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WHEN GRANDPA PLAYS.
I don't know what makes Grandpa tlrsd;
he's linrdly done a thing
Except to put some luimmauks up ana
help us children swIiir;
He only came nn hour ago, and we v
been here all day. . . . ,
He says we're most too much for nlm,
and thinks he'll hardly sty;
He Just played drop-the-handkerchief
and bllud man's buff, but lie
Buys, My! we've got him out of breath
and tired as lie can be.
He toy It's most too much for nlm to
play leap-frog; and ball,
But we have been here all day long-, ana
we're not tled at all!
He started to piay hide and aeek, and
first he had to blind.
And then he ran with all hla might to
see who he oould find,
And Tommy Watklns beat him In from
there sWnil a tree,
Till Grandpa had to give It up and say,
"All's out's In free!"
And then le sat down on a stump and
said he's tired to death.
He had to hold his sides a while till be
could catch his breath.
He said he'd like to shake a tree and
ninko some apples full,
But he's too tired, and we boys here are
hardly tired at all!
He only ran In under once when we were
In the swing,
And then he had to rest because lies
tired as everything;
And one he showed us how to climb a
great, tall tree, but when
He only got a fow feet up he slid right
down again.
He said he used to climb a tree, oh, very,
very tall,
And sit across a branch way up and nev
er tire at nil
But now he's out of practice, and his
legs won't stay around
The trunk, and he feels safer when he
stays down on the ground!
And sometimes when he goes back home
and holds us by the hand,
All wringing wet nnd out of breath, our
Ma says: " loudness. Land!
I think you are the youngest boy of all
the bovs In slcht."
But Grandpa rubs his legs and arms and
limps and snya. "Not quite!"
And sometimes in the parlor, why, he
savs he was so str.mg
When he was Just a boy they used to
take him rlsht along
To lift the heavy things nnd do the hard
est work, you know,
RHtjnw us boys ll Hie him out In Just
las, hour or so!
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lit the. North Woods.
By Helen M. Palmar.
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The short summer was hastening o;
In the breathless fashion of the north,
it was still early In August and there
had been no rain for weeks In Ange-
La-Bale. The sun burned red like a
ball of Are; the green woods and fields
had taken on a livid, sickly hue un
der the smoke-tinged light, and a faint
acrid smell was In the air. From
dawn till dark the people tolled fever
ishly, gathering the premature harvest
and fighting the forest fires that crept
stealthily toward the village and
the north and west.
1 Old men, women and girls all
turned Into the fields to lend a hand.
Orandpere Labelle swung his scythe
bravely at the head of a line of mow
ers, boasting that he would show cette
Jeunesse how to lay a swath, while
tne young men laughed and applauded.
yet each kept a Jealous eye on the
weep of his neighbor's scythe: and
the girls watched Jean or Pierre or
Maxlme as the case might be from
under their lowered eyelids.
As to Roger Crewe, there was but
one mind, not a man In the whole
comte could do a bigger day's work
than the young Americain who found
time in the midst of his own labors
to help save the threatened crops.
"I t'lnk me," piped the impish little
Elmlre, resting upon her rake and fol
lowing with her eyes the tall young
man who pitched the hay so easily
upon the towering load, "I t'lnk me,
HTsleu' Roger is mos' bee'-lookln'
young feller the' Is In Ange-La-Bale."
"Chut!" whispered the other girls,
reprovingly, "you don' lak" to have
heem hear you, I s'pose."
"Ba oul! He's a man, now lak' the
res', ain't it?" persisted Elmlre, mis
chievously; "don't mak" not'in' if he's
surveyor for the beeg railroad, an' it
heem carry hees head so high, he can
not to see always who's pass heem
by. Tolnette he can see hevery tarn'.
Ba oul! But what will you? Tolnette
is very tall. How can one help to see
Tolnette?"
Quite unmoved apparently by the
laughter that greeted this sally, the
tall girl upon whom all eyes had
turned, went steadily on with her
work. A little in advance of the oth
ers she moved rapidly across the mead
ow, tossing the grass lightly from
her fork and spreading it with a free
sweep of her strong young arms. Yet
Ahe color rose In her pale, clear cheeks
-she knew even better than Elmlre. If
It could have been otherwise! But
what would you? The father was a
good father, but he was very strict and
bard to turn, and his talk was all of
foreigners and heretiques. Made no
difference that the mother tried to help
her, telling not once, but many times
how l'Amerlcaln had brought le petit
Jean home safe when he was lost in
the big snow storm and no one else
could find him; how he bad saved
Adele and her children when the river
rose and washed their house away.
