& B OLD PARD, T5he Story lf Collie By Joseph E. Wing. 0 e c Nearly twenty years ago I owned a hepherd puppy away out on the Range Valley ranch In sunny southern Utah. He was not pretty dark with tawny markings, small, too, for his age, but his eyes were merry and had In them a peculiar knowingness that I had never Been In dog-kind before, nor since. I named him Pard and he was truly a most willing and effectual partner of my joys and sorrows. The canyon was a lonely place, so far as humankind went, though It was peo pled with all sorts of animals, some that we chose and some that chose us. This little Tard puppy had the most wrprising courage I have ever seen In any animate thing. It was not cou pled with moroseness or ill temper, It was not displayed for his own grati fication, but in obedience to my wish es. He would not hesitate to attack any living thing and the tempestuous fury of his attack and rage would bluff off almost anything so that he won surprising victories. I do not like useless dog-fighting, but when we discovered his quality we would give him signal to attack other dogs, some of them full grown and lour times his size and weight. It was astonishing and amusing to see him launch him self with fierce impetuosity upon some huge antagonist and I never knew it to fail that the big dog would be so overwhelmed with surprise, dismay and wonder that he would give up and turn Sail. I suppose he wondered whit sort of animal this was anyhow, hehaving bo differently from what might reasonably be expected of a puppy. Only with his brothers, all bigger than himself, could he have a real fight, and this we prevented as much as possible for fear that one would Injure, maybe kill, the other. I have Been Pard and big Bummer, his overgrown brother, twice his size, roll headlong down a precipitous hillside, neither one relaxing hold. And yet MttH Pard had a sweet, sunny tem per. He fought because he deemed It part of his duty In the world, and his policy of sudden, fierce onslaught won. I have often thought of this principle; it is true in many things In life, one who is not afraid, who Is vastly aggressive, overpowers those Inherently much stronger than them selves. Pard was a natural worker. He -whs what the cowboys call a "heeler," that Is, without teaching almost, he would Slip up behind a cow and bite her heels. The result was a sudden attain ment of speed on the part of the cow. A dog that goes to the cow's head is no good on the range. Dogs were very useful to us because of the rocky and brushy canyons. Little Pard would heel them when he was scarce ly larger than an old cow's foot. More than once he got kicked tail over ap petite, once indeed the cow caught hi 8 head between her foot and a rock and that time he lay there without a quiver for a long time. I thought it his last effort, but he revived and had lost none of his vim, curiously enough. But he learned to get at the heels sort of sideways as it were. But little Pard was too good to last. One day as a horse wrangler was rid ing up a brushy canyon after the sad dle band the little dog stopped to bark In a clump of maple brush. The rider called him away, got the horses and returning passed again this clump of brush. The unwise little doggie Stopped again to investigate that great . yellow cat that lay watching him so- Sleepily with outstretched feet. There must have been after the rider had gone, a sudden leap, a hoarse low growl, a stunning blow of huge paw, at crunching of little dog bones and the flesh of the gamest little shepherd (flog I have ever known became part of a mountain lion, while the intrepid spirit went back to its maker. We never found his hide nor bones. Some years later after I had come back home to Ohio and was married I gain sought a shepherd dog. One . day when strolling in a thick forest back from the road I found a log cabin newly built, in which was dwell ing a curious man, half hermit, half woodsman, living all alone, clearing up a bit of "new ground" for the crop, loafling when he wished, work ing when the spirit moved. That is not a bad sort of life, by ths way. This old man Willis White had a pair of dogs that he called "shepherds." The female seemed to be a Collie, the dog must have been about half that blood. He was big, strong, sil ent, savage. Gypsies left him there, flesperately