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The St. Jofas flefald
O. E. Ovewou, Pnblisher
Published Weekly at
St. Johns - - Arizona
Everything comes to the man who
waits, especially rust and cobwebs.
The woman whose husband claims to
be henpecked Is generally deserving of
iHy. -
Turkey wants to borrow money, but
Uncle Sam probably knows of a certain
party that needn't be applied to.
Beggars are taxed in China. There,
evidently, the financial possibilities of
the profession are frankly recognized.
Nearly all available Government land
has been homesteaded and even the
supply of Indian brides with homestead
attachments is running short.
That man who fancied taking his
wife's hat would keep her at home
must have failed to notice what little
use a hat really Is to a woman.
Nobody knows who killed Cock Robin
or who struck Billy Patterson, but Sen
ator Carter killed the river and harbor
bill He did it with his little tongue.
Mrs. Nation's paper, the Smasher's
Mail, has been Issued at Toneka. It is
said that a great many railroad bag
gagemen have subscribed for It simply
on impulse.
The girl who leaped for the bridle of
a runaway horse and stopped him,
when a lot of men were thinking only
of saving their own lives, deserves to
get a gold medal from some society in
addition to having her picture printed
In the papers.
In the woods in the Pennsylvania
mountains a bear tackled Jacob Brad
shaw and would have broken him In
two had not Jacob expectorated about a
:gill of tobacco juice into bruin's eye.
This attracted the bear's attention and
Jacob got away. Moral
In the electric cars and railway waiting-rooms
of many cities, the boards
of health have posted notices, forbid
ding, under heavy penalties, the un
wholesome and nauseous practice of
spitting on the floors. But have the
authorities ever looked into a smoking
car? The honor of being made an Earl
cost Lord Roberts, as It costs every
new-made peer of high degree, thou
sands of dollars In fees. Nevertheless,
hosts of Englishmen, and probably not
a few plain American citizens who es
teem themselves while not under
temptation good Republicans, would
gladly pay the price.
"The Wild aud Woolly West" can af
ford to smile at the phrase. In Califor
nia there Is one college student for ev
ery four hundred Inhabitants, a larger
proportion than In any other State of
the Union. President Wheeler, of the
State University, attributes this to the
fact that "no class in California con
sciously accepts the doom of medioc
rity." In advertising a piece of land
for sale, Themistocles noted that "It
lay by a good neighbor." California, in'
bidding for immigration, gives scholas
tic proof that her people are already
good neighbors.
' Some of the most remarkable of re
cent scientific discoveries are the
S-rays, the discovery of the microbe of
distemper in dogs, and tlie discovery of
krypton and xenon, rare gases of the
atmosphere. The S-rays are so-called
from Professor Sagnac, of Paris, who
In experimenting with the X-rays
found certain groups of rays of a total
ly different series aud with different
manifestations, while to Professor
Copeland belongs the credit for the dis
covery of the microbe of distemper in
dogs and to Professors Ramsay unci
Travers the discovery of krypton and
.xenon. The latter have now been care
fully studied by their discoverers and
Assigned their proper place in the table
of the periodic law.
. In all the present agitation about
ure food, it Is a comfort to the coffee
firlnker to be told that he Is getting a
Jery satisfactory article. At the De
partment of Agriculture some thorough
tests lme been recently made to deter
mine the extent and nature of coffee
adulterations. The results are entirely
reassuring to coffee-lovers. The expert
finds that while very little pure Java
or Mocha berries find their way into the
American market, almost if not quite
as good flavored beans are had from
other tropical places, Porto Rico and
Hawaii being mentioned as furnishing
good coffee. The adulterants, when
used, are for the most part harmless.
The chemist -who has been looking into
the coffee question, Professor Wiley,
gives some advice as to the use of this
beverage. He says that the use of cof
fee In moderation should not do any
injury to adults, and then he mentions
In detail what moderation means. This
Is a cupful only half of it coffee, the
rest hot milk at breakfast, none at
noon, and a small cup of black coffee
after dinner. On some systems, un
doubtedly, coffee may act as a poison,
and such persons, of course, should not
drink, it The average grown person in
1 normal health maj- use it moderately
without harm.