"Tlens les femmes! " was all that she
could win, I don' say M'Bieu' Roger
he aln' hall right. But a good Cana
yen, he's good enough for me. L'Amer
lcaln, he can't come here on ma house.
An' he can't court ma girl!"
The forest fire that was eatlny its
way through the great north woods
drew dally a little nearer to the set
tlement; it was like a wild beast
prowling on the outskirts on which
one must keep a vigilant eye. 'Watch
ing the smoke from his tlay porch as
night began to fall, Roger saw It shift
to the southward and suddenly recall
ed that that way lay the little Lao
Garou where old Manots the half
crazy ward of the villaee, live per
ersely atone In a llttla cabin two or
three naUes front Aflgfr&sttala. Grass
lug his stick, he aet ofta a rapid pace,
reproScklnff himself that ho had not
I thaught of her sooner. Jean Bourchler
ner special protector naa gone aown
the river for the day; and Tolnette,
whose tender care for the forlorn old
woman had not escaped him, would
be anxious, he knew.
As he entered the path that gave
the shortest cut to the pond, he saw
that the fire was racing with him. In
the gloom of the forest it showed
plainly, a thread of rosy light from
which sprang at Intervals sharp, sword
like tougues of flame that leaped for
ward before the wind. He hastened
his pace to a run, rejoicing in his
strength, and in a shorter time than
he had thought possible a little rise
gave hlra a glimpse of the cabin; it
was lighted by a lurid glow and flames
were darting from the roof. Bending
close to the earth, he crashed through
the underbrush, following the sound of
voices that rose above the crackling
of branches, and emerged upon a lit
tle clearing.
Tolnette on her knees, her arms
locked about the old woman's wiry,
writhing form, was struggling to hold
her back. "Come wlth me, ma mere,
come with me!" she urged In eager,
coaxing tones; but Manon struck at
her blindly with shrill cries of anger
and strained fiercely towar dthe burn
ing cabin on which her eyes were fixed.
The girl gave a deep sigh of relief aud
let her tired arms fall as her btrWen
was taken from her.
The fire was closing in; there waB
plainly but one way of escape open to
them the pond and In order to reach
It now they much make a wide detonr.
Tolnette, familiar with the forest, led
the' ay fearlessly and Roger followed,
holding Manon In his arms. A raft
moored to the bank was quickly
loosed and pushed out into the cool
darkness that still brooded over the
little lake. The flames were racing
around the shores as If to circle them
with a wall of fire.
They were not alone on the pond;
other panic-stricken creatures had tato
en refuge there also. Foxes, coons,
squirrels ami chipmunks had gathered
on the shore, crawling far out on the
overhang4ng branches that dipped In
to the floor, and clinging there until
the pursuing flames forced them into
the pond.
"We shall be like Noah," said the
! young man, smiling, and Tolnette
suilled back at him. They were very
tired and drenched to the skin; a
broad, red mark across the man's
cheek and temple showed where a fly
ing brand had struck.
For a long time they did not speas,
and when at last Tolnette, vaguely op
pressed, lifted her lids she dropped
they again before the ardor of his eyes.
To return to the village by skirting
the line of the fire seemed Impossible,
the way would be long, and It was
plain that old Mauon, who wag still
bent Upon returning to her cabin,
would have to be carried by main
force. Steadily creeping forward, they
had almost escaped from the ruined
forest, when suddenly voices rang out
In the silence, unbroken since Manon
bad ceased her walling.
"It is my father," said Tolnette, lis
tening; "they are searching for us."
Jean Bourchler reached them first of
all, pushing through the underbrush.
"We should have died, Manon and
I, without him," Tolnette whispered
In her father's ear, as he took her
In his amis.
"Cest blen, ma fllle, tha's hall right,"
he faltered, and turning to Roger he
would have caught his hand, but the
young man drew back.