wounded; Willis White took care of him and kept him. Af terwards the old dog would stand by the hour and watch the highway, a third of a mile away, a dreamy look In his eyes, thinking of his old com panions of the road, wondering, no doubt, whether they would come for him again. He was a fine watchdog; t was not safe to approach the cabin when Willis was away. A litter of fine puppies was born, my wife and I selected one of the pret tiest, and felt for the bump- on the back of the head that denotes sense and courapte. We traded some hens for him, I think, and we had our pup py.' Maybl we would have left him had we foJfcseen the Immediate result. He grew, flow he did growl Our mother loves dogs and fed him well; he was a great, wide, laughing puppy, but bo full of mischief and so hard to break of his tricks! Among other accomplishments he took to slaugh tering cats. This we could not have, so after repeated thrashings, very savage ones, too, for he was not a sensitive Collie, but a beast with any amount of endurance, and he always loved me the better for thrashing him. I took a kitten that he had killed and tied it about his neck; he dragged it about, crestfallen, for some hours, then disappeared, and finally came leaping joyfully to me, the kitten gone. I hunted for it but ouly found a few fragments. He had eaten it, but he never again hurt a kitten. We named him Old Pard after the good one, and he soon became one of the family and felt a personal re sponsibility for many things. He de veloped into a fine watchdog, too; to some he showed only a friendly greet ing, others he instinctively felt ought to be denied any admission at all. We learned later that some of those he hated worst were night thieves; he had either known of their prowl ings or had Instinctively hated them. Many feared him and our hen roost fared better than our neighbors', though later he extended his night pa trol to the home of a close neighbor, to their great satisfaction. Old Pard developed into a great worker with stock. He was always too swift, too impetuous to suit me, but he was a big help. Many thou sands of lambs he has helped pen, al ways he was in plnce when it was time to put the feeding lambs in the barn or to drive them out at feeding time. Ho would "speak to them" when they were tame and stubborn, barking fiercely as long as you wished, subsiding at command. He knew what I wanted of him always, but would not always do It. I never knew what' a perfect sheepdog he was capable of being until one day when I was up on a barn roof the lambs got a gate open and BOO of them came racing into the road. Pard saw them before I did and stopped them. I was about to go down to his assistance, but to my astonishment he began doing ex actly what I had long been trying to teach him, going from side to side, his white brush high In air, waving to and fro, gently, quietly; slowly he drove them back, never one mad rush, never a bark save when It was need ed. It showed to me that he had sense enough, that is, brain enough, he knew, but the fierce impetuosity of some alien blood made it very diffi cult for him to curb himself and when I was there he laid the burden of restraint entirely upon me. I never knew a dog with more con science, though it was hard for him to use it sometimes. He hated swine and was very rough with them. We hardly dared set him to driving them, for he killed one or two shotes in his impetuosity. He would catch and hold the largest sow. One day a neighbor's little pigs got into a cornfield where I was husking. We drove them out and I had hard running o keep him from injuring the fat little rascals. This kept up for several days, each time the same difficulty from Old Pard's too great willingness. Finally one day I did not go to the field and was dismayed to hear his excited barking down there and the frantia squeal of an infant pig. I ran as fast as I could to save their lives, for my neighbor was a good old man and a friend, but when I got to the crest of the hill whence I could look down and seo the skirmish it was a most curious and amusing sight. The big dog was hurrying the pigs out, but doing it in a new and original man ner for him. He would run with force against them, knocking them endways, then stop without biting at all, and tail aloft and mouth open and eyes dancing watch their