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aaunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnannnV BaBaTBannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnman f''-eJwVpWvtlT'tF VJWjWPJ'TJ -Stt ' Tg 51L.fi''T - m 'VB aT9flramnnnnunnuT!muumm tSBRHagZWaMWS-Pi'yi'rJtiig-Mft.-fcJ fffnfffg !&&&&$&. lrK-i:- , - . "- i. " .-v .4 3"2 v- r fee . v I-?1 -i i ; .. li ISY i -1 -TT CoJurabusJournai a- PL STfrOTHER, Editor ' -F. K. STROTHER, Manager. O0TLUMBUS, NEB. Msatinal BaHdina at ArUauton. ' One of the idndly, eaggeetiona in! President Roosevelt's annual message what there be constructed at Arling ton a memorial amphitheater.' an estt( mate for the " preliminary work oaf which Is; contained in the report of the aecretary of war. The Grand Army of the Republic In its annual national encampment has recommend ed sack a structure as necessary for the appropriate observance of Me anorial Day and as a fitting monument to the soldier and sailor dead buried in the beautiful cemetery, and the president heartily concurs In the prop osition. The old soldiers are getting fewer and feebler, and when they take part in the Memorial Day exercises, says the Troy Times, it is right that they ahould be made as comfortable as possible. That Is part of the idea of erecting sach an amphitheater. The atructure would be still more im pressive as honoring the dead at Ar lington. And It would most aptly aymbollze the reunited nation. Ar lington itself was formerly the home iof Gen. Robert E. Lee. the knightly confederate commander, and in its won rest not only thousands of union dead but many who wore the gray and who afterward served their country when the call came and was respond ed to without regard to section or po litical differences. The Arlington me morial shoald be erected as soon as possible. Penalties of Prosperity. After all Is said it must be conceded that the apparent disregard for human life in the United States Is largely a tribute to progress and to the indus tries that constitute prosperity. Even fatal railroad accidents, the largest Item In the list, cannot be wholly eliminated, though they can and ought to be, greatly reduced In number. But, ays the Indianapolis News, railroad accidents are only one item in the list of annual fatalities. There are fatal accidents in mining, building, manu facturing and agriculture. They all claim their victims as a sort of tribute to progress, though a very costly one. Carefully compiled statistics show that in the five great industries of railroad ing, mining, building, manufacturing and agriculture no less than 536,165 persons are annually killed or Injured Sa the United States. This is at the rate of over one a minute, and It in cludes only a few of the largest in dustries. . Few Americana received more notable marks of respect during their lifetime than John Hay received dur ing his, and none has ever been the .subject of a more Interesting or more :anusual honor after death than that which has just been paid to his mem ory In Philadelphia. In the presence of Secretary Root, Mr. Hay's suc cessor, the congregation of Keneseth Israel dedicated the new stained-glass window in its synagogue, placed there in memory of Mr. Hay. No other In stance is known in which a Gentile has been thus honored in a Jewish synagogue; but Mr. Hay's services on behalf of the Jews at Kishinef, Rus sia, and his efforts to prevent dis crimination against Jews in this coun try, endeared him to the whole race. The memorial window is an expres sion of their love and gratitude. i , How deep In the bowels of the earth must one go to avoid trespassing upon another's property? That is a ques- tion which an energetic Jerseyman proposes to solve. This gentleman owns land near the terminus of one of the tunnels being constructed under the Hudson river, and despite the dis claimer of the tunnel company bus-' pects that the bore penetrates his ground. To settle the matter he in tends to sink artesian wells on his premises. He may strike water or he nay strike the tunnel. In the latter case he thinks he will have a case against the tunnel company. And the latter is of the opinion that there are other bores than those connecting KewYork and New Jersey. It is just 40 years since Prince Charles of Hohenzollern accepted the crown of Roumania, which was con verted into a kingly one after the principality achieved Its independence; and the exhibition at Bucharest, which the king opened in the summer, was intended to show the immense in dustrial strides made by the country under its Hohenzollern ruler. His heir is his nephew. Prince