THE FELLOW WHO
The fellow nho fights the fight alone, -
With never a word of cheer,
With never a friend his help-to lend,
With never a comrade near
'Tis ha has need ofa stalwart hand ..
And a heart not given to moan'
He struggles for-life and more than life,
The fellow who fights alone! - , e
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The fellow who fijjhts the world 'alone ' ' '
With never a father's smile, 1
With never a mothers kindlv tone
His sorrowful hours .'to .guile,.. x
Who joins the fray at the dawn of day
And battles till liftht is flown, .
Must needs he stron.sr, for the tight is long,
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YOUNG lady to 'see you,
Mr. Delivers' " .
lt:ill)li Denvers,? the head
of the great banking firm
of Brandon & Delivers, looked up from
the pear he was peeling, but no hint of
the surprise h& felt at his butler's an
nouncement was allowed to creep into
his face.
- :I am not expecting anyone, Harris,"
he said, quietly. "It is a mistakelprob
ably, Did she. send in any name?"
"SI:e would not give, her name, sir;
she was very persistent or I -would not
have troubled you, sir; she seems in
distress.'
-In 'distress? What is she like, Har
ris?" It was a listless question; he was ab
solutely without' curiosity concerning
the appearance of this stray young per
sojl who sought an audience of him,
but it was lonely in this oak paneled
dining room of the great house in
which he lived, and it was more for
the sake of talking to somebody that
be detained Harris now. .
Ralph Delivers had more dinner invi
tations than he could accept, but at
thirty-three he was given to telling
himself that the dinners eaten at other
inen's tables were too heavily paid for
in the toll of epigrammatic conversa
tion that was exacted ot tne guest wno
would justify the reason of his appear
ance in the brilliant set in Avhhjh Ralph
Denvers moved. Ralph wasjust a lit
tle tired of brilliancy.
4 "She is very young, sir; a child, al
j most," Harris broke in upon his reflec
tions. "A lady, I should say," and he
jadded beneath his breath, '"pretty as' a
picture.
It may be that Ralph heard him.
"Show her in," he said, briefly; "I
Lniay as well see what she wants.
I Harris disappeared, and presently his I
place was jtaken by a slim slip of a girl,
Who stared at the man who rose at her
entrance with a pair of frightened eyes,
Rajph Denvers saw the eyes, and his 1
glance wandered to the quivering, smil
ing mouth.
"You. wish to see me?" he said.
"Won't you sit down?"
The girl sank into the chair he of
fered her, and sat there, clasping and
unclasping her fingers in an agony of
nervousness.
"Well," he said to her. and there was
a. note of encouragement in his voice,
'Is it very difficult to tell?
pit was more difficult than he knew.
Aline Tempest rose to her feet and
stood with her hand resting on the
tablecloth.
"It is hard," she said, "but I must
say it. I came to say it. It's about
Dick, my brother, you know."
She stopped and looked at him, and
he looked at her.. How was he to know
about Dick? :
"He never meant to do it," she went
on, and drew a step nearer to him;
"there were men outside who tempted
him, and he was young, and we had
so little, and he hoped to make a for
tune for me. You see I was to blame;
it was all for me.' j
"Were you anxious for a fortune?'!
said Ralph, looking at the quaint little
ngure in the quaint, unfashionable
gown, and then at the lovely, childish
face
"I wanted nothing' she said, "and I
did not guess until it was.too late. You
see. it has been so different since father
went."
The under lip trembled, and a tear
gathered and fell; and Ralph Denvers
stared steadily at t he painted pheasant
on his rtesserf plate.
"I should like to hear all about it,"
he said.- 'Tlease sit down again and
tell me what is your name and Dick's."
"I am Aline Tempest," she said, sim
ply, conquering her emotion' with an
effort that commanded his admiration.
