THE GIRL ACROSS THE AISLE, A Break In Her Reserve, Then a Break In Her Nerves. ay ALOISE JOHNSON. [Copyright, 1909. by Associated Literary Press. J High in the air apparently the train hung, an air filled with swirling, feath ery flakes. Above, below, on all sides was snow. The whole world to all purposes had faded away, leaving the stalled express the center of a deadly, ghastly, unstable whiteness. Helen Melrose turned from gazing hopelessly from the window to the comparative cheer of the Pullman car. As she did so she looked into the con templative eyes of the man across the aisle and hastily carried her gaze onto the carved woodwork beyond his head, desperately restraining her inclination to bite her lip in annoyance. The man across the aisle continued to watch Miss Melrose in the same con templative manner. She had first interested, then irritat ed him. Her extraordinary type of beauty had caught his eye, as it did the eye of all who knew her for the first time—hair of a sheer downright copper that was fairly alive in its bright waving, a white face unmarred by the tiny freckles that love to follow in the wake of hair verging on the red tones, lips as scarlet as those in a pictured face Knight had once seen, wondered at and disbelieved. And behind it all the girl had a mind of her own, as a glance into the wine brown eyes would convince one. It was her calm independence that had brought irritation to supplant ad miration In George Knight's breast. Unconsciously he expected helpless ness, appealinguess, in a woman. It ran counter to his sense of the correct order of things to have a girl so cheer fully able to look out for herself. When he had boarded a train In Chi cago he had instinctively put out a hand to assist: the woman in front of him up the car steps, the porter being engaged. It was not till she turned her head briefly to thank him that he THE TWO STOOD C'I.INOTNO TO ONE ANOTITEIi knew whether the woman were young or old, and the shock of Miss Melrose's queer beauty had been added to by the realization that her eyes were only coldly courteous, almost resentful. For two days he had sat as near the girl as though they had been opposite one another at their own dinner table, yet they were miles apart. Other pas sengers chatted and exchanged reading matter and anecdotes of the country. The copper haired girl held aloof even from the women. But in spite of his exasperation the proud tilt of her head, the serenity of her level gaze, her entire self sufficiency, drew him. At the station where the train stopped some minutes he would meet her walk ing up and down the platform with her splendid gait. "I expect," Knight told himself on one of these occasions, "that If the Goddess of Liberty took a walk she'd start off just that way!" And now high up in the Rockies the blizzard had gripped them, and the train had stopped. The trainmen were beginning to get anxious, for the swirl ing drifts were so huge even the rota ry plows were helpless. As Knight stood muflled on the back platform on one of his restless trips of observation the conductor stood beside him. "If we don't get out of here tonight," he said grimly, "the whole train will be as neatly and completely covered j over with snow, to say nothing of j snowslides that may come, as though j somebody had dug a hole in a snow bank and Just dropped us in and cov ered us up again." The dismal prophecy lingered in Knight's mind as he returned to his car. There were niutterings of weari ness and worry from most of the de layed passengers. Only Miss Melrose remai'ied apparently unaffected. She was reading a book with intense In terest. having given up the desolate ; view from the windows as tiresome. Knight wondered, a little indignantly.j if nothing would move her from her calm. And so when after an hour or so in the smoker Knight again tramp ed to the back platform he was sur prised to find the girl, muflled in an Olster, leaning over the Iron rail, strain lng lier eyes through the white veil Into the hidden valley below. As she turned at his step something happened. All Knight knew was that he was being swamped, smothered, blinded by an icy, rushing blanket of ■now and that he was holding the girl In his arms, frantically bracing him self against the rail. When the slide finally swept itself away down the slope the two stood clinging to one an other, gasping, beating the snow from eyes and noses. "Are you hurt?" Knight asked anx iously. Ills ideal woman would be half fainting, frantic with fear. This wind blown, gasping creature actually laughed. Then she spoke to him for the first time, and her voice was riot ous with mirth. "Hurt?" she