Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 23, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 September 1904 — Page 7

—~ . » 0 he Ligonier Banwner LIGONIER, = = « ; INDIANA. e e THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE Any m=an can keep up coyrage when the way ® B : Tiha: iies before him leads tirough p.easant jands; 2 Any mar can laugh at trouble when each Fortune comes to iay rew treasures in Eis hands; . Any man can scoff at care : When around kim all is fair, When Ihe work that he is doing wins tLe ;‘:;...«0‘,0f those abgove; | Any mean can giadiy wave | Hope's banner and be brave Waen ithe, mistress of his fancy gladly yieids him all ker love. . Any man can be a hero when the bilare Of the irumpet and the cheers of comrades thrill;. = Any man can have the bravery.to dare When he sees his colors carried up the Bill; Any man can join tke throng And, huvrahing, march aiong, Thoueira thousand dead!y dangers lie upon ihe way he goes; . : : Amny man ean rush abead Where the furrowed Helds aw red When Lis captain calls him forward te . strike down his country's foes. Tltey are few who'have the bravery to - flaunt - . "~ The splendid flag of hope in Trouble's face, > Who can still press on when Failufe, grim _and gaunt, 2 Sialks with them sullenly from piace to place; o They are few who have the heart To courageously depart from the worn ways wherein other men Irave followed and have leds . They are few who dare to burst ustom’s bonds and be the first, Who as pioneers are wiiling to push boldly ‘gut ahead. . —B. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald:

Kitty Enters By SARA LINDSAY COLEMAN

. (Copyright, 1904, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) JEYWARD looked down at the open H telegram ‘in his hand. The girl's voice singing T#itty's little song drifted into the room’s stillness. The girl had but recently moved into the house next door. She sang often, but tonight it was that old, foolish, forgotien sorng of Kitty's. Hevward stirred under it, restlessly. If the telegram had reached him earlier he would not have had solitude and the song forced upon him. Now, under its influence, his heart went out over far seas and through distant lands in search of Kitty. Wonderful things—old songs! Stronger than newly evolved philosophies of life that exclude old loves.

A ruslting and fleeting ‘through the hallway, Ifrou-frou that distinctly bespoke femininity, and Heyward looked up to see Kitty hatied and gowned in charming traveling attire hesitating on his doorstep. - > . He stared at her bewilderingly. i was no wraith revoked from a past April npight by the power of a song sung by an unknown girl it 'was the

O e Sy - s”\ j ~‘) B e N N 2 SRR / \ a 7 | | ’ N 17 LY “i ) ; N \y{. _— = AN AT [R>S \ 1 J AR W : [ \ R 5 M | A S 5 g 2 'if;;‘% J e BRD. GCOWNED IN CHARMING TRAVELING - ATTIRE, ; glowing, laughing, = sumptuous Kitty herself” “The hackman was so uncertain,” she said, with a soft, breathless ea%ch in' her voice thaet he remembered. ‘“He insisted that he was wrong after he got me here, and he wanted to take me to another Mr. Heyward’s. Did my wire surprise you? When I found ‘there was a delay here I couldn’t resist the impulse to run-up and dine with Nell and you. IL simply overpowered me. [ didn’t weigh things. I tried to tell myself that I didn’t know the address, whether you lived here still, whether vou still lived, in fact. But 1 eould do nothing with myself. Why were you staring at my message? Couldn't the dragnet of memory find me? Were you saying, "Hang it all, who was Kitty Manson, apyway?®” Heyward flung-back his head and iaughed.. “We never forget,” he said. “Not a mar of that big armyv of the rejected. You have witch ways of returning to us. That,” with a jesture towards the.-open window, . through which the girl’s voice still singing the old, familiar words came, “is one of them.” : o

Kitty dimpled distractedly. Time in i’s long running off of three years kad succeeded in doing what Heyward had persnad‘gimselfithat he had do}ne-— it had f tten Kitty Manson. v

“When -the young spring comes,” she laughed, “ihe most emolionai things it finds iz the young girl. That child couldn’t be persuaded out of her melancholy. If I should go over there and tell her that the biggest fires burn down to ashes she wouldn’t believe me. There's nothing one can do for them. Th=#y ve got to learn by living.” : _ “Lord, res,” said .Heyward, without a irace of bitterness in his voice, “that’s the only school. Young things will concentrate on a supreme passion. They don’t know the solid comfort in a scheme of life that is all things to all men—especially to all women.” “Except one. Nell doesn’t come into that scheme, of course.” “Nell?” inquiringly. _~ ; “Naturally I spoke of Nell CGriffis Heyward,” with an icy little tinkle in her voice. ' - Heyward laughed good-naturedly,

“But way? I necver philosophized for her bernefit. | I.always thought her a doll with a sawdust heart—begging your pardon.” : “My pardon?” Kitty stared at him in amazed indignation. For the first time her glance went down the room that showed no trace of a woman's presence. | S , “Where is she?” she asked. :