"Tlens! La Jeunesse! It must always
have Its way!" Jean brought out at
last in his deep, sighing voice, and
lifting his daughter's hand, he placed
It in Roger's and clasped his own
above It, folding them both in his
strong grasp. The Delineator.
NORTH CAROLINA WILD DOGS.
Great Pack of Them on State Lands
Will Attack People and Cattle.
For thirty years there have been
wild dogs in a great tract of woods
known as the Grimes lands, west of
Raleigh, part of which recently bought
by the state embraces some 1,300 acres.
These dogs twenty years ago attacked
a heard of milk cattle and the latter
had to be killed, some of the dogs
having the rabies.
From time to time the wild dogs
have been shot, but they cannot be
exterminated. On two occasions they
have attacked people passing through
the woods and had to be beaten off.
On the last day of February, which
marked the close of the hunting sea
son, with a number of - boys I was
rabbit bunting in these woods. A
rabbit was Jumped and made a wide
sweep In his run.
Most of us stood on the watch for
him to "return to his bed," as the
darkies say, and presently the music
of the dogs bringing him back waa
heard in the distance. The rabbit
was seen coming down hill where
the trees stood rather wiBe apart
and suddenly two very large dogs
mottled in color and looking remark
ably like hyenas, dashed at h'lm and
rabbit and dogs went over.
At this instant a colored man came I
up with hiB gun and rushed at the
dogs, which fled, leaving the rabbit
kicking but bearing on the rump the
deep marks of the dogs' fangs. The
dogs had appeared like ghosts and
they disappeared in the same manner.
It was a remarkable incident. When
the pack arrived the owner was hold
ing up the rabbit The dogs appeared
to take no notice of the tracks of the
wild dogs. Raleigh correspondence
Forest and Stream.
During 1&08, 19,328 foreigners land
ed at Yokohama and 15 other open
porta of Japan, 1400 fewer than In
1907. Chin lad with 6844, followed
by 44 British.
Science - Made
So Say Dr. Byrd Powell and Other Ex
perts, Who Explain Why.
The statement recently made In Chi
cago by the distinguished Egyptologist,
James H. Breasted, that the marriages
made in 6500 B. C, being scientifically
prearranged, resulted in true domestic
happiness, recalls the statement nmdo
by Ehrenberg, the German scientist,
that the human race began to decay
and disease to manifest itself only
when communities began to permit Ill
sorted couples to marry, Science, says
the German, baa attempted to guide
and control every condition of life
save the most important, namely, that
which provides for the continuity of
the race of men.
Men of the Intellectual attainments
of Stahl, Powell, Weetermarck, have
long since pointed out the fatuity of
allowing romance to be the pivotal
point upon which the institution of
marriage should rest That societies
have allowed this to be as for the past
two thousand five hundred years, has
been the cause of the advent of the
"affinity," or the idea of affinities,
bringing In their train a whole series
of unhealthy bodies and unwholesome
minds, society, both political and eco
nomic, necessarily suffering there
from. Under the paternalistic regimes of
flourishing ancient communities, It is
shown, the master or chief of each
family was chosen for bis general wis
dom. Every member of the family
owed him blind obedience, under pain
of forfeiting property or of being ex
communicated. He it was who, in
family council, decided whether a mar
riage wished for a given couple was
suitable or not He referred back to
the teachings of that Interesting old
medico, Hippocrates, and, considering
the mental and physical attributes of
the pair let us call them Balbua and
Cornelia would discourse to himself
somewhat after the following manner:
"Balbus, I note, is a young man In
whom the sanguine temperament pre
dominates. I can see this by his fair
hair, his fair skin, tils light blue eyes.
His flesh Is Arm, his pulse Is strong,
the forehead recedes and the nose Is
of the 'courageous' type. The Hps are
somewhat thin. Cornelia, on the other
hand, is distinctly of the nervous type.
The forehead Is high; she is capable of
considerable thought and reflection,
and will consequently not be over
optlmlstlc. She will, therefore, balanre
the over-optlmlsm of the young man;
her pulse Is feeble, and she will neu
tralize the tendency to Intensity in the
offspring. She Is the proper mate for
Balbus, and, consequently, I agree to
the two getting married."