echoed. "Why should I be hurt? You were here! If you hadn't been, however, I probably should he following the snowstorm j down the mountain side! Thank you for preventing that unpleasant trip!" Knight laughed too. Her humor was infectious, if novel. lie watched her sweep back into the warmth of the car with her free grace of movement, and again he was Irritated. He hnted being denied his manly right to pro tect womanhood In distress. Then he realized that the girl had not been in the least distressed, except momentari ly. lie wished savagely something would happen to bring forth the de pendent side of her nature, if she pos sessed it. Then she would be perfect. And then he laughed a little sarcas tically at his interest in a young wo man whose name even he did not know. The hours wore on, and the coal gave out, and the cars grew colder. Every body vetoed the porter's efforts to make up the berths. The cross and uncomfortable passengers wrapped themselves in blankets and huddled in the corners of their seals. Nobody wanted to sleep when they knew not what minute the gale and an avalanche combined might sweep them from the track. Knight watched Miss Melrose solicit ously. It was at that hideous hour when the gray dawn makes everything its ugliest that Knight, to his unbe lievable amazement, saw Miss Melrose quietly 112 rying. Without volition he found himself swept across the aisle. "What is it?" he asked breathlessly. She turned to him frankly. "I've got the nerves!" she confessed, with a pitiful attempt at a smile that ended ! in a sob. "I—l hate this awful snow— j we'll never get out—l can't stand it another minute! And mother will »e so frightened—and—and I believe my feet ore freezing!" Here was a situation that Knight knew how to handle. The unbeliev able joy of finding the Goddess of Lib erty only feminine and human after all was almost swamped by his pleas ure in finding she was pathetically glad to be cheered up and taken care of. Blithely he fetched and carried and did wonders in the matter of hot cof fee at 5 a. m. Later In the day, when the stagger ing snowplows dug the train out and again the wheels creaked and the steam pipes sent out a saving warmth and everybody again beamed in relief, Knight sat beside the girl with the coppery hair. Now that she had melted in his direction. Knight told himself, her re serve was entirely proper and the at titude he would wish her to take to the rest of the masculine world. lie had got that far in three days. And six weeks later he and the girl were traveling over the same route again— on their honeymoon. No Money to Burn. "The meanest man we ever had in our town was Jake Bond," said Mr. Wilson, with an air of finality. "Yes. sir, lie was the meanest. Ever hear what he used to do with the lire in his last days, when he was so riddled with rheumatics he couldn't get out?" "No," said the new carpenter, "I I haven't heard that yet." "Time ye did," said Mr. Wilson, ' "an' I'll tell ye. lie was so full o' I rheumatics that the doctor allowed the i only way he could get rid of any of | his pain was to sit right in front o' j the lire, close to, and see if the heat | wouldn't try some o' the pain out o' bis boties. "Well, sir. he couldn't move round, j so the woman that took care o' him would put his chair close to the tire, j and there he'd sit. An' by his side he I kep' a mop an' pall o' water, an' when i he saw the tire getting a mite beyond | the p'lnt where he felt 'twas needed | an* saw a real lively flame busting up he'd out with that mop from the pail and souse it right onto the stick o' wood that was too forthputting. I've sat there side o' him an' seen him do it. Yes, sir. here in Cedarville we con sidered him the cap sheaf for nigh ness; we cert'nly did."—Youth's Com panion. The Wind Prophets. The city man on the porch smoked and listened to the farm band's talk. "Weather vanes is wind indicators," said the farm hand, "but chickens and turkeys, by erimus, is wind prophets." "Come off." said the city man. "Gospel truth." declared the farm hand. "In a cam, when there ain't goin' to be no wind, the birds alius roost on the tree boughs with their heads alternatin' each way—No. 1 faces east. No. 2 west, No. 3 north, and so on. That's a sign of cam. Hut sup posin' there's goin' to be a strong, high wind. Then they all roost, every mother's son of 'em, facln' it. Ac- i cordin' as they face so you can proph- j esy the wind will blow before morn- | In'. "I figger it out," said the farm hand, j "that in a cam the bunch faces dif- j ferent ways so as to look out for dan- 1 ger better. Hut if it's goin' to blow ; up in the night then