Plymouth Tribune, Volume 10, Number 2, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 October 1910 — Page 3

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tRYZ FRANCIS Corrrtctt. I9C6. by CHAPTER XXIII. (Continued.) The Dabney buggy was waiting for him when, after what seemed Hie a pilgrimage of endless miles, he had crept down to the gate. But It was Miss Dabney. and not Mammy Juliets Pete, who was holding the reins. -I couldn't find Pete, and Japheth has gone to town," she explained. "Can you get in by yourself?" lie was holding on by the cut wheel, and the death-look was creeping over his face again. "I can't let you," he panted; and she thought he was thinking of the disgrace for her. 'I am my own mistress.- she said, coldly. -If I choose to drive you when you are too sick to hold the reins. It Is my own affair." -I wasn't thinking of that; tut you must first know Just what you're doing. My father stands to lose all he has got to to the Parleys. Thai's what the meeting Is for. Do you understand? She bit her Up and a far-away look came into her eyes. Then she turned en him with a little frown of determination gathering between her straight eyebrows a frown that reminded him of the Major In his militant moods. "I must take your word for It." she aid. and the words seemed to cut the air like edged things. "Tell me the ruth: i3 your rause entirely Just? Tour motive Is not revenge?" "It Is my father's cause, and none of mine; more than that. It is your grandfather's cause and yours." She pushed the buggy hood back with a quick arm sweep and gave him her free hand. "Step carefully." she cautioned; and a minute later they were speeding swiftly down the pike in a white dust cloud of their own making. There was a sharp crisis to the fore in the old log-house office at the furnace. Caleb Gordon, haggard und tremulous, sat at one end ol the tres-tle-board which served as a table, with Norman at his elbow; and flankln; him on either side were the two Farleys, Dyckman. Trewhitt. acting gen eral counsel for the company in the. Farley Interest, and Ilanchett. repre entlns the Gordons. Having arranged the preliminaries to h!3 entire satisfaction. Colonel Dux bury had struck true and hard. Tha pipe foundry might be taken Into the parent company at a certain nominal figure payable in a new issue of Chia wassee Limited stock, or three several thing3 were due to happen simultaneously: the furnace would be shut down Indefinitely "for repairs." thus cutting off the Iron supply and making a ruin ous forfeiture of pipe contracts inerlt able; suit would be brought to recover damages for the alleged mlsmanago xnent of Chlawassee Consolidated dur ing the absence of the majority stock- ' holders; and the validity of the pipepit patents would be contested in the courts. This was the ultimatum. The one-sided battle had been fought to a finish. Ilanchett. hewing away in the dark, had made every double and turn that keen legal acumen and a sharp wit could suggest to gain time. But Mr. Farley was Inexorable. Th3 business must be concluded at the present sitting; otherwise the papers In the two suits, which were already prepared, would be filed before noon. Hanchett took his principal Into tiii laboratory tor a pri'ite word. -It's for you to decide. Mr. Gordon." he said. "If you want to follow them Into the court, we'll do the best we can. But as a friend I can't advise you to take that course." , "If we would only make out to find out what Tom's holding over 'em!" groaned Caleb, helplessly. "Yes; but we can't," said the lawyer. "And whatever it may be. they are evidently not afraid of It." "We'll never see a dollar's dividend out o' the stock. Cap'n Ilanchett. I might as well give 'em the foundry frea and clear." "That's the chance you take, of course. But on the other hand, they can force you to the wall In a month and make you lose everything you have. I've been over the books with Norman: if you can't fill your p!pe contracts, the forfeitures will ruin you. And you can't fill them unless you can have Chlawassee iron, and at the present price." The old Iron-master led the way back to the room of doom and took bis place at the end of the trestle-board table. "Give me the papers," he said, gloomily; and the Farley's attorney passed them across, with his fountain-pen. There was a purring of wheels in the air and the staccato clatter of a horse's hoofs on the hard metaling of the pike. Vincent Farley rose quietly In his place and tiptoed to the door. He was in tha act of snapping the catch of the spring-latch, when the door flew inward and he fell back with a smothered exclamation. Thereupon they all loo'xed up, Caleb, the tremulous, with the pen still suspended over the signatures upon which the ink was still wet. Tom was standing In the doorway, deathly sick and clinging to the Jamb for support. In putting on his hat he had slipped the bandages, an, the wound was bleeding afresh. Dyckman yelped like a stricken dog. overturning his chair