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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-04
THE HOUSE BY THE ROADSIDE.

ale was friend TO man, and lived IN q
house by the side Of the road
n There are hermit souls that i've WILT
drawn
In the place of their self-content; :,
There are souls. like stars. that owen
apart.
In A feilowless armament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze theiI
paths
Where highways never ran
But let me live by the side of the road
And be friend to man.
Let me live in house by the side Of the
road.
where the race of men 90 by
The men who are good and the men who are
bad.
AS good and as bad as T.
would not sit in the scorner's scar.
Or hurl the cynic's ban
Let me live In a house by the side OF the
road,
And be friend to man.
see from my house by the side OF the ROAD.
BY the side of the highway OF lie,
The men who press with the aroor OF noPe'
The men who are faint with the STRIFE.
But l turn not away from their smiles nor
their tears
Both parts Of an infinite plan
Let me live in my house by the side OF the
road,
And be friend to man.
I know there are brook gladdened mead
ows ahead
And mountains of wearisome height:
That the road passes on through the long
afternoon
And stretches away to the night.
But still l rejoice when the travellers re-
joice,
And weep with the strangers that moan.
Nor live in my house by the side OF the road
Like a man who dwells alone.
Let me live In my house by the side OF the
road,
Where the race Of men 80 by
They are good, they are bad. they are weak.
they are strong.
Wise, foolish-so am l.
Then why should sit In the scorner's seat
Or hurl cynic's ban?
Let me live in my house by the side OF the
road.
And be friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss, in N. Y. Independent.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-04
"a HORRIBLE ESCAPE.
How Tiny Children Narrowly Escaped =
Dreadful Fate.

How Tiny Children Narrowly Escaped .
Dreadful Fate.
The evening was charming, observes
the New York World. On both sides ofthe
wide streets happy parents sat on their
vine-covered porches, chatting with one
another or watching the groups OF lit
tie folks who danced about on the vel
vety lawns in front, sometimes dashing
across the street to visit neighbor's
child or chasing one another down its
length in an exciting game Of tag"
Suddenly thrill OF terror spread
from house to house. With. loud
shout of warning father dashed down
his front steps and clasped a laughing,
toddling babe. He flung it backward
toward its agonized mother, who with
trembling limbs and ashen face was try
ing to drag herself down the walk. In
second he had seized another child
and turned 10 flee.
"Too late!" he moaned, and stood
still, as if paralyzed by the sight before
him.
In the meantime shrek after shrek
from the children had brought other
parents to the rescue of their darlings.
With white, set faces they were rushing
forward, facing the horror that was all
most upon them in their brave and
frantic efforts to save their helpless lit
tie ones.
In few moments the street was de-
serted. The horror and silence had it
all to themselves as slowly and with I'M
expected turniHgs, with fierce lurch-
ings to this side, with sudden jerks to
the other, the beginner and his bicycle
passed up the avenue.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-04

lectures to Tom On his stupidity, AZ
WAYS ending ii increased alteration ON
his part, and increased affection on herr.
Tor ii always pleased her fancy, after
having firmly established her claim to
Having in Toms mind. to be SO ex-
tremely gracious and penitently affec-
tionate that the large and appreciativc
audience OF one" as Tom remarked,
went home happy.
But all those old, happy times were
over, she thought.
Such : deep pity for herself filed
Miss Rossitcrx mind that the great
tears gathered "a her eyes. and one had
escaped from beneath the long lashes
and was slowly rolling down her cheek.
when two strong arms suddenly en-
folded her and sympathetic voice,
Toms voice, was saying: What In the
world are you dreaming about, you
poor dear?"
Now Miss Rossiter was not, as a
rule, wildly demonstratiye, Sut upon
this occasion her manner was warm
enough to crafty the most ardent
lover.
She chung to Tom as il he had just
been rescued from some dreadful ca
lamity and she feared to lose him
again, and when he begged her to tell
him what was the matter, that he
..didn't understand" she exclaimed
rather Historically: "Oh, that is the
beauty OF it! don't want you to un-
derstand, Tom, dear, and I'm go glad
you don't. / don't think ever care to
be understood again. It was only .
dream, and he's gone, thank goodness,
but you never can know how suf-
fered."
Tom looked deeply puzzled at these
seemingly random and incoherent re-
marks, but at her express desire for
bore questioning her. Whatever il
was she had dreamed the effect pro-
duced was that he had had . warmer
welcome than ever before during their
engagement, and he was satisfied.
At the next meeting OF the German
club Miss Rossiter, who few weeks
before had read stirring paper adj
vancing the theory that some time on
this earth there would be golden age,
when kindred souls would live in the
full delight Of realized ideals, read an
equally stirring paper combating and
fatty contradicting her own pet the
cries.
On the way home from the club Mrs.
Denny, who prided herself on finding
the hidden springs which produced ac-
ton in her friends minds, suddenly TO
marked:
man Rossiter, you have some reason
for SO suddenly changing your mind
about those theories Of yours"
EYES," replied Miss Rossiter. with an
inscrutable smile; Il have q reason,
but that; as Kipling says,is another
tory, and one / refuse to tell. "-Phila-
delphia Times
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-04

