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The Land of the Kurds. ,
Kurdistan appeals to the archaeol-
ogist. It was ruled successively by the
Persians, Macedonians, Parthians, Sas-
panians and Romans; and. is exceeding-:
rich in antiquarian remains, most of
yo are still unexamined, The Kurds
are a wild, pastoral, partly nomadic
people, are mostly Mohammedans and
are very hostile to Christians, their
cruel massacre of the Armenians being
only too well known. Kurdistan be-
longs to both the Turkish and the Per-
sian monarchies, though chiefly to the
former Jondon Chronicle.
Object of the Vieit.
“pid the titled foreigner call on you
to ask your consent to his marrige with
your daughter?”
« don’t think 'so;* replied Mr. Cum-
pox. “My impression. is that he came to
look me over and decide whether I was
sufficiently good form to be invited to
the wedding.”—Washington Star.
He Got the Job.
«1 understand that you told my clerk
you were seeking employment?”
“Your clerk misinformed you. 1 told
him I was looking for work.”
“make off your coat.” —Houston Post
Children Cry
FOR FETCHER'S
FAST ORIA
Heat at the Persian Gulf.
Gee Persian gulf and its coasts are
in summer about the hottest place on
earth’s surface, a temperature of 120
degrees in the shade being not un-
common, whilea black bulb solar ther-
mometer has registered 187 degrees in
the sun.
When one remembers that the hot-
test room in a Turkish bath is usually
kept at about 160 degrees the appalling
nature of this Persian heat will be
| better realized.
The greatest heat ever known in
England was on Aug. 18, 1893, when a
shade temperature of 95 degrees was
registered. But on this day the sun
temperature did not quite equal that
of July 28, 1885, when 162 degrees
F. was registered in the sun.
When you consider facts like these
it is difficult to believe that our planet
receives only one ‘two-thousand-mil-
: Hoss part of the rays flung out by the
n.—London ‘Telegraph.
Odd Titles of Newspapers.
“ In Columbus, says the Dispatch, there
is a man whose chief joy is in a collec-
' tion of newspaper titles.
There are Headlights, Flashlights,
Bees, Eagles, Owls, Mirrors and News-
. | Letters, but when it comes to Derricks,
Meddlers, Telescopes, Flags and Sun-
beams the class 'is ‘limited. In Hot
Springs there is published the Arkan-
sag Thomas Cat, and other titles just
as unusual are the Sledge Hammer,
the Irrepressible, the Silent Worker
and Gall.
Frequently it 18 ps sible to tell from
the title of a newspaper the state in
which it is pubushed.. For instance,
the Chieftain is in Oklahoma, the Rus-
tler and the Lariat are in Texas, Big
Hole Breezes in Montana and the
Roundup in Wyoming.
- Attractive Automobiles.
“So you are in the market for an
automobile 7”
“Yes.” answered the man who likes
to attract attention.
“Any particular make?”
“No; I merely want one: that will
make people turn round and stare at
me when I pass.’
“Oh, you don’t need ¢ a special type
for that. Get the ordinary car and
exceed the speed limit.”—Birmingham
Age-Herald.
Careful. Hubby.
“Does your husband subscribe to the
theory that kissing transmits germs?”
“Noj he thinks that germs are most-
ly transmitted by money and is very
careful not to hand me any.”—Kansas
City Journal.
Woodmen Grow Obsolete.
A steam operated sawing machine
fells more trees in an eight hour day
than thirty woodmen. It works close
to the ground and leaves no stumps
standing.—Popular Science Monthly.
Er ARTI
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Cancer Dangers.
It is a well established fact
that moles, warts and scars are
prone to degenerate if subj.ct-
ed to repeated irritation, espe-
cially in the evening of life,
says the Therapeutic Gazette.
These abnormalities ‘should be
kept under intelligent observa-
‘tion and if they display any ac-
tivity or arouse an unusual sen-
sation should be immediately put
in the hands of the surgeon for
speedy excision.
