The Columbia register., August 26, 1904, Image 2

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Topics of I
the Times
Meat conramen complain that they
are fitting soaked. Ditto the produc
ers. The trust la mum.
If 70a trace j-our genealogical tree
back far enough you may discover
monkeys In the branches.
It la a woman'a fondness for change
that prevents many a husband from
leaving any In his pocket
Save your silver dollars. The esti
mate Is that there are only 600,000,000
of them In circulation now.
It has been suggested that at the
close of the present war Japan may
Insist on revising Russia's autogeogra
phy. Isn't It about time for the higher
criticism to declare that It was not a
whale that swallowed Jonah, but a
loan shark!
Dr. Schurnian says no man has a
right to be "a bachelor aa a matter of
choice." What! Not as a matter of
the lady's choice?
In Australia grafter means a doer
of hard and faithful work. Now we
understand why they call that coun
try the antipodes.
"Taking an Interest in the solution
of problems of political economy" ia
likely to become historical as a euphe
mism for "banging the trusts."
Russell Sage has lost a lawsuit np
In Minnesota, but he was forehanded
enough to make up for the loss by not
taking a Tacatlon back In the 70s.
Only a trifle more than half the
graduates of women's colleges marry,
according to President Th wing's fig
ares. This may make a father atop
and think.
The New York man who found a
diamond In his "soft-boiled" breakfast
the other morning is one of the few
who hare no reason to complain of the
price of eggs.
Miss Stone wrote an account of her
experiences among the Macedonian
bandits. Mr. Perdicaris Is In duty
bound to favor an Impatient world
with the story of his captivity In Mo
rocco. A Kansas City court has decided
that kissing In public constitutes a
breach of the peace. What sort of a
crime Is that of the man who kisses
and tells? It ought to rank with man
slaughter. When a man is so spectacularly
honest that bis neighbors familiarly
refer to him as "Honest John," or
"Honest Bill," or whatever his first
name may be. It Is unfair to tempt
him with a position of private or pub
lic trust
Not to be behind the progresslre
cities of the Occident which regulate
the height ef buildings and the width
of the streets, Canton has a municipal
ordinance providing that no street
snail be lees than six feet wide. That
Is space enough to allow two fat Chi
nese to pass each other without graz
ing. Some one has said that It Is the am
bition of Emperor William to put Into
the hands of every child In the world
a toy bearing the Inscription, "Made
In Germany." , Thus would he adver
tise the fatherland. He is making
progress, for the value of exports of
German-made toys has Increased iu
seven years from nine million to thir
teen million dollars a year.
"Brain-fag," the familiar ailment
which Bill Nye of humorous memory
knew and named, Is known now to
physicians by an unlimited vestibuled
word arteriosclerosis. The trouble
comes from excessive mental strain
and Insufficient exertion of body, and Is
the affliction which ought to attack
millionaires and others who do not be
lieve In vacations. It has attacked
some of them; Indeed, it may be the
pathological reason for their attitude
as to vacations.
Marine torpedoes have- changed
mightily since the civil war. A pen
sion has recently been granted to John
Jackson, who was a sailor on a Federal
man-of-war, the Mlantonomah. Dur
ing the blockade of Charleston, when
the Confederates launched three tor
pedoes In the harbor, Mr. Jackson
swam from bis ship and unscrewed the
caps to prevent explosion. The pen
sion comes late only because It was
not necessary before. The govern
ment recognized the deed at the time,
and gave Mr. Jackson a medal.
The Palma trophy, awarded to the
team representing the National Rifle
Association of the United States at the
contest at Blsley, England, last July,
is to be returned to England because
the British rifle association thinks that
it was not fairly won. The rules of
the contest provided that the rifles
used should be those regularly Issued
to the army, but the British have
charged that the rifles which the
Americans used were not of the pat
tern so Issued. It Is because there is
some ground for this charge that the
American association has decided that
It ought not to keep' the trophy. The
misunderstanding which has arisen In
this case Is unfortunate, but It has
value because It calls attention to the j
Importance of conducting all contests
of slkll with complete frankness and
mutual understanding between the
contestants. Whatever differences of
opinion there may have been as to the
propriety of using the rifles which won
at Blsley. it was a pportsmanllke act
on the part of the rifle association to
refuse to profit by a victory the fair
ness of which could be Questioned,
even In a small particular.
The origin of all crime lies back of
the quick temper which raises the hand
which held the knife. The origin of
crime Ilea In a thought- A crime Is the
result of a series of thoughts, the first
of which may have lodged In the brain
of an Innocent child. Men who have
studied the workings of the human
mind tell ua that each thought makes
a track upon the brain. That the same
thought always travels over the same
path. They tell ua that the track
deepens as the thought passes more
and more frequently over the path un
til. the thread-like track become a deep
rut A wagon track, light at flrst If
constantly driven over becomes a nit.
If the wheels continue to plow Into the
earth the track Is cut deeper and deep
er until it is Impossible for the wheel
to roll out of the rut until It reaches
the end of the road. It is thus with
the ruta In the brain. When the path
Is cut too deep the thought must fol
low the old course, wherever It leads.
The nit may lead to theft The rut
may lead to lying. The rut may lead
to murder. Every thought good or
bad, if permitted to travel again and
again through the mind, leads to some
act good or bad. Crime has its origin
In a thought Great prisons have been
built but crime still walks among us.
