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JYom the window of , the chapel softls -. ' sounds an orgran's note, . Through the wintry Sabbath - gloaming drifting shreda of music float. lAnd the quiet and the firelight and the 1 ' sweetly solemn tunes ; .)' Bear me dreaming back to boyhood-and Its Sunday afternoons; , V When we gathered in 'the parlor, in the parlor stiff and grand, !Where the haircloth chairs and sofas stood arrayed, a gloomy band, yThere each queer oil portrait watched us 1 with a countenance of wood, And the shells upon the whatnot In a dust less splendor stood. Then the quaint old parlor organ, with the V quaver in its tongue, Seemed to tremble in its fervor as the sacred songs were sung. ' Jus we sang the homely anthems, sang the ' glad revival hymns Of the glory of the story and the light no sorrow dims. SJVTxile the dusk grew ever deeper andlEe evening settled down, And the lamp-lit windows twinkled In the drowsy little town. . - Old and young we sang the chorus and the v echoes told it o'er In the dear familiar voices, hushed or V scattered evermore. , from the windows of the chapel faint and low the music dies, And the picture in the firelight fades before my tear-dimmed eyes, But my wistful fancy, listening, hears the . night wind hum the tunes That we sang there in the parlor on those Sunday afternoons. Joe Lincoln, in Saturday Evening Post. THE TAJSIUNKEY TOST OFFICE A TR.VE STORY, CopyrlKht, 1901, by Authors Syndicate.) , ' , milE outffoinff -nostmaster retired . in disgrace, but that fact did not seem to deter the hosts of young- and old who asked their congressman to, recommend them to, "the president for appointment. In fact, in less than a week the whole town seemed tn V.a nfflint.prl with a sort .if mad ness an ;' unappeased , hungering" for office bordering- on frenzy. : t The first move of the bonfismen was to install one of .their number acting postmaster until the vacancy, could be Jailed. He was a rotund, rosy-cheeked farmer with a, 'slight inclination, toward politics. He had not, learned the de- ; livery boxes until he became saturated with a' consuming- desire to, f remain. There was something fascinating about it; something- infectious. He contract-' . ed a dangerously severe case of desiring office at the very outset. ' ' ' -' In the meantime down the ravines and lanes came trooping, figuratively speaking, a large portion of pulsating, anxiously throbbing Pamunkey to line up in front of the-' post office .building . and gaze- wistfully at the. structure. The acting postmaster did not live within 16 miles of the post office' un der consid eration, but distance in his case seemed to lend enchantment, to the rustling for signatures in his petition,, with an occasional dash into the coun- , try to keep his wife informed as io his progress, he was kept pretty busy. ; " -The G. A". E. element had a candidate; ' the Germans centered on a man?1 the Spanish-American ' Soldiers thought they ought to be recognized; the Iriih wanted to know what was the matter J 1 J 1 . . - . -A 1 ' . ... ..... 1 t . M. wixn memi me young ponxicians wani ed to have something to say in the mat--ter, and the ladies, bless their innocent souls, : thought , they knew . soniething about handling reluctant congressmen and mail: matters, -. . ) Although mails went out of Pamun key on fast; flying trains, they-were not swift enough for applicants. .The aid of the electric current, as subserved by the Western Union Telegraph com pany, was invoked for greater speed. The second day after the vacancy was announced the desk of the-congress man lor tnat district was piled .high with "telegraphic applications, -which were followed in the next mail by more lengthy messages at lighter tollsv The congressman ; moved : slowly in . "the matter, as his renomination and election was close at hand. ; He did not desire to make a mistake just ; at that critical juncture. i The Nicaragua canal was a - mere trifle, to handle in comparison to the lessly vote to refuse to seat a fellow member of congress .with a plurality of i, wives, but the good people i of Pa munkey presented a: problem difficult of solution. . . .