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ing feelinz the part of the Indian and Japanese people that is not re-1 - assurii. The latest is the attack of Count Okuma upon the English,"following. as It does a still more vigor- ! ous attack upon the United States Okuma declares that Japan must help India and the Philippines free themselves from the control of the | West. It looks like a big contract | for Japan, but the possibilities are that she is expecting four hundred millions of China to lend a helping ! hand in the matter. Whatever the i idea, the indications are the mind of | the Japanese masses Is in a state to |

make trouble.

DorothyV

Dime.

By CARL WILLIAMS.

Entered a* second class mail matter at the Greencastle. Indiana, Postoffice.

THE JOHNSON BOOM. The first really important boom that has swept over the country in oppositidb to Bryan for the nomination for president is that of Governor Johnson of Minnesota. Almost before people were aware the boom had attained large proportions and was in full movement. He is, without doubt, the candidate of the antiBryan Democrats. On the other hand, it is claimed, the Bryan men can. by close examination, find no flaw in him. He stands for many of the things that Bryan stands for. He is for the people first, last, and all the time, so It is said. He also has the rare power of keeping the confidence ibf the great corporation managers. and such men as J. J. Hill are enthusiastic about him. not, possibly, as a president, but as a man and a governor. He is said to have the confidence of the entire northwest, and those who do not love Bryan are foretelling that he can carry those Republican states than will not be touched by Bryan enthusiasm. Much of this is doubtless talk, but it is known that Johnson is either a strong man. or has been playing into the hands of the enemy and keeping it wonderfully well hidden. He elected as a Democrat \ith a Republican'legislature agains! him. but seems to have so charmed the Republicans as to se ure fnm them any legislation he desires. He lias been in favor of the two-cent fare and o'her, for the northwest, radical legislation against corporations, and yet Hill and other men declare that he means to give a square deal and that they can trust his honesty. Such are the peculiarities and characteristics of the man that Democrats are asked to look at carefully as a possible candidate. He is certainly an Interesting man from this point of view. EAST AGAINST WEST. In spite of the fact that America and England are doing their best to make it appear that there Is no trouble in the East, and in spite of the fact that the Japanese Government is making strenuous efforts to convince us that there is only friendship for us in the oriental mind, nevertheless it happens now and then that we get a glimpse of things startling. The situation reminds us of that between America and Spain just before the blowing up of the Maine. The government of Spain continually assured us of good feeling, but the Spanish soldiers in Cuba blew up our ship and started the war. So while governments toast each other we get. now and again, a glimpse of forment-

Our Sympathy is always extended to those in distress, but we have no sympathy to waste on the man who borrows his neighbor’s paper when he can have one of his own at a mere nominal expense. Your home paper stands for your interests and the interests of your heme town. It deserves your moral and financial support. If you are not a member of our family of readers you should begin now by sending in your subscription.

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Copyrighted. lOOC. by Jl. M. Caaningh&m. Grayce looked grim as he threw open the door and stumbled over the roll of

rurs that lay just within.

“Another night has come, and that landlord still lives his evil life.” he called, and front the dimly lighted pal-

lor came au answering sniff.

Bert Grayce hung up his coat on the half shrouded hatrack and entered the room. The furniture was swathed in burlap and excelsior, and the piano was covered with old blankets and otlt-

da> ^ I i: more. Come on. please.’

She turned to lead the way as though | there was no argument tp be made, and Bert, grinning over the ridiculousness of the affair, followed after. He saw with pleasure that the other apartment was only across the hall from his own. It was a much smaller place, and it did not take Bert long to paint the floors. The girl stood in the doorway sui>erintending the work, and Bert was sorry when at last he rose from his knees and announced the

completion of the Job.

"You will still have time to finish the other apartment.” sai l the girl severely. “Next time do as you are told, and you will have less trouble. You knowvery well that the agent told you to do this apartment first. He promised me

thakJie would.”

"He'll promise anything.” began Bert

you so much x^e FROM A HANDSPIKE.

er soft wrappings, and-trunks and box- ! ‘‘ e t * n - T fl>ot st:im r >e< i

The Wife of the Cat. Nasr-ed-din. the Persian shah, was cn Intensely superstitious man and believed that bis luck lay in his beautiful black Persian cat, which was a remarkably handsome cat in a land where cats are nearly all handsome. The sh h never allowed the black cat to be away from him. and it was given In charge of one of his wives, Amin Agdas, who was styled “the wifo of

the cat.”

