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By AVILLIAM P. KIRK.
I saw them taking nlm awavj
Tho old judge sentenced him today
Ten yenre behind the wallB of gray.
He did not shudder and Implore,
As be had shuddered years before;
He snarled and spat upon the floor.
Tho prison with Its shadows grim
Had been a Bort of home for Mm
Since ho was young and starved and slim.
He cursed the great, tho roaring town,
Whore all ho looked for was a frown.
He cursed tho hounds who ran him down.
Ten years to mutter In a cell;
, Ton years of Btrlpes; ton years of hell
And yet ho whispered "It Is well!"
Perchance bo had an Inkling dim
That In some world less gray and grim
Two thieves would Intercede for him.
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The Mending Man's Sweetheart
. By WINNIFRED BLACK
The vegetable woman pulled up her
raggedy old horso In a hurry.
"Whoa," she cried etentorously.
"Whoa, there: don't ye never want me
to apeak to nobody
that ain't a-buyln'
from me?"
The man who
came to mend the
hoe and tlx the
Carden hoie and
see what was the
matter with the
back gate looked
up.
"Why. hello.
Mary," he said
and he laid down
his tools and went
out to, the veget
able woman's
wagon to have a
little friendly chat.
"How's Lau
retta?" said the vegetable woman.
"Fine," Bald the man who mends things.
"We-'re all goln' flshtn' some Sunday."
"Flshtn'," said the vegetable woman,
"how on earth are you goln' to get
Laurella ftshnn'?"
"Goln to take her In my wogan,' said
the man who fixes things. "I've rigged
up a kind of a swing seat that Is ust as
easy as a cradle and. I'm goln' to set up
the umbrella over that and there she'll
bs as nice as you please.
"She can sit there on the bank And
see us fish she's pretoty tickled over It."
Just then something called me away
from the window and I didn't hear the
rest, but the vegetable woman told me
I almost asked her there was something
so particular tn the way sho asked after
Lauretta that I really wanted to know all
about It.
"It's this way," satd tho vegetable wo
man. "Alt the neighbors know the whole
story, so I guess It's no harm telling you,
too.
"Lauretta was kind of a pretty girl,
blue-eyed and yellow-haired and kind of
trustful and easy goln'. fihe went to
town to work tn a milliner's store and
the got Into some kind of trouble sonri
way and came home carryln tho prettiest
little thing of a girl you ever see.
"Her folks wouldn't have 'her around
and It looked kind of hard for Lauretta
for a while, but one day this mendln'
nan met her and her baby and first we
knew they was married and he put up
the neatest little houso for her you ever
did see.
"Tney've got two boys now of their
own, but the mendln' man thinks all the
world of the girl, too.
'I asked him one day 'How's your
iweetheartr and he says, "I've two, you
know,' and he meant the little girl, too.
"Well, Lauretta's all crippled up with
rheumatism; been so for .four or five
years; can't walk a step. He got her a
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Table Manners for Children
By MRS. FRANK LEARNED
Author of "The Etiquette of New Tork
Today."
Naturally children look to their parents
for examples ot what, to do at the table
or elsewhere, and, as they are very ob
serving, imitative and quick In forming
habits, It follows that parents cannot be
too careful themselves If they would edu
cate their children In good manners. It
they are Interested truly In the welfare
of their children they will train them
In every small detail ot conduct It ts
not just toward children to make ex
cuses tor careless habits on the plea
that these habits will be outgrown In
time. Bad manners at the ati Kon
Keeps Hands and Face
Young and Beautiful
(From Beauty and Health.)
The hands betray the age nwe quickly
than the face, If they are not Prop"
eared for. There's nothing like butter
jillk to keep the hands young looking
ind beautiful. Using this once a day for
awhile will soon wnlten the reddest ot
sallowest hands and make the roughest
kin soft and smooth. .
