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a "little grove^-beslde the
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Vbere. aspens shake and thrill,
.With Bllver stems Beneath their
shimmering green
Against the pines' dark screen.
And all day long the rain unceasing
leaves,
Ripples of light among theirtremulouf
leaves,
And all day logg the moss against
their feet..
Tufted, and starred, and sweet.
Flashes in flickering splendor with
the crown. .•*. '':-'f?
Ot diamond drops swept down.
Through pillared arches'of the forest
aisles,
Sacred untrodden miles,
The voiceless /throngs in this God's
.— temple dim
Bow.to the rain's soft hymn
Walls on whose pile no axe nor ham
mer wrought
The Master-builder's thought,.
TUnchtseled font' and granite altar
stair
Walt on the wordless prayer.
And overhead against a brooding sky
The priestly pine trees high
With lifted hands Invoke oh vale and
crest
Infinitudes of resfj
—Mabel Earle, fn The Atlantic.
OTA'S DEFENSE
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When I was in Lower. California,
several years ago, I found employ
ment with ah American who was
erecting a stamp-mill etAgua Dufce,
small mining-camp forty milee east
ot Bnsenada. ., Among the freighters
engaged In hauling the machinery was
a Mexican named Jose Cota, a noted
horseman and hunter.
i. One evening, when the wagons were
camped at the mlne, I jolned the team
sters and swampers who sat round the
-m firei telling stories. Cota told this one.
An apology is due for not reproduc
li_hlmln hiaowntfualnt vernacular,
Cota was on his way to visit a
relative—quite a -distant one, he na
tlfely explained, being thecousin of
his mothor-ln-law—who lived at the
end of a trail across three, hundred
miles of mountain and desert
not wishing to leave ail his family
behind, he rode the calico-colored
Pinto, this animal being 'just like a
brother," ami 'besides, according to
.... Cota, the best horse In all Mexico.
For the fox-trot of Pinto excelled in
soft-footed ease ot effort that of the
l^hQ ,buehytall tor whom the gait
v.-
Traveling with ,the excellent Pinto
•—and in addition Cota had a pack
mule. that followed like a "dog— or
dlnarily Insured a. safe and 'pleasant
Journey. Doubtless the jacal of the
distant... relative- would have been
reached \tbout adventure had it
.. not been for an untoward meeting
just over tha Wchango divide.
... v. Cota was riding along a traij that
cut Into the -face of a bulging prect*
-pice- of dizzying, height, and driving
•a., "is piule befojc^jii^ ig onder that he
i'jis Jteep an, qyeqh the. pack, when'
both:aninJ*ls halted abruptly and
stood snorting.
looking ahead, the traveler saw a
big grizzly bear coming toward him
'round amount'of rock about 50 yards
distant Even on the narrow trail it
would have been a simple matter for
iwitst with claws to right-about-face
and retreat, and Cato fired his re
volve'r In the air, fully expecting the
bear to make off in affright.
But It is hard to divine the moods
arnd 'motives of a grizzly. This one
chose to consider himself cornered
"or attacked, and started forward on
a swinging shuffle. Then both of the
traveler's animals tried to whirl on
a trail where there was no room to
.-.Whirl, and on the brink of a sheer
descent into a canon where the cot
tonwdods dwindled' to the size ot sage
brash.
It chanced that Cota had his riata
in hand, having used it to urge the
jack-animal across-dangerous places,
and no sooner did the mule's ears say
"I turn" than the bite of the raw
"hide rope struck him on the cheek.
The, blow turned him to the cliff,
and jthe mule, blinking, stiff-necked
and desperate,, began' a scuttling re
-treat
.. Cota gave way rapidly, holding Pin
to to the wall, and pulling him 'back,
back* back on a trail where a false
...movement of his hind legs could mean
nothing less than a mangled pile
at the base of the precipice. Wtth
every step to the rear the mule at
•. tempted to heaid'about but his vigilant
master literally held him in place by
a-shower of stinging blows with the
doubled riata.
Fast and furiously he swung the
rawhide, with delicate dexterity he
reined ahd spurred Pinto, and trembl
ing and snorting and sweating from
fright, the animals were kept in or
derly retreat.
Then a wheezy grunt from the ap
proaching bear drove the mule entire
ly frantic, and squarely against the
raining blows he turned Doullug hlm
'self, he whirled nimbly sldewlse, draw
ing his forefeet far under him in
..'•an attempt pivot But his rump bump
ed the face of the cliff and toppled
,• him forward. With muscles tense as
cables,, the scared brute struggled for
a moment to recover his balance, and
'then fell headlong.
Cota declared that Up to this time
nothing but Pinto's stock-driving ln
stinct had rendered him controllable
that upon the moment he found him
Belf without an animal ahead to keep
In place he became as crazy as a
beetle.
It seems more reasonable to attrib
ute. the mustang's panic to the wild
flurry ot the miile ahd the unobstruct
ed view of the approaching grizzly
but at any rate, with the fall of the
pack-animal Pinto lost bis. head com
pletely.
