Aunt Lucy's!
Legacy.
By JAJVB LEE.
jt Copyrighted. 190J, by Associated f
Literary Press.
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rople could talk all they liked about
. poverty bringing happiness, but Bay
ard Lelghton kicked literally at the
suggestion. He had Just finished read
ing a letter from his maiden aunt, In
Which she had declared: "Money bus
not ' brought uie happiness. 1 have
lived alone all my life, and I some
times envy you in your poverty, loved
and adored by so suv.cet a girl as Vir
ginia." "Well, wbnt do you know about
that?" demanded Hayard of bis pal,
Jimmy Bookwalter.
"I know exactly what 1 think of
her, old man," drawled .Tlmmy, "but a
lady's a lady even If she is your nunl
and I'd rather not put my opinion
Into parliamentary English."
"You're a moral cowurd, that's what
"SHE WILLS AND BEQUEATHS TO YOU THIS
F0BTBAIT OF XOUKSBLF."
you are, Jimmy Bookwalter," declored
Bayard as he flung the letter across
the tiny hall room. "You've got a
rich father who gives you more spend
ing money In a month than you could
earn In a year, besides which you're
too lazy to fall in love. I hope you
won't misunderstand me, Jimmy,
when I tell you that the space you oc
cupy in my luxurious apartment Is
much more valuable than your august
presence at the present moment."
Jimmy rose from the uncomfortable
straight backed chair, which was the
only one in the room. Bayard had
given It to him when, he entered and
had taken a corner of the bed for him
self. ".Oh, I see," mused Jimmy. "Want
to get dressed, eh? Well, so long till
tomorrow night. Be sure you show
up at the club and dine with me at
7 sharp."
When he was gone Bayard put the
Inhospitable chair up on the bed to
make more room and took a suit of
clothes from under the cretonne cur
tain which covered bis meager ward
robe. It did not take long to select a tie.
because he only had six or seven.
Bayard seemed to be going through a
mental reincarnation during this proc
ess of dressing. First he said disa
greeable things not whole sentences,
but just pertinent ejaculations, such as
"old fossil," "ought not to be out with
out a keeper." "envy me, indeed."
A little later he began to whistle
snatches of popular songs, nervous lit
tle thrills. And finally, with stick in
hand, he opened the door of bis room,
humming in a most contented manner,
"Love Me Little, Love Me Long." Aft
er all, life was worth while!
Virginia Tracey and Bayard Leigh
ton bad bee'n engaged some months.
Bayard's father had lived like a rich
man, and when be died suddenly the
son found himself penniless. Brought
up to lead an Idle life, untrained for
practical work, he took the first posi
tion offered to him in a broker's office
lit $15 a week.
That seemed all right until be sud
denly realized that without Virginia
nothing was right Recklessly he ask
ed ber to marry him, and with all the
Impulsiveness of her love she gave her
self to him. . They .were -young, and
they could wait Aunt Lucy, Bayard's
maiden aunt, had promised to make
him her heir, and decidedly Aunt Lucy
was no longer young. . x
When Bayard was blue, Virginia
seemed to be doubly radiant and to
night she was at ber best as she enter
ed ber drawing room to greet him.
"Had a letter from Aunt Lucy,
dear," Bayard announced as an impor
tant piece of news.
"Goody," cried Virginia, "and what
did the dear old lady have to say for
herselfr " "
"She told me how fortunate I was to
have you care for me, for one thing,"
began Bayard as he watched the color
mount to Virginia's cheeks at the com
pliment "Then she said a lot of rot
about But let's talk about the pleas
ant things. You do care for me, dont
you?" he added.
"Silly! Silly! Of course I do!" she
cried. "You're silly for a whole lot of
reasons silly to make me wait to be
really yours until you can take me to
a fine home, but If you are satisfied to
Si i fTT - I S -i V
take a toothless old woman for a wife
well"-
And when Bayard went home that
night he was still bumming a happy
air.
