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"FOR LOVE OF CHLORIS"
By BEULAH MARIE DIX.
Legally they were both Elizabeth
Wetherell, but to the large circle of
their relative! they were Lizzie
Wetherell and Lizzie! daughter,
while to the girli of Ambrazon Col
lege they were Betty Wetherell of 'O
and Betty's mother.
Lizzie Wetherell had pretty brown
fnalr, Just touched with gray, and
brown eyea that crinkled when she
laughed. A tidy little body she had,
usually clad in a brown tailored suit,
and plump capable hands. She could
keep a house with marvelous nicety.
Sho could plan and make the dainti
est of gowns. She could tell the fun
niest stories. For occupation she
took three girl students to board in
her cozy, old fashioned house in
Brownlow street. And with all her
heart she admired and adored her
daughter Betty.
Betty Wetherell had pretty brown
hair, Just touched with red, and
brown eyes that were grave and ear
nest. A supplo young body she had,
clnd In pretty gowns of her mother's
planning, and slim, restless hands.
She could write themes that won
commendation even from her English
Instructors. She could plan novels
and plays that in time she meant to
write. For occupation she was a
student at Ambrazon College. And
being a well bred girl, she was tol
erant of her mother, and rarely
showed how frivolous Bhe thought
her nilud and how trifling her pur
suits. The graduate student, who dug at
Gothic roots in the third story cham
ber of the house In Brownlow street,
held that Betty's worst fault was
youth. In time, no doubt, that would
amend Itself. But meanwhile It was
not always a pleasure to watch Betty
with her mother.
In her little girlhood Betty had
thought that there was no one In the
world so clever as her mother. She
had liked to hear about the days
when her mother had been young
and, like her, had written stories and
planned great works for the future
and had even begun to have things
printed in the papers, till on her
marriage, she had laid aside all
thought of a career.
But as Betty grew older and
more critical, and found that her
mother preferred Scott to Stevenson
and Milton to Browning, and clung
to Macaulay as a trustworthy histor
ian, she began to feel that her moth
er, however worthy as a housekeeper
was sadly deficient as a scholar, and.
no doubt, as a writer.
So more and more Betty told her
aspirations and read her stories to
her- own little coterie of college
friends, and less and less to her moth
er. And Lizzie Wetherell went on
keeping her house spick and span,
but she did not tell so many droll
stories. And sometimes, when she
had spoken, she glanced at clever
Betty as if she almost expected to be
snubbed for her frivolity.
At such times the graduate student
longed to take Betty by the shoulders
and bump that pretty, foolish little
head of hers against the nearest wall.
Of course, feeling her mother's
lack of true appreciation of her work
and alms, Betty did not confide is
her when she decided, at the begin
nlng of her Junior year, to compete
for the 500 prize that Eversham's
Magazine was offering for the best
short story submitted before Decern
ber 1. Instead, she consulted her
friends and classmates, and with their
aid picked out the manuscript that
she meant to submit. It was a theme
that her Instructor had declared quite
perfect In its literary form, and sho
felt It no extravngance to pay to have
It neatly typewritten.
How pretty her own words looked
seen for the flrBttimeln clear, printed
letters! When Betty carried the
manuscript home, in the frosty No
vember twilight, she had only one re
gret, namely, that there was no one
left among her friends who had not
heard the story. She would so much
have liked to read It aloud from the
typewritten manuscript.
So thinking, Betty entered tho
house, and there, in the living room
she saw her mother sitting. The lamp
was lighted, and In the open grate the
ore was kindled. At her mother's
elbow, on her desk, were the pad on
which the day's menus were written
and a couple of cook books. On her
mother's lap were a darning basket
ana uetty s silk stockings. And on
the table was a silver dish of crystal
lized ginger, a sweet of which Betty
was fond.
After the cold outdoors the living
room looked warm and cozy, and Bet
ty wanted a hearer for her story. So
contrary to custom, sho went Into the
living room Instead of passing on to
her own chamber, which was also her
study. She sat down in the deep
cnair by tho hearth, and for au in
tant she had half a mind to tell hor
mother all about the Eversham's
Prize offer. But then, as she looked
at her pretty manuscript, she felt bo
sure of its success that she thought it
oetter to wait and astonish her moth
r when she had actually won the
prize. So for the present she told hor
only that she had there a typewritten
copy of one of her newest stories.
"Perhaps you would like to hear
"." Betty ended, graciously. "It is
tailed, For Love of Chlorls.' Whai
n you smiling at, mother?"
