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~''2: iros~ Dnal Stors Pub G. a ' 'FoledC ' iyelltW Aunt Judy tit 4"mi the wash house, door, 'wey you t] .~ gwine'? 'Come back heuh, you triflin', a black rascal .Didn't Ah tell you to b .tai' right by dat wringah until Ah e was through wid you? n 'flI was des, swine down to see it Mist' Jimmy's boat was tied," said the t reereant Napoleon, as he shifted his )r weight from one black, sun-cracked. bare foot to the other. J "Yaas, I" 'specs dats w'at dat extry f fishhook is a hangin' in dem kinks j behine you' ear fo'; and w'at you got in you' han'?' Dat's a box o' wu'ms. sho's Ise alive. 'Pears like you ain't got sense enough to bell a buzzard, 'Poleon!" Napoleon rolled his eyes cautiously around towards a clump of saw pal metto in the edge of the "scrub." where a wide, straw hat could be seen above the tops of the palmetto fans. and a knotty fishpole waved jerkily. Would she see it? Napoleon's heart almost stood still as Aunt Judy's eyes turned in that direction, but old eyes that are dimmed by many years of 1 sewing and standing over the steaming washtub are not as sharp as young 1 ones. "Tek dis basket er clo'es and hang 'em out on de line." she continued, "'and bring me er coal outer dat fub. Look lak Ah dest mus' tek a res'." Napoleon complied, holding the coal between two sticks while Aunt Judy puffed for a light. A smi'e crept over his face. He knew what Aunt Judy's "resses" meant. Then, taking up lihe basket, he went out to the clothes line. keeping carefully in view of Aunt Judy. Gradually he worked around. .s he saw Aunt Judy's head nod, until her face was hidden by the door jamb. "Dat boy ain't so bad." mused ~he old lady. "He dest kin' o' childish. Get kin' o' frisky sometimes lak any boy gwineter do w'at got some stiff ness in he backbone. Guess Ah'll Ah'll-let him- " There was a long pause. A big, green horsefly came droning in and settled on Aunt Judy's head, standing out strongly against the gray. twine-wrapped strands of wool. Aunt Judy was asleep. Na poleon came and peeped in at the door. Softly putting down the basket, lie stole nQiselessly over to the palmetto. euni' twoffgiires raced off toward the `bayou. A little creek made around from the bayou, over which was' a wooden bridge. "Sam." said Napolean, "Aunt Judy is gwineter wake up 'fore long. 'Speck we better fix dis bridge," and with a mischievous glitter in his black eyes he commenced removing some of *he loose boards lying across the two poles which formed the only passage across the muddy creek. "We'll des fix some er dese fans across de openin'." he chattered. -n unfilial light spreading over his black, shiny face. The two young imps soon had dead, brown palmetto leaves over the opening. "Now, we'll des get out on dat ole log, and drop our lines in de Black hole." said Sam. Aunt Judy nodded and drowsed, giv ing forth a gentle snore, occasionally broken by fitful snorts. The pipe still hung, loosely held. between her two good teeth. The fire was long ago extinct. Suddenly she started up. "Great Zion: Ah mus' get dem clo'es offer dat line. 'Poleon!" .Jo answer. "'Specks he dun traipsed off wid dat Sam Williams. He gotter quit dat havishness. Yassir, here's de bas ket. Ah'll des slip down to de bayou and see. Hope he got summer dese sand-spurs in his foots." she muttered as she made her way toward the parth which led to the river. As Asle cmergedrl y " .iI t e - er i 'Come back hyeh, yo" tr!flin' black rascal!" from the fringe of trees w.hich ran a short distance from the bayou, she kaw the recreants perched on the drift log which ran out into the water. "Dere dey is. and dat scoun'l is smokin' Unc' Pete's pipe, and, my blessed, dot Sam is got one, too!" Breaking off a long, wild-plum switch, shp waddled, as Sast as her physical nsake-up would permit, to ward the b ys. When she arrived at the bridge, he boys turned and saw her, but o for a second. There was a a scream, rashing ef sticks, and a mighty spit ring. 9, "Help, lhe ' 'Poleon! Sam! Oh,. ..I , belp outer dis! Oh! Oh! . o.. p - G a rscals' debblishneas. ! Cooem, dt's good *Srp0& blr what 2-·; " n they had done, hesitated about leaving the stronghold of the log, but soon saw that Aunt Judy was wedged fast I between the two poles, and her ample i extremities were well fastened in ..e mud. f "What's the matter? Is you fell through?" inquired Napoleon. Samn 3 kept a discreet silence. "No. lse asleep in bed," howled Aunt Judy. "W'en Ah gets outer dis. Ah'I t frail you to a frazzle end. Dat's w'al s Ah will." t "Now. Aunt Judy." said Napoleon "what you gwineter frail us fo'? Some. t body mus' er fixed dat bridge whi.st we was er sittin' on de log. I believe you mus" er fixed it to ketch us on d V way back. Aunt Judy gasped. Such impudence was too iluc'h. s "Say.Aunt Judy." went on Napoleon '"ef we helps you out, will you let ui off on de whippin'?" t "Nossir," said Aunt .ludy. "Ah'l' des maul you." s "Den stay dere," said Napoleon. get f ting bolder as he realized that Aunt g Judy was really helpless. and with s g nod to the awe-struct, Sam. he started back to the log. It was too much. g "'Poleon. oh. 'Poleon' Come he'l 1, you po' old aunty out!" e. But the wicked Napoleon was steely hearted as his namesake. He could Ll not afford to let mere emotions inter Y fere with future prospects. r "Ef you'll help me out, 'Poleon. Ah'l) r mek a promise." e "What." said Napoleon. eagerly. Aunt Jud~. was beginning to see a a. 113 e "'W'en Ah gets outer dis," howled Aunt Judy. "Ah I frail yo to a S frazzle end'" light. 'No. Ahl d know bout cia:. e'ider." she said thoughtfully. The Swater was cold aned the poles wer.'* k anything but comfortable. but Aunt tnJudy was built of sterling stuff. Na poteon began to hedge. "'\\' at was you gwinet'etr promise, e aunty?" he inquire d with affected care l tessness. "aWell. of you-olh. Ah d' know heider. "Go on. aunty." l "Well. looky here. boys, if you'll l only help you' po' ole aunty out,. Ah'11 :o get you all the doughnuts and crack Sins you kil hole.' "Nossir." said Napoleon. *'You got m tet promuise not to tech a har o' our 10 heads 'fo' we lets you oult." There 'was a long pause. it l'hen Aunt .Judy said. 'Well, boys, s- guess Ah'll hatter do it." At In tenl ltinutes she. was out. tioun se ering on the' grass. They helped he r to hler feet. rh 'N '. lys. s aidl site, still retaineing S a gr'asp oi eacih l utl ci hlack paw. ".\h ain't gewine, i. It it hair on iymic heado but Ise Btes nachtee gel tWi!t'nl"er f'a:i ou lbacs tilt de i 'terl I looks lteveI .' Old t'ntei Pel't'. oter" is the (cHar:ng Ieth:nd th e' tre's. 0icttl.i' hi oeitlg and liteined for a Inont'eait teeo suinids hitt'l e nme floating tone thet' c'e' tl'!lig rte'ie'ze. "liuh! 'Pears Ink d lin folks oveh , todes de ayotu is always a-killih" havwgs., he sa id to himself. Excelled o Mclenroe. Anmerica'.s plaet in the' sc'ienltific world is the' subj'ect of an intetresting discussiou in lP)opular Sciencite Montlh ly. This journal puoijnts out that while we ihale produlcedl nlally great invent ors and are', perha.ps, contrilbuting more than a shre to p'e'atic'al en gineering. mlanufac'tlltte!s atld agricul ticee, 'we do toet stand qeilally high in the doelnain oc f ltllre scit'lc'ce . If the pllre sciellnc'es we're ditided into nine groups-that is to say. tnathenatics. astrlnotIy, pehysi's. hotany. chemistry. geology. zoology phy. hsiology and an thropology-psychology-'andt tile [Jnit c e! States ex'celled in one branch, it ewoueld be sufficient. It is. however, ad a i cittc.d we are itferior to several na he i tions in mathematics, physics. chem ft istry and physiology, and we are in ferior in reputation, though obviously is not so in perfo'rmanie', in zoology, bot y tany and anthropology-psychology, but we are probably doing work of great mm er volume and value than any othe: er nation in astronomy and in geology. to- _ _ at Valor oe Bough Rtders. aw The King of Slam has an army corps ras ot 500 elephants. A corp of half Sas many American rough riders of the western ranges woumd make the h' lumbelring beasts pack their trunks and uit the feld in one, two, three tod__ t___n It the editor to make a long SWHEN CHAOS RULES Writer Moralizes Bitterly Over Woo Caused by the Annual House cleanlng Crase. I| 04j~j4|4 4j44j4ij q 4 4j q 4 | Behold, the house-cleaning season eometh on apace! The time is nigh at hand when the dismal grunt of the tackpuller and the knockout blow of the tackhammer shall be heard abroad in the land. Yea, verily, we are upon the threshold of the moist scrubbrush and the weeping floor mop. Now will the good man of the house get him up at the first streaks