.WEEKLY /. '- NOR'W‘ALK-o-Aznr TE. LITTLE KINDNESSES. If you were' toiling up a weary hill Bearing a load beyond your strength to bear, Straining each nerve untiringly, and still Stumbling and losing foothold here and there, , And each one passing by would do so much As give one upward lift and go their way, Would not the slightest reiterated touch Of help and kindness lighten all the day? If you were breasting a keen wind, which tossed . » And buffeted and chilled you as you strove, ' Till, baffled and bewildered quite, you lost The power to see the way, and aim and move, And one, if only for a moment’s space. Gave you shelter from the bitter blast, Would you not find it easier to face The Storm again when the brief rest was past? * ' There is no little and there is no much; We weigh and measure and define in vain. A look, a word, a light responsive touch Can be the ministers of joy to pain. A man‘ can die of hunger, walled in gold, A crumb may quicken hope to stronger breath, And every day we give or we withhold Some little thing which tells for life or death. ——Susan Coolidge. BREAKING A RECORD. mu“). BY ROBERT BARR. The manager of the London & Glas- gow air line railway, Mr. Swipes, sent me an invitation marked “private,” say- ing that he was bound to beat the rec- ord made by the Lake Shor’e & Michigan Southern .railroad now that they had come out in print about it. He added that he thought record breaking in the night time all right enough, if the record breaker did not say anything about it in public, but if newspaper ac- counts were to be written then the race should be open to outside parties who might wish to know the time with- out ask'ng a policeman. He added that ‘vvhen the New York Central broke the English record they did so with their Empire State. express, which anyone could have traveled on who had the money to pay his fare. This, he claimed, was the right way of breaking :a. record if you are going to write about T it afterward. Nevertheless he was go- ”.ing to follow the Lake Shore & Michi- ; gan Southern fashion, just to see what .“his railroad could do, and he invited me, ras a person owning an American watch, to come upon the trip, but begged me '1 To say nothing whatever about it, for, The said, instead of breaking the rec- \-ord, we might perhaps break our necks. Elie added that he regretted that he owned only an old silver turnip of a ,watch himself which wouldn’t split the minutes, let alone the seconds, and so he would like to have a really good- watch with which to keep the time. I was to meet him at the London ter- :minus of the London & Glasgow air line at exactly 12, midnight, three weeks ago. There was some little risk Zin going out at that hour, for it is well known that one of the most obnoxious and oppressive laws made by Queen Vic- toria herself is that every man in Lon- don must be in his own house at 8:40 o'clock, and have lights out and be in bed at nine. Anyone out after that hour is liable to arrest. so I stole up and downthroug-h by streets and dodged the policemen until I came to the ter- minus. Here I was amazed to find an immense locomotive and one flat car, with two camp stools on it. "'What’s this for?” I said to Swipes. “We’re going to break the record with this train,” he replied. “I want to have it as light as possible, for an ordi- nary carriage meets with such resist- ance in passing so quickly through the atmosphere that I concluded to take a freight car, and if we have a smash-up it won’t be so expensive.” “But you don’t expect me to sit on miles an hour, but as the Lake Shore train has attained a speed of 92.3, Swipes yelled to Peter as well as he could to give her more speed, because if she didn’t put in her best licks now, what could we expect when we came to the high grounds and the stiff grades of the midlands? This shouting of Swipes, however, had no effect, be- cause we were going so fast that his words, never reached Peter, who stood withhis hand on the lever, watching grimly the track in front. As Swipes continued to shout out the mile posts, I cried: “Hold on, it’s the telegraph poles you are counting.” “No, it isn’t,” he replied, “it’s the mile posts.” “Nonsense,” I cried. “At that rate we are going at the rate of 108 miles an hour.” “A hundred and eight it is then,” he said. “Stoke her up, Peter.” I then called the general manager’s attention to the fact that it was not etiquette to tell an engine driver to “stoke up,” as that duty was per- formed by Billy Jones. Iie apparently learned for the first time that engin- eers do not do their own