-. About the time he had his mind made up in favor of one candidate, along would come a voluminous bunch of papers in support of another candi date, .which sent him to sea again. , One candidate was denounced as an outsider, another had never done anyr thing for the party, a third was a very recent convert to the party prin ciples the congressman; represented, J.T J 3 . . . , uuu tuu ciuic uccucu proving, anu. SO on: "Each candidate had his friends and each "had his; enemies, and the , enemies seemed more ready to speak and more persistent than the friends. At one time the congressman ' had reached such a dire state of distress that he had about made up his mind to : have his. private ' secretary write the names of all the candidates on slips of paper, place them in a- hat. shake them up, close his eyes and pull out a name, hit or miss, and take his chances on the result, relying on his g-uardian angel to guide his hand to the right piece- of paper. He must (have doubted the constant attendance of that invisible presence for on sec ond thought he abandoned the whole .scheme of settling the troublesome question and attempted to put ' the matter aside for a new inspiration. V That . inspiration came r sooner than was expected. The congressman, who was a general in the great civil war, brushed aside the papers with an im patient hand and went out for a stroll (5y in the bracing air which came in the form of a gentle breeze down over the Bull Bun battlefield, withholding the soothing odor of fields and farms as it rolled up Pennsylvania avenue. The general sniffed the refreshing atmos phere as he involuntarily quickened his pace. i'. It will : probably never be known what turned ! his thoughts 1 to other days when shot and shell rained about him , and he advanced rapidly from the ranks to the position of cap-; tain, then major and colonel, coming home wearing the straps of a general, all his advancements being achieved by bravery. It may have been, those mem- j ories were refreshed in his mind by the niurmuring breezes that came gen tly 1 down, from far-famed Alexandria and the undulating domains of the la mented Lady Fairfax. Lt any rate he paused in his walk and remarked half aloud: . "I have half a mind to give it to. a soldier." A passerby hearing that remark would not have been able to interpret its meaning, but the read er 'of this story will know that he 6till had ', his mind on the Pamunkey post office. "But there- is the rub," he went on. "Which one? There is McMurry he is a veteran of the civil war, and no better soldier ever shoul dered a musket. : Then there is Ran dall, a soldier of the Spanish-American war, and he must not be slighted, and last comes Murphy who now has a son at the front. Well, I have no choice in the three, now which shall it be?" v;,;'. ) , 1 '-!Vv . : ; The troubled man walked on in deep thought for a" few moments, then pull ing out his watch to ascertain the time he exclaimed: v "I have it! I will leave it to -chance, and may the disappointed candidates and their 'friends have mercy on me. " I can make no mistake, in the three. Either of them would fill the bill. To-night I will not wind my watch. . It will stop in the morning at about the time I awake. If it stops on an even number, of minutes, McMurry gets the post office; if it stops on an odd number Hand all is the winner, and if it stops five seconds either way from the minute mark Murphy will be open for congratulations." - ,5 With that the old warrior and states man thrust the watch' into his pocket and went back to his work of framing a caustic speech against a measure pre pared by the other side of the house. The matter of the post office vacancy at Pamunkey was out of his head so far as ie was concerned. He had. left it to a mechanical agency which would soon settle the fate of the multitude of aspirants. y'::lr-'''-'i In the meantime great anxiety: pre vailed at Pamunkey. The newspapers had caught the ; spirit of the ; contest and published all sorts of predictions as to the result. One started a guess ing contest and sold coupons on the result. The acting postmaster squan dered the proceeds of the sale of a fine Jersey cow in purchasing coupons for his - friends to vote; for , him. A large installment of his votes came into the office of publication on the very night the congressman's bejeweled watch was counting off the minutes to decide whether -it-n-ould-stap at-od-d-dr -even,- ot for the man with the son-' at the front. i When the general awoke the next 'morning he lay still for several mo ments and looked at his watch, which reposed on his dresser.