® | bacolie point of view, and
9B | Ing the old man gave in with:
I2-| Kansas Cicy aad then came home to
J pe 8 :
: We sire not wha the listeners ars,
We care not where ‘tis heard.
We do not know within our heard
Andy, 5% 22) on
truly, it is only one
Of Ii le things that count,
We often wo wound the trusting beert
3 We do ot Think that that which we do
fe We tive Eom thought,
But watch snd wait; nLly one
: Of little md that count.
Wal be pleading
: : BR So hour,
And weorn the falling oe
Atthe things oh. Little th
What sorrow wrought you
Be kind 3
— Kathryn C. Murny, in
Everybody ‘round Plmly set up a1 sway whistling, while Baphle In the
| fangh when Peter Jethson and his
ft wife moved over on old man Grants
se | West eighty and set up for farming, |
. | Peter was always regarded ss some
thing of a joke in Hoke County, and
the fact that he had married Sophie
4 | Grant, the prettiest girl for miles
ij arennd, didn’t save him. He was 5
sort of second cousin to the old man's
Brst wife, and, of course, when he
1 came to Kansas bis kinsman took him
iin.
The objections to Bim were Zool
a . natured but numerous. He was ab
ue | ways dressed op. Ee bad no more
fedge of borses. cattle and pigy
. | than a Kansas City dude. and for the
first year of his life tn Eoke County
ibe dido't do anything but court
| Sophie. OM Grant tever would have
or | agreed to it If be (en't know that bis
¢ | son-in-law-elect “had money,” for the
i youth was quits worthless from a
he after six
months trying to Interest him io farm-
| “Weil ye kin have ber, Pete, but
| #oll darn ye, Dow you all gow’ to
saylag,
t| make out
Peter grinned qoletly.
| wway to tell Sophie, They were mar
ried at Ch AE, spent a8 week In
kitchen smiled confidently and ber
father gramdled in his whiskers
It was like that all summer and fall
Pete didn't do anything in the way of
work except what he did secretly tn
his shop or on his well The neigh
bors would stop at hie road gate some
times and shout at him: “Hey, Mis
tay Jutheon, struck watter sr
his bead and answer, “Not yel"
{ Sometimes, If they happened to ask
Bim, “How ye gettin’ along? bed
track his little Joke by
then be'd laugh like a piessed boy.
And 80 It came shout that the folks
at Pimly and ronndabowt fn Hoke
son as "Poor Pete” ths women pitylng
Boplie and the men pitying old man) :
Grant. who had given his pretty]
danghte- to 8 “balf-wit™
It was along In the spring when
{ everybody found oot that Peter had
taken 8 ten-year leass on the Brown.
son place adjcining Ma own untied
acres. Mayor Jenkins of Plinly voleed
the public soniiment about this trans
3 action when ho sid;
| *Gtess we wou't starve” snd went
“Brownson bas fust took advartage.
¢' pore Pate Them hundred an’ sixty
acres 0 Lis'n ain't wail tws dollars
a year. Won't raise notin’ ag’ pit
by answering. |
“Getting a long well, thank you” and}
oF the bay = that
own up, what is your idea o'
leases when you min't so moeh as
farmin' troek :
Gam dad” said Peter, auietly.
“Just keep it as secret as you can, but |
there's gas Rader every foot of this |
It was not a very sitiefartory ex
planation to grant He didn't Sy
what particular good gas might do,
snd the next time he saw Dr Jewett |
{in Pimly be let slip the secret abour |
Peter's idea. From the doctors of
fice the story sprena, resching ears
j that were not indifferent to the story
of & gas belt ander Hoke
County. Strangers who had snick- |
ered at Jethson Megan 10 cross-ques
| tion him, but he pit thers aside with
a childish smile and a harmless joke |
“How you goin’ to git the cas” they
asked him.
“Dig for It.” be would say. langhing.
“An' if you git it, what then?
“Then it's up to youn.” Pizoed Joth
800, an he walked sway.
