"The Big Chief
Up over the bills of the world comes the Big
Chief Dan lance at rest. Home from his Sum
mer campaign! The fires pf Autumn burnings are
In the wind, the brown leaves skip 'round him
s .with tho,ead rustle of a departing lady's silken
Meanest Man in the
By ADA PATTERSON.
He has been found, ths man of sorry
celebrity, the meanest man In the world.
A clergyman told me about him. This
clergyman , Is a little, hard-working, un
, der-pald preacher.
but with a soul
bigger than his
body and Ideals
higher than h I s
graying head. Hie
cApicBBiun is an
equal mingling of
nobility and pathos.
He U lean and underfed-looking,
but
he haa a smile of In
finite forgiveness. It
was quite by acci
dent that he re
vealed this skeleton
In the closet of hu
man nature.
He held his lead
pencil balanced above his account book
and stared at the line of figures that
wouldn't balance In the month's account
because the line of what had to be paid
out was so much longer than that which
had been paid in.
"If young Mr. Jones bad paid his wed
ding fee we would have been even," he
said to his wife, who Is as patient and
under-nourished and as much too good
for this world as h.
"How long ago did you perform the
ceremony, dearT" she asked.
"Five months." he said.
"Then he won't pay. If they don't pay
the first two weeks they never do," she
aid, with a half sign that she changed
quickly to a smile when he sent a pa
thetic glance across the dlnlng-rooin table
that was also a study table, for there, be
cause of thair meagre quarters, .he wrote
his sermon.
"Do you mean to say that anyone falls
to pay his wedding fee?" he asked. "How
did this Mr. Jones conduct the swindle?"
"He told me on the evening of the cere
mony that he would write me. Of course
I understood that to mean that he would
send me a check. The participants d
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urooerlies. AUvertuemeoi.
Bklrts, his war-paint la smeared, and the memory
of a few hard skirmishes "sets" hard on his aoul.
ut his heart is big with conquest, the dreams of
his Spring-time are ripened, and behind htm string
out the prisoners of war two by two! Captured
not always have cash about them. But
has never written. He lives In another
city and state."
"Perhaps he hadn't enough money to
pay It."
"I understand that he Is well-to-do.
I'm quite sure he's comfortably off. He
gave a fine wedding supper at the Brown
Smith hotel for twenty gueets."
"1W may have forgotten."
"It's hardly likely. It Isn't the sort of
debt one forgets."
"Why don't you send, him a bill?" I
asked.
"Because It Isn't ethical, my child. I
knew a preacher who, when the bride
groom handed him his fee In an envelope
opened the envelope and took out the fee
to see how much It was. I couldn't do'
that, and wouldn't. It must be left to the
sense of justice and the generosity of the
bridegroom."
"Is It possible that there Is a human be
ing, especially a man who has taken upon
himself the honor, of the marriage state,
who haa neither sense of Justice nor gen
erosity? J supposed that young Mr. Jones
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stood alone in the category of dishonor,
but my clerical friend told ma that there
are several Mr. Joneses scattered through
eaoh of his clerical years.
"But funerals?" I asked. "Surely
everyone who can pays fqr the burial
service of his dead?"
"No." said the little clergymen. "A
man over whose wife I read the burial
service three years ago has never paid
me, and last week he was married
again.''
"Of course," . said the minister's wife,
"death overtakes all, and there may be
persons who are unable to bear the ex
pense of the funeral service."
"But marriage la pot Inevitable. It
isn't even a necessity. It is a luxury, and
should be foregone If It oan't be paid for,"
said I,
"I would have Been glad to have Mr.
Jones' fee." said the clergyman. "My
dear, I thiuk I shall have to ask our
landlord for another extension."
And to think that there are other Mr.
Joneses. Other meanest ' men In the
world.
proportion of radium In a ton of pit eh
blende Mbe mineral from which it la ex
tracted) that shs put of gold In a ton of
sea water.
And yet, the good news Is heard that,
after all, th poor man can have radium.
Dr. Octave Claude, head of the clinic
In the hospital of St. lui, Paris, re
ports that the "actlnlferous muds,' or
residues, left after the extraction of
radium from the minerals In which It la
found, afford a means of applying radio
activity to-diseased surfaces which Is, In
some ways, superior In Its results to th
use of radium Itself as originally em
ployed. Pure, radium la too Intense. In Its action
'for many lecal applications-
It !s difficult to concentrate its effects
upon aay desired point without Injuriously
affecting surrounding tissues. But the
actlnlferous muds left after the long
series of precipitations by means Of
which the chemlet obtains radium, and
which retain .a certain degree of radio
activity are far more gentle In their ac
tion, and yet. If Dr. Claude is npt mis
takeo. .Mit-y ere. exceedingly effective In
the treatment ot dlseaJC
These muds are applied In the form of
plaster put directly upo the deseased.
The Intensity of the action raa be
governed by varying ths thickness of the
eurfare. The effect Is eonflned to the
surface treated, and there ts no Injury
to surrounding tlasuea The alpha rays,
which consist of relatively large particles
projected by the atomic explosions, and
whlrh are the chief source of danger In
the employment of railum In condensed
form, seem to be restrained. In some
manner, by the liquid medium. Thus It
becomes possible by spreading thi pre.
jparation 'over sufficient surface, and
from His Summer Campaign
by the sea, on moonlit verandas, in rose-gardens,
rounded up In. the front .seats of flat little road
sters, snatched on the links, at country dances
where the girls' cheeks were like deeply-dyed Nova
Scotia apples, from marble balusters where wealth
held golden sway, out of little country door-yards,
Manicure
Lady
By WILLIAM P. KIRK.