Ferdinand, who married Marie, eldest daughter of the English duke of Edinburgh. A Connecticut Judge has ruled that a turtle is not an animal. A compre hensive knowledge of natural history, aaya the Boston Transcript, is evident ly not required for admission to the bar, at least Connecticut There are no apples in China be yond the small crab apples. The com monest native fruits are the mango, lichee and mangosteen. The kaiser Is not vested with the .veto power, ant he has a good right Soot. , Millions, possibly billions, of sans aalne In the unmeasured universe, and the one nearest to our sun is about itweaty-tve trillion miles distant If it (were possible to go there on aa air ehip averaging a mile a minute, day and night, the journey would require JIM3MM years. la a training' school for ele- at Apt. in the Kongo state. 2t elephants are taking teasoen, traiaiag operations have pradacad M&2j4&..&7:-? 3 -. - -r.iy. .. . ..-...- . '- -... -.J.. --' 'U tJi." W. !.' 1. n iiiuiiuiiimniiiiiii if. j .-.-'. 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And down came his fist in a weak-violent gesture. I leaned forward and laid my hand atrongly on hie arm. "In addition to the stock of this con cern that I hold In my own name." said I. "I hold five shares in the name of a man whom nobody knowa that 1 even know. If you don't let me have the money, that man goes to the dis trict attorney with Information that lands you In the penitentiary, that puts your company out of business and into bankruptcy before k to-morrow noon. I aaved you three years ago. and got yon this job against jnst such an emergency aa this. Bob Corey, And, by God, you'll toe the mark!" "But we haven't done anything that every bank in town doesn't do every daydoesn't have to do. If we didn't lend money to dummy borrowers and over-certify accounts, our customers would go where they could get accom modations." "That's tree enough." said I. "But I'm In n position for the moment where I need my friends and they've got to come to me. If I don't get the money from you. 111 get it elsewhere but over the cliff with you and your bank! The laws you've been violat ing may be bad for the practical bank ing business, but the're mighty good for punishing ingratitude and treach ery.' He sat there, yellow and pinched, and shivered every now and then. He made no reply. Presently I shook his arm impatient ly. His eyes met mine, and I fixed them. "I'm going to pull through," said L "But if I weren't, I'd see to it that yon were protected. Come, what's your answer? Friend or traitor?" "Can't you give me any security any collateral?" "No more than I took from you when I saved yon as you were going down with the rest in the Dumont smash. My word that's all. I bor row on the same terms you've given me before, the same you're giving four of your heaviest borrowers right now." He winced as I thus reminded him how minute my knowledge was of the workings of his bank. "I didn't think this of you. Matt" he whined. "I believed you above such hold-up methods." "I suit my methods to the men I'm dealing with," was my answer. "These fellows are trying to push me off the life raft I fight with every weapon I can lay hands on. And 1 know as well aa you do that If you get into serious trouble through this loan, at least five men we could both name would have to step in and save the bank and cover up the scandal. You11 blackmail them; just as you've blackmailed them before, and they you. Blackmail's a legitimate part of the game. Nobody appreciates that better than you." It waa no time for the smug hypocrisies under which we people down town usually conduct our business just as the desperadoes used to patrol the highways disguised as peaceful mer chanta. "Send round in the morning and get the money," said he, putting on a re signed, hopeless look. I laughed. "Ill feel easier if I take it now," I replied. "Well fix up the notes and checks at once." He reddened, but after a brief hesi tation busied himself. When the papers were all made up and signed, and I had the certified checks in my pocket I said: "Wait here. Bob. un til the National Industrial people call you up. Ill ask them to do it so they can get your personal assurance that everything's all right And I'll stop there until they tell me they've talked with you." "But it's too late." he said. "Ton can't deposit to-day." "I've made special arrangements with them." I replied. His face betrayed him. I saw that at no stage of that proceeding had 1 been wiser than in shutting off hla last chance to evade. What scheme he had In mind I don't know, and