WEE DORIS AND |. We're Jaithiu companions, wee Doris a talk to each other, at least, 80 we try. he uses quaint language when speaking to mc For Doris She's eloquent speech Scarce cver So far How Buch see. and is only a baby, very in you talk, her resembles a yell or a screech, she's ne*er uttered a word, but she Knows to ask for shows flashes her bottle, and often she of wisdom that one would she is inspired with prophecy rare. That and I coun- Doris through On Go © wee reys ons he Sans I push ‘long then try hard to 11 rubles, I . For stre 1 he highest to guide me ‘ul and help spread the paris and Ged, ever st feclings, its joys and —Frederick Hawkins, in Ladies’ World. CO060 i 960000000000000000000000900 “06000 Aunt Sally's Conscience, e000 00023000000 290000000900000 00000 there a better-natured, more tious woman than Aunr Sally Warner, re of Joab Warner, who departed this life after a fall from the roof of his barn. Aunt Sally had no children of her own, but did have half a dozen nieces and nephews, and among the latter the rollicking, frollicking Joe Henderson, who was twenty years old at the time the great calamity. fell upon the house cof War- ner. Reference is not made to the fall from the roof of the barn, but to a cal- amity that overtecck Aunt Sally’s con- science. One day nephew lived five or six miles away, arrived at Aunt Sally's en an errand. She was about to set out for the village of Raw- sonville to do some “trading,” and Joe volunteered to go along as driver of old Rommin. Aunt Sally had not been over that road for a month, and she was surprised to see circus pictures masted up on every barn on the route. Since childhood she had had a fond- ness for circus pictures, but had been brought up to believe that eternal pun- ishment awaited every one who passed the doors of the circus itself. During his lifetime Joab had discharged vari- ous hired men for staying a day off to go to the circus, and he had refused to deal with certain men who had accept- ed free tickets for the privilege of post- fng pictures.on their barns. As the good aunt and her nephew jogged along the dusty highway and came to barn after barn decked out in gayest colors of printer's ink Joe heard her sighing, He didn’t stop to ask himself whether she was sighing that she couldn't attend a circus promising 80 much entertainment, but he forth- with proceeded to concoct a plan. If a single person could conspire it would have heen called a conspiracy as well as a plan. He made no coment on the barcbackederiders, on the wom- en jumping through hoops, or the rhin- oceros grazing along the banks of the African river, and the hyena sneaking about in the Indian thicket. He. just gat still and chuckled, and when he wasn't chuckling he was talking about going to Alaska to dig for gold. When they reached town and found things in a bustle, he had to make some explanations. He explained that an exhibition was to be given that af- ternoon for the Lenefit of the widows and orphans, but he didn't say t00 much. While Aunt Sally was making her purchases the merchant might have referred to the ‘exhibitions’ and called it by some other name if nephew Joe hadn't given him the wink. When ten yards of calico, fifteen of sheeting, and needles had been bought Aunt Sally suddenly remembered something and turned to Joe and said: “If there is anything going on for the benefit of widows and orphans I ought to be interested, being as I am a widow myself. Is it a spelling bee or anything of that sort?” “Oh, no. They have got a tent and a collection of wild animals. It's what you might call a natural history ex- hibition. Did you ever see a live lion or tiger, Aunt Sally?” “No, I never did.” “Ever see an elephant or a zebra er a giraffe?” “No.” “Well, you can see .-. m now and Jelp the widows and the orphans the same time. It's fifty cents apiece, but I've got the money for my ticket.” “But I shall pay for both of us,” re- plied Aunt Sally as she handed over a dollar. “When I set out to do any- thing for the benefit of charity I'm not one to scrimp at it. There won't be any gambling or horse racing, will there?” **Mercy no. be nothing to oft ous. Come on.” They had a quarter of a mile to go to reach the tent, and durinz the walk Aunt Sally was puzzled that so many people should have turned out in the cause of charity. If she had had her glasses on she might have read signs on the gayly painied wagons to arouse suspicion, passed into the tent with the innocence ct a child of five. “It