'i)oings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Relume o f Important Event«
Presented In Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
Mexican rebels have been victorious
in many night attacks.
Premier Asquith was attacked and
beaten by English suffragettes.
A 12-year old boy of Lebanon, Ky.,
died o f injuries received in a football
game.
Insurgency is rife among the Demo­
cratic members o f the coming con­
gress.
Internal revenue receipts are report­
ed to be $12,000,000 ahead of the pre­
vious fiscal year.
Millionaire mining fakirs arrested in
New York did not attempt to procure
bail and are remaining in jail.
An aviator at Mobile, Ala., struck
the eatrh while flying low, wrecking his
machine. He escaped without injury.
Eleven Austrians left Portland to
return voluntarily to their native land,
where they will have to serve three
years in the army. They all expect to
return to this country after visiting
and doing their military duty.
The steamer Beaver rammed and
sunk the tramp freighter Selja off San
Francisco harbor in a dense fog. The
only fatalities were the drowning of
two Chinese members o f the Selja’s
crew, although the injured steamer
went down within 15 minutes after
being struck.
Mexico has seized all telegraph lines
on the plea of military necessity.
Out-of-date railroad metnods
blamed for high rates in the East.
are
New Mexico’s proposed constitution
is much shorter even than that of Ore­
gon.
I t is reported that two Mexican cit­
ies have fallen into the hands of the
rebels.
Vessels o f all kinds are limping into
Coast ports and report terriffic gales
and desperate struggles for safety.
President Taft, on board the U. S.
cruiser Tennessee, experienced a 40-
mile gale at sea, and enjoyed it
hugely.
HUGE FRAUDS EXPOSED.
American Public Bilked
or More.
o f $100,000
New York — In raids so important
that Postmaster General Hitchcock
took charge in person, inspectors took
action against two concerns which they
charge with swindling the public out
of more than $40,000,000 by fraudu­
lent use of the mails.
Sheldon H. Burr, president; Eugene
H. Burr, secretary and treasurer, and
Frank H. Tobey, vice president of
Burr Bros., were arrested in the first
raid and held in $20,000 bail each. The
government charges that the firm sold
between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000
of mining and oil stock worth little or
nothing.
Charles L. Vaughan, a director of
the Continental Wireless Telegraph &
Telephone company, incorporated in
Arizona, was taken in the second raid
and held in $10,000 bail. Inspectors
say his company has sold stock amount­
ing at least to $1,000,000 which has
brought no returns
to
investors.
Vaughan is treasurer o f the Columbia
Finance company, which acts as fiscal
agent for the Continental Wireless
Telegraph & Telephone company, and
had charge of the Continental office in
this city.
Both raids are further evidence that
the government in its warfare againt
interstate swindlers means business
and no longer will be content with
issuing fraud orders denying them the
use of the mails, but will press for
convictions on criminal charges.
The present campaign began some
months ago, and has resulted in the ar­
rest of Louis A. Celia, of St. Louis,
and his associates, charged with oper­
ating a string of bucket shops; the
officers o f the United Wireless com­
pany, of the El Progresso Banana com­
pany, of the United Exchange, o f Chi­
cago; of the Steel-Miller Cotton firm,
o f Corinth, Miss., and of more than 60
other firms in all parts o f the country.
Postmaster General Hitchcock esti­
mates that the public has been fleeced
out of at least $100,000,000 by get-
rich quick concerns in the last five
years, but he says their heyday has
gone.
He says that other arrests,
involving corporations that had sought
investors throughout the country, were
expected shortly.
“ The arrest by postoffice inspectors
of the principals in two important
companies, Burr Brothers, with offices
in the Flat Iron building, and the Con­
tinental Wireless company, with head­
quarters at 50 Pine street," said the
postmaster general, "constitutes two
more cases in the series o f investiga­
tions which postal officials have been
making in their crusade against the
fraudulent use of the m ails."
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had deposited more than $100 in nick­
Representative-elect Littleton,
of
Portland — M. S. Shrock, deputy
Coquille The Merchants bank build­
els, received every cent of his deposits.
the First district o f New York, which
F. dininston has signified his intention ing, the last of three brick blocks to dairy and food commissioner, has re­
includes Oyster Bay, in a speech round­
of paying off every cent, which will bo erected hero this summer, is finish­ turned from Wallowa county, where he
ly scored the "N e w Nationalism."
ed and tenants are moving in.
The held three dairy meetings in Enter­
mean tens of thousands of dollars.
building is double, the bank occupying prise, Josephine and Wallowa.