- He wondered whether or not it had, stopped, and if it had who had won. Finally he arose, placed the watch to his ear and lis tened. It was as dead as the chances of a host of candidates at Pamunkey. He hesitated . to look at the face of the watch, and finally dropped it into his pocket .with the thought that he could just as -.well look; at it after break fast. ' ' 1 1 - . On coming put of the breakfast-room the general was about to . draw , his watch from his pocket and' decide the momentous question, when he noticed a -young ' second lieutenant coming up the steps. ' A moment later the gen eral' advanced toward the young volun teer infantryman, extending his hand and exclaiming: . . "Hello, Ferguson, where did. you drop from?" ' "Just in from the Philippines," re- srponded the soldier, grasping the hand of the congressman. '. The two went into the hotel and had a long talk over the situation in the orient. Felix Fer guson was a son of an old comrade of the general's, and his home was in Pa munkey. When the two reappeared from the steps the pon gressmah was asking the question: "Well, now that you have received your discharge, what do you expect to do?" " J - . To be frank with you, general, I am going back to old Pamunkey and mar ry pretty, Elsie St. Clair and settle down," responded Lieut. Ferguson, col oring slightly. - . ; At that ; the general took out , his watch and appeared to wind it in a me chanical. sort of way. : This act set the wheels going and ruined' the chances of ; some post office- aspirant. It will never be known who won on the stop ping of the wheels, but it is known that one of them lost on their starting. ;' "You are just' the, man I am looking for' said the con gressman. "They need a man in ; the post office down at Pamunkey and I'll have you appointed this very day.V This will give you and your' young bride a good start in life." Y "Thank you," said Ferguson, "this is more than "I expected." ' ' ;; . The papers the next ' day bore the news to Pamunkey, and thus ended the great post offiee fight. V A Word witl "Women, i ' We women are the world's home makers,' and each of us must be ready tq build a temporary home wherever we set up our, tent. And we must keep in mind, too, that no matter where we go, nor where we are, we show, to all with, whom we in any way become associated the home in the background, the people we came from, and the mother who trained us in our childhood. -Margaret ' Sang ter,'in Ladies' Home Journal. . The CHICAGO DERBY to be the Racing Event of the Year x- THEN the stakes for the pres yy ent season of the Washington Park club, ; at Chicago, were opened in December last " there were few even among the most sanguine of the club's admirers that hoped for such a liberal response ;on the part of owners as was received. . To be sure, these stakes, 17 in number, were the richest5 that have been of -ferd in the west since the world's fair year, but the growth of racing had increased so materially, and was carried on in so many places at the same time, that it seemed almost im possible . that, such an entry test should be received. No one was more astonished, perhaps, than was Sec retary James Howard, when he came to total, up the entries, and found v "... ALVARD the number had gone beyond the 1,400 mark and reached an average of over 83 to the stake divided as fol lows i . " , , ' . ' ' . American Derbj'. 93 Sheridan Stakes -. 69 Englewood Stakes ..... ... . .... ............ ..45 Drexel Stakes 89 Midway Stakes i a P 84 Auburn Stakes ...... 97 Oakwood Handicap . . j 81 Great Wes t e r n Handicap ......... ........ C9 Young- Handicap . ...... ........ 4 .. . ... ...... 86 Wheeler Handicap ................. .....i.. 102 Lakeside . Stakes .... ..... . . . . . . . . . . . So 'Kenwood Stakes SI Maywood Stakes ................. ...,v..vi. 71 Edg-ewater Stakes ...;,. j....,...;... ,62 Quickstep Stakes ." ... ;. U . .. .- . . . . . . .105 Hyde Park Stakes ,.W6 JJake View St It is the American Derby 'thaff at tracts the ; greatest interest out of the1 above lot, however,, and, with its estimated value of over $20,000 to the winner this season it promises to prove no' only the' .greatest 'three-year-old ' event ; that was ever , de cided in ,the ' west, but one 'of the greatest, that was ever,, decided in America as well, for the reason that there is hardly a threeyear-old of note in the country that , has not or" i' -...::,-.V 'if 'XM-,,,: Jh '-V . ; ... (JAMES HOWARD, ; i Secretary Washington Park Club. been entered therein, the east 'and west having both named their , star performers ..'to", start. Out' of,, a list of 93 three-year-olds 23 were . stake winners in their two-year-old form, 12 of them coming from the. east and 11 from the west, while outside of these, are such tried performers as Articulate, Conmore and Boiling Boer, who havej been performing well on the Pacific coast this winter, and Robert Waddell, Searcher, Boyal Vic tor, Lord Roberts and His Eminence, who .were frequent purse winners during ; the la3t year; Garry Herrmann, who is the eight