Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1910 — Page 8

MF*, /- , ;, K'“ ■ >' P<‘>’P r ?wi rrT? suppressed? ■ A Story That Won a Prix* and Yet , Was Nevsr Published. j Anumper of years ago a series of prizes,for the best detective story] Kl was offered by a certain well known western newspaper, and the late F. R. i Parton, in collaboration with a fellow craftsman, entered the competition. ■ Their story, the theme of which in- J solved an Ingenious method of rob-; ( bing a safe in spite of the protection 1 afforded by a time lock, was one of the five which won prizes, and the authors’ ' K portraits were duly published in the s&. issue of the paper which announced , ife( the result of the competition. The ■w prize money, constituting a consideraK# ble sum, was promptly paid over, but to the author's surprise, although the other four winning stories were pub- ' | fished. that of the time lock failed to I appear. After a few weeks a repre- | sentative of the paper called upon Mr. Burton, explaining that the editor was anxious to know what authority he had for his story and whether it would really be possible to rob a bank after ; the fashion that he had set forth. 1/ With the help of a pencil and a few diagrams Mr. Burton easily proved H . the accuracy of the method to the apik parent satisfaction of his interviewer and thereafter looked forward to a prompt appearance of the story. But fr. a few days later the secret of the delay was revealed. A special envoy of |k the paper waited upon him, full of cohstetnatlon and apology, and preli pared to make any amends within reason. but was emphatic In announcing that It was absolutely impossible to publish the story, because after ex-, g * pert investigation they had become , convinced that if it should appear in , E print it would destroy the protective ■ power of every time lock safe In the country, and the representative of the 1 newspaper did not take his leave un- ‘ til he had obtained what Mr. Burton ( under the circumstances easily grant- : ed—a signed agreement releasing the . <• paper from its obligation to publish , the story end solemnly pledging him- ( self not to attempt to publish it else- s where. Accordingly the curiosity ; piqued by this bit of inside history is likely never to be gratified.—Bookman. ' HE BOUGHT IN PARIS. i J Then He Found He Could Have Done ! Better Nearer Home. j< Enrico Caruso, the famous tenor, * told a curious story once while in ’ conversation with a man prominent in ; , musical circles in Philadelphia. The 1 ; two were ascending the stairs from ( the basement of the Bellevue-Strat- j ford when at the first landing they ( halted, and Caruso pointed to a mar- < ble bench of ancient Florentine pat- • tern. > I “I am a great admirer of those 1 benches.** be said, “and last summer 1 J had a strange experience with them. 11 had just purchased a villa in Italy and . 1 was always on the lookout for some-. 1 thing decorative in the way of novel , furniture. “While tn Paris 1 happened to see ' one of these benches and at once con- , eluded to put a dozen of them about ; the I found the dealer and j asked the price. He said SSO apiece. , I ordered the dozen. ‘ ” i “A few weeks later I was at my ' villa looking it over and happened to discover across the hedge at the bor-j der a marble yard, and there was the marble cutter working on one of those , — same benches. “I climbed the hedge, and after chatting with the man a few minutes and admiring tte great care be was exercising 1 asked if be usually made such benches. ‘Oh. yes!’ be replied. T L. make many. I have an order now for • twelve of them for the great tenor Caruso He ordered them in Paris.’ “When 1 recovered from my surprise I questioned him and found that be was really the man who supplied the Paris dealer. 1 asked him how much he would make me some for, and he replied, Twenty dollars apiece, signor.’ “So I was paying SSO for the privilege of buying in Paris what was beI tag made at my own door, in addition to freight both ways and extra incidental Now when I want to buy anything my home I go to the nearest place first*’—Philadelphia News. A Chinese Joke. There was a man in Ch’angan who. was very fond of giving dinners, but the food given was atrocious. One day a guest threw himself on his knees in front of this gentleman and said, “Am . X not a friend of yours?