llTlhE MAN. It Was Embarrassing.' but It Turned Out Well. By EDGAR P. YARDLEY. tCopyrlght, 1910, by American Press Asso ciation] One summer 1 alighted from n stage at the entrance of n hotel beside a Now Hampshire lake. There wore several persons sitting on the porch, and one, a young girl, arose and advanced with a happy smile to meet me. If there Is one thing I have always prided myself on Jt Is keeping my equipoise when people speak to ine whom I don't re member. I had no lilea who the girl •was, but did not propose to betray my Ignorance. She put out her hand and put up her lips. Not to give her the expected kiss would have been a rude ness. That was about as sweet a kiss as I ever enjoyed. Whether it was be cause her lips had a peculiar flavor to them, whether it was that it was un expected or whether there was a nat ural predisposition in me for that par ticular girl 1 don't know. I only know "LOOKED ME SQUAItG IN THE FACE." that the softness of rose leaves Is noth- \ Ing to the exquisite sensation I experi- ! enced In the pressure of those lips. | Of course I was not so stupid as to | spealc first. I gave her that privilege | and waited for a cue. "What brought you so early?" were : aer first words. "I found I could get away earlier | than I expected." "How did you leave Katherlne?" "Very well." "Why, she hasn't recovered, has she?" "I moan she's doing very -well." "Oh!" "I think I'll go in and register, get- j itlng rid of the satchel at the same ! Mine. I'll be with you in one moment." j Entering the office, I found a clerk i and asked If Miss 1 stumbled on the name. "Miss Ellison?" supplied the clerk. "Did she say anything about a room or me?" "Yes, but she didn't expect you on j this train. However, 1 can take care ! 3f you." While we were talking I was run ling my eye back over registered lames until I came to "Mrs Montgom ery Ellison. Miss Edith Ellison. De troit." i didn't know a son! in Detroit, so I was now quite sure the young . ady had i>istaken me for some one i else. I must let her down easy, it occurred to me that to put my name on the hotel register mlsht betray the situation, so. the clerk turning to In spect his key rack, I left him without so and walked toward the door. "Mr. Wardwell!" he called. I turned. "You have not registered." "I will do so presently." And I j walked out onto the porch and joined Miss Ellison. My next move was to discover what relationship Mr. Wardwell bore to her. t was to be supposed that he was fier lover, but I was not certain. "You've changed a little since I saw you," she said. "Do you think so? Let me see—how ong is it?" "Two years last month." I wished to ask where we were when we parted and. above all, wheth er we were lovers. How could I frame a question to get this informa tion without making a break? "I'll bet you can't remember your ast words." I said playfully, "on the day I left you." "I can," she said—" 'don't forget the candy.' " "What a memory!" "It was delicious. I almost made j myself sick." I was puzzled. Candy is sweet, but \ * fancied the last words of a young „irl to her lover before parting for two years would have more depth to them. "Well," I sr'd. making another at tempt to draw her out, "do you feel just the same as when we parted?" "About what?" "The most important thing you can think of." "The moat Important thing I can :tink ofV" she said musingly. "Oh, I h.IOW! No, indeed I don't feel the same about what was the most Important thiijg to me at that time." "Any change there?" ! "Where?" "Why, in what you have Just men tioned." "Yes, indeed! What was it we were talking about? Oh, yes! I'm so glad to see you that I can't think of any thlug else." "Well, about this change of heart?" "Change of heart?" "Yes. Weren't you saying you've had a change of heart?" "No! What put that into your head?" "Tu*. . -• *> . left; not now. I was to Iftve n new dress, and I In a great quan dary as to whcth< r I'd have It made up with large or small beeves. Yon know, then they had l»>en wearing small sleeves so long that there was sure to l>e a change very soon." 1 gave an impatient grunt. I was not getting oil. Here was I playing the part of another not knowing wheth er that other was cousin, uncle, brother or lover. Tho situation was distress ing. "Do yon mean to tell me," I said, "that your heart has had no emotlonnl upheavals since I last parted with you ?" She turned and looked me square io the face. "Emotional upheaval!" she repeated. "Aren't those words both too big to bo put together?" "What I mean Is does your