HEROES AND
jpye tmitfnted praise to the man
Wfio is brave enough to die;
Ettthe man who ytrn'jzles unflinching!
Againit the currents of destiny
And bears the storm of adversity,
W pass unnoticed by.
.We've plaudits and tears ' for him who
' ' ' falls,
Vrl Borne down in the shock of strife;
But a word of cheer we neglect to say
To him who p'oda on his dreary way
And fights in silence from day to day
The unseen battles of life.
There's courage, I grant, required to face
Grim death on the gory field.
There' also courage required to meet
life's gurden and sorrow; to brave defeat;
Jo strive with evil and not retreat;
. . fCo suffer and net to yield. ' ' '
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OUR hair needs COHlb-
I school," said Mrs. Cus-
6 ter, as Frank was start
Ins out of the door.
"Oh, it's good enough," was the re
. ply. "Who cares how a boy's hair
looks?" .
"But you care yourself?"
"I'm not particular, that I know of,"
nnd he was off the end of the porch
before the mother could get in another
word.
"Who cares?" he repeated a3 he ran
on his vray to school. "A boy doesn't
want to be a milksop." Ho did not de
fine what he meant by the word milk
eop, but it was fair to presume that
he intended to describe one who was
careful of his personal appearance and
l Aid not allow his dirty hands or un-
combed hair to worry him. In fact,
Prank prided himself on being "man
ly" in his way. He thought that it
would make him so to talk loudly, to
be boisterous and careless. and to fol
low in the footsteps of certain men
of the town who made a great deal of
bluster in the course of their day's
business dealings.
"Hello, Jim," he called as he over
took a quiet and neat youth of his
own age. "You seem to be mighty
till to-day."
"Nothins to veil about, that I know
ef.w
"Tell anyhow. There's a good right
to yell' Frank let loose a wild sort
"HE TURNED FROM
of a whoop that echoed along the
street
"Don't do that Mrs. Harper is very
111. It might disturb her."
"She can't hear me this is the pub
lic highway, anyway." Another loud
cry was given and Frank swaggered
a little as though he thought he had
.done something smart.
That blustering day was a very long
cne for Frank. He fidgeted in his seat
and the teacher had several times to
reprove him. Finally it ended and he
was about to leave the room, when
there came from the teacher's desk a
request that he remain a few minutes
after the others had gone.
He found that he was not to stay
alone. In the party of boys that re
mained was Jim.
"I want to have you meet the rep
resentative of one of the largest rail
roads in the nation," said the teacher.
"He Is a friend of boys and is always
glad to see and talk with them."
A courtly stranger came into the
room. He was visiting in the neigh
borhood and had asked to be allowed
to have a talk with the older boys of
the school. He talked to them of the
tieeds of the successful man In the
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HEROES.
Some momenta are there in every life
Vhen the spirit longs for rest;
When the heart is filled with a bleak de
spair; When the weight of trouble, remorse and
care
fcecms really greater than we can bear,
And death were a welcome guest.
But we crush it down and we go our way
To the duties that lie in wait.
From day to day we renew the fight,
To resist the wrong and to seek the right.
To climb at last to the suncrowned
height
And to triumph o'er time and fate.
And thus for my heart goes out to them
My meed of praise I would give
To those who struggle life's path along,
The host of toil, who are patient, strong,
The unrewarded, unnumbered throng, m
Who are brave enough to live.
Denver News.
world; of the influence of manliness
and good nature; of the way he had
started at the bottom round of the
ladder and had risen to the top. Most
of the boys listened with interest, Jin
the most carefully of all. Frank was
uneasy and eager to go out of the
schoolhouse where the smaller boys
were playing. He felt the impulses
of spring, and though the day was raw
and cold, disliked being inside the
building.
He noticed that the stranger looked
at him often, and that hiaiself and
Jin seemed to be the principal ones
for whom the visitor was talkinj.
Twice the interest taken in him made
the boy straighten up, and then he re
lapsed into the old state of indiffer
ence. When it was over the boys went
home together.
"Awful old fogy," suggested Frank.
"I liked him," put in Jim. "He told
us a lot of things that ought to help
us."
"Maybe so, but what is the use of
having him come here to show us how
to act?"
Jim did not argue the' matter, and
Frank had 'forgotten it all, when that
evening he was going downtown to
spend a little time with the boys. As
he passed Jim's home Jim's mother
came to the door.
"Frank," she called. "I wish you
would take this overcoat to Jim. He
went off without it, and as it is getting
HIS COMPANIONS."
quite cold I an afraid he ought to
have it."
She brought out a wide-caped coat
that, when Frank had thrown it over
his shoulders, almost covered him from
view. It was gray and had become
known as the peculiar garment of the
owner, being the only one in the town
of the kind. Frank laughed as he en
veloped himself in the ample folds and
went whistling down the street.
"Good disguise, this," he thought,
and wondered if any one would take
him for Jim.
A thin old. horse was standing In
the road nibbling at the just-appearing
grass. Ticking up a stick he threw it
at the animal and shouted at the top
of his voice. The horse went off at a
pitiful hobbling gait to escape its tor
mentor. "Strange that Jim Colson should do
that," he heard some one behind him
say. In the gathering dusk it was not
easy to determine who it was.
