THE IMMORTALS. The ringers of the world, ah, who are they? Those who have put away All hope of gain and rulership and place 0 go. despised, on the unending chase After high Beauty, following where she rans— Beauty in twilights, stars and moons and suns; Beauty in capes; Beauty 1m dawns and midnights and cloud- shapes; Beauty in snowdrifts. pools, and rushing storms; Beauty in laughter and in living forms— Onward, unresting, over crag and stream Chasing the fiying dream, Till the white equities of moon and star, Sowing their light afar, Lead on their feet to ‘kingdoms waiting long, - ; Where, young forever, dwell they: glad with song. sea-wings flashed above gray The poets of the earth, {hey cannot perish. Their music men will cherish; Their songs build dawn as the large suns grow light. They are the morning-makers of our night, Great kings of melody forever hymning Beauty and love, with jocund eyes clear brimming. - The races rise and rule and pass, but they, Immutable and glad, like strong gods, stay cool, green places where the ‘years are of lovers young; ‘And hold the : they've sung. hearts Deathless, though petual youth, And Beauty know as Truth; =~ Priests of white hope they urge men’s souls still on : To tracts of fairer dawn: 'And it is always April where they wait. Secure in morn that nevermore grows strains dead, they have per- late. —Charles J. O'Malley, in The Century. 9009056659009 o HER ¢ ® DILEMMA ® $ rh @ 9950506000609 Dearest Bettina: This must be a short letter, but I need ‘your advice, and I need it ‘quick. Please tele- graph your answer. No, on second thought, that won't do. But write by return mail. a I'm having a glorious time in the country, after all. My uncle has a beautiful home, with a regular park for a yard, and his big house has all the comforts and none of the dis- comforts of a steam-heated flat. Bar- bara Morgan and her husband are here, and little Cousin Isabel has a boarding school chum visiting her, and Dr. Burt almost lives here while his wife's away, and last week Paul Herrick came out for a few days. It’s a regular house party, you see, and everybody back riding. My uncle David hates automobiles, and everytime one of his rich neighbors gets a new one he goes and buys nother horse, zo there are mounts ior us all. You ought to have seen us last week, gal- loping over these country roads. Well, to get to the point. Uncle David went to town last Saturday and we promised him that a mounted escort of at least six should accom- pany his carriage when it came to the station to meet him that after- noon. It’s about two miles from the house. Then a storm came up—a howling wind and rain—and Barbara was for backing out. She’s so dif- ferent from what she was before she got married! But Paul and I wanted to go, so at last we started out—Bab and her husband, Isabel and Dr. Burt, and Paul and I. You ought to have seen us—all tagged for the rain! I had on a coat and cap of my Cousin Jack's. But caps wouldn't stay on, so we put them into our pockets. Then Bar- bara’s hair came down, completely— such hair, Betsy!—and every hairpin was lost. It was a terrible wind, of course, but I can’t help thinking that Barbara made the most of it. She knew very well that she looked like an October magazine cover, with all that goldy-brown mass of hair flying. ‘ She made the conventional fuss— said she couldn't go another step and all that. Then Dr. Burt asked if she'd go provided Isabel and I would let down our hair, too. Well, Bab said she would. I do think a girl might be past such tricks after she’s married—though, of course, as far as ‘she knew—well, anyway, You can imagine how I felt, Betsy. _ Little Isabel naturally didn’t mind. She shook out her short pigtails without a murmer, But I said “No.” That was the signal for mischief. Paul didn’t do anything—only hung back and looked worried — but Dr. Burt and Mr. Morgan rode up along- side my pony, and the more I in- sisted that I wouldn't take down my hair, the more they insisted that I should. And such impertinent jokes! Dr. Burt kept asking me if there was anything I'd iike to slip quietly into his pocket. He said his wife wore one, and he knew all about it. Then they all shouted except Paul. At last Mr. Morgan had th: effron- tery to begin pulling out my hair- pins, and Dr. Burt was starting to help him when I got on my dignity. I told them I could do it—rather than disappoint Uncle David—if Bar- bara insisted, but that I should do it myself. Then I ordered those two married meu to ride ahead with their own companions, and I did it in a way that made them go! That left Paul with me, poor boy! He was trying so hard to look indifferent. Well, I put up both hands and caréfully