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Copyright, 1901, by Bert Estes.
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walked briskly Into tlie pitcher’s place,
a buzz rippled clean around the ground.
Centerport'* captain seemed to kick,
but at a low word from the umpire
dropped back, saying to himself:
"Fer Gawd's sake!"
“Batter up!" called the umpire. A
modem Goliath, big Jim Bunker, stalk
ed up to the plate.
“Play ball!” cried the umpire. The
ttali was passed. Brent faced tlie
mighty slugger with a little irritatlug
smile.
“Say, Jim," bawled the captain, “ei
ther this here ‘phenom’ is young, or it
was picked mighty green. Anyway It
ain't big enough to send a ball across
the rubber. It »tighter be set playin’
ma lilies. Tills ain't no place for chil
dren. Now, theu, Jim, swat ’er over
tlie fence and break the ‘phenom’s’
heart.”
“You just watch my smoke,” Jim
said. “When I hit 'er a lick, slie'll look
like a saucer. I'm going to knock the
dashed tiling flat.”
“Excuse me, but thar ain’t to be no
swearin' lids game," a deputy marshal
said, touching the Idg batsman's elbow.
“All right, boss. I didn't know this
was a prayer meetin’,” Jim said, amaze
ment in every line of his face.
All eyes were fast on the pitcher, the
“phenom.” He certainly looked too
slight for tlie game lie was up against.
Would lie fall? Harwood screwed the
ball Into the palm of his right hand,
sprang forward, then lightly, swiftly,
as an archer might loose a tense bow
string. loosed his arm and sent the ball
hissing across the plate to raise a puff
of sand between the plate and Reed.
“One strike!” cried the umpire.
“Thunder!” shouted Jim. “I didn't
see It!”
Harwood silently pitched a writhing
rise tliat wound over the plate to the
utter confounding of the batter.
"Two strikes!” said the umpire.
“Thought It was goln’ to be a low
bail,” Jim said apologetically to his
captain. The captain glowered. Bill
Reed put on the mask and squatted
dose up behind the bat. llnrwood
gripped the ball peculiarly, a sign to
Bill tliat the pitch would be a wide out
curve. The ball started apparently for
Jim's stomach. Jim doubted it would
Bill Reed broke In: "Now, looky
here. ’Alnt no une chawin' longer on
that rag. Parson lias give out fair an’
square he wants to I m > took on the dead
level- a man same as we are. only a
dashed sight—excuse my French, par-
son—it gits the best o’ my United
States before I know It. Tile case is
this—we want you to help us lick them
da er. them measly Centerport chaps.
We can do it if you pitch fer us.
Nothin' in this county 'alnt In th«
game witli you. If you’ll do It, every
man Jack o' us ’ll stick to you like a
lean tick to a hog. That’s wliut’s the
matter with us, and there ye be.”
Harwood's face was a study. He
was amused, pleased, beyond every
thing touched, by this recognition of
common manhood. It was the passion
of his life to help men realize their
own possibilities.
He yearned to
preach manhood rather than dogmas.
His lieart was warm, and he smiled
as he said:
“I thought you had come for that,
and am glad you came. If you had
not, I should have volunteered—that is,
if you liad agreed to my conditions”—
“We'll fix all that, parson,” two or
three began eagerly.
Harwood held up his hands. "You
dou't
understand.
I don’t
want
money,” he said. “I do want—your
selves. If I do something for you—
something on which your hearts are
set, you ought to do something for me.
That is to say. If I play ball you come
to church. Is it a bargain?”
“You help us everlastingly lick them
Centerports,” Bill burst out, “and you
can say, 'Boys, come roost on the
church steps from sunup to sundown
every Sunday.’ and gamble on our
doin’ It—every dashed one of us. Hey,
boys? Oh, do excuse me, parson. I’ve
been a tough sort all me life, but 1’11
be hanged if I don’t quit swearfn'
right now.”
“All!” said Harwood. "Gentlemen,
this brings up something else. You
know, and I know, bow ill I can af
ford to have it said I belong to an
organization of toughs. I want to be
long to—an organization of gentlemen
In the best sense of the word. If I am
to be a club member, you must give
me your word tliat drunkenness and
swearing shall stop. Now we under
stand each other. There’s my hand.
If you shake it, I shall know you take
me—conditions and all.”
Every man in the room gave him a
hearty grip; then talk begau to buzz
about Saturday’s game. All agreed the
new pitcher liad best be kept dark; also
that Harwood should wear a baseball
suit. “I have my own with me. A ‘G’
on the shirt will make it all right,”
Harwood said. And so the little com-
pany went away, exultant beyond
words.
Harwood tcrewed the ball into the palm
of hie right hand.