Bote of them did Cig. or rather bore
intr their fare Ashames of ther |
enterprises, they kept them secret |
from each other, Iu’ when thoy had |
vainly gone Cown 200, $00 snd 300 feet |
| throngh rock and clay and water, rage
against the noocert Peter tock bold |
(of ther: ard they watched for a
changes to pet even Ceorge Hough |
set ihe pace by actually leasing the
“gas privileges” of Bis farm to “Sot
son for piperty.nire years for the cosh |
sum of $100, which was paid the mo
ment the dead was signed. After that
thers wax a rush to “do bushes” with
Peter. The majcontents who bad spe. t
work snd money sinking for gas
wanted revenge, but {hey were afraid |
ta give the vietim “Jans terms” for
fear when bis pertal cordition was
discoverad bis engagements would be
cote valueless, so they 41d Dusiness
with him vn a eash basis ontil ha
mosey was gone arid be had “the ras
Whereat be wou'd smCe gently, shake Pr 0®R¢’ 03 cvery farm and frec
holding near Pimly.
“What alr you gy © do naw ™ |
groaned Pana Crant when Porte slat.
ted that had hike wo burrow a bundre?
dollars.
Tm ping to give Pindy a fre
works exhibition” he answered saive |
Ir. “I'm golpg to tywn pow fo put a
County came 10 talk about Peter Jeth. | “773 1a the Baynes ® sauouncing 8 show
over at my place”
And he did. The ermatic ansouaes. |
| works” was all gas It " tron, but
from a hundred Jetn slonz the drive,
around (he lawn, in the Boose and out. |
mde, It fared In clear white glory. |
tain all ran by ig ay | bing called for, was sent to the Lost |
men who had ridiculed Bim aside, ad. TOC
mitted that they bad dug for gas 206,
“Just on his sey sc.” but that “they
Wiat no gas within five hundred feet |
an’, Pete. of yo wirt to stan’ “roo
{ come ¢ think. foes can’t raise no loas'n 5 “Bar that lease, wily all right”
they | Pete's eighty”.
Pat Peter ada't want to “stax
i from onder.”
“Digging for oan oye Sr Peter,
radisutly, "is Uke sizing op your ob
Jow men. Is no tse noless you go |
deep, say 5 thousand feet or so.”
And they smiled with him, bot they |
dide’t mean #—Johin HB. Raftery, In
{he Chicago Record Herald,
mehr St seen —
Tiree Step In Village Improvement.
First In onder {3 sctivities of i'n
{kind come cleanliness Cless streets |
fang padlie places, clean private prem
ses—with thers secured, the Grat grant
transformation [a the community takes
place. When nuisades breeding mid
Lish beaps are cleared awsy, and va.
| fant lots coverad with sil sorts of lit. |
ter are cleaned up, everybody notes
a { the Improvement asd i» Interested I
seeing It calntaloed. Orderlitess. of
COUTEe, gora hand £3 hand with clezn- |
ness. The latter vanpet be secured
iwi: good order. And with goxt
order there In an aspect of Deathess
that commands popular respect. It
plenses the pablie eye Nearly every:
{ body will desist from throwing rubbish
2 a well Rept place, and from seater.
fag torn up paper, of other litter un 3
clean street. Public sentiment is easily
{cultivate in favor of public cleanls
ness and order. A notable Instases
of its growth is tO be found In the
agitation against spitting In public |
jrisces, since It waa detemuived raat
Dow INTO THE TIM3ER, WIERD LD COUNTED rar WALNDT
TRECS. :
oa Pete leased the west eighty
| from his father-indaw and bullt a cot.
tage, declaring that he meant to make
bis fortune right there. He started ®
¢} by bringing from his old home fn the
- East all bis books, Bshing tackle, guns
snd other impractical effects. When
| the Kansas winter vanished belore a
| matchless spring be began to roam
ever “our farm"
“What you going to do frst. Det?"
3; Sophie would ask.
“Just look aronnd for a while. So
a) one be would say, and march off
whistling toward the creek or down
{ into the timber, where he counted the
se | walnut trees and shot an occasional
{ squirrel. Then he rigged up 8 ehop
{bear the barn and bought a lot of
"§ second-hand gas pipe, Iren rods and |
te] queer implements that bad nothing te
i with farming.
