"GAB." i i I reckon if speed bad been sprawl, He'd V dim' to the very top notch. A it was, though, he made jest one crawl To a perch in a next-the-ground crotch. As others went cliinbin', he balked In Industry's towerin' tree, lie not and he talked and he talked and he talked, "Bays I and says he and aays she! There was men didn't know hnlf as much And hadn't the science o' gab, But they dim' like the very old Dutch, With their Brit and their gumption and grab, But he, though he knovi-ed it most nil, Sot poundin' the trunk of the tree, Contented to argy and bicker and brawl: "Says I and Buys she and says he I" His neighbor went gnmtin' up post, A-diguin' their to-nails riiiht in, To trunk and to limb clingin' fast, Jest bound and determined to win. He'd Buy ns he'd ace 'em go by, "1 11 ketch ye all right up the tree!" And then his old tongue would nnlimher and fly "Says I and aays he and says she I " For yenrs his good wife kept him propped As he sot there astraddle that limb; lie didn't take heed would 'a' dropped If she hadn't clung holt of her Jim. So tarnnl took up with his tongue That he hadn't no eyes for to see How she sp'iled while he'd sot there a-pumpin' his liuij: "Says I and says he and says she!" His neighbors they propped him a spell When death had unloosened her holt, But nt liiftt they unclinehed and he fell, And he fetched the poor-fnrm with a jolt. There he tells how it all might V hen, Kxplnins how the world ought to be; How he'd do it he only could try it nunm: "Says I and anys she and says be! llolman V. Day, in Youth's Companion nit) iq 1 1 " isJmi A FRIEND EED, Dy ROE L. HENDRICK. When a mature horse "goes ugly," there ti so little hope of reformation that experienced horsemen make few or no attempts to bring the animal back to a normal state of mind and temper. Indeed, it is probable that a creature so afflicted Is Insane, and all the more dangerous for that rea son. If of little value, the animal usually falls before a rifle bullet; but an expensive horse Is killed only as a last resort, being confined in the meantime like a raging lion. As a matter of fact, of the two the Hon Is far more amenable to discipline. The difficulty Is to tell when a real ly ugly horse will display all his vlc iousness. He may appear mild or, at least, not savage for weeks at a time, and then, without warning, rush at the first living object within reach, displaying the ferocity of a carnivorous animal. Prince Charley, a Clydesdale be longing to the Parker Stock Farm, coBt $3000 when imported. He was nervous and high spirited, but had been broken to harness, and for three years was driven about the adjacent country, attached to a sulky or dog cart, as freely as any other horse on th place. He was not even "sklt tlsh;" and although he showed some excitement when driven close to an automobile or locomotive, he made no attempt to run away. Then he began to grow morose, sometimes striking or biting at stran gers who ventured near him. One day he was turned for exercise into the paddock, when he Instantly r'uBhed upon and killed two prize Southdown sheep that were feeding In one corner. The poor animals were bitten and trampled to death in a few seconds, the horse squealing and leaping in a rage as ungovern able as It was unprovoked. .Four men were needed to get him back Into' a box stall, and they had to beat hlra severely to Bave their lives. From that moment no one could approach him with the slight est assurance of safety. When he was in a paroxysm of rage, no ordinary partition could hold him, so a stall of exceptional strength had to be huilt. About his exercise yard a ten toot fence was erected, the exterior gate being a panel of solid planks, hfcld in place by a steel bar, or latch, a half-Inch thick. AH this, however, did not protect the stock farm employes, who had to be constantly on their guard when near the horse. The usual moment of carelessness came, and David Ba ker, one of the helpers, was terribly bitten and bruised. He was dragged out alive, but not till Prince Charlie had been temporarily disabled by a blow from an iron bar. A few days later the county agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals visited the farm, accompanied by the district attorney. He told Mr. Parker flatly that the an imal must not be beaten again in such a manner; and advised that, since he was vicious and dangerous, tt thing to do was to kill