can't imagine. But he had thought out something, probably something fool ish that would have given me trouble without saving him. A foolish man in a tight place la aa foolish aa ever, and Corey was a foolish man only a fool commits crimes that put him in the power of others. The crimes of the really big captains of industry and generals of finance are of the kind that puta others in their power "Buck up, Corey," said L "Bo yon think I'm the man to shut a friend in the hold of a sinking ship? ' Tell me, who told yon 1 was short on textile?" "One of my men," he slowly replied, aa he braced himself together. "Which one? Who?" I persisted. For I wanted to know jnst how far the newa waa likely to spread. He seemed to be thinking oat a lie. "The truth!" I commanded. "1 know, it couldn't have been one of your men. Who was It? Ill not give yon away." "It was Tom Langdon," he laally I checked aa exclamation of lent. I had been assuming that 1 i .St3Jffiif-fflq . "t had .been betrayed by some one of those tiny mischances that so often throw the best plana into confusion. "Tom Langdon." I aaid satirically. "It waa he that warned yon against me?" "It waa a friendly act" aaid Corey. "He and I are very intimate. And he doesn't know how close you and I are. "Suggested that you call my loana. did he?" I went on. "Ton mustn't blame him, BlacUock'; really you mustn't," said Corey ear nestly, for he was a pretty good friend to those he liked, aa friendship goes VH3LUB&,Aw&raf'7BECQSZMr in finance. "He happened to near."" "-". w , mm,. u- Yon know the Langdona keep a sharp watch on operationa In their stock. And he dropped in to warn me aa a friend. You'd do the same thing In the same circumstances. He didn't say a word about my' calling .your loana. I to be frank I instantly thought of it myself. I intended to do it when yon came, but" a aickly smile "you anticipated me." "I understand." aaid I good-hu-moredly. "I don't blame him." And i didn't then. After I had completed my bnalneas at the National Industrial. I went back to my office and gathered together the threads of my web of defense. Then I wrote and sent out to all my newa papers and all my agents a broadside against the management of the textile trust it would be published in the morning, in good time for the opening of the stock exchange. Before the first quotation of textile could be made thousands on thousanda of investors -' KMaiSmUs! Mnmumumumunm. ' fAamm&i-m f' BMmMlTL jsfiBnmnmt"-" " 'ZannaaaWf MKHkm9fmmwU W-k A' aVanmmnf annmnmnmnmmw anmmr aamnmnm - BmumuPamuf I Ii enmumumumnmunl N iWuWWWW J Hd fgyjiWl mnwarBBunmuunuT 'flBaVa' yMAl I mBlaunmum' L' I TOOK IT AS THOUGH I WERE AFRAID BROKEN." and speculators throughout the coun try would have read f myletter, would be believing that Matthew 'Blaektock had detected the textile trust In n stock-jobbing swindle, and had promptly turned against it preferring to keep faith with his customers and with the public. Aa I read over my pronundamiento aloud before sending it out, I found in it n note of confi dence that cheered me mightily. "I'm even stronger than I thought" said I. And I felt stronger still aa 4 went .on to picture the thousands on thou sands throughout the land rallying nt my call to give battle. XVTL ANITA BEGINS TO BE HERSELF. I had asked Sam Ellersly to dine with me; so preoccupied wan I that not until ten minutes before the hour set did he come into my mind he or any of hla family, even hla sinter. My first Impulse waa. to aend word that I couldn't keep the engagement "But I must dine somewhere," I reflected, "and there'a no reason why I shouldn't dine with him. aince Fve done every thing that cnn.be done." In my office 8uite I haa.hbathand dressing-room, with n complete wardrobe. Thus, by hurrying n Utile over my toilet and by making my chauffeur crowd the apeed limit .1 waa nt Delmonico's .only twenty minutes late. Sam, who had been late also, an usual, waa having a cocktail and waa ordering the dinner. I amoked n cig arette and watched him. At business or at anything serious his mind waa all but useless; but at ordering dinner and things of that sort he shone. Those small accomplishments of his had often moved me to n sort of pitying contempt aa If one aaw a man of talent devoting himself to-engrav ing the Lord's Prayer on gojd dollars. That evening, however, aa I saw how comfortable and contented he looked, with not n care, in the world; nlnoe he was to have n good dinner and n good cigar afterward; aa I aaw how much genuine pleasure he waa getting out X-tXift'h ;g&;U UC- iifHM 4. of feiecjiag the wishes and giving, tbe macMFrzvm "Ton muat come over to my rooms after dinner, and give me some munic," I said. "Tnanka-'ae- repUedT "bntf I've promised ton aonwrand.play bridge. Mother's got n few in to' dinner, and .more are coming afterward, 1 believe. 