psi sR ———— Jer Ss THE COUNTRY COUSIN. ————— My cousin Alferd Williams, he Ain't had advantages like me— My- mamma says net 10 say sain’t”’ uhcause it gives my speech a taint). My cousin Alferd—he don’t know A think about th’ latest show, Nor any of the latest jokes, Buhcause he isn’t city folks! But he knows lots of things to say— One of ’em rattles on this way: “What's your name? Puddin’ Tame! Where you goin’? Down the lane!” An’ one is where you hafto say: “] saw a woolly worm today.” An’ then he says, “I one it,” then “I two it,” then again “I three it’’—an’ you go Right on ahead, till first you know You say, ‘I eight it!” soon’s you've spoke You see that minute where's the joke! My cousin Alferd Williams, he Is all the time a-catchin’ me With jokes I never heard at all, But papa says he can recall, For papa, one time, where he grew To be a boy was country, too! But Cousin Alferd’s jokes is smart— I'm goin’ to learn them all by heart; An’ best of all the lot 0’ his Is what I say that this one is: “Where’ve you been? In my skin—I'll jump out An’ you jump in!” —Wilbur Nesbit, in Harpar’s Magazine. AQ $0000600000 290000 Miss Jessie Da from New York. 900066000000 td To begin with, Jim Dutton was the most popular and capable boy in Bor- den Academy last Fall, and it was this very fact that made his fall from favor seem all the greater. He was captain of the football team, and undoubtedly their best ‘man, and consequently the boys hated to be at loggerheads with him, for it was decidedly biting off their own noses; but what could they do? For weeks Jim had practiced ball every day, keeping in better training than any of the others, and then sud- denly, with no warning whatever, he had apparently lost all interest in his team, calmly stopped practice, and here was the bigizest game of the season coming off in three weeks. What made it still more exasperating was the fact that his actions were so mys- terious, and try as they would it seemed impossible to account for them. One morning, however, Dick Brown bounced into the study. “Fellers,” he cried triumphantly. “I have it! Do you want to know what's the matter with Jim Dutton?” “You bet!” was the instant chorus. Dick made himself the centre of an interested group and proceeded to di- vulge his secret. “Well,” said he, “Jim is calling three nights a week on my cousin Estelle, and writing silly poems to her the other four. 1 went over to see Estelle to-day, and she let it all out.” “Jingo!” cried Harry Todde ‘To think of Jim Dutton being so silly. Hope he gets over it, though, because if he doesn’t we lose our game.” “Get over it!” said Dick, fairly pur- ple with excitement, “I guess not. Why, Estelle said that her friend Miss Day, was coming from New York next week, and that she was going to ask Jim to meet her. Of course, he will be so excited that we couldn’t hire him to even think of football!” : There was a pause after this piece of news, and then Dicky continued: “Boys,” he said, “I have a scheme. I think it’s up to us to, play some trick on-Jim after the mean way he’s treat- ed us and see what you think of this: To begin with, we'll have to let Es- telle into the secret; but for a girl she’s a pretty good one, and maybe she’ll help us. If she won't why, we are no worse off than before. 'Now, Miss Day is expected next week, and we must get Estelle to write and ask Jim over to see her.” And then there was a long consultation in low tones. The boys received the idea with wild enthusiasm, and Dick was ap- pointed a committee of one to call on Estelle and see if he could persuade her to side with them. He was gone an hour, and then came back radiant, success written all over his beaming face. “Fellers,” he cried, “Estelle’s a peach. She’s going to write to Jim this very night.” The next morning on his way down the hall Dick passed Jim's half-open door. Jim looked very important. “Say,” he said, “I just got a letter from your cousin, asking me to come see her friend, Jessie Day. I'm going Wednesday.” “It seems to me you waste a lot of - time on the girls,” said Dick carpeless- ly as he sauntered off, whistling. Wednesday evening came at last and the moment dinner was over the boys stole over to Estelle’s house. “Miss pay’ was resplendent in a pale blue dress and