"I didn't mean to, dear," said Liz
Wetherell, meekly. "It Just
JUtted across my mlud. Such a state-
' old name! I haven't heard it in
'earn. Then it was a queer old worn
Nancy Towle, down on the Maine
jpast, who had a heifer she called
-niorls. Poor old Nancy."
in a voice that was Injured merely
"'think that her heroine should have
""'iity with heifer, Betty began b
"jading. Boon she had lost the sense
"' Injury in the Joy of hearing ur
sentences.
t was mi eighteenth century tale
'"u tine bad written, in the fashion
tua b0ur. The heroine wore red
ww- The hero prefaced every sen
tence with "Egad!" or T faith!"
All the characters were great gentle
folk. The plot was an ingenious com
pound of love and villainy, and plt-
eotisly. direfully tragic In Its out
come. Betty's voice fairly quavered
over the concluding lines.
Lizzie Wetherell's face, as she list
ened, was lovely in its tenderness.
Oh, how foolish sho had been to feel
hurt at Betty's slights, any more
than she had resented It when Betty,
a tiny baby, had tugged at her moth
er s hair! How young she was, this
tall Betty! Love and life! What
did she know of either, this child
with her red-heeled puppets and her
tags of borrowed phrases?
Betty looked up. She saw the ten
der mist in her mother's eyes, but she
saw, too, behind the mist, ft little
twinkle. Suddenly she felt young
and angry.
You don't like It!" she flashed.
'I wish you would say what you don't
like."
"T know so little of eighteenth cen
tury manners," apologized Lizzie
Wetherell. "Hut are you quite sure
woman would behave like your
Chloris?"
Betty rose majestically.
"I knew you wouldn't undertsnnd,"
she said, and swept out of the room.
That night at dinner Betty was
not rude, but deadly civil to her
mother. It was'ono of the timeB
when tho graduate student particu
larly ached to lay hands on ber. So
unbearably supercilious was Betty,
that at last, like the trodden worm,
Lizzie Wetherell turned.
She remembered that In the dnys
long past she, too, had been a girl
writer, with ambitions like Betty's.
She remembered that all her life she
had remained famous In her own cir
cle as a teller of good stories. She
remembered that she still could write
letters that were a delight to her
friends.
"Why, even to-day I believe that I
poor, stupid I! could write a story
as good as For Love of Chloris!
concluded Lizzie Wetherell.
So much did she think of this last
slight that Betty had put upon her
that when she took up the pad that
evening to make out the next day's
menus, she wrote, almost before she
realized what she did, the title that
was running in her head "For Love
of Chloris." As she looked at the
words she began to fuse the frag
ments of the story that had come to
her since she had heard the name
the true story of Nancy Towle and her
heifer Chloris. Bit by bit she shaped
it in her mind, and then, with a little
smile that was half ashamed, but
very resolute, she bent above tho pad
and set to writing.
By the time Bhe had finished tho
clock was striking 10, and a few mo
ments later the graduate student
came down stairs. She always came
at that hour, pausing in her long eve
ning's work, and made a little supper
of fruit and crackers by the bright
Are, and listened to the tales that
Lizzie Wetherell no longer ventured
to tell at the table.
Indeed Lizzie Wetherell and the
graduate student were good friends,
and knowing that, Lizzie Wetherell
took courage.
Will you let me read you some
thing?" she aBked.
And then she read aloud her "For
Love of Chloris." It was only the
story of a crotchety old woman and
the dumb creature that she loved, but
there were tears in it, and laughter,
and wholesome sea air, and at the
last a gleam of watery sunshine.
When the reading was done the
graduate student sat for a moment
silent.
"That's good," she said at last.
"It's true and human. What do you
mean to do with It?"
Lizzie Wetherell was as pleased as
a girl. Of late she had not been
praised for anything but housekeep
ing. "Do with It?" she repeated. "Why,
maybe I'll send it to Cousin Hattle.
She'll remember old Nancy, and she
likes my scribbling."
"More than your cousin would like
that story," said tho graduate stu
dent. "Why don't you try for the
prize thnt Eversham's is offering?"
Lizzie Wetherell had not heard of
the prize, for Eversham's was one of
the new magazines that she, a Btanch
conservative, never dreamed of buy
ing. But now she heard all about it,
and she consented to the graduate
student's entering "For Love of Chlo
ris" In the competition, although, she
protested honestly, she was sure
nothing would come of it.
