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
<last one?" he countered.
I "Yes, I was."
"Do you recollect what sort that
was?"
"It's generally understood to have
been of tho upward style." was the
reply.
"Well," Major Lord replied, "that's
the only kind I know how to write.
Wait and see how it comes out."
And the friend to whom he made
that observation is lugging It around
as the evidence that if justice were
done to everybody in tariff making af
fairs this bill would be known as the
Lord bill.—Washington Cor. New York
Telegram.
Pleasant Reward Proffered.
Balph Willis of Wilkesbarre. Pa.,
recently found a wallet containing SO,-
000, and when he returned it to the
owner he was offered as a reward a
vacation trip of his own choosing
through the United States. He has :
not decided whether to accept the re
ward offered or not.
Little minds are too much wounded
by little things; great minds see aU
and are not even hurt.—La Bochefou
catild. .
It must have been tough on the peo
ple of the stone age when they trieo
to turn over a new leaf. Pittsburg
Press.
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