.Saturday was fair and hot—the very
weather for great ball. But. hot as the agree with him—he jumped very far
sun shone, it was mild compared to the back from the plate Just as the ball,
baseball enthusiasm of Gallia City. twisting like a serpent, sailed right
Posters all about announced tlie com over the middle of the rubber.
ing contest. Tlie local press under the
"Three strikes! Striker out!" bawled
biggest, blackest headlines possible to the umpire. "Batter up!”
its fonts hinted darkly at a "phenome
The crowd was at Arst too amazed to
non” in the pitcher’s box for the home applaud. It could hardly believe its
team. Placards also warned citizens to eyes. A stripling liad struck out the
do their Saturday buying betimes, as Invincible Jim Bunker. Jim slunk to
every shop would be shut during the ward the bench, growling at what lie
hours of the game. The little city bub called "the empire.” He was prompt
bled and seethed. Local patriotism had ly silenced by the assertion that the
risen to a passion and swept through "empire” was all right; It was himself,
It in a tidal wave.
Jim Bunker, who had an oyster in bis
Still mystery lay thick and murk over forehead In place of an eye.
the pitcher aud some other tilings. One
When Centerport’s captain had said
of them was why not one of the nine that, be went to the bat himself. Har
had allowed his face at Mike Grogan’s wood smiled. Back at college it had
saloon, which theretofore had been been said that Brent Harwood won at
baseball headquarters. Beyond that ball as much by bls grin as by his
there were Incredible rumors of no beer curves. The grin was slow, Insinuat
on the grounds—not even the custom ing, exasperatiug. calculated to drive
ary two kegs for the team. The Dutch the coolest batter wild. Harwood stood
man who had commonly owned that a half minute rubbing the ball and grin
profitable privilege had been warned ning at the eaptaiu.
off. There was talk also of swearing in
“Aw, git a move on ye, there, kid,”
extra deputy marshals whose business snarled the batter. Harwood grinned.
it should be to suppress swearing and
"Needn’t be ’fraid I’ll bust the durn-
all sorts of riotous language.
ed thing. Gimme er crack at 'er. an’
The visiting club was amazed at Its I'll show ye a trick with a hole In it.
reception. There were no white clad Ye ain’t pitchin’ to uo blind man this
players in wait to drag them off to trip,” the captain went on.
Grogan’s for a social guzzle. Instead
The parson kept on grinning.
Colonel and Bill Reed met them and
The batter got explosively red. Har-
took them to the hotel, while the Gallia
City band went along, playing its loud wood, watching him narrowly, gave
est. The strains came to Harwoo(J as the bnll a little flirt and pitched a wab
he was slipping into his suit. He was bling "dewdrop” toward the hot cap
not to go with the procession, but to tain. Centerport's man was too dis
gusted And too mad to see It. The ball
meet the team at the grounds.
It was a great procession, the band went over the plate—a strike was
at the head puffing doggedly through a promptly called. Then Harwood repeat
Sousa march; next the bus bearing Cen *d the pitch. It seemed an easy ball.
terporters In white, with blue caps and Really it was a bard one. The Cen
hose; after them another busful of Gal terporter lunged at it like a wild bull
llas, also in white, but red on heads before it came within six feet of him.
and feet; then swarms of buggies, All he did was to tear a big, ragged
hacks and farm wagons, packed with hole In the air. Ills eyes glared as
friends of both nines; last of all a fray Reed came close behind and crouched
ed out drizzle of small boys intent up tn his shadow. Harwood drew back
en finding cracks or knotholes in the his arm as If to deliver another "dew
fence through which they might at drop.” The captain fumed. Suddenly
Brent shot his arm across hl* body
least view the promised land.
It would be hard to say whether and the ball sited over the plate like a
bullet.
there was more curiosity or anxiety in
“Out-t!” yelled the umpire. "Batter
tlie glances which Gallia City folk bent
upon their champions.
Interest, of up!”
Gallia City went suddenly Insane,
course, centered on (lie "phenom.” The
strain was not relieved when careful It stood up In mass, yelling, howling,
counting showed In tlie Gallia bus only cheering. The umpire, shrieking for
eight regular players and two substi silence, was like a cricket piping In
tutes.
Gloom deepened perceptibly. face of a storm. But when. In the
Those who liad given odds on Gallia midst of the din, a third man walked
felt their coin already ns good as lost. tc the plate, whacked the rubber with
They began to feel also that they had Ills bat and squared himself, the noise
been badly sold, and by their own. hushed as suddenly as It had begun.
Harwood deliberated. Should he give
Without new blood lu the home team
tlie game was n gift to Centerport, and this new man a chance or clinch
so fur there was no sign of uew blood. things with the gntne thus young?
