OUTWARD I 1 i JTW.I. CAHEBOIf. Ill sun's high and the moon' high; The bay' a crescent of blue. The ships of the world go by without, But the great hill-gates stnnd round about, And ouly tha waves come through. The town sleeps and the bay sleeps; Tangled and golden brown, The seaweed drifts on a dreaming sea, , here anchored boats rock lnzily, As the waves lap, up and down. The nifrht comes and the wind comes j Landward the white crests ride. Hark to the voice in the wind that cries. As it drifts like a bird 'twist the sea and the skies, "There is one that will go with the tide!" The dawn's here and the dny's here! The wind ebbs out, and the sea. The mists roll back and the hills are plain. But the great sea-gates are narrow in vain, ..... ... !... a.m Cut IUQ ica-iuu wu. His Western Cousins. Horatio King Vantliie Meets the "Three Most Charm ing Things That Ever Happened." (YV. It. ROSE, In Cleveland rialn-Dealer.) There la nn doubt that Horatio (CIng Vantlno took himself seriously. He was a Eoatou youth, well edu cated, well mannered, his family was one of the oldest, and his prospects were excellent. When he left Har vard lie was called to New York and given a flue opening In I1I3 Uncle John Steele Arlington's importing house. There ho was making the most of the opportunity. Into this regular and well ordered life a bombshell suddenly dropped. It took the form of a letter that was laid on his desk by the office mes senger. Horatio read the letter through, and then read it through again. "Our dear cousin," it began, "we want to know you and know you right away. Aunt Kmiline Glover wrote to US that you were In New York, and we've been looking for you ever since. We are your second cousins, you know, Jane and Ann and Susan Wal lace. Your father and our mother were first cousins, and that's what gives us a claim on you. At first we thought we would come down and storm jour ollice, and while Jane grappled your uncle, Ann and Susan would kidnap you. Eut then we re membered that while that might do in wild and woolly Oregon that's where we hall from It wouldn't be strictly proper in Noo Yawk, don't you know. So we are going to be painfully formal and awfully prim, and give you the high handshake in the most easterly fashion. It you please, cousin, we want you to come up" to our present abiding place aud take tea with us to-morrow evening, and afterward you are to escort us to a little reception to which we are privileged to bring a young man friend. We are visiting w'th a dear friend and neighbor from Oregon who moved to New York several years ago. She joins us in the invitation, "as you will find when you read her note. As you are quite sure to know nothing about us, perhaps it would be well to relieve your anxiety by explaining that we are neither maiden ladies uor klndergartners. Jane ad mits she is twenty-two, Ann is twenty and Susan is eighteen. Other par ticulars, will be furnished on applica tion. And now, our dear and only cousin, we are just perishing to meet you I They tell us you are awfully Dice so you may rest assured that we are strongly prejudiced in your favor. Till to-morrow evening, then. Affectionately, Jane, Ann, Susan." Horatio picked up the note that had lipped from between the pages. It was an endorsement of his cousins' Invitation, penned by tnelr hostess a nicely worded note, that came from a home In an excellent residence sec tion. Horatio drew a long breath. Here was something he never before had encountered. His relatives were few in number and most of them were residents of the old home town in New England. He dimly remembered to have heard of the cousin of his father's who had gone West when only a boy, but he had fancied that this spirit of adventure was looked Upon as out of harmony with the staid and dignified traditions of the family. He was sure he had not beard his father's cousin mentioned since he himself was a boy. And now these wild Western girls had swooped down on him from the Oregonlan wilds and claimed relationship with him In the most familiar terms, and forcibly taken possession of him, leav ing no chance for escape. I Jane and Ann and Susan! ' What would his aristocratic old uncle, his mother's only brother, think of these hoydens! But he mustn't be permitted to see them. jThere was no reason why he should know of their presence. It he learned they were in New York he would in sist npon having them to luncheon. I Jane and Ann and Susan! ! Well, he would accept the invita tion. There was no way out of that At least, It would be better to meet .them than to offer a trumped up ex cuse and stay away. If he didn't go to the tea they would be sure to hunt Wm up at the counting room. He , would meet them and it they proved positively Insupportable he would stave his uncle send him on a trade- extension trip to Rio de Janeiro. , Jane and Ann and SusanI w uw -u Fioiii '"Toem." Me opened a drawer and drew out a sheet of paper. "I wonder why Western people ever were created?" ha softly growled. It was a frigid little note that he sent the three girls. Correctly phrased and neatly penned, It was as lacking in cordiality as a Vermont snowbank. It was polite and tame and distant. He was pleased to learn that his cousins were in the city, and he was pleased to accept their Invita tion to tea on the twenty-fourth, and equally pleased to accompany them to the subsequent reception. And he closed the conventional missive