stol-zing, and he thanked me for the information. At last the mile stones passed so rapidly that Swipes could not keep track of them, so we abandoned the attempt to count them and took only the stat-ions, as we had a record of the distance be- tween them. I saw now by making a calculation between two stations that we were going at the rate of 160.45 an hour, and my hair would have stood on end were it not for the fact that it was standing straight out behind. The oscillation was somewhat dreadful, and once I realized with horror as we swung around a curve that all four wheels were off the track, and that we were flying in mid-air; luckily, however, the wheels came down on the rails and all was well once more. By this time the stations passed us in one continuous streak, as if we were running through the suburbs of a big city, and I was won-A dering all the time when we would come to the town, but finally I realized that it was impossible to keep time with my excellent watch, and so we would have to lump the thing by calculating how long it took us to come from London to Glasgow. The lid of my watch, which I now inadvertently exposed to the breeze, snapped and blew away, and I saw that thegold of the hunting case was beginning to flake off, so I put it in my pocket to save the rest of it. I knew it was not yet two hours since we left London, and to my amazement I spied the spires of Glasgow. I recog- nized the place because I was born there. “That can’t be Glasgow,” I shouted to Swipes. “If it is we have traveled something like 200 miles in an hour, and the Lord only knows what speed we attained in making up for the time when we were crawling on at 70 and 80.” “That’s Glasgow all right enoug . said Swipes. Then he yelled to Peter: “For heaven’s sake, shut off steam! Don’t you see where we are?” But Peter was struggling with his engine, and all at once he yelled back at us: “I can’t stop her, sir!” “Heavens and earth,” said I. is to be done?” “I don’t. know,” said Swipes. “It’s my own fault. I told Peter in the hear- ing of the engine, and she is one of the cutest engines on the road, that we were bound to break the American record, which is 510 miles. You see, it’s only 401.5 miles to Glasgow, and I’ll bet you that brute is bound to do the other,, 109 miles to-night, even if she has to do it on the highway. The railway stops at Glasgow, and I don’t know what’s ’ going to happen.” 9! “What one of those stools in the open air from i As he concluded the sentence there here to Glasgow?” I cried, aghast. i was a crash and a bang, and the next “Oh, that’s all right,” he said. “The i moment we were in the principal street stools are fastened to the floor of the i of Glasgow tearing along the rails of , .ca r, and I have shawl straps with which i the street car line. Luckily, the same you can fasten yourself to the stool. law being in force as was in London, There won’t be any trouble on that nobody was out on the streets, and so score.” 1 we went at the rate of 84.75 miles an “Where are the other fellows?” I _ hour up the main thoroughfare of Glas- ‘asked. i gow and finally struck the north road '“There aren’t any,” he answered. , for the Highlands. Peter was strug- ”‘When you are going to break a rec- ‘ gling all the time with his engine, but nrd the fewer you have on board the oculd not make any progress in his en- better; watches differ, and it would be bad if there was a. quarrel about time; your watch shall be the only official , time piece in the company; mine, as II" think I told you in the letter, general-- ly “loses two hours out of the 24, so I think we had better not trust to it.” .I strapped myself to one stool and :S'wipes strapped himself to the other and at 12:15 we pulled out of Marylo- bone terminus. It was agreed that we were not to begin the record until we had passed Highgate, and were thus safely out of the influence of London. The distance from London to Glas- gow is 401.5 miles. We had. for engineer Peter McGump, who was a Scotchman, and therefone knew the road to Glas- gow well, and Billy Jones, of 'White— chapel, did the firing. We had no brakeman, because, as Swipes said, it was not on the brakes we were going to depend for breaking the record. The engine was known as the Mary Jane, and familiar to all the operators .on the road-as “Her Golden Hair Is fHangin’ Down ’er Back.” She gets this nickname from her great speed, and from the fact that the smoke with the sparks in it trails out behind like a great. banner. After leaving Highgate Peter gave her more steam, and the speed began to be