as he leaped up and backed away Into a corner. Only Mr. Duxbur7 Farley and his attorney were wholly unmoved. The lawyer had taken his fountain-pen from Caleb's shaking fingers and was carefully recapping it; and Mr. Farley was pocketing the agreement, by the terms of which the firm of Gordon & Gordon had ceased to exist. Tom lurched Into the room and threw himself feebly on the promoter, and Vincent made as If he would come between. But there was no need for intervention. Duxbury Farley had only to step aside, and Tom fell heavily, clutching the ulr as he went down. The dusty ofllce which had once been Jols mother's sitting-room was cleared f all save his lather when Tom recovered consciousness and eat up, with Caleb's arm to help. "There, now. Buddy; you ortn't lo tried to get up and come down here," slid the father, soothingly. But Tom'j blood was on fire. "Tell me!" he raved; "have they got the foundry away from you?" Caleb nodded gravely. "But don't you mind none about that. son. "What I'm Svveatin' about now is the fix you're in." Tom struggled to his feet, tottering. "I'll cut the heart out of these demons that have robbed you. Give mo ithe pistol from that drawer, and drive me down to the station before their train comes. I'll do it, I'll do it now!" But when old Longfellow, Jigging vertically between the buggy shaft; picked his way out of the furnace yard, he was permitted to turn of his own accord In the homeward direction; and an hour later the sick man was back in bed. with Insistent calls for Ardea. 'And this time Miss Dabney did not come. CHAPTER XXIV. Riding up the pike one sun-shot afternoon In the golden September, Tom

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H n n n n n n LYNDE Francis Lynd saw Ardea entering the open door of the Morwenstow church-copy, drw rein, flung himself out of the saddle and followed her. She saw him and stopped in the vestibule, quaking a lit tle as she felt she must always quake until the impassable chasm of weldock with another should be safely opened between them "Just a moment," he said, abruptly. "There was a time when I said I would spare Vincent Farley and his kin for your sake. That was a year ag.. Things have changed since then; I have changed. When my father Is burled. I shall to my best to fill the mourners' carriages with those who have killed him." "How is your father to-day?" she asked, not daring to trus: speech otherwise. "He is the same as he was yesterday and the day before; the same as he will always be from this on a broken man." "You will strike back?" She said it with infinite sadness in her voice and an upcasting of eyes that were swimming. "I don't question your right but I pity 3ou. The blow may be Just, I don't know yet it will fall hardest on you in tTte end, Tom." His smile was almost boyish In Its frank anger. But there was a man's sneer in his words. "Excuse me; I forgot for the moment that we are in a church. But I am taking consequences, these days." She looked out from the cool, dark refuge of the vestibule when he mounted and rode on, and her heart was full. It was madness, vindictive madness and fell anger. But It was a generous wrath, large and man-like. It was not to be a blow in the dark or in the back, as some men struck; and he would not strike without first giving her warning. Ardea had been cross -questioning Japheth about the assault at the Woodlawn gates to her own hurt. Japheth had evaded as he could, but she had guessed what he was keeping back the Identity of the two footpads blackened to look like negroes. It was a weary world, and life had lost much that had made it worth living. Tom was deep In an Inventive trance. with vengeance for the prize to be won. and for the means to the end. iron works and pipe plants and forglngs especially the forging of one particular thunderbolt which should shatter tha Farley fortunes beyond repair. When this bolt , was finally hammered Into shape he had an nour's Interview with Major Dabney. and took a train for New York. A telegram from Norman, begging him to come back to South Tredegar at speed, overtook him. For three days a gentleman with shrewd eyes and a hard-bitted Jaw, registering at the Marlboro as "A. Dracott. New York." had been shut up with Mr. Duxbury Farley in the most private of the com pany's offices in the Coosa Building, and on the fourth day Norman had made shift to find out this gentleman's business. Whereupon the wire to Tom He caught a slow train back, and was met at a station ten miles out of town by his energetic ex-lieutenant "Of course. I didn't dare to don any thing more than give him a hint," was the conclusion of Norman's exciting report "I didn't know but he might give us away to Colonel Duxbury. ?o. without telling him much of anything, 1 got him to agree to meet you at his rooms In the Marlboro to-night after dinner. Then I was scared for fear my wire to you would miss. "You are a white man, Fred, and a friend to tie to," said Tom; which was more than