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niArrr.it in. -(Coinmned.)
Thomas J fTiTHon. a wi'-st rue k and
gaping, found Hrnself fimi -loose for a
time In the M il lliDin roi-,md:i while his
f.ithi'r (all.cil with a tn:i :i who v.-iint.il
In liir';;iln for tho entire output f the
l',ir;iili.e furinee ly the year. Thi'iom-
mcn-lnl transaction tourlicl him light
ly; but the rnovlnu groups, the import
ed liell-lioys, the tessclated Hoots, fres
coed i-eHing ihi:I plush-i overed furni
ture thes hit deeply, t'rfiihl this be
South Tied' s;;ir, the place that had
hitherto figured chiefly to him im
"court-day" town and the resilience of
his preacher uncle? It seemed hugely
Incredible.
After the conference with the Iron
buyer they crossed the Street to the
railway station; and again Thomas
Jefferson was footloose while bis fath
er was closeted with some one In the
manager's olllce.
An express train, with binning air
brakes, Solomon-magnificent sleeping
cars, and a locomotive large enough to
swallow whole tho small affair that
used to bring the once-a-day train
from Atlanta, had Just backed In, and
the boy took Its royal measure with
eager and curious eyes, walking slowly
up one side of It and down the other.
At the rear of the string of Pull
mans was a private car, with a deep
observation platform, much polished
brass railing, and sundry other luxuri
ous appointments, apparent even to the
eye of unsophistlration. Thomas Jef
ferson spelled tho name In tho medal
lion, "Psyche" spelled It without try
ing o pronounce It and then turned
his attention to the people who wer
descending tho rubber-carpeted steps
and grouping themselves under the di
rection of a tall man who reminded
Thomas Jefferson of his Uncle Silas
w-ith on Indescribable something left
out of his face.
"As I was about to say, General, this
station building Is one of the relics
You mustn't Judge Houth Tredegar
our new Bouth Tredegar by this. Eh?
I bog your pardon, Mrs. Vanadam?
Oh, the hotel? It Is Just across the
street, and a very good house; remark
ably good,' Indeed, all things consider
ed. In fast, we're quite proud of the
Marlboro."
One of the younger women smiled.
"How enthusiastic you ore, Mr. Far
ley. I thought we hud outgrown all
that o moderns."
"But, my dear Alias Klleroy, If you
could know what we have to be enthu
siastic about down here! Why, these
mountains we've been passing through
for the last six hours are simply so
niuny vast treasure-houses; coal at the
top, Iron at the bottom, and enough cf
ioth to keep tho world's industries go
ng for ugesl There's millions In
them!"
Thomas Jefferson overheurd without
understanding, but his eyes served a
better purpose. Away back In the line
of the Scottish Gordons there must
have been an ancestor with tho socr'a
gift of insight, and some drop or two
of his blood had come down to this
sober-faced country boy searching the
faces of the excursionists for his cue
of fellowship or antipathy.
tor tho sweet-voiced young woman
called Miss Klleroy there was love at
first sight. For a severe, beskllked
Mrs Vanudam there was awe. For the
portly General with mutton-chop whis
kers, overlooking eyes and the air 3t
a dictator, there was awe, also, not
unmlnglcd with envy. For the tall
man In the frock-coat, whose face re
minded him of his Uncle Hllas, there
bad been shrinking antagonism at the
first glance which keen first Impres
sion was presently dulled and all but
effaced by the enthusiasm, the suave
tongue, and the benignant manner.
Which proves that Insight, like the film
of a recording camera, should have
the dark, shutter snapped on It If the
picture Is to be preserved.
Thomas Jefferson made way when
the party, marshaled by the enthusi
ast, prepared for Its descent on tho
Marlboro, Afterward, the royalties
having departed and a good-natured
porter giving him leave, he was at lib
erty to examine the wheeled palace it
near-bund, ond even to climb Into the
vestibule for a peep Inside.