him at once In some humane manner. To this proposition the proprietor demurred. "Kill him ! " be exclaimed. "Why, that horse Is worth $5000! I'll pay all damages, of course; and III see that he Isn't abused. We never lay a finger oa him, except to ave life. See here, gentlemen; Just notice the precautions taken to pre vent him from escaping and doing any narm outside." , 'ine two officials were shown all over the place, and were treated very courteously by Mr. Parker, who had a persuasive tongue. They left only half convinced, however; and before eoing away, the district attorney said. impressively: "I appreciate your position. Mr Parker, and sympathize with you up to a certain point. That horse cost you $3000; you think him worth even more to-day, and you hate to lose so much money. But It may prove far more expensive to keep than to kill him. Besides the damages of which you speak, should be kill a person, as you are known to be fully aware that he Is incurably vicious, you would be liable to indictment and trial fur manslaughter." ' Mr. Parker winced at this, but simply reiterated his Intention to guard against all accidents. He certainly did his best to see that this promise was fulfilled, but a mar gin for human error must always be allowed. One afternoon in the fol lowing August some one neglected to drop the latch securely In its slot; Prince Charlie, while exercising, bumped against the yard gate; It swung open, and he galloped into the road. When a terrified stable hand hur ried to tell Mr. Parker what had hap pened, the horse, amid a cloud of dust, had almost disappeared to the BOUth. pain or terror called their attention to the foot of the slope. They ran to the brow of the bill and part way down before an opening In the bushes permitted them to see clearly what was happening. Billy by this time had broken his rope, and, limping and bleeding, was flee ing toward them, pursued by a great dappled horse that was biting blm savagely. So keen were flight and pursuit that the animals were up the hill and past them In a halt minute. Mrs. Bradway had heard of Prince Charlie's vlclousness, but for the mo ment d'd not Identify him. She cried out, and shook her apron at the horses as they passed. They paid no heed to her; but on the sum mit, Billy succeeded in escaping down a deep and narrow ravine, and then his pursuer turned, caught sight of the woman, and ran straight for ber. With her heart In her mouth, Mrs. Bradway recognized the horse. She seized Ruth's hand, and ran, over rocks and through briers, toward a patch of woodland at the right. The nearest tree was a hundred yards away, and there was no other shelter anywhere about. But for an unexpected Interven tion it would have gone hard with the two, who probably would have been killed or maimed for life, for Prince Charlie ran five feet to their one. Hid den in their vicinity, however, wns a humble friend, to whom they had given only the barest toleration till that moment. Crip was a homeless mongrel, a cross between a collie mother and an English bulldog father, whose owner had turned him adrift as soon as bis peculiar qualities had become pain fully apparent with advancing growth. He looked neither like a snub nosed collie nor a long haired bulldog, but was such an absurd car icature of the two breeds combined that the first glance at his ungainly form always excited a smile of deri sion. He had sneaked up to the Brad way farm house two months before, and although driven away repeatedly, had always returned, having nowhere else to go. In pity, Mrs. Bradway had thrown him scraps of food, and had even occasionally patted his block' like head, perhaps the only caress he! had received since he parted with hid mother. The dog was grateful, for r 4? v BEGIN. "3- OSE this day loitering lm same siory rirr-irt TO-MORROW-and the next more dila I tory; rtrirkrjrrrt'r' THEN INDECISION brings its own de I lays, rotri-1r-n-ri'Oioi' be the l AND DA YS ARE LOST lamenting I lost days. r ro-oro r H r r rr rr r n i pi mrrpP4 r . . Ui.c ikju lit .iAiv,oi i .seize this I o ey very minute .tfHAT YOU CAN DO, or dream you can, begin if. rict r?