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Till ! ) NUKOL.K WBKKLY NEWS-'JOUNALM'MUnAY ' JANUARY 8 1309 The Norfolk .Weekly News-Journal The NmvB. KHtahliflhoil 1SHI. _ _ The Journal. Established 1877. THE HUSE PUpli8HINO COMPANY. " " ' \V N HUHO. N. A.'lfiiHi' , President S4't-rolary. Fildny. By mall per year. $1.50. Kiitorod al tliu poHtolllro nl Norfolk , Muli. , IIH Hocond class matter. " " "Telephones : Hdlforlnl Department No. 22. Business Ollleo and Job KOOIUH No. II 22. A cold mm ] ) thu plumber's. Taft lu going to cover all thu danger rones buforo becoming president first lie gooH to Panama , then to Texas. Tin * Chinese undertaker did not moan much when tliu emperor dlud. Thu funeral expenses wore ovur $1.000,000 Sir Ollvur Ledge has Invented an Instrument to dlKHlpato fogs. As If n sober fog wasn't had enough. When Undo Sam has dug an many canals as the Now York editors havu , ho will know a lot moro ho\v It ought to ho done. The fact that the now year comes on Friday has encouraged the seers to look Into the fnturo with the Idea of knocking It. Mrs. ( iiinnoss was living and happy at Plttsbiirg , Kan. , the other day. When she was next hoard fiom she was enjoying a headache In Topeka 1'a. A bushel of corn brings three times as much cash as In 1890 , and Its good money , too. In a state that raises as much corn as Nebraska , this moans a big Increase In crop returns. Mr. Bryan has kindly and generous ly anounced that ho will nmko no at tempt to Inllnenco the action of the Nebraska legislation this session. How magnanimous Mr. Bryan Is becoming. jTho man who Invented the gas meter died In Detroit last week , but , alas , the meters are still doing busi ness at the old stand. It Is another proof that "The ovll men do , lives after them. " It has recently come to light In the city of Huston that property worth $ ; iO,000,000 lias never boon taxed. The Boston ( Hobo suggests publishing the owners' names. Yes , and the assessor needs investigating also. One of New York's latest evidences of an Insatiable desire to lly high when they get skates on Is a proposition to have an Ice skating rink on top of a Fifth Avenue building one hundred feet In the air. Last year a portion of the $50,000- 000 which the state of Now York voted for road building was expended in the construction of 820 miles of good roads. In this way the money is doing double duty making good roads and giving paying employment to laborers. Kangaroo Is now being served in Now York to those who wish to test this new delicacy. Several doy.cn of tl.eso animals have already boon marketed In Gotham and several hun dred more are on the way. They are Bald to taste like small cub boar. The oldest house In the United States was built by the Spaniards in St. Augustine , Fla. , over three hun dred years ago. It has boon repaired many times , but most of the original timbers still remain and are said to bo as stanch ais ever. rittsbnrg officials under arrest are tumbling over each other in their haste to toll all they know and save themselves by Involving others but tljo prosecution refuse * their over tures and assures them that they have evidence enough to send every one under arrest to prison and to convict others. Internationalism Is a word well fitted to the trend of our times. It proposes to save by letting each nation grow those products -that are natural to Its part of the earth and with this to allow greater freedom of commerce. If wo had moro trading ships wo should need less lighting ships. AH English boy began his business career crying tarts and pies which ho had baked. This humble beginning led to other enterprises until ho owned tramways In many Welsh towns , and omlbns lines in Cardiff , Plymouth , Ixmdon , and other cities. When ho died at the age of seventy-three , Solo mon Andrews , who never learned to road or write , was worth $5,000,000. The man who would Increase the numhcr of useless words which al ready encumber our dictionaries until one is worn out trying to find out what ho wants , by incorporating the word "bryanlc" which o thinks would de scribe a certain kind of persistent courage under defeat , must consider Biicb a linguistic monument a higher honor than it appears to most people. Dr. Alexander Graham Hell , the in ventor of the telephone , lives in a great baronial hall on an estate com prising about one thousand acres In 411 ocuiTOvr < x ? ja Ki-naim. , rnr.e mam Nova Scotia. Ho IB titlll at work , directing a largo force of men and women , In the construction of experi mental at'ioplanoH and air motors. He has devoted fifteen years of his life and two thousand dollars of his great wealth hmrnliiK how to lly In heavier than air machines. More than 20,000 poisons besides thousands of domestic animals annual ly die from snake bites In India. As one thinks of this pestilence ridden , famine stricken country , It Is always to picture It swept by calamity and In the throoH of utter wretchedness. It seems as though not only earthly pow ers were against these suffering hordes but nature had also entered a con spiracy against them. Judge Taft and his party will sail for Panama January 25. The armored ci'tilHors North