high-heeled slippers. She had light curly hair with a coquettish bow on the side, and I regret to say, her cheeks looked as if they had been touched up with rouge. The boys hid in a little room off the parlor, fully prepared to enjoy the evening's entertain In the meantime, Jim was . wishing to an impres- sion s Day from New hair about fifty hour le ors of an EE pretty girl,” said Jim ter bounding up with his best bow. “So glad to meet you,” said Miss Day in such a sweet voice. “Estelle has told me very often about your school, and I think it must be simply fine.” Just at that moment Estelle was seized with a violent fit of coughing, and left the room for a glass of water. She failed to return, and after wait- ing expectantly for a minute or two, Jessie Day and Jim sat down. Jessie talked of football, and asked sO many questions that Jim before he knew it felt all of his old interest return, and soon was describing the game with wild enthusiasm. Then Jessie told a story of @ man she once heard about, who deserted his team at a critical moment, and they lost the game in consequence. “My, what a dishonorable trick,” cried Jim, and then for some unac- countable reason he stopped, blushed furiously and tried to turn the con- véPsation. But Miss Day stuck to it persistent- ly and finally asked him when he was going to play again. “Qh, I believe they play Oak- ville three weeks from Saturday,” said Jim carelessly. “They,” said Jessie, “why don’t you say we?’ “Well, to tell the truth,” stammered Jim confusedly, “I hardly think 1 shall play.” “Oh, 1 am so disappointed,” cried Jessie, “for I shall be here for that game, and I would love to feel 1 had a friend on the team! Now please don’t back out.” Jim, bound to be polite, whatever the consequences, exclaimed: “Well, if you are going to be here, I certainly will play.’ “Now, promise,” said Jessie. “1 promise,” answered Jim. At those words, a lightning change took place in Miss Day. With a dex- terous hand she twitched off her yel- low wig; another jerk and the blue dress lay in a heap on the floor; and there stood Billy Dixon, his rouged cheeks shaking with laughter. The folding doors rolled back, and a pack of boys burst in, crying, “You've promised to play, you've promised to play, and Jim Dutton was never known to break his word yet.” At first Jim was wild with anger, called them cheats and trai- tors, and said he’d never play another game of football as long as he lived. Then the funny side struck him, and he laughed till the tears run down his cheeks. «“B “Boys!” he cried, “I have been an idiot, but I'll plat that game now, if I have have to work twenty-three hours out of twenty-four to do it. “Miss Daisy’ has opened my eyes. Here where is she? Let's give her three cheers.” The boys cheered until Es- telle came rushing down to see what was the matter, and then they insist- ed on giving them all over again for her. : Needless to say, the game was play- ed and won by Jim’s team, and the best part of it was that the real Miss Jessie Day, who finally did come from | New York, and was a very nice girl indeed, was the very first to cheer the football captain.—Washington Star. JAPS PIRATE TRADE MARK. None of Our Protective Labels Safe From These Oriental Imitators. The Japanese government is now ful- ly alive to the urgent necessity of remedying the abuses which at present fiourish in connection with the piracy and speculative registration of patents and trade marks, and conventions be- tween Japan and the United States znd Japan and Great Britain covering patents and trade marks are to be sign- ed shortly. It is the custom of Japanese mer- chants, for instance, to place on the market a brand of home made whiskey in bottles bearing a label almost ex- actly similar to those used by well- known foreign distilling firms. The Japanese label will differ from the foreign label in some inconsequential particular discernable only through close comparison. Other commodities which seem to be the natural prey of the trade mark pirate are table sauces, toilet articles, stationery, cigarettes, ete. One point which cannot be too strongly impressed upon American commercial men is that, under Japan- ese law, priority of registration of a trade mark is everything. In other words, any Japanese