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LUCK OR JUDGMENT.
Which of Those Is the Basis of
Success In Life?
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JJvet of Kuccesafnl Men-How They
JBqho from the Rank* <,)£
ILe Newsboys* ,'
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D pF the evolution
'Z7 newsboys in-
*■ ° prominent
,nen nowspa
/ per writers,
‘•juvenile” authors, and Sunday school
orators have said and written much.
But no amount of labor with this
topic has ever solved the problem
whether that evolution was the result
of inborn qualities or just puro luck.
No attempt will bo made to solve it
here. This is only a collection of true
Stories about the rise of a half doScn
well-known men to positions of promi
nence.
Among the great statesmen of the
past who once were newsboys can be
found such distinguished men as Silas
Wright, Thurlow Weed, Daniel Man
ning and John Kelly. But lam deal
ing with the living rather than the
dead in the present article, and in my
opinion the best known of nil news
boysnow alive arc thejex-governor and
present United States senator for New
York, David B. Hill, ex-Gov. Tom Wal
ler, of Connecticut, Lieut. Gov. William
F. Shoehan, of New York, ex-Scnator
Michael'S. Murphy of New York, Con
gressman Timothy J. Campbell, and
last but not least Assemblyman Tim
othy Dry Dollar Sullivan, of the Sec
ond district of New York. A bird’s
eye view of their newsboy days cannot
jut prove interesting. ■
David B. Hill, senior senator for New
York, and a determined, persistent
candidate for presidential honors, was
ambitions from the cradle. Ijoft fa
therless when almost an infant, the
youngest of five children, whose moth
er was compelled to akc out a subsist
ence from a heavily-mortgaged farm
near Elmira, he eaeilaJoarned what it
was to "hustle.” \'Jb.‘u a boy of but
eleven years he h'fjJßs mother’s farm
to make his wauUOr life. With eight
dollar; in he came to Syra
cuse to what fortune might have
in store Jr>r him. By good luck ho ran
oepojiSr-Tlean Richmond, then head of
. <he famous "Albany Regovcy” and the
president of the New York Central
road. He immediately “struck” the
great man for a “job.”
“Why, my lad, what can you do?”
.asked the dean of the Central kindly.
"You are only a baby. Wo need men
to work this road.”
"I can sell papers and candy on your
trains if you will let me,” responded
’the boy briskly.
That practice, now so common, had
never been dreamed cf in those days,
and the dean was considerably’ im
pressed by the boy’s brightness ami
originality of thought. “Allright, my
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NEWSBOY DAVID B. HILI..
lad,” ho repik'd, promptly, "if you can
turn an honest penny by it, go right
ahead."
Young David went ahead, and has
been going ahead ever since. With his
limited capital he bought a supply of
candies which he sold to the ladies, and
a lot of newspapers which he disposed
of to the men.
He worked the route between Al
bany and Buffalo. Soon he enlarged
his field and laid in a stock of books
and cheap literature. This he did for
three years and at the age of fourteen
had a bank account of five hundred
dollars which he could call his own.
As much more almost he had given to
his mother during the interval.
One day it was his good fortune to
meet the late Lucius Robinson, of El
mira, then a rising politician and aft
erwards state comptroller and gov
ernor of New York. The famous Jer
ry Maguire, afterwards speaker of the
New York assembly, was with Mr.
Robinson when the two future gov
ernors of New Y’ork, the newsboy and
the eminent lawyer met. Mr. Robin
son was pettish because young David
did not have a copy of the New York
Tribune,in his stock. Mr. Robinson, al
though a stanch democrat in after
years, was then a black republican and
swore by Horace Greedy.
“I wouldn’t sell that radical sheet, no
—.atter what you’d give me for it,”
[tartly replied the youthful David. "I'm
p. democrat and won’t spread such nasty
je-". before the puklic “<» r’d Greeley
[Writes.”
The ' epigram Which caught the de
mocracy of the nation at Brooklyn
■eight years ago when Hill announced
the platform upon which he stood was
then enunciated for the first time.
“Old Rough and Ready," as Lucius
Robinson was called in those days, nt
once took a great liking to young Dave
Hill. He advised him to seek another
pathway in life, one suited to his abil
ities and the ambition of which the old
warrior easily perceived the seeds. He
offered him the position of office boy in
Ids low office at Elmira and Jerry Ma
guire advised the lad to accept the
offer. He did so. But alas for the irony
'ot fate. Young David Bennett Bill in
after years supplanted Speaker Jerry
■Maguire as the democratic leader of
the “southern tier,” and not long after
that became the idol of the N®w York
state democracy, its triumphant leader
hi throe successful terms when Lucius
Robinson, ex-comptroller, ex-state
leader and ex-governor, was lying in
retirement in Ids native bailiwick.