recovery and lis ten to their frantic squeals. Present ly he would make another rush. I said not a word to him and he escort ed them thus harmlessly clear out of the field. He had reasoned to him self: "Now Joe Is not here to pull me off these little pigs. I can't bite them, but must restrain myself. Hang it all, but I will have some fun, any way!" Speaking of his conscience again, here Is an illustration. When we killed hogs I always gave him the kidneys. One day we butchered but finishing late did not do 'more than carry the carcasses into an outhouse and lay them on a bench. Next morn ing, coming down to see about mat ters, I was annoyed to see the door ajar and yet more vexed when as I stepped up Old Pard came out. He looked up at me In a friendly and con fiding way, quite fearless, as though to say: "Now Joe, don't look so in fernally cross, I know my place I guess," and I went in to see what he had eaten. He had without putting his paws on the carcasses reached over and torn out and devoured the kid neys, leaving the rest untouched! But one of the most marvellous acts, showing reason and a knowledge of proportion, was when I was trying one day to catch a tiny suckling lamb, just old enough to run Like a john rabbit. Old Pard joined in th chase and be tween us we caught the darting mite, but Pard did his part by first running Into it full tilt, knocking it over, then holding it down by putting his feet upon it, he would not touch It with his teeth. The rascal was a born scrapper. He was a terror to every dog that passed the place, and no beatings would de ter him in the least from assailing passing canines, great and small. I could set him on a dog in a distant field, if he got one glimpse he was off like a shot and the intruder rued the day he set foot in that field. He was singularly lacking in gallantry, for he would run females away as readily as males. While he was first fighting his way to acknowledged supremacy there was a big, fierce yard dog between our house and the village that was wont to make a, terrific bluff every time Pard passed with me, raging up and down the fence as though he would burst a blood vessel If he could not get at Pard to tear him up. I had no Idea but he could whip our dog, but one day to my astonishment Pard cleared the fence at a bound and at tacked the enemy on his own soil! It was a terrible fight but Pard gained the victory and came grimly on after a time, on three legs. Thereby was illustrated a curious side of dog na ture. The two dogs had neither had a racial friend before, my neighbor's dog had never beeu known to leave his house, yet In a day or two I found fraternizing very amiably with .Old Pard! He was the only dog not be longing on the place that Pard ever made friends with, and he was killed soon after, how I never knew. It was strange that no one ever killed Old Pard. He was hated by a good many and did in fact have some lead in him; he was annoying to passers-by who had dogs with them but he would not harm. any honest man. The crowning act of a useful life was when he saved my brother Willis from a horrible death. We had a gen tle Jersey bull, dehorned. People got afraid of him but I laughed and showed that he could be driven with a cornstalk. One day Willis went out to the pasture to drive-up the cows, the bull sulked and would not come. Willis kicked him and in an Instant the lurking devil came out, the beast sprang at him, knocked htm down; the boy sprang up and ran, the bull overtaking him In an Instant and knocked him down agBin and tried to gore him. The third time this was re peated, Willis' head was butted down into the mud until blood ran from his ears. I Baw it from afar and started to run to help. Never did my feet seem so glued to the ground; it seem ed to me that I was rooted to the spot as I realized all that would hap pen before I could gain that quarter of a mile. All at once Old Pard bound ed by me like a flash and streaked across the field. Before he had got ten half way the bull saw him and hesitated a moment, before he was there the great coward was in slow retreat. Old Pard knew the enormity of the offense and promptly seized him by the nose and led the bellowing cringing bully a merry dance across the field. By a miracle not a bone was broken, but the bull went Into bologna soon afterward. I wonder how