THE CONQUEROR. ft Vxrtcrd at me with pleading eyea, Hte ardent suit he pressed; Mj tntl "No" he would not hear, Xw lut the subject rest. K aeked me once ugaln and then Bewuxht me o'er and o'er, Wot yet despaired, although my "No Was firmer tnan before. AmO at 111 he pleaded urgently. With mien of one who wins; laafhad and answered "Tes," and bought aUa book of safety pins. Eunice Ward, in Puck. When Breathitt's Best Shot Failed. By SNOWDEN KING. "Como out and tell a fellow good-by, won't you Ken?" Daw Simpleton drew his horse up Hcfore the door of a small mountain cabin, one of tlio many nestling among lb foot-hills of the Cui.jerlands. There was the glint of brown, blue axtd pink Kentucky Garrettson brown fcead, blue dress, and pink apron, and a Mood In the door-way. "Howdy, Daw. Como in." The man glanced down at his right kind lying on his knee, and shook his fcead. "What's up? Have you and daddy fceea scrapping?" She came out and leaned on the gate, evidently undisturbed. "I am going away, Ken, and I want m Rood long look at you before I go." "Tou are really and truly going? I arret thought you would. Why, Daw, Ton love the dear old mountains as amen it I do I don't see how you can leave them I couldn't. I wouldn't rwi try, for I know the home-sickness to see them again would kll me." Daw Simpleton's whole attitude (banged in a moment. His upright sore drooped, and the Hps under the Mack mustache, that were usually Done set and resoluto, trembled. His res gazed wlstfullly over the wild, Nagged scenery for a moment then am quickly back to the girl's face. "Tea, Ken, they are much to me, lot you are dearer than everything he in the world, except the desire to Wt back when I have been hurt. 1 amraM do anything to injure the mam who dared to make you 'love him, rea it the doing spoiled your whole Ute." Ob Daw, that is why you are go ing away. You don't want to hurt Poctor Hearst because you know It Tromid break my heart. Why don't Ijtm hate me?" "Kn, don't you know that a moun taineer's hate and love are always too deep to be put aside? My love has aaade me do many things," he continu ed in a musing tone. "When your Xatner sent you away to school I took M oath that when you came back you urould not find the untaught lout you fcsTL 1 quit chewing tobacco, drinking Donntain dew, and buying loud neck Vea in order to get money to buy -took. I quit fighting so as to have ttaw to study them. I read every lMag I could lay my hands on. As fast a 1 learned how words should be se4 1 dropped tho mountain dialect "4har was the- word that clung longest. Ten cannot know how hard this was, tor yon jievar had the mountain tongue. Yenr mother taught you better. When Jt crime back you seemed to like me letter than the other boys that went wild over you, although we had our lit tle tiffs occasionally. Ken, do you re rtMsnbor the night your after thrash 4 me because I would not go home rJii you from Caleb West's candy pul ling after you'had told mo I couldn't aW? That night was the first time I aaied you to marry me, and you told Vt you r.ever could bear the idea of arag railed Kentucky Simpleton. I took another oath that nlcht I told -mretS and God that I would one day tSS Ben Garrettson, and all that has. tared kirn from that day to this is be camsc Re is your father. I believe I ccaAl lave won you in time it that awwardly sneak of a Doctor hadn't " "Stop!" The eyes that could fill arilh tears could also flash with quick acaeotuent. "There isn't a man In the tats who deserves that less than Doc tar Hearst, and you know it. He came iert and went practicing his profes sion when the mountain guns wero ktaaing like rattlesnakes, and when the feads are on tholr threats fall to keep Hm from caring for both sides alike, m doesn't back his bravery with whiskey and pistols, either, for every lady In Breathitt county knows that le nerw even carries a pocket knife. Jt the man in him t'.iat goes quietly -wbcre others have to shoot their way through." The good and the bad the two ele ments that were forever waging war to Daw Simpleton's heart suddenly Sought to a finish. "Ken, are you quite mire you are String to marry him? I may not be nodi of a fortune teller, but I predict Dat instead of marrying him you will iHJ aim before the sun goes down." The girt laughed a low, happy 'laugh. "W7 not say the mountains will be hnrefed into valleys in the same length . mt time, while you are about it? One to quite aa likely to happen as the ufftea." WeH, it all depends on how much f Uie mountain spirit you've got. It s been Ben Garrettsan's boast for years that his daughter is the best hot in' the country, and that she stood me ready as a son to defend him to km tile Birtn who injured her father." Shre nodded her head. "It is true. TTBen' my mother died, daddy quit the feuds, tatroyed his stills, and has tried to live right ever since. He Is old now, and not able to defend him aelf, but his daughter is both abk and willing, and the man who raises his hand against him must answer to