heart oc cupy the same position It occupied two years ago. or has It changed?" "Y'ou remember that position was equivocal." "I understand that perfectly well, but an equivocal position may become a settled one." "Well, then, I don't mind telling you that the position is settled. My mind Is made up." I was getting deeper in tho mire rather than getting out of it. Every moment I dreaded lost 1 would be called upon to make some explicit state- I ment that would give mo away. 1 had taken a kiss from a stranger I had no ! right to take, and now I was piling up j the sin by endeavoring to extract from ! that stranger her heart's secret. Nov- | ertheless 1 pushed on. "Well, wiiat is the result?" "That things are the same ns they j ■were before anything happened." I was petting rod in the face. ! Though the air _ was delightfully cool, I took out my handkerchief and mop ped my face. Having lost my assur ance, I began to fancy all kinds of un pleasant happenings. Another train might come in and bring tlie real Wardwell. I remembered that on con sulting the railroad time table before starting there were two trains I might ' take fifty minutes apart. I took the first. I "I'm disappointed," said Miss El- ' lisou. j "Disappointed! Why?" I asked. "I don't believe you are glad to see me a bit." "How can you sny that? I was nev ' er happier in my life." My looks belied my words. 1 was never more miserable. "You seem to lie bored rather than 1 happy." This was said with an expression of disappointment. "What you mistake for being bored," j I said, "is really pain. When 1 left you it was under certain conditions, I known only to us two." "And one other." Another stumper. "After an absence of two years isn't it natural that I should wish to know how those conditions now stand?" In my agitation 1 had changed po sitions so often that my chair now faced the ladles sitting ou the other end of the piazza. One of them gave me a bow or half n bow. as though fearful ot not being recognized. Her face was familiar to me. I knew that I was acquainted with her, but I couldn't place her. I was also sitting with niy back to the direction from which n stage was approaching. 1 heard the croak of wheels, but was too Intent upon other matters to heed it.it stopped before the door. I turn ed in time to see a man who very much resembled myself coming up the steps. lie stopped and stared at me. I stared at him. Miss Ellison burst in!" a laugh ' I rank." sin- salil, giving him a du- j pll lie nf the i;Ks she Had given me, j "tl !■= is Mr. Edwards. He came an j ho.'.r ago. and I mistook him for you. ] II nut Mrs. Gordon, who knows him, t< I i me when he went into register ! wt.-> he Is ! should have continued to be deceived.' She looked at me and burst iuto an other laugh, if 1 looked as I felt 1 must have resembled a man who had been tarred aud feathered, ridden ou a rail and then keelhauled. My legs would scarcely support me. Then she kindly came to my rescue. The real Mr. Wardwell went inside to register, and Miss Ellison bade me be seated and said: "Don't be troubled. It was my mis- aud you. were led. into it verv HUNTING THE WALRUS. The Eskimo Takes Advantage of the Animal's Curiosity. In his frail skinboat it is a difficult and dangerous task for the Eskimo to go out to sea forty to sixty miles and intercept the walrus as he passes on his migration into the Arctic. One carcass will till his boat, for it weighs from 1,000 to 3.000 pounds. He hunts the walrus when they are lying asleep on the ice floes iu herds from ten to several hundred. Death must lie instantaneous, else with a few rolls or the peculiar lumbering, hump ing movement (seen of the seal when ashore!, he makes the few feet to the water and then Is lost, ns he has uot sufficient blubber and air to float. He has much natural curiosity, and if not scared by shots will come up close to your boat or the ice floe on which you are sitting, spurting, snorting and roll ing his eyes; with his gleaming tusks and bristled snout he has an uncanny, goblin, monster-like appearance. A herd of fifty or sixty of them will come up en masse, raise high out of the water to stare at you, then snort, spurt and disappear again, only to come up on the same spot and repeat the maneuver Indefinitely. Taking advantage of this the Eskimos hide be hind ice hummocks and throw a har poon into one, then snub the tough rawhide line around an ice cake. He must perforce come up to blow, and he Is then killed with the rifle. The thick skin and the mass of blubber and meat beneath render him almost Invulner able.