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r • *« - . J’.'-.ZVWH It Came Handy How a Mother Prevented Her Son From Being Killed In a Duel. 14th SATURDAY NIGHT SALE By ROCKFORD KING A Midget Horseman and His Big Friand. Copyright. 1910, by American Fraas Association. By LEONARD MULLOY. April 16. (Copyright. 1910, by American Freaa Asso ciation.! In Loubdanh about tiie middle of the last century there lived on a planta tion left her by her husband a Mrs Stewart with one spn. She hud been married at sixteen, and at thirty-six, when this boy, Fitz Hugh Stewart, wus nineteen years old, she was a very young looking and still handsome woman. Indeed, the boy apjs*ared more like her younger brother than her son. The two were devoted to each other. One day there appeared In the parish where the Stewarts lived 1’inktou Forshay, a num about forty years old. wiio gave out that he was intending to settle there for the purpose of prac ticing law. Forshay was a typical southerner of untebellum days-long hair, sombrero, tight trousers and a flowing skirt to hl.« coat. He purport ed to have sprung from one of the oldest and best families of South Car olina and was quite free in small ex penditures, such as wines, liquors, ci gars. etc. Nevertheless he had little or 110 means, and it was his object to acquire u foothold in the community by making a profitable marriage. Forshay and Fitz Hugh Stewart met at the house of a planter, and Fitz Hugh inched him to visit at the Stewart home. Forshay culled and ut once determined to make every ef fort to marry the widow. Expecting that the son would oppose his moth er marrying a second time, he was very adroit about his courtship, coti- ceuliug bis intention from Fitz Hugh. The history of gold mining regions repeats itself. First we huve the land worth from nothing up to a few dol lars an acre. Then some one digs a hole in the ground to put in a post, scoops out a cellar for a house, or some thing like that, and finds in the dirt taken out indications of the precious metal. He doesn't sav anything to anybody, but goes off and gets ft as sayed. The re|M>rt being favorable, be lets it be known that he lias gold on his property. Those who strike Indi cations pre-empt claims and organ ize companies with a few dollars cap ltal, most of which is spent tor print ing certificates of stock. Every foot of the ground in the vicinity is staked out for mines, which cross and recross one another at every conceiv able angle. There are thousands of The giant George Auger, whose pic these pieces of paper, nearly all worth ture you see here, was born in Cardiff. less. Wales. He is a trifle more than seven When the Clear Creek region of feet tali. His midget friend, Paul Oval, Colorado was in such a stage as this seated on the pony, is a native of Hun a man whom 1 shall call Peter Ander gary and is only a little more than a j son. a young lawyer from the south, foot and a half high. The giant and settled in Denver and hung out his the midget are the same age. Some shingle. He had a very frugal, pa times the giant would put the midget tient wife, who was a real helpmate in iiis coat pocket, and everybody to him. She never permitted anything thought it a great Joke. to be wasted, no matter how little val ue it possessed, and when her hus band rallied her on saving worthless BOASTFUL SANDY. things she would say cheerily. “It How a Lazy Cat Was Fooled by an may come in handy just in the nick of time.” Artful Mouse. The principal law practiced in Col We once had a cat named Sandy, who was large and yellow and had a orado at that time was with tiie re volver; consequently Peter Anderson long, bushy tail aud silky ears. He was indeed ornamental, much found little practice in his profession. more so than useful, for as a mouser But mouey was easily borrowed, and tiie Andersons managed to keep body Sandy was not a success. Yet. in spite of other people’s opin and soul together by small loans. The ion. in his own eyes Sandy was the husband found it dull sitting in his terror of all the mice in the state. To office waiting for clients, so he spent watch him at work was a treat. He most of his time in a neighboring bil set about mouse catching with much liard room playing pool. He told his style, such as “see the conquering wife that tlds was a good way to make hero conies" air. And when he lost his acquaintances and thus get business. mouse, ns lie nearly always did. he She said she thought he was right. The members of such communities always assumed a bored attitude, as Refresh if to say, “Pray, don’t imagine I really are inveterate