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DIDN'T "GET" THE QUOTATION
Boston Reporter, Unlike Most News
paper Men, Was Unfamiliar With
the 8criptures.
The "cub" reporter la tho greenest
Teporter on the staff of a newspaper.
When anything particularly stupid
happens on tho paper, ho Is tho first
to be accused, and he Is usually right
ly "accused. The only salvation for
him Is to Improve, which he docs In
nine cases out of a dozen. Tho Boa
ton Journal told recently of mi amu
sing "break" of a wholly Innocent na
ture which a certain cub made. If It
shows anything, It shows that a thor
ough training in the Bible la useful In
other walks of life than the ministry.
The reporter had been sent to a
suburb to report a sermon. Ho ar
rived late, near the close of the serv
ice, and took a seat near the door.
"When the last hymn was over, he
SHkcd bis neighbor, an elderly gentle
man: "What was the text of the aermon?"
"'Who Art Thou?'" replied the
other,
"Hoston reporter," replied the other.
The man smiled. Subsequently he
told the preacher, who. next Sunday
told the congregation at tl:e cub's ex
pense. Youth's Companion.
The Enemies.
Apropos of the enmity, now happily
burled, that used to exist between
Minneapolis and St. Paul, Senator
Clapp said at a dinner la the former
city:
"I remember an address on careless
building that I once heard in Mlnne
spoils.
"'Why,' said the speaker In the
course of this address, 'one Inhabitant
of St. Paul is killed by accident in the
streets every 48 hours.'
"A bitter voice from the rear of the
ball interrupted:
" 'Well. It ain't enough,' it said."
, We reduce life to the pettiness ot
our dally living; we should exact our
living to the grandeur of life. Phillips
Brooks.
PRESSED HARD.
Coffee's Weight on Old Agt.
When prominent men realize the in
jurious effects of coffee aud the change
In health that Postum can bring, they
are glad to lend their testimony tor
the benefit of others.
A superintendent ot public schools
In a Southern state says: "My moth
er, since her early childhood, was an
Inveterate coffee drinker, had been
troubled with her heart for a number
of years and complained of that 'weak
all over' feeling and sick stomach.
"Some tlm ago I was making an of
ficial visit to a distant part of the
country and took dinner with ono ot
the merchants of the place. I noticed
a somewhat peculiar flavor of the cof
fee, and asked him concerning it. He
replied that it was Postum. I was so
pleased with it that, after the meal was
over, I bought a package to carry
home with me, and had wife pre
pare some for the next meal: tho
whole family liked it so well that wo
!U continued coffee and used Postum
entirely.
I bad really been at times very
r.nxioua concerning my mother's con.
f'.V.on, but we r.otlced that after using
'(;.'::; for a short tlnio, sho felt so
much better than sho did prior to its
use, and bad little trouble with her
heart end no sick stomach; that the
headaches were not so frequent, and
her general condition much improved,
This continued until he was as well
and hearty as the rest of us.
"I know Postum has benefited my
self and the other members of the fam
ily, but in a more marked degree In
the case of my mother, as she was a
Tictlm of long standing."
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CHAPTER XXIIL (Continued.)
The Dabney buggy was waiting for
him when, after what seemed like a
pilgrimage of endless miles, he had
crept down to the gate. But It was
Miss Dabney, and not Mammy Juliet's
Pete, who was holding the reins.
"I couldn't find Peto, and Japheth
has gone to town," she explained.
"Can you get In by yoursolfT"
He was holding on by the out wheel,
and the death-look was creeping over
his face again.
"I can't let you," he panted; and she
thought he was thinking of the dis
grace for her.
"I am my own mistress," she said,
coldly. "If I choose to drive you when
vou are too sick to hold the reins, it
la my own affair."
"I wasn't thinking of that; but you
must first know lust what you're do
ing. My father stands to lose all he
has got to to the Farleys. Thai's
what the meeting Is for. Do you un
derstand ?"
