THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER. 10, 1911.
PALAZZO VESCHIO'S DAGGERED SPIRE
SEEMS TO TYPIFY FLORENCE'S PAST
Chill of Winter Breathed by Guardian H21 About Ancient City Staoa Tourist and Resident Alike With Influenza.
Modern Florentine la Interesting as His Brother of Long Ago.
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r'RENCE ta cold In Winter. Th
mn, ta bo lure, hitwo brlghtlr,
warming the Tory marrow of one's
bones, m. one tauntiri alona; th Amo,
and It seems Tery friendly and cheerful
to dweliers nnder dull northern skies
who go there for the season; but the
hill surround Ins the city are capped
with snow, there Is a chill In the nar
row, ftnady streets which stabs one to
the h'art until Florentines and tourist
visitors fall like tenpins, bowled over
hy Influenza. Kven the hospitals are
umtlm9 full. "rompWe. as' the Ital
ian dnrtor put It. Two weeks In my
room had nevertheless some pleasures.
There was the view from my win
dow; tho Arno flowed below, a shallow
stream In a rocky river bed many
slze too bin for It: across on th op
posite bank stood the picturesque old
crate of Kan Xlrcolo, and above, "that
steep" which lante mentions, crowned
now with pointed cypressos. with th
Klcantic David, a black silhouette
asHtntt the sky. and with the beautiful
basilica church of Sin Mlnlato.
Time was when the pious Mlniatus
lived In a hermttaRe. In a forest, where
the church now stands, until a pasran
Emperor had him taken over th Arno
and beheaded. Then the. miracle hap
pened: Mlniatus picked up his head,
put It on his shoulders and walked
arross the river up the hill to his cell,
and so Into the arrest company of
saints.
Galileo's To'wer 9eeau j
Not far away on the sky line stood
the castellated medieval tower where
Galileo made experiments, and the in
tervening; slopes were dotted by pretty
villas, surrounded by ftray srreen olive
trees, with here and there some crumb
line sections of the old city wall to
which red vines were clinging. When
the view was shut out at night there
was an unseen slngor, who sang pas
sionate love songs In the street along
the Arno. and his melting Italian voice
gave me more pleasure than Kublik's
violin witchery, which I heard after
wards In the theater.
There as the doctor, full of kindli
ness. There was also Madam, a very
bustling .Madam, ordinarily too busy to
put on her belt, but never too busy to
make a kindly call and to send In ex
tra dainties which appeared dally In
the rooms, but never en the bill. Ma
dam was handsome. I found out one
day. when she was dressed all In filmy
black with her belt in honor of an aft
ernoon tea. There was also Eda. the
maid, who susrtteated eggnoics and run
off to make them In the midst of her
morning work, snd whose sweet-toned
"O'tod night, signortta," was like a ben
ediction. Nor must I forset the burly
porter. Fda's husband, who lumbered
in good-naturedly with baskets of
wood and pine cones te burn in the
quaint little plaster fireplace Some
way these modern Florentines, with
their kind hearts driven from my
mind. Dante and the Medici and all the
ancient Intellectual Florentines whom I
should have been thlnklnar of had I
been dolns; my duty to Culture, that
modern goddess at whose shrine so
manv of us American women worship.
The influents vanquished, we went
every day. however we wandered,
through the beautiful court of the
I'alaxso Vecchio to gaze on the sym
metrical pillars and the fountain
where a little bronxe boy holds a
spoutlnir dolphin. The plaxza beyond
was always Interesting. Here was
the center of political life under the
republic; here Savonarola was burned
at the stake: here was the great strike
of the guilds, and here nowadays, tour
ists swarm to see the old palace and
the famous sculptures In the loggia,
nd close at their heels come women
with laces, men with bronxe medal
lions of Dante and Savonarola and boys
with postcards.
Ff asvs la Lively Plaee.
On market days the piazza Is full of
countrymen, picturesque figures some
ef them in terracotta overcoats with
trimming of tawny fur, and one day
officials flew distractedly about In full
dress uniforms. The streets were
parked with crowds and soldiers on
guard, and the loggia was hung with
rare old tapestries, for the Duke of
r.enoa wss coming to town. And above
the sou a re stood the grim old palace,
massive and Imposing with its square
batdemrnts and the slender, soaring
lower whlrh dominates Florence.
