Disciplining 8 Junior 112 By VIRGINIA DUPLY HOLTON 1 Allan Wetherell smiled a grim re sponse to his brother-in-law's cheery greeting as the two men met on the 8:53 suburban train. "What's 011 your mind, Al? Is your favorite stock down this morning?" Jennings bantered. "Nothing so easy as that!" Wether ell answered as they found seats to gether. "Fact is, Hugh, I want -to put Junior to work during his summer vacation, and Barbara, so sweetly rea sonable upon all subjects, actually sus pects me of the cruelty of the prover bial stepmother. Why, she acts like a tigress defending its young every time I speak of it!" "And I take it that you mentioned it this morning," Jennings observed with a comical sidelong glance at his companion. "It is a sad commentary upon par ents," Wetherell continued, disregard ing the lighter vein of his brother-in law's remarks, "but it would be better for our children if they were away at school all the year, instead of part of it. Frankly, Hugh, 1 could manage Junior all right alone, but to manage his mother, too, is beyond my talent!" "I see," said Jennings, grasping the situation, but wondering that his wife, who was Wetherell's sister, had shown, in the bringing up of their boy, now grown, none of that consummate perfection in the art of training chil dren that Wetherell so courageously boasted of. "I'll bet Lucy never interfered when you tried to discipline Horace—now, did she?" A quick reflection upon the success his own boy had turned out to be, convinced Jennings that his wife had lot interfered. "No, I must confess that I carried out practically all of my own ideas in Horace's upbringing." Unaccountably his brother-in-law' 3 admission did not bring the comfort Wetherell had counted upon. Some how the words sounded offensively smug. Hang it all! Horace had never been iSIB Even the Dinner Attained to a Rank Above an Every-Day Affair. a boy of much spirit, anyway! Ten to one he had never needed any disci plining! "Junior gets home from school to day. doesn't he?" Jennings inquired, squaring himself to peruse his paper. "Yes, he does, and instead of its being the happy event it should be, it threatens the harmony of the house hold. Why, the young cub regards his vacations as nothing more than long, legitimate entertainments. Vn fortunately for him. we have enough to keep him in idleness and spending money." "Oh, I've known boys to emerge from under even those handicaps," Jennings laughed. "I suppose you refer to your own offspring," the disgruntled Wetherell replied. "I congratulate you to the extent that you had no interference froift a well-meaning but mollycod dling mother!" With the complacence of a man with the credit balance on his side, Jen nings again spread his paper before him. A moment later he was startled from the contemplation of an article by an explosive exclamation from Wetherell. "By Jove! I've an inspiration! T'll get Lucy to help me win Barbara over! I'll ask her to mention h»r thankfulness that she left her boy's hringing up to you. She might also suggest something to the effect that fathers naturally understand boys b<nter--that with little girls it is dif ferent." Wetherell's face had already bright ened with the idea. His spirits took a mercurial leap. "I've a notion to take the next tral/i back and get Lucy togo over to see Barbara before Junior gets home." "Oh, no! no. I wouldn't d« that! Jennings quickly protested. "Why not?" "Because —because," Jennings be gan lamely, "never take any impor tant step without mature considera tion." he finished. "Nonsense, man! That's good* aA vice for some cases, but it doesn't apply to this one. I've a better idea yet. I'll telephone Lucy the ininuto I get. to the oflice!" "What's the use of being in such a hurry about it?" Jennings demanded, now openly exasperated Wetherell looked at him in surprise. "Why, what are you so worked up over?" "I'll tell you what," Jennings laid his hand upon Wetherell's arm as though to detain him, "just leave it to me and I'll fix it for you. I'll see that Barbara gets *he advice if I have to give it to her invself." he declared, implying a magnanimous sacrifice upon his own part. Their conversation quickly veered in another direction as a fellow sub urbanite joined them. That night as Wetherell rounded the corner that brought his house into view, his spirits mounted in anticipa tion of seeing his boy. And when the click of his key in the