extracted all the pins, hold- ing the coil of hair right in the place until the last instant. Then I said, “Oh, see Isabel's horse!” While Paul” vas looking at the horse I let my hair drop over my. left shoulder, and, at the same in- stant, ran my hand swiftly down its length into the wide pocket of the coat I was wearing, where I left my hairpins and—well, you know, is crazy over horse- It was the neatest thing! In the wink of an eye, that unsuspecting Paul was looking at me again, and there I was, calmly shaking out my mane, and pinning the pocket shut with a hatpin. You know my hair doesn’t look so sparse when its down, Betsy. It’s only when it's up that it needs the extra braid so much. It's rather short, to be sure, but it has a kink and a fluffiness that help. Anyway, both those married men were perfectly crest. fallen when they glanced back. You'd think they had counted on seeing me baldheaded after my topknot was down. But Paul looked perfectly happy. We rode like mad after that, not to miss the train, and our hair streamed out behind like the hero- ine’s in a novel, and—well, if my checks were half as red or my eyes half a shiny as Bab’s and Isabel's were, I can’t blame Paul very much for acting like a goose and calling me “gypsy queen’ and such names. But, Betsy, from that hour things got serious. I put him off as long as I could, and ‘then there came a time - : Now, I don’t know what to do. For I can’t help knewing that mat- ters were precipitated by that episode of the hair. reason for telling my secrets to Mr. Morgan and’ Dr. Butt, Paul migh think he had been deceived. . You're the only one who knows, Betsy, and. I'd never have told you if you hadn’t had to ‘go with me to match the color. You remember, yourself, that it wasn't a large one, but of course Paul couldn’t be ex- pected to discriminate about that. You see, I want to be strictly honor- able and yet—oh, dear! Ought I tell him, and will it make a difference in his feelings if I do, and, if I don’t, will it make a differ- ence in his felings later? : Another thing: I can’t think it will come to this, but if I should have | and my | to choose between Paul switch, what in the world can I do? Your anxious Peggy.—Chicago Daily News.. A Tribute to the Egg. By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. ‘We have crossed the Bosphorus and bade farewell to Asia, within whose | borders we have spent about seven months. They have been wonderfully instructive months, and we have en- joyed the experiences through which we have passed, but we cannot say. that we have fallen in love with Asia- tic food. We have been afraid of the vegetables;. we have distrusted the water, unless it was boiled, and we have sometimes been skeptical about the meat. The butter has not always looked inviting, and our fond- ness for cream has not been increased by the sight of the goats driven from door to door and milked in the pres- ence of the purchaser. The ‘bread was not a rival of the Vienna bread, and the cooking has not been up to Western standards. But the hen— long life to her. She has been our constant friend. When all else has failed we could fall back upon the boiled egg with a sense of security and a feeling of satisfaction. If I am not henceforth a poultry fancier in the technical sense of the term, I shcll return with an increased re- spect for the common, every-day barnyard fowl. There are many dif- ferences between the East and the West—adifferences in race character- istics, differences in costur:es, differ- ences in ideals of life, of government, and of religion, but we all meet at the breakfast table—the egg, like “a touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” re i aE Rap at the “Yellows.” The University Magazine, published at Montreal, pays its respects to ‘The American Newspaper,’ ridiculing es- pecially the stock highfalutin phrases that, like a journalese revival of eighteenth century tags, do duty for the simplest objects, and the sporting humor. The article concludes with prophecy: There are signs that the people are tired of the farce, and that soon the lights will be out and the audience gone home. All art passes through this stage. In the early days of the vaudeville a negro and a flapstick were considered sufficient for an evening's entertainment, Towards the finish of the programme one got tired. But the average newspaper writer is the last man in the world to discern the hopeful end. The reporter of the baseball game con- tinues his buffoonery every morning, repeating his -jargon which was already tiresome, when Kelly slid and Casey went to the -bat. The sporting editor yet ‘breezes’ his horses, “works” them ‘on the flat,” or “lifts” them “over the