It always seemed to me. though it
may have been but a foolish fancy,
tr.at the tower of the Plaxzo Veschlo
typified the past history of Florence:
It looks so like the feathered shaft
of an arrow. Daggers and poisons,
to be exact, were more popular wea
pons but strife wss the rule and when
the Florentines were not blessed with
a foreign foe to unite the warring fac
tions, they were cursed with conspira
cies at home and the great man of yes
terday wss the penniless exile of today.
What were they like we wondered,
the old Florentines, ths women, who
often caused the feuds, and the mer
chants, nobles and commoners who were
forever fighting among themselves. Here
snd there in , the galleries one finds
portraits and busts to answer the ques
tion. Perhaps the truest likenesses are
Raphael's portraits In the Pittl Palace
of a Florentine merchant and his wife,
great friends of the painter In the
year 1S0S.
The face of the merchant Is shrewd
and keen: one would not like to op
pose him In business: the face of the,
lady wears an expression anything but
aXUble; one would not like t oppose
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have none of ber. there Is a disappoint- I
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RAIDS ON SAN FRANCISCO OPIUM
DENS YET PROSECUTED VIGOROUSLY
State Board of Pharmacy Pursuing Relentless War Against Traffic in Drug Authorities Searching for Missing
Captain Meyer, Who Owns Schooner at CoosBay Bay City May Have Traffic Squad.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. I. (Special.)
San Francisco will be rid of the
opium traffic if the State Board of
Pharmacy has Its way. That organi
sation his full authority to take up
the situation and It appears sufficiently
detemined.
Last week there was a raid of the
opium Joints, together with the arrest
of 200 whites and Chinese. Since that
time the hauls have not been as big,
but they have been coming along at a
pace that indicates business Is meant.
Incidentally this raid brings Into the
limelight a condition which the police
and medical men. together with the
Federal authorities, have known all
along. In spits of the high price of
the "dope" and the absolute prohibi
tion against It as an Import, opium In
Its various forms Is still smuggled Into
this city In large quantities. Probably
It Is true that most of It la now com
ing In over the Mexican border, owing
to the successful raids on trans-Paclflc
steamers at this port during the post
year or two.
Prelts Are Big.
Whichever way it Is coming In, it Is
patent that large quantities are sold
here and somebody Is making large
pre fits out of the law breaking.
Medical men say it Is surprising how
many white men and women use mor
phine and opium and how aad are the
stories of these drug fiends. Some of
them are so soaked with the poison
that It Is hard to believe the quantities
they take at times.
According to a clerk In one of the
all-night stores where the drugs are
for sale, one of these steady customers
buys and swallows something like 1
grains of morphine about five times a
week. '
The disappearance of Captain Ray
mond L Meyer, one of the active mari
ners of the Pacific Coast, has led to a
atatewlde search on the part of his rel
atives and friends. The lost time he
was seen was at Shasta Springs, on the
evening of June JO. At that time he
had considerable money en his person.
He was passing his vacation at the re
sort and had written home that h
would return to Ban Francisco in a day
or so.
At the time of his disappearance Cap
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One would rather have met. I think,
Nlccolo da Uzzano, the great lover of
liberty whose head, by Donatello. seems
tain Meyer had a schooner, of which
he was the main owner, at Coos Bay.
He was to have Joined the vessel with
in a few days. His friends say that
he had no business or domestic connec
tions that might have led to his disap
pearance. He was a single man, IS
years of age.
Record Is Widely Known.
Captain Meyer has figured In a num
ber of exploits of Pacific Coast navi
gation. He was the mate of an ocean
liner some years ago when the captain
was murdered at sea and at the time he
took charge of the vessel and rut the
accused men In Irons.
San Francisco is going to have a
traffic squad of police, like those In the
big cities of the Kant. Plans for this
squad have long been agitated by the
Chamber of Commerce, the North Beach
Improvement Association, the Motor
Car Dealers and kindred organisations.
The traffic squad, according to Cap
tain O'Meara, probably will consist of
IS to 20 men, the major portion of whom
will be mounted and commanded by a
lieutenant of police. It will be the
duty of this detachment to enforce the
present traffic laws, which are believed
to be ample, once the driving publio Is
educated to observe them.