About a minute after the appointed He did not quite know how It would
hour tlie umpire sent the Galllas to the be with the Galllas at the bat, so de-
Held and the Centerports to the bench. elded upon the latter course, Three
Their short stop spat loyally upon the wide outshoots, sent as fast ns he
gleaming new l>all and rolled it in the could deliver them, yet give Bill time
dirt, so the pitcher might easily grip to come, bewildered the new batter
It. There bad l>een preliminary prac and put Centerport out.
It was while the players were
tice by both teams. Gallia partisans
were amazed and somewhat cheered to clanging and pandemonium relgnefl
see the substitute pitcher go to the that the "phenom's” Identity was made
bench, not the box. The points were known to the crowd. At flrst all Gal
empty. Almost before anybody could lia City gasped, as from a cold plunge.
remnrk It, out from the dressing room A parson In knee breeches and red
beneath the grand stand shot a slight, stockings pitching In a game of ball!
wiry figure in white, with red stock For a quarter of a minute Gallia City
ings and red cap. When the figure was stricken silent. Then down In the
I bleachers a whisper begau and swelled
BOTILE» SIXSHIXE
THE TELLTALE THUMB.
CLARK’S LATEST AND BEST
and grew, until a bold man leaped on
Its Mark« aud Line« and It« Signal
the rail and called:
FurulsheU with sulid Dino it you Hunt them.
Fraut 11» Hralu.
Wood Extension Head If you prefer it.I
NATURE^
GREAT
FACTORY
IN
WHICH
"Three cheers for the little parson!”
A tremendous amount of uousense
it steel, Kevemllile, Double l-evor, Ex
The cheers came with a will. From
t> PRODUCED COAL.
tension Head. The best Disc Harrow now ou
has been writleu about thumb marks.
»nd to end the fair grounds rang with:
the market. Lighted draft. Does the beat work.
Can be used to throw the earth to or from the tree.
"Harwood! Harwood! What's the A Lump pf the Mineral Tell. It. !■- It Is claimed that the curious skin con
Can
be drawn together and used In the regular
figuration on the ball of the thumb Is
matter with Ha-ar-woo-od? He’s all
leugth or «-xteuded as shown 5, n and H feet cut
terratllli Milliuu leur Uiatury lu
never
the
same
in
any
two
people
and
uro
reversible
and t arry the Extension Head. 10
right!"
a Few W ord»*—A Wonderful Proc- that it never changes. The tirsi state
and IS feet cut are not
e -slble.
Faith in their unparalleled pitcher
cm » of Evolution.
ment is correct, and the same thing can
made the Galllas all superbly confident.
Your li^e to mine is as a second to a be said of the lines on the palm and
Bill Reed, the flrst man up, went to the
222 MitMion Street, San Francisco.
bat like a Trojan going to battle. Cen thousand years. I will let you kuow the creases on the bottom of the feet.
But
the
assertion
that
the
thuinti
marks
terport's plteher had tremendous speed that in my time I have seen such sights
I tie r Irwt I Hiti.in Theater.
and uo curves. His third ball met as would make you gasp in astonish never change throughout life is a de
importers sad dealers in
The fl rut playbuiito be built in Eng-
Bill's ashen stick with a noise like the ment. Once, in untold ages past, long elded exaggeration. The alteration may
splitting of a mast. When the fielder before man had appeared on this old come from a variety of causes any land u . ih ’lie T!;<. r It wag erected
Wrapping...
1 nl
thing, in fact, that will destroy tb« In the year 17>7»». and Its builder was
recovered it. Bill sat at second, fanning
world. I was alive. Yes, the dirty old outer layer of skin.
.l.i .u s r.riib;c
failitr of the famous
CARD «TOOK
himself with his cap. The next man
piece of eaii was a living thing in those
Another modifying cause is the tend ac: t Riih.td I*' ;1 age and himself
STRAW AND BINDERS’ BOARD
made u sacrifice hit and advanced Bill
dim, distant ages. A thing of beauty, ency of the thumb to develop little till actor < f b‘>JHV repute. Access to tho
55-S7-BO-01 First St.
to third. Colonel leaned against the
too a thing to be admired. I was a horizontal creases as one grows old. T!i<.!i< r cn.s in old limes to have been
Vat. MAIS IS*. 1H SAN FRANCISCO.
ball for it single, and Bill came home
fern. Not such a paltry thing as you This is especially true of mechanics and over ¡'ins! i:rv fields. The Curtain,
amid the shrieks of the “fans.”
decorate y»ur homes with amt grow in other working people who use tools, w li < h. ruri isly. is mimed from the re-
“One run! One man out!” said the
little earthenware affairs. My trunk and eventually the creases will break KH>n or old manor on which the play*
scorer.
alone measured Ave feet across.
up the lines to such an extent that it house was erectctl and not from the
Hollis i-eached flrst on balls.
Yet I was nothing out of the ordinary.