Who does not know genial “Tom’
Waller, of Connecticut, the gallant*
soldier of fortune, who sacrificed a
governorship in 1884 that Cleveland,
Ids chief, might be elected? Tom was
for years the lending lawyer of Hart
ford, twice member of assembly in the
Connecticut legislature, once senator
and twice governor of the Nutmeg
state. He failed the third time because
ho immolated himself on the political
altar to save Cleveland. The presi
dent rewarded his self-abnegation by
making him consul-general at London,
the richest office in the administra
tion. Tom is now in consequence not
compelled to labor at his profession,
•but is enabled to live in ease and
luxury from the fortune lie has ac
quired.
Tom Waller has a more romantic
and even more interesting history
than David B. Hill. Forty years ago
he was a newsboy on the ferryboats
which plied between Brooklyn and
New York. There was no big bridge
jn those days, and the boys hovered
around the ferryboats, which carried
‘Lx
wire mt WALLER SLEPT.
all of the human freight of the two
great cities at that time. The lad’s
real name was Thomas Waller O'Grady.
Like Richard Croker, dictator of Tam
many Hall, ho was the offshoot of a
noble race. Croker, as is known, is a
lateral descendant of the redoubtable
Squire Croker, of Ballinagcr, famous
in Irish history. Thomas Waller
O'Grady is also descended from a fam
ily renowned in Irish history. One an
cestor is the famous J.aronfeather
O’Grady, Ireland’s greatest jurist and
the compeer of Gratton, Curran, Phil
lips and other renowned Irish barris
ters. Ilis grand-uncle w’as Thomas
Standish Waller O’Grady, the bitterest
tory and the hardest landlord in the
good old barrcwick of Limerick.
Thomas Waller O’Grady's ■•parents
died while he was almost a child in
arms. He was adopted by an old
Dutch family in New York, but the re
strictions imposed upon the future
statesman wore so irksome that he ran
away and became a newsboy. Many
is the time in his precarious calling in
the - days that young Tom was com
pelled to sleep in a dry goods box at
night after an unsatisfactory day’s
labor. Tom had dropped the family
name and was known by his youthful
associates as Tom Waller. One day
while crossing the Fulton ferry from
Brooklyn to New York ho met a fussy
old gentleman who wished a copy of
the Hartford' Courant. It was the
favorite paper of his native town and
as he thought away ahead of all met
ropolitan journals. Os course New
Y ork newsboys did not sell country
papers and Tom told him so.
“However,” said the cute little fel
low in a reassuring way, “I think 1
can get it for you.” By’ good luck Tom
had seen an old lady in tho salon read
ing that very paper, which he recog
nized by the ancient type in its head
line, and he forthwith came up to the
dame and offered to exchange a copy
of a New Y’ork paper for tho medieval
country sheet. The lady was a New
Englander and ready for a bargain.
She had read the Courant and had no
further use for it. She thought she
had made a clever deal when she ex
changed the country morning paper
for a bright metropolitan evening
journal. Tom knew he had. When
lie presented the Courant to the fussy
old gentleman that dignitary’ gave him
a dollar fo* his pains. Then he in
quired his name.
“Tom YValler,” promptly responded
the newsboy. The old gentleman
stood aghast. It was his own name.
He took down the lad's address, looked
up his references, and in a fortnight
adopted him. He had no children and
Tom was his idol. He gave him a
sound preliminary education and then
sent him to Y’ale college. There Tom
graduated with high honors. Ilis sub
sequent history is too familiar to the
public to require repetition.
Lieut. Gov. William F. Sheehan—
“Blue Eyed Billy, of Buffalo,” as he
is fondly termed by the boys who “run
wid de masheen” —is but cthirty-three
years of age. Twenty years ago he
was a newsboy in the cold northern
city which puts out into Lake Erie. He
was the brightest of all the guild in
that town, and made hosts of friends
among the merchants and lawyers
whom he supplied with morning and
evening papers, for the lad was tire
less in those days as he has since
proven in politics and worked night
and day. Among his patrons was a
leading young lawyer of Buffalo,
Charles F. Tabor by name. Tabor had
been assigned by the court of over
and terminer to defend a man of in
temperate habits, but otherwise of
good reputation, who had been charged
with robbing a drunken comrade of a
watch and four hundred dollars izv
money. It was a case of circumstantial
evidence and the burden of proof
' seemed to be acrainst Tabor’s client.
