Cottage Grove leader., April 26, 1910, Image 2

C AN A D A GETTINO OUR BEST.
U'Sr the
sreet
THE VOLUNTARY PHYSICIANS.
HE food faddists have bad an enthusiastic
time of It sine* tbs agitation over the high
cost of living. Tbey have written bushels
of advice, contrasted the proteld material
In sea weeds with ths starches of potatoes,
and told to a grain the exact nourishment
that can be squeezed out of soup bone.
They have possibly caught a few converts. The argu­
ments have a mors plausible sound when beefsteak Is
up. Yet In preaching the lofty doctrine of saving waste
no thought has been given to the waste of breath and
Ink. Which Is hardly good logic on the part of the
faddists.
The fact Is that no one properly can prescribe the
menu which should be eaten by the normally healthy
person. The old axiom that ons man's food Is another's
poison Is still as true as It ever was. If a vegetarian
diet agrees with an office-worker or a housewife who gets
little out-of-doors It does not follow that a manual
laborer can thrive upon cabbage and beaus. Let those
with poor digestion take joy In the so-called predigested
foods, but don't attempt to force predigested things upon
your neighbor who doesn't know the simplest symptoms
of stomachache. Because native tribes of India never
eat meat, that Is no reason why we In America should
cease to eat roast beef any more than because Hindoos
worship Idols, It would be excellent policy to set up a
few brass figures In our households.
The movement for food reform of course does no
harm. Some one may there find relief to purse and
physiology. And the faddists have a good time. Per­
haps this is the essential point In the whole agitation.—
Toledo Blade.
M AR R IAG E ON LESS TH AN $2,000 A Y EA R .
NLESS you have $2,000 a year you shall
not wed. Such is the way to escape both
poverty and divorce voiced by the Rev.
Wright Gibson of Pittsburg. How simple
his solution! How eloquent of human na­
ture and the travail that haa made It hu­
man. Here Is the open sesame to a Golden
Age, writ In the language of a Commercial Age. "Un­
less you have $2,000 a year you shall not wed."
Beware, trusting brides who dream that the key­
stone of affection Is bearing and forbearing; this means
you. Beware, rash young man, conscious of your power
to Beale great heights for her you love; this means
you. Beware, unfortunate couples who Imagine that
love is not measured by dollars, but by sacrifice and
struggle; this surely means you. How much better to
grow old alone than to share your burdens with each
other and grow young together— unless you have $2,000
a year.
Look at the millions of your kind. Point out one who
Is content on less. The hundreds you know who plod
along on half that sum, wltk children about them— liv­
ing the true life for others—no, they are not happy.
Those other thousands In city and on farm, doing what
they have to do. going their way cheerfully, loving and
TALES OF A SAFE-BLOWER.
R em iniscent Jim m y M u r p h y T e lls of
H is C rim in al
E xploits.
How he had once tried to blow open
the safe at Mulberry street police
headquarters In the '80s, as revenge
for an unjust conviction got by one
of Inspector Byrnes’ men; how he
had cleverly fooled a country Justice
of the peace after being caught on a
safe-breaking Job, by feigning to be
drunk; and how be had later proved
his own guilt, to save another man
from the crime, was told recently at
the new Center street headquarters by
James Murphy, safe-breaker, arrested
for carrying burglar tools, the New
York Evening Post says.
It was Murphy, known as "L iv e r­
pool Jack," who, with Red Leary and
Johnny and Jimmy Hope, blew open
the safe of the Manhattan bank, at
Broadway and Bleecker street. In the
early 70s.
Murphy, now well past
70 years, has been Implicated In many
of the big safe-blowings of two gen­
erations. Released from the peniten­
tiary on Blackwell's Island only the
other morning hew as seized again on
a bench warrant Issued by Judge Ros-
alsky. charging him with carrying bur­
glar's tools, at the time of hts former
arrest for carrying a revolver.
The old safe-blower, glad to get out
of the cold, told Inspector McCafferty
of the robbery of the Manhattan bank,
and said after his release from Sing
Sing he went to Kansas City for five
years.