long dogs live? When Pard was about twelve years old he lost his hearing and became morose and unhappy. He was of uso, though, and we suffered him to stay another year, then got a new puppy. It was touching to see the new and playful Collie and the old veteran. The pup py worshipped him and while he played with him it was with a good deal of respect, and Old Pard suf fered any sort of Indignity from hlra almost, rising up silently and -going away when the Infantile pranks were too unendurable. But he taught the Collie his bad tricks of assaulting passers by, so we held counsel and decided to put him mercifully to sleep, and I burled him with real sorrow and respect. His successor is a lovable Collie, but I fear he will never have in him the go and dash that made Old Pard his fame. Breeders' Gazette. The Cable to Alaska. The Sitka-Seattlo cable, 1070 miles long, which wa3 completed and thrown open to public use on Aug. 28, has since been operated most successfully, its electrical conditions exceeding an ticipations. The commercial business of one month iecently closed up amounted to over $10,000, and the prospects are ihai the receipts of the next year will exceed $100,000. The tariffs on commercial messages are: From Seattle to Sitka, $1.50; to Skag way, $2; to Valdez, $2.50; to Fort Eg bert, $3;' to St. Michael, $3.50; to Nome, $1. The Alaskan telegraph system was first started in 1805. The cable sec tion, starting from Seattle, touches at five other points, the total length be ing something over 2000 miles. The land system includes more than 40 stations, separated from each other by distances varying from three to CO miles. Wireless telegraphy is also used at one point for transmitting mes sages a distance of 107 miles. In running the land lines much difficulty was encountered, both on account of the rough country through which they passed and the severe climate. He Wat Wondering. A Scotch doctor, who was attending a laird, had instructed the butler of the house in the art of taking and re cording his master's temperature with a thermometer. On repairing to the house one morning, he was met by the butler, to whom he said: "Well, John, I hope the laird's temperature Is not any higher today." The man looked puzzled for a moment, and then replied: "Well, I was Just wonderln' that mysel'. Ye see, he died at twal DREAD GILA MONSTER. NUMBERS INCREA8E AND THEY CAUSE MANY DEATHS. The Peculiar Nature of the Poison Indians Who Have a Secret Anti doteStudying the Habits About Eighteen Inches In Length, That the Gila monster is the most dangerous creature to human life in the desert regions of the southwest, and that there is no remedy known to science which will act as an antidote to its poison, is the opinion of Prof. William Wetherbee, who for nearly a year has been making a scientific study of this reptile in the interests of experiments which for some time have been prosecuted by the state of Cali fornia. To prove his assertion that death ensues in almost every instance where the poison of that creature enters the human .system. Prof. Wetherbee gives the results of his long sojourn In the deserts of Arizona and California, where during twelve months of experi ment twenty cases come under his no tice, all but three of which ended fa tally. Since the thinning out of the Indians the Gila monster Is rapidly In creasing In number, and Is becoming a serious menace to life in those regions. During the last two years five little children, four women, seven half breeds and Indians have fallen victims of the Gila's bite, and It Is probable that there ai r! other cases which have never been heard of. Several of the fatalities occurred during the swelter ing summer weeks that I was with Prof. Wetherbee. o formidable do these facts appear that President Diaz has been asked to use his influence in discovering the remedy which has long been known to exist among the Hualipis, a Mexican tribe of Indians who have always kept their antidote a secret and have bnf fieu the attempts of many scientists to secure it. among tliem the famous Dr. Shufeldt. This Is not the first time that President Diaz has been in terested in tlte matter of securing a remedy for the Gila's bite. A number of years ago the medical authorities of California asked him to secure the pre scription used among the Hualipls, and it