w ft It - i site s v J ltf ti 4 I GRftHD HI A STROKE OF GENIUS THAT PUTS MIL I LIONS BEHIND HIM SInJor Crofnot Slt IUm n Crniilur i 3oml mill Divide r tcNln Thnt lip In AVIlltitK to Vlvlde With HI ClilropoilUt Copyright 1900 by C n Iewlfll It was the chiropodist from the floor above tho mnjors ollleo mid ho passed the door two or three times before knocking ns If to get up his courage Come In called the major In a bland and cheery voice Come right In lly Ueotgc but what a coincidence what a coincidence Not a minute ago I sat down to write you a note asking you to step down here There Is BU rely such a thing as mental teleg raphy You have owed me 1 for tho last four months stlllly replied the chlrop lOdlst as he lugged out a bill Just so exactly Just so smiled the major as he rubbed his hands to gether Yes sir about four months 1 WANT THAT DOIXAIll ngo you removed two corns from my iright foot The circumstance Is per fectly fresh In my memory 1 And you said youd pay me next day I presume I did Yes I know I did and 1 humbly apologize that It slipped my mind My dear man permit me to pay you 2 3 4 5 I have a check here for lioO You may hand me balance and I shall be perfectly satis fied I havent got no 5245 replied the man and I only want what Is duo me Ill go to tho bank with you i Dont Dont do It Id never for give myself for putting you to that trouble Yes I was about to write you a note It was surely a curious thing iyour coming down as you did Doctor do you know where I stood financially four months ago Mighty hard up I guess was the sullen reply Youve hit It Yes sir I was so hard up that 1 didnt own the shoes to my feet It was tho hardest kind of iwork for me to raise a dollar The cold cruel world sneered at me am1 called me a deadbeat but there were n few exceptions You were one In iny darkest hour you had confidence in me When I wanted those coins re moved you didnt demand payment In advance j I wish I had I No sir You trusted In my word and you didnt seek to humiliate me and you aroused my deepest gratitude 1 have offered to pay you five for one but I shall not stop there It shall be 5000 and more for one Can you sell out your business or give it away to day or tomorrow Are you going to pay me the dol lar sternly demanded the chiropodist If you cant sell out give it away lock It up throw It out of the whulow continued the mnjor as he walked about the room My dear man listen to me Four months ago I was hard up for a quarter today I have mil lions behind me millions and millions I mny be said to swim In gold I Ill be hanged If you look It And how has the change been brought about By my indefatigable genius coupled with ambition 1 look ed around for a ten strike It was a little slow in coming but I hit it nt last What do you think of the Veal Cutlet Tablet company capital 5 000000 There are the papers on my desk to perfect the organization and npportlon the stock over 2000000 of tho stock subscribed for In advance at 70 cents ou the dollar and capital ists tumbling over each other to take the remainder Doctor let me congrat ulate you Shake bauds i Over what Im after my dollar Over your appointment ns secretary of the company at a salary of 10000 a year and you can begin work tomor row As an oillclal you also have lirst choice of 20000 worth of stock You trusted Major Crofoot and this Is the result this is your reward Shake hands again Not by a durn sight You might as vell givo up trying to work any cold deck In on me I want that dollar And It was my genius and my ilnan clerlug which brought It nbout enld the major as ho rubbed his hands and patted the chiropodist on the shoul der The thought came to me while I was eating a veal cutlet at my board ing house Our veal tablets are exact ly what the name Implies We prepare a cutlet for the table and then com press It and divide It Into tablets Ev ery box contains 25 and the price Is 15 cents Two weeks hence they will ibo on sale at every drug store in the United States and all doctors will rec ommend em You dont have to wait for breakfast or dinner to get your cut let Just drop a tablet Into your mouth and let It dissolve nud there you are Can be takeu with you to church lec tures balls camp meetings or horse races shpuld be In the hands of all travelers hunters Bailors and baseball men In less than three mouths the drive every other tablet out of tunrkot Invented organized and nam ed In less than ten hours mid bound to pay dividends of 50 per cent My dear man Look here now exclaimed the chi ropodist ns he pounded on the table Ive come for my dollar Dont try to stuff me but come down with tho cash And the company had only been named when 1 thought of you for tho position of secretary mused tho ma jor without HcomtiiK to have heard tho indignant protest You were a mnn who had trusted me When others de manded cash down you gave m a show My heart swelled as 1 thought of this and I set the salary at 510000 a year payable quarterly In advance Shall 1 draw you a chock