aaHliaBIHti THE BARN RAISING By BELLE Keene Warden sat at tfae clumsy, old-fashioned writing desk, staring hopelessly at a blank piece of letter paper. Several fragments were scat tered on the floor, bearing testimony to fruitless efforts. He was better ed ucated than tbe average farmer In the vicinity of Cornsvllle, and he had a clear, reasoning mind, but bis under taking was of a delicate nature. More over his six feet of manhood strode way from other people's business In stead of poking Into It. He felt that be owed It to bis fath er's memory to protect his father's friend, Stephen Rons, In his old age. In his day Stephen had been a pros perous farmer. Successive off-seasons had done their work and tbe Inevitable mortgage had rolled up Its added In terest. His wife's IllneBS and death had weakened bis strength and ambi tion. He bad lost his farm and gone to live on ten-acte strip saved from the wreck. Then hit only son, who had no aptitude for farming, bad gone west, married, made a fair fortune In mining stocks and written to his father to come out and share his lux urious home. But the old man's heart and mem ories were too strongly rooted In his meadow lands to stand transplanting. 80 the son had bought the farm back and let his father live on It, also mak ing him a generous allowance. Stephen was as happy as his solitary fireside would allow him to be, but the Are side was about to be cheered by his granddaughter, a young girl of nine ten whom be had not seen In fifteen years. Her father was going to Mexico for a she months' sojourn among some mines and she had written that she felt a longing to s-e her father's boy hood borne and her grandfather. "It's really hers, you know," Stephen bad said, when telling Keene tbe news. He Watched It Burn. "Her father deeded It to her when he bought It." "Her coming will cheer you up won derfully, Mr. Ross," ventured Keene. "Yes," agreed the old man, but there was a reservation In his tone, a fore boding In his eyes, and Keene gradu ally drew from htm tbe cause. It was this talk which had prompted the let ter to Ruth Ross. Finally he managed to explain to this pampered young per son that her grandfather was old and lived entirely In the past, clinging pathetically to old ways. He told her be knew that the farm was hers, but he urged her not to make the Improve ments that would doubtless suggest themselves to her. This the old man was earing and dreading that she would do. About six days after the mailing of this letter he looked for a reply, but none came. "She Is offended and thinks me nervy," he thought ruefully. "Med dlers always make matters worse. She'll probably tnke pains to do all the things I asked her not to do." A week later Ruth Ross arrived and Keene went over to meet her. He en tered tbe big living and dining room, braced to meet a scornful young dam sel. Tbe room was lighted only by tbe flames from the fireplace. Tbe eld man sat In his usual place, looking, as Kerne's quick, keen glance no:ed, ten years younger and 20 years happier. A slender slip of a girl with soft, swoet eyes and smooth, shlnfng hair came forward with extended hand. "Mr. Warden, papa has toll me so often of all the pranks you placed when you were n boy that I feel bb If 1 knew you." You do." he said earnestly. "The summer you were here when you wore four and I fourteen we were nrra friends, but of course you don't remember." She Was Too Particular West Indian Negress Failed to Obtain Position as Servant to Mrs. William Sulzer. Mrs. William Sulzer, wife of the congressman, was telling recently of an effort she made to engage a serv ant Mrs. Sulzer said she went to an agency for a West Indian negress. The same day a young woman of ebony hue called. She was JuBt sim ply all dolled up. She even wore long white gloves. "Mrs. Sulzer," the girl said, "does you entertain much?" "A little," replied the congressman's wife, "but we have a Jap who helpa out on such occasions." "Well. Is the family large?" -No.' "1 presume you baa a nice room for a Indy servant?" Ths girl asked hal' a dozen other 'questions along tbe same line. "Well," she -il finally. "I'll take the Job. v . u.rt you like to have ma do MANIATES " am not so sure about that," she replied. "When 1 smell new mown bay, I have a fleeting vision of a big boy with a gentle touch who used to carry me on his back through fields." "I was that boy," be declared. 