Ligonier Banner., Volume 45, Number 18, Ligonier, Noble County, 21 July 1910 — Page 3

“Cold Molasses™

. There was.to be a leap year dance down at the Corners, and consequently all the young men in the vicinity wore 8 half receptive, half sheepish .air. Two of them, Warren Youngs and Arthur Haskell, rivals for the affections of Hetty .Lane, were in a state of great anxiety. Hitherto odds had been a2ven, but now surely Hetty must needs show her hand, and the man who was invited to the dance would have reason to believe himself te be the favored one. e Hetty was wise and wily. Warren had the fastest horse in the county and Arthur was going: to buy an automobile in the spring. So she did not mean-to let things come to an issue for some time yet. Besides, she really didn’'t know which one she liked the better, so she decided to invite a third young man. ' “It doesn't really matter whom I go with,” she reflected, “for .once there [ can dance with any one I choose. I have a great mind to ask John Wylle. [t would be such a sarprise to every one, and it might be a kindness to him, for I 'don’t believe he has ever been to a party, land no one else will ask him. -He has never taken a girl anywhere.” c She put her {dea into execution. John was’ quite overwhelmed at the honor. = . “It isn’t a joke, is it, Hetty?” he asked wistfully. “John!" she exélalmed reproachfully. “Well, I might as well tell you frarikly that [ dldn’t want to make Art or Warren mad by inviting either, SO = 1 : . “Compromised,” he finished, smilng. “Well, Hetty, I feel honored even to be a compromise, and I should be delighted to go with you, but | have a confession to make: [ don't dance.” “I didn’t suppose you did, John, but [ thought maybe you'd like to go and bear the music and sit out some lances with me.” “Of -course, I would,” he sail, flushing and looking down into her dazzling eyes. ‘ “John’s geod looking, even if he_ s { /f/ \\\ s LW\ => : : | N ; | . \ /:;—:—%;;:/:’;’/,, . | \\\ NN RN Sk b . NTE N e, e R e o e Es -\ \(\ __,__—::“‘_, / NN N \,‘ 'a ) - A \ \ S AP <\ {| { 20N ‘ft”'{‘z‘]“\; ‘ l!f N\ Th WA c‘ 'Q\\ ‘d‘\flki\\ \\\‘\‘: \T d 5 N\ S RR R ORI W R e . .{\fi%‘h N\ : MR : s \\\ \\ She Was Enjoylng Her First Ride in : an lce Boat.’ . ‘ big and clumsy,” she reflected as she returned home. : On the way she met two girls. { “Who are you going -to invite, Hetty?" asked one of them, eagerly. “I'have already invited,” she replied. “I asked John Wyle.” : . They both laughed hilariously. “Don't fool, Hetty. Tell us who, Warren or Arthur?’ : “l have just this moment asked John, and he has accepted. ‘“Why, Hetty, ' whatever . has possessed you? 1 should as soon think of taking an élephant.” ’ “I ke elephants,” she replied. “But, Hetty, they call him ‘Cold Molasses’ because he is so slow. You won't get there till the party 4s over.” “Molasses melts at times, you know.” ' _ _ Hetty tripped away, giggling at the sensation she was going to create. “Well, Hetty,” asked her father at rupper, “who are you going to take to the dance—Art or Warren?” ’ v “Neither, father., I have asked John Wrylle,” she replied, preparing herself: for a iecture on flirting. To her surprise, her father’s face was full of approval. “Well, Hetty, I am glad you are getting sensible at last. John Wylie is as good as gold. He's a little slow—" .. "Yes; they call him 'Cold Molasses’ end ‘Old Hundred.’” < = “It isn’t always the fastest that make good.”

