By-.'Opi® Read tB wit k / » ' _3F»* A bird hunter, having become en raped at his dog, seized him by the collar, snatched up a stick and ad ministered to him an unmerciful beat ing. On the fence not far away sat old Lim .Tucklin, and he called to the hunter: "Ry the way, there, when you get through with that dog, and if you ain't in too big a hurry to go some where else, I'd like to say something to you. I have an idea that It may do you good." "I don't know that I've got any too much time for you, old man," the hunt er replied. "Well, I didn't ask for too much time. It won't take me long to tell you what I think." The hunter came slowly forward, and at the same lime two of his com panions, having overheard what had been said, came out of the corn field and. speaking pleasantly to the old roan, waited for him to proceed with their friend. The dog, true to the in stincts of his generous, race, came up to renew his promises of eternal fi delity. "What is it you want with me?" the hunter inquired. "As I said before, I haven't much time." "Ah, hah," replied the old man, "but you've got the time to quit your busi ness whatever it may be and to come over here and to hunt on my land without ever havin' asked for the per mission." "I beg your pardon, sir; I didn't know this was your land.' "Yes, that's the trouble with such fellers as you are—you never know. However, I don't mind your huntin' on my land, but as long as I pay taxes on it you shan't beat your dog on it. Don't be impatient, now, and listen a minute to what I've got to say. I don't set myself up as a lecturer, you understand, but once in a while I drop into a talk, if the occasion brings It up, and the occasion happens to do so just at present. Why did you beat the dog?" "Flushed a bird when he had no business to." "It come out of his eagerness and his enthusiasm I reckon. And while he was a workin' for you, too. Some times you get so excited that you shoot too quick, don't you? Ah, hah, I'll bet you do. Rut you lay It to the keenness of your blood and don't look on it as a crime. But you think that your dog ought to have more self-con trol and a readier exercise of reason than you've got. And, as a general thing, I bet he has." "He's putting it on you. .Tim," said one of the companions. "Go ahead, old man. we'll make him take it." "Oh, there ain't much to take—just a little talk that may not do him any barm. Every man knows that he ougiit ■l've" Been. , Thinking Battell Loomis HAVE often h 112 wondered what / 1 would happen if "I I I some of the ladies I I who unblushingly 1 I meet our gaze in J L the advertising sections of our {MjSS. magazines, and wh o dress no V-V ' v<nter than In 1 summer, were to : invade the body of > their respective •/A \ publications. I \ \ v I think that there would be a v. general rush for tall timber on the part of the self respecting heroes and heroines and —- 1 general utility men and women of the sto-ies, be cause the standard of proper dressing is very different in the first 100 pagetf" of the magazine from what it is In the remaining 250. No one ever seems to be shocked at feeing ladies walking around in the advertising sections in patent under wear. and perhaps no one ought to be shocked —unless it is bachelors —but suppose you read in a serial of Howells' that "Anna Hamlin was in no danger from pneumonia because she always wore common-sense wear ing apparel underneath that which is visible to the outer world" (see how carefully one has to express himself In the body of a magazine?) and a picture of Miss Hamlin were Inserted at that place, one taken from the ad vertising section and with which the whole reading public is familiar. What • chorus of indignant protests would to up from outraged readers at the vulgarization of the magazine. J tell you that circumstances will not to be cruel to an animal, but some times we know a thing so well that we forget It. Some men have passed all their lives lookin' for a big truth and have overlooked all of the little ones. I just want to ask you this: What has that dog got to look forward to except to please you? In the one of your voice he finds the color of life—dark or light. When you frown it is cloudy weather for him; when you smile it doesn't make any difference to him how the rain pours or how the snow flies. He is ready togo with you. The night can't be too dark nor the wind too bitin'. When you want togo out the most cheerful fire would be un comfortable for him. Talk about the influence of a man in his fam ily! Talk about ownership! Why, you own the dog's body and he gladly makes you a present of his soul. The Bible teaches us to for give, and in this the dog is more re ligious than man. You may say that this comes through fear, but the dog is not afraid to give his life for you; and I don't want to hurt your feelin's here on my own land, but I've always noticed that the feller that will beat a dog will cheat a man if he gets a right good chance." "Look here, old fellow, you may be going too far. I never cheated a man I in my life." "And I was goin' to add that the j man that would beat a dog would also j lie—if you give him the chance," said I the old man. "What, and you mean that you have J given me the chance?" | The companions began to laugh and j old Limuel quietly chuckled. "Well, j I'm liberal enough to give a man al | most any sort of a chance he may be j lookin' for. Ey the way, what's your j business?" "I run a coal yard." "Sell coal. Now that can be made \as honest a business as any in the | world. But don't you sometimes guess I at the weight of a ton?" "Well, not exactly guess at it. I've I been in the business so long that I j can come pretty close to a ton by look | ing at it." "Then you guess at it; and did you ever know one of those close