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t - "4 THE EOCK ISLAND ARGUS. FR1TJAY. Sl'TK31Jt.K re, in& ! - " THE ARGUS. merely subterfuge on the part of num- - ! wow -eminent and -dignified for-flusa- rnbithcfi daily at 15:4 Second ave- ' ers to see which way the wind is blow viue. Hock Island. I"L (Entered t the iaK before they go on record, pmtofti-.e as second-class matter.) 1 Xot go with Mr. Bryan, He has Rock aland Member ol tbe Associated rre. BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TSHMS-T'.n cents p"T wc r'.T, in Itt k IMand. by car- Corr.pia'ti'.s cf deljverv service mould be nade to the circulation dcparlrrent, j which should n!.o be tiHifld in ereryj lr.rtar.e w.ere it :s desired to bare; rapr -!!rtr.t!n;ied, as carriers have no ' jiiiorny in the premise. i All communications of arjrurr. rntatlve ehumrter, political or rlifr'.ouj. must here T.i ram-tttarhed fo, ....hiim. I Mon. No sucj, artiMos win bo nrintod ' cv'T r.cti: Ions uijrnaturea. Telephones !:i all departments. trs.1 Union, P.ock Island 145. 114 Friday, September 25. 1913 I !. While 1t would give the Mexicans to shoot a ' lot of great satisfaction J Americans, their ovn countrymen ! j form a very good aubstftute. A Philadelphia scientist has started for Hawaii to study the habits of tree nails. How did a Philadelphia man ever get the idea that he could catch: a snail? itr-- V. K,l44 T. T1 i pre several ways to make the dirt fly! ; and the waters obedient and the Hoi- landers have mustered them all prof - I itably. 1'TT-rrr ?r The attention of those who insist there Is no such thin as luck Is re- j frpectfully called to the cane of Sarah Rector, a 10-year-old negro girl who ' will pay this government taxes on an i Income of J112.000 a year. Sarah had , the foresight to select as her par ent a Creek Indian through whom she became entitled to an allotment of i land with the selection of which she had nothing to do. The biggest pro Cn- I and .HZ. i ; - I I 1 ducing oil well in the mid-continent ! that he has been wasting his time; j gon8 WDO uaVe suffered by bis disap j field was found on her 160 acres. This but it should always be boriiv. In mind j pea ranee. To preserve the buffalo as ' if the Jones' guslier, near the town of; that the increase has come- v"'"'ioipally : a specimen in our zoos is urooer. He k Cushing. It Is prodiicir.g 2.500 bcrrels '; a day and Sarah's royalty is a dollar ' a barrel. Tif T GLOitiorft KTKH i.tmatk. j wno stole and carried away the ; i glorious climate of California, asks , tlio Decatur Review. It was 11. in the shade at Silver t ou. yen Bps a e uon t kuo u.i yiate ib u suouia not , ""V"' "l rriuru imni cor-, rers of the stat- that make a pecialty . ,i ln me raw m fan I'leo. the place with 'Alas kan summer temperature. It was 108 in the shade at Los An gelfb, the place in which "9o.noo,ooo reople of the United States want to j tUe In(jian r:i for Manhattan island. ! Peter would have made a bad bargain And 'hese s:zliug records are!,,8.j ,,p rgreed to 1(t the investment reached after the middle of Peptem-1 v,1Ul0IIt interest and take all Lei. a time hen any self r,-spooling ( Ur(.atfr New Vork for it in 1903; for ciintate should conduct itself sedately, j at that time Greater New York was I.abt winter we bad from L,.s An-' ortl, onlv thrPe mniion dollars, or gc;e ana aIl Diego the storv v hicli told of frosts that killed V.w orange and lemon orchards; this fair Septem ber month we read of ins and 110 lu the fcliade. So what is the mat ter with California anyway? Is it too much Johnson? RI.H( TIOV i ROOK. A number of Chicago politicians .l.ave been indicted for a'leged ballot box stuffing iind vote frauds. The lu;uiry may be the outcome of a fclional straggle but that makes it I , JiCtie the lcs.-i imperative that a.iy an l! very perpetrator of ballot box ten-l . ,m ah ti... li.,,:. r ii ..a ., . l'""l","""n "" J,l III I.V". " Of all political crooks there is U'.uie more despicable tliau the ballot box thief. The common pickpnket is a gntit men compared with the scoundrel ),0 robh a comiiMnity by sted ng voten. jtjiio; vu irnuiiB maKe goe'i'iii"iii, a travety. They atri:,e at the fo;n- i V dation of the hoie government sys- ! 