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Origin of a New York Village’'s Name Which It Is Now Proposed to Change. :

The village of Horseheads, N. Y., is fgain agitating the question of changing its name to North Elmira. The matter has been ‘brought before the public from time to time for severai years, but so far the old name has been retained. - - One result of the present discussion has been an Inq‘uiry as to how the village obtained its name. The story generally accepted is that in 1779 when General Sullivan was returning from a tcampaign against the Indians in :(;enesee county, he stopped here toirest his troops: The surrounding coantry was cuvered with dense forest and he was thickly besét with his enemies, so he determined to shorten hiy march by descending the Chemung river on rafts. As the depth of the river was not known to him and he had no appliances for building large floats be ordered that all extra

Warren and Arthur were not at all disturbed when they heard Hetty was going to the dance with “Cold Me lasses.” They did not fear such a. rival. At| the party Hetty put her name down in four. spaces on John's program. : S “Won’t you ask me for more?” he pleaded. | : i . Hetty laughed. “This is leap year, John. You mustn’t ask for dances.” She was .at a loss to know what to talk about when she came to sit out the first dance with<him, but he began the conversation. s ‘ “I'm like a bull in a china shop at a | party,-Hetty, but I'm glad I am here, lf:uu.l I want to give you a pleasure. {b L return. May 170 ? “Certainly,” she replied, hoping. he | would not ask her to ride after bis Iszmmering old mare. ; | “1 can glve you a faster ride than | either Art or Warren can,” . he .sald | proudly. s | “Oh, bhave you got a new horse. !John?" : ; | “Not a horse. Keep.on guessing? [ *“An automobile?” ' ' “INo : o “Balloon?” “No,' | - . “Well, I give up, John.” ' l “I don't believe I'll tell you just yet. Not until vou are sitting out the fifth dante with me.” - “John isn’t so 'slow,” she thought, as she took his program and® wrote .her name once more. ' ! When the fifth dance came he asked her if she wouldn’t enjoy it more to have it a surfrise until it materialized: “I'll' come over tomorrow. ‘afternoon ‘and take you to ft.” - 48 I\ When he called the next day he didn't drive the old mare. ; : l “This «looks like Warren’s horse,” i sald Hetty, as she got into the sleigh. ! “It is,” he replied, touching up ths llmrso. “I borrédwed it because 1 heard’ you couldn’t bear to ride behind a slow horse.” ; - "Did Warren Know you whre going to take me riding?” He'locked at her in surprise. “Why, no,” he replied. *“He wou!d have mada , some excuse not to lend it to me if he ihud known that.” : { ‘“‘And they -call John slow,” sha E‘(hought with -a gdfile 7 ‘ ‘ | They/ drove five miles to a .farmThouse where some of John's friends ' lived. He left the horse and sleigh |in the barn and then escorted Hetty | down to a lake. : i j "}{exje,"» he sald, “we can: have the | sport T love.” | In a/few moments she was enjoying | her first ride on an iceboat. . : { “Johm,” she cried, ecstatically, i “there’s notihng like it. is there?” {- “Exgept sailing,” he replied. "I come ‘here for mysrecreation in summer and | winter.” | “I'll never. think of John as ‘Cold { Molasses’ again,” she thought as they lfinally went up to the farmhouse to iget warm before, starting for home. - l When they reached her house Mr. Lane came out to the sleigh. “My wife sent me to ask you in to supper, John.” “Yes, do, John,” urged Hetty. s “I've got to get this horse back,” sald flohn.;sorrowfully. _“Warren wants 1t tonight.” . . - “Ben Childs is here’ He lives next to Warren’s. He’'ll be glad not to have I to walk home.” After supper Mr. and Mrs. Lane | went to a neighbor’s to call and Hetty settled herse)f for a comfortable visit with John without perturbation. - She knew from a-certain expression in his eyes how much he thought of her, but | she also knew his slow way of doing things, and calculated that it would take him at least a year to reach the proposing point. Therefore, when he suddenly put his arm.about her and asked her tersely if she would behis wife she was so surprised that she accepted him.’ ‘ “John,” she said later, “how did’ you come to ask me so soon?” T | “So soon!” he echoed, in surprise. “Why, little girl, I've been wanting to | ask |you since the first time 1 saw you.” Faults of Women’s Dress. - Mrs. John F. Fitzgerald, wife of the mayor of Boston, says that individuality should be the essential feature of women's dress. Society women, adhering so closely to the styles, she says, often make themselves unconsciously ridiculious. Many women, she says, wear the latest styles in order to avoid gossip, when they would much prefer to dress in g simpler manner.” - Proof. . “How did you know that the great magnate was so {l1?” . : - “I saw it denied in the papers.”— Puck. :