"While I was away from the city,"
he went on. "a safe was blown. When
I got back to New York In 1880 one of
Byrne's men nabbed me and railroad­
ed me to prison for this crime, of
which I knew nothing. That was the
one great art of Injustice done me In
all my career, and even the grave
won't bring forgetfulness of that nasty
piece of work.
"After I did that five years In Sing
Sing for another man’s crime, I want­
ed to get square with Byrnes. I and
another set out to blow open the safe
In police headquarters. It was then
In a little office off the big ball. We
were at work on It when we heard
footsteps, and It we hadn't been fright­
ened off then we would have blown
that cheesebox to b its"
In 1885 he went to Glnversvllle and
robbed a safe there. He was arrested
outside of the bank, while feigning
Intoxication, and actually had the loot
on him. The policemen did not search
him, but took him before a justice of
the peace.
“ ‘He was drunk outside the bank
Just robbed, your honor,' said the
policeman," continued Murphy.
" 'I 'm — hlc—a
brlcklay—hlc—sr;
hodrarrler— hlc— anything.'
“ 'How much money have you V
“ Three— hlc— dollars. Judge.'
'“ Well, you're lined $3. so you can't
get drunk for a few days more.’
"But, Inspector." continued Murphy,
“ the laugh was on me. Peggy Dono­
van was arrested for this crime I had
committed, and railroaded to prison.
When I learned of It I gave myself
tip and confessed the crime. I had a
bard Job. I had to subpoena the Jus­
tice of the peace and the policeman
from Gloversvllle. They bore out my
story as far as they could. I was con­
victed, Peggy was freed and the three
gears and three months I did for that
beloved, tbey are not happy—on the wrong side of ths
$2,000 mark;
poverty looms before them, the avant-
courler of divorce. Let these unhappy millions rejoice
with the Rev. Wright Gibson of Pittsburg that he has
discovered the ban to hunger and the Gordian knot of
marriage.
But If they disagree and shake their miserable heads
and smile compassion out of contented eyes—what then?
And If they say, "The struggle to do our best has made
us rich and kept us human and left us rejoicing”— what
then? Perhaps the Rev. Gibson of Pittsburg has the
answer.—Chicago Examiner.
COLD STORAGE AND HIGH PRICES.
HE invention of cold storage, which ought
to have been made a blessing to mankind,
haa turned Into an engine of oppression.
It has apparently made possible the forma­
tion of the worst of all trusts— the trust
that corners the food supply of the people,
and wrings from them an exorbitant profit.
The operation of cold storage plants has taken meat and
eggs and butter and other food products out of the mar­
ket In summer, when they are plentiful and should be
low In price. The process tends to maintain a price
level that Is artificially high, since the products that are
by nature perishable have become almost Imperishable.
The low prices of the summer have been turned Into
high prices, and the high prices of winter have been
forced still higher.
Cold storage, if properly used, would give the con-
sumer practically fresh food products the year round at
fair prices. But it is evident that there la some sort of
agreement or combination among the cold storage people
whereby artificially high prices are maintained. A New
Jersey grand Jury found that no less than 36,000,000
eggs were in cold storage across the Hudson from New
York. They have been there nearly a year. They have
been held back for fear of breaking the market.
This sort of thing is very close to the line of crim­
inality. It is time the business of cold-storing food
products was supervised and regulated. There ought to
be a time lim it placed on such storage. Products should
be regularly inspected and ordered placed on the mar­
ket at the end of a reasonable time. The concealment
of a surplus when the price tends downward ought to
be prevented. The mere publicity of the fact would
have a strong regulative Influence on price. The price
of wheat is based on certain well-known factors, the
chief of which is the visible supply. Let the facts be
known about the visible supply of eggs and the price of
eggs would tend to find its proper level.
There Is, too, the public health to be considered. Meats
are often kept In storage too long. When they are
“ high" they are tender, but they are close to the danger
point for human consumption. Stored eggs In time get
stale and Ill-flavored.
There are many reasons why the cold storage business
ought to be investigated and regulated, but the chief of
them Is the fact that the public Is now being robbed by
unduly high prices on the perishable sorts of foodstuffs.
