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Our Washington Letter Story of Secretary Taft, Who Will Enter the Presidential Race— Comptroller to Rigidly Enforce National Banking Laws—Other Notes of Interest WASHINGTON.—The rumor of Secretary Taft's presidential ambitions is again broad. Al though no authorized statement making known his candidacy has ever been given out by the ponderous head of the war department, the story that he will seek the Republican nomination at the next convention is circulated with great regu larity. The present rumor says the secretary is about to decline the offer of a seat on the su preme bench, made to him some time ago, and that he will then enter the field for the nomina tion. Speaking of the big war the secretary recalls the following story: A certain colonel in the army, within two years of the retiring age, was ordered to the Philippines. He didn't want to go. He thought it ungracious on the part of the war department to send him so far away when he was almost ready to drop out. His protests availed nothing, and as a last resort he had a few of his friends call on Secretary Taft and suggest to the secretary that it would be a very nice thing to allow the colonel, who had served the country well for so many years, to remain at home instead of shoving him off to the tropics. Secretary Taft listened patiently. His friends made all the arguments about long and faithful service. Then, as a clincher, one of them said: “And, Mr. Secretary, you have lived in the Philipipnes and yoitkaow about the climate there. To be frank with you, the colonel is not well. He is get ting very fat and we are afraid he can't live over there.” Taft took a slow survey of his own l.OO pounds. Then he asked gravely: “Did Taft live?” BLEW UP HIS OWN HOUSE. The late Lianiel V. Colclazier, whose death oc curred the other day, was a conspicuous figure during the confederate attacks on Washington during the civil war. Mr. Colclazier and his fam ily then lived on his farm not far from Fort Stevens. On the advance of the confederates he hastily brought his family to the city, and then immediately returned to the fort. By that time the guns of the fort were in action and the enemy was approaching. Mr. Colclazier, noticing a con federate ammunition wagon near his house and observing that one of the union guns was idle went to the commanding officer and volunteered to work it, saying that he had had experience in that line as a militiaman. His ofTer was accepted and he trained the gun on his own house, which with a few shots was demolished. •• - .ww.«v,uv uiiKuiu v-wiiiic *ipuu nit- sctne i 1 Colclazier being the only man not uniformed at r!^fv"nS' thefa^te,nli0? °,f the President was engaged and he. learning the cir !lr!fCeSf° Colclazier s presence, the president directed him to call on the ot "'ar the following morning. This Mr. Colclazier did and he was Cen. C- C- fiaker, who appointed him on his force of secret service men and one of the bodyguard of the president. Mr. Colclazier was made a sergeant. . On one occasion when Mr. Colclaizier was in this bodyguard, a week or ten days before the assassination of the president, he had an exciting time near the soldiers home. Mr. Lincoln had just alighted in front of his sum mer residence and had scarcely taken two steps on the tvalk when a sharp report was heard. The mounted men with all haste rode in the direction whence came the report, but failed to come up with the party of would-be as sassins. who rode down Seventh street into the city. The secret service men learned that four or five men were in the party and that at Boundary avenue they scattered in different directions. The bullet fired grazed one sleeve of the president s coat. BANK LAW TO BE RIGIDLY ENFORCED. national bank. Si uueciors oi national DanKs who, hy constant ly ignoring the lav/, threaten the solvency of the banks with which they are connected, are to be made examples of by the treasury department. Hereafter the law regulating the making of loans by national banks is to be rigidly enforced and the first bank that willfully and flagrantly violates it will have its charter forfeited. This statement was made by a treasury official the other day while discussing the failure of a Massachusetts national bank. The downfall of this bank was due to an ag gravated trouble of which a surprisingly large number of other banks are guilty—excessive loans to bank directors end officers. The admission was