THE BRAVE LITTLE MAN.
CAJl torn , but sweet , is the old straw hat ,
As it lump * on the rru-k in the hall.
! Tlieit''s nmcl from home on two little
shoes
Whore he played on the hills last fall ;
There's dn. t on the kite and the little
slick horse ,
Stands still as ever ho can ,
Listening , perhaps , in t'e corner there
For the voice of the brave little man.
There's never a song of bird , nor bloom
Of ro.sc that blows in the spring ,
Noi shout of boy. nor ; ' ! enm of sun
E t where some tti - will cling.
JTheif's never a Hash oi" tie ! evening star
On the henrthstone's fireside
Of winter night but will bring some tears
For the brave iiit'o min : that died.
Kind friends they were ; we kiss -them
for him.
And lay them out of sight
The two little shoes , 11-e torn old hat ,
The little stick hori-o find kite ;
And dc'.vitgjn his poelut a rusty nail ,
A hit of rhtslJc nnd string ,
A broken knife , an alloy or two ,
Oh ! the birds , the bloom , and the
vpring !
And -tir of Gorl at morning's song ,
iN'oon time and twi'.idit tide ,
One sweet little face , some tears
oomo
For the brave little man that died.
Leslie's Monthly.
A Qot = Up Thing
ARY lifted her head. Her
face was very white , and she
clenched Her bands to prevent
them trembling as she met the old doc
tor's eyes.
"Yus. I shnll marry Captain Tenby
now , ' ' she j-aid unsteadily. "He he
spokt ; hist night , and I "
, She got up suddenly and turned from
Dr. Grey's searching look.
"I said yos. " slip added abruptly. "I
remembered it breaks my heart to re-
meniber how father has wished it aix
how obstinate I have been , and now
hisi last wish oil. I must It will
make him so happy , and I I shan't
have many more chances of making
him happy. "
Her voice broke , nnd the doctor getup
up nnd , going over to her , put his
hand : ; on her shoulder.
"But this young man , Mary , " he
said. "You think you will be happy
with him ? " .
Mary hesitated. Then for her fath
er's sake she noted a lie.
"Do you think I shall not ? " she
cried. "Surely l.e's all I could wish ?
Oh , yes ; I I shall be happy. "
Dr. Grey looked dissatisfied as he
turned away. It was prejudice , no
Oil , YES ; I SHALL BE HAPPY.
doubt , but ho did not. like the Honor
able Arthur Tenby , and in his eyes he
was not a fair match for the girl who
Avould soon be the mistress of Tre-
herne Court lie frowned out of the
window at the stretch of lawn and the
empty beds upon it. A few weeks
ago they hnd been gay with summer
flowers , nnd now a change in the
weather had brought all the desola
tion of winter upon the garden ; it re-
an ; tided him of the change that had
conic over the house in as short a
time. He turned again to Mary. She
was staring out of the window , too ,
seeing ugly things on the patch of
-grass she saw Goeffrey Kaye , thrown
lron his horse , dead or dying on an
empty road , and she saw the face of
the mnn she was going to marry and
behind it the face of the man she
loved.
She shivered a little in spite of her
resolve. Her marriage with Arthur
Tenby had always been her father's
fondest-wish. He was of good family ,
the sen of a lord , and marrying with
him seemed a wonderfully good thing
for the adopted daughter of Geoffrey
Kayo , even though she would be rich
when ho died.
Geoffrey Kaye had adopted her
wholly whfc-i she was 3 years old , and
for nearly 20 years she had been a
daughter indeed to him. Now he had
been suddenly thrown from his horse
and was tying slowly in the great
house , and Mary , remembering his
wish to see ior married to a title , had
.accepted Arthur Tenby because in a
' week or so perhaps in less she
would never have another chance of
giving happiness to the old man who
"had been in rvcry way a father to her.
f "She had told him the same night what
I -she hnd done , and the smile that ha
* flashed into his face had seemed to aer
i reward enough , until next day , and
then with tlrj daylight came the mem-
l ory of another man , and that morning
' life seemed : m ugly outlook to her.