they face the blow so's they can best hang onto their perch. What I can't tigger out, i though, is how in the mischief they smell that wind five or six hours be fore it'- i'iio." —New York I'res*. Tl:- Word "Wallop." The (iri. ' i of the familiar vernacu lar verb -to wallop" Is not generally known. It comes from the family I name of the earls of Portsmouth. Sir j John Wallop, K. G., was admiral j commander in the reign of King lien | ry VIII. of the fleet which avenged j French raids by burning French ships j and twenty-one French villages. This ' was called, In the current parlance of i the times, "walloping" them, and the I phrase passed Into the language and ! still survives. A Convenient Topic. "I wonder what persuaded Mr. Blig j gins to believe in reincarnation?" "The fact." replied Miss Cayenne. I "that so few people know anything about it. It enables hlin to have the i conversation almost entirely to him- I self."—Washington Star. A Man's Birthday. We do not know whence a man comes | nor whither he goes, yet we choose his | birth or death day to celebrate his re- ! curring century. We should choose ! Ills day of achievement.—Loudon Sat- I nrdnv Review THE CUCKOO. Curious Superstitions That Are Con nected With the Bird. There is a popular belief that what- j ever one is doing when first one hears 1 the cuckoo that will be what one will most frequently do during the year. In many parts of Scotland and in the northern counties of England people turn their money in their pockets on hearing the first call of the cuckoo, as this, they say. Insures a lucky year. In the counties bordering in Wales not only do they do this, but they alsc have a wish at the time, this wish being kept secret, of course. To have a gold coin in one's pocket when the cuckoo's call Is first heard insures good luck for the rest of the year. The German peasants declare that aft er St. John's day the bird changes Into a sparrow hawk. The Danes have a curious legend re garding this bird. When the village girls hear Its first call they kiss their hands and repeat. "Cuckoo, cuckoo, when shall 1 be married?" As many times as the bird calls "cuckoo" in an swer. so many years will the maiden have to wait. The old folk, bent and bowed with rheumatism and age, ask instead, "Cuckoo, cuckoo, when shall I be released from this world's cares?" and the answer comes in the same way. So occupied is the poor bird iti answering these questions, say the Danes, that she never has time to build her nest, so is forced to lay her eggs in the nest of another bird.—Planet. An English View. The slang of New York has Its ori gin, of course, in the climate. It is t!v climate that has produced the terrible doctrine and practice of "hustle," and for people living in a wild chaos <>f competition, always In a blinding hur ry and in the midst of a deafening din. language has to be pitched up high to cope with the circumstances. There i - no time to pause nor any place in which an ordinary quiet phrase would be able to reach your ear. Language to produce any effect at all must be as quick and as violent as all else. A phrase that has not the properties of dynamite goes unheeded.—Max Beer bohni in London Saturday Gazette. A Diplomatist at Home. "Mrs. Itawsou has a dozeu dresses handsomer than the only good one I've got," a young wife complained to her husband, who, a domestic diplomatist, merely remarked: "Of course. A home l.v woman like that needs plenty of rich gowns to draw attention from her face Dress cannot heighten your charms, my dear!"— London Mail. Helpful Child. Caller—My, what a big girl you are getting to be! You'll soon be able ; help your mother about the hous< Ethel—Oh, 1 do that already. Win i. ever she says"For goodness' sake, :r.-t out of my way!" 1 do it.—Philadclj 1 Press. A Deduction. Maude—How old is Grace? May— At least twenty-five. Maude—How do you know? May—l beard her say that no girl ought to marry before she was twenty-six.—Cleveland Leader. , The Fighting Editor. The fighting editor is no joko In Faris. There, if a paper calls a man a liar or a thief, the man takes it se riously. and. visiting the office, be de mands a retraction or a fight. It is the fighting editor who receives him. The fighting editor sits in a Louis Seize study, smoking a cfcarette and reading a new novel with a yellow cover. lie is faultlessly dressed in deep black—the duelist's color. The ribbon of the Legion of Honor is in his buttonhole. His brilliant eyes and clear skin proclaim his perfect condi tion. His alert, supple carriage shows his military training. The fighting editor never writes a line, but is re sponsible personally for every word in the paper every day. On a plain, outspoken sheet like Le Matin, which keeps him pretty busy, his salary is very large—s-10 a week or so. A con servative journal like Le Temps, hav ing little use for a fighting editor, pays the man no more than s2o.