He took the chair off the bed,
tucked it in one corner of tne room
and stretched himself out for the
night
In after years he talked much about
that room. He always declared that
be could open the door with his hand
and the window with bis foot at the
same time; that if he bent over to
lace up his boots be butted bis bead
against the side wall, and when be
thrust bis arm through the sleeve of
his shirt he Invariably bruised the back
of his hand on the ceiling.
The next night while dliiliix wltli
Jimmy a telegram was handed t'
Baynrd.
"Your aunt died this morning fn
nerai Thursday," It rend.
"Well, I hope the dear old lady will
be buppy In heaven," I'.ajmd said, in-;
without some feeling. "She had per
Bunded herself that she wasn't here."
"That telegram means a lot to you
doesn't it?" inquired Jimmy, with n-i
air of finality.
"Yes, It docs. It means thnt I'll have
a goodly bit of the necessary Ions
green and that Virginia and I can b"
married."
Some two weeks later Bayard was
notified by the express company that
there was a package there for him
with $40 due on It, shipped from Chi
cago. Bayard knew at once that ll
was some of Aunt Lucy's vnlunble sil
ver sent on to him. Jimmy would lend
him the money to pay for it.
The bill was paid, and the big pack
ing case was ordered sent to Virginia's
bouse and Jimmy duly Invited around
to participate in the unpacking. Ham
mer and chisels were put to use, and
all three of them entered Into the gny
spirit of the party, riles of packing
were pulled from the box, and dually
a heavy gilt frame came to view.
Coats were taken off, and the com
bined strength of Jimmy and Bayard
was put to the test Finally the pic
ture was taken out. It proved to be
a life sized portrait of Bayard as a
child.
"Well, I'll be hanged!" declared Bay
ard as ho mopped his brow.
"Here's a letter." announced Jimmy
as he pulled a long white envelope
from the corner of the frame. Vir
ginia opened it and read aloud:
"Your aunt, Miss Lelghton, left her
entire estate to charities. She wills
and bequeaths to you this portrait of
yourself. The portion of the will re
lating to you reads as follows: 'I leave
no money to my dear nephew, Bayard
Lelghton, because I do not wish to
shatter his ideal method of life. He
Is earning a good salary and has good
health. As a slight token of my af
fection and as a remembrance I leave
him the Gilbert portrait of himself
which now hangs In my library. "
"Isn't it a darling!" cried Virginia ns
she danced about the huge portrait.
"But you can't go to housekeeping
with nothing but an old oil painting,"
demurred Bayard.
"Seems to me," broke in Jimmy,
"that there's plenty of wood right here
to build the house, and It won't take
long to cover the walls. There's the
oil painting to begin with. Then we
can have that letter framed. I'm sure
Bayard never wants to part with that.
Then I'll give you a large photograph
of myself, and"
"What's all this nonsense about go
ing to housekeeping?" Interrupted Mr.
Tracey, Virginia's father, as he came
Into the room. "When these young
people get married and I wish they'd
hurry up about It they must come
and live with me. Virginia can change
ber name whenever she wants to, but
not her residence. And as for this
legacy business, I'd rather have a man
for my son-in-law who can fight his
own way than one who was made by
an inheritance."
Mr. Tracey picked his way across
the room over the pine boards, chisels
and excelsior packing. He took his
daughter In one arm as he extended
his free hand to Bayard.
"Do you moan It?" sang out Bayard
gleefully.
"Mean It?" echoed Mr. Tracey. "Well,
I bet I do, and to prove It I'll take
Jimmy Bookwalter into the dining
room and keep him there until you
two settle on a date for the wedding."
The words "dining room" seemed to
awaken Jimmy from bis stupor. He
had a mental picture of a sideboard
plentifully stocked with reviving liq
uors. He announced that be was
ready for the proof of Mr. Tracey's
assertion, and together they went out
of the room, leaving the lovers alone.
A Hypochondriac
"Pa, what Is a hypochondriac?"