Therewith, castles In tho air began
to rear themselves, tower on wall.
Here was the very sky-reaching sum
mit of all things desirable; to have
one's own brass-bound hotel on
wheels; to come and go at will; to
give cirt orders to a respectful and
uniformed porter, as the awe-inspiring
gentleman with the mutton-chop whis
kers had done.
At the highest point on the hunch
ed shoulder of the mountain T.fcomus
Jefferson twisted himself In tho buggy
seat for a final backward look Into the
valley of new marvels. The summer
day was graying to its twilight, and a
light hae was stealing out of the
wooded ravines and across the river.
From the tall chimneys of a rolling
mill a dense column of smoke was as
cending, and at the psychological mo
ment the slag flaro from an iron-furnace
changed the overhanging cloud
Into a fiery aegis.
Having no symbolism save that of
Holy Writ. Thomas .luffnnnn'i min.i
I seised Instantly on tho figure, building
far better than it knew. It was a new
Exodus, with Its, pillar of cloud by day
ana us pillar of fire by night. And
Its Moses though this, we may sup
pose, was beyond a boy's Imagining
was the frenzied, ruthless spirit of com
mercialism, named otherwise, by the
multitude, Modern Progress.
CHAPTER IV.
If you have never had the pleasure
of meeting a Southern gentleman of
the patriarchal school, I despair of
cringing you well acquainted with Ma
jor Caspar Dabney until you have
summered and wintered him. Hut tho
Dabneys of Peer Trace Uiruro so lurcj-
ly In Thomas Jefferson's boyhood and
youth as to be well-nigh elemental in
these retrospective glimpses.
It was about the time when Thom
as Jefferson was beginning to recon
slder bis ideals, with a leaning toward
brass-bound palaces on wheels and
dictatorial authority over uniformed
lackeys and other of his follow creu-
tures, that fate dealt the Major Its
final stab and prepared to pour wine
and oil Into tho wound though of the
balm-pouring, none could guess at tho
moment of wounding. It was not in
Caspar Dubm-y to be patient under a
blow, and for a time his raglngs
mreaienea to shake even Mummy Ju
Uefs loyalty than which nothing more
convincing can be said.
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by Francis Lynie
"Mlstiih Sclpio," she world nay, "I'ae
Jus' eriioiit wo'ed out! I dine been
Ktiowlti' Max'Rliih CiHpah ebber setnc
I was ( r .Misiis' tlah-'ooinan, and I
ain't iicv' seen him so fractious ez he
l.fn Unll,... .1,1 lll.r r...m 4..111
come get il.it po' in gal-chlld o' Maw
stuh IOuIsh. Hcenis lak ho Jus' gwlne
r'ar round twcl he hu't somebody!"
etoainshi illu ctolan shrdlu ctoaln ct
Kcipio, tho Major's body-servant,
had grown tray In the iJabney service,
and he was well used to the master's
storm periods.
"Hoan' j on trouble yo'se'f none cr
bout ilat, MIb' Juliet. Mawstuh Majuh
tekkin' hit mighty bawd 'cause Maw
stuh Louis done daid. IJut blmcby you
gwine see him dlmm on his hawss an'
ride up yondeh to whah do big steam
boats comes In an'fotch dat li'l gal
child home; an' den: uck uh-h! look
out, niggahs; dar uln't gwine be nuttln'
on do top side dlshyer yearth good
nough for ll'l Missy. You watch what
I done tol' yer erbout dat, now!"
Sclplo's prophecy, or its much of It
as related to the bringing of the or
phaned Ardea to Deer Trace Manor,
wrought Itself out speedily, as a mut
ter of course. At the close of the war.