W'heu the shah went on his long shooting expeditions, the Persian cat was put into a decorated basket and carried by a special atteudant directly behind his master. Unluckily one day an accident occurred, and the black cat came to an uutlmeiy end.' The shah was in despair at the loss of his luck bringer. but the clever “wife of the cat” exerted her influence and brought her nephew under the shah's notii e. The lad was sharp enough to make the most of an a'f ident (planned by his aunt) ami save the shah's life, and the monarch was So pleased that he gave the boy the uame of “the cherished of the sovereign” and installed the new luck bringer. Pipes and the Lips. The constant habit of smoking pipes has a | rceptlble effect upon the face. The pre- ure of the lips to hold the pipe in position increases the curva- j ture of the lips round the stem, and the muscles become more rigid here j than In other parts. Thus the lips at a | certain p *i:.t become stronger, and the pipe is unconseiously held In the same habitual position. After long continuation of the habit small circular wrinkles form parallel with the curvature of the lips around the stem. These are crossed by finer lim-s caused by the pressure of the lips to retain the stem In position. In the case of old men who have smoked a pipe for years the effect upon tlie lips Is very marked, not only altering the form of the lips, but of the oue entire side of the face, causing the wrinkles that are the result of age to <fc-‘i>eD and Instead of following the natural course of facial wrinkles to change their course so ns to radiate from the part of the mouth where the pipe is habitually carried. Furthermore, one or both lips often protrude, just like the lips of i>eop]e who u -i-d to suck their thumbs when children. Medical Record.

es were piled with some attempt at order along the bare wails and upon the equally bare floor. On top of the upturned soap box a group of candles guttered dismally, their feeble rays serving to accentuate | the alienee of gas. L>esolation—the desolation of -an exodus—brooded everywhere. even upon the face of the I woman who sat in a low rocker beside the candles and vainly made pretense of reading. Hers was a lovable face, framed In masses of silver hair, and Grayce’s

Wanted the “Grocery Seats.” I^'igh Lynch wuile he lived was a happy man. In the first place, he was the husband <>f lovely and gentle Anna ; Teresa Berger, the Ix-lle of the btdl j riugers in her girlhood; secondly, he had the years long friendship and in j timate companionship of Eugene Field; I thirdly, lie was the father of a family of children in whom was centered his ! unselfish biipe. He used to carry his | busines- cares sind pleasures home, where he was always sure of ready and generous sympathy. For several years he was treasurer of the Union | Square theater In New York. Oue j evening at dinner, In the presence of his little daughter, Marie, he men- ' tioue 1 to Mrs. Lynch that the gross) receipts of the week had risen to au | unprecendented height. The next day Marie asked to lx? taken to the matinee. “All right, dumpling.” assented the fond father. “What seats would you like?" “Well, papa,” she replied, “I'd like to have them grocery seats you telled us about.”—Detroit Free Tress.

Poster® In Paris. French law gives the authorities of every village and commune complete | control over posters. “No one,” wi^tes our concul general, “Is permitted In! France to deface streets and public | places with crude, ostentatious announcements of liis business or other subject. Billboards .are Infrequent lui Paris and are generally built |>ernia-' neatly into a wall, where they are taxed according to their superficial area. When a building is In construction and board screens are erected to shield the public from dust and other annoyance such temporary screen will soon be covered with posters of amusements and other business, but each poster so displayed has been previously submit ted to the authorities, a license obtain •si. and each sheet bears the canceled revenue stamp, according to its size.”

THE LONG, SLENDER HAND WAS CLASPED IN BERT'S OWN. smile softened and grew more tender as be bent to kiss the still smooth forehead. “Cheer up. mother mine,” he said laughingly. “All is not yet lost, though the painters remain on strike. Tomorrow the new home will be painted. By Saturday we shall be comfortably set-

tled.”

"Are you sure?" demanded Mrs Grayce wistfully. "If you are. we will not have the gas turned on again." “There are electric lights in the new home." he reminded. “You will forget these nights of Egyptian darkness, uiffl the next time we move we shall not order the current turned off until we are safely out of the house.” “To think that at the last moment, with all packed and ready to move, this strike should have come up:” said Mrs. Grayce, with a groan. "Are you positive. Bert, that the painter you have engaged will not lx? won over by the strikers?” “Never more certain of anything In my life," was the laughing response. “The painter Is no less a person than your accomplished son. I stopjx»d in and ordered the paint sent over this morning. Tomorrow 1 shall go and wield the brush, so you must wake and call me early. 1 must put In a full

day.”

Bert passed on to his own room, lighting his way with matches, and his mother heaved a sigh of relief. For eight days they had virtually camped in the apartmeat they had given up. waiting for their new quarters to be finished. The packers had done their work, the man had come to cut off the gas and the moving vans were backed up to the door when a telephone message came to the effect that, owing to a strike of the painters, the new rooms were not yet ready for occupancy. From day to day the landlord had promised that something would be done at once, but now a full week bad passed, and hope had commenced to fail until Bert decided to do the work himself. He made an early start, and 8 o’clock found him In a suit of Jeans applying the paint with as skillful a brush as though painting were his regular occupation. He worked rapidly and well and the rooms had begun to assume a habitable aspect when he heard the bail door open and close and looked up, expecting to see the landlord. Instead he faced about to encounter the gaze of a pair of brawn eyes which seemed to pierce his paint stained jacket nud give him an oddly queer sensation about the hqart. The pos sessor of the eyes was a fragile slip of a girl whose pure oval face was oddly like a picture by some old master. The

warning. The girl did not care to argue the point with a workman, and she

dismissed him with a nod.