"and when father died Senator Mande-
viue got Dick into your bank. He was
' going into the law, you know, but it
had to .be given up with the other
things. It was all very altered for
mm, anct l am atraid" with a litHo
watery smile, "that he-did not like- the
bank.f Bijit it gave us money to live on,
and I meant to teach avIi en I got pu
pils. I haven't got any yet it seems
; every one can teach something. V And
Dick grew tired, and these men came
to him, and there was some horse that
was going to make a forturfe for all of
them." ' . v: , V; ,
s "We have heard of. that horse be
fore," said- Ralph, and then was
ashamed of his jest
I Of P
"A
FIGHTS ALONE.
Ah, bitter enough the combat is
With every help at hand, i
.With friends at need to bid godspeed,
- With spirits that understand; -But
fiercer far is the fight to one v
Who struggles along unknown
Olu brave tmd grim is the heart of him,
The fellow who fights alone! :
God bless the fellow who fights alone, ,
And arm his soul with strength!
Till safely out of the battle rout
' He conquering comes at length, .
Till far and near into every ear . , :
The fame of his fight is blown.
Till friend and foe in the victor know
The fellow who fights alone!
A. McCarthy, in the New York Sun.
A Complete Short
Story.
BY M. FRASER.
"Have you?" said Aline. "We never
had. They persuaded him, and Dick
ohw how could he do it? took money
from the bank; a little at first, and af
terward a great deal. It isn't known J
yet. but to-morrow it will be knotfb.
They've given him money, to get off
with, and hes going to England to
moii-QW from Boston. He must go, I
suppose, or else something worse will
happen. But I hated him to go like
that, Ami I thought if I brought you
these they're mothers pearls, the only
thing of hers they let me keep and I
thought they would help to pay some
thing, and perhaps you won't let it bo
known to-morrow."
She handed him the pearls as she
spoka and Ralph took them in his
hand. A short string, worth, perhaps,
$500 if the full value were given, and
this child's mother had worn them.
He looked at them and wondered what
he should do. and a timid -hand was
laid on his arm.
"Isn't it enough?" said Aline. "Oh,
I don't know how much it was, but
they will help a little. And will you
keep them and let me go. home and
tell Dick that he need not go? And
afterward, when I get work, I can pay
it hack-all of it."
"I will keep them."
Ralph Denvers stood up and slipped
the chain in his pocket.
'I will keep them,r he said again,
"and you can go home and tell Dick
that he must come into my room at the
bank to-morrow."
What made him do it, he, Ralph Den
vers, cynical man of the World, given
to jesting doubt over such Vague words
as faith and charity, given to denying
the hope that has led men to stumble
on so long? What made him do it? It
may be that je knew even then. And
when she was cone he stood and called
himself a fool for his pains, and It was
perhaps as well he did not see the girl
he had befriended sink down before
an empty chair in an empty room and
weep her heart out because Dick was
already gone.
.Ralph took up. the invitations on his
mantel shelf. He had all that evening
before him Where should he go ? He
put them lown again "and paced the
room. , What was this t hlng he j had
just heard? It had sounded simple
endugh, but it may be that it meant
a big thing. Thoe men outside sound-
ed ominous, what if they were also
going to England to-night?
Hastily snatching up a list of sallmg
steamers he saw that a steamer was
due to leave Boston at dawn. His
mind flew to ways and means; to get
down there to-night a man must go
by the 10 o'clock from the Grand Cen
tral. He looked at his watch and
found, to his relief; that he had time
and to spare. Why should , he not
profit by the Information "he had re
ceived to be .his own detective? And
if only Dick Tempest" were there why
should he not bring him back to the
sister whose heart he was going to
break? She must' not be allowed to
weep any inore that pretty child who
had come to him In her dark hour.