with, "Sincerely yours, Horatio King Van tine." Then he made a formal acknowl eedgemeut of the invitation of the hostess, and called a messenger boy. "Jane nnd Ann and Susan!" he muttered as the boy turned away. "Sir?" said the boy. "Nothing," replied Horatio. At 6 o'clock he presented himself at the substantial horns on West i:!ghty-slxth street. As the maid opened the door he heard a gust of hastily-checked laughter. The maid took his card and his hat and coat, and ushered him Into the little re ception room. Here the hostess, with a delightfully cordial manner, met him and bade him welcome. "Your cousins will be down in a Hi The Future Life. I I At the tunernl of the late William Jr. Laffan, the well-known publisher of The Sun and art critic, at Lawrence, L. 1., a number of selections from the Scriptures of religions were read by the minister, the Hcv. Dr. Thomas It. blicer. Among them were the following from Seneca: HE comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but (if ji . not that of having had one. In some resepects I have lost what I have had; in others, I still retain what I have lost. It Is an 111 construction of Providence to reflect only upon my friend's being taken away, without any regard to the benefit of his being once given me. Let us therefore make the best of our friends while we have them. He that has lost a friend has more cause of joy that he once had him than of grief that he is taken away. That which is past we are sure ot. It 1b impossible to make it not to have been. I ,'eY li 1 Seneca. moment or two," she explained. "If they were not so mischievous they would be more prompt. I understand you have never met them?" No, Horatio had never met them. "I think you will be surprised." Horatio felt sure ot it. "They are charmingly unaffected." This, of course, was a neat way ot character izing their disregard of decorum. "I've known them since they were lit tle girls. Ah, I think they are com ing!" Horatio thought so too. There was a scramble and a wild clatter on the stairs, and three young women rushed Into the room and shook Horatio's hand vigorously and greeted him ef fusively, and wound up b) joining hands and circling about him In time to a barbaric chant. They they stopped breathless and laughed mer rily. "That makes ycu one of the tribe, cousin," cried the tallest girl. "It's the Pawnee adoption song at least it's all we kuo of it. Isn't he chic, girls?" They laughed again. "This is Jane, cousin," said the other girls. Then Jane and Susan in troduced Ann, and Ann and Jane In troduced Susan. And they shook hands again, and tea being announced by the maid the three girls with much laughter drew Horatio to the dining room. It was not until they were seated at the table that Horatio had time to look at his cousins. ' His first im pression was that he bad never seen such hair. Jane wore curls that draped her face, Ann had pulled her heavy tresses over her forehead and ears, and Susan Susan was the youngest had the most disordered coiffure Horatio thought he had ever seen. As far as the faces ot the girls were concerned, he didn't feel quali fied to judge all he could see was their hair. He was dimly conscious that the girls were not tastefully dressed, at least there was a flaunting ot bright ribbons on their gowns that he didn't like. "Ever West, cousin?" Jane sudden ly demanded. ,est of HobokenT" Ann added. No," Horatio admitted. "Noo Yawkers never dare go West," said Susan, who had a funny little lisp. "They might like It too well." "We have planned to take you home with us," said Jane. "We want you to see the country Just as Qod made It." "You can't see any of it here," chimed in Ann. "There's nothing In New York but rocks and elevators and skyscrapers and subways and graft." "Say," cried Susan, "wouldn't the folks round up when they saw us leading Horatio down the trail!" "Susan!" cried Jane. "You mustn't mind Susan, cousin. She's as wild as a Slwash colt." Horatio stirred himself uneasily. "Then you don't like New York?" he managed to return. "We like New York well enough," said Jane, "but of course it isn't like the Skloory bottoms." And then Susan unexpectedly be gan to sob. "Stop that, sis," said Ann, severely. She turned to Horatio. "Susan Is such a silly little goose, cousin. Every time anything Is said that re minds her of Oregon she gets home sick and cries. She wants to go back there to her tame bear and her crop eared burro." "It's no such thing," said 8uan, sharply. "I'm going to glvo my bear away." "Susan," said Jane, In a deep tone, "remember where you are, miss. Look at Cousin Horatio and see how shocked he Is." They all looked at Cousin Horatio, who appeared very uncomfortuble. He felt that he must say something. "I'm afraid," he remarked, "that you haven't seen enough of New York to offset your Western prejudices." "I thluk we have," said Susan, promptly. "We were on top of the Metropolitan tower." "You are not a real New Yorker, are you, cousin?" Jane demanded. "I was born near Boston," Horatio answered. "I came to New York four years ago." "Im glad of that," said Ann. "I'm glad you are not a real New Yorker. New Yorkers are so cold and ofllsh, and so lacking in everything genial and friendly." Horatio remembered his letter with a little twinge, and his face flushed. He wished he hadn't sent It. He wished he had hurried out ot town instead of consenting to meet these dreadful Westerners. But before he could reply the vol uble Jane came to his relief. "Have you been abroad, cousin?" she asked. "Once for a brief stay," he answered. Ml ; li ": i ff.11 I'. 