* Dr."Grey turned from the flower-i
: r - beds nnd looked at her.
"Geoffrey would only want it if he
thought you would be happy , " he said.
"You know he loves you as much as If
you were hlr own daughter. "
Mary faced around quickly.
I kiiow I knotv , " she cried
-I shall--be hap-
ipy.
Dr. Grey pulled his beard. A week
ago he had seen Mary and another
man Dick MarJoue together , and
their attitudes told him something that
Mary would not have confessed for
worlds. He remember it now , and
that Dick was poor ; and he frowned
again.
A few minutes later some one came
from the sickroom to tell him that Mr.
Kaye was rousing , and he and Mary
went In together.
His keen eyes told him at once that
the change he had expected had oc
curred. Mr. Kaye was sinking fast
His hands traveled restlessly over the
counterpane. Mary bent over liim.
"The will , " he cried feebly , "I want
to sign. "
He pointed to a table on which were
some papers. Dr. Grey brought them ,
and a pen and ink , and putting them
before him held him up while he
scratched his name feebly on the
parchment
Dying men have strange fancies
sometimes , and it had been Mr. Kayo's
f.-.ncy during the last few hours to
liinke a fresh will and to do it without
a lawyer. No one could understand
why , but he had been unaccountably
restless until it was done. Now his
dying eyes stared dimly at his feeble
signature , and his fingers dropped the
pen.
pen."Read
"Read it , " he said slowly , and Dr.
Grey obeyed. It was apparently the
same as his other will , which was at
the moment in his lawyer's ofiice , and
this had only been done in order to
humor a dying man.
Dr. Grey read it carefully.
"The last will of me , Geoffrey
Kaye , " the sick man repeated slowly.
" "Yes everything to my daughter ,
Mary everything to my daughter ,
Mary. "
He fell back and stretched out life
hand.
"Take it away now , " he said. "Put
it in my desk yonder. I shan't be long
now. "
Dr. Grey obeyed , and Mary took her
father's hand.
"Oh , father , father ! " she cried under
her breath.
He looked into her face.
"My good little girl , " he said slow
ly. "My good little girl. You'll al
ways remember , Mary I want you to
be happy ? You'll remember that ? "
Mary's eyes filled , and she put her
head down on the pillow beside him to
hide her tears.
A few days later Geoffery Kaye was
dead , and a few days later still Mary
sat facing a small group of people in
the library in Trehcrne Court She
looked whiter than ever in her black
mourning frock , and her eyes were
heavy and red rimmed.
"I suppose it is all rigjit , " she said
wearily. "If Mr. Guest is satisfied I
shall not dispute it. Oh , I couldn't dis
pute it"
The woman who faced her lifted her
head boldly. She was a dark , thickset
woman , as unlike the late Goeffrey
Kaye as it was possible to be. Yet ,
nevertheless , there seemed to be not
the slightest doubt that she was his
daughter. Mr. Guest , the solicitor , and
' . .Id Dr. Grey had tried to find some
flaw in her story , but it seemed right
enough.
Twenty-five years ago Mr. Kayo's
wife had deserted him. taking with her
her 2-year-old baby. They hnd been
very poor , and Mrs. Kaye hated pov
erty as fiercely as foolish , empty-head
ed women do sometimes hate it It
was Mrs. Kayo's one strong emotion
hatred of the poverty which kept her
from the luxuries of life , and she left
it for what she stupidly believed was
far better.
When Mr. Kaye got his divorce she
married again , only to plunge some
years later , when her second husband
had run through his fortune , into pov
erty deeper still. Apparently it broke
her heart , for she died leaving her
child to the care of her husband an
adventurer , swindler and thief.
How they had lived since her moth
er's death Claudia Kaye did not care
to say , but she had come upon Trc-
herne Court by accident ( so she in-
ruied them ) , had probably tried to
blackmail Mr. Kaye , and would no
doubt have tried again had he not met
with the accident She had seen him
and spoke to him , she said , and he had
owned her as his daughter.