something appalling. . “Oh, it’s nothing to what we’ll have by and by,” said Swipes, as he watched me making an ineffectual grab at my hat, which disappeared in the darkness. Swipes counted the mile-stones while I ticked off the seconds on my watch, and before long we were going 70 miles .an hour. We had the advantage over the Arnerican road in the fact that there are rarelv any level road cross- ings in England, and that one rail- way is never allowed-t0 cross another «on the level. By the time we passed , ”Toad-in-the—Hole we were doing 85 r- O I deavor to stop her. ‘ When we got about 50 miles on the main road from Glasgow,‘ sometimes slowing down to (33 miles an hour, on the hills, Peter with awhite face turned toward us and shouting: “My God, sir, we’re on the Craigneput- toch Loch road, and the Craigneputtoch Loch is. at the end of it about 50 miles ahead.” “How far is it from London?” yelled Swipes, putting his hands beside his mouth to make the sound carry. “The middle of Craigneputtoch Loch is just 510 miles from London, and it is over 1,000 feet deep in the middle,” shouted Peter. “There’s where she’s making for,” cried Swipes, unbuckling the straps an clinging to the stool. - The hills now rose grandly around us in the darkness and we saw the black water of the loch. “Jump. Peter, jump!” cried Swipes, as he threw off the straps. Peter did so, and I cut the strap that held me. Instantly we were all—Peter, the stoker, Swipes and myself—lying on the hillside on the heather. The doomed train had plunged right into the center of the lake. It had com- pleted its 510-mi1e race and used up the fraction by sinking 1,000 feet to the bottom. , . ,Luckily, none of us were hurt in the slightest, with the exception that Swipes sustained a compound fracture of the thigh, Peter had both arms bro- ken, Jones had all his ribs and one ankle smashed, while I had my veracity sprained so badly that no one has ever been able to believe a word I have ut- tered since—Detroit Free Press. ‘ -—A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and akitten rising six Weeks—Southey. A MEXICAN CATH EDRAL. It Is Llned with Millions Worth of Pre- . clone Metals. During a“ journey from Panama, west and north, overland through the span- ish Main to Paso del Norte, Mexico, opposite El Paso, Tex., I was bound to see not a little of the churches and the priests, and to hear no end of stories of the doings in connection with them, but of all-that I saw and heard nothing seemed quite so impressive as my first glance into the great cathedral at I’ueb- 10, Mexico. People throughout the journey had told me often that of all churches of the region this was the most magnificent, invariably. explain— ing their admiration by saying that here was a church so rich that in spite ' of losses of millions of dollars’ worth of gold and silver taken from it by the Mexican rulers, there remained no less than $11,000,000 worth of precious metals within the walls, besides other articles of value. That about every English-speaking man I met in the. Spanish Main should have gauged the interest in the church by the amount of precious metal within its wall was in it- self a matter worth considering, and so, although not especially interested in somebody else’s boarded wealth, Iwent to the cathedral first of all after reach- ing Pueblo. It was about ten o’clock in the morning—an hour when I was likely to find few people there. Pass- ing through what seemed to, be the most-used entrance, I found a few feet beyond the door a small stand draped with a cloth that fell to the stene flag- ging. In the center of the stand was a plate of solid gold, 61/2 inches in diameter and an eighth of an inch thick. On this gold plate, which was placed there to receive contributions. lay a copper cent of-the coinage of the country. Quite a number of visitors came and went while I was in the cathedral, and a , considerable portion of them comment- ed in English on what they saw. I heard one nice-looking old lady say to another nice old lady: “If Brother Tal- mage could see this—millions of gold on the walls, and on the saints—isn’t it beautiful?