Omaha daily bee., 1892-02-07

mucn as tney 1efr aole 10 say, lncu tney
made stethescoHq examination and decided
that II anything would dislodge 1t, mud
bath was the thing. II was a very ingenious
idea. took the mud bath, and II did dis
lodge 1t. Here 1t is
oV1fovE soNd.
I ask not "Isths heart still sure,
Thy love still Rafih, thy faith secure1"
ask not, "Dreamst thou still of me'
Long'st alway to fly to mel"
The good tifts-of the Giver,
lsum all these in asking thee
20 sweetheart, how's your ltverr"
For II thy liver S1brleth right,
Thy faith stands sure thy hope is bright
Tholr dreams pge sweet and | their god,
Doubt threatsin Vain-thou scorn'st his rod
Keen only thydigestion clear,
No other foe my love doth fear,
But indigestion hath tho power
To mar the souls serene3t hour
To crumble adamantine trust
And turn its certainties TO dust,
To dim the eye with nameless grief
To chiil the heart with unbelief
To Danish hope and faith. and love,
Place hoaven below and he'll above
Then list--details are naught TO me
SO thuu'st tho sum gift OF the Giver-
ask thee all In asking thee
~ darling, how's your liverF
Yes, 1T is easy TO say 1t Is scrofulous, but |
don't see the signs of it. In my opinion IL Is
as good poetry as have ever written. Ex-
perts say 10 isn't poetry at all, because IL
voice of envy ! reckon. call it good med
ical poetry and | consider that am Judge
Strange street Manners.
One of the most curious things in these
countries is the street manners OF the men
and women. In meeting you they come
straight on without swerving hairs breadth
from the direct line and wholly ignoring your
right to any part of the road. AT the last
moment you must yield up your share OF II
and step aside, or there will be collision.
noticcd this strange baroaiism first in Geneva
twelve years ago
In AiX-les- Bains, where sidewalks are
scarce aud everybody walks in the streets,
there is plenty of room, but that is no mat
ter; you are always escaping collisions by
mere quarter inches. man or woman who
Is headed In such way as TO cross your
course presently without collision VIII ac-
tually alter his direction shade by shade and
! compel collision unless at tho last Instant
| you jump out Of the way. Those folks are
| not dressed as ladies and gentlemen. And
| they do not seem TO be consciously crowdng
! YOU out OF the road: they seem to DO inno-
/ Gently and stUpidly unaware that they are
| doing II. But notso in Geneva. There this
J class, especially the men, crowd out men,
women and girls of ell ranks and raiment
| consciously and Observation-Disclosures them
| off the sidewalk aud into the gutter.
There was nothing of this KIND in Bay
! reuth. But here-wcli here the thing Is
astonishing Collisions are unavoidable, un-
! less you do all the yielding yourself.
| Another odd thing--hcre this savagery Is
confined to tho folk who wear the line
! clothes, the Others arc courteous and consid-
| crate. A big burly Comanche with all the
| signs about him OF wealth aad education.
will tranqutlly force young ladies' to step off
| into the gutter to avoid being run down by
HIM. 1t is mistake that there is no bath
that will cure peoples manners But drown
ing would help.
However, perhaps one can't look Cor any
really snowy amoun: of deiicacy OF feeling
in a country whore a person is brought up to
contemplate without IL shudder the spectacle
o women haritessed up with dogs and haul
ing carts Theawman is on one side of the
pole. the dog on!the other, aud they bend to
tho work and tug aud pant and strain.-and
the man tranps leisurely alongside and
smokes his pipe Often the woman is old
and gray and the man Is her grandson The
Austrian national ornithological device
ought to be replaced by grandmother har-
merely In the interest of fact. Heraldic
fancy has been little too much overworked
| In these countries, any way.
| stICIDE BY PROXY.
Lately one Of those curious things hap
| pened near here which Justify the felictitious
i extravagances'of the stage and help us to ac-
! cept them. A deSpondent man, bankrupt,
friendless apdl desperate, dropped dose Of
| strychna into a b3ttle of whisky and wont
out in the dusk 70 find :, hanuy place for his
/ purpose, which was suicide. In q lonely spot
| he was stopped Dy a tramp, who said he
| would kill him If he didn't give up his money.
| Instead of jumping at the chance of getting
| himself killed and thus saving himself the
| improperly and annoyance of suicide, he
forgot all ABOUT his late project and attacked
F, the tramp in a most sturdy and valiant fash
| ION. He made good fight but failed to win.
| The night passed, the morning came, and he
! woke out of uucensciousnsss to find that he
! had been dubbed nalf to death and left to
! perish at his leisure. Then he reached for
! his bottle to add the finishing touch. but it
was gone. He pulled himself together and
| went limping away, and presently came
! upon the tramp stretched out StOne dead
, with the empty bottle beside him. He had
t drunk the whisky and committed sui
eide innocently. Now. while tho man
| who had been cheated out of his sui
/ eide stood there Demeaulng his hard luck and
wondering how he might manage to raise
moaey enough TO buy soIno more whisky
J and poison, some people of the neighborhood
| came by anu he told them about his curious
adventure They said that this tramp had
| been the SOURCE of the neiGhborhood and the
| dread of the constabuary. The inquest
| passed off quietly and to everybody's salts
| faction, and then the people, to testify their
| gratitude TO the hero of the occasion, put him
on the police, on good enough salary and
| he is all right how, and Is not meditating
suicide any mora. Here are all the elements