f 1 A WOMAN'S WAY. J,i tvorM id full of heroines TVliose bruvry none can doulitj Jit circuses they face tlie lions, Ai home put thieve to rout. Out when the storm has passed mf, The trouble disappears, Why i it that they always sayl "She then bunt forth in tears?'' A nuilJen panic thrills the school, The children rush to (tenth; Tlip gentle teacher, enlm and cool, Control! them with her breath. Jlut when the horrid fear in quelled, The tumult once more (deep. Why is 't, t' nome force impelled, She nits right down and weeps? UV INtNIC Clarissa Elols was happy that afternoon, very happy, and tho sun shine flooding 'the moor was not brighter than that which glowed within her own heart. For to-morrow her betrothed, whom she had not seen for three long months, was ex pected at Hoyden Court, the ancient mansion which had recently become her home. She wandered on over the heath, transformed Into a garden of beauty by the abundant purple heather and rich, yellow gorse, drinking In with fcallafted eyes the loveliness of the scene around all new and fresh to her. Behind, nestling in a wooded hollow, lay the old picturesque town of Somerton; on one side she caught distant glimpses of tho blue ocean, while before her, bathed In sunlight, the moor stretched as far as the eye could reach. Bye-and-bye she sat down nmld the bracken, and was soon lost in thought, dreaming happy day-dreams In which Dr. Edwin Talbot bore a significant pare So pleasant , were her reflections that she heeded not the flight of time, nor knew that the sunshine had faded, until she was startled from her reverie by a distant peal of thunder. Looking up In dismay, she uaw that heavy threatening clouds had effaced the blue of the sky, and there was every prospect of a storm In the near future. Clarissa had a nervous dread of thunderstorms, and to be caught in one out here on the lovely moor appeared anything but Inviting. She began to retrace her steps hur riedly, hoping to be able to reach tho high road and take shelter in some farm-house before the storm broke, but soon found It would be Impos sible. The clouds grew rapidly darker, tho thunder louder and more frequent, and huge drops of rain commenced to fall. At length, to Clarissa's relief, she er.pied in ytt hollow a tiny cottage which she "had passed unnoticed be fore. The door was opened ere she could knock, and a pleasant-faced old woman bade her welcome to the shelter of her little home. Thankful to escape from the storm, which seemed likely to prove a severe one, Clarissa entered and took the chair which was placed for her, and was soon chatting pleasantly with her hostess, who led a some what lonely life, having no near neighbors with whom to exchange confidences, and hailed this unex pected visitor with delight. Encouraged by her guests's fair face and sweet smiles, she was soon launched on the theme so dear to a mother's heart the praises of an only son and tho young girl listened with sympathetic Interest. Somehow this simple cottager, her honest, kindly face shining with pride as she spoke of her boy, at tracted Clarissa, who had come little Into contact with the lives of the poor. "He often comes to see me. They tell me as how he's a grand gentle man In Lunnon, but he don't forget his old mother for all that, my boy Ted don't. He do want me to live in n bigger houso in the village, but I like to stay In this little old place, where I was so happy with my man for nigh forty years. Look here, mlssle," taking 'a photo from be tween the leaves of a large Bible, which lay on the shelf, "Ain't he a lad as any mother might be proud of?" Clarissa took the picture, and looked at it. A low cry of surprise escaped her. Mrs. Brown Interpreted the ejacu lation as one of admiration, and her mother's heart was gratified. She talked on, but Clarissa heard as one in a dream, heiv brain bewildered, for tho face she gazed upon was that of Edwin Talbot, her affianced hurf band. How was It this poor old woman E'joke of him as her boy? It could not bo Edwin was tho son of Gen eral Talbot, of Heatherton Hall. Perhaps she had been his nurse. Looking up nd striving to speak calmly, she said: And is this your own son? He 1b very handsome.' "Yes, miss, that's my boy, the only I child as tho Lord ever give me, but he's worth a dozen o' Borne folks' sons," asserted the fond mother, un conscious of tho dismay and conster nation her words were causing In her visitor's mind. An Clarissa handed back the treas ured portrait, to be replaced In the Bible, she caught sight on the back of an affectionate