timber.” His pugilists are as of old time ‘“glut- tons for punishment,” and their ‘blows will not be denied.” All sen- sible persons must yearn for the time when the ‘yellow metal” will have disappeared, when the ‘fiery ele- ment’ will be quenched, when the ‘palatial hostelries” closed, when the ‘speckled beauties’ will have van- ished with the other members of the “finny tribe,” and the ‘kings’ of cotton, lumber and wheat will have gone with the ‘“‘merchant princes” to their own place. Sword of King Behanzin. Behanzin, King of Dahomey, has presented his sword to the French Minister for the Colonies. The weap- on was purchased years ago at a theatrical costumer’s by an explorer, who afterward gave it to Behanzin. The King ordered the court armorer to make a sheath for it ont of empty sardine cans, and wore it until quite recently.—London Even- | ing Standard. While I don’t see any | ‘must go hungry for meat. WHAT MADE Yow . JUMP IN IF woVU COULDNT swim! — Week's cleverest cartoon by Brewerton, in the Atlanta Journal DAY OF CHEAP MEAT IS OVER Recording to Statistics, a Large Part of the Population Will Have fo Do Without It “People Eat Less and Less—-On!y 59.3 as Much Per Capita as in 1840--Many Causes Contribute to This Condition, ‘Washington, D. C.—=That a time is rapidly coming when a large part of the population of this country must go without meat, just as many of the poor do in other countries, is the fact pointed to in a report on meat supply and surplus, which has recently been published by direction of Sec- retary Wilson, and which was written by George K. Holmes, chief of the division of foreign markets of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Holmes does not assert that the day is near when many Americans The facts he has set forth, however, have at- tracted much notice among high officials of the Department of Agriculture. They admit that his statistics -tend to show a growing meat scarcity with higher meat prices. Nothing is more common in these days of prosperity than the remark that every one is eating more meat. This is not the case, according to Mr. Holmes. He has made a searching analysis of the census and other figures on meat supply, surplus and the like, and finds the stock of meat animals in the country diminishing relative to the population and the consumption per capita declining. y Instead of considering cattle, sheep and swine the principal food ani- mals, separately, Mr. Holmes, for comparative purposes, has considered them as merged into a composite animal. He finds that there was 1.043 of a composite meat animal per capita of population in 1840. The ratio declined to .860 of a composite animal in 1860, to .838 in 1880, rose to .900 in 1890, but fell more decidedly to .709 of a composite animal per in- dividual of population in 1900. In other words, by the late enumeration there was in the country about .7 of a composite animal per capita and nearly 50 per cent. more than that in 1840. But the consumption per capita is much below the stock per capita. It is shown that exports of meat and its products, especially since 1880, have increased enormously. With a lower supply of meat animals in the country per capita than formerly and with exports of meat growing, the tendency is for the consumption of meat at home to grow less and less. Taking 1840 for comparison and placing the ratio of the consumption of meat animals to population then at 100, the ratio falls to 72.4 in 1880, followed by a rise to 79.4 in 1830, and by a great fall, to 59.3 in 1900. In other words, compared with 1840, each individual in the country is, on the average, eating about three-fifths as much meat. From 1890 to 1900 the domestic consumption stock of meat animals declined almost exactly one-fourth per capita of the population. At the Department of Agriculture there is going on a good deal of study of Mr. Holmes’ report, with a view to ascertaining how his facts bear on the present high prices of meat. One of the foremost officials of the department, who has been looking into the meat situation with care, said; that the inevitable conclusion was that this country had seen the last of ‘low meat prices; that the tendency of the future would be for meat prices to rise even higher than they were now; that the amount of meat per ‘capita in the country would keep growing lower as the population in- creased, and consequently that prices would tend upward, and that more and ‘more the family of small means would have to go without meat, using it much more seldom than at present. This official also pointed out that the difficulty of getting farm help was constantly growing, but that the population of the country was con- stantly enlarging. This means a less number of live stock relatively and mote people to make a demand on the supply. In addition, high meat prices abroad are drawing an increasing export of meat and meat products away from the country. - WOMAN POSED AS MAN FOR 60 YEARS Once Lived as a Husband, and Only Revealed Secret Just Before Death—-Ranchman and Bank Clerk—-Coming to America From France, She Found She Could Get Work Best in Male Attire, Trindad, Col.