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THEVWANTEDADOG But Got a Baby Which Beats the Best Canine Living. ~ By C. B. CRAWFORD. They were a lonely old couple. Seth Earl was sixty and his wife, Ada, fifty-five. If they had had chil dren living they could have faced the future more hopefully. But the lone liness that had always encompassed them since their only boy, Arthur, had died in babyhood, seemed to be closing in around them more tightly from day to day, like a tangible thing. They owned their house in the vil lage and Earl's pension from the cor poration that had employed him for SO years, small though it was, pro vided them with the necessities of life. Since Earl had retired he had mooned aimlessly about the garden plot. He had always looked forward to his long holiday, to a life of leis ured ease, and now life 6eemed to offer nothing. Once, five years before, they had discussed adopting a child. But Seth had never returned to the subject. The look upon his wife's face har rowed him, and he knew that no ehild could ever take the place of their little boy whose photograph was the only picture in the neat little par lor. "I guess I’m too old to start caring for a child now, Seth," said his wife. Besides, we'd be in our graves, as like as not, before it was grown old enough to shift for itself." Both of them had always been somewhat afraid of life, and both shrank from new enterprises. The narrow round of their days had be come a rut along which they traveled aimlessly. “If only I had something, if only a dog,” he said to himself. "That would be company. He'd come to wake me mornings, barking and wagging his tail, and,then what walks wed have together. Well, why not? Why shouldn’t I have a dog? Other men have one.” As he expected. Ada offered strong opposition to the suggestion. But Seth was insistent over his tremen dous plan, and gradually his enthusi asm won his wife over. “He'd muss up the house and scratch things,” she protested. "But “This Beats the Best Dog Living.” if you've set your heart on a dog I suppose you must have one. But where’d you get a dog, Seth? A good dog would cost $20 and we haven’t a dollar to spare. Nobody we know has dogs to give away—leastways, . not good dogs.” “O, yes, we can get a dog,” an swered Seth promptly. “The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani mals has dogs to give away. I was reading something about it in the paper yesterday. It says they pick up stray dogs that nobody wants, and lost dogs that no one claims, or that have got turned adrift, and give them away to anybody that will guarantee them a good home. Ada,” he contin ued firmly, “I’m going into town to morrow to see that society, and I’m coming home with a dog.” “Well, 1 suppose he can eat the scraps,” said his wife grudgingly. The Imminence of the event startled—al most terrified—her, but her husband’s eagerness quenched all further objec tions on her part. She even began to picture their neat little home with its new occupant. “I hope he won’t be a noisy, ill-tem pered dog, Seth,” she said. "And don’t you get one that’s going to bark all night, unless there's burglars round. And mind he isn’t a biting dog.” iney discussed all manner of dogs that night and finally settled upon a fox terrier as likely to give the most satisfaction. When Seth had depart ed next morning Ada found, to her astonishment, that she had become almost as eager as her husband. She paced the floor nervously in the Inter vals between her duties, and once she caught herself in the act of poliahing the chairs, as though some human visitor were expected. "I wonder what sort of dog Seth will bring back with him,” she mused. And when at length Seth stood at the door, dejected and dogless, a great discontent settled upon her. “Couldn’t you find a single dog that would suit. Seth?” she snapped out. “Couldn’t get near ’em," her hus band answered apologetically. “I found the society all right, but the woman secretary wouldn’t let me in. No, nor even finish what 1 had begun to say. I hadn’t got the word ‘adopt’ out of my mouth before she asked me if I were married. ‘Married 30 years,’ I answered, '30 years, ma’am, and to the best woman—* "Then bring your wife along,’ she said. *We don’t have dealings with men.'” "Ton mean to say they take all that trouble about a dog?” inquired his wife. “You'd think it might bo babies they were giving away instead of dogs. I reckon,” she added thought fully, “she must be one of those suf fragettes.” "Well, I suppose we'll Just have to give up thinking about a dog,” an swered her huEband gloomily. "Now, isn't that just like you, Seth!” replied his wife. "The mo ment a