Now she claimed th& estate , anil
both Mr. Guest and Dr. Grey were dis
heartened and troubled , for the last
will Mr. Kaye had made had upset
everything and played straight into
the hands of the woman before them ,
for he had distinctly written his
"daughter" instead of his "adopted
daughter , " as he had meant to do. His
other wills each had "adopted" prefix
ed , but tills last that strange fancy to
rewrite his will had undone every
thing.
And it was so absolutely unneces
sary unless , ' indeed , the memory of
the past had affected him and made
him wish to reinstate his own daugh
ter.
ter.Yet
Yet they could not believe that , for
he had not mentioned her had not
even hinted at her' existence before
he died. It was Mary's name which
had been on his lips.
"Well , " said Mr. Guest to the claim
ant "if you can prove that you are
indeed Mr. Kayo's daughter , I am
i-aid you will have a clear case. But
you must prove it first. "
A week later the news was spread
in the town that Mary vis an heiress
no longer but a poor girl with her liv
ing to get The Honorable Arthur Ten
by could not realize it could not be
lieve that such misfortune would over
take him , for Mary was the prettiest
girl he knew , and it was so hard to
give her up.
Still , he did it as gently as he could ,
in Dr. Grey's house , where she had
gone to Jive for a while. It was such
a pitiful thing , he thought , that people
so well suited to each other should
have to part , and at one moment he
was almost tempted to risk everything
to throw away his ambition to mar
ry an heiress and fight poverty witL
Mary.
The feeling vanished in an instant
when he remembered his embarrass
ed affairs , and he told her outright
that he could not afford to marry yet
that they would have to wait for
years , perhaps forever , and Mary de
cided at once to wait forever.
The odd part of it was that Mary
did not care.
After he had gone she sat listlessly
over the fire. What would become of
her she could not tell ; it broke her
heart to think. She had not a friend
in the world except Doctor Grey , and
she could not live forever upon him.
She would have to go out to earn her
living in some way , though how she
did not know. Life seemed horribly
hopeless , and she almost wished she
lay dead beside the old man whom she
had loved as her father.
She was shaking with sobs when the
door opened suddenly and a young
man entered. He was tall and
straight , with a clean cut , handsome
face.
"Doctor Grey said I should find you
here , " he began , and then stopped.
She got up hurriedly , trying to stop
her tears ; and then an odd thing hap
pened considering she was a penniless
girl whom nobody seemed to want.
Dick Marlene went up to her and
held out his hands.
"You know what I want to say , " he
cried. "You know I love you and have
done so for a long time. Now you are
poor and Captain Tenby has gone I
can speak. You know Mary you
know I love you. Will you be my
wife ? "
Mary looked up and gave a little
quick sob of happiness.
"Oh , Dick , I believe the will has
done me some good after all , " she
cried.
The odd par ! of it was that the wo
man who ca'.led herself Claudia Kaye
was not Claudia Kaye at all , and that
, r. Kaye had known it and had hand
ed full proofs of the death of his child
twenty-two years before to Mr. Guest
before he died. 'Then he had snid , if
Captain Tenby was the fortune hunter
Doctor Grey said ho was , it would
prove him and save Mary a lot of tin-
happiness.
And it did. It was a dying man's
fancy , and it was the wisest tiling he
could have done.
What became of Claudia Kayo no
one knew. She had come intending to
levy blackmail upon Mr. Kaye. She'
had reckoned without her host for she
did not know that he held proofs of
the death of his own child. After Mr.
Guest produced them she vanished ,
nnd Mary found herself to be a rich
woman once more rich and happy
for she married the man she loved and
never had cause to regret it
As for Captain Tenby , Treherne
Court never saw him any more. He
believes that the whole thing was ar
ranged on purpose and is still angry
at being deceived by such a got-up
thing. The Tatler.
RABBIT'S WHITE TAIL.
Is 11 Nature's Mode of Protecting : tli
Animals from Pursuers ?
