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FREE LAND, PA.. FEHKUARYI4,IOO2. NEW ShORT STORIES Politeness a Handicap. H. It. Slicffeld, the fullback, came up from Princeton the other Sunday to address the West Side Young Men's Christian association at Princeton, and in illustration of one of his remarks lie # told an interesting anecdote of the football Held. Fisher, the giant center of the Princeton team, was unable to make the team at first, for, while he had the requisite physique for a fine player, he seemed to lack that essential element known in football parlance as "finger." We could not understand this de ficiency in him," said Mr. Sheffield, "until one day in practice a couch who had kept liis eye on him noticed that he stopped and begged the pardon of his opponent for going at him in such an enthusiastic fashion in one of the mass plays. Fisher's fault was dis covered. He was too polite. lie had always been very gentlemanly and courteous off the field, but on the grid iron there is not room for much polite ness." Fisher was instructed to play hard and clean and beg no man's pardon for it. He obeyed and made the team. —New York Times. Hnd It Iu III* Pocket. Representative Dalzell was discov ered pacing uneasily up and down the ways and means committee room one day recently. "What's the matter," asked Repre sentative McClellan. "You seem to be nervous." "I am nervous," replied Mr. Dalzell. "I'm going to speak on this Philippine tariff bill. I always have stage fright for hours before a speech. "And that reminds me," he contin ued. "Years ago President McKinley "THE Diri'KBENCE BTTTWEEN US IS THIS." and 1 were waiting at a hotel to be driven t© a hall where we were botli announced to speak. Mr. McKinley sat calmly smoking his cigar, while 1 was pacing up and down just as 1 am now. " 'Major,' I said, 'don't you ever get nervous before speaking? You are as cool as a cucumber, and I'm as nerv ous as the valedictorian of a young ladies' seminary.' "'.My dear Dalzell,' he replied, 'the difference is this—you have got your speech in your head, and I've got mine ill my pocket.' "—Washington Post. No Flnltery. Miss Honmley—l understand you do very handsome work and make very pretty pictures. Photographer Yes'm, but I could give you an exact likeness if you wish. Philadelphia Press. Awful SiißTKCNtion. Ever think what a terrible lot of ex planations and apologies it would cause if ail the husbands and wives who have been dead as long as ten years were permitted to come back?— Atchison Globe. Perfectly Safe. Pushful Suitor—l>o you know, some people say kissing is dangerous. Coy Maiden Nonsense! Why, papa Is fast asleep! Philadelphia North American. OASTOHIA. Bear, the jS Tlie Kinll Haw AI|M ' S I PINK BjJdriaa 1 s STRING '-"H ! PROMISES | ft* o*V Copyright, IC-01,byA. L. Potter. ij <l<44<<4<44<4 Wot It was good to bo back in the club house. good to receive the smiling greetings of the ebony servitors in the halls and the cloakroom, good to hear the clink of glasses and the shouts of j laughter from a distant cardroom. So thought I tick Dean as he pi used iu the reading room and gazed with satisfaction at the rich furnishings in j the mellow lamplight. Ills trip abroad j had done him a world of good. He was 1 ready to take up the old life with new J vigor. Suddenly the light died out of bis face. Who was that speaking? Wliiteleuf? Yes, that was Whitelcaf, the banker. "Jonas Ncrden will be the next may or of this city, gentlemen. Ho was premised it last fall, and today the di rectors of The Daily Times voted to support him as the candidate in the coming caucus." Dean stood motionless, bis eyes fixed on the curtained doorway leading into a small committee room, an ominous light Hashing from his deepset eyes. Whiteleaf was the acknowledged party boss. "That will be merry music for Dean to hear when he lands," remarked a second speaker. "He told me just be fore lie sailed that you bad promised him your support during the coining campaign." "Well," drawled Whiteleaf. "things have changed. The welfare of the par- ! ty and—er—that North Benson fran chise call for a different chap than Dean for our candidate for mayor. But, mark my words, Dean will take his medicine like a little man. He'd never desert tin* gang. Besides, 1 did not promise; just hinted that he was in line for the lightning to strike—a sort of pink string promise. He'll land an office some day. lie's young." "Yes, hut suppose the buzzing bee de mands honey?" The curtains parted, and Dean stood before the astonished politicians. "He does demand it, gentlemen. I am here to exact of Mr. Whiteleaf the fulfillment of that promise—pink strings or no pink strings!" Whiteleaf was the first of the quar tet to recover his composure. He was mentally calculating just how much of the conversation Dean had heard. "Glad to see you, Dick. Didn't look for you before the middle of the month. What will you have?" ''Nothing," replied Dean. Ignoring the outstretched hand, "until you have ex plained the meaning of the speech I unfortunately overheard." "Come, come, my hoy. don't be hot headed. You have had enough experi ence in wirepulling to know that all is fair in love, war and polities." "A promise given and received in good faith should stand in love, war or politics. When I withdrew from the nomination in favor of Jenkins two years ago, you gave me a promise. Do you intend to redeem it?" Whiteleaf quailed before the angry young man and glanced uneasily at his