luggage and supplies be destroyed and that all feeble or superfluous horses be Kkilled. !

As soon as the troops had departed the wolves cameforth from the forest and picked the bones clean. When the Indians ventured back into this region again they visited the camp ground and some of them made a great mound of the bleached horse heads which they found strewn about. This monument was later found by the settlers who penetrated into the valley and because of it they gave their settlement the name of Horseheads. . - :

Alarming Symptoms,

Nurse—Doctor; the patient rallied a little last night, and shows umexpected strength this morning. He says he won't take any more of that vile medicke. :

Dr. Kallowmell—Dear, dear! We'll hive to do something te get him out of that condi‘ion. ; i

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Russell Ford of the New York Yankees, who is regarded as the pitching fird of the American league this year, has helped to prove the: oft-repeated assertion that- “dope” on Dbaseball teams is the most uncertain of any in Eport. i . .

There is the turf *dope,” for instance. The experts have been fairly able to figure that if “Cinch” beats “Sure Thirg"” and ‘‘L.ead Pipe” throws dirt in the eyes of both of them, it is as good as momey in your pocket to have a bet on “Sinecure” when he is in a race with “Cinch” and ‘“Sure Thing" because he ha's,recently trimmed “Lead Pipe.” Sometimes it fails, but more often it will not.

In pugilism “Pug” and *“Knockerout” battle to a draw. “Left Swing” hammers the life out of “Right Jab."” Then “Right Jub” turns around and trims “Pug.” “Along comes “Upper Cut” and he whales both “Left Swing" and “Right Jab.” .Then some promoter. matches “Upper Cut” and “Knockerout.” Who should win? The *dope"” says “Upper Cut” But in baseball you have to figure on too many men. So when the seagon started there were few who thought the Stallings bunch would be such _troublemakers in the American league. It was because they did not know just how good Ford is. . Some persons say he is a better spit ball artist than Ed Walsh, which is going some. The youngster won seven straight before he lost a game. [t'is agreed that his great twirling has had much.to do with putting the New York team up near the top, thereby showing how impossible it is to “dope” a baseball team. :

Umpire Bill Evans asked Ford the other day if he really knows which way his spit ball delivery is going to break. Ford's answer was that he would demonstrate, and, according to Bill, he broke the spitter just as he said he would. On the strength of what ball players and fimpires say about the New York phenom, it is not at all hard to understand why he has been meeting with such success.

Every batter of any class can be divided into three divisions, according to some of our most prominent umpires. Larry Lajolie leads one section, Ty Cobb the secord and Frank Schulte the third, in other words, these three great batters are the most typical of their divisions. . Lajoie of Cleveland, who has stood as a leading American and National league slugger for years, stands “up to” the ball with only a trifle of a bend, and swings his bat slowly. He does not exactly walk into the ball, being more of a one-base swatter than a clean-up hitter. This is the most reliable type perhaps. The performer being a surer hitter. Others of the same class are Wagner of the Pirates, Willie Keeler, now of the Giants and a former Highlander, and Johnnie Evers of the Cubs and Crawford of the Tigers. Geéssler of Washington and Stahl of the Boston Red {ox are other notable examples. Ty Cobb, the great Tiger slugger, is the nervous type. His body forms a sort of an arch, and he swings his bat faster and faster as the pitcher unwinds. He puts all the strength of his body into the final swing, and if he hits the ball it is “good night,” This is the clean-up type. Doubles, triples and home runs often fall to the lot of the leaders in this dlvision. The Cubs have many in their lineup who bat according to this style. Manager Chance is one and Joe Tinker another. Terry Turner of the Naps falls into the same category, and so does Killifer of the Senators.

