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ing de We're, appeared to the fool as
the real thing and he thought the little
girl in the country too plain and sim
ple-and he forgot to write for a long
time, When he came out of his trance
the shoe was on the other foot and he
realized that he was not worthy to tie
her shoe and that his life was not fit
| even to suggest to her. And so the fool
Is alone and will continue to paint his
mug nightly, when the managers are
good enough to let him, and make faces
at the gaping crowds and to nurse the
| shylocks until some day when you, my
dear friends, will have the proud privi-
| lege to chip in for cheap coffin and a
cheap preacher and a cheap grave
| somewhere"
Benton sat down and plunged his
face into the beer mug. Archie Neville
said dam" and the de We're leaped
again into the chair to try and dispel
the atmosphere, when sudden inter-
| ruption occurred. The girl sitting in
the corner had moved quietly to Ben
toms elbow. She laid her hand ON his
arm.
Russell" she said softly, you said
you would come for me and l said |
would wait. l have waited all these
years and you have not come. So l
| have come for you. Father is dead and
the farm Is mine-ours. Come home.
oh, it has been so hard to find you"
Benton rose as one dazed and looked
at the girl. Then without a glance at
the party he put his arm about her and
together they walked out of Maffioli's.
well, wouldn't that make you artic-
ulate!" exclaimed Tony Neiman, in a
low voice to Brooks. But the poet waa
busy making notes.
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ground. Once he kissed her. That
night after he went home he swore to
himself he would marry her You see
he didn't know then that he was a fool.
The symptoms came on later. One
time his father sent him to the city
and he went to a show and the glare of
the footlights dazzled him so that he
conceived the idiotic notion that an ac-
tor was the greatest man in the word
and that an actors life was one long
dream of bliss, He went back home
and began to read about actors and
plays. Then some other idiot in the
neighborhood got the amateur theatre
cal craze and the fool took part, and a
lot of well-meaning, but addle-headed
people told him that he did well and
was cut out for an actor.
"Well, the fool got stage-struck and
decided that the farm and fresh air and
the good living and the good old father
and mother and all the honest friends
he had were not good enough for him
and that he must go to the city and
carve out career His mother was
heartbroken and his father righteously
angry at his decision. But of course
the fool knew better than they. All
fools know better than their mothers
and fathers-especiall cuh-fools, So he
went bravely away to the city, and by
the sheer force of the physical vitality
the country air and good living and de-
cent hours had given him, he wormed
himself into the perfesh and for ten
years has been living in ill-smelling
hotels and stuffy back rooms and eat
ing everything from free lunch weiner-
wurst to the sort of rot this dago con-
cocts in his rotten kitchen.
THE fools father was a strong man
and just, and when he died few years
ago he left his property to the FOOLS
brother, who was wise man and
stayed with a good thing, and knew
enough to come in when it rained.
This proves that the fools father knew
his business. So now the fool is elect
ed to eke out his miserable existence
in company with other fools OF both
sexes in stuffy lodgings and on liver
wurst and beer and other abomina-
tions, while his brother peacefully
smokes his pipe in comfort and happi-
ness and watches his boys and girls
grow to manhood and womanhood in
the green fields which will be their
heritage-unless they inherit their un-
Gle and become fools"
And the girl" suggested the poet
20, yes the girl" replied Benton
THAT is the most pitiful of all. You
see the girl really loved the fool and
her love blinded her to his folly and
she thought it was all right for him to
go to the city and demonstrate the
depths of his idiocy. And the fool
loved the girl, too, in fool way and
when he left he took her in his arms and
kissed her and swore eternal fidelity
and promised her future part in his
future triumphs. A few letters passed
and then the fool graduated from the
supe class into a speaking part, met
up against this sort of a bunch and the
paint and the rouge and the pads and
the abandon and the wit and all the
rest of it, as exemplifed in our charm
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-08-05
OF HERoIsM
He Didn't Know Bullets When He
Saw Them and Thereby Gained
Reputation.