"Yes, he Is such a gentleman," came
the reply. "I believe there Is a great
future for that boy."
"He Is to be one of the new railroad
apprentices, I heard this afternoon."
"What is that?
"The president Is going to put three
boys in the general offices to become
clerks and work their way up in the
world. He wants to take two from
this town, because he was born here,
but I guesa he will take only one
Jim." Frank had not. heard anything about
It and was surprised that such fortune
was to come to his friend.
But another surprise was In store.
A little farther down the street two
men came alongside. In the dusk he
could barely recognize them his teach
er and the president. The former
called to him, though Frank was hur
rying away: "James, see here."
Frank halted a little, feeling
ashamed of his false position, yet ex
pecting that he would be recognized
properly when they came nearer.
"The matter has been decided," the
professor went on, "and you may be
prepared to go to the city on Monday.
Mr. Harris has decided to take only
you from this city. He liked one other
boy in the class, but was afraid that
he lacked neatness and attention."
Frank thought of his frously hair
and disrespectful attitude in the
schoolroom that afternoon with keen
regret.
"I like to see a boy clean and man
ly' put in the stranger, "and you
have proved yourself all right. No
one can succeed at a railroad oQce
who does net pay attention to these
things. The time to commence Is
while you are young. You have done
right to remember it."
How Frank wanted to get away.
At the first store he turned from his
companions and entered. The men
went cn, and, then he sought Jto.
"Here's your coat," he said, handinjj
over the big garment. "Your mother
sent it to you. So you are going to
the city?"
"Why, the teacher aiid something
about it this afternoon. Maybe you
will go, too. He talked as if there
were to be two."
"No, I shall not go they don't want
ne" and Frank swallowed a biff
lump in his throat.
"Where is the comb, mother?" askc1.
Frank a few mornings after.
"Why do you want it? I thought
you said it did not matter how a boy
looked," replied Mrs. Custer, with a
smile.
"Well, I thought I'd clean up a lit
tle. It won't hurt, anyway," replied
Frank, shame-facedly. He disliked tc
admit that he had changed his views.
He had learned one of the lessons of
a boy's life. It was rather expensive
for him, perhaps, but it would not be
forgotten. Charles M. Harger, in the
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Ace of l'eacoct.
Writing of the age of peacocks, a
correspondent of Country Life says in
regard to a bird once owned by Lady
Warwick: "It will not be forgotten, at
least by our elder readers, that the
late Lord Beaconsfield was as fond of
peacocks as of primroses, and loved
to see them showing off their gorgeous
plumage under the beeehes at Huge
enden. Once upon a time this identi
cal bird belonged to the author of
Lothair, and It Is more than thirty
years since he was sent as a present
to Lady Warwick's father-in-law. Quite
an old bird, you say, and yet judged
by the peacock standard he has not
quite attained middle age yet. There
Is another at the castle that by com
parison might be called the Ancient of
Days. A very old servant of the fam
ily remembers in his youth this pea
cock as a mature bird and, what is
stranger still, his father, who died a
very old man, also remembered the
peacock as having been a vigorous
bird in his childhood. The age is
thus established as being over a cen
tury, but by how much there are no
authentic records to prove."
Earl Li the Richest Man.
LI Ilung Chan.? was called the rich
est man in the world. This assertion
is easier made than proved, for nobody
knows how rich he was. His fortune
may certainly he counted by millions
of dollars, but how many millions is
purely conjectural. It is enough to j
say that he was very wealthy, and he :
accumulated nearly the whole of his .
fortune by taking advantage of his
opportunities and making opportuni
ties during his long service as Viceroy
of Nanking and Te-Chi-LI.
One way in which LI for many years
made an enormous sum of money was
to use thousands of soldiers In his own
private enterprise without paying
them a cent for their labor. In the
course of time he purchased extensive
estates In the rice growing regions,
and raised more bushels of rice every
year than the bonanza farmers of
North Dakota used to raise of wheat.
He got his labor for nothing, nnd his
great crop of rice was almost clear
profit. He simply turned his soldiers
loose In the rice fields and they had
to be content with the rations and the
miserable pittance paid to them by
the Government. New York Tribune.
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It has been decided that all prison
ers sentenced to the Missouri State
Tenitentiary must be vaccinated be
fore admittance, but It Is believed that
the new ruling will have no effect upon
the number of applicants. Kansas
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Telegraph Statistics.
Prance has a population of 38,517,-
375; 79,443 miles of line, 400,590 miles
of wire; 12,560 officers; 70,269 em
ployes; sends 42,490,048 messages per
year; has 96 persona to each mile of
wire: 0.01 mile of wire to each per
son. For Great Britain the corre
sponding figures are: 40,276,670; 43,
507; 308,486; 10,816; 152,942; 90,087.
720; 130; 0.0076. For the United
States the figures are: 73.9D7.CS7; 222,
587; 1,118,086; 25,609; -not reported,
79,696,227; 491; 0.0147. The United
States has two-thirds as many miles
of wire as all the principal countries
of Europe and sends about 24 per cent
of all the messages dispatched. Each
person in the United States has 0.0147
miles of wire to use, while in thickly
DODulated England he has 0.0076; Bel
gium, 0.0031; Denmark, 0.0041;
France, 0.0104, and in Russia only
0.0014.
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