Then comes the silent type, best exemplified by Frank Schulte of. the Cubs. To the average fan these batters appear careless. They stand like a statue, calm and almost motionless. Perhaps the batter may give one swing before letting go. They stand and eye the pitcher out. of countenance.. Of all the batters, this type is most feared by the pitchers. There is a grimness in the situation. The batter seems to say, “I'm laying for you, old ‘kid.”

- Some of the best batters of the decade belong to this classification. In addition to Schulte there js Speak-er-of the Red Sox, one of last year's sensations. Dougherty of the Sox is another. You can almost imagine thev are yaw'ninrg with eunui as they

stand up at the plate. Theif position gives them an excellent birdseye view of the ball as {t hurtles through the air, and they have an excelleut chance to aim. i 5

Everything in baseball today is the signal' system. The marvelous performances of the Cubs, the irresistible rush of the Tigers and the sensational play of other teams owes much of its brilliance and seeming luck to team signals. Even the umpires find it profitable to understand some of the signals while officiating. “Of course, it keeps them guessing a lot, because signals often are switched in a game, but they come to know, in a general way, what is going to be pulled off. The 'authority for this statement is President “Tip” O'Neill of. the Western league, who was once an umpire himself. * “Understanding signals "in a general way was often a help to me,” said O'Neill. “For example, the

umpire would often-be caught napping on a base decision if he didn’t know that a steal or hit-and-run signal was given. This enables him to keep one eye on the play and the other on the other angle of the play. It has been said that the umpire might give some of the plays to the other team it he knew the signals. That’s all bosh. No umpire could do that and retain his job. .

“Umpiring is one of the hardest jobs in all creation, and for that reason every little thing helps that aids

tim in his general allround work. It is easier in the big league nowadays where there is a man on the bases all the time. ‘That takes away ninetenths of -the worry from the man deciding the strikes and balls.”

Waddell on Water Wagon.

By signing the Pollard pledge for inebriates and agreeing to report three times weekly at the Dayton street police court Rube® Waddell was relieved of a fine of $l5O. Judge Pollard, who assessed the fine, told “Rube” that the fine would be held in abeyance if he stuck to the Pollard pledge, reporting regularly, and in case he was out of the city send a weekly letter signed by his employer to the effect that the journey on the water wagon was continuing. Waddell told Judge Pollard he wished to make no defense to the charge of his wife that he beat her and spun her ke a top. He sald he had no position, no money, no property, and little hopes, and that he would be unable to pay the fine.

Evers “In Bad” Again.

Didn’t we tell you Johnny Evers couldn’t help it? ’ started out the season saying he ifitended to be good and not have trouble with the umpires, et al. It wasn’t until he had drawn a three day suspension for doing the very thing he said he wasn’t going to do. - Now the latest is a charge filed by the Pittsburg management that Evers made faces at people in Pittsburg grand stand when they ridiculed the Chicago players for bad work. Isn’t it just like Johnny to have done it whether he did or not?

~ When Magee Swallowed His Quid. Although George Needham’ of New Britain swallowed 'a quid or tobacco while playing second base last season, it is doubtful if any one ever had the experience of Magee of the Phillies, in Brooklyn the other day. He made a hit good for four bases, but swallowed a quid as he was rounding second and was forced to pull up at third base to allow the process of digestion to overcome that of strangulation.

Their Injuries Don't Interfere.

Streét was hit on the head with a ball in Detroit and has been batting finely ever since.. McAleer was hit on the head by a fist in Detroit, and the Washingtons have been going at a fast clip ever since. Manager Frank Chance got hit on the koko also, but the Cubs still manage to hold first place. 5 :

Patrick Back With Naps.