- -- QOURAGE HAS GENIUS, POWER, and magic in it. rrcrcrrcr QNLY ENGAGE, and then the mind grows heated irtrtrort( QEGIN IT, and the work will be com pleted. cOft-f5rtCocffte'g Faust Prince Charley had been more than unusually savage for a couple of days. It was a white faced, anxious man who summoned his helpers and set off in swift pursuit, dreading what he might find along the way. The road south of the Parker Stock Farm leads straight to the Corrperknoll "slashing," a half cleared woodland of several thousand acres, from which all the best stand ing timber has been removed. On the three intervening miles there were less than half a dozen houses, and travel was infrequent. But at this season the slashing was beginning to be visited by the fami lies of neighboring farmers, in quest of blackberries. The bushes covered many acres, and the fruit was ripen ing. By early September hundreds of bushels would be going to waste daily. On the day before Prince Charlie's escape, Dan Bradway, passlngthrpugh the slashing, had noted that the blackberries on the Hogsback, a bare, isolated hill with scanty soil more ex posed to the sun than that of the re mainder of the tract, were ripening freely. He told his mother of his find, and she resolved to be among "the first to gather the berries. Taking her ten-year-old daughter, Ruth, Mrs. Bradway harnessed Billy, an undersized road horse, to a buck board, and with an assortment of tin pails, drove over to the Hogsback. She left the pony, tethered to a long rope, to graze near the road, and as cended the hill. While the berries were not so plentiful as they would be a fortnight later, they were of fine quality; and by two o'clock the two had gathered fourteen quarts. They had Just filled the first milk pail, when a scream from Billy the peculiar cry of distress that a horse never utters except in extreme he could not appreciate how much the woman was ashamed of him and new was the time to display his grat itude. Grip had followed the buckboard unpercelved, and was enjoying a live ly hunt for an elusive woodchuck when he heard the squeals of Billy, followed by the pounding of feet and the cries of Mrs. Bradway. Rushing across the slope, he saw a huge monster, with . open mouth, charging after mother and daughter, and almost upon them. Mrs. Bradway could almost reel the hot breath of Prince Charlie on her cheek, when, like an arrow, a small er body shot between her and the ap proaching peril, as the dog launched himself straight at the horse's nose. He caught It, and his teeth almost met; but when Prince Charlie flung down his head, prepared to strike with his forefeet. Grip dropped back, only to spring and gash his huge an tagonist's throat. Trembling with fright, Mrs. Brad way thrust Ruth into the branches of an oak, and climbed after her. Ar rived at a place of safety, she turned and saw Grip running on three legs, his duty done, while the horse, ren dered still more savage by his wounds, was wheeling to rush upon a party of men who bad Just descend ed from a light spring wagon. They avoided him, but as he whirled about to fall upon the team, a shot from a rifle brought him down, and another quickly ended his career. Grip had a badly injured fore leg, but he also had earned a permanent home, and seemed greatly to rejoice at the balance to his credit. Billy re covered, although he was painfully hurt. Mr. Parker paid all the dam ages, merely remarking that he felt pleased to get off so cheaply. Youth's Companion. WHY THE REDWOODS SURVIVE. Nature Throws About Them Her Own Protection If Man Could Have Marketed Them at a Cost Not Pro hibitive These Relics of a Pre-Glacial Epoch Would Have Fallen Before the Lumberman's Axe. -:- -:- 'How did It happen that any of the big trees of California escaped the axe of the lumberman?" is a question frequently asked by those who are not familiar with the topography of California. The question answers It self when one has made a trip to the giant foreBt in the Sierras. Nature seems to bave protected many of these trees from slaughter by providing a home for them In a mountain fortress. The big trees were discovered by the lumbermen when the land on which they grew could be had for a song under the homestead act or the timber and stone act, but the problem of trans porting the timber to the mill In volved so great an expenditure that the lumber companies hesitated to tackle the Job. Some of the more audacious acquired ownership of those tracts nearest the market and expended large sums of money In the construction of flumes. It has been a paying Investment. The Hume Bennett Lumber Company purchased n tract containing 800,000,000 feet of standing