—Pacific Monthly. Diplomacy. "I can't get along with that cook." "Rut have you tried diplomacy, my fijar?" "1 have. Today 1 hand'd the minx her passports."—Washington Herald. Evil often triumphs, but never con quers.—Roux. GREET TENER !' " t Candidate For Governor Gets Fine Ovations. MAKES BIG HIT WITH VOTERS j ... i■ ■ ~ ft j i Republican Standard Bearer Frankly Meets Live Issues and Is Assured of Splendid Victory. John K. Teuer and his associates on the Republican state ticket are being , given splendid receptions and ovations • on their trip through the siate. j The meetings have in almost every i instance been even larger than those I witnessed iu the triumphal tour of j Edwin S. Stuart four years ago. Keen Interest In the success of the j enmpaign and enthusiasm for the nominees, manifested iu every county j that has been visited, must fore- J shadow a great victory in November. I Pennsylvania Republicans are har | monious nnd aggressive, aud with the J Democracy divided between Grim and j Berry, tin indications are that the ma t jority for John K. Tener for governor j will be the largest given to any nomi | nee for that office in tills state in re- I cent years. i Believes In Education. For his clean-cut, manly and frank ! discussions of the issues of the cam ! paign, Candidate Toner has been com mended upon every hand. He does not hesitate to oxpress himself freely upon all questions and is taking the people into his confidence as he goes from place to place, meeting the voters face to face, and grasping them by the hand and impressing all with his candor i and sincerity. ! In chatting with a well known edu- I cator the other day, Mr. Tener said: "1 flrmly believe that education, j coupled with good sound common i sense, will do more to obliterate the thought of anticipated and imaginary | dangers in the future than any other | agency that can be invoked. I am a firm and everlasting believer in the I cause of education, it has served i where modern equipment in the hands i of a well-drilled militant force would I have been without avail and has done ' more to make the United States the j wonderful nation thai, she is than any. j thing we have ever known. | "Build school houses, have eompe j tent instructors, interest the youthful | minds, and happiness and clean, godly j lives can be the only result." At Home Among Wage Earners. During the course of an address to coal miners ol Schuylkill county, Mr. Tener said: "It has been my misfortune that I have never visited this section of Pennsylvania before, and while I am not a stranger in a community of this kind, because I come from the soft coal region of the Monongaheia river.. I live with and associate with men who work in the mines and in the shops of that great industrial district. On the river that flows past my door more than 9,000,000 tons of coal are floated every year, so that in coming here and seeing you, the same kind of. people that we have at home, in the same line of work. I feel quite at i home. I know that your livos and your thoughts and your aims are very ! much like ours at home and your po litical belief ought to be like ours at ! I home. We are Republicans there be j cause we believe that through the Ite i publican party we receive the greatest ! benefit. I "My neighbors arc the workmen of the United Mine Workers' Union, and out there every man that works iu the mine is a union man. The United Mine Workers' Union has set a high standard for themselves aud for all union labor, in my opinion, because i whenever they sign a contract with the operators they see to it that it is kept, so that we live in harmony and peace." The farmers of the stae know they have a friend in John K. Tener. While a member of congress he was ' a stout champion of every measure that came before that body designed j to advance the interests ol' the gran ger and dairyman. Party Organization Essential. Candidate Toner's firm belief in the importance of maintaining a party or ganization through which to promote policies and fix responsibilities of gov ernment has been expressed on more thau one occasion since the canvass was inaugurated. Upon this question a few days ago he said: "I believe in government in this country by political parties. I believe that the best rusults are secured when there are two great parties divided on civic and economic questions. "I have not in the past nor do I now believe that v. v permanent good can oe accomplish.