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A F A R M E R m SEARC H OF A W IF E My head * In a muddle, • My heart's full of trouble. And little the wonder, as soon you may •ee. t want a w ife badly, And raarrj I'd gladly, But that's where ir.y heart and my head disagree. My heart says, When you love lie eure that It's true love Feiore you dare venture to ask for her hand. Then my head whispers, Charmers Are useless to farmers, • t ake a lass of good stock and a fistful of land. Oh. Sheela Is artful, She carries a heartful O f Cupid's devices hid under her shawl— A smile to allure you, A glance to assure you, Then a toss of her head that makes light of them all. My Impudent Kitty, So smiling and witty. So busy and bright when there's com pany near; She'd banquet a neighbor. But thing It a labor To work for the poor man that loved her so dear. Bad luck to the fairy That saddled poor Mary tVlth a face and a fortune so contrari wise; Though her features are twisted. Could the farm he resisted, Bure her cows and young pigs would bring tears to your eyes. But the lass that will love me—■ By all that’s above me! — *’11 take her and wed her for love's own sweet sake; I f she’s fair, all the better, I’m thankful to get her, Rich, poor, plain or handsome. I ’m w il ling to take! — II. M. Johnston, In Spectator. He paused and the typewriter click ing was heard again. “ I ’ll put the paper weight at her door," he said, and turned and picked up the polished cube and started for the door. He swung It open and slipped Into the hall. As he did so a puff of gray smoke came up the ele vator shaft. "W hat’s that?” he cried, and ran to the iron gates. A stronger puff smote him In the face. He drew back cough ing and gasping. For a moment he hesitated. Then he ran to the narrow stairway at the end of the hall. The srnoke was puffing up there, too. In a second ho was back at the door of the room adjoining his own. He could hear the clicking typewriter within. He rapped deliberately. The clicking stopped. There was a mo ment of hesitation. Then the door was opened by the girl.. She started at sight of John Chalmers. " I beg your pardon,” he said "fo r alarming you, but I'm afraid the building Is on fire." “ On fire !" she echoed. As If to con firm his words a fresh puff of smoke whirled through the elevator doors. The g irl’s face paled. “ There Is no cause for Immediate alarm,” said John quietly. “ What are we to do?” the girl asked. “ We can do nothing but wait,” he answered. "Th e fire seems to have gained some headway. We can’t get through that smoke on the stairs, and the new fire escape has only reached the sixth story. No doubt the firemen are on their way and we w ill soon be relieved." She was watching his face as he spoke. Now she faintly smiled. " I will put away some papers,” she said, "and get my Jacket.” He hurried to the elevator doors again, but the smoke drove him back. He could see the white walls of the shaft slowly reddening. As he re treated his eyes caught sight of a coll of rope on the floor In a corner. He remembered why It was there. Just the day before a steeplejack had paint ed and gilded the flagstaff on the tow erlng structure and the rope was part of his apparatus. John Chalmers caught up the coll and dragged It to his room and flung It through the door. "Come," he said to the girl. She quickly obeyed him. "W e ll? " Bhe said. "Come into my room. It Is a little farther from tho shaft. This smoke Is getting unsupportable. We must bar it out." She followed him into hts loom and John Chalmers looked at his watch, the watch hla father had given him the day ho was 21. ’’Eight thirty," he muttered, and closed the case with a Bharp click. He stared at his desk, at the papers In confusion, at the overturned waste basket and the litter on the floor. Then ho went to the window and open ed It. The night was dnrk and the eaHt wind blew softly. The sky was sprinkled with stars that seemed strangely near. Far below the street lamps trailed away In orderly rows. The night was oppressively quiet. Ho turned back. A peculiar sound caught his ears It was a rapid click ing that cante front beyond the north wttll of the room. "It's the girl at the typewriter.” X •» / > A > he muttered. ' Those fellows don’t Fpnre her. But she doesn’t seem like the complaining sort. I never saw her iVr when she wasn't looking bright and cheerful. I wonder what she finds In life?" And because he had found very lit tie In life, he kicked the wastebasket Viciously and flung himself Into Ills desk chair. He was .11, a young man who hail grown old In experience and had tired of the game. Ills castles had gone crumbling, his hopes were withered, his faith In himself was wrecked. He had thrown up his hands in surren W t t l l \ S I T AMY A N I ) COW K l t K ' l . 