'Then draw up a chair to our lively tire." "She likes the fireplace, Keene," said tbe old man In chlldlBb eagerness. "She says It's the most beautiful Ore In the world." "Of course,'.' she asserted, looking at Keene. "It makes ma loathe steam and coal?" That night Keene went borne with bis pulses throbbing. She was not offended, then, and from the fireplace j proposition It looked as If she were going to follow out his suggestions. The next morning be met her driving her grandfather over tbe place. "Isn't It a denr old farm?" she cried. "Keene," said the old man delight edly, "she loves the fence. She doesn't want It down." "Want It down!" echoed the gtrl, looking at Keene. "It Is so pictur esque! And I like tbe Idea of fencing In your possessions. I'd go farther If I had a home; I'd ulld a wall around It." "I was afraid you'd think us old lashloned," suggested her grandfather. "Maybe, now, you'd like some new chairs and sofys." "Why, grandfather, you couldn't buy such beautiful old things anywhere. It would spoil tbe place to put anything modern lit it, wouldn't it?" appealing to Keene "Indeed It would." he replied, bis heart warming The next day he met Stephen driv ing from town. There was a slight flush In bis withered cheeks and a light In bis dimmed eyes. "She's deeded the farm back to me, Keene," he said with a sob. "She said I had worked ont my life on it. and that It belonged to me. Of course I shall will It to her, but it Is mine, now." "She has made him a man again," Keene told himself, his heart full of a tender reverence for tbe generous young grandchild. Each day brought some new evi dence of her thoughtfulness for the old man's comfort and happiness. Towards Keene, himself, she ever showed a gracious air of good fellow ship. "Next Thursday," she announced one day, "Is grandfather's birthday, and I am going to give hint a barn, a big, red barn." This had been a long-felt want of the old man's, and be was greatly ex cited over the prospect "We'll have a barn raising." he de cided. What is that?" asked Ruth won derlngly. When the old man bad explained. he added, with a sigh, "It ain't what It used to be. They bave new fangled machinery and Just a few men who bring their own dinner with them." "How was It in' the olden time?" "It was a great event. Men came from miles around, 25 or 30 of tbem, with their families. We set long tables and most always killed a sheep. Your grandmother made a few dozen pies, and In the evening we bad danc ing and games." "We'll bave Just such a one this time," she cried ecstatically. Forthwith they begun to plan ac cordingly. This renewal of an old custom was looked forward to In the whole district, and when the eventful day arrived, Keene was the first one on hand. He caught the Infection of the old rutin's delight and helped to make the day a success, and the din ner was one never to be forgotten. "What wonders she bus worked!" thought Keene, looking at the happy young hostess. "How glad I am I gave her the keynote. She is so good, she could not help being generous to blm, but nlie nilRlit not have grasped the situation i quickly If I had not written to her. It Is sweet In ber never to have alluded to It In any way." His courage was Inspired to the point he had been yearning for since that first glimpse of her by the fire side. When, after the departure of the guests, he was left alone with her, he opened his heart to her, and she shyly responded to his love. "We'll live here In the dear old home with grandfather." she pleaded when he was saying good-night. "Tomorrow," he thought, as he was walking home. "1 will speak to her of the letter." When he went Into the house he found a missive from the dead letter omce. Opening It, be found his letter which had been misdirected. He watched It burn. "I will never tell ber," he concluded. "First I want you to go out and hunt another Job," said tors. Sulzer. "After that I don't care whe1 you do." New York Telegraph. Up to-Date Candidate. "Let's see," said the lawyer who had met an out-of-town acquaintance on a atreet car, according to the New Or leans Picayune, "don't your town hold a spring election?" "It does." "And I suppose you take a lively interest In It?" "Well, not too lively. Not as lively as I used to." "Interest falling off, eh? Didn't you run for mayor two or three years ago?" "I have run for mayor of my town seven succes sive times, sir." "And been been ?" "Peen defeated every time, sir." "Then you probably won't run again this spring?" "That's uncertain. I am go ing to Inquire around and find If I am really the man they want. If I am, then I'll