*} by those spasmodic movements resulting in the organiza tion of additional parties, whose ca reers are hut temporary and which have signally failed to accomplish the purposes for which they were ostensi bly brought into existence. "I do not only believe in government by political parties, but I believe in party regularity. Each voter should take an active interest in the manage ment of his owu party, in the selection of a ticket and In the writing of the platform. Should conditions arise with in his party which do not appeal to him he should earnestly strive to have them eliminated." The Psaims. Many years ago a new clergyman was taking Sunday duty In a remote hamlet among the Yorkshire wolds. After moruing service the old clerk came up to him nnd observed; "So ye calls them 'Sauutns,' do ye? Noo. we never knew what to make o' that 'ere I'. We alius calls 'em 'Spasms.' London Scraps. Her Prize. Daughter—Did you have to fish much, mamma, before you caught papa? Mother—Fish, my dear—fish! I wns bear hunting.—London M. A. P. IkitsFßOM MAINE PLEASED BERRY | t*, * " 11 jr" Gubernatorial Nominea Elated Over Democratic Victory. j * " - -I HE ATTACKED TARIFF BILL ! s i: £* r I i i im. v » Independent Republicans Quit Key stone Party, Disgruntled With the Bryanite Outfit. [Special Correspondence.] Philadelphia, Sept. 20. An exhibition of partisanship which startled and disgusted the few inde pendent Republicans present was given by William H. Berry at a meet ing in this city a few nights ago, when i the Keystone Party nominee, unable ! to suppress his jubilation, spoke ex ; ultantly ol' "the good news from Maine." Not only did he express intense gratification over the Democratic vic tory in the Pine Tree State, but he followed this up with an attack upon the Republican tariff and the Taft ad , ministration, which so incensed He [ publicans that the little coterie that were there left the hall, determined to have nothing further to do with his candidacy. Yes, Berry had "heard the good news from Maine," and his old-time Democratic spirits were revived; he could not help but in a tri umph for a party with whitTi he fought for so many years. While he is a bolter this year from the Guffey Dem ocratic state organization. Berry still holds allegiance to the national De mocracy, particularly to the Bryan wing of that party, for which at Den ver he deserted Guffey for Bryan— Guffey who had done so much for him, nominated him and financed his cam paign for state treasurer, and even though he was then getting SBOOO a year salary from the state treasury, loaned him $15,000 upon collateral which when put up at public sale real ized but S7OO, and then suit had to be entered in court in an effort to obtain payment of the balance, $14,300, with not a dollar's worth of interest paid upon the loan. While Berry's ingratitude to Guffey is not a matter of public concern, and is not a factor in the present political campaign. Berry's adherence to the Democracy, his intense loyalty to the Bryan leadership, is the subject of widespread comment. Could Not Stand Berry. In this city, especially. Berry's nom ination upon the independent ticket at once estranged thousands from that | movement who might under certain l conditions have been inclined to favor an independent Republican for gov ernor. Others who at first declined to say what attitude they would take in the campaign, have since come out! squarely iu favor of the full Republi-1 can ticket. This was the logical outcome of the revelations as to Berry's financial j dealings with Guffey, followed by; Berry's erratic course upon the stump,; has flambouj ant and rambling oratory culminating in his sensational and un-] called for attack upon the newspaper j men of the state simply because they : published the facts relating to his get-1 ting money from Guffey, the same i Guffey who was himself a heavy bor- 1 rower from banks in Pittsburg hold- j ing state funds, of which Berry was j the custodian for the taxpayers, and Berry's gratuitous insult to every Re- i publican is his public felicitations with the triumphant Democrats of Maine! and his denunciation of the framers j of the new tariff act, in which the in-; dustrial, farming and business inter ests and the welfare of every wage I earner of the Keystone State were safeguarded by the two Republican ( United States senators and all of the '< Republican members of the lower i house from Pennsylvania. Berry's admission at a public meet-1 ing hero "that there was not a dollar I in the treasury of the Keystone Party" J simply emphasized the tact that sub- j stantial men, men