“What ye goin’ to do naow, Pete?’
| the old ma asked, syeing him with |
Whereupon everybody laughed and
repeated Mayor Jenking's joke. Then
the wags out Grant's way Degas to
put wD lobe” on Jethsom. They
would stop by and ask casually if he
wanisd to lease avy more nnd and
When they realized that be was dead
ia earnest aboot getting more acres,
that be wasnt particular about the
{quaiity of the land, so long as it was
near Plmily, and could be leased fori
ten yeurs or longer. they began to
get a vague ldea that “mebbe Pete
was up to suthin’.” Then for a while |
old man Gras: was waviald on the
corners In Pimly and at intervals
along (Be toad, hy farmers who want:
ed to know what Pete was to do with
his leased lands. When Grant said
be dido't know, they either dishe-
Heved him or pitted the necessity of
| velitug his son-io law's mental frality
and went their wass Hut the old
fellow was now bent on knowing, He
refused to accept the theory that Pete
was “daffy” preferring to estimate
{hts eccentricities as “pure crmery lank
ness.” At last he got the young man
er of the sitting room, when |
us away. sad quizzed bim re |
the practice was a danger to public
health, The posting of notices with
regulations against it. sad the fe
quent discussion of the subject In the |
press, Barve made a strorg impression
spon puldic seatinwant, and 3 conse
quence the offense In not practiced ty
anythisg like the same extent in com
iities where there has been sneh
agitation. —Sylvester Baxter, 1a the Cin
tery.
A Fascinating Profession,
The tradivion fn India l= that the
man-eating tiger pever gets over his
thirst for human bls Men reform
fro: evil habits break oF from trodes |
and eat loose from associations and lo
ealities, but never or rarely from jour.
nalisur Bame have triad to sovount
for this well-Rnows fact by recnanting
the fascications of the “art preserva-
tive”
Gals may be the ese In some de.
gree, but it cannot be all of I. Whe |
ene has engripml ln the newspaper
husicess be acunires some partial |
| knowledge of all the ordinary pursuits
and avocations, and this seems to une
fit him for centralizing his faculties
pen any of thery Cogsequently be
experiences a certain Hmidity as 10
embarking upon SrcaBtily or manu- |
facturing pursuits,
Besides this they all seem to Mbhn
to be narrow and iiaited. There is ao
Demon Widens in Juwenatien |
The Coroner sald thar he
Lim oan [rallies toern disappearsd, eav-
Ling a defielt of 8100000, The avteork
ties procended fo open his strong-box,
(paper foclosing thirtysix econts and
stating that the money was for the
locksmith win should be ‘leputed to
break open the enfe
A banker and municipal treawuter his life ‘mor
A banker and municipa within the. expetionts of an ordinary
loan. Pele fe Tn Techoss oUmtor
LPerting followed the ses for so many
Fv tees of | FeB
which was found to csntain a p re ; sdvettuies Was Mis eting
{with King Oscar of Sweden and Nor-
way.
An extremely funny stenation has
arisen in Marienberz, a small town in
Prossia. Three friends of a Rossing
living at the town gave him 10 marks
fp shave off Tix beard. But be wile
{terfered with & polices notice to the
¥
3
Ptrehip. The other friends are pow
igaing the hustmnd for non-perforie.
#0ce of his contre,
“nino,
“An elderly man. baviog the appear
Blaokfrisre roadl. Londen, one Rundey
aight recently, when hie woolen leg
canght in a grating, and about a fom
and a half of if snaphed off. To the
| amagemient of the passers by there | =
; polled out from a cavity several sor
| ereigns and some sliver, for whick |
some of the colo were stolen. Hew
ever, the old man received back most
of his hoard, siel he was placed in 8
cab and conteyad to to his bome,
The Jatest development in surgery ww!
the welding of fees in para®™a, whist
| Is pow being practiced In Anstris. Io.
the deformity kiown iss saddle nos |
the most remarkable results ave ald :
ty be obtatued. The process ronsiets
in ihe subeutazwons injection of Par
Catlin, which before it completely sets
molded into the desired shape. A)
warmed syringe lo charged with the
mieited compound and the needle Is.
inserted between the eyebrows. just:
above the root of the nose. Then th
oompoaid ie Injected Lyte the sGbhon
taneous tissges ai the noodle is slowly
withdrawn.