“Jones to lint and Harwood on deck!” In those days there were many little is equivalent almost to a rearrange familiar drapery of the stage, was sit
ment of the pattern. Specialists In uated south <>f Holywell lane, in Moors-
called tlie scorer.
plants forty feet or so lu height. Ev nerve diseases by hi examination of ticld (modern Gloucester street), and is
Jolies walked to the plate. Brent se
ery bit of coal you toss about in such the thumb can tell If the patient is first mentioned in the following year,
lected Ids stick. A bad fumble gave
heedless fashion once was a living affected or likely to be affected by 1577. Shakespeare’s “Borneo and Ju
Jones bis life and advanced each man
plant—a plant which grew and flour paralysis, as the thumb signals this liet” was among the many plays first Bright'n Dittctaae and Diabete»
a bag. Tlie bases were full—Colonel
ished, even as your plants of today long before it is visible in any other acted there. The Theater was moved
Are Positively Curable.
on third. Hollis on second, Jones on
grow and flourish. But in these de part of the body. If the danger symp away to tlie Bankside, and the old ma
flrst. Harwood stepped to tlie plate.
generate days plants are poor, feeble toms are evidenced there, an operation terials were employed in building the
He was a safe batter, but never a hard
little things. Plants were plants in Is performed on what is known as tlie (¡lobe, Shakespeare's chief theater, in
Editor Engelke, editor and proprietor of th»
hitter—he was too light. Besides, phe
those days. We had no petted and "thumb center” of the brain, and the 15US. The Curtain continued to be used California Journal, the German paper of 4’-
nomenal pitchers do not, as a rule, bat
pampered ferns. We liad no houses of disorder is often removed.
ms a playhouse far into the reign of Montgomery St . San Francisoo, interviewed:
well. But this was Harwood’s lucky
Q Will you help us convince the people tha
No matter how carefully the individ King James. No picture of either of
day. Tlie first bull pitched came at him glass, artificially kept warm so that
tlie poor little dears shouldn't get cold. ual may attempt to conceal incipient In these original theaters lias been hand Bright's Disease and Diabetes are positively
like a rifle bullet exactly where he
curable by reterring to your recovery ?
wanted It, and tlie pat'Bon rapped witli Those were the days of reul ferns, of sanity, the thumb will reveal it infal ed down, and owing to their position
A. I’ve told it to a great mauy myself, an<
all his might. It started on a low in healthy ferns free from all newfangled libly. It is the one sure test. If tlie without the walls none of tlie old maps K<me of them profited by it and were cured.
cline, rising ns it sailed; passed over nonsense about fertilizers and soils and patient In his dally work permits the represents their precise location.—Lip
Q.—How long ago waa it ?
thumb to stand at a right angle to the pincott’s.
tlie beads of the fielders, who had edg aspects and such childish weaknesses.
A —About nix years ago 1 was so ill witi
In
those
early
days
the
earth
was
not
the
other
Angers
or
to
fall
listless
into
Pl ight s Disease that the doctors, being unabb
ed tn; struck the ground far back of
as
it
is
today.
It
was
hotter,
for
it
Poor Old Lady Heacon.fli-ld.
his
palm,
taking
no
part
in
his
writing,
to help mt*. advised me uh a lust resort that
them and rolled and rolled as though it
liad cooled from a globe of molten rock. handling of things, his multiform du-
There is nothing In Ids life, says Lord try some of the springs Before going 1 heard
couldn't stop.
Its
atmosphere
was
heavy
with
warm
ties, but standing isolated and sulky, it Ronald, that redounds more to Lord ot the Fulton Compound and took it and dldn'
Then Harwood made his flrst, last
and only home run. To this good day vapors; close and oppressive, you would is an unanswerable confession of men Beaconsfield's credit than tlie manner have t<> go. 1 began to get better, aud kept oi
wit h it till 1 h us finally as well as ever.
lie does not know bow lie did it. When call it. but it Just suited us, as we grew tal disease.—Kansas City Independent. in which lie treated his wife. She
<,» Any symptoms of a return of it?
could never have been but a somewhat
lie came, puffing and panting, across and luxuriated in it. The earth’s cruBt
A
None, although I don't permit u year U
commonplace
though
good
hearted
wo
the plate, tlie Galllas became a cyclone, was thin and heaved about, gradually
POULTRY POINTERS.
pass without taking some of it.
man. As she grew old she became a
which tilled the air with lints, coats, raising vast continents from the bed of
Q — You say you told other»?
canes anti umbrellas. A locomotive tlie sea and slowly dragging others
A.—1 told Charles F. Wacker of 1.11 Sixth Si.
A dark comb is an Indication of a wreck of humanity, Iqit the poor, fad
deep
into
tlie
ocean.