gamblers. wanted to catch that mouse; it was ments and tiie price of the game were to be paid for by tiie loser. In addi merely for practice!” At last, discouraged with Sandy's tion to this, the players, all of whom were possessed of worthless mining achievements, we bought a trap. stocks, would put them up to be ab Sandy was delighted with the trap, for he found a mouse in it nearly sorbed by the winner. A number of every morning, and he took to lying these certificates came Into Peter An derson’s possession, but none of them In wait and watching it. One day as he waited he saw a ever found their way bark to the per gray mouse steal from a bole in the sons from whom be won them. Every corner and approach the trap. Nearer night after he had gone to sleep his and nearer he crept, but instead of wife would get up, search his pockets, getting himself caught he sprung the take out w hat mining shares she found there and lot k them up in an old trunk trap. Like a gray streak the mouse made she kept in the garret. She never for his hole, and like a yellow streak looked at the mimes of tiie companies Sandy followed him. But, as usual, they represented or bothered her head the cat was too late, and the mouse as to their value. Indeed, they were worthless or they would not have come got safely inside. FORHHAY RECOGNIZED HKIt. But now that he knew where the so easily into her husband's possession. Every night his pockets were searched He proposed to Mrs. Stewart and was mouse lived Sandy determined to have and emptied, but in the morning he sat very quietly by the him. so he rejected. He proposed again and would not miss his loss. If his wife again received a refusal. Determined mouse hole until the mouse should had taken a few coins he might have to force Ids way into the Stewart fam come out of bis front door again. But noticed it. but mining stocks were i lly and tin interest in their possessions, I tine mouse did not come, and at last quite a different matter. When he he persisted in Ills proposals till he Sandy grew weary of waiting, He went round to tiie billiard room in the was at last treated by the widow with wanted to go to sleep, and he did not evening he would think that he had want the mouse to get out. so he solv the severity lie merited. won some shares tlie night before, but, Mrs. Stewart, fearing to make trou ed the problem by crossing his paws finding none in his pocket, fancy he over the mouse hole and going com ble between her son and her suitor, had been mistaken. He was a very kept tiie matter of ids proposals to fortably to sleep. good pool player and had no difficulty Then the artful mouse stole out of herself. Young Stewart noticisl that in borrow ing a few»shares to begin on. Forshay came no more to the house, his back door, ate the cheese from 1' aially lie would win, pay off the loan the trap and stole gleefully back, while but thought little of Ills remaining and go on playing on ids own capital. «way. Mrs Stewart seldom Joined In Sandy still slept on.—Philadelphia Rec If ho left the place with stocks in his ord. the social affairs In vogue among her pocket, the next morning they would neighbors, lull her son slid and was be deposited, as usual, in Mrs. Ander Cornstalk Values. constantly meeting Forshay. But Fitz son's trunk Nothing is wasted nowadays. Things Hugh noticed that Forshay's manner But the pool players didn’t bring toward him had climigisl. What had that were formerly thrown aside as' Anderson any law business, and tiie refuse the hand of science now turns l>een an effusive friendliness had be into use and profit Who would have wolf was continually snarling about come a marked antagonism. his door. However, the wolves in One evening at n social gathering of thought n few years ago that any good such communities are usually coyotes, men Stewart made a' remark which use could be made of common corn comparatively harmless, for any man brought a sneer from Forshay. This stalks? But practical science lias tak will give or lend any other man if he was followed up by oilier overt acts en hold of them, and now they are | has anything he doesn’t need at the plain to every one present. Stewart, used in many ways, the strangest per-1 moment. Nevertheless Anderson's con fancying that his mother might have Imps being to help in building ships dition was not attractive, and except of war. for they produce cellulose, and, something to do with tilts treatment when be was playing (>ool lie was very cellulose Is used In packing coffer- ! and dreading to have tier name dis dispirited. dams. Then they are used in the[ cussed. bore all patiently