— Minneapolis Journal.
crime were some of the happiest years
of my life.”
How he got the name of “ Liverpool
Jack" was developed as follows:
"You remember. Inspector, what you
said to me a year ago, when I was
nabbed with the gun and the tools?
You said: 'Murphy, you are old. Do
you want to spend the remainder of
your life In Sing Sing or In the con­
victs home kept by the Salvation
Army out on Long Island?' I told you
I wasn't a hypocrite, and it was either
rreedom to go and do as I pleased or
Sing Sing. I ’m James Murphy, alias
Connors, alias Liverpool Jack, and a
few other fanciful names; professional
criminal—safe-blower.
" I don't smoke, and never have, and
never drank. You can't drink or smoke
and do good work." Murphy’s pals,
the Hopes and Rod Leary, hud told the
truth; he never drank or used to-
bacoo.
“A
successful man In his way,"
commented Inspector McCafferty as
Murphy was taken to be arraigned In
General Sessions.
similar to those brought from England
during colonial days.
So far as can be learned from the
examination mode by Mayor John
Campbell, the cave Is at least 150 years
old. Traces left by the visitors showed
that they uncovered what is supposed
to have been a chest about six feet
long and two feet wide. The chest had
been dragged to a wagon whose wheels
marks were plainly visible, but trace
of the vehicle was lost on the main
road leading to Plcasantville.
The cave lies in direct line with an
aged cedar tree and a stump of an­
other tree, believed to have been the
marks by which the strangers found
the spot.
Captain Dougherty, one
of the oldest residents of the resort,
believes that It held valuable belonging
to people living on Somers Point and
the surrounding country during the
revolution. He says: “ I know from
my father that visits of the British
warships created a big scare among
the people, most of whom were com­
paratively wealthy and had much sil­
ver plate. It was known at that time
that muoh of the stuff was burled.
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Border.
W H Y MARRIAGE IB FA TA I»
Coaaxn
P a m llla rltr
W h ic h
U lx ra ets
I k * D u iu csllo H e a r th .
Glancing Idly over the “ home page"
Colonel John H. Conrad, who has a
town In Alaska named ufter him, Con­ of an esteemed but yellow contempo­
rad City, where he spends the hot rary we com* upon an Interesting
weather, has «Just got bark from the treatise upon connubial etiquette. In
Saskatchewan region In Canada, where which the doctrine Is laid down that
he has a ranch of many thousand no truly refined woman ever In the
acres. He says that settlers are pour-1 presence of menials, "Invited guests"
ing Into that country. Colonel Con­ and the general public, says the learn­
rad's ranch is on the Canadian Pacific ed writer, the cultured wife should al­
Railway, some 700 miles northwest o f 1 ways say “ my husband," aud when dis­
Duluth, and on It he raises cattle and coursing to her relatives and intlmatee
wheat.
friends she should say "John.”
To her children, of course, she may
'T h e
best settlers up there are
Americans from the western states," speak of their father as "paw," "pop"
said Colonel Conrad at the Hotel Bel­ or “ pah-p-a-a-a-a-h;" and In her con­
mont, according to the New York Sun. ferences with her attorney during di­
"W hy do they go up there? Well, only vorce proceedings she may use some
a few years ago the territories had short euphemism, such as "him."
free land. Now they haven't because “ that" or “ that man," but In general
J the government scooped up all there sh > should confine herself to “ my hus­
j was left and put It Into reservations. band" and “John." "Mr Blank,” we
[ Many of the farmers In the west got are told, is a relic of the preposterous
their start by homesteading and they 70s. when people covered haircloth fur­
have become so rich that they are able niture with tidies and made their
to send their sons over Into Canada, j homes gay with knitted mottoes and
wax fruit under glass bells.
where land is cheap.