1*TI.I.. der. In* closed the door and pushed the win Out of the little fortune he had won hv his shrewdness and daring, there dow a little higher. "H ark." he said. The rlnng of bells was a handful of dollars left But he didn't fear poverty. He had his below could be heard. He leaned out health, lie had his hands, lie was Mg "T h e apparatus Is coming from nil di rections," he said. "A h !" nml sluing and he had Ills quick brain. There was n crash of glass and it There was no question about hts nbllltv to keep the w olf from the puff of smoke from a window several door But he couldn't bring himself stories below. "What was It?" the girl enlled. to the thought of working for a mas "Th e fire seems to be on the seventh ter. lie had always been so free, so In dependent. floor." he answered. “ The heat Is breaking the glass." Hut no, he was tired of It all He He went to the door and opened It had played tils cards and lost lie was down, he wiis humiliated, he was glad a little wav. Then he closed It quick to quit. ly and came back and leaned again from the window. For two nights he hadn't slept, tint "Thev are getting the Indders up." there was a long sleep ahead of him "Th ey arc breaking In the And the Inisv typewriter beyond the he said window s." north wall clicked on lie spoke quietly us a mere specta "I fanev I've been too much alone," tor might speak. He must not alarm he muttered and a little wave of self the girl He realized that they wen plt\ ran through his mind. "If I had penned In tills tall tower like trapped married," he paused with a short Would help come? if so. It laugh ' That v iri’ pleasant face Is rats iti.il>Ing ni * seni mental. I wish must come soon. Suddenly the lights went out. I had spoken to her this ntorn Thai was to be expected," ho said lug when her » dtirt caught In the elevator door How prettily calmly. rip* room seemed very dnrk. site thanked me Ho looked The girl cante closer. The smoke nround I'd like t leave her some thing." he murmured "Whitt shall It was getting dense. "May I may I take your hand?" l" ? When a man Is making Ills will he can't he too careful. I wonder If she timidly asked "W hy. yes." lie answered, and their slic'd care for that paper weight? It v.is cut from a mummy case tn old hands met In the darkness You do not tremble." said the girl Egypt. It’s thousands of years old. If Hattershy is right. I ll put It on her "A re you not afraid?" I ant afraid of nothing save niv door sill with my card. For the girl w ith tho cheery fa ce."’ He laughed self," he murmured. «gain and then looked at his watch I do not want to die," said the girl "Guess I've settled up everything." "There Is mv mother, yott know. She he said. "N o man will be the poorer would >»* left quite alone " for my going, and no titan will he the The man ground his teeth. He better If I stay " He arose and cross turned to the window, still holding ed to the window. "I'v e only to drop fast to the slender hand, and barked from tilts.” be slowly muttered down nrross the sill. "T w elve stories No doubt 1 will be ' Thry have run up nn extension lad dead before 1 reach th»» pavement." der." he satd 'It's hist beneath tis. lb* iteered down at the tw inkling I'hey don't drec.tn there Is anybody on light:a far be! < * ' E X iT «! nee I was a these upper floors " He leaned far out boy t treat helights Itavi» fa.» "H I! below ysclnated me. and gave a hoarse shout Thev seem ti> draw in * with Invisible th ere!" He paused "A fireman on bands I have bad lo clutch at some the ladder Is looking up He sees me! thing to save myself from that fatal 11.» is pointing me out. They are shift hire Tho Invisible hands will get me !ng Ihe searchlight The crowd sees at last " tue. I.ist*it A faint roar cante from m W A \ ; »X the street. “ The firemen are waving their hats to me. They mean cour age. Here," he suddenly turned to the girl, “ take my place for a moment. They must not think I have suc cumbed. Careful. Careful. Not too far. There, they see you." Another hoarse roar came from the street. The girl, with the searchlight flaring upon her, waved her hand to the crowd below, and another deep roar came up. John ChalmerB was dragging the coll of rope to the window. Then he dropped It on the floor and ran to the desk. He drew a match from his pocket and, lighting It, snatched up a sheet of paper and scribbled half a dozen