—Exchange. Be wise to-day, 'tis madness to de fer.—Young. A New Delight — Foods Shot from Guns There are myriads of homes where Serve it tomorrow morning. Listen these foods are not new —these deli- to what they say. Then ask them cious Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice. what food they want next. The people who know them are Wheat and rice are common foods, already serving seventeen million prepared in numerous ways. See if dishes per month. this way is best. But to millions of others these foods We make all sorts of cereal foods, remain a new and unknown delight. so it matters little to us which kind And to those this appeal is addressed. you prefer. But it means much to you to get The appeal is to try one package— the food that you like best. See if just for the children's sake. Puffed Wheat is that food. Puffed Wheat —10c Puffed Rice —15c I liese are the foods invented by Prof. An- Then the guns are unsealed, and the steam derson, and this is his curious process: explodes. Instantly every starch granule is T , , , , i , • . blasted into a tnvriad particles. 1 lie whole wheat or rice kernels are put into sealed guns. Tlwn the guns are revolved for Thc kenie , ls of S rain arc ™P»nded eight sixty minutes in a heat of S SO degrees. timCS " } Ct ? C £ at * are » nbr ° ke ». the sha f* are unaltered. YY e have simply the magnified That fierce hejt turns the moisture in the grain. grain to steam, and the pressure becomes tre- One package will tell you why people de mcndous. light in them. Order it now. t6J Made only by The Quaker Oats Company MODERN JTROGLODYTES. The Matmatas, the Cave Dwellers of | Tunisia, Africa. I One of the strangest of capital cities j , Is that of tlie troglodytes, or Matma- I < tas, the cave dwellers of Tunisia, Af- j i : rlca. It contains about 3,000 inhabit- j 1 ants, aud the principle of its architec- j' ture Is to dig Into the earth rather | ' 1 | than to build upon It. These troglo-1 j 1 dytes are to be found between the town j | 1 of Gabes, on the Tunisian coast, and • | the sand hills of _Jtie Sahara. The " country Is a high, foTky plateau, bar ! ren, sun baked and swept by the sl > moom. When a Mntmata wants a new ' dwelling he chooses his spot, traces a 1 circle and then digs until he has reached the desired depth, which vn " ries according to the number of stories ' | he requires. ! The rooms consist of caves hollowed " ■ out In the sides of the circular pit, the - bottom of • which forms a patio, or courtyard, which is the usual feature • of a Moorish bouse. Besides the rooms, j r a passage is also dug, communicating ! - with the outside world, and a door is J 1 made at the outer end. 1 The soil, which is a'kind of inallea-I ; ble clay, is ensi'y cut nnd lends itself i J well to excavation, the roof of each ! room requiring no support as long as j it Is arched. These underground dwell- j I ings are not damp.—Chicago News. . • POSITION FOR SLEEP. A Variety cf Opinions Among Emi nent French Medical Men. j. A number of eminent French mefl . leal men have given their opinion to the Matin of Paris on what they con i siilcr the healthiest position for sleep, 112 i Dr. Polemic, army medical inspect or, declares that the natural position is ; to lie flat on one's back. I'rofessor De , bone and Dr. Daveoiere of the School | of Hygiene are of the same opinion i ~ and point out that lying on either side ,j causes pressure of the arm, which may eventually bring abont paralysis. | Dr. Landouzy of the medical faculty says that the best position is the most » comfortable position, and this Is ac-1 r . quired by habit It would bo well, j however, to accustom oneself to sleep ! ; on the right side. Dr. Letullo of the ! | Medical academy maintains emphatic ally that the sleeper should always lie on the right side nnd thus avoid indi- ; gestion and heart troubles. In startling contradiction comes a , statement from a heart specialist, Dr. Huchard: "I always sleep on my left side, and I think it is qulto Immaterial whether you lie on your left or right sidi\ The Idea, however, that those who ratlin>t ile on the left side suffer from heart affection Is quite erronu-, i ous." . ' j-'"7 i What Brown Did. Mrs. and Mr. Brown—that isn't the; [ usual way of putting it. but it was •t , the way they ranked—had been in vited to a party where, Mrs. Brown . understood,, there was to lie a host of literary lions. Mrs. Brown is an ex tremely handsome woman nnd just - enough of a coquette to attract men 0 about her wherever she goes. it Not long after they bad arrived Mrs. a Brown had four men around her, while Brown was pretending to bo Interested In some books scattered around on a corner table. Mrs. Brown II Inquired of the men in turn as to just, 11 what sort of literature they produced. 