THE BOWLEGGED MAN. *“Bantyleg, where are you from? You must have a drum! All up with your jig, If ever you started to fender a This was the cry that the little Wherever Bowlegged Butterball The of the village, the joke But, Bantyleg, Leen riding astride of your prowess, ail up with pig!” town set wenti--- of the , i, what a he in the winner was The captain who him first on > his nine Was a victor base line ~In" a flight not exactly a lesn He roid himseif up and his flelder captured all season. He took the or a little run; 1€g8 spu And lon ere the had captured the Bantyics struck the home plate with a sprawl. Whenever his turn : at The nine scared -a rum, of that! came to handle the théreé was no doubt The fire cempanies fought for him year after year To capture thie plug with a cheer With his uniform on He looked like a shout and a in the v ectle in z de splendor ar- 3; ‘marched to the old country band As proud as the proudest land tune of. the in all the broad buff overcca Ingst The regiment forming enlisted him, too; He carried the water, ior something to do, And when the ped rattle and thunder ot war knocking one leg’s door the Came morning on Lanty- to rally and followed the y Sug to the heart and the heat of the fray. “One thine, he shouted, *‘you’ll s¢e me straddle the balls and the bullets, di- pen! I'l And he did! Not a scratch had he borhe when he came again, happy the badge of a with renown, » of laughter long years the carpenter, sexton as wedaing, - he tolled and game! he walked Home Vith and agile veterd 31} relic town. well, the old And smiled the old swaile when they laughed at his legs And his penchant tor eheckers and mums= bletypegs. 3 “Bantylegs Catch me can!” sters who ‘to him shadows are dim, still through Butterball, and “kick bowlegged me, if catch man, me you Young shouted this challenge Are as dim as those old days But the valley of memory 1 dear little town that was home town 10 me, And laugh when TI think of that the strec knees that had parted to nevermore The shape on With —Baltimore Sun, Ev W. The Preacher’ s Grp. H. WITHROW. Fe icke on arkins, a ne'er-do-weel ne bout at “Say, Phin, let's the preacher,” sai loutish fellow, to camrade in many a the village tavern. “I’m -in it, whatever it Phin Crowle, with a vicicus These worthies were notable and . dog-fanciers, and each had bulldog ‘that could - whip anything of its size and weight in the country.” It. we 2reed, thereiore, to bring their respective to the evenin ing, to keep th asunder till vice was well under way, and incite them to a fight. A. fe directed igs with cited the beast 8s to snarls, to the great a village toughs und to of the women and Lawrence Tempie, neighboring celleze, pointed a local preac the ministry. Tle wiz ’prentice - hand ou the Four Corners .S ed rural neighborhe town. His first pi« were likely to be, uninterest ing. His previc felling tree hinmi in get rattled nor disturbance became tor: quested the owners them quiet or to tek the annoyzuce Saini pounced that the disturbing ligious service was a viola: law and must cease once. “Now's yer time, kins, in a loud and in a minute t were rushing at and causing a panie the women. +R Quic ly leaving tle which served as a picaching Lawrence walked down the passage to where the dogs were snap- ping, snay ling end rolling over each other on the Toor. : v “Take a very ing that he addcd once.” “Take em out yerself to,” said Phin Crowle, yer it's at yer peril. It yer leg he'll never let cuts his head off.” “Open the door, please,” said the young preacher, which was promptly done by a man sitting near it. Lawrence had not practiged football in vain. Before their loutich owners could interfere, he Lad planted a well directed and tremendous Kick the interlocked and astonished dogs that unlocked their jaws; followed by two others, that swept first one and then the other over the threshold and into the cuter darkness before they knew where -they were. “Now: follow your dogs!’ Le. said grimly to the cowardly builies— your bully is always a coward. “Supposin’ we don’t choose drawled Larkins. “I'll simply have to make 0 Jawrence with blazing eyes, n¢ morrow have you fined for distm public worship.” “let's go, Jim,’ .gaid } got the drop on us this time.” “We'll be even with yer yet, Mr. Preacher, and be blanked t{c yer,” growled the human brute, Larkins, more degraded than his doz, and went into the blackness of night making the air lurid with oaths and curses. In a moment lawrence was calm again, and with earnest pleading tones he read over the words in the Apoca- lypse concerning the firally impeni- tent: * ‘Without,’ in the blackness of darkness forever, ‘are dogs, and sor- cerers, and whatsoever loveth nd maketh a lie,’ ”’ and with tears in his voice he exhorted his hearers to heed the solemn warnings of God and to flee from his present and eternal wrath. His words came home with strange power and not a few of the ruffians’ companions who had ‘come to scoff remained to pray.” An hour later Lawrenee was making arin is,” replied grin. sports dogs the ser then m 10 pal geod lose he eal ho ole 1 said with See- notice, Your dozs out,” be decided tone and ges their owners tcok sternly: “And no do it at wents warns if yer “but | my Tige go—not if yer on tol” “he's . his | g preach- | grips i ‘oing | I Heng—we 1 : ) { night. ea cloud emitted a bright gleam of light vealed the group with almost the light holt? central |; i Lawrence, [1 don’t object to a passive resistance,” his way home from his first service at the Four Cecrners Schoclhouse. A great gladness filled his soul and he | heeded not the wild and wintry winds nor the drifting clouds that were scud- ding rapidly across the sky. Through their rifts the moon shone brightly Just as he reached a bridge across a ravine two figures glided out of the shadows of the trees, accompanied by two dogs. Lawrence at once recog- nized them as Jim Larkins and Phin Crowle and their invariable compan- might almost ccmy and Tige. Mr. Preacher,” growied said I'd be ev with ver if it isn’t goin’ ‘to Le Only ‘'blest” was not exa word he used, but » of opposite Li say ades j.ar- yet the cause with cwrence rrel + eye forgive cident at 10 ain't fo and we've got Sic'm, Ball! growlings but just nor yer wher Sic’m, and sparlings then a in the moon- the snow, re- Tige! On Jinous pos followed, rift which, reflected by of Both dogs seemed to recog- the man with the emphatic beots which they had so recently made unpleasant acquaintance, and siunk behind iheir respective owners. ‘em! 1 never knowed ‘em that afore. Ye're not afraid, Ere, Bull, sic’m. Tige, seize ¥ 10 Ke yer? ‘We'll: have to wade “1 ‘have no quarrel you, and don’t L.awrence. “Oh, ye're a coward, be ver? On ver own ground in the schoolhouse wiz bold enough, but here yer r tune. Ye've got ter fight or other of us goes over that and he pointed to the deep in tha ravine, if EB felp it, nor c¢ither, so far as'I am concerned,” plied Lawrence, calmly. “Take that, will yer?’ said Larkins, and he Lit him a buffet on the cheek. lI never struck a man yet,” said “and I dou’t intend to; but in, Phin.” with either of want to have,” said you re- end he skilfully warded off blow after blow of lLarking' furious onset. *Why don’t ye pitcn in; Phin? Give it: im heavy.” “Not 1,” said Phin, ‘It’s no fun tin’ a man that wasn’t hit back. stand by and see fair play.” “Curse 'im an’ yer too, It's not fair play I want, but his blood, an’ }'I nave it, fair play or foul,” and he made a. mad rush at Lawrence which would have swept him’ over the undeferted cdze of the bridge, ‘had he not been quick as a weasel. Larkins, with another side l.awrence's guard and flung his log arms around the slim student preacher with a grasp like a boa-con- strictor’s. The ground was icy. Law- rence was in real peril of being hurl- ed over the bridge side into the ra- vine whose bottom was studded with stumps and wood-cuiters’ debris. Pu: his mettle he got a wrestling grip on Larkins, nd they swayed and struggied cn the narrow Lridge, the one trying to et near the edge, the other to keep in the centre. It was not for nothing that lawrence had