So the graduate student carried the
manuscript to her room, and on her
way she passed Betty's door.
"Little prig!" mused the graduate
student. "With a mother so plucky
and sweet hearted and clever oh, so
much more clever than ever the child
will be! And she dares to patronize
her! I wish Mrs. Wetherell might
wlu that prize It would be a lesson
to tbe girl, and she ought to loarn it
before it's too late!"
The graduate student choked.
Over her own mother's grave the
snows of the third winter now were
drifting.
In her own room the graduate stu
dent struck off a fair copy of the
manuscript upon ber typewriter. And
the next morning on her way to col
lege, she posted a long envolope at
the box at the corner of Brownlow
street, Just as Betty, In the corridor
at Ambrazon, was trusting her pre
cious story to the mall.
About the middle of the morning
Betty had a doubt that worried her.
"Did I stamp that envelope that I
enclosed for tho return of the manu
script? It I didn't, they'll never send
It back. I've lost It unless Ever
sham's takes It. And It's quite possi
ble that they won't."
Then Betty settled down to anx
ious waiting, and under the same
roof, each unknown to the other, the
graduate student, loo, was waiting.
But Llxsle Wethersll, who should
have been much concerned for the
fate of ber "For Lore of Chloris,"
was so troubled at Betty's unoT
plalned preoccupation that sho al
most forgot about her story.
Soon Lizzie Wetherell had a fresh
loss to grieve her, for tho graduate
student was called home. AlmoBt at
a day's notice she left college and her
own work to take charge of a stricken
house and two newly orphaned uleces,
and Lizzie Wetherell, who had come
to depend on her companionship, es
pecially at the hour of the little sup
per, missed her cruelly.
But Betty scarcely heeded the go
ing of the graduate student. She felt
that sho was no favorite of hers. Be
sides, she was now giving all her In
terest to the outcome of Eversham's
competition. Every time that she
hoard the postman's ring she would
herself go flying to the door.
On such an errand she had run one
gray December afternoon, and she
was longer about It than usual. Then
her voice rang Jubilant through the
house, and she ran Into the living
room, just as she bad used to run to
her mother.
"Tho prize!" she cried. "I've won
Eversham's prize! 'For Love of
Chloris," by Elizabeth Wetherell, la
to come out in the March number. I
didn't tell you at the time. I wanted
to surprise you. But I sent a story
to Eversham's the one I read you
and they've taken it. And they're
sending me the check. Five hundred
dollars! Think of It, mother!"
When sho thought of It Lizzie
Wetherell thought it the most nat
ural and beautiful thing that could
have happened. If sho remembered
her own poor little story that the
graduate student had so praised, it
was only to be glad that she had
never told Betty that she, too, had
entered the contest. And she re
joiced whole-heartedly In Betty's
triumph, not only for Betty's sake
but for her own. For It seemed to
her that In this eager girl, who
wanted her sympathy and her praise,
she had at last her own daughter-
friend again.
But all too quickly Betty was once
more her recent self. She must tell
her mates about her success, she said
with tho implication that in them
alono could sho find true apprecia
tion. And as she turned away, she
added, with a laugh that was more
ill natured than she guessed:
"You see, mother, Eversham'i
thought my Lady Chloris was truer
to life than you did."
Of tho weeks that followed too
much need not be said. If Betty had
been offensive In her patronage of her
mother when she was merely an ear
nest student, she was fairly Intolera
ble now that she was a successful au
thor and a wage earner. Five nun
dred dollars at one stroke! It was
more than her mother could clear by
months of labor. So she patronized
her stupid mother, till the graduate
student, had she been there, would
surely have lost the last of her pa
tience and shaken her.
The marked copy of Eversham's
came one February afternoon, along
with some letters for Mrs. Wetherell
Betty, who had just come in from col
lege, tore the wrappings from the
magazine. "For Love of Chloris, by
Elizabeth Wetherell," she read the
title. She read the name of the fa
mous artist who had done the illus
tratlonu. Then she turned to look at
the story In its glorious dress.
In after life Betty could laugh, re
memberlng the dismay with which
she saw, instead of tbe full page pic
ture of her dainty Lady Chloris, a
gnarled old woman, leading a spotted
heifer. But at tho moment she did
not laugh.
"Mother," she said, in a dry voice
"look here! It's my title. It's my
name. And I've received the check
But It's not my story. I can't under
stand!"