The most effective way to use butter,
nllk' is tn the form of presolated butter,
aillk paste. This may be conveniently
snnlled by putting a small quantity in
ii hand, spreading the same by going
th.ougb the regular motions of wash
ing the hands. When dry emoirfc w.tu
sold water, using no soap. The pie o
ated buttermilk paste, which you can
Kit at any drug store. Is more cleans
ing than any soap, und is irev .r-in
alkali and everything Injurious. If It Is
allowed to remain on over r.itht tti
bleachlncr softening and yHrn'" '
feet will be most thorough. The face may
alto be treated In the Mint raau.it..
finally saufactory results. Advertise-uent
Thief
wheel chair, tho', and whenever the cir
cus comes to town there they both are
big as life, and It anybody has mora
peanuts or lemonade than Lauretta I
don't know who It Is.
"I saw her the other day riding around
with him in his mendln' cart. He'd rig
ged up a seat In back for her and hoisted
tier Into It someway; and sne had on a
new pink hat with roses on It, same as a
girl's.
"I spoke to him about It lust now and
he laughed just like a boy and said, "Yep,
ain't it purty? Bhe's got three nice hats,
but I tike that one best, so she always
wears that when I take her out a-rldln'.
"Hr three sisters ts all married now
married well, too? tar as money goes.
One of 'em lives up In the ctty and has
a house bigger than the hotel, they say;
but I saw her once tn a store up there a
shoppln' and she looked kind of longfaced
and peaked. They ain't no children, and
they say he hoards It against her,
"The other's husband drinks, for all
he's so well off and the third one's men
ran away with some circus 6rl or ac
tress or other and now she's home her
self. They say Lauretta offered her a
home, but It wasn't good enough for her.
"I never did see a husband like Laur
etta's. He never seems to, think of a
thing outside his work, but how to pleas
ure her. I never like to let htm go by
without speakln' and askln' after Laur
etta, I kind o' like to see him smile when
he speaks her name."
The vegetable woman has a story herr
elf, they say: I heard that afaerwards.
She knew the man who mends thlnas
when she was young and her Bktn wasn't
bo tanned from working In her garden as
it Is now. But she was delicate and
couldn't ever marry, the doctors said,
so she just planted flowers and geve
tables and had her little house and took
care of her mother and now she stops
and asks after Lauretta and Is happy to
see how Lauretta's husband cherishes
her and loves her.
What a qeeer, little, narrow life they
lead, the vegetable woman and Lauretta,
and the man who mends things, and
their kindl No theaters, no opera, no
books, not much musto, never heard of a
good picture, never ate a really good
dinner tn their lives, couldn't do a one
stey or a bunny hug to save their lives.
wouldn't know a cabaret If they men it
in Broadway.
And yet, somehow, there was some
thing about the smjte in the eyes of tho
man who mends things that made mo
feel as I used to when I read about brave
knights who went forth to slay dragons
and came back on horseback to a fan
fare of trumpets.
I wish somebody would find the man
who mends things and pn some kind of
a decoration on hts coat: but, I suppose,
he'd take It off and make Leuretta put
It on a new hat for herself, and then
smite all the more sweetly some men
are so odd, aren't they?
become fixed habits, very difficult to
change as years go on, and will mark a
person through lite as having been Ill
taught or neglected at home, and this Is,
of course, a serious reflection on par
ents. Children should not come to tho table
for very long or caivmouiius m.-uU. In
every well-regulatrJ ht'itho(d punctual
ity at meals Is expe:ud tut of consldca,
tlon for others. Tus ts .iif. of ih: wi.'H
est lessons to ue eutorctl. Rxtrvme
neatness In personal appearand Is obli
gatory. Children hW.l t Isiuuht to
wash their hands n wnth their hair
before coming to the taolo.
A very small child may niye n mpkln
fastened round the neck, but oner child
ren should do as grown pel amis dr
Partly unfold a napkin ami place t
across the knees.
It ts Important to teach children not to
fidget In their chairs; not to sit too
close to the tabte, but not too far nway.
as either position Is awkward; not u
crumble bread; not to play with sliver,
and not to amuse themselves by n uking
marks on the tablecloth.