Pftcher ‘Andrew Patrick, who went home from Alexandria, La., during the Naps’ training season, on acccunt of illness, has reported te Manager Jim McGuire and appears to be in good trim. .

GORRECT YOUR MISTAKES IS FALKENBURG'S “ADVICE

BASEBALL IS A GAME OF IMPOS ~ SIBILITIES DECLARES THE CLEVELAND PITCHER.

(Copyright, 1810, by Joseph B. Bowlei.)

I am asked to write how to win, but the ball player does not learn from that, but gets his lesson tro?n losing. We study our mistakes and try to correct them, and after correcting and correcting up to near the time the arm wears out some of usg get to learn part of the game. There is no game 1n the world that offers such a variety of plays and so great a number of ways to make each one. It is a game of possibilities, and to take advantage of them a player must study his own profession all the time. One might learn it all, but for the fact that the other fellows are studying at the same time, and just when he thinks he knows all about them they'switch on him and he must start all over again. _ I have studied pitching and studied batters éver since I was a school boy, and there are times when 1 think | know less than when [ first started. For a pitcher, no matter what curves and speed he may have, | think the most essential thing is that he shall possess the keenest power of obser vation. Pitching, in fact, is the one acquired art of baseball. Every other position depends more upon the natu ral ability of the player, while any one with a good arm, a free motion and a fair brain can become a pitcher through constant practise and study Whether he {s a success or not depends largely "upon what kind of a brain he has and how rapidly he can think. .

A boy who aspires to become a pitcher ought to begin early-—and tc begin caring for his "arm. from the first. I believe four out of every five school boys who start to pitch ruin their arms before they really learn anything about pitching. As I understand it, this i{s intended to be merely a few hints to pitchers, and 1 am trying to tell boys not how the big leaguers pitch curves, but how .boys who aspire to be big leaguers ought to start.” Most of them begin pitching with full power, and as soon as they learn to pitch ‘an outcurve they pitch it all the time until the arm weakens and a baseball career is made impossible. I have taiked with dozens of

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Another thing, he should not pitch too many curve balls.” The first thing a boy ought to learn is that a curve it not effective unless other balls are being pitched. Control is the first essential. 1 know we won college pennants for years because our coach ‘taught us two things: First, that the pitcher should get control and pitch at the plate steadily, and, second, that the batters should learn to wait. The success of our team was in the fact that our pitchers seldom gave bases on balls and had control enoygh to put the ball over. A hoy ought, however, to remember that when the other team is swinging at bad balls not to pitch them guod ones, and that a straight ball a foot away from the plate will be missed as often as a curve is. A boy who will take care of his a}m. avoid straining it and practise slowly and steadily, tossing the ball either at a mark or to his catcher and striving always to get control, rather than speed and curves, can make a pitcher of himself. The other things will come naturally and if he has the arm and the control he will last long enough to learn more. Clarke Sees No “Yellow.” ‘I cannot detect a single yellow streak,” says Fred Clarke of his Pittsburg team. *I never saw players act better during a slump. ' Sometimes players become indifferent when the games go wrong for a long streteh, sometimes they take the misfortune s 0 much to heart that they become completely rattled, and somefimes they are grouchy. Our slump has been all the more noticable to friends and foes on account of our title of world’s champions, but through it all the playthe players' behavior has beev fina.”

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The clipping began this year about the tenth of January, and by the middle of I'ebruary was finished at Cave Creek, Mariuette, DBeardsiey, Hot Springs Junction, Congress Junction and Weden. Machines were used at all these clipping centers with the ex. cepticn of Weden and Congress Junetion, where the shearing was done by hand. Shearing in the porth was later, but even there far. ahead of the usual season. Conditions were about the :same in Mohave county, In former vears it was customary for the sheep men to drive their flocks from Mohave county to the Salt River valley for the lambing and

shearing season, using the forest ranges ruvnning north and south for forage along the route both north and south. But the new forest regulations now prohibit this use of the government feserves; the sheep men have been unable to get their.flocks through, especially through the Verde valley, so that the movement south was abandoned this season. .