Tabor. vOrrTwrr,
man’s Inr ■ >cen< i> and
Eyed Hilly," the it
up.
Billy always had rare detective fac
ulties, and he proved the man’s guilt
lessness in’ short order. He ascer
tained the name of ever} place where
[the supposed criminal and his friend
had been on the night of the robbery.
Ho could work in safety, as his extreme
youth saved him even from the impu
tation of being an amateur detective.
He discovered that the man, now an
iesteemed citizen of Buffalo, whom we
.will call Larkins, had visited a den on
iGenessee street, called the “Gut.” It
■was a place frequented by the de
praved of both sexes. Larkins’ friend
Very unwisely “flashed a roll.” That
nettled his fate and that of his cicer
pne. Both wz*.re given “poters” in
their liquor and were soon uncon
scious. Next morning the friend of
(Larkins awoke in a hotel to which he
had been carried, and he missed his
valuables. On repairing to the saloon
lie had visited the night before he was
[persuaded by the evidence of four
Witnesses that his friend had robbed
[him, and he forthwith caused his ar
rest. “Blue-Eyed Billy” overheard
the proprietor and his “wife” chuck
'ling over their good fortune, and he
[induced two of his comrades to visit
the den and hear the story retold.
Next day the proprietor and his wife
were arrested and the evidence of
"Blue-Eyed Billy,” corroborated by his
[youthful associates, saved poor Lark
ins from a felon’s cell.
Tabor was so much impressed with
[Billy’s precocity that he took him into
his office as office boy. Since then
■Charles F. Tabor has been attorney
general of the state and “Blue-Eyed
(Billy” has risen to be his partner in the
biggest law business in Buffalo. Billy
has since then been ansembyman four
Itimes, speaker twice and is now lieu
tenant governor of the state. He is a
[man of boundless ambition and has
the rosiest of prospects before him.
And now comes the renowned Tim
othy Dry Dollar Sullivan, best known
of all the New York newsboys. Tim
[is only thirty years of age, yet his
fame has prevaded all portions of the
continent. lie has been elected sev
eral times to the assembly and the end
is not yet. He is practically the leader
there and he sighs for new worlds to
conquer. Big Chiefs Richard Croker
and Karney Bourke arc his bosom
.friends and the Lord only knows what
the future will have in store for Sir
Timothy.
* It was as a newsboy that Tim got
; the name of “Dry Dollar.” He was
(only a little midget of five, selling
newspapers 'down in the Sixth ward
[after the stirring events of the war of
the rebellion. The government then
.exacted heavy duties from brewers
and manufacturers of tobacco. The
revenue stamp on a beer barrel resem
bled an old fashioned greenback. Tim
•espied one in the gutter directly in
[front of the saloon on Center street, of
which he was afterwards the proprie
tor. He quickly seized it, and, as it
was wet from the moisture of the keg
from which it slipped, ho straightened
it out on the palm of his hand.
“What aro you going to do with that
rag, Tim?" asked John P. Eckhardt,
father of “Johnny" Eckhardt, referee
of the Coney Island Aodetic club.
“I’m thoin to thake/ it home,” lisped
-the child, “and phut' it before the fire,
and thwen its hot I’ll have a good dry
dollar.”
The name stuck to Tira ever after.
As a lad Tim was noted fqr his utter
fearlessness and shrewdness as well.
He never walked an inch out of any
boy’s path and his judgment of charac
ter was remarkable. One day “Fatty”
Walsh, then the king of the Sixth
ward, tested his ability in the latter di- ’
Faction. “Tinamie,” he said, “Blank is [
a dead straight fellow, isn’t he?”
The man was noted among keen poli
ticians for his duplicity, but “Fatty"
thought well of him and wanted the
boy’s opinion, upon the principle, I
suppose, that drun ken men and chil
dren speak the truth.
“Yes,” said Tim. promptly, “he’s as
(straight as Pearl street.” Pearl street,
as all New Y orkers know, is an irregu
lar semi-circle, crossing Broadway at
two different points.
The reply caught Tom YValsh and
ever after that Tim was his favorite
boy and in time ho sent him to the
assembly. Since Tim has become a
statesman he has not lost a particle of
his early wit. An instance may not be
timiss. Four years ago the late Gen.