It
was
a
time
of
eil,
painted
old
lady
was
ever
treated
al»out
it on learning he had dianotes. Ho took
whistle would have been drowned in
congested state of the system.
vast
changes.
it
and is entirely well. 1 told a well-to-do Ger
the hubbull. Tlie grand stand and tlm
Land that dries quickly after a rain by her husband witli a deference and
I grew on the muddy banks of a great
regard truly touching. It was painful man lady afflicted with Bright’s Disease. Sh
bleachers joined hands and carried
is well adapted to poultry raising.
to see how. In what we are pleased to hud bevu to Europe for treatment without re
Harwood on their shoulders.
And pool of water, which was fed by slug
When one does not care to raise
gish
streams
and
bordered
by
mou-
call
tlie highest society, poor old Lady suit. She, too, took it und got well. I’ve tok
Harwood grinned.
chickens, it is better on the score of
a great many I know these Compounds to b<
strous
reeds.
On
tlie
other
side
stretch
As a chronicle of sport the game aft
economy to keep the layers without Beaconsfield was made a butt and a ceriain cures in Bright’s Disease und Diabetes
ed
a
vast
swamp
and
a
dark
forest
of
laughing stock. Knowing how sensi It is so incredible that one has to be cured l<
erward was quite too one sided to be
cocks.
tive Lord Beaconsfield was to anything be convinced, und it even theu dawns on on<
Interesting. But Gallia City sat watch tangled vegetation. For hundreds of
See
that
the
hens
are
well
developed
approaching ridicule, I felt how bitter slowly.
ing it, gorged, almost drunken witli miles there was no break to this forest
and not too fat. Mate them to males ly lie must have suffered when In n
joy. No game could be too one sided beyond a few bogs and pools of brackish
also well developed, and the chicks will crowded hall or drawing room ids hosts
Medical works agree that Bright’s Disease
for the Gallians. They owed Center water. The sun shone hot upon me. so
and Diabetes are incurable, but. H7 per cent, an
be all right.
would what they called “draw out old positively recovering under the Mi'tou (Join
port much, you see. What did they no wonder I grew well in tills humid
When the hens are too fat, reduce Lady Beaconsfield” and laugh at Iter pounds d'omnion lorms of kidney complain
care for close scores and tine points? atmosphere. Then there were frightful
and rheumatism offer but short resistance.
storms,
when
mighty
trees
were
flung
them
in flesh by giving them shorter to her face, showing no reticence, re Price |i tor th'* Bright's Disease and fl .'»o foi
Every one of tlie forty-four runs piled
the
Diabetic <'om|ound. John J Fullou to
down
and
swept
by
floods
to
the
bottom
rations
and
give
more
bulky
and
less
gard or decent feeling for the poor hus •120 .Montgono
up bj^the red legged sons of Gallia was
i \ St., San Francisco, sole com
band. who, imperturbable as he ever pounders I-f< < tests made lor pal cuts. IM
to them an increment of unalloyed of the pool. This had gone on ages be fattening food.
bcriptiv
pamphlet
n ail d free.
l -.wls appreciate good food as well appeared, was probnbly suffering acute
bliss anil as such balled with tumult fore 1 appeared above ground; it went
on ages after. The result was that the as other animals, but it is unwise to ly nt tlie conduct of his ill bred hosts.
and shouting.
Tlie Centerports! They played like bottom of tlie pool was a mass of fallen limit them to one klud, be it ever so
t urrn. nnil Sir Boyle lloche.
old women and were trampled into tlie trees. The newly felled trees pressed good or wholesome.
A Tlilef. but No Liar«
Sir Boyle Hoche, a famous Irish char
Crude petroleum thickened to a prop
Magistrate (to new policeman)—Did
earth. Their two poor runs were earn on the bottom ones, and after thou
acter of a century ago, was proud of
ed by the rankest errors and gave no sands of years the water, the mud, the er consistency with red or brown min you notice no suspicious character
his alliance with an English family of
heat
and
tlie
pressure
turned
the
eral paint is good to use on the outside about tlie neighborhood?
sort of comfort. Their glory liad de
ancient lineage and was fond of re
mighty
beds
of
vegetable
matter
into
of poultry bouses and other furm build
parted along with their nerve. Their
New Policeman Slitire, yer honor, I ferring to tils titled fatlier-ln-law’s
lugs.
name was “lebabod” or worse. And what you call coal.
saw but one man, an’ I asked him kindness In giving him Ills eldest
in tlie dense forest it was somewhat
they laid it all on "that dashed little
Bone and grit of some klud are an what lie was doin' there at tliat time daughter, a boast which provoked Cur
parson,” as the captain said senteu- the same. Trees were thrown down absolute necessity to fowls confined in o' night, Nez lie, “I have no business
ran's retort, “Aye, Sir Boyle, and, de
tiously that night. "Galllas—nothin'! by hurricanes; fresh ones grew and fell small yards and unable to supply them here just now. but I expect to open it
pend on it. if lie liad bail an older one
The Centerports can wallop them easy. victims to storms. So it went on for selves with these little items always jewelry stliore
in the vicinity later
i
he would have given her to you.”