“Who? Oh, Mrs. Heyward. At one of her eternal card parties, probably.” Kitty’s eyes had sobered. Again they swept the long, dusty, tobaccoscented room that showed no woman's touch anywhere. And it had come to this! ;

She thought of the foolish little quarrel that had separated’ her from Heyward. Remembered the wild way the flowers on ithe wall had danced when she read, over and over, that her old friend, Nell Griffis, was going to marry Lewis Heyward—the man to whom she had been engaged not six months before. ; e

She had believed things would come right between them down to the very day the flowers swayed on thke wall, and, believing, had dreamed, as women will while time lasts. Because of the little dream’s sweetness she had put an ocean between herself and Heyward and kept it there. - “Haven’t kept up with Mrs. Heyward ?” Heyward's voice was cheerful. It seemed to sway to her as from a distance. “She chases the butterfly. Did it ever occur to you, Kiity, that hymnal beatitudes are not always what they’re cracked up to be?” Kitty got to her feet. She was very indignant, ‘and very disappointed. Not so much with Heyward as with herself. For: three years, although at times she wanted to shriek out at her bondage, she had ‘wandered, trying to forget an idol, clay to his chin. She held out her hand im farewell, and the light went out of Heyward’'s face. 1

- Women /do not love perfect men. He was still an idol. Clay, probably, but lonely, to all appearances deserted, and —she had iquarreled with him feolishly. 1 thought you were happy,” she said, as ‘she dropped back into her chair. “I wanted you to be.” The pathos in her voice.reached him.

He went to her uncertainly. *Child,” he said, ‘/those big fires you spoke of burn down to cold looking ashes that have live iembers under them. Child!” But she shrank from him. He went back to his chair and sat down, leaning back as though tired.

When Mas. Heyward came in. with a silken swish of skirts a few moments latar she didn’t notice Kitty’s dejection or that Heyward was just about as cheerful as a funeral dirsctor—she was not an ebserving woman. . .. She fell on Kitty affectionately. I've lbeen to | the train,” she said. “I've searched the streets, and stopped at the hotels. If I had not met an old hack'man I know who is burdened with a conscience 1 would not have found you. ‘Why didn’t you bring her to me Mr. Heyward? Lewis,” to a man's figure that loomed in the doorway, ‘“vyou had better come here and meet Kitty before. she| vanishes into the air. She ‘ran away just before our wedding. Mr. Heyward. And she’s been prowling about over there ever since. What made you stay so long? Didn't you zet very lonely, Kitty?” “I thought—thought—" Kitty’s voice sank and stopped. How they all stared! ‘And the deadly faintness that she felt that long gone day when the flowers reeled on the wall was overtaking her. That day her Lewis Heyward was engaged.or wasn't—she couldn’t tell with her senses swaying sO. “I thonight,” she stammered again, and flung a frightened appeal at Hey'ward. |

A sudden light shone in on' his dense soul. He put a steady hand on her shoulder; lightly. “I'l just have to make a ¢lean breast of it,” he said, reassuringly. “She came in here and found me reading a telegram from some fellows that meant to dine with me to-night, Mrs. Heyward. She thought 'it was her message to you; that she was in your house She's a great one to jump at conclusions. I should have told her at once, of course.”’ |

“T see;” said Mrs. Heyward. She sent her mind back nimbly, and smiled broadly. “I see!” “You don’t!” said Kitty, thrillingly conscious of the pressure of those fingers on her shoulder—pleading, tightening fingers— ‘' ‘you don’t!” Suddenly she laughed a low, sweet, bubbling laugh of conteént that Heyward echoed with deeper notes. “But. Nell, we,” lingering on the pronoun for a breathless moment, “do!” . - FINED FOR PUBLIC HUG. Kentueky Judge: Admonishes Young - Mountaineer for Embracing Sweetheart on the Street. Edwand McKeehan, a young mountaineer of Lexingion. Ky., was fined three dollars and -costs for hugging his sweetheart, Lena Brown, in public. When the girl, who is about 16 and very pretty, arrived from Jackson, the seat of Kentucky's bloody Hargis-Cockriil feud, she was approached by McKeehan and they embraced each other fondly. Later in the evening they were seen on Main street, passionately kissing and hugging. A policeman took them to the station, where the girl told Judge Riley she had not seen her sweetheart since the breaking out of the feud, when he was forded to leave Jackson. Judge | Riley allotved her to go, but fined the young man and admonished him to be more careful.

