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T1IK KOCK ISLAND AKGUS, TUKSDAY, APHIT, 7. 1011.
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lalaa Mrrmkrr t tha Aaettrlated
BY THE J. W. POTTER CO.
by the
condition today Is Indicated
following Boston dispatch:
"The quick recovery In the Ameri
can Woolen company's preferred stock
to $79 a share. Is of course, a direct
reflection of the maintenance of the
regular 7 per cent dividend rate, some
doubts as to the status of which, on
account of last year1 iinsatisfac'ory
showlng. had been expressed. It is
said that the company is doing as
much business today as at this time
last year."
"The greatest shepherd since
Abraham." as Polllver described
Smoot. not only Is confounded by the
showing of the woolen mills, but the
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j 2 TERMS Ten cents rr week by oar
..'rler. In Rock liltr.d; f I per year by mail
j. o advance.
,; I Coinrlalnta of delivery aervl? ahculd
t n-ade tt the circulation department.
which ahou'.d a!o be, jiotlflej in every
) "Initance where It ia dlred to Stu sheep growers of his state of Utah
are getting more for wool today than
.authority In the prerrisee. at any other time In history,
i. ; All communication of argumentative
. vharacter. political or religious, must
i. '. have real name attached for yubllca
il 'Jlon. No auch article will be print!
-over fictitious signature.
;-l Telephone in ail departments. Cen-
rl Vnlou. Rock Iilinl 14 1145 and
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Tuesday. Apnl 7. 1914.
WILSON'S STAND FOR
HUMANITY.
When Woodrow Wilson declined to
recognize the Huerta government In
Mexico, he gave ei? country a
position of mora' leadership on this
hemisphere wh!ch will mean much- for
the permanent advancement of both
North and South America. That action,
supplemented by his speech at Mobile
last fall, has given the Latin-American
peoples a new conception of the mis
sion of the United States. As these
! peoples come to Interpret that mission
by the standards of Wilson and Bryan
j they will see that what they have long
, believed to be the frowning colossus of
' the north, with professions of amity
;on hi lips but with the lust of land
' and power in his heart, is In reality a
brother whose only ambition Is the
I people's good In all the Americas.
John I.ind has lived on chili con j w lofl, oniy purpose Is the consecra
carre so long that he Is entitled to tjrn t,f the Western hemisphere to lib
a good square meal of home cooking. ; ertym to progress, to fraternity, says
j Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas In
At the recent election at Des Moines ; tne American Review of Reviews.
Capital Comment
BY CLYDE H. TAVENNER
Congressman from the Fourteenth District.
3 r Now that the election is over the
people may find time to go on with
their spring cleaning.
With the United States navy on Its
side, the water wagon ought to be able
to win more battles in future.
there was a candidate whose name
was Z. Roe. One guess as to where
he landed. Itieht.
Chance for t!ie army to have a repe
tition of the Boston party in Belfast.
Ulster, it Is t-aid. ha been Importing
guns packed In tea.
minister to the
:ly does not pro-
The new Chinese
I'nited States evidr.
pn to be Ionotn in Washington.
The party h brcicht from his native
home tpi.slted of 16 persons.
With tain as they are at present
tt Is doubtful if the news that naval
vessels built since the Sf anish-Ameri-"an
war are to be shot to pieces as
-rgets. is likelv to create sentiment i
or a bigger navy.
In refusing to acknowledge the
Huerta regime the president of the
United States in effect announced that
governments on the two American con
tinents must have a higher basis than
absolutism sired by treachery and as
sassination. The beneflclent and
steadying effect- of this action can
hardly be measured by the present
generation. It Is a promise of freedom
and opportunity to the lands below the
(Special Correspondence of The Argus.)
Washington. April 5. "You will re
member that Mr. Smith testified that
in case the Western Newspaper Union
company was successful In securing
control of the
Western Press as
sociation. It wan
the Intent and pur
pose of Mr. Joslyn
to sell out to
Rockefeller and
Morgan. vho fully
appreciated the
importance of be
ing able ouce a
week to reach CO,
000.000 people of
the United States"
This Is a para
graph from a re
markable state
ment to the house
judiciary commit
tee by 1). W. wit
mcr, of Kansas
City, in which he
CLYDE H, des-ribed the dun-
.TAVCNNER gers in the so
called "ready-print" trust. According
to Mr. Witmer. two concerns, who
have a wording agreement with each
other, now practically monopolize the
business of furnishing "patent In-f-ides"
to country weekly newspapers.