It is our constant policy to accept
"An astonishing thing I saw up there
once was the arrival of a trainload of without question the dicta of all con­
American emigrants, who brought on stituted and self-constituted authori­
the same train their horses and wag­ ties, the Baltimore Sun says, but in
ons and a steam plow. They arrived the present case we feel within ua Uiu
In the morning, got their tents pitched ferment of rebellion. That Is to say.
and the train unloaded and that after-! we refuse to believe that it la vulgar
noon the steam plow was working. One for a woman to speak of her husband
Immigrant like that Is worth a dozen as "Mr. Blank" or even for her to ad­
foreigners. There has been an aver­ dress him thus directly. On the con­
age of 150,000 of them a year coming trary, we hold that the ancient cus­
Into the country In the last five years. tom, In both Its branches. Is one that
As soon as they gut there they become deserves to be revived and cultivated;
Canadians.
that Is an admirable symbol of the
"The development that Is going on awe and respect with which every wife
j In that part of Canada Is beyond be­ should regard her lawful governor and
lief. It Is the greatest boom that any bishop; that It elevates and mellows
country ever had. and It will continue the husband by Improving his self-re­
many years. Why, It Is no unusual spect.
thing for a farmer to make enough
One of the great objection to matri­
money out of his first year's crop to mony, among thoughtful men, Is the fa­
] pay for his whole farm and give him miliarity which it involves. A man,
! a handsome margin. You can get gov­ let us say, of earnest purposes and
ernment land for $1.25 an acre and you high attainments, who has won an en­
can buy all the other land you want viable place among his fellow men and
for from $8 to $10 an acre. Then lum­ has grown accustomed to being ap­
ber mills and flour mills are going up proached with deference and recpect,
In every direction.
is married suddenly to some worthy
I “ What is helping the country up but undistinguished young woman, and
there Is the tremendous railroad build­ at once he finds himself treated like
ing that Is going on. It Is the richest a rah-rah boy or a favorite baseball
j farming
country In the world and It player. His wife, seeking to please
I abounds In game.
him and set him at his ease, calls him
"Alaska Is the richest mining coun­ “dearie" or "kid," and tries to kiss him
try in the world, and If the national while he is shaving or thinking. Her
government would only assist the rail­ parents, presuming upon their vacuous
road building It would soon get Its seniority, speak of him as "Johnny”
money back a hundredfold,” Colonel or "Maggie's John.” Her sisters, in
Conrad continued. "There Is a dispo­ vadlng the privacy of his home, bawl,
sition In politics to cry 'w o lf when “John! John! John!" down the stair­
Alaska is mentioned, but the pioneers ways; her unspeakable brothers call
who have been putting their time and him “ Jack” and strike him on the
money Into the development of the back. No wonder marriage is so often
country should be encouraged. I have fatal to the higher sort of men.
helped for forty-odd years to develop
As a matter of fact, all such men
various western states, and I know shiver with fastidious horror when­
that the government rights In Alaska ever they are addressed by their Chris­
are much better protected than they tian or given names. The custom pre­
were out west. There Is untold wealth dicates a degree of familiarity, a
in Alaska simply awaiting develop­ coarse Irreverence, which they cannot
ment, and the latter is proceeding a brook. The use of the given name. In­
vast deal more slowly than If we had deed, Is a privilege belonging only to
roads up there.”
blood relatives, and then only to those
Immediately related— I. *., parents,
G IRLS’ INCREASING HEIG H T.
brothers and sisters. For the relatives
of his wife, to third and fourth degree,
C o m p a r i s o n o f Drew» H m n r r n t i h
so to call him Is a gratuitous outrage
T o -O o y a n d F ifty Y ra r a A go.
A search of the garret for old-fash­ upon his dignity, an Indefensible o f
ioned clothes "to dress up In" does i fense against good manners. '
not yield so much as It once did. Be­
COURAGE AND BRAINS.
hold. when great-grandmother’s gowns
come to light they are all too small for A H a r e C o m b i n a t i o n , l i n t O n e W h i c h
the young generation. It Is not a mere
la A ln n y a Hexpected.
matter of stays and busks, for If It
"Some men." said a business man­
were a tightened corset lacing might ager, "are afraid of responsibility,
be endured for a single evening. But I some men welcome It; either sort of
the girl of to-day is hopelessly taller man may be good and useful or bad
than her forbear, and there is no rem- \ and harmful, according to his special
edy for the skirt, waist and sleeves development.
too short.