Post Offices in Canal Zone. The post office department has established nine post offices in the canal zone in Panama, and postmasters will be appointed as soon as suitable men for the places can be found. : The nine post offices. are the following: = Cristobal, Gorgona, Gatun, Matachin, La Boca. Bohio, Emperador, Ancon and Culebra. Mail intended for the places named should be addiessed, for convenienceé, in the following form: “Cristobal, Canal Zone, Isthmus 'of Panama.”"—N. Y. Times. 4 2 Out at First. “Sir,’ began the timid youth, as he entered the office, “I am in search—er —that is, I came to seek your daughter's hand—"" : “Well; it isn’t around here,” interrupted t;he stern parent, “She’s prob ably using it as & piano thumper about this thre' of day.’-—Chicago Daily News, | i

NATURALIST TRIES HARD TO LOSE A TURXEY BUZZARD. Had Tasted the Refinements of Civilized Life and Refused to Go Back to Its Old Haunts and Ways. ; ; Readers of this series may possibly remember “‘lsaac,” the young turkey vulture which I brought from the south about a.year ago, and which weathered the winter at my former home in Massachusetts. When [ was about to move to Newport, N. H., I decided to liberate a number of the ani‘mals which I had in captivity, and whose behavior I did not interd to study any furthtr. Isaac svas one of these, but as [ knew that he was tame enough to become*a victim of the first gunner who choose to slaughter him, I thought 1 would take him with me to a wilder country, where his chance for life would be better. So I crated him, and sent him along by express. Now, Isaac. was never a very good-natured bird under any circumstances, and moving by express was an institution which did not meet with his approval in the least degree. The local expressman understood this when he feit his hand nipped as by a pair of’ pincers, and looked down to see Isaac’s bill gripping him through the bars of the crate. With eyes flashing angrily, the buzzard twisted his head from side to side, in an endeavor to bite out the piece, and the maan dropped the crate and sucked his hand while the crate and its contents turned several Kinds of somesaults down a long rocky hill. The man did not say ‘‘God bless you” and he didn’t mean to, but, still sucking one hand and picking up the crate with the other, he kept a bright lookout until he had Isaac safe on thé express wagon which was waiting at the bottom of the hill. After his arrival here Isaac was kept tethered by a long string-to a perch on the edge of some woods, near the ‘houst, and after he had become somewhat used to the place, I took the strap from his leg and away he flew. He sailed around for a few minutes and then, dropping down, alighted on our barn, where he preened his feathers as calmly as though it were nothing new for him to be at liberty. Then off he went'to a farm house abgu' half a mile away, where he stayed for a few days, eating fish-heads and other refuse that was thrown to him, and then he disappeared. and I was afraid he had gone the way of all flesh. Then ‘came a telephone message to the effect that a large bird, “doubtless a very valuable one,” said to belong to me, was stopping at a farm house about five miles away, and that if 1 wanted him 1 had better send for ‘him soon, as two gunners had already fired at him, mistaking him for a hen-hawk. I did not want the bird, but did not wish him to be shot, so 1 walked over to see what could be done. V

1 was met at the door by the farmer's wife. Upon asking for ‘“‘lsaac,” I learned that he was probably in the

chicken coop eating the fresh eggs; he had eaten nearly all the fresh egg: for a weel past, she said. The dam age? Nothing. They had been interest

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We found “Isaac” in the barn-yard, under a cart-shed in the shade, looking very well fed and contented. He allowed me to catch him, and putting him into a sack I carried him home, and let him go in tne fields near the house. Here food and water were placed for him, and he remained for several days. He might have been there yet had not some tourists with a toy camera insisted in taking'a picture of the “eagle,” chasing the bird from rock+ {o fence-post and - from fence-post to tree, and.“llsaac”’ became thoroughly disgusted and flew clean away. . .

I did not see him for several days after that, but one morning last week | walked down to a camp in the woods not far from here, and there stood the buzzard, on the porch. He had arrived very hungry, I was told, but for two days had steadily refused ginger-snaps, at which 1 was not very much surprised. Then, one ' evening, as some meat was thrown out to the dog, the vulture had pounced upon it with suen emphasis as to make it evident tha: ginger-snaps were not what he had been looking for. Afier that, they told me, the bird had haunted the camp, and could not 'be driven away. He stole the'dog’s food, drove the little boy into the house when he went ou: to play. and that very morning he had made a determined attempt to “‘sample” the baby. After that he had been “swatted” with the breom, but, as 1 ‘could see for myself, there he was again. = ‘ Altogether 1 have grave fears for Isaac's health. If he can control himself until cool weather, and then journey to the south, where vultures are appreciated, all may yet go well’ with him; but if, as I fear, he continues io devote his .life to stealing fresh eggs and chasing children, his shrift is likely to be short. ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES,. - Candid Advice. “Do you consider him a man who can be trusted?” ] “Well,” replied the Boston purist, I suppose he can be trusted, but there would be considerable rigk attached to the proceeding.”-—Chicago Record-THer-ald.