can imitate any foreign or Japanese trade mark in the world, and the patent office will not re- fuse him registration so long as the forged trade mark is not already reg- istered in Japan. The natural result of this provision is that many Japanese register on the chanze of being able some time or other to secure money for the surren- der of this prior right. : The Japanese authorities, however, are beginning to realize that the pres- ent trade mark law is alike injurious to foreigners and Japanese. With" refer- ence, for example to the grand exposi- tion of 1912, preparations for which are now under way, it is felt that any suspicion of danger to the patent and trade mark rights of foreign exhibi- tors would prove fatal to the pros- pects of the undertaking. A bill pro- viding for the all foreigm exhib the Diet, and the g0 ernment in pron nnot be doubted.— e of the New York “ent protection of has already passed cod faith of the i measure ting this ienc To The Point. to himself, a RP, Besosfefeade food ¥ o> i the attempt. Is money y * re o - L Re L 5 L L 4 : mercial spirit. s HTT EERE all over with the money label. tunities of life. wealth, or fame, or power? success. five years. your soul a chance to live. expand the narrowest soul. mttaer pe Racing the as POPOV V T ses on as a POOPY POVYVeV OLLALLE. POPPY POV IV OV VIN TOTO IV horses.” forbidden, is ‘made permissive. no bookmaking on the race courses; that the sport, as conducted at present exist. , papers, which give columns industry and immense exaggeration, it to a well-earned victory. This conclusion is easy, but it is not to racing—indeed, it is not too strong to cause of racing.—From The Century. 5" Gomes 4 ® ® iy} $ 3 ® ® 2909909090 S cooteones not take care of it. Before the child life. We often hear men talking about whom they are really doing the worst must talse of before they swallow it. VWerat do you mean by taking good Aunt Elderly r litt Greed of Gain Kills; Souls Starved to Get Rich By the Rev. Dr. Donald Sage Mackay, The Rector of the Collegiate Church of St. Nichoias, New York. : OU might as well talk about the mysterious Providence of a suicide as speak of it in the case of any man who, in gaining his world, forfeits his physical life and energy in be should make himself a suicide for that one end? We are living in an age Which is steeped in the com- Commercialism has invaded every sphere of human activity. The professions, the arts, our social conditions, as well as our business enterprises, are tagged The typical man of the hour knows the intrinsic value of nothing, but can tell you the selling price of everything—from the conscience of a politician upward. “What doth it profit a man?’ has come to be the supreme standard of success. “What is there in it for me?” is the test by which the average man to-day estimates the oppor- Is the surrender of that life of yours, with which God has endowed you, a fair exchange for any achievement or success, whether in the realm of As a question of profit and loss what does it profit any man if he gain the whole world and forfeit his life? But again, there is the moral side of life, which, in these latter days es- pecially has been ruthlessly sacrificed by so many on the altar of material This past year, in American public life, will be memorable in our history as a year of reappreciated ideals. a great ethical revival, and men who not so long ago sneered at such things have been compelled to acknowledge the sovereign authority of conscience asserted by the voice of the common people. the revelations of these past months, following one after another in almost every branch of commercial and industrial enterprise, shocking as they have been to the moral sense of the community, have nevertheless cleansed the moral atmosphere so that the young man of today enters upon his public career in a more wholesome environment than at any time in the past twenty- What then shall we do to save this faculty of immortal life within us! As a question of profit and loss, the soul of every man is worth saving. How are you going to save it? I reply, simply by giving it a chance to live. Give Give it atmosphere so that it can breathe, and remember that prayer is the atmosphere of the soul. dies in a man’s soul he commits