words. He fastened his mes sage to the end of the rope with a rubber band and quickly paid out the coll. He watched It with an eager gaze. Was the rope long enough? " A h !” he cried. " It reaches— the fireman has caught It." He knotted the end of the rope about a chair leg and flung off hts coat. The smell of burning wood was strong In the room. The smoke forced Its way about , the door. There wat a dull red glare through the transom. John caught up the rope again and peered down. "They are coming with extra hose,” he cri»d. “ There, there, they are fastening the rope to It. Hurry, lads, hurry. They are waving their hats to me. Yes, yes, I understand. With a steady and powerful pull he. drew In the rope. Hand over hand ha drew It In. And below the ladder the firemen passed up the hose— passed It up with trained muscles, swiftly and steadily. John did not waste his strength. He knew that the weight would sorely tax his back and arms. But he had been the strong man of his class at college, and he was glad to feel that hla muscles were gamely responding to the strain. Heavier and heavle grew the burden. He clenched hla teeth and drew the rope foot by foot, And as he labored he breathed thankful prayer that he had unwit tingly prepared himself for the eater gency, and that now he was meeting It like a man. His back was sorely cramped his arms ached In their sockets a red mist swam before his eyes, and then with a final pull he brought the brass noz zle within reaching distance and clutched It and with a mighty effort drew it across the Bill, and so into tho room. And from the street below came another hoarse cry. Coughing and half strangling, for the smoke was getting more and more dense, John hauled In the hose until It reached close to the closed door "Now," he cried to the girl, “ lean from the window and wave your arms to the men below. Make them under stand that you want the water. Make them understand." The girl obeyed. * John crept to the door and flung It open Then he threw himself on the hose with a Rtout grasp on the nozzle, and his head close to the door, and waited. The hall was gray with smoke, and flames were darting through the ele vator ironwork. Above the elevator shaft the red tongues of Are were run ning here and there. In n mofnent, It seemed as If the whole Interior Of the hallway might be filled with n roaring flame. “ Do thev understand?” he cried. The girl heard hint. "Yes, yes, I think they do,” she an rwered. "W ave your arms again." The girl leaned out. "D o thev answer?" • "Th ev are shouting up to me 1 can’t hear what they arc saving They are holding the hose tightly against tho ladder. Yes, yes. the water Is coming." John put hts hod/ upon tho hose nml, lying prostrate, waited. Then tho hoso suddenly stirred Ilko a living thing and the water gushed from the nozzle. It « is not a pow erful stream the height was too great hut little by little the force in creased. yet not enough to Imperil John's firm gras]) on tho nozzle. And now he was directing the heavy flow through the open doorway against tho blazing vvoodw Round about the hallway the torrent flew and scat tered and scraped With a mighty ef- fort John drew the se forward a little farther and ole ng tho nozzle, swept away the rtann at were creep lug about the wool k above the shaft. This was not done moment. The tin was stubborn at t go its hold slowly. The girl came o! to John and dropped on her knee side him. Somehow ho felt 1 presence, Are you there"" asked. "Y e s .” He drew a quick b renili. "You're fine," he whimper, not a tear I didn’t suppose there was such a girl Do you know why I have been so brave?" she asked It is because you arc with me. You encouraged me, you save nte strength. >ou gave me hope. I didn't dare to bo weak and foolish. You were so cool. s0 >ulet. so strong What a power for c o,| , ninn like you can b e '" There was a little - lonoe. and the steadv stream swop ilkutt the hall and drove a river »a te r down the shaft. "T h e danger Is . ile over. I think." he presently suM No doubt the Are men have conque *1 the flames be- low " The girl still kn i heslde him ■‘ I — l can't than! 