4 "Then 111 owJth yon,,and talk.fo your sister she doesn't play." : He glanced at me in a way that made ae pans my hand over my face. 1 jearnea at least pan 01 u na for my feeling at disadvantage before him. I had forgotten to shave, and aa my beard la heavy and black it haa to be looked after twice a day. "Oh, I canNatop at my rooms and get my face Into condition In a few minutes," said I. "And put on evening dress, too," he suggested. "Ton wouldn't want Xo go in a dinner jacket" I can't say why this waa the "last atraw," but it was. ""Botherl'enld'I, my common sense 'smashing the spell of snobbishness that had begun to reassert itself as soon aa I got into hla unnatural un healthy atmosphere. "Ill go aa I am, beard and all. I only make myself ridiculous, trying to be a sheep. I'm a goat, and a goat 111 stay." t "u,m ,IMO """"" I"" thing doing down town to-day, eh?" A sharpness in his voice and in hla eyes, too, made me put my mind on him mere closely, and then I saw what I ahould have seen before that he waa moody and slightly distant "Seen Tom Langdon this' after noon?" I asked carelessly. He colored. "Tea had lunch with him." was his answer. I smiled for his benefit "Ann!" thought I. "So Tom Langdon has been fool enough to take this paroquet into hla confidence." Then' I said to him: "Is Tom making the rounds, warnlag the rats to leave the ainking ahipr "What do yon mean. Mutt?" he de manded, aa if I had accused him. I looked steadily at him. and I imag ine my unshaven jaw did not make my aspect alluring. "What did Tom nay about me?" 1 Inquired. "Oh, almost nothing. We were talk THE SPELL WOULD BE ing chiefly of of club matters,"' he answered, in n fair.Jmitation of hla usual offhand manner. "When does my name coma up there?" I said. He flushed and shifted. "I waa just about to teU you," he stammered. "But perhaps yon know?" "Know what?" "That Hasn't Tom told you? He haa withdrawn aad you'll have to get another second If you think that is unless you I suppose you'd have told me, If you'd changed your mind?" Since, I had become so deeply inter ested In Anltn, my ambition ambi tion! to join the Travelers had all but dropped out of my mind. "I had forgotten about if said I. "But new that yon remind me, 1 want my name withdrawn. It waa a passing fancy. It waa part and parcel of n lot of damn foolishness I've been indulging in for the last few months. But I've come to my senses and it's me to the wild,' where I belong, Sam my, from this time on." , He looked tremendously relieved, aad a little, puasled. too. I thought 1 waa reading him like an fHuminated aign. "He'a eager to keep friends with me." thought I. "until he's abso lutely sure there'a nothing more in it for him and his people." And that guess waa n pretty good one. It is not to the discredit of my shrewdness that I didn't aee It waa not hope, but fear, that made him try to placate me. then what the Langdona haa done. But Sammy waa saying. In his frlendU- "What's the matter, old man? You're sour to-night" . . . "Never In n better humor," 1 as sured him. and aa I spoke the words they came true. What I had been say ing about the Travelers and all it rep resented ail the snobbery, and amirk ing, and rotten pretense my final and absolute renunciation of it nil acted on me aa I've seen religion act on the' feUowBthat used to go up to the mourners' beach nt the revivals. 1 felt as If I the parlar of a diva ami it nfe-'tlM ofGod'sheavea,. . r...- :. .2 : I triped the bill, and we went afeot up'theavenue. 'Sana! as I. saw with aa good deal of ajaasement waa trying' to devise some aubtle, tactful way. of attaching his poor, clumsy little suction-pump, to the well' of, my secret thoughts; -T. ' "What Is it .Sammy?: said I at "What "do you want to know you're afraid to ask me?"' "Nothing," he said hastily. Ta only a bit worried about about you and textile. Matt" this in the ton of deep emotion we reserve for the attempt to lure frlenda into confidinc that about themselves which will give us the opportunity to pity them, and, if necessary, to aheer off from them "Matt, I do nope yon haven't bean .hurt hit?" ... "Not yet" anld I eaaUy. "Dry yoat tears and put away your black clothes. Tour friend, Tom Langdon, waa a lit: tie premature." "rmafrald -I've 'given yon 'a false impression," Sam continued, with aa overeagemeaa to convince me that did not attract my attention nt the time. "Tom merely aaid. 