timber, about 300,000, 000 feet of which Is big trees. To float this timber to the mill a flume more than fifty miles long was con structed. But even this company did not have the hardihood to make the expenditure that would be necessary to cut and market the timber on the crest of the mountain range. Before the glacial period the se quoia flourished in the temperate zones of Europe, Asia and America. The geologist say that when the Ice receded Just two species, the big tree and the redwood, survived. Both grew In California, the redwood In a narrow strip of the coast ranges and the big tree in small groves along the west slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There are but ten main groups of big trees. They are among the scarcest of known tree species and have the extreme scientific value of being the best living representatives of a former geologic age. The big tree has come down to us through the vicissitudes pf many centuries solely because tf its superb qualifications, says T. W. Brahany, in the Milwau kee Sentinel. Its bark Is often two feet thick and almost noneombustlble. The eldest specimens felled are still sound at the heart, and fungus Is an enemy unknown, to It. Yet with all these means of main tenance the big trees have not In creased their range since the glacial period. They have only Just man aged to hold their own on the little strip of country where the climate is locally favorable. John Mulr, the celebrated geologist, says he never saw a big tree that had died a natural death. Barring accidents, he says, they seem to be Immortal, being ex empt from all the diseases that afflict and kill other trees. Unless de- Btroyed by man they live on Indefi nitely until burned, smashed by lightning or cast down by storms or by the giving away of the ground on which they stand. The largest belt of big trees Is In the Sierras in Tulare County, some forty miles northwest of Vtsalia. These trees are scattered over the slopes and on the valleys, but are larger In the depressions where the sell is more moist. The trees are not collected together In groves but are scattered through the forests and associated with sugar pine, fir and other species usually occurring tt this altitude. They are more abun dant atrom 6000 to 7000 feet ele vatlon above sea level. In 1885 some enterprising men la California hit uron a schema where by lumbering operations in the high Sierras could be conducted profitably They organized a profit sharing soci ety known as the Kaweah colony It had the germ of the socialistic spirit, for each member contributed his pro rata of money or labor to the cause. A co-operative store was organized. a co-operative mill established, farm lands were apportioned and work was begun on the construction of a road to the mountain battlements where were growing the grand old trees that had stood since the days' of Christ The Kaweah colony had a member ship of 352, nearly every State in the Union being represented. Several members of the colony worked on the road and fully two-third of a splendid wagon way up the steep slopes had been completed when, without warn' Ing, Congress exploded a bombshell that scattered the Industrious Ka weahans to the four corners of the United States. Only a few hours be fore Congress adjourned In March, 1891, the President signed a bill con taining not more than a dozen lines creating the Giant Forest National Park. Members of the colony had neg lectsd to file on the land on which the big trees stood. The creation of a national park meant the withdrawal of the land from entry. All the road building had been in vain, for not one of the sequoias in this forest of the world's most magnificent trees could be cut. About $63,000 was ex pended in road construction by the colony. The colony disbanded when the park was created and no claim ever has been made against the Gov ernment for the money spent in road building. The road to the interior of the forest was completed by the Gov ernment, and now it Is a public high way. About 1500 acres cf the for est is In private ownership, but the trees have not been cut. They could not be hauled to the valley, as heavy teaming on the Government road Is prohibited. It Is estimated there are 60,000 sequoias In the forest, the big trees running about 'twenty to the acre. While nurseries have been estab lished, no marked success In the growing of these trees has attended