Somebody has been gathering college
statistics, and It is found that there
are In this country forty-four univer
sities or colleges which contain more
than 1,000 students each. Fourteen
of these institutions have more than
2,000 students each, and in each of
six leading universities there are more
than 3,000 students. These six are:
Harvard, 4.2SS; University of Michi
gan, 3,700; Minnesota, 3,410; Georgia,
8,205; Chicago, 3.1S3, and California,
8,025. Northwestern University has
2,971 students' this year; Cornell, 2.77G;
Pennsylvania, 2,567; Yale, 2,542; Co
lumbia, 2,521, and Princeton, 1,302.
There probably are over 100,000 stu
dents in the various universities and
colleges of America at present, and the
whole number of persons "who are be
ing educated In the schools and col
leges combined is g4ven as 10,73S,3G3.
I Aside from all other considerations this
I general tendency toward education
means one thing labor in this country
must be dignified socially. It is going
to be impossible for all the boys and
young men who are now in the schools
and colleges to go into professions.
Many of them will have to work with
their hands. Manual labor will still
have to be done even after everybody
Is educated. Perhaps the condition
forecast by Bellamy when those who
work as laborers shall receive just-as
much consideration as men who get
into the professions and shall be com
pensated for the sacrifices they make
in taking what we now consider infe
rior places In society is not so far
away. .
That landlordism and tenant farming
are increasing with surprising rapidity
in the United States is one of, the most
important facts developed out of the
census reports Issuing from Washing
ton. According to a statement of L. G.
Powers, chief statistician of the agri
cultural division of the census, it ap
pears that for at least twenty
years the percentage of farms op
erated by tenants has increased heav
ily in all parts of the United States
except the extreme West. For the
whole country this percentage has in
creased in the last ten years nearly
twice as fast as the per cent of popu
lation of the nation, four times that
of the purely agricultural population
and twice that of the farms operated
by their owners. Mr. Powers sug
gests that this unprecedented increase
does not show a degradation of the
rural population, but an uplifting, from
the fact that it must be largely com
posed of negroes in the Southern
States and of farm hands or farmers'
sons who have become tenant farmers.
It is declared, however, by many who
are watching the tendency, that large
numbers of those who have indeed ris
en out of these ranks to become tenants
would have become farm owners in
stead under other conditions, as did the
young men of a generation ago. To
whatever extent this army of tenant
farmers has been recruited from the
ranks of those who had been but wage
earners, it is a matter for satisfaction.
To the extent that It includes those
who have sunk from ownership or
might have become owners it is not
good. It Is impossible to separate
these classes until the full reports of
the census are issued. Out of the well
known conditions In the middle West,
however, with these preliminary fig
ures at hand, it Is possible to discover
some interesting material for specula-!
tion. Many farmers are moving Into
the towns, selling their farms outright
or renting to tenants. In the latter in
stances each farm is forced to become
the support of two families, which is
apt to prove a heavy burden on any
property calculated for one family.
Capitalists recognize that farms pur
chased and rented to tenants are
among the best investments, principal
and income being peculiarly safe. Oth
er capitalists who wish to invest in
farm loans are finding, in many in
stances, that their money is a drug on
the market. The farmers who own
land are so prosperous that they do not
need loans; those who are tenants have
no security upon which to borrow. Mer- j
chants in the smaller towns are now
complaining that their trade is suffer
ing by the Increase of tenant farmers. !
The latter are not as prompt in paying
bills, they cannot afford to buy as
much, and they do not Improve their
places with the same energy and mod
ern agricultural methods and machin
ery as do the ones wTho own their
farms. Tenant farmers have not the
interest in preserving the farm prop
erty that the owner has when he is the
resident. Nor, indeed, is the tenant so
interested to protect the permanent
fertility of the soil by the most care-!
ful farming methods. It is recognized
that either In city or country the best
performance of the duties of citizen
ship comes from those who own their
homes. With that fact in mind, no
one can fail to regret the immense
growth of tenant farming indicated by !
the census. i
The Veteran's Advice. i
On the last night of a series of "pro- j
tracted meetings" In the Methodist ;
church of a little New Jersey village a
visiting evangelist was making a spe- t
cial effort to obtain a showing of anx
ious souls. But nobody responded to
his Invitation. They sang a hymn and
then the evangelist rose again and
called upon the congregation to "enlist i
for the service of the Lord." A battle-
scarred, wooden-leg veteran who had
dropped into the back seat watched the
proceedings with interest. For the
third time the perspiring evangelist rose 1
and asked: "Is there no one willing to
enlist in the Lord's army?" Then a ,
response came from the back seat:
"Draft 'em, parson; draft 'em!"