door brought a veritable yoting athlete in appearance, pouncing upon him with childish affection, Wetherell forgot the deaded issue in the sublim ity of that moment. As he regarded the handsome, boy ish face before him, with its fearlessly frank eyes, he came more nearly than ever before to an understanding of his wife's tender solicitude for the boy. Barbara's kiss and smile of wel come seemed if anything a little hear tier than usual this evening, as though doubly anxious that all should be in happy accord. Even the dinner attained to a rank above an every-day affair. Ellen, the cook, adored the boy who had, in years gone by, plundered her sweet meats at the most inopportune mo ments and tantalized her in every con ceivable way. Nevertheless, in his years away at school, her happiest time had been when preparing the contents of a "feast box" to be sent him. Tonight there appeared in goodly array all of Junior's favorite dishes, with Ellen carefully scanning his plates upon their return to the kitchen, and a solicitous inquiry from the serving maid as to how "Master Junior" was enjoying himself. Of this he assured her in person at the end of the meal. Then he joined his parents for a chat. Flinging himself upon the couch, piled with pillows, he exclaimed: "Gee, but this is the the first real soft place I've lain on since I left here" "Why, was your bed at school hard?" Mrs. WethereU's motherly in stinct instantly asserted itself. "Well, they're not exactly like this, mother. But you could hardly expect that!" "I told you I ought to have gone back with him and settled him, Al lan!" casting a glance of mingled re gret and reproach toward her hus band. Suddenly Junior spoke: "Say, folks, do yon know what I'm going to do this summer?" Wetherell felt a gloomy apprehen sion settle upon him. The achieve ment of disciplining his son during this vacation seemed suddenly de feated. "Xo, what, dear?" It was his moth er who answered. Her voice was of a syrupy sweetness that already im plied her assent. "I'm going to work!" the boy an nounced. His father, after the first startled moment of comprehension, experi enced a pang of remorse, known only to a father who has underestimated a son. While Ill's mother, with the sensi tiveness of a weathervane to the slightest change of wind, shifted her attitude to meet the prevailing mood of her boy. "So you think you would like to try your wings a little, do you, dear?" His wife's tone of docility ama7ed Wetherell no less than his son's words. T T pon reaction, however, his brain fairly sang a paean of joy! By Jove! a boy that could be trusted to disci pline himself was a wonder! The proud father was even consid ering an automobile aa a reward for such virtue, when his cherubic off spring spoke his answer: "It's not exactly that," he explained, "but you see I'm up for a certain frat at school and they've put up the stunt that in order to qualify we've got to work for two months during our va cation!" —Mother's Magazine. Compensations. He (mournfully)—l wonder, when a wife gets all her rights, as you women see 'em — She (truculently)— Well? He — I wonder if any judge will say a husband has a right togo through his wife's pockets? Would Be Terrible. "The doctors are to operate on her." "What's wrong?" "Something about the coat of her stomach, I understand." "I hope they don't find it out of style. She'd never get over that." His Understanding of It. "Bobby, what was the preacher's text?" "Something about its being easier for a camel togo through the lowa needle than for a rich man togo to heaven." Not Very Deep. "Didn't you tell me you bought a lot at Mosquito Beach?" "I did." "How deep is It?" "About three feet at high water." CHILDREN ON BLOCK HIGH EST BIDDER GETS THEM IN A BAVARIAN MARKET. ' Farmers Lease Offspring of Poor Peas ants for Hard Work on Farm During the Summer Months. Berlin. —The annual "child market" ! In Frlederichshaven, in Bavaria, has \ just been held. Boys and girls—little i white slaves they are —were leased i out for the summer. The scenes around the market place resembled a page from "Uncle Tom's Cabin." "I'll give 150 marks for him!" "I bid 175!" "200 bid!" "210 bid!" I "226 bid!" The competition was keen, for the boy was a sturdy-looking lad. Despite his poverty-stricken appearance, he seemed to be stronger and healthier than many of the other children. Around him swarmed a score of peas ant farmers scanning