'I hear Blaektock la loaded up with textile shorta.' that waa all. A careless remark. I really didn't think of it again until 1 saw yon looking so black and glum." That seemed natural enough, so 1 changed the subject As we entered hla house, I said: "111 not go up to the drawing-room. Make my excuses to your mother, will yon? Ill turn Into the little smoking-room here. Tell your sister aad'aay I'm going to atop only n mo ment" Sam had just left me when the ant ler came. "Mr. Ball I think that wan the name, sir wishes to speak to yon on the telephone." I had given Enerslyn aa one of the places at which I might be found, ahould it be necessary to consult ma I followed the butler to the telephone closet under the main stairway. An soon aa Ball made sure it was I, ha began: . "Ill use the code words. I've just seen Fearless, an yon told 'me to." Fearless that waa Mitchell, my spy in the employ of Tavistock, who waa my principal rival in the business of confidential brokerage for the high financiers. "Tea," said L "What does he say?" "There has been a great deal of heavy buying for n month past" Then -my dread was well founded textiles were to" be deliberately rock eted. "Who'a been doing it?" I asked. "He found out only this afternoon. It'a been kept unusually dark. It" "Who? Who?" I demanded. "Intrepid," he answered. Intrepid that la. Langdon Mow bray Langdon! The whole thing was planned cam - fully." continued Bsil. "and is coming off according to schedule. Fearless overheard n final message Intrepid'a brother brought from him to-day." So it was no mischance it waa an assassination. Mowbray Langdon had stabbed me in the back and fled. "Did you hear what I said?" asked Ball. "Is that yon." "Yes," I repUed. "Oh," came In n relieved tone from the other end of the wire.- "You were so long in answering that I thought I'd been cut off. Any Instructions?" "No, said L "Good-by." I heard, him ring off, but I sat there for several minutes, the receiver stiM to my ear. I waa muttering: "Lang don, Langdon why why why?" again and again. Why had he turned against me? Why had he plotted to destroy me one of those plots so fre quent In Wail street where the assas sin steals up, delivers the mortal blow, and steals away without ever being detected or even suspected? I saw the whole plot now 1 understood Tom Langdon's activities. I recalled Mow bray Langdon'a curioua phrases and looks and tones. But wny wny why? How was I in his wny? It was all dark to me pitch-dark. I returned to the smoking-room, light ed n cigar, ant fumbling nt the new situation. I was In no worse plight than before what did it matter who was attacking me? In the dream- an MAvlAa MtntA nuAW A0m&Tt19 me as easily aa a Langdon. Still, Ball's news seemed to take away my oonrace. I reminded myself that 1. was used to treachery of this sort, that I deserved what I was getting he cause I had. like a fool, dropped my guard In the fight that la alwaya on every-man-foHiimself. But I remind ed myself in vain. Langdon's smiling treachery made me heart-sick. Soon Anita appeared preceded and heralded by a faint rustling from soft and clinging skirts, that v swept my nervea like n love-tune. I think my torment muat have some how penetrated to her. For she was sweet and friendly and she could not have hurt me worse! If I had fol lowed my Impulse I should have fallen at her feet and buried my face, scorch ing, in the folds of that pale blue, faintly-shimmering robe of hers. "Do throw away that huge, hideous dgar," she said, laughing. And she took two cigarettes from the box, put both between her lips, lit them, held one toward me. I looked at her face, and along her smooth., bare, out stretched arm, and nt the pink. Blen der fingers holding the dgarette. I took it aa if I were afraid the speU would be broken, should my fingers touch hers. Afraid that's it! That's why I didn't pour out all that waa la mx.heart I deserved to lose her. "I'm taking you away from " the others." I said. We could hear the murmur of many voices and of musia (To be Continued.) All-Embracing. The Allahabad Pioneer quotes na East Indian doctor's death certificate: "I am of mind that he died for want ef foodings. or on account of starvattoa. Maybe also for other things of am comfortables, aad moat probably ha died of drowsing." It to a careful, omnibus opinion, and reada like a weather prediction that cannot mint and runs the whole gamut cf meteore logical possibilities. N. Y. Tribune. Her Advice. Miss Anteek If you were me would yon marry n man who proposed to yoa by telegraph? Miss