Foreign News.
"By crackey; another rich American
lady was presented at court over in
Luuuon. I wonder what she has done?
Shopliftiu', I guess."
A Failure.
"Did anybody ever try to start a
newspaper here?" asked the IutelJec-tual-looking
mau with glasses.
"Yes," answered Broncho Bob. "But
it failed. The editor wouldn't 'tcud to
business."
"Was he a dissipated man?"
"No. But he insisted on sitting at
his desk with his back to the door,
when he ought to have been standing
with a six-shooter in his hand and hia
eye at a knot hole." Washington Star.
"Willing to Please.
Suitor Sir, I have come to ask your
daughter In marriage.
Father (fearfully) Would you take
my only child awy from me?
Suitor Oh, not at all, not at all, my
dear sir. I can move right In. Detroit
Free Press. ..
i
The astronomer Is a space reporter..
JUDGE DISCREDITS
Chicago Jurist
Sets Aside
mony of
"I am averse to accepting the decision
of the jury as final. in this case, espe
cially so as that decision was based
lartrelv upon the testimony of women.
The testimony of one written document
Is of more weight as evidence than the
oral testimony of a dozen witnesses,
particularly when women are con
cerned as witnesses. Though women
are undoubtedly upon a higher moral
plane than are men they are not as
reliable upon the witness stand. It
seems that women are of a more imag
inative nature than men, and, though
it is no doubt unintentional, they come
to believe as true what they at first
only imagine and maintain their belief
in spite of all evidence against it."
Upon the grounds cited in the fore
going statement of personal opinion
Judge Arba N. Waterman, of Chicago,
ignored the verdict of a jury and grant
ed a new trial.
Judge Waterman, reluctant to accept
the finding of the jury as final, did not
enter the judgment in accordance with
the verdict at the time the latter was
given and after some reflection decided
that the defendant, having been denied
Justice, was entitled to a new trial before
less susceptible jurors. The members
SANTA TERESA,
The Wonderful Magnetic Healer and
Heroine of Mexico.
Santa Teresa, the Mexican Yaqui he
roine, now in Europe, is said to be pos
sessed of remarkable healing power,
by which she has performed miracu
lous cures on persons afflicted with all
kinds of diseases. She was accused of
exciting the Yaqui Indians against the
Mexican government, but made her es
cape into the United States. She drift
ed to California, where she amazed
many people by her wonderful healing
power. Teresa is 28 years old. She
was born at Sinaloa, of Spanish an
cestry. She discovered her power to
heal when a little girl. Her first cure
was of an old -woman, one of whose
legs had been rendered useless by par-
SAXTA TERESA.
alysls. Teresa rubbed the member a
few times and every symptom of the
malady disappeared. Soon after this
she wTas attacked by an insane young
man, "whom she struck in the head in
defending herself. The blow from her
hand sobered the man, and a few gen
tle rubbings entirely cured him. At
San Francisco Teresa met the family
of Charles Owens, a wealthy merchant,
to whom she was introduced by O. P.
Rosencranz. The little son of Mr.
Rosencranz had been suffering from
blindness and partial paralysis, and it
is alleged that he was completely cured
by the hands of the Mexican senorita.
When Mr. Owens and his family de
cided to go to Europe this spring they
invited the young heroine-healer to ac
company them. She will display her
powers on the contineut.
FIRST GAME OF CHESS.
Its Supposed Orijjiii and Some of Its
Famous Votaries.
Among the most antiquated of games
is chess, which the oldest Persian and
Arabic authorities state to be of Indian
origin. We find the game specifically
referred to in Sanskrit literature 200
years before the birth of Christ.