In addition to the restrictions placed upon the forest reserves, the valleys that in former years were green, owing to the cold, dry weatber and the consequent lack of rainms, this year were not green enough to -support the moving flocks. The result of this is that those flocks which were moved south, for lack of grazing in thws:central Arizona valleys, had to hasten back north, where the lambing proved disastrous, not only to the lambkins but to the ewes as well. ' For this reason 70 per cent. of the sheep shorn in Arizona for 1910 had the clipping done in Yavapai~county, midway between the valley and northern ranges, this being the lowest gltitude obtainable where there was the comlbination of clipping facilities, nearby shipping points and fair ranges. By the same token it is now rpredicted that the lamb crop for the year will not exceed 40 per cent. of what it should be, or would be under more favorable conditions. )

The largest shearing point in Yapavat county this year was at Cordes, where between 130,000 and 140,000 pounds of wool was clipped. The clip at Kingman ran to 60,000 head, and the government reports credit Arizona with an average yield of fliece welghing 6.65 pounds per sheep, which would

Pheasant Fights Barnyard Fowls.

Farmers in Decatur county who have given over their 'ands as game oreserves are being confronted with a situation that promises to be serious. The Hungarian pheasants that were placed in the game preserves are becoming exceedingly tame, and it is no Juncommon thing for them to wander into barnyards. s On the Charles Throp farm, northeast of- this city, an wunusually large pheasant seems to have a particular aversicn to turkeys. It has destroyed two or three turkey nests and whipped the gobbler of the brood to a frazzle. It is a common sigkt when a pheasant appears in a barnyard to see a fight hetween it and chickens, and the pheasant usually wins.— Greensburg Correspondence Indianapolis\ News. : ' The Modern Way. “Fortune no longer knocks at a man’'s door,” remarked the moralizer. “That’s right,” rejoined the demoralizer. “One must have aa electric door bell if be wants to be in tke wuabh." ; g

bring the yleld up to more than 300,000 pounds. Owing to the conditions referred to in the foregoling, the clip in the northern part of Arizona will be later than usual this year. because the owners of the flocks prefer to awalit a late clip rather than risk the loss of the lambs. . Prices for wool in Arizona this year ranged -around the prices of last vear. Agents pald on the ground between 20 and -22 ecents for the clip of 30 per cent. of the sheep shorn-'n the Salt River valley. -The. buyers that were in the field were representa. "tives. of Dewey, Gold. & Co., of Bos- { ton; Brown & Adams, of Boston, and ! Salter Brothers, representing varifous houses in Boston. Workers were scarce, and wages were high. Clip- | pers that formerly recelved from '§ls | to $4O per month now receive frém | $25 to $lOO per month, and most of | these laborers are Mexicans. Goat raising in Arizonahas proved | profitable, and this year's prices: paid ‘ by the Boston markets, were the high- | est ever recorfled. For kid mohair, R. | Edmundson of Yarnell received 50 | cents per pound; and this was paid for | the grade known as No. 2. Tkis sale ' was made through the Natiorial Mohalr Growers’ association, organized | recently in opposttion to the -~ wool { combine. The new association has an | agency and warehouse in Boston, and ilo.st no time in getting into ,the Ark | zona field.