inscription to his mother in Edwln'B familiar writing. Tho storm had partially cleared now, and. feeling that she must be alone to think hor way through the mist of perplexity which had sud denly envclopod her, she started laomeward, with gentle words of thanks to tho widow, who fain would have detained her longer. Sir Jasper Blols was Inordinately proud of his, noble name and long Mao of ancestors, and his daughter Inherited this weakness In no small degree Sho lovod to hear her father tell how their forefathers had come over to England with the Conqueror, and It had been a great satisfaction to her to think that hor fiance was the representative of an ancient family whose blood was equally blue with that which flowod la her own Veins. To be suddenly oonfte4 with The fire is liutnirg In th". miil, The letror stricken run To dash pell-mell across the till And penaii every one. A woman leaps before their path; They Mop, in ordered streams They file to safety from death's wrath, hile she sit down and scream! 1 guess, from Helen, fair, of Troy, L'nto Joan of Are, 'T was ever woman' way of joy To move in mysteries, dark. Xo doubt, when Mollie Pitcher, hold, In battle's blood was painted, She fought like Amazons of old And went right home and fainted! "-Baltimore Pun. BEATLCY, 1 ) tho fact that Edwin was not General Talbot's son, but a pleblan, born of peasant ' stock, staggered and be wildered her. Astonishment pres ently gave place to hot anger and In dignation, and all thoughts of love were driven from her mind. She would write at once to Dr. Talbot, as he called himself, and break off the engagement. He had deceived her, and therefore she was Justified in re tracting her promise. She would soon forget him. and if ho could not forget her well, ho deserved to suffer. As these bitter thoughts passed through her mind she turned into a lane which led to the high road, and came face to face with the object of her mental denunciations Dr. Tal bot himself! He greeted her warmly, and did not Immediately notice the coldness and constraint of her manner. "I found I could get away sooner than I expected, and so thought I would take you by surprise," he said blithely. Clarlssu murmured something un intelligible, and a shadow crept Into her lover's blue eyes. "What is the matter, Clare?" he said reproachfully, "Are you not glad to see me? Have you no welcome to give me?" Then Clarissa's anger burst forth, and in passionate words she told him what she had learned that afternoon, concluding scornfully, "I never want to see your face again! You de ceived me. You pretended to be General Talbot's son, when you are only a new-born commoner. I shall try to forget that I ever knew you." Dr. Talbot listened in silence, his .'ace white and set, till she paused in her torrent of passionate re proaches. "Forgive me, Clare. I ought to have told you this before, I know, but I dreaded to disturb our happi ness. I once heard you say that you would never marry a man who was not of good birth, and I loved you so dearly, I had not the courage to risk losing you. But you will not let this part us, Clara? You cannot mean all you have said." He tried to take her hand, nut she drew it coldly from him. "Yes, I mean every word. I de spise you for using a name. you've no right to, and " "No, Clare, you wrong me," Inter rupted Edwin. "I have every right to the namo I bear. When General Talbot adopted me he expressed a wish that I should take his name, and that no illusion be made to the fact that I was not his own son. I am legally Edwlu Booth Talbot." Then changing his tone to one of gentle persuasion, he continued. "But, Clare, If you loved me before you knew this, you must love me still. You cannot have ceased to care for me because I am not General Talbot's son. Say you will forgive me, dear, and let us be happy again." "No, my love for you died when I found you had deceived me. It is better for us to part." Still he pleaded, but Clarissa was obdurate, and she parted from him at the gates of Reydon Court with an air of coldness and Indifference which cut him more deeply even than her angry words. Sir Jasper Blols was not srrry when he heard that his daughter's engagement to Dr. Talbot was can celled, though she did not confide to him the reason. He had never cared much for the young fellow, chiefly perhaps because of their po litical discussions Edwin invariably espoused the cause of the musses, and unflinchingly denounced the sel fishness and vice of the aristocracy. Clarissa would have given much to recall her angry v.