WHAT THE TARIFF COSTS. Average of One Hundred Dollars l?er Year for Each Family in the | ] United States. o If the pxotectionists cannot show that all are protected by the tariff it must be admited that protection is not applied equally, and unequal taxation is an abomination. From the very nature of things protection cannot be universal, or there would be no benefit for anyone. -If every one was taxed for the benefit of every one else no one would be the gainer. The policy and practice of the protective tariff is to make the many pay for the benefit of the few. How few receive any advantage from the protective tariff of the 29,000,000 which the census of 1900 shoows are engaged in gainful occupations—that is the workers aand laborers of the United States. It is admitted that but very few farmers receive any benefit from the tariff and yet there were 10,300,000 persons engaged in agriculture. Men and women in the professions numbered 1,258,000. Can it be shown that the 111,638 clergymen, the 114,460 lawyers, the 132,000 doctors and the 446,133 teachers have had their incomes increased by the protective tariff?

The 5,580,000 persons in domestic and personal service, of whom 1,560,721 were servants ‘and waiters, 131,116 barbers, and 155,153 housekeepers and stewards—has the Dingley law raised their pay? How many of the 4,766,000 people in trhde and transportation have received|a cent from Uncle Sam? There were _!630,127 clerks, 254,880 bookkeepers, 611,139 salesmen and the 582,150 railroad employes, all paying their share of tariff taxes, but receiving no benefit in return. Now we come to the 7,085,000 persons employved in “manufacturing pursuits,” about one-fourth of the whole number of workers. But a very large proportion of these derive no benefit from the tariff, for the 346,884 dressmakers, the 229,649 tailors, the 600, 000 carpenters, without taking time to select thousands more, cannot be said to have any advahtage from the tariff. But all these and every one else paid towards an average for each family in the United States $16.52 tariff tax to Uncle Sam in 1902 and the tax the workers-paid was in some cases even more than the masters paid for the rate of duty is often higher on the cheaper goods, and yet the protectionists say the tariff is to protect labor.

But what Uncle Sam receives is a small tax compared to what the trusts charge each family through the protection the tariff gives them, which is computed by the most expert statisticians to be for 1902 394 for each family, or nearly six times as much as the government takes in at the custom houses. :

No wonder the cost of living is high and that tbose with small incomes find it difficult to pay this monstrous tax which the republican/ policy of high protection imposes. We might stand the tariff tax the government gets if it did not protect and foster the trusts in plundering us. THE SHIP-SUBSIDY STEAL. Sure to Be Passed If the Republican Trust Boodlers Control the Next Congress.

Of course Secretary Shaw directly represents the president in his publie announcements and speeches. When he spoke at the banquet given by the New York chamber of commerce last November at®* Delmonico’s he was enthusiastic® for the ship-subsidy steal if no other way could be devised of increasing -the merchant marine. As the junketing committee of congress headed by Senator Gallinger has been holding meetings all over the country on purpose to gather evidence in favor of the ship-subsidy bill there is no doubt that such a measure will be forced through congress if. money and influence will do it. President Roosevelt has virtually indorsed the programme that Secretary Shaw spoke of with so much favor, and the only means leftgto stop the steal is for the 'people to defeat those who voted for it. Nearly every republican member of the United States senate is on record as voting in its favor, and several of them are candidates this year for reelection—such as Senators Aldrich, Ball, Bard, Beveridge, Clapp. Clark. Depew, Foster, Hale, Keen, Kearns, Lodge, McCumber, Proctor., Quarles and Scott. The bill was not voted upon in the house of representatives. The republican majority there feared the people, but it is claimed that a’'majority are pledged to do %o when it comes up at the next session. Every candidate for congress -should be made to pledge himself to vote against a subsidy bill in whatever form it may be presented, and also that ‘members of the legislature will not vote to reelect senators who favored it. It is bad enough to be plundered by the trusts tlirough the protective tariff, which is an indirect form of subsidy. ‘but to rob the people directly by granting an 'enomh_ous subsidy to the Morgan steamship trust would be a crowning infamy‘.!that the voters should guard against. - : Parker a Safe Candidate. Republican leaders publicly say that Parker is a safe man. Privately they say Roosevelt is unsafe. It is this difference between the two men that is making the republicans doubtful and the democrats hopeful. ‘There is no telling what Roosevelt will do; we are likely to awaken any morning and find we are at war with some other country,” is the way pne republican expresses it. No one believes that Parkeér would ever do anything rash. Six months ago the democrats were resigned to defeat and .the republicans were so sure-of success that they interposed no obstacles in Roosevelt's way. Now it is the democrats who are confident while the repuhblicans are in doubt.—Hartford €ity {lnd.) News,

- Right Kind of President, Judge Parker is just the kind of man who should be in the white house. Thoughtful, careful, cautious and determined. His training fits him admirably for the exalted office to which he has Been nominated and which it seems certain that he will fill. But let nothing be taken for granted. The way to prepare for victory is by organization and work dand the selection of local candidates of such character that they will contribute to the result,.~lndianapolis Sentinel. :