Oblivious to the pressure ot the
cruel Spanish bit, he essayed des
perately to. plyot about Cota seat
him back to the cliff with a bloody
spyr mark upon his Bhbulder, where
upon the little horse Btood as if dazed
..for a second, then shook his head,
„hi the violent, angry way that pres-'
ages bucking or rearing.
Long experience with all sorts of
-horses had taught bis master the sig
nificance of that movement, and the
exact and only way of offsetting the"
,cferttlln
destruction it threatened. Rals.
Sing himself In his stirrups and at the
!rftw!pi.w»4 mtmnii
his revolveiv n» ttuck -the mustang
a' quick, light blow on the ^vulnerable
protuberance jii'at back ot the ear.
Pinto settled down into loose heap
On the trail, and. the rider saved him
self from being crushed against the.
wall by leaping lightly to a standing
position on the saddle.
It was the sa'me as raising hlshand
against a grandfather, Oota declared,
thus to strike down the venerable
friend who had helped to raise his
family but—The narrator, with the
odd facial and shoulder contortion of
the Mexicans, depicted his'horror of
the" yawning abyss below and the ne
cessity of immediate, desperate action
with a vividness that required no am-,
pllfication. Cota had been careful not
to kill the'mustang, and his care add
ed still another to the. perils that
crowded upon him. For Pinto imme
diately showed that he was not quits
stunned, and his master barely es
caped being pitched over the clifl
as he: leaped astride the struggling
animal^ head, and with two quick
turns a woolen scarf bound the eyes
tightly.- Once blinded,. Pinto sub
sided Into a quivering heap, and the
Mexican assured himself that he
would make jio further move, even
if the bear should approach and de'
vour him.
During the traveler's fracas with
his animals the pig-brained foe had
shuffled off about half of flfty yards
that had at first separated them, and
he was now bearing down .on the
horse and rider with eager ferocity.
Only a year before Cota had been
clawed by a^ grizzly, and had solemn-,
ly vowed never again to attack one
'ot the dangerous brutes. But on this
occasion it was different, far different
—and hiere the Mexican recapitulated
the fox-trotting, brush-eating excel,
lencesof the "best horse In Mexico/"
No, he could not leave-him he would
rather light a grizzly.
Turning to reach his rifle from] the
horn'Of the saddle, he was confound
ed by finding it jammed firmly against
the rock wall. There was nothing for
it but to. get the gun cut or to flee:
Cota, true to an unchangeable deter
mination, risked a plunge over the
precipice on the belief that a Mexi
can-trained mustang invariably llei
motionless when blindfolded. Balanc
ing himself warily, he stepped up od
his quivering mount took Arm toot
ing on the saddle, and wrenched'and
tugged like mad until he' at last Suc
ceeded in extricating the firearm.
With a hasty, glance to assure him
self that the weapon was In working
order, h'e clambered.back over Pinto's
rump, and made a stand against the
grizzly.
But-when he raised the trusty rifle
for a shot, he found his heart pulsat
ing with a thump! thump! thump!
that jarred him all over, while hli
hands shook like the tremulous leaves
of the cottonwood. So affected was'
ha by the strain of hard lifting in a,
high altitude that, as Cota declared,
he could not'have spattered the ani
mal, steer-sized though was, with
a shotgun. Several times in his life
the Mexican had faced death without
a moment's cessation of clear think
ing but this last complication un
nerved him and pointing his wabbling
gun In the direction of the grizzly,
he' opened fire.
waB
named. ._'
Then, too, Pinto would eat brush
and grow fat. like a burro all this
despite the fact that'he was in years
past-twenty. The narrator elaborat
ed these points in order that we might
better understand him further down
the story.
To add to his confusion, t^e. smoke
lifted sluggishly.,: Out In .the open He
would, have leaped..to--.one side' and
•been "steadied, perhaps, by. the-change:
of' posture but here, held to 'hist
"tracfis by •a^sheer^wjjJ.i.gn, 6nV?)tj|fij
and a .sheei precipipe'^*ffl&Ser,]
is it any wonder that he became com
pletely con$i&ed,.and with wlld aban
don pumpel lead at the hazy outline
of the brute that now charged furi
ously.
Ke.'-cllck, bang! Ker-cllck, bang!
.His repefcter spoke as fast as he
could work the lever and pull the
trigger, and the bullets scattered as
if thrown by hand. Some he heard
strike the rock wall and go skid-skid
skiddering out across the chasm
others struck not at all one or two
might have grazed the bear, for-twlce
the' beast let out a grunt, and In
creased his Bpeeid with .a Bavage lunge
onward.
There was nothing about the situa
tion to reassure a nerve-shaken man.
Cota reverently declared that It was
the good Dlos who strengthened his
heart for of a sudden, just after a
chill wave of despair -as the bear
loomed close through the smoke, his
mind became as clear as the sky-line
of the desert To be sure, his hands
were-BHU trembling violently but
now that his brain served him" true,
he could shoot, despite their shak
lng„
Dropping the-muzzle of the gun as
if for. a low shot he lined his sights
with a quick movement he jerked the
weapon forward and pulled the trig
ger as the bear crossed a point where
a bullet would wound deeply.