is said that not only did Diaz detail special officers to the work, but when they failed, the president went personally among the Hualipls In his efforts to secure the antidote. T?c cause of a superstitious belief that the remedy, which Is also said to be effi cacious in combatting the fatal ef fects of rattlesnake poison, was a di rect blessing from their gods, and should be kept secret, the Hualipls re fused to disclose it. Afterward. Shu feldt and several California physicians went personally among the Indians, but with as llttlo success. That an antidote must bo found is realized by both the medical authorities of Cali fornia and Arizona. Tho regions in fested by the "mottled terror" are rapidly becoming Inhabited, and each year boos a big Increase in tho white population. For many years, perhaps for hundrsds of them, the Pima, Apa che, Marlconah and Yuma Indians, who little feared the bites of rattle snakes or centipedes, waged a cautious and systematic war of extermination against the Gilas. but as these tribes have thinned out the "monsters" have increased admiringly, until there are now some places where scores of them may be met with In' a single day. With the Increasing population of white people, the majority of whom as yet bear no especial enmity toward the Gila, it is thought that the annual death list from their bites will rapid ly grow. To prosecute his experiments Prof. Wetherbee followed the course of tho Gila river, where the "monsters" have always been found in tho greatest num ber. For weeks at a time ha watched tho reptiles In their natural homes before attempting to capture them. In his cabin near Castle Dome mountains he at one time had 50 of them captive, and It was then that he succeeded in securing for the first time enough poi son to experiment with. Irritating the creatures, he succeeded in getting them to bite viciously at the edge of a thin plate, where the poison gradu ally accumulated in the form of a thick, syrupy secretion. In contrast to most serpent venoms, which aro acid, the Gilas' poison was of an alka line nature. During these experi ments one of the reptiles caught a Mexican assistant by the thumb. Screaming with terror, the man beat j the creature frantically against the Bide of the cabin, until Prof. Wether ! bee secured a knife and chopped it in two. Every stimulant and remedy at hand were in turn employed, but the Mexican gradually fell Into a stupor, and within twenty, minutes was dead. The Gila is about eighteen inches in length and in girth about the size of a bov's arm. Its tail is one-third the length of the body, and it has a mot tled skin in reddish yellow and dark brown. Its mouth is similar In shape to that of an alligator, and its little black eyes have the sleepy appearance of those of the alligator family. It weighs from three to four pounds. It has four stubby legs shaped and placed like those of a lizard, but it has none of the rapidity of that ani mal, and Instead of being found In damp, cool spots, It frequents the hot test sands and sunbaked soil Rattle- ' snakes cannot remain in a heat that the Gila enjoys, and it is doubtful if even a salamander could stand a daily temperature of 135 degrees for hours, which the Gila grows fat on during midsummer weeks. The stories which have been gener ally believed that Gilas will pursue hu man beings, and that they will crawl Into houses In search of victims, have been disproved. The Gila is a stupid creature, and it will not wantonly at tack. The great danger lies in stop ping on the reptiles, whose skins are much the color of desert sand and sunbaked earth. In these places the Gila will flatten Itself out and go to Bleep. When stepped on It catches viciously on to the humnn foot, and its teeth penetrate the toughest boots. These teeth are in double rows, thick and very sharp. They belong to the "bulldog of reptile," for anything once caught between them Is held as If in a steel trap. The Indians have a saying that a Gala will not release a piece of flesh between its jaws until the big spirit causes a thunder, even if it takes all summer. In one instance where Prof. Wetherbee allowed a Gila to bite an Indian dog the reptile main tained its hold for 36 hours after the animal's death. It is known by both whiles and Indians that It is useless to attempt to force a Gila to release Its hold, for that only increases the wound, and the reptile in a rage man ufactures fresh venon in the poison sacs, which are in the roof of its mouth. The chief results of the Ari zona experiments aro to show that no poison antidotes now known can avert the fatal effects of a Gila's bite, except In Instances where the bite is not much more than a Bcratch, when large quantities of whiskey taken Internally seems to be good. Next summer Prof. Wetherbee will go among the Hualip ls, and will try to win, by fair means or foul, their wonderful secret. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. W. N. Wright of Westwood, N. J., believes thnt cement is the best thing to build household things of. He has a cement stove whieh gives out a gen tle and equable heat, a cement Ice box, a cement dog kennel and his pan try shelves are of cement. The smallest island Inhabited In the world Is that on which the Eddystono lighthouse stands, for at low water It is only 30 feet in diameter. At high water tho base of the lighthouse which has a diameter of only a little over 28 feet, Is completely covered by water. Swiss match makers have now add ed a phonograph to some of their wonderful watches. A small rubber disc is put In the watch and arranged in such a way that the record is re pented every hour. Anyitrlng can be put on the record that the owner wishes. In captivity elephants always stand up when they sleep, but when in the jungle, in their own land and home, they lie down. The reason given for the difference between the elephant In captivity and in freedom is that the animal never acquires complete con fidence In his keepers and always longs for liberty. Closo to tho shore of the Eastern river In West Dresden, Me., there Is nn nnnle tree which has few equals. It stands 30 feet high, measures 10 foot and three Inches around and spreads 50 feet. Its owner, Mr. Ham, has gathered In some years 30 bush els of r.pples from this tree, which is said to be more than 100 years old. A trial was recently made In Aus tria to decide In how short a time living trees could bo converted into newspapers. At Elsenthal, at 7.35 In the morning, three trees wore sawn down; at 9.30 the wood, having been stripped of bark, cut up, and con verted into pulp, became paper, and passed from tho factory to tho press, whence the first printed and folded copy was Issued at 10 o'clock. So that In 145 minutes the trees had become newspapers. A Havre fisherman's wlfo drying codfish caught by her husband on the coast of Franco noticed that one fish had a hard substanco inside. On in vestigation she found in the fish a golden bracelet. How the ornament came Into Its strange receptacle Is, of course, not known; but it Is conjec tured that it must have slipped from the wrist of some fair passenger lean ing over the bulwark of a trans-Atlantic liner, and been seized by the cod on reaching the water. As the shoals of codfish have only recently left tho Newfoundland Banks, and are just be ginning to make their appeaarance in French waters, it Is probable that the bracelet has traversed the Atlantic in tho fish's interior. Perhaps its owner will come forward to claim it. Various Kinds cf Ghosts. Morgan Robertson, the writer of sea stories, has four or five newspaper clippings wMch give him a laugh ev ery time he looks at them. "Sometime ago," he explains, "I gave an order to a concern which fur nishes newspaper clippings, telling the manager that I wanted ghost stories. I undertook to explain that what I wanted was fiction that dealt with spirits and spooks, bvt the clipping man said he understood and would fix me all right. "In a few days I began receiving clippings about ghosts. One of the slips was taken from a country paper in Pennsylvania and it said that a rival sheet had 'given up the ghost' Another clipping, taken from a Louis ville paper, was a pert paragraph from some other paper regaruing Bryan and the Democracy, over which was the caption: 'Hamlet Without the Ghost.' "Another clipping referred to the production of Ibsen's 'Ghost' in Lon don, while the fourth was an editorial paragraph from a North Carolina pa per in which a political convention was referred to as a 'ghost dance.' I never realized before that there were so many kinds of ghosts." Sunday Magazine. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Rattle brains always make the most racket. An ism is apt to be only a name to Its friends. A straight sword is better than a crooked cannon. ' Many divine appointments look like disappointments. The rejection of the messenger does not rescind the message. Some churches are solid simply be cause they are frozen stiff. No matter how great the profits the balance Is always on the wrong side if the soul Is not enriched. It's' a poor bargain when the head grows at the expense of the heart. A broom on earth may be better than many an anthem in Heaven. The man who never prays except wheu he petitions never prays at all. No method of raising money can be right which succeeds in debasing man hood. It Is more important to get people doing religious service than it Is to get them attending religious services. THE FLAMINGO AT HOME. Observation Has Proved That Both the Male and Female Incubate. Apparently two factors enter into the flamingos' type of architecture; they must build where there Is mud, and at the same time erect a structure high enough to protect Its contents from any normal rise In the water due to tides or rainfall. After watching a nesting colony of flamingos in the Bahamas for "nearly an hour," at a distance of one hundred and fifty yards, Sir Henry Blake stat ed that tho females sat upon tho nests while the males stood up together, evidently near by. My dissections, however, showed that both sexes In cubate, while continued observation from the-tent revealed the presence of only one bird of the pair In the rookery at the same time. The bird on the nest was relieved late In the afternoon nnd early in the morning. The one, therefore, which incubated during tho day fed at night, and his or her plnce was taken by another which had been feeding during the day. Or, as Peter put It: "I do t'lnk, sir, dat when the lady fillymingo leave do nest, den do gen'leman fillymingo take tcr place, sir; yes, sir." Morning end evening, then, there wa3 much activity in the rookery. Single birds, or files of as many as 50, were almost constantly arriving and departing, coming from and radi ating to every point of the compass Flamlneos in flight resemble no oth er bird known to me. With legs and neck fully outstretched, and tho com paratively smnll wings set half way between bill nnd toes, they look as if they might fly backward or forward with equal ease. They progress more rnnidlv than a heron, nnd, wlien nur- rind flv with n singular serpentine motion of the neck and body, as if they were cawl'.nt in tho c,r. I- rom Frank M. Cha;nr.: Vs "A Ki.:..;:ngo City," In the Century. A Trick of ths Chip's Cteward. The under steward, in setting the table, poured a half glass of water on the clean white cloth, nnd placed a dish of fruit on the puddle he had made. He made another puddle, and n lr tho rnrafe. On a third JIH-U v.. puddle ho placed tho butterdish, nnd so on.. "Why do you spoil the cloth with all lint tt-ntpr?" asked a Dassenger. "Because the weather's rough, sir," said tho steward. And then, making nnnther middle, he went on: "Wo Htmvnrds on ocean liners must not be merely good waiters we must be good wet weather waiters, mu wo hnvo a number of tricks. "One of our tricks is to set the heavy dishes upon wet spots. If we were to set them on dry spots, in the ordinary way", they would slide to and fro with every lurch of the ship. But if fhn Moth is wetted they don t snue; they adhere to the wet place as Vimifrh dllprl to it. "One of the first things a stewnrd learns is to set a stormy weatner tni.iB to snlll water on the cloth at each place where a heavy dish is to stand. This water serves us purpose thnrnnchlv and it doesn't look bad, either; for the dish covers it; no one knows of the wet spot unScrneath." New York Press. A Bit Absent-Mlnded. oii;nTif.mM)rtpl m:in and his um X I1C M.- brella figure entertainingly in an arti- ri.