What we’ve been tip against is Galllas long centuries until the last forest grew obtainable by birds at liberty.
on.” At that I sez. "I wish you huc
Whether it was this sarcasm which
oil the top of a great thickness of bur
and Gawd.”
cess, sor."
provoked Sir Boyle’s hostility or that
ied
trees,
ferns
and
mosses.
Amid
this
Thenceforth Parson Harwood was
Magistrate (disgusted! Yes. and he
Unnecessary Suffering.
an enmity had already been created
Gallia City's idol. He liad won the exuberant vegetation were many fan
IIow much wretchedness and misery did open a Jewelry store In tlie vicin between Roche and Curran, it Is cer
tastic
and
uncouth
animals.
Round
mass of citizens and could do what be
ity
later
on
and
stole
seventeen
there is in the world! Do you add to it
tain that tlie two men were perpetually
pleased and have whatever he would about me they made the forest resound or do you try to help those with whom watches.
sparring nt eaeli other In the house of
with
their
hideous
bellowings.
They
take that lay within their gift. Tlie
New Policeman (after a pause)—Be-
you come in contact? Every time you
commons, as tlie debates of the Irish
were
so
strangely
shaped
that
I
could
church no longer lacked a congrega
gorra, yer honor, tin- man may have
not well describe them to you. Even speak, every time you act, you add to been a tliafe. but lie was no liar.—Lou parliament testify.
tion.
Nor was I lie witty advocate and or
some of the tiles had wings half a foot some one's happiness or misery. Ou don Answers.
"We went to see tlie little preacher
which side do you throw your influ
ator always successful in these en
long
from
tip
to
tip.
pitch,” said tlie people; "now we must
counters. Curran had observed one
One day I saw a commotion lu the ence? Your opportunities may not be
go to hear tlie little pitcher preach."
lie Wai Itntlwr "Close.”
night, somewhat magniloquentiy, that
midst
of tlie hike far away from me. great, but do you ever cause unneces
Everybody went. All sorts and con
An English clergyman of the eight lie needed aid from no one and could
sary
suffering
in
a
world
wretched
ditions of men and creeds squeezed in The bed rose up and belched forth enough at best? It is worth thinking eenth century, tlie Rev. Mr. Jones of
I k - “tlie guardian of Ills own honor,”
to the pews and even sat upon (lie pul steam and ashes and molten rock. In about. I*o you say cruel things when Blewbury, with a nest egg of £200 and
whereupon Sir Boyle Instantly inter
the
years
that
followed
the
fluid
rock
pit steps and overflowed tlie choir loft.
you might say things that would lie a stipend amounting to £50 per annum, jected his sarcastic congratulations to
Do you ask the sum and resultant of rolled down tlie sides of the volcano kind? If you have the habit, doesn’t it left nt deatli tlie sum of £10,000. lie tilt- honorable member on his posses
Into
tlie
water
below.
Mighty
clouds
all this enthusiasm? Better ask tlie
sometimes occur to you that you should lind been rector of bis parish for forty sion of a sinecure.
mothers of Gallia City—mothers whose of steam arose, and as the vapor con quit it? The writer of this has been years, and during all tliat time only
sons are good citizens because Brent densed It fell upon us as warm rain. thoughtless many times, but as lie one person had been known to sit at
llnhlen nntl Monkeys,
Harwood came to Gallia and played This Is why I grew bo well and why grows older he tries very hard to avoid his festal table. No lire was ever light
A frequent action with babies is to
around me was so ritnk-
the
vegetation
ball with them, for there lias reigned a
giving unnecessary pain. — Atchison ed In his house, nor was a servant kept turn the soles of the feet sideways, op
new era in Gallia City ever since the ly luxuriant.
In winter lie would visit his parishion posite to one another, while the legs
Globe.
Many years after the land begau to
day her nine defeated Centerport.
ers to keep himself from perishing of remain straight. Just this attitude
sink. Slowly it went down; slowly
Fate Wo.ld.'t Sopplr Food.,
cold rather than light a fire at tlie rec would lie assumed by a monkey when
The King and the Seldllta Powder.
the water closed over our heads until
A woman left her husband a short tory.—Cassell's Journal.
climbing a tree or walking on a branch
On the first consignment of setdllts all the mighty forests were deep under time ago, giving as a reason for it that
In order to grasp the stem with its hind
powders to the capital of Delhi the the sea. Thus we stopped for count she bad consulted an astrologer and
A Peculiar Politlciaa-
legs.