colleagues. "Think of the welfare of your par ty"— "Will you redeem that promise?" in terposed Dean inexorably. Whiteleaf lost his temper. "I'll do as I darn please!" "That's all I want to know," replied Dean, with a calmness that should have warned the red faced banker of impending catastrophe. Then he walk ed back to the cloakroom, donned his raglan and went forth iulo the black, drizzling night. A moment later he met a young polit ical worker in his party. They had been schoolmates. Now one was a rich manufacturer, the other a wage earn ing mechanic. Daniel Porter was lead er of a certain faction of the party, so the manufacturer halted the mechanic, and as their hands met the rich man said: "Dan, I'm out for the nomination this fall. Are you with me?" "Every minute, on conditions." "Can you swing the boys into line?" "Yes, if you'll do business." "What do you mean?" "Square yourself on certain points." "Name them." "The city laborers want a fifteen cent a day raise in pay, the boys want Colo nel Handyside for city marshal, and they want M. J. King appointed on the board of license commissioners, and, of course, you'll be expected to remember your friends when it comes to other ap pointive officers. That is about all my end of the combine wants." "And that is about all there is to be had, Isn't It?" asked Dean, with a smile. "Oh, there's a few more things we may think of later. llow do the ones mentioned hit you?" "I am favorable to the city granting its laborers more pay. Colonel Handy side would make an admirable mar shal. There can he no doubt as to Mr. King's qualifications for a seat on the license board, and I should most cer tainly, if elected, favor my friends as fur as possible." "Say, Dick, you're just like all the rest of the silk stocking politicians." "llow so, Dan?" Porter tossed his cigar stub into the gutter, squared his shoulders, thrust his hands into his trouser pockets and answered: "Just thin way: A fellow like me, with a little bit of a pull with a few hundred voters, runs up against n man like you who wants us to help elect him. We ask him right out plump to promise us ccrtuiu favors, und it'a |T> j • rate*?! MOST LITTLE BA 111 ES I>IE, either from bowel troubles or from diseases which they contract because they are in a weak and feeble condition from bowel troubles. Mothers who are seeking the ideal and proper medicine to give their little ones for consti|>atiou. tliarrhiea, colic and simple fevers will lind LAXAKOLA the great family remedy. It is the best and most effective laxative for children. BEST t>eeause it Is safe and made entirely of harmless ingredients. BEST because it is non-irritating and never gripes or causes pain or irritation. BEST because it is sure and never fails. BEST because " Children like it and ask for it." It is a dangerous thing to give little babies violent remedies that rack and rend their little bodies. DON'T DO IT—give them LAXAKOLA. A few drops can be given with safety to very young babies, and will often relieve colic by exjelling the wind and gas that cause it, and it also will check simple fevers, break up colds and clear the coated tongue. Great relief is experienced when administered to young children suffering from diarrhu-a. accompanied with white or green evacuations, from the fact that LAXAKOLA neutralizes the acidity of the bowels and carries out the cause of fermentation, aids digestion, relieves restlessness, assists nature and induces sleep. LAXAKOLA V ,p FO HWO ME N. quickens the circulation, removes muddy andblotched . ondition oMhe'skhi* and . ores'sick'he".lielie *o *! rr ballovvnessof the skin and dyspepsia, I.axak-da will invariably bring reliefand'a M*edy cure"" 5 " 658 ' ' ,i ' ziness " At druggists. 35c.and 50c., cr send fur free sample to THE LAXAKOLA CO., 133 Nassau Street, N. V., or 3 56 Heart>orn Street, Chicago. nine times out of ten a case of yes with a string on it." "I Uo not understand how this ap plies to me." "Well, then, I've told you that we'll turn out and tight for you If you'll agree to do certain things, but you're unwilling to give us an out and out promise in return for our help for fear some of your rich club friends will trot out the hammer. Old Wliiteleaf led us into Jenkins* camp two years ago, and we got it in the neck. Our necks are l'ull of bumps, and tills year we won't accept any pink string promises. If you want to land in the mayor's chair, you've got to do business 011 the level. If you agree to that, we'll deliver the goods, and, 1 tell you frankly, we won't unless you do." "I understand now, Dan, what you mean exactly, but 1 do not feel that I should give pledges. It seems too much like"— "You want to be mayor, don't you?" "Yes. but 1 want to win honestly." "Weil, now, if you want to be mayor, let your friends make your platform and go into the tight and win 011 It or lose. Half the rottenness of municipal politics would be done away with if tills rule were followed, for the win ning platform would have to lie for the best interests of the city, or the people wouldn't have it." '.'You are quite a municipal student, Dan." "Do you agree with my theory?" "I must." "Then all you'll have to (lo is to do ride us to who you want for platform builders. Lot thorn submit it to you. If you fool you ran honestly carry out sis nn executive what the platform de clares for, sign it. Let it be published in the newspapers, and the majority of the voters will decide on election day whether the platform is of sound or rot ten