trifle happens to upset your plans you want to give up. You promised me a dog and a dog I'm go ing to have.” Seth looked at his variable wife in amazement. "But I thought you didn’t like the idea of getting a dog, Ada.” he said. “I did and I didn't. When you first spoke about getting a dog naturally I was scared a little. But I've been 'hinking it over since and—O, Seth, I want a dog as much as you ana mere,” she sobbed Her husband drew her to him ten derly. Her old gray head rested upon his shoulder. He knew it was the instinct of motherhood within her that had provoked her grief. At last she dabbed her handkerchief to her eyes and Emiled at him. "Ada. my dear, you’re going to have your dog. and the finest in the land,” he said, “even if it takes the last pen ny of our savings." "But it’s not going to cost a penny, Seth.” she answered. ^Because I’m going into town tomorrow and—and— I'm going to bring back cur dog.” Seth Earl put his wife aboara me train next morning. He was to do the housework that day, • while she was gone upon their errand. And as the hours rolled by he, too, was over taken by the same impatience that had overcome his wife on the preced ing day. and he, too, found himself dusting the furniture and straighten ing the chairs as though a human oc cupant were expected. And when at last he heard a tinkle at the bell he could hardly open the door, he felt so shaken. Ada stood at the door, a basket in her arms, and her eyes were bright with happiness, and the look on her face was almost like that she had worn cn their wedding day. She en tered and set the basket down. "Let me see him,” cried Seth, as she began to unfasten the blanket that 'covered it. “Is it a fox-terrier, Ada? It must be a puppy.” He jumped a9 a child's feeble wail came to his ears and looked at his wife in terror as. with motherly fin gers, she pinned back the coverings, 1 disclosing a fine baby boy. "You goose," said Ada softly. “That was the Society for the Prevention j of Cruelty to Children you sent me to. And when I saw the babies lying In ; their little cots all in a row I wanted ) to take them all and—and—” "I wish yon had, dear.” answered her husband ecstatically. “This beats ■ the best dog living.” (Copyright. 1913. by XV. G. Chapman.! PLOW DEVISED BY ABRAHAM University of Pennsylvania Has Pic- i ture of Probably First Ma chine of Its Kind. The University of Pennsylvania has just discovered that it owns what ! is believed to be the first picture of the plow invented by Abraham cen- \ tnries ago. According to the Egyp- j tologists at the museum, their trans lations of the hieroglyphics show that Abraham was the progenitor of the harvester trust. While plows undoubtedly were used before the time of this invention, the i Abraham plow is a combination seed- i er and planter, and, according to the j inscription on the picture, three men ; %ere necessary to operate it The picture was made upon a Baby- i Ionian brick, which was the custom in those days. The apparatus had a tube-like attachment, into which the seeds were poured. A vessel above the ground facing the frame of the plow was used as a receptacle for the seed, and then the harrow was at tached to the back of the plow. The Babylonians Bowed and tilled according to Abraham's commands, and with his invention they feared neither the ravens nor any other birds that devoured their grain. Royal Widow’s Woes. Poor old Francis Joseph, emperoi of Austria, is again called upon to use his kindly offices by another dis tressed lady who desires the approval of the pope to the divorce recently granted to her by the civil courts. The lady is the Archduchess Isabella, who married Prince George of Ba varia, a union that was but for a day. Pius X has ratified the legal decis ions, but has ordered as a pennance for the lady that for six months she shall remain retired in the Red Cross convent and minister to the sick. The archduchess finds this prescrip tion of the pope altogether too se vere. as Bhe desires to attend the wedding of her cousin, the prince of Croy, with Miss Nancy Leischman, daughter of the United States minis ter to Berlin. In the meantime Fran cis Joseph will do what he can to re lieve the lady of the discipline inflict ed by the church. London and Its Lumber. London is the most conservative city in Europe, If not in the world. It loves its lumber. You may still see those notices attached to lamp posts which announce "Standing for Four Hackney Carriages,” or what ever the number may be, though for ten years (in one case, to my own knowledge, for 25) no vehicles of any kind have stood there. Perhaps it is as well that these relics should remain; they are a tiny part of our social history. They will probably re main when we are flying to dinner or the theater in omni-aeros... By that time people won’t know what "hack ney carriage” meant, and there will be discussions in the “Notes and Queries” of the period. For each gen eration hands down to the next cer tain nuts to crack.