—but so pagan!” I saw other strangers come in, and after one comprehensive look around walk across the flagging and kneel before an image, with every appearance of sincere de- votion. Others, the majority of the foreigners who entered, in fact, looked about with idle curiosity for a time and then went out. But so far as I ob- served, no one except myself gave any attention‘ to the striking portrayal of the wealth of the recipient and the pov- erty of the donor which the gold plate and the copper cent afiorded. And that seemed too bad, for if it be a good, prac- tical, sensible thing to pile up wealth in a church building, penny by penny, then here was an example for all man- kind; while if there is anything that ought to be criticised in such doings, then here was the object lesson—N. Y. Sun. . “1115mm 0mm. How’ One. Woman. Made Her Escape. A Life of Torture Changed to a Life of Comfort and Happiness by the Discovery, of Prof. Crosby. Tllbx 'fe story of Mrs. J: S. Daly will win ‘ honest-hea ed man, and woman. She was in rviewed recently in her pleasant h '- - 584 Putnam Avenue. 155.," the historic v-en Mia'iDaly eh i leligence and ' her man- the means of leadingthema of the valley of pain. “ As a girl I was always having hemorrhages, and last November I had a very severe one that left me unable to eat anything, so that I was kept alive for two weeks by injections into the bowels of whites of eggs. God only knows what I suffered, “I almostkbeggared myself try- ing to get; relief " from doctors in 'Boston._' Newton, Newtonville, Watertown, Salem, Cambridge, and Andover. One after? another they told me that I could not be cured. At the hospital where I had an opera- tion performed for tumor, I had_the same trouble from hemorrhages. “The result was‘that I gave‘up ‘- ' .. . . the blood came “ ’ t -hazelI to nary me . “ T is was my co: " Chris -as day, ~- . , . P ana trea ment gave me comfort. My digestion" became}. regular' and thorough! and»; I I: passed from -. my bowels what seemed to be a rooty growthIEiMy stomach came down to its natural .size, so that I have, since been able to wear, my proper cloth- ing. leie terrible pain and distress left men, I sleep well and, my appe- tite is good. _,The,2-'-pain‘itwhicliel thought might mean another tumor is also gone. -I know that it is won- derful what Puritana has done for. me. and my friends who see me at the Christian Alliance Meetings, say that my cure is marvelous. -They ask what did it, and I tell them Puritaaa. I believe it is only common human ’ty to let people know wliat,,pain and suffering: can‘t be 4‘ saved- by Pu f. 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This is an old subject which is liked by girls, but not by boys. The proper name for cats is, I believe, felines. I don’t know what they call them felines for, but they do, just the same. . You'can find eats all over the world, with the exception of our back yard. Some cats live on milk, fish, meat, mice and that kind of stuff, but all cats that I’ve ever seen seem to live on the back fences. I have heard of cats of nine tails and cats of nine lives, but I’ve never met any of ’em. All the cats that I ever had anything to do with had only one tail and one life, and a mighty short life at that. They say it‘s good luck to have a cat follow you. I suppose they mean it’s good luck for the cat; for ninety—nine times out of one hundred when a cat i'oliows you you renicmbtr about it's being unlucky to have a cat follow you; and you pick the eat up when no one is looking. lake it. to your house and give it a good home. I know of a cat that was fooled once. The gump‘ followed me, and I never had any luck afterward. Neither did the cat. He went where all good cats go—over in the vacant lot. ‘ Some people stuff their cats after they die. We tried to keep a cat more times than I have marbles. But they all died. The majority of them were stuffed -—in the ash barrel. Nobody seemed to know what made the cats die but Skin- ny Snigglcs, Brick Taylor and I. Cats like to rub up against a fellow, but I never saw a cat that wanted to rub up against me more than once. I would rather be a dog than a cat. Dogs don’t like cats. , - I don’t believe in sicking dogs on cats. [ believe_it’s cruelty to animals to sick a dog on a cat. The best way to do is to hit the cat with a club. Cats like to yell all night. To see your little cat in the house before the fire and to hear him yell at night you would never be- [love it to be the same cat, and you can’t find anybody that can make you be— lieve it, either, It’s always the other fellow’s cat that makes the noise—San Francisco Wave. Orange-growing has become an im- portant industry in Arizona. Texas raised last year 150,000,000 bushels of corn, which is an increase of 30 per cent. over anv preceding year. $100 Reward $100. The readers ofthis paper will be pleased to learn that there 15 at least one‘ dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. 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