Carolina and Montana will carry the president-duct and his engineers probably starting from the port of Charleston. Their decision as to the future of the canal will he looked for eagerly by the American people , who are extremely anxious to have the great enterprise carried tea a successful llnlsh. The world , at the beginning of the year 1909 , Is a better world at almost every point than ever before. The ngjp of reason has not dawned but wo have taken long strides away from the axioms of national selfishness. The national conscience is less plastic to selfish logic. In business affairs the revival of civic righteousness moro than compensates for the jar of the exposure of rascality. Hrothcr Charles P. Taft did a wise and gracious thing when ho withdrew from the Ohio senatorial contest in favor of Congressman Theodore Bur- ton. It might also be added that he did a courageous thing Inasmuch as his wife , who carries by far the largest bank account , pined for political honors. Mr. Burton would boa worthy successor to any senator Ohio has had for many years. The Arkansas man who thinks "gun toting" could bo eliminated by manu facturing pants minus 'ho ' pistol picket , shows no appreciation of the Ingenuity of the Yankee. The southern- 2-Is ! quite as likely to have his pistol In bis boot top as In his hip pocket ind In case a man Is sufficiently civilized to wear shoes , he Is still clover onoug'i to find a place to carry his revolver. Try again , brother , "peace pants" would never succeed. Mayor Spoor of Denver Is one of the strongest characters In political life in the west. He Is called the "Moun tain Lion of the Rockies. " If he should over come in conflict with the Tam many Tiger , It is a question which would come off victorious. Mayor Spoor besides being a born lighter is a born city builder. Ills present am bition Is to build a great plaza in the heart of Denver , after the manner of foreign cities , around which shall be grouped the municipal buildings. All the cries of the forestry alarm ists cannot deprive the children of their Christmas tiees and , Indeed , the protest has been out of proportion with the damage done. The trees used are to a largo extent the primings of the forest and their removal Is an im provement rather than a detriment to Hio remainder of the trees. Many of the trees now used are raised In nurseries. It may bo necessary to regulate the cutting of the trees for this purpose , but It Is not likely that the Christmas tree will over bo pro hibited in America. There are other terrible menaces to human life besides earthquakes. Wind and lightning are terrible , so are flood and fire and cannon and sword. But none of these disturb the earth It self. The landmarks remain. They are , at their worst , only Incidents of natural human life , while the earth quake is a convulsion of the earth Itself. It Is this which causes the un controllable terror which is experi enced by all who witness earthquakes. The survivors of the Italian disaster are still crazed with the horror of the scenes through which they have passed and are unable to give any Intelligible account of the destruction of their cities. Dickens' fat boy "Joe" which he Immortalized In Pickwick papers has been "beaten to a frazzle" by Johnny Webb of Atwood , Pennsylvania. Ho Is only three years old and weighs 110 pounds , Is four feet tall and wears a No. 7 hat. His parents are of ordin ary size , but among his paternal an cestors was a certain Thomas Webb who tipped the scales at 500. The widowed mother of this infant pen derosity has been offered generous sums by freak museums to exhibit Johnny as a star attraction , but al though In need of money , she turns n deaf ear to such propositions and lives In constant fear of her baby giant be ing kidnapped. To "beat last year's record" Is the hope of every hustling business man. To accomplish more , to build up , to win , to push the enterprise further along toward the goal than ever before are the motives which Impel men to struggle , to scheme , to use up re- servo energy , money , ideas. No mer chant Is going to do more business in 190' ' ) than ho did In 1UOS unless he does more and bettor advertising. That's not guess work ; Its not non sense. It's merely one of the rules of the game of business and you can't win at nny game unless you play ac cording to the rules. Railroads at three separate points on the Pacllle coast are now belli1 ; coiistnictud to reach the Yuko coun try. These railroads are the Ahuka Central at So ward City , at the hoa.l of Resuriectlon Bay , the Valdo/-Yukon railway at I he head of Port Valdo/ and the Copper River and Northwestern nilhvay at Cordova Bay. The comple tion of any of these three roads to Fall banks , In the Tanana Valley or liugle Hlver on the Yukon means the oNontnal do\olopinent of three or four mining and agricultural states HUe Iowa , Nebiaska and the Dakotas In Central Alaska. The Copper River country holds the richest copper mines In the world. Them is scarcely an explored oiea ten miles square with in this belt that does not show moro or less high grade 010. HELPING QUAKE SUFFERERS. That "Alt'the ' World's akin" was nevermore moro