SPORTS AND ATHLETICS Victor S. Rice, of the University of Chicago, champion intercollggiate spg_/g:

ter of the west, ‘%}; probably never ru another race.. In the height of his career, and with the prospect of becoming world'sg-’scham-pion, he hé’é been forced -to retire from the cinder path. Rice has contracted a serious attack of Kkidney trouble, according to a specialist, and it would result fa-

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| tally for him if he should ever compete in another race. Coach Stagg believes that Rice can beat any runner in the world to-day in the century dash, while there are numerous critics and coaches familiar with Rice’s ability, who have declared that he is the most promising sprinter in the world to-day, rfinkjng him with Schick, of Harvard; Torrey, of Yale; Hahn, now an aluminus, of Michigan; Blair, of Chicago, and Hogenson, of Chicago. - Duffey, of course, still retains the world’s title; but now scarcely morsa than in name. Rice broke into the college limelight at Purdue four years ga.o I'or two seasons he ran in the conference meet under the colors of the Hoosier college, but.failed to hold his cwn with the other westerners. Year before last he was out of college and competed for the Y. M. C. A. Last fall he entered the Midway school, and by brilliant work on the indoor and outdoor pathway rapidly came to the front. He believes that he has not yet reached his limit., To. his ‘‘short-stride’’ theory!’ Rice says he owes his sudden developu.}ent. This theory he has just begun to=perfect in practice. It is directly opposite to all methods in vogue among the crack men. Duffey, Schick, Torrey, Hahn,Eßlair and Hogenson all increase the lengith of their strides as they near the tape. %Rice does not. He decreases his strides! 'As a result, he says he ean go much faster. “I am a firm believer in the shiort, quick stride for sprinters,” he saiq recently. “I have practiced it and, after giving it a thorough trial, am of the opinion that it is a decidedly superior form to that which Duffey uses. Duffey takes neariy an eight-foot stride shortly| after the start and increases as he goes along. The closer he gets to the tape the lbnger goes his stride. and, at the finish he takes nearly a nine-foot stride. Hahn takes close on to eight feet six inches at the finish. Blair starts off with about seven feet six and increases a foot. My stride, after I settle down, is about six feet nine inches, and very often at the flnish Itake no longer. than a six-foot-tliree stride. By this shorter stride I believe that a runner gets greater driving power. He has his feet on the ground more and he can use them stronger and faster. [am of the opinion that it developes a better sprint. for the last yards, wbich is one of the most essential featurés to a dash race. So far as I have tried it 1 have found it entirely to my liking.” Rumors which have recently been emanating from New Haven, Conn., de-

clare that Yale will adopt a different policy this year regarding instructions to the members of | the football eleven. The mistake of lastseason in having but o n e quarterback who knew the plays will be carefully avoided. Most Yale football players think that the team lost the championship in

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. dropping the Princeton game because of the fact that Quarterback Rockwell, who was dazed by a kick in the head early in the first half, was the only player who knew the signals well enough to run the team. Rockwell and Soper and perhaps another” quarteback will be _given plenty of practice this fall in handling the eleven in the complicated formations, and the code of signals for the big games is likely to be given out earlier than usual. Changes are likeiy to be made in the disposition/of the players. Ralph Kinney, tackle for two years, is pretty sure to go back to guard. Two years ago his work at tackle seemed brilliant, but he was the weak spot in the Yale-line last fall. The previous year he played next to Glass, who choked off runners before they got out as far as tackle, and he had little defense work to do. For a 210-pound player his defensive play last season was unsatisfactory. The veteran Bloomer is practically certain to be played at tackle-again. He was guard last year for the first time, and as the season wore along he seemed unable to grasp the heavy work ef the guards’ plays. Tripp, the old Chicago university guard, was regarded as the best guard on the Yale squad last fall, but he was ineligible owing to the one year’s residence rule, and was kept on the second team. Billy MacMahon, the former Bucknell college tackle, probably will be tried at guard instead of fullback. where he was practiced duripg the few days he plaved lastfall. - He now weighs more than 200 pounds. Walter Camp, the Yale head advistory football coach, says that the day of the light halfback is over. His assertion leads Yale men to expect that the back field this fall will be unusually heavy, and that _there will be no more backs|of the Met‘ecalf and Chadwick types. I;Aight backs have been the most brilliantat Yale. It is generally expected that when the Yale even lines up for its first gamies it will be made up as follows: ' Ends, Shevlin and Hare, or Stillman; tackles, Capt. Hogan and Bloomer; guards, Batchelder, Kinney, Tripp, or MacMahon; center, Roraback; quarterback, Rockwell and Soper; halfbacks, Quill, Levine, Owsley; fullback, Bowman and Or‘mayer. , ; |