of dawn streaking the east and hie himself to his office, for he knoweth in his heart that the bosom of his family is no place to be when housecleaning goeth on. When the good man cometh home at the twelfth hour and sitteth down to the table with the appetite of a goat beneath his belt. behold there is noth ing on his platter save a few cold. shivering potatoes and a hunk of beef, which he recognizeth as an old ac quaintance. After dinner the queen of his house hold standeth before him with her head done up in a dustcap and cob webs in her eyes, asking him if he will beat the parlor carpet. but, remember ing, that he hath a pressing engage ment, he girdeth up his loins straight way and hoofeth it downtown Again at eventide he cometh home and climbeth over the bureau, where s SPORT IN CHINA . Unique Ways in V'hich the Wily Celestials Pass Away Time. . One of the most common 'ways of betting in China is with oranges. This goes on at the fruit stalls and also in private houses. The bet is on the number of seeds in an orange. Some times it is as to whether the number is odd or even, and at others as to the exact number of seeds the orange con tains. If at a fruit stand, the dealer will pay the lucky guesser five times his bet, but the loser must pay the val ue of the orange and also five times as much as he has wagered. Quail fighting is done on a table with a little fence about its edge. The fighting quails have been starved for some time. As they are put into the pen a few grains of rice or wheat are laid before them, and they at once be gin to fight over them. They are trained for the purpose. and a good fighter is worth $1io and upward. It is the same with the crickets. Their prize rings are little howls. The crickets have been trained. They THE WESTERN RESERVE Section of the Country That Has Contributed Many Famous Men * to the Service of the Union. b 1 \ .4tk-, 9/ f r*G* r I John Brown camen here from Con necticut as a child of five years; and it was through the inculcation of ear ly western reserve radicalism, oper ating excessively on a peculiar nature, that he was projected upon the coun try at large as a lurid figure, what ever its defects, not to fade from his tory. It has been chiefly through a certain stalwart moral stamina of its people, combined with a genius for politics, that the reserve early became conspicuous, and has all along exer cised a huge influence, relative to its size, upon the state and country, says a writer in Scribner's Magazine. It has contributed six governors to the state in the time of its need, dyve sen ators and two presidents to the United States;: ductators, authors. scientists almost innumrllerable. The mere nanms at \ade': a:ndl Giddings. of James A. Garfic-ll and William Mc Kinley, of Jay ('oohke. financier of the war of the union, o(f overlors SSam uel Huntinigton. S-.alb:ry Ford. Reuben MEANT TO BE A WORLD-BEATER The Military Station to ILs Esttablished on Governor's Island. In the heart of the .13y of New York the United States is to have one of the finest military stations in the world. says a New York correspondent. An nouncement was made recently for the perfection of the plans for enlarging Governor's Island, and the sundry civil bill will carry an appropriation for finishing the work. Secretary Root has been working on this plan for a long time, and it looks now as if his labors would be crowned with success. Governor's Island is to be enlarged by a breakwater and reclamation of shoal ground, so that its area will be in creased from the present sixty-five acres to about 150 acres. Docks and berths will be built, so that the largest ships and transports can lie alongside the warehouses and receive or dis charge cargoes by electrical appli ances. The entire terminal facilities of New York city will be available for the handling of freight, loaded cars be ing floated directly into the slips. Sec retary Root says that when his plans are perfected the government will have a station from which an expedi tion of 25,000 men can be dispatched on transports, fully equipped with ar tillery, camp outfits, horses, tentage. etc., in three days. There will be room on the island for the barracks and tents of that number of men, and the transportation facilities ot the me tropoiH are so great that the addition ai ~ ,00 or 0,000 men to the