till Forshay One day there was a Idg strike up on made a remark to him that was posi manufacture of smokeless powder, of' A mining company laid i paper pulp, of pyroxylene varnish and i Clear creek. tively Insulting, when lie' replied In as a packing material, and, with their! opened a vein that paid many hun kind Forshay slnp|>ed ills face. The leaves and tassels, they enter into the. dreds of dollars to tite ton. Peter boy did not proceed further with tiie composition of various fodders and i Anderson when be went home that matter at tiie time, but when be went foodstuffs. The thrifty farmer now night told his wife alsiut the strike. home apprised ills mother of w hat had I carefully saves them and sends them remarking, “Oh. how I wish I had occurred. to market, the same as the regular some of the stock of the company!" Tills was nt a time when the code products of his farm. "I think you have, dear,” said Mrs. duello was in vogue in Louisiana. Mrs. Anderson, and she went up to her Stewart saw that a great misfortune How to Sell a Diamond. trunk and brought down an armful of had befallen herself and her son. If Philip II was once Interviewed by a mining share certificates. The two Fitz Hugh did not challenge Forshay he would Is* cut by all his acquaint Portuguese merchant, who bad for sorted them, tossing them when ex ances. If he did challenge him For sale a diamond of unusual size and amined on the floor In their eager hunt shay would doubtless kill him. In fact, beauty, There was a general desire for the one they coveted, Presently the widow saw in this treatment of that the king should purchase su they came to a ten share certificate splendid a Jewel, but he did not seem which alone would keep them for her son a spirit of revenge that was awhile. Then a fifty share turned up. directed toward herself. She lay likely to d<> so. "Well." said the king to the tner- then another ten. then a hundred, five awake all night thinking over the mat chant. "h<>w much would you ask for hundred Indeed, all denominations. It ter and In the morning told Fitz Hugh this diamond if one were to take a was a good while before they got that he must challenge Forshay. fancy to It?” A friend of the Stewart family. Wai "Sire." replied the merchant, "I ask through the accumulated pile. When ter Langstalf. was called In aud re hut 70.000 ducats, the sum which It they did they figured up shares in the quested to act as Fitz Hugh’s secoud. also cost me.” lucky company sufficient to give them He gave the information that Forshay "What! So much money?" said the a fortune of half a million dollars. hail fought several duels and was a king. "Who did you think would buy When the excitement of the find had dead shot. Mrs. Stewart did not wince It?" died down a bit Anderson asked his at this, maintaining her position that "Sire." said the Portuguese, “I knew wife where she had got all the certifi her son must send the challenge. Be then* was a Philip II In the world.” cates. Then she told him that she fore i-angstaff went with it to For The king was so pleased at this an- had rubbl'd him of them, thinking that shay the mother instructed him as to swer tint he bought the diamond. some of them might some day come In the terms he should Insist upon. Tiie handy. meeting must take place in some se Anderson strolled downtown the I’ll Tell You a Story. cluded spot, only a second for each next day. sold a few shares of his T il tell you all a story principal and a surgeon should l>e About a man from Lynn. stock apd went al>ont paying small And If you can't stop laughing present and Fitz Hugh Stewart should debts. That was the last of his play I'd bolter not begin. be permitted to tight masked. ing pool for mining stocks, for be If Langstaff were to lie required to The story is so funny found plenty to do. The day came That II really 1." «baurd. giva a reason for this singular provi- I when bo was sent to represent biff I a : ; ou don’t bsiievs ma aloa ba ahoeM ffffy that stewart whs | itzte tn the United Mat« ffmffta, Tou r.sadn't take my word. * « t 7:30 TO 8:30 O’CLOCK =DRY GOODS DEP T CALICO WHILE IT LASTS Flaxons, Al! 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Her Very Clear Thoughts. "Well, aunty, what are your thochts aboot marry in’?” asked a young wom an in Scotland the other day of her aunt, a decent body who had reached the shady side of life without having committed matrimony. “’Deed, lassie," frankly replied tiie old lady. "I’ve had but three thochts aboot it a’ my days, an' the last is like to be ttie langest First, tbeu. when 1 was young, like yoursel’, 1 thochL 'Wha'll 1 tak’T Then, as time began to wear by. 1 tboebt. 