The senile keratoses, so com-
mon on the skin of the old; the
lite wartlike excrescences and
little scurfy patches so frequent
on the faces and the hands, of:
fer peculiar advantage for the de-
velopment of epithelioma. ' They
have . been called “halfway
houses” on the road to malig-
nancy. They should be subject-
,ed to no avoidable irritation and,
above all, should not be “treat-
ed” with the meddlesome notion
of cleaning them up. They
should be handled with gloves,
as it were, and gently carried
along to a quiescent end.
The pressure of nose glasses
has been sufficient to excite such
a skin (of the old) to perverse
activity. The pressure of a tight
hatband has served to arouse
the latent fury of an old and
disregarded birthmark. Bear
this in mind, particularly old
persons, and guard against any
irritation of the skin.
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Leaves of the Peisen Ivy.
No ‘doubt just a picture ‘of poisen
fvy is enough to cause ‘some’ folks to
shudder and remember the time ‘their
face and body became scarlet and
swollen from contact with the leaves:
How jit itched! and burned! Yet to rub
it was only to make matters worse.
A curious fact is that some persons
are immune from this poison; while
others: must not even breathe the pol-
len of the plant. It is often confound-
ed with the Virginia creeper, although
the difference between this is distinct.
The leaves of the latter. are divided
into five leaflets, while ‘those of the
former have but three, a fact well
worth remembering. .
Strange enough, the witch hazel plant
the poison ivy.
is one of the -best remedies for ivy
poisoning it would seem uature was
holding oi disease in one hand and a
remedy in a. other.
True giory consists in so living as to
make the world happier and better fox
our living.-—Pliny.
| the gift.
i I took saved the bank
. Deafness and Lameness
an
THE ROAD TQ SUCCESS.
Fill Whatever Job You Hold te the
Best of Your Ability.
“In climbing the ladder of success
what have you learned that you could
pass on as aid to other struggling
young men?” I asked H. P. Davison of
J. P. Morgan & Co. “Did you conceive
any shining geal and bend everything
to getting there?”
“No,” he replied emphatically, “What
ever job I had was to me always the
sery best job in the world, and I tried
to fill it. I wade no elaborate plans
for the future. If I had any system in
my labor it was first to do my own
work; second, to teach the fellow be-
low me how to take my place; third, to
learn how to fill the position ahead of
- me,
“Boys and young men should not im-
agine that thelr work is so unimpor-
tant that noliody takes note of how
they do it. It does not take long to
find out whether a boy is on his toes
watching how he can best be of help in
a situation or whether he merely sits
| down and waits to be told what to do.
| The simple virtues of willingness, read-
| iness, alertness and courtesy will carry
a boy farther than mere smartness.
“Perhaps it will not be out of place
| for me to describe an incident which
Patronize the Meyersdale Commer-
may carry a lesson for the young. men
you are anxious to help. One day
when I was teller 2a customer offered
me a very fine gold pen. I went right
into the office and asked if this man
had any loan from the bank. I ex-
plained that he had asked me to accept
The bank promptly acted.
and it was not long before the fellow
was in bankruptcy. The simple course
a good deal of
morey.”—B. C. Forbes in Leslie’s.
EQUINE ARTFUL DODGERS.
That Were
Just Pure Bluff.
We all know,
nag who pretends to be deaf.
tell him to “get up,” and he getteth not
up; you cluck to him, and he accel
erateth not his pace. Is he deaf? Not
he. You know, by a certain rolling of
his eye and wiggling of his ears, that he
hears you perfectly well.
is pure bluff.
You
It is like the lameness
THE BUDLONG
PAPERS
They Contained Valuable
Documents
By ETHEL HOLMES
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Mary Hartwell was twenty years old
when her mother died. Her father kad
died several years before; leaving a
business much tangled. It had not
been settled, and Mrs. Hartwell had
not received any regular income from
it since her husband’s death, though
she had been paid from time to time
small sums to keep her from absolute
want.