made at the treasury de partment that two-thirds of the banks habitually disregarded the limitations of the law in regard to the amounts of loans that may be made. What U more, the department Is regularly informed of these violations of law. which are duly reported to the controller of the currency by bank examiners. It has long been the custom of the controller’s office to condone these un lawful acts, and beyond calling the offending banks' attention to the excess loans and perhaps an admonition to avoid a repetition of the offense, noth ing is done. In other words, the treasury department winks at violations of the law which every now and then wreck a bank. The only punishment that can be meted out to directors who imperil the safety of banks by lending amounts of money in excess of the lawful allowances, is to secure the forfeiture of their charters. This is a step which controllers of recent years considered too drastic to be taken, with the result that not a single bank has been sub jected to anything more severe* than a reprimand. A new policy has been decided upon by Controller of the Currency Ridge ly. Hereafter he will require banks to live strictly up to the law, and in order to convince the banking world that he is in earnest the controller will in flict the full penalty—forfeiture of charter—on the first bank whose directors willfully violate the law limiting the making of loans. A new law was passed at the recent session of congress, giving to the banks greater latitude in lend ing money. Prior to this enactment individual loans were restricted to ten per cent, of the capital of the banks. The new law permits loans of ten per cent, of the capital and ten per cent, of the surplus, but in no case shall they exceed 30 per cent, of the capital. These provisions are to be rigidly en forced. 6TRANGE OCCUPATIONS OF WOMEN. Someone with a talent for figures and an earnest interest in the sex has been raking over the last government census and extracting there from a bundle of statistics showing some of the strange occupations in which the women of our country are engaged. A brief glance at this interesting list is enough to reform any mere man who might have thought that woman is a “frail critter,” only fit for fancy feather stitching and similar dainty -pursuits, and so entitled to the gentle considera tion of the sterner sex. The sex has surely “arrived” and no longer stands in need of protection when it is stated that about one-third of the adult women in the United States are earning their own living, not counting those who are surely earning a living after the good old orthodox fashion, in cooking. tor husbandsi6S hlCident *° raiSlng b’r°°ds of chiidre“ ana maintaintog hTme! '* j® *e'' kno"n b>’ this tlme that women have invaded the business *® stenographers bookkeepers, confidential secretaries and what not; tbey become doctors, lawyers and ministers without number, and branche^^^usinesl ach|eved proprietorship in many lucrative ,r. ait!Kbei>?C,a,.lls.t of occupy,ons in which thousands of others Totr>.S a livelihood is calculated to scare the breath out of sturdy man for ‘“Stance would imagine that there are feminine fishermen and oystermen to the number of 1.805 in the United States? That is the num ber according to the census schedule, and further than that, there are 1 947 stock raisers and drovers and 1,320 women are listed as "guides, trappers hunters and scouts. ^ ’ These are some of the leading occupations, but there are others without n^mb^iandi,When^i,St,°lt,hls sort contains 213 lumbermen and woodchop pers, 154 sailors, 43 hack drivers, 196 blacksmiths, 31 brakemen, 26 switch men, six ship carpenters, 167 masons, 126 plumbers and 879 policemen and sphere is in any way re watchmen, who will dare to say that woman's stricted? • Ju6 censu! jgurf,s heIp exP‘aln- perhaps, why it is that a man out of a^ob has so hard a time .trying to land another one that will give him a liv RU-LES TO REGULATE ROODS. a syuabus has been prepared by the commis sion appointed by the secretary of the treasury the secretary of commerce and labor and the sec retary of agriculture to formulate rules and regu lations for the foods and drugs act, commonly known as the pure food law. In order that the suggestions interested parties may have to otter may be presented in a systematic and compact manner. These suggestions will be offered at a hearing to be held In New York between Septem ber 17 and September 28. The syllabus