the child as they would the points of a horse. There was little sentiment in their de meanor. It was "business." They were buying him, to be exact, "leas ing" the boy. They expected to make a "profit" on their investment, hence they did not want a boy who possibly would be ill and could not work hard. He was "knocked down" at 240 marks, or $1)0. The next boy was younger; he lacked the robustness of the oth er lad; he was pale, thin and did not look as if he ever had a full meal. He went at S3O. The Austrian steamer Maria The resa had brought 125 boys and thirty girls, ranging in ages from eleven to sixteen years, across the Boden sea. They were quartered at the Golden Wheel hotel, an appropriate place for this children's lottery. Orphans, half orphans and children of poor peasants in the Austrian Tyrol region, who thereby profit a little, are turned over to the Tyrolean Children's society, which in turn leases them out for the summer months. More than 500 peasant farmers from Wurtemburg, Baden. Hohenzol lern and the Bavarian region along the i'.oden sea, were on hand to "bid" for these youthful wage slaves. Com petition was keen. The demand this year was greater than the supply, and prices considerably higher than last spring were offered for the labor of the children for the summer. The children had nothing to say about their fate, whether they liked the looks of the "lessee" or not. The "market" was held under the auspices of Rev. Mr. Bairn of the Tyrolean Children's society, who had charge of them for the society. From daylight to dark and after the children labor, which in South Ger many means about 17 or 18 hours daily. It is only natural that the "lessees' " chief Interest is to get as much out of them as possible. What the fate of some of the children is. is indicated by the Tyrolean Grenz boten, a paper which has started an agitatioii against this "child market." It says: "The children return to their parents and homes October 28, if they do not fall a victim to the heavy la bor, long hours, intense longing for father, mother and brothers and sis ters in the summer, and are buried in the regions where they were leased.' "We ask, in what land or country would the authorities permit such a 'slave trade' to exist? That many of these children have a hard time of it under the strangers to whom they have been leased is evident from ihe fact that the Children's society has a number of farmers on its blacklist to whom they refuse to 'lease' children again. But what good does that do the little ones whom they have ruined physically and morally?" The Morgenpost of lierlin also mar vels that the authorities of Bavaria, Wurtemburg and Baden would toler ate dealing In "little slaves." HIDES IN A SHIP'S BOILER Fugitive From Justice in Flight From Honolulu Narrowly Escapes Be ing Boiled Alive. San Francisco, Cal. —August Car reria came into port the other morn ing oti the steamer Lurline and eluded live detectives front 8 o'clock until noon at the risk of being boiled alive in the boiler of the vessel's don key engine. Wanted at Honolulu for the al leged betrayal of a girl under prom ise of marriage, Carreria the night before, when the Luriine neared shore. Captain A. AlcDuffy of the Hawaiian police force, here on a vacation, boarded the ship at quaran tine with a cabled warrant for Car reria's arrest, and Detectives Conlon, Mackey, Bierman and Cronin of the local department accompanied him. They had searched everywhere from from the captain's cabin to the coal bunkers and decided that Car reria had Jumped overboard. Then McDufTey's eye lit on the donkey en gine used for handling cargoes in port. The boiler was Just large enough to conceal one man and McDuffy looked into it. Carreria crawled out and surrendered. He will go back to the islands on the first boat. Steam from the big boilers below decks is usually turned into the boil er that hid Carreria as soon as the Lurline enters port. It would have 'calded Carreria to death iu thirty sec ■>nda. THIEVES LOOT HOUSE THEN THEY BATTLE OVER DIVI SION OF SPOILS. French. Count's Apartment the Seen® of a Rough and Tumble Fight Be tween Companion Burglars Who Ransacked Rooms. Paris. —A burglary with a strange sequel has taken place at the town house of Count Houssy de Salles, on the Boulevard Haussmann. A number of persons were passing the place in the evening when there wns an outcry from within and several arms stretch ed out