SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE*
To-day we have journeyed fat,
My heart and I ;
Caine home at du.sk ’neath u star
Hung keen and high.
The morn was a blade of steel—
Scabbard of white—
Bonnie and brave to feel
In burnished light.
As we footed the open road
We sang the sun :
Love was the debt we owed
The day begun.
The hills were abrupt and blue—
Castles of kings,
To be won and wandered through
For precious things.
Noon and the long afternoon—
Gladness and hope—
And a shado\r that walked too soon
The westward slope.
So is the wild world won
By them who roam;
But best of the day that is done—
The door of home.
•—Emery Pottle, in Success Magazine.
THE.REVERIE
*
‘Not at all," she sail
“Plftis* g<
on."
"1 can’t go on alone, for the little glr
with the white dress is now with
you know. We made good time to
house where the dance was held,
was a beautiful ride, too, through
lines of ambitious kuty-dids ami othei
night Insects. 1 remember we talked
about the habit of some birds mi In |
The Mysterious <«ue«tn.
sects singing only at night. The glr 1 1 had three friends. F asked one day
In tlie white dress set me to thinkluj i
That they would dine with me;
by remarking that night time seemed tc But when they came, 1 found that they
Were six instead of three.
be sweetly sorrowful, anil so was the J
liest time for song. I recall that 1
thought about It at the thus anil re My good wife whispered, "We, at best.
But tile can hope to diue.
membered that it was true that there
Send one away.” 1 did. The rest
W hs more singing In the evening that
Remaining numbered nine.
any other part of the day.
"Well, it was only a minute or twi "I, too, will go," tile second cried;
until we were in the farm house, danc
He left at once, and then.
ing. laughing, enjoying ourselves. Some Although to count but eight I tried.
There were remaining ten.
how I don't remember of having heard
laughter that meant as much as that
"Go, call them hack,” niy wife implored ;
heard at a country dance.
"1 fear the third may go.
“And the music—you know ther« And leave behind, to -share our board,
wasn't much to that music; Just tw<
Perhaps u score or so."
fiddles and a bass fiddle sawing away,
The
second one then straight returned,
but somehow there was lightning In It
As might have been expected ;
We danced, the little girl In white and
I. Her cheeks and lips were glowing He with the ten, we quickly learned,
Eleven made. Dejected
and her eyes seemed to have stolen th«
glow from the lamps. Once a curl or
We saw the first returning; he,
her head touched my cheek. I—why I
With all the rest, turned round.
1 can't begin to tell you how real 11 And there, behold; were my friends three,
all was.
Though six they still were found.
"Then came the ride over the starlit
road, with the wild crab apple blossoms For those of you that yet may find
My riddle too complex.
scattering Incense before us. with th«
night birds singing in harmony with i’ll say the friends I had in mind
Are “S” and “I” and “X.”
the song in my heart. The moon drop
ped lower and lower toward th<> fringe
flow to Make : Work Bench.
of trees on the ridge, and I was just
The articles required to make a good
wishing that I might ride on like that work bench are;
Twelve feet of
forever, for It scoiuih I that the little 2x1 ¡»lne scantling, a few boards and
girl in white must have felt herself some nails. Cut the scantling into four
tiny and frightened In the big, still pieces, each 3 feet long. Make a gain
night, for she unconsciously nestled in the end of each 6 inches long and 1
close to me.
Inch ¿leep (Fig. 1).
Next get two
“I did not want to release her hand boards, each 2’Xj feet by 6 inches, and
when I left her at the door to the big nail them firmly Into the gains.
white house; 1 did not want to take my
■eyes away from her. and, as I drove to
ward home, somehow the night was
black and lonesome and there were no
pictures In the shadows of beauty in
the yellow light of the moon. When I
Fió-
unhitched my horse and turmsl him out
to pasture I stood for a long time, with
the bridle in my hand and leaning
against a corn crib. When at last 1
slowly walked to the house I knew that
something had come into ni.v life—I 1
loved the little girl in the white dress.
|ic,n
i
I had known for a long time that I
eared for her greatly, but I never be
fore knew how much.