-. In n German magazine on rroi Max von Pcttenkofer, who has been called the founder of scientific try Ti,n Tirnfpnsnr's absent-mindedness covered everything; but 'umbrellas seemed to be his specialty. He lost, a fortune in umbrellas, for, he seldom came back with what he had taken a ven V Once, however, ho made a trip as far as England, and was very proud of having actually succeeded in bring inr hnek his umbrella to Germany. At Augsburg he stopped on business, but sent a telegram, saying: "At 6 o'clock I return with my um brella." Ho did return at 6 o'clock, but as he entered his house at Munich he saw to his dismay that he had no um brella. He had left it at the telegraph office. New York Evening Mail. A Place for an Imbecile.' , This advertisiment appeared the other day in the London Express: "Sonny Come home immediately. Father still unemployed and imbecile. We are trying to get him into the war office. MOTHER." BUSINESSTARDS. Q M. MoDUNAO. ATTORNETAT-LAW. 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Wheat-No. ff red 310-1 1 0' . llyp--Nn. a US H Corn N. a rellow. ear .M No. 2yollow, shelled M M Mixed ear -H 4 Onls-No. twhito i;j So .No. I) white .11 Flour Winter patent "SI 0 ' HtmlL-lit winters I To a M liar No. I timothy 1:! i ) K o.) 'Icrer No. 1 WW is .' Feeil-Xo ! white mid. ton -5 1 24" HiowninUhlluiKs 1" ' U' W lltnn. hulR LVi so Si u ftinv,--Wlnt 7 id 7 : Oat 7 0J 7 i Dairy Products. Dvtt'-r Elvln ercuiuiMT TO !U Ohio t-reaiiiery 1-1 111 l-'iillry i otmtt-y roll H i Cheese Ohio, now Tl la Iew York, new 11 i ' Poultry, Etc. Hens per lb 12 13 ChleM'tiR ihessed 15 ltl 'turkeys, llvo It) 1? Kk-fs-Pn. and Ohio, fresh Si 31 Fruits and Vegetables. l'otatoes Now per tu Vi 6 CshbiiKe per bul 15 1 ' l Onlont. per tinrrel 1 V i 1 Hi- Apples per turret ljt i U BALTIMORE. Flour-Winter 1'atent ...'."' i. Wheal .Nn. 2ioU I 11 1 i:t Corn mixed tii yl- Ehkb a I 5ti huiter Creamer? 0 yd PHILADELPHIA . Flour-Vi Inter Patent f 'i 1" S 7J Wheat No. Xred 1 It) 1 II Corn No. 2niixed ,H 51 Oats No. 2 while 8'l 37 llutter-Creainory, extra .ri till kKB Pennsylvania lirsts M I'-l NEW-YORK. Flour Patents i6 0) fl Wheat No. 2 red .. 1 H I ya torn No. 2 6'J i-'- Oats io, 'l Into Hi .V nutter C'leainery w vi Kfc'gs- - W C LIVE STOCK. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg. Cattle. Kxtra liesvy, roio 1CO0 lbs 5 jr 6 CO Piln.e, li-to to U(X) lbs 5-J) 5,;i) Medium, VMS to lilUU lbs 4 CJ S 10 Ti-iy. IU t' ll.'id 1 3-- 4 liit liuti Iter, uoo io nog lus 8.0 S7f I'ouiiuou to lair Slit) -j 75 Oxen, common to 1st 7j 4 u I'onimoii toirnod fat bullsand cow vol :ir.u Jllli-h cows, each !G It 'MJi Hogs. Filmeheary hoitn l4l)'t 50i t'lljne- mt-ilittin weights 4 ." f(0 met iK-avy JotkelH lied medium.., 411 4 ll tioid ptt:rtai:d litfiityorkcra 4 71 4(i I'Ils. enmmul) tt'KOod 4 yO 4 7. HntlKhB 3 7il 4U Mfilj ai. i!5j Sheep, titi n, medium wethers S 5 r5 r.7 tjood-lo cboioe 5 'J.l & :l.l AU-diun 1)5 4 i)t Common In fnlr aoi r. b riiiK Lambs 4UJ (iuO Calves. Veal.extra ! 503 7":) ea, yuoil to choloe M- 3J 45) Vtbl, Loliimon ueavr 8 7J SrORTlXG BREVITIES. W. II. Snyder S: Co.'s Trapper won the First .Special Handicap at N"cw Or leans. For the first time this sw.son tliere -.vits skntins in Central Turk, New York City. Jmlpes were rur'ovtnrof! fnr the nn r"inl dotr sliow cf the Weslniir.stcr Kennel Lino. F. B. Stephenson won the holiday nnd committee events at the Crescent Athletic Club's .shoot. Negotiations :',ro pcMidinr; for the visit to this country of the ('ovli.lliiiin Asso ciation football toniu oi' ;i!.:;i:in.l. Tho Er.vl of Crawrurd bus entered his auxiliary y:u-ht, the Vnlli.tiin, for til 0 Cernuin Emperor's ();"::in Cup. . linger r.fstialian, ci the ev-.v Yoy'c Ne.iional Leaxit" lias- b:d! C'!u, lina re.ised a purse ot :Jil2,(,'jj to Ley ti.e fu k'uo eh:!'. In a triitl spin 0:1 the Pirr.v!mry Ilivc-r J. (liven sent h:.-' i.-o ;.;.! t. tho Rajs!?, at n speed faster than a vS-.'.o a minute. Benjamin V. Morris' MiMml v.-n-i ti.e Commodore's Cup in the first 1 o y.'.cht inee of the season 011 tUu iiur.lli Shrewsbury. For next year's Internntiov.r.I Aulo mobile Cup race the circuit Anver.sr.nt has been chosen by the Automobile Club do France. , Callitmu CraRin and C. C. Kelly won the championship indoor tcntds cham pionship in doubles of tka Seventli Iteglmcut. X. Y. S. M. Another international cable chess match Is assured wllh Yale, Harvard, rriuceton and Columbia, pittcJ against Oxford and Cambridge. Sidney F. Jones, of the Elizabeth Town and Country Club, won the gross and net score prizes, with HO 1'J 77, bi tho coif handicap of the Lake.vood Country Club If all the airships would go up as easily as they come down, the prob lem of aerial navleatlon would be solved In & jiffy. ' , 1 1
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