he had ever said to Nor man by way of praise in the days of master and man. Then, as the train was slowing into the South Tredegar station: "If this thing wins out, you'll come in for something bigger than you had with Gordon & Gordon; you can Det on mau lt was ordained that Gordon should anticipate his appointment by meeting his man at the dinner-table in the Marlboro cafe; and it was accident or design, as you like to believe, that Dyckman should be sitting two tables away, choking over his food and listen ing only by the road of the eye. since he was unhappily out of ear rango. When the two passed out to the eleva tor, the bookkeeper rose hastily and made for the nearest telephone, ThU at least, was not accidental. The conference in Suite 32 lasted un til nearly midnight, with Dyckman painfully shadowing the corridor and sweating like a furnace laborer, though the night was more than autumn cool. The door was thick, the transom was closed, and the keyhole commanded nothing but a square of blank wall op posite in the electric-lighted slttins room of the suite. Hence the book keeper could only guess what we may know. "You have let in a flood of light on Mr. Farley's proposition, Mr. Gordon," sali the representative of American Aqueduct, when the ground had beei thoroughly gone over. "I don't mind telling you now that he made his first c"ertures to us on his arrival from Eu rope, giving us to understand' that he owned or controlled the pipe-making plants absolutely." "At that time he controlled nothing. as I have explained," said Tom. "not even his majority stock In Chlawassee Consolidated. Of course, he resumed control as soon as he reached home. and his next move was to have me quietly sandbagged while he froze my father out But father did not transfer the patents, for the simple reason that he couldn't. They are my personal property, made over to me before the firm of Gordon & Gordon came Into ix. lstence." "You are the man we'll have to do business with, Mr. Gordon. Are you quite sure of your legal status in the case?" "I have good advice. Hanchett. Goodloe and Tryson, Richmond EulM Ing. are my attorneys. They will put you in the way of finding out anything you'd like to know." "As I have said. I'm here to do busl ness. Ve don't need the plant. Will you sell us your patents?" "Yes; on one condition." "That you first put us out of busi ness. You'll have to smash Chiawassee Limited painstakingly and permanently before you can buy my holdings." The shrewd-eyed gentleman who had unified practically all of the pipe foun dries in the United States smiled a gentle negative. "That would be rather out of our line. If Mr. Farley owned the patent j. and was disposed to fight us as, Indeed, he Is not we might try to con vince him. But we arc not out for vengeance another man's vengeance, at that." "Very well, then; you won't get what you've come after. The patents go with the plant You can't have one without the other," said Tom. eying his opponent through half-closed lids. "Hut we can buy the plant to-mo row, at a very reasonable figure. Far ley is anxious enough to coma In out of the wet" "Excuse me, Mr. Dracott, but you can't buy the plant at any prloe." "Eh? Why can't we?" " Because the majority of the ctoc will vote to fight you to a standstill.

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trols C3 per cent of the stock!" "That is where you were lied to oe more time," said Tom, with great coolness. "The capital stock of Chlawassee Limited is divided into one thousand shares, all distributed. My father holds three hundred and fifty sh.irw: Mr. Farley and his son togeth er own four hundred and fifty;. and the remaining two hundred are held in trust for Miss Ardea Dabney, to be come her property in fee simple when she marries, rending her marriage, whiph u currently supposed to be nar at hand, the voting power of these '.wo hundred shares resides In Miss uaoney's grandfather, and my father noias his proxy." This was the thunderbolt Tom naa been forging during those quiet days spent on the mountain side; and thero was another pause while one might count ten. After which the man from New York spoke his mind freely. Your row with these people must be pretty bitter. Mr. Gordon. Are yon willing to see your father and thesa Dabneys go by the board for the sake of breaking the president and his son?" I know what I am doing, was the quiet reply. "Neither my father nor Miss Dabney will lose anytning that a worth keeping." Have vou figured that out. too? The field Is too small for you down here. Mr. Gordon much too small. lou should come to New York." "You will fight us?" he asked. The short-circuiter of corporations laughed. We'll mit you out of business, ir you Insist on it Anything to oblige." Yon have it to do. Mr. Dracott on the day you have hammered Chlawas see Limited down to a dead propor tion, you can have my pipe patents. If you will meet me at the office or TTmnchett Goodloe & Tryson to-mor-row morning at 10 