Enthusiasts to-day might deem the
methods then in vogue somewhat prim
itive, the board usually called an
"eight square" to distinguish it from
the board on which parchisi or back
gammon was played. In the earliest
known attempt at romance in Indian
literature the "Ilarsacarita," there is
a punning passage, which reads:
"Under this monarch only bees:
quarrel in collecting dews (dues); the
only feet cut off are those in meter;
only chess boards teach the position of
the four members." That was written
in the first half of the seventh century.
There is a Persian tradition to the ef
fect that an Indian sovereign sent a
Persian monarch the game of chess be
tween 531 and 579 A. D. By way of re
turning the compliment the latter King
sent the former the game of ward or
backgammon.
The game was Introduced to the
Flowery land as comparatively recent
ly as the sixth century (A. D.). It was
probably first known in Spain in the
tenth century, for in the eleventh we
already find it a popular amusement.
At the beginning of the twelfth it be
gan to be known in this country, as
well as in France and Germany; and it
unfortunately has to be recorded that
at the close of the century it had be
come a favorite gambling game all over
the continent of Europe. Many men
who have figured prominently in the
pages of the world's history were pas
sionately fond of the game. Perhaps
the most noted example of this was
Louis XIII., who, though he hated
games of chance so much that he
would not alloj? them to be played at
his court, was nevertheless so amazing
ly keen on chess that he played even
while riding in his carriage.
It is interesting to record in this con
nection that each man was provided
with a pin at its foot which, being
stuck into a padded chess board, resist
ed the joltings of the royal vehicle.
John Frederick, Elector of Hanover,
proved that the ruling passion was
strong in death. H- had been made
'"17
WOMEN'S EVIDENCE
a Verdict Secured by Testi
Fair Sex.
JUDGE ARBA N. WATERMAN.
of women's clubs and even his asso
ciates on the bench denounced Judge
Waterman's slurs on the sex. The state
ment caused a sensation, and both
women and men of national reputation
assert that Judge Waterman has made
a serious mistake.
prisoner in 1547 by Charles V., and
was playing chess with Ernest of
Brunswick, his fellow captive, when he
got the news that he was. condemned to
die. He merely made a few remarks
on the irregularity of the Emperor's
proceedings and coolly went on with his
game. On winning it he expressed his
keen satisfaction; then he betook him
self to the religious exercise befitting
one In his unenviable situation. Lon
don Express.
; HAIR WILL DEADEN NOISE.
Felt Greatly Lessens the Sound Vibra
tions of Heavy Machinery.
Hair felt has repeatedly received
mention as a means of deadening vi
brations and noise from machinery,
placed for this purpose between engine
bedplates and foundation capstone
and underneath rails subject to heavy
train traffic. Now, however, cork is
said to have beini' used in Germany
with the same end in--view, the avail
able particulars being to the effect that
a sheet made up of' flat pieces of the
cork in mosaic fashion corresponding
in size to the bedplate of "the noisy ma
chine and held together by an iron
frame, is laid under the machine. What
measure of success has been obtained
with this new expedient is not told,
though as a means of temporary relief
It probably answered the Intended pur
pose. The true solution of most if not all
machinery vibration problems is, how
ever, to be found in proper foundations,
ample in area and weight,' and it gen
erally pays to provide these if at all
practicable. To what exercise of in
genuity the engineer is sometimes put
in accomplishing this was illustrated 'a
dozen or more years ago In one large'
factory, where on an upper floor a row
of small engines had to be installed for
the independent driving of a corre
sponding number of different machines.
Though the building was of substantial
construction, with steel floor beams,
it was a foregone conclusion that that
row of engines would cause trouble if
set with nothing but the floor as
foundation, and as it was undesirable
to raise them much above the floor
level each engine was provided with a
separate foundation, built up of brick
and mortar in the usual Avay, but sus
pended by steel straps between the
floor beams and thus projecting down
into the head room of the floor below.
Seem from there each foundation, with
its engine, appeared as if resting on
airy nothing. But those suspended
foundations accomplished all that was
expected of them as vibration absorb
ers Cassier's Magazine.
Beating an Avalanche.