Five men made a balloon trip of 110
“ There is quite an awakening o f the
the corner room. The banking room
Big Aviation Meet Planned
miles in a 05-mile gale in Rhode Is­
land. All were badly bruised on land- j San Francisco F ifty prominent citi­ ia finished in solid mahogany, except dairy industry in Wallowa county,”
ing and one was rendered unconscious. zens announced through Paul Beck, U. the wainscoating, which is o f Alaskan said Mr. Shrock. "T h is has been pri­
We
S. A., that an exhibition and competi­ marble, as is also the tops o f the deal­ marily a beef stock country.
Modern sanitary methods have low­ tion aviation meet will be held in this ing counters.
The pillars st either found that the people are inclined to
ered the death rate in Manila from 40 city soon after the first o f the year. side df the main entrance are 18 inches use what we call a dual purpose cow,
per thousand to 34.9. The death rate F ifty thousand dollars in prizes will in diameter, and of Red Beach gran­ namely, a cow that is as good for beef
is lowest among the American resi­
be guaranteed. It is stated that near­ ite, and the ate; s are o f Tennessee as milk. They can never be successful
dents.
in dairying in this way.”
ly all o f the prominent aviators will fly marble.
A Princeton graduate now living in here, including Brookins and Hoxsey,
Assessment Shows Lane’s Growth
Hops Sell at 14 Cents.
Canada has presented the university of the Wright team; Glenn H. Curtiss,
Eugene— Assessor B. F. Keeney, of
The Dalles — Houser &
Wertz,
with a small tin o f tea which is allege«) Klv, and Willard, of the Curtiss team;
Tygh
Valley
ranchmen, Lane county, announces that the total
to be a part o f the cargo thrown over Moissant, Latham, Garris, Audeinar, wealthy
board in Boston harbor by the famous Hamilton and probably De Lesseps. A brought in and delivered to the East­ footing of Lane county’s assessment
ern Oregon Brewing company 14,000 roll for this year w ill be approximate­
flight of 100 miles will be a feature.
Boston Tea Party in 1773.
isiunda o f hops, for which they re­ ly $30,500,000, as compared with $2,-
New Mexico will vote on her new
Kaiser Opposes Rum.
ceived 14 cents a pound. These farm­ 000.920 last year. This is only an
constitution December 19.
Flemsburg, Prussia- In opening [the ers raise from 14,000 to 20,000 pounds estimate, but the assessor is pretty
Prohibition and woman’s suffrage new academy at Muerwick, Emperor of hops each year, which they sell to certain that this will be the total. The
with the
William read an address laying stress the local brewing firm. The variety ia summary has been made up
were both defeated in Arisons.
on the qualifications necessary to naval the English cluster and the men re­ exception c f the valuation placed on
A 13-year-old New York boy died of
officers and, later, speaking extern ceived first prizes on these hops when the Southern Pacific company’s prop­
Injuries received in a football game
poraneously, made a plea for temper- they were exhibited at both the Lewis 1 erty, and the assessor has a good idea
Secretary Wilson says the Western ! anee on the part o f cadets. The times, A Clark exposition in Portland ami the what the state tax commission will
assess the propery at.
homesteader is increasing the cost of the emperor said, required iron hearted Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition.
men. Character was the first essen­
meat by taking up the ranges.
Timber Brings SIOO.OOO.
Elkhorn Vote Was Expensive.
tial and character was founded on
England’s house o f lords will submit
Astoria— Deeds were filed for record
strong moral and religious convic­
Salem — xounty Clerk R. D. Allen
to reforming, rather than lose the veto tions.
has figure«! that at the recent election here whereby the Ferguson A Stewart
power.
the county paid at the rate o f $9.43 a Timber company and the Astoria Title
Overstudy Kills Youth.
vote for the votes cast in Elkhorn pre­ A Trust company sell to the Crown-
Striking garment workers in Chicago
resume rioting and one policeman wa8| Baltimore- Following a mental col- cinct. The total coel of the election Columbia Pulp A Paper company, of
lapse, brought on by over-study, W il­ in that district was $113.20, and there Oregon City. 5,000 acres o f timber
wounded by a revolver shot.
liam Mitchell, 19 years old. o f South were but 12 votes cast, o f which Gov­ land five miles south o f Svenson in
The inspector o f
weights andj Dakota, a candidate for entrance to ernor-elect Oswald West received 10 this county. While the consideration
measures of the U. S. department of West Point, died in a hospital here. ami Jay Rowcrman received none. One named in the deeds is purely nominal,
commerce, found nearly every mer­ Heart trouble was given as the direct of the other votes was a prohibition it is understood the price paid is slight­
chant in Butte, Mont., was giving cause o f death
Mitchell was studying vote, and the remaining one was a ly over $100,000. Much of the timber
short weights.
at Annapolis when he broke down.