strikingly demonstrated than by the quick action of the United States congress In voting $800,000 for the re lief of earthquake sufferers In Italy , and authorizing the president to dis tribute the food supplies from two sup ply boats , amounting to $1100,000 more. The world is small , after all , and geographical boundary lines are quick ly erased by the sympthy that flows around the globe upon occasion of such catastrophe. In thus helping to bear another na tion's burdens , the American congress has acted as the entire American people ple would have them act. It Is little enough that we can do , even with a million dollars , to relieve the suffering of the human beings across the sea In this time of frightful calamity. The development of muck raking as an Industry In the United States dur ing the past few years has been a great sensational success and undoubt edly those engaged In the industry have received liberal recompense , or the Industry would not have nourished. P. T. Barnum , the circus king , hold as his prime business maxim that the American people liked to bo hum bugged and on this theory accumu lated a great fortune , but In following out the same doctrine the muckraking craft forgot one Important feature In the Barnum Idea they failed to change their attractions every season. To this failure must bo attributed the lack of Interest aroused In the public mind by the latest revelations of the scandal mongers. The American people ple are learning to take these marvel ous stories of graft with a grain of allowance anil hoar the evidence before pronouncing sentence. One branch of American business activity supports an army six times as large as that of the United States and they travel all the time. The men in this army outnumber our col lege professors fifty times and the clergymen three times. They use one- eighth of all the passenger mileage and ship one-fifth of all the freight. Such is the record of the "Knights of the Grip. " It would give the average man insomnia to think of sleeping In three different trains in one night or two trains and a station or some other equally disquieting combination , but the commercial traveler has to accept all these vicissitudes and remain an optimist in good times or bad , If he Is to succeed. Each private In this great army of three bundled and fifty thousand travelers can hope to be come a general some day if he waits , works and makes the most of his op portunities. C. P. Huntlngton , Tiffany , Jay Gould and many other well known men of wealth were once commercial travelers. In the main , America has reason to be proud of her traveling army. The next fifty years ought to sec a wonderful exploitation of the tropics the most fertile and yet the most neglected region on the earth. There Is a very plain reason for this neglect. The Indolent and Ignorant natives have accepted the gifts of nature to supply their meager needs and have made no oftort to Increase the fruits of the soil by cultivation. White men have tried to develop the natural wealth of trop- Iral regions like the Philippines , but have been nnablo to withstand the local diseases which are so fatal to white men coming from a northern climate. Science has at last found a way to remedy that as Manila , Panama and other tropical cities under govern ment regulation prove conclusively and the next half century will undoubtedly see these storehouses of nntire's mos : lavish gifts developed and enjoyed b > millions of homo builders. It will re- I'ovo ' many an overcrowded renter nud preatly Increase the amount of food produced for the sustenance of the race when these productive areas can be made to yield the Immense crops of which they are capable. A CALMER MESSAGE. Today's special message from the president to the house of representa tives will be received with more uni versal approval by the country at largo than some of the other special mes sages , because then * Is moro of calmness - ness and less of the tlgor-llke frenzy which has marked so many of those documents of late. In Hits message the president de fends his attitude that a secret service 'iiireau should be maintained as a part > i | the department 4 > f justice , and takes exception , quite calmly , to the state ments of the house resolution that ho Intended any personal attack or ro- Il4'ctlon In his recommendation for secret service. He denies that he has over used the secret service for either personal or political purposes and ad mits that such an abuse would be very bad. So many of the president's messages have contained such lut-jo proportions of bitter personal abuse that they have excited sympathy for the objects of his attack ; he has gone at this message much moro calmly and more logical ! } . The big American fleet Is likely to bo sent on a mission of mercy to aid In the relief of the earthquake suffer ers of Italy. It will be late , It Is true , but not too late to bo welcome. The horrible devastation roaches over so broad an area that It will require the assistance of thousands and unlimited supplies to relieve the suffering and feed and clothe the destitute and homeless. At the present time the Straits of Messina are so changed