for the Urst quarter Tho chiropodist looked at tho mnjor as If wondering If he had mot a crazy man 1 said 10000 n year but If thnt Is not enough If you feel that you ought to have 2j000 speak right up 1 want you to be perfectly satisfied you know Will 20000 a year bo enough What about my dollar The tablets will be a go They cant help but be Let us walk out In the hall while 1 tell you that the public cant get enough of veal cutlets in their present form They are always eager for more They wnnt the taste of cut lets In their mouths as they go about their dally routine Fifteen cents a box In order to compete with potash lozenges but a profit of 10 cents ou every box Take the snlos at 10000 000 boxes n year and what do you got You want stock You want at least Not a blamed cents worth I want my dollar at least 20000 worth of stock You shall hnve It You havo paid me 1 to secure It and dont you worry It will be made In your name and later on Excuse me The major stepped Into his ollleo and shut the door Here whats this called the chi ropodist The major locked the door Look here you old deadbeat I want that dollar The major sat down at his desk and lighted the stub end of a cigar You come out of that and pay this bill or Ill bust the door down shout ed the creditor ns he gave two or three kicks The mnjor calmly puffed awny and gazed out of the window and the look on his face would have reminded a b holder of buckwheat cakes and mo lasses Then Ill lay for you out here and punch your old head Do you hen mo The major did not hear He was per fecting the organization of tho Vc Cutlet Tablet company and wondering whether tho Canadian general agency should be placed In Toronto or Quebec M Quad SUCCESS AND FAILURE The Illprlirr Hip Piirpone the llnror tl e Aelilevciiu iit If by success we menu the full ac complishment of an end the actua reaping of n harvest of results then It is undoubtedly true that the higher and nobler the purpose the rarer will be the success If we aim to relieve i mans hunger we can quickly succeed In the easy task but If we aim to In spire him with a desire to earn his own bread the work Is more dllllcult and the success far more problematical If we would restrain a thief from rob bery the prison bars and locks insure success but if we would make an hon est man of him our task is a complex one and success mny be nfar off W undertake to tencli a child to read If with requisite effort we follow up our task we are successful but if we as pire to raise the educational standard of our community how arduous the task how uncertain the result how questionable the buccobs The low man sees a little thing to do SoiB It and docs It Tlie hiKh man with a treat thing to purmic Dies ere he knows it Is his life then a failure No let us never imagine that any high pur pose any noble thought any generous emotion any earnest effort Is ever lost Wo may never witness its growth we may not live to gather Its fruit or even to see Its blossoms but we may safely trust that somewhere and at some time the harvest will be abundant and success long hidden shall become ap parentPhiladelphia Ledger The WlPkrileat lilt of Sen Nine out of ten travelers would tell In quirers that the roughest piece of wa ter Is that cruel stretch In the English channel and nine out of ten travelers wpuld say what was not true As a matter of fact tho wickedest bit of sea Is not in the Dover strait or li yachting for exnmple from St Jean de Lulz up to Paulllac or across the Mediterranean race from Cadiz to Tangier nor Is it In rounding Capo Horn where there Is what sailors call a true sea The wickedest sea Is encountered In rounding the Capo of Cood nope for the eastern ports of Capo Colony Shipping World FtlKht of Time Old Med Well old man howd you Bleep last night Follow my advice about counting up New Med Yes Indeed counted up to 18000 Old Med Bully And then you fell asleep eh New Med Guess not It was morn ing by thnt time and I had to get up Pennsylvania Puuch Bowl Never bear more than one kind of trouble nt a time Some people bear three kinds all they have had all they havo now and all they expect to have Ijearn to keep your ears open and your mouth closed Dullas New THK NORFOLK NFWK FRIDAY FFRItUAKY 1 1501 AN ASTONISHMENT Theres a mIrIiI unions dirt who la lliln out out wm lie rmrr souns n amicus as the ifM to hare Ml my Ilr listens to an nrniimrnt ns quid f kin I An liner main an Ilturt to lirrak In an rrfcmv An once iihiii a tliur m folk la talkln IhiuI it il We aftkrd htm his opinion ms to help tlnldr a Int It nas on a irrnrral toplr that rirltnt Wuli and low This oiler thouffht a mlmitei then he laid he didnt litiim Wed heard a lot ol ptople who had Mmroled to explain Karh query It ud php jou palpltatltm ol the liralu To hear the v thpy tlRuml An thrlr writs were ol surli hiiKth That trjln to rrimtnlxr them was Jr a wsstt of MHtlfctll Hut the wlist ol them nerrr with thilr Kteat dlnplaja ol wit Within my recollection made the momoraMe hit That