She bit her lip and a far-away look
came Into her eyes. Then she turm.-d
on him with a little frown of determi
nation gathering between her straight
eyebrows a frown that reminded him
of the Major In his militant moods,
"I must take your word for It," lie
said, and the words seemed to cut the
air llko edged thliws. "Tell me the
truth: Is your cause entirely Just
Your motive Is not revenge?"
It Is my father's causo, and none
of mine; more than that, It Is your
grandfather's causo and yours.
She pushed the buggy hood back
with a quick arm sweep and gave him
her free hand. "Step carefully," she
cautioned; and a minute later they
were speeding swiftly down the pike
In a white dust cloud of their own
making.
There was a sharp crisis to the fore
In the old log-house office at the fur
nace. Caleb Gordon, haggard ;nd
trtmulous, sat at one end of the tree- ,
tlo-board which served as a tuble, wim
Xonnan at his elbow; and flunk.'iu;
him on either side were tlie two Far
leys, Dyckman, Trewliitt, acting gen
eral counsel for the company In the
Karloy Interest, and Hunchott, repre
senting the dordons.
Having arransf'd the preliminaries
to his entire satiufuctlon, Colonel Dux
bury had struck true and hard. The
pipe foundry might be taken Into the
parent company at a certain nominal
(Igure payable In a new Issue of Chta
wassee Limited stock, or three several
things were due to happen simultane
ously: the furnace would be shut down
Indefinitely "for repairs," thus cuttlns
oft the Iron supply and making a ruin
ous forfeiture of pipo contracts Inevit
able; suit would be brought to recover
damages for the alleged mismanage
ment of Chlawasaee Consolidated dur
ing the absence of the majority stock
holders; and the validity of the pipe-
pit patents would be contested In tne
courts. This was the ultimatum.
The one-sided battle had been fought
to a finish. Hanchett, hewing away in
the dark, had made every double and
turn that keen legal acumen and a
sharp wit could suggest to gain time.
Hut Mr. Farley was Inexorable. Tha
business must be concluded at the
present sitting; otherwise the papers
in the two suits, which were already
prepared, would be filed before noon.
Hanchett tooK nis principal into me
laboratory for a private word.
"It's for you to decide, Mr. Gordon,"
he said. "If you want to follow them
Into the court, we'll do the best we can,
But as a friend I can't advise you to
take that course."
If we would only make out to And
out what Tom's holding over 'em!"
groaned Caleb, helplessly.
Yes: but we can v eaia tne lawyer,
"And whatever It may be, they are evi
dently not afraid of It"
We'll never see a dollars dividend
out o' the stock, Cap'n Hanchett I
might as well give 'em the foundry free
and clear.
ion "ul- ue, ui
course, uui on m ouier nana, iney
can force you to the wall In a month
and make you lose everything you
have. I've been over the books with
Norman: If you can't fill your pipe
contracts, the forfeitures will ruin you,
And you can't All them unless you can
have Chlawasaee Iron, and at the pres
ent price."
The oia iron-master lea tne way
back to the room ot doom and took his
place at the end of the trestle-board
table.
"Give me the papers," he said, gloom
Uy; and the Farley's attorney passed
them across, with his fountain-pen.
There was a purring of wheels in tho
air and the staccato clatter of a horse's
hoofs on the hard metaling of the pike.
Vincent Farley rose quietly In his place
and tiptoed to the door. He was In the
act of snapping the catch ot the
spring -latch, when the door flew in
ward and he fell back with a smother
ed exclamation. Thereupon they all
looked up, Caleb, the tremulous, with
the pen still suspended over the signa
tures upon which tne Ink was still wet.
Tom was standing In the doorway.
deathly sick and clinging to the Jama
for support In putting on his hat he
had slipped the banduges, an.: the
wound was bleeding afresh. Dyckman
yelped like a stricken dog, overturning
his chair as he leaped up and backed
away into a corner. Only Mr. Duxbury
Farley and his attorney were whollv
unmoved. The lawyer had taken his
fountain-pen from Caleb's shaking fin
gers and was carefully recapping It;
and Mr. Farley was pocketing the
agreement, by the terms of which th
firm of Gordon & Gordon had ceased to
exist
Tom lurched Into the room and threw
himself feebly on the promoter, and
Vincent made as If he would come be.
tween. But there was no need for In.
frventlon. Duxbury Farley had only
to step aside, and Tom fell heavily.
clutching the air as he went down.