— Charles Vaubaugh, alias Katherine Vosbaugh, a woman who for sixty years passed as a married man, and was a bank clerk and sheep herder, died at San Rafael Hospital from old age. She was born in France eighty-three years ago, and came to America when eighteen years of age, relying upon her own energies to make her living. She found that she was greatly handicapped because of her sex. After wandering around the country for two years as a woman she adopted male garb and applied for a man's pogition. She obtained employment in Joplin, Mo., and worked there as a bookkeeper for several years. All this time she kept her secret, and no one doubted that she was a She possessed an excellent education, and while she was in doplin She ac- man. she was offered a position in a St. Joseph (Mo.) banking house. cepted this, going to St. Joseph before she was thirty years of age. A few months later a young woman of that town was deserted by the man who had promised to marry her. Miss Vosbaugh sought her out, pro- posed marriage and was accepted. To this girl Miss Vosbaugh divulged her sex on a Bible pledge that she would never reveal the secret. After their marriage they came to Trinidad and opened a restaurant. A year or two afterward the ‘‘wife’’ disappeared. The “husband’’ declared he had been deserted and refused to make any effort to find her. Miss Vosbaugh received more or less sympathy at the time, but the incident was soon forgotten. : Tiring of city life and always fearing her secret would be discovered, Miss™ Vosbaugh forty years ago sought employment at the Sam Brown ranch, near Trinchera. She asked for work as a sheep herder, and this was given to her. Later, when she knew that her sex could not be discov- ered except by the greatest of accidents, she accepted work as a camp cook. She remained at the Sam Brown ranch until two years ago, when she was brought to San Rafael Hospital here to spend her last days. Even here she protected her secret, refusing to take a bath until she was assured by the sisters at the hospital that she could do so without the presence of attendants. Some time later she contracted a severe cold that threatened to de- velop into pneumonia. Dr. T. J. Forham said it would be necessary for “Mr. Vosbaugh’’ to partially remove his clothing for an examination. Fearing she would die, Miss Vosbaugh at last reluctantly consented, and then, with tears welling in her eyes and coursing down h®r wrinkled cheeks, she called for the sister in charge and parted with her secret for the second time in sixty years. i Insane Soldiers From Philippines Will Be Brought to Washington. San Francisco.—Seventeen insane Viceroy Lord Minto Says It is Im- possible to Ignore India's Unrest. Simla, India. — The Legislative Couneil adopted a bill designed to | patients, belonging to the United prevent seditious gatherings. It em- | States Army, who were brought powers the provincial authorities to | from the Philippine Islands to the prohibit public meetings. | Presidio General Hospital, will be Lord Minto, the Viceroy, in =a | taken to the Army Hospital for the speech in support of the bill, said it | Insane at Washington. Colonel Geo. was impossible to ignore the warn- | H. Torney, Deputy Surgeon-General, ings of recent months—the riots; the | will have charge of them. insults to Europeans, and the at- A car has been especially arranged tempts to inflame racial feeliff, __ ! for the convenience of the patients. ~ PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS BLOW UP SCHOOL HOUSE Union Wcerkmen Believed to Be at Bottom of Plot to Destroy Building. Germantown was shaken as by an earthquake at 3 o'clock in the morn- ing when the Charles W. Henry public scheol building, © ~aring com- pletion at Greene and Carpenter stree{s, was wrecked - by an explo- sion of dynamite from within, and several residences and other proper- ties in its vicinity were damaged. There were three distinct detona tions at intervals of perhaps a ute, and the discoveries subsequently made by the police show that to destroy the school house, on which nearly $100,000 has been spent, and which was to have been completed in time for the opening of the next term. ‘ It is believed that worKmen who were dissatisfied because cof the em- ployment of