—London .Chroni cle. Like the Rest of Mankind. "Well, Harry,” said the visitor, play fully, "what are you doing for a liv ing nowT” "Why," replied the little fellow, sol emnly, “i do just the aase aa you do—1 eat* NAP LAJOIE THINKS JOHNSON IS BEST w 11 ■ ■ m \. ; ■'''. - ■ . ..,* •■ ~ Walter Johnson of Washington. “Walter Jolmsou is far and away a better pitcher than Joe Wood, or any other pitcher in the American league," declared Larry Lajoie, than whom there could scarcely be a better judge of pitching. Johnson simply has so much stuff and speed that if he turn ed loose his hardest throw with ^iis stuff on. no catcher could get down ' in time to receive the ball. “Every ball he throws has stuff on ! it. Jcn.e of tha hops his fast ones j take are bigger curves than the big- j gest the average pitcher has. I've seen him throw balls up to the plate I that didn't look larger than a pin- j head. Wood is a good pitcher, ali j right, but he is simply not, in John- ! son s class, nor is anybody else. “Wood broke into the league from Kansas City against us in 1908, in Bos ton. There was a little house in cen ten field, and. we had about seven men who were hitting .300. “Wow! What a reception he got! First we’d knock a brick cat cf the chimney, then a few shingles oft the roof, then we'd batter a window pane. "Nobody ever did anything like that to Johnson, and never will. When a fellow is coaching off first when he's pitching, it’s next to Impossible to see his last one. If he didn't have good control, he would kill so many batters he would be barred from the league. He'd wreck every club he pitched against. There's next to no chance to duck or back away from his delivery. "Almost any time you get a hit off Johnson don't figure that you're smart. Just figure it that you’re lucky; lucky that you happen to make that blind swing in the spot where the ball came. If all the pitches in the league were like Johnson the pitch er's box would hove to be placed at second base so one club could get a run without the game going into ex tra innings.” NOTES of the DIAMOND Otis Clymer, the ex-Cub, has a reg ular job with the Braves. * * i. Springfield has secured First Base man Tom Stankard from Holyoke. * * * Balks are getting to be rather, fre quent occurrences at the Senators’ park. • • • “Joe Boehling of the Washington club is the find of the season," says the New York World. * * » Joe Reilly, the former Brown uni versity third baseman, lasted but a minute or two with Baltimore. • • * Pitcher Doe Ayers, on whom Clark Griffith holds a string, is pitching great ball in the Virginia league. • * * Fans are wondering how many of those now making up the Philadelphia regulars will drop out after this sea son. » • * John Dodge, the new third sacker of the Reds, is a strenuous player and is making gtfod for the Tinker ites. • » • The veteran Charley Hickman is off on a scouting trip to the Pacific coast and intermediate points for the Cleve land Naps. m m * Cedar Rapids in the Central associa tion has a shortstop named Wilhelm Wambsgan&s and he insists on the scorers using his full name In the scores. • • • this year the Athletics are said to be the greatest drawing card on the American league circuit, supplanting the Tigers and Tyrus Cobb in that respect. * • • Whenever the Nap wrecking crew, comprised of Jajoie and Jackson, fails to connect, the team is of second division calibre, according to a Cleve land critic. » * * Archie Neuschafer has joined his third club In the South Michigan, re porting to Lansing. He started with Kalamazoo and has pitched a short while with FlintI * * * Ntck Altrock gets credit for most of the success of the sensational young Joe Boehling. and now he has taken the boy southpaw, Harry Harper, un der his tutelage. • • • One mascot is not enough for Joe Jackson. He has two. One is a fight ing bulldog. The other is a bulldog, too, hut according to Joe, "he's more *ar looks than fighting.’' HERZOG IS A HARD SLUGGER Stick Work With the Giant* in World’s Series Last Fall Attracted At tention in Sport Circles. Charles Lincoln Herzog, infielder of the New York Giants, was born in Bal timore July 9, 1885. He began his base ball career at the University of Mary land in 1904, and for two years flayed shortstop on the college nine. In 1908 he managed a semi-professional team in Ridley, Md. One