This was roughly the way In which
the highly civilized ancient communi
ties provided for the perpetuation of
a proper race. If the chief of the
family found that the physical and
mental characteristics of a couple that
wished to marry were not of sufficient
diversity to neutralize each other's ten
dency to produce unwholesome exag
geration of individual characteristics In
the offspring, then he forbade the
match.
More, perhaps, than any other scient
ist, Dr. Byrd Powell, an American, has
organized both thought and research
on the subject of stirplculture, or race
rearing. Powell divided all classes of
beings into bilious and sanguine, which
he termed the vital temperaments, and
encephalic and lymphatic, which be
termed the non-vital.
The sanguine and bilious tempera
ments we all know as being roughly
the spirited and the calm, or reflec
tive. The encephalic were the purely
Intellectual people, and the lymphatic,
a somewhat nondescript class, attached
to good living, without much power of
reflection or Indeed character, Intel
lect waa consplclous by Its absence In
these persons. A combination of two
vital personalities tended to produce
too much Intensity. A combination of
two con-vital temperaments tended to
produce a minimum of force of char
aoter, both physical and mental.
Again, a combination of bilious with
bilious, or sanguine with sanguine, or
enoepbalio with encephalic, or lym
phatic with lympathlc, could only have
one result each type cancelled the
the other, and sterility was the re
sult The happy mean, productive of
the highest type of offspring, was
found in a Judicious admixture of the
sanguine with the encephalic, and the
bilious with the lymphatic, the latter
better still If on a, sanguine founda
datlon. According to these1 deduction".
Mr. Edison, the inventor, is possessed
of a highly and most properly balanced
personality. Napoleon, according to
the same calculations, possessed the
fourfold temperament. Powell himself
possessed the blllous-encephallc tem
perament. Roosevelt would be describ
ed as possessing the bilious-encephalic
on a sanguine foundation. The Scots
man, Lord Roseberry, would come,
however, with Edison and Taft, near
est to the Ideal in the way of results
by proper and scientific mating. New
York World.
Playground League.
Boston women established the first
playground in 1902. Last year there
were eight, and nearly $2000 was ex
pended, or about $1 for each child, a
very cheap price for the amount of
good obtained. The Playground
league la the name of the society of
the playground boys themselves, who
wear buttons and discipline all bad
boys, thus making the government
easy enough for those in charge. Not
the least Important result of the play
grounds In that city Is said to ba that
Involved In the self-government
Marriages Best
TRAMPING GREATLY INCREASED,
657 Trespasser Killed on the Pennsyl
vanla Lines In 1908.
The Pennsylvania railroad has Just
had figures complied showing that In
1908, 657 trespassers were killed and
791 injured on its lines. These fig
ures are referred to In a letter which
President McCrea has sent to Orlan
do F. Lewis of the Charity Organiza
tion Society.
The Pennsylvania two years ago be
gan a movement to secure the co-operation
of towns and cities along Ita
lines In suppressing vagrancy, but In
his letter to Mr. Lewis President Mc
Crea says that so far they have failed
to accomplish this deBired object. The
letter says:
"If we are to be at all successful in
our handling of the vagrancy problem
It Is essential that there be co-operation
between the town and county au
thorities and the public or private
charitable organizations. One of the
difficulties our railway police force
meets with is that county authorities
will asert that a vagrant be permitted
to move from one county to another
before being arrested and the county
In which the arrest Is made charged
with the maintenance of the prison
er. County authorities and their con
stltuents object to the expense en'
tailed in the maintenance of these peo'
pie. Wtien vagrants are arrested aud
Incarcerated In county Jails It Is sel
dom that any record is taken of them,
and when tbey are released and again
Incarcerated in the Jail of another
county the latter county has no record
showing former Incarcerations. With
co-operation the records of vagrants
would be acceslble to all country ait
thorltles and confirmed tramps could
be singled out and given adequate pun
lshment."
The figures compiled show that 2,989
persons were arrested for trespassing
along the Pennsylvania lines last year,
442 for vagrancy and 10,457 for illegal
train riding, more than double the ar
rests In the previous year. Some of
the Increase, the railroad officials eay,
was undoubtedly due to the fact that
more men were out of work, but the
figures also go to show that the tramp
problem is growing more serious. In
England, it is pointed out, trespassing
of this kind has prtjltlcally Disap
peared by reason of stringent laws
passed. New York Sun.