take the candidacy. If not. then I will try to defeat the man they do want." FINS OF $500 FOR KICKERS President Lynch Grows Radical In De fense of His Umpires Pafle'i Protest Turned Down. President Thomas J. Lynch of the National League has returned from a visit to western cities or his circuit. Waiting for Lynch was word that the Pittsburg club has appealed from the decision of the president that sus tained the Chicago protest and threw out one of Pittsburg's victories over the Cubs. This was the game In which the decisions of Klem and Doyle were set aside and which cost Doyle his Job as umpire. The case will now have to be acted on by the board of directors of the league Vice President Page of tbe Boston club, also has sent In a formal protest of the game won by the Cubs from the Rustlers the day of the big trade. Page takes the stand that the deal was not legal because be (Page) was not consulted, but these differences between the Hoston officials are en tirely Internal affair and not. sub jects for Jurisdiction by the president of the league, who can only recognize the action of the club president In the case. Therefore no action by the league president may be expected. The deal stands, so far as the league Is concerned, and the game also. "The National league umpiring In the west has been excellent," said Lynch. "The race Is close and the players are crabbllng. but the umpir ing Is all right. The fans threw bot tles at Umpire Drennan in St. Louis, and that's a sign the umpiring was good and not 'home umpiring.' What ought to be done to these players who kick, get put out of the game, and perhaps cost their club tbe game, Is to fine each of them $500." DECLARES PIRATES WILL WIN Vio Willis, Pittsburg Discard, Con fident Old Teammates Will Land Pennant This Year. "Vic" Willis, erstwhile star twlrler In the National league, but now pro prietor of a hotel In Newark, Del., picks his former teammates, the Pittsburg club In tbe National league, and Detroit In the American league, to repeat their performances of 1909, when those two clubs won the pen nants In their respective leagues. Willis at that time was with Pitts burg and came In for a slice of tbe world's series money. Although out of the fame, he Is taking a keen In terest In the race In both organiza tions and states that he bas come to tbe opinion tbat tbe Pirates and Tigers will again meet In tbe world's championship series. Vic said: "I have been watching all the clubs closely through the newspapers and pick Pittsburg and Detroit to again meet for the world's championship this year. 1 think these two teams will win the pennant In their re spective leagues, but from the pres ent outlook It will be a close fight and especially In the National. Neither race is going to be a runaway, like some In former years, and tbat Na tional league fight, I predict, will be Vie Willis. one tbat will long be remembered In baseball history. "1 pick PlttBburg bb the one best bet, because I think Clarke's aggre gation bas a shade on tbe others if his pitching staff remains good. This la necessary, however, for If his twlrlers fall down he cannot win, not withstanding tbe good club he has. "Last year his pitching staff had a bad season, and as I know the stuff Ib there, I figured that they would come back Btrong this Be? son and pitch as good, if not better, than ever." Isbell Hlttlnc, Hard. Frank label, owner of the Pueblo team In the Western league, Is pest- llns- the ball hard and often, when var he plays. His average for the season to date is .364, but Callre of bis team is ahead of blm on the list New Rule Works Well. The American league's plan of re lieving the umprles of the duty of an nounctng the batteries and changes bas been very acceptable to the fani and a big Improvement. J " Si : :. : ': : i - USE SACRIFICE ONLY IN CLOSE GAMES Jit J v : ' 7 Manager Stovali Manatrer Stovali. of the Naps, be lieves tbe sacrifice should be used only In close games. "When the Nan nltcher Is going good we will U8e tbe sacrifice and play for one run at a time, which is the safe and sure way," says George. "but when our pitching Is not strong enough to hold the opposing team to a few runs we will play the hit and run. taking a chance on getting more runs than the other fellows. I be- Musters of the coaching lines: Hughey Jennings, John J. McUraw and Arlie Latham. A more severe penalty on "beating" might help some of tbe imjor leag uers to rtgaln control. Perhaus If there were less forming by the big leaguers tbe