.. There was. a soft fleshy thud as
the bullet.struck into the vitals the
bear whiried as if to bite the wound,
and his bind quarters slipped from
the edge of the cliff.
With Herculean scrambling and
scratching, the great brute struggled
to draw himself back to the trail
the Mexican .flred for the spinal
column, the bullet whacked into bone,
and the grizzly, with a hoarse cry,
rolled backward into the chasm.
^Cota had all his wits about him
now. He examined Pinto carefully,
decided that help must be obtained
to raise him to his feet in safety,
and set off on the back trail.
But when the path had wound away
from the precipice, he seated him
self under a pine In a peaceful, shad
ed valley, and suddenly "found him
self twitching from headJjy toqt and
scared beyond comprehension., And
after Pinto's fox-trot had put-many
miles 'between him and the. scene of
peril, the. tremors would 'Occasionally
overtake him. Even now, although
many years' are passed, he would not
meet a grizzly on a trail that cuts
into the face of a -bulging precipice
—no, not for all the herds and flocks
and fields of Lower California.—
Youth's Companion.
Projectiles Now In the Lead."
A new type of projectile, which will
play an important part In future war
fare, and which, according to. Slr How
ard Vincent, will pierce, any armor
yet made, has bo^n Introduced by "the
Hadfleld Steel Foundry. This an
nouncement was' made by Mr. It A.
Hadfield at the annual_meetlng"oT the
company recently at Sheffield. He
mentioned also that the Arm had In
troduced a new steel called "Era," an
entirely British product, for which
the Admiralty, had given 'them facili
ties for testing. It had proved of ex
ceptional quality, and was. rapidly
coming Into use tor ship construction.
—London Standard.
ID 1901 not a single passenger was
killed -by train accidents in all tha
ruljwfp 9f
:7m-J.-.V
"My dear," said the housewife, as she
fllled her husband's cup second time
Jrom the-coffee machine nnd:pnssed it'to
him, "you can't possibly wear that old
suit again'this spring."
"Why?" asked the man. "What's the
matter with It?"
"You ought to linve a new one."
"Shucks!" said the man.. "All ft
needs Is a little presslng^and It will
look well enough. It's along way from
being worn out."
"Now, Isn't that just like you Just
because- It isn't in rags, you .think you
have to keep on .wearing It. Jim, I want
you to go to vonr tnllor to-morrow and
pick out a nice piece of goods and have
a suit made of it. It really Is a shame
the way you go about"
"Nobody's mistaken me for a.tramp
so far. Strangers seem to be decently
civil to me."
"Ob, you-know I don't mean that I
know you look well,. You'd look well
In overalls and you would command re
spect, as far as that goes. Nobody
.would ever mistake you. for a tramp,
even If you did dress like one."
"You won't ever lose .anything by
that" said the man.
"I'm not joking. I want you to or
der that .suit. And don't go to .any
cheap tailor, either. Go to a good one,
even If you do have to pay a little
more. It's worth ft. And get. a gray.
I love to see you In gray. I think It
becomes you more than anything else.
Won't you go to-morrow and see about
It?" -.
"Why, no, my dear," said the man,
"I tblnk I can get along very well with
the snlt I've got""
"Yes, you can get along with It"
"Well, then, what makes you want
me to get a new one?"
"You'd look so much better In anew
ode- Mr. Benton was wearlhg a new
THE TERRIBLE DREADNAUGHT.
True of FlBhtlnar HonMer Which
the United gtatea Will Build.
England is aglow with pride over the
showing made by tbe great Dread
naugbt on her recent test cruise to the
West Indies. Her turbine engines were
found-to be a great success, and tbe
seagoing and maneuvering powers of
the boat all that could be desired. It
justifies to the fullest extent the judg
ment of British naval experts as to
the effectiveness of the all-big-gun ship
In modern warfare. While the Dread
naught. 1$ the most powerful. thing
afloat, -It Is also one of the fastest, hav
ing shown speed. In excess of 21 knots
an hour. She Is 400 feet long and her
main battery comprises JO 12-lneb guns.
suit fhe other day, I noticed, and. I
just thought when I looked at.hlm Tjhat
an Improvement It made In his appear
nnce. He was looking simply ajrful
before! Of course, dress means more
to him than it does to you with-ills
figure and poor carriage, and then, you
know, he has to try to Impress people.
Still
"I don't believe I need a new snlt,
Myrtle."
PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DREADNAUGHT TAKEN OX HER TEST CRUISE
A view of the Dreada&ugtit gives
Americans an Idea of the appearance
of new fighters to be added to the Unl
ted States navy. Congress has author
ized two battle ships of the Dread*
naught type, and the pians Indicate tnat
they will have points of superiority over
the British pioneer. United States bat
tle ships of the next smaller type are
the best In tbe world, and as great an
achievement is anticipated In the crea
tion of vessels of this new class.
Other nations are also falling Into
tine. Japan, has a Dreadnaugbt In
commission and others building. Ger
many has two on the stocks and has
ordered two more.
INTELLIGENCE 07 THE BEE.