Then she saw that her mother's
face was startled and that she was
holding out to her a newly opened
letter, written In the graduate stu
dent's hand. Betty read tho opening
sentences:
"Am 1 not a true prophet, dear
Mrs. Wetherell? I've only Just had
time, so busy these sad weeks have
been, to glance at the magazines
again. And I see, In the current num
Mr of Eversham s, that your story
'For Love of Chloris.' has won the
prize, as it deserved to do. Congrat
ulations and
Betty dropped the letter. She
grew aware that her mother was
speaking.
"I wrote the story." Lizzie Wether
ell was Baying. "And the graduate
student persuaded me to send it to
Eversham's."
"She did It on purpose!" Betty's
voice rang harsh. "She always die
liked me. She "
"Betty," her mother interposed
you must bo fair! Wo did not know
that you were entering the contest
I know! I know!" cried Betty
She s not to blame to meddle like
that! You're not to blame to take
my title and not to tell me! I'm to
blamo for it all, perhaps, because I
didn't stamp that envelope because
they threw my story Into the waste
basket In t. ml of sending It back
because I didn t know it was reject
ed! I'm to blamo that I thought I'd
won the prize that I've told every
body that I've made a fool of my
self"
She stopped, terrified at the sigh
of her mother's stricken face. She
could nut Bpeak sanely yet, but at
least she could be silent. Shesnatched
up her coat and ran out of the house,
All that afternoon Betty Wetherell
walked. Clear to the reservoir she
tramped, and out beyond the railway
tracks and the brickyards and the
great waste fields. Through frozen
mud and snow she tramped till the
sun bad sunk redly, and by that time
ahe had tramped the demon down
Something of the youth of which the
graduate student had complained Bet
ty lost In that hour of her bitter hu
initiation. But in its place she gained
her first real knowledge of herself
So In the early evening Betty came
home, white and chilled and weary
but mistress of herself as she bud
never been in her short life. She
went straight to her mother's fireside
"Dear," she said, frankly and hum
bly, "I'm sorry. Please forgive me
for what I said and for other
things."
"It was my fault," said Betty's
mother, with her arms about uvr, "1
ought to have told you that I was
trying for tho prize."
"Served me right!" choked Befty.
"I ought to have told you. I was
the one who began having secrets."
"AndJ have no right to take the
title of your precious story." Lizzie
Wetherell went on, contritely. "It
was yours. It wasn't fair of me."
"Fair?" cried Betty. "O mother,
don't! It wasn't, fair of me to seize
that Elizabeth Wetherell letter, as If
there was only one of that name In
this house, as If there was only one
with brains enough to write a story!
And I took your money, and I took
your fame, and all the time"
But she did not say It. In the hope
that perhaps she had not mistrusted,
she spared her mother the pain of 1
hearing how In her heart she had
thought slightly of her. ;
'I'll put that money to your ac-
mat In the bank to-morrow," said'
Betty. "And I'll tell the girls, and
Pa write to the aunts and uncles and
let them know that It was you, and
not I, who was so clever."
'Betty, need you?" urged Lizzie
Wetherell.
Then, wisely, she was silent. For
she saw that Betty must In her own
way work out her atonement.
So Lizzie Wetherell made no com
ment, although her heart was aching
for her girl, when Betty came down
stairs that night, at the hour when
the graduate student used to come,
with a handrul of letters. "All writ
ten, mother dear," said Betty. "I've
told all the relatives just whom they
should be proud of. And the student
graduate "
Lizzie Wetherell gave a Btart.
"Yes," said Betty, "I've written
to her. And, mother, won't you read
me your 'For Love of Chloris?' "
She gave a sudden shamed laugh
that made her eyes crinkle like her
mother's.
"I've been a pig, haven't I?" she
said. "And- a prig, which Is worse.
But after this we'll be chums again,
won't we, mother? And about the
letter to the graduate student, yon
needn't worry. I wrote to thank
hor." Youth's Companion.
'.NEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA
MiM its DEMAND NEW WAGE
SCALE.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Who finds fault, finds trouble, too.
-American Cultivator.
What wo think about the things
that are greatest will determine how
we do the things that aro least.
Scottish Reformer.
Another of the advantages of being
good Is the pleasure derived from
being shocked. Puck.
None know what it Is to live till
they redeem life from monotony by,
sacrifice. Scottish Reformer.
When a man has not good reason
for doing a thing he has a very good
reason for letting It alone. Scott,
The average young man worries
too much about getting his salary,
and not enough about earning It.