non-union men on building, were.at the bottom of the plot to destroy the school. "he dam- age will amount to about $15,000. BABES DIE IN FLAMES Two Children Lost in Fire While the Mother Looks On. Ethel and Esther Mortin, aged spectively 3 and. 2 years, daughters cof Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Mortin,- were burned to death in a fire which total- ly destroyed their home, located at Carttown, a short distance from Du- bris. : SEE : The origin, of the fire is unknown, and when discovered the building was a mass of flames. The little ‘girls were asleep in an upper room, and it was impossible to reach them; they being burned to death ‘before the very eyes of their mother, who was at a neighbor's house when the fire started. CRAZY IN LARGE FIGURES Stranger Tries to Draw $100,000 Out of Bank. A well dressed stranger into the Freeport bank nounced to Cashier Johnson had come to draw $50,000 woman of Millerstown, Butler ty, had deposited for him. To humor the man, Johnson him to bring the woman here sign the papers. The stranger he would. He turned up later and said that he had made a mistake in the ‘amount. It was $100,000, and he would like to have it. He was again put off. The man is®being watched as he is apparently unbalanced men- tally. stepped and an- that he coun- told 10 said Insect Pest Inspectors. Twenty-one inspectors have appointed by State Zoologist Surface to carry on their fall campaign against insect pests. They will give practical demonstrations from now until spring. the work will result beneficially to the farmers and fruit growers. The western inspectors and territory fol- low: J. W. Cox, New Wilmington, I.awrence and Mercer counties; RB. F. Lee, Bedford, Bedford, Blair and Fulton counties; Frank Evans City, Venango and counties; G. W. Hoop, Indiana, Indi- ana, Armstrong and Jefferson coun- ties. Makes Gold from Silver. Under the caption “Truth,” J. Em- ory Byram, select councilman from the Twenty-third ward, Philadelphia, has put out a circular that after years of research he has found the philosophers stone and {is gold. in silver into transmuted prepared to turn Even copper can be the same way, and a big factory is | made | being paid for with gold he from pure silver. Conspiracy Charged. Oliver P. Piper, cashier of the Peo- ples Bank of California, which clos- ed, was lodged in the county jail, charged with conspiracy and embez- zlement. Piper's bond was fixed at $25,000. Wm. L. Lenhart of Browns- ville, also arrested, gave $25,000 bail, and was released. The bail of each was at first fixed at $75,000, but lat- er reduced. The bank's losses are es- timated at $75,000. Wrote Letters to Juryman. the court at Waynesburg Jas. Hennen, a merchant of Freeport, Greene county, was fined 25 and costs for tampering with the grand jury: Hennen had a friend on the August jury, and he wrote a letter to this friend relative to a case in which Hennen was interested. The letter was turned over to the District At- torney. In Trolley Line to Haul Freight. The Washington & Canonsburg Railway Company will place an ex- press car on its line between Wash- ington and Canonsburg on November 18, and will then haul light freight and express goods. A similar service will be installed on burg as soon as the road pleted. is com- Hcuse 150 Years Old Burned. A large frame house, owned by Spencer Brock, at Zediker, Washing- ton county, caught fire from a defect- ive flue, and burned, entailing a loss of $3,000. The house was 150 years old and a landmark in Washington county. Girl Killed by Train. Miss Margaret Carl, daughter of Martin Carl, was instantly killed by a coal train on the Chartiers Valley railroad at Hill station. The train crew did not know of the accident, and her mangled body was found be- side the track by the station agent. Woman Shot. Mrs. Sarah E. Gregg, 68 years old, was accidentally shot in the right side by Thomas Reeser, 18 years old, at her home at Lemoyne. Reeser was returning from a hunting trip. Mrs. Gregg’'s injuries are serious. . min- | the | . outrage was a clearly designed plot] the | 4 Bank re- | which a | been | Prof. Surface believes | McClure, | Butler announcing | the line to Pitts- | | RINEHART PROPERTY IS SOLD | { Major Portion “Bought In” by Form: | er Cashier and Friends. At the suit of the Rices Landing ‘National Bank to recover en a claim of $6,000, the personal property of J.B. F.: Rinehart, tormer cashier of the Farmers & Drovers National Bank ef Waynesburg, was sold af sheriff's: sale. The sale was conducted by f¢ | Sheriff Goodwin and the sold amounted to $1,800. The great- er part was bought in by Rinehart and his friends. The sale was held at the Rinehart in . East Waynesburg and himseif