developed his thews and sinews loading saw-logs in the lumber-camp. With a mighty effort he lifted. his an- tagonist from the ground and could easily have flung him over the bridge into the ravine, but he merely threw him into the snow-drift by the road- cide, and was in turn dragged down. “Here, Bull, here, Tige, sic ‘im! Seize im! Tear 'im!” roared Larkins with lip-blistering oaths. “No, yar don't, Tige,” “two to one is agin the gameo.” Bull snarled and snapped, but the clouds agai ndrifted across the moon and in the shadow it was impossible to distinguish which was Lawrence. With a tremendous effort Lawrence hit- I'll rush, got in- to said Phin rules o' the wrenched lrimself free, and Larkins , : [ “I didn't want to. | is badly injured.” | holding i Phin, jas winced | handkerchief on admitted nei up [termed it, { made a I wrist. | held out his uninjured hand. i conified | rer [emy chiclogy ler | veterinary school at Bucharest, hz | placed the lest portion with a leather animal: | body or struggled slowly and painfully to his feet. Th “Curse him! He's bruk my wrist, The game's up for this time.” “Sorry 1 hurt you,” sald l.awrence. Lét me see if 1t » said Larkins, wrist, “Here, “Pains like thunder, up a dangling ver take holt.” “Let the preacher Larkins howled knows more about 1 do.” Lawrence, who had often bound up sprains and bruises in the lumber camp, took hold of the injured wrist, despite Larkins’ reluctance, and ten- derly examined it, though Larkins at the touch. = “No benes broken, my said Lawrence, “only a bad sprain. Let nie make a” splint,” and he rapidly shaped two flat pieces of wood, and saying, “Sece, Phin, how it is done,” carefully bound them with his own the sprained wrist. *Isn’t that better?’ he asked. “Ain't so all-fired painful as ’twuz,” Larkins. “Now let me make another handkerchief, boys?’ But ther of them possessed such an ariigie; sO Phin took off his braces— “gulluses,” he called them—and ‘took the es of his trousers,” as with a nail, while lL.awrence to suport. the injured said Phin, pain. “He things nor try,” with these good fellow,” you a sling. Got 1 A ne sling ’ said; ” *] am: very, very sorry,” he “I didn’t want to hurt you, believe me. *Oh, hang all,” ‘said Larkins, “served: me rigl 1 guess—ye're not such a bad lot arter all Will yer shake hands and call it quits?” and he “lI meant if I didn’t!”’—and was not a curse. murder, though, blest this time the word “] couldn't have done like yer did arter the ways I treated yer, not by a jugful. Will yer forgive me?” “With all my heart,” said Lawrence; and as he shook hands with both the cronies, he added, ‘I bear you no mal- ice at all. God bless you both.’ “Here, Bull, here Tige,” said the dis- comrades as they lurched alonz te the Four Corners, and Law- ice: wernt light-hearted cn his® way town. He had both killed an en- friend, adopting method, the true coming evil with geod. and Crowle were to ithe p3v- and made a Master's own qf over i} AND CURICUS. QUAINT of Orson, axes, as it deri ferest Sweden, thout ti revenues from a f Elwood, © Kans slowly slipping into the Missou and the town has been practically abandoned. . do for Colora ortsmen are now clam- coring an open season against Rocky Mountain sheep. They say the closed season has covered such a long period the herds have increased be- yond ail bounds. Amputating a horse's leg at the fet- lock joint, Professor Udriski, of the Ss re- artificial leg that enables the to walk about and take exercise. Sn Ben Vanasek, who five years sold newspapers on the streets of Milwaukee and played a cornet in a newsbcys’ band, has been awarded the grand prize for cornet playing by the National Conservatory of Music at Paris. ago, “Worked to death” of a Londen cerouer’'s case of Isabella Thurgood, a widow of vears old, who died after a hard day at the washtub. “I think the lord is calling me, but ? am ready,” she said just before she passed away was the verdict jury in the id The word Psyehe; originally signify- ing the soul, came afterward to mean also a butterfly—a likeness being ob- cerved