7 And leaves his sons ibe ruven aw on tone Kita eco hich al men ay # better way se theron bau J | Thin is the better a aan ~Samn Cooliten, OM Tephzon was one of those proud. | senaitive, bright old men who didn't 1 quite understand why be F | Jephson, his only boy, was & “bly wasn't abreast of the procession. Youn tf : fhe forty ninth amendment. and every. man” in the town, a power In county ir and what the knowing ones | ealled "a comer.” The old man couldn't understand jt in #pite of hls overmas tering Jove for Daniel, he waz guite {convinced that in his young days be | bad been a much smarter person than 8 | was Daniel junior. But be overlooked | the fact that he bad been born and {as a mative Minoisan and of the| Cuppritie Mavehing Chub escorted Mayor Jephson and his father to thei depot. There were cheers for the young man as the train pulled ont, and | West western. €l When Dan was elected Mayor of 8 Cappriile the old man laughed, and to ot | himself sald, “Pooh, pooh™ Then, for the porpose of impressing the *hoy." | who was thirty-seven years old, be be. gan to tell about how popular ho had f been In the old days back mn New Man. ehester, : : : “Of course. 1 never beld oon old | Jephson wonld explain, “but that was | my way. 1 was recognized, loved and ‘respected by all classes of people.” (the | population of New Manchester never ®| got above 2000), “snd when the new Improvement bil bridges and four blocks o' sidewalk, 1 why, every taxpayer in town asked me what 1 thot about it. I was a sort of | power behind the thrope, I tell you, and I bet I conid go back to New Man. come up for two | chester right now and get any office { within the gift o’ the people. They all know old Daniel Jephson. Everybody knows me in New Manchester, and I'll ' | tell you. Dan. you may think it's some SHAY TE 20 be Maver 9 Cuapprilie, but at all again me Lord! bow | did hate that man Jinkinse, 1 guess he's dead | now, but oh. Lond, what a show [ made | ¢' him before I got done. Why, Dan. | 1 tel, I lleked him in debate and I leked him In a fight, and before I'd got done he whispered: ; “Just walt, Danlel tl we get ler down fo the deen, and he'll give me what Bell do. do when they know Dandel Jephson is coroig back for a vist” : when Cal Jinkins. the Boston lawyer. { come down to New Manchester and Bad long pieces about Nimaale pus sn, badly said that he never made po show with him they wasn't a self-respecting Speak to him.” Jt was in Desclmber that. they got the old man leaning on his son's art, comld not forbear a gente pressure as Now Masehester. I bet four bits the Hawkinses, the Dolesex the FPittees and all the best. old families o New surprised—by ging. Ill bet old Jin Emns'll be thar. in that last spelling bee—but by glog. IH het §F old Jin% one knows [in coming he'll lof bygones be bygones and come the right royal Band o welcome. That's That's what they'll al} So young Daniel sent ahead a tele gram to the Guawette sunoudcing that “IE ALLUS WUS—A BULLY.” “at Shia MIDs yn 41t bere 22 Vip 5 i power here as I was down home.” | Old Daniel delivered this kind of a i talk #0 often that he came to belleve It himself. Young Den would listen | smiling to the old tales and say: "Well, dad, as soon as [ can get oy business affairs straightened out we'll { §9, you and me, back to New Marches | ter for a visit.” Then the old fellow would pull op | and say: “Daunlel, you'll open yout eyes when you see the way them people at | New Manchester will Pen Ores OF course, I wouldn't bet an | honestly believe they'll gor oishlie yer cornet hand when me * sit ol ot to town. Oh I'm not exaggeedting Every man, wansan and child in er Manchester knows mie. Whe, far four the best speller in the county—why, | spelled down the two schoolteachers | and I remember well" And then the old fellow would ram (about the speech he meant to make when he West. It took the train nearly twenty- i ; a hy. you. you may | ot to stand aside for me to New Man. | elioster.