Under the gulte of being co-operative
enterprises, these concerns have built
up a mammouth business, and have
driven practically eveiy competitor
from the field.
They control the greatest publicity
medium in the world through the
country newspapers. These newspa
pers go into the homes, and the patent
insldes are read closely by the mil
lions of Americans whose chief source
of information is the local weekly
newspaper. There are approximately
16.000 country newspapers In the Uni
ted States. The ready-print trust iur
nishes reading matter to all but a few
hundred of them. The average circu-
UkcM
HENRY" HOW LAND
-WFc LABEL oil
tfie 3 OTOE
Rio Crande. It means tfcat humanity, lation is 800. The total circulation is
conscience, right, must hereafter be the
dominant consideration in determining
our attitude toward our Latin-Amerl
can brethren.
12,000,000 copies. It Is estimated that
60.000,000 Amerirnns read these pa
pers and nre Influenced by the matter
furnished by the trust.
Mr. Winner believes that there are
great possibilities for evil In this mo
nopoly of the dissemination of Intelll
genuce, and has asked the committee
In ilraw It triiut Mils so as to dis
perse this control of the country press. !
In addition to the possibility that the ,
monopoly might sell out its columns ,
to the purveyors of tainted news, there ;
is the possibility pointed out that the ;
ownership of this great avenue of pub
licity might pass to the money kings
of America, who could use it to chlor
oform public opinion and perpetuate
evils which the people are now strug
gling to overcome.
Although these two ready-print con
cerns claim to be co-operative, it is
pointed out by Mr. Witmer that the
ready-print paper that is, newspapers
printed on one side only, the country
publisher to til! up the other f-ide with
local news is sold to the publishers
at a figure which gives a living profit.
But in addition the ready-print con
cerns sell advertising space at high j
rates, and the publisher, who actually i
gives this advertising circulation, uoes
not share in the advertising profit.
"Tills ready-print trust has boon
known to make big contracts with po
litical committees," said Witmer, "ind
Is constantly looking for business from
publicity bureaus of one kind and an
other. Thus the country press has
been commercialized, while, by a sys
tem of monopolistic prices and rhetor
ical legerdemain it has reduced the
country printing office to a depend
ency, until 75 to 85 per cent of them j
are tinder mortgage. Under this sys
tem how can the country press be free
to serve the public and be a healthful j tv w-uld class a common drivel much
influence in the body of politic? that Scotland' Bobble writ
"The ronntrv minor ia the home na-! If we didn't know he wrote It and that
They nay that merit
only geta the
prizes here be
low. That honor la re-eervt-il
for them
who strive and
who achieve:
They aay that worth
la certain to be
recognized, but
though
Tin aweet to hear
the atory It'a not
eaay to believe.
The best, the old
eat wtne.
Wouldn't aeem so
very One
If the bottle bore no
label for which
cultured drinker
call:
If they said 'twas
cheap we'd not
(rive - It pratae
In word or
thought
Much depends upon
i ue Ub!l on the bottle after all.
Tha general who forcea ne'er have had
to taste defeat
May owe to luck hla vlctorlea, may bo
the tool of chance.
But the enemy In terror makes arrange
menta to retreat
When he gets Into the Bail rile and glvea
orders to advance.
The general who fell
May have planned and ordered well.
But he had no reputation aa a victor to
appall:
They that fought him fearlessly
From his famed anccessor flee
There Is aomethinar In the label on the
bottle, after all.
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The Daily Story
My First Meeting With MyHngband By Martha V. Monroe
Copyrighted, 191 . by Associated Literary Bureau.
knnt Mar- I
as in tbo
When I went to flslt my A
tha at Kast Arlington it was
spring of the year, and I wo delighted
to be in the country. 1 snt on the
porch most of the time watching a
pair of birds building a nest In a tree
tear the bouse and listening to their
twittering. My cousins were all very
Und to me. doing everything In their
power to contribute to my enjoyment
Tom was In business In the city, but
come out ou Saturdays and stayed till
Monday morning.
Tom bad n friend. Alan Irving, whom
he said be bad picked out for me. Any
girl who is fancy free is Interested In
a man who has been picked out for
her, and I was very curious to see Mr.