between the manner in which a soul and a butterfly, freed from the chrysalis in which they have confined on earth, rise on wing themselves in the light. been and walt interesting new work pub- in Germany. is ‘Der Kaiser und * by Paul Seidel, director of the Hohenzollern museum. It was prepared by order of the emperor, and centains reproductions his numerous sketches for monuments, sea views, stage pictures, etc, weil as of oil paintings. An lished die Kunst as ’ “Three Fates and Atrcpos. To express the influence which they were believed to exercise on human life from birth to death they were rep- resented as spinning a thread of gold, silver or woel, ncw tightening, now slackening, and at last cutting it off. Clotho, the youngest, put the wool around the spindle, l.achesis spun it, and the aged Atropos cut it c¢ff when a man had to die. of the Lachesis The. names were Clotho; The Cat. The woman crowded into the ceat reserved for smokers and sniffed ominously, contemptously. “Tobacco,” she remarked, “is a vile poison. Nicotine would kill a cat.” “That being the case, madam,” re- plicd an unembarrassed smoker, “if I were you I'd make the cat cut it out.” —-Philadelphia Ledger. Ry yeipie Consolation for I the @ Motorless By the Editor of the New York Sun. OST the own truth but of us have heard from tale which the Kennebec sportive Dirigo settiement: “One Bangor man of ticned veracity declares that this year mortgaged their dwelling biles.. Another man, who also stands Bangor residences have Licen ‘hocked, a the price of gas wagons. ” For Bangor subsfitute Brockton, Mass: or Burlington, N. J.. N. Y, or Kankakee. 111. or ahnost any prosperous place. Usually the author: ity is a"bank pre ent or director, somebody who is in a position to know, somebody who has seen the checks and papers p The recorder of deeds is not appealed to. It is his business to shut up, and he can’t know for what purpose the mortgagor borrows. The bank officers themselves are reti- cent in the first person. They are quoted. So long as the interest is paid and the security has not depreciated they may nct view the mortgage bought automobile with alarm. To them it is merely a sign cof extrav nce; and &s such divers watchmen on the towers of finance have duly morailized about already. Not the economic but us. If we are a little sceptical about the fact business m were -off with their mortgages devil wa and because in the East, well these fiery charicis is’ so small compared with that home without a mortgage?” would be a general of the home—we offer the phrase 1o- Mr. Bryan; tauqua lecture in it—for tke automobile hud become a habit. to suppose that a heme is a \ Why not.beard? : In this town: the home of most men is a piece of a tenement house, called or not called by more luxurious pames. You can’t mortgage your Lome, Qur brethren the country mice are hickier. their a solid lips convinced of Journal tells of wealth, solid sense twenty-one and unques- Bangoreans have houses to buy automo- high, says twenty-nine sO to speak, to raise or Hinieion; ean ASSEU. nsaction. allure the western on with their the number of “What is hypothecation geod Chau- It isa mistake the sociological “aspects of the tra it is only before they because €n were Ons, bubbled” as it is,'t of questien if nortgages. the itis there gratis 1S: a necessi ed wealth, has dust of and unpermitt with the Hitherto a smack of ostentation, of predate: clung to the motor car. Those of us who have been choked those presumably plutseratic wheels have felt the sition, and got. perhaps, not without rings ¢f the moral bile. the new rich; confound ostentation; insclence of wealth; these fellows that have to advertise themselves by a chine; thank goodness, horses—shank’s mare, usually— Lbetier be poor than vulgar, and se forth. NNow the a mobilcless can PANIEE RATT reel. The bigger do pity his poor wife; they say they 00m? kave enough if I can’t keep a chauffeu Thus the man on my debts out animosity the of the hands Es car, stir The rich, flaunting wealth; ten thousand dollar ma- wre good enough for us; pity - the rigage. 