't tern. They are ofenirs far niorr ser- ! lua than pv.nlshtnent provided for a them by law would lud'cate. Chicago has the election commis- - aion s.eui. pin ii me ci.ai up-j ' w iucti recent luu-euucuis ,lb, ar- uai-ej cn.'orced. Men ere irue, the iaw i not ' lecher up cannot dodge re spbnsib:!!t Tl. . I I... .hnntl )w, a f ,.wt J UP a li V U I I J PUUIIIU 1 1 " f Dl 1" ..I I, BIIU 7 no guilty man should be permitted to eioaiw. X It Is difficult to find any crook or thief as dei-picable as the ballot box crook. MH. B H tl .1 TUBMAN 1KRII. Secretary W. J. Br an declines to f answer inquiries as to his, personal e.- peases or as to whether he is really ; educating a number of young men asj l.as been alleged. Mr. Bryan is quite : correct in refusing to be questioned about matters that are not the busi-; t l ess of the public. One of the few j ; iu'6taks the great democrat has ever i made as stooping to answer rriti-1 rism of his course in accepting thaa-j twiqua engigements during his sum-' nier vacation. Mr. Bryan has. how-j t ever, been in a class by himself among ' public men of the larger sort from : the very fact that he has never becn; afraid to go on record. He L cue of i t'ie very few big Americans of our : who have not been tfraid to be; interviewed on &"w questions. . Tbe average tetestnan when sud-j c rieuly asked to express himseif ca new, . ouetwons P.eus toai ma anecuou nas Jutt iK-en called or that he cannot properiy speax until ne cas reaa tne J cSclal publication, til cf whica i i never 'been afraid to speak and has I ..v .vim t wrong that he justly gained rank as j ia prophet to an extent that when the, ; pciit'cal destinies of his party and.his ; ; country were in the shaping at Balti more last year he absolutely held th whole thing in the hollow of his hand. STR.4E. IT IT? j Republican papers are having all: sorts of spasms because tiie democrats! in congress have held party caucuses' on tariff and currency matters, and I are torturing their reader with all j soru stories of the horrible crimes! j of the party caucus. j in tne last lew congresses wnere tne ( rpni!h!ian hud iha mainritv leftOn-' tion was not submitted to anything but the will of Uncle Joe Cannon, j This became so arrogant and impudent that it was the cause of a revolt among the . self-respecting republicans who, j with the aid of the democrats, brought about partial reform. The democratic party lias been com missioned by the people to do cer tain things and Its representatives in I congress are merely doing those things which they have promised the people. they wouid do. This fact has a paralysing influence upon republican journals, but their complaints will do no good. , MW lORK 1,AD TALIE. A dispatch from the metropolis of 1 I the country says the real estate value j v,i vitici vii n mi lino ,'coi ; reaches a total of $8,010,000,000. This includes land and buildings and means ' an increase of over $700,000,000 in one jVPar - Tnls increase is due not wholly I to enhancement of land values, but i largely to the construction of new ! hotels and other large structures. Greater New York alone has over twice the value of all the farms in 'the great state of Iowa, with her area of over 55.O0O square miles. Over five : billion dollars has been added to the value of Greater New York's land and . buildings, principally buildings, thej I past twelve years. j Such figures are calculated to make; the speculator in western lands feel j iror.i improvements w nicli may or : may not prove to be paying ventures, i Neither should it be forgotten that I in the long run interest beats the: profits of speculation In unimproved j voiumous uu, uiscurvni'. j AmHna In HQ'" 1nvaotcH fna rlcltar in 1 , , I the purchase of Greater New York, and placed another dollar in the sav i , . ., r! V j info Ln 11 z iiij(iiuru &l dia pri : cent compound interest, the dollar cent compound interest, the dollar p!acfd jn tiie bank w.0i,i toda- be . worth over three times the present P!;pSRe(, - of all the iand p.pd ! bulw,n(ttl ia the metropolis, including ;lll8 boroughs of Manhattan, the Hronx, Brooklyn, Queen's and Rich mond. ' In 1&2P. Peter