One of the most exciting Alpine ad
ventures on record was Mr. Tuckett's
race with an avalanche on the Eiger
Glacier in 1871. He was ascending the
glacier with two friends and a guide.
Says Travel:
The glacier sloped somewhat steeply,
and on the upper part, above the climb
ers, a mass of loose, freshly fallen
snow had collected. Suddenly the tra
velers heard a thundering noise, and
perceived a huge mass of snow and Ice
sliding down toward them. They could
only try to reach the rocks at the side
of the glacier, hoping to do so before
the avalanche should sweep them
away. Through the knee-deep snow
they ran for their lives.
"I remember," said Mr. Huckett, "be
ing struck with the idea that It seemed
as If the avalanche were sure, of its
prey, and wished to play with us for
a while. At one moment it let us imag
ine that we had gained on it; and the
next, with mere wantonness of vindic
tive power, it suddenly rolled out a
vast volume of grinding blocks and
whirling snow, as if to show us that it
could outflank us any moment It chose.
"Nearer and nearer it came, its front
a mighty wave about to break. It aim
ed straight at us, swift, deadly, implac
able. The next instant we saw no
more. A wild confusion of whirling
snow and fragments of ice, a frozen
cloud, swept over us, entirely conceal
ing us from one another. But still we
were untouched, and still we ran.
"Another half second, and the mist
parted. There lay the body of the mon
ster, whose head was still careering
away at lightning speed far below us,
motionless, rigid, harmless."
Music Lovers.
. Euthusiatic Admirer of Sig. Paz
zaniano (who has been pounding away
for nearly half an hour) "What an
artist, isn't he? Such verve! Such fin
ish!" Fair American (bored) "Well, I'll al
low the verve's there all the time; and
I'm just praying the fiuish'll come
soon." Puuch.
Death is a great wit. In going
around making his selections, he takes
care not to disturb those who are a
heavy burden on the backs of others.
If a doctor has a practice that is at
all good, he never gits enough sleep.
Just Her Way.
Jack Well, then, since you have
broken off the engagement, suppose you
give me back the ring.
Julia Eh you see, Jack, er Mr. De
Trow, I've become very much attached
to this ring; it just suits me. So when
Tom Getthere proposed last night 1 told
him I didn't want a new ring, but that
he could see you and pay you what this
cost you. Philadelphia Press.
Hia Trouble.
iirst Rabbit My friend Longyear is
trying to think out a method by which
c can overcome our natural timidity
oeconu Rabbit Indued!
cess has he had?
First Rabbit Not very
What sue-
much. You
see, 3ust when he begins to meditate
he's apt to hear some noise and it gets
him rattled. Puck.
The Eest Preserver.
Customer I want to get something
that will preserve wood. -
New Clerk Yes, sir, here's just the
thing you want.
Customer Nonsense! That's a pad
lock. New Clerk Yes, sir. Put that on your
woodshed door and no thief will ever
get in. Philadelphia Press.
Physically, Not Financially.
Harold," began the homely Miss
Goldrox, "of course you know that fath
er has failed "
"Ah, really, Miss Goldrox, I must ask
you to "
"Why, you must have noticed how
much he has failed. The doctor says
his death is only "
"As I was saying, Miss Goldrox
Mabel I must ask you to let me com
fort you in your approaching bereave
ment." Catholic Standard and Times.
Insinuation Repelled.
"Are you going to cut any figure In
that new scheme for rapid transit that's
coming up in a few weeks?" asked one
of his political associates.
"No, sir!" indignantly answered the
Alderman from the 'Steenth Ward.
"My figure is going to be as high as
anybody else's, b' gursh!" Chicago
Tribune.
An Excuse.
The Count Dear me, Baron, your
face! Duelling again, at your age and
so recently married?
The Baron Ach, no! It is my Ameri
can wife. She makes me eat with a
fork! Life.
Very Disastrous.
She Were you ever in a railroad dis
aster? He Yes. I once kissed the wrong girl
in a tunnel Chicago Chronicle.
Guide What luck to-day?
Other Guide Good luck. My man
shot at six different marks and no bul
let come closter ter me than four
inches, by hookey!