divides the questions of ruling into 12 groups. They deal with the original package &b pre pared for export, the collection of samples, hear ings and publications, the use of colors, flavors and preservatives, misbranding of foods and drugs, mixtures, compounds, imitations and blends, proprietary foods, drug adulteration and misbranding confectionery, the establishment of the government guarantee ana tne inspection of imported goods. , . Circulars announcing the field to be covered are being sent out to all the food manufacturers interested and those who wish to appear either in per son or by proxy or who wish to file briefs, are directed to make their request tD Or. Wiley, of the department of agriculture. The Automobile of 76 Years Ago. Inquiry into the earliest forms of the automobile has brought to light Church’s steam coach, which ran between London and Birmingham, England, as early as 1S30. It was something like a double stage coach and was constructed to carry twenty-eight inside passengers and twenty-two outside. The chauffeur wore a great coat with many capes, as was the style with old-time coachmen. A committee of the House of Commons was appointed in 1831 to report on the growing automobile move ment, and found its practicability fully established. Popular prejudice, however, it was pointed out, was strong and led to the imposition of heavy tolls, fees and licenses, so the motor fiend would seem to have had a rocky road even in those early days. The railroads, then coming into general use, secured the passage of a law requiring each automobile to keep a man one hundred yards in advance with a red flag by day and a red lantern by night. SPENT HALF HI’S LIFE IN JAIL.! BIG BILL" MASON, NOTED CRIMI NAL, AGAIN BEHIND BARS. Was Well Known in Chicago Gambling Circles—Arrested in Wisconsin, Sent to Waupun, But Made Kis Escape. Laporte, ind.—The doors of the In diana state prison have opened again to one of the most noted criminals in the country. His real name is Richard Keegan, but he is best known as "Big Bill” Mason. Mason as W. T. Wright was sent up under the old law to serve seven years. After about three years he escaped and was finally located at Cherry Hill, Pa. He was given no pos sible chance, after and went out only at the expiration of his term. “Big Bill" Mason is particularly well known in Chicago, where was the scene of many of his exploits. Around ‘Mike” McDonald's and George Han kins' gambling houses he was known is the high “roller of faro.” He has pursued all the branches of crime, and while he has been success ful in them all he lias spent nearly 25 years in prison. So that in the bal ance he strikes in his fifty-fifth year the account is heavily against him. In the Northfield bank raid, in whicn he participated with the Younger and James toys, he was “the kid.” In all of Mason's arrests he was well pro vided with “bail money” and was able to get the best of criminal talent at the bar to fight his cases, 't cas his boast that he never pleaded guilty. After a './ild spectacular career Ma son appeared in Chicago and made his headquarters at Dave Thornton's House of David” in Cl^.rk street. He was always well provided with money and ostensibly his business was to make a show of i'. by buying drinks for anybody and everybody. Meanwhile he was playing faro in McDonald’s place, and occasionally in Hankins' place across the street. He was gon rally a winner and was accus tomed to leave a sum of mcney in Thornton’s to the credit of fellows who were down and ou\ Usually it was, he said, 10 per cent, of his winnings. If he lost he put a $10 bill there any way for the same purpose, saying that the Lord and the gambler alike loved a cheerful giver and he wouidn t have luck if he were not ready to divide. Mason at this time was about 25 or 26 years old. In appearance he was a striking ngure, six fret tall, straight as a dart, broad shoulders and with j the easy movement and grace of a panther. Hut his face was against him. It was hard and cruel of ex- j pression. Ilefore he left Chicago, however, he | determined to make one big play, and he broke Hankins’ hank. A short time before that the house of H. F. Whit cen, president of the Wisconsin Cen tral railroad, in Milwaukee, had been entered and robbed. The spoil was traced to a "fence” in Chicago about the time Mason made his big play at Hankins' faro bank. The "fence” gave Mason away, j While the Milwaukee police were ar- 1 ranging to arrest him at Thornton’s place the hangers on at the gambling heuse planned to rob him. Four of them attacKed him, but he beat them j all and escaped to the street just as the police came up and took him. He was taken to Milwaukee and there in duced two detectives to enter his cell on the pretense of giving up. He seized them both and threw them vio lently against the rear wall of the ceU. J’TV’TV1?””"" *T”*1TV,¥”,tV Some Queer Family Names. “CHUMPS," “OGS” AND “CUB BUMS" IN OLD KENTUCKY. Odd Cognomens of the “Quarter” Heirs—Remarkable Collection Gathered Within a Radius of 20 MileV of Ford. Ford, Ky.