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JUST A BOY.
Ia s bc Hatton's Reminiscences of Hk
Juvenile Life In Netr York.
He was not a very good boy or a very
bad boy or a very bright boy or nn uu-
nsnal boy in any wny. Ho wus jast a
boy , and vnry often be forgets that be
is not a boy now. Whatever there may
be abont tbe boy that is commendable
he owes to his father and to his mother ,
and he feels that ho should not be held
responsible for it.
His mother was tbe most generous
and tbe most unselfish of human beings.
She was always thinking of somebody
else alwayB doing for others. To her
it was blessed to give , and it was not
very plousaut to receive. When she
bought anything , the boy's stereotyped
query was , "Who is to have it ? " When
anything was bought for her , her own
invariable remark was , " What ou earth
shall I do with it ? " When the boy came
to her one summer moruing , she looked
upon him us a gift from heaven , and
when she was told that it was a boy ,
and not a bad looking or a bud condi
tioned boy , her first words were , "What
on earth shall I do with it ? "
She found plenty "to do with it" before -
fore she got through with it , more than
40 yearu afterward , and the boy has ev
ery reason to believe that she never re
gretted the gift. Indeed , she once told
him , late in her life , that he had never
made her cry. What better beuediotion
can a boy have than that ?
The boy was redheaded and long
nosed even from the beginning a shy ,
dreaming , self conscious little boy ,
made peculiarly familiar with his per
sonal defects by the constant remarks to
the effect that his hair was red and that
his nose was long. At school for years
ho was known familiarly as "Rufus , "
"Redhead , " "Carrot Top" or "Nosy. "
His mother , married at 19 , was the
eldest of a family of nine children , and
many of the boy's aunts and uncles were
but a few years his senior and were hia
daily and familiar companions. He was
the only member of his own generation
for a long time , and there was a con
stant fear upon the part of the elders
that" ho was likely to be spoiled , and
consequently he was never praised nor
petted nor coddled. He was always fall
ing down or dropping things. He was al
ways getting into the way , and he could
not learn to spell correctly nor to cipher
at all. He was never in his mother's
way , however , and he was never made
to feel so.
But nobody except the boy knows of
the agony which the rest of the family ,
unconsciously and with no thought of
hurting his feelings , caused him " by
the'fun they poked at his nose , at his
fiery locks and at his unhandiness. Ho
fancied that passersby pitied him as he
walked or played in the streets , and he
sincerely pitied himself as a youth des
tined to grow np into an awkward , tact
less , stupid man , at whom the world
would laugh so long as his life lasted.
"A Boy I Knew , " hy Laurence Hutton -
ton , in St. Nicholas.
A TRIBUTE TO ART.
The M iil of Milesia and the Beautiful
Venus de Medici.
Somewhere in Washington just
where is not necessary to the main point i
at issue in this short article on the de-1
velopment and uudevelopment of art in [
the national capital is a mansion pre
sided ever by a woman of wealth and
refinement. She is a most artistic wom
an , too , and in her house are some un
usually fine pieces of painting and stat
uary. There is also a Milesian maid , by
name Maggie , who knows a deal more
about housecleaning than she does about
sculpture , and Maggie has been trying
for a long time to cultivate her taste up
to the point of properly appreciating the
painted and carved beauty with which
she daily comes in contact.
Not many days ago the mistress and
the maid were going over the house with
brush and broom , putting it in especial
order for a musicale that was to be given
to a few artists and fashionables , and
the mistress observed that the maid on
three several occasions passed by with
cold neglect of cloth and brush a beau
tiful figure of the "Venus de "Medici , "
in an alcove just off the hall.
"Here , Maggie ! " she called. "Why
don't you brush the dust off this figure ? ' '
"Which wan , mem ? " inquired Mag
gie with great innocence.
"The 'Venus' there in the alcove , of
course. See" and the lady touched it
with her finger "you have left dust all
over it. "
"yis , mem , " confessed Maggie , "but
I do be thinking for a long time , mem ,
that there aht to be something on it ,
mem. "
It was a delightful and logical excuse ,
perhaps , but the lady could scarcely ac
cept it , and Maggie's brush removed
even the dusty drapery she wished to
leave. Washington Star.