was an interested After the sale was enars invited Goodwin and assistants ito partake of refreshments,” which | are said to have been elaborate. mer property residence Rinehart spectator. over INVESTIGATION LATE Defurict Waynesburg Concern Want to Know. | At a meeting of the stockholders {of .Jhe defunct Farmers & Drovers of Waynesburg, held in the t court house at Waynesburg, an or- ganization was effected and it was determined to make inquiry into the {affairs of the institution. John F. Pauley was elected chairman and Frank J. R. Fenner secretary. It was [decided ‘a committee should be ap- | pointed to wait -on President Roose- ivelt and request him to ascertain | from: "Comptroller of the Currency Ridgely why the bank was not closed at least eight months before it was. The chair appointed on this com- | mittee John A. Moore, Rev. W. F. Mc- | Kain and Herbert Huffman. Another neeting . will be held November 23, at which timé ir is expected the com- |-mittee will-be ready to report. MAY NOT ISSUE LICENSE | | Stockholders of { «| Distilling Company, Cut Off by Court, State Treasurer. General Tedd furnished State Treasurer Berry. with a writ- ten opinion adyising him that there is no authority in law for the issuing of a state distiller's license by the - state treasurer. The Reynoldsville Distilling = Com- panv of Jefferson county, which was refused a license by the Jefferson | county court January, applied to | the state treasurer recently for a li | cense to sell produet within the Commonwealth in original packages of not less than 40 gallons. The - state treasurer = referred to the attorney general. Appeals to | Attorney last 1s ne | matter | BOYS TRY EXPERIMENT | Sealed Can of Water Over Fire Ex- | plodes; Four Scalded. In an explosion of a five-gallon can filled with water four small boys at | Rices Landing, Green county, were | terribly scalded. The injured are: Thomas McKee James Kline and | Raymond and George Sharpneck. { They filled the can full of water { and: screwed the top down. The can [ was then placed on a hot fire and the boys sat down to await develop- ments. The water soon reached ihe | boiling point and the can let go. | | Appoints President Judge. t ov. Stuart announced the appoint- {ment of Machenry Wilhelm, of Ash (land, to be president judge of the or- ( phans’ court of Schuylkill county, to i serve until the first Monday of Janu- ary, 1909, vice P. M. Dunn, deceased. jen. David McM. Gregg of Read- ing, whom Gov. Stuart recently ap- pointed a member of the Gettysburg | battlefield memorial commission, has i declined to accept because of ill I health. To Fight San Jose Scaie. | The whole power of the State De | partment- of Agriculture is to be eu- | listed to fight the San Jose-scale and { other insect pests in Pennsylvania. | Twenty-one inspectors have been de- | tailed by State Zoologist Surface to [carry on the battle. These inspectors | will visit farmers and fruit growers | to instruct them in the way to fight | the pests and demonstrate methods. | Traoner Makes a Haul. J.P. Swope, ‘the widely Huntingdon county trapper, ing up his record. During October he killed 85 foxes, nine wild cats, eight minks, 158 weasels and 12 pole- cats, making a total of 382 animals, for which he received $442.75. In September his work netted hin [ $355.25, making a total of $778 for the two months. know is keep- Americans Replace Foreigners. Orders have _been issued at the plant of the Shelby Steel Tube Con pany at Greenville, calling for the discharge of all foreign workmen as soon as their places can be filled by Americans. During the last two weeks over 250 foreigners have left | for their homes. The Washington county grand jury received the report of viewers on the creation of a new bridge over the Monongahela at Monongahela, to re- place the old Williamsport Bridge. It will be built jointly by Washing- ton and Allegheny counties. The es- timated cost is $294,228. Superintendent Frank | the Washington county schools, an- nounced that the annual teachers’ in- : stitute will be held at Washington, i December 16 to 20. inclusive. R. Hall ‘of | Because his health was impaired { by hazing early in September, it is said, John W. Snyder of Uniontown, Pa., has been obliged to give up his studies temporarily at Ohio State University. The commissioners of Westmore- | land county have offered a reward of | $500 for the apprehension of the murderer or murderers of George W. Banks, bookkeeper of the Trafford City Supply Company dl Daniel R. Blower of Uniontown has been appointed mine inspector of the Nineteenth bituminous district, to succeed William J. Neilson of Ir- win, resigned. 2
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