Olrls are served before boys. Thlf
courtesy should be accorded by bovs to
their sisters.
Essential things are to eat soup from
the side of a spoon and not to make a
noise when eating it; not u Hold a fork
awkwardly or "overhand;" to eat slowly
and to keep the mouth closed while sat
Ing, and not to talk white food Is in the
mouth; to wipe the mouth with a napkin
before and after drinking; not to leave
a spoon in a cup for a momsnt; to plae
fork and knife together on the plate
when one has finished-
Although children should not b al
lowed to complain of their food or to be
fussy." It Is not right to Insist that a
child shall eat what may be distasteful.
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Drawn for The Bee by Hal
Mysteries
The Two-Part Life of the
w ithout lhart or Compass, is One of the Most Fascinating of Scientific Puzzles
By GARRETT P. 8ERVISS.
Rudyard Kipling, In one of hts poems,
has referred to the mystery of the period
ical disappearances of the seats from
intir Dreeaing grounds, wnere tne nunt
ers cut them' down.
H 1 s Imagination
appears to have
been deeply stirred
by the strange In
stincts of these
animals, which
know the hidden
ways of the sea.
and travel where
man cannot follow,
with a sureness of
course, and an un
erring divination
of obstacle and
danger which, It
possessed bv hu
man pilots, would make the navigation
of the ocean as simple as walking across
a room. And, indeed, it ts a poetlo mys
tery. Without chart or compass they voyage
thousands of mile, and never go astray.
They live in the sunlight, and walk on
the land during months of every year,
and yet, when the time comes, they
plunge Into the sea, disappear, at will,
In Its dark profundities, seek and find
their winter homes, thousands ot miles
away, feed upon the fish and squids In
tho depths of the temperate or tropical
ocean, and, with the return of the north
ern spring, take their way once mora
to the borders of the Arctic lee.
These statements apply especially to
the fur seals of Alaska. The less valu
able "hair seals" are a, widely different
species, although they. tOO. hava fh-l-
stranga annual migrations.
What adds to the mystery of the fur
seals Is the fact. that, unlike the others
they are, anatomically, allied to the
bears, whose behavior they strikingly
Imitate when on land. vvr m.
they were originally called "sea-bears."
Thus they come into a certain rota
tlonshlp with land csrnlvores, or flesh
eating animate of the land, which, though
they may swim, cannot live under water.
-racucauy at least half the life of
these seals ts passed berond nur v
They come up Into our world, like plants
hu.wui, uui or mo grouna, wnen their
season Is due. retreat Ih.ln ,ia
rocky beaches, or hill slopes, remain until
wieir iana-iorn progeny has learned th
secrets of the water world, and then go
their unhesitating way down In the dark
nesses of the sea.
The family life of these animals la .
strange as their migrations. In the month
of May, as tho sun begins to melt the lc
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of Science and Nature
Seals, Which Voyage Thousands of Miles Yearly
floes In the Behrlng sea, around the
Prlbllof Islands, the black heads of the
"bull" seals may be seen emerging from
the water. They are seeking the breed
ing places for tho "cows," which will
come later. They have voyaged thous
ands of mles with no North star, but
only their Inborn Instinct, to cntrf th.m
They select, on the rocky coasts, beaches
and slopes to please them and then wa(t.
Each bull has his own grounds, or "rook
ery." He Is alone but tiu mius tint
his company is coming.
In Juns the females begin to arrive.
They are small and frail compared to the
bulls, but they, teo, have made their way
unerringly. Then the "harems" are or
ganised. The bulls are like grand Turks;
each of them has, on the average, thirty
members of his harem. Once in a while
some unfortunate (or fortunate) has but
one; but, on the other hand, a few have
aB many as a hundred.