1 : 1. "We have been to Japan twice," said Susan, "and three times to the Philippines, and twice to Honolulu. You must get Jane to dance the Jubajam for you. She does It aw fully well, only you have to take all the furniture out ot the room." "Why, Susan!" cried Ann. There was a sudden laugh from the hostess. They all looked at her. "Excuse me," she said with a lit tle effort. "I was just faintly won dering how that dance could be done in a Harlem flat." Even Horatio was forced to smile, but It was a painful effort. He was never more uncomfortable in his life. His Western cousins with their dread ful hair and flaunting ribbons were fully as uncultured as be anticipated. It was an unsatisfactory repast. And there was all the evening at the re ception ahead ot him! But at last the tea came to an end. They went back to the reception room, but the three girls paused in the doorway. "You must excuse us for a little while, cousin," said Jane. "We have to do some extra fixing up, you know." "Paint and feathers," added Ann. "And beads and red blankets," cried Susan. And then they trooped up the stairs with much laughter, the irrepressible Susan bringing up the rear with a few sharp "ylp-ylps" and a prolonged whoop. A little later the hostess, who seemed 111 at ease, excused herself on the plea that the girls might need her, and followed them to the upper' floor. It was not a pleasant quarter ot an hour for Horatio, but it finally ended and he heard the girls coming down. They wore long wraps and hoods, and he could not discern the changes they might have made in their costumes. "Hope you didn't find the wait long?" said Jane. "We are considered quick dress ers," added Ann. Susan giggled. Susan!" cried Jane, warnlngly, Horatio took his hat and eoat, "And may I ask where we are go- lng?" he said. "We are going to Colonel Abner Stow's home," Jane replied. "Colonel Abner Stow!" repeated Horatio. "The railway man?" "Yes. He was our father's partner for twenty years. The reception Is just for us, you know, and not a big affair at all. The colonel's house Is only a block away. We can walk." Horatio didn't say much during that brief walk. He was glad the girls were going to the home of an old friend and a Western man at that. And the very eminent captain ot finance had been their father's part ner? He wished to know more about them. The colonel and his wife met the little party at the doorway and gave them a warm greeting. "Don't wait for the girls, my boy," be said to Horatio In his bluff way. "Come right down and talk with me." So Horatio hurried down and the colonel shook hands with him again. "You're a lucky lad," he said. "You've got the three finest girls 011 the Pacific Coast in tow to-night. Oh, I've known them since they were kid dles. They're dearer to their father than his eyes. There's nothing money would buy that he hasn't lavished on them, and they are as fine ladles as their mother and I couldn't say more." And then Horatio heard a rustle be hind him and there stood his three cousins. He gave a little gasp. What they wore he didn't know, but It was something filmy and fas cinating, and their hair was beautiful to behold. It was a magic trans formation, and he gasped again. "The three Western graces," cried the colonel. "Dare you say which Is the fairest, my boy? Jane has the poise, and Ann the eyes, and Susan Is my heart's delight." The three girls playfully shook their heads at the gallant host. And when they looked at Horotlo he knew he was flushing to the very roots of his hair. A little later he found himself alone with Jane. She suddenly smiled. "Cousin," she said, "did you write that letter with an Icicle?" He flushed again. "Jnne," lie answered, and it was wonderful what a nice sound the name had suddenly assumed, "I was a fool and a snob. But you paid me for it In very hitter medicine." "It was Just the medicine you ex pected to take?" laughed Jane. "And you don't entirely disapprove of us?" "Disapprove!" cried the young man. "Why, you are the three moBt charming things that ever happened. I couldn't be more proud of you! Will you be my uncle's guests at luncheon to-morrow?" Jane laughed. "If you think he will approve of us," she answered. "We are abso lutely dependent on our only New York relative, you know." And the glance she gave Horatio thrilled him through. SOCIETY AND THE OPERA. : In Harper's Bazar, Ralph Pulitzer, son of the great editor ot the New York World, continues to hammer New York society with the relentless brilliancy shown In his December ar ticle in the same periodical. Among other things he says, discussing the opera: "The dinner being leisurely com pleted, the hostess remarks dubiously to her husband that she supposes the men might perhaps smoke their cig ars on the way to the opera. This is probably more from a kindly desire to free the women from one another's society in the drawing-room than from any desire to reach the opera earlier, but the men always acquiesce, and pile into one carriage or auto mobile and with their cigars and cig arettes, while the ladles enjoy one another's company in another vehicle. "They quickly reach the opera, and walk up enc flight of stairs, to the distant muffled murmurs of the or chestra and an occasional high