ordinary af wtea anever be moticed. All this 41ý . standeth in the hall. He fain would eat, but there is naught wherewith to do it. As he standeth amid the wreck age and chaos of that once happy home, his better half again draweth nigh and asketh him in a seductive voice to help hang the family portraits. Thereupon the husband borroweth a step ladder from his neighbor and standeth it against the wall. The step ladder hath a broken step, but of this the man wotteth not. As the man ascendeth the steplad der. bearing aloft the portrait of his wife's mother, the step aforesaid giv eth way, and the man descendeth upon his head and throweth the picture through a window into the street, for, behold, the man falleth to the floor and great is the fall thereof Then the man riseth up in his might and speak eth things in ai loud voice which are not fit for publication Lastly. says the Ohio State Journal, the man goeth upstairs to seek 'slum ber. but he findeth no place to lay his head, so he lieth down on the floor and sleepeth with his head on a has sock wotting not that he will arise on the morrow, a sore and stiffened crea ture. Verily the life of the head of the house to be cleaned is a burden. seem to understand their master's word. and they are urged on to the combat with straws. Tne Chinese un derstand how to feed and groom the crickets for the fray. They give them honey, boiled chestnuts and boiled rice and certain kinds of fish. They do not allow anyone to smoke near them. for they think that tobac co injures them. If the crickets grow sick they feed them upon mosquitos and red ants. In a cricket fight the crickets are weighed before they are put in the ring. They are matcned as to size and color. The betting is done just as carefully as at an English horse race. The stakes are held by a com mittee, which deducts a certain per centage for those who own the fight ing houses. During the fight the gamblers grow excited. They scream and yell and hop up and down as one insect gets the better of the other and go almost mnad when one wins. Wood, David Tod, John Brough, and Jacob D. Cox-the latter also one o, the ablest generals in the civil war, and of those other generals, Q. A. Gill. more, Opdyke, Dewey, Alger, Reilly, John Beatty and the two Paines, boto major-generals, who, though entering the service elsewhere, were natives of the reserve; of such practical scien. tists as Edison and Brush; of such authors as W. D. Howells, James Ford Rhodes, Edith Thomas, George Ken nan, Ambrose Bierce. Sarah Woolsey, Albion W. Tourgee. Thomas Jay Hud -on, and Della Bacon (of Bacon Shakespeare fame), and of such edu cators as ex-President James Fair. child of Oberlin, the lat- Thomas W. Harvey and Burke A. l-insdale, and Prof. George Trumbull ladd (the world-famous hihlosopher and psychol ogist of Yal.'s facullty), are sulfitflent to attest that it was ino people of mnre mediocrity which Connecticllut re markable colonizing mnovemenllt pIac'd in O(hio. right In the heart of the greatest city and greatest seaport on the continent Birds In Hartz Mountalns. In the Hartz Mountains nearly ov ery family raises canaries. Some of them raise thenl as a business and produce 300 or 44(0 annually, which they may sell for $1 each. But all families, however po' r, raise twenty or thirty on the side, rn to speak, sim ply to help iout the fa.'ily exchequer The woman of the house will sit pa, tiently presiding over the stocking machine, at the same time keeping at ear attentive to the at:enpts of the youthful nirds at her elbow to sing Teaching the canaries Is a science One master even holds t, stick threat eningly over his charge ro warn them from false notes and uncertain tunes The bird business in Germany has reached large proportions. One bird store in leipzig employs fifty clerks Roosevtlt's Strnmo nuu HBoy . The Roosevelt chillren, by the way have been stirring their lather's stren u101s blood. The youingsters are tile proud possessors of some tloroagh bred chickens and they had aft argui ment as to which were the best fight ers. To settle that question the boys decided to pit the chickens against each other. For several days a crowd gathered at the White House barns tc watch the fun. "Papa" Roosevelt hap pened out there one day. when a coch tight was in full swing. He was horri fled, or at least had to pretend to bc, and he marched the youngsters to tr' Wbhie Hous. The Mountain of Transflguratlon By FREDERICK HALL. Copyrigbt. 