Pert Yes. and I'd catch the next train in order to meet him half way. Chicago Record-Herald. tAeLrik f5Sg8'aU-ia.a. 1 ; t V ' F Why TKm Are N. Mmi Orikr Cmtalogmm FAMUl wiuiAifsr: UgSSON la Time ef Adversity He Get to Un derstand Whe Ware His Real Friends PraapsHty in Mann ing Together. (Csnyright 19M. by Alfred C. Clark.) "What y got there. Sis?" Inquired Farmer Williams, aa he kicked off hlr felt hoota and set them carefully be hind the stove to dry. "That's what I thought It looked like, one of them there Chicago catylogs, though I hain't seen one cleat fer quite n few yeara back. Me an' your ma ust to buy mighty, nigh everthiag we used out of them catyloga when we first-come to Kansas. Land sakee. I have to laugh now sometimes when I think of the way we would git ketched onct in awhile. They'a some cheap things in them catyloga, an' then agin they'a n lot t ain't so cheap. Y never kin ten till they come, an then It's too late to send 'em back. But aa I was a savin', we hain't bought nothln' out of n catylog fer a right smart o years now, an- the way It come about I had as well tell y cause I don't think y really remember much about It "When we come to Kansas long In thenrst of the '80s we got atong right wen. We was able to pay cash fer what we got and we got the money fer everything we sold. We was pay in' out on the place right along; crops was puty good an' we was n feelin' like the Lord was n smilln on our efforts, and the happy home dreamed about when we first got Tied waa in sight But they come n change In Kansas long in the last half of the '80's. Times got hard and kep n gittin' tighter. Four straight years It was so .dry y had to soak the hogs afore they'd hold awill though I will say they was some extry reason on ac count of the awill bein so thin wheat jest died in the ground fer want of rain, and the hot winds biled the ever- laatin' sap out of the corn. They wasnt no pasture, no nothing. Yon can know we was n feelin party blue about that time, but we was young and strong, and thought with the chickens an hogs we could git through anyway. "Then one day you got to complain In and lookin' so thin It worried us. Your ma Is a mlddlin' good doctor, take it all around, but nothing she stAtilA vPsIvibV' fan rm WAn av nvwul . WelL yon kep. a g,. pmdlIer ud plndlier, tin yon got so st y wouldn't Jo nothln' but set !n a chair by the kitchen stove, wrapped in your ma's old shawl, an' you looked so pitiful hat we made up our minds to have the doctor, even if It took th' last chicken on the place. Well, he come, and after he'd looked at yon awhile an felt your pulse, he shet his watch jp with a snap, an' says, quiet like: "Better fix up a warm place fer her ai the front room, don't have too much light nor any drafts to strike her.' Then we knowed -it wan't no smaU sickness we had to fight, an' when we got you fixed up in bed I follered Doc out on the porch an' I says: WelI, Doc. sez I. 'what's the matter with our little girir " 'I don't want to skeer ye, Mr. Wil liams,' says he, 'but I'm afraid ahe's In for a siege of typhoid fever.' "WeU, after he was gone I went out In the kitchen an told your ma, but she says, brave as kin be: 'Well, Ezra, if the Lord has seen fit to put that much more on our load we must bear up an' fight it out doin our duty the best we kin, leavin the rest to him.' An' I thought so too. So we jest kep' our 'hearts brave an' done what seemed right t do. "The hardest thing was to figure out where f git the medicine, an' fruit an' dainty things your sickness called "Why Cerfnlee, Mr. Williams, Jest , Let Us Knew What You Want" for. We hadn't been tradin much with the ' stores In Huston, buyra mostly from the catylog folks y know, an so we didn't have any credit there to speak of. But I went f Foster, th druggist, an' I told him how things was. I dldnt have no money f pay fer, th. medicine nn' things, an' the prospects fer the next year was as poor er poorer than th' last "'Why cerfnlee, Mr. Williams,' he says, 'jest let us know what yon want an' weU carry yon along tin times come better fer yon. We're all tit tight pinch now, but if we hang t'geth er things is ail goln to come oat right One and the Other. hi. Jigley I have met two women to-day whom I consider positively the queens of their respective types of beauty. Miss Bhmdlcy Ah, then the other n brunette. ( Not Even at the Post "Ever bet on a horse?" "Yes; I bet on a dark horse once." "Did he win?" "Win! H never ?ot out of the sta-hte.