Irving. I asked Tom to describe blra
hr miffing ti stet.-. .
of a chair. Pereml mtn?
when the doorbell rnng ,Ra!oW
only hone wan that th. . T
. " - i'BQje .
become convinced thn
per, and one side of thousands of
them is in control of a trust which
has power to say what shall go on the
ready-print side. The ready-print
trust is a double menace economic
and ethical."
It has been suggested In connection
with the celebration of the !" years
THE PROGRESS OF CHINA.
The New York Times has recently
j published an Interview with C R.
Reeves, an American who has been in
business in the orient for 2S years, fie
saya China Is making greater progress
of peace with Great Britain that w-ej more rapid advancement In the ways
celebrate over 100 years of peace with
some other countries we never had
any trouble with,
The Cedar Rapids Gazette perpe
trates the following: "Mrs. Ella Mc
Hcse was one of the surTraget lead
ers at the Pes Moines convention.
of modern civilization than is real
i:ed outside itself and most of it has
been accomplished in the last seven or
eight years.
The Panama canal. Mr. Reeves says.
will bring China and Its trade some
thousands of miles nearer the eastern
coast of the United States. The trade
Now would you call her
McHose supporters?"
constituents ; of the orient will be brough as close
i to New York, reckoned by freights, as
rrr ' it now is to the European markets, and
; An hour after his wife had obtained , there is only a fraction of a dollar's dif-
a divorce from him in London yester-! Terence per ton In freight between the
day. George Cornwall; West had be-. new rates to the orient from New
come the hu-lani of Mrs. Tatrick
Campbell, the actress. That's gofng
some lor An Engliobman.
York and the rates between here. and
Europe. The price of passenger trans
portation, we figure, will be reduced
at least 25 per cent, and the Panama
Forty-seven per cent of the diag- f canal will make the Pacific coast.
noses made in hospitals are found to be j Hawaii and the Pb-llipplnes practically
wrong by an official test in New York
City, according to the World. Guessing
right 53 times put of a hundred would
n.ae a better showing at a race track.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is due for a
calling on the carpet from father for
some of the admissions he made in
Washington yesterday. The eon is
displaying altogether too much sym
pathy for the commoner, at the
expense of the Standard Oil bank ac
count, to suit pater, we would imagine.
COST OF "LIVABLE" HOME.
The St. Louis Republic says that
Mrs. Margaret Stannard. of Boston,
'ho told an audience at Central high
ichool that a "livable home" cannot
De maintained on les than $2,300 an
nually, appears to look at life from
the viewpoint of the snob.
Certainly her world of homes that
are "livable" Ia a good way removed
from that of the vast majority of
American citizens who have managed
to marry, established abiding places
and rear families on much less than
; : 2.o00 a year.
' The average American income is
said to be about J.V.0 a year. Presum-
;. 'My homes of some kind are main-i
inea on this and sums ranging up
.ward to far less than $2,300 a year.
' Maids, butlers, limousines and 500
- found ice boxes naturally are not a
.-.part of their equipment, but the rent
's paid, the groceries bought and the
children sent to school.
'." Mrs. Stannard should revise her no
tlon of a "livable home." Few col-
lge professors make much more than
7 $2,000 a year, and yet these men have
'homes that are cultured and refined.
T The number of professional men, mln-
jsters, teachers, lawyers and doctors
.'whose Income falls short of Mrs. Stan
dard's minimum exceeds that of their
' brethren whose incomes are greater.
-.Yet thee men have homes that are
homes In any and every sense of the
- word.
no further from New York than the
lower eastern coast of South America.
"Do you know," Eald Mr. Reeves,
"you hear a lot more in Hongkong and
Peking and in Europe, for that matter
about the Panama canal and what it
means than you do in the United
States. People elsewhere are tlive to
Its possibilities and its values. Port
land. Seattle and San Francisco are
going to be built up tremendously by
it, and not only they, but San Diego,
as well. The Panama canal will build
up the Pacific coast of the I'nited
Slates because it will put it into direct
communication with both the Atlantic
coast and the far east. San Diego. I
should say, as one who has studied
trade routes, will probably become
the great distribution point of the Pa
cific coast. One reason is that it has
a fine big harbor, and another la that
It will be the nearest American port to
the canal on the Pacific side. Cargoes
from New York to all other northern
Pacific points will probably be distrib
uted there, and there cargoes for New
York will be collected. Portland is go
ing to bo the great lumber port for
the Asiatic trade."
