■ ■ I 'il' I 1 I i H i l i w — M i ■ ■ u illliJ 1 I Buhl K CANS THE BEST THAT IS MADE 23=Lb Pioneer Can, Pressed Top and at the low price of CLOVERDALE MERCANTILE CO There was a girl of one of those Mates which now compose the Balkans v ii >so ambition was to emulate men in athletics. Export in throwing the ills: us, she won contests against those who were champions in this game. The was the best chariot driver In the .dom and had won many races. I t her most remarkable feats were I i running. In this no one was found t > I »eat her. So proud was she of her swiftness on lor leas that she made u vow she would marry no mail who could not lent her on the cinder path. Having many suitors, tills only added to the lixalrv among them. Hut since an ability to run fast does not argue that II man is otherwise attractive, those x. >se muscular development warrant- < d their entering the list were not like­ ly to win the girl even If they won t lie race Several fleet runners came so near beating her that if she had « hosen she might have thrown the i me without np|H list against her. only he made the provision that sh o u ld he win the race she must marry him. He sent a chal­ lenge. and Eudoxia dispatched her I n flier to look the man over and re port to her whether he would likely outrun her The brother returned and reported that, while the challenger xv s shapely, lie was not muscular, and h - physique did not warrant the Infer­ Boris was singing her praises, the love ence that he could beat an ordinary he felt for her, pleading that she vxould not turn a deaf ear to him. She runner. The slight risk of being beaten by listened till he had gone out of hear­ one whom she would he pledged to ing, and then she proceeded to the oth­ marry and yet might dislike tempted er end of the minor axis and waited Endoxla to consent to the terms. So till he had come around to the point an agreement was drawn up between where she had been listening to his her and the stranger, who called him­ song. It seemed that in the meanwhile It self Boris, to race, and if he beat her slip was to mnrry him. Tills agree­ had grown sweeter. He was walking ment was signed by Eudoxia without very slowly, putting all his feeling into it. Again Eudoxia went on till she having seen her suitor. Tlie race was to take plnce on a track reached the point at which he had in the form of an ellipse, the length been sluglng, while he proceeded till being half a mile and there being sev­ he took her place. Here both stood en laps. A large concourse of people still, the man singing of the beauty were gathered to see the race. The ami the virtues of the peerless Eu­ stranger stepped forth In a pair of doxia, she seeming to be spellbound. short running pants such ns are worn Then he went on singing, “ Wait for at the present day. One thing about me, fair one,” repeating the words Idm was noticeable—his manly beauty. again and again till lie came around It was evident that he was not built to where she stood, and the two walk­ for fleetness. Hut what astonished ev­ ed side by side. In this way they proceeded, the girl ery one xvas that he held in his hand u harp. Eudoxia was attired in the rapt In the song, till they came with­ same fashion, with the addition of a in a few yards of the goal, when Boris, still singing, turned and walked back­ shift failing only to the thighs. When the two confronted each other ward, keeping his eyes fixed on Eu­ it wns noticed that the stranger’s man­ doxia, till he passed over the goal. Then the spectators, who had ap­ ly beauty, which all agreed rivaled the statues of Apollo, made a marked im­ peared to be enthralled as well as the pression on Eudoxia. When she saw girl, drew a long breath and burst into the harp In his hand she was surprised, n cheer. ami when ho did not lay it aside be­ And so Eudoxia was won. not by fore taking his ixositlou for t lie race she fleetness, but by the power of song. As soon ns lie had won the race Boris wondered. The signal was given. Eudoxia announced himself to be the son of a started off so fast that she did not powerful noble of what is now Monte­ know that B o ris was walking slowly I negro. and. without bolding Eudoxia Site heard behind her sounds from the to her contract, appeared himself as n strings of the harp, soothing rather suitor for her hand, which, after a i*e than Inspiring. Wbeu she bad made rlod of maidenly reserve, she gave him. three-quarters of the first lap there, dl Many of the people who were not rtvtly opposite her at the other end of cognizant of what passed after the the minor axis of the elliptic course, winning of the race believed that the xxa- Boris, walking and striking his stranger was Apollo, who had come liarp. Then he began to sing. down from heaven to win an earthly Eudoxia. who had nothing to fear bride. from such a tortoise, stopped to listen. After the wedding Boris and his x\ ife disappeared and when they reached his home were received with as much Interest as had attended the race. For Boris had been in Greece and, hearing of the girl who must be won in a foot race, had stopped on his way back to see her. He resolved to win her by making love to her In song. Trouble Ever Present. “ Do you have any trouble when you are saying your lessons In school. Tommy?” “ Yes, sir.” “ What seems to trouble you most?” “The teacher.”—Stray Stories. Brazil Nut Trees. The Brazil nut free does not begin to bear fruit until It attains the age of fifty years or thereabouts and contin­ ues to produce crops Intermittently. Trees known to be hundreds of years old have produced crops. "And T h y Neighbor as Thyself." Willie— Mn. may 1 have Tommy Wil­ son over to our house to play. Satur­ day? Mother—No; you make altogeth­ er too much noise. You'd better go over to his house aud play.—Boston Transcript Described. “ Fa, what Is the difference between good taste and good Judgment?” “ Well, my boy, the man who mar­ ries a pretty girl may have excellent taste but mighty poor Judgment” —De­ troit Free I*ress. If Food Is Too Salty. One often puts too much salt In food while cooking it To remove the salt place a wet cloth over the top of the vessel in which the food is cooking and the steam will draw the salt into lac xx ct cloih.—Good Housekeeping.