o'clock, we will put it In writing." Oood-inht" (To be continued.) PXB,ST DAILY NEWSPAPEB. The Con rant Started In London 20 Yearn Ago by Woman. A woman miblished the first daily newspaper in the world. It was called the Courant and made its first appearance In London on iiarcn 11, iu be fore that time the news had been dis pensed weekly, or, in a few cases of very progressive editors, semi-weemy. It was said that it was Issued by tu. Mallet, against the Ditch at Fleet Bridge." Behind that non-committal "E" was "Elizabeth." It was the imagination of a woman that first con ceived the Idea that man would want to have the news every morning with his breakfast, and with the characteristic impulsiveness of her sex she put the idea into operation. The Courant contained only two columns, but they were devoted entire ly to news. For centuries a single copy of a bulletin has been posted on the walls of the royal palace in China, says Advertising and Selling, but that cannot be called a newspaper, and there was once a sort of dally market report in Germany; but it lasted only a few days. The Courant's two columns were printed on only one side of the sheet and contained such items as the following: "Tl3 believed that the earl of Portland Is by this time at Paris." "Here i3 talk a3 if ÖOö.OOO pistols were transmitted hither from France for bribing some persons to favor the designs of that crown." There were no pictures nor advertisements. The Courant lived several years, and since Its appearance the world has never been without a daily newspaper. A cops, the very first issue, in fact, is preserved in the british Museum. Elizabeth Mallet had a style and a mind of her own, as is apparent from the following paragraph from that first Issue: "The Courant (as the title shows) will be published dally, being designed to give all the material news as soon as every post arrives, and Is confined to half the compass to save the public at least half the Impertinences of ordinary newspapers." She Also promises that the editor will not "take upon himself to give any comments or conjec :ors of his own, but will relate only matter of facts, supposing the other people to have sense enough to make reflections for themselves." . SnppreniliiK Svrenrlnsr. Profane as well a3 legal oaths have been the subject of many parliamen tary measures In England. No fewer than five separate bills having tue prevention of swearing for their object were i-esented during the reign of James I., but it was not until 1623 that an enactment was finally carried defining and controlling the offense In 1635 a public department was es tablished to collect the fines enforced by this law. The officials of this department, of whom one was appointed In every parish, were allowed 2s. 6d. In the pound on the money thus col lected, and the balance was paid over to the bishop for the benefit of the deserving poor. These penalties ceased to bo enforced after the restoration, but were revived by a statute of Willlam and Mary and still further increased under George' II. London Scraps. Tibetan Penal Code. The Tibetan penal code Is curious. Murder Is punished with a fine, varying according to the Importance of the slain; theft by a fine of seven to one hundred times the value of the article stolen. Here, again, the fine depends on the social Importance of the person from whom the theft has been committed. The barborer of a thief is looked upon as a worso criminal than the thief himself. Ordeals by fire and by boiling water are still used as proofs of innocence or guilt, exactly as was the custom In Europe in the middle ages. And If the lamas never inflict death they are adepts at torture. Large Trice for Stamp. The most ardent stamp collector would think twice before giving $4,800 for a two-cent blue Hawaiian stamp 1851-1832 with Its right-hand bottom corner torn off, I trust! Nevertheless, that record price has been :uid in Paris for the little red postmarked thing. But we can all be extravagant once in a while, and this valued postage stamp is doubtless destined for a royal collector's book. IetMre Hour. Dr Johnson had scant sympathy with inconsistent and arrogant industry. "No man, sir, is obliged to do as much a3 he ca'n. A man should have part of his life to himself." Modern Hairy for Mexico. The Mexican stat? of Guadalajara is to have at last a modern dairjj; 100 American cows are to be imported and 500 acres of land have beon purchased. She Still Lccttiren. Mr. Tile Your wife used to lecture before she waa married. Has she given it up now? Mr. Mllds Well r yes that Is, in public.

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HAVANA, Cuba. The commission sent here by the American war department to ascertain the best method of raUing the wreck of the Battleship Maine has made Its preliminary soundings to determine the material on which the vessel rests, and has found that the work will not be especially difficult Divers found several bodies in the hull, but did not disturb them.

