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aSffTT.-)ii!f ' w a-!! -. -J -.- - 4 HIS CLEVER SCHEME John Moran Arose to Occasion, and Immediately Fell With Great Splash. BY HERBSRT DROCER. (CopyrlRht, 1913. by thn McCluro Nows pnpor Syndicate.) Anything between tho ridiculous and Uiu sublimo probably would havo left John Moran with a very uncertain appreciation of tho Fourth of .July celebration. Neither tho one nor the other, In his opinion, coutd havo been very fruitful of roHtilts. Hut when tho ridiculous followed close on the sub lime, tho two operated after a fash ion peculiarly uncalculated and brought Susan Duvaif to an instan taneous decision on a matter affecting John, wherein all the p'b and q's she had lingered over so long never be came finally resolved in her mind to a syllogistic nicety. Of tho two extremes, tho sublime had been deliberately planned; It was premeditated. Tho ridiculous wasn't. Tho former wns tho rosult of a clever schemo and weeks of hard work. The latter was the chance of a minute, un foreseen, unexpected, and, somo might havo said on tho spot, unpropitlous. For several years John Moran had wooed Susan Duvau, but, so far, ho seemed to himself no nearer tho matri monial goal than ho had been at tho beginning. All her peoplo had been assisting him without npparent avail. He had pleaded with her; ho had coaxed and cajoled and even assayed to coerce after a mild fashion, his threats reaching that supcrlatlvo pro portion whore ho promised to Identify himself for life with tho sublimo or der of bachelorhood. Hut, to nil this, sho merely cast clown her eyes de murely and asked him to wait awhile. John calculated that ho had waited long enough. At first ho had been patient, but now he was growing des perate. A scoro nnd one-half years had romo and gone around the Ufa of Susan. As her thirty-first birthday ap proached, John, who had schemed un til his hair was beginning to fall out, decided on a bold stroke He spent jtho afternoon with her that day, and, in the evening, they had dinner to gether downtown. That night ho sat with her on the (front porch, after tho family had re hired. Over them a dim light shining .from tho parlor window, cast n palo glow. John sat quietly, watting for the sllcnco ho depended on for the furtherance of his plan. After awhile It came, and then, whon the stillness had locked tho night In its embraco, ho began to hum, "Silver Threads Among tho Gold." When ha had drew his chair closer to hers, reached ceaBed, tears stood in his eyes. Ho out for her hand again, and asked her to become his wifo. nut it waB the samo old prosaic answer." "Walt awhile, John." sho insisted. "Walt awhile. Do something grand. Show mo that you can rlso to the oc casion." Rlso to tho occasion, ho would. Ho resolved that firmly as ho stood up forthwith and bade her good night. Ho resolved It all tho way home. Tho next morning he still resolved It. Hut how? A hnppy thought struck him. John had a penchant for happy thoughts. He would make a spech at a Fourth oX July celebration. It would be so grand and so eloquent, couched in such rich expressions and so laden with noblo sentiment, that she could not help but feel the appeal. He would show her that he could, "rise to tho occasion!" i John got out his old, school dic tionary and brushed the dust from its covers. Then he borrowed an im mense volume of masterpleco orations from a friend and read every speech he could find that contained any pa triotic reference or expression. For four weeks, he labored almost Inces bantly, night and day, on his effusion and finally ho had it completed. An obstacle that John had not reck oned on now loomed up. John was a member of tho program committee, and he doubted tho propriety of hav ing himself included among the list of speakers. Dut he remembered his penchant, and called it into play again, with good effect. The morning before tho celebration he called around to see the chairman of the committee. "You see ahem! Mr. Qrubbs," John began, "being one of tho commit tee, I should regret to see any part of tho program fall flat." "JuBt so," answered tho chairman. MI feel tho same way." "Well, as a matter of precaution, Mr. Qrubbs, I think I shall prepare a few remarks myself today. Should any of the speakers be tardy, or fail to respond, you might call on me." "Fine idea, John. I'll do