His Grandmother.
A gentleman once asked Uncle Daniel ,
a droll character in a New England vil
lage , if he could remember his grand
mother. "I guess I can , " said Uncle
Daniel , "but only as I saw her once.
Father had been away all day , and
when he came homo he found I had failed
to do something he expected of me. He
caught up a rough apple tree limb and
walked up to mo with it. Grandmother
appeared on the doorstep with a small ,
straight stick in her hand , and instantly
handed it to my father. 'Here , Joe , '
said she , 'lick Daniel with a smooth
Btick. ' And he did. Who wouldn't re
member such a grandmother as that ? "
Saw Through It.
"Package , 6ir , " said the agent as Mr.
Sharp came to the door. "There is $2
express charges on it. "
"Be kind enough to wait a moment , "
said Mr. Sharp as he disappeared in
doors. Presently he returned. "Just al
low me to throw this X ray on that pack
age , please. "
The telltale light revealed three
bricks carefully done up in raw cotton ,
and , unopened , they were returned to
the would bo joker marked "Refused. "
Washington Times.
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| MOW SHE HELD THE TRAIN.
A Woman's Strategy That Enabled Her
I Daughter to Go to Town.
I "Boforo I came to this part of the
country I was an engineer on a railroad
down south , " said a railway man. "Wo
used to make a long run , and we wcm
pretty slow about it. While on that line
I had some very odd experiences. I re-
i member one day , when we reached tbe
junction station , a woman came up tome
mo and asked me to hold the train for
five minutes. She said that her daugh
ter wanted to take the train to the city.
, I told her that it was impossible for mo
J to hold the train for her. "
I * " 'I don't ' she
see why , expostulated.
' 'I think you might do a little thing like
that.
that."I
"I tried to explain to her that trains
ran on schedule time , and , like time and
tide , wait for no man , or woman oitlser ,
for that matter. But she wouldn't have
it , and finally , just as we were about to
start , she shouted indignantly :
" 'Well , I'll just see about that. '
"I laughed , but soon I ceased to
laugh , for what did that old woman do
I but get right on the traok about three
feet in front of tbe engine. She sat her
self there , firmly grasping hold of the
rails with both hands. The conductor
signaled for mo to go ahead , as our stop
was ovor. But I couldn't do it as long
as she remained on the track , for I
would kill her certainly. I called to the
oonductor , and he , impatient at the de
lay , came up. I explained the situation
to him. Ho was as mad as I was and
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going up to tbe woman told her to get
off the track.
" * I just won't , ' ' she replied , 'until
my daughter gets on board your train. '
"He pleaded with her some more and
finally declared that ho would bo com
pelled to use force.
" 'Just you dara ! ' she cried. 'I'll sue
you for damages if you do. '
"This opened a new complication ,
and we reasoned with ourselves whether
we had better remove her by force. Just
as we had determined upon a course of
policy her daughter came up and seeing
the old woman ou the track kissed her
good by and got on the train , while her
mother called to her :
% " 'Go ahead , Mary Ann. You have
plenty of time , though , for I will sit on
the track intil you get on board. '
"Audthon , when Mary Ann was safe
ly on board and wo were about ready
to run over the old woman , if necessary ,
she calmly and slowly got up and waved
me a good by , calling as we pulled out
of the station :
" 'I hope I've reached you fellers a
grain of porliteuess. ' " Chicago Times-
Herald. |
HISTORIC SLAVE AUCTION.
The Sale of Pinky Said to Have Inspired
the Emancipation Proclamation. I
In The Ladies' Home Journal Mrs. j
Henry Ward Beecher writes of "When
Mr. Beecher Sold Slaves In Plymouth
Pulpit. " Recalling the historic sale of
Pinky , Mrs. Beecher gives these details :
"An old colored woman had written to
Mr. G. Faulkner Blake , the brother of
one of our church members , that her lit
tle grandchild , named Pinky , was too
fair and beautiful for her own good , and
was about to be sold 'down south , ' and
Mr. Blake asked if she could be freed.
