Si CR The Umpire. Who is it, reckless of his fame And deaf to veils of praise or blame, Unmoved by glory or by shame, Hands down decisions on the game? spheres, Projected by the hand that steers queers, cheers from grand stand throngs or bleach- ers jeers, Do not affect his hopes or fears? His Umps. Who faces thousands every Ranged ‘round the grounds array, All with a hot desire to slay day in fierce Not in accordance with thelr way, No matter what they want and say! Who Who carries Who simply thing? pennants in a sling? runs the whole 1s Umps. -W, J. New York Times. Lampton, In the 272% 0707s 7s Ter %er a Tar ar Te re The Silence of Patricia ADIOS DLE DEDEDE ADEN Die Challoner and Patricia had driven down to the station to Patricia's cousin Jack off to t« ¥ pretty regret = = = ELIZABETH MASON wertarTerer%e = Ze Win ding loss of her relative, Challoner was happy for the fi in two spend your annual tel in mer home of the girl you a the special intention of things to a crisis before you return to the city, and find balked in every plan of the middle-aged relative no conception of you as a man or a lover, or in fact, as anything human but an opponent at who did not dare offend being rude to her eousin, had play gol through all the hours that he had planned weeks, It is aggravating vacation at a ho- the neighborhood of the then to yourself who golf Challoner, precious to spend night train. But Cousin ing first- was and there yet remalned two hours to work in. “Next Jack there week,” sald Cousin fn, “I shall time. But I shall be he added encourag- as the train to go West for a back, my boy” ingly, and play you never saw.” er's diamay, his pocketbook. he should miss the train! “You'll have to hurry, sir” Challoner, pushing him a little in Jack pulled out one of and upon him. "Keep this to remind you of that match,” he said. Cramming case, Challoner fa’'s relative Sighing with rolled have such a match as you He stopped, to Challon- Suppose, Cous- his cards pressed it tc the card into his own bodily lifted Patrice. onto the moving train relief, he slowly home. nothing said in that remaining hours. Patricia was shy in the first place, and did her best to keep him After all, little time to be sure whether she really did care for him. Between Desi tation and doubt the time wore away. And yet when Challoner one but him. He could not believe as he had left her, he held her hand a moment in his, she had flushed and piled the hand away. “Patricia” be had sald, much. Will you wear {t-—for me?” Her smile had satisfied him. he refused curtly, Why, man, watch!” Challoner thought bitterly, think PAVZAN NANDA acknowledged it. Day after day he had waited for a letter that had not come, and at last it had come to | wim that she had only been amusing herself with him and had never cared anyway. “You Jack, “L suppose 1 may as well,” thought Challoner. “I'll show her that It { hasn't hurt me." So it happened that early the next { day Challoner was driving up to | Patricia’'a house in the same dog cart that had held him and Patricia that last day. But this time he was sur. rounded by Cousin Jack and his bags and his golf sticks. Her mother met them and sent them up to thelr rooms, where Challoner made a care- ful toilet and nerved himself to be coolly polite when he should meet Patricia. When he went downstairs | she was just coming up the steps. | She stopped when she saw him and { gasped a little. Challoner that she was thinner than usual and | that her mouth drooped, but he stop. " must come,” urged Cousin | ped a sudden rush of tenderness that | surged over him at sight of her, stern- | 1y. Politely he shook hands with her i and placed a chair for her before he | sat down himself. They exhausted the subject of the weather, the heal in town, the Yacht Club's latest din- ner dance and latest book Pa- tricia looked a little pathgtic as lunch near, but Challoner still } smiled feily and seemed quite come | fortable. It was a reHef to both of | them when Cousin Jack appeared, fus- sing over his golf sticks and making inquiries as condition of the course, “1 suppose Patricia, drew | the | time drew i to the you got note,” said she greeted She Challoner's locket from a fold in her frock and touched it lov. ingly ‘It was the most beautiful gift 1 had and I thought it was so good of you to remember my birthday Cousin Jack looked puzzled, but his amazement was nothing to Challon- ashamed to say it,” faltered forgot my Hive aim out er's cousin, “but I you What jooket? Pa- Patricia's had a makes birthday altogether you think gent the “Your card was in tricia. Then sald Challoner saw it all Upon that afternoon when he was so anx- | lous get rid Cousin he { must have put his card in among his noticin he must Same Car Pa- ia's gift when he sent it down. | This explained everything. He was | 80 happy that he was capable of any | hilarity, but it was unfortunate that the relief found vent in a shout of laughter. because Patty found that al | most too much to bear, and tearing off the locket. flung it upon the floor and ran out of the room. Challoner eagerly told Cousin Jack all about it and promised to play un- | limited matches with him if he would patch things up with Pa- S80 Cousin Jack, taking up the locket, went on his er Later Challoner stood for Patricia to of Jack without that and put own, have into trie rid help him i tricia | troublesome ! rand of peace. hall and walted came slowly down the | stalrs. The locket was in its place | again and then and there they made i it up. “I'm sure 1 don't understand, even | now.” began Patricia. pensively. | Challoner sald he thought he could explain things satis taction. and as a preliminary he put his arms about Patricia.—Boston Post. in the { as she very to everybody's Wife-Made Men, The first passion of a woman Is her love for her children. Is that true? { If it is true, her second passion Is her desire to make a man of hgr hus band. We hear much about self-made { men. It might do us good to hear more about wife-made men There 13 a lot of them. Many of the best men | in the world-—-the greatest in states | manship, science, art and literature— have freely acknowledged their In- debtedness to women. Perhaps to their wives they are indebted-—pos- sibly to other women. A wise wife is she who completely fills her function, being comrade and If she doesn’t i do it. some other woman may. Not every wife earnestly seeks to be a helpful companion. Not every one who tries succeeds. The wife who contribues to her husband's uplift and helps to enlarge his vision must not be denied high credit for his career. The best part of many a man is the femininity which comes from his wife. High character which counts for his success may have orig {nated in her. His ideals may have some from her; to her he may owe his purposes. And her joy in it is exquisite. This is a woman's greatest work, next to the rearing of her children--if i* is second to that. And in all great work there is keen pleagure.