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, g irrffff-rr- 4 16 The Commoner VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4f tx' If W a-sideshow. When a local liveryman s offered to trade me a fat -oldplutf' oi aigninea demeanor I jumped' at tho chance. "I won't prolong the agony by de Bcrlblng the march to glory oi that long-logged colt. Sufflco It to say that for several seasons he was tlie wonder of tho race track, and his name and, record are as familiar to every horseman as tho namo, of Henry Thurston Peck Is to lovers of the best In literature. He was sold a' couple of times, and tho price he brought would have bought up tho wnoie viuago wherein I was practic ing mediclno. Many a time as I jogged along tho country roads be hind that old horse that I got from the liveryman, I climbed out of the buggy and butted a telephone pole with my head." . "That reminds me," said the archi tect, "of old Bulger's hired man. Old Bulger was a farmer in our neigh borhood, and he had a whole drove of daughters of marriageable age, but there soemed to bo no demand for them, perhaps because they were not advertised properly. Tho hired man's name was Stephen, and he was the worst farm hand in three counties. Ho couldn't think of any thing but baseball. If there was a game within ten miles he had to be handcuffed to the plow to keep him on the farm. Every spare minute of his time ho was fooling with a ball and talking about curves and msnoots and such technical things. "Flnnllv ha liorl fc nnm.o. t-" f cor in the last campaign in Great Britain were handled. Plenty of partisan feeling, but no cries of "Put him out!" and not too-zealous police whenever an obviously sober citizen asKea an intelligent, aiooii question of the speaker. The speaker .."Finally he had tho nerve to"pro- pose to Jemina, the oldest girl. Jemina was willing, as she was wax ing old and had a red nose, but when the matter was broached to old Bulger he got a club and chased Steve off the place, and warned him never to come back again. "Well, Steve went' to town and be gan pitching for a scrub baseball team and he developed into a phe nomenon and after a while was In the big leagues. One day he visited -old Bulger, going up to the door In a motor car and with hundred dollar bills hanging out of every pocket. His visit brought no happiness to the Bulgers, however, for he had his wife with him, and she had dia monds all over her hat. "There Is a story to th'e effect that after Steve motored away there was a1 sound as of breaking furniture in the Bulger household and that the old man had a black eye for a week or two, While Jemima ..carried her rarm Ina sling, aa though- she might have sprained it "while making "biscuits." Walt Mason, in Chicago News. "HECKLING" When you come to think it over, a "political speaker has a pretty easy time in this country. He says what he wants to say from the platform, makes, what statements he likes about the other side, ignores any phase of his own case that isn't helped much by publicity, and re lies upon humble adherents in the crowd to cry, '"Put him out!" should any argumentative citizen break in- ,. to the speech with awkward ques tions. All a public man need do to w'in a reputation for extreme mag- ..nanimity and mercy Is to check with raised hand the cries of "Put him putt" and to say, as Colonel Roose velt said tho other night, when sev erval policemen started to eject a mortal who had dared to ask a ques tion, "No, no, give him a chance.." It was said that the colonel "grew red in the face" and "did not' seem to relish the interruption," but he controlled himself and let the ques tions proceed. And that was the only interruption of tho evening. Wo wonder how our political speakers would like it if thev worn tn h idled by tho crowd as the speak- waft on mnsdfi. and It wasn't tin to him to - - r " - --' " - - - - say which issues of the campaign he should dwell on and which he should Ignore. It was up to the audience. When tho speaker answered a ques tion from the crowd, he didn't do it as a magnanimous favor, holding in check tho whilo the minions of the law. Ho answered it because that was what he was hore for, and his value to his party as a speaker de pended on his ability to answer just such, questions, hot off the griddle. Let us get a little of that sort of thing in this free land. Let us, get it out of our heads that the man who asks Colonel Roosevelt or Mr. Bryan or Judge Parker a question at a pub lic meeting is necessarily drunk and disorderly. Puck. any desired place, even below the ground, so that no protruding stump is left. Tho electric current may be brought to tho placo from a distant station. Such a station may be established at the border of the for est; a gasoline motor of ten horse trees that are met with in, tropical forests, whose diameters often ex ceed ten feet, may be felled by a single executioner. "The method has, in all cases, tho Immense advantage that it prevents tne loss or wood that results from oi uie HpeuKer. xuo apeuKor - - " un" . uuroe-i me loss oi wooo mat results from tho platform to face tho power and a dynamo are all that is tho use of tho ax." Translation nd It wasn't ud to him to needed. By this means, tho huge made for tho T,ltrnrv nicmcf By this means, tho huge made for the Literary Digest. MICE GOOD INDIANS When Professor Wendell of Har vard entered upon his Sabbatical year, he remained in Cambridge somo weeks after his leave of ab sence began and persisted in taking part in the departmental meeting. The head of tho department, pro tested. "Sir," he said, "you are officially absent, you are non est." "Oh, very well," replied Professor Wendell, "a non est man is the noblest work of God." Success. GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN , Lady Customer (in furniture shop)- "What has become of those lovely sideboards you had when I was last here." Salesman (smirking) "I shaved 'em off, madam." Boston Transcript. FELLING TREES WITH WIRE A method of felling trees with no other tools than a taut wire and a motor has been devised by a, clever German inventor. The use of a wire heated by an electric current, to burn its way through the tree, we are reminded by a writer in Cosmos (Paris, September 17) has long been known. The Berlin inventor, Hugo Gautke, has simplified this process by causing the wire to become in candescent through the work that it does itself. We read: . "The result Is obtained in his sys tem by the friction of a steely Wire one-twentieth-fifth of an inch in di aeter, which, experience has shown may traverse a trunk twenty inches thick in six minutes. The wire, which is given an excessively rapid to-and-fro motion by an electric mo tor, becomes heated by the friction to a temperature high enough to burn the wood and penetrate it rap idly. The result is a neater cut than that made with a saw. The wire severs the largest trunks without the necessity of opening the cut with wedges and the tree may be cut at NOTICE Frederick William Gain (or Gane) alias Frederick Miller, alias William Smith. If the above, a native of England, who, as Frederick Miller, or William Smith, was in 1872 in West Virginia; in 1875 in Pennsyl vania; in 1878 in the U. S. cavalry, Nebraska; in 1881 in U. S. infantry, Fort Stockton, Texas (in army as William Smith); and in 1884 in Kansas, will if living, communicate with the undersigned he will hear of something to his advantage. F. G. LING, Solicitor, Fraralingham, Suffolk, England. 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