The contact between the orient and
the United States will be "of immense
benefit to all the countries involved.
FINE TRIBUTE TO BURLESON
The following communication from
Aurora. III., and appearing In the Chi
cago Tribune, Is self-explanatory:
"As my time Is out as postmaster at
Aurora and my successor has been ap
pointed, I would like, through the col
umns of the Tribune, to pay tribute to
the best postmaster general tinder
whom I have served I refer to Hon.
Albert Burleson. Early in bis admin
istration lie made the statement that
efficient postmasters would not be (re
moved till their terms had expired.
He Jiot only carried out this pledge
but he has given every aid to make ef
ficient postmasters more efficient.
"I have served' over 1C years as
postmaster and the last year, under a
democratic administration, has Iveen
the most agreeable and satisfactory of
my entire service. All requests for
additional help or allowances hav.l
been granted if. upon Investigation,
they were found necessary for the
betterment of the service. Many red
tape rules that were greatly annoying
bcth to the public and the postmaster
and employes have been abrogated.
"The Christmas holidays of 1913
were the first holiday period that I
was not obliged to pay for extraNhelp
out of my own salary. My experience
has also been the experience of Post
master Campbell of Chicago and all
postmasters in this section jf the
state that I have talked with. In the ! Much depends upon the label on the bot-
hence It la aubllme:
, Mnch that Tennyson has left us, with
an unknown name to it.
TVe would pass a.s being nothing but the
common brand of rhyme;.
The medicine we drink
Oft were better used aa Ink.
But It clears away our headaches and
from bed at length we crawl.
Full of ny and full of praise.
To go pluneinir In the frays
There Is something- In the label on the
bottle, after all.
Oh. my boy. perhaps you're trying In a
quiet, humble way
To b worthy of the prizes that we
take to mean success;
Perhaps you're meekly hoping- for a
aweet reward some day
That they'll hand out to another who
you'll know deserves It less:
With the best tha you can do
You must flaunt your merit, too:
Wear the manner of the winner, do not
humbly cringe and crawl,
And the amillng fates will bow
Aa they gladly wreath your bra
I
correspondence from the various de-
partment we have been treated as ef
ficient officials and gentlemen, which
has not always been the custom In the
past. U A. CONSTANTINE."
tie, after all.
Berlin. Germany Bankruptcy pro
ceedings were opened here against W.
Werthelm & Co., whose liabilities
amount to about $6,000,0(10, with as
sets estimated by the process at $715,-
000. The difficulties of the concern j ered lemon.
began when the "Princes' trust" ceas
ed financing the undertaking. The
firm operated three department stores
here.
What He Deserved.
You must not Imagine," she said,
"that I would be willing to sit out here
alone with you if you were not so big
and strong, and able to pick me up in
your arms as if I were a mere child
in case anything happened."
Then because nothing happened she
told her friends that he was dull-witted
and probably had a soul like a with-
IBediffl
7 Qra b&7e& Ju&sa
PITY POOR PA.
"Aunty." he said to his mother's rich
onmarried sister, "stand on one leg."
"Why, you queer come soiled and I am irritated. My aunt
"I THOUGHT HE WAS AS ESCAPED I.CTATIC"
to me, but could get nothing out of
him except nonsense. Tom promised
to bring him out for the week end as
soon as he could get blm, but Mr.
Irving was so popular and in such de
mand that Tom found it difficult to
find a time when he was disengaged.
Very naturally I looked forward to
meeting Mr. Irving and was anxious
to make a good impression npon him
when he arrived. My favorite dress,
a dainty white voile, I kept fresh for
the purpose. On no account would I
wear it till the eventful day when I
should meet tbe man who might pos
sibly be my husband. I wondered
whether be would like me and wheth
er I would like him. Then 1 remem
bered that men are less impressionable
than women in such matters, and
while I was indulging in fancies about
him he probably never gave me a
thought.
One day my aunt and cousins went
to the city for a day's shopping. They
kept no servant, doing all tbe work
themselves. Consequently, on this oc
casion tbe work was left for me to do.
I am not adapted by nature to house
work as some women are, who can
cook a dinner in dinner dress. On tbe
contrary, T become hot, my clothes be-
FOREST NOTES
I
- SMOOT AND WOOL.
Speaking on the tariff last summer.