SEE PRAIRIE Game Bird Rapidly Diminishing in Numbers. Driven Away by Settlers In Oklahoma and Gunners Evade Stringent Laws and Slaughter Few Remaining. Guthrie. Okla. Hunters of prairie chicken in Oklahoma this season report them diminishing rapidly in numbers. , Like the buffalo, the prairie chickens in the southwestern prairies do not seem able to withstand the advance of civilization. This is due not merely to their being ruthlessly slaughtered, but to their instinct to seek unsettled regions adapted to their habits. Four or five years ago chickens were abundant In western Oklahoma counties bordering on the Panhandle of Texas, beginning in Beckham county and running north to the Kansas line. The chicken did not range east of this western tier of counties, save in Woodward and Woods counties. The few remaining chickens are found now in Harper, western Woodward, Ellis and northern Roger Mills, with scattering bunches in what once was "no Man's Land," now composed of the counties of Beaver, Texas and Cimarron. Across the line, In the Texas Panhandle, is a good chicken range. Chickens, were so numerous In Ellis county for yoars ago that late in the fall It was not uncommon to see 200 OLD PAPER IN NEW HANDS Harrison Family Loses' Control of London Gazette After Tenure of 130 Years. London. "Old Subscriber" has plenty to think over these days. There is to be a Jolt in the career of the London Gazette, England's oldest newspaper, which, established 243 years ago, now Is nearlng its thirty thousandth number. For more than 130 years the Gazette has been printed and published by Messrs. Harrison of St. Martin's Lane, but the government recently put up the contract for public bids, and the prize has been taken by the firm of Wyman & Co. The paper was started by the court when it fled to Oxford to escape the great plague In the reign of Charles II. It then was called the Oxford Gazette. On the return of the court to London the name was changed to that which the paper has borne ever since. Copies of the paper are In possession of the Harrison family bearing the name of the great-great-grandfather of the present manager, Thomas Harrison, the issues being dated as far back as 1780. The paper prints all the official announcements and adver-, tisements under acts of parliament. It also especially announces all state events! Years ago, before the war office and admiralty and other government bureaus gave out news direct to newspapers as Is done today, it (held all other news publications at its mercy, for it printed exclusively all such reports. In those days it was the first to publish war news and to obtain information on such events. It has yielden an ample proIU annually to the governmental treasury. Expect Severe Winter. New Castle, Pa. Rural weather prophets predict an early and severe winter. They say chipmunks, squirrels and other hibernating animals bear an unusually heavy coat of fur, which means the early approach of cold weather. Paris Salon for Women. Paris. A feminine salon is to be held in Paris next -March under the auspices of the Duchesse de Broglle and the Marquise de Ganay. It will be devoted to an exhibition of all that adorns woman and her home. from footstools to diamond necklaces.

NEED GIRLS WHO CAN TALK

Normal Instructor Says They Live Too Much by Book New Course Is Remedy. Chicago. "The girl gets her Meas as to how she should act when she la proposed to from the books she reads. She has no other way to get them. Social standardi our young people are getting are obtained from the literature they read." James F. Hosie of the Chicago Normal school made the statement the jother day at the first monthly meeting of the Head Assistants' association of ,the present school year. His subject .was "The New Course of Study" 3"st introduced in the schools. "Up to a year ago." he said. uot one out of forty girl graduates from the high schools that entered the normal school could get up before her fellow studeits and tell in a pleasing manner wlat she was asked to t2ll. She could not tell how to make bread low to make a dress.

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HENS' END and 300 prairie chickens fly over the town of Grand. Out in the thinly settled country, prairie chicken were a pest. The few farmers were delighted when hunters appeared, and encouraged the shooting of the hardy birds that were devastating their meager crops. Often 400 and 500 chickens would rise from a single small field. Notwithstanding its stringent gam laws, enacted since statehood, Oklahoma has been unable to protect its prairie chickens. The tragedy has been that the birds were most numerous in the remote regions, where game wardens rarely went, and where they would have difficulty in overtaking law-breakers. The result' has been that In addition to the native gunners, others have poured over the border from other states, and helped hasten the destruction of the prairie chicken. The chickens are trying hard to stay In their old haunts in the new county of Harper. Two hunters scoured the Harper county prairie3 for two days last week, and got only forty chickens. This, in all conscience, was enough, but a poor showing compared with other years, when that many birds could have been killed easily in half a day. These two hunters had the good fortune to see a spetles of gams that is disappearing more rapidly than the prairie chickens. Coming suddenly over a sandhill they saw four antelope and a Jfawn In the distance. They saw four antelope on the same range a

FLIRTING IS A DANGEROUS PERIL