—It is doubtful if any oth er county in this state or in any other j state can show such a remarkable col- j lection of given names and surnames ; as are to be found within a radius of 20 miles from this town. We have Able Chump, Little Chump, Chumppv Chump and Skittles Chump. To this must be added the family of Chicken, with the eldest son christened Old Chicken and the youngest daughter1 Pullet Chicken. Then there is the Og J family, with Barabbas Og at the head of it. One of his boys is named John ! L. Sullivan Og, and the youngest girl ; in the bunch 13 Snippy Og. But that is not a circumstance to the way Philias Quarter has named bis children. He seemed to take a de light in the oddity of his own name and to perpetuate it in the christening of his four boys. The first one, born about 19 years ago, is well known throughout the county as First Quar ter. The next heir is Second Quarter. The third is called “No" Quarter, tha fourth Bad Quarter. The mother never had any say in the selection of the names of her chil dren. Old Philias decided on what ha intended to call them the day aftei they were born, and what he said hag to be accepted in thfe Quarter house hold. Not one of these sons has ever been 20 miles away from home. Nc member of the family is able to read or write and they have no conception of the outside wrorld. About seven miles from the Phidias Quarter farm lives the Bennett family, whose hired man is named Angel Cub bum. He is proud of his name and boasts that his brothers and sisters, who live in the same county, are just as oddly named as he. One sister is Sizzley Cubbum. another Homino, a brother Calico and the youngest in the outfit Measles Cubbum. Almost Swallowed $1,000. Utica, N. V.—Eugene Smaltz, em ployed at Ilion, went to a clambake a few days ago and found a rare pearl in a clam which he was about to de vour. The pearl is said to be worth about $1,000. It is different from most pearls, as it is very dark, and shows purple, blue and black. It weighs four and one-eighth carats, and is without a flaw. In a moment he was out in the corri dor and running toward the main en trance. One of the detectives shot him. but he got away. A few nights afterward a badly wounded man dragged himself to the door of the house of J. I. Case, in Racine, owner of Jay-Eye-See, the trotting horse. He was delivered up to the police and sent to Waupun state prison for eight years. Waupun is regarded as cr.e of the safe prisons of the United_ States, but Mason rawed his cell door, sawed the bars from a window out of the cell house, a task that under the circum stances must have taken some weeks, scaled a wall and was free. The prison authorities had previously learned that “Big Bill” had escaped from the Los Angeles prison and kept a close watch on him. Early one morning in 1898 there was a police fight in New York which ended in Mason, Thomas Reilly and James Coffey being cap tured. That battle is a tradition of real glory to the New York police force. Since then Mason has spent nearly all his time in prison. NECK BROKEN NINETEEN YEARS. Railway Engineer Mangled in Wreck Survives Injuries. Albuquerque, N. M. — Barney Bald win, known the world over as the “man with the broken neck.” was here the other day renewing acquaintances made In 1880-83, when he was an en gineer. Baldwin's neck was broken In a railway accident at Birmingham, Aja., In 1887. He wears his neck and head in harness continually. When he lays down the vertebrae slips out BIIIHIIIW of place, and his bones wobble and often come unjointed. If he raises his right hand, the left also bobs up. \ In the wreck he had his right arm, 1 five ribs and both legs fractured, his ‘ watch crushed out of sight in his j bowels, and an iron bolt driven into I him with force enough to break his collar bone. Doctors here, as every where, pronounce him the most puz zling case ever dealt with, because a man could be so torn and broken and still live. Baldwin, who is mar ried and lives at San Bernardino, Cal., claims the railroad on wjiich he was hurt, pays him a handsome monthly m n*mi ■m stipend. Baldwin was the man who pulled the special train that brought the famous New Mexican murderer, Milton Yarberry, to this city to be hanged. Man Reforms at Age of 95. Winthrop, Me.