The body of 8 chtld appears to have
room at London Bridge Station. It
firmed at last ihe sublest of fnaniry
‘mt tle Caroner's Court Southwark
| that the parcel was left at Victorts |
Rtation on December 2, 1000, and ns
ty Office for the asnual man
mage sale, and so the noture of the |
tontents was dlscoverad. The body
was fomipletely miomtifiod. The wit
verdict,
The abhariztnes ot the Malabar int
als employ a petfert whistling lan.
Fug by means of which they can
oxmriunioate Wilh each other over:
long distancex. A stranger wandering |
over the idands Is frequently sur
prised to bear from the hilltop thr
sound of ond whistling whkh 4°
£
| quickly repeated on the next hit and
Im in carried from semralt to sumo
antil it dies awsy In the distance |
But perhaps the pwost curfons means | :
of communication in this workf is the
Srum-ianguage of a Kongo tribe |
These queer people can talk to cael
other with large drums made of ham |
boo hoops, over which the skin oy
some animal 8 stretched. The drom |
hawever, 3 weed only on loportant |
Navale tend Painting, |
Sand painting br the Navate Indinny
Is a great religious rite. Sand for that |
ground work ia carried Gn blankets |
The fire which has barned through
oiler ceremonies ts fogs removed ane
8.1 traces of It wovered with sand.
The colors vied sre wade from |
sround plement sprinkled on with the |
thumb and forelinger. Pleces of bark |
Werte as paint cups. The colors am |
yellow, red and white frum sandstones |
brek from charconl and 3 grayish blue | }
{ furmoed of white sand and chareonl |
with a very small quantity of yullow |
and red sands The ayy usually 4
Se only guide fur drawing lines, al!
though sometimes a wearing stick is
teed.
The pletures represent gods and god |
desses. The polls carry nt thelr righ
hands a rattle and in their left sprig
af pinon; The pouldesses carry ploom
in both bande The rutile and the
pinon bring the rain. After the paint |
ings are completed the priests sprinkle
them with sacred med! and water
When the cereipony in finished the
‘people hasten to take sand from the
hearts, heads and limbs of the Sgurs
fo rub upon themselves The sand is!
gathered Into a blagket snd deposited
#1 the foot of a pimun tree
These sand paintings are begun xt)
saurise and often not Enisbed unt |
inte in the afternoon, although tin
arriity work with grea” rapidtsy. The!
mingling of the oslors is most beaut
fal, seme of the work Raving the ap |
pearance of Floreatine mosules—New
York Herald
i
Bailways to Be Batit tn Meontenegre.
Montegegro—the country of the black
mouniains-—-is the only vantry on the
European Continent which bas uo rail |
ways. The Prince of Montenegro has
RoW piven 4 concidsion to a syodicate
Ip construct a aarrow gauge railway
some 70 miles in length, to the Ser
vias burder It is repurted that the
survey has already been made and}
started in the mmr 4
| Ssnstor, wlilng the
affect that sbe claimed 8 part proprie-
anew of a lnlworer, was walking dow
thers was at ones a seramble, and
lio in London for fourteen months 9
a6 An noclalmed parcel in the cloak | F ;
oy 1 we had mot seen cach other for thivty
| years. 1 ook him op fo S30 Franeiscs
and gare him a place on cue of my
L Bape ~~ Washington Post,
hat work an the milwey wit bel
Ome of Mr. Perkins most In-
“I was quite & boy then” said the
story yesterday.
a milor named Hurry Sayin
© an Englishman, we went up to the pal
[ “1 lad walled Ua the good ship Luma -
from New Orieans to Bweden with
A cargo of cotton, and while the ship
was in port 1 thought | wonld Hike
oe eToys! Dulce to Scoskigtes.