-orda bad cold looks a few weeks later, when she heard that Dr. Edwin Talbot had gone to the front. Her wounded pride had not enabled her to forget him, and she longed for reconcilia tion. How eagerly she ruad each day the news from the field of battle! With what sickening anxiety she scanned the lists of dead and wound ed, dreading lest his name should be there! , She persuaded her father to spend (hat winter in London, and, plung ing into whirl of gaiety, sought to forgot her misery. One night at the opera she overheard soma fragments of a conversation, which confirmed her worst tears. "Edwin Talbot? Oh, yes, I knew him well; he was with us at Guy's. He was a fine fellow, and clever, too." "Yes, he'll be a great loss to the profession. Never could make out what Induced htm to throw up such a good prospect and go off to the front!" "I believe he was jilted by some heartless girl with whom he was des perately In love, poor chap. It's a thousand pities for his splendid tal ents to be lost to the world. I fear " Clarissa heard no more. The opera house faded from her sight, the voices of the speakers behind grew confused and Indistinct she saw only Edwin's white face and re proachful eyes, heard only his plead ing words: ' "Say you forgive, Clare, and let us be happy again!" Oh, why had she not yielded? The next day she read his name In the dead list, and the weeks that followed war ttllad with a,iula ' remorse. If only she could have seen' him once more to tell him how dear ly she loved him, and how bitterly j she had repented her cruel words! J She had sent him to hit death, and he would never know of her sorrow and regret. Through it all she Btrove to keep a smiling face and conceal her grief, for had she not forfeited tho right to mourn openly? In the spring the father and daugh ter returned to Reydon Court, and the day after their arrival Clarissa turned her steps toward the moor land cottage where Edwin's mother lived. She had thought much about the sorrowing woman whose heart, like her own, was burled in a lonely grave boneath the scorching African sun, and she determined to go and see her. She could At least sympa thize, it she could not comfort. As she came within sight of the cottage sho saw a man emerge from the gate and begin slowly to cross tho moor. Tho girl's heart beat fast. How like It was to Edwin's figure! Could It be was It possible that there had been a mistake, and he had not died out there on the veldt? A few more seconds brought them face to face. Yes, it was Edwin him self, pale and thin, and looking very grave and preoccupied, but the eyes of love could not mistake him. He slopped as she approached, and with a cry of joy she held out her hand. But he did not take it; only gazed at her with a strange, far away look, no light of recogltlon in his eyes. "Ted, don't you know me?" she said, with something very like a sob. The shadow passed from his face, and the old look of love and tender ness came back to it as he took her hand in his. "Clare, is it true what your voice tells me that you love me still that you have not forgotten me? I cannot see your face, dear, the world is dark to mo now; but your voice is sweet and kind, as when you first loved me." "Ob, Ted, and I have brought this misery on you! I sent you away in my fooliBh pride, though I loved you all the time, and now your life is ruined. I can never, never forgive myself!" cried Clarissa, In heart-broken tones. He took her gently in his arms and kissed her. "Don't mind for me, dearest. Your love will brighten my dark hours, now, and the trouble may not last. At first the doctors considered my loss of sight permanent, but late ly they have held out some slight hopes of recovery. So we will make the most of that little bit of hope of to-day, Clare, and not let fears for the future shadow our Joy." Old Mrs. Brown was greatly aston ished an hour or two later by the entrance of her son with the fair young lady she had sheltered from the storm last autumn, whom he presented to her as his promised wife. Her motherly pride and de light knew no bonds, and her simple words of true welcome brought tears ot shame to Clarissa's eyes. Twelve months later Dr. Talbot, his health and sight fully restored, took up again his work ot alleviat ing the pain and disease of suffering humanity, who already owed much to his skill; and his wife is happy in the knowledge that she possesses a husband who is noble in the highest sense of the word. She Is endeavor ing, though at present without much success, to convert Sir Jasper to the truth of tho