-Senator Smoot tald:
". "Shares in the textile mills In New
KngUnd hare declined greatly as a
result ot this proposed law. It is ettl-'-ruated
that only 60 per cent of the
i mill capacity in the woolen and worst-
ed mills Is now employed, and that
Yellow Txiplar, or tulip tree, the
largest broadleaf tree in America, has
been known to reach nearly 200 feet
la height end 10 feet In diameter.
Pennsylvania has about 7.5000,000
acres of tlmberland. one-eighth of
which is owned by the s'ate. The to
tal value of the state's timber is $139,.
000.0O0.
Mistletoe thrives on the western
coasts to an extent approached in the
east. In many places this parasitic
growth Is responsible, directly or indi
rectly, for a considerable loss of timber.
Forest officers In Washington and
Oregon plan to discontinue the use of
barbed wire on their forests. This
will affect their own pastures and pub
lic drift fences. They say barbed wire
has no advantage over smooth wire,
that it Injures stock, and that it Is
more likely to be borne down by soft
snow. Stockmen on tne Oehoco for-
be reduced by 25 per cent by ! est. In Oregon, recently constructed
the time this bill takes effect."
S The blil has since taken effect. It
,as been la operation half a year. The
drift fences of smooth wire, though
with some misgivings; now they say
ttey will never use barbed wire again.
A COLONIAL STORY.
ORE than a hundred years voice said. "Well, here I am, again,
ago, -there lived a little girl it didn't take long after all."
named l'atience. Then sccins Patience last asleep
This little girl lived on a farm in on the floor and John nowhere
ahat is now called New Hampshire, ihout, she called sharply "l'atience,
in a house built of logs and stones. :'atience, where is your brother? I
1 here was only one big room in
the house over that was a big loft
ivhere some of the family slept and
at one side was a small "lean-to,"
politely called the store room. At
the center of one side of the big
room was the huge built-in fireplace.
The fire hole was large enough for
l'atience to stand in even tlio she
was tall for seven years old.
Just back of the fireplace and a
little to one side, was the bfg oven
so big and hard to heat that it was
never used except for very special
occasions such as Christmas or
Thanksgiving or a big family re
union. Most of the cooking and baking
could be done in the big fireplace
itself, yotl see.
One day Patience's mother was
more tnan usually nusy. so she said -rnth,rt f,l, r... "
to her little daughter. "Patience, can ,, . . - - " f ..-
I trust you to take care of your tfcYuRlt I could trust my Iitlle girl!"
little brother John (who was only 1 at,f"cc jumped up before she
two years old), while I go out for wa? ecn awake "John! he's all
some potatoes t" ri.Sr!t nrre mother I was telling
"Surely you can." said Patience ,n a ,f tor.-v an1 1 must have fa''1
cheerfully, for she loved her mother :iilee'- But John was not right
and was very proud to help her all therenor was he anywhere near,
she could. , ln tnc ,olt. in the store room, in
"Remember to watch him careful- ,h 'ard an1 barns they searched,
ly. ratience," reminded her mother, At las n father and his helpers
"for you know it is easy for him to were cal'cd from their work to hunt
prt into mischief! And be sure he to:.
don't go near the fire." l-inally, as the dark was coming
"Yes. mother. I'll remember." re- " t,lc aiher said: "It's no use,
plied the little- girl and, as her moth- ""her, he must have wandered to
er went out the door, she turned to the orst. we'll go quickly and start
amuse her little brother. a irch there!"
They played with some dried -'"V a l'ttle voice piped
pourds and strung some corn and ou.t' "Mother! mother, I'm hungry!"
then Patience told hii.i some stories. . lt was John s voice, but where did
As she talked, she stretched out on "come from?
the big rag rug on the floor and got . rhey w're not long in doubt. The
so comfortable that before she knew do"r1t?. the Krcat ovn swung open
it she was fa.t asleep! and John stepped out.'
When the story stopped, little ou ,scc' l'e explained gravely,
Tohn looked around and seeing that ,vc.r hls bowl of bread and milk a l.t
l.e was free from watching, decided e ,a,er' j a,ways wanted to see in
to do some things lie had long 1 "r nd when sister went to
Wanted to see about. fcI"rP wcnt m the oven and then
and then maybe I went to sleep.
...... . ,
i Onto the quiet of the room the 12
Jdoor opened and the mother's brisk Tonwrroivtar tl'ords.
'Copyright Clara Ingram Judson.