A Feeble Imitation.
"Bodkins isn't a genuine society
man."
"Why not?"
"He takes cold every time he wears
his dress suit." Chicago Record.
A liad l-re k.
Miss Swelltop Our piano is some
what in need of tuning, but will, you not
play for us, Count?
Count Spolatro (absent mindedly)
Weeza pleasure. Where essa de han
dle? Philadelphia Times.
All OIF.
Tom So your engagement with May
is broken. I thought she fairly doted
on you.
Dick So she did, but her father was
a powerful anti-dote. St Louis Re
public. The Proper Thins:.
Mistress I hope I didn't disturb you
and your lover when I went into the
kitchen last night?
Cook Not at all, mum! Oi told him
you was my cbappyrone! Puck.
Limitations.
First Cavalier The King can do no
wrong!
Second Cavalier Ah, yes! And what
a wearisome life a King's must be, to
be sure! Puck.
Differcu',
Briggs I hear you have been oper
ating in Wall street
Griggs A great mistake. I've been
operated upon. Harper's Bazar.
A Benefactor of His Kind..
A bright-eyed but ragged urchin en
tered, the shop of a tobacconist with
the intention of getting a Ifcht for tlin
stump of a cigar, but there was no gas i
jet to be seen.
"I say, mister, give us a light"
"We sell lights, sonny."
"Well, sell us one," and he placed
down his last halfpenny on the counter,
for which he received a box of matches!
and having secured a light offered the
box to the tobacconist, saying:
"Put them on the shelf, mister, and
the next gent as asks for a light, give
him one o' mine."
Odd Duty of Hanoverian Firemen.
In Hanover the fire brigade has sel
dom to extinguish a fire; so it is now !
required that the wearers of the regula
tion helmet shall attend to accidentf
and suddness illness in the public
streets. For instance, if an old lady
feels faint under the burdens of her
winter finery, she has but to attract the
attention of the nearest policeman, who
in his turn telephones for the fire
brigade, which promptly turns up in a
carnage and four.
In the Maine Woods.
USE
O child of mine shall marry a
man who has used force against
his brother man!" declared Car-
melius Foote, doggedly. And as he
spoke he confronted his shrinking
j daughter. Amber, who had just said
good-night at the door to gallant Will
Camp, recently home from the Philip
pine war, and still wearing his stained
blue uniform.
Old Carmelius Foote was a staunch,
not to say rabid, advocate of universal
peace. Some of his progenitors on the
maternal side had been Quakers, and
he had inherited enough of the pacific
spirit of William Penn and his follow
ers to combat everything that savored
of physical force with a fierceness and
Intolerance that would have made a
captain of horse invincible. He had
had great hopes of the peace confer
ence summoned by the Czar of Russia;
and just now he was particularly Indig
! nant and disgusted by the fact that,
Immediately after that conference, the
two most enlightened nations of the
world were each engaged In wars of
no mean proportions. He had stormed
for days against all men of war, and
declared them to be, without exception,
promoters of the devil's kingdom. And
now to have this young American sol
dier, still clad In his iniquitous livery,
darkening his doors as a suitor for his
daughter's hand, was too much. No
wonder the old man fiew into a ungod
ly and Inconsistent passion. No won
der he spoke harshly as he did to his
pretty daughter, and no wonder she,
knowing her father's determined and
Immovable nature, burst into tears and
stole away upstairs to face the shadow
which had suddenly blotted out her
happy dreams.
As Amber left the room, sobbing,
her mother turned, almost defiantly,
toward Carmelius. "You know they
have thought the world of each other
ever since they were children," she
cried. "It isn't because Will has been
to the war that Amber loves him, or
even admires him, though there are
lots of girls who are after him just
for that. Amber and he were as good
as engaged long before the war, and
it Is cruel for you to separate them just
because Will obeyed his country's call
and went to defend it against those
Philippine rebels."
"Philippine rebels!" snorted Carme
lius. "Great danger this .country was
In from them! I told Will Camp be
fore ho went that if he wanted to have
anything more to do with Amber he'd
better stay at home and 'tend to the
employments of peace. But no off he
went, with a lot of other crazy-headed
young fellows, and now he conies back,
stained with the "blood of his brother
mnn. nnrt dares to come com ti :j of
my daughter just the same as bi fore.