of a window wrenched off a shutter that had been closed. Scarcely had the clatter of the shut ter on the sidewalk subsided when two men Jumped out of the window. One of them carried a statuette which fell from his arms as he alighted and was smashed to pieces. "It is nothing, a mere quarrel and they are fighting and tearing every thing to pieces." he said to the crowd that had by that time assembled, pointing back toward the count's man sion. No one made the faintest effort to detain the. pair and they Jumped on a passing tramcar. One of them was compelled by the conductor to alight, owing to the fact that his head and wrist were bleeding from cuts he sus tained while springing out of the win dow. He soon vanished around a corner and. no policeman appearing, the crowd melted away. On the count's return home he found his rooms had be«n ransacked. In a half-opened bureau drawer was found a pooketboolc containing a cer tificate of birth and other papers be longing to a person whose name the detectives recognized as that of a noted ex-convict. They fairly shook with laughter as they showed the "find" at headquarters and told of the extraordinary carelessness or forget fulness of one of the burglars in hav ing dropped such telltale evidence at the scene of his crime. There was some trouble In tracing the crook, but he was Anally trapped in his lodgings. He was astonished at his capture, for he was certain he had left no clues at the count's. When told his pocketbook had been found in a bureau drawer, he smiled and drew forth his pocketbook from a hid ing place in his blouse. The detective opened the book and 10, the fellow's birth certificate and the other papers recovered at the count's were missing. The crook looked stupefied for a min ute. Then he said: "I see it all now. 1 am a victim of Gasparin's plot." Then he confessed that one of his companions in the robbery was a no torious pickpocket. The latter, when arrested, explained that he and the crook already under arrest had quar reled at the count's over a division of the spoils and that, in a moment of fierce anger, he picked his compan ion's pocket, put the purloined birth certificate, etc., in his own wallet and dropped it in the bureau, then quickly returned his associate's pock etbook to its owner's pocket without (he owner's knowledge or suspicion. IN HUNT FOR TALL HORSES Scientists Digging In Old Quarries of Texas for Remains of Prehis toric Animals. Silverton, Texas. —A hunt for giant horses, some of them measuring more than, thirty feet tall, is now in prog ress in this part of the Texas Panhan dle. Ranch people are stirred up ovet the excavation that has been started at a spot on Prairie Dog creek, Jus) north of Silverton. by an expedition of scientists sent out by Yale unl versify. This party is headed by Richard 8. Lull, professor of verte brate paleontology of that institution They are digging for the fossils ol prehistoric horses. It is said by Pro fessor Lull that all evidence that has accumulated tends to show that th« horse of today had its origin in thesf long extinct animals that once roam ed the expansive plains in the Texas Panhandle. Discoveries of bones that are ela9 sifted as belonging to the prehistoric horse have been made from time to time in this section. Not a greai while ago. in opening a gravel pit neat Plainview, the fossils of an anima' that scientists proclaim belong to thf equine species were brought to light and when placed together the height of the skeleton measured more thar 100 hands. This relic of an unknowi past was brought to light by R. M Irick of Plainview. The hones of th( animal were sent to the Smithsonian institute at Washington. The quarry now being exploited turned out some rich finds In the waj of bones of these ancient monsters 1i 1899, when the spot was visited an< considerable expedition work wat done by Professor James W. Gldley. It Is the theory of Professor Dnfl that in prehistoric times, when thes« giant horses roamed the plains, ther« was coincident with them a clvlllza tlon of high standard in what is now New Mexlxco and Arizona. The rulni of the homes of these people are still to be seen, and in some parts of the arid region there has been discovered the evidence of extensive systems of irrigation. . There are good reasons for believ ing, according to Professor Lull, that these giant horses, which had a height of 30 to 40 feet, were often domesti cated