It promised .a little more excitement
than an evening spent in listening to a
singer whose repertoire he knew by
heart. He went upstairs and changed
into a lounge suit, and, with a coat
over his ami, he walked quietly out
of the house iu West Seventy-second
street and had himself driven to the
Forty-second street station,
He knew who they were now. They
were Richard Tempest's children, and
he remembered that old Senator
Mandeville had said something to him
about look i ng a f ter t he la d. But when
one is good looking, popular and thirty-three,-what
time is there for looking
after stray .boys? Ralph had seen
young Tempest puce, and had asked
him how he liked the bank, and had
not waited to V hear : his " answer, and
straightway had gone away and for
gotten that he was in the world. He
wondered if he should know him again
as his cab pulled up at the main en
trance or tne railroad station. :
It was early yet, and the platform
was not overcrowded. Ralnh wnlkAri
the length of the train and saw- no one
wnp was likely to be Dick Tempest.
, m . iv i we ncuei omce and got
himself a ticket; it might be necessary
to go to Boston, it was just possible he
had caught an earlier train. He walked
up and. down scanning the faces of
xuose wno passed him with keen leis
urely glance. The time sped, the mo-
n
.
ment of farewells earned and Ralph
was wondering if he had thrown his
evening avay, when suddenly he saw
him. -Dick . Tempest came quickly
down the platform, a small handbag
for all his luggage, surely a poor outfit
,for a trip to Europe. The train was on
the point, of starting, and Rajpn was
the last person in the world to desire
"a scenc'-; He stepped tmttomeet the
lad coming 1 toward him.f :; J fu
"Ah, Tempest,' he vsaid,t;pleasahtly,
"I thought yon were: not coming, i
have a stateroom." ; ; ,.
Dick Tempest looked into the face of
the man he had robbed, and knew that
his story; was told. He hesitated, but
theTother's glance was compelling', and
in ;iuswei lu u' sol iw iuc
and took his place in Ralph Denver's
stateroom. ; : ' : y v -;
The journey to New Haven and back
is not a long one, but there is time in
it for a pitiful tale of : weakness and
temptation and a too late repentance
to be told; there is time in it for for
giveness to be sought and not denied.
It was early morning when these two
strange traveling companions arrived
again in New York; v Ralph Denvers
put his hand on the shoulder of the
younger man ; ' - -
Go home," he sJd. "Remember
that a sister waits for you, and that
you are to come to the.-bank as If noth
ing had happened."
He drove home himself in the keen
morning air, and almost for the first
time in his thirty-three years of life he
realized how pleasant it is to be a rich
man. There was a big check drawn on
his account that morning and the firm
of Brandon & Denvers never knew how
it had been swindled to the extent of
nearly $23,000.
It was shortly after this that host
esses began to complain that Ralph
Delivers was never available for even
the most attractive of their parties.
And it was nearly a year later when
one morning there was a quiet wed
ding in a little church round the corner
a wedding to which the "world "was
not invited, a wedding at which only
three happy young people were pres
ent. ... -
They left Dick standing on the steps
of the church and as they drove to the
station Ralph slipped his arm round bis
wife's shoulders and dropped some
thing into her lap.
"My first present to you," he said.
i have given you nothing yet."
Aline Denvers took f he little string
of yellow pearls in her fingers.
"Oh, Ralph," she said, "and once I
was silly enough to think"
He stooped and kissed her.
"They are the most wonderful pearls
in the world," he told her. "They have
brought happiness for three peop'e,"
New York News.
No Profit on Dressed Beef.,
This is the way the packer proceeds
to demonstrate that the sale, of dressed
beef has yielded him no profit since
the first - of last April. The pres
ent average price of a 1200-pound
'prime, corn-fed beef steer is $7.50
per 100? pounds, that i. $90 for the
animal v as it stands in the (Chicago
stockyards. Adding to this the cost of
slaughtering, which is $1.50, the car
cass ' ready f5r dressing, has necessi
tated an outlay of $91.50. Practice
has shown that such an animal will
'dress" about fifty-six per cent, of its
live weight, that is, 072 pounds. Upon
the other forty-four per cent., which
is hide, horns, hoofs, bloodi surplus
fat, trimmings, and offal the packer
realizes, on an average, $14.75. So the
two "sides" of the steer, as they hang
in the packing-house refrigerator, have
cost $70.75. The moment the packer
moves the 07J2 pounds of dressed meat
his expenditures begin anew, j Sending
the carcass to. New York, for Instance,
costs $7.05 which is the aggregate of
freight at 40 cents per 100 pounds and
of. refrigeration during the journey
and selling charges at 50 cents per 10Q
pounds. So, when the time comes, for
the retailer to negotiate for the meat,
it has cost the packer $83.80, or 12.3
cents per pound. ! Since April 1 the
highest wholesale price for dressed
beef in New York has been 11.5 cents,
or eight-tenths of k cent less than the
cost of production. Pursuing . this
arithmetical process with an average
steer, of 1100. pounds at $7.10 the hun
dredweight, the usual price, it will be
found that the dressed carcass oh sale
in New York represents an expendi
ture on the part of the packer of 11.4
cents per pound, nearly one cent a
pound more than he can obtain for it
From "The So-Called Beef Trust," in
the Century. r t
Elephant's Tusks Stolen. : :V.