*’ “You are, indeed,’’ replied his host • “Theo 1 must ask of you a" favor,” , said the guest “and you must grant it before I rise from my knees.” j Er' “Well, what is it?” Inquired his host E* in astonishment | “Never to invite me to dinner any more!" cried the guest at which the whole party burst into a loud roar of v -■ laughter.—North China Herald. Peasistent Shopkeeper (to commercial traveler) I —Can’t give you an order. Quite overstocked. Traveler—Let me at least show you my samples. ShopkeeperSpare yourself the trouble. 1 can’t look at them. Traveler-Then will you allow ms to leek at them myself? It H is three weeks since I have seen them. ■ .“ —London Penny Pictorial. English Cigars. “Do cigars ever contain rope?” h A “No. That’s Just a pleasantry of toe jokemakers. As a matter of fact, hemp is too expensive to put in the ’ cheaper brands of cigars.”-London Mall. - ' J The eruptions ofVesuvius greatly increase too fertility of too ground in the vicinity. ' -z'’. t ** ■ L.. . ■

SHERIFF’S SALE. The State of Indiana, Adams Coun- . ty, ss. j ,Tn the Adams Circuit Court' of Adams County, Indiana. r John W. Me Kean vs. Mary A. Loch, Noah A. Loch et al. No. 7794. I By virtue of an order of sale to me ■directed by the Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court of said County and l State, I have levied upon the real es--1 tate hereinafter mentioned and will expose for sale at public auction at the east door of the Court House in t the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana,, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m., and 4 o'clock p. m., on I Saturday, January 8, 1810. The rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real esxate, situated in Adams County, Indiana, to-wlt: l Inlot number one hundred and nine-ty-five (195) in the first addition to the Town (now City) of Decatur, County of Adams and State of Indiana, as the same is designated on the recorded plat of said town (now City) except three (3) feet off of the north side thereof of even width. ; ■ And on failure to realize therefrom the full amount of judgment, interest thereon and costs, I will at the same time and in the same manner aforesaid, offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises. Taken as the property of Mary A. Loch, Noah A. Loch, et al., to satisfy said order of sale this 9th day of December, 1909. 50t3 ELI MEYER, Sheriff. ———-—o- — ■ " SHERIFF’S SALE. The State of Indiana, Adams County, ss. . ’ • ' I nthe Wells Circuit Court of Wells County, Indiana. Charles Page vs. Christena R. Niblick, admx., et. al. No. 8674. By virtue of an execution to me directed by the Clerk of the Wells Circuit Court of said County and State, I have levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned and will expose for sale at public auction at the east door of the Court House in the City of ecatur, Adams County, Indiana, betwteen the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m., on 7, 1910. The rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate, situated in Adams County, Indiana, to-wit: Inlots numbers 569, 570, 571 and 581 in Bremerkamp’s & Derkes’ subdivision of out-lot No. 157 and part of outlot 158 in Joseph Crabb’s western addition to the Town (now City) of Decatur, Adams Couqty, Indiana: Also inlots numbers 558, 559, 560 and 561 in Glass & Rice’s subdivision of outlets numbers 151, 154 and 155 in Joseph Crabb’s second western addition to the Town (now City) of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana: Also outlots numbers 115 and 116 in Joseph Crabb’s western addition to the Town (now City) of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana: .JLlso commencing at the southwest corner of the .southeast quarter of section 36, township 28 north of range 14 east, in Adams County, In diana, running thence north 160 rods, thence east 30 rods, thence south 160 rods, thence west 30 rods to toe place of beginning, estimated to contain 30 acres of land. ; • And on failure to realize therefrom the full amount of judgment, Interest (thereon and costs, I will at the same ■time and in the same manner aforesaid, offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises. ■ Taken as the property of John W. Vail to satisfy said execution this 9th day of December, 1909. 