New-York tribune., 1905-02-16
BALLADE OF PATIENCE.


closed the door.
BALLADE OF PATIENCE.
1t doesn't do to take offence
AT each imaginary slight
man will show a heap more sense
~ II ne can rein his temper tight
His patience may be sorely tried;
But then there is fight
Just let it slide,
You may see through a thin pretenee
That's made with clear. unclouded sight;
You may have solid evidence
That black is black and white is white
But then you need not spread your light
OF intellect too far and wide
Don't contradict the blatherskte-
Just let it slide.
We learn by long experience
That nothing goes to suit us quite;
And silly Slander wrong and spite.
And VOW we will not be decried;
But barking dogs will seldom bite
Just let it slide.
LEnvoi:
If some one has been impolite
Enough your efforts to deride
Don't let IT spoil your appetite
Just let it slide.
-(Chcago News
Chill imperfect mastication and the excessive use
of aperents according to DR.. Joseph Kidd in an
article in The Nineteenth Century, are the chief
causes of appendicitis. AS all these are causes
readily guarded against and the guarding against
them will also conduce TO general health and hap
piness there seems to be no why intelligent
most dangerous Of modern diseases.
words fail me! Words fail met exclaimed Rep
resentatve Baker, of Brooklyn in the course of
his speech on the Russian horrors
1t is just we'll gravely commented Spea ker
-CTroy Times
a striking and typical American career was that
Of the late Charles Hackley lumberman and phil
anthropist of AIuskegOn, Mich. Hackley came to
Nuskegon when boy, in 1856 with only 81
in his pocket, having worked his passage across
Lake Michigan on a schooner. Becoming success
sively a bookkeeper for lumber firm. then fore
and, finally, owner, IN the lumber bust
ness he amassed great fortune. his wealth at
his death being estimated at Sl5,OOOOoO, while his
benefactions to Muskegon alone amounted to over
s. 900. Although he is said to have contributed
TO every church in the city. he attended any
and witnessed performance in theatre
TAKEN DOWN
The pompous man comes down the street
With solemn, stately. stride,
He marches on, distinguished by
An air of conscious pride.
His fur lined overcoat,
All signify the man of means.
The citizen of note.
He marches on. majestic grand,
Till suddenly his dexter heel
Slips bit of ice!
An awkward somersault he turns.
He picks himself up ruefuy,
And every one looks glad!
The Chicago Health Board has issued a report
prasing tho work Of Or. Alice Johnson OF the
parish of Lambeth. In London She Ia a health Off
Ger of her district and has excised the tonsils of
more than ono hundred schoolgirls Few appre-
ciate the danger they carry in their throats In
the words or the bulletin, the tons Is the nursery
and hothouse for the propagation of every form OF
evil microbe, from that which causes 'ouinsv sore
throat to the malignant septic organisms of diph-
therie pneumonia tuberculosis sangrene of the
lungs Inflammation of the heart rnembropes o,d
other fatal maladies,' Then follows n long Iist
OF microscopic desperate characters that make The
tonsis their resort, and the bulletin concl,,1o =,
this energetic fashion: IF this disgusting cateeorv
be not enough TO secure the deep damnnt to-, 80
the taking off OF every tonsil in the young ttot
It may be added that II is the commonest ca,,so 80
mouth breathing and mental dulness among ohm
dron." -
Wanted Particulars.-"S you want Ia rnorr,. -
daughter, do you. young man. asked the Tn,,tS NY
father. S s'Vuty
Yes. s-i-r," stammered tho young man
Well can you support a familyY"
How many are there OF you, sir?"-fYonksr.
Statesman. NAo"Aers