U
“I guess I must have bi'en passing
the first station beyond my stopping
place," he laughed.
Interrupting a
DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION.
story be realized was being told In a
Fig.
2.)
Now nail two boards, 10 inches
voice growing more and more fervent
by 9 feet, to the sides, and even with
and passionate.
"With a suddenness that seemed per the top of the legs, letting them project
fectly reasonable to me, I found my 1 inch at either end. After this is
self the day after the dance talking to done, nail the boards on the top. A
the old gentleman who owned the white strap of iron 6 inches by 1 inch by *4
house; of hearing him advise me not to inch Is screwed to the first top board
hope to win the hand of the little girl; about 1 inch from the end A (Fig. 3),
of hearing hoiv, since oil had made the. to brace boards against while ¡»laning
old man rich, his girl would not be' them. Now fasten a block (’» Inches by
married to any man in the farm land? 2 Inches by 1 Inch perpendicularly to
Her s was to be a grand sixdal suivess. the side board, and a narrow strip 9
After that the dear old familiar places' feet long along the liottom of the same
no longer held beauty. The country' board. This is used to keep a board
was us dreary to me as If It had been in position while planing the edge, if
you choose to ’lave a vise in your work
swept by ivar or something else.
“And then—anil then I woke up.” hi- bench, it may be attached at th»i upper
corner.
said, laughing, Jerkily, awkwardly.
She rose, went to the window, look
'I'lie Elephant mid tlie Plnno.
ing into the street.
The proprietor of a circus in London
“And the rest?” She did not turn
animu.iceil that on a certain evening a
and she spoke softly.
trick elephant would piny “Hod Save
11c arose ami stood Just tiehind her.
the King" on a piano placed In the
"I need not tell you who was the
i arena ; lie would strike the keys of tlie
little girl in white," he continued,
Instrument with his trunk, of course
speaking quickly and impulsively. "She
the annoiineement drew n tremendous
has been before me ever since I left
crowd to the circus, all eager to wit
my home and came to New Yor^. She
ness this most astounding feat. When
was before me even after I heard she
the time for the performance came, sev
was engagisl to marry Sam Willetts. 1 '
eral men carried a small piano into the
cursed the fate that brought about al
arena ami left it with the keylxiaril
discovery of oil on my own land after closed. Then the elephant was intro
it was too late. Wealth was nothing duced. and having been led around the
to me without the girl In the white' ring so that everylsiily might have a
dress."
g'Ksl look at lilni. lie approached the
"But—but you never told the girl I d piano and gently lifted the cover of
the white dress?”
the keyboard.
Then a sudden and
“No," he said bitterly. “I didn't. That startling change came over him, mid.
was a great mistake, but I was a alm-1 lifting Ills trunk high in the air, he
ple-bearted fellow In those days.
I turned and run from the arena, utter
thought the decision of lier.fatber end lug trunqs-t calls that might have been
ed niy 1 iojh » s .”
heard half over London. The keeper
"And Sam Willetts? He did not mar and the ringnuister held n hurried con
ry------ ?”
ference. and they, too. quitted the ring.
“No,” he interrupted hastily. “I don't Presently the ringnuister returned, and
know why, but 1 have often thought1 thus addressed the spectators: "Ladies
that she would discover that her na-1 and Gentlemen: I regret extremely that
turn would not harmonize with his as' the performance of the elephant mi the
piano cannot take place. The truth is.
soon as sb«- saw him continually.
“Shall we—shall we go back there that when lie lifted the cover of the
In a more substantial manner than In keylioard ho recognized in flic keys part
reverie—yon and I?” he pleaded, wist of the tusks of Ills long-lost mother,
whose unhappy lot It was to fall a vic
fully nnd tenderly.
She did not answer, but slowly, ten tim to the Ivory hunters of Africa."
But the shrewd proprietor had drawn
derly. sh«- extended her bands.