The lot of young bulls, "bachelors," the
eat fishermen cat! them, has a kind of
Poetic Interest also. They have no ha
rems, not even one with a single Inmate,
They collect together in companies near
the hareme that they cannot enter, and
look on and think. Perhaps they con
struct romances of the future In their
Poor, muddled brains. But their lot has
another unhappy feature since man has
learned the value of their hides, for they
can be unmercifully slaughtered without
Advice to the Lovelorn
Ther Are Wrong,
Dear Miss Fairfax; I became engaged
to a. young man the second week In July,
snd we love each other with the deepest
and cleanest and most holy love that is
In existence between a man and a
woman, and nothing except death can
separate us. This young man is In bust
ness fpr himself, and needs every cent
he makes. Npw, on account of this, it
Is impossible for him to buy me a ring,
and on account of this my parents do
not believe that he will keep his word,
and do not trust htm. They promised to
P . fu prt ,n hnpr of my engagement,
but they refuse to do so, as my parents
stats that It will te a shame fof Aem to
Introduce their child to our friends and
family as being a bride when I have no
sign of being one that is, I have no ring.
Now, I argue with them, that at this
time he has no ring to give because of
the condition of his business, and that
my heart-my great and holy love for
iiiiii ,iu iiacwiac. ma lor me; out tney
do not listen to me. and they nag and
nag, until I feel that 1 wilt break down.
LOVE BLESSED.
The ring Is only a symbol, Olrls have
been wooed and won, and been happy
wives till death without either an en-
fear of diminishing the herd. They are
driven off by hunters at night, corralled
In musters that may number thousands,
then Ignomlnloualy knocked oh the head.
The breeding season closes about the
first of August. Then the bulls go away,
followed by the females and the young,
to lead their other Ufa In the sea.
An Indication of how little haa hann
known, until very recently, of that other
ma oi me seais is aitoraed ty this singu
lar fact. When the United States and
Great Britain combined their wisdom (n
an effort to protect the precious herds
irom utter extinction, about 1833, a pro
tected limit was drawn about the islands,
with a radtus of sixty miles from shore,
within which it was forbidden to kill
seals found In the water.
It was thought that few would go away
farther than that. But to the surprise ot
everybody, the "pelagic" or open-sea
fishermen made the very next season,
Without violating the protective boundar
ies, the largest catch on record. Then it
w found that the seats were limited by
no such narrbw bounds ot oceanic wan
dering as had been ascribed to them, but
that they might b encountered in abun
dance almost anywhere north of Cali
fornia and Japan. Bo riow. by a fifteen
year convention, pelagio sealing Is pro
hibited anywhere in the northern Pa
cific, Japan Joining In the agreement with
ureal uritain and the United States
gagement or weddlno- rlnir
Retain your faith In him, and, since a
party without the ring would embarrass
your parents, refuse to have the party.
Thnt, also, Is unnecessary to happiness.
That Depends.
Dear Miss Fairfax: My girl friend Is
very Intimate with a young man whom I
know very well and who has called on
me several times. She has asked me a
number ot times if I would not go out
with her and her friend, and has also
planned to have this young man Join our
, j '. "vi. .'"" '""i" ana con
sider such a thing as this forcing my
company upon htm, as he has never taken
me out. She has also invited ma to her
home while he was there. Would it be
right for me to accept the above men.
tloned Invitations? UNDECIDED.
There would ba nn lmnrrairii In ac
cepting an Invitation from her to her
norne, or o go om wijn ner, wnep, in a
way, she it the hostess.
If the young man invites her to go, she
hasn't the privilege of Including
you must refuse.
Little Bobbie's Pa
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
Pa brought hoam a funny looking yung
man with him last nlte. lie was kind ot
yung & Innocent looking, & he looked as
If he had been crying, His eyes were red
& every onet in a while he wud skowl St
look feerce.
Wife, ted Pa, this Is Mister James Mur
ray. I newer met him till this after
noon. He Is a distant relashun of mine,
& he has a letter ot lntroduckshun to
me from a other distant relashun. Mister
Murray, sed Pa, malk yuraelt at hoam.
This Is my castls, this flat, eed Pa, &
you must feel the esim here as you do
tn yure own hoam.