Ove Bonday
ace. Bey like. we wanied to get te 1
the grosmads, and so we crawled throug
8 waste pipe which ran through fhe
| wally around the palace park. As sop
38 We gt Bade, howsves, ve wow |
arrested by the gendaroes. and a8
wa dhl not know a word of
we were {0 a sad plighs.
“Presently,” continued the loaves.
"a party of distinguished people come
| slong and seemed interested in our
fronble One person in the party spolie
: English. He asked us what we were
(dolog In the King's park. | mld him
that 1 wus as Americsn bey he
: wanted to ste the King sad ber ihe
{King vet
* Bat don't you kuew,” he sald “hat
you might be pat into prison for tree
. paswing
“Oh | sald ‘T dew't wens to Bert
“the Ricg: I only waur to ser Bim”
“1 am King Oscar,’ was Lin reply.
and then” added Serator Perkins "1
learned that I was really in the pres
ence of the gSonmreh”
“What hapsesed to Son thea !™ |
his lwtener
“The Ring” be relied “Seat a sol
der with us to show ux ihe palnes
and we had a splendid tle. Boar thet
wast the sequel to the story. Thirty
i years later, when 1 wos Governor of
i California. 1 went off an a little cules
BO 8 Fach, and wha should be 3 sailor
on the yueht bot harry PBraoeombe
He knew me aust coer Bim slibomsh
Britt of The Chien.
The aptitude sbown by Chinese Sok
lors for Sri snd maneuvers i clos
rank is said w be remarkaite. The
Arill bs modeled on German methods;
| the gun fs earried over the left shoul
Besses could sled as light on the mut |
ter, and the fury retassed an open
der. the parade step is the bass of all
the marches in close pank. bar the
Chinese will keep to their lucge red
wandard: there ts ube for shoat ees
.
ery fen men. The only other Buses
drill” a corfous feseing movement
with the bayonet scow spe nied by
flere heaviness 20d saves thraewe ar
the thront by the whele battalion
The native characters of the Chinese
sldier is admirably svited to 13 Main.
tenance of perfect disciple ad a
| favitlens execption of parades Jefil
Commanded well he will perbaps,
equal the Japasese soldiers wio are
siready equal w Borepean troops, bat
the Chinexs officers ignore the amt of
war and even do det commnod thelr
troops during drtil
tary sianlarine ein cups of fie seated
in comfortable armebairs ih 3 corner
of the drill extup, quits inferior officers
| give the directions and exetcise the
rend command.
£)tte Squirts Kill Bligeer Ones.
A news tem states that the people
af Fall River, Mass, have succeeded
sw wall In potesting the gray wild
wires I» 1ke selghbarhotd that the
animals wiasder into the streets eof
the «ity and accept food from friendly
hands. Probably soch cases are mave.
An sxpertenced Luoters mys that large
I gray and Bleek squires 080 Dever
tpeatie abundant becatse they are of
8 gelitie and peaceable disposition, and
ars puabie to defend themselves
against the munderuns attacks of the
-sinall red squirrels and chiprinaks
The latter are savage little hexits who
| make rear attacks on the larger
species, springing suddenly upon them
and Infticting fatal wounds. With
these flerce cnemies continually on the
alert, the gray and black squirrels have
a poor chance for life, and sithovgh
some of them escape, they grow mere
starve year by year. In toese citoumn-
siances it ln &fcult to see Bow any
measure of protection can do very
much toward saving them.
In a recent address on ventilation,
tw 8 look of which he attrilinted loosest
humans Gls, Dr. A Wynter Bivih an
English physician, after discussiag the
excellent
which obtain In the sew London “un-
derground.” sid: “One could iwagine
a Jules Vere cavernous city. where
the sky was the ever-white changeless
chaili, where no rain fell. where no
frost penetrated, where the light never
failed. and where dry. warm. fitered
pine-ozonized alr bathed the lungs
and fanned the cheeks of its denizens
in the constant white glare of = never
dying summer day. di
An antomohile track is pow ems
ployed for moving irom safes. It has
twa propelling motors and a third
elevates the safe to its place in the
White the mill
metworiogioal conditions
pean medlvnd smploped the "“tper
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