It." Then John took himself around to the residence of Squire Sloan. - He knocked at the door and was admit ted. "Ahem, squire," began John, after an inquiry concerning his boat's health, "we are altering the program for tomorrow slightly." "So?" "Yes. You see, on account of your advanced years and the fact that you have been ailing, we thought it might suit you better to speak, say, at 11:30 than at 11 o'clock." "I believe it would," answered tho old man. About 11 o'clock tho next morning, Chairman Grubbs scanned tho gath ering In vain for a glimpso of Squire Bloau. Then, liu stood up and oa nounced: "Though not appearing on the vrc gram, tho Hon. John Moran has been requested to make n fow remarks. It Is not necessary that I Introduce our esteemed fellow citizen." As John approached tho edge of tho platform ho looked down Into tho faco of Susan nnd made a mental noto of the surprise expressed in her coun tenance. He paused a moment, as If Improvising a speech, while ho chuckled Inwardly at tho satisfaction tho occasion afforded. Now, ho whis pered to himself, ho would show her tho caliber of man ho wns; ho would prove that he could "rlso to tho occasion." And rlso to the occasion ho un doubtedly did. His wns tho most elo quent, the most logical and tho most Impressive speech delivered that day. As he concluded ho was greeted by a loud and prolonged applause. Ho stepped down from tho platform nnd mado his way toward Susan. As he approached, ho observed n twinkle in her eyes, but did not trouble himself with an explanation Just then. 118 was too happy. She arose and took hold of his arm. "Let ub go off to some placo whoro we can sit nlone," she said. They mado their way toward tho outskirts of tho crowd. When thoy had reached a point whore they could speak without boing overheard, ho turned to her questlonlngly. "Well," he snld, "did I" "You certainly did, John," sho Inter rupted. "Who would havo thought It?" Tho sublimo had been attained. ' "Who wroto It for you, John?" sho asked. "Wroto It?" In hurt surprise. "Why, nobody." Thoy walked along In silence. "How long did it tako you to pro paro it, John?" Ho did not nnswer. "Yes, you certainly did rlso to tho occasion, John. Now, you want to bo careful not to fall, lest " Fato would havo it that ho fell that Instant. Twitted nnd stung by her raillery, ho had been walking peril ously near tho edge of tho high dirt bank that ovorhung the creek, with out thought of danger. As sho spoko, tho ground beneath his feet gavo way, and ho went tumbling through tho dirt nnd sand into eight feet of water below. Susan shrieked, nnd tho crowd, alarmed by her cry. began to rush to tho spot. As tho gntherlng in front of tho speakers' stand broko away In largo groups, tho chairman arose and asked tho causo of tho commotion. He was answered by a little urchin, who stood up in the seat of a farm wagon. "Why, Jack Moran's fell in tho crick," shouted tho lad. John was dragged out at "the ford, a short distance down tho creek. About his eyes, mouth, nose and cars, nnd over a part of his clothing, were black splotches of mud. Resuscitat ing methods were applied, nnd as ho began to revive, tho crowd drew back, leaving him stretched out on n buggy lap-robo and attended by Susan. When he opened his eyes, she wns kneeling by his sldo nnd looking down Into his face. "Did I rise" ho began. "Thero there," soothingly. "Yes, you did. Now, lie quiet." Sho gently stroked tho hair back from hlB brow. Ho grasped her hand In his and sho suffered him to hold It. One night, three months lator, aft er the wedding toasts had been pro posed and John had made his re sponse, he mado a mental observation to himself, as ho took his seat. "I wonder," ho reflected,' "whethor It was my celebration speech, or tb tumble I got?" Comforting News. A minister who preached for many years in a suburb of Cincinnati re tired and went to Florida to live. After a year or so thero he paid his first visit to New York in 20 years. Ho wandered about for two days, and then went to see an old Cincinnati friend. "I have been watching tho people in this city," said the dominie to his friends, "and I wonder and grlevo at the money-madness I see everywhere. This rush and hurry and eagerness for money abashes me. It is astonishing! Why, down in Florida one can live in comfort for $2,000 a year, but here they think and