A mild little tilt in this column last
\voek against the eagerness of many
folk to-day to find protective devices
in the color and markings of animalH
has drawn several protests from
friendly correspondents , writes George
A. B. Dewar in the London Express.
George F. Taylor's remarks on the rab
bit's white tail I will deal with at
once , as these white follow-your-lead-
er marks on various animals are be
ing discussed in several quarters just
now. Mr. Taylor quotes my remark
that rabbits , when alarmed , never fail
to make straight for cover , even
though there are no white tails to
guide them.
"It may be pointed out , however , "
he urges , "that the white tail is par
ticularly a signal for the doe's young.
When alarmed the doe speeds away ,
"ollowed by her progeny. These , of
course , she can easily outstrip and
they would soon lose sight of their
mother amid the long grass and herb
age were it not for the distinguished
white tail.
"I think , therefore , that it is cor
rect to say this is undoubtedly na
ture's mode of protecting young rab
bits , which would otherwise become
easy prey to their pursuers. "
Of course , I admit that the theory
is taking and ingenious , and it is also
a fact that at present there is no other
way to account for the white tail of
the rabbits. But to accept it we have
to assume unless we believe rabbits
were simply created at the outset in
their present form , and wjth white
tails that white tails were so essen
tial to the continuance of rabbit life
in the north that gradually these pre
vailed till in the end the feature be
came an absolutely fixed one as we
see it to-day.
Now , this may have been the case.
Those rabbits not having white tails
may have been wiped out as the un-
fittest to survive ; the whiter the doe's
tail the more chance. would her off
spring have had of escaping their
enemies , and so on. But it is my
strong impression , after a rather long
and close observation of rabbits that ,
to-day at any rate , young and old
alike would be able to escape their
enemies practically as well as they
do if the tails were not white.
One on the Sheriff.
Silas By heck , that was a good
joke they played on old Sheriff Hicks
of the prohibition town. Some one
told him there was a man in his dis
trict selling something to brace you
up. It took the sheriff two days to
catch the man.
Cyrus What was he selling ?
Silas Suspender *
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
American Husbands.
WRITER In the London Telegraph deplores
the fact.that the American husband of the
"middle class" does not interfere in domestic
affairs and "seldom examines the accounts of
the grocer , the butcher or the baker and hard
ly knows the cost of staple articles of food. "
He also regrets that the husband is extrava
gant and "does not make his wife a regular allowance , but
gives her as much as he can spare , freely , but without
system. "
These are simple extracts from the writer's long article
and it shows the vast difference between the American
and the English husband. In England the husband thinks
that he has to "keep tab" on every penny and dole money
out to his wife in gingerly portions and , to the American
way of thinking , look upon his wife merely as a servant.
The writer in the London paper is perfectly right in his
report The American husband is extravagant He does
not bother his head with the price of meat and flour and
potatoes and other things for the table. Why should he
do so ? He has confidence-in his wife. The culinary de
partment is not his department He runs things in hl.s
office and allows his wife to run things at home. Both par
ties are well content. He has no interest whatsoever in
the bill sent in by his grocer or butcher beyond paying it
He knows that his wife has done the best fate could. On
the other hand , the wife does not concern herself with hfs
business. She knows that the bills are paid promptly and
that her husband is satisfied. That is all she thinks about
the business.
The natjiral independence of the average American girl
would resent a husband's constant interference in her
household duties and expenses. She considers herself per
fectly capable of looking af er that end of the family , and
she is right This shows the difference between American
and English girls. St Louis Republic.
The Hero in Politics.
HE case of Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson
shows that the war hero does not always have
the open sesame to the prizes of politics. Young
Hobson resigned from the navy a year or two
ago , and announced that he intended to seek
an.electionato Congress. One of his objects in
Congress , as he recently declared , would have
been to work for the construction of a bigger navy for the
United States than England has. He would give this coun
try the same pre-eminence on the sea that Great Britain
has had for the past third of a century , even if this neces
sitated the expenditure , within the next twenty years , of
two or three billions of dollars.
But Hobson's war record did not prove to be so pow
erful-an asset as he and some others supposed it would be.