Socialist vote.
I is apnice, with some fir.
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Hastrop Clegg, whose distinction was
(hat of being the oldest loafer in the
circle, spat accurately into the draft-
hole of the stove, sat back and tilted
his hat over his eyes.
"Well, boys, I reckon hit’s erbout
time, ain’t hit?" he moralized. “Leetle
Tom must be a-goin’ awn two year old;
and I don’t recommember ez Tom ’r his
pappy has ever done a livin’ thing for
Nan.”
A half-hour later. Brother Japheth.
trudging back to Deer Trace on the
pike, saw the light in the long-deserted
cabin back of the new foundry plant;
saw this and was overtaken at the
Woodlawn gates by Thomas Jefferson
with Longfellow and the buggy. And
he could not well help observing that
the buggy had been lightened of its
burden of household supplies.
Tom turned the horse over to W ill­
iam Henry Harrison and went in to ats
belated dinner somberly reflective. He
was not sorry to And that his mother
and father had gone over to the m a j­
or-house. Solitude was grateful at the
moment; he was glad of the chance to
try to think himself uninterruptedly
out of the snarl of misunderstanding
in which his Impulsiveness had entan­
gled him.
The pointing of the thought was to
see Ardea and have it out with her at
once. Reconsidered, it appeared ‘ ho
part of prudence to wait a little. The
muddiest pool will settle If time and
and freedom from Ill-Judged disturb­
ance be given lb But we, who have
known Thomas Jefferson from his be­
ginnings, may be sure that It was the
action-thought that triumphed. They
also serve who only stand and wait,
was meaningless comfort to him; and
when he had finished his solitary din­
ner and had changed his clothes, he
strode across the double lawns and
rang the manor-house bell.
CH APTER XIX.
The Deer Trace family and the two
quests from Woodlawn were In the mu­
sic-room when Tom was admitted, with
Ardea at the piano playing war songs
for the pleasuring of her grandfather
and the ex-artllleryman. Under cover
of the music, Tom slipped into the cir­
cle of listeners and went to sit beside
nls mother. There was a courteous
hand-wave of welcome from Major
Dabney, but Miss Euphrasia seemed
not to see him. He saw and under­
stood. and was obstinately Impervious
to the chilling east wind In that quar­
ter.
Ardea lingered lovingly on the clos­
ing harmonies of a nocturne, and
when the Anal chord was struck her
hands lingered on the keys until the
sweet voices of the strings had sung
themselves afar into the higher sound
heaven. Then she turned quickly and
surprised her anesthetized audience.
"You poor things!" she laughed. "In
another five minutes the last one of
you have succumbed. Why didn't some­
body stop me?"
The iron-master said something
about the heavy work of the day, and
helped his wife to her feet. The Major
came awake with a start and bestirred
himself hospitably, and Miss Euphrasia
rose to speed the parting guests—or,
rather, the two of them who had been
Invited. In the drift down the wide
hall Ardea fell behind with Tom, whom
Cousin Euphrasia continued to Ignore.
*'I came to tell you," he said. In a
low tone, snatching his opportunity. ‘ I
can't sleep until I have fought it out
with you."
"You don’t deserve a hearing, even
from your best friend,” was her dis­
couraging reply; but when they were
at the door she gave him a formal re­
prieve. "I shall walk for a few min­
utes on the portico to rest my nerves,”
she said. "If you want to come ba :k
He thanked her gravely, and went
obediently when his mother called to
him from the steps. But on the Wood­
lawn vsranda he excused himself, and
when the door closed behind the two
In-going, he swiftly recrossed the lawns
to pay the penalty.
The front door of the manor-house
was shut and the broad, pillared porti­
co was untenanted. He sat down in
one of the rustic chairs. The door
opened and, closed and Ardea stood be­
fore him. She had thrown a wrap
over her shoulders, and the light from
the music-room windows Illuminated
her. There was cool scorn In the slate-
blue eyes, but In Tom’s thought she
had never appeared more unutterably
beautiful and desirable—and unattain­
able.