o dainty slipper, NJ she well knew ano
forgetting for moment that y was
not Tom who sat there she looked UP IN
apparent unconsciousness Of any little
feminine nrt, only to meet an amused
smile in the strangers eyes.
"Yes, most men like to see pretty
slipper" he commented, bencvoientiy-
"A coquettishly-placed ribbon, q flower
in the hair, are so many arrows TO the
masculine heart. Little men dream
Of the time and thought that have been
given to what seems to them some I'M
conscious little arrangement"
Miss Rossiter flushed angrily, and
drew her foot back with q jerk. Real
", this thing Of laying bare ones every
little thought was too much, and yet
was it not exactly what she had wished
for-.to be perfectly understood?
She ought to be above such little
weaknesses. anyhow.
Perhaps il she tried books the con-
versation might become more AMI
mated.
The stranger followed her glance AZ
Il rested on q small table near her,
whore several books were lying.
"You have been reading" he re-
marked. "Ah. yes. see - Ibsen,
Browning, Tolstoi." He smiled lit
tie YEARLY.
"You, OF course, have read them all
said Miss Rossiter, a little shyly, for she
happened to think that "boundless
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-04

knowledge" was one of her wished-for
ideals attributes.
4 II? Oh, yes" he answered. "You
do not quite know whether you care
for Ibsen or not, do you?"
Now, this was indeed true, but as the
president of an Ibsen club Miss Rossiter
had never before faced the fact
she was clever girl and accustomed
70 being looked up to as quite an au-
thority on literary matters by her own
special coterie. Had not Dunning Jones,
the mostsuccessful journalism the city,
told some one that Miss Rossitcr was q
very interesting girl, well read and up in
everything? But before "unbounded
knowledge" how could one talk easily
or air ones little opinions?
For the first time in her life the self
Possessed, cultivated Miss Rossiter felt
shy, crude and ignorant. She was real
ly very superior young woman, OF lofty
aims and ideals, but, being very hu-
man and very charming person, she had
her little limitations, all of which she
would have confessed to you with re-
freshing candor. Still she could not
help wondering for moment If life
with person who thoroughly under
stood" her would, after all, be as help
full as life with some one whose love
exaggerated her virtues and blind
ed him to her defects.
AS she said to her most intimate girl
friend afterward: 1T never occurred to
me before just how many Of my so
called virtues were called out just be-
cause Tom thought possessed them.
"You see, that touched me so, the
implicit confidence in me, that would
Immediately proceed to cultivate all my
supposed good qualities, SO that ] might
keep my place in Toms regard with
greater satisfaction to myself"
This night referred to. however, she
did not allow herself to SO distinctly
formulate the thought.
Once more she turned the CONVERSE
ton to books, to art and music. But
what pleasure could there be in con-
versation where the other party con-
cerned knew before she spoke all that
she would say. He even Indirectly
apologized once for anticipating her.
~ cannot help it. you see," he said, Il
came in answer to your wish, burdened
with the conditions it imposed upon me.
"It does make conversation awkward,
! admit, but we may as well make the
best of it, for / am powerless to leave
you, unless"
unless what?" said Miss Rossiter
with more of the speed the parting
guest" in her tone than was consistent
with true politeness. but the stranger
only smiled and looked once more into
the FIRE.
A sense Of injury commenced to
ranlxle in Miss ROSTERS mind. "And
all because Of foolish wish. that have
heard dozen girls make. my life is to
be spoiled in this way she thought
Perhaps Tom would not have loved her
so deeply had he really understood her.
The past tense of that last thought
sent pang through her heart. Was
she always 70 be tied to this dreadful
mind reader of realized ideal?
She supposed the only thing left her
to do was to live upon such high plane
that she need not object or fear to be
as printed page for him to read.
And yet. oh, the WEAKNESS Of the
ideal
No more half .-ssrs. half coquettish
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-04
v,etorIa,s Descendants.