Captain Louis, the Major's only son,
had become, like many another hot
hearted young Confedera-te, a self-ex-patrioted
exile. On the. eve of his de
parture for France he had married the
Virginia mulden who had nursed him
alive after Chancellorsvllle. Major
Caspar had given the bride away the
war had spared no kinsman of hers to
stand in this breach and when tho
God-speeds were said, had himself
turned back to tho weed-grown fields
of Peer Trace Manor, embittered and
hostile, swearing never to set foot out
Blde of his home acreu again while the
Union should stand.
For more than twenty years he kept
this vow almost literally. A few of the
older negroes, a mere handful of the
six score slaves of the old patriarchal
days, cast In their lot with their for
mer master, and with these the Major
made shift thriftily, farming a little,
stock-raising a little, and, unlike most
of the war-broken plantation owners,
clinging tenaciously to every rood of
land covered by the original Dabney
title-deeds.
In this cenobltlc Interval, If you
wanted a Dabney colt or a Dabney
cow, you went, or sent, to Deer Trace
Manor on your own Initiative, and you,
or your deputy, never met the Major:
your business was transacted with
lean, lantern-Jawed Japheth Pettlgrass,
the Major's stock-and-farm foreman.'
And although the Dabney stock was
pedigreed, you kept your wits about
you; else Pettlgrass got much the bet
ter of you In the trade, like the shrewd.
calculating Alabama Yankee that he
was.
Ardea was born In Paris In the
twelfth year of the exile; and the Vir
ginia mother, pining always for the
home land, died In the fifteenth year.
Afterward Captain Louts fought a
long-drawn, losing battle. figuring
bravely In his Infrequent letters to bis
father as a rising mlnlnture painter.
He had his little girl back and forth
between his lodgings and the studio
where he painted pictures that nobody
would buy, and eking out a miserable
existence by giving lessons in EnglHh
when he was happy enough to find a
pupil.
The bravo letters Imposed on the M i
Jor, as they were meant to do; and
Ardea, the loyal, happening on one oi
them in her first Deer Trace summer.
read It through with childish sobs and
never thereafter opened her lips on the
story of those distressful Paris days.
Later she understood her father's mo
tive better: how he would not be a
chargu on an bid man rich In nothing
but ruin; and the memory of the
pinched childhood became a thing sa
cred.
How the Major, a second Rip Van
Winkle, found his way to New York,
and to the pier of the Incoming French
Line steamer, must always remain a
mystery. But he was thero, with tho
fierce old eyes quenched and swim
ming and the passionate Dabney Hps
trembling strangely under the great
moustaches, when the black-frockod
little waif from the Old World ran
down the landing stage and Into his
arms. Small wonder that they clung
to each other, these two at tho further
extremes of three generations; or that
the child opened a door In the heart
of the fierce old partisan which was
locked and doubly barred against all
others.
It was all new and very strange to
a child whose only outlook on life had
been urban and banal. She had never
seen a mountain, and nothing more
nearly approaching a forest than the
parked groves of the Itols de Boulogne.
Would It be permitted that she should
sometimes walk in the woods of the
firBt Dabney, she asked, with the quaint
French twisting of the phrases that
she was never able fully to overcome.
It would certainly be permitted; more,
trie Major would make her a deed to
as many of the forest acres as she
would care to Include In her prome
nade. How tho French-born child fitted In
to the haphazard household at Deer
Trace Manor, with what struggles she
came through the Inevitable attack of
homesickness, and how Mammy Juliet
and every one else petted and Indulg
ed her, are matters which need not bo
dwelt on. Hut we shall gladly believe
that she was too sensible, even at tho
early and tender age of 10, to be easily
spoiled.
She never forgot a summer day soon
after her arrival when she first saw
her grandfather transformed Into a
frenzied madman. He was Bitting r.n
the wide portico directing Japheth
Pettlgrass, who was training the great
crimson-rambler rose that ran well up
to the eaves. Ardea, herself, was on
the lawn, playing with her grandfath
er's latest gift, a huge, solemn-eyed
Greut Dane, so she did not see tho man
who bad dismounted at the gate and
walked up the driveway until ho was
handing his card to her grandfather.