190i. Daily Story Pub. Co. O-AQWSA!WWWO~il AA@%@ MWW3 Dwight Van Wert was not deformed in any way, and yet he was fearfully and wonderfully made-there was no denying that. His luxuriant crop of flame-hued hair took on quite without culture. indeed despite all culture, the contour of a full-blown prise chrysan themum. from an archipelago of freckles resembling a sepia map of Oceanica. His nose rose like the tower of Iebanon that looketh toward Damascus. To right and left a spread ing ear flapped defiance to any threat ening bead wind and this was but the cupola, so to speak, for an assortment of legs and arms that had apparently been selected quite at random from a pile of left-overs in some forgotten corner of the creator's workshop. All of which description is grossly exag gerated, of course, but in no way mis leading, for I found out long ago that in portraying Van it was absolutely necessary to exaggerate in order to make one realize how far from beau tiful he was. From the day he entered school he was the legitimate prey of tease and bully. I suppose it was hard on Van at first, for at home his mother had not called him Bricktop nor his father taunted him with the upward tilt of his nose. but he took it all with stoical heroism, thrashed whom he could, diverted whom he could, helped some with their lessons and bribed others by judicious outlay of his spend ing money until, at graduation. he was as popular as any fellow in the class. howbeit as far from handsome as when a little tad of six. At college he came out at the head of his class. He took a year in Eu rope after that; then he came home. went in with his father and fell in love with Grace Sereno. Of course, he fell in love with Grace. Grace had a nose Phidias could not have bettered, a complexion like the blending of the wild rose and the lily of-the-valley, a figure that was the glory of a tailor-made and the apo theosis of a ball gown, hair she could let fall in lustrous billows to her feet. eyes so big and brown and deep it made you dizzy to look into them. It was simply heartbreaking to contem plate, and all the more so when the victim was a personal friend. Van never took me into his confi dence, but I suspect Grace had figured In his plans ever since his first day at school, when she had asked to have her seat changed "because it made her feel so bad to look at that little Van Wert boy." Anyway. ha had always done things for her; written to her. sent her presents, and now he went at ist deliberately to pay her every cour teous attention affection could suggest or money furnish means for. If you have ever done anything in vivisection. you cmnember how you felt the first time you saw a live ani mal cut to pieces. It is not a pleasant sensation. but with s-ome sf us it came to be almost chronic while we watched Van's courtship drag out its sickening length. He was such - good fellow and she such a nice girl. To pour his soul out in her service and yet never bore her .eemed to have become the purpose of his life; to let him know the truth and yet spare him all she could seemed to he hers. Grace and her mother spent the sum mer at the lakes, and so did Van. In the latter part of November she went into the city on her aunt's invitation. and mnituediately Van's business took him in at least as often as once a week. When she returned early in February. and Va,. was as attentive as ever. I knew that that blinllness-of-love busi ness mnanl's love) is a true story, for Van never seetI to realize that she had bhen runnilng away from him, and the whole mlli.eral ul, tlhing wao wll',.i . tangrled thn eil \tlr, bthtcls wte gw thi at Sshe ha(; got to sti ik' hard,. which w-L= inot going to be plcasant for her, an 1 \'arn was going to bie ut up to bt at everything. It waet up in my room one night in Van was far from beautiful. March that Ken and Trenchard and I got to talking it over. We had heard a rumor that Grace and her mother were going to Europe. and we knew that meant one of two things-either Van would be reckless and get his quietus right away or else, on some cooked up excuse or other he would follow them. "Of course," said KeD, as he gave a vicious pull at his cigar, "there's no use kicking against the pricks. Van has got to swing some day, and maybe the sooner it's over the better." Dr course," Trench admitted, "Van's et to take hLis medicine, that's all right, but-hang it!