The dusty office which hud once beon
his mother's sitting-room was cleared
9f all save his tather when Tom re-
covered consciousness and sat up, with
Caleb's arm to help.
i nere. now. Buddy; you ortn't io
tried to get up and come down here,"
said the father, soothingly. But Tom's
blood was on fire.
"Tell me I" he raved; "have they got
the foundry away from youT"
Caleb nodded gravely. "But don't
you mind none about that son. What
Tm sweatln' about now Is tho fix ywu'r
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Tom struggled to his feet, tottering.
"Ml cut the heart out of these de
mons that have robbed you. Give mi
the pistol from that drawer, and drive
me down to the station before their
train comes. I'll do It. I ll do It now!"
Ilut when old Iongfellow, JlKging
vertically between the buggy shafU,
picked his way out of the furnace yard,
be was permitted to turn of his own
accord In the homeward direction; and
an hour later the sick man was back
In bed, with Insistent calls for Ardi-a.
And this time Miss Dubney did not
come.
CHATTER XXIV.
Riding up the pike one sun-shot af
ternoon In the golden September, Tom
saw Artlca entering the open door of
the Morweimtow church-copy, drew
rein, flung himself out of the saddle
and followed her. She saw him and
stopped In the vestibule, quaking a lit
tle as sho felt she must always quake
until the Impassable chasm of veldock
with another should be safely opened
between them.
"Just a moment." he said, abruptly.
"There was a time when I shM I would
spare Vincent . Farley and kin f'r
your sake. That was a year ag.i.
Things have changed slric then; I
have changed. When my father Is bur
ied, I shall do my best to fill the
mourners' carriages with those who
have killed him."
"How Is your father to-day?" sho
asked, not daring to trust speech oth
erwise. "He Is the same as he was yestc
day and the day before; the same i'i
ho will always bo from Ibis on .1
broken man."
"You will strike back?" She said it
with Infinite sadness In her voice and
an upeastififf of eyes that were swim
mlng. "I don't question your rUht
but I pity you. The blow may bo Just,
I don't know yet It will fall hardejt
I on you In the end, Tom."
His smile was almost boyish In Its
frank anger. But there was a man's
sneer In his words.
"Excuse me; I forpot for the mo
ment that we are In a church. But I
am taklnK consequences, these days."
She looked out from the cool, dark
refugo of tho vestibule when ho mount
ed and rode on, and her heart was full.
It was madness, vindictive madness
and fell anger. But it was a generous
wrath, larRO and man-like. It was not
to be a blow In the dark or In the
back, as some men struck; and ho
would not strike without first giving
her warning. Ardca had been cross
questioning Japheth about the assault
at the Woodlawn gates to her own
hurt. Japheth had evaded as he couli,
but she had guessed what he was keep
ing back tho Identity of the two foot
pads blackened to look like negroes. It
was a weary world, and life had lost
much Uat had made It worth living.
Tom was deep In an Inventive trance.
with vengeance for the prize to be won.
and for the means to the end. Iron
works and pipe plants and forglnirs
especially the forging of one particular
thunderbolt which should shatter thd
Farley fortunes beyond repair. When
this bolt was finally hammered Into
shape he had an hour's interview with
Major Dabney, and took a train for
New York.
A telegram from Norman, begging
him to come back to South Tredegar at
speed, overtook him. For throe days a
gentleman with shrewd eyes and a
hard-bitted Jaw, registering at the
Marlboro as "A. Draeott, New York,"
had been shut up with Mr. Duxbury
Farley In tho most private of the com
pany's offices In the Coosa Building,
and on the fourth day Norman had
made shift to find out this gentleman's
business. Whereupon the wire to Tom.
He caught a slow train back, and was
met at a station ten miles out of town
by his energetic ex-lloutenant
Of course, I didn't dare to don any
thing more than give him a hint," was
the conclusion of Norman's exciting
renort. "I didn't know but hn mitrht
give us away to uoionei uuxbury. So,
without telling him much of anything.