ITXW S -Hif i
r M
child, she re
plied, "what
makes ' you ask
me to do that? I
don't think I could
tried."
("ell, a peli-
an can stand on
one leg. can't it?"
"Yes."
VPa said you was an old pelican this
morning, so go on, let's see you."
He Knew Right Off.
"Ah!" sighed the wretched Mr.
Newpop, "what can be more wearing
on tbe nerves than a baby that cries
sll night long?"
'Twins," answered the man who had
been through It.
.The Cause.
"What made her faint?" asked the
sympathetic old lady.
"Madame." replied the sonr-faced
misogynist, "there was a good-looking
young man standing right behind
her."
Genius Thumbed Again.
"I feel," said the poet, "that I have
a tnlwdon."
"Oh, heavens," groaned his poor
wife, "how I wish It were a commis
sion even a little bit of a one."
The Check Did That
"Do you think the things you eat
Influence your dreams?"
I ndoubtedly. I ate a porterhouse
steak the other evening and dreamed
about bankruptcy all night."
and cousins did not get off till late, and
before I bad set the bouse to rights 1
was obliged to prepare my lunch. 1
spoiled what I tried to cook and drop
ped grease on my dress. Then, to
"crown a crown of sorrows," a sharp
ring came from the telephone, and 1
was warned by the authorities of the
lunatic asylum a few miles distant
that an inmate of tbe institution bad
escaped, and all persons ln tbe neigh
borhood were being notified in order
that they might look out for him.
"What do you wish me to do." I
asked, "in case he comes here hold
him till your men come for him? I'm
alone and entirely unequal to the task
myself."
"Oh, no." was the reply, "not that!
The man is dangerous. We are noti
fying persons in order that they may
take precautions against being injured
by blm."
"O'J. hearens! What is he like?
"Medium beigbt. dark hOr and
wears a mustache only. He carries
a suit case, baring taken one that
doesn't belong to blm in order to make
th gatekeeper believe he was a mem
ber of tbe asylum staff or a visitor.
He also has an umbrella. Don't be
frightimed. Our men will soon take
him ln."
The click that followed hanging up
the receiver seemed to leave me alone
with the maniac. There had been pro-
one In the house and ,.m . "
It occurred to me to telephone i
authorities at tbe ayiam that tC
patient was at our house but It
not make the slightest soona fc.,
of being heard by the mo himself t
I kept still, scarcely daring to bre
He rang tbe bell three OiEea- theTk
stead of going away to inorderl!
one else, he deliberately at d0i
a bench on the porcb. I cotild not
him. but I could bear every motioal
made.
I could not remain where f wti. i
must go downstairs on tiptoe to
T had loft or.- . . " " I
flcatlon. On fnrnlng I caught a nt
flection of myself in tbe mirror ef
dresser. Agitated as I w.g. I fZ
not but notice my appearance Mr
dress, a very old one that I bad pnt
to do housework, was bedraggle
soup aDd spotted with greiae. Ow,
my right eye was a smudge, and w
tbe left side of my nose waa anothff
As to my hair, tousled Is not itros
enough to describe it. But of
importance was this when a mitf
was sitting quietly on the porch wtit
lng to effect an entrance to mnrfe
me? I did not give my appearance,
thought, but went noiselessly down tlx
staircase. I had drawn every cnrttis
below its window sill, not'leannr,
crack that wonld admit a streak tt
sunlight so I could be seen.
I examined all points of ingrest and
finding everything as secure aa I toid
make it. thought what neit I eoa!4 4n
There was no telephone booth, tbe it
fetrnment being in the dining room, it
occurred to me to go upstairs, briit
down blankets with which to ecrst
so as to deaden the sound, and infora
the asylum managers of the lnnaaci
presence. Having got the blanbo
and covered myself and the phone, I
put the receiver to my ear. If I kid
been obliged to ring I wonld not tin
dared make the call.
"What number?"
"Give me the East Arlington Ltuutk
asylum at once."
I "The line is busy.
That's all I got out of "centra!.'' Irat
I heard two women bidding each other
good by, and they spent half an boor
doing so. while I was kept wainar
with a lunatic on tbe porch. When I
had beard tbe last good by I called for
tbe asylum and gave my infonsatloi
I was told that a force of attendant!
would be sent at once.
Throwing off tbe blankets, I went It
a window of tbe drawing room, netr
which tbe maniac sat, and listened. 1
beard nothing, but smelted tobacco.