Spe&-hag of great civil war stories,
Miss Ada Sweet, OF Chicago, when in
Denver recently, told the following:
Her father, Gen. Sweet, was taking his
regiment into action. He sent forward
q detail of men to make gaps in a rail
fence to avoid the heavy loss sure to
result If the whole body of men paused
to tear it down.
The coolest and finest man in the
detail was young soldier who had
never been under fire before. When
he began pulling down the fence he
disturbed nest of hornets, and they
sang fiercely about his ears. But
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WHERE is MARION RIVERS ?
Here Is an Inquiry for the Last Man
Pardoned by President Abra-
ham Lincoln.

During the closing days of the civil
before court-martial and found guilty of
being a spy within the union lines, and,
by the court-martial he was sentenced
to death, by being placed in kneeling
position on the lid of his coffin and IL
soldiers, with muskets, detailed to per-
form the execution, one of the IL mus
kets not being loaded with ball, the
remaining IL being so loaded that no
one of the IL would know with certainty
who really were the eXecutioners of the
condemned man.
Thus doomed to soon pass into eter-
nifty by the stern hand of military JUS
tice, Marion Rivers was placed in the
guardhouse to await the day of his exc
cution.
The proceedings of the court-martial,
giving the evidence adduced at the
trial, with the verdict of the court, was
forwarded to Washington for President
Lincoln's signature. Upon receiving the
testimony President Lincoln stated in
his own handwriting over his own sigma
tuiC, Ihdt IiO bCih6 "hoiiJ Sii
cumstantial, and there being mitigating
conditions connected with the prisoners
arrest and trial." he allowed the con-
demned man to go free.
This was near the closing days of the
civil war. | have in my possession the
written proceedings of the court-mar-
tial, and the pardon by President Lin
coln This must have been the very
last, or very nearly the last, time Pres
ident Lincoln signed his name to doc
ument of this kind, and the document
ought to have sentimental value. II
Marion Rivers still lives and would like
to get the documents. will mail them
to him. While they are of no intrinsic
value to me, as l nor any of my family
ever refer to them, they grow more val
liable as they grow older, and would bt
OF much more value to Mr.. Rivers thar
to any other person, as they will servt
to perpetuate the recollection of the
most trying event in the history of Mr.
Rivers life. Doubtless the proceeding!
of that court-martial made an indelibl'
impression upon the tablets of Mr.. Riv
ers' memory. Mr.. Rivers. or any of hi!
children, If he has any. can have the doc
uments.-Marion Ardell, Corporal Com
pany H, Twentieth Michigan, Emerald
N, D., In National Tribune
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Worry kills more people than work
because more people tackle 1t.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-08-05

I+ sad unIo thcm, &c have
tuousIt THIS man unto me. a. onsf
tint lrrrrr1r,h the people and,
behold, !, having examined him
before YOU. have found no fault in
this man, touching those ,hings
whereof ye accuse him;
IS No, nor yet Herod: Tor sent
YOU 70 him; and, 10. nothing wor-
Thy OF death IS done unto him;
i6 Twill, therefore. c!,astise him,
and release MU
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books, but was afterward purchased
for $400 by Miss Randolph
In Jefferson's compilation of the
Gospels he omitted everything of a
miraculous nature and confined his
clippings to the teachings of Jesus. He
clipped from all the Gospels, using the
verses which make the clearest state
ment where the texts are practically
the same.
In the concluding verse of the work
he takes John, xix, AZ, and Matthew,
xvii, go, and combines them, clipping
out all but the plain statement OF the
burial. The result Is as follows:
John xix, AZ: There laid they Je-
sus -
Matthew, xvii, 60: 80" and
Z" rolled great stone to the door
of the sepulchre, and departed"
Thus he followed out to the end HIS
general plan and omitted all that could
not be explained to the satisfaction OF
a practical lawyer leaving Christ bur-
led forever and giving no evidence OF
belief in the resurrection
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BIBLE OF JEFFERSON
1T rs BEING PRINTED BY UNITED
STATES GOVERNMENT.
The Original Copy of Morals of Jesus
of Nazareth" Being Reproduced
at Washington-Consi
cred q Great Work.