poet's words: 'Tis only noble to be good; Kind heart are more than coronets And Dimple faith than Norman blood. London S. S. Times. The Government's Timber Mine. When the new battleships Tennes see and Washington now In tho shipyards of the Cramps and the New York Shipbuilding Company in Cam den are' launched they will be equipped with a complement of ship's boats unequalled by those of any bat tleship on earth. The reason for this exceptional equipment lies In the material used ou tho boats white oak, which has been lying at the bottom ot the Dela ware for more than forty years, now one of the rarest and most valuable ot timbers. In 1865, in keeping with the needs ot the Civil War tho Government boug'ut an Immense quantity of white oak 500,000 cubic feet to bo used in ship and boat construction. The contract had been made whon the end of the war was not yet in sight. Henco the great quantity was pur chased. This lumber was shipped to the old navy yard located at the foot of Federal street. When the war closed James Speed, one of tho ship Inspect ors, to whom the care ot the lumber had been Intrusted, buried all of it in the Delaware, awaiting the time when it could be used, acting on a well known principle among ship and lum ber men that timber stored at the bottom of a stream keeps better than anywhere else. The water forms a cushion, which keeps out the air and prevents decay. The timber is worth $500,000. Philadelphia North Amer ican. Russian Sayings. An untried friend is like an un cracked nut. He who fears a sparrow will never sow millet. Whon yon dla even your tomb shall be comfortable. Better to bog than steal, but bet ter to work than beg. He who Is on horseback uo longer knows bis own futhor. A mother's love will draw up from the depthB ot the sea. Tho absent-minded man looks for the horse hs rides on. When the ass bears too light a load he wants to lie down. Man carries his superiority inside, tr'KiS theirs outside. The nobleman is always in the Ji.-ht when the peasant sues. Where there are no fish even a crazy fish calls himself a flsb. If the thv.nder U not loud the peas ant forgets to cross himself. When the scabbards are broken we can no longer hide our sabres. One wnln is enough for a eood fcraa. nr a. hail ana bi a. tanuaaatl. . ..TRUTH ABOUT THE FLY.. Some Crimes of the of Your Home. Worse than the curse of frogs, worse than the curse of serpents or the rivers running with blood, was the "grevlotis swarm of flies" brought on the Egyptians by Moses tho Israelite in that long struggle for freedom. In the simple and tell ing words of the narrative, "the land was corrupted." I do not need to be told that this fly of Egypt was perhaps not the musca domestics, our common house fly, but Bome more noxious variety known to the East. It is enough to know that the house fly is found In every land and clime, and that it was quite capable of proving "gre vlotis" and "corrupting" on that oc casion. Because of its Intimate as sociation with man. It is the only variety worth considering in its re lations to health at least in our climate. Of 23,087 flies caught in dining rooms in the year 1905, 98.8 per cent, were found to be the com mon house fly. This Insect, with its air pump feet and its faceted eyes, may be a thing of beauty to the entomologist; Its drowsy buzzing on the pane has even inspired poets; but we may be sure that the poet sang of some fly roused to life in early March by a day of premature heat. But taken collectively, and in summer, the fly is a hateful creature. Not only is it responsible for lines of worry in tho housekeeper's face, but it has been proved to be a serious menace to health. To begin with, its origin and hab its are such as to put us on our guard. It lays its eggs In excrement, preferring horse manure, but If that does not offer readily using any other. It feeds on the same and on the sputum ot diseased throats and lungs, on refuse ot all kinds, and It bears on its hairy feet and legs par ticles of these substances. Thanks to the science of bacteriol ogy, our case against the fly is no longer guesswork It has been made to walk across the sterile gelatine plate, and the microscope has later told us what it fetches and carries. Unlike the mosquito, the house fly iB not a biter but it has its own way of carrying contagion. It deposits, wherever it goes, disease; and dis ease germs may abound in its breed ing and feeding places. On the joint of meat exposed for sale by the butcher, on the bread and sweet meats of the confectioner's counter, on the edge of the milk