I tell you, I won't have it!" The ol
man's voice rose so shrilly that Amber
heard it, as she lay sobbing on her lit
tle bed upstairs. "The next time he
comes, I'll send him home. I'll tell him
norm' fn ornss mv threshold acain. I'll
jive him to understand that when I say
a thing I mean it!"
The man of peace beat the air with
his fist and then struck the table a re-
Knundincr thumn. "No man who uses
fnrpp ncrainst his brother man shall
marry a child of mine!" he repeated
"Let Will Camp understand that!
Once for all, I say that I won't have
him hern courtiner Amber. I'll send
him home if he comes."
Old Carmelius Foote was as good as
his word. He met Will Camp at the
gate the next Sunday evening, and
Mrs. Foote and Amber heard the voices
of the two men raised in angry dispute.
Then the young man whirled abruptly
on his heel and strode away. Amber
buried her woe-begone face on her
mother's shoulder, and her whole body
shook with sobs. It seemed to her that
that quick, indignant turning away of
her lover meant the end of her first
and only romance. For she said to
herself that she could never love any
body but Will, and if he and her father
had come to be enemies, of course, the
whole matter must end
For days there was scarcely a word
spoken between the three members of
the Foote family. Carmelius was grim
ly determined, and went about with a
face like flint. His wife was indig
nantly silent. She never snoke to him
except when absolutely obliged to, and
then in scarcely anything but monosyl
lables. Amber attended to her house
hold duties with drooping face and
dark- rings under her eyes, was like a
flower that had been trodden on and
was at length lifting itself pitifully,
but never to stand erect again
Wednesday was pie baking day at
: the Foote , farm. Next to universal
.peace, Carmelius' great hobby was
pies. He ate them three times a day,
' and seldom consumed less than half a
i pie at a meal. All kinds of pies were
1 grateful to his palate, and he throve
upon them famously, in spite of the
j printed protests of hygienists. Conse
I quently, pie-baking day was a very Im
portant occasion In the Foote house
; hold. All day long the rolling pin
! thumped over the dough board; the
6Pice boxes sned their aroma abroad;
the piles of sliced fruit and mincemeat
and the bowls of yellow custard and
lemon flavored starch were devoured
by cavernous crust lined pie plates,
and the oven door creaked and clang
ed. By mid-afternoon the "buttery"
shelves and window sills "were covered
thickly with pies, and Carmelius would
come in from his work, sniff of them,
and go out again with a look of toler
ant satisfaction on his set face.
It was the Wednesday after Will
Camp had been forbidden the house,
and Carmelius had just come In to sniff
of
the pies, when there was a loud
knock at the kitchen door. Carmelius
answered it. There stood four ragged,
unkempt and desperate looking tramps.
"Well, what do you want?" demand
ed Carmelius.
"Them. pies," responded the. spokes
man of the hungry looking crew, with
a significant jerk of the thumb to
ward the pantry. "We see some of 'em
on the -winder sill and we smelt -'em."
BD1C1TE
Old Carmelius shrank a little, In
spite of himself. The farm house was
at a distance from the village. The
nearest neighbor was Will Camp's
father. The tramps were young, vigor
ous and desperately hungry. Besides,
there were four of them.
lou can have one pie," said
melius at length, prrudKinelv.
Car-
"Thank ye, boss, but we'd prefer 'em
all," was the cool reply. "One pie
wouldn't go far with us fellers."
Carmelius' whole soul rose up In de
fense of his precious pies. "You can't
have 'em," he said, doggedly. "Get
out!" And he shut the door in the
tramps' faces and locked it.
Scarcely had he returned to his terri
fied wife and daughter, when there
was a grating sound in the pantry.
The pies were being removed from the
sill of the open window! Then the
three plainly heard a man climb over
the sill and drop down Into the pantry.
There was no strategy about It The
tramps understood their physical ad
vantage, and they wanted the pies.
Carmelius opened the pantry door
and looked in. A man stood with his
back toward him, stowing pies away
in an old sack. Three fierce, intent
faces filled up the open window space.