1 One confessed he was a coffee broker, j another was a doctor, the third was a s machinery salesman. The fourth man 1 admitted cheerfully that his only serv- j s ice to literature was reading books II nnd newspapers. At this point Brown v joined the group, and the coffee broker 11 1 suggested to the lady that she might e nsk the newcomer what he did. " "Oh." remarked Mrs. Brown, placing '1 B. Nt once in the dlscnrd, "he's my i husband."—Exchange. g What Brought Him to Grief. Writing to a sou who was in trouble (1 In Texas, the old man said. "You must ), 1 take courage. Bill!" h j To which Bill replied: "I took eour s age and ever'thing else in sight, i That's why I'm In Jail!"— Atlanta Con •- stltutlon. s l >. | "He that has more knowledge than Judgment is made for another man's ' use more than his own." A CRUMB OF BREAD. Its Effect on the Tip of a Vivacious Woman's Nose. "Isn't it terrible," said the society woman, "what a tiny thing can prove a tragedy to poor, self vaunting man kind! A speck almost Invisible in the eye of an athlete may dlsempower him utterly nnd render him as helpless as n baby. And a lost hairpin or the breaking of a buckle may transform tho most smartly groomed woman Into an object of amusement to all observ ers. "At a dinner I attended not long ago a lady sitting opposite me lodged In some lnexplalnable manner a large crumb of broad directly on the end of her nose without being conscious of the fact, and there It remained. The ludicrous effect was beyond the power of words to describe or of hnmau rialbles to resist. She Is an ertremely vivacious woman, generous with smiles and little bows and motions of her bead, and as she chatted gayly with those about her it was impossible for us to restrain our unseemly mirth. Naturally she thought this was caused by her remarks, and she continued to toss off jests with a lightsome air:- Wo were all In agony, but no one sum i moned courage to tell her, each of us preferring to leave that kindly act to 1 another. After a time she addressed a remnrk to her husband, who sat next to her nnd had been devoting himself to the lady at his other side, lie turned to look at bis wife, and In nn instant a clever touch of his nap kin removed the distorting fragment, but I can never forget it as long as I live."—New York I'rcss. Extinct. "Bessie," said the teacher of the class which taught all about birds—in tho school prospectus it was called the I "ornithological division"—"give rue the I name of one bird which Is now ex tinct" Bessie wrinkled her brows. "What's extinct, please?" she asked. "No longer existent," explained the teacher. "Can you name one?" ! "Yes," piped Bessie readily. "Dick." | "Dick—Dick?" repeated the teacher. : "And what kind of bird Is a 'Dick,' ! please?" "Our canary," answered Bessie. "Tho cnt extinctedhlm." Marquis. Tho deslgnntlon marquis is the sec ' ond in tho five orders of English nobil ity. Tho term originally Indicated per sons who had tho care of the marches of a country. The word marches is the plural of mark, which in its politi cal sense, signifies boundaries. Such , jycre the lands on the borders of Eng land and Scotland and of England aud Wales. Early Football Players. Football was for many years the na tional game of Florence. The Reason was from January to March, and the ladies and gentlemen of Florence aud the populace as well were wont to as semble on tho Piazza Santa Gloce to witness the game, which was called "ealcio," from the word meaning "to kick." The last game was played iu 1730. Old Names For Guns. As the use of artillery became more common and the advantages of port- I ability aud a greater rapidity of flro were recognized guns, except among | the orientals, became smaller, but of better workmanship and construction. Inventors began to try their hands nt all sorts of improvements or attempts at Improvement, and In the course of a hundred years or so the number of different pieces of cannon, large nnd small, muzzle or breechloading, was simply legion. There were cannon, cannon royal and demi-catmon, three or four classes of culverins, bombards, mortars, perriers, serpentines, car thouns, curtails, passevolants or zebra tanas, basilisks. orgu«s, sakers, min ions, mojanes, falcons and falconets, roblnets, fowlers, bases, slings, port pieces, murderers, drakes, aspics, dou ble dogs aud lagtors, to say nothing of ribadoquins. flying dragons aud par tridge mortars.