—Ellis M. Clark has decided to quit chewing tobacco after SI years of the habit. He was 95 years of age the other day, and to celebrate the event called together his friends with the announcement that he in tended to sign a pledge. The pledge proved to be his declaration that he will no longer use tobacco. mm Long Life Due'to Lemons. Philadelphia. — “Uncle” Richard Toomes, who has been a resident of the Odd Felloes’ home, Seventeenth and Tiogv streets, since July 15, 1898, cAlebr»t-cd his ninety-eighth birthday the other day, and, as has been his custom for several years, he spent most of the day at the home of his nephew, Thomas Toomes, Falls of Schuylkill, where a family reunion was held. In company with William Fryer, a fellow resident of the home, and R. R. Shrank Uncle Richard was given a 60-mile ride by Dr. Sweaney, in his large touring automobile, before being dropped at the home of his nephew. The run was through Fair mont park, West Philadelphia, Dela ware and Montgomery counties. “Uncle” Richard was born in Eng land, August 11, 1807, came to this country in 1822, and followed his trade as a cloth weaver near Darby until 1878, when he retired. Despite his yea * he is well preserved, and has nev used spectacles, being able to read me print without the aid of glasses. He thinks his long life is due to the fact that lemons have been his chief medicine. Qn April 14, 1848, he was made a member of KIngsesaing lodge. Na 309, I. O. O. F., and is one of the oldest members of the order in Pennsylvania. Comfort for German Railroad Man. On some Prussian railway lines hot and cold drinks are sold to employes at the price of two pfennigs (one-half cent) per portion of coffee or tea or for a bottle of mineral water. On some of the lines in Germany the em ployes have been forbidden to take any alcoholic drinks while on duty. Want New Charter. A supplementary royal charter Is being sought by the University of New Zealand to enable It to confer degrees of a novel character. Among them art bachelor, master and doctor of com merce, pubHc health, agriculture, en gineering, dental surgery and veteri nary science. r» 'w *v T *T'T« CAMERA FIEND HOLD UP 8TAGE Girl and Accomplice Play Bandit to Get Realistic Photo. Can Francisco.—Eighteen passen gers on the stage froth Harbin springs to Calistoga were given a bad fright the other day when the stage was held up by masked highwaymen, who commanded them ia dismount and line up on the side of the road. One of the passengers named Silver stein was forced to search the vic tims. After all the money had been secured Silverstein was ordered to re turn the plunder and saw the robber disappear in the Undergrowth. A mo ment. later Miss Hayes, daughter of the proprietor of Harbin Springs, ap peared with a camera and explained that the hold-up had been a Joke. The passengers were little inclined to re gard it as such. Especially angry was Silverstein. It goes without saying that some folk travel so far in search of Hap piness they never find the way back to it—Atlanta Constitution. The Death Chamber. By Stephen Crane. u wmvuBMraw A sergeant, a corporal and 14 men of the Twelfth regiment of the line had been sent out to occupy a house on the main highway. They would be at least a half of a mile in advance of any other picket of their own people. Sergeant Morton was deeply angry at being sent on this duty. He said that he was overworked. There were at least two sergeants, he claimed fu riously, whose turn it should have been to go on this arduous mission. He was treated unfairly; he was abused by his superiors; why did any fool ever join the army; as for him he would get out of it as soon as possible; he was sick of it; the life of a dog. All this he said to the corporal, who lis tened attentively, giving grunts of re spectful assent. On the way to this post, two privates took occasion to drop casually to the rear and pilfer in the orchard of a de serted plantation. When the se-geant discovered this absence, he grew black with a rage which was an accumula tion of ail his irritations. ■‘Run, you!” he howled. "Bring