spiritual suicide. it can expand; and remember that service for God and your fellowmen will Gambling the Curse of Racing:-- Gambling Crrwvaashtnye By John Gilmer Speed. HE interest in horse racing is felt by a great variety of peo- ple, while the practice is as old as civilization. It has al- ways been regarded primarily as a sport, and it is generally so looked upon today. But in New York the laws that have been enacted to regulate it put the question of sport in the background, and declare that its encouragement is “for the ® purpose of raising and breeding and improving the breed of This quotation is taken from the first section of chapter 570 of the laws of 1895. This statute is popularly known as the Percy-Gray law, and it establishes a state racing commission and regulates the methods of race meetings within the state. By this law, and under the decisions of the courts interpreting it, gambling. though distinctly Without such a legal paradox there could be without book making, which enables those who attend the races to bet on the results, the breeder of horses, the owners of racing stables and the proprietors of race courses, are all agreed Granting this fact, the easy conclusion is that horse racing is conducted for the sake of the gambling, and that the horses are used merely as part of the gambling machinery—as a roulette wheel, for instance. The daily news- and pages day in and day out to the reports of the races, ‘strengthen this easy conclusion. much more emphasis laid upon the doings of the “betting ring” than upon the performance of the horses that furnish the sport. tell of the great wagers won and lost; and the conversion of a ‘“shoe-string into a bank roll” a greater achievement than breeding or training a stanch race horse or riding ing; but racing is a cause of gambling rather than the desire to gamble is the @0000000000000000000000060 ee ————————— Diet-Cranks By O. 5. Marden. pOO0OSOeO~ T is a wonder some people ever have any health at all The way to get the most out of one’s ability is to trust it, to believe in it, to have confidence in it. seem to think that the best way to get the best results out of the digestive apparatus is to constantly distrust it, pity it. They swallow a mouthful of fear and dyspepsia with every mouthful of food, and then wonder why the stomach does NYE of so much matter to any man that is he who It has been, in truth, the year of It is not too much to say that The day that prayer Give it room, so that Nps priori Cause of ; ¢ sof pimpin} and for many years past, could not Much more space is given and The reporters, with great is evidently regarded as fair. Gambling is the great handicap say that gambling is the curse of rac- eI) : But some people WOMAN IS CHLOROFORMED Robber Binds and Gags Mrs. Samuel Bridgeman of Burgettstown. Burgettstown.—A man entered the home of Samuel Bridgeman of Bur- gettstown, at night, bound and chloro- formed Mrs. Bridgeman and afterward looted the house. The woman made a desperate fight before the burglar finally overpowered her by sheer strength, and as a result of the chlo- roform administered and her struggle Mrs. Bridgeman is in a serious condi- tion. Mr. Bridgeman was in Ohio attend- ing the funeral of his mother, and a neighbor passing the house discovered Mrs. Bridgeman’s condition. Blood- hounds have been secured to trace the robber. GOLDEN EAGLE PRIZES Seven Commanderies Win Distinction in Allentown Parade. Allentown. —Following the Knights of the Golden Eagle parade the judges —Major Frank D. Beary, Captain Charles D. Rhoades and Dr. A. J. Erd- man—awarded these prizes: Commanderies—Thirty-five dollars for largest, to Hellertown; $35 for best appearance, to Norristown; $35 for coming greatest distance, to . Will- jamsport. Castles—Fifteen dollars for largest, to Richland; $15 for larg- est in Lehigh county, to Catasauqua; $15 for the best equippment, to Boy- erstown; $15 for handsomest banner, to Kutztown. BIG HATS ON SIDES in Congregation Protected by Pastor from Merry Widows. Franklin—Tke Merry Widow hat has been conquered by Rev. Dr. Maurice Penfield Fikes, pastor of the First Baptist church. He announces that he will hereafter reserve a block of seats in the center of the auditorium for them. , No women will be allowed in the seats or in front of them. In a card announcing the plan Dr. Fikes says: “No more hats to bother.” Men KILLED BY BROTHER-IN-LAW McClelland Says His Fatally Shooting Short Was Accidental. Tn a family quarrel in East Way- nesburg Tony Short, a lineman em- ployed by the ~outh Penn Telephone & Telegraph Company, was shot and instantly killed. His brother-in-law, William McClelland, who is charged with the shooting, gave himself up, the Sheriff taking him to jail. Mec- Clelland refused to make any state- ment except that the shooting was ac- cidental. New Companies Incorporated. Washington.