The shipment netted Edmundson 486 cents a .pound after paying transpor: tation charges and association . expenses. Not only is the goat proving profitable from the sale of the halr, but recently Arizona goat mutton sold in the Kansas City market for $6.25 the hundred. )

Owing to the warm climate in this territory, lambs come into the. mar ket at a very early season, which gives the flocks additional advantage over other parts of the country. One shipment of lambs was made from the Salt . River farms by J. A. Pitts of Ash Fork, as early as March 14. This con. signment consisted of four double car loads of spring lambs, which were sent to Kansas City. This was the first attempt ever made in Arizona to ship the lambs so that they might arrive in Kansas City before Easter. While this shipment was made in %he ‘nature of an expefiment {t proved profitable, and next year it is probable that Ark zona lambs will find ready early sale in Kansas City stock yards. The lambs sold were ralsed on Pitts’ farm and fed on hay raised on his farm, in. stead of leaving the lambkins on the ranges. -

The shepherds in Arizona have to contend with the wild animals to an extent greater than {s necessary in any other part of the country. For protection against coyotes, dogs which are often half-breeds between the collie and the coyote are used with great success. The forest department and the local officers distribute .poison to kill off the coyotes and this method has proved effectual in many cases.

As an Instance of the number of wild animals that have to be guarded against in Arizona’'it {s pointed out that at a recent “hide day” in Tombstone, the capital of Cochise county, which is the most densely populated county in the territory, bounties were pald In one day on 500 pelts of animals of prep. About $B,OOO is paid out annually by Cochise county for boum ties on the pelts of coyotes, bob éats, wolves, lobos, mountain lions, bears and skunke. It may also be cited that one night recently a lynx got into a corral owned by Charles Sands -in the vicinity of Douglas, in Cochise county, and killed 21 goats. The same man reports that altogther 200 goats and kids were killed by lynx and bob cats this season. ’ ALOYSIUS COLL.

The Deceiving Foureyes. l “No, father, that isn’t'its head, that's | its tail. Don’t you see now?” - So a young daughter said to her fai ther as they stood at #he aquarium, in front of a tank containing the foureyes, a sprightly and very pretty fish that grows to be three or four inches in length and comes from Bermuda. The foureyes is a thin but deep bodied little fish that swims on edge and that-has on efther side at the base of the tail a little round black spot suggesting an eye. ' Hence the name. To these unfamiliar with it the fish appears to have four eyes and it might be difficult at first to tell whether the little fish was going for ward or backward. ) _ ¢ ! On Schedule. Hogan—Pwhat makes ye swally all your dinner in two minutes, Grogan? Are yez atin’ on a. bet? Grogan—lt's for the good Jav me dyspepsy, Moike. Sure the/docther tould me to rist an hour after atin’, and how else am Oi goin’ to get the hour to rist in unless Of ate like th« divil?—Boston Transeript

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: The Lost Chords. ‘The village concert wag to be a great affair. They had the singers, they. had the program sellers, they had the doorkeepers and they would doubtless have the audience. : All they needed was the piano, but that they lacked. Nor could they procure one -‘anywhere. ) L At last the village organist learnéd that one was possessed by Farmer Hayseed, who lived “‘at the top o’ the '{l.” Ferthwith he set out with two men and a van. “Take it, an’' welcome,” said Hay.seed cordially “I've no objections s'long as ye put ‘Pyenner by Hayseed’ on the program.” They carted it away. ~“An’ I wish 'em joy of it mur~ mured Mrs. Hayseed, as the van disappeared from sight. . “Wish ’em. joy of it,” repeated Haysced. ‘““What d'ye mean?” - “Well, I mean I .only 'ope theyll find all-the notes they want,” replied the good woman. *“’'Cos, ye see, when I wanted a bit o’ wire I allus went to the old pianner for it.” ’ -7 The Miser of Sag Harbor. “Economy,” said Daniel W. Field, the millionaire shoe manufacturer of Boston, who at the age of forty-five has entered Harvard, “economy is essential to wealth, but by economy I ‘don’t mean niggardliness. “Too many men. fail to attain to wealth because they practise a cheeseparing and mean economy that gets everybody dowfn on them. “They practise, in fact, an economy like that of old William Brewster of Sag Harbor. Williafh, you know, would never buy oysters because he couldn’t eat shells and all.” » - Hereditary Power. ) Hoax—Poor old Henpeck has to mind the baby. , ‘Joax—Yes, it's wonderful how that baby takes after its mother. e

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