Minttit. Dutch direct- nr-i'pnpral of ow VptherlsnH oftM conMoVrably less than Peter's $24 im proved at six p-r cent compound in terest from 1626 to 1S03. The three sources of inequality in j the distribution of wealth are rent, i interest and profit, and of these the ( greatest is interest. BABY MIDSHIPr.!EH. In the Old Days Vhen Children Were Sent to War. Amon other improvement in the art of war att attained by the world in these later days is the abc'.itiou of the practice of sendii; children to st-a. as was the case when the midshlpuiL-u of Uui old "oak walls" of England often j were boys of less than fourteen years. The Marquis of Dufferin nud Ava in telling about tue siege of Boinurkuud, I in t!i r'fiin,'.n n war. whir-li ho witness- , e(1 frou le rCnelupe. related j tbl--tory of one of theie liule felloWf,. What pleased me most during the whole business." he nys. "was the gallant behavior of a little midship man, a mere child, thirteen or fourteen years of age. About the time when the tire became pretty hot I happened to come across bim, and, as be seemed to , ,..e a, n,ucU out of a job as myself. I touched my cap and took the liberty of i ollSt.rvng ti,nt Jt ras a fine day. to1 which be politely replied that it was. ' "Encouraged by bis urbanity. 1 ven- ; turcd to ask hSni how long he had been ' at sea, to which he answered, "I have ' only left my mamma six weeks., but I I ain't goinx to cry on her majesty's quarterdeck, a remark which I think us worth recording as many a one mada by more illustrious heroes. Soon after this, however, a man was killed c!oe to bim. and the little fellotr fainted and was taken below." OUR USELESS BUFFALOES. They Have Pasted Away Because They War Economically Unfit. As a typical species of American fauna the buffs lo had h!s place in our history, but tnke him by and large be was a rather useless Least, with no adaptability for civiHraiion. He served his purpose on the pliins when men led a nomadic life there and existed on his rifle. But as scx.n as the range land, over which the buffalo "roamed in countless thousands." became 6t for settlement the buffalo was decidedly de trop; Very little of him wat fit to eat I?e was worth a bullet when there was do tl)Pr n,pat to ba(1- blJt , ,er!e c. custuli , modern steaka and roast wouj DC,t him not overappetirlng JuB0Jri'tJL!Pr'4 ?? .In a word. EDUCATIONAL NOTES Philadelphia provides free school eye- glasses for nearly 2,500 ureQ every year. , Required home study has been abol ished in the schools of Sacramento, CaL Five hundred and fiftv-five persons attended the evening classes in aca demic snbjeets at the University of Cincinnati last year. About $1.' is earned annually by the boya in the cooperative industrial course in the high school at Fitch- burg, Mass. Auer i years ui m.c iot... in Koheneciadv. N. V.. may Obtain a year s leave of absence for study orN travel abroad, receiving one-third pay- ment of salary. a comparison of 625 star ahletes of the Naval academy with 5Srt non ' athletes, in both cases from the c'assps of 1892-1911. shows that apparency the non-athletes are in better phy sical condition t'.ian the athletes. Medical inspection is a business proposition. In a town with 25ft chil dren. i is said for instance, there ILLINOIS TO Snrinefield. 111.. Sent. 26. Plans that i are in emoryo oy tne Illinois teiuen- nial commission for the celebration of. centennial anniversary of the ad-j miBElOU OI Illinois 10 Biaienuuu iiiui- . cate that the demonstration will be the greatest ever witnessed in the Middle west. The anniversary does not occur un- til 1918, but to assure an exhibition commensurate with the importance of the occasion, the l?.st general aasem- the bugrato -as economically unfit, and ne weut tUe M.flv of the uufit Had he been conserved he might now- j,e Hfording ODnortunitr for bis same hunters to enjov themselves in moder- atiol). Thev are rpaiir the onlv ner- is R curiosity and has value. But entirelv too a historical many tears have been shed over his destruction One ateer was and still is worth a dozen bison. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. . : tl WIRE SPARKS Jefferson City, Mo. Two men were killed and three injured by the caving 'in of a pit for the foundation of the new capitol. Washington Fcrmr Senator Oba diah Gardner of Maine has been se lected by President Wiison for the in-, ternational joint commission having jurisdiction over boundary dispu'es between the. United States and Can ada. . Ossinning, N. Y. Five convicts aj Sing Sing prison quit unloading a coal barge, overpowered a guard, jumped into the Hudson river and attempted to swim to the other shore, but shots of guards brought about a recapture. Washington Three members oj the progressive -congressional cam pa'gn committee. Representatives Fa'.conT. Woodruff and Hinebaugh, will visit New York to confer with progressive leaders on plans for the coming campaign. GraDite City. 111. Professor C. R. Fayre, principal of a local school, was arrested on a charge of assaulting John Ha'l, a rpil- Ssmuel HfIl charg The Young Lady The young lady across the way practically all hie profits were on think be d care wliich business he : would be an annual saving of $5,250 if by thorough medical inspection the curable physical defects that handicap. Bchool children could be remedied. . There are now about 40 "psycho logical clinics" in the United States, according to Dr. J. E. Wal'.'n, of the University of Pittsburgh. The first of ?uch clinics, for the purpose of studying and classifying mentally nn usual children, vas establishei at tne l niversity cf Pennsvlvania in 1896. School officials in Beverly, Mass., recently calculated the money gain for their pupils in vocational education. They found that an expenditure of S600 per boy in industrial training had raised the capitalization of the boys economic va'.ue from $6,000 to $15,000 or $18,000. "We are destroying the eyes of a '.arge number cf school children by the burden of continuous, close w jk to which they are subjected." says Dr. F. Park Lewis, of Buffalo. He suggests as a remedy, in addition to the use of eyeglasses, reduction in the amount of work dependent directly upon the printed page. "Let us have more thinking and fewer bocks,"' he declares. CELEBRATE bly created the Illinois centennial com-i luiasiun tuiu me uieiuucrs uiicau; ni c preparing for the display. That every man, woman and child u t'ni iH.iJiiie in uie ieiiii.t;o, mo centennial commission proposes a eel- j ebration in every county of the state. 'Suggestions in connection with the plans are solicited bj- the commission j of which Mrs. Jessie Falmer Weber of the State Historical society at j Springfield is secretary. ed that his brother was beaten with a strap because he would not Join in school singing. Washington Colonel Dan C. King: man, senior colonel in the army en gineer corps, probably will succeed Brigadier General -William T. Rossell as chief of engineers of the army -when the latter retires on account of ago next month. New York Alban Jasper Conant, the painter to whom Lincoln sat for a portrait before he became president, celebrated his birthday anniversary in a studio he has occuoied more than SO years. At Springfield, 111., in I860 he painted the famous "Smiling Lin coln." St. Paul The obtaining cf new in dustries was an issue before the American Association of Commercial Executives in anni al session. Em mctt Hay Naylor, in a paper on "T e Industrial Survey of the City," warned the delegates against the "bonus hunting, fly-by-night industry." Washington Logan W. Pagp, di rector of the office of public roads, ha3 extended from Oct. 15 to March 2, 1914, the time in vhich school chil dren living on farms may submit es says on the lepair and maintenance of ear"h roads in competition for a gold medal and two silver medals to be given by the government. Kansas City Revision of the con stitution of Missouri was recommend ed by the committee on constitutional and statutory amendments at the Mis souri Bar association's meeting. Ob jects desired are: To provide addi tional funds for rural schools and for roads; to increase the debt-takinj? power of municipalities and to simpn- I fy legal procedure. Across the Way" says she overheard her father say that paper and for her part she shouldn't madj them on so long as he made t&em. HENRY HOWLAND . T T 1 fTTf. Sweet Gla4y. helm? tender-hearted. Oal wearing hirda upon her hat The day the anti-hirdites started To show the cruelty of that. Her furs ere long beenn to srt?'