'Not unless you bring her north , ' replied
Mr. Beecher. 'I will bo responsible for
her , and she shall be lawfully purchas
ed or sent back. ' The answer was a
compliment , to which Mr. Beecher
laughingly referred as the only tribute ,
ever paid to him by a slave owner. 'If
Henry Ward Beecher has given his
word , ' wrote the dealer , 'it is better
than a bond. ' \
"So Pinky was brought to Plymouth
church and placed upon the pulpit , as
Sarah , another slave , previously had
been. The scene was again one of in
tense enthusiasm. Rain never fell fast
er than the tears of the congregation.
The pretty child , the daughter of a
white father , was bought and over
bought. Rose Terry afterward Mrs. j
Rose Terry Cooke , the famous authoress i
threw a valuable ring into the basket , |
and Mr. Beecher picked it out and put
it upon Piuky's finger , saying , 'Remem
ber with this ring I do wed theo to
freedom. ' * * * President Lincoln took
a lively interest in the case of Pinky , ;
the details of which were related to him
by Chief Jnstico Chase and by Mr. J
Beecher. I was not in Washington with
my husband at the time , and therefore
cannot verify the story that the sale of
Pinky inspired President Lincoln to issue
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sue the almost divine proclamation of
emancipation. "
Two Yorkshire Stories.
The sturdiness of the north and its
rather grim self will are admirably il
lustrated by two Yorkshire anecdotes. A
landlord of very old family proposed to
make an alteration in one of his tenant's
farm buildings , which the tenant de
clined to permit , whereupon the land
lord remarked very mildly that , after
all , the building was his own. There
upon the tenant rejoined , "Nay , my
forefather went to the crusades with
your forefather , and you shan't touch a
stone of it. "
Again , a daughter of one of the lead
ing citizens of a Yorkshire town hinted
to her father's gardener that the family
would like to appropriate the greenhouse
to the purposes of a vinery , whereupon
she was told to let her father know "he I
may just choose betwixt me and the
grapes. " Of course the proposal was
abandoned.
A "Wonderful Island of Chalk.
The English island of Thaner , form
ing a part of the county of Kent , is al
most wholly composed of chalk. The
island is 10 miles in length and about 5
in breadth and has more chalk exposed
on its surface than has any other spot
of equal area on the globe. British geol
ogists say that there are not less than
42,000,000,000 tons of chalk "in sight"
on Thanet , and that it would take 10,000
men and 5,000 horses and carts 20,000
years to move it , providing it were dug
np ready to be carted away. St. Louis
Republic.
B'lUN SOAP MTH MARTHY
, Lord , hovr I mbM thorn good ole dajra
Wen lifo wu.4 full o' hope
An mo an Murtby Ellen Hay
Was Bparkin b'ilin soap.
The potash klttlo wo uso' to hare
It hilt three bur'hi clear ,
An bo Mia' Haya an ma 'ud save
Their aoap gruaseTer a year
An plan to bile it "on the sheer , "
Bein nox' door neigh bora so.
An ast if mo an Murthy'd koor
To kind o' boos the show.
The kittle was sot in the orchard lot
Were nobody'd come an spy ,
An I'd snake the kacs o * aoap scraps ont
On our stunboat , an Murthy'd try
To kutch a ride on couldn't hoi on
'Thout grabbin me roun the wals' .
I thought that heaven was shinin upon
My heart in that sweet embrace
I'd the flro to light an the lye to bring
As it dripped from the wood ash loach
An Mart by to watch as she'd set on sing
As putty as a peach.
An my yoarnin Bonses was took by storm
By each little cunnin trick
O' grace au beauty an swayin form
As she stirred the soap ' 1th a stick.
An her sunbunnit fell f'um her golden
curlR
Oh , shucks ! I couldn't hope
To tell how fair wus that fairest o' girls
As she Ftirred the b'ilin soap.
It's kind o' lonesome u-sottin hero
An thinkin them ole times over.
Wat ? Murtby ? Hain't Been 'er for seventeen -
teen year.