timber. Let members of the city government be elected 011 the same platform, and there will be a backbone to your administration—men working under orders from the people, and not a lot of puppets wiggled about by a 'clique of moneyed men, as is the case ut present. What is your opinion?" "My opinion is that your views are quite correct, but your associates and mine might differ greatly as to plat form plunks and"— "Call together some of your friends two melt from each ward, rick out men of intelligence, irrespective of wealth or social standing. Toll them what you wish thorn to do. The plat form will be drawn up by majority rule, and the voters will decide wheth er it is for the city's host Interest or not. Doing tliis. you establish a prec edent. The opposition party will he compelled to follow suit, and each side will strive to present in future years the host platform possible for the peo ple's consideration." "By Jove, Dan, your argument has won ine, and I'll do it!" "You will?" "Yes, and I want you to serve on this —this platform committee from ward 3. 1 leave It to your good judg ment to select for me u man from each of the other wards. I will name a man In each ward myself, and a meeting will be arranged for Thursday even ings at the Worthy House. We will try this municipal scheme of yours, aiid, win or lose, I will cheerfully abide by the result." Greenville Whiteleaf satnt his break fast Friday morning scanning the col umns of Ids morning paper. The ta ble girl entered the dining room In time to see him tear a page from the paper and, after kicking his chair aside, hastily leave the room. From the mo ment of leaving his breakfast table un til the closing of the ward caucuses, nearly a month later, the old banker worked incessantly for the defeat of Dick Dean and the success of Jonas Nordon. Money was used freely, hut many of those who accepted it went into the caucuses and, protected by the secret ballot system, east their vote for the man who had dared to say what lie would do if elected. The banker's protege was buried by a vote of two to oue. A Sedentary Promotion. A certain politician, whose lifelong aim had been to become one of the judiciary of his stale, after unnum bered years of persistent wirepulling at last attained executive appointment to the coveted honor. After three or four months of official service an ad miring acquaintance remarked of him: "The judge sits the bench like a man of long experience, doesn't lie?" "Why shouldn't he?" returned a by stander. "lie lias passed about fifteen years on the anxious seat."—Richmond Dispatch. Us Descent. f j) L "All, a rare work of art! Handed down by some ancestor, 1 suppose." "No; that was handed <1 >wn by an auctioneer."—New York .Journal. All Sort* of Fool*. "You are the biggest fool I know!" exclaimed one schoolboy to another. To both of whom the master, then appearing, said, "Boys, you forget I am here." "Oh." added the first boy, who felt that his statement demanded support, "you are not such a big fool as you look." Then there was more trouble.—Phil adelphia North American. Why He Bolted. At one of the clubs one evening Mr. Montagu Williams met Lord , who had Just lost his father. The young lord was naturally melancholy, and the lawyer proposed visiting a theater opposite, which proposition was ac cepted. There was a slight fire in the theater, whereupon the young lord was among the first to bolt, "like a rabbit," out of the building. Returning leisure ly to the club, Mr. Williams found there his young friend quietly smok ing a cigar. "What on earth made you bolt that way? You seemed frightened out of your wits (not a difficult matter, per haps). Don't you know that on such an occasion if everybody got up and rushed out a panic would ensue, with very likely fatal consequences? Why on earth couldn't you sit still, as I did? There was nothing serious the mat ter." Upon this, with the most pat ronizing air, the young gentleman re plied, "Oh, yes, that's very well for you, but you've not just succeeded to a peerage and £20,000 n year." Frnurnnl Wood. Few of our native trees have odorif erous wood like the sandalwood of the islands in the Indian ocean, but a few of the conifer© on the Pacific slope have sweet scented woods. The fine church at Metlakatla. built by the civ ilized Indians of Alaska, is as fra grant as if incense were continually floating through the air from the wood of the great arbor vita' (Thuja gigan tea) of \fchich it is built. Liboecdrus docurrens, found farther south, is known as "Incense cedar" from its fragrance. The yellow cypress (Cu prossus nutkaensis) and the Monterey cypress (Cypressus macrocnrpn) have also scented woods. In tlie Atlantic states red cedar and arbor vita? have scented wood.—Median's Monthly. Candy and nuts at Helper's. [lpl i fa m im[¥pi @ mi a irtu & rrtu lb mim? | The Quality! I The Price! IPI 1 The Store! I Three | Potential Points ABOUT OUR BUSINESS to which wo wish r3j to call your attention. They are the three things Ujl that invariably influence all buyers of furnishings, S hats, caps, shots, etc. iggj Concerning THE QUALITY of the goods we Irtil llla ' <e this our first consideration. Our experience |t=j tells us how these should be made, as well as how Li. they are made. Our goods bear the stamp and |tP quality of excellence, merit and good workmanship. lis] hrj Concerning THE PRlCE—there is not an ex £S orbitant priced article in our whole stock. 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