The races of the Buffalo Automobile association at Buffalo recently developed two new world’s records for motor cars on an oval course. Charles Schmidt in. a light car covered 25 miles in 28:32 1-5. Barney Oldfield covered the same distance in 26:42, a new mark for machines of the heavy class. Oldfield’s last mile was covered in 59 4-5 seconds. The globe trotting trip which the New York and Chicago Nationals intended to take at the close of the present geason has been abandoned. - :

OPPOSITION IS ALARMED. Leaders of the G. 0. P. Are Very Much Worried Because They Are Minus a Bogey. : Republicans are beginning to- be alarmed at having nothingz to be alarmed about. They know that they have kept themselves in power for eight years because they succeeded in making the country’'s flesh creep at the thought of what the democratic party might do; and now they are wondering how they can possibly live without being scared to death. They feel lonely without their dear old bogey-men. A tranquil life is the last thing they want. Their political ideal of happiness is to be like the man in the “Ancient Mariner” who “doth walk in fear and dread” “because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread.” Hence their melancholy reception of Judge Parker's speech. It showed them that their last fond hope of passihg_the summer in a state of fright has vanished, and they are naturally incorsolable at discovering that there is nothing to molest them or make them afraid.

The New York Post says that the idea of ,the country’s being safe with a democratic president is gall and wormwood to the republican managers. They meet too many of their own party who say: “Well, I guess we’ll have a pretty good president whoever is elected.” And such people, so deplorably at ease in Zion. actually have the hardihood to tell republican politiclans that it is a good thing for the country when the rival candidate for the presidency is a man so jrreproachable and sound as Judge Parker. This will never do. The nation must not think of being contented except when it is affrighted; and as for republicans putting their armor by. taking it easy, and spending on European trips what they ought to give to the campaign fund—why, that is enough to make gcod party workers Gespair of the republic.

It was really cruel of Judge Parker (o disappcint them as he has cone. Not satisfied with robbing them of their money issue. he has not given them a single peg wupon which to hang the charges, which they had carefully prepared. of his being an agitator and a leveler. They somehow hoped that he would step off the bench to dispiay himself as an arrant demagogue. but now they can only turn wlournfully away to bewail his being so “regative” and ‘so maliciously “dexterous” in not giving them a handle. s UNEXPECTED MAY HAPPEN. Old Young Men of the East Working Hard to Promote the Elec- ~ tion of Parker. Hon. George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, one ol the founders of the republican party, is not only supporting Jucdge Parker, but is taking an active interest in the campaign. Heo\pelie\'es that the anti-imperialism plank in the St. Louis platform, aided by the cemand for Canadian reciprocity, will make Massachusetts a doubtful state, and it is his purpose to aid the democratic managers of the state in carrying its electoral votes for Parker, - -

Of ccurze it would be useless ‘to expect much from Massachusetts in the way of electoral votes, but the labor conditions there,s considered with the large anti-imperialiSm seniiment and the widespread demand among Massachusetts business men :for Canadian reciprocity, may malke the state doubtful, or may result in a victory for Parker. We make no claims for Massachusetts, just like we refrained from claiming Illinois and Wisconsin in 1892.

The unexpected may happeni.fl . however. ;

We merely desire to say a word about the young man Boutwell. Born in 1818, he is now in his eighty-seventh yvear, somewhat older than your Uncle Henry G. Davis, our nominee for vice president. Boutwel] was secretary of the treasury under Grant. and has been a senator and representative in congress and the governor of his state. Despite his years he is in full possession of his mental and physical vigor and is able to take an active part in a great campaign. Car] Schmjz. at 76, is another active factor, in the campaign. Inceed, says the Houston Post, there are quite a number of these old young men who are in evidence this vear and they prom--ise to ¢o much in bringing about the election of Judge Parker. . DAVIS A FRIEND OF LABOR. Democratic Candidate Writes Letter on the Way He Has Always . Treated His Employes. The following letter from .G. Davis. democratic candidate for vice president, has been made public at Roanoke. Va.: «Bikins,. W. Va., Aug, 15, 1904.—Mr. 1. V. Johnson, Roancke, Va.—My Dear Mr. Jobnson: T am glad to have your letter calling my attention to the publication placing me in an attitude of hostility to the laboring class, No one who knows me personally or is at all acquainted with the cir--cumstances of my life will put any credence in the statements to which you refer. [ think I can weil claim that T belong to the laboring class. For many vears 1 worked in the ranks as a wage earner, and 1 know what it is to earn my living by the sweat of my brow. On the other hand, I have been a large employer of labor, in railreads, coal mines, lumber mills, etc., and have never had any serious trouble with our men. I can recall but two instances in which there were Strikes, and these were of short duration and peaceably settled. No man has ever been discharged from our service because he was a unio‘n man, or been evicted from a compagy’s house for,any reason. 1 think you will find that the conditions of the railroad man and the miner in connection with the enterprises | have directed will compare most favorably with those in other localities of the country.