I got him to agree to meet you at his
rooms In the Marlboro to-night after
dinner. Then I was scared for tea
my wire to you would miss."
"You are a white man, Fred, and i
friend to tie to," said Tom; which was
more than he had ever said to Nor
man by way of praise In the days of
master and man. Then, as the train
was slowing Into the South Tredegar
station: "If this thing wins out you'll
come In for something bigger than you
had with Gordon & Gordon; you can
I bet on that."
It was ordained that Gordon should
anticipate his appointment by meeting
his man at the dinner-table In the
Marlboro cafe; and It was accident or
design, as you like to believe, that
Dyckman should bo sitting two tables
away, choking over his food and listen
ing only by the road of the eye, since
he was unhappily out of ear rango.
When the two passed out to the eleva
tor, the bookkeeper rose hastily and
made for the nearest telephone. This,
a', least, was not accidental.
The conference In Suite 52 lasted un
til nearly midnight, with Dyckman
painfully shadowing the corridor unl
sweating like a furnace laborer, though
the night was more than autumn cool.
i ne door was mien, tne transom was
closed, and the keyhole commanded
nothing but a miu.iro of blank wall u;i
poslle- In the c-lectrlc-ltghted sitting
room of the BUite. Hence the book
keeper could only guess what we may
know.
lmi have let In a llood or llht .in
Mr. Farley's proposition, Mr. Gordon.'
said the representative of American
Aqueduct, when the ground hi. I I"
thoroughly gone over. "I don't uiln.l
telling yoii now th.it he mule Ills lirs
c ertur-'S to us on Ins arrlv; I from Ihi
rope, giving !!. to lin b-l :,l.l lll.lt 'e
uur.cil or ci.:ilioiieil ie pipu-iiiakiui;
plants absolutely."
"At that tlni.- b. ci a; i olu-d nothing,
as I have cx;l.iiin-d.' s.iUI Tom. "not
even his majority sleek In Clilawasseo
Consolidated. Of course, he lesum -d
control as soon as he l-tacbed hom.
and his next move was to have me
quietly sandbagged while he froze iiiv
father out Hut father did not transfer
the patenta, for the simple reason that
ha couldn't. They are my personal
property, made over to me belore the
firm of Gordon & Gordon came Into a
totence." , .. ,
"Tsu are the .man, we'll have to do
easiness with, Mr. Gordon. Are rou
quite sure of your legal status In the
ca.se T"
"I have good advice. Hanchett,
Ceedloe and Tryeon, Hichmond Build
ing, are my attorneys. They will put
yeu In the way of finding out anything
you'd like to knew."
"As I have said, I'm here to do busi
ness. We don t need the plant Will
yon sell us your patents?"
"Tee; on one condition."
"That you first put us out of busi
ness, l ou 11 have to smash Chlawasse
Limited painstakingly and permanently
before you can buy my holdings."
The shrewd-eyed gentleman who had
unified practically all of tho pipe foun
dries In the United States smiled a
gentle negative.
"That would be rather out of our
line. If Mr. Farley owned the patents.
and was disposed to fight us as. In
deed, he Is not we might try to con
vince him. But we are not out for
vengeance another man's vengeance,
at that."
"Very well, then; you won't get what
you've come after. The patents go
with the plant. You can't have one
without the other," said Tom, eying his
opponent through half-closed lids.
"But we can buy tho plant to-mo?-row,
at a very reasonable figure. Far
ley Is anxious enough to come In out
of the wet."
"Excuse me, Mr. Draeott, but you
can't buy the plant at any price."
"Eh? Why can't we?"
"Because the majority of the stock
will vote to fight you to a standstill."
"But, my dear slrl Mr. Farley con
trols 65 per cent of the stock!"