was the menagerie, and nephew Joe guided her around and saw that she missed nothing. It was a real Beat to the woman, and she telt herself growing a bit reckless under her wave of enthusiasm. She ate peanuts and drang len and after taking an- other look at the Bengal , Which bad killed seven men and was anxious Never was conscien was Joe, whose parents The bill says there will end the most fastidi- but she tiger | he wouldn't have | money. We came. 3 to finish off seven more as soon as po sible, she said: ‘Joe, this is real nice, and I'm glad What are the folks going in- to that other tent for?” “Oh, that's part of the show, you know, There are folks who don’t care to look at wild animals, and so they have some riding and tumbling in there for them.” “But why “We can, more.” can't we see it?” and it won't cost a cent and How They went in and found seats, the circus performance opened. was the guileless Aunt Sally to tell that it was a circus? It was her first attendance, and she never even had a performance described to her. grinned from the time :the clown first appeared, and the hurdle jumping and bareback riding brought *‘Ohs,” and “Ahs!’’ from ‘her --until everyhody around her was delighted. She bought lemonade and peanuts every time the boy came along, and-when the perfor- mance at last was over she said to her nephew: “Joe, 1 could go to such a show every day in the week and not see enough. I don’t know who got it up for the ben- efit of the widows and orphans, but I'm telling you he was a mighty sensible feller. If it had been a husking “bee taken in half the If you hear of any more shows | like it ‘this summer you let me know, | and we'll go.’ Something really new had come into Aunt Sally's life, and she talked of it all the way: home. Joe left her to do most of the talking. He was now pre- paring for the impending calamity. It came within fifteen minutes of their arrival home. Mrs. Bronson, a neighbor, was at the house on an er- rand, and as soon as Aunt Sally be- gan to describe the show given for the | benefit of the widows and orphans the cat | Aunt Sally of the bag. know what Warner?” asked in serious tones. “Why, I've had a good time. “Yes, you've had a good time, but was out “Do you you've done, the caller 3 | you are going to pay an awful price for it. 1 wouldn’t be in your shoes for all | the money this side of Jericho.” “But. what do you mean? Isn't it | everybody's duty to help the widows and orphang?” “Not if it's zoing to send your soul to the bad place. Aunt Sally, you've been to a circus!” “No, I haven't! 1 wouldn't go to a circus for a thousand dollars, and you know it.” “You've been to a circus—a regular circus—with all its wickedness, and Low on earth you are ever going to get forgiveness for it is more than I can say.’ Nephew Joe was called in from the barn and the matter put to him, and he had to acknowledge he had worked a plot. “I never would have believed it of you—never wailed Aunt Sally. “To think that one of my own kith and kin would take me to a circus and make me lose my chance of going to heav- ent’ ? ‘But the animals interested you.” ‘Yes, they aid.” “And you liked the peanuts and lem- “Alas, but I did!” ‘And you thought the clown funny and the riding good.” “Heaven forgive me, but I did!” “Well, I don't see where the kick comes in. 1 don’t believe you are any wickeder than before.” But Aunt Sally could not be com- forted. Her conscience was roused and she could eat no supper. She thought of the two-horned rhinoceros and the girl who jumped through hoops, and hid her face. She had an accusing night of it and never shut her eyes, and early the next morning she walked over to the house of the vil- lage minister and told him. He asked many questions in a kind way, and when he had got root of the matter he said: “Well, nephew was sister Warner, being as your deceived you and being as there were animals and peanuts and lemonade, and being as there might not be another circus along here for five years, I think the Lord will let you off this time, but if your hired man plays dancing tunes on his fiddle ycu | feet and don’t let them get | watch your to shufling.”