Carmelius shut the door, stamped
across the kitchen and banged the table
savagely with his fist Then he kicked
a chair half way across the room. Few
things were capable of stirring him to
such wrath as the loss of a pie. Final
ly, he unlocked the kitchen door and
limped out to the barn. He stoo
glowering there in the door as the
tramps departed with a sack full of
pies.
A week passed. There had been a
new pie baking day in the interim, and
the Footes were not disturbed. But
when the larder haS once more fallen
empty and was being restocked with
the savory disks, the same gang sud
denly reappeared, and once more lit
erally sacked the pantry. Carmelius
was furious so furious that he went
without pies for a fortnight, hoping
thus to outwit and defeat the tramps;
for he was a man of peace. But not
a ragged outcast appeared during that
time. On the third Wednesday he or
dered a pie baking again, and just as
the last pie was out of the oven the
ragged quartette came slouching into
the farm yard.
Carmelius Foote was harnessing a
horse in the barn when he first saw
them. Stripping off all but the head
stall, he led the horse to the grain box
and climbed from thence to its bare
back. Then he thundered out of the
barn and down the road.
In an amazingly short space of time
he was seen returning, seated at Will
Camp's side in the hitter's Kght buggy.
Will had his soldier clothes on. and his
gun rested agaiust the edge of the seat
between the two men. The buggy rat
tled into the farm yard and Will Camp
leaped out, leaving Carmelius to hitch
the horse to the fence with his slow
old fingers. The young soldier burst
into the house just in time to see the
tramp in the pantry crawling over the
sill after a sack of pies which he had
delivered to his companions. Will
Camp appeared at the window, with
his Springfield rifle at his shoulder:
"Set down that bag and git!" he cried,
with a vernacular snap lacking to pro
per military language. The tramps
dropped their sack -with a great clatter
of crockery, and ran helter-skelter for
the -woods.
Amber and Will were standing side
by side, laughing happily, when Car
melius Foote, ex-peace advocate and
exemplar, came into the kitchen, flush
ed and chuckling.
"They might just as well have taken
the pies," he said. "I don't know
who'd touch 'em now. But we!ye
saved the plates anyhow, and I reckon
by the way they skedaddled, the dlrt
rascals will never turn up again. Moth
er, hadn't you better ask Will to sta;
to tea ?" Portland Transcript
Where Pure Air Is Found
The chemical composition of the
mosphere differs little, if at all, where
ever the sample be taken; whether it be
on the high Alps or at the surface of the.
sea the relation of oxygen to nitrogen
and other constituents Is the same. The
favorable effects, therefore, of a change
of air are not to be explained by any
difference in the proportion of its gas5
eous constituents. One ImpmtEhnt dif
ference, however, is the bacteriologic
al one. The air of high altitudes con
tains no microbes, and Is, In fact ster
ile, while near the ground and some 100 "
feet above It microbes are abundant
In the air of towns and crowded places
not only does the microblc Impurity in
crease, but other impurities, such as
the products of combustion of coal, ac
crue also. Several investigators have
found traces of hydrogen and certain
hydrocarbons in the air and especially
in the air of pine, oak and birch for-
ests. It IS to uiese uuuies, uuuuuess.
consisting of traces of essential oils, to,
which the curative properties of cer
tain health resorts are ascribed.
Thus the locality of a fir forest is said'
to give relief in diseases of the respira
tory tract. But, all the same, these
traces of essential oil and aromatic pro
ducts must be counted, strictly speak
ing, as impurities, since they are not
necessary constituents of the air. As
recent analyses have shown, these
bodies tend to disappear in the air as
a higher altitude is reached, until they
disappear altogether. It would seem,
therefore, that microbe, hydrocarbons
and entities other than oxygen and nit
rogen, are only incidental to the neigh
borhood of human industry, animal
life, damp and vegetation.
Shocking
"How many youthful criminals there..
are nowadays."
"Oh. that's nothing new. lears ago.
the leader of all the pirates was only a
KIdd." Philadelphia Bulletin. .
What the world really needs is an
eleventh commandment: Thou shaiif
not gossip.
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