“Poor father," she said, "he told me a big crowd to bls show, all tlie smile.
before he died. He was sorry, very The trick was worthy of Barnum.
sorry, that sudden wealth had so near -I
A 1,1 fe-sn I I n« Ci |o-rl men t.
ly upset his better sense. He wnnti-d—
They were making some exis riments
well, just this.” she said Impulsively?
with a lifeboat at a certain government
her head resting lovingly on his ghoul life-saving station last summer, and it
der.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
was thought best to pitch two er thn-
,
*
Some oi-cult power drove nway the
reverie that gripped him. He awoke
with a start ami discovered that he
•was five stations beyond his destina
tion.
He also discovered a pair of
most interesting brown eyes staring at
him and a quizzical smile dimpling the
features of an exceedingly pretty young
woman.
He quickly crossed tile car and seat
ed himself by her side.
“1 have come five stations too far,”
he said, as he took her hand.
“I thought you were going too far.”
she said, laughing quietly. "And your
face! Why, you seemed to be in a
trance.”
"I guess I was. I was thinking of
something, and even now I am not
collected enough to know whether I had
you SEF.MEl) TO Im IN A TRANCE.
dozed away and was dreaming, or
whether 1 was—what shall I say?—
dopy 1”
“And the dream—or ‘dope,’ as you
call ft?”
“It's too long to relate now. It might
Interest you. though. If-——”
"Surely. Some other time. Say to
morrow evening?”
"I shall be delighted."
"Come in time for dinner.”
He left the train at the nex station.
The next evening they sat In a cozy
parlor In an uptown apartment house.
A ]>ause followed a half hour's conver
sation on commonplace matters.
“And now.” she said, suggestively,
"now will we have the recital of your
wanderings in the subway train?”
He laughed lightly.
"I was Just thinking of that.” he
said. “I was wondering how to start
niy story. I guess I had better begin
where 1 boarded the train. Will you
•top me when I begin to bore?”
"You won't be tiresome—you never
were.”
Ho smiled at the naive compliment.
"I boarded the train at Brooklyn
bridge." be began. “There was a Jain
of people. but I managed to find a seat
by the window. 1 remember mentally
commenting on the terrible roar in the
subway and Its probable effect upon the
hearing organs of New Yorkers.
I
don't know how far I had gone before
there was a silence that seemed to reach
out and out, over a great distance of
land. And when I was out of the sub
way fields and hills stretched ticfore me
and the longer I saw them the more
familiar they became. A long, dusty
road climbed a knobby hill, and, some
how. I was driving over this road, as
real and lifelike as I am sitting here.
"My mind was transformed. Busi
ness cares were brushed away ns dust
is brushed from n picture frame or
mantelpiece. The tinkle of cowbells In
tlie distance lost their metallic clank
and sounded sweet and musical—the
vespers of the farm land.
“As I drove up the hill I knew that
1n the hollow on the oilier side I'd find
a great, rambling white house. On the
Bummlt I drew rein, searched with my
eyes tlie long veranda and saw a girl
In a white dress. She waved at me. I
was to drive her to a dance almut six
miles across country.
Doesn't this
strike you as being most unreasonably
rambling?”
The young woman, who was listening
Intently, started, dropped a fan with
which she had been toying, recovered
hersxif and smiled.
-2>
Iler Blunder.
Him—And I’m the only man you
ever loved?
Her—Yes, dearest.
Him—Mpy I speak to your father?
Her—I suppose you’d better.
Him—I wonder how he’ll take ft.
Her—Oh. I never can tell about dad.
He treats some of the boys very nice
ly. and at others he gets fearfully an
gry and—why what’s the matter,
George?—Cleveland Leader.
Ever see a screen that you were not
overwhelmed with a desire to know
what Is behind it?
END W JIM HARGIS.
Autocrat of the Kentucky M <»11 it t h i ii«
Murdered by Sun He W hipped.
In the mountains of Kentucky stands
Jackson, “The City of Sudden Death.”*
It is a squall«!, dreary little town, built
on a mud flat. Incongruously mean
against the steadfast splendor of the
until two men row -d out In a ls>nt and kills. Here old Jim Hargis was kllleil
pulled him away would tlie dog give' by his own son. and another tragedy
It up. ami then In* looked all broken I has been set down In the series of
lip u ¡th disappointment. So much for deaths that gave Jackson Its name.
the Neu toumlland's noble instinct.