"That Is where you were lied to o"e
more time," said Tom, with great cool
ness. "The capital stock of C'.ilawas
see Limited Is divided Into one thou
sand shares, all distributed. My fath
er holds three hundred and fifty
shares; Mr. Farley and his son togeth
er own four hundred and fifty; and the
remaining two hundred are held in
trust for Miss Ardea Dabney, to bo
come her property In feo simple when
she marries. Pending her marriage,
which is currently supposed to be near
at hand, the votin;; power of these two
hundred shares resides In Miss Dab
ney's grandfather, and my father holds
his proxy."
This was tho thunderbolt Tom had
been forging during those quiet days
spent on the mountain side; and there
was another pause while one might
count ten. After which the man from
New York spoke his mind freely.
"Your row with these people must
be pretty bitter, Mr. Gordon. Are yon
u-llllna: to see your father and these
Dabneys go by the board for the sake
of breaking the president and his son?"
"I know whut I am doing," was the
nniot renlv. "Neither my father nor
Miss Dabney will lose anything that is
worth keeping."
"Have you figured that out, too? The
field Is too small for you clown nera,
Mr. Gordon much too small. You
should come to New York."
"You will fight us?" lie asked.
The short-clrcuiter of corporations
laughed.
"Wo'll put you out of business. If you
Insist on It. Anything to oblige."
"You have It to do, Mr. Draeott On
the day you have hammered Chlawas
ece Limited down to a dead proposi
tion, you can have my pipe patents.
If you will meet me at the office of
Hanchett, Goodloe & Tryson to-morrow
morning at 10 o'clock, we will put
.t in wrltlhg." Go-d-iiitiit."
(To be continued.)
FIBST DAILY NEWSPAPER.
The Couruut Slarlod ii London SOO
Yearn A150 liy a Woman.
A woman published the ilrst daily
newspaper in the world. It was called
the Courant and made its first appear
ance in London on March 11, 1702. lie-
fore that time the news had been dis
pensed weekly, or, in a few cases of
very progressive editors, semi-weekly.
It was said that It was Issued by in.
Mallet, against the Ditch at Fleet
Bridge." Behind that non-committal
E" was "Elizabeth. It was the
imagination of a woman that Hist con
ceived the Idea that man would want
to have the news every morning with
his breakfast, and with the character
istic Impulsiveness ot her sex she put
the idea into operation.
The Courant contained only two
columns, but they were devoted entire
ly to newB. For centuries a single
copy of a bulletin has been posted on
the walls of the royal palace In China,
says Advertising and Selling, but that
cannot be called a newspaper, and
there was once a sort of dally market
report in Germany; but It lasted only
a few days.
Tho Courant'B two columns were
printed on only one side of the sheet
and contained such items as the fol
lowing: "Tls believed that the earl of Port
land is by this time at Paris."
"Here Is talk as if 000,001) pistols
were transmitted hither from Francs
for bribing some persona to favor ths
designs of that crown."
There were no pictures nor adver
tisements. Tho Courant lived several
years, and since its appearance the
world has never been without a dally
newspaper. A copy, the very first
Issue, in fact. Is preserved in the Brit
ish Museum. Elizabeth Mallet had a
style and a mind of her own, as Is ap
parent from the following paragraph
from that first issue:
"The Courant (as the title shows)
will be published dally, being designed
to give all the material news as soon
as every post arrives, and Is confined
to hair the compass to save the publio
nt least half the Impertinences of or
dinary newspapers."
She also promises that the editor
will not "take upon himself to givs
any comments cr conjeetors of his own,
but will relate only matter of facts,
supposing tho other people to have
neiiFO riioush to make reflections for
themselves."
'II be 1 11 11 renal Code.
The Tibetan penal code is curious.
Murder U punished with a tine, vary
Ins according to the importance of tl
shilii; tin ft by u line of seven to on
hundred times tho value of the article
stolen. Here, nguin, the fine depends
0.1 the sfrl.'.l Importance of the person
li.mi ,t)bi the theft h:3 been com
lull ted. Tho hat borer of a thief U
lcoked uprn ::s a wots- criminal than
the thief himself. Oi deals by lire and
by boilln;; water are still used as
prenfs of lnnoci nee or guilt, exactly as
was the custom in Europe In the mid
dle pn?a And If the lamas never In
flict death they are adepts at torturs.
Kite Mill l ectures.