— American Cultivator. Skillful Gen. Leuis Berta, alry in the Ptalian army, is one of the finest horsemen in Europe. The Gen- eral has trained man and horse to negotiate serious obstacles and to ar- rive at such a pitch of per. =ction that there is hardly any tacle which can not be overcome. Chief ariong these conquered diffi- culties are the now famous ‘giis sades,” or slides down steep slopes made with such astonishing success by the Cavalry School of Tor Quinto at Rome. After having. ex- cited the wonder and applause of all sportsmen, civil and military, these glissades have taken their place among the regulation exercises of foreign cavalry schools. Not only does tie General hin perfor the glissades thus made so popular a part of his system but he Las a daughter, Mille. Inez Berta, an accom- plished horsewoman, who can do the glissades as well as her father or any cavalryman in the Italian army.—- l.ondon Daily Graphic. European Horseman. inspector of cav- cL wll he and important Fired Sometimes, Probably. “Your husband, has he any aim in fe? “Why, 1 sk?” “My .i 2d."—Hcusicn don’t know; why do you and says he is alwa Post. ays load- She’ the art of back peddling; the use of the brake, the } ! looked upon as leaders: de Tre Bicvelz & Causes of Its Fall and Rules for Its Proper and Healthful Use. i Envir By Frank HEN Dame a whcel. Sargent Grant, M. D. Amman approval all the world When later the self-same arbitrary lady frowned upon newly found means of exercise out of doors, her devoted slaves forthwith dropped their steel steeds like so many hot cakes and consigned them to the dark cellar. Another reason why the bicycle fell irom popularity was on account of its abuse. The sport was wrongly bezun, soon overdone, and the reaction inevitably followed. It quite characteristic of the Americans to take hold of any good thing and make the most of it—indeed, very often, the worst of It. In-the first place, riding schools was radically WIong. : Pupils were taught in a few hours or a few 1 ssons how to: niount, Yalinee. gain confidence and then roll around in a circle from right to left rarely re- versing the action, until they could do this unassisted, Then they were pro- nounced adepts, graduated and sent out on the road. Not an examination was made as to the physicdl fitness of the pupil, not a lesson was given in the various mounts and dismounts, correct position of the handle bars, proper haéight and shape of the saddle, and the suitable gear, the rules of the road—in short, complete control and management of the wheel. Reckless riding, brakeless wheels and indifference to the ruies of have been largely responsible for the present apathy and dislike of the on the public highways the lovers of the horse, Another abuse of the wheel was overtaxation of individual power or mus- cular strength. The perfect, up-tc-date safety provides - us with an ideal means of carrying the dead weight of the body with the least expenditure. of muscular ‘effort. Because one, however, can cover a number. of miles, say twenty-five, after a little practice without apparent fatigue, that is why one should do so. Do not exact from a wheel more than you frecm a horse. : So many rode Fachion nodded her Lhls » is on the the road bicycle by reason “expect no ride beyond return trip. and later in- who took up cycling overdid the thing. They would the limits of their physical endurance, never counting on their Injury rather than a benefit {o health followed in consequence, difference and disgust for the pastime. Indulged in moderation there is no form of exercise so pleasant and so healthful to both mind and body as.a mount on a good wheel. If the following suggestions were faithfully observed, the writer the interest in cycling wouid again be revived and would come to First. Do no! wheel before getting a medical opinion &s to your physical condition and fitness, Second. lL.earn to ride properly before taking to the road. Third. Sce that your wheel is equipped with some form of reliable brake. Abandon high gears. Fourth. Learn to-use and not abuse this wonderful invention and grace- ful means of ioconiotien. Fifth. Never exceed never for records, Sixth. Be considerate and thoughtful of women and children, beast and fellow wheelers when out on the road Strictly follow the the road and compel others to do the same. believes stay. Pas, rige a and thoroughly to control your whecl vour. strengtn. Ride for health and recreation, man and rules of For Profit— Above All Men Ground Between Economic Conditions and Social Aspirations. By L. Julian McIntyre, in the Ey New York Times. Om anprremninids TY] LTHOUGH the captured, and sone unsavory revelations made of his life, force of vour article on “Low salaries and thrift” is nothing = l¢ss- ened. The only fault to be found with that artiele is that it treats of