smaller leag ues would be healthier also. In architectural design and the way he stands and moves around Ping iiodle Is a ringer for Jimmy Williams. One reason why Jimmy Murray did not Join tbe Indianapolis team: Own er Watklns said he did not want blm The report that Fred Teuney Is dickering for Jake Ueckley and Amos Rusie to Join his Boston team Is un founded. No outfielder plays batters any bet ter than Harry Wolter. He studies every man closely and never fulls to shift accordingly. Frank Chance has been "beaned so often that he says his eyesight Is affected and he may quit tbe game for good, as a player. The jlenlng of Catcher Lew Mc Allister bv Buffalo means the relense of Heinle Heckendorf, who has not been catching good ball. Budy Hulswltt, when be got ready to Join Louisville, found that he would have to beat a pretty good ball play er out of a Job to get on. Catcher Harry Demls of Columbus Is injured and out of the game. Co liimhim has had bad luck with Its catching department this season. The days of the double header nave arrived and the dyed Ir the wool fan atic sitB comparatively back and takes the big run for bis money with mucn loy. Kansas City fans think the veteran Dusty Rhoades is entitled to another lansn of life in the majors, based on the ball be bas been pitching for the Blues. The hie shifting around that Is tak: lng plnce In baseball players Is large ly due to the fact that a change or team Is often beneflctul for all con cerned. Baseball ought to make a hit In Ja pan, If for no other reason than that the names of the players give much play for Imaginative work on the part of the rooters. Ed Hendricks, the Michigan south paw who was sold to Newark by the Giants, but who refused to report, is pitching for a semi professional team at Benton Harbor, a town Just across the lake from Chicago. Fans along the Pacific coast, who are as keen knockers of umpires as fans anywhere, declare President Lynch, of the National league, has ac tually found a Jewel of an umpire. In Ralph Frary. Frank Isbell who moved his Wichita 'team to Pieblo, is not sorry he did go. He is drawing good crowds and wears a big smile because he shook the dust of Kansas before the dust got the best of blm. New York Get New Player. The Giants are said to have pur chased a new player, but he will not Join tha team until the end of the season. 'He Is Arthur Bues, third haaeman of the Seattle club of the Northwestern league. Bues Is said to be a star. of Cleveland 1 lleve It Is a good plan to mix tbe at tack under either of these conditions, but do not believe In mixing up tbe styles except when tbe opposing team can be caught napping " Lchert's Expensive Hat. Lobert wears oue of the most expen sive huts that can be found. It is a $100 Panama that was sent him by a friend from India, and It la not a large size, either. PICKS MACK'S TEAM TO WIN Manager Dooin of Philadelphia Na tionals. Trlnks Athletics Will Land Pennant Again. Manager Charles Dooin of the Phila delphia Nationals picks the Philadel phia Athletics to repeat and capture the American league and world's championship pennants. Modesty alono. It is understood, keeps Dooin from declaring that the Athletics' op ponents in the world's series will be none other than the Philadelphia Na tionals. The honor of holding such a serios has never come to one single city, ex cept Chicago, but close friends say Dooin believes all the games will be played this year In Philadelphia ' "I believe the Athletics will be In first place In the American league be fore two weeks are over." be Bald, "and that when they take the lead Manager Charles Dooin. they will never be beaded. With such pitchers and batters as Connls Mack has there is no reason to think his team can lose. Coombs. Bender and Plank are going in great thap now." Justified In Cancelling Games. The New York and Philadelphli American league clubs had exhibition games scheduled In Canton, (I., foi Sundays. They cancelled the games to play championship contests in Cleve land on the Sundays involved and thi Canton club complained. The nation al commission has decided that the big leaguers were Justified In cancel ling. George Stovali, leader of the lucfc less Naps, makes a dally report to Owner Somers. Every player Is mca tloned for his good or bad work dur ing the day, so that the men at tbe head of the club keep very well poste4 ou the deportment of the team. ml ' Apt REASONS FOR LIQUOR HABIT Taken to Cause Abnormal States of Consciousness and Resulting