"Wilfred has went to the country for
the summer," announced the Manicure
Ldy. "We shipped him away yesterday.
The old gent, game to the core like he
always Is, told him that If he didn't man
sue to piece out the money he got from
the royalties on his songs, he would kick
In enough to keep the poor boy where
he wants to live till he has wrote a new
book of poems."
. "What started him away from the
city?" asked the Head Barber,
"Ha was reading a poem the other night
that was wrote by John Boyle O'Reilly. I
don't know who the gent was, but I think
ha was some great Swede poet. The first
atanxa of them' fine verses was the one
that got Wilfred kind of loony for the
country. It went like this:
I sm tired of planning and tolling 1
In the crowded hives of men;
giving a conaldsrabla depth to It, to ob- I
tain a mora effective application of the 1
really useful rays thsn can be dons by
mean of ths apparatus with which pure I
radium Is employed. j
"Thanks to the fact tl.at the local ac- I
lion of the applications remains gentle," j
says Dr. Claude, "we can continue them 1
(or a long time, from several hours to !
several days, without frsr of a'cident." I
This, he adds, emphatically, "is no theo- !
retical affirmation, but the result of j
many practical observations."
Prof, O. Petit, of the Notional Veteti- I
nary school st Alfort, who hss spplied I
the actlnlferous muds to the treatment
of diseases of. animals, obtains an In
creased effect by passing an electric cur
rent through them.
This seems' to Increase the penetrating
power of the rays.
Another way In which "poor man's
radium" Is applied Is In the form of baths
of warm water, Iq which to or WO grams
of radioactive muds have been dissolved.
These baths may be repeated every day
for several weeks In succession.
Mm. Fabre and Dr. Bertolettl, of Turin,
have confirmed the conclusions of Da
Clauds concerning the curative properties
of radioactive muds.
Tl'asa'i rrset Favorite.
At piesent the most popular song In
Vienna clamored for by theater and
music hall audiences every night Is
"Prlns fcSugea dsr edle Bitter.'' which tells
how the "noble cavalier, ' frlnoe Eugene
of ftavoy, laid siege to and reapttjred
Belgrade from the Turks In 1717. Tl
son, which, like "Marching Througn
Georgia." bears clear Internal evidence of
a camp origin, was. In fact, written by
a soldier serving at ths siege usder
Prince Leopold of Ieesau, the drill ar-
frant of the Prueaua army. Jxindon
hroulcle.
from field foncn where tall farm lads leaned
lankily and looked under the pink aunbonnets' of
farm lassies and knew that the rose-gtow cast
there was not the sun shining through the pink
nunbomfW, but the shadow of the Big Chief Dan.
Sure bis heart js big, for be Bcoured the country
Heart-weary of building and spoiling
And spolllnt and building stain.
And I long for the dear old rlvnr
Where I dreamed my youth away,
For a dreamer lives forever,
. And a toller dies In a day. .
"I remember that poem," said the Head
Barber. "That man was an Irishman,
that O'Reilly. The old man had tils poems
In the house. The old man was Irish.
snd the only poet he loved was Jono
Boyle O'Reilly. All of us kids read the
book. Thst piece you spoke the veree of
was called 'The Cry of the Dreamer.' "
' "That's right,- George," said the Mani
cure Lady. ''Well, anyhow, thst was the
poem that started Wilfred on his new
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By Nell
bare, and oq bridle and lance and blanket the loot
of hearts tlnkle-inkle-lnkle-lnkle-tlnk-tlnk 'in time
with his lusty war-song. One funny tblng--maybs
you know why, cynic the prisoners are a Joy
drowned lot with nrry a wklraper. NELL BRINK
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hobby." He got. a MOO' check from .tht
music publishers,, and he says to all of
us thst he Is going to find soma plaes
where there Is a rrver, and he Is going to
be a dreamer all summer It he can find
a reasonable boarding place. It ain't go
ing to be easy for him to make that glOO
last, because dreamers has to eat the
same as tollers, and you wouldn't think
Wilfred was much of a dreamer If you
saw him packing away the corn beef and
cabbage, but I hope he sticks It out."
Maybe he will be able to write better
out In the woods than living In town,"
said the Heed Barber. -"I had a friend
once that wrote some swell poetry sbout
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ir.iin . saoinvmvj m aivv, wnw 11 m wap in
the woods when he wrote It." v
"That may help Wilfred te be a
dreamer,, too," agreed the Manicure Lady.
' He wrote a verSe last night when the
old gent told him thst he could If be
wanted to, and I thought It was kind
of good, too, althoMgh Mister O'Reilly's
verse sounded smoother.' It said:
"I, too, would be a dreamer,
Uke the great John Boyle O'Reilly,
Where you never meet a schemer
And the skies are bright and emlly.
Covered In winter with Ice;
A dresmer would live lorever.
If he only had the price.
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