effects only and does not go into the cause of the described. Buauks, like all other business insti tutions, are conducted jor profit. The managers are empleved to create dividends for the owners, not to look after the well-being of their subordinates. Thus the prov- ations have no souls.” A clerk may subsist on bread and water, in a hovel, and send his children hungry to school; so much the better, for then he can work cheaper and coin more profit for his masters. Profit is the king, or rather the god, of this world, and a jealous god at that, who will have no other gods before him. A man may wish to worship a home, family, children, books, art, music, anything. But the god profit says: “No! I am the first. Before me all must bow on pain of poverty, misery, loneliness, degrada- tion and despair. The earth is mine and the fullness thereof. Do my bidding or be a wanderer in a strange land, with no part or portion therein.” The whole power of our business institutions is used to press the workers down to the bare cost of subsistence. And the whole power of our social in- stitutions is used tc force them to imitate those more fortuately situated. Whaever. sandard of living set up by the rich, that will be the standard to which all men will aspire. Between those two opposing forces, therefore, it is little that many come to grief. Every student of current events is convinced that these conditions cannot continue indefinitely. Men will tire of the constant struggle between low wages on the one hand and an ever-rising standard of living on the other. Perhaps some of your readers may be able to suggest a solution. of) pn fp & Too Many “Good Citizens’ By William Allen White. OO often our schools been yet the bank clerk Runyan has conditions erh, live “Corpor wonder and colleges turn out nothing more considerable than good citizens. Your good citizen obeys the laws, conforms to the amenities, worships whatever God there be, and lets it go at that. He does not get under the load of the world and lift. He is a dummy director who fails to realize tnat he is a partner in the injustices of this life. He does not see that until he turns out to the caucuses and primaries and conventiens and mass-meetings and makes his protest felt. The thieves that inhabit the Jericho road will keep right on assailing the weak, robbing the poor and threatening welfare of society. One of the curses of this country is the izens’ who, because they have book learning and well fitting clothes, are Better is a government of stable boys following sin- cerely and seriously the light God gives them than a council of “good citizens” adoring yesterday and afraid of nothing so much as the dawn of tomorrow, large class of so-called ‘‘good cit- Educational Progress. South By Professor Samuel C. Mitchell, of Richmond College. along three different HE Scuth is advancing educationally lines—in education of the neglected white children in the democratizing of the ideals of the higher institutions of learning, and in the training of the negroes. The school is within the reach of every negro child. Upon these schools the South has expended since the war perhaps as much as While the ‘negh hould be encouraged to every avenue of life for which their talents fit them, it is, nevertheless, true that the great masses of this race will find their surest opportunities upon the farm. They need to be moralized. threefold alvanc2%fipon the part of the South constitutes one of the fin- has seen, and should enlist the 3130.000,000. enler Yi «i313 est experiments in education which mankind sy. pathetic co-operaticn of the whole nation. the method of instruction as carried out in nearly all the KEYSTONE STATE COLLINS ATTACK ON © COURT DECISION Solicitor for Philadelphia County Files Exceptions to Ruling in Two-Cent Fare Case. Gendell filed in Com- mon Pleas Court at Philadelphia, a bill of exceptions to the decision of Judges Willson, Audenried and Carr in the case of the Pennsvlvania Rail- road Co. azainst Philadelphia county to test the constitutionality of the two-cent rate law The court set Saturday, Sept. 21, to hear the arecu- ment on the bill of exceptions. : The ~bill avers thé ‘court in decision erred in 63 particulars, cf these being the court's dismiss the bill. Among the exceptions. taken by the defendant's attorney is that the rul ing of the court that public service corperations in Pennsvlvania are en- titled to look ‘for a rate of returns, if their property wil earn it, of not less the