When she did seo him, she looked
tdwlce at him; not because he w:is
trlgly clad In brown duck and tlghtly
buttohed service leggings, but because
he woro his beard trimmed to a point,
after the manner of the'students in the
Latin Quarter, and so was reminiscent
of things freshly forsaken. Her grand
father was on his feet, towering above
the visitor as if he were about to fall
on and crush him.
"Bring youh Yankee railroad through
my field nnd pnstrhnbn, enhf foil
th pure el-ah of this peaceful Oyarden
ef Eden with youh diist-fllncin', smoke
pot locomotives? Not a rod, suh! not a
foot or an Inch oveh the Dabney lands.'
Do I make H plain to yo i, suh?"
"Hut .Major Dabney one moment:
this in purely a matter of business;
there Is nothing personal about H. n,n
company Is able and willing to pay lib
erally for Its right of way; and yri
must remember that the comlns of llif
railroad will treble ui.J quadruple youl
land values. I am only asking you tc
consider the mutter in a business way,
and to name your own price."
"Not rtnotheh word, suh, or you'i:
make mo lose my tempnh! You arid
insult to Injury, suh, when y on o:fe,i
mn youh contemptible Yankee gold.
When I deslnh to sell my birthright
for youh beggahly mess of pottage, I'll
send a black boy in town to Infawui
you, suh!"
It Is conceivable that the locating en
gineer of the Great .Southwestern lt.iil
way Company was younger than be
looked; or, at nil events, that his ex
perience hitherto had not brought him
In contact wit!) lire-eating g'riilenier
of the old school. Klse he would hard
ly have said what ho did.
"of course. It Is optional with you.
Major Dabney, whether you sell us our
right of way peaceably or compel us to
acquire It by condemnation proceedings
In tho courts. As for the rest Is it
possible that you don't know tho war
is over?"
With a roar like that of a maddened
Hon the .Major bowed himself, caught
his man In a mighty wrestler's grip
and flung him broadcast into the coleus
bed. The words that went with the
tierce attack mado Ardea crouch and
shiver and take refuge behind the greut
dog. Japheth Pettlgrass Jumped down
from his step-ladder and went to help
the engineer out of the flower bed.
"The old firebrand!" the engineer
was muttering under his bream when
Pettlgrass reached him; but tho fore
man cut him short.
"You got mighty little sense, looks
like, to me. Stove tip any?"
"Nothing to hurt, I guess."
"Well, your hawss is waitln for yt
down yonder at the gate, and I don't
b'lleve the Major Is allow in' to ask yo
to stay to supper."
When the engineer had mounted and
ridden away down tho pike, the fore
man straightened himself and faced
about The Major hud dropped Into his
big arm-chair . His hands shook. Pet
tlgrass moved nearer and spoke so that
the child should not hear. "If you run
me off the place tho nex' minute, I'm
goln' to tell you you ort to be tolerably
'shumed of yourse'f, Maje' Dabney.
That po' llttlo gal Is scared out of a
year's growln', right now."
"I know, Japheth; I know. I'm an
old heathen! For, Insultin' as he was,
the man was for the time beln' my
guest, suh my guest!"
"I'm talkln' about the little one not
that railroader. So far as I know, he
earned what ho got. I allowed they'd
make some sort of a swap with you,
so I didn't say anything when they
was layin' out their lines throo' the
hawss-lot and across the lower corn
field this mornln' easy, now; no more
r'arln' and t'arln' with that thar little
gal not a-knowln which side o' the
earth's goln' to cave In next!"
"Laid out theyuh lines across my
prope'ty? Japheth, fayeh me by riding
down to the furnace and askln' Caleb
Gordon if he will do me the honor to
come up hear this evenln". If he can.
I I It's twenty yeahs and mo' since
I've troubled the law cou'ts of ouh po',
Yankee-ridden country with any affal
ah of mine; and now well, I don'l
know," with a despondent shake of th
leonine head.