Atchison Olobe.
To make an end of selfishness is
happiness. This Is the greatest hap
piness to subdue the selfish thoughts
of "I." Buddha.
A man can't very well lose all hla
money and retain all his confidence
In mankind. New York Times.
Some people are not satisfied to
kill two birds with one stone, but
they want the stone back. New York
Times.
Religion is not a department of hu
man life. Religion Is a spirit per
vading all departments of human life.
Mary Emily Case.
A religion of clean clothes needs
to be preached to the world as well
as a religion of clean hearts. Indi
ana Farmer.
When a thing you wish for cannot
be had. ever wish for that which may.
Terrence.
Tho wise man profits by the exper
ience of others and at the same time
mixes it with a little originality.
Chicago News.
Whiskers and Language.
"How long does It take you to
shave?" asked the man with the
brushwood whiskers.
"About ten minutes, usually," an
swered his fellow traveler, who was
trying to land a few scrapes between
the lurches of the Pullman car.
'And how often do you shave?"
"Every day of my life."
"Have you ever thought that If you
devoted this time to study you could
learn a foreign language In two
years?"
"No; I never did. That's rather
interesting. How long have you been
wearing a beard?"
"It's sixteen years since a razor
has touched my face."
"That makes eight. Well, you
beat me. I am professor of modern
languages In a college, and so I have
had to learn French, German, Span
ish and Italian. I suppose you be
gan with those, too. What four did
you take up after that Portuguese,
Greek, Russian, Swedish?"
"Ah! that is to tell the truth, I
never had a head for languages. They
wouldn't do me any good If I had."
New York Tribune.
An Abrupt Introduction.
"Long Introductions when a man
has a speech to make are a bore,"
says former Senator John C. Spoouer.
"I have had all kinds, but the most
satisfactory one, in my career was that
of a German Mayor of a small town in
my State, Wisconsin.
"I was to make a political address,
and the opera bouse was crowded.
When It came time to begin the
Mayor got up.
'Mine friends,' he said, 'I haf
asked been to Introduce Senator
Spooner, who is to make a speech,
yes. Veil, I haf dlt so, und ho vlll
now do so.' " Literary Digest.
Recognition Of The I'nlon To Be
Insisted Upon.
Scranton (Special.) An entire
now agreement will be the demand
of the anthracite mine workers to
the operators to replace the present
working agreement, which expires
April 1. 1909.
This was tho decision of the trl
dlstrict convention of the First,
Seventh and Ninth Districts, United
Mine Workers, embracing the
Iacknwanna, Wyoming. Lehigh and
Schuylkill regions, here.
It Is expected that the operators
will vigorously oppose the demands
and that long conferences will be
the rule before an agreement Is
signed.
Demands Of The Miners.
The demands of the miners are
as follows:
"First-Thai an agreement shall
bo negotiated between the represen
tatives of the miners and tho oper
ators of the anthracite region and all
disputes arising under the contract
hU be adjusted as provided for In
the said agreement.
"Second W" demand the com
plete recognition of the United Mine
Workers of America as a party to
negotiate a wiiro contract and thai
the United Mine Workers of Ameri
ca shell be reeoghlzed In our right
to provide any method we may adopt
for the collection of revenues for the
organization.
"Third That we demand au
eight-hour day with no reduction of
wages.
"Fourth That all roal shall be
mined and paid for by the ton of
2,001 pounds.
"Fifth Thar we demand a defi
nite and more uniform scale of wages
and prices for all classes of labor
M nil collieries In the anthracite re
gion and that all employees paid less
lhan $1.50 or less per day shall ro
felve a 10 per cent, advance and all
employees paid more than $1.50 and
less than 1 por day shall receive a
" per cent, ndvance.
"Sixth That tho system whereby
n contract miner has more than one
Job. or employs two laborers, be
abolished.
"Seventh That the employers he
required to Issue uniform pay state
ments, designating the name of the
company, the name of the employee,
the colliery where employed, the
amount of wages and the class of
work performed.
"Eighth That the contract shall
be made for a period of one year."
Arranging The Conference.
After the convention bad adjourn
ed President Lewis said that the con
vention had appointed the national
president and the three district
presidents to get Into communica
tion with the representatives of tbe
operators for the purpose of agree
ing upon a time when a Joint con
ference of the representatives of tbe
miners and operators would be herd
If the operators agree to this, Mr
lowts said, that probably the miners
would be represented by the natlon.il
president, the three district presi
dents and a delegate from each local
In the anthracite coal field. He
could not, he said, forecast when the
Joint conference would be held, for
that depended upon the operators
agreeing to hold it.