J ames W. Husted was accused by a fel
low member of using his position to
advance his own interests, and with Im
pressive solemnity Gen. Husted arose
to a question of privilege, and spoke
|n part as follows: “The gentleman
from has dared to impeach my in-
tegrity. If ever a single dollar from cor
rupting sources ever crossed the palm
of my < hand may a bolt from Heav
en descend and striking this build
ing -"
“Look out, boys, it’s coming!” shous
ed the irreverent Jim; and, accompanS
ing his words w’ith an expressive action,
he dodged behind his desk.
The assembly took in the situation
and broke into cheers and derisive
laughter. The general was looked upon
as the “key of the lobby” by knowing
people and the shot told. “Jimmy” was
utterly taken back and could not finish
the grand peroration he had begun.
In the light of these revelations who
can predict what the future has in
store for the newsboy?
YViltj in Standish Hayes.
Pat’s Seat.
An-Irishman was once asked by a
friend to go to a concert with him.
Pat consented to go.
They had not proceeded far on the
way before Pat asked how much the
seats were.
His friend said the front seats were
a shilling each and the back seats were
sixpence each; the programmes a penny
each.
“All right,” said Pat; “I will sit in the
programmes.”—London Spare Moments.
A Slight Delay.
During the French revolution of 1830.
when tho fighting was going forward.
I Talleyrand was pacing the lobbies of the
chamber of peers in irrepressible agita
tion. At each discharge of the cannon
he would exclaim: “Aha! The day is
ours!” A friend ventured to ask:
“Whose, monseigneur? On which side
are you?” when lie answered, “I will tall
ion after while.”—Argonaut,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
i
LESSON Xlli, THIRD QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, SEPT. 24.
A Comprehensive Review of the Leesom
of the Third Quarter— Golden Text,
Rom. x, 17 —Commentary by the Rev. D.
M. Steam..
Lessonl—Paul Called to Europe (Acta
Xvi, 6-16). Golden Text (Math, xxviii, 19),
“Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost"
'lids quarter’s studies might be rammed
up in the phrase, “God glorified in Paul”
(Gal. 1, 24), for wherever he went mid what
ever be did his ambition was tilwt Christ
should be magnified In his body (Phil, i,
SO). Thia particular lesson illustrates the
words, “Led by the spirit of God,” “Do ns
occasion servo thee, for God is with thee,”
“My word shall not return unto me void”
(Rom. vlii, 14; I Sam. x, 7; Isa. Iv, 11).
Lesson IL—Pan! at Philippi (Acts xvi,
19- Golden Text (Acta xvi, 81), “Be
lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
eh alt be saved,” As we follow Pau I .from
place to place, let ns remember his words,
“Not I, but Christ.” “The life of Jesus
manifest in out mortal flesh" (Gal li, 20;
II Cor, iv, 11\ He fias grace to praise God,
even though Ms back ia scourged, his feet
iu the stocks and he cast into prison. He
takes pleasure in reproaches and persecu
tions (II Cor. xti. 10) for Christ’s sake. He
has no influence with the magistrates, but
lie has power with God, and a household
finds Christ.
Lesson lll.—Paul at Athens (Acts xvil,
22-31). Golden Text (John iv, 24), “God is
ii Spirit, and they that worship Him must
worship Him in spirit and in truth." Jour
neying through the centers of earth’s wis
dom and culture and seeing the blindness
of people to the realities of time and eter
nlty, he is constrained to tell them of the
true God, who is not willing that any should
perish, but that all should eoms to repent
ance (11 Pet. iii, 9), and of Him who is to be
the judge of all, even He who was delivered
for our offenses and rose again for our jus
tification (Rom. iv, 28-85).
Ijesson IV.—Paul at Corinth (Acts xviii,
1-11). Golden Text (I Cor. 1, 18), “The
preaching of the cross is to them that per
ish foolishness, but i.ntous which ore saved
it is the power of God. ” See the hand of the
Lord in bringing Aquila and Priscilla to
Corinth about this time. Thus Paul is pro
vided with a home and employment so that
he may freely preach the gospel, and they
become qualified to teach others of Christ
(verse 26). Note the Lord's care of his serv
ant and His kind words to him in verses 9,
10. Make much of the promise “I am with
thee,” and compare Ex. iii, 12; iv, 12; Josh,
i. 5,9; Judg. vi, 16; J er. i, 8, 19; Hag. i, 13;
11, 4; Math, xxviii, 20.