of his players was “Home. Run” Baker, who now shines with the Athletics. The next Benson Herzog joined the professional ranks, playing with York and Reading in the Charles Lincoln Herzog. Tri-State league. He signed with the Giants in 1908 and remained a member of McG raw's team until traded to Bos ! ton in 1910. Owing to dissensions i among the players the Boston club j sent Herzog back to the Giants in re j turn for A1 Bridwell and Hank Gawdy. j Since returning to New York Herzog has played great bail. His heavy hit ting in the world's series last fail at 1 tracted wide attention. --- Batting Combination. The Cobb-Jackson batting contest [ for the supremacy of the American i league, is developing rapidly into a Cobb-Jackson-Speaker affair. Joe is in the lead a few points ahead of Ty rus, but Tris is visible in the offing paddling up nearer almost every day. Shettsline Is Optimistic. Secretary Shettsline of the Phillies, who has been on the circuit as long as anyone can remember, says the Phillies are a real team and will win the flar MANAGER STAHL IS DEPOSED According to Rumor George Stovall and Joe Birmingham Are Also Slated to Be Let Down. The release of Jake Stahl as mana ger of the Boston Red Sox, the pres ent world's champions, was a big jolt to the baseball world. It had been ru mored that trouble was brewing be tween Stahl and McAleer, but both had dented these reports. That Stahl was ordered to step aside was due to his own action, and was not caused by any previous misunder standings by the pair, it was learned from a trustworthy source. Stahl voluntarily went to McAleer and asked him whether he was to manage the Boston team next year. “Not unless you are able to play first base," replied McAleer. Stahl then told the Boston president that he was averse to continuing as mana i ge.r unless he was to lead the team J next season. “In that event you had better re , sign,” McAleer said to1 Stahl. Mana J per Stahl said be wouldn’t resign un • der any circumstances, and thereupon ; the head of the Red Sox deposed him ; as manager and appointed Catcher Bill ! Carrigan to take charge of the team. That other managerial heads in the i American league will fail is not un likely. Rumor has fastened on two • in the persons of George Stovall and I Joe Birmingham. The Ferguson inci i dent, when Stovall was suspended, : brought the ax very near to Brother j George but back of that were reasons ■ that were not made public at the time ' and have not be en. The three games taken from Detroit | helped Stovall more than a little, for I it was tbfc position of the team and j Jake Stahl. the way that it was going that weighed more than anything else with the own er. Ban Johnson has never been friendly to Stovall nor has George held the most cordial feelings of good will toward the president of the league. Stovall did not better his position by openly siding with the striking Tigers a year age, and it. was freely predicted at the time that be had forfeited his chances of managing the Browns. This did not prove to be the case, but he certainly did Dot endear himself to Big Ban. Birmingham's trouble is that he has made the Naps too aggressive. In his efforts to put fight in the team he has overdone the thing, but now promises to work with his foot on the soft pedal so that all may still be well. Thieving His Forte. Hap Meyers has done much to lift the Boston team from last place in the National league because of daring on the bases. Meyers is a very weak hitter, drawing only a .224 average, but is leading the league In base steal ing. Were he to hit above .300 his chances to pilfer would be greater on account of getting on first oftener. Meyers stole i!6 bases in the North western circuit last year and is un doubtedly the fastest youngster 'to break under the big tent this year. Hedges Is Optimistic. Bob Hedges, owner of the St. Louis Americans, says the Tigers have no license to finish ahead of the Browns "Stovall’s men ought to be ashamed of themselves if they cannot climb above Detroit.” be adds, "but I am go ing to leave the team in George's bands to see what he can do." High-Priced Twlrler. Walter Johnson, the great right fcsnuer of the Washington Americans, is going to be the highest priced twirler in baseball next season, ac cording to the dope. His contract now calls for $7,000. but he has an nounced that with its expiration he will demand $10,000. Amusement for Fans. On one of the "white suit days” it was m> hot that Umpires Hildebrand and O'Loughlin had to take off their coats. All of .which disclosed a pair of sleeve garters on Hildebrand and suspenderr on O’Loughlin. greatly to the amusement of the