by the people of that day am.' time. iSQjffABINET I Brings a blessing to tlie doer. Joy comes to the waiting worker. But eludes the swift pursuer. FROZEN DISHES. There Is no dessert which ever, takes the place of ices and ice creams during Ihe hot weather; they are not only re- Ireshing but nourishing, and are so universally well liked that one cannot go amiss to serve them on all occa sions. The plain Philadelphia ice cream may be used as a foundation for any number of delightful combinations, for example: Nougat Ice Cream. —Add a half cup ful each of chopped Alberts, walnuts and almonds with a teaspoonful each of almond and vanilla extract. One can buy the plain cream all frozen in many places so reasonably, and it can be repacked with any additions of fruit or nuts, making the work very light. The flavor of peach is given by put ting two cups of strained peach pulp and a teaspoonful of lemou Juice to plain ice cream. A delicious flavor of almonds is giv en to ice cream in this manner; Blanch and chop a cup of almonds, carmellze four tablespoonfuls of sugar and add the almonds. When cold grind to a powder, add to the cream with a tea spoonful of almond extract. The most delicious of creams is made by adding two cups of squeezed nnd strained raspberries to the cream. The color Is enhanced by the addition of a teaspoon of lemon Juice. A pretty and easy , way to make fancy dessert is raspberry bombe: Bine a melon mold with raspberry ice and fill with vanilla ice cream or with a pineapple ice or ice cream. Pack in ice and salt and let stand four hours. Serve with whipped cream or garnish with fresh berries and leaves. Sultana Roll.—This Is a great favor ite and can be made without the use of liquor. Line one pound baking pow der cans with pistachio ice cream (this is plain creatu with the chopped nuts frozen in it). Sprinkle with candied fruit that has stood over night in sweetened and flavored whipped cream. Pack as usual. Serve with the sauce in which the fruit has stood over night. SI AKE your needle, my child, JIL and work at your pattern; It will come out a rose by and by. I,ite t> like that—one stitch at a time taken p»< liently, and the pattern will come out all ~i K:11 like tiie embroidery. —Oliver "Wendell Holmes. HOT WEATHER DISHES. A fetching and appetizing salad is this: Lay a slice of chilled pineap ple on a lettuce leaf, heap a nicely sea soned spoonful of cream cheese in the center and sprinkle with chopped pe cans, peanuts or pistachio nuts. Serve with French dressing. German Salad. —Boil a white, solid head of cabbage until perfectly ten der; drain carefully and put to press between two weights until quite cold. Then slice and place in a salad bowl with half a dozen cold boiled potatoes cut in slices, a sliced beet, and half H dozen hard cooked eggs cut in slices, a finely chopped onion, and a quarter of a sour orange; mix gently. Have ready a cupful of tartar sauce, season with salt, pepper, mix again and serve with any cold roast. A drop or two of tabasco sauce is an improve ment. Tartar Sauce. —Mix a tablespoonful of vinegar, a teaspoonful of lemon juice, a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce in a bowl and heat over hot wa ter. Brown a third of a cup of but ter in an omelet pan and add to the first mixture. Fried Tomatoes With Cream Sauce. —-Cut tomatoes in halves without peel ing, season with salt, pepper and roll in very fine crumbs. Fry in hot fat until brown, then take up carefully with a pancake turner and arrange on a chop plate. Add a tablespoonful of drippings to the fat already in the pan, stir in a tablespoonful of flour and as soon as it bubbles add a cup of rich milk. Stir until Bmooth and pour around the tomatoes. Oatmeal Drink.—Mix a tablespoonful of fine oatmeal into a smooth paste with water, then pour over three pints of boiling water, stirring all the time. Place over the heat and boil until re duced to two pints. Set aside to cool, and pour the clear gruel from the sedi ment. Add to this the juice of a lem on and sufficient sugar to sweeten. Serve cold. Lemon Fizz.