legal of interest; and a system -of charges that yields no mere income than is fairly regui- site to maintain the plant, pay fixed charges, operating expenses, pro- vide a suitable sinking fund for the rayment of debts, and pay. a fair profit to the owners of the property, cannot be said to be unreasonable. "ren that exception on through the entire adjudication of the court, exceptions: were: nade | to almost every paragraph. The bill covers 28 pages of closely. typewritten mat- ter. It'is ned by A. W. Crawford, City Sclicitor J. Howard Gendell, As- sistant City Solicitor E. Luwengrund and MM. Hampton Todd, attorneys for the defendants. SENTENCED AT BUTLER. City Solicitor this refusal . to rate 4 [3% 1 PR aila Black Hand Onerator Given Five Years' Solitary Confinement. Judge James M. Galbreath of But- ler sentenced Dominico = Zonzotti, who pleaded guilty to cutting with intent to maim, to five years solitary confinement and to pay $1,000 fine. Zonzotti lived in Hillsville, headquar- ters. of the lawrence County Black Hand. At the direction of a Black Hand leader he attacked Antonio Pas- quale with a razor. In passing sentence Judge Crisswell said: “A man who is weak enough or wicked enough to lend himself as a tool to such a society is all but equally as guilty as though he had himself deliberately planned the crime.” $2,000. 000 TO MASONS Former Grand Lodge Treasurer Leaves All to Male Orphans. Under the will of the late Thomas R. Patton, treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Pennsylvania, his entire estate, valued at $2,000,000, is devised to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, for the education and support of male orphans of Master Masons. Peter Boyd, an attorney, is made sole executor. Twenty Years Each for Firebugs. Twenty vears in the penitentiary was the sentence pronounced at Al- lentown on Robert Hartsell, who pleaded guilty to 23 charges of arson and theft. Hartse!l, with Daniel J. Adams, was arrested recently, charged with setting on fire three business places in Allentown, caus- ing a loss $100,000. Adams was tried at Easton for arson committed in Northampton county and also re- ceived a sentence -of 20 years. Hart- sell was sentenced on only four charges, the Court holding the other cases open against him. Fair Ground for Park. A deal was put through here at Washington whereby local business men secure control of the old Wash- ington Fair grounds, which will be turned into an amusement park. A three-year lease on the property was taken, with the option of purchasing it for $30,000 The old race track, a half mile course, will be shaped up and the work of installing various amusements commenced. It is the intention to hold big race meets each year. New Coke Dvens Planned. William A. Wilson and Jacob U. Kuhns of Greensburg, who recently optioned 1.000 acres of the Thaw tract in the Connellsville coke re- gion, have let a contract to H. Frank Stark of Greensburg, for the con- struction of 108 coke oven#4 near Hecla. A shaft 280 feet deep will be sunk on the Emanuel Snyder farm. When the coal is more fully developed 500 ovens will be built. While playing with a revolver, John B .Horton, 6 years old of Wash- ington, accidentally shot and killed his b5-vear-old friend, Robert L. Don- aldson. The boys had been playing “Holdup.” destroyed the tipple, elevator and other shore works at the Pike mine of the Peoples Coal Company at Brownsville, causing a loss of about $20,000. It is supposed that sparks from a pump boat caused the fire. Fire hundred home persons attended services of the encampment of Central Pennsyl- Fifteen the harvest forty-seventh annual the Grangers of vania at Bellefonte. Plague of Caterpillars. Travelers in the Wodonga and Bar- nawartha districts find it difficult (writes the London Mail's Melbourne correspondent) to get their horses tg face the caterpillars that swarm the country ads. They are denuding vegetation, and it"3s feared the vine- vards will be devastated. An excur sion : train, -when seven miles from Penshurst, was brought to a stand still threcugh dense masses of the in- sects blocking the rails. The wheeis, crushing them to death, skidded from the rails.