them here! I’ll show them—” A private ran swiftly to the rear. The remainder of the squad began to shout nervously : at the two delinquents, whose figures they could see in the deep shade of the orchard, hurriedly picking fruit from the ground and cramming it within their shirts, next to their skins. The beseeching cries of their comrades stirred ihe criminals more than did the barking of the sergeant. They ran to rejoin the squad, while holding tneir loaded bosoms and with their mouths open with aggrieved explanations. A moment later the squad moved on toward its station. Behind the ser geant’s back Jones and Patterson were slyly passing apples and pears to their friends, while the sergeant expounded i eloquently to the corporal. "You see [ w-hat kind of men are in the army now! Why, when I joined the regiment it was a very different thing, I cau tell you. Then, a sergeant had some au-1 thority, and if a man disobeyed orders he had a very small chance of escaping something extremely serious. But now! Good God! If I report these men, the captain will look over a lot of beastly order sheets and say” (here “We Can Beat Them Off.” the sergeant wrathfully imitated the voice of his'captain): "‘Haw, eh, well. Sergeant Morton, these men seem to have very good records; very good rec ords, indeed. I can’t be too hard on them; nc; not too hard,’" continued the sergeant; “I tell you, Flagler, the army is no place for a decent man.” Flagler, the corporal, answered with a sincerity of appreciation which with him had become a science. "I think you are right, sergeant,” he answered. Behind them the privates mumbled discreetly. "This sergeant of ours, he thinks we are made of wood. I don't see any teason for all this strictness when we are on active service, it »sn't like being at home in barracks. 1 his Is very different. He hammers us now worse than he did in barracks. There is no groat harm in a couple of men dropping out to raid an orchard of the enemy when all the world knows that we haven't had a decent meal In 20 days.” The reddened face of Sergeant Mor ton suddenly showed to the rear. “A little more marching and much less talking,” he said. When he came to the house he had been ordered to occupy, the sergeant sniffed with disdain. "These people must have lived like cattle!” he said, angrily. lo be sure, the place was not allur-I lng. The ground-floor had been used : for the horsing of cattle, and it was dark and terrible. A flight of steps led to the lofty first floor, which was de nuded, but respectable. The se-geant’s visage lightened when he saw the strong wads of stone and cement. "Un less they turn guns on us, they will never get us out of here,” he said cheerfully to the squad. The men, anxious to keep him in an amiable mood, al! hurriedly grinned and seemed very appreciative and pleased. •'I’ll make this Into a fortress," he announced. He sent Jones and Patter Bon, the two orchard thieves, oat on sentry duty. He worked the others then until he could think of no more things ta tell them to do. Afterward he went forth, with a major general's serious scowl and examined the ground in front of his position. In recurnlng he came to a sentry, Jones, munching an apple. He sternly commanded him to throw It away. The men spread their blankets on the floors of the bare rooms, and put ting their packs under their heads and lighting their pipes, they lived in lazy peace. Bees hummed in the garaen and a scent of flowers came through the open window. There was a sudden little spatter of shooting. A cry from Jones rang out With no little Intermediate scrambling, the sergeent leaped straight to his feet **Now,” he cried, ’let us see what you are made of! If,” he added bitterly, “you are made of anything.” A man yelled: "Good God, can't you see you’re all tangled up in my cart ridge belt?’.’ Another man yelled: “Keep oft my legs! Can’t you walk on the Stor?" To the windows there was a blind 'lull of slumberous men, who orishec **r *roni their eyes even as they made ready their rifles. Jones and Patter son came stumbling up the steps, cry ing dreadful information. Already th< enemy’s bullets were spilling md sing-, ing over the house. The sergeant suddenly was stiff amt cold with a sense of the importance ol the thing. There was a howl. “There they are! There they come!” The rifles crackled A light smoke drifted* idly through the rooms. There was a strong odor ai from burnt paper and the powder of firecrackers. “Now,” said the sergeant, ambitious ly, “we can beat them off easily if you men are good enough.” There was a fusillade against an other side of the house. The sergeant dashed into the room which command ed that situation. Ho found a deac soldier on the floor. “Patterson!” cried Sergeant Mo-ton “Yes,” said Patterson, his face se! with some deep-rooted quality of de termination. Still, he was a mere tarn boy. * “Go in to Knowles' window and shoot at those people,” said the sergeant hoarsely. Afterwards he coughed Some of the fumes of the fight had made way to his lungs. Patterson looked at the door Into this other room. He looked at it as if he suspected it was to be his death chamber. Then he entered and stood across the body of Knowles and fired vigorously into a group of cha-ming plum trees. tney cant take this nouse. de clared the sergeant in a contemptuous and argumentative tone. He was ap parently replying to somebody. A man who had been shot in the throat looked up at him. Eight men were firing from the windows. The sergeant detected in a corner three wounded men. talking together feebly. “Don't you think there is anything to do?” he bawled. "Go and ret Knowles’ cartridges and give iuem to somebody that can use them! 'lake Simpson's, too.” The man who tad been shot in the throat looted at him. Of the three wounded men who had been talking, one said apologetically: “My leg is all doubled up under me." Meantime the sergeant was reload ing his rifle. His foot slipped in the blood of the man who had been shot in the throat. “Why, we can hold this place!” shouted the sergeant jubilantly. Corporal Flagler suddenly spun trom his window and fell in a heap. “Sergeant," murmured a man, as he dropped to a seat on the floor out of danger, T can’t stand this. I swear 1 can’t. I think we should run away.” Morton, with the kindly eyes of a good shepherd, looked at the man. “You are afraid, Johnston; vou ere afraid,” be said softly. The man strug gled to his feet, cast upon the sereeant a gaze full of admiration, reproach and despair, and returned to his post. A moment later he pitched forward, and thereafter his body hung limply out of the window. The sergeant laid his rifle against the stonework of the window frame and shot with care until his magazine was empty Behind him, a man sim ply grazed on the elbow was wildly jobbing like a girl. “Shut up,” said Morton, wi hout turning his head. Before him was a vista of fields, clumps of trees, woods, populated with little, stealthy, fleeting figures. He grow furious. "Why didn’t he tend me orders?” he cried aloud. The emphasis on the word “he” was im pressive. The man who had been grazed on the elbow still set up his bleat. Mor ton's fury veered to this soldier. "Can't you shut up? Can’t you shut up? Can’t you shut up? Fight! That’s the thing to do! Fight!” A bullet struck Morton and he fell upon the man who had been shot in the throat There was a sieger ing moment. Then the sergeant ro!l~d off to a position upon the bloody Hoor. He turned himself with a last effort until he could look at the wounded whc were able to look at him. His arms weakened and he dropped on his face. After an Interval, a young subaltern of the enemy’s infantry, followed by his eager men, burst into this -eeklng death chamber. But just over tne threshold he halted, and remarked, with a shrug to his sergeant: “I «hould have estimated them as at least IOC strong.” (Copyright. 19f6. by Joseph R. Bowles.) GENTLE REMINDER FOR PAPA, Robbie Uneasy Over Time It Took to Make Printing Press. One day papa took Robbie down to see the presses print the books and [ papers and pictures, and the little boy was much interested. “Papa,” sadi he, “let me come down every day and run the presses.” “O, I couldn’t do that,” said his papa, "but maybe I’ll have a little printing press made for you, just your size.” The weeks and months passed away and papa forgot all about his prom ise, but Robbie didn’t. It was fully a year later that he came home from Sunday school and said: "Papa, teach er said that God made the world in six days. Is that so?” “I guess it is,” said papa. “The water and the dirt and the trees, and the dogs and birds’ nests, and everything?" “Yen.” “Gee, whiz!” said Robbie, “that wan quick work. Six days to make all the world, and you’ve been a year and ain’t got that printin’ press done yet!" —The American Boy. Explained. “Say paw.” “Well son?’ “What is meant by running gear?” “A woman’s tongue, my ton.”—Mil* waukee Sentinel.