(To be continued.)
CAT CENSUS IN YOKAHAMA.
Feline Infant Mortality I.ea.enec,
by a Ilonim on Kittens.
Yokohama, which prides Itself upon
being the most flourishing port in
Japan, received a shock last year. It
believed that Ita cat population was
decreasing alarmingly.
With the painstaking care that char
acterizes Japanese officialdom the offi
cers of the kencho, or city hall, set
their -agents to taking a census of tha
cats of Yokohama. There were about
7,000 able-bodied adult cats In all tha
confines of the city, these enumerator?
discovered; they even established tha
fact that less than one-third of the cal
population was males.
Something; must be done at once, ta
encourage the growth of the feline
members of Yokohama society, tha
kencho officers decided. They were
quite sure by observation of the family
habits of certain cats selected from tha
proletariat that race suicide was not a
factor la this decrease of the popula
tion. On the contrary, they found It
to be a fact that In too many Instances
human Intervention during the Infan
cy of the cats brought about the les
sening of the population by violence.
In all Japanese cities bubonic plague
Is an ever present menace. There hava
been times when the plague has swept
through whole districts And only by
the most rlgorouB efforts of the sani
tary officials could it J.ie stamped out.
Rats are the chief disseminators of
the plague. On occasions Buch vigor
ous campaigns have been waged
against the rats that the governments
of various cities have offered a quar
ter of a cent bounty for every rat car
cass. Men went Into the trade of rat
catching with handsome profits in
sight.
But Yokohama decided that the most
potent means of rat extermination lay
In the city's cats. Hence the alarm
felt at the discovery of the decrease la
the number of rat catchers. So after
the completion of the cat census a year
ago the kencho officials decided to of
fer a bonus of 50 sen (25 cents) for
every kitten raised to maturity.
Complication followed fast in the
path of this spur to cat culture, the
New York Suo asserts. Citlaons flock
ed to the kencho with cats not their
own and cat chasing became one of
the most serious pursuits of the street
boys. The kencho officials finally had
to rule that a preliminary claim for
the 50 sen reward must be made at
the nearest police station upon the
birth of every kitten and that the bo
nus would not he paid until Buch time
as it could be shown that the same
kitten had advanced to sufficient ma
turity to be considered a rat catcher.
Consequently for a year past one of
the chief duties of policemen has been
the Inspection nnd registration of tha
adolescence of cats.
Yokohama is breathing easier now.
The last cat census showed that there
were was la round numbers 1:1,000 cats
to the city. Yen 1,975 (J9S7.50) hat
been paid out in bounties.
All Is not gold that la shored, aj
yoi for the real shine. '
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What is per
baps the most Im
portant work of
the forester nnd
W bt-en to nrotmo
public, sentiment
against the wan
ton, wasteful con
sumption of' tim
ber. Conservation
of tho natural re-
sour, es of the country has become an
aft used phrase during the last de
cade. Thero is none so dull or Isolated
these days a.-j not to be able to explain
more or less learnedly the need of pro
tecting and safeguarding the trees, of
their relation to the country's climate,
the Important part they play in the
precipitation of its rain and the evap
oration of its moisture.
Even in colonial days, only a few
years arter the white man . with his
ix had started his work of felling the
jecmingly exhauatless forests which
stretched from Maine to the gulf and
from the Atlantic to the Allcghanles,
ome were far-sighted enough to real
ize that too great, a zeal ia clearing
away the primeval growth might work
in injury not easily repaired. Only
17 years after the Pilgrims landed af.
Plymouth the trustees of the little
town of Watertown, Mass., adopted a
resolution fining anyone guilty of fell
ing a shade tree by the roadside. A
few years later New York found It
necessary to regulate the indiscrimi
nate cutting oT trees.
It was to his practical side that J.