50t3 ELI MEYER, Sheriff. —o — APPOINTMEN TOF EXECUTOR. Notice is hereby given that the un- : dersigned has been appointed Execu,tor of the estate of Michael Kuehm, | Sr., late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. MICHAEL KUEHM, Jr., a Executor. Dec. 1, 1909. Dore B. Erwin, Atty. 49t3 N Q" ~ — NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, Adams County, ss. In the Adams Circuit Court, November term, 1909. Perry J. Everhart vs. -.Kate Marquart et aL No. 7874. To quiet title. It appearing from affidavit filed in ’toe above entitled cause, that Kate Marquart, George Marquart and William Railing, of toe above named defendants are non-residents of toe State of Indiana. | Notice is therefore hereby given toe (said Kate Marquart, George Marquart 'and William Railing that they be and appear before toe Hon. Judge of toe Adams Circuit Court on the 21st day ; of February, 1910, the same being the 13to Juridical Day of the next regular term thereof, to be holdenat toe Court 1 House in the City of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the 7th day of February, A. D., 1910, and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in their absence. Witness, my name, and Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this 21st day of December, 1909. (Seal) JAMES P. HAEFLING, Clerk. Peterson & Moran, Attorneys for : Plaintiff. 51t3 i. o— APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR. Notice is herey given that the undersigned has been appointed Executor of the estate of Herman Buettner, late of Adams county, deceased. The . estate is probably solvent. WILLIAM GOLDNER, Executor. David E. Smith, Atty. J . ’ December 16, 109. - 51t3 1 o —- • NOTICE OF ELECTION. * Notice is hereby given to toe 10l owners in toe Decatur Cemetery As sociation that there will be an elec

tlon held at the office of J. H. Stone in the City of Decatur on the !„ 6th Dey of January, 1910, at 7 o’clock p. m., for the (purpose of |. .electing seven trustees for the Decatur Cemetery association for the en- ! suing year. J. H. STONE, ’ 52t2 Sec’y D. C. A. » — ---o— B NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND MORT--1 GAGED TO SCHOOL FUND. ... 1 Auditor’s Office, Adamr County, Int diana. . i Notice is hereby given, that, pursu- ’> ant to the statute in each case made J and provided, the undersigned, H. S. i Michaud, Auditor of the County of Adams In the State of Indiana, will on t Friday, the 28th day of January, 1910, • betwen toe hours of 10 o’clock a. m., 1 and 4 o’clock p. m., of said day offer for sale at Public Auction and outcry, • to the highest bidder, at the door of ’ the Court House, in toe City of pe- • catur, in the vounty of Adams, afore- • said, the rents and profits for a term 1 not exceeding seven years, of the fol--1 lowing real estate situated in said 1 County, to-wlt: The south one-half ff the folowing described reas estate 1 to-wlt: Commencing at toe center of c the public highway which IS* two hun- ’ dred ninety-five (295) west of the ’ southeast corner of the east half of ‘ the southwest quarter of section three (3) township twenty-seven (27), north • range fourteen (14) east; thence running west twenty (20) rods and sev- ' enteen (17) links to toe ■ Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne Railroad, known also as the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad; thence north along the line of said railroad one hundred and fortythiree (143) feet; thence east . parallel with the line of said’section about twenty-four (24) feet to the i center of the public highway on the east side thereof; thence in i'Bouto- . westerly direction in toe center of said public highway to the place of beginning, and in case the rents and ' profits aforesaid fail to bring the amount demanded to satisfy principal, , interest, damages and costs, together i with all accruing costs upon a mortgage executed by Jacob O. Huston and Rhoda Huston his wife, on the ; 13th day of January, 1903, in favor nf the State of Indiana, for the use of : the Common . and Congressional School Fund for the payment of One Hnudred and Fifty Dollars School Fnuds bortrowed by said Jacob O. Huston with interest according to law. I will at the same time and place, and in like manner as aforesaid, offer for sale at public auction and outcry to toe highest bidder, for cash in hand, the'fee simple, or all the right, title, interest and estate said Jacob O.' Huston and Rhoda Huston in and to said Real Estate at the date of said mortgage, or so much and such part thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the principal, interest, damages and costs, and accruing costs due upon said mortgage, in favor of said State of Indiana. The amount how due upon said mortgage as shown by the Records in this Office are as follows, to-wlt: Aiuount of Principal ....,....