'oq for what von have done." she s 1 with a sudden break in her voice Don t try, he interrupted You ' v don't *w e me any thanks. I f you hadn't been here I wouldn't— well, 1 wouldn't have had any Incentive to — to do what I have done. You have taught me a lesson— perhaps I ’ll tell you some time what It Is. There, that's all the water we can put to use— ex cept a little for our grim y faces. W ill you wave your arms again to the boys below?" The girl ran to the window and looked down. A wild cheer greeted Who wrote the fourteenth amendment? is a question which has been her. She waved her arms and pres ently »he water was shut off answered so variously that any new and authoritative word on the subject John arose from his cramped posi Is sure to claim attention front students of political history. In a book re tion anu stretched himself and walked cently lsssued called 1 The Adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment," Horace about a little. Then he splashed Edgar Flack devotes some space to the claims advanced In behalf of differ through the water and raised the hall ent persons, among them Judge Stephen Neal, who died at Lebanon, Ind., windows and let out the- smoke. In June. 1905. Robert Dale Owen, the communist, and John A. Bingham. The sky lightened and the moon Congressman from Ohio. had risen, and the upper floor was no At the time of Judge Neal’s death the papers throughout the country longer wrapped in gloom. quite generally recognized him as the father of the amendment. Judge John looked at his watch. Neal himself flrntly believed that the amendment, as adopted, followed a "Nine o’clock," he said. “ A pretty measure which he had formulated and sent to Godlove Stoner Orth, an In lively twenty minutes." timate friend, at that time representative In Congress from the Lebanon “ 1 hope,” said the girl, “ that my district. To support this claim he had preserved a letter from Congress mother will not worry. If she hears man Orth In which the latter told him that he had submitted Neal's plan about the fire It will greatly alarm to the congressional committee of fifteen, considering reconstruction meas her And If I am late she w ill be very ures. and that the committee had adopted it almost verbatim. anxious.” An unprejudiced and dispassionate reader of Mr. Flack's book w ill John turned suddenly. probably agree with him that the amendment was really not the product of "I'm going to take you home,” h* one mind, but of many; that it was not a spontaneous creation, but a said. "And If there are any explana product of evolution, and that Its growth from the time when Its first sec lions to make you can rely on me to tion was presented to the reconstruction committee until all Its five hetero make them." There was a heavy step on the stair geneous propositions were finally adopted by sufficient States to make It a part of the Constitution can be traced in the records of the period. way. A fireman with a lantern arose When Congress refused to accept President Johnson's reconstruction from the depths below. plans and claimed for Itself the right to determine conditions on which the He raised his lantern above his head seceding States should be admitted Into the Union, a Joint committee of as he tame forward. fifteen was appointed by the two houses to take Into consideration the whole "Oh. there you a re !" he cried. He let the lantern shine on the grim y and subject of reconstruction. bedraggled man and thrust out hi 3 The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were adopted as hand. reconstruction measures. The fourteenth was undoubtedly adopted by Con "How are you, brother?” he said, gress In the hope that it would deprive the South of what Northern Repub with a coarse laugh. licans considered unfair use of political power by granting to negroes the John laughed as he gripped the big franchise, which they would use in support of the party which had freed hand. them. Strangely enough, the second section of the amendment, which by "Fine," he answered. "But here, I appealing to the self-interest of the Southern States compelled the granting want you to know my assistant fore of the suffrage to the negro, has not accomplished its object, several South man.” ern States having educational qualifications which practically shut out Illit And the fireman and the girl grave erate blacks. But It has established the principle that a higher qualification ly shook hands. than that of race must serve as the basis of the voting privilege. “ Glad to know you, ma'am,” said A sharp distinction exists between the war amendments and the eleven the big fireman. "T h ere’s nothing too which preceded them, as Mr. Flack states In his book. "Th e first eleven good In the departtment for either of amendments to the Constitution of the United States," he writes, "w ere In you.” Ho looked at John admiringly. tended as check or limitations on the federal government and had their "You're a bunch of muscles, all right,” origin In a spirit of jealousy on the part of