Sterling Morton, the originator of Ar
bor Day, appealed. As a farmer 'n
treeless Nebraska, he had realized, as
had his neighbors, the vital need of
trees. They needed them as a protec
tion from the blizzards of winter and
the hot droughts of summer. The
government recognized the need when
it offered tree claims to settlers, giv
ing them free land If a certain num
ber of trees were planted. Some of
these settlers of German origin prob
ably knew the efforts which the Ger
man government was putting forth,
even In the middle of the nlneleentU
century, toward the scientific manage
ment of the nation's woodlands. Eu
ropean countries learned long befo.-o
America the lesson that the forests
should be cherished as among the na
tion's most precious possessions. That
was why Plnchot and Graves could
find In Europe schools corresponding
to American colleges, established for
the special purpose of training men
for the successful planting and culti
EOY IS TREED BY ALLIGATORS.
The body of Ernest Johnson was
found In the branches of a tree In
Fish Bayou swamp near Palmetto. La.,
by a party that had been searching
for him for a week. The youth took
refuge from alligators In the tree and
starved. A note found in his hat told
the story of his death. He had been
fishing in the swamp when alligators
swarmed around his skiff. The 'gators
attacked the boat and the boy ran to
a tree. He climbed the tree, thinking
that the alligators would go away, but
they maintained vigil at the foot of
the tree day and night, until the terror-stricken
lad lost nerve and dared
not attempt to escape In the boat. He
starved to death.
SUSPICION JUSTIFIED.
It Wnm Not a llouie the Master
Heard In tho Kite-hen.
The late Rev. Dr. Wlghtman, sitting
one night later than usual engrossed
In the profundities of a great tome,
imagined he heard a sound in the
kitchen Inconsistent with the cautious
ness of a mouse; so, taking his candle,
he proceeded to investigate the cause.
His foot being heard In the pasage,
the servant began with much noise to
rake out the fire as If preparing for
bed.
"Ye're up late to-night, Mary."
"I'm Jlst rakln' the fire, sir, and
?aun to bed."
"That's right, Mary. I like timeous
liours."
On his way back to the sttuly he
passed the coal cellar door and, turn
ing the key, took It with him. The
next morning at an enrly hour thero
was a rap at his bedroom door and a
request for the key to get some coal.
"Ye're up too booh, Mary. Go back
to your bed.
Half an hour later there was anoth
er knock and a similar request. In
arder to prepare for breakfast. "I don't
want breakfast bo soon, Mary. Go
back to your bed."
In another half hour there was an
TOT-; S'T'. I iJV J
vation of forests; why they found the
r.iov.t!) of trees and t:ie;r maintenance
reduced to a science and the manage
ment of public forests lands uu lti
ponant department of state.
At the annual meeting of the Ne
braska t?!ate I'op.rd of Agriculture
he!i' in Lincoln, January, 1S72, J.
Sterling Morton, afterward Secretary
of Agriculture, Introduced a resolution
which read:
''Resolved, That Wednesday, tha
10th day of April, 1S72, bo, and the
same is hereby, especially set apart
and consecrated for tree planting 'n
the State of Nebraska, and the State
Board of Agriculture hereby name It
Arbsr day; and to urge upon the peo
ple of the State the vital Importance
of tree planting, hereby offer a special
premium of $100 to the agricultural
society of that county in Nebraska
which shall upon that day, plart
properly tho largest number of trees',
and a farm library of ?25 worth of
books to that person, who on that day
shall plant properly, In Nebraska, the
greatest number of trees."