"A hypochondriac, Wilfred"
But Just a moment "Pa" In this
anecdote is not a good and kind fa
ther, yearning to Impart useful Infor
mation to his son, but one of those
smart answer givers whose main ob
ject In life Is to get Into the back
pages of the magazines. Such fathers
look upon their little sons groping for
knowledge as providers of openings
for senseless domestic epigrams; hence
but we'll go back.
"Pa" takes off his glasses and looks
benignly at his son.
"What did you say, my boy?"
"Pa, what Is a hypochondriac V
That gives "pa" bis chance.
"A hypochondriac, Wilfred" names
like Wilfred add humor to this sort of
thing; John, for instance, would fall
flat and James would be indefinitely
worse; but to resume "a hypochon
driac, Wilfred, Is a man who has such
a dread of catching cold that when
ever be takes a bath he stops up all
the holes In the sponge for fear of
drafts."
And Wilfred not quite seven years
old! Isn't it a shame? New York
Times.
LAND OF THE CROSSBOW.
The Deadly Poisoned Arrows of the
Llssoo Sharpshooters.
- On the wild frontier between China
and British Burma is a barbarous tribe
which has no civilized supervision.
George Forrest, an English traveler,
thus describes the chief weapon of
these people: "If I had to suggest a
title for a book on the upper Sal win I
should call It 'The Laud of the Cross
bow,' which Is the characteristic weap
on of the country and the Llssoo tribe.
Every Llssoo with any pretensions to
chic possesses at least two of these
weapons one for everyday use In hunt
ing, the other for war. The little chil
dren play with miniature crossbows.
The men never leave their huts for nuy
purpose whatever without their cross
bows. When thoy go to sleep the 'nu
kung' Is bung over their heads, and
when they die it is hung over their
graves. The largest crosubuws have n
span of fully five feet nud require u
pull of fully thirty-five pounds to string
them. The bow Is made of a species of
wild mulberry of great toughness and
flexibility. The stock, some four feet
long in the wnr bows, is usually of
wild plum wood. The string Is of
plaited hemp and the trigger of bone.
The arrow, of sixteen to eighteen
Inches is of split bamboo about four
times the thickness of an ordinary
knitting needle, hardened and pointed.
The actual point is bare for a quarter
to one-third of au inch, then for fully
an inch the arrow Is stripped to half its
thickness, and on this portion poison iff
placed.
"The poison Is Invariably a decoction
expressed from the tubers of n species
of nconltmu which grows on those
ranges nt an altitude of 8,000 to 10,000
feet. The poison is mixed With resin
or some vegetable gum to the consist
ency of putty and is then smeared on
the notched point. The 'feather' Is sup
plied by n strip of bamboo leaf folded
Into a triangular form and tied in n
notch nt the end of the arrow, with the
point of the angle outward. The re
duction in thickness of the arrow
where the poison Is placed causes the
point to break off in the body of any
onp whom it strikes, and, as each car
ries enough poison to kill a cart horse,
a wound is invariably fatal. . Free and
Immediate incision is the usunl remedy
when wounded on n limb or fleshy part
of the body, but nt Chengka the uncle
of the Laowo chief showed us n prep
aration which resembled opium dross
and which he said was an effective
antidote.
"With few'' exceptions the Llssoo
seemed to us to be arrant cowards,
but the crossbow and poisoned arrow
are certainly most diabolical weapons.
An arrow from a wnr bow will pierce
a deal board an inch thick at seventy
or' eighty yards. Some of the Tsekon
natives were so expert that they could
hit a mark four inches In diameter re
peatedly at sixty to eighty yards. As
no one goes .anywhere without ills
crossbow and his benrskln quiver full
of poisoned arrows and as every vil
lage is at feud with every other vil
lage mutual suspicion Is Inevitable.
In open fight the Llssoo are usually
careful to keep at a respectful distance
from each other and behind oxhide
shields which protect the whole of the
body. But If battle is rare, murder
and sudden death by ambush In the
jungle are common."
Drank and Remembered.