her for it." "No one, looking into tho earnest young face, could have doubted the genuine grit that backed her assertion. "He doesn't li'te Hearst?" "No; that Is my one sorrow. I have often seen Harry's face go white at the Jeering things daddy sometimes says to him, but he has promised me he will never quarrel with my father." Daw Simpleton's supreme hour had come. Your idol can break 'his promise the same as' other men, for he shot Ben Garrettson dead not more than twenty minutes ago." A sharp pain made its way through the depths of the man's degradation as he saw the small brown hands grasp a snowy, whiteness steal over the pretty face. Charlie Garrettson, a delicate blue eyed boy who had crept into the em brace of his sister's arm, looked up teto her face with quick apprehension. He petted the hand on the gate for a moment with his own wee ones, than went back to the house with a hop, skip and a Jump that spells boy tha world over. Kentucky's voice was quite steady wheu she aded: "Where and what for?" It was characteristic of the man that she no more doubted his word than she would have doubted the evidence of her own eyes. His faults were many, but It had always been said of Daw Simpleton that nothing would induce him to He.. "At (J Hitler's saw-mill he called Hearst a coward." "Good by Daw. You must go now, I've got a man to kill, and my father to bury quite enough work for one small woman in one day, is It not?" All tho soft gentleness seemed to have fallen from her. Her step was firm and her bead thrown proudly erect as she walked back to the house. Charlie watched her with anxious eyes as she picked up a pistol' lying on the table and examined it "Why, Charlie, my pistol is not lead ed. I didn't think you ever failed to keep It in trim.' "Must I load it now, sis?" There was a note of agony in the boy's voice. "No, my Winchester will do as well, maybe better it's sure." . Charlie took as tender care of his sister's gun as many people do of their children. Doctor Hearst often took him for a hunt, but could not persuade him to shoot at the game. "I Just can't," Charlie once said, "I love the feel of the gun to squint my eye down the barrel, and hear the noise it makes, but I just can't kill any thing." The next time Doctor Hearst came he put a box of cartridges in the lads hands and sair: "They only make a noise, Charlie." Gontier's saw-mill wa? only a mile from the Garrettson cabin, and Ken tucky was not long in reaching It. The mill was quiet and a number of men were standing near a stretcher on which Ben Garrettson was lying. Doctor Hearst knelt beside him, put ting the last touch to some bandages. The men started when they saw Ken tucky, and one of them ejaculated, "Fine thing fur him he lit out fore she got here!" But the girl neither saw nor heard them. She saw noth ing but the helpless object on the ground, and the man who rose to meet her. "I am so sorry, Kentucky," and Doc tor Hearst's voice was deep with ten derness, "I was Just coming to you. He will " "Not another word. Stand still if you please. You haven't a chanco. it's a life for a life." Doctor Hearst had never heard the voice of the woman he loved sound like that The Winchester that was never Isnown to miss its mark covered his heart. It took the group of men that one tense moment to realize the situation and In that moment Kentucky Gar rettson fired. But when the smoke cleared away Doctor Hear3t was still standing with that unafraid look on his face that only a very few men can face death with. The figure on the stretcher raised a grizzled head and chuckled: "Didn't I allers say she'd do it? and by gum, she has. But yer had the wrong target this time, little gal. Daw Simpleton has bin goln round payln his debts 'fore he left tho country, and, touching his wounded breast, 'this is one of them, but I aint dead jit by a long sight, and Hearst says I'll pull through guess I'll be more perlite to him after this. Ju3t think, Kentuck, What yer might hev' done ef it hadn't bin fur Charlie's blanks." Farm and Ranch. Ad Infinitum. D. B. Rundle of Rock Port, Atchison county, tells of the success his broth er had several years ago fishing in the Missouri river near their father's farm. He set a trot line one night baited with minnows. On examining the line next morning, they found the catch included a 140-pound catfish, which had swallowed the hook. When the hook was pulled from Its mouth it brought with it a white perch weigh ing five or six pounds, which had pre viously swallowed the hook, and. In removing the hook from the perch, was found a chub weighing one or two pounds that had swallowed the minnow. Kansas City Star. Turbine propellers are steadily grow ing in favor, both in the British nary and the merchant nutria, Jill Disease Can be Cured Nothing but Old Age and Occident to Cause Death. By Dr. . Burton Stevenson, President of the Baltimore Co. Medical Association. 