The idea was quickly adopted by
other States. Dr. B. G. Northrop, a
Congregational minister of Massachu
setts, known as the "great apostle of
Arbor day," gave up his other work to
devote his entire time to the tree cul
ture movement. The American Fores
try Association made him chair.nian of
a committee to push it, and in lec
tures, newspapers and pamphlets he
spread the Arbor day propaganda un
til before his death he had seen It
adopted by almost every State and
Territory. He even carried It across
the waters of the Pacific and Induced
Japan to make it one of the national
holidays. This was in 1895. Ills word
bore some weight In the land of the
mikado, and his visit was a happy one
for him, as he was well known. At om;
time he acted as guardian to threo
young Japanese women who had co.me
to this country to be educated. One
of these became the wife of Oyama,
and all that she could do to honor her
old friend was done while he waa In
Japan. November 3, the date of the
emperor's birthday, was selected as a
fitting time for the Japanese to ob
serve as tree planting day.
In this country Arbor day Is a
moveable holiday, each State selecting
the date most seasonable and con
venient. April seems the most gener
ally favored time, but its observances
ranges from January, the date of the
Florida Arbor day, to December,
though none of the States uses the
summer months. Washington's birth
day has been selected by a number of
Southern States. In many of the
States the date is fixed, as in Illinois,
by the governor. The forms of ob
servance have gradually become iden
titled with the schools, so that in one
sense it U practically a school holiday.
other knock, with an entreaty for the
key, as it was washing day.
This was enough. He rose and hand
ed out the key, saying, "Go and let
the man out." As the preacher shrewd
ly suspected, Mary's sweetheart had
been Imprisoned all night in the coal
cellar. London Family Herald.
A New Klml of Revolution,
Senorlta Amanda Azar, a beautiful
Syrian girl, has been playing the roU
of a modern Helen of Troy for thf
Santo Domlngan Republic. Despite
that she was of foreign birth, the
fetching senorlta was nominated for
queen of tho National Carnival. The
know-nothing element protested vigor
ously, and reports declare that the Na
tional Cabinet, the army and the police
force of the capital became hoipelessiy
divided on the Issue. The Minister of
Foreign Affairs and the Minister of
Finance endorsed the Liberal move
ment to the extent of offering to marry
Miss Azar. Santo Domingo is not un
accustomed to cabinet crfses, but this
waa a strictly new kind and President
Caceres had a hard time maintaining
his neutrality nnd preserving the
peace. A string of duels of the in
octto'us Parisian kind was instant to
the crisis. On the popular vote, Miss
Azar's dark, pensive eyes and dainty
olive complexion won in a walk and
she was chosen queen. Then It was
charged that the ballot box had .been
stuffed, though the supporters of Miss
Azar disclaimed know ledge of any pad
ding. Compromise was finally effected
by choosing an assistant queen, a na
tive daughter, and the twain presided
jointly over the festivities. Success
Magazine.
How Ho Von Take Voor Defeat f
The way a man takes his defeat is a
pretty good test of his caliber. The
strong man uses his failures for step
ping stones instead of stumbling
blocks.
I know a very successful young man
who has made it a rule of his life
to use every misfortune that conies
to him as a point of departure tot
something better. He has had losses
and misfortunes which would have
crushed most men, but they only stif
fen his resolution, nerve him up for
a new start. They only make him
more determined to conquer the next
time. Success Magazine.
Ilnldluif I he .I:ikk iu Nature.
"Well, what do you think of my
son-in-law's ikv.v portrait?"
"It's a speaking likeness. He looks
exactly as If he was going to borrow
$10 of you." FUsende Blaetter.
He I niu told he has more money
than he knows what to do with. She
Has he really? Such ignorance must
be bliss.
Benjamin Franklin: Think of sav
lng as well as of getting.
Sarsaparilla
Cures all Mood humors, all erup
tions, clears the complexion, cre
ates an appetite, at'ls digestion, re
lieves that tired feeling, gives vigor
and vim.
C.t It to1iv In usn.il Mould form cr
choeolstsd tabids known nsaisntabs. 109
Doses fl.
Country I'U-nie of lii-Dnf,
Suppose you had been touring in an
airship and had been t-:i.i:ins over
Kansas In a light sununer breeze.