Thieres sawed off the great tusks of
j umbo II. last night and carried them
away The elephant was the property
of Bostock, and on account of his ugly
disposition: had caused his owner much
trouble. He was known - as" a man
killer, and, the deaths of a number of
men are credited to him. When Bos
tock left his. summerquarters. Jumbo
II. was left behind. Friday he died.
The thieves came prepared for a hard
job, and their work was far from easy.
The iron band which surrounded one
tusk was almost: sawed in : two before
the vandals I decided to saw on" each
side of the ring - The tusks were four
inches in diameter arid three feet long.
Indianapolis News. '
The inventor of a flying machine is
rather pleased to have people remark
! that he is ujp in the air.
A FICKLE WORLD.
- v ..... r--. -r :
f the hotir:
hd he was strictly in it. m- :
He seemed-so quickly fled his power-
The hero of a minute. ' J -He
gen tlv mourns his present lot.
The hear him softly say; -'Tdp
nnt. of vesterday is not i
The books that pleased our fathers so,
. we view men " j
The songs we sang some time ago
And smiles and sighs alnccjorgot,
Time's hand has swept away;
The pet of yesterday is not
The darling of to-day.
' "How much did your daughter's
wedding cost?" "Oh, .about five' thou
sand a year' Life
Bobby "Say, pa! What's biirbar-
Ism? When a barber cuts your uairr
Pa "Yes; .very often, my
sou."
Princeton Tiger.
"That photographer's wife is
jealous of him." "No vonder.
very
Just
see how many other women he flat
ters." Philadelphia Bulletin, j
..' Customer "You said this suit would
wear like iron." Clothier "Well, didn't
?tr? Customer "Too much so. It's
getting rusty already." Judge.
Life's full of strange surprises
Thus sometimes it's decreed
The flower of a family
Turns out to be a weed.
Philadelphia Record.
"I never saw anybody so daffy jabout
the men ns Fannie is. I think sb must
have wheels', in her head!" "Oh, no,
not wheels; only the fellows." Com
forr. . z;." i
Penn "I don't see how you can call
Van Meter a genius. His poems cer
tainly do not show it." Brushe "No,
but'the fact that he sells them does."
Judge. . :"'! :l :"( 'W-;;.J;.
Bank Director "How did you come
to examine his books?" His Associate
"I heard him address his Sunday
school class on 'We are here todar and
gone to-morrow.' " Puck. v
Mrs. Justwed (house hunting) "Ob,
Charlie, here's the loveliest little jineu
closet." Janitor (interruptiug)f'Dat
ain't no linen closet; dat's dex dining
room." Detroit Free Press, z j;v
"," says the garrulous person, "was
always the apple of my father's eye."
"Maybe," muses the weay listener,
"maybe that is why you are always so
seedy." Baltimore American. . ;
"H'm! The composer of this song
was conceited enough, I must! say.'
"What makes you think so?" f Why,
here in one place he has tyritten
Flne.' "Philadelphia Bulletin, f r
Her Mother "May, why do you treat
Jerrold so shabbily, while he treats
you so good;?" May "Why, the dear
boy couldn't treat me any better, : no
matter how I treated him." Judge.