While President Lewis will not or
der a strike unless all other means
fail, those who know him best eav
he will call one If the ex-t remit v de
mands. The mine workers declare
positively that thev win not accent
the old agreement and they will sign
one for no longer than a year.
points DBPECm IN
Till. VA I N ATION LAW.
Thousands Of Children Are Kept
From The Schools,
Harrlsburg ( Special ) . Conflicts
between the provisions of the com
pulsory education and vaccination
laws of Pennsylvania are held blame
able for keeping thousands of chil
dren out of the public schools of
the State by Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction Nathan 0. Schaeffer In
tho annual report which he submit-
'ORTH ILPUWIPH
r -fcMM I mi- grs
Humming birds are disappearing
from Trinidad. In 1866 there were
eighteen species; now thore aro only
five.
More than half of France's tobacco
Imports come from the United States.
John Alcorn, of Princeton, Ind.,
lued William Riley for alienating his
wife's affections, and got one cent
damages.
Most of tho tobacco used In so
called Russian cigarettes the far
famed brandB of Turkey and Cairo,
too is grown less than one hundred
miles from Louisville, JCy.. or within
' ted to Governor Stuart. He declares a 1,ke rdlus of Raleigh, N. C.
bluntly that the hopes of those who
endeavored to make vaccination gen- A tunnel more than a mllo In
oral have not come to pass. length, said to" be the longest In ex-
Still more startling is the super- Istence for use by municipal electric
Intendent'B statement that ministers J surface car lines, has Just been
and Sunday school officers permit no- opened by the Genoa Street Railway
vaccinated children to como to Sun- Company; It shortens the time to Rl-
day school and are as much law I varolo by fifteen minutes,
breakers as the school officials who j
when the vdrIn t0, aUend ' I Herbert E. Ouy, of Brockton, Mass.,
,,nrnfthey Ca" DOt pioduce B cer- I is tho owner of what Is claimed to
DEATH FROM FOOTBALL.
Concussion Of The Brain Results
Fatally To Plnyer.
Norrlstown (Special!. A den'li
and one serious Injury have result
ed from the football contest at Oak
Viow on Saturday, October 3, be
tween the Junior Athletic Club, of
Norrlstown, and tho Wlnton A. C.
of Philadelphia.
J. Wiggo. full-back for the Wln
ton, died from concussion of the
brain, sustained in the struggle In
that game, which was fiercely con
tested, while McOulre. the right end
of tho Wlnton, is suffering from a
fracture of the collar-bone.
Wlgge'B injuries were not deem
ed serious. He was unconscious for
a Ume, but was able later to accom
pany Ms team-matee home. Reach
ing there a change developed.
McGuire's Injuries were not deem
ed more than a severe sprain at the
time he was forced out of the game.
In his remarks on the subject of ! tho smnllost Shetland pony In the
varctnntlon nr. Schaeffer says:
"The State Commissioner of
Health, Dr. Samuel O. Dixon, ascer
tained that In 9851 schools which his
subordinates Inspected there were I
50.817 unvaccinated children In at-
tendance. The total number in 1
schools In the State Is 33,171. These I
figures show that the progress of I
those who framed the law excluding j
unvaccinated children from schools j There is a marriage each eight
and who hoped thereby to make vac- mlnutes in Now York City,
elnatlon universal, has not been real-
"'"'Moreover. legislation which. The United States Government has
through no fault of their own. makes 1 Property In the city of New York
children lawbreakers for the sake of I valued on the basis of the tax assess-
gettlng an education, Is very far from ment at itu,ouu,uou
I State. Tho little fellow stand just
twenty-one Inche--, In height and is
only twenty-three inches long.
Blasting marble is Impracticable,
those who quarry It having to spilt
off blocks In the same method in
vogue when the Parthenon was built,
more than 2300 years ago.
-satisfactory. The law now favors
those who wish to evade the penalty
for neglecting to send their children
to school. By simply refusing to
furnish n certificate of successful vac
cination the parent can hnve the
child excluded from school, and the
power of the attendance officer over
said child Is at an end.