—Gentleman's Maga zine. The greatest tnttle-tale In the world Is n woman's age when It begins to tell on tier —Philadelphia Record. SHOOTING OP AUTOS, j Unwritten Rules Which Texas Cowboys Rigidly Enforce. PERMIT NO UNDUE LIBERTIES . i i How Automobiles Are Stopped In a Hurry When Cowboys Think They Have Been Unfairly Treated—Ex citing Experience of a Real Estate Dealer. There are certain unwritten rules that must be rigidly observed by auto- j mobiilsts in the ranch region of west- ! ern Texas in the vicinity of Brady, t The Joy rider soon comes to grief in that part of the United States. The automobile Is in general use in the range territory, but the cowboys do not permit any undue liberties to be taken in running the machines. The shooting up of automobiles by cowboys is a commln practice. This method of bringing au automobile % a stop Is not used unless the cowboy thinks that he has not been treated with proper consideration. An instance occurred near Brady, Tex., a few days ago. Dick Davis started from Brady on a thirty mile trip to his ranch in Concho county. Ho was driving his automibile himself and had no passenger. lie was in a hurry to reach the ranch and did rot observe the rules of the road as laid down in that part of the country. Stopped by Three Quick Shots, lie was spinning along at a high speed when he came upon a drove of mules in charge of a man on horseback who carded a rifle iu a scabbard. In stead of bringing the automobile to a stop when he came upon the mules, Mr. Davis sped right past them, caus ing a stampede. A moment later three quick reports of a rtlie were heard, and the automobile's two rear tires col lapsed. "The bullets knocked the machine completely out of commission," Mr. Davis said in telling of the affair. "The man with the mules got his stray animals together and continued with them down the road. I knew that he I Wtis right, so I didn't try to round him up." A man from Ohio opened a real es tate office at Sweetwater recently and bought a big automobile In which to convey customers over the country, lie had an experience on his first trip that taught him a lesson. lie hfid four Missouri land pros pectors In his automobile and was on the way to look at some land about forty miles south of Sweetwater. In order to make a short cut to the prop- I erty he was crossing a big pasture, i In the distance could be seen large | numbers of cattle which were being | driven by cowboys, i "None of you men ever saw a cattle | roundup, did you?" inquired the real | estate dealer. I There was a chorus of answers in | the negative. I "Well, that's what's going on over ! there. I'll just run you over to the | place and we'll watch 'em awhile." I Bullets Whizzed Around the Wheels. | The automobile was headed in the ! direction <>f the gathering herd of cat- I tie and soon attracted the attention of I the cowboys. They gesticulated at | the auto, but the signs were not nn ! derstood by those at whom they were i directed. The cattle were beginning | to snort and were on the verge of a j stampede when two of the cowboys i pulled their six shooters and began to i fire at the automobile. The bullets i whizzed around the wheels, j "Here!" yelled one of the land pros pectors to the real estate dealer. "Get us out of here quick!" The real estate man wanted to get away from the scene as badly as his companions, and he lost no time In | turning the automobile around and i spinning away as fast as the machine I could go. Many of the ranch bronchos are not | used to automobiles, and when one of | these animals Is being ridden by a i cowboy and comes upon an nutomo | bile hi the road the chauffeur who : knows the customs of the region stops and keeps the machine quiet until the horse and rider have gone by and are a safe distance on the other side.