guessers i to guess on the wrong side? It's like | the man that makes a mistake in giv | in' change—usually makes it in his own favor. This may be honest, you ! know—makin' a mistake in your own fa ; vor—but it comes out of an underlyin' I principle of selfishness. And, before I | forget it, let me say that I've always j noticed that the feller that beats a j dog is one likely in a perfectly honest j way to short-change you. "A man may be honest as to dollars j and cents and at the same time cruel. continue to alter cases whenever they can—that's what circumstances are (or; and if an impudent young hussy strays in from the advertising pages and dares to stand for Anna Hamlin she will be shown her place at once, because the American public will not stand for anything vulgar. No. indeed! What would happen if another lead ing novelist said in the course of his serial "that Grace Hastings attributed her good health to the fact that she always took a cold bath every morn ing," and the art editor in order to save expense putin that familiar cut of a lady bathing in the Jinkins' port able celluloid bath tub? Why, Anthony Comstock would foam at the mouth. And rightly so. But we are all so grateful at the absence of dialect in the advertising sections of our magazines that we let that lady stand in her tub throughout the 12 months without uttering a word of protest. When I was a child I was taught that It was not nice to speak about corsets. If I had to mention them 1 must call them bodices or stays or —I forget what the third alternative was. I know I used togo out into the backyard and holler "corsets" just be cause I thought it was pretty awful. Hut our advertising men have changed all that. They not only talk about corsets, but they show us pic tures of them, and.to go still further, they show us pictures of them in use. The old convention as to the men tion of corsets has also disappeared from fiction and one might easily come across such a sentence as this: "Miss Postlethwaite had a wasp-like waist and there were not wanting those who suld her corsets caused her agony." Hut what would happen if ft picture of Miss Postlethwaite's boudoir were shown with rouge et ncir (for the CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1908 I knew a man who always paid his debts, but who beat his wife. Honesty and gentleness are not always com panions. But the cruelty that applies to the dog seems to be different from any other sort. When the dog sees by your countenance or understands from your voice that he has don® wrong he throws himself completely on your mercy, and if In his struggles to get away he should bite your hand, the greatest favor you can grant him is to permit him to lick the wound. Just, look at that dog now. No man in the hot sun ever thirsted for water more than he thirsts for a kind word from you. "1 was readin' in a book where an old man says to a king: 'You can shorten all my days, but you can't grant me one hour of life.' Over this dog you've got more power than that, for with a word you can kill his soul or bring It to life. You may arguy that a dog hasn't got a soul, but when a man is possessed in a full degree of the very qualities exhibited daily by t>he average dog we speak of the de velopment of his soul. Dogs fight over a bone. Men fight over money. A dog is deceitful in order that h« may be more pleasant in the eyes of his master. "A dog is the only thing that glori fies his slavery. A hoss works for what he eats. He's always got his mind on the stable. A dog works to give pleasure to his master. He Is the only animal that enjoys a joke because the man does. He studies a man so close that he is a mind reader. When you get up of a mornin' he knows your temper the moment he sets eyes on you. Old man Cartwright out here declared that his dog knew in a mo ment when he had professed religion; and Cartwright told me, says he: 'The dog quit chasin' rabbits on Sunday, after this. He'd walk about the yard as solemn as any presidin' elder you ever saw, but the minute I cussed a cow and lost my religion, one Sunday, why the dog he jumped over the fence and started out trackin* a rabbit.' Well, make friends with your truest friend there, and go ahead." The dog was listening. The hunter turned toward him and smiled. The grateful animal leaped forward with his eyes beaming, strove to embrace his master, and then, with new spirit, sprang over the fence to take up his neglected work. "Old gentleman," said the hunter, "I'm not as bad a fellow as you think 1 am." "Oh, I guess you're all right, but you are so bent on your own enjoyment that you don't think enough of others, and I want to say that dogs are others." (Copyright, by Opie Read.) cheeks and eyebrows) on her bureau and she herself fitted into one of Hug gem's papier-mache corsets? I know I'd stop my subscription at once. Suppose, for an instant, that an ar tist were told togo to the Metro politan opera house and draw a pic ture of the Four Hundred in their boxes, six in a box, making something like 07 boxes—with the lids off. Sup pose that instead of drawing them in proper evening dress—a dress re quiring 85 degrees Fahr. —he used a lot of pictures from the advertising section and put them in Jigger flan nels, would he keep his position on the staff a moment? No. of course not. That would be a case where to put on more clothes would be to spoil the picture, and no one would recogiJize the Four Hundred at an opera with arctic habiliments upon them. An artist must be true IO nature and he must not be vulgar. A friend of mine who has no regard for people's feelings actually cut out a number of the advertisements in the back of a magazine that has led us onto a higher civilization for 50 yearg or more, and when I saw he had done it I