“Come in tomorrow and give it a second coat.” she commanded. “Wait a moment.” she added as Bert turned to go. "Buy yourself a good cigar," she finished she handed him a coin. Bert 4 r "i , r > * < ! the dime in his pocket with a murmured word of thanks anil backed out of the door. Once on the other side, his embarrassment died down, ffud he paused long enough to ascertain from the card on the door that it was Dorothy Hemsen who occupied the apartment. That, she was a china deeorntor he already knew, and vaguely he remembered having heard

of her skill.

He w'ns tired when lie sought his home that night, but the thought that he would see the girl again on the morrow gave him a feeling that the day had been well spent. He carefully slipped the dime in a locket which he wore on his watch fob and Smiled as he thought of his “tip.” He painted the studio floors the first thing next morning and then turned his attention to his own apartment It was late in the afternoon when he had finished and was cleaning up. There came a ring at the door, and he opened it to confront a young woman who radiated confusion and

penitence.

"I have come to ai«>togize.” she said, blushing redly. “1 stopped in to thank the agent for sending me a painter, and he did not know that my floors had l>een done. Then he recalled that you were painting your own p'nce and explained my error." “It's a very natural one.” he said, with a laugh. “If you were half as desperate as my mother. I should not blame you for kidnaping me with a full knowledge of the facts. I am only glad that I have been of service to

you.”

”Y"ou don’t know how greatly you have aided me,” she cried. "I can never repay your kindness. I am so sorry that I was abrupt yesterday. Will you pardon me?” The lone, slender hand was clasped in Bert’s own. and he smiled down into the br .mreyes that dropped shyly before his gaze. Dorothy slipped back into her own apartment, and Bert, closing his do^r. drew the dime she had given him,from his locket “The Job's going to cost you more than that, little woman.” he said as he smiied to himself, "it's going to cost you your heart and hand, and they are worth millions of dimes.”

As It Happens. They parted as girls; they met as women. "And what of all your sweethearts?" asked the old time chum at length. “Gone the way of all good things, answered the captlvntor. “That tall, lanky blond with the fierce mustache, for instance?" “Went insaner “Gracious! And Jimmie Bowles—‘the little muskrat,’ ns you used to coll him —who was so devoted?” “Killed in au auto accident trying to save my life.” “Dear me! And your needy artist swain, who found In you the only customer for his wonderful paintings?” “Became a waiter and married an heiress!" “And the kinky haired little French count?” “Ran away with my maid:” “Worse and worse! And how about Reggie? You did profess to love him. you know.” “Now my brother-in-law!” “Never! Well, that Mr. Hardflint, who used to snub us all. yourself included? I hope he met his deserved finish.’’ “He did. Come up to the house and I'll introduce you to him. He's my husband!”—Y’oung's Magazine.

How the Other Half Give*.

“That sentiments of tender charity are innate among the poor can be seen from a case which presented Itself among a group of little children at c school where we visited.” writes Mrs. John Van Vorst in Woman's Home

slender form was wholly concealed by Companion. "They were of the most

When you go away or h^ve visitors call Off and let people know it.

a brown holland pinafore, and this was splashed with color. A dab of blue which had sought a higher resting place made a saucy beauty patch against the dimpling^chin. “So you have come.” she said at length. "I was beginning to think that you would !g> out on strike all winter. I was promised that my floors should

be shellacked first." "Yes. but”— began Bert.

• “I want no answers,” said the girl, with a stamp of her tiny foot. “I am to have an exhibition day after tomorrow, nud the floors must be done

by then, do you hear?”

“Y’es. ma'am.” said Bert meekly. "Then pick up your pall and brush and come nlong." was the quiet com mand. ‘if 1 hud not smelled the paint in the hall you would have spent'the

destitute, this little class, but as reg uiar ns soldiers in attendance. After an unusual absence of two days oue of the small pupils. Mary by name, was closely questioned by the teacher on her return. Very reluctantly she responded that they had been without food at home and that she was\asham ed to come hungry to school. “No comment was made liefore the other children. Nothing further was said. “The following morning a small procession filed before the teacher's desk —a procession of little people, tiny, poor, ignorant. Y'et not one of them came empty handed One brought an apple, one a piece of cheese, one a roll, one a slice of meat And each as she pot her meager offering down whispWed to the teacher # ®It's for Mary.* ”