“I have come,” she said. In a tone
that cut him to the heart for Its very
Indifference. "What have you to sty
for yourself?"
"I'm afraid I haven’t left myself
much to say.” he began, penitently. "I
was born foolish, and It seems that I
haven't outgrown It But. really. If you
could know-----”
"Unhappily. I do know," she Inter­
rupted . “If I did not, [ might listen to
you with better patience."
"It did look pretty bad." he confess­
ed. "And that’s what I wanted to say;
It looked a great deal worse than It
was, you know."
"I am bound to believe wtiwt I see
with my own eyes." she rejoined “Per­
haps you can make It appear that see­
ing is not believing."
"Of course I can’t If you take that
attitude." he complained. And then he
said Irritably: "You talk about friend­
ship! You don't know the meaning of
the word!"
"If I didn’t, I should hardly be here
at this moment." she suggested. "You
don’t seem to apprehend to what de­
grading depths you have sunk.”
His sins In the business field rose
before him accusingly and prompted
his reply.
"Yes. I do: but that Is another mat­
ter. We were speaking of what you
saw this evening. Will you let me try
to explain?”
"Tea, If you will tell the plain truth."
*Iatcklng Imagination. I can’t do any­
thing else. Nan has had a falllng-out
with the old »camp of a moonshiner
who calls himself her father. She came
to me for help, and broke down In ths
midst of telling me about IL I can’t
stand a woman's crying any better than
other men."
"And that was all—absolutely all.
Tom?"
"I don’t 1!»—to you." ho said, briefly.
She garo him her hand with an lm-
palstve return to the old comradeship.
‘1 bellsve you. Tom. In tho taco at all
"Now you are more reasonagle," an*
said, approvingly.
"I shall ride to­
morrow morning, and If you should
happen to overtake me, we might think
up something.”
The door was opening gently under
the pressure of her hand, but he was
, loath to go.
"I wouldn’t take five added years of
life for what I’ve learned to-night. Ar-
1 dea," he said, passionately. And then:
"Have you fully made up your mind to
i marry Vincent Farley?”
In the twinkling of an eye she was
i another woman— cold, unapproachable,
with pride kindling as If she had re­
ceived a mortal affront.
And then he bade her good-night and
I went his way with a lilting song of
triumph In his heart which not even
the chjlllng rebufT of the leave-taking
was sufficient to silence.
"She loves me! She would still love
me if she were ten times Vincent Far­
ley’s w ife!" he said, over and over to
himself: the words were on his litis
when he foil asleep, and they were still
ringing in his ears the next morning it
dawn-break when he rose and mads
ready to go to ride with her.
(T o be continued.)
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carloads o f prize-winning fruit left mystery, it is said, before the close of
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cago to be displayed there.
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York have been arrested by the postal terprise, was backed by men financial­
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authorities for using the mails to de­ ly able to take u long chance and that
fraud.
They are believed to have he expended the money provided him
bilked the public o f $40,000,000 to in making surveys and building sec­
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feet and going into the clouds dring a to cover loses through the failure of
heavy snow storm.
that institution 17 years ago.
About
In the constitutional convention in
Arizona, the effort to aboliHh taxes for
road purposes failed, and the state debt
is limited to $200,000.
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CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
the— the unlikeliness. But please don’t
try me again. After what has happen­
ed—” she stopped In deference to some­
thing In his eyes, half anger, half be­
wilderment, or a most skillful simula­
tion of both.
"Go on,” he said; "tell me what has
happened. I seem to have missed
something."
“No,” she said, with sudden gravity.
“ I don't want to be your accuser or
your confessor; and if you should try
to prevaricate, I should hate you!"
“There Is nothing for me to confess
to you, Ardea,” he said, soberly, still
holding the hand she had given him.
“You have known the worst of me, al­
ways and all along, I think.”
“Yes, I have known,” she replied,
freeing the Imprisoned hand and turn­
ing from him. “And I have been sorry,
sorry; not less for you than for poor
Nan Bryerson. You know now what I
thought— what I had to think— when I
saw you with her this evening."
It was slowly beating Its way Into
his brain. Little things, atoms of sug­
gestion, were separating themselves
from the mass of things disregarded to
cluster thickly on this nucleus of re-
vealment: the old story of his com*
panylng with Nan on the mountain;
his uncle’s and Japhoth’s accusation at
the time; and now the old moonshin­
er's enmity, Japheth’s meaning look
and distrustful silence, Nan's appear­
ance with a child bearing his own
name, the glances askance In Hargis’
store when he was buying the little
stock of necessaries for the poor out­
cast. It was all plain enough.