3 a result of the great discovery of antitoxins man's allotted three, score years and ten will soon be a myth. The twen tlath opntnrv mdlilna will maka disease a harmless lndls- J1 1 position and death by accident and old age only the order I of the day. Surgery, electro-therapy and the Roentgen V 1 rays are dally demonstrating the fact that hitherto uncon querable dlsenses are yielding to treatment, ana serum therapy, the glittering gleam of generations gone, is be coming a reality. The use of animals to produce antitoxins Is not ample or able to meet the demand; science must have human beings. This great obstacle, however, can be overcome by using the criminals in our penitentiaries for the production of the anti-serums. A law making the punishment for certain crimes optional with the convicted Imprisonment on the one hand, inocculation with certain disease germs on the other would solve the problem for all time. With the work in the hands ot experienced men, chosen for their medical acumen and not by political influence, human produced antitoxin could be furnished which would supply the medical pro fession for all, or nearly all, tho known diseases due to germs. And it would not be dangerous to the subjects, either. The antitoxin as now produced by corporations are placed at bo high a figure that they are beyond the reach of the poor, and are such a drain upon the rich that a disinclination to their use is produced. This obstacle to the rapid development of the twentieth century medi cine could be overcome by generous state and municipal alii. The state now gives many thousands to the Agricultural college and ex perimental station in Prince George s county, in order that methods for forc ing spring onions may be found or means to kill a plant louse discovered. Why not give as many thousands to an antitoxin institution to protect the lives of Us children? $200,000 a Year FOR PERSONAL ATTIRE NO T EXTRA V AGANT. By Julia I (Weu York Society Woman.) san. WOMAN can't have too many gowns. A thousand dollars for a dress isn't such a great price to pay. I have plenty 2 m ',1 that cost more, some of them as high as $0000. J On the other hand, it would be sheer nonsense to spend i L ! ! $1000 for every dress one wears. The best reason is that A BV that many women make a practice of never wearing the $ same gown twice during a season, and never mora - than three or four times. Today the welWressed woman must have absolute har mony In everything she wears. Her shoes, stockings, hats, gloves, everything must match the gown. Each gown must have its own pair of shoes. My shoes cost $50 a pair. I can't see why $2000 is too much for one's shoe bill a year. That only allows for forty pairs. Gloves must match tho costume, of gloves and another $1000 for handkerchiefs are often spent I never wear a pair of gloves a second time. I try to spend as much as I can spend more than I spent the year before. This year I am planning to spend $200,000 on my clothes, and I don't think agant or wicked. Fifteen thousand dollars Is not year's supply of lingerie. She must furs. raGwtw The t Dangerous of ces that Threaten . Our National Life Ey President J F there is one tendency of the day which more than any : other is unhealthy and undesirable it is the tendency to I deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of $ I V, moral accountability. We shall never . make our republic J J J what it should be until as a people we thoroughly under- stand md put In practice the doctrine that success Is ab J horrent If obtained by the sacrifice of the fundamental prin- 44444 ciples of morality. The successful man, whether in busi ness or in politics, who has risen by conscienceless swind ling of his neighbors by deceit and chicanery, by unscrupulous boldness and unscrupulous cunning, stands toward society as a dangerous wild beast The mean and cringing admiration which such a career commands among those who think crookedly or not at all makes this kind of success perhaps tho most dangerous of all the Influences that threaten our national life. Our standard of public and private conduct will never be raised to the proper level until we make the scoundrel who succeeds feel the weight o( a hostile public opinion even more strongly than the scoundrel who fails. (ST ? Hu amor By G. K- NUMBER of brilliant books about America have been written of late by the ablest men now alive, for instance, Mr. Henry James and Mr. H. G. Wells. On the principle that fools rush in where sociologists tear to tread, I will venture to suggest that the basis ot the whole American character is simply its extreme solemnity; a solemnity wtifnti la AharafltaiaH. ll kt.n.lnn.. - .nl.mnlt- ..kink T A . .,,it.u a vuBmvicuauu vi ail uni uui laua , a pvsicuiuil wuii.u 18 expressed in the austere and beardless faces of Americans and of American Indians. -This Is the origin of the thing called American humor. In Europe humor Is a surprise, but in America It Is a ritual. We in Europe like a story to be short, not so much because it is therefore any more witty, but because some thing in us rebels against the prolongation of a merely frivolous thing. Thus, for instance, an American aristocrat of tho smart set gives a long and dull treak dinner, while the English aristocrat is. content with suddenly Jumping on your back. We in the deeply civilized countries have reached to a levity that rebels against levity; we are too ironical to accept irony except suddenly and for a moment But American humor arises from the fact that the Amer icans are so serious that they take ren humor seriously. London Daily News. Morosinl, course. A thousand dollars a year for upon my clothes. Every year I try to for a moment that I am a bit extrav too much for a woman to spend for a spend from $0000 to $10,000 a year on Afnsf Jill Injluen' Roosevelt Chesterton. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Method will teach you to win time. Goethe. Method will teach you to win time. Goethe. Good material is half the work. German. The Ignorant are courageous. Mod ern Greek. There is a critical minute for all things. Horace. Aspiring minds must sometimes sus tain loss. Plato. Where might is master, Justice la servant. German. No 111 befalls us but what may be for our good. Italian. A single day grants what a whole year denies. Dutch. He who relies on another's table Is apt to dine late. Italian. The time Is never lost that Is de voted to work. Emerson. Mischiefs come by the pound and go away by the ounce. French. What reason could not avoid has of ten been cured by delay. Seneca. To be of use in the world Is the only way to be happy. Hans Andersen. ' Labor rids us of three great evils tedlousness, vice and poverty. French. It is not possible for men to be per fectly blessed and happy, except a few, Plato. Life is not so short but that there Is always time enough for courtesy. Emerson. It is easier to suppress the first de sire than to' satisfy all that follow it Franklin. The worship most acceptable to God comes from a cheerful and thankful heart Plutarch. There is nothing so easy but that It becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. Terence. Perseverance Is more prevailing than violence, and many things which can not be ovepcome when they are togeth er yield themselves up when taken lit tle by little. Plutarch. THE CHILD MIND. Results of an Investigtalon Into In fant Mental Processes. Of 48 children, says Stanley Hall, 20 believed the sun, moon and stars to live, 16 thought flowers could feel, and 15 that dolls would feel pain if burnt. The sky was found the chief field in which the children exercised their philosophic minds. About three quarters of them thought the world a plain with the - sky like a bowl turned over It, sometimes believing that it was of such thin texture that one could easily break through, though so large that much floor sweeping was necessary in heaven. The sun may enter the ground when it seta, but half the children thought that at night It rolls or flies away, or Is blown, or walks, or God pulls it higher up out of sight, taking it up into heaven, ac cording to some, putting It to bed, and even taking off its clothes and putting them on again In the morning, or again, it is believed to lie under the trees at night and the angels mind it. God, of whom children always hear so much, plays a very large part In these conceptions, and is made di rectly responsible for all cosmic phen omena. .Thus thunder to these American-children was God groaning or kicking or rolling barrels about, or turning a big handle, or grinding snow, or breaking something, or rat tling a big hammer, while the light ning was due to God putting his fin ger out, or turning the gas on quick, or striking matches, or setting paper on Are. According to Boston children God Is a big, perhaps a blue man, to be seen in the streets. They declare that God comes to see them sometimes and they have seen him enter the gate. He makes lamps, babies, dogs, trees money, etc., and the angels work for him. He looks like a priest or a teacher or papa, and the children like to look at him; a few would them selves like to be God. His house in the sky may be made of stone or brick; birds, children and Santa Claus live with God. Birds and beasts, their food and their furniture, as Burnham points out, all talk to children; when the dew Is on the grass "the grass Is crying," the stars are candles or lamps, perhaps cinders from God's stove, butterflies are flying pansle3. Icicles are Christ mas candy. Children have imaginary play-brothers and sisters and friends, with whom they talk. Sometimes God talks with them. Even the prosiest things are vivified; the tracks of dir ty feet on the floor are flowers; a creaking chair talks; the shoemaker's nails are children whom he is driving to school. Nineteenth Century. Mother Earth's Youngest Baby. Oft the coast of Burma a small isl and was thrown up on December 15 Mat by the eruption of a mud volcano. Its birth was strikingly similar to that of the island in the North Pacific which made Its appearance suddenly at the time ot the San Francisco earthquake. The