-he's such a no end of a good fellow and it'll break him all up and-Lord! I' wish some body would chloroform him." "Fellows," said Ken, "can't we do something for Van to break his fall? Hold a blanket for him or something." I told Ken he was a fool, but that no longer makes the impression on him that it should. "No-hang it!" he said, "I mlean it. Now, look here. We all know that Van isn't what you might call a teai ing beauty. And--great hat! there are other girls, nice girls, slews of girls, that would take him quick it they could get him. Fellows with six figure bank accounts aren't at a dis count- not yet. Suppose we three were to form a sort of benevolent con spiracy, get one of the girls into it, Mamie Crane. maybe, and then pull every wire we could-Beatrice Bene dick fashion--until we had him mar ried---" "No use." interrupted Trenchard; "we might break Mamie Crane's heart, probahly would, but that is all would ever come of it. Better leave the whole thing alone." I felt that I knew Van a little better than either of the other fellows did, and I thought I understood the situa tion, so now I spoke lip. "I tell you, fellows." I said, "there is just one thing can ease the pressure. You can't drive Van. you can't coax (I I "Rod," he said, in a constrained voice, "I would like to speak to you--pri vately-for a minute." him, and he is not trying to win on his beauty. you can be mighty sure of that, but he knows and cares a lot for Grace: he knows he's got ability, he knows he's got money and he thinks he could make her happy enough so that after a while that countenance of his would be--forgotten. you know she'd get used to it. What you want isn't another woman in the case-it's another mall. and if you were as smart as Van. as rich as Van, as much in love with Grace as Van, and hani some, I tell you Vann would give him a free field for her sake-only provid ing he were just as good a fellow as Van. and Van would have to be the judge, but he would judge fair." We were all silent. and just at that moment there war a tap at the door. "Come in," I called. The door opened and it was Dwight Van VWert. W'e must have looked like a trio of detected counterfeits, bitt Van never noticed. "Rod." he said, in a constrained, un natural voice, "niay I ask the boys to excuse you - I- would like to speak to you privately-- for a moment." I knew it must mean his death sen tenie, and I fofli(,vow- hinm. like a lamb to thie slaughter. \'Van ciose'd the door scuftly. took lmiy armn and led lloe acro, to wht'lre the great hull anip ished its re'd light doi.n optu 1is both. " odl,. old Il:in ." It,' ,lidl, "1 have 'onmt' to It'll you tllhat I an engaged to ie marr'ied. 1'litu kn w, to whom--the Selst girl anti dealt'.uct in the world-- and I wanted youll to Ie the first to congratullllate int'. It will he in a Couple of mronths, here'., and on the 5th of June we sail for Europe on the Catu patnia." tie gave' my hand a ltillnbitig pres sure, then grillppd nit by the shoul ders anti held me tff at arn's lengtii. And I looked at him at his rubricated hair. his tip tilted nuose, his lavish wealth of fretckles. his wi nd-break ears and his eyes, in which was shining the glory of the New .lerusalcnm--and- by Jove! Dlwiglit \'an 1Vert was tile handsomest fellow I ever saw. Fewer Cioutets Iii a aness The warden of tile Kansas City penitentiary rasts doubt on the stuppo sitiol, that a ciovllict does not have the oppi vtunlty to go nmuchth in society and forn a large' ai'quaintnnce. He says that two of the convicts inow in his charge- have seen 9.000 Sprisoners come anld go diring the twentv-fivt' yeal'st sinte their arrival !at tile instltution. By the way. ther't arle fifty fewer convicts in the ipenitentiary at this time than there were a year ago, and the warden wontders if Kansas is be coming more law-abiding.-Kalnsa SCity Journal. Record Trip of lailloon. Teisserene de Bort, the French aero naut, has secured the lowest tempera Sture mark on record-72 degrees cen tigrade, or 97.6 degrees Fahrenheit. The reading was registered on a ther mometer in a trial balloon sent p recently, which rose to a height J 388o00 feet