—Charters . of three new corporations have been filed in the County Recorder’s office... They are the Westmoreland Lumber Com- pany, capital stock $20,000, and direc- tors including Walter Byerly, S. K. Long, J. O. Smith, Charleroi, and C. W. Lynn of Donora; the Valley Star Vending Company, capital $5,000, and directors including Harvey J. Steele, Fayette City; John R. Steele, Pitts- burg, and Charles H. Steele, Charle- roi; the BE. N. Coddington Confec- tionery Company, capital $25,000, and these directors: E. N. Coddington and H. BE. Pitcher of Charleroi and James R. Craft of New Salem. Pittsburg Bank the Buyer. Greensburg.—The property of the Reese-Hammond Fire Brick Company at Bolivar, this county, and Garfield, Indiana county, was sold to M. R. Murphy, representing the First Na- tional Bank of Pittsburg, to satisfy a mortgage. The property includes all the houses, land and plants Nos. 1, 2 and 4. The sale was conducted by the Union Trust Company of Pittsburg, which held the first mortgage. Burgess Is Arrested. York.—John W. Minnich, burgess of Wrightsville, Thomas Wilson, Gara Barnes and Marshall Weller, of the ‘same place, were arrested at the in- stance of Policeman Drenning, the bor- ough officer. Drening alleges that he had arrested a man who was un- der the influence of liquor and that while trying to put him in the lockup, the chief burgess, with others, assist- ed his prisoner to escape. The ar- PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS SANDBAGGED AND ROBBED Puddler Thrown Over Embankment Into River by 18. Kittanning.—Held up wu, rc~ high- waymen, sandbagged and robbed of his money and watch and then thrown over a 30-foot embankment, Lynn Saylor, a puddler, was left for dead by his assailants. He has been working at Hyde Center and started for his home here Saturday night. At Mosgrove Junction, five miles north of here, he boarded a wrong train. He left it at Mahoning and started to walk to Templeton. When midway between the two places he was confronted by three men, two of whom held him while the third took $40 in money and his gold watch. When released Saylor showed fight. The three thugs sat on him and final- ly threw him over the Allegheny river’ bank. Saylor crawled to the top of the bank and made his way to Tem- Plotom He is now in a serious condi- on. MILLS RESUME OPERATION Prosperous conditions again prevail in Monongahela Valley. Prosperous condition again prevail in the Monongahela valley boroughs. The Carnegie Steel Company for the first time in months placed into oper- ation every one of the structural] mills of the Homestead plant. Twenty-seven vpen hearth furnaces are on and the 10, 23, 33, 35, 40 and 48-inch mills are operating double turn. The plate mills are not doing so well. At Braddock the company has blown in a third blast furnace, while a fourth will probably go in blast Friday. BURGLAR ALARM IN CHURCH Excited Members, Summoned Parish House, Surprise Intruder. Titusville.—Following several rec- ent thefts of money and jewelry at St. Walburger’s Catholic parish house, electric bells were placed in the pul- pit connecting with the rector’s apart- ments. Sunday the congregation was thrown into excitement by’the sharp ringing of these bells. A few members who understood the situation quietly slipped into the parish house and caught Frank Sin- sky, who already has a police record. He is in jail to FOUR-YEAR-OLD SLAYS MOTHER Child Points Gun at Parent and Pulls Trigger. : Shenandoah.—Mrs. Albert Major of Ellangowan, near here, was shot and killed by her 4-year-old son. The mother had just returned from a visit and the little fellow picked up a flobert rifle from a table and playfully point- ing at her, pulled the trigger. The bullet penetrated the woman’s heart. Candidates for Mine Jobs. Greensburg.