Mr. Tile Yuur wife used to lecturs
before she w&3 married. Haa she iw
en it up no?
Mr. MUds Well--er -yes that Is
in public.
IN PIONEER COURTS!
HOW JUSTICE WAS ADMINISTERED
IN RUDE 8URROUN DINGS.
urlsts In Early Days Frequently Were
Illiterate, But Made Up In Hon
esty Whst They Lacked In
Legal Lore.
In the days of which I write the Ju
dicial system, like the country, was in
Its Infancy. The circuit court was com
posed of a president Judge, elected by
tho legislature, and who presided at
all the courts in the circuit, and two
associate Judges, elected in each coun
ty by the people. The president Judge
was always a lawyer of some experi
ence. The associate judges were not
lawyers and they made no claims to
legal knowledge. As a rule they were
typical representatives of the back
woodsmen and very Illiterate, yet they
had tho power to override the pre
siding Judge and give the opinion of
the court, and they often did so. In
such instances their reasoning was
likely to be of a most ludicrous char
acter. However, they made up In
honesty what they lacked In other di
rections, and the results were not a
bad as might be imagined. They were
usually elected because of their popu
larity and their well known Integrity,
and though they occasionally went
wrong their constituents did not
stronaly censure them because of their
mistakes.
The clerks of the pioneer courts
were seldom qualified for their duties.
and many old time records are the
living proofs of this statement They
were uneducated, and some of them
barely had the ability to scrawl their
own names, yet they did not lack na
tlve shrewdness. There was a clerk
in one of the pioneer settlements of
central Indiana who boasted of his
superior qualifications by declaring
that he had been sued on every sec
tion of the statute, and therefore knew
the law, while his opponent had never
been sued and therefore could not
know the law. He was elected on this
platform.
The sheriffs were chosen by the peo
ple, and the man who could send his
voice farthest In the woods from the
courthouse door was often the success
ful candidate. A stentorian voice,
physical strength and tried courage
were the principal qualifications for
this Important office. When the court
desired the presence ot John Smith as
a petit Juror or aB a witness, It was
the sheriff's duty to stand outside the
courthouse or poke his bead out of a
window and cry three times and with
all the power of his lungs, "John
Smith, come to court!" and John gen
erally heard the call and obeyed. If
he happened to be so remote that he
did not hear, there were always plenty
of loiterers who esteemed it an honor
to go after him. A written summons
was seldom resorted to. It was re
garded as a waste of material and
time, to say nothing of the stupendous
task which the preparation of such a
document would place upon a clerk
who could hold a plow handle or rifle
much more effectively than a pen.
By far the most important men who
attended the sessions of tho courts
were the lawyers, especially the
younger ones. But nobody called them
lawyers. They were squires. To see
a young squire with a queu three feet
long dangling down his back and tied
with an eel skin, strutting backward
and forward over the rough-hewn
slabs that formed the floor of the or
dinary log courthouse, brought the
woodsmen from near and far; and to
hear him "plead" was worth a wear!
some toot journey over Ice and snow
and across swollen rivers and creeks,
through an Interminable forest Caso
and Comment.
Automobile Nerve.
One of the nerviest spectacles ever
seen on an auto raceway occurred in
the Long Island stock car derby at
Rlverhead last September. Herbert
Bailey, mechanician for Louis Disbrow
and his No. 1, literally shook hands
with death. When the car had passed
the stand on Its fourth lap and was
two miles from the repair pits the pin
fell out of the reach rod, disabling the
steering gear. The machine threat
ened to become uuamanag'eable.
What did Bailey do hut climb out
over toe noa, lower nimseu uown ou
the little cranking rod, and sit facing
the radiator with his feet propped
against the front axle! With one band
he prevented himself from being
dashed under the wheels by holding on
to the little water cap on the top ot
the hood. The other band held the
disabled steering gear together. Pal
ley rode 20 miles in that manuer
with the car going full speed, until the
circuit was completed and the repair
pits were made. Hampton's Maga
elne.
What She Could Cook.