- her. E'en as the feathers had before: The seal, the sabli and the beaver Should yield their warmth to her no more. She next deflded to quit eafln Tli fiVsh of fowls and fish and beasts; Ko more should ewes ro sadly bloating Berause their lambs composed her feaata. , At length she reached the deep convic tion That noolen clothes with sin were j fraught: ! The flocks must suffer" and affliction In being fleeced, or so she thought. In time she even irave up eruol Because to rob the urubs and birds Of what they fed upon was cruel. To use her own sweet, simple words. To take the silk worm's web was evil. From cotton, too. she sadly turned, Bwaues Ood made It for the weevil. This from her conscU-nce Galdys learned. At last, with only leaves to cover The charms ttiat once had made her proud. She turned from friends and home and lover. And fled, bare-footed from the crowd. But soon she jtave up fruits and berries To loave them for the worms Inside, And then, relieved of a!l her worries, Iay down upon the pras" and died. Another Troublesome Question. "Say, paw, how do you pronounce 1-8-t-h-m-u-s?" "Ithmus." "I thought it was 'istmuth.' " "No, ho. 'isemuth.' " "Maw said it was 'issmuss.' " "Confound it, 1 told you it was .'itsmuth.' " "flnr tparhpT drn't nrnnnnnce it that way. She sys it's 'itsmuth' or else " - "Oh, what's the ue calling it any- thing but Panama? Everybody knows that mrans the same thing. Don't bother me now. I'm trying to find how much steel will have to go up to make me even with the world again." DASTARDLY DECEPTION. "What did papa say?" asked the anxious girl. science has been giving me a good deal of trouble 6ince I left him." "Oh, dear, what did you do?" "You see, I began by telling him that I had always longed to have my name honored by posterity, and that after thoroughly considering the mat- ter I was convinced that the only chance for me was by being mention- ed In the histories of the future as hla son-in-law." A World-Beater. He could bent his friends nt billiards. He could beat at bowling, too; As a beat he'd badly beaten Nearly every ore he knew. He could beat at rolf and tennla And In giszzlir.s; at a feast. B'lthe couldn't beat a earpet, ,: Or he never did. at least. A 8ure Thing, "The weather man says It s to be clear today." 'Til bet he's wrong and I can prove It." -Howr "By leaving my ntKbrella at homo." A Sever Caee. "Blnkeley eeems to enjey living out In the country-" "He can't talk or thlak of anything else. At lunch yesterday he even or dered a piece of "suburb pie.' Generally Speaking. "Now, Willie," said the Sunday sehool teacher, "can you tell us who it ia that flees wtun no man purauethr "A fellow tbat'e in front ef a buli iog" one that done it, all right" Swtct Salt. The Professor Life itself Is bnt a chemical combination of the constitu ent atoms of chloride salts. The rjirl Well, it's sweet to me. any way. Puck Joy !s not essentially bad. but good, while crief ia essentially bad. Spinoza. The Daily Story A GAMIN'S ROMANCE BY ELIZABETH WEED. . Cipyrtghted. " 1 J. ly Associate! Literary Burea'i. I Little Tim Cosgrove was a newspa- ! per boy. Tim had a very indistinct . memory or nis antecedents- a vague ture of a comfortable home with a woman who eared for him. putting ' bim to liprt rlrtwcinrr Atiri nmlrDeuit'.r ! him aal now and again lulling hitn to sleep in her arms. But by the time be w-as ten years old all remembrance of her features had passed away from him. and there was no well defined link between that period and bis selling pa pers whiereby to make a living. One day when the weather 'aa hot Tim succumbed to the beat and fell on the sidewalk. There he lay, his newspapers scattered about him, till a policeman came along and, calling for an ambulance, sent him to a chil dren's hospital. Tim came out of his collapse and one day was put on a steamer with a lot of other invalid children and sent off on the water. Beside bim on the boat sat a little girl about bis own age who-fell to talk- I mg with him. Like