Resolved, ETC., that there be printed
and bound, by photolithographic pro
cess, with an Introduction of not to
exceed 25 pages, to be prepared by DIR.
Cyrus Adler, librarian of the Smith
sonian Institution, for the use of con-
gress, 5000 copies of Thomas Jefter-
sons Morals Of Jesus of Nazareth. as
the same appeared in the National
museum, 5000 copies for the use of
the senate and 5000 copies for the use
of the house.
Such is the resolution, passed at the
last session of congress, which has set
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Warning Not Needed.

Mistress Ito pretty housemaid) by
the way, Mary. should my husband ever
attempt to kiss you, just box his ears
soundly.
Maid-Shure, ma'am, he's felt the
weight of me hand twice already.--Min-
neapolis Times.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-16
AN OLD GERMAN STORY

A father, when his daughter became bride, gave her a golden casket, with the injunction not to pass it into other hands, for 1t held charm which in her keeping would be of inestimable value to her as the mistress of a house. house.
 Not only was she to have the entire care of it, but she was to take it every morning to the cellar, the kitchen, the dining room, the library, the bedroom, and to remain with if in each place for five minutes, itteess, looking carefully about. After the lapse of three years the father was to send the key, that the secret talisnan might be revealed.
 The key was sent. The casket was opened. It was found to contain an old parchment on which were written these words: "The eyes of the mistress are worth one hundred pairs of servants hands,"
 The wise father knew that a practice of inspection followed faithfully for three years would become a habit and be -perpetuated-t the golden casket and the hidden charm wouldhave accomplished their mission. -Philadel- phia Telegraph
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portant strip of our country they are rushing through, down the Eastern Shore sliced off by Chesapeake Bay from Maryland and Virginia. The through passenger is perhaps un- aware that to this sand strip and its invading tides his city table, whether set for. him in Philadelphia or New York, Boston, or say London has long been indebted for many of it's costliest luxuries-for soft-shell crab and caviare quail and ptarmigan and reed bird canvasback duck and diamond back terrapin, for early dainties of sea and shore, orchard and garden, too numer- ous to catalogue.
 If our tourist have economic as well as gastronomic tastes, it may interest him to learn that this backbone rail- road and it's branches netting with nerve force the peninsula, have carried northward in one year over ten thous- and carloads of peaches and small fruits, as many more being shipped by boat or preserved in the canneries ant evaporating plants; that ten million bushels of oysters are taken yearly, giv. ing employment to over thirty thousand hands, and that while the northern hal of the two hundred mile strip is a flint wheat and grass growing region, figs and pomegranate come to perfection a it's southern extremity. Well may this narrow sand strip be called the land 0. the Epicure. Southern Workman.
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There, it mifight be added, the family quarrels, if not of too violent a nature, are discussed.
 t'The breakfast used to be a calm contrast to the larger meal. There the cheery good morning that was tra- ditionally thought to send it's sunny in fiuence through the whole day was spoken. There were the filial kisses for father and mother.
 That sort of breakfast has disap- peared. Fannie and Mamie, who were at dance the night before. and got in late, have their chocolate in bed. Tom and Henry, who went heaven knows where, and came in later still have only time to get cup of coffee and hurry out. And they do not seem to care much about the coffee at that.
 "Only the father and mother are left to represent what used to be the old fashioned family breakfast. And it fre- quently happens that in this year of grace they may have been to a late supper or long dinner anddecided that breakfast is an unnecessary form of beginning the day"
 Tn smaler cities ana m the country the family breakfast has the same re- spect as an institution of the household that it formerly enjoyed. And the very Washingtonians who treat it with disrespect during the winter months in the city are likely to appear bright and early at breakfast table during the summer in the country. City diver einns dO moi interfere then tn keen the family away from the table, and the old-fashioned breakfast blossoms in all it's domestic beauty. So the situ- ation is not so bad as it might be- Charleston News and Courier.
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ARE WE TO RE FROZEN.