he toured when alter thlnklu my rarrlully an Mow lip laied the situation an ronlrfaod he didnt know Washington Star ---4 -- I HE MERCY OF ER A SGTTII AFRICAN PASTORAL ----- Night had Just fallen upon the veldt The short dusk had suddenly deepened Into a heavy thick obscurity Impene trable for a space until there rose the rlm of a full moon over the edge of the plain which showed hard and clear cut against the great disk The ant hills that alono bioko the monotonous lint nesB Hung Interminable Inky shadows as the cold white glare electric In Its tierce Intensity shone out level across the plains The sense of loneliness of utter Isolation was overwhelming The heavens sown with lire seemed so re mote and the bare earth stretching away Into tho dim slurry distance so empty and Uniltlc It might hnve been the rcif of suo dead world By the ode He marsh a transport wagon had in--ii nod for tho night and within the cide of firelight whore moon and tlnine snuggled for the mas tery loomed the wavering outlines of the trek oxen tethered to the dlhsel boom and uow and ngalu the liguie of a man The only sounds were the crackling chirps of tho bullfrogs In the vlei and tho voices of two men who sat leaning back against the harass of inecrkat skins Hung over one of the wagon wheels No repeated tho elder mnn the transport rider and owner of the wtg on raising his voice With us they shall not come either she or the brat But look Jakob persisted the oili er It Is now three weeks four weeks that we are ou the trek and she hits followed all the time and carried the child too How the poor girl lives I do not know Take only the child Jakob How are we to eat How Is the vrouw to eat demanded the Boer querulously Are there not enough mouths to fill already And CJod knows how much farther the span can go without water in tills accursed coun try they hnve enough to pull as It Is And why should I feed the wife and child of every black scholia that Is fool enough to want thorn Vordomte swartzkop And he spat angrily into the lire But the child persisted Plot That is small and eats but little not a quar ter as much as a dog Besides Klaus may run away If the girl falls sick and he alone knows the road and the drifts across the river There was a moments pause Well the brat then in iods nam snapped the other The girl can walk as she has walked these three weeks he added and rolled himself in his rug to avoid further surrender Piet rose stillly to his feet the night breeze was growing chill He knocked the ashes out of his pipe kicked some fuel Into the embers of the fire and went around to the other side of the wagon where the three Basuto boys were lying Klaus he called Here a mo ment A grunt from one of the blankets answered him Baas Jakob says the baby may ride with the vrouw in the wagon but the girl must still walk There was a sudden movement at his feet and a dark figure rolled out of the blanket No boy no Not that His hand was being covered with kisses Piet drew It shnrply away and taking a strip of biltong from his pocket thrust It Into the Bnsutos grasp Here this may help for the girl It was all I could got he said roughly And turn ing on his heel he went back to where his brother lay sleeping Baas Plot was as averso to being generous as tho transport rider though for other rea sons For awhile Klaus lay still Presently carrying the piece of hard sun dried moat and his own supper of boiled mealies he crept shivering from his blanket and went slowly out on to the silent veldt In the direction from which the wagon had come as ho had gone every night to listen for tho signal that told him Betta was thero among the ant hills Then he would cheer her up and sit beside her while she ato some of his poor rations though they were not enough for her and the child Betta was a good girl ne knew thnt when he gave her father two oxen and some wethers and took her awny with him from the old kraal by the wagon drift across the Krel three years ngo She had been with him ever since and now when the trek began Baas Jakob would not let her ride In the wagon or even come near It Klaus grasped the kerrle dangling from his belt at the recollection of tho cut across the mouth that the drunken transport rider had gheti him with his sjniibok when ho Ititil linked his per mission Besides thoro was the baby tiiul he could mil have loft both of them behind so far from the kraal and her own people But Baas Jakob was a hard man he did not understand such things Ever since they had left Burghers dorp many weeks ago she hud walk ed after them tho baby slung at her buck n ml there wore yet three weeks more and tho desert strip to cross be fore they i cached tho grout bolt and the river But tho baby was to ride In the wagon now with tho vrouw and tho girl would not be so tired Ah Bans Plot was a good mnn bet tor than Bnns Jukob lie would help nud later ou ho might oven be rich enough to buy a few bond of cattle and some ponies and they would all go back to the old plnco