$150.00 Amount of Interest 45.37 Amount of 2 per cent damagbs 3.90 Amount of costs 10;00 ’ —— Total amount due on skid mortgage . $207.29 H. S. MICHAUD, Auditor Adams County, Indiana. It 3 ■— -o—— NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, superintendent of construction of the Samuel Teeters ditch in Wabash, Jefferson, Blue Creek and Monroe townships, Adams County, Indiana, on Saturday, January 22, 1910, . at 10:30 o’clock a. m., at the office of . toe county surveyor, in the city of Decatur, In said county, receice sealed blds for the construction of said ditch in accordance with reports, plans and specifications therefgr, now on file In said cause. Bids will be reselved and contracts let as follows: t Section 1. Station 177 to station 209 5-6. Section 2. Station 151 to station 177. Section 3. Station 125 to station 151. - Section 4. Station 99 to station . 125. Section 5. Station 78 to station 99. 1 Section 6. Station 52 to station 78. ’ Section Station 26 to station 52. Section 8. Station 0 to 26. > and to the lowest and best bidder or bidders as a whole. • Bidders will be required to file with 1 their blds affidavits as required by > law,, upon forms furnished by such r superintendtnt and each bid shall 3 be accompanied with good and sufflt dent bond in a sum twice the amount -of such bld, conditional for'the saiths ful performance of said contract, ahd '' that such bidder will enter into con--1 tract if the same be awarded to him, such bond to be approved by said 1 superintendent f The said superintendent reserves the right to reject any and an bids. No bids will be accepted in excess r of the estimated cost of such work, or in the excess of benefits found. C. C. ERNST, l-t2-4tl J. Take a hint do your own mixing. . Rough on Rats, being all poison, one e 15c box wiU spread or make 50 to 100 lltle cakee that will kill 500 or more rats and mice.. It’s the unbeatable exterminator. Don’t die in the house. Beware pf imitations, |substltutes and catch-penny, ready-for use devices. . Mrs. August Heckman and daugh B . ter, Mary, of Ottawa, Ohio, are visit b- tng with Ed Harting and family.

n simii nr nn-r f nUU lit Uul An Al I lt . ... By T. ANTHONY TWINING. [Copyright, 1909, by American Press Association.] “What’s that story, Nevin, about your escape from Morro castle during the Spanish-American war?” l ' “I never escaped from Morro castle.” "Well, you escaped from somewhere, e didn’t you?" I. “Sure. I was captured while on f picket by a troop" of Spanish cavalry, i The captain didn’t want to be both- ** ered with me, so he left me with an > old Cuban named Campanoni, a small r farmer, telling him that he would be ’ back that way in a few days and if he dicln’t find me he would burn the house and tear up the little garden i patch which contained all the farmer . had to live on for a year.” 1 “Well, the captain didn’t find you f when he came back, did he?” . j J “No; he didn’t" t “You laid a plan, I’m told.” “No; I didn’t lay a plan, though I 3 had plenty of time. 1 was principally , engaged' killing it—the time—with my 3 jailer. You know Spaniards are the most inveterate gamblers in the world, i and Campanoni beat all the rest of them. I had h little loose change ’ t when 1 was captured, and he won it 1 all. Then he won my garments one ; after the other. He played fair too. I I watched him closely and never could - detect a bit of crookedness. In fact 1 he was awfully scrupulous in giving ’ me every advantage, i played fair, 1 too, when It came to playing for artlcles such as clothes, money, my watch > and alf that but I’ll admit there was i one thing 1 didn’t play fair about . You see—what do you suppose put into , my head away to get out of his ■ clutches?” "Wbat?” “Some bones and a lead pipe.” “Explain.’’