'Wha’ll 1 get? A d ’ after 1 got my leg broken wi' that whuuiel out o' Saunders McDrunthie’s cart my thochts syne have bln, ’Wha'll tak' me?’ ” Politeness In China. In China parents are held responsi ble for the manners of their childreu Accordingly, for the credit of theit parents, people try to be polite. If yon are mobbed in a Chinese town yon should look straight at one or two of the people and say: "Your parents did not pay much attention to your man tiers. They did not teach you th« rules of propriety .’’ A remark like tills will make the crowd slink away, one by one. ashamed of themselves. Marrying for votes was a device of old time British election agents. As the law stood before tiie reform act of 1832 widows of freemen on marry ing again made their second husbands freemen and therefore voters. At election times widows were conse quently paid handsomely to go through a formal marriage with a voteless bachelor, who. for a consideration, similarly agreed to support the candi date. The pair were married, the man voted according to instructions, and then he and his wife, standing on either side of a tombstone, said, “Death us do part." Witii this literal fulfillment of tiie matrimonial vow they regarded their marriage dissolv- ed. At the last election in Bristol be- fore 1832 a hundred women gave votes to men. A Literary Light, A short time ago a well known writ- er of London, remembering that he hud never read the noncanonical books, went out In search of a copy and in one bookshop after another drew blank. At last he went to his own par ticular newspaper shop, which also dealt in Bibles and light literature. “Have you tlie Apocrypha?" lie asked. For a moment the young woman be hind the counter was puzzled; then, The Reason of It. "Why is It that novels are so much brightening, she said, "Is it a weekly more popular with the women thau or a monthly?” with the men?" "In n novel the fellow invariably Acres and Bible Letter*. It has sometimes been stated tliat asks the girl to be bis wife."—Chicago there are more acres in Yorkshire than Record- Herald. there are letters in the Bible. A per son hearing the statement for the first Stood on His Rights. The Lawyer (who Is drafting Mr. time is inclined to doubt it, but It is Snnrler’s fast will and testament)—Oh. true, nil the name. Authorities differ but If I may make a suggestion, don't as to the exact acreage of the county, .von— Mr. Snzrier—Hang It all, who’s one giving It as 3.KS2..H4H and another dying—you or me, eh?— London Tit- as 3,771,843. But the number of let ters In the Bible is said to lie 3.50R,- Bits. 4SO. so the acres t>eat the letters, with A lie always bns a certain amount something to spare. — London Notes of weight with those who wish to be- and Queries. * «■■*> « «w. Mkr «• • Ueva 1L—Rice. COMPANY Never add the burden of yesterday's trouble 10 that of tomorrow. The one is past; the other may never come. A COLONIAL HUSTLER. Colonel Samuel, Sloper Was a Jack of All Trades. It is necessary that the pioneer be a man ot infinite resource, who can do for himself or his neighbors every nec essary task. Such a man was Colonel Samuel Sloper, one of the early set- tiers of Blandford, Mass.. whose as tonishing versatility ís recorded by S. G. Wood in "Taverns and Turnpikes of Blandford.” Colonel Sloper, among other things, kept something of a stable and pas tured horses and stick. For the mu nificent reward of 3 shillings the old veteran in 1788 moved the family of David Knox by means ot “tenme and boy." Now and then be turned his hand to odd Jobs. He carted and laid out John Waldo Wood's tiax one sen- son for £7 IDs. He seems to have made shoes and garments for his family and for his neighltors. For Enos Loomis’ young son. who was bound out to him. he did on this wise: "Caping your son’s shoes, 1-3.” "One bottle-green coat trimmed and made for .Moses, 7 shil lings.” He made several shirts and a frock for the Martin Leonard com pany. Tbe number of things which this vet eran and “dabster” did make an as tonishing list He was surgeon in or dinary to the polish of Blandford and this long before he had accumulated an army experience. Veterinary, too. he was. His Journals are peppered over with charges for the treatment of young horses. In the account of Eliphalet Thompson in the year 1772. along with a "frying Pann” and “1 Pr Sizers.” is the charge. "To Setlng jour boys risL twelve shillings.” James Sinnott in 1785 became indebt ed to "Setlng your knee and Dress ings” and to "Sundri Dressings,” 4 and 3 shillings respectively.