the States. This jealousy was he said "W e didn't any o f us believe largely due to the fear that the federal government might become too strong you'd get the hose to the window." He and centralized unless restrictions were Imposed upon it. The war amend turned and threw the light about. ments marked a new departure and a new epoch In the constitutional his "You certainly saved the roof.” he tory of the country, since they trench directly upon the powers of the States, cried. "But there, you’ll want to go being In this respect just the opposite of the early amendments.” down now, no doubt. The fire was on the seventh floor— and up here. It made a pretty clean sweep. But you EN G LAN D TO F A L L . can get down to the sixth floor, all right. You'll find the lights still burn llrltlN h X o h le m a u P re illrtN C a p tu re - l>y G e p m a n y . ing there, and you ran wash tip nnd the elevator man will take you the rest The Earl of Clanwilliam, who Is in Winnipeg with his bride on his. of the way. And you want to look out way to Alaska, expressed himself as when you rearh the street— there's a crowd there ready to eat you up.” of the positive belief that England, A few moments later they were on is doomed. He says Germany has the stairs. made every preparation, has strength "And to think.” said the girl, a little ened her army and navy, and MU in hysterically, "that a half hour ago you vade England without a moment's no and I were strangers—and might never tice. Nothing will prevent England have met.” being devastated and captured. The- "And might never have met,” he British are unprepared. Her army ts • E x e r c is e f o r th e F lit. gravely echoed. Although the food that one takes weak and she could make little resist "And row I seem to have known often has much to do with the amount ance against an Invading force. you for such a long while. L ife !s It is such talk as this that has. of fat put on, and a restriction In very strange at times. Isn't It?” kept many Britons in a condition of the intake of fat-forming food3 may "Yes,” John replied. prevent the refutation of more fat in nervous anxiety for months, so much “ But It's worth living." the tissues or even effect a reduction, 30 that the nation may be said to And she laughed lightly, and her have been hysterical. But it seems laugh was as pleasant as her pretty it is seldom that this alone will prove ro us that such talk Is all rot. Per efficacious. voice. A strict diet Is Irksome, and most haps Germany could take England. John looked hack at her. hut she fat people are too easy-going to carry The question is, however, could she could not see his face because the It out faithfully. This is not that hold It? Japan could take the Phil stairway was dark. ippines from us almost without an "Y es." he said, “ life Is worth liv they are weak or deficient In self- effort. The United States could cap control, but they are too happy and ing.” — W. R. Rose, In Cleveland Plain content with their flesh to be willing ture Canada or Mexico, Great Britain Dealer. to suffer overmuch discomfort In any could take Denmark and Russia could W A R SCARE OF 1S95. effort to rid themselves of it. More conquer Sweden In a month. But in over, too radical a change tn a diet none of these cases would the matter t 'le v e ln m l* » A iis n u r to S lin k e « p en re may prove Injurious, and It Is bet end there. Nations tn these days are ln v ltn tto n \ v e r t e d a C riaiN . ter to be too fat— a little too fat. any not permitted to go forth on pillaging A fter President Cleveland had sen* way— than to suffer from Indigestion and conquering expeditions against Ills famous Venezuela message to Cou- or damage to the kidneys, as one may their peaceful neighbors. Civilization gress lu 1N95, he wrote a letter In re easily do by inconsiderate and Injudi would not stand for that. The other It Is much better to powers would be asking questions and sponse to an invitation to deliver an cious dieting. address in Birmingham on Shakes restrict somewhat the Intake of fat taking action before the sun could peare's birthday which did much to forming foods, enough to prevent the set twice. No, no; the old days are allay public feeling in England. Increase of fat, and to effect the actual past and with them the old ways or George F. Parker, former consul at reduction by mechanlscal means, tnat doing things. m m . 'n m ptE frrinr D octor Birmingham, quotes the letter in Me is to say. by exercise, massage, and t h i l i l W o r k e r s II I H o l l n m l , Clure’s; In certain cases, by the wearing of a The condition of the working class Executive Mansion. Washington, belt, or abdominal bandage. This last es In some of the manufacturing towns March 30. 