The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-03

the baby gof
ne road lies Strsishs through msthsr's ara. vAss
the sun is linking low.
. nod" to the land
When all wss lambs are sAis in the fold. under me
evening sky.
a soft little ghteo-n clean and white; tacs
washed sweet and izir;
A mother brushing the tsnsles out Of the silks,
golden hair;
Two little tired satny sst, frsm the shoe and the
stocking free,
Two bttle pslms together elAsPsd, at the nOsAsr's
patient knee;
Some baby words that are dIowsily HsPed to the
tender shepherds ear;
And a kiss that only the motaer can place on the
brow Of hsr baby DEAR
little rourd head which nestiss st LAST close to
the mothers breast,
And then the lullaby, sai, and low, singing the
song Of rest;
Ard closer sni clossr tbs blss-rsinei Ids are hid
ing the babyseyes,
As over the road to siunbsr-lsnd the dear httls
traveller hies.
For this is the way, through mothsr's arms, all
little babies go,
To the beautiful City Of slumber-and, when the
tan Is sinking low.
AN Ohio obituary says: Deceased
pumped 8 church organ efficiently for
twenty years."
The Piutes believe that q physician
ought to be killed a soon as five Of his
patients have died.
Some malignant slanderer says;
Woman needs no eulOgist, tor she
speaks for herself"
The head Of mule is to heavy for
the other portisns of his body. Itmakes
his hind feet fly up too easy.
AS an eminent medical authority
has asserted that kissing and hugging
are dangerous to health, a cynical Boston
paper recommends marriage as q sure
preventive. .....
..One reason why the south is not
fsvorite roaming ground for tramps, is
because it is the best section OF country
on earth for dogs with eighteen teeth in
the front row. Ft
Did you ever see two men, when
they stop on the street to talk, cross
over and back at every sentence And
vet they do this on the stage in order to
appear natural"
Love may be blind, but we have
yet to see young man who prefers the
gas turned on full head to a chat in
the moonlight. 1t may be economy and
it may not-probably not.
And now the gay and festive frog sr
" ithin the marsh is seen.
The loaIer seeks a sunny spot
Upon the village green
The trade in patent liver pills
Becomes steady thing
The rhymer with pensive air
Indites an ode to spring.
-" There are too many women in tho
world; sixty thousand more women
than men in Massachusetts," growled the
husband. "Thst is the survival OF the
Gttest,' my DEAR" replied the wife.
Black is never usedrat funerals in
Russia, nor worn by mOurners. 1t is
only in England and America that peo%
pie look as horrible as they can in order
to advertise the death of relative.
On the boulevard: You look ssdP'
" Have you not heardf'' NO" "My
wife has been taken away" Mine al
80, month ago." at was cold in the
chest" ain the case of my wife it wss
the coachman."
:. A lady writer is out with en- article
entitled " How to Catch a Husband"
But her theory is all wrong Ask any
married woman how to catch q husband
and she will reply, "By the hairP
' They all do it."
AS rnle woman writes well when
she writes for herself or for her friends
because she writes what she feels; the
troubles that when she comes to address
herself to the public she will write what
,he imagines she thinks.
When a Hartford woman pstted
her friends seven-year~old youngster on
he head and said. 81 should like to nave
,uch little boy as you are" he looked
ID into her face and replied: well, /
,uess you can. / don't believe Gods
Ost the pattern OF me-"
If there is any one thing more than
mother that convinces a man of the
progress Of education in our common
chools, and the sound practical instruc-
ion communicated to thu rising gener-.
'tion, it is to have his daughter bring
i'm problem something like this: If
oxen consume 125 times the amount
# food required by 1-6 of the square
cot of Is sheep, at a cost Of 29.7S cents
ow many oxen viii be required to con-
ume the same amount required by ! of
he cube root of an equal number Of
heep in AZ days time at cost Il
f that amount and triumphantly point
o the answer at the foot of whole
lsteful OF figures as being 32,1S7, 36S
ken.