the efforts of the Government. The parable pf the acorn and the oak Is famaliar to those who have been ad monished that great achievements come from small beginnings. A more striking example Is the big tree and Its seed. A single cone contains from 200 to 300 seeds, which are about one-fourth of an Inch long by three sixteenths wide. The seed of this giant of the forest is strikingly like the seed of the parsnip. Mr. Mulr says that no other sierra conifer produces nearly so many seeds. Millions are ripened annually by a single tree. "In a fruitful year," says Mr. Mulr, "the proddct of one of the northern groves would be enough to plant all the mountain ranges of the world. But few of the millions of seed which fall to the ground ger minate, and of those that do perhaps not one in 10,000 Is suffered to live through the vicissitudes of storm, drought, fire and snow crushing that beset their youth." All the sequoias In the giant forest are monster trees, but the greatest of them all is a tree known as the Gen eral Sherman. It Is 280 feet high, and twelve feet above the ground has a circumference of eighty-two and three-tenths feet. Its circumference at the ground Is 103 feet. It Is esti mated this tree contains 300,000 feet of merchantable lumber. A timber cruiser who examined this tree as a curiosity said there was enough tim ber In it to fence and cross fence 160 acres of land, build a seven room house, barn and out buildings, and leave enough refuse to supply fire wood for a year. From this tree alone, he Bald, there could be con. structed fifteen frame houses, each two stories high. The second largest tree Is called the Abe Lincoln. This tree has a diameter of . thirty-two feet at its base. At the south edge of the giant forest, near Moro rock, Is a tree known as the Theodore Roosevelt. This tree is not as large as the other two, but Is more symmetrical. New York Sun. BUSINESS CM RDM. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Pension Attorney and Real Estate Agaai. A Loaded Woman. An elderly patient in the Tennessee mountain region was suffering from a malady the remedy for which the doctor prescribed In the form of cap sules. The old woman trusted her medical adviser, but for the medicine she evinced much suspicion. Some time after she had taken the capsules she was asked by her son how she felt. "Porely." "Don't you want nuthin to eat? "No." Soon, however, the old woman arose from her bed and took her seat in a rocking clia!;-. Thinking that the attention would bs gratefully re ceived, the boii illla.l her pipe and taking a live coal from the hearth carried both to his mother. "Take that away, son!" yelled the old woman, in the utmost fright. "Don't you know better'n to come near me when I've got them cart ridges In me! " Philadelphia Ledger. An Industrial Symposium. A feature of the current issue of the Manufacturers' Record, of Balti more, is a collection of telegrapic re ports from the Carnesie Steel Com pany, Illinois Steel Company, Repub lic Iron and Steel Company, Penn sylvania Steel Company, and about 100 other leaders in every line of manufacture in the country, dealing with the business situation. These manufacturing concerns also give their opinions on the business pros pects of the immediate future. The Manufacturers' Record, begun as an exponent of the New South, indus trially, has grown to be "the most national of American business pa pers," and this valuable symposium Ir characteristic of its enterprising methods. The Gloom of night. The gloom cast over New York by the bight of its buildings has been the subject of an investigation by Dr. John E. Hill, Just made public in con nection with the report of the com mittee on the congestion of popula tion. He finds that along Broadway most offifces have to be artificially lighted, except for about five hours in the middle of the day; that along Ex change place very little direct sun light falls, except for two hours in the forenoon, and that the New York oculists testify to greatly increased business In the region ot nearly com plete dependence upon artificial il lumination. Eoston Transcript. Works All Day. Here Is one man v.