“ There are timid men who need
The Increase In the height of Am er-! somebody always to lean upon but
lean women has doubtless gone on who under guidance are faithful and
steadily for fifty years, but measure­ effective workers; and then there are
ments have altered markedly In the men afaid of responsibility who are
last ten years, says the Youth's Com­ always Irresolute and Ineffective, who
panion. A skirt of forty-one Inches never can be prodded into anything
was considered long In 1895. Now but the dullest of dull routine work
skirts of forty-four and forty-five inch­ and who must always stay down close
es are made by wholesale. Grand­ to the ground, men of small account.
mother stood barely five feet In her
"Then among men not afraid to take
shoes, but her daughter measures five responsibility you find some wbo are
feet four Inches, and her athletic too cocksure about It, ready to settle
granddaughter measures from five feet any question that comes up to them
No T r u ly N atio n al H o lid ay ,
seven to five feet eleven In her stock­ right off the bat, big or little, going
DESTROYED B Y CHEMICALS.
ings.
There Is no regular national holiday
ahead jauntily, slapdash; not a good
The Increase In height Is not an un­ sort of man this to have at a respon­
In the United States. Congress has at W e a p o n s U s e d h r A s s a s s i n s A s a l n s l
mixed good. To begin with, long sible poet.
various times appointed special holi­
R o y a l P era on a area .
days. Only the states can proclaim
Very few people are aware that as clothes cost more than short ones. Six
"Also you have the man not afraid
legal holidays.
Thanksgiving day. soon as the trial of an assassin of roy­ Inches added to length of skirt and who thrives on responsibility and en­
designated by the President by procla­ alty Is concluded the weapon with bodice make an actual Increase In the joys the Increase of power, but who Is
mation, Is a holiday In those states which he accomplished his crime is cost of material. Moreover, tall girls, cool and clear headed, a man of keen
that so provide by law. The follow­ carefully destroyed so that no trace especially If they are slender, are not and true discernment who knows In­
so easily fitted In the chea|>er ready­ stinctively and logically what Is the
ing are the principal days observed In of It remains.
most of the states as holidays:
The reason of this Is twofold— first made garments. The large sizes all right thing to do and who then fear­
New Year’s day, January 1. Wash­ of all, the possibility exists that at seem calculated for stout women.
lessly goe3 ahead and does It, a man
Strangely enough, the average stat­ of brain and courage. A rare com­
ington's birthday, February 22. Decor­ some time or other the weapons used
ation day. May 30, in most states. In­ In a royal tragedy may be exhibited In ure of the men of the coming gener­ bination this, and the man that pos­
dependence day, July 4. General elec­ some museum or show, and, second, ation has not Increased so fast as that sesses It gets far.
tion day, first Tuesday after first Mon­ there Is a strange superstitious dread of the women, and there are many men
"For courage Is the manly attribute
day In November. Thanksgiving day, existing among reigning houses that not so tall as the girls of their own that men most admire; we’d all dearly
last Thursday In Noveml>er. Christmas the existence of the Innocent but un­ age. Such a man fears to dance or love to be courageous, to dare: and
day, December 25. Labor day, first hallowed weapons by which rulers walk or even to talk with a woman the man of courage plus brains, the
Monday In September, made national ' have been dispatched to eternity Is te whom he must look up physically, man not afraid to take the responsi­
legal holiday in 1804. Arbor day Is a fraught with peril to their descend­ whatever he may prefer In her of bility to to make good, we cotton to,
moral superiority. It Is little short and him moat of us are willing to fol­
legal holiday in some states, although ants.
the month and date of its observance
The method of destroying these of tragic when a long line of tall girls j low and obey. He can have what he
vary. Every Saturday after 12 o’clock I weapons Is a curious one. The wood- j files past a group of short men. each wants in this world, and If he should
noon is a legal holiday in New York, j en portions, such as the stocks of pis- ; avoiding the other with blank gaze want It he can have the biggest pair
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Mary­ | tola or the handles of poniards, are ! and the secret reflection, “ How I of wings In the world to come.
land. Good Friday Is observed in Ala­ burned, and the metal portions are should look with him— her!”