by the upheaval and so checked by wreckage and debris that It Is Impos sible for the battleships which aie al ready gathered lor the relief of the sufferers to proceed to the devastated cities. How long It will take to re store them to a navigable condition no one can now tell. Should they prove to be seriously blockaded It would bo a great impediment to commerce. President Shouts of the Cloverleaf and other railroad systems , stnUs the case well when ho says : "The trans portation facilities of a country are and always have boon , the true test of the nation's commercial development. Rome was the greatest road builder In the world In her day and the supreme commercial power. Her highways , which are still the wonder of modern engineers , represented the most ad vanced stage of the art of transporta tion as it was then known , and made possible the development of her terri tory. ' What is true of Rome is also true of America. It Is only by the development of the host systems of transportation known to the modern world that the immense area of the United States has been developed as It has boon from ocean to ocean. Had It not been for the discovery of steam as a motive power such progress could not have been possible In hundreds of years. But while great things have been accomplished , there Is still much to do before America can be satisfied with her highways. The wagon roads of the country arc far behind what they should bo. Country life would be relieved of much of Its dreariness if the roadways could bo perfected so that to rldo over thorn in carriage or auto would be a pleasure Instead of an annoyance or a menace to life and limb. Good roads have a most decided effect on the trade of country towns , which Is often overlooked. Farmers often choose a longer road to a larger town because It is in better condition and produce can be hauled there to better advantage. Good roads ! Lot this be the slogan of every farming dis trict for the year 1909. The roads around Norfolk , lot It be remarked , wore IK vet- better than right now. GREGORY COUNTY SHOULD UNITE Dispatches from Washington bring a suggestion of danger lest Gregory county may lose the land office alto gether as a result of local differences. .Mitchell Is going to make an effort to retain- the office , hoping to do this through the Gregory county town rival ries over the plum. The South Dakota congressional delegation is said to be evenly divided as between Gregory and Dallas , a senator and a congressman favoring each town. And the congressional delegation Is likely to stand pat. The News would suggest that the people of every town In Gregory coun ty get together on this one point and let it be known to the entire congres sional delegation that the point will be insisted upon : That , whatever town gets the land office , it must come south of the White river and west of the Missouri. By unanimously Insisting upon this point , the danger of losing the land of fice to Gregory county altogether , will bo overcome. And unless this point Is insisted upon by the people of Greg ory county , unitedly , them is grave danger that the office will stay north of the White and east of the Missouri Gregory county people should Insist that the land office which will have jurisdiction over Trlpp county lands , bo brought to Gregory county , where It will be convenient for the settlors. This suggestion is made In the In terest of Gregory county as a whole. Whichever town wins , It should bo one of the towns in Gregory county. And by strongly insisting upon this point , unitedly , the people of Gregory county can bring this about. THE YEAR AHEAD FOR NORFOLK. In the letter sent to the Commercial club by A. J. Durland , who served dur ing the past year as president , atten tion is called to a fact concerning Nor folk which should set every citizen of the community to thinking. Mr. Durland points out that In the past thlity years Norfolk's Increase In population has been at the rate of lot ) per year ; while during the past twenty years the Increase has been at the rate of only 100 per year. So slight an increase In the popula tion of a town which , twenty years ago , expected to reach at least the 15.- 000 stage within a short time , that the situation Is worthy , as Mr. Durland has doomed , of analysis. It Is pointed out that there are three ways In which Norfolk can grow : By farmers' Increased trade. By Increasing retail trade from the trlbular ] territory. By vii.iio of now Industries. Cleatly , the greatest need at this time and this , the beginning of a now year , Is a good time to look ahead Is that for new Industries. Wide awake merchants are looking to It that the retail business Is Increasing. The problem of getting now Indw- trios is one which concerns every city In the land. To this end. largely , the Norfolk Commercial club has been organized. Mr. Durland points out that now railroads might bo built out of Norfolk , and ho suggests that If the possibilities of the Held wore to be drawn up and properly presented to the people who build railroads , results might be attained. There are wa > s of getting new In dustries. Other cities do it. Norfolk- could. The