crowd. Rath’s Unique Record. Morris Rath has a most unique rec ord. The White Sox second sacker has made only one extra base hit this season. He has played in seventy games, has been at bat close to 30b ; times, yet bis longest wallop was a two-bagger. Good Finisher. Packard of the Reds is surely an odd pitcher or in odd luck. He can finish games in splendid style, but when he is picked to start a game they drum on him till the hits echo all over the park. ry;..j p_.i -t__j_t ~ .i- u- i c_ » j Ldwa oeex. need water tnm, ruciwry 'moked and with a choice flavor that you wii] remember Vietna Sausage—just right for Red Hots, or to •erve cold. Try them served like thie Cut rye bread in thin dices, spread with creamed butter and remove crusts. Cot a Libbv’iVienna Sausage in halt, lengthwise, lay on bread Place on too of the so usag? a few thin dices of Libby’s Midget ruckles. Cover with other dice of biead. PRss lightly together. Ar range oo plate, serve garnished with paisley sprays. Libby. McNeill & Libby, Chicago STARTED WITH WRONG IDEA Author Realizes That He Missed Much of Life by Failure to Be His Natural Self. David Grayson, writing a new Ad venture in Contentment in the Ameri can Magazine, says: "It's a great thing to wear shabby clothes and an old bat! Some of the best things I have ever known, like those experiences of the streets, have resulted from coming up to life from underneath: of being taken lor less titan ! am, rather than for more than 1 air.. "I did not always o litre in this doc trine For many yens—:lbe years be fore I was rightly b- m trio this allur ing world—I tried quite the opposite ct urse. 1 was constantly attempting to come down to life from above. Instead of being content to carry through life a sufficiently wonderful being named David Grayson, I tried desperately to set up and support a sort of dummy creature which so clad, so housed, so fen, should appear to be what 1 thought David Grayson ought to appear in the ey“S of the world. Oh, I spent quite a lifetime trying to satisfy other peo ple!* ITCHING TERRIBLE ON LIMB R. F. D. No. 3, Clarkfieid, Minn — “My trouble was of long standing. It started with some small red and yel low- spots about the size of a pin head on my leg and every morning there was a dry scale on top covering the affected part and when those scales were falling off the itching was more than I could stand at times. The first year I did not mind it so much as it was only itching very badly at times, but the second year it advanced aR around my leg and the itching was terrible. I had to be very careful to have my clothing around the affected part very loose. At night time I often happened to scratch the sore in my sleep. Then I had to stand up, get out of bed and walk the floor till the spell was over. "I bought lots of salves and tried many different kinds of medicine but without any success. I got a cake of Cuticura Soap and a fifty-cent box of Cuticura Ointment and when I had used them I was nearly over the itch ing. But I kept on with the Cuticura Soap for six weeks and the cure was complete.” (Signed) S. O Gorden, Nov. 20, 1912. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free.with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post card “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”—Adv. Bringing It to a Head. Briggs—Now you are splitting hairs. Griggs—No, 1 am merely stating bald facts.—Boston Transcript. The poet is born; after which he's mighty lucky if he can contrive mere I y to exist.—Alfred Noyes. Right-Handed Plants. That there are right-handed plant? and left-handed plants has been re ported to the Cambridge (England) Philosophical society by R. I . Comp ton. in an examination of eight va rieties of two-rowed barley the first leaf was found to twist to the left in 5S per cent of more than 12,000 seed lings, and an excess of left-handed growth was found also in millet and in oats. In corn there seemed to be no marked tendency either way. No evi dence of hereditary peculiarity ap pears to have been obtained and no special significance of the results is pointed out. The Reason. "The vulture would do nicely for a religious man's pet. wouldn’t it?” "Great Scott! Why?” “Because it is a bird of prey.” Their Fitness. t “Talking about police sboes-■* ‘ What about them?” “1 wonder if they are all copper toes?” Suited to the Case. "Why does Jobberly call bis stout wife his bantling?” "I suppose it is because he induced I iter to bant.” ; Mrs Winslow's Sootbtnp Syrup -for CliUdreu j teething, softens tbe gums, reduces iufh.tnius. lion,allay* pain,cures wind colic,35c a bottlejA ! 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