Sonco she married that down east drovor.
J. L. Hcaton in "Tho Quilting Bee. "
SUFFER FROM "FLAT FEET. "
How the Breaking Down of the Arch It.
Remedied by a Steel Strip.
Despite the fact that the beauty of a
well arched foot is much appreciated by
people of an artistic turn of mind , has
been sung frequently by poets and verse-
makers , there has been until lately lit
tle interest , from a scientific point of
view , taken in its direct opposite the
flat foot. In a great number of instances
flat feet are the occasion of considerable
keen suffering , generally resulting from
the breaking down of the arcb that is ,
the displacement of some of the many
little bones of the foot either from
overstrain or some disease of the muscu
lar structure. As the weight of the bodj
constantly rests upon the foot , there if !
no opportunity for the bones to get bach
to their proper places.
The result is that these little bones
keep rubbing against each other , and
the pain gets more and more severe.
Commonly the person afflicted in this
way thinks that he or she has rheuma
tism and lets it go at that. Until re
cently the only remedy was a steel soled
shoe that was clumsy and heavy. The
new device is interesting. It is an "in
sole , " curved to tit the foot , made of a
bent strip of steel and acting as a spring.
It is covered cither with leather or with
vulcanized rubber to prevent rusting ,
and , needing no fastening , but simply
to bo placed in position , it can bo
changed from one shoe to another at
will. I
In position it acts simply as a sup
port , literally holding np the bones and
giving them an opportunity to slip back
into their proper places. While any "in
sole" of the approximate shape will
give relief , the best results are reached
only when one is especially made from
a cast or impression of the foot. A great
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flat feet come from the north of Europe , i
many of them from the lowlands of Ger-1
many. The inhabitants of the south or I
Europe , strangely enough , are seldom
tronbled with anything of the sort.
Their insteps , espeoially in the case ol
women , are nearly always highly arched
and finely formed. New York Tribune.
"Horses With Wheels. "
"It was in the early days of railroad
ing in the south , " remarked the gentle
man with the stock of reminiscences the
other day. "I was located in Florida
about the time when tbe government
had made vassals of the' Seminole Indi
ans of that state , and in order to impress
the redoubtable Billy Bowlegs , the Tecumseh -
cumseh of the Seminoles , it had invited
that 'heap big chieftain' to make a trip
to the seat of the national government.
Billy was a bit dubious about accepting
tbe invitation , fearing possibly that the
great father at Washington might have
designs upon his "life or happiness , but
he was prevailed upon to make the trip , ]
and ho embarked on board of the train
with a great show of courage. The
trains of that period were not the fliers
of today in fact , on many of the short
lines the engineers were compelled to
got out of their cabs and walk to lighten
the train and permit it to proceed at an
even rate of speed. When Billy Bowlegs - :
legs returned from his visit , he had
overcome his trepidation and looked
with scorn upon the locomotives. I visited -
ited Billy a day or two after his return
and asked him bow he liked traveling
on the iron horse.
" 'Huh , 'he said , with an upward
twist of his prominent proboscis , 'horse
wid wheels no good ! Big heap no good !
Me on horse better than two. Run way
all time. White man heap smart. In-
j jun heap better. Huh ! ' " New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Soap of Pompeii.
Soap has been in use for y.OOO year ?
and is twice mentioned in the Bible. A
few years ago a soap boiler's shop wai
discovered in Pompeii , having been bur
ied beneath the terrible rain of ashe.i
that fell upon that city 79 A. D. The
soap found in the shop had not lost all
its efficacy , although it had been buried
1,800 years. San Francisco News Let
ter.
Practice Makes Perfect.
Mildred Madge's complexion has im
proved wonderfully of late. •
Marjorie Yes. She is beginning tc
understand how to put it on. New
York Ledger.
The tickets to the village ball were
not transferable , and this wa3 the way
they read : "Admit this gentleman to
ball in assembly rooms. No gentlomau
admitted unless he comes himself. "
A wood pulp mill in Christiania.
Norway , has begun making roofing tiles
out of wood pulp chemically treated.
They are light , strong ' and cheap.
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