After her mother's death Mary pro-
posed to accept the situation of a
woman doomed to work for her living
. and began by closing out the remnants
of former times. She and her mother
had remained in their home. Now
Mary proposed to leave it, and the first
thing to be done in preparation was
to clear out family belongings that had
accumulated for years.
Mary went to the attic and looked
about her at the confusion and profu-
slon of miscellaneous articles. There
were discarded furniture, pictures.
empty picture frames, rugs, fenders
and irons—indecd. every conceivable
article. There were boxes and trunks,
i some empty, some half filled, some full.
. resolutely
of course, the livery !
i. when,
His deafness |
which some shrewd old nags sometimes |
put on.
Will a horse pretend to be lame when
he is not? Some horses certainly will.
Two or three years ago the Nomad
was driving a livery nag on a road in
Vermont, when the animal suddenly
began to limp terribly ; couldn’t go off
a slow walk.
It was pretty serious, |
for a journey of about twenty miles |
had just been begun. Knowing a man
on the road who was a practical horse-
man, the Nomad drove up to his door
and submitted the animal to the ex-
pert’s examination. The man looked at
the “horse’s feet, examined his legs—
looked him over thoroughly. “Did the
horse go all right when you started
out?” he asked. Yes; the horse had
gone all right for three or four miles.
“Well,” said the expert, “this horse is
shamming; there is nothing the matter
with him.”
Then he addressed some plain lan-
guage to Dobbin, advising him with
some sharpness to cut it all out and go
along ‘as he ought to. The Nomad
touched the horse with the whip, and
he trotted on to the end of the journey
without the slightest limp.—Nomad in
Boston Transcript.
Swearing on the Bible.
The method of swearing by the Bible
came into use at a very early period,
practically ‘with the establishment of
courts of law in Christian countries.
It was the ordinary method of swear-
ing when America was settled by Eu-
ropeans and was naturally adopted
bere. Oaths were common before the
Christian era, and any form may be
used that conforms to the religious be-
lef of the person to be sworn.” He-
brews are often sworn on the Penta-
teuch, keeping on. their hats, and their
oath ends with the words, “So help me,
Jehovah.” A Mohammedan is sworn on
the Koran.—Philadelphia Press.
He Made the Sale.
“Yes, the’ property Is cheap enough.
Why do you want to sell it?”
“You won't give me away?”
“No.
“Well, sir, it's because I'm the only
man in this neighborhood that doesn’t
move In high soclety, and I'm lone-
gsome.””—Chicago Tribune
Sample.
“George didn’t keep his engagement
with me last night,” said the girl who
was betrothed to him.
“Y'd give him a piece of my mind,”
said her mother.
“Just a little sample of married life
suggested father.—Cleveland Leader.
A ‘Biting Sentiment.
You have to be:careful even about
paying compliments, Bill Mixer, who
used to write ads. for a tobacco house;
got himself in bad when he. started
writing copy for a butter concern and
wrote “Guaranteed not to bite the
tongue.”—Boston Globe.
A Real Autocrat.
“Here's the photograph of a famous
maitre d’hotel. He has a stern and
haughty look.”
“Hasn't he, though? I dare say that
fellow wouldn’t unbend for any tip less
than a $100 bill.”—Birmingham Age-
is sometimes found growing close to Herald.
As witch hazel extract |
Car on the Brain.
“Do you know how to handle an
emergency ?”’
“Is that going to be one of the new
makes?’ —Baltimore American.
The feeble howl with the wolves,
bray with the asses and bleat with
the sheep.—Roland.
| not only n
The signt was discouraging, but Mary
weit to to separate
the whole into groups to be disposed
of in diferent ways.
In cne of the boxes she found some
old bedding, consisting of blankets and
pillows, She removed them and was
thinking that she had emptied the box
feeling in the bottom. her hand
touched a bundle wrapped in paper.
Taking it out, she shook off the dust
and revealed written on the wrapper.