"But you said you had done the
cooking for a whole family," exclaim
ed the exasperated housewife when
the now arrival told her that she was
qultp lgntrrant of the mysteries of
broiling a steak and could not have
riafted a chicken If ber life depended
on it. "How In the world could you
ever have done that when you seem
to know nothing about It?"
The new Incumbent smiled blandly
"1 did cook for a family of four," she
protested. "But they called them
pelves vegetables, and all we had to
ent usi.d to be nits and boiled pota
toes, and I always boiled the pota
toes."
His Point of View.
".John, dear, queries tne young
v. lfe, glancing up from the physical
culture magazine she was perusing,
"what is your Idea of a perfect figure.'
"Well," replied her husband, "100,000
may not be perfection, but It's nea
enough to satisfy a man of my simple
ta.,tcs."
Careful Calculation.
Mike." said Plodding Pete, "dere
a farmer up do road dat Bays he'll give
vou two dollars for a day's work."
"What's de use of temptln" me when
you know I ain't got do time. You
orter understand dat out o' practise
like I am. it 'ud take me at least sis
weeks to do a day's work. "1 -Washing
M0DE 0F garden of ede:
Art Instructor Advises Women
to
8tudy Leaves In Designing
of Dresses.
As all know, Eve, the first lady of
the land, made herself a dress of llg
leaves. The gown whs an Immense
success, extremely fashionable; every
woman alive wore It.
Now, after all theso years, comes
Henry Turner Bailey, who would re
vive the fall mode of the garden ol
Eden, says the Baltimore Star. At
least, Mr. Bailey, head of the art in
structlon department of the board of
education. Implores women to study
the leaves of plants and trees and
model their gowns after them.
"Women need not go to Paris for
their gowns," said Mr. Bailey. "They
can find the most exquisito Btyles by
simply studying the weeds that grow
In our back yards or the leaves of trees
or ferns. If every part of a dress were
as consistently harmonized in its rela
tive lines as a leaf, that dress would
be well worth wearing."
If Mr. Bailey were not an art In
structor he would be a baseball pitch
er, for he knows nil about curves
He proceeds to advise separately wo
men slender as the lily, women buill
like a cauliflower nnd women who are
Just peaches. Says he:
"It will not take any woman of taste
very long to decide which leaf repre
sents the stylo that becomes her fig
ure. If she Is stout or Inclined to
stoutness she will select as her In
spiration and model those leaves or
flowers that have the sharper angles
and thinner curves. Take the white
oak leaf, with every one of Its curves
a reversed curve, and the woman to
whom that kind of general design ap
plies will have at once an inspiration.
"For the woman of less pronounced
type there may be found another in
spiration In the bud of the lilac, which
has gentle reversod curves all through
It. Then again we find that the St.
John's wort has a series of little
ellipses all through its foliation. The
delicate curves of the wild bean are
extremely suggestive to any person
who will study them, and It seems to
me that tho average typo of American
beauty could find in it an inspiration
for a dress, just as the type inclined
to stoutness would find an inspiration
also in the common rosacea, or mem
ber of the rose family."
Wedding gowns will follow the
curves of the orange ieaf, but widows
who marry the second time will build
their bridal dresses on the model ot
the chestnut leaf. Small babies' long
dresses will be curved as is the leaf
of the milkweed.
And so on.
Man's Sense of Ambition.
Although Imitation Is one of the
great instruments used by Providence
in bringing our nature towards Its
perfection, yet if men gave them
selves up to Imitation entirely, and
each followed the other, and so on
in B.11 eternal circle, It Is easy to see
that there never could be any Im
provement amongst them. Men must
remain as brutes do, the same at the
end as they are at this day, and
that they were In the beginning of
the world. To prevent this, God has
implanted in man a sense of ambi
tion, and a satisfaction arising from
the contemplation of his excelling his
fellows in something deemed valuable
amongst them. It is this passion that
drives men to all the ways wo see
in use of signalizing themselves, and
that tends to make whatever excites
in a man tho Idea of this distinction
so very pleasant. It has been so very
strong as to make very miserable
men take comfort that they were su
preme in misery and certain it is
that, where we cannot distinguish
ourselves by something excellent, we
begin to take a complacency in some
singular infirmities, follies, or defects
of one kind or other. Burke.