Preacher Says Coquetry Is Door to Divorce Court. Potent Cr.use of That Coarseness and Bestial Vulgarity Which Is Doing So Much to Diminish Home Power. Chicago. "If the true life story of the 16.388 Chlcagoans divorced in the last ten years were written, it would be found that the first station which !ed toward the divorce court was frequently a romantic flirtation at an amusement park or fashionable summer resort." This was one of the Introductory comments made the other evening by Rev. Percival H. Barker in a sermon on "The Pace That Kills" at the First Congregational church, Maywood. "Flirting is a potent cause of that coarseness and bestial vulgarity which is doing so much at present to impair the beauty and diminish the power of American home life, degrading marriage to the low level of a convenience and to the still lower level of sensuality. Flirtations foster the social evil," he continued. "The mother who permits her sixteen-year-old daughter to sail about the city in an automobile until two o'clock in the morning with a counterfeit sport of weak jaw, and weaker morals, opens the front door to grief and disgrace. If J'ou don't know what company your daughter keeps or what time of night she turns in, your roar when gossips get busy will sound about as pathetic as the wheeze from a jewsharp. "This Is the time for the modern minister to shun idle and toothless generalities and speak In unequivocal language. There is something almost criminal In the blank Ignorance of parents concerning the whereabouts of their children during the evening hours. "It is more difficult to marry off a girl who has been pawed over by every chap In the community than It is to fatten sheep on pineapple ice. And should they come to Hymen's altar, they assume the responsibilities of wifehood with the enthusiasm of a one legged man at a society club dance, for they have flirted away their hearts until they are Incapable of truly loving their husbands. "The flirt is likely to discover affinities in other homes and put the "She could go home and write an essay on a beautiful sunset. "Parents at home can often teach children to road and to read right. Galvanized methods of reading are quite unnecessary. "The child as a baby likes to talk it is his nature. When the children find language a bore, it is not their fault it is ours. "As a rule a course of study tends to pigeon hole a child's activities; but this course is mapped out to stimulate useful, sensible, profitable co-cpera-tion. "In the high schools, sad to say. the teacher of Englist does not find all the co-operation she should have. The teacher of science uses slang and murders the English language. "Tne PPHs in our schools, partlcumrly in the lower grades, are like Tennyson's 'brook they 'babble on forever. "A principal of a Chicago echool

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been able to add one to its number, despite the constant danger of enemies that lurked at every crossing and gap. The hunters found In the small, narrow creeks of Harper and Woodward counties the best bass fishing they had ever seen in Oklahoma. The streams in this prairie country are mostly pools, many of them scarcely ten feet wide, yet twelve and fifteen feet deep. No man knows when or how bass first reached these upland waters. They have spawned and hatched unmolested for ages, and grown to their maximum size, feeding on the abundance of grasshoppers and other Insect life. SPARROWS GONE IN A NIGHT Birds Disappear Suddenly From Laredo, Tex., During Severe Tropical Storm. Laredo, Tex. The thousands of English sparrows which have Infested Iaredo for the last 13 years disappeared from the town as if by magic a few nights ago. Not a sparrow is left as a reminder of the twittering, chattering myriads of birds which formerly thronged the streets. They left the town flying before the tropical storm, which whipped up the Rio Grande from the Gulf of Mexico. Where the birds went to is a mystery. The discovery of Laredo by the English sparrow was mado with a suddenness as great as that of their disappearance. One night, 13 years ago, the town was Invaded by hundreds of the birds. They are supposed to have flown down from San Antonio, 150 miles to the north. discoveries into practise. Thus flirting undermines the home; and when home life with Its sanctities, its calm and deep joys and sorrows, ceases to have its charm for us in America, the greatest breakup and catastrophe in history will follow. ' "In respect to this menacing evil, a good rule for youth is: Resist the beginning of flirting. Flirtation is the first step toward self-degradation.. "The man or woman who flirts Is hatching a serpent's brood that will one day wake into life to hiss and sting; he is rearing wild beasts of prey that afterwards will turn upon him and rend him. Shake it at its birth. Flirtations dwarf man's view of life far more than they broaden them." SLAUGHTER DEER FOR SKINS New York Merchants Get Consignment of Ten Thousand Hides Much Fear of Extermination. Monterey, Mex. As an evidence of the woeful slaughter of deer that Is going on in this part of Mexico, there was recently shipped from Monterey, in one lot, 10,980 deer skins, consigned to New York, The animals from which these skins were obtained were all killed within a radius of two hundred miles of Monterey during the last two months. Many Mexicans are now constantly employed slaughtering deer for their skins. In some localities these animals have been killed off so rapidly during the last few years that they have almost all disappeared. There Is no law in this country for the protection of deer or other wild game, and a horde of American sportsmen, chief ly from Texas, are constantly crossing the border and slaughtering the animals in this country by the wholesale. A number of legitimate sportsmen of Mexico have made an appeal to the government to adopt measures which will protect deer and other wild game against the Indiscriminate ' slaughter that is now going on. It is held that unless this is done all of the animals will have been killed off in a few more years. The chief deer skin shipping point in Mexico is Tampico. Many thousands of skins of deer and the hides of various other animals are shipped annually from that port to the United States. once told me that he was satisfied if his pupils could find an excuse for using words. I hope he Is dead dead to the schools. "Our reading has been too much of the prescription sort not enough versatility in it. There is too little reading to get the gist of a matter. "We say, 'Now, in this coming semester, I will set so many hurdles for my pupils to jump over.' Suppose life does not happen to set the hurdles in just the same way. The pupils go out into the world and fail to make good." . 1,526,966,933 Rode in Gotham. New York. More than a billion and a half passengers rode on the various transportation lines in Greater New York during the year ended June 30, 1910. Traffic figures made public by the public service commission gave the total at 1,52G,9G6,9SS. as compared with 1,35)6,086,252 for the previous twelve months. The fares collected by the various companies totaled $76,224,179.63. Operating expenses of the roaJa for the yeai were $43.274.4S7.11.