—Wilkesbarre Times Leader, i source of inspiration. Rural Philosophy. “Hery,” sald Farmer Hay, “I sea that since ye have come back from eHllege yo wear yer hair spliced right down the middle. Now, hyur's all I have to say: If ye expect ter feed out o y trough, ye got to let yer mane fall on one side."—Puck. Musical Criticism. “Can he sing well?” swell, I'll tell you. He offered to sing the baby to sleep the other night, and his wife sald: ‘No, let her keep on crying’ "—Cleveland Leader - = the postal savings banks . 7/4 £77 / Lr 1S or / 7 74 S 1 / Y 77% London Arbitration of President Murray Butler, of Columbia Univer- sity. in which he described Great Bri- of “present-day emotional insanity.” has been strikingly confirmed during the past week Sensational of German alrships, i i lar, thousands of German waiters and hair dressers eagerly anticipating the Emperor's signal to deliver England to an invading army of their fellow countrymen, have been the main fea- tures of the newspapers throughout the country, The Mauser myth, to which atten- tion was first called by Sir John Bar- low. has been contempuously dis missed by War Secretary Haldane in the House of Commons as ‘an excep. tionally silly story,” but it has been quite surpassed by accounts of myth- {eal nocturnal visitations of a Ger- man airship. The phanton “Flying Dutchman™ soon developed into a large fleet, the competing papers vouching for accuracy of their stantially the detailing maneuvres rious places on the east and west coasts, and even in Ireland. Captains of Incoming have been credited with statements they exchanged flare signals with the aerial visitor in the North Sea, and some newspapers went so far as to insinuate that the “scare ship’ had {ts home on a German war. ship now in the "North Sea at maneu- vres, to which it returns after its nightly flight. Descriptions of the secret fly-by-night became more and more graphic, until certain advertis- ers, who had been experimenting with model airships attached by ropes to motor cars, confessed their part in the affair and exploded the various theories, Meanwhile, Germany, as evidenced by the comments in the German pa- pers on the latest panic, came to much the same conclusion as Presi dent Butler. Contempt, disgust and impatience have been the prominent notes in the German editorials, which pleture England as “the home of mere fiervous degenerates, who are yielding themselves up to a frenzy, unworthy even of a decaying coun. try.” steamers London. —" Our army is a sham! We have no army!” exclaimed Fleld Marshal Lord Roberts earnestly in a debate in the House of Lords upon the Duke of Bedford's motion for an inquiry into the condition of the re- serve. Earl Roberts, who is known to favor compulsory military train- ing, declared that he was amazed at the manner in which both houses treated the army as a party question { and at the apathy of the nation re- garding military defense. The na- tion, he said, did vot believe in the danger of invasion, and no wonder, for thelr leaders told them there was ‘no fear of it. He added: “I know perfectly well that the feaders in both houses are anxious ahout the future, but they do not tell the country that ®e have neither an i army to send abroad nor to defend the country at home. While we are sitting here, taking It easily and comfortably, the danger is coming nearer and: nearer to us dally, and unless you cease telling the people they are living in safety and get an army fit to deal with any enemy we shall one day come to such utter grief that you will bitterly regret your in- action. “It is a perfect marvel to me how anybody can see what is going on around us in Europe and be content with the condition of our army. country in the world would attempt to defend itself with the pancity of men and with the untrained mien we have got. You will never have a real army until you have taken the nation int your confidence and tell them their danger. You may think you are safe, but yon are not. Be frank and tell the nation what is before them, They will respond.” His admonitions were addressed to the Government representatives, New York City.—The Corn Prod- uets Refining Company, of which E. T. Bedford, of the Standard Ol Com- pany, is president, and in which James A. Moffett, F. Q. Barstowe and Charles M. Pratt are directors, and Willlam: Rockefeller and the late H ' H. Rogers were generally understood to be largely inferested, is likely to go into the retall candy business. As has been generally known, the directors at their last meeting took the preliminary steps toward starting a project for utilizing the glucose manufactured in the company's | plants by establishing candy fao- | tories. This step, it was sald recent. ‘ly, is likely to be followed by the | retalling of the product of the fac- | tories, through a company yet to be | organized, in its own stores. The | candy business has recently seen in a | smaller way signs of approaching organization on the modern lines of combination, but this step will be far 1 in advance of anything yet suggested. One of the principal ingredients in the making of candy Ip these days manufactures between seventy-five and eighty-five per cent. of all that is consumed in the United States. if the Corn Products Refining Com- pany uses its glucose in its own candy factories and sells the product in its own stores, then the smaller and hitherto Independent candy come nies, such as Huyler's, Loft's, the irror and Re 's, will either have to go into the bigger concern or coms pete with it, if they can. Members of the National Confee- tioners’ Association, who discussed the situation—and there were many who pike freely on the subject in out that the candy trade in the United States looked as though it were going to take a similar course to that already taken by this coun try's tobacco trade. | Original Honest Man Lives the Great State of Towa, Des Moines, Iowa.—Willlam Wil gon, a laboring man of thix eity, found $120 in greenbacks under a tin weeks ago. Did William Wilson spend that $1207 No, he did not. He turned it over to Justice of the Peace Roe made an affidavit as to how he found the money, and that's why he is called Town's Original Hanest Man. Wiljon was pidkiag ushroomas Bn vor Creek when he made Sea Cuts Away Great Stretches of Cape Cod Coast. 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