He has been beaten by John H. Bankhead , of the Sixth
Alabama District , a very much less picturesque person , but
a person who has had-an experience of eighteen years in
Congress , and who served in the Legislature of his State
many years before going to Washington , while Hobson
never has had any political service of any sort
Like his companion in arms , Dewey , the hero of the
Merrlmac has had bad luck in politics. The sailors in this
country have been less fortunate than soldiers. Moreover ,
the war in which Hobson figured has given no political
prize to anybody except President Roosevelt It furnished
him the governorship of New York , and this led to the
presidency. The chances are that it has no more political
posts for anybody. St Louis Globe-Democrat
Will Penmanship Become a Lost Art.
ISCUSSION of "vertical writing" in the schools ,
which has been-revived of late , naturally raises
the question as to the future status of penman
ship as a means of recording the facts of Com
mercial exchange or conveying the thoughts of
men.
men.Is
Is penmanship destined to become a
lost art
"Vertical handwriting" was introduced in the schools
because it was supposed to be better adapted to the needs
ttf our time than the old Spencerian , running hand. It is
more condensed , and , if properly taught , more legible than
the old style. But now comes the parental objector with
the contention that the "vertical" writing disqualifies the
ihild for clerical positions in mercantile or banking con-
FEED CALVES COD-LIVER OIL.
Animals Make Great Gains on Tliis
Kind of Nourishment.
An attempt is being made to substi
tute cod-liver oil for the natural fat
of milk in feeding calves , according to
the Philadelphia Record. Milk con
tains , as is generally known , all the
nutrients necessary for the full de
velopment of young animal life. If
one of these elements is removed it
has to be replaced with a substitute
of like kind in order to insure thrifty
development Butter fat and cream ,
of course , are the most highly prized
and valuable of dairy products and
some resourceful individual suggested
that these might be extracted by press
ing the whole milk through a separa
tor and their loss be made up to the
calf by adding an equivalent amount
of cod-liver oil , another fat nutrient.
Experiments have accordingly been
in progress for some time at one of the
agricultural colleges in Yorkshire and
recent reports seem to indicate that
they are entirely successful. There is
but little labor involved. The cod-
liver oil and skhn milk is a cheaper
feed than the'whole milk and the
calves appear to thrive on it. During
a feeding experiment embracing some
2S weeks it was found that the average
daily gain of the calves fed on whole
milk until they were weaned was 2
pounds ; those fed on skim milk and
oil and continued on an oil ration. 2.-1
pounds , while those which had been
fed oil and milk but from which tL
oil was subsequently withheld gained
only 2.1 pounds.
On slaughtering the animals no in
jurious effects on the flesh could be
discovered. The daily ration that ap
peared to be successful was made up
of five quarts of skim milk and two
ounces of cod-liver oil. Fortunately
the calves do not develop that aversion
to cod-liver oil which is natural to most
human beings , but , on the contrary ,
readily become accustomed to it
Why don't they put rubber heels on
bors' shoes ? "
corns , that it is "not a good hand for bookkeeping. " And
yet it was this objection to the old , running , long hand
that led to the introduction of the vertical system , whoso
condensed , legible form was supposed to adapt It perfectly
to mercantile uses.
The question suggested by the discussion of "vertical
writing is : How long will penmanship of any kind last ?
How long will we need to teach it in the schools ? Isn't
the typewriter supplanting it in all departments of business
endeavor ?
To discuss Intelligently these questions we have first to
get rid of the notion that there is anything sacred about
"penmanship. " Following the law of evolution , if it be
comes useless , it will have to go. As a matter of fact , isn't
Its usefulness even now confined to social correspondence
and bookkeeping ? How long will It take to break down
the social barriers against the use of the typewriter fet
polite correspondence May not the typewriter become
common and as necessary In the home as the sewing
chine ?
As for bookkeeping , machines have already been in
vented for writing in books , and it can be but a question
of time when mechanical ingenuity Will supply the perfect
and practical bookkeeping typewriter. And then what
will become of penmanship and the sticklers for a partic
ular form of writing ? Chicago Record-HerakL
Mixed Marriages.