“Budlong Papers.”
She had never heard of any one by
the name of Budlong, nor had she seen
a handwriting like that in which the
indorsement was written. She ubn-
wrapped the cover and revealed a num-
ber of yellow papers. She opened and
glanced at several of them, which
turned out to be receipted bills. There
was also that part of checkbooks which
comprised the stubs of checks, a lot
of accounts current and some legal
documents.
Mary concluded that the papers per
tained to the affairs of some one by
the name of Budlong and that their
value had long since passed away. Re-
wrapping them, she tossed the bundle
on to a pile of papers meant for burn:
ing.
That night before going tu sleep she
fell to thinking of these papers. They
Temindéd her of the ongoing of all
things. There had been some one of
the name of Budlong whose existence
and dally doings were represented by
these accumulating records. Budlong,
whoever he was, doubtless in due time
passed away, the evidences of his ex-
{stence were transferred from a desk
in use and finally found a resting place
in the bottom of a box in a garret
and covered with woynout bedclothing.
Truly a tombstone is not the only re-
minder of one. who has lived and
moved, earned and spent money on the
face of the earth.
‘The next’ day Mary turned over the
contents of the garret to a dealer In
secondhand furniture and carried the
old papers down to the furnace for
burning. i She was about to throw the
Budlong papers into the roaring flames
when she paused. Somehow. she had
not the heart to incinerate the remains
of the individual's busy existence.
Laying the bundle aside, she threw in
the other papers, then took it upstairs
and put it on a shelf in a closet among
articles the disposition of which she
had not decided upon.
‘Mary had a second cousin, Horace
Drummond, . who had manifested a
fancy for her. Indeed, he had sound-
ed her on the possibility of their join-
ing the current of their lives and fight-
ing the battle of life together. But
Drummond had nothing but a meager
salary and Mary had already experi
enced a foretaste of poverty, and, re
membering that marriage means a
multiplication of articles necessary to
comfortable existence, she blocked her
relative’s way to a proposal.
There was another reason why such
a union would not be advisable. Ed-
gar Drummond, Horace’s father, was
a broken down man ef business over
whose record hung a «loud. What that
cloud was Mary did not know. though
she did know that the elder Drum
mond had been charged by his busi
ness partner with having defrauded
him. had been put out of the firm and
had never since been sufficiently trust
ed to enable him to gain a fresh start.
Horace had been given to understand
work
‘ that the swindle had been on the other
side—that the partner had ruined his
father in order to secure the whole in-
stead of half the profit on a very valu
able purchase the firm had made.
Horace Drummond, having a father
to support, was certainly not in a po-
sftion to marry. He did not know.
however, what a deprivation his being
unable to do so was to Mary. He wa-
aptable to her personally
not take kindly to living
a single life and earning her dail
bread. Horace was willing to accep!
the responsibilities that would accrue
to him, but Mary gave him to unde:
stand that so long as his father wa:
an incumbrance on him it would be un
wise for him to take a wife.
Mary, who had been well educated
but she did
| saries required,
| not encouraging.
| and seemed very much aggrieved.
. forward.
| what
: was withdrawn
secured “a position as a teacker and
| settled down to the work of instruct.
Ing children. Horace visited her occa-
, sionally, When two persons desire to
| marry and are prevented by obstacles
i in most cases either the obstacles are
| removed or they marry in spite of
| them. Naturally both Mary
| ace looked forward to a day
and Hor-
when
they would be able to marry with a
fair prospect of providing the neces-
but the prospect was
One evening Ilorace called on Mary
He
said that the transaction on account of
which father had been unjustly
disgraced was turning out to be im-
mensely profitable, Mr. Drummond
was entitled to one-half of the pro-
ceeds, but there was no prospect of
his ever being vindicated, to say noth-
ing of reaping his legitimate profits.
“Just think,” said’ Horace ruefully,
“had it not been for the rascality of
old Haskins you and I could now be
married and living in clover.”