monarch was deeply interested in the less years, and a heavy bed of sand ac been told by him that it was her des
"He’s a miglity hard man to get
The inherited effects of thus grasping
accounts of the refreshing box. A box cumulated above us. Then, just as tiny to bo a great womau, but that In along with," said the practical politi
tree trunks or limits with the bind
was brought to the king in full court, slowly, we arose until we formed a marrying she had committed a serious
cian sadly. "Mighty hard.”
hands are often very marked in young
and the interpreter explained to his vast elevated land. Then came other error. As long as she remained witli
“He seems thoroughly honest.”
babies
Tlie bow legs, which are a
majesty how it should be used. Into a forests—trees whose limbs were tan her busband she would fail to achieve
“Of course he Is. That’s wbat makes feature of infancy and a matter of
goblet he put the twelve blue papers, gled with enormous festoons ami gar tlie greatness fate Intended for her.
him so erratic and unsatisfactory. Ev
and. having added water, the king lands of strange climbing plants. Ter She stayed away from home only four ery once in awhile tic insists on doing some anxiety to mothers, are uo more
limn the relies of the tree climbing
drank it off. This was the alkali, and rible thunderstorms clone broke the si weeks, however.
something simply because he thinks It stage, and the mot lier need not be
the royal countenance expressed no lence of these wooded solitudes save
"I see you doubt the astrologer's in Is right, without waiting to figure out frightened about this character; any
sign of satisfaction. It was then ex- when some mighty fern crashed to the terpretation of your destiny,” said tier
what its effect on his political pros normally lieu It by baby will grow out
pluined that in the combination of the ground or when the wind tore down sister.
pects is liable to be.” — Washington of It soon enough
two powders lay the luxury, and the young branches and hurled them into
"Not in the least.” replied tlie woman, Star.
Then, if a young btiby be held so that
twelve white powders were quickly dis the swamps.
“but neither the astrologer or fate pro
Its feet touch tlie ground, one may see
solved In water, and as eagerly swal
So all wetjJ on anew, as of old, and vided the money, and as I had to give
Interrupted Grieving.
that tlie feet tire not put flat to the sur
lowed by Itis majesty.
the continent sank once more below up money or fame I chose to sacrifice
A woman In Scotland bad lost her
face. Instead, tlie outer portions of the
With a shriek that will be remember the waters of the ocean, taking with It the latter.”—New York Press.
husband, and the minister, calling to
feet rest on tlie ground, while the soles
ed while Delhi lasts the monarch rose, the beds of buried verdure. Yet again
condole with her. found her sitting in
of tlie feet are more or less opposed to
stared, exploded and In his full agonies it rose, and again it sank. So layer
front
of
a
large
bowl
of
porridge.
The Love of Nature,
one another; they have the bough
screamed, "Hold me down,” then rush upon layer of plants and of sand were
"Terrible loss, terrible loss!” sighed
A real love of nature is one of the
grasping attitude. - Pearson’s Maga
ing from the throne fell prostrate on formed—vast layers, which took ages
the
minister
most valuable possessions which you
the floor. There lie lay during the long unthinkable to form—until there was a
“Aye,” was the reply, “it’s a terrible zine.
can have, since It will continue to af
I
continued effervescence of the com depth of 10,000 feet of hard baked wood
loss
to me. I’ve just been greetin’ a'
olil English Police Ts«,
ford you happiness as long as you live.
pound, spurting like 10,000 penny and sand, of coal and dirt. Look at
nlcht
and
ns
sunc
ns
I
Anisb
this
wee
Tlie chief uiiiliorlties of towns in past
But in order to have this love you must
worths of Imperial pop and believing me, and you will find that you cau
get it while you are young—while you drap porridge I'm Just gaun to begin ages incurred niueli responsibility. Al
himself In the agonies of death, a the!- trace my markings. In every pit you
Ripon we liitii' a good example of their
still have leisure to give it first place again.”
ancholy and humiliating proof that can find hundreds of delicate fern
liabilities
Here formerly, after the
in your thoughts. Nature must be your
Th«
Kncroaehlng
Lake.
kings are mortal. —Indian Mirror.
leaves and mosses as perfect as when
blowing
of
n
horn nt !) o'clock at night
first sweet heart or she will not be your
One of the humorously attractive
alive. You can see even the veins of
sweetheart at all.—Woman's Home characteristics of a child is bls large and until sunrise next morning, if a
IIIMorlcni Fiction.
the fragile fronds, so beautifully press
house were robbed and tlie owner and
Companion.
sense of personal importance, A little
In lecturing Dr. Gardiner was very ed are they. Dirty, old coal, indeed!
his servants bad taken proper precau
girl
was
walkiug
with
her
father
on
fond of retailing the hackneyed old
It was the sun which made me. I
tions for its safety, tlie wakeman bad
Didn't
lleckon
Foreigners.
