Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-13

feet. Who knows? Certain it is that
for three nights the horse slept quiet
ly by his friend, and thus alone passed
safely through the critical stage of his
disease.
Away with the old straw hat,
with dust streaks through its
braiding,
Bring out the carpet, unroll the mat,
The last-leaf days are fading.
The morns are white, Jack Frost is
here,
Bob White is in the thistle,
And now around the streets we hear
The chestnut roaster's whistle.
Coming in on the b. & o. train the
other day was a family with little
nervous mother and a flock of chill
dren. As we neared town the mother
began to question if everything was
all right.
Have you got all the umbrellas,
Johnny?"
"I should say I had had four
when l started, and now I've got six"
Some gentleman has made the fol-
lowing remarks on the benefit of
laughter
Man is the only animal that was
made to laugh, and, as science teaches
that laugh is a sure boon to health, it
is sin for us to substitute excessive
drug-taking for laughter.
Laughter increases the blood cir
culation.
1t enlarges the heart.
1t expands the lungs.
Il iiggers the diaphragm.
It promotes the circulation of the
spleen.
! once knew a man who laughed so
much that when he died they had to
cut his liver out and kill it with
club.
Beware of theologians who have no
sense of mirth-they are not alto
gether human.
Keep your chin up.
Don't take your troubles to bed with
you--hang them on chair with your
trousers or drop them in a glass of
water wit hyour teeth.
A gentleman stopping at the Nor
wood" recently told the following
story of his unusually imaginative
son.
"The little rascal is only four, built
like prize fighter, too; but he has
one of these three-story heads and an
Imagination that just gets to going
and puts him in a world of his own
I'VE took him along on an outing
of six weeks and that little shaver re-
ported more railroad wrecks and
more disasters by water than have ac-
tually occurred in the last ten years.
He'd come running to me, all excite
ment and turn pale while he was re-
citing these awful calamities. The
sound Of a locomotive whistle or the
sight Of another boat was enough to
set him going, and it did not take
three minutes to kill off a few scores
CT his fellow beings.
II concluded / should check this in
clnation. This conviction seized me
just as we had settled down to quiet
little resort where a chicken was the
most ferocious thing in sight The
first day in the forenoon he same
RI hing in, out of breath but full of
talk.
Papa he shouted, "a wattlesnake
chased me for twenty miles
Here was an opportunity for the
first lesson. / told him that there
were no rattlesnakes anywhere near
rs and impressed upon him the wick
edness of lying, When l saw tears
in his eyes | fattered myself upon the
still when he squared his little should
ers and looked to me as ! thought
Washington looked in the cherry-t tree
episode.
Now, George | asked, sternly
did, rattlesnake chase you?
" No, papa; it was gwisly bear
Those who remember the insults
heaped upon Americans in Spair
about the time of the opening of hos
tllities between the two countries will
make allowance on reading of Spain!
very friendly attitude toward thC
United States.
1--WE of Spain have forgotten al
about the war and have a very friend
ly feeling for the people OF the United
States now" declares p. N. Gonzales
Jr, sherry wine merchant, of Jerez
| Spain, who Is on a business trip Il
this country. "Our people are yer,
easily excited and at the beginning O
the war there was an outbreak Of pat
rlctic fervor, but we soon ceased b
take much interest in the conflict, ant
now that the war is over animosltie
have entirely disappeared"