Transported to California, Ceaaei to
Deserve tbe name of Basf.
It would be easy without appealing
to any prehistoric event to bring to
gether a large number of facts that
would show that the fatuity of adapta
tion and Intelligent progress Is not re
served exclusively for the human race.
Transported to Australia or Califor
nia, our black bee completely alters her
habits. After one or two years, finding
that summer is perpetual and flowers
forever abundant, she will live from
day to day, content to gather tbe honey
and pollen Indispensable for the day*s
consumption, and her- recent and
thoughtful observation triumphing over
hereditary experience she will cease to
make provision for her winter. Buchner
mentions an analogous fact which also
prove* the bees' adaptation to circum
stances, not slow, secular, unconscious
and fatal, but Immediate and intelli
gent In Barbados the bees, whose
Iiives are in the midst of the refineries,
where they find, sugar in-plenty during
the whole year, will entirely abandon
'their visits to the flowers.
Let us lastly recall the amusing con
which bees piTe to
.'V
"But you do need It 1 want my lifts
band to look his best alwnj-s—hts very
best arid clothes really do help. That's
why I always love to see you In even
ing dress. %ou look so distinguished.
You look distinguished anyway, dekr
est, but clothes really do help." i*,
The man rubbed ills chin. "Of course
they do," he admitted.
"Certainly they do. Now, don't pe
obstinate, dear. I know perfectly well
What you are thinking of. You thlnlt I
need new spring clothes and a new h*t
and"you're willing to sacrifice yourself
just'to make your ugly wife beautiful.
I don't want you to think of me at ill.
I want you to get yourself the things
you need so badly and not always Be
denying yourself on my account"
"Do you need spring clothes I
thought-^—" /"J"
"Jim, I tell you I don't wiiif yon io
think of me. Why, of course I' need
clothes. I. haven't a thing flt to weak
But never mind that I'll get aldnj
somehow. I'm going to have Ay poor,
abused husband have his clothes this
time I'll wait- till business-Improves-"
"Well," said the man, "maybe the
business might stand It If you don't
strike me too hard. I don't know bilt
I will get a new suit myself.. .Bow
much will fix .vou out?"
"You-dear!" exclaimed the lady.
"Well, if you insist on It I'll tell yon.
But I- want you to have your suit"—
Chicago Dally News.
learned entomologists, Darby and
Spence.
"Show us," said these, "a single
In which under stress of circumstances
the bees have had the idea ot substi
tuting clay or- mortar for wax And pro
polls and we will admit their reasoning
faculties."
Hardly bad they expressed this, some
what arbitrary wish when another nat
uralist Andrew. Knight, having coated
tbe bark of certain trees with a sort of
cement made of wax and turpentine,:
observM that his bees entirely ceased'
to gather propolis aiid used only this
new and unknown substance which they'
found prepared for. them in abundance
in the neighborhood, of their home.
Moreover.: In. thea, practice of agricul
ture when pollen Is scarce the beekeep-
er has but to place at-their-disposal
few pinches of flour fofr 'theM to under
stand at once that this can serve tho
same purpose and be turned to tha
same use as the dust of the anthers, al
though Its taste, smell and color are
absolutely different—Harper's Maga
zine.
LETTEBS BY MESSENGEB.
A Postal Law of Wbloh Yon Mar Not
Have Knowlodar*.
'The statement made In an uptown
club one evening lately that the law
.prohibits carrying an unstamped letter
past a postofflce and delivering it
caused much argument Inquiry was
made at the postofflce, where an official
said that the question had been asked
frequently. "You may send a letter by
messenger anywhere, past aB many
postoffices as you please," said the offi
cial, "but you have no right to send
your mall that way regularly or at
stated periods. This Is prohibited by
the postal laws and regulations. Sec
tions 1186 and 1137 were enacted to
prevent the establishment of private
mail routes, because the postofflce de
partment is recognized as having the
absolute monopoly of the transporta
tion of letters and 'packets' or bundles
of letters by regular trips and at stated
periods on all-post routes. As to open
letters and circulars, they may be de
livered by rival concerns,- but the peo
ple who make the delivery of circulars
a business have no right to deliver un
stamped closed letters. The law shuts
out tbe milkmen and the tradesmen,
who travel regularly along established
post roads, who would. otherwise be
come rivals to tbe United States post
offlce for the purpose of accommodating
their customers."—New York Tribune.
Some ot the Reformers seem to have
tftSWed eyfryftlpf t^ thepwelYe*
graMWfii
•MMH-. MHR
POLITICS
Railroad JftearolaUon.
The railroad managers are trying to
create the Impression that the govern
ment regulation of railroads will prove
disastrous to the business of the coun
try and that therefore Congress and
tbe State Legislatures should "let the
railroads alone." -But the people who
have been and are being plundered by
those corporations feel that drastic
legislation and strict enforcement of the
laws now on the statute books has be
come necessary., it Is well, therefore,
to Inquire just what the public demand,
namely:
Reasonable passenger and freight
rates.
Safety and reasonable celerity In
transportation of passengers and goods.