"The dissemination of anti-vaccination
literature Is dally Increasing
the difficulties by which the schools
are confronted. Fully 60 per cent,
of all tho letters sent to the educa
tional commission bear upon vacci
nation." The statistical portion of the re
port shows that there are 2,580
school districts in the State, 33,171
schools, 7,488 male teachers, 26,
523 female teachers, 1,231,200 pu
pils, an Increase of 5,812. The aver
ago number of pupilB in .daily at
tendance last year was 95L670.
A New Yorker of broad traveling
experience says that he finds It an
economy not to register from the
metropolis when he visits tho sum
mer resorts. He uses a little up
State town for this purpose.
John Wax, a farmer living near
Newport, Perry County, Pa. missed
a metal frog, painted green, weigh
ing four pounds, used to hold a door
open, and a few days later killed a
black snake seven feet long, near the
house, inside of which he found the
frog, and two half grown rabbits.
STATE FAIR PROTECT
IS GAINING GROUND.
The only book that Is with any
certainty known to have been han
dled by Shakespeare is a copy of Flo
rio's translation of Montaigne's es
says. It contains the poet's auto
graph and was bought by the British
Museum for 120 guineas. A second
copy of the same translation in the
museum has Ben Johson's name on
thA flv-lenf.
Its rncnas Wilt ITcscnt Hill To
Legislature. I A combination of a lump of soap
Harrlsburg (Special). "A bill for i ot the 8lze of a nlckory nut- Plnt
,.,,. . , . , .'of boiling water and four tablespoon-
tho establishment of a State fair will ; , ,, , fh .,,,..
IU1D Jt I I I 1 1 ' 111111 ID I Ml' 1. .1.1 111 VI OVS-
lutlon UBed to transfer newspaper
cuts to another piece of paper or to
cloth.
Dropped Dead Paying Taxes.
Heading (Special). While paying
her taxes ait City Hall, Mrs. Hen
rietta Adams fell dead. She was 85
years old.
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
Clark Colby, of Newport, N. H.,
has conceived tbe Idea of a "woman
scarecrow." It holds a broom aloft,
and Mr. Colby finds that hawks are
much more afraid of it than the are
ot the usual scarecrow.
David St roh m, one of the best
known residents of Cumberland
County, died at Carlisle, after a gen
eral breakdown, aged 83 years. He
was well-known In banking circles.
Henry EherU. a Nazareth contrac
tor, despondent and 111, went Into his
back yard, removed his shoe and
with his too pulled the trigger of hie
shot gun and blew off the top or his
head.
Miss Mary N. Baird. of Reedsvllle,
has been elected superintendent of
the Lewistown Hospital, to succeed
Miss Anna Lentz, resigned.
Kenneth Neal. aged 18 years, was
drowned in the Susquehanna River
near McCall's Ferry. He was fishing
and his boat upset and the young
man was carried through the rapids
Balggio Fusco, 22 years old, em
ployed on a Pennsylvania Railroad
construction train at Tyrone, was
given six pay checks to have cashed
at the Blair County '-lank, and has
failed to return. The loss of the
workmen will exceed $200.
Joseph Reeser. u prominent Re
publican politician, who had held Sev
ern) public offices In Lancaster, died
suddenly, aged 64 years.
Mrs. Thomas Folan, aged 70, was
burned to death when her clothei
caught from the fire she was klndllnr
in the kitchen stove of her Berantou
horn
be presented in the next Legislature,
with the support of many of the
agricultural societies, and I think It
will go through, because there Is a
great and growing sentiment for such
a fair," W. C. Norton, president of
the State Live Stock Breeders' As
slclatlon, and a former member of
tho House of Representatives from
Wayne County, declares. Mr. Nor
ton came here from Altoona, where
he attended a meeting In tbe Interest
of the annual session of the allied
agricultural societies to be held here
this winter, and said that his visit
here was to "boost the State fair."
"I have found people all over the
State In favor of It, heartily In favor i
of It," said Mr. Norton. "Few people I
have any Idea of the enormous i
wealth represented by our live stock
industry. Why, It Includes every i
men who has horses and cows, to say j
untiling of chickens. Even the bees
ire in it. Now, If we have a State ;
fair, the cream of such exhibits, tho 1
prize winners from county fairs,
would be brought together and we
COuld show the world what .Pennsyl
vania really has."
Mr. Norton Bays that he considers I
! larrlsuurg the place to hold the fair, j
is it Is not only a railroad center,
but the Capital, where the State
A cheap yet durable pavement ha?
been laid by the city of Manketo,
Mich., constating of a mixture of
crushed fine stone, gravel and tar,
top-dressed with cement and sand.