" I f you expect to get anywhere don’t
bama. Florida. Louisiana, Maryland, eaten away In a bath of nitric acid.
be afraid to take the responsibility!
D ew W ater,
Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Tennes­
But really to get on you want to mix
This haa been the custom ever since
The ancient "dew ponds" of England your courage wtlh brains.”
see.
the attempted assassination of Queen
have
their
modern
counterparts
on
Isabella of Spain In 1852 by Merlus.
TkoronKh.
A TR EASU R E CAVE.
Prior to that date the metal work of the rock of Gibraltar, where drinking
The New Cook— I'm thot sorry, mum.
water Is obtained by the condensation
firearms or knives was ground or filed
of the abundant dew In specially pre­ but I clean forgot to take the turkey
II
!■
K x lrrrd
S u rrrp tlltn u xlT
sad
away, but the blade of the dagger with
pared basins
The primitive process out of the oven.
Looted o f llu rled V a lu a b le s .
which Merlus sought to execute his
Mistress (four to dinner In fifteen
consists In making a hollow In the
Part of Captain Kidd's burled treas­ dastardly crime proved to be of such !
ground and filling the bottom with minutes)— Is It burnt?
ure Is believed to have been f ound exquisite temper and hardness that It
The New Cook— Is It burnt! I give
dry straw, over which Is placed a
and carried off by persons who worked resisted both file and grindstone.
layer of clay. On a clear night the you my worrd, mum. It's a heap of
during a recent heavy storm In a cave
This became known to the populace, |
clay cools very rapidly, and the dew Is ashes!— Woman's Home Companion.
on the property of County Judge E. and the superstitious Spaniards be- I
condensed Into water In the basin.
Hlgble on the outskirts of Somers lleved that Merlus had invested his
T r u e Frtem lfthlp.
The pond Is Improved by putting a
the digging and marks of what Is be­ weapon with magical qualities. To di­
True friends are never judged by
layer of asphalt or Portland cement
lieved to have been a treasure chest vest them of this absurd belief the au- |
under the straw.
At Gibraltar the one another. For that "something"
were discovered on the fo lle » lag day thorities had the weapon destroyed
between them Is too sacred and treas­
present practice is to use wood In­
Although the cave Is only a few hun­ by Immersing It in chemicals, a rule
stead of straw and sheet iron Instead ured to be marred by judgment; for
dred yards from the residence of Judge that has been followed ever since.
there Is that abiding faith that holds
o f clay.
Hlgble, no members of the family
them together like rings of steel.
M o rfd
Ip
a
.No tc h .
W h r P a t r i c k H e n r y S a id It.
heard the treasure seeker* during the
H a il R m a o n to He A n g r y .
As Indian boy at Hampton wrote
storm that kept the entire population
His W ife— And you are to defend
"W hy is Maude so angry with the
the following In a composition on Pat
of that resort within doors. Capt. Mark that shoplifter?
photographer?”
Dougherty, who live* within less than
The Lawyer— My dear, she Isn't a rick Henry: "Patrick Henry was not
“ She found a label on the back of
10 yards of the rave, did not know shoplifter She waa formerly, but she a very bright boy. He had blue eyee
her picture saying, 'the original of this
haa saved so muoh money In the last and light hair. He got married and
what was going on.
photograph la carefully preserved.’ ”
The cave Is bricked up with walls ten years that she has become a klep­ then said, 'Give me liberty or give ms
death !'" ____________
more than two feet thick. The top Is tomaniac.—Stray Stories.
So far, we have seen the shirtwaist
covered with slabs of red s a n d s t o n e of
Somehow, one never finds any fault worn upon every occasion except a
A man pursues bad luck oftsnsr with the misspelling la a good cook's corpse at a funeral, or a bride at her
a quality unknown In the neighbor­
hood of Somers Point. The bricks are than bad luck pursues him.
w o k book.
wedding.
1 SONO IN EXILE.
O, thsy that leave their father’» land, new friend» and home» to find them.
They turn their face» to the sea, but leave their heart» behind them.
