fhe Week-Ender, (By ofarlyle Smith.) tf love it when old Jonesey weekend visits me! He's such a brilliant chappy! as lively as can Prom Friday unti &it around the With just one solemucholy holds his for the He's be, Monday place he set expression tongue so you'd think somehow he'd got it glued; And never doth he ope his mouth except to swallow food; perchance he stoops it make you think with joy Of melancholy little Binks, the under. taker's boy. He fast And same of bridge. cards. little knows bards. not Me never learned the He doesn’t care He se¢idom bout ame ¥ -ather zu foolish chasing sbout a silly links ards duffer loth for reads, nation s f he 80 the The does play. thinks rubber gol UNS he balls he's a and he al irs the ended from Goth iren, Wers and for des Vandal the t care chil phonographs, As though de. and some es his evi fallow He taste, For gardeni: deems I ever he can buy And when jonese And as for mu . things he's ne Because he reall) tamount to ouldn’t get sash In And as riding some folks thinks it is any time of You the for He ive Ww Jonesey ous YVeekly A Coward BY ANN PORTER A DLE LEDS DLADELEDZADLENLE ou Er em : ben fore “ Norris, nate 4 de looking out of tempe there is a angrily, giving push with her strong dour suddenly ope ned appeared very red an breath, as if she had “How many times do you expect to hear the ring before you fit to answer?” Miss S demand. ed The door i ne prot ied hous vers and vel not none, ghie Said fast forefinger. and a mald out : running Narm believe SOU al the bell a fierce quite geen bell phia “Ex but 1 out in Helen's looked f(rightened mum,” she sald, the bel | was t Miss girl me, hear hanging on and mind,’ cuss didn't the yard white NEVe irate lady “Are any of “Yes, mum: pooin’ her hair Miss Sophia ser” she dress rr interrupted ns she entered the family at home?’ Miss Helen sham- on the back porch.” frowned “I will said the is to “Sally, an old out, I saw a. laughing voice called was it a book agent? Look lady with 2a tract.” smile at Bally, but her expression quickly changed when she beheld her aunt gazing grimly at her. “Why Aunt Sophia,” she said, as she rose with outstretched hand. “This is a surprise.” The old lady glared at her. “Hein Norris, you st have heard that bell. Why didn't you answer it?” “Dear Aunt Sophia, I couldn't go to the door. Can't you see my stream- fpg hair? The fact is while you were ringing the bell 1 was wringing my hair. Sally was wringing out my white dress; in fact, we were all wringing.” She smiled mis oblevcusly into her aunt's face. “Where Is your father?’ aquiray agent or an old business Mildred and will is in Boston and will not return is at a picnic down be home at 5. “Your father gasped Aunt on tonight. river “Father " night?” darted the She gone for Sophia, dear, 1 have $2000 in with me-—it came too late to bank and my diamond necklace. 1 was going to Boston tomorrow to have it mended. What shall we do? Not a man in the house” Miss Norris groaned. Helen turned a little pale. “Do no! Aunt Sophia,” she said; “noth ing ever hmppens in Cliffville and no here ever burgles.” “Why didn't you go to nic?” demanded her aunt a er as they sat together in chamber “I did river, vou the little the pic. lat- guest not want to. It down know, and 1 am was afraid of always sald. nice, “You she of wonder snorted. Helen,’ boats, afraid the dark-—I go timid?” help it)” returned coward; | know it, rooted ly although [ coniess ometimes, NOW nt Aunt St were 3 “Afraid afraid makes “1 can't “1 am a seems to be yphia coward, of of what vou Helen but ‘t too dee to be overcome am rather dear, | able Hetl now, ashamed make leave son take must myself pres will e nap, as yt and uu must b tired in discovered % nu aunt BOM have large amount « vith her should 8 her must but SHlowiy i she began rom her hair The dragged like hours an brain refused to Work had taken the last begun to braid came gaogsed her sien over to the tal NRE h aiso had a thoughtfully gazing at re (whic she stood he reflection Then she stood and a glass gmail pitcher on a smali table nea 4.0 ured sd After gaid alc v hich the bed ye of 1 wat she nasty! It's as dying of thirst her and If she only Once in the hall she to the door of her room, softly. and removing the gently locked it on the outside gped down the wide stair case and darted into the librar Carefully she closed and locked the door, and after turning np one of the electric lights sp to “Give me the police breathed. “This is Mr. No 52 Chestnut street. There is the house. Hurry!’ After whe had hung up the re another feeling of faintnesz so! must not faint” bathing her face water from the glass the table embrasure contents How warm as milk She sein the thi it of lock door! tiptoed quietly open ed it Very then she ney ed the telephioue she with the which she |he of had placed on slip ped into the gireet few moments of anguished ning swiftly up the street. Stumbling library door she managed to unlock it nolselessly. In a trice she was at the front door fumbling with jock. Just then a pistol rang out from the top of the stairs and with a last violent effort she wrenched open the door and admit ted the policemen. She then darted behind the deor and pressed the elec tric vealed by the brilliant light was the form of a rough looking man with 2 smoking revolver in his hand. A sound ws of rushing water filled her ears and ghe sank fainting to the floor, As Helen slowly regained cone sciousness half an heur later, she heard the volee of her aunt as from a greaf distance, “And to think ! called her a coward. The darling, brave girl! 1 am ashamed of my gel. 1 would have been robbed and murdered in my bed had it not been for ner pluck. 1 always thought she wan more like the Norrises thay the Bailéys. As mon as 1 get that neck J give Boston lace mended 1 sball She bas earned it.” Post. WHY WOOD DECAYS. Government Seeks fonaing Life of Timber. Piles driven by the hut Baltic centuries ago are as when first placed. coffins in which the Ej thelr dead still condition after of service longevity of timber under two extremes climate and conditions has naturally what causes wood and bac which their nour Organisms is sound The ptians buried ure in perfect of thousands VOArs The these Of moisture made decav? teria, live in ishment ire =o quired results in of feet railroad bill running up the farmer who spends a s0 dollars a fo drawing npon experts in efforts to learn and people ask The low is, fungi plant the and draw from it. The little little that a microscope Is re- see them, their work the destruction billlons thober and the itg cross-lie figures and hundred or fence posts the Knowl parts of the the answer forms wood of life tO vet of of each year with nto seven corporation Vea are ali edge all most factory world economical satis of preserving wood against ini oads of deca Wer periments road com in proi mine #ls and trans. Fores ne mE props, States NEVADA'S IRRIGATION PLAN Wealth Will Than Come From the From the Mines, it is Planned. More Soil Nevada has two sources of and outstrip the its soll and mines will probably when fully des The old dead the Tonopah now being which will pay The new pah and Goldfield have been hurt { manipuiatorz, but new district to be injured permanently gtrin develon this vear the latte; gation practically FOTINe: by ir eloped mines ore Comstock unless good present and pil In good camps below but in mines ar shape 10r found level, Goldfield working dividen Js ‘Ors around Ton wildoa tha rich financial the but progress too The hurt mines, great Truckee-Carson the Government w promi to do mois its The so’ rich and water upon it any rop may profitably, More than 200,990 brought under irrigation from the Truckee River are now being made in addition to irrigation the which drop 1.000 feet from furnish enor Reno is the Nevada and is Se TIOUs promises The ect, on rigation pro which n epend $9 000.000, ¢ iva mines when SS very brought Dey gown 1CTIes are canals ings uy Fo on this will power. centre electric commercial of in two years. The men all the time. cific the roadbed is being rapidly built Pulled out on ‘Potatoes. “Irish potatoes have Leen the hap py agency of keeping many of our year,” sald Mr. E. W. Brown, a busi- ness man, of Suffolk, Va., at the Ren: nert. “They were the only paying crop our farmers have connected woth this season, In the Norfolk dis. trict thousands upon thousands of tons of cabbages have been plowed up because they were at too low a price to send to market. Lettuce, kale, spinach, tomatoes——everything in the vegetable line —has been a fallure owing to bad weather conditions “nly in potetoes have the landowners obtained a docent return for all their rfl and expouse. A fair crop of the Murphys’ was made and tolerably good prices were secured.” ‘ THEIR DOINGS AD THEIR « SAYINGS HOW When ther 'ARPETS. carpets put un You ne