The mounted men will work In the
middle of the block. All heavy vehicles
will be required to travel as near the
curb as possible and the light traffic
and automobiles will be kept in the
middle of the street. Drivers turning
Into a side street to the left will -have
to drive entirely around the center of
the crossing. Instead of risking colli
sion with the traffic from that direction
by cutting across the corner.
Mlalaar Boalnesa Active.
There are signs of a big revival of
mining on the mother lode In California.
Malcolm McLaren, the representative
of a London syndicate, has Just pur
chased, for $1(0,000 from the estate of
Alvlna Hay ward, two mines in Amador
County that have been closed for years.
McLaren and another agent of the syn
dicate are making report on five other
mines which, it is believed, the British
ers will buy, If the prices are satisfac
tory. The owners of the Jumper mine, a
about to speak as one stands before
it. He might have much to say to
us citizens of a big modern republic
He seems to have loved liberty with
out being exiled, which was a, great
feat In those days.
Medici Are Recalled.
As a family the Medici alone man
aged In spite of some submergings to
ride high and dry on the tide of civic
discontent the wealthy tyrannical Me
dici who crushed out liberty and yet
gave to the city most of the art treas
ures which attract people from all parts
of the world nowadays.
The story goes that the family be
gan to rule as democrats and that the
very balls on their coat of arms repre
sent the pills made by an apothecary
ancestor. A clever coat of arms if the
tale Is true. One can fancy that even
in these days a wealthy English brew
er say, elevated to the peerage, might
gain widespread popularity by adopt
ing a coat of arms bearing hops.
It Is pleasant to go from the Palazzo
Vecchio with all of its suggestions of
political unrest to the quiet cloisters
of San Marco. One Sprlnp-Ilke morn
ing when we were there the sunlight
warmed the old walls and fell through
the branches of the big evergreen tree
making an intricate shadow pattern
In the center of the cloister. There
was no one there but an artist copying
the fresco of Christ on the cross, and
as we walked around looking at Fra
Angelica's paintings, so full of tender
ness and spiritual Ity it was easy to
imagine the gentle monk walking In
that tranquil place with the peace of
God In his soul.
What divine visions possessed him!
And how they possess us too for all
our 20th century scientific knowl
edge, when we see those same visions,
painted prayerfully, on the walls of
the very cloisters and cells where they
appeared to the inspired artist.
Was there ever a picture of hospi
tality like that one over the dqor to
the lodging for wayfarers,! where
Christ as a pilgrim Is welcomed by-two
monks?
Setting of Drrini Viewed.
If It was easy to Imagine Fra An
gel Ico there it was difficult to Imagine
the protesting spirit of Savonarola at
home In so restful a, place. Vet he
was prior of the convent andhad his
dreams there too. dreams of the down
fall of the Medici, of a kingdom of
fJod on earth to be brought about
speedily by violence and the sword.
His Intangible dreams of liberty and
justice left no pictures on the monas
tery walls to soothe troubled souls,
but they led him to a violent death.
He died for his dreams and a man can
do no more. I.lfe cannot be quite so
Interesting to the monks of these days.
One monk whom we saw at Flesole
In the hilltop monastery had the face
of an archangel and yet an empty face,
one fat one who we saw In the cloisters
by the Spanish chspel was lazily plant
ing a little cypress tree, and one at the
Carmine gave us quite a shock by his
boisterous manner, which we under
stood when we saw across the cloister
in a passageway a servant putting old
wines into new bottles.
Plessanter even than beginning the
day In the court of the Palazzo) Vecchio
was the ending of it with a sunset
stroll along the Ponte Vecchio, that pic
turesque old bridge where the Jewelers
have had their shops ever since the
leth centurr. We never tired of the
gay display of gems and semi-precious
atones in cunningly wrought gold and
silver settings all hanging out for the
undoing of our pursestrlngs: whenever
we looked at the houses rising from
the opposite bank we saw an odd bit
of roof with a quaint chimney like a
dovecote, or a window or archway we
had not seen before; then it was a joy
to watch the sunsets over the river
from the arches of the bridge; and not
until the sun's last bright banners had
disappeared in the dusk did we turn
homeward.