of affairs, property owners and business men. to whom the importance of electing a safe and sane man to the governorship appeals most strongly, will have nothing to do with his candidacy or the hybrid com bination of disappointed and cast-off politicians back of the Keystone Party. Desertions on Every Side. Berry talks and acts like a man who knows he has not got a chance to win the governorship. He admitted in his West Philadelphia speech last week! that when he accepted the nomination ho had no idea of being elected. Developments since the Keystone ticket was putin the field all show that his candidacy has been con stantly getting weaker rather than stronger. Desertions of independent Republi cans and Democrats from the Berry movement are noted every day. Resig nations from Keystone Party commit tees are being announced on every hand, and newspapers which gave en couragement to his cause at the out set have since either turned in for Tenor, the Republican, or Grim, the regular Democratic nominee. While Berry still declares he is a Democrat, there are not a half dozen Democratic, newspapers in the state now favoring his election, and there are about a like number of so-called Independent newspapers for him. First Test of the Air Pump. The first public test of the air pump was In 1C54 by its inventor, Otto von Guerlcke, In the presence of Emperor Ferdinand of Germany. Guerlcke ap plied the carefully ground edges of metallic hemispheres, two feet In di ameter, to each other. After exhaust ing the air by his apparatus he at tached fifteen horses to each hemi sphere. In vain did they attempt to separate them because of the enor mous pressure of the atmosphere. The experiment wns a great success. < "WLB) U J ' W ■»'■ ■■ .1"1 w **■' -■ ■■' PRESENCE OF MIND. Wellington's Cool Intsrvlsw With a Murderous Maniac. One day as the Duke of Wellington sat writing at his library table quite alone hla door was suddenly opened without a knock or announcement of nny sort, and In stalked a gaunt man. who stood before the commander In chief with his hat on and a savage ex pression of countenance. Tho duke was of course a little an noyed at such an unceremonious in terruption, and, looking up, he asked, "Who are you?" "I am Dlonyslus," was the singular answer. "Well, what do you want?" "Your life." "My life?" "Yes; I am sent to kill ycra." "Very odd," said the duke, sitting back and calmly gazing at the intruder. "Not at all, for I am Dlonyslus," said the stranger, "and I must put you to death." "Are yon obliged to perform this duty today?" asked the comman der in chief. "I am very busy Just now and have a large number of let ters to write. It would he very In convenient today." The visitor looked : hard during a moment's pause. "Call again," continued the duke, "or write 1 nnd make an appointment." "You'll | be ready?" "Without fail," was tho re ply. The maniac, awed doubtless by the ' stern old soldier, backed out of the i room without further words and half j an hour Inter was safe in bedlam.— London Graphic. FULL OF GRATITUDE. But the Little One Had a Queer Way of Expressing It. i Mr. Brown's business kept him so occupied during the daytime that he had little opportunity to enjoy the so ciety of his own children. When somo national holiday gave him a day of leisure his young son was usually his chosen companion. One day, how ever, Mr. Brown, reproached by the wistful eyes of his seven-year-old daughter, reversed the order of things and Invited the little girl togo with him for a long walk. She was a shy, silent, small person, and during tho two hours' stroll not a single word could Mr. Brown induce the little maid to speak, but her shin ing eyes attested that she appreciated his efforts to amuse her—indeed, she fairly glowed with suppressed happi ness. Just before they reached home, how ever, tho child managed, but only after a tremendous struggle with her Inher ent timidity, to find words to express lier gratitude. "Papa, what flower do you like best?" she asked. "Why, 1 don't know, my dear —sun- flowers, I guess." "Then." cried the little girl, beam ing with gratitude, "that's what I'll plant on your grave'"—Exchange. Tennyson' 3 Tactlessness. Several stories are told of Tenny son's thoughtless speeches. "What fish is this?" lie once asked his hostess where ho was dining. "Whiting," she replied. "The meanest fish there is," he remarked, quite unconscious that he could have wounded any one's feel ings. Vet Ills kindness of heart was such that when his partridge was afterward given him