Germany has had nVe LID
since Queen Victoria began conn. . lsis
She herself will in future be recosI Il
AZ the ancestress of one OF .ns s,s
powerful rulers. Her gran nsr Gran
the iron crown of Germany. ne A5othl
daughter is empress OF Russia .,,c cess
granddaughter is crown pr,n .'Iss q,
the principality of saxe-coD %siDiur'
hereditary princess of saxe- Me- 70 4
Is her granddaughter. The ns,, !: i i
throne Of Greece is her oes .sadsop. s.
grand duke of Hesse her g, ls VI
has no fewer than 81 descen l;ss 70 be /
one day between them pr 70 p Europe
the head of more than hall Oh
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-04

The following anecdote was new
many years ago, but will bear repeat
ing. A certain Spaninsh knight, very
poor but proud, and rightly SO. as his
birth was as high as kings, arrived
late one very dark night at an inn in
France. Riding up to the entrance on
his forlorn nag, he fell to battering the
gate. He finally awakened the land
lord. who. peering out into the night.
called:
'sWho Is there ?''
'sDon Juan Pedro Hernandez Rod
riguez de vel.anova. count of Malofra,
Knight Santiago and Alcantara," re-
piled the Spaniard.
II am very sorry" shouted the land
lord, but haven't room enough for all
those gentlemen you mention" And
he slammed the window and retired.--
Harper's Round Table
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-04
MISS ROSSITER'S IDEAL
By AGNES BROWN.

SIS ROSSITER sat
alone in the Ii
brary, G a z i n s
rather pensively
into the fire. When
the servant came
with the lights she
had senthim away,
saying that she
preferred sitting
by the fire light,
and now she leaned
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-04

vounr Wife-I always Iss S .sh;le ,
the brsFest man in the VOL, 70
were ,tourting. You wou, ,ssr' W.
csasds in case Of another ~'''
you. dear2 la cansds'
nNof IL the war was WIZ
Deiroit Free Pres
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-04

During the tenth century. when
wars between the noblemen and the
king were continual in almost every
country of Europe. all ranks Of the no
bility assumed q sort Of crown or
coronet in order to assert their quality
with the king.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-01-25
ROYAL FIGHT At SEA.
Elephants Indulge Their Angry Pas.
sl0ns on Board an Ocean Steamer.

slons on Board an Ocean Steamer.
william Newman. known ns "Eic.
plant Bill." arrived yesterday on the
Hainburg-American liner Persia. with
seven Of the smallest elephants known
to be In captivity.
II went to London last May" New.
man said. with the two big elephants.
Juno ana Modoc, and left them with
Kiralfy. for his show. After saw that
they were well behaved l started out
to get small elephants ana got them =
beauties. every one. have seven that
I picked up In Hamburg. They IRE
worth x25.OOO. They are from one AMI
n half to twelve years old and from
three and half to i've and half fec,
high. The darling Of the lot II Baby
Ruth. She In the youngest and the
smallest and ls Ms gentle and playful
M u kitten. The only others TINT are
named arc Pilot and Albert, the two
males Of the herd. They are bouncing
young fellows. weigh about $500
pounds each ana have no affection for
each other.
I'VE had them all In q great box stall
between decks. each chained by tho
foot to the floor. Everything went
peaceably and quietly with them until
the 21st, when all Mt once we heard
most vicious trumpetings In the stall
and then ! knew that something had
givenaway. Icalled my helper and some
Of the sailors, opened the stall door and
found my seven pets In IN uprOar. and
Pilot and Albert pummelIng each other
In the most approved jungle style. They
were both loose and were slashing ut
each other with their trunks ana bat.
terlng away with their heads. Before
we could separate them they had bang.
ell their heads together two or three
times ana made noise that could b.
heard all over the ship. We had to
take pitchfOrks and iron rods to sep.
arate them, and. even though they were
small. II was no easy matter. When
we would think We had them In control
they would break away again and
crash their heads together In a way
that would make the stall treMble and
start all the others trumpeting again.
| We had hard time OF II before we got
them chained. Their fight and anger
made them somewhat dyspeptic,
think. for time they did not care ia
eat. hut simply snapped their little eyes
at each other IN much ~ to say: You
just walt I'LL next time New York
Times.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-01-25
COULDN'T THROW ABE.
How LincOin Whipped the Cham pios
Of C1ary's Grove.