A little crippled girl who sold
oranges In a niche at the end of the
bridge gave us a happy smile, and we
went on by streets of tall palaces with
fine doorways, by shops where loaves
of bread dangled from strings, and
sometimes we would see from a palace
window above, a maid lowering a bas
ket to. -be filled at the shops on the
ground floor below. Once, near the
shop of "Tantl Grazle," we saw a small
boy stabbing a playmate with a wooden
dagger. He must have been reading
some history, we said, of the good old
times of Florentine feuds and tyrants.
"Tantl Grazle" beamed and said good
night to us. She was always beaming
at the door of her shop and we won
dered when she found time for em
broidery. Her smiles were as frequent
as the "Many thanks" for which we
named her, having no Inkling of her
real name. A few doors beyond was
the chill and tomblike entrance to our
own palace-pension, owned by some
mysterious. Impoverished Marchesa
whom we never saw, and we tolled up
the solemn stairway thinking hungrily
of the roast chicken Madam always
provided for dinner.
French crowd, have been successful In
selling some of the company's stock on
the Paris Bourse and with the money
will actively work the property. This
Is the first American gold mine to sell
Its securities on the Paris Bourse.
According to experts, the mother lode
In California Is tbe greatest auriferous
body In the world and If worked by the
best mining methods could make this
state the greatest gold-producing sec
tion on the globe for more than a hun
dred years to come.
In recent years Colorado has run
ahead of California in gold output and
Alaska has been practically a close sec
ond with this state. For some reason
foreign capital has been fighting shy
of mother lode mines. Now that it is
beginning to give some attention to
them, mining men assert It is a very
significant move for the gold produc
tion Industry of the state.
Pet Dog Caste ef Fuss.
Alexander Rutherford and his charm
ing bride from New York are still In
dignant at the St. Franclg Hotel man
agement for refusing to permit them
to take their dog Into the apartments
they have engaged. When the dictum
of "no dog, no apartment for us" could
not avail, they left and vowed they
would never darken the doors of that
caravansary again.
The gracious request of Lillian Rus
sell not to be separated from her Jap
anese sleeve dog is never refused by
the St. Francis. Tbe Palace always
allows Tetrazzlnl to have her high
bred little animal In her apartments,
even if he does bark In jealous spirit
when the others show its mistress at
tention. '
The entrancing smile and soft, allur
ing voice that dance attendance on
Tetrazzlnl and her request about her
dog cannot be resisted by the Palace
Hotel management.
Not long ago Mrs. Thomas, of New
York, the divorced wife of one of the
Ooulds. wss permitted to take her pet
Chinese dog into her rooms, and there
are other well-known instances. As is
true in many matters and things. It
all depends on how you request the
favor from the hotel. Young Ruther
ford was born in San Francisco snd
should have remembered that this Is
not the wild and wooly West, where he
can do as he pleases
SCIENTIFIC METHODS DIVEST LAND
CLEARING OF ITS OLDEN TERRORS
Experiments Conducted by Pullman College Professor Prove That Logged-Off Areas, Containing Some of Kichest
of Agricultural Soils, Can Be Cleared With Minimum of Difficulty.
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SOMETHING less than two years
ago the F. B. Holbrook Company,
of this city, purchased about 3000
rcres of cut-ovor lands in Columbia
County, the tract lying back of Goble,
about 40 miles down the Columbia
River from Portland. These were just
ordinary so-called logged-off valley
lands, with the usual number of
stumps and an ordinary amount of
down timber in the shape of old trees
and other refuse left by the logger, and
aSout the usual covering of brush and
small trees.
This land was subdivided into tracts
of from 10 to 40 acres and a system of
roads constructed through it, so that
each tract could be conveniently
reached on a good grade. Headquar
ters were established at the former
logging camp and mill site, once
known, in the active logging days, as
Frultdale. and later as Redtown, Goble
being the postoffice address. These
lands were placed on the market to
test the problem and possibility of set
tling and clearing this class of lands
by those not financially able to own or
manage larger and more valuable
properties.
It Is pretty generally known that in
the Northwest there is a very large
area of these cut-over lands; but it
may not be as widely known that this
area is Increasing each year. Such,
however, is the case, more acres being
denuded of the timber each year than
are brought under cultivation, far
more. And this Is not a favorable con
dition of affairs, particularly when we
consider that these lands are, as a rule,
the very finest for agricultural pur
poses of any to be found unused in the
West.