Since the recent abnormal cold there are not wanting people who believe that the theory advanced by some scientists is correct. This is that the northern hemisphere is entering upon a new per iod of glaciation. Other evidences than the late unlamented blizzard come rap idly to hand. Everybody knows that the past summer was phenomenally cool here, but Boston takes pride in having summers cool enough to adver- tise any health resort
 News comes, however, from distant Alaska that the output of gold fo rthe years has been only S6,921.157 this year as against $S,345, 800 in 1892 This de- cided falling off is laid to the extremely short summer on the Summer Peninsu- la where are located the greatest placer mines, the time between thawing out and freezing up being much less than on previous years.
 Round the other side of the northern
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Brief Mention High water to-day, 11:O1 p. Iii.
A WOMAN ARTIST CHOSEN.

Violet Oakley Gets an Important Com-
 mission in New Quake1A Capital.
 For the first time in the history of American art woman is to be intrust- ed with the mural decorations of a great public building. When the splen- did new capitol at Harrisburg is finish ed one of the most interesting sights the guides will have to show visitors will be a great frieze entitled ''The Ro- mance of the Founding of the State"
 Violet Oakley is to be creator of this work. Recently she returned from Flu rope, prepared to settle down to her task, and in the quaint building at the Red Rose inn. Villa Nova, Pa, where she had established her studio, she is now preparing the designs for the va rioush panels.
 The room in the capitol which Miss Oakley is to decorate is 70 feet by 30 feet and IS feet high. The frieze di- vided into panels, is to be five feet in depth, beginning eleven feet from the floor. The subject, "The Romance of the Founding of the State" is one that allows unlimited latitude for original treatment in a way that will appeal to popular favor, for the artist who un- \ dertakes to carry out this scheme Of decoration is not hampered by tradition, as is the case with other subjects, the old stock ones.
 Miss Oakley is one of a trio of talent ed women who form little art colony at the Red Rose inn, near Villa Nova Her name is associated with those of Miss Jessie Wilcox Smith and Miss Elizabeth Shippen Green, the three having transferred their studios to the picturesque old inn, which was once a famous roadhouse of the first class, leasing the entire premises and making g workshop of the barn at the rear of the main building.
 They form a unique and interesting group, these three clever American wo- men sympathetic in tastes and in ideals, living by themselves amid the quaint surroundings of a bygone day. Each of the three has her special work, but Miss Oakley, unlike her companions, has not confined herself to illustration only.
 It is in mural design and in stained glass work that she especially excels. Her decorations in the Church of Ali Angles in New York have placed her name foremost among the artists in that line Of work.
 The design consisted of an altar piece a 1nosaic-a study of the Ascension with two carving side pieces represent ing the Heavenly Hosts.
 Just how many years 1t will take tc complete the work Miss Oakley has nc idea. As a preliminary she went on a tour of Europe visiting Assist, Naples Rome and Florence, studying the work of the Italian masters of mural decora. lions and treasuring a wealth of sugges, tions.
 Then she went to England tosobtair the historical data which were only tc be obtained here. At the Kensingtor museum, Oxford and elsewhere Miss Oakley found the necessary groundwork flor the compositions, and then returned to her studio at Villa Nova to begin the designs.-Boston Globe.
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world the latest news from Captain Coffin in command of the arctic explor- ing ship America, is that the ice is far south about Spitzbergen and he will find difficulty in making the usual northing before the ship is frozen in. The previous zeigler expedition had the same trouble and the failure of Com mander Baldwin is in part attributed to this evidence of cold beyond the nnr- nal.
 Of course the scientists may be wrong in their apprehensions, and the forcasted glacial period may not be really approaching, but surely the com mon signs all point in that direction. When learned men and goose-bone pro- phets agree it is no wonder that com mon folks look upon the thermometer with distrust and certain amount of rancor. Tn the face of all this Peary goes cheerfully forward with his pre- parations for another farewell trip in search of the pole. We all believe he can find it if anybody can, but the DOT tents are ponderous and the oracles and cold.-Boston Transcript.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-16
OLD cUsToMEs NO MORE.