"Tell me,” he said, thickly;
"you
heard this: you believed It. Have I
been misjudging you?"
“Not more than I misjudged you.
perhaps. But that Is all over, now; I
am trusting you again, Tom. Only, as
I said before, you mustn't try me too
hard.”
“Let me understand,” he went on,
still In the same strained tone. “ Know­
ing this, or believing it, you could still
find a place In your heart for me—you
could still forgive me, Ardea?”
"I could still be your friend; yes.1’
she replied. "I believed—others believ­
ed—that your punishment would, b*
great enough; there are all the coming
years for you to be sorry In, Tom. But
In the fullness of time I meant to re­
mind you of your duty. The time has
come; you must play the man’s part
now. What have you done with her?"
"W alt a moment. I must know one
other thing,” he Insisted. "You heard
this before you went to Europe?"
"Long before.”
"And it didn’t make any difference in
the way you felt toward me?”
"It did; It made the vastest differ­
ence.” They were pacing slowly up
and down the portico, and she waited
until they had made the turn at the
Woodlawn end before she went on. 'I
thought X knew you when we were boy
and gilt together, and, glrl-like, I sup­
pose I had Idealized you In some ways.
I thought I knew your wickedness, anti
that they were not weaknesses; so_so
it was a miserable shock. But It was
not for me to Judge you—only as you
might rise or sink from that desperate
starting point. When I came home I
was sure that you had risen; I have
been sure of It ever since until—until
these few wretched hours to-night.
They are past, and now I’m going to
be sure of It some more, Tom.”
"What if I should tell you that you
are mistaken?”
“ Don't,” she said, softly. "That would
only be smashing what Is left of the
Ideal. I think I couldn’t bear that.”
"And you've been calling this friend­
ship! Ardea, girl, it’s love!”
Ardea shook her head slowly.
“ No,” she rejoined, gravely. “At one
time I thought—I was afraid—that It
might be. But now I know It Isn’t "
"How do you know It?”
“ Because love, as I think of It, Is
stronger than the traditions, stronger
than anything else In the world. And
the traditions are still with me. I ad­
mit the existence of the social pale,
and as long as I live within It I have a
right to demand certain things of the
man who marries me.”
"And love doesn't demand anything."
he said, putting the remainder of the
thought into words for her. "You are
right. If I could clear myself with a
word, I should not say it.”
"Why?”
"Because your—loyalty, let us call It.
Is too precious to be exchanged for
anything else you could give me In
place of It—esteem, respect, and all the
other well-behaved and virtuous be­
stowals."
"But the loyalty Is based on the be­
lief that you are trying to earn the
well-behaved approvals,” she contin­
ued.
"No, it isn't It exists 'In spite or
everything, and not ’because o f an) -
thing. The traditions may try to make
you stand It on the other leg. It’s a
way they have; but the fact remains."
"The 'traditions' are about to send
me Into the house, and the principal
problem is yet untouched. What have
you done with Nancy?”
He told her briefly and exactly, add­
ing nothing and omitting nothing; and
her word for It was "Impossible."
"Don't you understand?” she object­
ed. "I may choose to believe that this
home making for poor Nan and her
waif Is merely a bit of tardy Justice
on your part and honor you for It Bu:
nobody else will take that view of it.
If you keep her In that little cabin of
yours. Mountain View avenue will hare
a fit—and very properly."
”1 don't see why It should." he pro­
tested. densely.
"Don’t you? That's because you •>”»
still so hopelessly primeval. People
won't give you credit for the good mo­
tive. You must think of some ot‘t!(?
way."
"Supposing I say I don’t care .*
hanf ?"
“Oh. but you do. You have yonr
father and mother and—and me to con­
sider. however reckless you may be i Jr
yourself and Nancy. You mustn't loiFF
her where she Is for a single day."
"I can leave her there If I like.
told her she may stay as long as iff*
wants to."
“ No,” she said decisively, "you will
have a perfect hornets’ nest about your
eara. Every move you make tv'll be
watched and commented on. Don’t yon
see that you are playing the part of tS-
headstrong. obstinate boy again?"
"Yet you think I ought to provide
for Nan. In tome way: how am I going
to do It unleaa 1 Ignore the hornets ?
Hom e
M o vin g
Pictu res.