1 I can pay regard with- down upon, Lut the ni to eat; well, fcot can not only look the automobile the gger roar Ww hd WF > atest ed yn Greed Causes UDars By Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch. EF} pn taf NIA ® should should ion 9000000 9094600 Wwe : | no Wars cn honest have €& and 1 from hecause We on Cuba Worle standpoint. tolerate the when the tnat they over and are not the idea we go to war var with ds were not js it, then, that id not demand Spain Spaniar inflicting outrages in Russia had startled the whole coase? No. we knew Spain was a littie boy, give him something on the other side. humanitc ns that. case. The nation is not a perhaps not so but let all lapses from gre when one nation g¢ “hig stick,” but speak softly. When you to ms softly. What is the use of a “big stick” We want and it will come, for the world’ and the common pecple know they are fil for something better to the canncn’s mouth, Nd country went to abuses the and we could turn him Jut ‘Russia is a giant, and we in ican hi, any other naticn, is behind all these Yes, have a not likeiy it? is hypocrite than Greed with ancther “hig you if you don’t use sg ‘conscience than greater the neticns es 10 Amer rey CO Wi have: stick” dy Q are aroused to be fed peace, v &@ a CS amrtesmnin wnat iE] IDhy Breathing Is Even More Essential Than a Beautiful Dcice for Perfect Singing. CrfimmenS | wei) By Nellie Melba. CANNOT too feoreibly voice is only the sionally startles one by student has any right to more than an athlete may expect naturally fleet of foot. Methods of brea registers, must all be per fectly singer, who should like wise be the structure and use of these the necessity of a perfectly centiollied possession of a Nature o¢ ality of her gifts, but to sing by inspiration, +6 win ga race because he is the mere of:. vocal a! insist that basis the expceet Ca no any lovely pro Fe 0% o% o¥¢ o¥¢ o%e o¥e o¥e oF. oe S the wrstood by the succeesstul lete master of ail de- » the voice , and angica in the thing, a use olf ogee} + 3% ote s - ung Coil » tails relating to convinced of production of tone For perfect singing, more tial than a beautiful veice. No organ may be, its beauty cannot he adequately Ce breath control. Here is one of the old Italian today wholly lack, hecause they are unwilling to give the full development of breathing power and.contro.. nance, expression, all depend upon respiration; i dents. even when too young to he allowed the be thorough! it the priciples of “hire atbing. taugh x » v YI pl Case of Self-Sacrifice By james N. McCarthy. Corre SHORT time ago New York Hospital, attending physiciens said man's life was to graft a large arm of some healthy person; the of. the injured man. But, as is usual ia such cases, nobody could be found who wanted to part with a piece of his skin and the outlook seemed dark for the injured man. A suggestion was nade to apply to the Salvation Ary. This was done, and a cadet in the training school in Fourteenth street , under Colonel Chandler, volunteered. A large piece of skin was grafted from the bocy of the Salvation Army cadet on to the body of the injured map, and the latter a short time afterward recovered. When the Salvation cadet was asked why he made the sacrifice he replied: “For the greater glory of God.” This is what I call practical Christiani ity. 1S ‘matter how the moensirated without which many sincars of the ary um» for Phrasing, tone, reso- cven vocal roper correct breathing, strand XQ uisii essen Sh ¥ CY fo SECrCEgs necess il stu. the The a man was lying 2th’s door in having received < g the I bad injury, t the only b if saving the piece . cut from the b iat on AALAALL moral superiority of our po= KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS NEGRO CCNFESSES MURDER Says He Was Paid to Kill by Reject- ed Suitor. John Jackson. alleged murder- er of Della Patiersecn at Westland. Washington county, on July 29. who was captured and confessed to killing the girl] waived a hearing on a charge of murder and was remanded to jail to