This life is a procession
Where manv folk aboear:
And some must march and do the work
While others stand and cheer.
; , Washington Star..
Patient (after giving the doctor; $3
and receiving a prescription)-j"Bui
suppose, doctor, this doesn't cure ;me?"
Doctor "In that case, come back and
I'll relieve you again." Detroit Free
.Press.: t . .-:.
' First Tramp "Do you believe in
signs?" Second Tramp "No more; I
haven't had a biteto eat in twjenty
four hours."x First Tramp What has
that to do with it?" Second Tramp
"A good deal; I've been up against
twenty dodrmats to-day with the word
Welcome' on 'em." Yonkers States
man. ; ' y.,., '':
Mr. Wabash "Yes, I'm stopping at
the Bongtong House." ; Miss Eastern
"Ah! that's our most fashionable ho
tel.' The servfee is splendid, don't you
think?" Mr. Wabash-" Well, I've! seen
better in Chicago. All the swell hotels
out our way furnish silver-mounted
bellows to blow vonr souo With, for
instance." Philadelphia Record. -
. The Premium Plan.
Tn onrrvinc out the premium plan of
wages in conjunction with piece-work
it has been found that owing to flmjtua
tionsin the volume and nature of the
work it is necessary to adjust the ;rate
price from time to time. If an efficient
workman makes very large wages on
piece-work the employer is apt t( re
duce the rate, and after that the work
man is apt'to do: just as;;.much as he
thinks the employer will stand without
another cut, and so reduce "the possible
output of his machine. A modification
of this system has been successfully
tried In some very large English work-"
shops. Piece-workers are given ascer
tain stint, in American parlance', which'
constitutes an hour's work, being pdid
by" the hour. ( All they do in., excess of
this is considered premium workjj for
which r they receive half -wages. The
employer thus shares to! the extent of
one-half In the increased production, so
that he need not; be binder the necessity
of cutting down therate. V-":
-.-v. . 1 The Cynic's TngdoiniTv '
Engaged people puV on magnifying
glasses when Ihey look at each other's
virtues. The'day they are married thev
take them off. New York Press. J
Untroubled Dreams.
(Chicago Record -Herald.)
The South American revolution
have; decided to swear off on the U
of January and work for one year.
- Every barber in the country is gome
to turn over a new leaf and hereafter
use a. clean towel on each customer.
. Addicks will give up his efforts to
purchase the Delaware legislature anfl
permit the best man to win.
- . . , .
The boodle aldermen throughout th
country will begin" the New Year 'i
turning it all into ihe conscience funds
thus enabling the America i- people t0
get along for the next twenty yeara
without-paying taxes. -
; Reflections of a Bachelor.
, . (New, York Press.)
The faith-cure treatment a necf-s-caiy
to keep love affairs well and
strong. " - ... -
The careful inaa forgets to carry
Icgsp bills in his clothes around 'Christ
mas time.
No wonder live didn't care for the
Garden of Edon whon no'fare wrP
vorn there.
"ihe bigger a 'voman is in some spots
the more she wishes she. were Lot so in
some other spots.
You can never make a man believe
that it won't: hurt his son's morals to
do a thing more thin it hurts his vn
he did it. ' .
1TTMCTO GREAT ATTESTM HOSfi
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sands on Mrs. Pihkham's fttes.
When Xydia E. Pinkham's Reme
dies were first introduced skeptics
all over the country frowned upon
their curative claims, but as year
after ! year has rolled by and the
little group of women who had fceen
cured, by the new discovery- has
since grown . into a vast army of
hundreds of thousands, doubts and
skepticisms have been swept away"
as by a mighty flood, until to-day
the great- good that , Xydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and her1 other medicines are doing
among the women of America is
attracting the attention of manv of
our leading scientists, physicians
and thinking people. , "
; Merit alone could win such fame ;
wise, therefore, . is the woman who
for a cure relies upon Xydia E.
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