new Island Is about 400 yards long and 200 yards wide, and is 20 feet above high water at Its highest part- Its position is latitude 19 deg. 0 mln. 6 sec. N., and longitude 93 deg. 24 mln. 20 sec. E. It is entirely composed ot mud, with some small stones and sand, and has some small active craters at work at tho northern end. When officers ot the Royal Indian Marine Survey land ed they found the island still very warm and at a depth of thro feet the mud registered 148 degress Fahren heit. A flag was hoisted to warn pass ing vessels of the new danger. Phil delphia Ledger. Hard Wood Floors. To protect hard wood floors from scratches flit corrugated rubber to bottom ot tables and chairs, fasten with strong glue. . These tips are in visible. Now Is the time to strew charcoal about floors and shelves in the cellar; it purifies the damp air. Table Cover. , For a simple bed-room table Is a denim square edged with white fringe. If you have any material in a solid color left over from sewing utilize it by cutting it in conventional leaves and couch them as a border on a linen square. This makes a pretty tabla cover. Willow Chairs Bleached. When willow chairs remain yellow after being washed with soap and wa ter, wiped well and then dried In the sun they can be bleached by means of sulphur fumes. Light a sulphur candle near the chair and cover both with a large dry goods box. This should be done before the chair is perfectly dry. To Take Out Paint. Equal parts of ammonia, and tur pentine will take paint out of cloth-' Ing, no matter how dry or hard It may be. Saturate the spot two or three times, then wash out in soap3ud3. Ten cents' worth of celiac acid dissolved In a pint of hot water will remove paint spots from the windows. Pour a little in a cup and apply to the spots with a swab, but be sure not to allow the acid to touch the hands. Brasses may be quickly cleaned with It Great pare must be taken in label ling the bottle and putting it out of the reach of children, as it Is a dead ly poison. Washington Star. A Vegetable Bin, . Purchase at the grocer's five or six canned goods boxes of equal size and knock the bottoms out Lay the box es down side by side and across them and several slats two Inches wide and one Inch thick, leaving a space of about an Inch between the slats to afford ventilation. These spaces also will make it possible to sweep up from the floor beneath any accumulation of dirt from the vegetables. To the stonework of the cellar nail a strip of wood for the boxes to rest on. The legs should be nailed fast under the front edge of the boxes and also to the floor. The names of the veget ables can be painted on the rronts oi the boxes. Recipes. Orange Omelet Beat four yolks of eggs with four teaspoonfuls of fine sugar; add a pinch of salt to tho whites and beat until dry and firm; pour the yolks over the whites, add ing the grated rind of one orange and three tablespoons of Juice; mix lightly; cook in hot butter until firm; spread with orange pulp, fold, garnish with sections and serve. Cocoanut Cakes Prepare a cake mixture with a cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, a cupful of milk, three cupfuls of flour, two teaspoon fuls of cream of tartar, half a tea spoonful of soda, the whites of six eggs and one cocoanut, grated. Bake three dozen cakes, cool ' and dip in melted fondant, flavored end tinted. Decorate with blanched almonds and candled fruit. Chicken and Rice Cups This is a delicious breakfast or luncheon dish and also is an economical way of us ing small quantities of leftovers. To prepare it line small buttered cups with soft belled rice a half inch in thickness. Fill the center with cooked chicken, finely minced, delicately sea soned and slightly made moist with cream sauce or chicken broth. A few chopped oysters added to the chicken improve the flavor. Onion juice and minced celery may be added if de sired. Cover the top with a layer of the rice and bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes. Then invert the cups carefully on a heated platter and serve at once with any preferred sauce. Potato Salad The potatoes are se lected for their uniform size, pared and kept In a bowl of cold water until the pot ot bouillon in which they are to cook is boiling hot, t'hen they are transfered to it and allowed to re main in this broth until so mealy and soft that they can be readily pierced with a fork. Drained from the bouil lon, they are sliced while still hot, and covered with a French dressing. This is the secret of success, for the pota toes, which have been dellclously fla vored with the meat broth, absorb the dressing more readily while hot A little chopped parsley is scattered over the top, and the salad bowl and its contents are then relegated to the ice box for a couple of hours. A Counter Proposition. He I told your father I could not live without you. She And what did he say? He Oh! he offered to pay my fu neral expenses. Ally Sloper.
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