HE people who have lately been agitating the
question of "mixed marriages" of vario.ns sorts
meaning by the term , marriages between
people of different white races and different
sects are , of course , looking at the question
from their own race or religi6us standpoint al
together. This isa matter in which all the
bane , or all the good , depends on the point of view.
Broadly speaking , the interest of the American nation
lies in a multiplicity of mixed marriages. The safety of
the republic demands that there shall be no upgrowth of
castes , no hard and fast delimitation of component ele
ments. Our public schools are the greatest mixing agency
on the earth. Our politics are themselves a mixed mar
riage of races and cults. America is the melting pot of the
nations.
Our young people have taken then cue from the school
and the hustings. They mix , and no one can stop them
from mixing. Nine out of ten of the young families known
to every reader of these words are probably in some sense
fusions. Religious considerations are a more potent bar
to mixture than race considerations , save when the race
happens to be African. But even religious bars fall before
a fusion of elements which is proceeding here on a grander
scale , and in more rapid movement , than has ever before
been known.
Love laughs at canons , at rules , even at anathemas.
Perhaps it would often do better to obey them than to
scorn them. It all depends , in the last resort , upon the
Individual will. And we have here a land in which Cupirl
is as free as air , with no will or tradition or authority to
overmaster him. New York Mail and Express.
Boy Bandits and Their Origin.
HERE is a great moral in the execution of
the three Chicago boy bandits , and it shows
that there is something worse for boys than
cigarettes. It is the dime novel that glorifies
the deeds of train robbers , bank robbers and
other robbers. This may be 'the initiation of
public sentiment building for the suppression
of publishing houses that issue such pernicious books.
Four legal hangings and one prospective hanging in
Illinois and Missouri and nine murders are the latest crop
of this kind of printing. The criminal press becomes
much a part of the care of the state as the criminal who
performs the homicides. The criminal play staged at the
theater is also part of the machinery that supplies gallows'
fruit A censorship of publications and of plays is likely
to suggest itself to the public mind , although Uncle Sam's
supervision of the United States mails in some measure
serves the purpose.
This is a free country in which no one is allowed to
incite to crime by public speech. Is any one to be per
mitted to incite to crime by public print ? Books sold under
the name of "The Boy Bandits" or similar titles will con
tinue to do their , pernicious work until public authority
must interfere. Illustrated Home Journal.
SOLDIERS SEATED WITHOUT CHAIRS.
Soldiers in the French army have a drill to perfect them in the art of
sitting down comfortably without chairs.
A dozen or more men stand in a circle each facing the back of the next
in line , at a carefully calculated distance apart At the word of command
they sit down , each resting on the knees of the man behind him. In this
way , as the accompanying picture illustrates , the weight is distributed around
the entire circle.
T- Food lor Fishes.
A recent publication of the Illinois
State Laboratory of Natural History
makes a-new departure in the litera
ture of scientific investigation in Amer
ica. This is a report of the results of
an approximately continuous study of
minute plant and animal life
( . .Jled the "plankton" ) of the Illinois
River and its tributary waters , car
ried on for five successive years by the
staff of the Illinois biological station.
It appears from these studies that
the ratio of tiie "plankton" of the riv
er , year in and year out , was 2.7 parts
per million of the water in the stream ,
and its total average amount moving
downstream past a given point reach
es the astonishing aggregate of 75,000
tons per annum , or two and one-half
tons an hour. This annual aggregate
is about fifteen times the total weight
of the fish taken from the river in a
year.
The conditions which favor a large
annual production of this minute
aquatic life also seem to favor a largc ,
catch of fish , but no direct connectioiX ,
of cause and effect is here made out
"Plankton" is , however , an indispen
sable element in the food of fishes , the
young of nearly every species in our
waters being absolutely dependent
upon it at some period of their lives ,
and adplt fishes of several species mak
ing large use of it during the season of
its greatest abundance New York-
Evening : Post
After awhile , you find out what i
best for you. Profit by your experi
ence.
It is cruelty to insist that an unmus
sical child take music lessons.