PUZZLE OF DOVETAIL JOINT Simple But Very Ingenious Example In Joinery Is Shown in Illustration How Done. A simple but very Ingenious ex ample in joinery is illustrated. In the finished piece, Fig. 1, the dovetail appears on each side of the square stick of wood, the illustration, of course, shows only two sides, the other two are identical. The joint is separable and each part is solid and of one piece. says Popular Mechanics. In making, 3 A Dovetail Joint Puzzle. take two pieces of wood, preferably of contrasting colors, such as cherry and walnut or mahogany and boxwood, about Vz inches square and of any length desired. Cut the dovetail on one end of each stick as shown In Fig. 2, drive together and then plane off the triangular corners marked A. The end of each piece after the dovetails are cut appear as shown in Fig. 3, the lines marking the path of the dove tail through the stick. LIFTING MAN WllH FINGERS Experiment as Instructive as Astonish' Ing Illustration Shows How It Is Done. This experiment Is as instructive as It is astonishing. Two persons place the Index finger of both hands under the soles of the feet of the man to be operated upon. Two more place their outstretched fingers, as shown In our Lifting Man With Fingert. illustration, under the elbows, and one of these places his finger under the man's chin. At a signal they all lift, and, to everybody's astonishment, the person will be easily raised above the ground. BOYS PLAY "LAST ACROSS" Juvenile Game Cause London Police Authorities Much Trouble Thre Lads Arrested. . The London police are having their own troubles in endeavoring to break up the Juvenile game of "last across.It exists In New York city, though possibly under another name. When King George recently visited the London hospital he chatted with a small boy in one of the wards, and, showing his accurate knowledge of the youth of today, asked the little patient if he was there as the result of playing "last across." The game with which drivers of spirited horses, cyclists and automobilists are painfully familiar is very simple. A number of boys select an approaching vehicle and deliberately get In its way. The boy who crossed before ft and Is the last to stsp aside wins the game. Three Grautham youngsters tried to add a novelty a few days ago by playIn.i it before a passenger train on the Great Northern line. The engine driver blew the whlstlo frantically, but as the lads did not move he stopped the train. Then the boys took to flight, but they were caught The magistrate took a hand by imposing on each prisoner a fine of seven shillings and six pence, at the same time regretting that he could not add an old-fashioned birch whipping to each penalty. Toyland. There is no country in the world where there are so many toy shops as in Japan. In all the towns and in most of the villages there is a children's bazaar, and the neighborhood of the principal temples is crowded with stalls containing things to amuse children. At the great religious festivals even the poorest are to be met with their arms full of toys to take home, and the number of men and women who earn a Iivelihcrd by Itinerant street shows got up solely to amiue the children can be counted by hundreds. These entertainments include theatricals where brave deeds are performed by heroic warriors, story tellers, song singers and conjurers. Teacher Was Ignorant. Visitor was questioning John. "Well," she asked, finally, "now that you go to school, how do you like yo'ur teacher?" "Not much," replied the boy. "I'm sorry for that. And why?" "'Cause she don't know nuffin. Why, do you know, she even asked me who discovered America." A Primer cf Life. "The world owes every man a living," said the Old Philosopher, "and (here's no reason why he shouldn't collect It; but it will be the part of wisdom to give other, folks the same chance, and not push the hungry millions out o' the way. A Kindly Offer. Little Edna, after listening to her mother and a caller talking incessantly for almost an hour, said: "Why don't you women rest anC let mo Jalk awhile?"