Temporary Pleasure. It may be asked. "Why do men drlng?" For the same reason that opium and bashesh are taken In or der to cause abnormal states of con sciousness because of tbe pleasure lerlved therefrom. Alcohol, severing tbe divine from the purely animal portion of our nature, leaves man an Irresponsible animal, descending to purely sensuous, animal planes of ex istence, finds a temporary bliss In this experience. It la peculiarly appropriate that our western Intellectual civilization Bhould bave chosen this, of all drugs, which entirely destroy all true Intel lectuality, writes Dr. Axel E. Gibson Id tbe New Voice. It Is tbe uncon scious application of the law if oppo sltes, and we of the west select alco hol because it affords a transient re lief from the Intense strain which our civilization puts upon us. We do not know how to still the action of our restless brain-mind, by retiring with in the recesses of our own spiritual nature and resting. .Because of this Ignorance, and of the absolute neces sity at times for rest from Intellectual labor, we thus descend Into the ani mal kingdom instead of rising to spir itual planes. Refusing to ascend, we are compelled to descend. Ignoring the spiritual side of our nature, and stimulating the Intellectual, alcohol af fords a real, but transient and deadly relief from tbe pressure of this civ ilization whose god Is gold. The evil effects of alcohol are wide spread and appalling. Upon society they are too well known to require comment. That alcohol Is the chief factor In the prodjctlon of crime, the record of our penal institutions proves conclusively. It also fills our asylums and almshouses, and h-fdreds of thousands of premature graves, with which It Is not officially credited. Its manufacture and sale produces and employs a class of men utterly lost to all high Influences. What are the remedies for so gi gantic an evil? They can only be found In right knowledge. Men must be taught the effect alcohol has upon both soul and body, and public opin ion must be changed. The mental attitude of the race towards alcohol Is wrong. The old. old remedy of changing the thoughts and the mo tives of men must be applied here. The people must be educated must be made to think. And with right thought and right motive,, this, one of the greatest evils of modern civiliza tion, will disappear. HARM IN MODERATE DRINKING Blunts Man's Moral Percep'ions and Destroys All the Finer Sentiments of His Nature. The statement Is frequently made that there Is no hurm In moderate drinking, and that a Christian may Indulge to a certain extent without any detriment to bis splrltuullty. We deny the assumption; It Is utterly false. No Christian can live In com munion with God and attain a high standard of piety who habitually In dulges In strong drink, however, mod erately. It blunts a man's moral per ceptions, Impairs his moral convic tions, obtundf sensitiveness of con science, destroys all the finer senti ments of his better nature, drives all desire after holiness out of the heart, and expels from the sojl tbat hun gering after righteousness which Is ever the characteristic of tbe earnest and aspiring Christian. Resides, It neutralizes a Christian's Influence for good. No one has any confidence In the religion of the drinking Christian (?) Dut more than that; the example of the moderate drinker Is more per nicious than that of the . confirmed drunkard who reels along the street and falls Into the gutter. It Is not the example of the But,, but the exam ple of the moderate drinker often a church member that encourages boys and young men to drink. Tbe pro fessing Christian who indulges in mod erate drinking is a stumbling block over which young men will stumble and at last fall Into a drunkard's grave. Southern Christian Advocate. God's Richest Blessings. When erne has nothing more to lose, when hopes are all beyond the grave, when we listen without terror to the ebblngs and fluwlngs of the tide of life and the rush of Its storms then, atter the night, to us the day will come back, and after the tempest a great calm. We know then It Is God's work, and that God loes us better than we can love ourselves. We know then that all our life is guided by him, so that we And consolation and content ment; and If we have those two things with us consolation In all our sor rows and contentment in any loss we have the richest blessings which God can give us. Rev. Frederick W. Farrar. 