Denton Offutt, I.lncOln's employer,
was just the man to love to boast be,
fore such u crowd. He seemed 20 feel
that Lincoln's physical prOwess shed
glory ON himself. ana he declared rnc
more, throw farther, run faster, Jump
higher, and wrestle better than any
man In SangamOn County. The Clarys
Grove boys, Of course, felt In honor
bound 10 prove this false. ana tary
appointed their best man, one Jack
Armstrong, 10 ''thrOw Abe" Jack Arm
strong was, according to the testimony
of all who remember him, a powerful
twister." square built and strong as IN
OK" ''the best made man that ever
lived;" and everybody knew the contest
would be close. Lincoln did not like
to "tusslc and scuiiie." he objected TO
"woolling and pulling" hut OfYutt had
gone 80 far that II became necessary
to yield. The match was held on the
ground near the grocery. Clary's Grove
and New Salem turned out generally
to witness the OOut, and betting ON the
result ran high. the community as u
| whole stalking their jackknives. tObac'
60 plugs, and treats" on Armstrong.
The two men had scarcely taken hold
OF each other before II was evident that
the Clary's Grove champion had met II
match. The two men wrestled long
and hard, but both kept their feet.
Neither could throw the other, and
| Armstrong, convinced Of this, tried a
foul" Lincoln no sooner realized the
game Of his antagonist than furious
with Indignation, he caught him by the
throat, and holding him out at arms
length. he ''shOok him like child
| Armstrong; friends rushed to his aid
aud for moment II looked as II Lin
coin would be- routed by sheer force OF
numbers; but he held his own 10 brave
~ that the 'boys," In spite OF their sym
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-01-25

A Dangerous Passage In the RhOne.
Below viviers the KhOne breaks out
from It's broad upper valley Into its
broader lower valley through the Defllc
Of DOnxere. Here the foot hills Of the
Alps and the foot hills Of the Cevennes
come together. and behind this natural
dam there must have been nnclcntly a
great lake which extended to the north.
ward OF where now In valence. The Dc.
filc In veritnble canyon that would be
quite In place In Sierra Madre. On each
side Of the sharply narrowed river the
walls Of rock rise to u sheer height Of
100 feet. The rush Of the water Ii tn.
multuOus. In mitistrcam, surrounded
by e,idies and whirling waves, Ii the
Roche DIES Anglals, against which the
boat OF a luckless party Of English trav.
elers struck and was shattered q hun.
dred years ago. Indeed, 10 dangerous
was this passage held to be Of old
when faith was stronger ana boats
were weaker than In our day Of skepti
cism and compound engines, that It war
customary TO tie MP ut the head Of the
detile ana pray for grace to come
through II safely; hut nowadays (witl
INC same practical result) they put ex
tra men at the tiller aud clap on NOR,
steam.--Centrry.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-01-25
MIGRATORY ossse.
a Fs,ms. Secs HE F,eeG Fly Ave

q Farmer Sees HE Fleek Fly Away
A farmer named Bidwell, living
eleven miles from Minneapolis, beyond
the Minnesota bottoms. tells remark.
able story about some dOmestlcated
Canadian geese that are his property.
Mr.. Bidwell was In Minneapolis with
. load OF poultry. and when the subject
OF goose shooting was preached he had
few very interesting remarks to
make about wild geese.
1.-Two years ago." he said, my wlfes
.srOther. Fred Roach, came up from
Florida 10 visit me. Among the things
he brought along was setting Of ten
Canadian goose eggs. He wanted to
and out how the birds would do In cap
a., ity, and I was a little Interested In
the problem, too. set the eggs under
n big old tame goose and she Matched
out eight OF them. Two got killed one
way and another before they were very
old bur the other six reached matu.
rity. Last spring. when the flight Of
geese was going north, noticed that
my gray fellows seemed good deal
interested In them. One dry I saw
the lot rise up and circle several times
when hock Of wild birds was going
ever, so I clipped all their wings and
made sure of them for the time being.
i meant TO clip them again this aut.
unn, but somehow In the hurry Of the
fall work overlooked II. Besides,
the geese seemed to have got over all
5dea Of flying away. and felt pretty 20
cure OF them.
~..Iust about week ago ! was fixing
up haystack that had been blown
over when noticed a big flock Of wild
geese coming from the north. They
were away UP In the air and going at a
terrific rate. A flock Of about sixty Of
my geese were feeding short dis
tance from where was at work.
did not notice the big flock going south
after giving one glance ut them, until
Tearing their cries close mt hand,
saw that they had decoyed to my tame
nock and We're circllng about owe,
them. They had made about two big
sweeps. filling the air with sharp calls
when my dOmesticated Canadians LEI
go an answering CRY and rose straight
up In the air. Two Of the tame geese
went with them, and the others, nftcl
. numbering attempt at hight, settled
down to earth again. The birds tina
had been Matched from wild eggs, will
their two tame companions, after max
/ ing couple Of little circles, wen
| atraight for the flock, and the entir'
4 lot headed south together. ] Ough
( 70 have clipped them again this fall
hut didn't. and the birds have gone.
u win be interesting to see whethe
/ Mr.. BidwellS birds return TO the farm
i next spring. Bogardus, n his book oI
slsoainc. refers TO the easy homestead
4 Ing ~ wild geese, and cites instances
4 Of their having gone south In tn
\ snimnn only % return with TN
spring Night 10 the home Of theL
N youth.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-01-25