Tim. she could remember a pleasant home, and more distinctly. She could recall an old ' fashioned house, with four pillars be- j fore it, in the center of beautiful ! grounds. One thing was indelibly ! ! stnnmed on her mind her father bo- 1 I ing carried out to a cemetery. She did j not know the reason why, but she aud her mother left the big house, and then her mother was carried to a cemetery too. Later transitions came so rapid- ' ly that she could not remember them all, but her clothes were wearing out. and she did not get new ones. She SHE LAY LOOKING AT HIM IN WONDER. whs often hungry and did not have pennies to spend for candy. She was I now living at an orphan asylum, but j she longed to get away from it, for sho was kept shut in most of the time. j she said, and she pined for freedom. l 'resent ly tne nont miKieu at an is land, ami the children were put ashore and permitted to wander iu a wood, or, lietter still, on the shore. At noon a luncheon was served on tables un der the trees. Tim and his new found friend Alice, she said her name was played together, both preferring the shore. In the arternoon the steamer with its load of children returned to the city. Tim told Alice of the life he led If ir?! Jk era when the young i and said that if she would like to join man returned to , bim and sell papers as be did be would her. "He gave give her some of his stock. He made his consent, but his home with a woman named Mur to tell you the j phy, to whom he paid what lie could truth my con- i for his board. She was a kind woman. and he thought she would take in Alice too. The little girl, dreading to go ! back to the nsyhim, agreed when they made a landing to slip nwny with Tiui I mid cast her fortunes with liim as a J newsgiri. J Alice won receive 1 under profst by .; the woman with whom Tim made his , home. She stionclv advised the chil l to return to tlr asylum, but Alice beg ged to be kept and snld she would sell papers like Tim to pay for her keeping. So Mrs. Murphy consented. Being a pretty child. Alice readily gained cus tomers and soon sold more papers thnu Tim. But Tim looked after the finances, and soon the two, betides paying for their necessities, were lay ing up money. The accumulative prin ciple was strong in the boy. and he was destined to become rich. One flay while Tim and Alice were on a union rrequentefl street corner selling papers a man across the street beckoned to Alice to come over to him with a paper. Several other gamins started to get ahead of her. She be came reckless in the race, wns knock ed down by a wagon and lay Insensi ble. Tim saw her and. throwing down bis paper?, ran to her, took her tip la his arms and carrieOber to the aide walk. Alice was taken home that is, to the only home she knew. Tbe day ended, and she did not recover cocsciousueas. Another day nud another, a week, a month, went by, aud still she did nol awaken, for her condition seemed rath er that of sieep than what is called comatose. There is recorded a case of a pcion lying elevtn years Li wir.-h a condition, and the next longest cate la that of little Alice, who lay uine years in constant alumber. Let us pas over this gap in her life as she passed it. without taking cog nizance of it. to the awakening. It occurred in the morning about 10 i c'clpck- For $ome time previous so she has said. s'.:e felt a semiconscious ness, but rather as a dream than 4 renlity. Some one w-r.s moving about her. opening blinds, arranging things iu-the room, nibbing furniture with a cloth. This person, though indistinct, seemed to be n woman, a maid, though Alice then did not know this meauinj of the word. Then for a time all was silent. The awakening came by degTees.' Alice remembers tryin; to throw oX sleep, realizing that she must get u aud be at her post selling papers. Fi nally she opened her eyes and was surprised to find herself, instead of in the little wooden box she called her room, in a large, well furnished cham ber. She could not grasp the situation or, rither, the connection letween it and the past. ITer first idea that nat ural to a child was that a fairy had1 taken her out of her bed and carried her to another, perhaps in a palace. What