applauded him. I said; "Good, old man; they're better out." But the graceless chap with diabolical ingenui ty fitted each flannel lady and each custodian of the bath into drawing rooms devised by the staff artists of that magazine and I blushed for a good half hour. We Americans will not stand for semi-nudity in the wrong pUice. It's all very well at the opera or at a ball or a swagger dinner, but in the body of a reputable magazine the day will never come when It will be considered respectable. And the advertisers themselves will be the first to agree with me Back to your celluloid tub, oh, lady of the bath! We who ar« reading tba serials will not look upon you. (Copyright, by Jtmtc Pott * Co.) WHERE SHE HAD THE BULGE. Telephone Clrl'a ureat Opportunity to Get Gloriously Even. "You know that red-headed cashier that had the nerve to complain of me to the boss the other day," said the girl at the telephone desk, to a New York Times writer. "Well, I got even with him, all right. He ain't married, but he's got a best girl. His father owns a shoe factory over in Jersey, and rich —my! Well, she called him up the other afternoon at her usual time. 'ls Mr. Smith there?' she asks, In her most romantickist voice. 'Yes,' I answers, just as honeylike as she. 'lt's his wife wants him, isn't it?' With that Miss Girl hung up with such a Jerk my ear hurt. Smith goes around wondering why she does not call him lip. Every time he dares he says to me: 'Has any one called me on the 'phone. Miss Limit?' And I look as in nocent as a kid and shake my head 'No.' I tell you, us telephone girls can turn 'Joy to the Bride' into 'Noth in' Doin'' any time we please. Me for Us." SJFFERED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. With Eczema—Her Limb Peeled and Foot Was Raw—Thought Amputa tion Was Necessary—Believes Life Saved by Cuticura. "I have been treated by doctors for twenty-five years for a bad case of eczema on my leg. They did their best, but failed to cure it. My doctor had advised rne to have my leg cut off. At this time my leg was peeled from the knee, my foot was like a piece of raw flesh, and I had to walk on crutches. I bought a set of Cuticura Remedies. Alter the first two treatments the swelling went down, and in two months my leg was cured and the new skin carne on. The doctor was sur prised and said that he would use Cuticura for his own patients. I have now been cured over seven years, and but. for the Cuticura Remedies I might, have lost my life. Mrs. J. B. Renaud, 277 Mentana St, Montreal, Que., Feb. 20, 1907." TIME TO HUSTLE. Kid—Gee v.'hiz, but er feller feels lonesome in de spring if he ain't got er goil! Cause for Thanks? It was at a social gathering of one of the mutual Improvement societies which help to pass the shir.iug (or otherwise) hour in an edifying man ner. A little singing was to be indulged in by some of the members, and about half-way down the program the name of Miss Molemy-Brown figured. Alas, however, when the time came for her to appear a messenger arrived to say that the lady was suffering from a cold, and. therefore, the chairman had to excuse her to the audience. "Ladies and gentlemen," lie said, "I have to announce that Miss Brown will be unable to sing, as announced, and, therefore, Mr. Green will give us 'A Song of Thanksgiving.'"—St:ay Stories. In a Pir.ch, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. A powder. It cures painful, smart ing. nervous feet and i.igrowing nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating "feet. Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Accept no sub stitute. Trial package, FREE. Ad dress A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Wouldn't Wash It. "What is that young man doing out there?" "Trying to attract my attention with the handkerchief flirtation, I guess." "You do not seem to be respond ing." •'No,lam not his laundress." —Nash- ville American. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use For Over ifO Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Not Recorded. 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"What Is the matter, Jack?" "Boohoo! Catherine says she's de cided I ain't her affinity after all!" She Knew the Place. The elderly matron with the bun dles, who was journeying to a point in Wisconsin, and occupied a seat near { the middle of the car, had fallen I asleep. On the seat in front of her sat a little boy. The brakeman opened the door of the car and called out the | name of the station the train was ap ) proaching. The elderly woman roußed herself with a jerk. "Where are we now, Bobby?" ahe asked. "I don't know, grandma," answered I the little boy. "Didn't the brakeman say something ! just now?" "No. He just stuck his head inside the door and sneezed." "Help me with these things, Bob by!" she exclaimed, hurriedly. "This is Oshkosh. It's where we get off."— Youth's Companion. His Appreciation. When Patrick McGinnagan became a member of the Chicago police force last week, a delegation of his friends burst in upon him while he was at dinner and presented him with a handsome night stick in honor of his | popularity and their esteem. Completely bewildered by this unex pected token, the new policeman nevertheless struggled to his feet and stammered his appreciation. "Frinds, ye have upset me wid y'r kindness," he said, flourishing the i night stick. "Oi'll try an' do me duty wid th's little shfllaly, an' I hope an' thrust thot ivry mon here'll live 112 feel ; its inflooince." An Open Question. Editor —Are you a good critic or a ! bad speller? Musical Reporter—Why do you ! ask? Editor —Because in this report of Signor Growlini you say he is a base singer and that the orchestra soloist la a vile player. MR. 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