When we consider the fact that all of
the lands in Oregon and Washington
have been exploited to a greater or
lesser degree by the railroads, com
mercial clubs and various civic bodies,
save only these splendid cut-over lands,
and remember that they have been
avoided solely on account of the all
prevailing Idea occupying, the public
mind that to undertake to clear them
was to premeditate financial and phys
ical suicide In a slow but terrible and
tortuous manner, it seems time to wake
up and see if there Is not a rift in the
clouds, some better and more modern
way of getting such lands occupied and
In crop.
That there has been dereliction In
gpttlng these lands settled, goes with
out saying. And at the same time we
must remember that thousands of set
tlers have taken raw lands remote
from water and fuel, far from market
and Inaccessible by rail, water or even
wagon roads. In other words, we have
been placing the newcomers on inferior
lands and passing by the very best.
I wonder how many of my readers
realize that there have been in the past
great energy and expense squandered
by the owners of these lands to try to
settle them, only to find all their ef
forts wasted simply by the "bug-bear."
land clearing? Now; what is this ter
rible task: where were the horrors and
fear born? Did they come from the
exaggerated experiences of the men
who knew only main strength and
awkwardness, without system, the oth
ers who in their hurry undertook the
Job with large and expensively
equipped machinery outfits, and that
other class who used large amounts of
explosives but all without regard to
season or system? Tes; while in all
other branches of agriculture and land
settling there have been great im
provements, the simple matter of land
clearing stood still for 60 years.
It was to solve this problem that
Professor H. W. Sparks, farm director
of the Washington Agricultural Col
lege, at Pullman, and Mr. Holbrook
went to work with their heads and
hands and purses. Professor Sparks
Investigated to the best of his ability
with able assistants, backed by Federal
and state aid; and Mr. Holbrook has
searched at large expense in both time
and money among all of the best land
clearers of the sort Just mentioned;
but no sign of an Intelligent system
could they find.
But they did find a system among
single-handed operators who were us
ing their heads, not going about the
work with pure physical strength:
found It among men who had reasoned
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out that since the result of clearing
land was to burn everything that en
cumbered it, that it was easier and
cheaper to take the fire to the stump
than to take the stump to the Are.
easier to crack the small logs with
cheap charges of powder and burn them
where they lay than to take this enor
mous tonnage to the Are.
The brush and small trees are easily
handled in wet weather, when the
ground is soft, by the ordinary two-
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slow, but seems to be the cheapest
method now known. But Mr. Holbrook
is endeavoring to reduce this item of
cost, and is assured by the mechanical
engineers he has engaged that success
will be attained. He has engaged some
of the best gasoline men in the country
In the work, and soon we may expect
to see this cheap fuel doing the work
cheaper and quicker than it can be
done by horses; and then one of tha
hardest tasks horses have ever been
called on to perform will be a duty of
the past.
These men have found that the sim
ple operations performed in the proper
manner and at the right seasons of the
year, requiring only the ordinary- tools
to be found on the average farm, have
robbed the task of land clearing of its
terrors, have brought the work within
the means of every landowner, irre
spective of his age, strength or finan
cial condition.
It is not an easy matter to describe
the char-plttlng method. To the per
son wanting to go at the business sys
tematically, he should by all means go
and see the actual preparing and burn
ing done; and no better place can be
found than on the Holbrook tract back
of Goble. There you can find where
thousands of stumps have been burned,
and can see others prepared to fire as
soon as i the wet weather is over. Attd
perhaps the pictures given herewith
may be of benefit.
Hut following is a very clear descrip
tion of the work, as taken from Better
Fruit:
"Briefly, charpitting consists In pil
ing a" ring of kindling around the base
of a stump, covering the same to a
depth of abopt six inches with sod, ex
cept an opening, preferably on the
windward side, where the Are will be
started. Later this opening or vent is
closed. This should not be done, how
ever, until the kindling is all burning.