on tho Krel and -lie started to his foot ns tho pipe of a honoyblrd canto faintly out of the dis tance Betta was there at last Tho wagon was croaking along under the burning noontlny sun The oxen stumbled Inzlly with lolling tongues crawling at n snnHs pace without fear of the Hick of tho lash for every one was asleep except the little voorlopor trudg ing In front of the two leaders croon ing an endless native song to himself Tito wind more burning than the sun came In eenseless gusts ncrosH the arid veldt destitute of grass or tree and catching up groat clouds of rod dust whirled them In eddying Wtoklttg masses about the wagon and then swept them away until they vanished In tho shimmering heat haze Now and thou a tortoise dragged his black and yellow shell out of the way of tho span and lumbered heavily off the track to a safe distance thero to re tire within himself until the unwonted apparition had disappeared beyond his limited horizon or a snake would shoot out a shining head from the shelter of some deserted ant heap ns the rumble of wheels roused him from his nap nnd far up In the clear blue air floated a great vulture without a tremor of his wide pinions Just as he had floated for many days past watching and waiting Kuddonly there wns a stir under the tilt Tho curtain was flung aside and Baas Plot stepped out on to the foie pnrt of the wagon yawning sleepily Boy he shouted onsnddlo tho mnre 1 shall ride on to the witter hole beyond the drift It cannot bo far off now Klaus appeared from undcruenth the wagon where ills blanket was slung lininiiiock fashion In the dnytluio No Bans Plot the spruit should not he mote than one hours rldo now nnd the hole is only two three mile far ther Presently ho brought the mare around from the hnck of the wagon where she had been tied up tightened the girths and rolled up the rlem of the nock halter Bnan Plot swung him self off the edge of the wagon into the sndle Tell tho bnns when lie wakes up he said and with a shake of the reins cantered off through the dust It cannot he far off now repeated Klaus to himself as he watched him until he became Invisible In the midst of the vast brown expanse of sun scorched hillside It was now five days since they had left the last vlel and he had given nearly all Ills share of the hot muddy water that the vrouw served out to the girl for the last few days but that was very very little nnd site was sick too For a moment he stopped and looked backward There Just topping the last rise miles and miles away his keen sight could pick out ngainst the sky line the little black speck Hint ltnd been behind them for so many weeks now faltering on with parched lips through the heat and loneliness of the plains nlwnys dropping further nnd farther behind us evening drew In He heard the snores of the transport rider and Ills vrouw as they slept com fortably under the tilt If they could only feel what Betta felt yet It was easier for her now that she hud not the baby to carry and the water was close In front and after that only two or three days trek before the desert end ed Ami comforted by the thought Klaus walked on after the wagon and returned to his blanket The baby was certainly the most con touted of all lying in an empty sugar box under the shade of the tilt engag ed In colling the soft end of the 18 foot lash round and round Its chubby arms It grew fatter and merrier every day The vrouw rather liked It black as It was for she had no children of her own All nt once came a warning shout from the voerlopor They were right ou the edge of the drift and the lead ers began to pick their way slowly down tho steep bank over the looso rocks and sand Klaus was busy put ting the heavy Iron shoe drag under one of the hind wheels while Bans Ja kob in a bad temper at having his sleep disturbed at upon the front of the wagon swearing at him and the other boys for being iazy Now sildlng sideways over a smooth shelving rock now plunging down over a ledge with a Jar that wrenched every bolt and wheel spoke the heavy wag on crashed down the bank only to come to a dead stop at the bottom Im bedded In snnd up to the axles The span were knotted In a tangled mob of clashing horns nnd twisted yoke reins suulllng nnd pawing up the sand with Impatient hoofs Instinct told them that water was there but It was far far below for the last rains had fallen many mouths back Vordomte rulneks raged the an gry bnas beside himself Twist their tails Get thnt Iron sfilke there II en drlk Thnt will make the devils move But It was of no use The span only became more hopeletutly entangled in Miln KliniH dashed In among them sjniiibok In hand kicking here nud slashing theie while lleiidrll and thu vooiiopor called upon the bonsln by mime nud urged thetti forwaid Water they knew was thero and water they would havo Tho will Why dont you take he whip you HchcliiiH Whore Is II lomod the Infuriated liner rising and glut lug nbout tho wagon As ho wont forwuni ho stumbled out tho baby