. “What was the nature of the trans-
action?” Mary asked.
“It was a patent right. The patent
was offered to the firm of Drummond
& Haskins by the inventor. My fa-
ther approved of it, but Haskins de-
-lared that ne would never put money
into a patent right. Father was in-
formed by the inventor that another
party had agreed to furnish the money
needed for introduction and develop-
ment. Haskins was away at the time,
Father assumed the responsibility of
buying the right for the firm. When
Haskins returned he claimed that fa-
ther had used the firm's money for
his own individual purposes, which
was embezzlement. Father had taken
the preliminary steps in his own name,
but had made the contract in the name
of the firm in duplicate, one copy for
the firm, the other for the inventor.
Haskins got hold of the preliminary
agreement and the contract. He with-
held the latter and produced the for-
mer, which alone laid father liable
criminally.”
“What became of the contract<lrawn-
for the inventor?’ asked Mary.
“IIe died while the trouble was first
broached. Father asked his widow for
it. but she fell under the influence of
Haskins or probably was offered an
inducement to withhold it. Father's
lawyer got out a search warrant to
look for it, Lut the woman must have
been warned, because all her hus-
band’s papers had been removed from
the house.”
it seems to me,” said Mary thought-
fully, “that my father had something
to do with that matter.”
“Your father and mine being cousins
and very fond “of each other, it is
quite likely. Father has told me that
your father iearned where the papers
had been hidden and got possession of
them, but he did so illegally and was
obliged to hide them to avoid being:
prosecuted criminally. It was intend-
ed that when he could do so in safety
they would be produced. But when
the time came they were not in the-
hiding place where he had put thém..
He believed that some one in Mrs.
Budlong’s interest had stolen them.”
“Budlong!” sald Mary. ‘I have seen
or heard that name somewhere.”
“Possibly you heard your father
mention it when talking of this mat-
ter.”
During the rest of Horace’s visit
Mary could not get the name Budlong
out of her head. . She. went to bed
that night trying to remember when
and where she had known it. So in-
tent on it was she that she remained
awake till she heard the deep tones of
a town clock strike the hour of mid-
night; then suddenly she remembered
the Budlong papers.
Throwing off the covers, she jumped
out of bed.
Mary had packed a trunk of odds
and ends that she did not care to part
with and had carried them away with
her when she left her home. Having
now but one room, this trunk and the
one used for her clothing were kept in
it. Lighting a lamp, she opened the
trunk first named and, getting out the
bundle of papers, opened it and spread
the contents on the table. By 1 o’clock
she had opened and read many papers.
A few minutes after 1 she opened one
which proved to be a contract for the
sale of certain patent rights to the
firm of Haskins & Drummond.
Mary went back to bed, but not to
sleep.. She could hardly wait for day
to come, so eager was she to carry the
news to Horace that she bad found
the missing contract.
‘The next morning Horace Drummond
was awakened by a mald, who inform-
ed him that Miss Hartwell was below
and wished to see him on a very im-
portapt . matter, He arose, made a
hasty toilet and went down to the
living room. There stood Mary with
beaming eyes holding out to him a
paper. As soon as he had read enough
of it to reaiize what it was he sprang
clasped her in his arms and
covered her face with kisses.
It was some time before Horace
could bring himself to a condition of
quiet to listen to the story of the Bud-
long papers. Indeed, he only received
at the time a meager account, 80 eager
was he to carry the news to his fa-
ther.
How the papers came to be in the
box in the garret, whether Mr, Hart-
well placed them there and forgot hav-
ing done so or whether some member
of his family, having come upon them,
tossed them into the box, not knowing
they were. was never explained.
Haskins vas prosecuted by Drum,
mond for conspiracy, but the charce
in settlement of the
ownership of the patent right, three:
quarters of which went to Drummond.
Horace and .Mary were married. and
the groom's father settled a fortune on
his son and his son’s wife jointly.
Mary says that a case of father-in-law
is by no means to be dreaded.
his