Fairness and equal rights to all per
sons and places.
No watered stocks and bonds./
Cessation of stock-Jobbing operations
by railroad managers and directors.
Discontinuance of political activity
and corrupt: lobbying.
Taxation of railroads on the same
basis as other property.
These seven requirements would
seem to be fair and reasonable and
why trying to enforce them "should pro
duce business depression, or 'ruin the
railroads, can hardly be sustained by
evidence or jthe. facts in each case.
Everyone Is^fiid to see the railroads
prosper, their employes well paid, with
reasonable hours of service and all
modern appliances for their protection
and the snfety of the travellug public.
As it is impossible to have competi
tion except nt terminal points or where
two or more roads toucfi" the same
place, It Is useless now to attempt fo
abolish combinations. Six great com
bines now control about all the -rail
roads and competition, except with
water routes, is virtually abollsbed.
The public have received no benefit
from the dissolution of the combination
between the Great Northern, Northern
Pacific nnd Burlington railroads and
tho energy of the administration, the
Department of Justice and the Su
preme Court has been. entirely wasted
In the dissolving-of the Northern Se
curities Company, for neither freight
nor passenger rates have been reduced
thereby, nor any advantage gained by
the public. Looking, at the matter from
a political point of view this useless
effort to restore competition Is all the
Roosevelt administration has accom
plished. The .-railroad rate bill of the
last Congress has given the Interstate
Commerce (Commission more power to
Investigate railroads and say what
rates are unreasonable, but the power
to establish a reasonable rate In place
of the unreasonable. one Is virtually
lacking, therefore rates are the same
as before the law was enacted.
It must, be advantageous to the rail
roads to limit accidents to such as are
unavoidable and If too great speed Is
the chief cause of accidents. It cannot
Injure the business of the country to
lirait tile speed to the requirements of
•taCety, To'rcharge-'niore for a short
'hiui
1 thfln^nOorif?'One is'unfair and 'is
a 'discrimination In favor of terminal
points atfd' against Interior' places.
Free passes and rebates are notorious
ly unjust to those who do not receive
such fnvors and the railroads can well
afTord to reduce rates to the public
now these drains on their Incomes have
been about abolished. Such reforms
should not prove disastrous to the rall
roads or tbe business of the country.
That the people demand that they
.shall not be charged unreasonable rates
|tp pay Interest on watered stocks and
"bonds will undoubtedly reduce railroad
profits, but It cannot injure business.
The. discontinuance of railroad cor
.ruptlon and lobbying will not disturb
legitimate business, but rather help the
railroads.
To compel railroads to pay their fair
•hare of taxation Is so fair a proposi
tion that no one can dispute it and only
a .corrupt corporation will evade its
.share of the expense of supporting the
State governments which protect its
property the more so as these corpora
tions pay no tax to the general govern
ment, although they always demand
national protection when big strikes oc
cur.
The proper regulation of railroads Is
therefore for the benefit of the people
.and will, soon prove of advnntnen to
those who have honostiv invested their
money in railroad piopert
... &..
Hepublfcan Corruption'-
That was a shrewd uiuw ui i-resioent
Roosevelt to have the "official" declara
tion made that the Antl-Admlnlstratlon
Republicans are In league with the rail
roads and have raised a fund of_$5,
.000,000 to defeat "my policies," or "a
man of my type." It was evidently in
tended to turn the public from paying
too much attention to tbe confessions
of Mr. Ilarrimnu that the President
asked him to raise an addition to the
comiptlon fund of 1004 to save the
State of New York to the Republicans.
It also has the effect of putting .those
Republicans who are not favorable to
Taft or whoever else the President
may eventually decide upon as his
successor, on the defensive and the
weaklings hasten to declare their al
legiance to "the dictator. The situation
Is very similar to that In the Turkish
Empire, where all who will not declare
for the successor whom the Sultan has
elected to succeed blm, are In danger
of banishment or worse.
The President does not favor the
endorsement of favorite sons by their
States and demands that his friends
see that a delegation Is arrapged for,
that will either vote for him for a
third term or follow his' Instructions
as to whom to vote for. There prob
ably Is no truth In the statement that
$5,000,000 or any other sum has been
subscribed or collected to defeat the
President In his ambition to control tho
next Republican national convention.
It Is far too' soon for. money to be
spent, as any tyro In political doings
knows, but the pretended exposure of
"a plot" with vast financial resources
•behind It, Is being used as a hair
raiser to scare tho Republican voters
against giving aid and comfort to the
"conspirators." It will be "a good
enough Morgan" until after the dele
gates are elected to the Republican na
tional convention. As tbe machine
politicians control the election of. dele
gates to the Republican conventions in
most Congressional districts and States
and the rank and file either do the
bidding of the bo»»es, or jiro a help
ISH Pfftorlty, is 0^ that
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when the time comes there will be all
the "boodle" necessary to enliven the
proceedings In the usual Republican
manner. But- experience shows that
the corporatlonSj,and trusts have gen
erally found It cheaper 'and more con
venient to .buy enough of the delegates
to Republican conventions to make' a
majority after'they have been elected,
than -fo bother with caucuses and the
minor conventions.