almost raw he ate steadily through it for fear his hostess might be vexed. Ou one occasion Tenuyson was very rude to Mrs. Brotherton, a neighbor at Freshwater. Tho next day he came to her house with a great cabbage under each arm. "I heard you like these, so I brought tliem," he said genialy. It was his idea of a peace offering. V/omei's Time Schedules. Few women speak of n train starting slightly off the even hour, as ttit* 3:02 traiu, for example, or tiie3:l2. "Three" will do. It bothers a man a heap to go hunting for u 3 o'clock train by feminine directions when it is a 3:12 train For socie women "3" will do for the 2:04 truin; it's ne::r enough Then the man following feminine di rections, unless he Is on his guard against these pitfalls, Is losi Prob ably If it weren't for Ids business train ing, which teaches a man that 3:02 is not 3, not 3:01, not 3:OlVi, not but 3:02, he'd be better natured about women's time schedules.—Boston Post The Soft Answer. Two men were occupying a double seat In a crowded car. One of them was a long distance whistler and the other was evidently annoyed. "You don't seem to like my whistling?" said the noisy one after a five minute con tinuous performance. "No, I don't," was the frank reply. "Well," contin ued the other, "maybe you think you are man enough to stop It?" "No, I don't think I am," rejoined the other, "but I hope you are." And the whist ling was discontinued.—Argonaut. Warmth Not Wanted. "This would be a pleasanter world If people put more warmth—genuine warmth—in their letters," said the man of sentiment. "I don't agree with you." replied his worried friend, "there was a warmth about some of the business letters I got this morning that I didn't nt all like." Not a Question of Etiquette. Mrs. Hendricks ithc landlady)— Can I help you to some more soup, Mr. Dumley? Mr. Dumley—No. thanks. Mrs. Hendricks (engagingly—Don't refuse, Mr. Dumley. because it isn't considered good form to be helped twice to soup. We're not particular people here. Mr. Dumley—Oh, etiquette has noth ing to do with It, madam; it's the soup. Consolation. There had been a little quarrel after the honeymoon. "And Just look nt my pretty linen collar," sobbed the young wife; "the tears have trickled down and wilted it out of shape. You haven't a bit of feeling." "Indeed I have," laughed the big husband; "I'm going to fix things up." "11-how, George?" "Why, the next time 1 go downtown I am going to buy you a waterproof collar."—Chicago News. * Snapshots: : At the ♦ : Politicians? ♦ + *+♦ + ♦♦ + + + ♦* + *«- + + + ** W F you had not tj| looked up the Charles E. Town send of Michigan, who recently de feated Julius C. Burrows for the senatorshlp, and was asked to haz es. It. towkbend. art ' a BUess as to ■i his ago you could not como within a tnile of It With his clean shaven face ho looks to be a man of forty or under, but as a matter of fact he Is just flfty-four, having been born on Aug. 15, 1800. It was only ns far back as 1895 that Mr. Townsend was admitted to tlio bar and began to practice law In his home town, Jackson, Mich. lie had been born on a farm In Jackson county and attended the public schools there, hav ing a year In the literary department of Michigan university when he had about reached his majority. He has the hardy constitution that allows him to overwork himself whenever long hours and concentration of effort are necessary in a congressional situation or in a legal case. Mr. Townsend's sudden appearance In the limelight of publicity was in his first t J .* • Photo by American Press Association. KOBEUT St. LA FOLLETTE aspiring, however, and managed to obtain a good education and was ad mitted to the bar in IsSO. That very year lie was elected district attorney of Dane county and was re-elected two years later. After that he was given three terms iu congress, serving in his last term on the ways nud means com mittee and framing several schedules of the McKinley tariff law. lie was defeated in IS9O and then practiced law for ten years before he was again summoned to the service of the people. Senator La Follette is a graduate of the Wisconsin university, but he came perilously near not being. Although a painstaking and earnest student and enjoying the respect alike of the facul ty and the student body, he never stood high in his classes. On final examina tion he fell slightly below the mark prescribed for graduation. Just before this occurred he won chief honors in an interstate collegiate oratorical contest, thereby bringing glory and renown to the great