Their heart» lie burled in the fields, along the blackthorn hedge»,
Beside the brooks where rushes cool crowd close about the edge».
They’re rooted in the holy »oil, the green sod of the »Ireland,
Who turn their face« to the West must leave their hearts in Ireland.
The West is wide and rich and free, a grand land— hut a cold land.
I hunger for the warmth of love that’» found but in the old land,
I hunger for the linnet'» song across the sunlit spaces,
I want the sights and sounds of home, the dear familiar face».
At twilight how the heart stira— when the angelus is calling.
And on the misty Irish fields the silver dew is falling!
Asthore maehree! The sea’s between, and foreign skies are o’er me.
But in the night I feel my heart throb in the land that bore me.
I feel it beating strong beneath the shamrocks and the mosses,
It clings about my people's bones beneath the Irish crosses,
It c*Ul8 and calls across the sea, to come home to the slreland,
The haunted hills, the singing winds, the smiling skies of Ireland.
— The Outlook.
MABEL’S ROMANCES
The McRobert» and the Ewing fami­
lies were among the substantial peopls
of Three Pines.
They lived In large, substantial
houses and William McRoberts ran a
bank, while Sam Ewing was proprietor
of the biggest dry-goods store in town.
Their women folk belonged to the ex­
clusive Cinch Club and .Mrs. McRob­
erts was president of the Ladies’ Civic
Improvement Association, while the
diamond pin owned by Mrs. Ewing
since her twenty-fifth wedding anni­
versary was the pride of the whole
town.
So it waa entirely in the natural or­
der of things that Mabel McRoberts
and the Ewings’ son Albert should
make a match. Everybody knew they
were going to even before Mabel began
wearing the soltaire diamond ring. If
she and Albert had been just ordinary
young people they might have been
criticised as silly children and the
affair laughed at, but, being who they
were, it was all right, though they
were only 18.
Mabel McRoberts was a healthy, rad­
cheeked girl wtlh bright, snappy eyes
and a vivacious disposition, and Al­
bert, while rather weedy and pale as to
hair, had a promising air about him.
He gave Mabel the ring just before he
started away to college. After he left
Mabel began collecting her wedding
garments.
Whenever anything was added to the
trunk Mabel always told the girls
ibout it. Besides,.every one knew that
Vlrs. McRoberts, who had been cousid-
ared artistic as a girl, intended paint­
ing Mabel a complete china tea set
before the wedding. As Mrs. Me Rob­
erts herself said, there was never a
girl in Three Pines who would be
started out more lavishly than Mabel.
When she ma^de this remark to .Mrs.
Ewing, who had on the diamond pin
it the time, that worthy woman rather
bridled. She replied that Albert would
QOt have to struggle along like most
roung doctors after he was graduated,
because his father was going to fit
him up an office as good as any one
ever had and make him a splendid al­
lowance besides.
When Albert came home on his
Christmas vacation and took Mabel to
the dancing club’s holiday party they
were the observed of all observers.
Later in the spring she went down to
the senior hop at Albert’s College and
had a new pink crystal silk party
dress. When she came home she
laughed a good deal, telling the girls
how jealous Albert got of a junior who
danced four times with her. She said
of course she knew Albert was crazy
about her, but wasn't it perfectly
•illy!
b«rt Ewing could bs in
years.
a
million
When Albert was graduated he did
not open an office in Three Pines, but
established himself in the city.
By
this time Mabel had broken her en­
gagement to John and was devoting
herself to church work and the good-
looking new curate. She was still put­
ting things into the pink cretonne-
covered trunk. , John had given her a
ring, too, and refused to take it back,
so now she wore two glittering rings.
When Albert came home for the
holidays to visit his folks and brought
his bride, people in Three Pines look­
ed on excitedly to see how Mabel
would take it. They all met at the
Cinch Club and Mabel’s cheeks were
very red and she talked and laughed
more than ever. She said Albert'»
wife was very nice, Indeed, even if
she was so stupidly quiet, and she felt
sorry for her, poor girl, married to
him! She admitted that she was go­
ing to marry the curate.