and lis ho upsetting It nud sending the child rolling across the floor of lie wagon where It lay In a hall on a heap of skins crowing with delight People so seldom plajed gumcH with It The Boer thrust the empty box back against tho side with Ids foot and snatched up ho buiuboo whip handle Poising It catofully aboVe his head In both hands ho gave a little prcllmlnaiy flourish but Hie end was caught hi something tho hint ngnlu curse It It opened wide eyes of plensuio at him holding up Its dimpled wrists wound round with tho end of the lash With a snvnge until he kicked It on the end of tho wagon Into lie midst of the struggling cattle and brought the gioal whip down upon them with nil his force Again and again It uncoiled anil whizzed down with a crack like a rlllc shot culling Into the steaming flanks of tho plunging mob until they bellowed again Scarred and bleeding deafened by tho report of the whip and lie bourse yells of tho men tho mud delicti delists Htrulghtcncd out and with Khius nnd the voerlopor tugging nt the lenders bends strained panting up the farther bank of the drift tho wagon creaking through ho rocky river bed behind hem and then railed wearily forward Into ho dusk And when all was still the lizards came out of the crevices only to scut tle back with n whisk of their tails There wns water In the drift now -red water dripping softly down bet ween the stones and sinking Into the thirsty sand Overhead sailed a vulture In ever nnnowlng circles And then the night fell It wns Into that evening before Klaus crawled stealthily away from the wagon taking a full beaker of fresh water from the pool and Ids sup per The baas was very angry with him becnuse the wagon had stuck In the drift though how could ho help It If the oxen would not ho driven and he had forbidden him to leave tho wagon to bee Betta But no baas could keep lilin from doing that no matter how many hidings he got for It lie walked hack as far as the edg of the drift and sat thero waiting He could not see fur tonight for there was no moon only Die half light of the stars and the bottom of the drift yawned black at his feet A prowling Jackal snarled close by and at his ap proach a great vulture gorged with the reniulns of some woruout trek ox Unit hud fallen there to die though lie did not remember noticing it had flapped heavily olT Into the night Klaus waited for many hours but the girl did not come Of course hav ing the baby to carry again would make her take longer for Baas Jakob had told him how ho hud seen It roll off the wagon that morning trying to roach a big tortoise on tho road and crawl after it unhurt nnd how lie hud wntched It there until Betta had pick ed it up when she came along SHU she would catch tlieiii up next evening and lie left the water beaker and the food tied up in a piece of rag under a heap of stones In the middle of the road so that the aasvogels could not get at them and Betta might find them there In tho morning But Betta did not catch the wagon up uext evening or the uext Four days afterward they had pass ed the edge of the desert and out spanned among the shady tnmnrisks and the willows by the banks of the Great river Never mind Klaus said Bans Plot kindly patting him on the shoulder Hunger Is a bad death but It Is Gods will Besides he added with a smile there are yet many good girls in Ba sutoland But you will stay with Baas Jakob and me yet a bit I stay with you and Bnns Jakob answered Klaus bimply Ho treats me as well as any other baas Pall Mall Magnzluc What the Brllili Soldier la Flichtlnc Kr There wns a residuum of horrid real ity In the reply of the warrior at the front whoso parents had asked him for help to keep them out of the work house He told them as ye related to wait till ho returned when they could all go to the workhouse togeth er Writing from Modder river a corporal In the Black Watch complains that out of 7 shillings a week he must pay 1 shilling for a small pot of Jam nud the same sum for 18 very small biscuits Milk costs 1 shilling a tin and then there is tobacco No wonder the workhouse looms ominously I Lon don Chronicle A Mnrvrl of Discomfort The monitor which used to be tho terror of the navy in the matter of dis comfort to Its crew will have to yield that unquestionable distinction to the torpedo boat destroyer In which tho demands upon the otllcers and men are enormous Comfort as It Is understood In a big ship Is unknown Even in what Is known as moderate weather cooking Is almost un impossibility The whole structure vibrates and trembles under the strokes of the engines and the kick of he propellers Army and Navy Journal Deurert of lli xprct 1 see that the Atchison Globe Bays that a good breadmakcr Ms more re bpocted than a good whist player But not more respected than a good poker player Think of the dough he haudk b I Cleveland Plain Deuler n v S 5 Htwi5y fAi f v J This Stovo Savos Ono- Thlrd Your Coal BUI FIKK IS N FV Hit OUT 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