I
Judge Hargis was one of three broth
ers, Jim, Alex and Elbert, who have
The Wunder* of Paper-Miikins.
been the acknowledged leaders of the
It may surprise the boys and girls
to. hear that there are more than two mountain men of Breathitt County for
years. All of them were active In poli
thousand ¡intents relating to the manu
facture of J »alter. And perhaps it may ties. They conducted a general store
surprise them even more to hear how at Jackson and were the wealthiest
many things may be used to make pa men in the mountain country, much of
per of. Following are some of them : their wealth being Invested In land.
The leaves of trees; the wood of trees; I They became known outside the con
fines of the mountains because of the
hop plants; bean stalks; ¡»ea vines; the
trunks and stems of Indian corn ; every bitter and bloody Breathitt County feud
variety of grain ; moss, clover and tim with which the Hargis name has boon
Identified. In their attitude toward
othy hay; more than one hundred kinds
of grass; straw and cocoanut fiber; strangers and non-combatants the Har
gis brothel’s were peacable, quiet men,
fresh-water weeds and seaweeds; saw
dust, shavings and asbestos; thistles but in their relations to the Cockerills,
leaders of the opposing forces In the
and thistle-down; banana skins; tobac
co stalks; tanbark; hair, wool, fur, and feudal strife, there was luteuse bitter
ness.
old sacking or bagging. In fact, there
The animosities between Judge Har
seems to be scarcely anything that may
gis and his brothers and the Cocker 111
not be used in the process.
brothers, Jim and Tom. had its origin
The Y oiiiik Irtlst.
years ago In political rivalries that be
A youthful artist, over whose golden- came Intense as the Hargises gradually
hued head, as the poets would say, not acquired control of ¡»arty affairs in the
more than six summers had passed, was county. Personal encounters were nu
¿railing a picture. Ills mother looked rnerous. but the first victim of assas
at his work mid asked him ivliat be sination was Dr. Ben D. Cox. a practi
was drawing.
tioner who had tx'en the guardian of
"An elephant.” answered Harry.
the Coekerill boys. He was shot from
"An elephant! Why don’t you try ambush. The second victim of the bush
sometliing easier?"
whackers was Tom, one of the Cocker-
“Why, you see, mamma,” said the ill boys, who had secured Ills election
boy, "I am drawing an elephant because as Marshal that he might apprehend
everybody can tell what It is, for an the slayers of his former guardian. The
■elephant is the only animal in the world third victim was Attorney J. B. Mar-
with two tails.”
SLOWINGTON S BANK ACCOUNT
A LITERARY CURIOSITY.
Che
Closing
'Title
lilt»
of
E mhu
"The goose is a frightful liar,” said
a nature faker. “He quite puts me
to shame."
“Really?”
"Really. You know Imiv the grsiso,
when you draw near it, hisses? Well,
with that hissing sound It says: ‘Scoot,
beware, I tun a serpent. Yes, from prl-
nievtil times tlie goose mother sitting
on her eggs in a place of reels mid
sedge, would not fly when mi intruder
appeared; but. keeping her body con
cealed amid tile leaves, she would
stretch out her long, flexible neck ami
hiss wickedly. ‘A snake In the grass,'
ilie Intruder would"say to himself, ns
lie retreated; and on her eggs the
goose would chuckle in a sly, contempt
uous way.
"The lapwing is another liar. Ap-
proneli her nest, and she sets up a dis-
tressful crying aml runs hack and
forth In front of you. trailing one wing
is though it were broken. You fol-
"W; you think to snatch li»*r up in
<»ur hand; with this lie she lures you
.way from her young.
“The thrush, in time of drouth, beats
with his feet on the grass like a clog
dancer, Thus ho lies to the earth
worms; he makes them think that it is
raining, Up they come in silent hast»*,
and the deceitful thrush makes a rich
meal.”
men overboard with cork Jackets on.