institu tion at Madison. At that time the uni versity had as its president Jolm Bas com, than whom this country has pro duced no more profound philosopher or broadly learned man generally. I'resident Bascom called the faculty together and made a fight for young La Follette. lie pointed out that, while La Foilette's examination showed that he was a little deficient In some branches of the curriculum and that thus his average was not up to the ar bitrary standard prescribed, he was still one of the hardest working stu dents ever at the university, had re flected credit upon tue institution In the big oratorical contest and would continue to do so in nfter life. By a narrow margin the faculty by vote re versed its decision against La Fol letto nnd granted him a diploma A Necessity. Judge—Why did you burn your bnrti down just after getting it insured'; Farmer—Your honor, a poor man like me can't afford to have a barn and In surance too.-Meggendorfer Blatter To live long ft Is necessary to live slowly.—Cicero. Nothing Miraculous. "Ton had rheumatism in your right leg for years and were cured of it In an instant? How?" "By being accidentally tnixe-l tip In a train wreck. My right leg is r. cost, leg now."—Chicago Tribune. ♦ The Dry ♦ ♦ Farming : : Congress: By JOHN T. BURNS. [Secretary Dry Farming Congress.] fOTACLE us a world convention of prac tical agriculturists will be the fifth dry farming con gress lu Spokane, Wash., Oct. 3 to 6, when the foremost crop exiverts, farm ers and horticul turists will discuss the various phases of tills method of tillage and give their actual experi ences In working out the principles. Indications are that more than 2,500 accredited delegates from various states and provinces in America and ten foreign countries nnd several thou sand others who are interested in scientific farming will be in at tend ance. The congress will deal with dry farming so extensively and in such a way that the farmer who spends the lour days there will receive a fairly good education In.the several methods. Coming as it does nfter a season of unusual drought, this convention Is at tracting unusual interest, ns the farm er who has heretofore given the sub ject of dry farming only a casual thought la now turning with the new Interest that Is aroused by the instinct of self preservation to dry farming principles. When the congress opens It will be possible to determine In dollars and cents the losses sustained by the pen pie of the United States and Canada and elsewhere through the dry weath er, and the reports will also be avail able of the success of this year's work conducted by the agricultural col legos, experiment stations, demonstra tion farms, individual farmers and corporations. The government and state experimental stations have prov ed that dry farming can be carried on profitably where ordinary farming methods have failed to produce a crop. irrigation was looked upon as a the ory fifteen years ago and only remote ly considered a commercial possibility. The government's vast expenditures, amounting to millions of dollars, hava definitely proved what has in the In fOUH T. BURNS. tervening years been worked out by the irrigatlonlsts— not only the commer cial possibility, but the absolute neces sity. of irrigation ns a commercial as set in the west. Five years ago dry farming, then hut little understood, although, in truth, practiced for several hundred years, was derisively received by many as a hUHj Uiieut'd uij ill created as a means Inherited. "And uoi 1 .; «a;ts Professor !.m hunter us he greeted Uenrv ! "what shall we make of your Htt'n boy—a lecturer"/ He has a sineer- <: s h for It." "I know he has." replied the ma!>j parent. 'He inherits it from his mo;;i< er." Dividing l-C -r Weight. "Don't stand on aat delicate table la -ang the picture *;.irthn. It'll break You're too henvj "Oh, no. I'm not. mutn It'll hear me. I'm standing onlj on one foot " We are ineiiued to believe in those whom we do oot know because they have never deceived us Johnson. Turning the Tebles. He (after a quarrel, bitterly)—l was a fool when I married you. She—l knew it but I thought you would Improve.— Exchange. People who fish for compliments, do not need long lines. They will get tliele best bites in shallow water. ; TrtiWtf-r l ■—i jfc I >■ im hii i 0 Miia—i aunm rv i A R.olla bl« TIN SHOP Tot all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne nnd Qeneral Jolt Work, Stoves, Heaters, RanfM ( Furnaces, eto. PRICES THE LOWEST! QDILIT! THE BEST.' JOHN HlXSOtf SO. 11# E. FEONT Sfl.