Home Life Not What What it used to
 Be.
 A new writer on social topics thinks the growth among wealthy people of the custom of owning two or three homes has already begun to lessen the love of Americans for home, since through possessing so many they have time for enjoying none in particular. This is the theory on which the Sul- tan is supposed to care for none of his wives, he is embarrassed by having so many. But the English families of wealth, who have for generations pos- sessed homes in various parts of hteir own country, have never been accused of lacking the feeling for home.
 Tn any case the love for home is going to finger in the hearts of most Americans if it is to be expelled only by the possession of several establish ments in various parts of the country. There are many Americans who have struggled hard enough for one home GO enable them to cherish it.
 The great danger is that it spreads over wide area of society, and seems to lie in the gradual abolition of that national custom, once so popular, the l American breakfast. That has all but ! disappeared in the East and the large cities of the country. Now the conti- nental as it use to be called, or the very light breakfast of coffee and rolls prevails in most of the cities.
 | And the members of most fami- | lies" said the social philosopher. who | bemoaned this new phenomenon of Washington life, scarcely think it worth their while to come down stairs 1 to drink a cup of coffee and eat a roll l The women get into the habit of talk l ing this slight meal in their rooms
 and then men go to the dining room | whenever they are ready.
 Thus the old family custom of gath ering around the breakfast table has
 disappeared. It is no longer possible
 to start the day with the family idea of home fresh in the minds of all.
 ''The diner is, of course, the family forum. There all meet and there mat. lters of common interest are discused
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-16
LIFE IN CHILL.
NOTABLE INSTITUTIONS OF 4
 QUEER OLD CITY.

some of 1t. odd,tlss-Ths Turkey nIsr- chant-The Water Peddier-Lots of churehas, but no Sewerage.
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STATE LABOR BUREAU.

Superintendent Linsley's Report for
 December. Superintendent J. J. Linsley, of the State Employment bureau in this city, makes the following report for Decem- Der:
 Applications for Males 12s, females S5; total, 215. Applications for help - Males A, fe- males 65; total, S9.
 Situations secured-Males 21, females Ss4; total, 75.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-16
4. .NoTPE DAME LADY

I will send free with full Instructions. some of this simple preparation for the cure of Leucorrnoea. Liberation, Displacements. Failing of the Womb, Scanty or Painful Periods, Tumors or Growths, Hot Flashes. Desire to Cry, Creeping feeling up the Spine a n sending address To mothers of fering daughters l will explain Successful Home Treatment. If you decide to continue 1t will only cost about 12 cents week to guarantee cure. do not wish to sell you anything. Tell other sufferers of it, that is all ask. Address. Mrs. M. Summers, Box 276, NQtre Dame. Ind.
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THE LAND OF THE EPICURE
 Perhaps few of the tourists on the "Cal.. rolte' have an idea what an im-
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Local Weather Report.

New Haven. Jan. 15.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-16
SHE WAS GRATEFUL.

MT. Browns business kept him so occupied during the daytime that he had little opportunity to enjoy the so-I ciety of his own children. When some national holiday gave him a day of leisure his young son was usu ally his chosen companion. One day, however, MT. Brown, reproached by the wistful eyes of his seven-year-old daughter, reversed the order of things, and in vited the little girl to go with him for long walk.
 She was shy, silent, small person, and during the two hours stroll not a single word could MT. Brown induce the little maid to speak, but her shin ing eyes attested that she appreciated his efforts to amuse her; indeed, she fairly glowed with suppressed happi- ness.
 Just before they reached home. how ever, the child managed, but only af- ter a tremendous struggle with her in- herent timidity, to find words to ex- press her gratitude.
 Papa, what flower do you like best?" she asked.
 Why, I don't know, my dear-sun- flowers, I guess"
 Them cried the little girl, beaming with gratitude, that's what I'll plant on your grave. Woman's Home Com panion.