-ho does not lim it himself to eight hours of work j day. A farmer in Bedswortb, Warwickshire. England, has created a local record In connection with the hay harvest by working in one field for twenty-one hours in a single day. He began cutting at 1.30 a. m. and ceased at 10 o'clock at night, when the grass was turned. RAYMOND E. BUOWN, attorney at law, Brookvillb, Pa. 0, m. Mcdonald, ATTORNEY-AT- LAW, Rual estate agent, piunntj secured, col- returns oimle promptly, unlet In Syndicate aiding, Ktrydoldivllle, P. gMM ft M. 'MoCREIGllT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Notary public and real estate Slant, Ool. lection will re-n to prompt attention. Offlos (n the Roynoldsvllle Hardware Oo. bulldluf, nam street neynoiusvuie, ra. IJR. B. E. HOOVER, DENTIST, Resident dentist. In the floorer bulldlej Main street. Uentleneaa In operating. ). L. l. means, DENTIST; Office on second floor of the First Ratios si bank bulldluK, Main street. I)R.R DEV EKE KINO, DENTIST, Office on second floor of the Syndicate ball! log, Main street, Kcyuoldsvllle, Fa. HENRY PRI ESTER UNDERTAKER. Black and white funeral cars. Main stress, KeynuldsvlUe, Pa, ' MARKETS. PITT8BURO. Wheat-No. red I 85 live No. 2 Corn o. 2 yellow, enr 05 No. Syeliow, shelled 87 Mixed ear 77 Oats No. white M No. 8 white , fs Flour Winter patent 6 80 Fancy straight winters Day No. 1 Timothy 110) j Clover No. 1 115) Feed No. 1 white mid. ton 80 ml Brown middlings 27 0) Bran.hulk 2"00 Straw Wheat 7 00 Oat 7 00 Dairy Products. Butter Elgin creamery.. Q ro Ohio oreamery 21 Fancy country roll 19 Cheese Ohio, new U New York, new 14 Poultry, Elo. flons per lb I 11 Chickens dreaned 18 Eggs Fa. and Ohio, fresh zi Fruits and Vegelablos. Potatoes Fancy white per ba.... si CahhftKe per ton 13-, Onions per barrel s 00 BALTIMORE. . Flour Winter Patent t 5 70 Wheat No. red.... 10 Corn Mixed 71 EBH 17 Butter Ohio creamery 28 PHILADELPHIA. Flour Winter Patent 9 8 60 Wheat No. S red Corn No. 2 mixed 1I8 Oats No. 8 white 1 Butter Creamery 80 Eggs Pennsylvania Orals 26 NEW YORK. Flour Patents I ti SO Wheat No. 8 red 1 Corn-No. 8 M Cuts No. 8 whilo 64 Btitter--Creamry 80 Eggs State and Pennsylvania.... 87 LIVE STOCK. ) 91 HH 7-1 M 63 i tJ 15 CO 18 6) 81 00 8M 50 SB 50 8 '0 8 00 82 if, tt 15 15 IS 20 1 60 8 1'5 70 It 39 6 7 87 8 M 81 2 5 9) 90 f,2 81 Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg. CATTLE Extra, M.V) to 10OO pounds 6 75 a 1 00 ' Prime, 10 to U po pounds 6 Bi (4 5 70 (ioorl, ItfJO to 1W poun.la 6 :0 4 5 60 Tidy, low to 1150 pounls 4 40 14 5 00 Fnlr, 10) lo 110) pounds 3 5-) ( 4 8", Common, 7i)J toSM) pounds S(H 40 Bulls 8 00 a 4 -,0 Cowo 100) (g540) noos Prime, heavy 00 a, 1) Prime, medium weight 6 ft5 (4 5 75 Hose tieavv Yorkers UU49W Light Yorkers 5 15 (4 5 25 PIkh. 4 7i( 5 CO Nouehs 5 l (& 5 1 Stags 4 4 0) I 7 SIIEEP Prime wethers 4 00? 4 1 Hood mixed 8 60 8 8 Fair mixed ewns and wethers 8 OJ -4 1 40 lulls and common 1 5)4 8 5l Spring lambs 4 0) 4i i Veal calves 50477 Heavy to thin calves 8 0J (4 4 5 THE LABOR WORLD. A Central Li.bor union has been organized at Augusta, Ga. San Francisco Barbers' Union has a membership of more than 709. Albany labor unions have erected and opened a tuberculosis pavilion. The various central bodies of Or ange County, New York, have joined a county labor union. A reorganization of tho building trades unions has been brought about In Buffalo, N. Y., after many years of warfare. It has been decided by the leather workers to make a universal demand for the. eight-hour day within the next two years. In Liverpool, England, 10,000 longshoremen are Idle, and the docks are filled with idle sailors and officers looking for berths. The accident report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor shows a list ot 100 miners killed and 2S7 injured In Il lincis from July 1, 1907, to July L. 190S. The strike of the operatives in th textile industries of India has ended. Low wages and bad conditiens of em ployment were the cause of the strike. International Cotton Spinners' -Union has pres;nt"d Samuel Ross, of New Bedford, liass., its veteran secretary, wi.li a silver service of fifty pieces. The paper millj of the Interna tional Paper Corapany in Franklin, N. II., started oa full time, all the men having voted to accept the five per cent, cut down. The spinners and cardroom work ers ia Manchester, England, adjusted their differences with the manufac turers, agreeing, temporarily, to ac cept a five per cent, reduction. People who have little knowledge, sneers the Chicago Record-Herald, re always willing to scatter that litUe as far as (bey can. J. n
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