pioblem Is a deep one and one requiring more than superficial in vestigation. It Is a problem of suf- flciut Importance to Norfoll to justify considerable time and energy , lee Sitting with folded hands , waiting for something to turn up , won't get the | desired results. Perhaps It might pav [ to employ n keen , able man to devote all of his time to the problem of mak ing a greater Norfolk- . Norfolk has a wonderful geograph ical location. It Is a location potent , with future upbuilding , if the oppor tunity Is taken advantage of. Just how to go about this work of making a greater Norfolk ought to be given the serious thought of a united city. AROUND TOWN. How about your head ? I low long did you Ilvo up to 'em ? Now you'll have to got down to work. Under certain conditions a person can wake up at I:25 ! : a. in. dally and stay awake for two hours , without half trying. What was the use of resolving , any way ? Which boatman turned in his boU : to the assessor ? There's only one In town they say. There are ll5t ! > 21 chickens in Madi son county but , judging from the price of eggs , most of thorn are roosters. It could be a lot colder than seven below. For brisk mental exercise , try think ing of a Panama hat. It's pretty chilly from the end of the overcoat down to the ground. It was only forty-eight hours ago we wore tin owing bouquets at the Ne biaska weather. Why doesn't .lames Whltcomb Rlley write a poem about when the frost is rn the window ? You have no legitimate kick coming unless you had so much Implicit confi dence In the weather that you came down town without your overcoat Mon day morning. If there are only forty-two firearms in Norfolk , as the assessor says , It seems apparent that every one of them has been used at some time or other with fatal results. The News does It so often but there's another big "scoop" In this paper , In the president's special mes sage which went to congress at noon ( Tomorrow's papers from other cities will take this message Into this Held. There's a lawyer In Norfolk whenever never wears an overcoat the year around ; who never wears a vest ; and who wears summer weight garments all winter. What's more , he could afford an overcoat if ho wanted to. Ho used to have the rheumatism when ho bundled up but now he's Mr. Well and Strong personified. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Wo all oat and talk too much. Half the marriage engagements are the result of an effort on the part of young men and women to kill time. A man who says ho has never voted anything but the straight ticket , Is generally looked upon with suspicion. If a woman of forty marries a man of fifty , people say she Is eighteen , and her husband Is nearly seventy. Nearly every baby starts out with a bank account , because of the indulg ence of its grandparents. What be comes of that bank account ? You sel dom hear of the baby having a bank account when It Is twenty years old. It costs paionts a great many thou sand dollars annually to make the dis covery that their children 4-nn never learn to slug. Before a woman marries a man , shu expects him to pay her compliments , after marriage she Is satisfied If ho pays her bills. When young lovers plan for buying the furniture for their house they es timate hat thu wodd'n , ; pnsoiitsM furnish half they need. A man may feel guilty the Ili-sl tl'iio he fools his wlfo , hut after that he begins to think what a smart man ho Is lo bo able to do It. No man need feel hurt If people saj ho Is not good looking. A man Isn't expected to lie good looking , but you hot It Is expected of a woman. It Is Impossible for women to select a topic of conversation to please the men , so no wonder they have quit try- Ing. If In the winter time a man happens to go about the house a few seconds without any shoes on his foot , how his wlfo scolds him ! The man who argues politics Is bad enough , but he ads to his offense If ho tells afterwards how ho triuiuphci In the argument. When some men do wrong , people gossip about It In whispers , but when other people do wrong , the people talk about It In yells. One of the greatest outrages In the world Is for a well behaved worth } woman to bo "talked about" bj vicious untruthful pooplo. It inakos no difference how much a woman trusts her husband , she ex pects an explanation when ho Is callei to the telephone by a woman's voice If wo were a young man wo wouli not call on the gills : wo have hoard so many glrlu say , In speaking of a young man caller : "I thought ho never WOULD go home. " TO BEREAVED ITALY. Thou sere distracted Italy The whole World cries its sympathy In thy sad hour of misery , The greatest In sill history ! Wo know our Inability ( To grasp your great catastrophe , Yet Italy , poor Italy , Our hearts go out In sympathy ! But yesterday , the fairest spot Of Earth was southern Italy ; There Nature gave so lavishly I lor wealth in wondrous luxury : And travelers Irom every land Had viewed thy beauteous scenery , Had basked amid the sunshine Of they noted hospitality. Then sudden , like a million blasts Of mightiest artillery , In desolate darkness ore the dawn , Burst forth this dread calamity ! A hundred