await grand jury action. Jackson: in py confession implicated John Asbury, a Westland negro, who, he says; paid el to kill the girl, who had rejected ‘Asbury. Acting upon his AdnAtioms officers went to Westland ed Asbury an the the and arrest as accessory. APPEAL TO DEPOSITORS Waynesburg Bank Them tc Turn Over Money fcr a Year. cf. the directors of the-—-defunct National Bank addressed a let- asking them tor sign an agree that, if the bank is roepened by Oct. 1 next, they will accept time certificates of deposit for the amonnt of their deposits, pay able a vear after the roc ning, with 4 mer cent interest. The letter says positors ene to sooner the bank Directors Ack At the Rodeiver Farmers of ter requ Strawn & Drove Waynesburg to the depr est has )eitors, nt nent J 1)€ the sooner such. a can be d Oo ther the pian reopened. MCNEY FOR It May Cost Nearly a tional to. Pay New Salaries. An estimate made at the Denart- ment. of Public Instruction at Har- risburg is that from half a million to cne million dellars will be required, annually to nav the increase granted teachers in the public schools by the Snyder bill enacted last winter. Reports now being received the 2,660 districts of the the basis of calculation in maki this estimate. The reports rumber of hers fected Liv the the minimum the present $40 and one-fifth o Pennsy Iya! MORE TEACHERS Million Acddi- fronr 3 ~ forns ne state HR the he af- show who will casos fron ‘month ter act will he he ny 101 scl tools. hold mal two rece WATE Health Off of Ail State: Heal condemned Ridgeway. El} is an yn mice has required the existing to be c¢htained and This is the direct tigations made gineers. Among numerous water including the county, of typhoid ¢ abandonment New the result the has where nf reces filtered the inves state cll supplies. SOUL are of yw Dy the springs supplies. about the ‘‘ccunty sources condemned vere used. as. privat the town and spring.” Mother of Five at 22. arrival of the stork at the home of Thoma: Pasco at Monessen makes Mrs. Pas coe at the age of 22 the mother five children. Pascoe i worker and emnloyed at of the American Tin Plate The couple were marri vears ago. The children ing and are all healthy Raise Price of County Buriais Fayette county ‘undertak have: ked that ‘the price for burial from the county home be increa frony $15 to $20 for adults, and from $5 1G 212 for infan The board of poor directors has agreed to the increased ate, but first be approve by the court. The girl baby with is Comp: ied are all live, youngsters ny. Severe org ack sea Victims Found. of i.osAnceles, steamer Plank- at Erie and had McAr when the Two Drowning James McArthur Cal... a sailor on: the ington, fell overboard was drowned. Hardly thur's hody heen found body of Charles Engel, New Castle, Pa.. was found floating off the Holl; and street .dogk.. . The bodv hak ge been in the water several days. Irwi history thar 50,060 The outnut the field is unprecedented in the of the region. It estimated the aily output - is nearly tons. . Operators say that the zreat problem getting men. to work ir the mines, and at least 1,000 more miners could find employment in the region. is is Greene nty court. granted a charter to the which has its completed, ana the second W: Jeffer- The 1vN eS burg. son Fair Association, grounds at Jefferson will held the first fair week cof October. Pennsylvania State Sabl Convention will meet in October 9-11. coll yath School Uniontowrr True bills have been brought against almost all the 3lack Hand men in jail at New Castle. Is Poor. inspection of belt ef Peach Crop On his return from a ‘he orchards in the peach Pennsylvania, Secretary of Agricul- ture Martin said that with a con- tinuation of the present weather there would be a betler yield of corn ‘than expected, perhaps (wo thirds of the usual crop. The annual reunion of the Phila- baum family was held at Point Mills, about one hundred and fifty mem- bers from Washington and Greene counties, West Virginia and Easterms Ohio being present.
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