—Mine Inspector Chaun- cey B. Ross of Greensburg, announced that opt of a class of 29 applicants for mine foremen in his district five passed satisfactorily, and out of 45 candidates for fire bosses but six were successful. Those who passed the examination were: Mine foremen —Charles Petroski, Robert W. Law- son, Thomas F. Welty, M. F. Barrett, Thomas ‘Sheridan. Fire Boss—John T. Shenley, Albert Snetak, Thomas A. Herald, Patrick Murphy. : Flash Light Causes Explosion. Reynoldsville—While attempting to take a flash light picture of a room in a hotel, I. D. Kelz a photographer, was hurt through the explosion of &. new device for making the illumina- tion. When the compressed air to set off the powder was applied, there was a flash and a fiery mass knocked down the photographer and burned him, wrecked part of the ceiling and entered a room overhead, = where it lodged in the boards. List of Honor Graudates. Butler—Honor graduates at Slip- pery Rock ‘State Normal were an- nounced by Principal A. E. Maltby as follows: Archie Hilliard, valedictor- ian; Boyd Walters, salutatorian; Blanche Nesbit, Stella Udick, Frank Lutz, Gus P. West, Sara Kelly, Carrie Baldsburger, Carrie Munnell, Achsah Wallace, Rhuma = Vincient, Arthur Hogg, Bess (Embrie, music. The an-. rest has created a sensation. Echo of Famous Bank Case. Three proceedings in ejectment have been started in the Greene county courts against former Cashier J. B. F. Rinehart, of the closed Farmers and Drovers National bank of Waynes- burg, by the Bonar Land Company of Waynesburg, to recover several prop- erties now in Rinehart’s posession. Harrisburg to Be See City. Harrisburg.—Word was received here that Harrisburg has been select- ed as the see city of the diocese of Harrisburg of the Protestant Episco- pal church by Rt. Rev. James Henry Darlington, bishop of the diocese. This means that the cathedral of the diocese will ultimately be erected in this city. Greensburg.—The court has order- ed a special term of Common Pleas can even speak plainly it is taug! to talk about its “poor ’ittle tummic,” and this nonsense is kept up through taking the best care of their health thing possible for it. They are the ble enemies of their stomach wken they are always talking about restion and expressing a fear that they cannot eat this and they can- not eat that, when they are thinking #11 the time about how many bites they ; mouthful of food, and how long they must masticate it care of your body? Just to bathe it, h and measure your food with the same precision that a drug- 1 8 concentrating your mind upon what you eat and anda you | iv, t ev- |i: | Court for the weeks of June 22 and | 29 to try the damage suits from Bra- denville, resulting from the big dyna- mite explosion four years ago. Killed in Fal] Off Scaffold. Hamilton.—Fred Gray, aged 30, fell from a scaffold at the plant of the Hzmilton Steel and Iron Company and was killed. Butler.—Rev. Robert B. Miller, pas- tendered a reception by the con- 1dard of the United Presbyterian church, | so owners of nua] commencement exercises will be held June 23. Shortest Will Contested. Washington.—The legality of the shortest will on record in Greene county is to be tested by the courts It is that of Thomas Spencer, late of Waynesburg and disposes of a large estate. It reads: “June the 18, 1864. I, the undersigned do assign all my right, title and interest and claim of a tract of land whereon Thomas Spencer lives to the said Car- oline Spencer.” While Nobody Was Looking. | Washington.—William Cameron, ac- | cused of stealing a horse, escaped | from officers at Hookstown, jumping jout of a window in the offices of Jus- tice Reed, while the justice and others were examining the warrant. Rev. W. S. Danley, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church of McKeesport, has accepted a call to the { Presbyterian church of West Union, | Washington county. | | Road Work in Armstrong County. i Kittanning.—Hundreds of men will | get work on new roads to be built in Armstrong county. Manor township has awarded a contract to P. F. Mec- Cann of Greensburg at $43.549.43. 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