8aloon It a Menace. One drinking saloon In a commu nity means rags and misery for some of its people, and sixty thousand saloons in the nation mean rags and misery multiplied sixty thousand times. Universal happiness and pros perity cannot exist in the same land with the saloon apy more than peace and safety can exist In a sheep-fold when the wolf has entered It. C. A Stoddard. Much Harm to Children. It has been found that in one of the German districts the children receive no warm drink before coming to school, but only whisky or schnapps. Scrofula is very prevalent among them, and it is thought that lung tuberculosis will be added to this when the children grow up and be som laborers. 1 OTTUMWA WOMAN CURED t H K. mm By Lydla t. Finknams Vegetable Compound almost a constant sufferer from female irourue iu ii m Llr and fnl forms: shooting pains alt over my Douy, bich heaaaciie, spiuai tvnnlmASO. dizziness. . -..4 everything that was horrid. I tried man j doctors In different parts of the United States, but Lydia B. I'lnkhams vegeia- 1 n 1 11 1 ik a 1 u JO u ijj j done more for me than all the doctors. a 1 . J.. X. . 1 1 tUnan 1 ieei h my uuiy 10 ion yuu mow facts. My heart Is full of gratitude to I you for my cure." Mrs. Harriet E. W ampler, 624 S. llauaoia Street, j Ottuuiwa, Iowa. 1 Consider This Advice. No woman Bhould submit to a surgi cal operation, which may mean death, until she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a fair trial This famous medicine, made only from roots and herbs, has for thirty years proved to be the most valuable tonio and Invlgorator of the female organism. Women residing in almost every city and town In the United States bear willing testimony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia E. Jiui barn's Vegetable Compound. Mrs. Plnkham, at Lynn, Mass Invites all sick women to write her for advice. I ler advice In f rw confidential, and always helpful. Easy. Knltker How can you Identify your umbrella? Docker By the man I took It from For HEADACHE lurks' CAP! IIR Wllttlr fruin Colds, Heat, hluuiacli or KrrvuiM Trouble. Capuilliie will relleie you It' Ui!lld-leHnnt to tnkr aetH lrninr.li ti'ly. Try It. luc., iiu., and 60 ceuu at drun tore. Pandemonium. "Nature knew what she was doing when she deprived fishes of a voice." "How do you make that out?" "What If a fish hud to cackle over every egg It laid?" Lagging Behind. "Why are you loitering around aere?" demanded the policeman. "You seem to have no object In view." "I'm out walking with my wife, of. Beer. She's about 30 j'ards behind lu a bobble skirt." Mlgnt Help. Mrs. Willis (at the Ladles Aid so rlety) Now, what can you do for :he poor boys at the front? Mrs. Glllls I was reading today where the Boldlers are always mak ing sorties. Now, why can't we p,et ; the recipes for those things and make them ourselves arid send them to tus beys? I'uck. A trial pnekat-e of Munyon P PilU will he ent free to anyone on rj iu.st. Address I'rofmwor M"y". Jf Jeffemon St., Philadelphia, l'. " " In need of n.edioul advice, do "' ' ;. write Professor Munyon. Your com """ cation will be treated in strict -"' ' ind your case will be diagtu'Hfl fully as though you bad a personal w view. .... iinlikl Munyon' Taw Paw ' !V tm I all other luxatives or catliaii ( coax the liver into actiw " ia methods. They do not scour. 1 ' (,y oot grlpo, they do not weaken. do .tart all the secretions of "a ind stomach in a way that won y the organs in a healthy c"'llt,;;"inlon corrects constipation. In ' . constipation is responsible tor . ments. There are 20 f-'t ".''. bowels, which is really s sj ir When this pipe becomes cuw whole svstem becomes poisons , in biliousness, indigestion bl..od, which often produce rtie" and kidney ailments. No woman luffers with constipation or ehlt ailment can expect to have ( c mplexion or enjoy good ' , I had n,y way I would prohibit f nine-tenths of the catha"'1-4 ' aw being sold for the was. m tw toon destroy the lining of t ' tjl)0, kiting up serious forms of in and so paralyze the bowels that fuse to act uuless forced W purgatives. toni, Munyon's Paw Paw Pills They to the stomach, liver and ner ,. invigorate instead of 'eakf,"'1I11novrll rich the blood Instead of " , it; they enable the stomach put the nourishment from food Into it. , go Ti,. r.ilta contain no cai d.pe; they are soothing, h'' .llmnl.timr. TheV school 1.. :.l I ..livat'n. IO acb wit""" pj Regular size bottle, contain Dill !5 cents. Munyon's Laoo Jeffemon Sts.. rhilad-lll"a- . I
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