™ : years I was known and recoguized as | I & hundred of his old friends and admir ters, langbed again at the crestfallen -fdisromBture of his hoy ble off into a vague, long yarn about | his victories xs a debater at the “liter | | ary> about his powers as un "argue fyer.” and about his wile acquaintance ji! *hack home” that made young Dan stile with pride and admiration. "And as for fighting.” the cid fellow “| would say. swelling his chost, “why, there wasn't a bully in tows but what Was scared oF me {eraning } And, mark ye 1 wasn't a quarrelsome person, Danlel You kuow bow 1 lave pesow. put font the same [ had to ficht my way. and— 1 let's see1 think I bad abon: a handred | and seventeen pitched fights before 1] e | was admitted on all sides inst | was & 1:4 [dom think 1 ad an enviny or a rival eary the best young fellow [n town But it wax the argu ito the younger Jephao : bad pot done within the memory of the i Baa, : man B stopped the ages. walted for Be, "Danlel Jephson, one of the old-time, eminent men of New Manchester™ would arrive at 10 a. wm. on the fast mall train from Capprille and the four hours to get {nly a fix to whistle for New Manchester, and by that time the old fellow was getting nervoos Expres =f the trai oto the arms of the enthusiastic populace "Do you think I'H have 10 make a peach, toa?” asked young Dagtel when the te nity began to slow down, Reed You" laughed the father Ths they won't even motive Just remember, son, that while d Bi oa biz man ent West, you And the good oll soul checeml and inflated with the prospect of niesding | At last the train slowed down for) New Manchester, the old fellow put on | the gayest manner Se bad worn for years and growled at the porter as he "I dom’t see the band” he pormared his neck as the porter sirog. said the Bgent. [slow track” jpotating townward slong the woddy der.” He don’t like me node | 100 well-tord, how [put Kt over BUR [,_ _" 0 iy the station spr Fh Dame Is Joses all fight, but he tom, some hers last year” Ir was with mach misgiving that ol | Jephson then broached the name of Cal Inkins, his sndlent and despleed : pearly sled with the vestibale door. “Guess | i's up to How's Opery House walting for as” And so they swung off the car st oex] | plone wk one on ihe platform-and | looked about Liere was to band pe L no cheers. no welcome The tation agent wag vopuar back from ae express car and New Manchester | was sealing Yeis ie Sagi} asd squalid | Bb. when the al | perfection there. (the teurist is In thy great fruitpro Where's the Due sald the poor | {ota tone: looking around. “They ain't no "hos for this train “It don’t generdlly stop here lessen I fg 10” “Wall, do we have to walk” “You kin run 'f you're stuck on 3 suguested the agent road. And so they trudged away toward the town, “Let's drop In on old man Hawking’ suggested the father. 18 thoy reached | § Main street. “I know right where tha is. It's the Seog store right over yan And be pointed across the “Case & Tong. Druggists Patot, O1 | Glass and Stationers.” They were In the drag store befor Danlel knew what to say. “Squire Hawking about? asked tn! old fellow, rubhing lits hands. “Hawkine?® murmured the Sa hatred young man at the coutiter. don’t know suydody named Hawtin’ Then a pale, freckled young nar ith n New 3 Beaty would | Ame out of the dark and sil: “You mean Squire Hawkins tha “That's who I mean” sald Jephson | “old Enoch Hawkine: How's be get thgon? AOD. M's Deen Sead for cloves a twelve years” sald the spotted clark coming ont “He was my uoels, yor | know, "He dled m 1880, I think § wan” } = Teptwon's facn was solenin now We unloaded na at Mite with his Sunnage on his * breast: yo ii i Bud hes ye ie the 8 Sector packed ma And aHowad the that 3 we hd Killed Nim and then coresd ue A woman don't Koow and a doctor doen't know ar ru of the oar of the Avive: hime ihe boss sald to go, Be oy reckatied he'd get thers alive. beaten = hey tid pestruck her seventy to the floor 8 Bis drunken fit of anger when he'd a A month before: asked for the Fittses and the 4 HE for everybody snd anybody : Be could think of, but the drogels Manchester’ll he down to the deepo if didn’t know auy of fem. they koow I'm coming 1 wonldn't be #Some of them names are familar” be explained, “and there 1s a family named Fitts Uring oot toward Skfnly : on the west pike. The only Jones ! enemy. ; “Koow steh 8 person as Onl Ji | Then | xine?" be said, trytiz to modotate Bh | voles so that Dan woslan't hear him “1a poor, old Cal here yee ™ “Pote,” bawled the freckled Grogs | I> 28 gare BIE that ald fellow HUT cased toa coo hats Mim “Crazy Cal” the kids call Mm." “And where 1» Hopkinses >" abet | {the old man. “Jant house 10 the end of this stree om the [oft side. Got a fron Seer wit) one horn broke off fix tha yard 4 And the oll man from Cappr@ls 11. started for the door. Hie son. ut terly wretched and pussted. followed. *They all seam to be gone but old om Sxplatn the sith *Remembes § Jou abott old Cul Juikiog 50 often. "Toe fellow you ticked v8 Gn Te a Tr | self. They walked along to the yuet| with the fron deer, and thers In On yard they saw a lean, drivellng. wea) | old man sweeping the snow from th board walk. His feet were wrapped 1 | beard and the Hght of his oes wus | gone. “Hello, Cal™ said Danie! the sider. “Who be yoou. calls’ me Cal? whin nied the old sweeper, passing a dirty mitten across his chin “It's me. Dan Jephson, car= plained the visitor. “Oh, It's yeou, fs 117 the oid Manon was In the piping voles. "Dil yo coms all te ‘way to New Manchester ta crow over me? Well, yo can go ex you come | Ye allus wus a bully” Young Daniel wan going already The old man, bowed now and silent 1 followed. "By ging. Danfel” sald the old tol | low apologetically, when they were sented In the iain that bare them: away that afternoon; “by ging, [ clear | Fargot. I might have kEsown that mos o them would have passed away be fore me. 1 allus was the strongest beartiest man in New Manchester” And they rode buek to the West | where all the world {4 young. —Joha H | afiery, in the re naa TT Sg South Aries’ # Frult and Climate, The sedsons in Soath reversed ga Comparad | wind these of Boglowd, spriog edmmenetng in Xugnst, agmouer in November and anbmmn Marel, asl June sad July are as a rule very cool The elimate I bautifol About thirly miles from Cape Town the tran passes throug the hear: of the great Drakenstels vineyards, ihe ome of the oid Propel refugees. - The Paarl, Welllngton, Stel lenbosch are Weal villages. The orch ards are magnificent, and the fruit pro doend simply glorious. But the peaches, aprivals, pectarines. figs grapes, loquats oranges, lemons, shad doeks, apples and pears are brought % Fifty miles more and aunt dixiricts of Tulbagh and Ceres where there Is roam for all the fran | growers ia the British Isles to settls . down. Loddon Ge has, res Booksellers who supply English! schools report that there has Been iv TECHIE JEATS 4 very great hieremse in | ‘Daniel saw the sign above the drug | sire long before bis father saw it apd hf heart smote him as he read It es fear Record Herald | Africa are! | He naa » Nad chopped the : Sutin’ Iowme x Selb bbled wi way boutd aT p $i ft with Pom a ny oF o There's 8 the eT wnt Jl it one omit 4 With sanlte’s for sinks a rir oft thane BE Bave met with * " 3 pe ; He Shoppes | he De Hind log But we ah Bivee fio fi Art Bt Sar seen to bein him In sicltioms or L = i Gr “shales ta i Then he But as And be Be begged und bowled to : Bane a Tecitive # ain't edit In a Wet Branih re lh A-boaggin' her tei Kien Bima and And at last Be pot wo and t my To pot t him out To see her if we Twas a hundred wet Ana ban Ris aoe ine. bot ae § avel we i had narked Pe forehead : 3 rane Jrete Nistern] po : ballowin’ Tails : Be Avanaelus »hite-case Tashied to anger, Propped. Rie jy ~eath Bis head ut We hp Jounded We'd he : Bis dunnage, * from t put Be nod snub And the w wie tn He had But you'd think he'd Sewn an (And rou We Jc 2 10 i a Tog Iam Th » tangled Buy a. Ba there went ohn wsothint i “omy thing that we cold think e nd we Mat nil signed order with adillen and raplis ws to oy Tonarive hinding Wingto ition chat ha: A Janke of drivin’ wos 13 sense the reckless she busted with i Teles eae .- 2 3 ern ich xt th rea ot 8 drive Thers Taint 5 and sh pei foot of ihe rum Wa made Bim up» 2 Mukedows tn the bigpes cEne witer | the St Inst he Bit Io FRNA. ana fond he wife rr ore Se cot’ Mie wars on Nee TEE Ann ent bee ker woe rae 386 peited. you knew, i But he Xow wound Hike a pob.cat and . ve Tor of wet mie 10 fo the handient ral Raced be on aur i acteua's po s busslin trail Tea iin 2 Bead paddle br night and by day, Hey 3 dy mn : RT ET Se Te ME the corner. x ® stick, i an nd 8 gravy en handy But “we Ban's 16 ba a an Teel rae lek. And w o healt y ne, CHING. 9 realon we were pirates by the way she an twisted _ Earned: vie of 4 woman snd wavs of the Ara ils that ee Dever lesirsed -n we snapked it Deel to Norcross here we'd left our ne woman is’ more than enous ee Bow of ui tt rook -hatiegy. fry ge oh the crew swaks, hires pak. iF od hee {with pain he 8 rane jad 1 through the A Rn SK but In vals: : hatever Jo thet whatever we : Ho had taught the dowmtrain, tape « Tonia poth for fools RIE ATI I we sould my. 5 wd bi itis ar : we pa red bast. middiin’ twoagh TT Heiman 7. Day mn Boston Lie low boasting 50.000 fshabitants Pwenty year) spo it began ita exist- | moe, and ome of its foanders, Col J Lenedy Stout, who drafted its charter nd served a ity first city attorney, is aeorge Turner, from He | Washington. | "Pew peopin realize.” suid Gol. Stout, State of 30t many years zines (he only railroad nour state was x miserable litue line | with wooden ratle, running from Walls Walla to Wailula, # distance of thirty ire, butls It Ble advertised both fast and slow freight schedules There was hut one train of oars in the entire sys: front ears, sod ‘low freight on the PEAT ones. the land to any extent, and this primi. | dvs rallway magnate was particularly asually eomatituted bis costume. Most | 5¢ Bis care were fut cars. The road did s big Dusiness and Ite earnings. to- ‘gether with the president's invest- | creased his milltons. i oars and munching a smidwich, be at tracted the attention of a hobo, who, j erouching behind some sacks of wheat, was stealing a ride. b a down. ®t down!” shouted the [tramp to the millionaire president, | "Sit down, or the conductor see vou [and put as both off! Eaturday Even. | 1 ing Post. | weRe OPPOSED TO HURRY. 3 i { ET Told ot Inhabitants al» Small Wustern Town. | West,” aid a Boston min, as reportad ‘in the Boston Globe, “and left the ad- dress at howe, 80 that sore important Hietters could Se forwarded to me Bxured out about when they ought to arrire and went down tw) the postoffice to inquire for then postmaster, who wag also 8 histice of tie peace. “They ought ti have been Bere Yea- tenday,’ 1 said “Couldn't have got liere yeaterday, ‘as old Brown, wht carries the mail was drunk and didn't go over Ww losco After it." = And how about to-day® “ "Wail, he's sober enough to-day, but his old womuin has cut her foot’ “ ‘But there will be a mail to-mors row? 1 queried. “'Skussly. sir. We don't have no mail on Thursiays' * “Then how about the next day? “Fridays is sort of off days with the fosco postmaster, and Ne generally gues fAshing If he don't, he sends the boy aver. ever.’ INNIS One of the mat ant wat equipped dties fn the United States is Spokane, | till a young man, and Is now private | to United States Senator | “what strides the west bas made. It is mtien. Dr. Biker, sn ecventrie million. ; em. “Fast freight’ was loaded on the * "Boiled shirt Bad not yet Mivaded | | had enough of the strong staff? indifferent as to dress. A Jumper, over | no ails, brogans, ami an old slouch hat “One day while, roughly dressed, as | | asual, Be was riding on one of bis fat | Ch “1 had busioess in a small town out | “No Jetters bere for you! sald the I mewir count on it, how. You seem to hove a slipshod way NN NN NN NNN WN, Ee Say all. sad Cars our d's ren. nr about bow tw kill cockroschen| woo Kinder takn things easy and lot the: Tnttedt States run sloug without tin’ her bller; © : mo nA ba A Quaker Bartenden There 18 an old suburban ing he | Philadelphia ¥ugt by & Quaker W amid the incongruous sero b his bar. still olings to the slain guage of his fateh, Decasion iy OE i ad Hem to bear his mid volve asking. * wiil thee have?" The other day ¢ ; ‘was a crowd In the dar. and one loa men bad siresdy Deen tmbihing L100. freely. Nevertheless he ined the hur with the others, and lopdly {looked at him severely, and 1 “Jarges, doesn’t thee think thes ‘E had better take a ‘parila There fa Apgesl, and James den & 4 : moved Bs the wolves which hunt. But the dingo bias been © stipes, 8 Well as by me : very artificial antmal HSE the degenerate dingo is no longer isfled with lambs but demands 5 and will attack sven the fall ; Low. He 38s added the cunping of sirilizntion to the savagery of § ism and Austrails is making the dingo as it made war on the hit Deni ll es A Long wad Short Const Apropos of the &lscamion of thelsne perfority of the jong or the 3 #Rirt, a Broadway prometader a8 vicned himsell about 5 o ¢lock the othe ‘afternoon at Twenty thing street ¥inth avenue and vouated Yor one the nomber of long and short that passed. The crossing wae tity and allowing for any inkccuracy ia the counting of the gentleman the odun showed the short skirt 16 be the popular, Of the 0 women :kirts were counted 64 wore long skirts, while 258 wore sbort ones. This ratio of 4 to } praved the popularity of [the short skirt. —New York Times tI ae, Largest Crop of Popeoen. A. Lo. deasller of Edgar County, iF nots, last year harvested the i trop of poprorn ever gathered in [the world. From his 102 acres he Bad 1.500 Imshels, a yield of a little ¢ seventeen bushels to the acre. It dom hima $17 an acre to raise sort, shell par ground rent rr Some men never think of the Hor {save when their own are
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