Just to slmw bow the device keeps the
wearer afloat. Among the Hpts'tators
was n big Newfoundland dog.
He
watched the proceedings with no litth
uneasiness, apparently trying to Induce
some of the ¡teople on shore to go to
the aaaistance of the men in the water
A Sew One.
Falling in thia, lie determined to g"
"1 have heard of haughty atrldes and
himself, and In he plunged. Swimming
rapidly out to where one of the men graceful glldi-s, I lit the heroine of thia
was buffeting the waves, he gras(Hsl the
a-h.dramatic tide has a sort of zoolog
man by the arm and tried to pull him ical walk.”
ashore. 'Hie man struggled to get loose,
"What kind of a walk la that?”
but the dog held on, for he evidently
“Why. tlie author tqieaka of her pur-
thought the man was In danger and ailing her catlike tread with a dogged
that It was bls duty to save him. Not icterml nation."— Bit 111 more American
Slid
An old farmer of Arkansas, whoa*
sons had all grown up and left him,
hired a young num by the mime of
Esau Buck to help him on Ills farm. On
tlie evening of the first day they haul
ed up a small loud of poles, for wood,
and unloaded them. 1'he next morning
the old man said to the hired man:
“Esau, I'm going to town to-day, and
while 1 am gone you may saw wood
mid keep the old ram out of the gar
den."
When the old man hail gone. Esau
went out to saw the wood, but when
he saw the saw he wouldn’t saw. When
Esau saw tlie saw he saw he couldn't
saw with that saw. Esau looked around
for another saw. but that was the only
saw he saw. so he didn't saw. When
the old man came home he said to
Esau :
"Esau, did you saw the wood?”
Esau said: "1 saw tlie wood, but t
wouldn't saw It."
The old man went out to see the saw,
and when he saw the saw he saw that
Esau couldn't saw with that saw. When
Esau saw that the old man saw that he
couldn't saw with the saw, Esau picked
up the ax and chopped up the wood and
made a seesaw.
The next day the old man went to
town and bought a new bucksaw for
Esau Buck, and when he came home
he hung the bucksaw for Esau Buck on
the Hawbuck b.v the seesaw.
Just at that time Esau Buck saw the
old buck In the garden eating cablutge,
and when driving him from the garden
to the barnyard Esau Buck saw the
bucksaw on the sawbuck by the seesaw.
When the old buck saw Esnu Buck
looking at the new bucksaw on the saw-
buck by the seesaw, he made n dive for
Esau, hit the seesaw, knocked the Boe
sak against Esau Buck, who fell on
CHIEF FIGURES IN THE HARGIS FEUD. ENDED
BY SON KILLING PROMINENT EX-JUDGE.
Surprised to Diacover that He
One and Is Gwiutf to Build It I
“Hoiv time flies for one thing,”
Mr. Slowington, to a New York
man. "and for another, this not being
a proverb or a saying or anything of
that sort, but Just a statement of fact, I
I've Isen rich for a long time without
knowing anything about It.
“Close on to twenty years ago 1 put
$5 in a savings bank mid then forgot
all about it—maybe because at that
time I didn't have any more money to
put In; but day before yesterday 1
came across that old book in the hot-j
tom of a trunk, and it was sure enough
a pleasant surprise. I'd got money In
the bank.
"And then I thought I’d take the
ÏKCM
liook down and get It written up, get
COCKX4. LL
the Interest ¡mt down anil have the ad
ditional fun of looking at that—see bow
milch It had come to and all that sort ÌU-MC<5
of thing, you know; so yesterday I XA1LÖIS
goes down to the bank and bands In
the book, mid the clerk takes It and
looks nt ft mid snys:
“‘You're just in time: this account
would have stopped drawing Interest
in about three months more. You
know, necounta on ivbleh no deposits
.'ire mmle stop drawing interest nfter
twenty years.'
"And then he goes over
puts the Interest down,
lilni only alsiut a minute, for you see
they keep all the accounts written up
on the Isioks of the bank, mid then
brings It back to me and says pleas
antly :
"'Now you better put in another dol
cum, a fearless young mountain after
lar before the time's up. and then the
ney, who had the hardihood to under
account will lie p oil for another twen
take the prosecution of the slayer» of
ty years.’