A porter In a big New York ware
house in Greenwich street was recent
ly discharged for getting drunk and los
ing a valuable parcel. The discharge
sobered him instantly, coming as a sud
den bard shock. He said be would
take the oath never to touch liquor
again, but bis pleadings for reinstate
ment were unheeded. He searched
everywhere for the parcel, but could
not recollect what disposition he bad
made of It Of bis honesty there had
never been a question In twenty years.
Overcome by the loss of his place, he
got violently drunk and while In this
condition recollected where he had left
the parcel and went aud recovered it
New York Times. v
Where Willie Was.
The professor (at the dinner table)
Oh, by the way, Mrs. Chopsticks, have
you seen your little boy Willie lately?
Mrs. Chopsticks No, professor, I have
not seen him since 10 o'clock, and I
can't Imagine what has become of him.
In fact I am very much worried about
him. Professor Well, seeing Martha
pour me out that glass of water Just
now reminded me of something that I
had on my mind to tell you some time
ago, but which unfortunately escaped
my memory. It was Just about 10
o'clock, I think, that 1 saw little Willie
fall down the well. Atlanta Constitu
tion. Sympathy For the Orphans.
. An elephant while stamping through
the Jungle one day quite unintentional
ly stepped upon a mother bird, crush
ing It to death. Hearing the cries of
the little brood In the bushes near by,
she sought out the nest and with a sym
pathetic sigh said: "Poor little things!
I've been a mother myself. I'll keep
you warm." And she then proceeded
to sit upon the nest From George T.
Lanlgan's Fable, "The Kind Hearted
She Elephant" - ?
Modern Version.
"Then yon will be ever at my beck
and call?" Inquired Aladdin.
"With the exception of Tuesday and
Friday afternoons, Monday and Satur
day evenings and every other Sunday,"
firmly replied the genie. Washington
Herald.
The Knocking.
"De successful man," said Uncle
Eben, "keeps quiet so's he kin hear op
portunity knock In' at de do.' De fail
ure tries to do all de knockln' hlsse'f."
Washington Star. - .
Von Bulow and Sarasata.
In one of his letters Von Bulow re
fers to Sarasate as follows: "He has
enchanted me beyond measure, par
ticularly In his concert of yesterday,
when he played a splendid work,
'Symphonic Espagnole,' by Lalo
played In so genuinely artistic a man
ner that today I am still Intoxicated
with It His playing also of the Saint
Snens concert piece for violin Is as en
trancing as interesting. It is a shame
thnt he cannot come to see me. N. B.
I have purposely avoided his person
al acquaintance. Perhaps he has tried
to see me, for over my door stands the
notice: '
"Mornings not to be seen.
AfternoonB not at homo.
"But perhaps he did not ring the
bell. (He -never plays under l.ono
francs he received this sum here al a
private musicnle.l 1'or licerotflry he
has Otto Uoldschmldt, who sent me a
pass, which I returned with the re'
mark that for such an Important con
cert 1 could certainly afford to buy my
ticket. Six murks was iu no way ton
much to pay."
Bulow did make his acquaintance,
however, as lie refers In n later letter
to Sarasate coming, quite unexpected
ly, to a ''conference with Johannes"
(Brahms), at which he himself was
present.
He Preferred Mules.
One of the pet holilili-s of Senator
Christopher Mugee was his newspaper,
tho Pittsburg Times. He kept the pa
per well to the frout. and It was a
credit to modem journalism. One
morning the Times had been scooped
on a railway wreck.
"Senator," nsked an Intimate ac
quaintance, "how do you console your
self ou the loss of that wreck story
this morning?"
"By congratulating ourselves," ho an
swered quickly, "that we are among
the number who missed that ill fated
train."
On another occaslou astlie senator
was approaching tho Times building
on Fourth avenue be noticed a crowd
gathered about a wagon which was
filled with huge rolls of newspaper. A
wheel was caught In a deep rut In the
pavement and could not be budged.
"Senator," laughed a friend, "they
managed at last to get your pnper Into
a rut."
"Yes," answered Mr. Magee, his eyes
twinkling with good humor, "and I'm
not trusting to men to get it out again,
but to mules." Philadelphia Press.