note from one ol the singers, loud enough to force Its way out to them. These solitary and sudden notes, robbed ot all musical quality by the inaudibil ity of their context, sound as if some sublimated butcher Bhop within were being operated to slow music. But one of the guests, at some unusual! penetrating scream, Is sure to breathe 'Ah!' (as she hastens her steps up the stairs): 'Ah!' In tones of tender and preposterous appreciation. Why she does It she could not herself ex plain, for she has not the least inten tion of listening to the music when she reaches the box. It is probably done from the same Instinct that would make her honestly declare, if questioned, that she was devoted to music or to children, although she might not know a fugue in one from a whooping cough out of the other. A curious traditional attribute of her sex, this devotion to music and chil dren, which she still feels it seemly to subscribe to in theory." Alarming. ' "My wife had some alarming news for me yesterday." "Good gracious! What was it?" "She set the clock for 6 o'clock the next morning." New York Journal. Comparison of prices shows that living expenses in New York City are twelve per cent, more than three years ago. , NAME THE COUNTRY ROADS. Increnxlng Density of Farm l'opula tlon Makes Necessary Hotter Means of Locating Residents, By J. A. ANDERSON, snout ihn iir'u of the rural free mall delivery, telephone, parcel post and any and all other conveniences that go to make farm life happier and better, I thought I would like to suggest a convenience which could ha om-rlprl nut hv the county commis sioners of each county at a small expense, that would do more to m tin nrldu of the rural com munity than any other that I can think of. For the convenience of the publie it ought to be as easy to locate a farmer's residence In the country as a city man's residence In the city. Let the country life commission in clude in its recommendations that a road that runs from the east to tne west be called a "road" (or some other name). A road that runs from nortn to south be called an "avenue." A road that runs from the nortn east to the southwest might be called a "pike." A road that runs from tne norm, west to the southeast be called a "highway" and all others called "lanes." In other words, that the public highways of our country should be called such names as would Indicate the direction in which they run and named alphabetically and numbered numerically. Then the farm houses could be numbered and the rural de livery numbers that we now have changed to the farm number. This would assist the rural delivery and the telephone very much to citi fy the country and our merchant houses would soon be distributing country road directories for the ben efit of all. Now I believe that If the big pa pers ot the country would take up this matter there would be created a sentiment throughout the country which would bring about a complete reformation, or rather the establish ment of a system of naming country highways which would in time be come general. It would probably require enact ments by the State Legislatures to hrlncr about a comnlete system of this kind, starting with the various counties. The main expense attacnea to it would be guldeposts at every section corner, and this would be so insignificant as to cut no figure when compared with the great benefit, not alone to the farmers, but to the Gov ernment In the rural route mall deliv eries and to merchants and travelers elsewhere. Wider Wagon Tires. Necessity for a law requiring the use of sufficiently wide wagon tires to prevent the cutting up and rapid destruction of Improved and sur faced roads is forcibly urged in a let ter from Hon. Frank Sheffield, chair man of the board of county commis sioners of Sumpter County. Chairman Sheffield writes to thank The Constitution for the prize awarded to Sumpter County for the best roads between Albany and Ma con, on the Albany-Atlanta good roads automobile run, and Includes a word of praise for the work The Constitution has done In the further ance of this important State move ment. One of the things which impresses Chairman Sheffield most as needed for the protection and preservation of the roads is wider wagon tires. . The Constitution has heretofore urged the importance of some action looking to this end, and that It must soon come cannot be questioned. As Chairman Sheffield points out, when the roads are graded and sur faced, "the tendency is to Increase the load, and the narrow tire becomes more destructive than ever." By drawing the bill as he suggests, so that it will apply only to new wag ons and exempting those In use at the time of Its passage, no hardship will result to anyone; the narrow tired wagons will gradually disappear as they are worn out, and the roads will be saved from their destructive effect. Sumpter County has already worked wonders in road building, and although, as Chairman Sheffield Bays, she has just begun, "farm lands along these improved roads imme diately advance as much as twenty five per cent. In price, and general improvement of the farms is notice able." Sumpter is furnishing a splendid example to her sister counties, and the work here, as well as throughout the State, should be furthered and encouraged by the enactment of wise and necessary laws for the proper care and protection ot the roads. 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