talk and act in terms of millions! "It Is all bo vast and so complex!" he sighed. "Why, this afternoon I walked down by your tallest building. I stood on tho curb and looked up and up and up, and tried to comprehend the immensity of that structure My mind reeled. I felt faint and dizzy. I loaned against tho building for sup port and a passing newsboy chirped: " 'Cheer up, old sport! It ain't ngoln' to fall on you!'" Saturday Evening POBt, New Road Material." A new road material designed to stand hard usage from automobiles Is being tried by a Swiss engineer, W. Erllch, and is said to consist of a mix ture of broken atone about the alze of a hazel nut, but not limestone, with a binding material whoso composition Is not divulged by the inventor. In the present process tho stone Is heated at first from 100 to 150 degrees Cent, and mixed at this temperature with the melted composition. When In use the mass is remelted )n order to put it on the road. A road roller heated to a rather high point is passed over tho surface, the roller weighing about six tons. Reports state that very good road surface can be obtained In toll way. STORi V-J 0r CAMP ANDW; AWAITING A HORRIBLE DEATH Chlcagoan Recalls Terrible Battle ol Fredericksburg Was Then a Boy of Only Sixteen Years. Tho suspense of nwnttlng death fot which preparations wero mado agali and ngnln, detlberntely nnd In full view. Is told by If. H. Walton. 1219 Knst Seventy.llfth street, Chlcngo, who was n boy of sixteen ycarB at tho tlmo of the battlo of Fredericks burg In December, 1862, but who al ready had more than a year of mili tary experience behind him. He was ,a member of Company K, Thirty fourth New York Infantry, of Gor man's brlgado, Sedgwick's division. Tho story of his experience boforo the stono wall of Fredericksburg 1b told ns follows: "I.ato in tho afternoon of Decem ber in our regiment, with others, was hurried from within tho city of Fred ericksburg to support tho troops charging up Mnrye's hill In a vain endeavor to reach tho famous stono wall. As I remember It, wo had no moro than como to n hnlt whon the shells from tho Confederate cannon wero bursting nil about us. "At this moment, behold! an officei riding n whlto horse daBhod up to b Confederate cannon on tho hill nt out right. He pointed peremptorllj Btrnlght toward us. Wo could hm every movement of tho gunners and wo could boo tho cannon nnd every one of us knew whnt wns coming. Wo saw tho landing of tho pleco In every detail, saw tho gunner thumb tho vent, saw tho lnnyard plnced nnd then tho gun Righted nnd every man and boy of us know that death in an awful, horrible shapo was coming straight from that cannon mouth us UB. "It did como. Tho first shot struck nnd burst nt tho right of tho regl merit, killing nnd mutilating a full score. Agnln we watched tho gunners nnd waited for death nnd again it came. This tlmo tho shell burst farther clown tho lino near tho middle of the regiment, and nnother scoro or more wero either killed or mutllntcd. again wo watched. Oh, thoso mo ments of ngony nnd suspense! The gun is swubbed. Tho chargo Is placed nnd again wo see the gunner with his thumb -over tho vent. Tho shell is rammed homo and now tho Innynrd Is in hand. Tho man Is sight ing tho gun nnd death again stares us in tho fno. Oh, tho mockery nnd emptiness of words to tell of horrors like this! "In one second uir company was rent nnd torn, like n pleco of cloth in a hurricane Tho shell had burst ex actly In our midst. It took ono man with It as It entered tho ground, bursting, nnd toro both his legs away; it killed flvo outright and maimed and crippled I cannot now remombcr how mnny. I bellevo I never Jumped quicker or so far. I landed right be sldo the captain, and at tho samo in stant a bunch of brains as largo as a butternut fell on his sword. "At this moment we witnessed the most glorious sight of our lives. A shell from General Hunt's federal guns an Stafford's heights burst beau tifully and exactly under tho muzzle of tho gun that had wrought us such destruction. Tho gun disappeared as if it had been swallowed up in the earth. "Andrew Smith, third from me In the ranks, had one arm and ono leg nearly torn off by the last explosion. Two of tho men were detailed to car ry him Into town to n hospital, and I was sent with him to help. We took him to a church already filled with the wounded. The