Vanity of Men.
In a woman's club, over tea and
cigarettes, a group of ladles died
many, many instances of the foolish
vanity of males.
"Take the case of bees," one said.
"Because the queen bee rules the hive,
because she is the absolute mistress
of millions of subjects, man up to a
few hundred years ago denied her sex.
He called her the klug bee.
"Pliny wrote somewhere, 'The king
bee is the only male, all the rest being
females.' And Moses Itusden, beekeep
er to Charles II., stoutly denied, In or
der to please his royal master, that the
large bee, the ruler of the hives, be
longed to the gentler sex.
"Even Shakespeare couldn't bear to
think that the bee of bees, the largest
and wisest and fairest, the hive's ab
solute lord, was a female. No, all the
proofs notwithstanding, Shakespeare
called her a male. Don't you remem
ber the lines
"Creatures that by a rule In nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom,
They have a king and officers of sorts."
New Orleans Tlmes-Deinocrat
Casualties Expected.
During one of Speaker Cannon's hit
ter political fights In bis district in Illi
nois the opposition resorted to desper
ate tactics. Among other things friends
of Uncle Joe were summarily dismiss
ed from positions they held In the pub
lic service. Some of his friends be
came alarmed at this, and one of them
called on the speaker at his residence
and said, somewhat excitedly:
"Joe, Smith and Jones have Just lost
their positions in the postofilce. Wbnt
are we going to do about It?"
Uncle Joe took another pull at his
cigar and then answered, with a benev
olent smile: "Nothing. If you go into
battle, you have got to expect to have
some dead and wounded."
A Precaution.
"Young man," said her father, "I
don't want you to be too attentive to
my daughter."
"Why er really," stammered the
timid young man, "I had hoped to
marry her some"
"Exactly, and I'd like to have you
marry her, but if you're too attentive
to her you won't have money enough
to do It" Liverpool Mercury.
Almost Qualified.
"Help you!" scoffed the Irate house
wife. "Well, I guess not I only as
sist Invalids."
"Well,' mum," ' responded Beefsteak
Ben as he tried to remove the bulldog
from his shins, "I'll be an Invalid If I
stay here much longer."
The Poor Milkman Again.
The milkman was boiling over 'With
Indignation.
"And you mean to say my milk don't
look right?" he snapped. "Why, lady,
this can of milk Is a picture!"
"Ah, yes," laughed the keen house
wife; "a fine water color." Exchange.
Restless.
Caller So your cook has passed away
to a better place? Hostess Yes, but I
don't know if she'll stay. Poor Bridget
was very hard to suit Boston Trav
eler. "The poet Is born, not made," sayeth
the proverb. In other words, It Isn't
his own fault
Farm arid
Garden
GOOD HORSES.
The Preservation of Our Best Native
Amerloan Types.
By GEORGE M. ROMMEL.
Pedantic persons may express some
astonishment at the idea of looking
to a breed of saddle horses for car
riage horses, but the records of horses
with pedigrees are sufficient proof of
Ihe claim that the American saddle
horse register contains some of our
best carriage blood and that breeders
who are using that blood Judiciously
are acting wisely.
There are certain lines of breeding
found lu the ' saddle horse register
which can be relied upon to produce
carriage horses. In Kentucky the
CABMON, CARIilAOH STALLION AT HEAD 09
OOVEHNHKNT STUD AT COLORADO KX
PBBIUEHT STATION.
breeding of horses for Individual ex
cellence of conformation, quality and
action Is carried to a greater degree
than lu any other state, and, contrary
to popular opiulon, the most of the
men outside of the thoroughbred es
tablishments who make their living
from horse breeding In Kentucky in
the blue grass counties at least are
breeding not for speed, but for type.
This has been going ou for yenrs, and
for this reason the good, handsome
horses of Kentucky have usually been
appreciated, their history traced and
their descendants accounted for. If
the same careful attention to points
of conformation and action bnd been
shown fifty years ago by Morgan
breeders In New England and had
there been displayed the same enthu
siasm for ""and loyalty to a valuable
local type of horses there would now
be no necessity for government aid to
save the Morgan from destruction.