pail, on the kitchen and dining room tables, they have been found. To understand fully the possible danger ot allowing this insect access to our food supplies, we must remem ber that in the diseases called en teric those affecting the Intestinal tract, such as cholera, dysentary and typhoid fever multitudes of germs peculiar to the disease are voided not only during the attack, but for some days before the disease is rec ognized and for considerable periods of time after recovery, and since the contagion is spread from person to another solely by those germs as they And access to water or food, to guard the water supply from contamination and to forbid the sale of milk from tho dairy farms where any conta gion exists is well recognized as the first duty of the Health Board; but comparatively recent is the knowl edge that flies also carry the germs of these diseases. In 1888 Dr. Nuttall had shown that files transmitted cholera. In 1895 Dr. Kobcr, of Washington, said that typhoid fever was spread bj their aid in old-fashioned non-sewered dwellings, but not until the Cuban war, threo years later, was this transmission proved ou such a scale as to convince the medical pro fession. It was then that we began our real acquaintance with the fly and all bis works. Not only does'the fly carry about on his feet and legs any disease1 germs, but such germs taken into the body in food are known to re main alive in its intestines and also for days after they are ejected In the specks. By recent experiments this has been proved true ot both the tu berculosis and the typhoid bacillus, the germs in the speck having actu ally given the disease from nine to fifteen days after it was deposited. This is a very important point, as it establishes on new ground the dan ger of spitting in the street or wher ever flies pan have access to the sputiim. A lull in the efforts to pre vent public spitting came on the dis covery that tuberculosis germs ex posed to direct sunlight must perish in from twenty-four to thirty hours, but since we discovered that the fly. who greedily feeds on the sputum, can transport it to considerable dis tances and keep it alive and virulent for many days, the spitting nuisance has assumed new importance. In the average slaughter house both the common and the blow fly cover the carcasses. In one case, after the law had required the use ot screens on the windows, the butch ers expressed their tiatisfactlon, "be cause now they did not have to spend their time digging out fly blows." in any open market buyers stand un moved before a leg ot beet outlined in black, the mass rising now and then when the butcher shakes his brush. One would suppose them a dispensation from heaven, bo calmly do we accept the burden. What about flies in the milk busi ness? One observer describes an aerator through which tha fresh milk was passing as "covered with flies." Now, It these flies had just had ac cess to matter infected with typhoid enough colonies could have been started in that good culture medium to cause an epidemic ot the disease, and w"ho but this observer would have guesod Us source. What, then, is to be done to pto tect our food supply from this dis gusting and dangerous insect? It will be well to note, first, what has beon accomplished in the extirpation of other Insect pests. A year fo New Orleans learned Commonest Invader at heavy cost that if the city was to be freed from yellow fever the mos quito must go; and In the space of a few months, so vigorous was the campaign, the now famous stegomla or yellow fever mosquito was nearly exterminated, and a price is now set on its head. I am informed that scientists who went to study the in sect were obliged to leave because they could find no material. This result was brought about by covering their breeding places with kerosene and by the thorough fumi gation of houses. Is It too much to hope that In the small town and the farming commu nity this pest may be somewhat abated? In France during tho past winter a Jury of scientific men award ed a prize of 10,000 francs to the author of a memoir which outlined a method for the use of "residum oil" in the destruction of the eggs and larvae ot the fly. Two litres ot oil to every square metre of surface of pit or manure pile was found to make a protective covering which killed the larvae and prevented the entrance of flies and the hatching of eggs. Visit in summer any suburb that 1b frequented by picnic parties. At the rear will be found piles of tin cans, papers and fragments of rotting food. Here feed swarms