The corporations and trusts may be
relied upon In the future as In the past
to furnish the money to elect the Re
publican candidate for President, who
ever he may be, they did It In 1800
and In 1000 for President McKlnley
and In 1904 for President Roosevelt.
The latter may deny It forever and a
day, but the sworn evidence In the
life Insurance Investigation slio*s that
the corporation magnates paid large
sums In 1004 to the chairman and
treasurer of the Republican national
committee and we have the admission
of Mr. Ilarrlman that he gave a check
for $50,000 and some friends of Sena
tor Depew paid In the aggregate $150,
000 more, less thfin ten days before
election.
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If It was considered morally right
according to Republican ethics for the
corporation magnates to pay these
large sums Into the Roosevelt cam
paign fund, whl^h boodle we are as
sured by Mr. Ilarrlman turned 50,000
votes In New York City alone, why
Is It a crime to be raved at, to sub
scribe money to secure a safe and sane
candidate to be elected by the use of
even more boodle?
The President should quit talking of
boodle to defeat him until he has caus
ed his committee to make restitution
of the trust funds of the widows and
orphans that were collected In 1004.
Political Corruption.
What did Mr. Cortelyou do with the
$200,000 that Mr. Harriman and others
Interested In railroads contributed
within the last week of the campaign
of 1004? President Roosevelt must
have known of these contributions, for
according to his own statement and
letters, he was the most Interested
participant In the campaign, especially
about the fight in New York State.
Harriman says tbe President asked him
to raise the money which was used In
New York and turned 50,000 votes In
the capital of the Empire State. How
much greater thp„ corruption fund was
is still an uncertainty, though we know
from the sworn evidence before the
life Insurance Investigation that very
large sums were provided by the life
Insurance magnates. We also know that
Mr. Perkins, the partner of ,T. Plerpont
Morgan, repaid over $50,000, but the
other large sums filched from the trust
funds for tbe widows and orphans of
the policyholders have never been re
turned. How.much was contributed by
the other frenzied financiers of Wall
street and the tariff- protected trust
magnatesJiasjneyer,(Veen told, or what'
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The anxiety expressed by President
Roosevelt about the result In New York!
and the fact tliat the money Harriman
raised was expended there Indicates
that much of the other funds were
used In a similar way to corrupt those
voters of New York who were venal
enough to accept It. What Is Presi
dent Roosevelt and his selected agent
Cortelyou going, to do to clear their
skirts from this political pollution and
whether restitution will ever be made
of the trust funds? Is tlie"serious ques
tion that -thei.publlc are asking.
The Spolln of Oflloe.
How Republican .politicians' will
abuse each other and. fight over few
petty federal offices. It appears thai
President Roosevelt has turned down
the henchmen of Hon. James Wolcott
Wadswortb, who for twenty years has
been the most Influential Republican
leader of Eastern New York and for
the same period representing the Thir:
ty-fourth District in Congress. The re
fusal to continue his friends In office
has led him to declare: "The whole
thing stamps the President as unre
liable, a faker and a humbug. Pot
years he has Indulged in lofty senti
ments and violates them all for the
sake of gratifying a petty spite. II
Is apparent that he intends to perse
cute In a like maimer every federal
officeholder who Is so ufortunnte as to
be my friend. But, he can't fool nil
the people all the time, and the coun
try Is fast awakening to the real char
acter. Of this bloody hero of Kettle
Hill."
The reply to this should wake the
recent volcanic outbursts tame In com
parison and that Wndsworth will be
relegated to the Annanlas class goes
without saying.
As Wndsworth's son Is speaker of
the lower house of the New York Legis
lature there are immense political
possibilities lurking In the near future.
In the meantime the atmosphere of tho
White House has assumed a ruddy tint
thnt bodes discomfort for Secretary
Locb and the "Tennis Court Cabinet."
Initiative and Referendum.
Mr. Bryan has declared for the
Initiative and referendum, which Is the
right of the people to Inltlato legisla
tion and the power to veto or npprovo
laws when demnnded by ten per cent
of the voters. After all we have suf
fered by the sins of commission and
omission of tbe Republican politicians,
who will bo bold enough to say tho
people shall not have this power to
Initiate lows or to veto or approvo
them?
Republicans Criticise President.
Senator Perkins, of California, de
clares "that some people talk too much
and this Is the fault of our President"
Andrew Carnegie thinks that President
Roosevelt draws wrong' conclusions In
talking about ethology. The members
of the Ananias Club have not yet Is
sued an official" opinion, but they' ara
doing a lot of thinking and so It goes
and the President keeps on talking.
This is a free country. Let him talk.
A Lesser ETII.
Messenger—Your wife has eloped
with your chauffeur.
Husband—Thank fortune! Now I
won't have to break It to her that the
cook has left.—Hnrpsr's Weekly.
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Professor Charles W. Brown, ol
Brown University, has gone to Jamaica
to BtHfly tho geological phenomena eon
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A SQUIRREL STORY.