to one favorite for the event, is a brown colt by imp. Esher out of Silk Gown by Longfellow, she out of Modiste by Asteroid, and . she out of Austria by imp. Australian,' ' so he is certainly bred : both to ' carry weight 1 and go a distance, y -He is . owned by Charles Head Smith, the Chicago board of trade 'man, who last year furnished the favorite for the same race in the ill-fated Lieut. Gibson, a v colt that carried off ; both the Kentucky ' and Latonia Derby honors. As a two-year-old Garry - Herrmann started in "V 25 races and was 18 times first", five times second, once third and . once un placed. Four of his wins were in stake events, he placing, to his credit the Hammond, at Lakeside, Ind.;the Juvenile;.' at Hawthorne; the Young ster, at Harlem, and the. Champagne, at Morris Parkl He is being wintered by Trainer Hughes at Louisville, Ky., and is reported as being in grand shape. He is also the favorite for the Kentucky blue ribbon event, to be run at Louisville on April 29, and will m all likelihood be started in that race before being shipped to Chicago 5 Next in the estimation of the odds layer is the bay colt Commando, owned by J. R. & F. P. Keene. This fellow is a son of the black whirl wind Domino, and out of Emma C, by Ten Broeck, second dam Nan nie D. by Alarm, and third dam Irene by imp. Leamington. As a two-year old he faced the flag on but six oc casions and five times he finished first and once second. The races that he placed to his credit were the Zephyr and the Great Trial Stakes, at Coney Island; the Montauk and Brighton - ' n M - - , SCHECK.' Junior Stakes, at Brighton Beach, and the Junior Champion Stakes,' at Brooklyn, while the race that he lost was" the Matron Stakes, at Morris Park, in which he was beaten a half length by Beau Gallant after Spencer had gone to sleep at the finish. Com mando,' it must be conceded, met and defeated a much .better class of colts than did Garry Herrmann, , but ' the fact that- his sire Domino never showed any liking for a distance makes the majority of people who be lieve in the old saying: - "Like father like son," chary of, backing him. half, which is the Derby distance, was made in the American Derby of 1894, and in that he finished absolutely last, being beaten as far as one could throw a stone, never having shown in any part of it the extreme speed for which he ,was noted. 1 ' Alard Scheck is quoted at the same price as is Commando, but judged by his two-year-old form he ranks with neither of the others that have.been named. ' He is a brown colt by the mighty Hindoo, out of Cherry iBlos som, by Powhatton, second dam Ata- lanta by Asteroid, third dam imp, Target by Rifleman.' He is the prop erty of John F. Schorr, of Memphis, Tenn., and started 24 times as a two year-old, winning nine races and "be ing six. times second, four times third and five 'times unplaced. Five of his wins were in stake events, he carrying off the Kenwood and; Hyde Park, at Washington Park, the Congress Hall and Grand Union," . at Saratoga, and the Westchester Highweight Handi cap, at Morris Park. He is being win-. tered at the Memphis track and is reported to , have ; grown but little since last fall. His owner, however, seems to have a great deal of confi dence in him, as ' he has already of feredto . match 4iim against any colt the country and at any distance or weight, for $S,000 a side, Garry Herr mann being especially named in the challenge. ' Beau Gallant and Ballyhoo Bey both have fifteen to one chalked up against them, and both are eastern colts of a high, class. " . - .' . ' . These are the five favorites, arid each and every one of them looks good enough to win on paper, but the race is a long way off yet and something better still may turn up to upset all calculations. It is an old saying that favorites seldom win a Derby, and the defeat of Lieut. Gibson last year by the despised outsider, Sidney Lu cas, served to confirm a great many people in that opinion. One thing, however, is certain, and that is that Chicago is once more to be the battle ground where the thoroughbreds from north and south and east and west are to meet and settle the ques tion of equine supremacy. " HYPER ALI. Sills;. Made ot Wood Pulp. Remarkable to relate, wood can be utilized for soft,' flowing gowns. Wood pulp silk has long been a staple indus try in the St.' Etienne district of France. By a seerei chemical process; the pulp is redueed to a sirupy condi tion. .. It is then forced Into tubes, full of tiny holes; through which it emerges in the form of fine silk-like threads. 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