pathies, were filed with admiration.
What bid fair to Ike u general fight end.
ell In general hand.shake. even Jack
Armstrong declaring that Lincoln was
the "bcst fellow who ever broke Into
the camp" Met lures Magazine.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-01-25

Compel man to lOaf who has always
been busy, ana he IL as uncomfortable
as q lOafer compelled to work.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-01-25

-. Peters. Rome. can accommodate
Ssldo worshI3ers. snd 81 rauls. Lon
80. 5000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-16
GATHERED ABOUT THE TOWN.

Tho Rev Dr. Malcolm Dana will occupy the pulpit
IN the Bedford Presbyterian Church to-day Early
In March he Will deliver lecture on the Passion
Play in Oberammergau before the Young Women s
Christian Association. The lecture will be Illus
trated by stereopticon pictures.
Otto A. Wunder OF No. $50 Stockton-st.. was ex-
amlned az to his sanity by Drs. OconneH ana
Bates Of tho Charities Department yesterday. The
man Is q tn-rocfer by trade. He was seized with a
peculiar mania about month ago. and attempted
TO throw his wife downstairs. and also tried to
choke the baby. The examination disclosed that
Wunder believed that ne talked with God and with
his dead mother. The physicians recommend his re-
moval to the Long Island State Hospital for the
Insane.
Heaven: It's Life. Occupation and Fellowship,
will be the subec; which the Rev. j. f. carson
will speak In the Central Presbyterian Church.
Tompkns and Wllloughby ayes. this morning AT
1890 Mrs A. NJ. Roe Will sing Heaven Is My
Home" At 7:3o this evening Mr.. Carson Will preach
on "A Trembling Prosecutor"
To s. Alfred Weldon. OF Public School No. ,, and
Katherine W. Stone. OF Public School NO. a. nave
been awarded the Low prizes OF years subScrip-
ton to the Brooklyn Library. offered to graduating
pupils in the grammar schools.
Mr.. Howell president OF the Bridge trustees yes
terday signed the lease which gives the Dehaio-
ave- and the AtlantIc-ave surface railroad companies
the right to have a siding in Washngton-sf near
the sidewalks at the Brooklyn terminal OF the
Bridge. The construction OF the siding will not be
begun until after the delivery OF the twelve new
Bridge cars tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-16
AMARANTH THEATRICALS.

The Amaranth Dramatic Society gave a benefit
performance last evening at the Academy or Music
to William Phelps MacFarlane. one OF its most
popular members. double bill was prescnted-the
balcony from Romeo and Juliet" and far-
cical comedy. Confusion by Joseph Devvick
The balcony scene was portrayed by Marie Lamb
MacFarlane $ Juliet and Alfred Young as Romeo.
The comedy cast follows:
Frederick Suydam
Christopher Blizzard with eye to IMcretia:
Percy q. Williams
Rupert sunberry. a real nice young .............
Frederick Bovine
Bartholomew Jon disciple Of Svenga f.. o. Jacobsen
Michael MuZze. Discreet officer. Harry C. EDWARDS
James, the butler. knows what II Is to be anxious
Mortimer. Helene Wintner
Iucretia Tricklcby. with eye TO Blizzard.
Alice NJ Butcher
Maria wife OF James ................Rut Ruth Emerson
There was generous applause at the frequent sal
lies of Wit