Lesson V.— Paul at Ephesus (Actsxix,
1-12). Golden Text (John xvi, 13), “When
He, tbo Spirit of Truth, is come, He will
guide you into all truth.” Now we have
two years at Ephesus resulting inall in the
province of Asia hearing the gospel (verse
10) and so left without excuse. It seems to
mo that the Lord would be glorified aud
His coming greatly hastened if the church
would neglect some other things and arise
to give every soul on earth a chance to hear
the gospel once at least.
Lesson VL—Paul nt Miletus (Acts
xxviii; 22-33). Golden Text (Ileb. xiii, 7),
“Remember them which have the rule over
you, who have spoken unto you the word
,pf God." He is now on his way to Jerusa
lem, returning from his third missionary
tour. He knows that more suffering awaits
him, but he gives that no thought. He on
ly desires to testify of Christ and finish his
ministry (verse 24).
Lesson VII. —Paul at Jerusalem (Acts
xxi, 27-39). Golden Text (Phil, i, 29), "For
ttlitlTybu it is given in the behalf of Christ
not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer
for His sake." Paul has now fallen into the
hands of religious zealots who knew not the
'Lord Jesus, and gladly would they kill him
an they did his Master, but Paul is sate till
his work is done, though he may be called
upon to endure much suffering.
Lesson Vlll.—Paul Before Felix (Acts
xxiv, 10-25). Golden Text (I Cor. xvi, 13),
“Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit
you like men, be strong.” Paul is now a
prisoner nt Cr.sarea, in the hands of the
Romans, nnd this lesson is his testimony
before the governor, Felix, aud in answer to
his accusers, the high priest and elders from
Jerusalem. He confesses to his firm faith
in all the things written in the law and in
the prophets, in the resurrection of the
dead and in the necessity of having n con
science void of offense toward God and
man. Later in the lesson he preaches
Christ before Felix and Drusilla, and rea
sons of righteousness, temperance and
judgment to come.
Lesson IX.—Paul Before Agrippa (Acts
rxvi, 19-32). Golden Text (I Cor. 1, 24),
“Christ the power of God and the wisdom
of God.” After two years Paul is still a
prisoner at Cmsarea (chapter xxiv, 27), and
having appealed unto Caesar, Festus, tho
l ew governor, desires him to testify before
King Agrippa, that he may have some def
inite accusation to send with him to Caesar.
Lesson X.—Paul Shipwrecked (Acts
xxvii, 30-41). Golden Text (Pa xlvi, 1),
“God is our refuge and strength, a very
present help in trouble.” The close of last
lesson made us feel sorry that Paul ever ap
pealed to Cmsar, but God's ways are higher
than ours, and we learn in verso 24 of this
chapter that it was God’s purpose to bring
Paul before (kesar. Nothing can frustrate
God’s purposes (Ps. xxxiil, 11; Isa. xiv, 24),
while man’s vain imaginings will always
ct me to naught. Satan had many times
Bought to kill Paul, and this storm is prob
ably another attempt of his, but the Lord
delivers, and satan is confounded. What
Jesus said concerning His church is true
also of every member of it (Math, xvi, 18;
J ohn x, 28).
Lesson Xl.—Paul at Rome (Acts xxviii,
20- Golden Text (Rom. i, 16), "I am not
ashamed of tho gospel of Christ.” The pur
pose of God has thus far been accomplished,
and Paul is at last in Rome, still a prisoner,
it is true, but free to receive all who
come to him and to preach to them the
kingdom ot God and the things concerning
the Lord Jesus Christ (verses 80, 81). This
is .almost the last we hear of Paul, and we
find him still expounding Scripture, and
from Moses and the prophets preaching
Jesus (verse 23). May the last heard of us
be on the same line.
Lesson XII. Personal Responsibility
(Rom. xiv, 12-23). (A Temperance lesson.)
Golden Text (Rom. xiv, 21), “It is good
neither to etit flesh, nor to drink wine, nor
anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.”
I would emphasize in this lesson just the
thought of the whole quarter that these
bodies of ours are for Christ, not for our
selves; that as "even Christ pleased not
Himself” (Rom. xv, 8), so we are to live, not
unto ourselves, but unto Him who died for
us and rose again (II Cor. v, 15), the king
dom of God and His righteousness being
always first with us (verse 17 and Math, vi,
83) and everything tested by “How will it
appear” at the judgment seat of Christ
(verse 10; II Cor. v, 10)?