~—New York World. chief- GIRL ASKS BIG DAMAGES Minister's Daughter Plaintiff In a Breach of Promise Suit. $50,000 damages for breach of promise to marry was filed at Uniontown on hehalf of Miss Merce d2s Gladden, daughter of Rev. W. H. Gladden of Youngstown, 0O., against I. C. Smutz, a business man of New Haven, Pa. It is claimed by the plaintiff she had promised to marry Smiitz, and they had agreed on Wednesday, Sept. 11, as the date for the wedding at the bride's home. She says the arrangements were all made, many of the wedding presents received and some of the guests had arrived at Youngstown. On .the day bafore the intended ceremony, the plaintiff” charges; she received a tele- gram frem. Smutz notifying her that he ‘could not he present and breaking off the engagement. She a let- fellowed in which Smptz admit- he had done her an injury. but no reason for his action. Smuts, widower, is not at home. He - supposed to be in Michigan. Suit for Says gave LEFT HIM KNIFE AND FORK Civeorce Cefendant Accuses Wife of Making Clean “Sweep. In ‘his ans his wife for non-support, Hanover county, against Strain sell his the money to self penniless: him frequently to cock vent him Strain wer to a suit brought by divorce on the ground of Thomas R. Strain of township, Washington makes unusual charges his wife. declares he was farm of 127 acres his wife, Ik that. the with a meals and from cooking says his wife corn and farming fuel; that she left ago, taking with her all the furniture which he had bought. leaving him nothing but a knife and fork, and de- stroying such things did not wish tc take away with forced to and give ‘aving him- woman beat poker. refused tried to pre- any himself. burned up his implements for him a few weeks 118 che her, as BREAKFAST FOODS NEXT Pure Food People Want Just What Is in Them. Dairy and : Food Commissioner Foust has sent to: Prof. Frank Frear samples of brands of breakfast and other patent foods for analysis. These samples were taken as the result of an agitation which was be- gun some time ago to know what was in them. The samples were secured all over the state, every known brand being taken. Prof. Frear will ascer- tain if they are true to name, if chemicals are used. whether they are bleached and what they. contain. This will elear up questions of what breakfast foods are made of and if cornstalks are used in some of the patent foods. GAS HEARING SEPT. 30 Philadelphia Co. Charter Fight Date 4 Fixed by Todd. The hearing on the application of te city of Pittsburg for a writ of ‘luo warranto to declare the charter of the Philadelphia Company null and void on account of the alleged exorbitant price of gas will be held before Attorney General. Todd on Sept. 30. to Learn — “0 Bids Highway is asking for bids struct the new state road from Irwin to the Allegheny county line near McKeesport. This will give the peo- ple of Pittsburg a new route over the pike eastward and will cut off the big Turtle Creek hill on the pres- ent = route. The project includes macadamizing the pike from Irwin to Circleville, one of the worst stretch- es of road in Western Pennsylvania. Are Asked. State Comn Hunter iissioner to con- Largest Mennonite Bequest. The will of Adam Landis of Lan- caster county, who committed suicide a week ago by hanging himself in his barn, because of ill-health, leaves £100,000 to the old Mennonite home at Oreville, Lancaster county. It is the largest bequest ever made to a Mennonite institution anywhere. Blame Brakeman for Wreck. The coroner's jury investigating the wreck of two engines in the Pennsylvania yards at Altoona, in which Engineer Kinch was killed and two other trainmen were seriously injured, placed the responsibility upen Brakeman W. B. McCartney. The testimony showed that McCart- ney threw a switch without orders. C. O. Dillenbeck of Stratton- was replenishing his automobile tank with gasoline, when the fluid ig- nited from the heat of the machine, and his right arm was so burned that amputation was necessary. Dr. ville Jones was acquitted at Som- erset of the murder of George Spi- VOK. He was charged with murder by Spivok's wife and admitted that he kiled Spivok in self-defense on May 26 last. Henry Harnett station, on the Bessemer railroad, was burned. The blaze was caused by a defective lamp that ex- pleded. Frank Fingleman, the night operator, was severely burned before he could escape. A new postoffice has lished at Manifold, the new mining town in South Strabane township, Washington county. G. M. Dodd is named as postmaster. > been estab- Uniontown council has adopted a motion to exclude newspaper report- ers from meetings of ccuncil. Styles in women's clothes in Japan have not changed in 2,500 years, avers the Kansas City Star. What a snap the editions of the Japanese fashion magazines must have!