"I have hunted and shot squirrels
off and on -for forty years, but the
most ipeculiar. adventure I ever had
with them was right here upon this
place," said "Dick" Compton af the
Oompton farm in Clay County. "It
was In the early part of the summer
when new potatoes and green peas
had just come In. There is nothing
on earth quite so good as green peas,
new potatoes, and young squirrel cook
ed into a stew in an old-fashioned
iron pot over a hickory fire in an old
fashioned fireplace. We had the
vegetable part of the stew and I start
ed out to get the young squirrels.
"Going up a draw I heard a chat
tering above my head, and looking up
I saw a young squirrel sitting on a
hollow knot. It was the stump of a
limb that had rotted off a long time
ago, and the bark had grown partly
over the edges of the knot. Inside
that hollow a squirrel had built its
nest and brought forth its young.
This was one of the little fellows
scolding at me from that knot. My
mouth watered when I saw him, for
I knew how delicious he would be in
that stew. I had an old muzzle-load
ing rifle, I was a good shot, and from
where I stood I took careful aim and
fired. I was using the old-fashioned
black powder which makes a cloud
Of smoke. I stood still until the
smoke cleared away and then looked
up at the knot. I could hardly be
lieve my eyes. There sat 'the squirrel
untouched and it was chatering and
flirting its bushy tall as if in defiance
of me.
"I loaded up again and took more
careful aim and fired. When the
smoke had blown away so that I could
see, there was the squirrel exactly in
the same place.
"Well, sir, I was the most aston
ished man you ever saw. I was not
In the habit of missing. I couldn't
understand it.
'I'll get you this time,' I said to
myself, and I loaded more carefully
lhan ever, aimed with the greatest
deliberation, fired, and rested the
stock of the gun upon the ground to
wait for the smoke to clear up. And
when it did there was that squirrel
as chipper and saucy as ever you saw
any squirrel. It was the most as
tonishing thing I had ever seen. I
looked at my gun, at the powder, at
my bullets, and then up at that squir
rel. It was with a feeling akin to
superstition that I loaded up again.
I thought may be that squirrel was
bewitched.
"With the fourth shot I got him.
After the smoke had blown away I
saw that .the knot was vacant.
". \^ell, I 'got you that time,' I said
to myself -end ,I_,W5ilked -up to tbe"
loot-of. the-free to get him.
"Imagine my surprise when I found
four young squirrels dead in a heap
there. Then I knew what had hap
pened. Each time I had flred I had
shot a squirrel, and with the smoke
so thick about me I could not see
him fall. There was only room upon
the knot for one squirrel at a time
to sit, and cs soon as one had tumbled
off another had popped out of the hole
to take his place and be sitting there
when the smoke cleared, and I
thought all the time that it was the
same squirrel."—Kansas City Star.
BOW AND ARROW YARNS.
The expression "drawing a long
bow" does not of necessity mean the
telling of a falsehood. Tt sometimes
refers to a wonderful story, which
may"beftrue enough, but which is so
marteToiK as -to require a firm trust
in the veracity of the narrator to
enable the hearer to believe it. Some
of the longest bows of this sort have
been drawn about bows and arrows.
These stories began long ago. Virgil
in the Eneid tells of four arcfiers
who were shooting for a prize, the
mark being a pigeon tied by a cord
to the nAst of a ship. The first man
Hit the mast, the second cut the cord,
and the third shot the pigeon as it
flew away. The fourth archer, hav
ing nothing left to shoot, drew !his
bow and sent his arrow flying toward
the sky with such speed that the lric
tion of the air set the feathers on
fire, and it swept on, like a meteor,
to disappear in the clouds.
The stories told by Robin Hood's
archery, illustrated by his '#onderfuI
performance as Locksley In Scott's
"Ivanhoe," are also a decided strain
upon a sensible persons credulity.
The famous story of William Tell,
doubted by many persons, is believed
by others to have a foundation of
fact. There was a Dane named Foke
of whom the same story is told, and
William of Cloudesley, an English
an, is said to have shot an apple
from his son's head merely to show
his expertness.
Most stories of bows and arrows re
late the accurate' aim of the archers,
but a Frenchman Blaise de Vigenere,
tells one that shows the tremendous
force with which'an arrow may be
propelled if the bow be strong and
long enough. According to his own
account of the,.matter, lie saw Bar
barossa, a Turk, admiral of a ship
called: the Grand Solyman, send an
arrow from his bow right through a
cannon ball.—Bbstofi Post
WHAT MAKES THE SKY BLUE?
The old question bobs up again,
Why is .the sky blue? The "Reader
answers:
"It Is the atmosphere that makes
the sky look blue and the moon yel
low If we could ascent to an ele
vation of-fifty miles above the earth's
surface, we should see that the moon
is a brilliant white, while the sky
would be black, with the stars shin
ning as brightly in the daytime as
at night. Furthermore, as a most
picturesque feature of the spectacle,
we should take notice that some of
the stars are ired, others blue, yet
others violet, and still others green
in color. Of course,' allot the stars
(St we bar the planets of our own
system) are burning suns, and the
hues they wear depend upon their
temperature. The hottest stars are
blue. Thus Vega, in the constellation
Lyra, Is A blue 8un, hundreds of times
Iwm as csJw we
arc journeying in Jts direotlon at the
rate of millions of miles a day, and at
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some future time it may gobble us
all up. For, after all, humiliating
though the confession be, our sun is
only a very small star—of the sixth'.
magnitude, or thereabout—and of an
Importance in the universe so slight
as to be scarcely within the pale of
respectability,"
VS'- GOAT ANTELOPES.