A Fair Proposition,
“I wish,” sighed Jarley to his wife,
“that I could get a recipe for happi
ness.”
“Well, perhaps some time if you will
give me a little happiness I'll give you
a reeijie for i L ” returned. Mr*. ’ -T*
ner’s Bazar.
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She—lsn’t that a lovely sunset?
He—Yes, it is. It reminds me of same
I have painted myself.—Life.
She Flew.
“Yes,” said the sorrowful looking man,
“I’ve been through a cyclone and know
all about their destructive powers. I
was in one of those Mississippi cyclones
this last spring and shall have cause to
remember it to my dying day.”
“Wife and children killed?” asked the
woman in the seat opposite as an expres
sion of pity came to her eyes.
“No’m; I’m not a married man.”
“Relatives tilled?”
“No’m; I had no relatives in the
state.”
“Then it was tho shock of seeing oth
ers maimed and killed?” persisted the
woman.
“Ns’m; you see it was this way. I
was in love with a widow of about your
size and heft. In fact we were engaged.
I went over to see her of a Sunday even
ing as usual, and unknown to us the
storm came up. The first thing I knew
she was blown bff my lap and out of the
window and
“She was what?’ sharply demanded
the woman.
“You sea, it was this way, ma’am.
She was sitting on ffiy lap, and I had my
arm around bet, and tho first I knew”
“Was the widow blown away?”
“Yeshn.”
“Didn’t you find her after the storm?" 1
“No’m.”
“Have you any hopes of ever finding
her, alive or dead?”
“No’m, not a hope.”
“I’m just glad of it!” she said as she
moved over to the window and began
reading her book.
I thought the sorrowful man winked
at me as ho got out his pipe and tobacco
and started for the smoker, but it may
have only been a tear in his eve. —De-
Free Praxa.
Jas. M. Hull, M. D.
Prof. Disease* Eye, Ear and Throat
Eugene Foster, M. D.
Prof. Practice Medicine and Sanltarj
I Science.
R. B. Glass, M. D.
, Prof. Materia Medica and TlieKY'yitlOk
Thomas D. Coleman, M. D,
Prof. Physiology.
Jos. E. Willet, M. D., LL. D.
Prof. General and Medical Chemistry and
Pharmacy.
Lost to the World.
“What a curious little wooden ham
mer, Miss Lilian!”
“Yes. It was presented to papa many
years ago by a lodge of some kind that
he was presiding over at the time. I
suppose he used it when he wanted to
open the lodge or call some brother to
order.”
“Speaking of lodges, Affcs Lilian, what
do you think of men who join them and
neglect their—er —wives and all that
sort of thing?”
“I think they are not doingtheir duty,
Mr. Spoonamore.”
“S-sodol. We agree exactly on that.
A man who would abandon the society
of his—his wife, you know, to go down
town four or five times a week and meet
a lot of other men and go through the
mummery they call initiation and smoke
cigars and have a good time—why, it
isn’t right, you know.”
The young woman toyed with the lit
tle wooden hammer and said nothing.
“And that's why I feel bold to say,
Miss Lilian, that I think you and I
would—h’m—would never have any dis
agreements if—if we should—because
that’s the way I feel about it, and—and
I’ve never talked this way to you before,
you know, for I wasn't exactly certain
whether—and all that sort of thing.
When two persons agree on things like
this, it stands to reason that there might
be other things that they would also—
and you haven’t known me a great while
perhaps, but I feel that you’re the only
woman in the world I want to marry”—
Here the hammer fell. —Chicago Trib
une.
The Sect of “Nonnleeperg.”
During that epoch of extraordinary re
ligious enthusiasm, 412 to 430 A. D., one
Alexandrianius, a native of Asia Minor,
founded a peculiar sect known as “Non
sleepers.” They lived in communities of
70 (the custom having some reference to
the 70 apostles), and whenever a young
Nonsleeperput in its appearance the oldest
man or woman in the camp would leave to
join some other community that had re
cently lost one of its members by death or
otherwise. In this way their communities
never exceeded the allotment of 70 and was
rarely short a member more than a few
weeks or months at a time.
They were called “Nonsleepers” from the
fact that at least seven in each community
were always to be found wide awake and
constantly chanting the “sleep song.” In
summer these chanters were divided into
three relays of seven each and during the
winter months into four or five, according
to the length of the nights. This peculiar
beet of nonslteping, singing fanatics were
finally exterminated by the Armenian bar
barians under the leadership of Omeer
Dightee.—St. Louis liepublic.