Memorial of a Woodsman'* Enlutment For the Mexican War. “There Is a river birch tree on the banks f-the Pond Fork branch of the Little foal river in Boone county, VY. Ya," said M. C. Eldred of Madison. W. Ya.. "and It would go hard with any man who put au ax to It That tree has a story! “When the Mexican war began In 1S4G a recruiting officer visited a lumber camp In the ■'vicinity of Madison, seeking enlistments from the sturdy woodsmen who were at work there. Amon^ them was a giant lumberman named Jim Martin. “He was using a handspike made from a river birch sapling recently cut and still green. Eager tp go to the front, he thrust his handspike deep Into the soft soil of the river bank and went away with the recruiting officer. “Tim handspike Jim Martin used was too big and heavy for any of his fellows to handle, and It was left sticking where he had jabbed it Into the ground. The next spring it was noticed that it was putting forth green shoots, showing that it had rooted in the ground. ^ “It was left undisturbed, and It grew to be a great tree, and it stands today on the spot where the patriptlc Jim Martin thrust It Into the earth as a battered handspike. Jim Martin was killed in battle, and his bones lie somewhere on Mexican ground, but be has his monument in tills still sound and vigorous tree, whichris a revered landmark in all that country.”—Washington Post

W. A. BEEMER Sanitary Plumber and Heating Engineer Shop Moved to 209 W. Washington St. Phone 288 AH Work Guaranteed.

A SIBERIAN MAMMOTH. Its Discovery In the River Lena and How It Was Lost. In 184G a young Russian engineer, Benkendorf, saw the river Lena in Siberia release a dead mammoth frozen ages ngo In the Iwg. There had been exceptionally warm weather In the nortli of Siberia, and the river, swollen by melting snow and Ice and torreutial ^varm rains, swept out of Its old channel and curved a new oue. carv. rying to the sea vast quantities of Its former banks and furrowing up the thawing bogs over which it raced. As he made his Way In a steam cutter against the current Benkendorf saw the head of a mammoth appear above the flood Bush upon rush of water more and more released the body. Its hind legs were still Imlx'ikled when he saw P. but i enty-four hours liberated the i .j mammoth had sunk feet first into a lx>g. The ooze had frozen over 1L Successive tides had heaped soil and vegetation upon It Bone and flesh and hair were perfect. They secured It. They cut off its tusks. They dissected It and found In its stomach the last meal It had eaten, young shoots of the fir and pine and masticated fir cones They were still at their work when the river, spreading farther, engulfed them. The men escaiied, but the waters surged over the mammoth and carried it for carrion to the sea.

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The Chrysanthemum. Both In China and Japan Is the chrysanthemum a great favorite. It Is said that Chinese gardeners to whom the plant was first known will allow nothing to deter them from its culture. They will even give up their situations if forbidden by their employers to grow it. Chinese emigrants, too, take this "flower of their hearts” with them to other lands and cultivate it affectionately In their exile as a reminder of their native country. There Is a Chinese “Everything comes to him who knows how to wait” which Inis beeu Anglicized as follows: In the second month the peach tree blooms. But not till the ninth the chrysanthemums. So each must wait till his own turn comes. Fighting Geese. In Russia pits for cock fighting are unknown, but "goose pits” some sixty years ago were common throughout that mighty kingdom. The effect of this can lie seen today in the geese which are Indigenous to the country, the Arsamas and the Tula varieties particularly showing to a marked degree Kie fighting characters of their ancestors. The Arsamas gander has a bill which Is entirely different In form from that of the geese known In any other part of the world. This special structure enables the bird to take a firm grip on the neck or back of Its antagonist

Banner Skating Rink Open each Afternoon and Night SKATING HOUKS: Afternoon, 2:00 to 5:00: nights, 7:30 to 111:00 ADMISSION: Gentlemen 10c; Ladies free. Skatesl5 cents. ERNEST WRIGHT FRED GLOKE

The Dear Friend*. Clara (exhibiting photograph)—Oow do you like It? Hattie—It's [lerfectly lovely! “You think it a good likeness?” “Oh. no; it doesn't look a particle like you. you know. But 1 wouldn't mind that, Clara. Y’ou are not likely to have such wonderful luck again If you sat a thousand times!”—London Telegraph. A Remedy. “Yes.” said Qulggles. “I have a good deni on my hands just now.”. “So 1 perceive," replied Fogg. “Why don't you try a little soup and water?” —Loudon Answers.

Too Well Prepared. Knlcker—Preparedness is the best preventive of war. Bocker—Nonsense! When a gh;> engages herself to ten men it doesn't ward' off matrimony.— Harper's Weekly.

No Genius. Blobbs—Would you consider him a genius? Slobbs—No. Blobbs—Why. he's always trying to borrow money Slobbs —Y'es. but he doesn’t get it.—Philadelphia Record.

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