- ! -.. ., 4ft , s. Vi-i, t -ffsnunms 'YssssssssssssBmHr In the trxWM m 'alV "-- 14 'uV suffer if I kin help "Well, It was the HarloWa. grocery, an th everywhere In th town. Terfnlee. Mr. Willisana, wall sea y through aa this. It made me feel mean aa' small some way, though I dont know why. An' oft en when they'd pat In. a few, oranges' or aomethln' like that anym' ia-a pologla1n' sort of way. Tittle somethin' far th' sick baby. Williams,' why somehow It made a hard lump come up in my throat, an' I had a queer feelia' in my eyes, kinder achy like, y know.- "WeU. to be short about it fer eight weeks yon kep' a gittin' weaker an weaker, an' we kep n feelin' more 'n' more hopeless. It waa a and Christ mas la our home that year. Your ma waa jest wore oat with wntchln an' tryfa to do her work between tlmea. an' I was so nigh sick with trouble an discouragement 't I net to go around by the barn an' jest cry like n baby. But I never let on to your ma though, ner she f me. We tried f encourage each other though we knowed in our hearts 't all our cheerful words was lies, an' each one knowed the other knowed it too. "Well, jest th' night before New Years Doc called us outside your room. Oh, how my heart sunk then! 'I don't want to hold out any false hopes to you people, he saya, hnt I think with proper care from now on. your little girl la goln t' git welL Elsie, it seemed jest like n ton of hay had been lifted off my chest right there. Aa fer your ma, why she jest busted down an' cried as hard as she could. After Doc waa gone we went out to the kitchen an' kneeled down right there aa thanked God fer the most glorious New Year's gift he ever give f anybody in th world the health of our baby girt. You know your jpa ain't no ranter er shouter; yer ma'beln a Baptist has furnished most of th' rliglon fer our house, but jest then I seen how it was that they cornea times in people's. Uvea when I they've jest got to' have somethin bigger an greater than anything 'hu man f turn to with n great joy er a great sorrer. "WeU, It was a long time yet before you was strong enough t play oat doors, an' it was a hard winter. I burned every post of the fence around the south eighty fer firewood afore it was over. But it seemed like we had so much t' be thankful fer that we wa3 strong t care fer any any of th smaller troubles that we come acrost "It really hain't so bad to look back at It now after th' trouble Is over, but them hard years In Kansas drove nearly all our neighbors t give up their land an move away, broke in hopes an' pocketbook. Them of us as stayed Is party wen fixed now, but we fit fer everything we got an It bard, too. An. O, yes, about th caty logs. Well after yon was weU an things begun t take n turn fer th better, one night ma brought out that Chicago book an' laid it on the kitch en table an' says: 'Esry, what do yon want f do with this? An' I sea: Les burn it' An your ma sea: 'Jest what I waa thlnkin. too. An so wa did burn it nn' what's more, we ain't never had one In th house since, an we never send away fer anything we can git nt any of the stores In Huston, 'cause we want to deal with them as has an Int'rest In the country wa live In, aa In na people that live clout by. "Why, yon needn't of put yours in th' stove, too. Elsie. I didn't maaa yes. I don't know but what lt'a jest aa weU y done it after alL" Folk Denounces Mail-Order Idea. Addressli.g a meeting of retail mer chants in Jefferson dty recently. Gov ernor Folk, of Missouri, said: "We are proud of our aplendid dties, and we want to Increase wealth and population, and we also want oar country towns to grow. We wish the dty merchants to build up, hut we' also desire the country merchants to prosper. I do not believe In the mail order dtiaen. If a place la good enough for n man to Bve in nnd to make his money In. ita good enough for him to spend his money In. "No merchant can succeed without advertising In one wny or another.' Patronize your town pnpera, build them up, nnd they wm build the town up la Increased trade aad greater op portunities. Do not be afraid that business is geing to be hurt by the re cent 'exposures trf TTinnjdoInc la the commercial world." Mixture ef Many Nations. Louis N. Pnrher. the bora la Fran hla hla first laaguage waa Italian educated ha Germany. The rjieUnctiea, Correspondent It's a safe guess. senator, iaat It that a fairly decent rate biU win pass? f Eminent Statesman O. yea; if. safe enough guess, tut I wouldn't con sider it n safe gamble Thespian Fears Nave. A chang Ala't yon afraid Mat tie weekly! study? of bm of aver Stella Lite I'm afraid ef my snumj same thine nt can! yard, kfTiBnTi Bk.BBVa9. fl I Sea: Lea Bam It .i-Cr' .- 3WdarT4rar.yfe... -fer.-v.Jl 4 ? &