of flies that have found their breeding ground further on whore the horses were tic, and these unclean Insects are ready to descend on the food laid out by oach party of picnickers. It is by no means impossible that an un noticed fly speck on the cake may be responsible for a "sporadic" case of typhoid fever or intestinal tuber culosis. And this insect, born in a dung hill and feeding on what is foul and diseased, is a daily household guest, as witness Its very name, "the com mon house fly." I have sought in vain for any proof of good to man that can be credited to this insect. When I was a child I used to hear it said that flies were our friends because they were scavengers that they con sumed what would otherwise be a source of danger to us. For the same reason, great should be the debt ot the New Orlenas marketman to the buzzard, that street cleaner who works for his board. But we have found better ways of cleaning our markets, streets and houses, and can well dispense with the services of un clean beasts and insects, who may leave behind them far worse things than they carry away. The housewife who gives frenzied chase to the intruder is not putting in her work at the most promising end of the line. The fly, like the mosquito, is only to be destroyed by allowing it no breeding place. The Delineator. A SCHOOLGIRL PITCHER. Pennsylvania Girl Who Pluys Bull With the Best of the Boys. Miss Carri'9 Moyer, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Victor Moyer, of Macungie, is a living refutation of the charge that when a woman throws a ball or missile the one point of safety for any human being is directly In line with what she alms at. From her earliest childhood Miss Moyer, who is now winning fame twirling the spheroid across the home plate, had a deep love for base ball. When other girls were jump ing the rope and trundling the hoop Miss Moyer was playing baseball and handball with the boys in the neigh borhood, and every juvenile captain of the diamond contested fiercely for the honor of having her on his team, for even at that tender age she could "line them out" at a rate that made every youthful batter sore in the shoulder blades fanning the empty and inconsistent atmosphere, and it is confidently predicted that if she keeps on pitching ball she will yet make Rube Waddell sit up and take notice. While Miss Moyer has been fond of all . kinds of athletic sports "since childhood's busy hour," it was not until she was a student at the Kutz town Normal School, a few years ago, that her great ability as a pitcher came into observation. She there played upon the regular school nine and helped win many a victory. While she prefers pitching, as being most scientific and afford ing a greater opportunity for display ot skill, she Is able to fill worthily any position on the diamond. Her style of pitching is a puzzling proposition. In a recent game in Bethlehem she struck out five men. Apparently, she pitches a slow ball, but it so very elusive that not one in three Is able to find it when it reaches the plate. Allentown (Pa.) Correspondence Washington Post. What Mudo It Valuable. An excited individual ran up to a porter at a railway station and asked: "Have you seen a parcel I left on this seat?" The porter replied that he had not. "Ob, what shall I do?" exclaimed the excited passenger; "it contains three poems I have written." "Can't you write them agaiu?" asked the unBympathetlo porter. "Yes, I can do that, but," hesitatingly, "there were two sandwiches in the parcel as well." Christian World. Nutmegs. The nutmeg, . roperly clothed, is about the else of a peach and is an edible fruit. When ripe it breaks open in halves, r.nd our warm trtond, dressed In a scarlet undershirt, peeps out laughingly. The undershirt soon turns brown and is called mace. Stewards' Bulletin. The Geographic Society of Swltzer land has provided Dr. Vols, instruc tor in soology at the University ot Bern, with the funds tor exploring th interior ot Liberia PERTINENT EPIGRAMS BY GOVERNOR FOLK. From tbe Address Delivered at Lake side, Madison, Wis. If Adam lived through all these centuries and received 1176 a day not 175 a year he -would not be as rich as some of our experts of the financial class. But the world 1b get ting better every day. The people are correcting things as fast as they can. The people are going well. Some four years ago a prominent citizen of St. Louis said he would like to die for his country; two weeks later he was haled into a court of justice for bribing an entire Legis lature. He had patriotism on his lips and treason in his heart; he wanted to die for his country and he would not live for his country. Everyday living patriotism Is more essential than war-time fighting pa triotism. It is as important more impor tant to fight to get good men Into office as It is to bare one's breast to bullets of the enemy; and it requires more courage, too, for the lawbreak ers make raiic- noise. A dozen lawbreakers make more noise than 400 law-abiding citizens. 