1S96. My Dear Mr. Parker: is sometimes useful when the abdo o f Holland is deplorable. Wages are 1 have received your letier Informing men is large, not only In making very low and the standard of life can me that the Birmingham Dramatic the girth seem smaller, but actually not be maintained unless mother and uid Literary Club intends to celebrate 1 |n causing an absorption of fat by children take their places In the fac the birthday of Shakespeare on th > the action of the constant slight tory side by side with the head of the 21st of April, and extending to me on pressure. household. behalf of the club an invitation to he Massage, when skilfully performed— As soon as the Dutch law allows the resent on that occasion. not simply desultory rubbing here nnd child to leave school— which is at the Everything that tends to keep alive there— w ill do much In reducing flesh, age of 12— he enters the factory work the memory of Shakespeare anil pre when combined with dieting and with shop. Although the government has rves a proper appreciation of his active ^xerctse In the open air. passed a law recently forbidding boys work, challenges my earnest interest Exercise— systematic, active exercise under 16 to be employed In factories, and approval; and though l cannot be — Is of the greatest value In restrain most o f the boys go In as soon as they with you on the occasion you contem- ing a tendency to the overproduction leave school. Children leave their beds date, I am glad to know that our of fat and iu causing a reduction of frequently at 5 or 6 In the morning or Xinerican people are to be prominently fat already formed. It must, however, earlier, summer and winter, gulp down epresented in the celebration. be combined with dieting, otherwise some hot coffee, or what is commonly It nat called so, swallow a huge piece of well- There is much said and written, in Its object will be defeated. heso days, concerning the relations urally Increases the appetite, especial known Dutch “ roggebrood," or rye hat should exist, bound close by the ly when taken In the open air, and If bread, and then hurry In their wooden strongest ties, between English-speak this appetite Is satisfied with the arti shoes through the quiet streets of the ng peoples, and concerning the high cles of diet that the fat people prefer, town to their places of work. lestiny that awaits them in concerted j the last state w ill be worse than the Sometimes they have to return home ffort. 1 hoi>e we shall never know a , first. at 8 or 8:30 in the morning for a sec line when these ennobling sentiment- \ The best exercise Is w alking—not ond hurried breakfast. Those who w ill be less often expressed, or will strolling, but rapid, springy walking, cannot run home and back In the half In the least lose their potency and In with shoulders back and arms swing I hour uguany anowe(1 (or the flrgt fluence. Surely. If English speech supplies the token of united effort for the good of mankind and the impulse of an ex alted mission, we do well fittingly to honor the name and memory of W ill iam Shakespeare. Yours very truly, GROVER C LE V E LA N D . "T h e reception of this letter by the press was generous and high-minded: Punch Joined the chorus with a pige cartoon; and it ts safe to say that the ghost which had been raised by the Venezuela message was laid by the Shakespeare letter written by Presi dent Cleveland on March 30, lSJtJ." i n- _ ZJiv .k!n.d . ° f..Z Rl.klnK^ IIZ !ii® ! "*°h a ft" or meal time take their bread bings with oxygen, which burns up the anj butter with them In a cotton or fat. puts all the muscles In motion, linen bag, and their milk and water by which a natural massage Is effect or coffee In a tin, and so shift as well ed. and Increases the circulation, by as they can. which the waste products are more rapidly eliminated ChAFoctep I n d tsp en an b le. Golf Is an excellent game for the Talent helps a man to obtain suc- overstout. ar.d so Is tennis. If the heart | cess, but It Is character which secures is strong Equestrian exercise ts also It for him. A man will succeed with good, but driving and motoring are character and very little talent, and not the ways to reduce flesh, as they will never succeed without character. Increase appetite and assimilation whatever talent he may have at his without giving tVe requisite exercise. disposal.— Max O'Rell. — Youth's Companion. 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