Ha is a slnntck, sed Pa. He toald me
all about It dimming up hoam In the
subway. It seems that he loved a yung
girl & thought the whole wurld ot her,
Pa sed, Him & her was about to be wed,
but aha xat har alma cfaiiaH MmihAw
fc ran awav the nlta hnafnar h wiiliUnv'lf.ni it u...i.i-. .
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with a lecdlng man for a medicine show,
. ..w... ..... ...,. ..... Htm ,nm mo,, nuino am prim a rew copies nobody
Pa. I know wan I wna vunr t wn at.
ways wanting to get rid of my girls after
awhile. I wud go with them for awhile,
Pa sed, St then I wud talk them to a show
that had a handaum Itaritnr man A- It
thay dldent run away with him thay al
ways looked at his plcter & then at mine,
as threw me 6aver
But Julia, d Mister Murray, Julia was
my all, my ocean, my stars, my moon, my
sun.
I cud see that Ma dldent like him vary
good. She looked at him the way she
dotes at most of the trends Pa brings
hoam. It Is awful hard for Ma in h
polite to sum of Pa's trends.
I guess you doant like me. sed vunr
Mister Murray. X doant think moast wlm-
men like a slnnlck. A slnntck knows too
much of a woman's trecherous nature.
Like the grate Shonenhour. ha fennwa iK
danger that lies beyond the llaht in wim.
men's eyes.
Tou arent a slnnlck, sed Ma. Tou are:
Jest a concerted yung calf that thoushti
he was a winner with sum gurl who
thought otherwise. After vnu
oalder, Ma sed, & have been thrown down
hard py a dosen more yung ladles, you
will beegin to reellse mat wlmmsn Is
better & wiser than men. I doant calr
what Shopenhour or any other old Dutch
flltosoter thinks. Thay used to set around
at annic neer tin it was too late to go
hoam, sed Ma, & wen thay got a swift
call next day they ted all wlmman w
cranks. I am glad my husband brought
you hoam, sed Ma, beekaus now, rite In
front of him, I am going to show you that
he isent a slnnlck even If you think you
are one. Dear, Ma sed to Pa, arent wlm
men better sweeter every woy than
menT
Yes, derest, sed Pa. Pa Is a slnnlck
tho, but he tells me moor than he tells
Ma,
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A Basket of Eggs
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By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
It was 206 years ago, July 7, 1647, In th
city of Naples, that a basket of figs cre
ated a revolution which resulted In tho
death of MO mon, many of them members
of the ancient no
bility; the burning
of scores of villas
and palaces, and
the elevation to
power of a peas
ant whose entire
possessions would
not have brought
the price of a de
cent suit of clothes.
The owner of the
basket of figs was
asked to pay the
royal tax upon tho
fruit: he refused to
do so, and emptied his basket upon tho
street. Close by stood Masanlello, tho
fisherman, young, handsome, brave and
"chok full" of the eternal sense of Jus
tice and right. Poor and humble as ha
was, Masanlello possessed a commanding
personality, the "gift Imperial" of mag
netizing men, and outraged by the injus
tice he had witnessed he sounded tho
call of arms.
Arming themselves, the populace, wltH
Masanlello at their head, drove out tho
Spanish viceroy, liberated the prisoners
of the customs, burnt the houses of tho
king's creatures, destroyed tho offices of
the tax collectors, and mado short work
of ridding the city of) the tyrannical no
bility and their henchmen. But there was
no loafing. Tho mob wna thinking not ot
stealing, but of establishing what they be
lieved to be Justice.