. “You don’t see any connection between the two, do you? But there was. The old man was very fond of shaking dice. I taught him poker dice, and be went wild over the game. He was ready to play for anythiug/be, had, but I hadn’t anything to .put up—that is, nothing available, though 1 j • had plenty of money in bank at home, | Singular how funny it is the way ideas pop into people’s heads. 1 had borrowed my jailer’s dice one day to ' relieve the tedium, for I hadn't a book or a newspaper even in dago language and, suddenly looking up, noticed the lead water pipe running through the room. See?’ / “See? No. Go on.” ; ' - “Dice and lead meant loaded dice to me. That meant freedom. I would draw my check for a lot of money and play it against myself with loaded dice. Sure thing.” J * J . | “But not exactly square.” I ' “I don’t pretend it was. Didn’t I tell ' you that I played fair in everything except one? Well, that was too impor-, tant to play fair about, though the old man didn’t lose anything in the end, > as I will explain later. I first began to ; tell him about my bank up in the States and held my .possessions up before him long enough to get his cupid-1 jty on the rampage. Meanwhile of nights I was .chipping the lead pipe, digging little boles in the dice and stuffing in the lead. Campanoni lent*’ me a little awl, never even asking what I wanted it for. He was no jail1 er, simply a farmer.” ■ “I should think you could have es-1 caped from such a man.” I “Escape! He never took bls eyes off > me in the day and locked me In safe at i night. You see, I was a mortgage on his home to be foreclosed If not pro- ’ duced. Well, when I’d filled the bones I I asked for pen and paper, wrote an , order for s2,ooo—more than twice r what the farm was worth—and offered . to stake it against my liberty. My . jailer held out just five minutes. • “We sat down to a game of poker dice. I’dhpractjced rolling them, and, knowing just where I’d put the lead, 1 X Could do pretty much what 1 wanted, with them. Whenever he’d get a full i X’d get four of a kind, and he got 'fulls’ pretty often, for the dice rolled . nearly as well for him as for me. 1 didn’t beat him so bad, after all. But I beat him, and I saw titat he was hor- ' rifled at what he had done. He was • sure everything would be destroyed . when the captain came back. I asked . him bow much he would lose, and he r told me a thousand dollars. He hadn't SSOO in the world—house, farm and produce—but I was so glad to get out of it, besides needing a salve for my r conscience, that I drew him a check 1 for, the thousand and made him a pres--1 ent of it He- was a confiding old fool i- or he wouldn’t have considered It t worth the bit of paper it was written on, but he never doubted and got his . money too. He was as honoraple as 1 he was confiding. Yon see, it was the gambler in him. He considered gam- >. bling the most honorable occupation 1 in the world and would have scorned to take toe slightest advantage of his s enemy In a game, though he would have cheated him out of the gold in his teeth in a bargain. 8 “He let me go F .and I wasn’t long in ” making my way back to camp. Who I- should I see there among some prisoners captured that very day but the captain who had captured me. I took particular pains that he should neither . escape nor be exchanged till the war £ was over. I didn’t want him going 0 back to foreclose me on old Campanor nl’s farm.” ■ , i. “It seems to me you took an unnece ' essary trouble. Why didn’t you bribe >- tbefarmer toletyougor* . r- “What with?” . . . \ “Rats! Bte wouldn’t have taken my i- check if I hadn’t got him started t. through his mania for gambling. 1 bad to work on him

