Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-05

FRIDAY, JANUAR
THE TALK pr THfS DAY.
THE OLD YEARS LEGACY.
The bells were ringing out the hour
At midnight on the New Years eve.
Abave the cradle of the New
The Old Year lowered, taking leave.
what shall I leave thee when I gO?"
He said, Pure babe, Sent forth to meet
The soiling, grinding. weary world:
What h l lay here at thy feet?
II will not leave my mantle gray:
Thou hast a new robe. fair and bright;
l will not leave the griefs af cares
That turned my hair to silver white.
II will not leave the vows unkept.
The blasted hopes. the useless tears;
My wisdom. all too dearly bought,
Is far too bitter for thine ears.
but. plotting out the background dark,
The long, sad days Of this, my span,
I'll leave thee all its joys to fill
With mem'ries sweet the heart of man.
Thine be the happiness that's past!
Thine be the gladness, not the care!
Earth shall forget my griefs. whose sum,
With future joys shall not compare.
Fol now I give men double weight
glad and happy thoughts, through
thee,
My sombre form fades fast away;
My bightest smiles alone they see.'
spoke the Old Year, and the New
Flung out acress the winter dawn
Dear memories Of yesterday,
The joys filled full. the sorrows gone.
MARGARET DOANE GARDINER.
A Memphis paper tells of a married cou-
pie who are in the habit occasionally of
going out at night to entertainments and
social affairs, and at such times they
make themselves solid with their little
boy by saying that they are going out to
see a sick man. One week these social
affairs came pretty frequently. On Mon
day night they went to the theater, and
old the lad that they had to sit up with
ne sick man. Tuesday night they went
GU to visit a %neighbor. and explained that
they were going to give some medicine to
the man that was sick. On Wednesday
night they proposed to attend an enter
tamment, and a~pologized to the young
chap by saying they had to put a plaster
the sick mans back to draw out the
pain. Papa" asked the youth. lis the
sick man in much pain?" VERY much,
my son." And is he pretty near dead?"
Yes. he's in bad shape" The lad
thought deeply for a while. and Their re-
marked.
Economy. please, papa, give me a
quarter to see the big snage in the men,
Morris, my dear, here's the magnifying
glass. Go look at an angle worm."-
Fliegende Batter. -
la Presse,' of Montreal, the most in
f1uehtial French-Canadian paper, says:
W understand the extreme surprise our
English fellow citizens must have ex-
perienced more than once on hearing ex-
pressians Of satisfaction at the news
Of a British reverse, and yet no one is
more loyal to the English crown, more
devoted to the queen han the French-
people. This contradiction is
easy to explain. Many of our people,
without thinking OF the consequences OF
such tactics, believed, while ,inwardly
regretting these misfortunes, that they
were thus taking some sort Of personal
revenge on a provoking class of English
who W. lose an opportunity
or attacking them, of lowering them, of
quizzing them. Let US not forget that
in spite of all the French-Canadian has
not conceived for his Anglo-Saxon fell
countryman either hatred or preju-
dice. We appeal to all those in business
exception have they ever no.
ticed that their quality as English drove
from their store a single F~rench-Cana-
dian. not only in the cities, but even
in the most distant country parts? We
quote the names of so British sub
jects who made their fortunes in centers
French-Canadian."
Here are some extracts from ADVERTISE
ments in Oriental papers:
GOODS dispatched, expeditiously as a
ball"
Parcels lone up with such care as a
loving wife bestows upon her husband"
w sell paper tough as elephants hide"
The print of our books is clear as
the matter charming as a sing
ing girl"
Customers are treated as politely as
rival steamship companies"
our silks and satins are smooth as a
iady,s cheek, and colored like the rain
1T seems so strange" said the lady
who had returned to visit the old scenes
again. that your son, Arthur. is a poet.
When I knew him I never suspected that
he had an inclination in tina direction.
suppose, though, that you have seen
it in him from the first?'
NO." h young mans mother replied.
''he never gave any indication of it as
a boy. His school books are not. as one
would naturally suppose. scrubbed full
rhymes. He did not lisp in numbers
as we read that other poets did. Indeed.
was about as plain n practical
boy as could have been found any
s.
fxN1l
That's the way he always seemed TO
me. When was it discovered that he had
gift?"
well, the first time we noticed 1t on
him was n day after a heavy sign.