Tbe man while waiting to get at aw
was quietly smoking. Then suddenl;
he got up and walked to the atepi
and I heard an exclamation. Cooid
it be tbat relief bad come that 1 wu
saved?
There were steps without and i
babel of voices, followed by i Jerk it
the doorbell.
What should I do? I was not asn
what to do-. I did nothing.
A loud rap at tbe door.
My aunt's and my cousin's vole
(including Tom's) outside.
"For heaven's sake!" cried my aunt
"What has happened to the ginT
I unlocked and unchained the, doof.
There stood a number of persons, tare
men from the asylum, my sunt tl
cousins and the lunatic. Every t5
was turned with anxiety on me.
By this time I knew that I nadmafr
a goose of myself. 1 FT
smile.
"I thought." I stammered, poindnf
to the man with the suit case. "tnl i
he was an escaped lunatic.
Ti.nro mi a hurst nMancbter.
"He's my friend. Alan Irving."
Tom. "He's not very bright, but i
..tn' nnltu cnnclder Dim iwt'
tic."
"Good gracious!" exclaimed o?
Cousin Bess. "What have jon P1
doing to yourself?" '
Then I remembered my soiled area
my smudged face and. turning, fled-
Tom had made an unexpected
rangement to bring Mr. Irvinf
with him for tbe week end. Tom t
missed tbe train, and Irving bad con
out alone.
So this was the result of my oxttm
of my first meeting with the maa "
bad been picked out for me; m?
ing fresh my most becoming iceu'l
hopes of making a favorable WP
sion! Could 1 have made a "O'0".
I was followed to my room W
Cousins Bess and Julia, who fonnfl mf
sobbing convulsively nd in
arms 1 gradually recovered tPj
nimity. , .
When I went downstairs Mr.
was kind enough to say to rue.
as'
Supreme Teat.
"Is Jones really such a clever man
as his friends seem ro think?"
is ner v ell. he can explain the
Income tax law, so that you can al
most understand It."
How He Got It.
"How did he get hla title of colonel?
Did he ever live in Kentucky, or was
he on some governor's taff once."
"So, he one had a half Interest ln
a race horse."
Variable Conditions.
"That man says he doesn't know
whether he la married or unmarried
sane or insane." '
"Yen. He has hud a great deal of
tioii!l with court complication. Those
things rill depend on what state he
ainppens to be in." Washington Star.
tection In tnlkinir with some one even
. j i , i i hr.ra man
over n pucne. i sunt o'jwu every wiu- luiugs i nuunrr-.
dow and lucked every door. . Against cowardly woman stand at the sea
r . . 1 rfiui IMfl IIIBI.
i wbea M
ian sinuu m .w
some of the doors 1 moved furniture. He afterward deciarea i".
1ne!r. But tnat
April 7 in America
rS0-Ir. William Ellery C
distinsulslu-d Unitarian ,
one of the im'ft eloquent
The front door had a chain on It. r and smudged as
which I put in rlace to prevent an.; saw me, I was co
opening. As soon as I had bnrrieaded j flattery.
myself 1 sat down and shivered. j We made a match of t
After awhile I concluded that If I I "
diiln'r do something fo oectipy m;
mind I would become a lunatic myself.
I got up and cleared away tbe luucb
dishes. I was so agitated that my
face became smudged with lampblack,
though I was unconscious of it. and I
spilled soup all over my dress. As
soon as 1 hud cleared awuy tbe lunch
I busied myself dolug everything I
could find to do, even to sweeping floors
that bad been swept before. In this
way I kept myself occupied till about
3 o'clock in the afteruoon. when the
ax fell.
Looking out through the front win
dow, there was tbe lunatic, suit case.
umbrella and all: coming up the walk
to the bouse. 1 caught at a dresser to
save myself from falling and stood
there till I . heard the doorbell rine.
Then 1 was obllced to ston.lv mrsolf
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writers, oorn. uicv. -- ...-j
ISSS-Getieral Qulncj Ad!Un. c,nJI
Federal commander on tne .
na coast during the civil war. e
born 1SJ5. g!
lSSl-Pblneas Taylor Barnum.
showman, died: born 1S1
1911-Miulng disasters caused
of l'.'S lives In the ?i,"ne' fl
Alabama, and U- Uvea. In
roust mine at 1'hroon, V-
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