"EQUAL SUFFRAGE A FAILURE."
Votes of Mormon and Immoral Women
the Cause, Says Mr. Wood.
That the result of equal suffrage In
the four states In which It exists has
ddhe more barm than good was the
conclusion reached by Frederick Wood
In an address given at the Berkeley
theatre before the National league for
the Civic Education of Women.
"In Idaho, Utah and Wyoming,"
said Mr. Wood, "the granting of the
ballot to women has simply served to
Increase the strength of the Mormon
church. In Colorado the vote of the
Immoral women, who are atrlctly un
der the control of the political bosses,
according to whose dictates they vote
as a part of the price of their Im
munity, Is sufficient to hold the bal
ance In practically any city or county
election. It is a shameful story, un
printable In detail. What the result of
such conditions might be In New Tork
I leave to your Imagination. Judging
from my personal observations of the
workings of equal suffrage In these
four states, Its results seem to Indi
cate the ability of the corrupt politi
cal machine to influence the female
voter to break away from those Influ
ences and practices which have been
decried on the part of men." New
York Tribune.
Brlmfleld'a Trees.
Intelligent and well directed enter
prise can give to almost any town,
even a small one, enviable promi
nence. For instance, Deerfleld is
well and . favorably known through
out the state and country by the thor
oughness with which It has preserved
and made public Its historical records,
and the comprehensiveness of Its col
lections of local antiquities. Now
Brlmfield Is coming Into public notice
because of the attention that Is being
given to forestry there. Principal
Kenney of that place is an enthusias
tic and skillful planted of trees. He Is
developing a forest tract to which he
has this year added a thousand white
pine seedlings, two thousand Norway
spruce and four thousand American
beeches. Last year he set out two
thousand white pines and a hundred
catalpas, which are doing well. A
number of his pupils work for him on
Saturdays and they, as well as some
of the citizens, are catching the spirit
to the great benefit of the town. He
proposes to transform a part of the
school campus Into an arboretum, con
taining many specimens of trees, both
useful and ornamental. There. Is no
waiting for Arbor day proclamations.
Every day when opportunity offers Is
an arbor day there and the Impulse
that has been started will continue to
have a healthful Influence upon the
community. Boston Transcript.
Musical Reception.
Brown "What did your wife say
about your being so late borne the
other night?"
Jones "Nothing at all. She Just
sat down at the piano and played
'Toll Me the Old. Old Story.'" Lon
don TltBlJs.
The
Farmers of the Future
Give the Boys a Chance Everywhere They
Are Showing What They Can Do
Ey L, C.
WANT to take my hat off to the five thousand Indiana boys
who belong to county corn chibs In that state. These boys
show the mettle which makes the sort of farmers who do
things. No one questions the value and Importance of the
work of these five thousand boya; aud when Buch sturdy,
manly fellows, without any scientific training, can go out
and plant and cultivate corn and get a yield of from 75 to
100 bushels an acre, we need have no fear of the permanen
cy of agriculture In Indiana. While college experimenter
and scientific farmers are doing their utmost to get Increased yields, these
boys are showing us how to do things and get results. They have the ca
pacity to absorb practical knowledge. They are capable of growth along line
which mean the most good for the agricultural Interests of the state, and for
this reason they should be given every opportunity to mingle and work with
progressive men. Not all farmer boys will have an opportunity to take a four
year course at college, yet many of them can attend the "short course," and
most of them no doubt can attend institutes and corn shows and learn what
other men and boys are doing. Indiana, Illinois and Missouri boys have the
energy and they have the temperament to do great things. Now, give them
the opportunity. Let them work out these hard crop problems in a practical
way. Give them a chance to show their worth.
Here Is what the "short course" at Madison, Wis., did for a bright German
boy. While at Madison he learned how to raise oats so that It would make
good seed. So when he went back home he told his father that It would pay
to clean their seed thoroughly and keep their fields clean. The weed seeds
were cleaned out of their seed oats and the field was gone over twice and all
weeds pulled up. The oats were carefully shocked and carefully graded before
they were offered for sale. The whole crop of 1,400 bushels was sold at 75
cents a bushel for seed. That was throe years ago. That boy aet the pace for tha
boys in his county, and now many of them are growing seed crops, which they
are selling at from 10 cents to 25 cents above the market price. New York
Tribune.
