.
They come in again bearing the wound
pd man on a stretcher and place it on
the floor. One of them, who is a priest,
leans over him and asks his name, and
his town. On answer to the question
what his wife's name is, he whispers ■
'Alice,' while on the other side an- i
other brancardier is slitting the
clothes from his holy—and I shiver
with the pity of it at the sight I see.
“The surgeon conies out of his little
operating room. Weary with the
night's tragic work—after so many,
n»ny other tragic nights—he douses
his head in a bucket of water. He •
occurrences of a night behind the
front where the French, the Belgians,
the British—and soon the Americans—
hold at hay the German invader. This
is the nightly work of the men who
care for the wounded.
27 U. S. AMBULANCE
CORPS READY TO GO
Twenty-seven ambulance companies
have been organized by the American
Ited Cross in this country for service
in Europe. Some of them have already
gone abroad. The list is;
No. 1—Pasadena. Cal.. Dr. Charles
D. Lockwood; No. 2—University of
California. Berkeley. Dr. Alvin Powell;
No. 3—University of Chicago, Dr. El
bert Clark ; No. 4—Cleveland, Dr.
Ralph K. UpdegrafF; No. 5—Washing
ton. D. C., Dr. Ryan Devereux; No. 6
—Fordham university. Dr. Joseph Don
nelly; No. 7—New York university. Dr.
Chester F. 8. Whitney; No. 8—Detroit,
Dr. Charles Barton ; No. 9—Northwest
ern university, Chicago, Dr. Stephen
Balderston: No. 10—Columbia univer
sity. Dr. William H. Rockwell; No. 11
—Battle Creek. Mich., Dr. James T.
Case; No. 12—University of Washing
ton. Seattle. Dr. David C. Hall; No. 13
—Pittsfield. Mass.. Dr. Robert J. Car
penter; No. 14—University of Oregon.
Eugene, Ore.. Dr. J. E. Kuykendall;
No. 15—Grand Rapids. Mich.. Dr.
Thomas D. Gordon; No. 16—Fredonia,
Kan.. Dr. Eduar C. Duncan: No. 17—
Boston. Dr. Edward A. Cunningham;
No. 18—Indianapolis. Dr. Mason B.
Light; No. 19—Portland, Ore., Dr. Er
nest H. Streit; No. 20—Atlanta, Dr.
Leo P. Daly: No. 21—Flint. Mich.. Dr.
Walter H. Winchester: No. 22—Char
leston. W. Ya., Dr. Timothy L. Barber;
No. 23—Portland. Me.. Dr. Ernest B.
Folsom; No. 24—Kansas 'City, Mo„
commander not yet named; No. 25—
Rutland. Vt., Dr. William Stickney;
No. 26—Columbia. S. C.. Dr. Marion H.
Wyman; No. 27—Salt Lake City, Dr.
Hugh B. Sprague.
Several of these units are already
on the way to the front in France, and
the prospect is that all will see early
service. Not only is the Red Cross
preparing to care for American sol
diers and sailors when they move into
the firing line, but France needs help
badly with her hospitals, and America
is giving it as rapidly as possible.
The German policy of sinking hos
pital ships with their thousands of
helpless wounded is making it neces
sary to care for the British wounded
in --"ranee, and it puts a terrific strain
on the French hospital service.
SCRAPS
Fogs indicate settled weather.
Colombia is completing a new rail
way.
Salvador is building national high
ways.
British geologists have estimated '
that more than 24.000.* <00.000 tons of
coal remain in the Welsfi fields.
Driven by a 300-horsepower electric
motor, a stone crusher in a Michigan
limestone plant can crush 1.250 tons
of rock an hour.
Hollow concrete telegraph poles,
built up around bases of wood and
steel, are a European invention.
A water power method for breaking
down rock in masses instead of crum
bling it has been invented in Europe.
The geological survey has estimated
that there are about 1,000.000 troy
ounces of platinum in the United
States.
When they treated a man with X
ruys for an ulcer on his tongue Paris
surgeons also cured his long-standing
deafness.
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HINT OF WAR GAS IN ■•ILIAD"
■iomer Says That “Fierce Mars Spread
a Vapor Over the Battle,
Aiding the Trojans.
Why. I wonder, is the word “Ho
meric” such a favorite with writers at
the front and with the subeditors who
trick out their narratives? In ttie Ho
meric days men fought with swords
and spears and hows and arrows, with
the assistance of an occasional thun
derbolt from Jove. What basis of
comparison is there between these toys
and the weapons of today?
Yet there is one curious parallel
which has not. I think, been pointed
out. In the fifth book of the —Iliad”
we are told that "fierce Mars spread a
vapor over the battle, aiding the Tro
jans.” if not exactly poison gas. this
may be said to be at least an antici
pation of th“ modern smoke screen.—
London Observer.