After the fire is completely covered it
should be and must be confined until
the charring has been completed. In
all cases It is best to remove the bark
from the crown as low as the kindling
is placed, so that the kindling will be
In contact with the wood. In clay soils
the usual plan is to place the kindling
around the stump at the surface, as
explained, but in sandy soils a narrow
trench several inches in depth is dug
around the base, the bark removed to
the depth of the trench, after which
the kindling is put in place and the
covering placed over it. It Is necessary
to use an artificial covering under such
conditions, since sod from sandy soil,
In burning, allows the sand to run In.
putting out the fire. Mixing clay with
sandy soil gives the desired result, and
3uch a practice can be recommended
where clay soil can be had at a reason
able cosC of time and labor. Some ex
periments have been conducted in us
ing an artificial covering of cool
ashes, and with considerable success.
Trials have also been made with fuel
oil mixed with sawdust and a small
amount of kindling covered with vari
ous natural and artificial coverings,
and with various degrees of success.
"Concerning the charpitting method,
it must be said that the best success
is met with where well-drained clay
soils of considerable depth occur, that
do not become loose and powdery when
heated. Under soil conditions where
stumps will burn out to a good depth
and the larger roots are consumed to
a depth of several feet, leaving a tun
nel in the soil, thus marking its course,
the methad can be said to be pre-eminently
practical, and especially so
where money is not available for land
clearing by the more rapid and ex
pensive methods, such as using a
stump burner, a stump-pulling device,
powder or a donkey engine. It should
also be understood that in places where
soil conditions are favorable the con
dition of the stumps themselves are
variable, the green and solid usually
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burning most readily, wnlle the uecay
Ing ones, and especially those with water-soaked
tops and crown, burn slow
ly or refuse to burn aj all. The water
contained in a soil also has a very de
cided Influence on the rate of burning.
Some of the very wet areas of clay land
cannot be cleared by this method until
drained, owing to the seepage or preva
lence of springs, which keep the soil
completely filled with water
"It can also be said that where tho
method is at all serviceable that it
should be practical and especially
where money for land clearing Is a
greater object than time or labor, since
a shovel, ax and a box of matches con
stitute the land-clearing outfit. Con
cerning the various estimates on de
stroying stumps, the price ranges as
low-as 40 to 60 cents each. The price,
of course can be varied, and is varied
by different individuals, depending
upon the value placed upon the time
consumed while the work is beins
done. The price, however, does not in
fluence the cost as much as the poor
or good soil conditions and the manage
ment, whether good, bad or Indifferent.
To be pre-eminently successful at char
plttlng the. operator must be a close
observer, a careful worker and a good)
manager, even where conditions are fa
vorable for such work, and especially
so when conditions are variable and
more or loss adverse."
The appreciation of Mr. Holbrook's
work is shown by the fact that some
thing more than 100 tracts of the Goble
lands have been sold, and fully 40 fam
ilies are now on their places improving
them. These owners have become con
vinced by seeing the work performed
by the company men that they can by
their own efforts and at very little
expense clear their lands. Indeed, any
person seeing what has been done there
will immediately come to the conclu
sion that the land-clearing problem has
been solved; all that now remains is
to get a few hundred people at work
along the proper lines, to get some of
the larger landowners Interested, and
to go forward under the leadership of
such men as Professor Sparks and Mr.
Holbrook.
A Cat and Dog JLife.
Greenwich, Conn., Dispatch to New
York Herald.
Judge J. Frank MacLaughlin is tho
owner of two bulldogs. Rex and Bob.
He also possesses a black cat. Tho
cat starts the day by washing Bob as
if he were a kitten. Then she goes
outdoors to Rex' house and goes through
the same performance. Afterward she
takes a nap beside the dogs in the dog
house. A strange dog went into the yard the
other day and Rex started to drive him
out. Bob was watching the proceeding,
and the cat rushed out to see what was
going on. As soon as Bob saw her in
the yard lie Jumped for her, and, grab
bing her by the collar, ran for the
house and dropped her inside the door.
He then stood guard there.
The cat made several attempts to go
out, but Bob would not let her until the
strange dog was driven away. The ani
mals are the constant companions of
Judge and Mrs. MacLaughlin, and have,
made several Winter trips to Georgia
and Florida. They always travel in the
same crate.
Diogenes In Oily Mood.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Diogenes paused and shook the hand
of the prominent citizen heartily.
"Is he the honest man?" afterward
asked the Athenians.
"S'h-h," replied Diogenes In a whis
per. "I have to humor him. Ha owns
the oil trust."
Whereupon he made his way to the
refinery and had his lantern filled free
of charge.