Women in Industry ?
She Is There to Stay, and She Weeds the
Suffrage
By latharine Houghton Hepburn
F women's health Is
work, then for the good of the race something must be done
about It. Either women must be forced out of Industry or
special legislation must be enacted to protect women work
ers. Women have gone out ot the borne into the factory
because their work has gone out of the domestic system
into the factory system. They have simply followed their
work, and any attempt to foroe women workers back Into
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the home would necessarily be accompanied by the forcing
of Industry back Into the old-fasnloned domestic methods of production. This
Is obviously Impossible. If we cannot force women out of Industry, then, as
existing conditions are disastrous to their health, we must enaot special legis
lation to improve these conditions.
Now, one of the beet ways of Improving the condition under which any
class works Is to give that class the suffrage. Legislators make the laws reg
ulating the conditions of work and hours In factories, and legislators, natural
ly, pay most attention to the Interests of those who elect them. If the work
ers are women and are therefore In need of special legislation for the protec
tion of their health, one ot the surest
make the legislators dependent on the votes of women as well as men for con
tinuance ot office.
Justice Brewer of the United States Supreme Court, In upholding tie
.onstltutlonallty of the Oregon law limiting the hours of women laundry work
ers to ten hour a day, said: "Her physical structure and a proper discharge
of her maternal functions having in mind not only her own health, but
ine weu-Deing or tne race justiry legislation to protect her from the greed a
well as the passion of man." Justice Brewer believes In woman suffrage as
a potent factor In securing such legislation.
Love and Life v
Ey Elbert Hubbard P
HEY say that love la
Love, perhaps,
j"J""l I mus, or sees things all out of their true proportions, magnl-
I I tying pleasant little ways Into seraphic virtues, but love 1
I I not really blind.
I Tho bandage Is never so tight but that it can peep.
f Then, look you, the virtues you behold In the beloved
aassssflBssatl you really make your own.
The only Itlnd of love that Is really blind and deaf la
platonlo love.
Platonic love hasn't the slightest
going to happen, and so there are surprises and shocks In store for It
ine other kind, with eyes a-peep, Is better.
I know a man who has tried both.
Love is progressive.
All things sleep, or become something else. And often thev haonm
something else by dying.
Behold the eternal paradox!
The love that evolves Into a higher form is the better kind.
Nature Is Intent on evolution, yet of the myriad of snores that cm.- fh.
earth, most of them are doomed to death, and of the countless rays sent out
by the sun, the number that fall athwart this planet are Infinitesimal.
Dlsapponted love, or love that Is "lost," often affects the Individual for the
highest good.
Love is for the lover, Just as work
Love In Its essence is a spiritual
Interchange of thought and feeling;
becomes universal, transforms Itself
goes out to and blesses all mankind.
The love you give away is the only
Trade Stagnation
Ey Andrew Hutlon
I'D
ESPITE tho optimistic
i..iiiiii.p uuBiucBa is
mat tno n-.oney and credit situation has improved, but the
actual business conditions remain unaltered. This country
has had good- times and bad times regardless of the money
system, and we have bad business depressions In every
civilized country under nearly every kind ot financial sys
tem. ObvlDUf lv the rnime lloo rfntinr m -.. i 1
I
... . -i-". who inu, uuwevcr, sHDni
forth as self-evident All laws and systenn ct taxation that tend to prevent
the consumption of wealth from keeping pace with U production are clearly
storing up a panic.
The problf-m before us. and the only one worth a senile man's consider-
"uu"- " lu "c uiuuBiry irom me
is to allow capital and labor to employ
Brown
Injured by their present conditions ot
ways ot securing that legislation la to
blind.
is shortsighted, or Inclined to strabit-
Idea of where It is golna. or what fa
is for the worker.
emotion, and Its ofn scom. t t, .
but sometimes, thwarted In its object it
Into sympathy, and, embracing a world
'
love you keep. New York American.
talk of trade revival and returning
nenriy as oaa as ever. We are told
unjust taxntl?n tk.a; It now bears
tceraeelvej yrc-Jjcuvi ly.
SO