—Grate yellow rind from three lemons, squeeze the juice of six, pour over two quarts of boiling water, stir in a half pound of sugar, and a half yeast cake. Let stand over night. Bottle, and it Is ready for use In a day. North Carolina Forests. There are more than 10,000,000 acres of forest lands in North Caro lina. These forests and the Indus rics depending upon them produce naterlal valued at more than $35,- 00,000 a year and aftojd eniplo; ir Cu.ooO men. SNAPSHOTS AT STATE NEWS All Pennsylvania Gleaned for Items of Interest REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD Farmers Busy In Every Locality— Churches Raising Funds for Many Worthy Objects—ltems of Busi ness and Pleasure that Interest. Emanuel L. Bishop, of Elizabeth town, caught a 16-pound snapper with hook and line in the Conewago Creek. Falling in play in front of his home, Earl Allen. 10 years old, of Chester, fractured au arm in two places. Carroll M. Hall, of West Chester, a recent graduate of Annapolis, has been promoted from midshipman to ensign. The directors of the public schooU in East Nantmeal township, Chester county, have lixed the tax rate tor next year at 6 mills. The Reading Railway has forbidden Shamokin miners to walk in the mid dle of the tracks on account of numer ous fatal accidents. A guiea chick with an extra leg growing from its back is the freak hatched on the farm of Thomas Shortz, at Hobbie, near Hazleton. Dr. R. L. Slagle, president of the South Dakota State College at Book ings, visited relatives at his old home in Hanover, York county. Attacked by a rattlesnake, Emma Pascoe, a 14-year-old Hudsondale girl, killed the reptile with a club after it had coiled three times to strike her, removed the rattles as a trophy and will make the skin Into a belt. Five thousand new members were enrol led in the Shenandoah union of the United Mine Workers, and Local 1385, the largest in the anthracite re gion, now has 1,400 members, with more than SIO,OOO in the treasury. Playing with a keg of blasting pow der, four children—Alexander Tedmoa bis, three years old; Michael, his brother, aged 10; George Stepsk, 5, and Patrick Perossi, s—were5 —were frightful ly burned at Washington. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Strohm, who died at her home in Lucknow following au operation for appendicitis at Harris hurg, weighed 318 pounds, and the casket was so large that funeral ser vices could not be held until the door jambs and much of the surrounding woodwork had been removed by car penters Lewis G. Hill, of I.ookout, says his father has two fields of alfalfa in Wayne county. The crop on a four acre field was damaged by the cold weather during the winter, there hav ing bt"?n very little protecting snow. The first crop of a ten-acre field cut in June was quite large, and the second crop will be cut in August. Walter S. Hertzog, for four years oue of the State inspectors of high schoois, has resigned hi 3 position in the Department of Public Instruction to accept the principaiship of the Cali fornia State Normal School. He was appointed from Western Pennsylvania and aided in building up the inspection system. This summer he is an in structor at summer schools ia Grovt) City and Mt. Gretna. Former State Senator Kline, of i Hazleton, is entertaining Captain John It. Vaughan, of the New York City Kire Department, at his bungalow at ! North St. John's. Mr. Kline was a ' guest at the Rayne Hotel, New York, i over twenty years ago, when it was | destroyed by lire. He was hemmed j in on all sides by the flames, and was | about to give up when Captain Vaugh !an pulled him from hit; room and j brought him to safety. Owen Berkenstock, a rural mail car \ rier in Lycoming county, saw a fawn a i day or two ago feeding on a shock of wheat on the farm of Mr. Bickhart, ; three mles from White Deer. David Moore later saw the deer running I across the fields toward a small tract | of timber on an adjoining farm. Two ! does and a buck have been frequently seen in the vicinity of the "Round Top," an open place in the woods to the right of the pike between White Deer and Forest Iron Works. Dogs have chased them Several times, but the deer return U> their feeding ground like cattle. Three brothers who have attained distinction in the Lutheran Church were guests of honor at the reunion of Susquehanna Synod at Riverside Park, near Milton. These were the Rev. Dr. J. B. Reimensnyder, of New York City, president of the General Synod of the United States; the Rev. J. M. Reimensnyder, for 24 years pas tor at Milton and formerly of the Lewistovwi Lutheran Chuurch, and George B. Reimensnyder, of Sunbury, I'resilent of the local Church Council, "iuh of the brothers delivered au ad- Iress.
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