1 have always believed, and my conviction came from the hard school of experience, that, measured by the character of the work he does, and the cost of living, every man is entitied to full compensation for Lis services. < I'am charged with having instituted proceedings which led to aninjunction against strikers by Judge Jackson, of this state. The fact is that | had nothing whatever to do with the case and knew nothing about the matter until 1 read of it'in the newspapers. Thg injunction did not apply to the men in our employment or pertain to them in any way. On the contrary, I remember on one occasion one of our superintendents suggested an injunction against our men and I declined to consider it, : : H. G. DAVIS.

——The constitution will have its rightful place when Alton B. Parker is president of the United States.—Boston Traveler. —=—lg it because of his anticipated anti-trust activity that Morgan, Rockefeller and the Sun are supporting Roogevelt?—Albapy Argus, i

£ O 5 ey nNe & SR Ne(U |© o Ji) 1R -’b@ o /Y 7 NERASD A 0 Ak F99eoBle RIS =t 3 " 2 S OWWVWMW THE RUNAWAY. v Ever since the world wds young, : Striving fast and faster, Runaway and Ready Tongue Tries to be the master, If you'll only hark a bit, Not a moment has Le quit, ’ But he has the honest wit, ) When he meets disaster, i To perceive that Think-a-bit Is the greater master; - ¢ And next time, if he is wise, He lets Think-a-bit advise. —Frank Walcott: Hutt, in ‘Youth’'s Companion. - GAME OF HOOP BOUNCE. A Test of Skill Which Wil Tax the Ingenuity of the Brightest Girl or Boy. : This game is a test of skill in hoop rolling. As a rule, children grow to be quite expert in guiding their hoops and can perform such feats as ‘return rolls” and “bouncing hoop” wiih .a great deal of cleverness. Five pegs or sticks are required in this game, per dimensions shown in diagram, and placed according to measurements shown. Standing at-a distance of 15 feet from the pegs each player must endeavor to roll his hoop through either of the two openings, to left or right of the tall peg. If they pass through safely they will sirike the string or rope and rebound,

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falling possibly over one of the three pegs. The middle peg, more difficult than the rest, counts 20 points, -while the two smailer ones score ten points each. ) 7 . It will be found possible to exercise cleverness in maniptilating the hoops, as a jerk or twist or firm roll will tend to give the rebound its necessary force. First of all, the hoop must be rolled skillfully enough to make " it pass through the two -openings. "If a‘:oop falls upon a peg before it reb®tunds from the string the player loses his chances of count for that time and other players follow in quick succession. - s

The string used in this game, on the two black pegs, should be of sufficient strength to give firm resistance to the hoops when they are rolled, and the more strength put in the roll the more aptithe hoops are to circle the winning pegs.—Cincinnati - Enquirer.. . DIED GIVING FIRE ALARM. Canine Hero Saved Ten Persons.and Then Lost His Own Life by Being Suffocated. . : The heroism of a dog, a plain story of not uncommon animal intelligence which is not without its pathos, has aroused the interest of Somerville residents, who almost overlook the magnitude of the service rendered in their expressions of regret at the outcome. . Jack, a pet by day and a watchman by night, was the property of Herbert E. Bowman, a “druggist in Magoun square. gi Between 12:30 and one o’clock the other morning, the height of Jack’s vigil, there occurred a fire in Mr. Bowman’s store, due, it is. believed, to spontaneous combustion. - Jack was alive 1o it in a twinkling. With a bound he was on his feet at the first smell of smoke. He was helpless, though not without ‘a realization of bis trust. The loudest bark was all he could give and he gave it. Leaping about, pawing madly at the front door and lifting his tones with all his strength, he raised the alarm. . Above the store; where there are tenements -occupied by ten persons in all, the cries of Jack gave first warning of the danger that lay beneath. Before the smoke had penetrated through the floors, every one of the sleepers had been aroused and hurried to a place of safety. =~ : ,

Meantime Jack had not ceased his efforts. His yelps, though not as frequent and as loud as at first, showed him mindful of his -duty. The door was forced, though the smoke which burst out was unbearable. ‘Jack lay on the floor, dead. Suffocated, the = firemen said.—Boston Globe. : i

ILLINOIS STATE LINE STOLEN Lake Michigan End of Mark Disappears and Special Survey Will Be Necessary. The Lake Michigan end of the-state line hetween Indiana and Illinois has been lost or stolen, and the police of two states are hunting for it. The mark for years has been a Stone at One Hundred and Eighth street and Indianapolis avenue. -~ On one side was cut the word “Indiana,” and on the other “Illinois.” The stone was four feet long and two feet high, one and a half feet projecting above the ground. Not only has it been removed, but the hole from which it was taken has been filled, so no one can tell exactly where it stood. The police believe some householder, more thrifty than | honest, has imbedded the stone in the| foundation of a residence of used it as| a base for a lawn flower pot. - , 5 The next boundary stone is five miles | inland, and a survey will have to be| made from that point before the place for a new Lake Michigan mark can be sefablisheld © oDI