However, something happened to
that affair^ too, and when the curato
left for another parish »Mabel did not
go with him. Mrs. McRoberts told
her friends that she never saw a girl
so hard to suit as Mabel, but possibly
it was because she had so much atten­
tion and so many chances. It wasn’t
as though she had to marry the tlrst
man that came along.
This winter Mabel visited in the
South, and they say a wealthy young
man in Mobile is devoted to her. Mrs.
. McRoberts is still painting the tea set
and her eyes snap every time she runs
across Albert’s mother. Her favorite
remark is that it isn’t as though »Ma­
bel couldn’t get married any minute
she chose to, and Mrs. Ewing’s is that
she thanks her stars her son had sense
enough to marry such a sweet girl as
he did and that he is so very happy.
Then Mrs. McRoberts goes home and
gets out Mabel’s last letter about her
admirer In Mobile. It cheers ner up
somehow— asd she has hopes of a son-
in-law eventually who will crush Mrs.
Ewing to the dust with his superiority
over Albert. That alone will ever re­
ally bring back serenity to the McRot>
erts family.—Chicago News.
GOLD HIDERS. ~
The
Anrohnneon o f C o lo m b ia
■hip the Y e llo w
M etal.
W o«*—
Infesting the snow-elad stopes of
sun-kissed Ahorqueta. "the Sentinel.”
one of the highest peaks In the Si­
erras de San Marta. In Northern Co­
lombia. Is one of the strangest tribe*
¡of Indians known to ethnologists— the
Aurohuacos. Their name means "hid­
den gold,” or "gold hiders,” and that
Is just what they are. They worship
The third year of college Albert did the yellow metal, dividing their devo­
not come home for the Christmas va­ tions between gold and the sun.
cation. His mother explained that he
The Aurohuaeo will do anything for
was invited to a big house party where gold. Murder Is nothing If It gains
there were forty rooms in the house | him the tiniest bit of gold. He works
and the people kept fifteen servants. for any kind of money. When he gets
She said of course Albert had social enough silver or copper or paper
duties to perform and could not be ex­ money he changes It for gold and
pected to tie himself down to Three then hurries with It to his mountain
Pines.
fastnesses, there to hide It, and com*
That summer Albert and Mabel had back for more. Why he want* It Is
a tiff hut she did not give turn hack Impossible to say. No Aurohuaeo ever
his ring. Albert was developing into was known to part either with gold
a very fashionable young man and dust or gold coin.
spoke with a decided Eastern accent.
His neighbors, the Talemancas, are
Once he suggested to Mabel that she wholly different. They regard gold or
try to lower her voice while speaking emeralds, also found In Colombia, as
and Instanced the charming voice of simply a medium of exchange for whis­
his roommate’s sister as an example ky or aguadlente. The Talemanca Is
for her. That was when they had superstitious to an absurd degree and
their quarrel.
wears a wild turkey's foot on a neck­
Very soon after there was a differ­ lace as a talisman against sickness
ence of opinion between Mrs. Ewing and bad luck. He worships fir* as the
and Mrs. McRoberts and Mabel did not cleansing and redeeming god.
In this favored region is plenty of
go to the train to see Albert off for his
last year at college. There were ru­ alluvial gold which only needs to be
mors In Three Pines that the engage­ taken out to make the republic of Co­
But the
ment was broken, but Mabel still wore lombia rich and powerful.
the ring and kept on embroidering nap­ Aurohuacos spoil the best laid plana
of men who come there to mine. They
kins.
People had scarcely recovered from let men dig and dig and wear their
their surprise at hearing Albert was fingers sway washing the precious yel­
going to marry his college roommate's low grains out of the earth, and then
sister before Mabel went on a two- they murder the miners for their
weeks' visit to a friend in the adjoin­ treasure. This has been done count­
ing State and came back with redder less times. Many's the skeleton that
whitens the sides of "the Sentinel.”—
cheeks than ever, a new hat and a
New York- World.
chubby young man to whom, it ap­
peared. she was betrothed. She spoke
A correspondent wants to know ths
scornfully of Albert and said John meaning of theosophy. It means aboat
Miller was ten times as brilliant as a 1- ths same as ths slang word "nlL*