London Literary Academy.
One respects the nlne-and-twenty
gentlemen who are to start the British
Academy, and select the words we
should use, and one wonders who shall
be in the other eleven who make up
the forty who shall finally try to stop
the English language from taking Its
own course. But our language has
had its vagaries. It has gone through
America and Judaism and Spain and
well it is a compound of all the na-
ticms on eartu. It's a greedy language
and digests all words. It Invented
Hindustani and the pigeon English of
Shanghai. From the Babu to the nat
uralized American negro, from the
Maori to the Highlander, they talk
EngllBh, and so many kinds of English.
Each man brings his word from the
various countries and continents and
lays li on the counter at Charing
cross. "That's English," he says. And
on that counter are placed words from
China or West Africa, from America
or Australia, English words that have
been annexed and imposed. There
lsnt room here for a dictionary. But
It would not take long to prove that
you cannot stop the English language
from growing even by an academy.
London Chronicle.
Domesticated Lions.
There is considerable reason for be
lieving that the ancients far exceeded
us in ability to train the large carnivo
rous animals. We now regularly pay
admission to see men risk their lives
in cages with trained lions and tigers,
According to a writer In La Revue lies
Idees. the Indians, Persians, Chaldeans
and Assyrians used tho larger carniv
ores almost llko domestic animals.
The Hon, for instance, was sufficiently
tamed so that It could be led without
a halter, and helped In the capture of
deer, wild boars, etc. It likewise ap
pears that the Chinese, in prehistoric
days, used cormorants to catch their
fish and huJ domesticated t lie house
cat.
Desperate Campaigning.
"Why do you InsUt on staying at
hotel where they have 110 electric
lights?"
"Well," replied Senator Sorghum,
"I've got to convince some of those
backwoods constituents ot mine that
I am still a plain, unsophisticated fel
low citizen, unused to habits ot luxury.
If necessary I'm going to leave s call
with the clerk for a quarter to twelve
and blow out the gas at eleven-IMrtv."
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That Is Calumet. Try
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provement in your bak
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economical over the high-
priced trust brands, how
much better than the cheap
and big-can binds.
Calumet is highest in quality
moderate in cost.
Received Highest Award
World's Pure Food
Exposition.
Few Marriages In London.
The marriages In London last year
represent the lowest percentage of
which there is any record.
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Just Like a Girl.
"Her cooking-school habits are a
good deal of bother to me."
"How now?"
"She always wants me to taste the
gasoline when the automobile isn't
working right"
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
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infants and children, and see that it
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Remarkable Young Lady.
From a feuilleton: "Her voice was
low and soft; but once again, as Janet
Fenn withdrew from the room and
closed the door after her, the fiendish
gleam came into her odorless eyes."
"If we hear any more of Janet w
will let you. know." Punch.
Speaking of Fires.
Roy Bone, a brother of United
States District Attorney Harry Bone,
several years ago was a reporter on
the Wichita Beacon. In going to a
fire one of the members of the fire de
partment was thrown from a hose
cart and killed. Bone wrote a head,
with this as the first deck: "Gone to
His Last Fire."
The piece got into the paper ana
Bone was promptly "fired." Kansas
City Journal.
Unfair.
Senator John H. Bankhead, discuss
ing a political move, said, with a
smile:
"Oh, it's too coldly calculated. It's
almost unfair. In fact, it's like Mrs.
Blank.
"Mrs. Blank Is a leader of Bar Har
bor society. Her husband said to her,
one afternoon, as she made a very
elaborate toilet tor a garden party that
she was giving to some members of
the British legation:
" 'Why did you write to all our guests
that this party was to be absolutely
Informal V
Mrs. Blank laughed.
" 'So as to be the best-dressed wom
an present, of course,' she said." -
Brings
Cheer
to the breakfast table
Post
Toasties
with cream.
Crisp, golden-brown
"crinkly" bits, made
from white corn.
A most appetizing;, con
venient, pleasurable
breakfast.
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