— New York Sun. G. A. R. POST IN ENGLAND. New York State Department Com mander to Establish It at Oldham. Joseph E. Ewell of Buffalo, de partment commander of the G. A. 8., state of New York, sailed for England the other day to establish the first G. A. B. post In England. Mr. Ewell was designated by his department to Insti tute the post in Oldham, England, the order following the submission of a pe tition from twenty residents of that place asking that this be done. The Oldham post will not only be the first In England, but it will be the first in Europe. At the present time there nre only six Grand Army posts outside of the United States. They are at Hamilton, I.otidon, Toronto and Mont real, In Canada: Peru. In South Amer ica, and Honolulu. President Tuft In Shadowgraph. Outlined in a shadow cast on one of the pillars of the portico of the White House by another pillar a number of persons recently observed a striking likeness of President Taft. It was a profile and so perfect that any one who ever saw Mr. Taft would at once recognize it. If an artist had painted a perfect profile of the president on the pillar It could not have been bet ter. AU who saw It were startled at the striking resemblance. Animals and Electricity. Man has much greater power of electrical resistance or much less sus ceptibility than many other animals. A leech placed upon a copper plate which rests upon a larger plate of zinc is unable to crawl off on account of the feeble electric action excited by the contact of the metals. Horses arc troubled by slight differences of potential. An ox treated for rheuma tism with electricity succumbed to a current absolutely inoffensive toman. There are no small steps in great af fairs.—De Beta. CHIEF Tiff HPERT How an Army Officer Became Aldrich's Greatest Helper. WAS DINGLEY-S SECRETARY. Revision Work Major Herbert Lord Did Twelve Years Ago Won Him Hi» Military Commission—Said to Know More About the Tariff Than Any Other Living Man. The brand "U. S. army" will haroto I be placed somewhere on the new tariff j bill by reason of the highly important i contribution of Major Herbert M. Lord, | U. S. A., to the xvork of preparing it. S That an army officer should be th» chief of all the tariff experts of th» 1 great committee on finance has beeo 1 the occasion for a good many jokes I since the bill came from committee. Senator .1. I'. Dolliver painted a thrill ing word picture of Major Lord, en sconsed in a private office In the sen ate office building, his name on the | door, arrayed in alt the bravery and ! panopoly of war. figuring percentages and counting the threads In square inches of cotton fabrics. While it seems a bit funny, tho fact is that ! Major Lord knows more about tariff than any other one man now extant. More than tha» instead of his army training making him a tariff expert his tariff expertness made him an army officer. Possessor cf a Wonderful Memory, i Major Lord's career as a tariff ex pert began about fourteen years ago. lie was a Maine man and became sec retary of Governor Dingley about two 'years before the Dingley revision was [ taken up. He developed great aptitude ; for the work, having a great "head for , Aggers" and a memory which everj_- | body admitted couldn't tie beaten. He j had no notiou of becoming a soldier. I In anticipation of the revision which j was coming on he set about studying tariff He learned the story of all the j schedules and tariff acts from the be | ginning, read the debates and affili ated with the customs experts till he ! knew all they did and remembered ev ! ery word and decimal point of it *ll. t So by the time the Dinsfley hill had ! become law Lord was recognized by both Dlngley and Aldrich. as well as | by Allison and the rest of its makers, 1 as the greatest living aggregation of accurate tariff information. President ! McKinley had come to know and like ' him; is fact, knew him quite well be fore he was elected president. Excellent Record In the Philippine*. I After the tariff act had passed Pres- I ident McKinley indicated a desire to | do something for Mr. Lord. The Span j ish war came on.and Lord was offered a commission as captain paymaster and sent to the Philippines. There his service was excelleut. His accounts were always accurate and complete. | and he won promotion to a majority on his merits. He was quietly pursu ing his army career when the revision of 1000 became imminent, and Senator Aldrich sent for him. Could he help out the finance committee again? Cer tainly. Did he think he had pre served such accurate recollection of all those detailed transactions of twelve years ago as would lie reliable and secure? Of course lie bad. He demonstrated right away that he knew j the old tariff law in every detail. That I settled it. He was detailed by the | army people to the special service of j helping to make the tariff bill and be- I came the alter ego of Senator Ai ; drich. I "What sort of bill are you going to I make?" an old friend asked him soon j after he had settled down to work, j "You were here when we made the «!><» -r SWET9I RV! A Holla bl© TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spouting nnd Canaral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters. Ranges. Furnaces, eto. PRICES THE LOWEST! 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