Curious ‘ n A very curious, astronomicalJ&enomenon occurs in the heavens at a certain time of the year which can be + witnessed only by standing in the par , isb churchyard of Leek, in fitaffordshire, England. ./ z ‘ From that position the top of a mountain known as the Cloud breaks the line of sight and hilly Intercepts ; your view of the setting of the sun. , This mountain is six miles distant, as the crow flies, from the town of Leek and owing to its peculiar formation causes the sun when it "has entered that sign of /the xodiac known as Can- , cer, which happens when we are about halfway through the year, to produce the strange effect offsetting twice . daily. Tpe first time that it sets the town sinks Info darkness, and the inhabitants light up tbeir bouses and shops j in the usual way. Presently duwn sufI fuses over the town, clear daylight follows, and artificial lights are put out. j At the second setting of the sun darkness sets In for good. This phenomenon continues for some days. ' The head and shoulders of the distant mouu tain intervene just at the juncture when tbe sun at the first setting drops behind the top or head (Os the mountain. There he hides for some time and emerges again from behind Just below the head and throws daylight out upon tbe locality once more, when be again sinks behind the mountain’s shoulders and finally sets behind the horizon.-81 ray Stories. ji,.' KNOCKED FOR RAIN. ■ And Within an Hour the Wind Veered and the Shower Came. Frances Goatling, author of “The Britons at Home,’’ has this curious tale of the dolmen of Rocenaud, with its curious cup shaped impressions like the constellation Pleiades: An old woman. a bystander, was asked what the marks were for. “Folks say." said she. “that they were made by the elbows and knees of St. Rock. He fell down on thia stone when hejanded from Ireland.’' And then tbe old wo--1 man “We use the helps now ! when we want the wind to change. We knock in them.” Tbe story ebni tinues: “.’Do ask her to knock!’ I cried eagerly. There was a moment of hesitation on the part of tbe old woman, * ;■ half franc shown in a careless way, and ‘Wbat wind would madam like to haveT ‘Southwest,’ said L looking at the cloudless sky. . “Tbe old woman took up a flint and went slowly to the dolmen. Without any pause for reflection she knocked three times in a particular depression. ( murmuring some words 1 should not have understood even had they been 1 audible. ‘Come.’ observed my friend; •we have yet tlmiito see the rest of the peninsula.’ a i i “The old woman Mid something, at i which M. le Rouxic laughed.' ’She says that if we are going farther it will be best to be quick,' said he. j ‘Why?* Tbe rain you asked for wifi be here shortly.’ And in less than an hour it was raining.” Early Earrings. The earring Is not a modern invenI ,ti<> n «. tor more than twenty centuries ago toe daughter of Aristotle wore I golden hoops. Tbe philosopher’s daugh- | ter’s earrings were found in her tomb i near Chalcis. in Buboea. by exploring archaeologists, and certainly modern workmanship cannot produce their equal, in each golden hoop swung a tiny dove, with precious stones for eyes and bands of minute gems to give the color of the Iridescent breast and wings. The feathers were of granulated gold, and tbe tall feathers were so marvelously wrought and adjusted | that they acted like a balance, as in a ' living bird, so that threxqulslte miniature creatures whenever the wearer moved or laughed or tossed her head would/!move and balance themselves upon their pendent perches. Colors In Poetry. • As to colqr. Grant Allen maintained In an “Essay on tbe Color Sense” that ■t otrty eight colors are recognised by tbe popular mind—black, white, red, blue, green, yellow, gray and brawn. EduMtad people Speak of scarlet, crimson, lilac and purple only under exceptlon- ; al clrcutpstanees. In a prosaic bow Grant Allen went through “Poems and Ballads” on tbe quest for color and found that Swinburne used the word red 151 times, rosy and crimson once each and sanguine, ruddy and scarlet twice each. Gold is mentioned thlr- ; teen times. Blue reaches twenty-five. And the prosaic contusion Is "to adopt the statistical form, we might i say, if we chose to reckon the unreck- ' enable, that red is 500 per cent more poetical than blue.” Her Strong Faith. MOOb. Tom," exclaimed the fair 1 young maid as their auto flew along. , “there's a church just ahead there!” I “But,” replied the eloping lover, “we 1 can’t be married there.” ' i “Well, but we might stop there and ' pray that we may pot be overtaken.’’— ’.lJncle Remus’ Magazine. I Two to fcne. ‘ She—Charlie, why are you so very f , much opposed to piano duett? Ho— From principle. I think it’s cowardly ft? two persons to attack one piece of music. The Hint That 1 clotheft every sprlng—hat peraeoL ev« r —■ ■r’■ ■ * “w,.. l , ■ » . makes them all itoelx —Flioffendo Blatt ’ IW.