BIG FUN WITH WINDMILLS. No Other Toy That Can Be Made at . _Home Affords Such Varied . Amusement. - Why don’t more boys—and girls, too have fun with windmilis? - A simple windmill is easily made, it -is lively where there is wind, and it may become a part of as many interesting toys as an ingenions persoa can comtrive. Y The mill described here is simpis and - strong, but will go. Take two pieces of pine, an inch and a half square, seven inches long. Lay them across each other at right angles and ‘mark each piece to be noiched out as shown at d, figure 1. The notch i each piece goes half way through. . Whittle down the edges B and C until the arm of the blade is less thaa one-quarter of an inch thick. Then turn the stick and whi tle the othe~ end in the same way, orly commencing on the edge A and the cther edge that

cannot be seen in ithe drawing. This will make the blade on one ¢nd :turn just the opposite way from that on the other end. See figure 2.° Both pieces are- made alike and when put together they make the wheel, as seen in figure 3. | Bore a quarter in-h h»ole through the center, and with a small knife blade whittle it square. '

The frame may be made of fine strips one inch square. If the wood is only seven-eighths or three-quarters of an inch thick better cut the pieces about two inches wide. Top and bottom pieces are seven inches long, the uprights are nine inches. The crosspiece is put in four inches from the top, to brace the frame and to steady thg upper end of the spindle. Put the frame together with long, slender wire nails. ) * The axle better be of a harder wood than pine, and should be made perfectly smooth. It may be half an inch thick. The end Sis whittled squyare to -fit the hole in the wheel, It should fit so tight that it must be driven.:in. Before the axle is put in the frame a washer or two, cut out of leather, ‘should be slipped on the axle {o keep ‘the wheel entirely clear from ~the frame.” When placing th 2 axle®in the holes slip on another washer, whicha will remdin at N, and then put a small wire nail through the axle at that point. Put anoiher washer 'and ‘nail at V. )

The post may stand in the groun:d or be nailed to a fence or to the rbof of any buiiding. The spindle may be either a stout wire, as shown here, or a round stick like the axle. The fan is wide and very thin. A large shingie will do quite well. The power of the windmill will be much increased if a wing is fastened to each arm of the whael. Thess also may be made of shingie. They must be light and strong. If the wings are used, the shoulder, S, must be longer,. to keep the wheel clear of the frame.

The end of the axle at W is also whittled square. In a piece of hardwood two and one-half inches long, one-half inch thick and one inch wide make a square hole, figure- 5. This must fit closely the end of the axle at W. A.small screw is driven near the end, O. This makes a crank which turns as the wheel revolves. Now the wheel is ready for the wind, and wa are ready to devise moving figures for the mill to drive. One .such is suggested hers—a seesaw. Cut the figures out of thin wood or _heavy pasteboard, color them in any 4 b . I’.‘ : g L [Te= S fl’.x . . Frame a —___-—'i . A : MI. 5 B T Jil% ||H. % ‘ Poar. @r,:! g Fge ; HOW TO MAKE THE MILL. : fantastic way, put ribbons about the necks if you choose and then tack them to a slender piece of wood 18 inches long. Make.two small holes in this piece, at P and T. Through P drive a small screw into the frame at H. Another slender strip of ‘proper length goes from T, on the see-saw board, to the crack, O, and is fastened by screws. All three of these screws at H, T. and O, must fit the holes rather loosely. . Now you can see that when the axie revolves the crank will turn, and these two children will have a game of seesaw that would make you and me dizzy. The see-saw stick can be changed at pleasure or the figures may be changed. A very funny looking seesaw ‘might have a moenlkey on one end and an angry cat with her back up on the other. .

A great variety of other figures may be made, such as a dairy maid churning, a boy grinding a coffee mill, a carpenter turning a brace ,a man sawing wood, a dancing jack, a kicking mule, two figures bowing, the fizure of a large head with the lower jaw opening and closing. 5 If you are enough of a geniut yom may be able to fit a veveled gear en the axle, right above the spindle, with its beveled mate on a hollow tube that fits closely over the spindle and has & grooved wheel at its lower end. hetween the post and the frame. This tube—and, of course, the grooved .wheel—would revolve as the axle did. Thus the power could be carried from the wheel by a pulley cord into ths house and attached to all sorts of comtrivances there. There is no erd of fun in a windmill—when the wiad blows.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. = : e e ol | A Distinetion. ¢© . . ¢ ! ‘Bibulous Manager (W 6 °!, }’ ceived notice)—l understan@ithat yoa object to my drinking? =" ‘Employer—Not a bit. 1 only objeek to you managing my busipess.—Aly