'ihe lawless have not the strength In politics that they claim. ' The people of right thought and those who obey the laws and will vote for the enforcement of the law far outnumber those who graft or wink at grafting. Some men think they are too good to mix In politics. He who Is too good to take an active Interest in politics is too good to be a citizen of America. Every man is a kin;; here. He has part of the responsibility of sover ilgnty. He that Is falt'iloss in little Is not to be trusted in larger things. All laws should be enforced. If any are bad they should be repealed. That Is the remedy. The trust denounces the law-bveak-ing pickpocket, but think3 it has a perfect right to violate the anti-corn-sination statutes. ' The burglar abhors the trust law oreaker, but thinks the law against -nusebreaking is an Interference with his personal liberty. The saloonkeeper thinks the law to protect his cash drawer from the :hlef a good law, but hates the law requiring his saloon to close on Sun lay., You can't pick out this law or that ind say you will not enforce it. The powers of evil, the law-break-era, will support a candidate for pros ecuting attorney or sheriff, taking an tgreement from him that in consider ation of their support he will not en force laws that they do not like. That 's embezzlement of power and bar tering of sacred trust. The time is about here when em bezzlement of power will be held as bad as embezzlement of money. Those who make money by non-enforcement of law do not make their case ou the honest ground of their own private interest, but like the shrine maker of Ephesus.who praised the greatness of Diana, they place their case on other ground, and loud ly proclaim ihout threatened inter ference with tbe liberties ot the peo ple. Liber.y to make law does not mean license to break laws. Some of our great merchant princes have been found to be Icw breakors by taking rebates from rail roads. They did rot think it was wrong. The public conscience is awakened. It has declared many things wrong that we.-e thought to be all right and honest. I have found the railroad pass to be one of the most insidious forms of bribery. The railroads are entitled to fair treatment, but not to any special privileges. They have no right to send their professional lobbyists to debauch legislatures. You can't cure corruption by hid ing It. There Is no secret remedy known for it. Drag it out into the light of day and hit it hit It hard. Publicity is tho best remedy for civly corruption. The crusade againBt graft and spe cial privilege does not mean a fight against honest wealth. Let men make as much money as they can but prohibit them from making it, dishonestly. Civic righteousness is growing. A new standard is being set up. The influence of the aggressive, law-abiding citizen cannot be over estimated. Ten such will prevail against a regiment of outlaws. e e , We are learning that honesty is the best politics as well as the best policy. There Is work for each of us to do right around where we live. Tbe right must always be fought for, the wrong must be fought against. Show your colors. Th young man Is advised to get right and stay right, rather than to got rich and stay rich. VACATION Al, l-'rom breakfast bell to supper hell. i'tom supper bell to nine o'clock, This is the pnrt of Mrs. J'ell To rock and talk, snd talk nnd reck, Tlie other boarders gad about, In primrose paths that plese them best, Dut Mrs. Pell, who's rather stout, She tame up here, she says, to rest. She doesn't boat, she doesn't climb, She never drives, she never walks. From rising hell to honking time She talks ami rocks, and rocks and talks The other boarde-s drift sway She tnlks them east, she talks them west She talks and talks the livelong day. She came up here, she says, to re.t. Holding the best verandah chair, She circles daily with the sun. She's traveled has Iwen everywhere Seen everything knows everyone She talks the neiv moult up the sky. She tnlks the song bird to his nest. She never stops. Vou wonder why. She came up here, she says, to rt it. The housefly buzzes