two others were sent back to our com pany, and I, being so young and look ing It, I suppose, wns ordered to stay and take care of poor Andrew. There was no hope for this bright boy. That Is all he was, Just a slim, pale faced boy. I stayed with him and did what I could for him until about midnight, when he died. "Whore could I go then? Every thing in and about the city was abso lutely chaos. One of the doctors, or surgeons, told mo to stay there until morning. The body of the church waa filled with wounded. They were ly ing close to each other on the floor Just as they had been brought from the battlefield. The wide front vesti bule was the operating room. Two tables had been Improvised. On one tho lacerated ana wounded wore cared for. The other was used for amputa tions only. I found an empty box and sat down on it In the corner and watched them amuptate. "That was a night to remember. They cut off legs and arms bo fast one could scarcely believe It was in God's own country and that he waa looking on. The Reason. When Sherman's men reached Mill edgevlllo, the old capital of Georgia, everybody had fled but a few old 'women and children and some colored people. Tho town stands on a hill )about a mile from the railroad. Ono of the soldiers' asked an old negro: "What mado. them build the station so far away from tho city, uncle?" "I doan know edzactly, boss," came jthe slow response, "but I reckon hit's beca'se dey wanted It near da railroad tracks." TOOK ON DIFFERENT ASPECT Somehow Antics of Playful Pupt on Second Morning Did Not Appeal to Mr. Knox, The morning was young and beau tlful ami .Mr. Knox stood nt the side window and looked over Into tho next yard Interestedly, lie chuckled for eheer delight ns he watched tho antics of two little pupD his neighbor hud bought a few days before. "Oh, Amy, come hero and see these pups, over In l'orter'a yard," ho called to Mrs. Knox, who was busily ar ranging tho breakfast table. "Aren't they Just having a circus? Hless 'em I" ho went on, with all the effusiveness of a genulno dog lover. "Oh, look, Amy, they havo taken tho morning pn per off the porch and each one hns an end of It In his mouth, tuesllug with it. Is thero nuythlug In the world more cunning than a little pup?" His enthusiasm was running away with him. "1 think, dearie, we will hnvo to get a dog ono of these days." Tho next morning Mr. Knox arose, dressed and went down to bring in tho morning paper, ns wns his habit. Ho was Just in time to see the cunning little pups next door plnyfully tearing hlB paper Into nhreds and each vanish ing around the house with a portion of It. Ho enmo back to tho kitchen Bulleuly. "Those blankoty blnng dogs next door havo torn up tho paper," ho snld, wtlh no trace of his earlier enthusi asm. SCALP TROUBLE FOR YEARS 2CS Hnrrlson St., Klyrln, Ohio. "My caso was a scalp trouble. I ilrst no ticed Rinall bunches on my scalp which commenced to itch and 1 would scratch them nnd In tlmo they got larger, forming a scnlo or scab with a llttlo pus, and chunks of hair would como nut when I would scratch them off. It caused mo to loso most of my hair. It becamo thin nnd dry and life less. I wna troubled for over ten years with it until it got so bad I was ashamed to go to a barber to get my hair cut. "I tried everything I could get hold of, nnd , but received no euro until I commenced UBing Cutlcu ra Soap nnd Ointment when tho ucalo commenced to disappear. Tho way I used tho Cutlcura Soap nnd Ointment was to wash my scalp twlco n day with warm water nnd Cutlcura Soap nnd rub on tho Cutlcura Ointment. I received benefit In a. couple of weeks and wns cured In two months." (Signed) F. J. UuBher. Jan. 28, 1913. 'Cutlcura Soap nnd Ointment sold throughout tho world. Sample of each frco.wlth 32-p. Skin Hook. Address post card "Cutlcura, Dept. L, Uoston." Adv. i World's Saddest Sight. The Bnddest sight in all the world Is not n gravo of tho dead, grievous as that might bo, but Is a grave of tho liv ing humnulty sepulchred while yet allvo. Frances E. Wlllard. Tho mcro fact that n man doesn't laugh at his own Jokes Is no Indica tion that ho doesn't think them funny. The mild mellow quality of LEWIS' Single Hinder cigar in what the smokers want. Adv. A womnn ImB to be pretty good nt figures to becomo a fashionable dress maker. 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