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Nothing to Run Into.
“When I was in rhe railroad busi
ness." said Chauncey M. Depew once,
“the president of a small line waited
, on me to request an exchange of cour
j tesies. l interrogated him, and he
| said proudly:
“‘Da our line. sir. not only has a
| collision never occurred, but on our
line a collision would lie impossible.’
“ 'Impossible?' said I. ‘Oh, come;
I know that the latest automatic safe
ty devices are excellent things. But
impossible is a large word.'
“ Tt'^ literally true with us. sir,' he
1 replied.
“ ‘How can it be?' said I.
“ ‘Why,’ said he, *we own only one
train.’ ”—Railway Empoyecs' Maga
zine.
More War Knowledge.
A patriotic young woman who has
been taking the war situation serious
ly since the advent of the United
States into the fray, remarked the oth
er evening after a careful perusal of
the paper that she could not under
stand how the German junk dealers
had so much influence in determining
the course of the war on the part of
Prussia.
Investigation disclosed the fact that
she had been studying an article deal
ing with the attitude of the “junkers.”
or the party of the landed aristocracy
in Prussia.—Indianapolis News.
Respect for the Song.
“Don't you love our song. 'The Star
Spangled Banner?' ”
“I do.” replied Senator Sorghum.
“Then why don't you join in the
chorus?”
“My friend, the way for me to show
real affection for a song is not to try
to sing it."
The Patriot From Mayo.
The most disappointed Irishman ob
served lately in New York was the
wild specimen from untamed Mayo
who. as he handed in the registration
card that he had tilled out laboriously,
demanded of the clerk: “Gimme me
gun. An' where do I raypoort?"—
Boston Globe.
Also a Ceparator.
“That summer boarder of ours
spends a good deal of time in the
dairy. Seems to take a great interest
in the separator.”
“Well, he's in that line himself."
“Huh."
“He's a divorce lawyer.”
Surprised.
“Yes, sir. it will cost yon a thou
sand dollars to have this house re
decorated.”
“Good heavens! Why. I could almost
have my wife redecorated for that.”—
Judge.
A Bright Idea.
Bud—Aw. you're givin' me the llt
tlesr piece.
Sis—Never mind; I’ll bite a piece off
mine, n'en they'll be both the same.—
Judge.
The average wife can outdo an ex
perienced lawyer when it comes to
cross-questioning her husband on his
return about 2 a. m.
___
When at the age of forty a man
meets a woman he vainly loved at
twenty he realizes that hick was with
him. after all.
--
He is an idle man who might be
better employed.
—
Doing what one can is doing the
right thing.
iui.MMNUm .........,.;L. .. -«fj»
“Jem Roils.”
Struck by tlie notice. "In n Sinks,”
in an ironmonger's shop windov. a
wng went inside and said that he was
perfectly aware of the fact that “'.run
sank.”
Alive to the situation, the smart
shopkeeper retaliated:
"Yes, anil time flies, hut winp vaults,
sulphur springs, jam rolls, grass slopes,
music stands, Niagara falls, moonlight
walks, holiday trips. Indian rubber
tires, the organ stops, trade returns,
and—”
But the visitor had bolted. Af'er
collecting his thoughts, he return' d,
and. showing his head at the doorwi y,
shouted: “Yes, I know, and marble
busts.”
Couldn’t Stay Behind.
A riding master was taking itis usual
stroll around the exercise ground
when lie came across a recruit trying
his best to get his horse to jump a
fence. After watching him fur some
time, he went up to the man and ex
claimed :
“My good fellow, how do you expect
to git that horse to go when you’ve
only got one spur on?"
The recruit, after looking at his
boots, replied :
“Well. sir. if I can only get flint side
of the horse to go, the other one is
hound to keep up with him."
He’d Aafc Her.
At a dance in a certain town a visi
tor to tlie place got Info conversation
with an elderly gentleman.
i’n sently the younger man said,
pointing to a lady across the room,
who was smiling pleasantly iu his di
rection :
“I wonder if that dreadful-looking
woman is actually trying to tlirt with
! me?”
! “I don’t know," the elderly gentle
man answered mildly, “but I can eas
ily ascertain for you. She’s my wife.”
Horrors of War.
Mrs. pi ck—They ::re going to arrest
ail suspicious persons.
Mr. I’eck—Maybe they won’t. Maria,
so long as you are suspicious only of
me.—Judge.
It is easy to distinguish a violinist
from a fiddler, for one draws a salary
and tlie other doesn't.
He is the wisest man who knows
i best how to hold his tongue.
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