If horsemen In the limestone sections
of the corn belt bad paid less atten
tion to the speed records of the stal
lions In tbetr localities and more to
their Individuality the carriage horse
work of the department of agriculture
would be out of place.
Specific work in horse breeding by
the United States government was
first made possible by the Inclusion lu
the appropriation act for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1905, of an item
of $25,000 for experiments In animal
breeding and feeding In co-operation
with state agricultural experiment
stations.
The reasons for taking up the
breeding of carriage horses have been
fully sot forth in various publications,
In articles for the press and In public
addresses, but a recapitulation . here
may not be out of order. Briefly
stated, they were: That carriage
horses are, as a rule, the most valuable
class on the market, that as a result
of the strong demand the supply was
gradually diminishing and that, not
withstanding all the Importations of
the carriage type from abroad, the
preferred horse was the American
i horse. Most Important of all, how
ever, was the feeling that steps
should be taken to correct the practice
of castrating valuable stallions and
selling valuable mares for other than
BKiHONT, OFTEN FOUND IJ PEDIGREES OF
. AMEBIC AN CABB1AOE HORSES.
breeding purposes. The department
also felt that although probably
nothing could wean the American
horseman- from his attachment to the
standard bred horse, the most useful
characteristics of this horse should be
preserved If it would continue to be
of high value to the farmers of tbe
country.
1 ' ' '
The Farmer of the Future.
The future farmer will subirrlgate
bis land and defy drought as well as
floods. He will become a scientific
forester, and every farm will produce
wood and lumber as well as wheat
and apples. ' Women will work out
doors as heartily as men in fact they
will be the horticulturists and the
track gardeners. .There will be closer
relation between the producer and the
consumer, Ignoring a horde of middle
men who frequently waste more than
Is destroyed by Ignorant help and In
sect foes combined. Under tbe alli
ance with tbe echoed tbe farm will be
valued not only for Its gross weight
'of products, but for Its poems and Its
education, r - .
Rheumatism Cannot Be Cured
Unless Uric-O Is Used.
Sudden Deaths, Heart Failure and Paraly
sis Are Caused By Poisonous Uric
nt Phanmaflit A Am
The rheumatic person Is sceptical re
garding the claims of almost any re
medy advertised as a euro for rheu
matism and no one can scarcely blame
him for doing so. All the plasters and
liniments combined ' ilever actually
cured a case of rheumatism. They may
relieve It in one quarter but It 1b sure
to break out somewhere else. The
only true way Ui cure rheumatism Is
. . . . .
mj unve ii iroin tne Bysiem. lor bs lone;
as the ui Ic and rheumatic acid remains
in the blood, one Is nover entirely free
from the trouble. Urlc-O seeks out
the rheumatic poison in the blood,
musclenund kidneys, renders it inert
aod harmless and drives It out of the
system. His composed of put fijot anti-
oies ior me i neumuuc aem poison in
the system, and the Bocret of its won
derful succees lies - in the fact that It
Is designed to cure rheumatic-in only.
Urlo O Is sold by druggists at 75o and
tl 00 the bottle. A liberal sample may
be procured by writing' to tbe Smith
Druir Co., 110 Smith Bldg , Syracuse,
N. Y.
Do your eyes need
care? If you need
glasses at all, you
need the best and
need what suit9
your eye9. I ' will
visit Reynoldsville
December 17th, and
Brookville 18-19th.
G. C. GIBSON,
Optician.
WE'LL HAMMER IT
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most dependable plumbers in the vlolnity.
Dependable not merely In the thoroughness
of our work but also in our promptitude and
reasonable charges. We employ only skilled
workmen and use only the best materials.
Having a practical and a scientific knowledge
of sanitary plumbing In all its branches, we
believe otfrselves competent to undertake '
any clans of work. -.
C. E. HUMPHREY
Plumber
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yon want my opinion and examina
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