In a trice Masanlello was master of
Naples. The viceroy was forced to re
move the hated taxes, and in his ruda
shanty home, the barefooted fisherman,
In rude, democratto fashion, but with an
ye single to Justice and humanity, dis
posed of the petitions and complaints that
Were handed to htm. '
But nature Is Inexorable, and In estab
lishing her balances she ts worse than a
thousand Shylocks. For an ontlra week
the entire care ot a city ot hundreds of
thousands of Inhabitant had fallen upon
Masanlello. Ha was general, Judge, legis
lator; and for the whole tlmo he had
hardly slept or eaten. The combined phy
stcat and mental strain was more than
he could bear, and the fisherman's brain
began to reel. He became a maniac and.
did all sorts of violent things; and Instead
of loving him and caring for him until
he regained his sanity, the fools killed
and burled' him like a dog. But dusptto
this, the name of Masanlello will live for
ever In the memory of tho lovers of llb-t
erty and Justice.
Famous Books Despised by
Their Authors
Ths first edition of Browning's "Paul
Ine" was sold At auction for t8,000, yet
not only did Browning receive nothing for
It originally, but he would have with
drawn it from print of It had been pos
sible. Tet so highly did nossettt think of
this despised masterpiece that, not being
able to find a copy anywhere, he wend
fo the British Museum library and spent
several laborious days copying It word
for word.
Mrs. Browning was so careless as to
the fAte of her works that It Is a won
der that any of them havo survived. In
deed, If it had not been for a doting
father before marriage and a devoted hus
band after marriage, it is possible that
the tho published works ot the greatest
English woman poet would have been nit.
Even Tennyson was caretesa with re
gard to his manuscripts and seemed to
despise them. Borne wceko after leaving
his lodgings at Mornlngton place, Hamp
stead, he wrote from Barchureh to Cov
entry Patraore, the author of "The Angel
In the House," asking htm casually to go
along somo time to his late lodgings and
see If he could find his "book of Elegies
a Jong, butcher, ledger-tike book," aa ho
described It. Patmore went, and tho land
lady gave him permission to search the
poet's old rooms. There, In a cupboard
In which Tennyson had kept his tea and
butter, Patmore found the book, full of
verses. It was the unpublished manu
script of "In Memorlam," Tennyson's;
masterpiece.
Edward FJtxgerald was utterly careless
of his fame. He lived to be an old man,
yet not one in a million of his fellow
countrymen regarded him as a poet, oven
If they had heard his nama mentioned aa
an old chum of Alfred Tennyson. Yet
he wrote "The Uublyat of Omar Khay
yam long years Before his death. Ho
( i ...luiniua uuuui, apparently not
j thinking It worth publishing, and when"
tool
any notice of it Todav nmr i.
of the most famous poems in the world,
ona
oeou was apt to despise his work. Ho
threw the original draft of "The Lay of
the Last Minstrel" into the fire, and waa
only persuaded to rewrite it by two
friends to whom he had read It; and
"Waverly"-or the first half of It. rather
lay In a barrel for nine years before It
was exhumed and finished.
If John Keble had his way it Is pos
tlble that his famous "Christian Year"4
might never have been published. He wa
extremely averse to It. and only yielded
q imiioriuni..4 of his friends
the pleadings of hts father, Even so
refused to have his
and
he
title
f A,..n forty-tlve Jars " went through
Itt editions, and since It went out of copy
right they have ceased to be' counted
Eat Away Your Fat"
Saya Noted Specialist
' ! 'Eat and grow thin.1 This advice la
quite the reverse of that generally given
to those overburdened with flesh." soya
a well-known specialist. "It all depends
mjv,, T"it j uu cai. ik you will
boranlum jujubea, you may expect
eat
t a
nuvemiiua4 fcuucugn in Weignt,
without any of the evlla ati.tviinp-
and
the
usual Internal medication. This Is a most
efficacious treatment with which the gen-
ii puuiic ia uuio acquainted as yet. I
invariably prescribe boranlum Jujubes In
obesity, always with gratifying results.
They act as an absorbent and etlmlnant
of fatty deposit". Their effect on health,
vitality and complexion ts altogether
favorable.
"Corpulent . persona who may wish to
try this simple treatment will find boran
lum Jujubes in most drug stores, though
they ara still considered something of an
HtiiuiKMuii in ti vvuiiirx. Aney snouia
uu vanit una mipr cvu lliraj, ana
upon retiring." Advertisement.
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