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Done by Means of Broad Ring With Slit in It and Small Naii in Object Lifted. A most weird stunt Is that of lift ing a table, or similar object, with the palm of the hand, simply placed' on the smooth top. The trick Is easily Performed br ukins a Plain! FIG J Lifting a Table. band ring, and with the edge of a thin ;file, make a narrow silt halfway through it Drive a shingle nail into the top of an old table until only about onequarter of an Inch of it sticks up. Now, while passing your hand over' the table, find the nail, and, slipping the silt in th9 ring over the head of the nail, lift up with arms extended," and your audience will be astonished.i ORIGIN OF "SUCKER STATED Farmers Followed Example of Variety of Fish Went Up Stream In I Spring, Down in Fall. : "The Sucker State" this Is tha nickname of Illinois, as all WideAwakers doubtless know. But the cur ious circumstances out of which th appellation grew are now probably forgotten by even the oldest resident of the state. The record left by the early settlers of the origin of thes name is as follows: J It vas in the ' outhern part of the state that the earliest homeseekers built their tillages and laid out their little tcims. Here the land was so rich that with slight labor an abundj ant crop was yielded each year. But one great drawback confronted thei people. Although they were able to raise great quantities of grain and vegetables, hey could find no way to carI ry to a suitable muket this wealth of produce which they wished to ex change for a wealth of silver. The. distance to the nearest market of anyt siza was too great to be covered byj wagon, and there were in those daysv. of course, no railroads. ; pioneers needed badly could Le pro cured only for money. Accordingly la order to save a little cash for times of need, all who were able would leavetheir farms every spring and go to the. Galena lead mines, where they would work during the cummer. Then In the fall they would return to their farms. " Now this custom of the Illinois formers reminded the people of the habits of a variety of fish called suckers, which always go up stream In the : Spring and down stream In the fall j Accordingly, by the freakish law which governs the choice of nick names, the Illinois settlers began td be known as "suckers." The um stuck, as nicknames usually do, and A 11.. - - A A Ii 1 M A 1 Linau y iue siaie useu came iu uo known as the Sucker state and its cit lzens as Suckers.- f OLD GAME IS INSTRUCTIVE Boys and Girls Given Opportunity it Display Their Talent In Acting and Guesting. One of the best of the old games, giving opportunity to display talent la acting and ingenuity in selecting words difficult to guess. The players are divided Into two parties, one-half going out of the room. In their absence the other choose a word which those outside are to guess. When the absent party are recalled they are told some word with which the chosen one will rhyme It Is then their business, to act. In dumb show, the word which they guess may be the chosen oni?. For this purpose they go out of the room' again to consider and decide upon the word they think It may be and planhow It shall be acted. ' This may be performed by the whole party, or by one or two selected from the cumber. For Instance, if the rhyming word is "speed," the players imagine the real word to be "seed, and may come in and go through the motions of sowing seed In a field; or "read,"' when they may all take books and pretend to be deep in study. Nelthef party may tpeak, but if the word acted is not the right one the spectators hiss, and the players retire and decide upon another word and Illustration. Should they guess correctly their success is greeted by clapping of hands, and the parties change places. ' Do You Know t Who built one of his war- sgsels in twenty dayr from trees growing oa the banks of Lake Cham plain? Commodore Macdonough. Of whom It was said, "Providence! left him childless that his country might call him father?" George Washington. What is known as the "Monumental City?" Baltimore, Md. What is known as the "Garden City?" Chicago. 111. What is known as the "Half Moon?" The exploring vessel of Henry Hudson. Nat the Answer Expected. A rather pompous looking deacon was endeavoring to impress upon the young minds of a class of boys the importance of living a Christian life. "Why do people call me a Christian children?" he asked, standing very erect, and smiling down upon them. A moment's pause, then a shrill little voice was heard to say: "Becos tbey don't know you." A Rule for' Every Day. MONDAY Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. TUESDAY Never trouble another for what you can do yourself." WEDNESDAY Never spend inoney before you have it. THURSDAY Nevoc buy what you do not need because it is a bargain. FRIDAY Never indulge in too much food. SATURDAY Never Indulge in faU pride. SUNDAY Never be afraid to cjy "2To" when you are tempted.

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