7 nruin i.rnn ” I Hr Nh fl Hrn Ji, Mlillly n IILIIUI 1 | / rW'- By M. QUAD. t [Copyright, 1808. by^ American Press AmoLBbeneser Schermerhorn, a farmer’s • hired man. was in love with tbe Wid- ■. bw Tompkins, whose, farm adjoined that of his boss on the west. Ebenei' her was twenty-four years old, plain of i face and ungainly of form" and without i SIOO worth of property. Tbe widow waa less than forty and well off. Ebe- , nezer Was rated as good hearted, but rather dull. One evening as he drop- ' ped in to see the widow about borrow- [ tng some farm Implements next day be , found, her reading a love story. She read a few chapters to him and after- , ward acknowledged that she had al- , ways been romantic and that if she ever married again it would be to a hero. The farmer's hired man didn't rush right off that night and try to be a hero, but sat down to think. Three or four days after Ebenezer’s thinking bee a tramp came along the road and. seeing the young man hoeing corn Just over the fence, batted for a word or two. Ordinarily Ebeneser would have leaped the fence and run tbe wayfarer half a mile, but on this occasion he .Invited him over into 1 the corn and sat down with him for a ( confidential conversation. The result of that conversation was that at 8 ’ q’clock that evening tbe tramp appeared before the Widow Tompkins and made threats of what he would do if she didn't set out victuals, bunt ,up old clothes and come down with a dollar tin cash. Ebenezer was not far away, just far enough to come run* nlng up and knock the tramp head over heels and rescue the widow. But as he started to come running he fell down and got tangled up with the bushes, and before be could get away the widow bad broomstlcked the tramp Into flight. She didn’t say she. was * glad that the would be hero was so near at band. What she did say was that sbe wasn’t afraid of any old tramp walking the roads. " Ebenezer’s first try wks a failure, but within a fortnight he was ready for another. Behind the farms ran a river, The widow had a skiff on the water and often rowed herself up and down. One night the farmer’s hired man took some tools down to the landtag and was busy for an hour. , Two evenings later. Just at sundown, he saw tbe widow making across the field for the river, and be was not long in following her. He expected to hear ( cries for help, but they did not come. He expected to find a woman clinging I to a swamped boat, but he didn’t. She ' was wading ashore when he arrived on tbe bank and dashed in, and all be got ont of it was a good sousing and a cold in the beaffl A cold in the head casta a man down for a few days, but if there be any , hero about him’ he rallies and becomes ’ more daring than ever, Ebenezer rallied. Two or three farmhouses in J the township had been robbed, and this fact became tbe basis for his third , plan. One night at midnight be left his bed, descended to earth byway of a wipdow. and. armed with a club, be became a guard for tbe widow’s bouse. . He circled around it and patrolled tbe garden and the orchard, and he felt that he would give a year of his life if a robber would appear. He would first fell him and then arouse the house and when tbe ‘widow came to know I that he had been guarding her for love ' her heart would melt toward him. But ■ no robber came. Instead of that his • footsteps awoke tbe widow, and, peer--1 j Ing out, sbe saw some one walking about, and sbe got out a shotgun and ( raised a window and blazed away. The gun was loaded with bird shot to shoot ’ ba wks that might come swooping ‘ 'down on chickens, but in this case they answered just as well for a man. ' Ebenezer received about twenty of them and ran two miles to a doctor to have them picked out. He also had a ’ vacation from work for a week under ' the excuse that be had sprained his ( back turning over in bed. Ninety-nine out of a hundred would be heroes would have given up the job right here, but Ebenezer was a man to hang' on. It was while he was limping around on bis vacation and do--1 ing a lot of standing op and wander- • ing over the fields that he came upon ’ the widow fishing in the v river at a ’ certain point. He did not show hlmi • self, but fifty feet from where she sat ‘ under a tree be discovered a bumbler bees’ nest in the grass. It was a large 1 and liberal nest, and it gave him a thought. The bees wouldn’t bother I anybody so long as they were Jet alone. » If stirred up they would look for meat t There was a haystack not far aw«r, • and Ebenezer had matches in hte • pocket . He retired behind toe stack > and collected a hatful of stones from t the plowed land. These he threw one • by one at the spot where the beta » were pursuing the even tenor of their ways. The plot thickened. You ean thicken a bumblebee plot in a very short time. All you've got to do is to r tread on their coattails. When the in- ; sects found the rocks dropping on thelt heads they swarmed out of the grass 3 to look for the enemy. They should have seen the widow and descended 1 upon her, and at her first shriek . Ebenezer would have come .charging down with a wisp of lighted hay In either hand. But things went wrong. Tbe bees then went for him alone. f They ran him up and down the hay- . stack, they ran him over fenfies and T baric, they ran him across lots and in ward and asked: r “Be-because I want you to marrj