the shore of a large lake, where the
historical anecdotes that garnish the absorbed his rays then. When you
to make good tlie loss sustained. Each
It
was
a
little
boy
in
an
American
waves were gently lapping up on the
sclmolliooks. and lie would commonly burn me, I give them back again. I
householder paid an annual tax of two
append the comment: “Now, that story am a mass of bottled sunshine. Do you Sunday school who in reply to bls beach. Suddenly one came up higher
pence If lie had one door and fourpence
is not true, 1 have reason to know, realize that the lire you watch is the teacher's question. “Who was the flrst than the others and swept over her
if lie had two doors to his dwelling for
indeed, that it is pure Action, but for sunshine which blazed in those solemn man?” answered, “George Washing foot, when she exclaimed, “Oh. papa,
maintaining a watch over the city. The
ton,"
and
upon
being
informed
that
it
the lake stepped on my toel”
our purpose it Is better than the truth forests innumerable ages ago? It is no
tax has long since been discontinued,
because the truth cannot be rounded flight of fancy to say that I am bottled was Adatn exclaimed, "Ab. well. If you
but the horn is still blown at night
are speaking of foreigners, perhaps be
to Latitude.
off and polished so nicely to su't one's sunshine; It is a fact
was!
”
—
Stray
Stories.
conception of character or of circum
A national school inspector In Ire-
Makins llrlnktns Water Sai«.
stance.” For similar reasons he was
land was once examining a class in
The Trnrlirr Wna Not Slow,
Uncomfortable consequences may fol
Forgiving
and
Forgetting.
geography and, tinving reason to cor
instant In prnlse of historical novels.
"Ha. ha!" laughed Willie. "I chucked
“Woman,” said the crusty person, rect an answer to a question regarding low the use of the best of water
“A genius like Scott or George Eliot, a ba nailer skin in front of de teacher.”
'may
aay that she will forgive and for- longitude, proceeded to ask for a defi persons who are not accustomed to tt
"1
especially in ‘Romola,’ ” be would say,
"I don't see any joke in that," spoke
get, but she will never let you forget nition of latitude. There was a slight as we all know from experience la
“has many advantages over the plod up bis mother.
changing our usual daily beverage. A
ding historian and can often arrive,
“Don't you? Well, he tumbled all that she forgave.”—Baltimore Atneri- pause, and a young Ind answered:
by tlie Intuition of genius, at truths richt, all rieht."—Philadelphia Record. can.
"Please, sir, we have no latitude tn Ire simple and efficient way of preventing
land. The government won’t allow us trouble from a change of water is to
which tlie most laborious research
For 111 m Dhcovery
The Legislative Wax.
carry a small vial of the crystals of per
could never reveal, and. on the whole.”
any.”
According to an old document dis
“But this bill should have been ■et-
manganate of potash with you and to
he would add. "historical Action Is
A Soldier’« Reply.
covered some time ago in Australia, tied long ago," objected the tradesman.
put one of the pieces in each glass of
much more trustworthy and Incompa
A soldier of Marshnl Saxe’s army, water that you drink. It will turn the
gold was flrst found by a convict near
"Well, sub. de gemmen’s out; eny-
rably more respectable than fictitious
Paramatta In lTHtt The unfortunate bow, you cayn't expect a ineinbub of being discovered In a theft, was con water a slight pinkish tinge and, ac
history ."—London News.
fellow was at once charged with hav- congress to settle anything wldout a demned to be hntiged. What be had cording to an authority, make it a safe
stolen might lie worth 5 shillings. The beverage for strange stomachs.
Ing stolen a watch anil "boiled It down” lot of talkin’.’’—Baltimore Herald.
Before the date of Inauguration day
marshal, meeting him ns he was be
and. being convicted by the rude court
Is changed the house will have to agree
Too Optlmlatia.
Gentle.
ing led to execution, said to him, “Wbat
of those early days, was given 150
to Senator Hoar's resolution setting It
"Everything into which he put money
Waiter—How would you like to have a miserable fool you were to risk your
lashes for his pains. In later years the
on the last Thursday In April, and then
seems to have turned out wrong. I
life for 5 shillings!”
record of this incident was closely ex your steak, sir?
the proposed amendment will have to
Frank Customer (who ba* been wait
"General.” replied the soldier, "I wonder what the trouble was?”
amined by un undoubtedly competent
be submitted to the legislatures of the
“He has persistently Insisted on mak
authority, who was quite convinced of ing twenty minutes»—Very mutt, In have risked It every day for my pay,
states and agreed to by three-fourths
deed, thank you. if It Isn't too much fivepeuce.” This repartee saved his ing a molehill out of a mountain in con
the genuineness of the convict’s story.
of them
sidering obstacles."—Chicago Post.
trouble.-Exchange.
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