Suppose that you hail noticed signs of
activity as yon approach 1 the little
town called Frankfort. Picture your
astonishment, says J. (!(oi.;e Freder
ick In the Travel Magir.l".?, on learn
ing that there was an automobile fete
oa that day and that nevcral hundred
farmers and their familiry were steam
ing their cars Into town, until tua
streets of the town were quite blocked
with autos!
Your ldeaa of a backwood3 Kansai
town and the farmers would have a
rude Jar, for here was Mine. Farmer
In a becoming automobile veil and a
stylish tallormade suit taking tea at
an afternoon reception Instead of
working the butter churn, In a wrap
per, or staring open-mouthed out ot
tha window In a scared way when you
teamed past In your auto.
And there was her daughter, draped
In the sweetest of summer gowns, talk
ing of college days with a dapper
jrouta with a fraternity hatband and
positively the latest thing off Broad
way In neckwear! And that waa ont
little unknown town In Kansas!
Baby Wasted to a Skeleton.
"My little son, when about a yeai
and a half old, began to have sores
come out on his face. I had a physi
cian treat him, but the sores grew
worse. Then they began to come out
on his arms, then on other parts of
his body, and then ono came on his
chest, worse than the other3. Then I
called another physician. Still he
grew worse. At the end of about a
year and a half of suffering he grew
so bad that I had to tie his hands In
cloths at night to keep him from
scratching the sores and tearing the
flesh. He got to be a mere skeleton,
and was hardly able to walk.
"My aunt advised me to try Cutl
cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. I
sent to a drug store and got a cake of
Cuticura Soap and a box of the Oint
ment and followed directions. At the
end of two months the sores were all
well. He has never had any sorea of
any kind, since. I can sincerely say
that only for Cuticura my child would
have died. I used only one cake of
Cuticura Soap and about three boxes
of Ointment.
"I am a nurse and my profession
brings me into many different fam
ilies and It is always a pleasure for
me to tell my story and recommend
Cuticura Remedies. Mrs. Egbert Shel
don, R. F. D. 1, Litchfield, Conn., Oct.
3, 1909."
Wasn't That Sunn-lent f
"Willie, you don't chew your victuals
well enough. You must learn to Fletch
erize." "Why, maw. I do. In my mind."
Good for Sore Kye,
for over 100 years PETTIT'S EYE
SALVE has positively cured eye dis
eases everywhere. All druggists of
Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y.
When to Stop Advertising-.
An English journal requested a num.
ber of the largest advertisers to give
their opinions concerning the best
time to stop advertising, and the fol
lowing replies were received:
When the population ceases to mul
tiply and the generation that crowded
on after you and never heard of you
tops coming in.
When you have convinced every
body whose life will touch yours that
you have better goods and lower prices
than they can get anywhere else.
When you stop making fortunes
solely through the direct use of this
mighty agent.
When younger and fresher houses
In your line cease starting up.
When you would rather have your
own way and fall than take advice
tnd win. Nashville American.
Love and finance.
Omaha folks are telling of the ar
dent wooing of a belle of that town
by an Italian count, whom the young
lady met last year while touring tht
continent with her njother. The count
hastened to America soon after thi
arrival home of the object of his at
tentlon and, presenting himself at tht
Omaha office of the father, unbur
dened himself ot his sentiments.
"I lofe her! I lofe her!" he ex
claimed dramatically. "I desire ver'
tnucha to marry her!"
The old man eyed the titled person
narrowly. "Well, count," he Anally
asked in a resigned way, "what are
your lowest terms?" St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
Imparting a Lesson.
Nan Jack, out of the corner of my
eye I saw you looking at me when the
preacher gave out his text, "A new
commandment I give unto y.ou, that ye
love one another."
Jack Yes, and you didn't blush the
least bit.
Nan Certainly not. "Love one an
other" is a general command. If it
had been "that ye love each other," I'm
not sure, bu you stop that, right now!
Chicago Tribune.
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