thousand souls , and more Hurled head-long to eternity , Some other thousands doomed to roam. . To die in direst penury ! Today , a wilderness of woo , A holocaust of tragedy , Greets the sad eyes of those who go To succor their extremity. The depth of thine adversity Wo cannot know , sad Italy ! Yet in thine hour of hilsri-y The whole World cries in sympathy ! Richard F. Marwood. A NEEDED NEW YEAR'S RESO LUTION. Of great public questions There's quite a congestion Awa'tint ' ; bit ? honest Bill Taft : The worst institution Demanding solution Is national proneness to graft. The trusts need attention , Our ships need subvention , Our rail-roads need wise supervision : Our tariff needs mending Our people need blending , But graft needs the deepest Incision. For graft seems to grow In high places and low : 'TIs so common In evcry-day life , We're Inclined to Indorse As a matter of course What is really a matter for strife. No state can endure More wicked than pure , Corruption must yield to the fray : For reasons supernal The right Is eternal And wickedness lasts but a day. Now who Is to blame For our national shame , But the man who will wink at chi * canary ! He may not himself Bo a grafter for pelf , But he's helping to rob the same granary. On this Now Year's day Lot every man say Who is honest and noble at heart , "I will help Mr. Taft To eliminate graft : I'll bo one to at least do my part ! " Richard F. Marwood. SHE HAD HER WAY. She had scarce emerged from girl hood's days When she foil In love with the winning ways Of a man much older In worldly lore , A man who had mtroly boon there jr bofiiro. ff Had rehearsed HO many UIUOH his part That ho know Iho way to a maldon'B heart. Ho WIIB not nlono tit hltt ardonl court Hut the other young man was of dlf lorotil Horl : A 4iipablo ! lad of excellent blrlli , Ills diffidence cnvoml his royal worth- In the nit of wooing ho was not mire For ho was only an amateur. What phaiu'o has a lever young and green For the heart of a maid Just turned eighteen When opposed by n man of experience wide , The lit of whoso clothes Is u woiuan'n prldo , Whoso shoos are brushed till they fairly gleam , Whoso nobby cravat IH a porfcct dream , WhoBo cuffs and collars are spotless whlto , Who Is witty , agreeable , clever and bright , Who can Imam of coin-ago when dan gor's far , Who can talk of flower , or fashion , or star , What hope for a novice , In such a race , Of winning moro than a .second place. On her father developed the thankless task Of peering beneath the gracious mask : 'Twas easy enough for his practiced o > os To perceive the wolf in the lam-IIKe guise : Ho announced as firmly us fathers can No daughter of his should marry that man. Her mother argued and plond and prayed , But neither the slightest Impression nmdo. To believe him false was Iho rnnlii-Hl treason , For her wild love nmdo her deaf to reason. She hold lo her purpose with courage grim , And the end of It was , she married him. The end ! Ah no , she was but begin ning To know the depths of a bad man's sinning , His clothes and all valued considci- allons Wore borrowed marital expectations. Ho anticipated when spreading his nets That his father-in-law would pay his dobts. When foiled In this , ho revealed his life And vented his spleen on his holples.s wlfo. For the girl who defies her father and mother And marries a man who proves lo be other Than what she expected , there's none to share it ! Oh what can she do but to sob and bear it ! Go homo to her parents to bo for given ? Not. though her heart bo fairly riven To bleeding shreds by a soulless man , She will stay and endure as best she can ; For harder than fooling her heart strings break It Is to acknowledge she made a mis take. Oh the nights of prayer and the days of grief ! Yet she drowned despair with her fond belief That somehow , sometime her love would win And load him back from his life of sin. Alas , poor woman , she might have known That a man too worthless to stand alone Is seldom reformed by a wlfo most true But sinks still lower and drags her too. Deserted at last by her heartless churl She sought , for the sake of her baby sin. Her mother's home , not without con cern , 13.- uut they welcomed their prodigal's safe return. The love of a man so often pales , But the love of a mother never falls. Her life resolved Into one desire , To teach her darling to shun the flro Whore she had writhed ; and to this great end She trained the girl to beware of men : For "men wore wicked and all the same ; " She must take no part in the marrlge game. This was well , whllo her mother hold the reins , But the blood of her parents was In her veins ; Her love stream chocked by years of training , When it burst the dam. there was no restraining. Away went wisdom's considerations ! Away wont motherly exhortations ! Nor earth beneath , nor heaven above Could check the rush of her new-born love ! In games of skill they are loft behind Who rush In madly and play It blind : \ In games of chance , though they pick and choose , 'TIs Fate declares It a win or lose ! They married , as such loves always can ! They're happy ! She HAPPENED to marry a MAN ! Richard F. Marwood.