Although the long tailed gorai
(Neorhffidas caudatus), the goat an
telope ot Northern China, was de
scribed so long ago as 1867,- from
skins sent to the Paris Museum the
first living example ot the species has
only just reached this country. It
was presented to the Zoologloal So
clety by F. G. Bilbrough, a resident -.
In Corea. Like' its better known al
lies, it Is goatlike in form and size,
with Short recurved horns, destitute
of a hook at the tip tbe height ot an
adult male at the shoulders is a little
over two feet. These small antelopes
are exceedingly active and frequent
high broken ground, difficult of ac
cess, where they form small bands,
led by an old male. They remain In
shelter during tbe heat of tbe day,
coming out In the morning and even
ing to feed. This Important acquisi
tion has been placed In the antelope
house.—London Globe.
A HOME LOVING BIRD.
Direct evidence of the return of
the same individual bird of a migrat
ing species to a particular spot season
after season is not easily obtainable,
but N. 7. Beers believes that h6 has
such evidence concerning a chipping
sparrow at Lakewood, N. J. A few
years ago he heard a little bird con
cealed in tho tcp of a maple utter
ing a peculiar song which he could
not recognize. The next season he
heard the same peculiar song In a
tree but a few yards from the original
point. This time he Identified the
bird, which seemed to have learned
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he did not visit Lakewood at the ~0fi
proper season to meet his little isi§
friend, but the fourth year he heard
and saw it again near the same spot
It appeared always to make its sum- pgK
mer home In the trees on an area
not more than two acres in extent.-^
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ANIMALS IN A FOG.
Nothing has such a bewildering ef
feot as fog. Only animals which find
their way by scent can get about in
it with any certainty.
Birds are entirely confused by it
Tame -pigeons remain all day motion
less and half asleep, huddled up, eith
er in or just outside their pigeon
•houses.
hours during heavy fogs. No bird
sings or utters a call, perhaps, be
cause It fears to betray
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abouts to an unseen toe.
During one very thick fog a blind
man was found wandering about a
certain district of London.
This man was in the habit of com
ing up every day from a suburb,
carrying notes and parcels, and had
scarcely ever lost his way before.
Asked why he had gone astray (for
he was quite blind, and it was sup
posed that weather would have made
no difference), he said that In a.fog
the ground "sounded quite different
ly."—Chums.
THAT NICKEL SAVED HIS LIFE.
When Dr. Brlggs arrived ait the
Meachem house he found his patient
in a comatose condition, which made
necessary several hours of restora
tive labor. Sj|g
"Now, how did this happen?" he de
manded of Mrs. Meachem when" the w.v
trouble was over. "Did you give him
the powder I left?"
"Yes, sir."
"As much as would go on a dime— .:
and no more?"
"Yes sir—that Is, we couldn't find
a dime, so I shook a nickel and five
pennies out of Willie's bank and gave
him just what they would carry."
"It's lucky the nickel was there, gf
so that you didn't have to use five j|jgg
more coppers," remarked the doctor,
dryly.—The Youth's Companion.
KILLED THE TAME OROW.
A tame orow escaped from a cage
at Poole, England, and tried to Join 4^.
a colony of crows In a neighboring |p}
grove. But the wild crows resented
the intrusion and killed It
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Working of Prohibition in Kansas.
The fact that the druggists report 4®!
more liquor sales to the probate
judge during months when the lid is
on than when the town is wide open /.-.'.i
is not a sign that the liquor selling
drug stores get the business that or
dinarlly goes to the joints. The real
number of sales made by drug stores KfS
is not very materially increased by
the closure of the joints. More sales
are reported. merely because the drug- l§g
gists insist on their customers sign
ing up tor what they get. Customers i!
are not allowed to drink their pur
chases on the premises. If they buy
beer the draggist starts the corks and
they must take them outside
drink.
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In filling out the blanks it Is nec-ilp
essary for the signer to state for
what purpose he wants the llquori
and if for medicinal purposes, for
what disease. In many drug stores
the purchasers merely sign their
names and the druggist fills in the ,,
ailment blank spaces at their con-|^f|
venience. The result is startling.
Colds and stomach trouble seem.to
constitute a majority of the com-j§|f
plaints written in. Following Is agjsi
summary of the ailments given ln£/
one book ot signed applications for.
liquor:
Colds, 30 grip, 8 rubbing, 1 bath,
10 rheumatism, 3 stomach trouble,
11 preparing shellac 1 tonic, 1
paralysis, 2 heart trouble, 3 weak
ness, 4 nervous prostration, 1 sore&y
throat, 1 Uver trouble, 1.—Topekal®
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