confused her most was a faint memory of having been in that sumd chamber before. Sho attempted to sit up in bed. but found it so difficult that she desisted. But she managed to turn on her side and looked straight into a mirror in the door of a wardrobe. What did it mean? That reflection was not her own. It was the reflec tion of a young womnn. She glanced, nt her body as it appeared under the bedclothes and saw that it was not the body of a child. It extended from the hendbonrd nearly to the footboard. Turning again to the imnge In the mir ror, she looked nt the features. Sh opened and shut her eyes, moved her lips, to determine if it were her own reflection. It certainly was the re flection of the person lying on the bed. but that person could not possibly be herself, the child Alice. She was be coming frightened at these incongrui ties when the door opened and a maid stepped into the room. She look ed at Alice with surprise depicted on every feature. Alice looked at her as one bewildered. The maid turned anil ran out out of the room. She was gone only a few moments when she returned with a woman who looked for nil the world like Mrs. Mur phy, though Mrs. Murphy's hair wns brown and this woman's was a grizzly gray. Nevertheless she ran to the bed and folded Alice iu her arms. But. seeing the bewildered expression on the girl's face, she said quickly: "Don't excite yourself. There's been a great change, but it's all well. Yon have made ns all harpy by awaken ing." "Have I been long asleep? What does It all mean? Who am I? I'm not a intle girl nuy more." The woman soothed her and little by little gave her enough of the story to make her aware of the fact that long before she bad been knocked down by a wagon in tbe street and had remain ed unconscious for a number of years. 'But what means this other change':'" nsked Alice. "Where am 1? This room seems familiar to me. How did I come here?" "Tim will tell you about that. You must remember that Tltn Is not now a little boy any more than you are a lit tle girl. He baa grown to be a fine ' young man. But no more at present. The doctor told ns recently that you were showing signs of awakening and said that if you did awake you must be bandied very carefully':" "Where Is Tim?" "He hns been sent for and will be here directly." "Does be still sell papers?" A smile came and went quickly over the woman's features ns she replied: "Oh. no. Tim hasn't sold papers for a long time. He owns a newspaper him self. Few men of his age have ever succeeded as he hns succeeded. But yon must hear that from hint." There wns a tap nt the door, and it was pushed open, and a man who look ed to be nearly thirty, though he was but twenty-two, entered the room with mi expression of intense happi ness on his face, which, when he saw the sleeper awakened, broke Into a joyful smile. - "Alice"' he exclaimed. She lay looking at hirn in wonder for awhile, then asked: "C an you be Tim?" "I am Tim." "Then tell me," she added presently, "how I came here." "It is a lung story, and I have been warned to condense It. Yon remember the money we had saved liefore you were injured?" "It was $37.42." "It Is now as many thousands. P.ut I must be brief. I went to the asylum you left to come with me and learned there all about you, including your for mer home. I resolved to buy It for you and succeeded in doing so only a few months ago. You are In the homo where yon were born and lived till misfortune overtook your family. The second happiest day in my life was when I received the deed for it made out in your name. The happiest day la this at seeing you awakened." She found strength to put out her hand, and as Tim grasped it he knevr the love thnt had been growlus wjth la bim for years would be returned. Sept 26 in American History. 1777 Triumphal entry of the British nrmy commauded by Sir vVilllam Howe into Philadelphia. lS2i Daniel Boone, pioneer btinter, founder nud defender of Kentucky, died: born 173.V 1301 John (i. Nlcoiny. biographer of Lincoln, died; born IKi'l. 1911-Ueneral C. F. Masterson. former United States senator and a noted civil wnr veteran, died at aea; born 1J7. 11 the news Arcus. alt the tlni Tba