In being adapted for the home mov­
ing pictures have entered a new and
very promising stage. A simple ap­
paratus recently patented Is described
as only three feet long by one foot
deep. It is provided with a ground
glass at one end, on which a picture
8x10 Inches in size can be thrown,
but if a larger view Is required, the
ground glass can be removed, when
the Image will be projected upon a
white sheet or other surface provided,
and will be enlarged more or less,
according to the distance from the
machine of this new screen.
Any
convenient lamp, such as an acetylene
bicycle lamp, will serve for an Illu­
mination. It Is expected that the ap­
paratus will be made in a variety of
styles, from a cost of a dollar or two
to quite expensive outfits, and the
spools of film, lasting two to three
minutes, are to be furnished at prices
comparable to these of phonograph
records.
Freedom from risk of fire
Is claimed, as the film is heated much
less than by the powerful lights nec­
essary for the larger machines.
One T r ip
N ea rly
P a id
tur S c h o o n e r .
Dealers at T wharf were given a
surprise when Capt. Horace Hillman
of the 14-ton schooner Eliza Benner
of Edgartown offered 20,000 pounds of
fish to buyers at the exchange. No
one believed that a schooner the size
of the Benner would attempt rounding
Cape Cod at this season so deeply
loaded. But the captain had recently
purchased the vessel and thought If
ho could reach Boston at a time of
high prices he might be able to nearly
pay her purchase price.
With five young men belonging to
Martha's Vineyard Capt. Hillman took
the schooner out on the ocean side of
Nantucket and In a short time filled
the craft to the hatches. The venture
proved so successful that the crew
earned about $30 each and the Ben­
ner almost paid for herself.— Boston
Herald. _____________________
The
A u tltiu H y
of
«h e
ü r*an.
The organ Is the most magnificent
and comprehensive of all musical In­
struments. While the pipes of Pan,
aside from that mythical personage,
Indicate a very ancient use of pipes as
a means of producing musical sounds,
the “water organ of the ancients" fur­
nishes to the student of organ history
the first tangible clew regarding the
remote evolution of the InstrunienL
In the second century the magripha,
an organ of ten pipes with a crude
keyboard, Is said to have existed, but
accounts of this Instrument are In­
volved In much obscurity. It Is aver­
red that an organ, the gift of Con­
stantine. was In the possession of King
Pepin of France In 757, but Aldhelm,
a monk, makes mention of an organ
with “ gilt pipes" as far back as the
year 700.
The
L ittle
Tb ln ifa
That
T e ll.
A South Side mother was dressing
for a tea the other afternoon when the
front door bell rang. She Instructed
the maid that If the visitor appeared
to be about to make a formal call to
say she was not at home. But the
mother had not counted on the 5-year-
old daughter playing In the front
yard.
The maid, seeing a woman dressed
as If for calling, obeyed instructions.
"She is not at home,” the maid said.
"Why, she is, too, Minnie,” came a
sharp interruption from the child on
the lawn. “ I saw her lower the cur­
tain Just now."
“ Perhaps she Just came In." the
maid responded weakly. “ I'll see.”
The situation was saved by the fact
that the visitor was the mother’s sis­
ter, whom the maid did not know.—
Kansas City Star.
l'a n iiiiitc H id S p e c ia lt y .
“ So you have made up your mind
to be a specialist— in what line?” was
the question put to a struggling doc­
tor by a friend.
" I don’t know." was the answer. " I
have been considering various advan-
•ages In different branches. A chirop­
odist can generally get a foothold, no
•natter how bad business Is; a manl-
urist has usually something on hand,
and an ear and eye specialist can often
tot a hearing when there Is anything
in sight. I haven’t dwelt on the possi­
bilities of throat or dental or hair ex­
perts because the two former always
look down In the mouth and the latter
nay get but a bald living or be expect­
ed to dye for his patients!”
At
the
Tom b
of
tlnchel.
Writing from the Holy Land, a cor­
respondent of the Philadelphia Ex­
ponent has this to say about the tomb
of Rachel, which Is marked by a me­
morial, the funds for which came from
Sir Moses Monteflore: “ Two hours'
Journey to the south of Jerusalem, ou
the road toward Hebron, stands a
«mall fortress called Barak, beside the
gate of which are three tanks for the
reception and preservation of rala
water. Near this fortress, beside a
spring, stands s house said to have
been built by King Solomon, and •
mile and a half farther south Is the
‘ omb of Rachel."
A hog s habit of scratching Itself
against a post has led to .-a Inren
tlon of an automatic disinfector for
mimais, which It sprays ss they rub
against a supporting column.