Dr. ('ox and Tom Coekerill. Marcum
"And I put In the dollar right on was allot down In the isiurthouse by
the spot; but I'm not going to let it Curt Jett, who later confessed to the
run so for another twenty years: this killing and la now serving a life sen
time I'm going to keep that hook in tence with Abe White, Implicated In tlie
sight, anil I'm going to feed the ac I same crimes. The Hargises and their
count a little occasionally nnd see It brother-in-law,
Ed
t'alhilian, were
grow. I like the hsiks of that inter- charged with complicity In these cold
Illrtls Which Are l.lnrs.
Huck
II IH'kNUW,
blooded murders.
Judge Hargis was tried In connection
with each case and. after many delays,
finally acquitted. Although acquitted
In file criminal courts. Judge Hargis
was found responsible for the death of
Attorney Marcum by the civil courts,
and gave a cheek for Jit,000, of which
itt was given to Indemnify Mrs
J. B. Marcum for the loss of her bus
band, the last victim In the feud.
Tl rough these days of death Jim
Hargis had one cause of worry greater
to him than the Indictments for three
murders and the shifting of public opin
ion against him. Tills was Ills son.
Bench, a reckless. dissolute young fel
low, Beach Hargis bad nil the family
faults without any of the family
strength. Old Jim Hargis had many
violent quarrels will: bls son tss-iiuse
of his habits. Both bail terrible tern
pers. anil their conflicts were like the
fights of the wild tilings of the moun
tains. Finally tlie quarrels tietween the
two culminated In one terrible strttg
gle, where Ills father had to use vim
lone* to restrain Ills son. Beach Hargis
cherished the resentment of this for
days. Then lie had wrought himself
up to the frenzy In which men kill.
He went to bls father's store, went he
hind the counter with him, and after
a few words shot Itm down.
Wanted
to
lie
St, re.
CUR-TI#
JCTT
the bucksaw’ on tin* sawbuek by the
seesaw.
When the old man saw’ the old buck
dive at Esau Buck, and miss Esau and
hit tlie w’osaw and knock the MM'WIW
against Esau, and Esau Buck filli Oll
the bucksaw' on the saw buck by the «♦*♦*-
saw, he picked up an ax to kill the <»|d
buck. But the buck saw him eoiniiifC
and dodged th»* blow’ and countered on
the (»Id man’s stomach, kn - ked the old
man over the seesaw’ on to Esau Buck,
who was getting the seesaw, crippled
Esau Buck, broke the bucksaw’ and the
sawbmk and the «♦•••saw. Hartford
Times.
Ill* Own
Urn nd.
Beerhohrn Tree had a iaiiyh on him
self toward tin? dose of (he ¡»rod ne
tl(»n of “Colonel Neweotne” at iflK
MnJesty’R theater. At one of the re-
hearsnlM a young stag»* recruit waa re-
citing his part much to the manager'«
dissatisfaction. He went up to th»* of
fender and said :
“You don't seem to have grasjad
the meaning of th»* words you an*
sj»caking. Your Intonation is at fault.
And, as for your ♦•locution, where on
earth did you pick It up?”
•‘I’ve Just com»* from your school,
Mr. free.’’ was the trembling reply.—•
Boston IbTald.
"See here.” said the guest. "I want
tn I m * called at <1 o'clock to morrow
morning. It's worth a good to me to
A Philosopher.
catch the <1:35 train
”
Aflkltt Why do you consider Smiley
"Yes. sir,” replied the helllioy; "who n philosopher ? Noitt Because of his
did you say ft would Is- worth a good ability to Iwnr oth< r ¡»oople's troubles
deal to?”—Philadelphia Press.
with fortitude Kansas ( Ity Indrpend-
I*t»r ha ¡m some men iro to the dogs ent.
becauHe the poor on nines are chained
and can't get away.
It Is best not tn try to get the beat
of your L*st friend.