on tlie glass. The brooklet chatters in the deK The bumblebee drones in h grass So drones and chatters Mrs. I'el1. When she will stop, if stop at all. The dear Lord knows who knovMh best. She means to stay "clear through to fall." She came up here, she shvs. to rest.. U. L. T.. I Puck. Enthusiasm Is never misplaced except in a bore. Life. Beggar (plteously) --"Ah. sir, I . am very hungry." D.'speptlc (sav agely) "Then have tlie decency to keep your good fortune to yourself. I haven't had an appetite for years." London Paper. Stubb "What kind of shoes are those you are wearing?" Cogger "Walking shoes." Stubb "Walking shoes for automobile riding?" Cog ger "Yes, I know my machine." Chicago Dally News. "Ah understan' dat Deacon Jones has i'ln charged wld chicken-stealin an' he wuz a pillah ob do chu'eh, wuzn't he?" "No. he wuzn't a pil lah. He turned out ter be wot dey call de nave." Judge. ' Of course," said the architect, "you will want a porte cochere." "Sure," replied Mrs. Nurlch; "we'll want a big one with glass dingle-dangles on it hangln' from the parlor cellln'." Philadelphia Press. "Where did you get that song?" said she; "1 got it out of my head," said he, "1 got it out of my own smull head!" "What a lucky thing for your head!" he suid. Cleveland Leader. "I don't object to hearing a man brag about his ancestors." observed Uncle Alien Sparks, "it that's all he has to brag about. It comforts him and doesn't hurt the ancestors any. They're dead." Chicago Tribune. "Do you think that wealth brings happiness?" "No," answered Mr. Dustin Stax. "It doesn't bring hap piness. But it gives n man a little bit of option about the kind of worry he will take on." Washington Star. Suburban Patient "Doctor, I an sorry you have had to come so far from your regular practice." Doctor "Oh, it's all right. I have another patient in the neighborhood, so I can kill two birds with one stone."" Judge. "Why don't you tell your visws?" "I'm afraid to," answered Senator Sorghum. "Whenever I tell my views ou any subject I run the risk of stirring up an unanswerable argu ment on the other side." Washing ton Star. 'Twixt hepgur man and man of wealth, Tlie (inference is not immense; The former liven upon Inn rugs, Tlie latter on his rents. lion ton Transcript. "I toll yo", Ebeu," suid Aunt Mi randy, as she looked lovingly at the twins who wero gathering handfuls of wool from eachother'sklnky heads on the sanded floor of the cabin. "I heerd Miss 'Liza a'readin' in the B'ogfry ylstlddy an' I'a 'bout 'elded waht I's gwlne ter name dem two young uus. I s gwlne call "em 'Flo ra' and 'Fauna.' " Macon Tele graph. Fish For Manure. The following order from the rec ords of the town of Ipswich, Mass., May 11, 1644, illustrates, in a comi cal way, th- custom ot using fish for manure in those early days: "It is ordered that all doggst, for the space of three weeks after the publishing hereof, snail have one legg tyed up, and it such a dogg shall break loose and be found doing any harm, tae owner of tho dogg shall pay damage. If a man reruse to tye up his dogs's leggs, nnd heo boe found scrapeing up fish tu a corno field, the owner thereof shall pay twelve pence damages beside what ever damage the dogg doth. But if any fish their house lotts and receive damage by doggs, the owners of those house lotts shall bear the dnmuge themselves." Forest and Stream. Work For lticli Young Men. For the rich youugman who wishes to make a name for himself in public affairs the way Ih wide open, rie need not become a socialist, or go to live in a slum, or indulge in any other social eccentricity. All he needs to do is look about him and take up the task of practical politics at hand take it up decently and straightforwardly and without ex cuses or apologies or putting ou ot heroic airs Just offering himself to do it because it is there to bo done and on his merits as a man and, his ability to do it. For such rich young mou there la abundant work, and the rewards ot satisfaction in work well dono and all the public honor their merits de serve are certain. Chicago Inter-' tean. England's Maligned Weather. We may as well own up to the truth, that the conventional 'abuse ot our climate and our weather bus beoa greatly overdone. When we are iu cllned to. envy countries whose me teorological conditions have lei., of the element of "glorious uncertainly" than our own, we are much too ready to overlook the immense advautngl we possess in our almost ausoluU freedom from violent extremes.- London World. 0
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