It cost but eighty cunts a linear foot,
thirty feet wide.
GERMANY AND ITS CITIZENS.
Government to Improve Their Condi
tlon in Many Reasonable Ways.
Germany is not pauperizing the
population nor paupering the work
men as dependents upon the bountlei
of paternal government. It is striving
by well devised social reforms to im
prove the quality of workaday citizen
ship instead of degrading it. Ever;
measure has been thoroughly thought
out before It has been tentatively In
troduced, and tho co-operation ol
trade unions and even of Socialistt
has been secured in the practical ad
ministration of the insurance fundi
and other institutions. Results and
tendencies have been calculated Witt
louse and other Stflte buildings are , painstaking care; thrift is not di
rected. In this opinion he Is Blip- j cournged by injustice to industrloui
ported by Deputy Secretary of Agri
iilturc Martin, one of the Btanch
advocate! of a fair for the whole
State.
YOUTH INSTANTLY KILLED.
and prudent workers; paupers and
i parasites are not singled out for pub
lic charity and rewarded for improvi
dence; and the haves are not systam
I atically raided and plundered for tbe
! benefit of the have-nots. Social re-
Hunter Met Death In Presence Of ! orm 18 "KluM? ,D Germany M
. , , I Is thoughtless and reckless in Eug-
l ather And Brothers. land.-Cobleutz Correspondence Now
Pine Grove (Special). William York Tribune.
Heinbach, a Civil War veteran, took I .
five of his eight grown-up sons Into
Itmer's Swamp, in Pine Grove
Township, hunting.
Phaon, the 20-year-old son, stood
rn a stump watching a chase with
the muzzle of his gun pointing to his
chin, when It was suddenly dis
charged, the contents going through
roufeg Helnbach's head, killing him
Instantly.
A 17-ycar-old son of Adam
Krause. of Rock Washington Town
Hp, watched his dm's charing, with
the muzzle of his gun resting on
Tights on the Stave.
Must a music hall star exhibit her
self on the stage in tights when she
abominates such a display? Thli
question has been raised by Mile. De
Valcourt, a Parlslenne, who, after a
brief uppearance on Buch conditions,
declared that she had had enough oi
the business. First of all she ex
plained thnt this was too great a trla'
to her modesty, and then she added
that the wearing of tights every even
ing made her positively 111. The Paris
his shoe, when it was suddenly dis- i Tribunal of Commerce having pro.
charged, shattering h s foot. j pounced against her and ordered hei
APPEAL TO Til E PRESIDENT. ! PawB, f 0O"Ot' 8h" b oun'
' j the affair before the Court of Appeal,
Deposstpri Of Closed Bank Going To foildl' hoping that the war which wai
Washington i ueln8 waged against indecent exhibi-
Waynesburg (Speciali. - The de- w"" nr ?lX j 1 tC,
posltors of the closed Farmers & : I" case, but the Court of Appeal
Drovers' National Bank are to be - haB also decided against Mile. De Vel
granted an audience by President I court. It holds that an artist who hat
Poosevelt, according to an announce- i undertaken to appear in revues und
nent made by Norman W. Sayres. ballets such as are performed In es
iresident of the Greene County Tax- ' tabllshments like the Ambassadeuri
layers' League, who has been active or tbe Alcazar cannot fairly regard
n pusuing me suns againBi j. u r the wearing of tights as placing he
iMnehart, 'ormer
racked bank.
cashier of the
Rabbits Plentiful In Schuylkill.
Pottsvllle (Special). Not in many
years have rabbits been so plentiful
in Schuylkill County as this year.
The opening of the season was pro
tective of good results Hunters
ound objection on tke part of farm-
about crossing their lands t
:use the corn husking season It
n P-"- j it has been frequently noted by
The starfish, netted, commits sut- aeronauts that the barking ol a dan
de. It disolves itself into many Is always the last sound that the
ioces, which escape through the bear from earth, and it bas been, die
meshes ot tbe net Then a kind ol covered that this can be Ji ard uudej
resurrection takes place, qauh piece favorable elrec r uascss ai en elsrt-
trowlng Into u oerl'ect starfish tjOB 0f Iour 11
in au unforeseen position. As for the
injury to health, the court consider!
that Mile. De Valcourt ought to hav
thought of this when she contracted
the engagement, the more eo as the
medical oertlflcute sets forth that shi
was already in a delicate state severs)
years ago. So the Judgment of the
Tribunal of Commerce Is malntalued,
London Telegraph.