The habitual wishing to possess what
belongs to another too often leads to
theft The ever-present wish to be rid
of one who is hateful too often leads to
murder. Strong walls cannot control
crime until brick and mortar can con
trol thought And thought Is free as
the air. It slips past the auard. it
passes through the keyhole. It scorns
the grating, it laughs at walls of stone,
it knows not the terror of the gallows.
Prisons cannot save us, the scaffold
cannot free us, the laws cannot protect
ua from crime. Ah, but where the
laws are weak, you are strong. When
the walls of the prison are fragile you
are powerful. While the hangman's
rope cannot choke the life from crime,
you can. When the desire for the pos
session of what belongs to another
comes to you, turn It out. Don't wish
for what is not your own. Resolve to
earn what you would have. Thus a
different brain track is made and this
track deepened will lead to DrosDerltv.
never to theft Instead of wishing to
rid yourself of one who Is hateful,
wish yourself higher and better than
he. This thought-path will lead to a
higher plane, where the air is rarer and
tne alght Is clearer, and the hateful
one, way down at the foot of the moun
tain which you have climbed, dare not
even lift his eyes to the heights upon
which you stand. Is that not better
than a life behind prison walls? Man
is more powerful than the law. We
are more powerful than are the Instru
ments of the law. We can control
thought, and crime begins In thought
POPULAR DANCE8 IN LONDON.
Time for Waltzes Increased Influence
of Cake Walks, Etc
Good dancers view with dismay the
change which has gradually crept over
London dancing during the past few
seasons.
American cake walks and "rae time"
are said to have produced a demoral
izing effect At the same time, one
American Innovation namely, the
"two step" Is hailed as a blessing.
In this dance the man and his part
ner are practically side by aide, and
even in waltzing there is a growing
tendency to face one's partner as little
as possible.
Consequently, there are no kicks,
and fewer torn gowns.
Herr Kandt, director of the famous
Austrian blue band, Is of opinion that
the "rag time" craze is altogether det
rimental to dancing.
"It requires a very unmusical per
son to. dance against the time," Herr
Kandt said, "and yet I have seen
couples dancing a sort of two step to
a Strauss waltz.
"I have also seen dancers nerforni
a cake walk under these conditions
before a roomful of people. The steps
of the cake walk are often unlike any
known dance, and the effect is fre
quently ridiculous.
"But there are many beautiful dan
cers still, and I And that the very best
style Is to be Been at hunt or at county
balls.
"During the past two seasons the
time for waltzes Increased so greatly
that it became quite as fastxas the
continental pace. This season, how
ever, there is a tendency to slow
down a little.
"Square dances have gone out to a
large extent, and I am often called
upon to play as many as twenty-five
or thirty waltzes in one evening, with,
perhaps, two or three two steps."
London Daily Express.
, Good Reason fur Doubt.
"Do you think he loves you?" said
Maude.
"I don't know," answered Mamie.
"He writes to you every day?"
"Yes. But his letters sound suspi
ciously sane and sensible." Washing
ton Star.
This Is certain: When an automo
bile breaks down on a country road,
the owners of horses that have been
scared by the machine feel no sympa
thy. .
Fewer marriages would be failures
if the contracting parties would act
after marriage as they did before.
"C1 I "
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
Waste of forests Means
HE neonle of the United
1 A I object lesson from Braill as to the cHmatlc
I I effects produced by the destruction of forests.
the fact that trees make
In northern Braill large
brought to the verge of ruin
tation of the timber lands. United States Cousul General
Seeger at Rio de Janeiro calls attention to the chronic
drouths and torrefactlon in the states of Rio Grande do
Norte and Ceara, where the parched country has brought
such suffering that relief measures have been put in opera
tion by the government The consul geenral points out
that the situation there can be definitely traced to the
wauton destruction of the timber, once abundant In those
regions. Now the states are being depopulated, and des
olation reigns where once nature offered every inducement
to the settler.
The United States In recent years has taken steps to
ward the protection of Its forest, but the laws are still
far from stringent The government was alow to awake
to the urgeucy of the matter. The waste of timber in this
country during the past fifty years has been almost beyond
belief. The continental railroads alone destroyed millions
of acres of forests. They slashed and burned recklessly
In building their lines, and their engines set Are to and
ruined vast areas. Settlers, with no thought of the future
value f the timber, added heavily to the waste. In one
way or another, the ruthless hand of the destroyer has
done damage that can be repaired only at the expense of
many years.
The forestry department of the government Is one that
should be built up and strengthened by laws designed not
only to foster the growing of trees, but to protect the tim
ber now standing. Chicago Journal.
We and Our Neighbors.
MMIGRATION Is a subject of Infinite possi
bilities. We bad 039,830 immigrants last year;
Canada had 128,000. Who is the more advan
taged? Of ours GTkS.000 came from the south
of Europe Latins and Slavs a class that all
authorities on the subject say Is little to be
desired. Of Canada's comparatively small
amount 80 per cent came from Great Britain, Germany.
France, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries and the
United States the best material in the world to build up
a country and make it richer materially and morally. Not
the kind to people the slums of the cities, live from hand to
mouth, increase the drain on pauper care, and, In large
part, to get out of the country when they have got all out
of It that they can or want.
Canada has millions of acres, and she Is setting about
their disposal In a way to attract the good citizen. She
offers, too, a stable government; peace, order and law,
where, alas, we have and offer turbulence and a liberty
that becoming license, infringes on rights like a tyranny.
Is the great republic losing (ts charm? Is the glamor pass
ing off? Our Immigration total does not look like it. But
again comes the question of quality. What boots It that we
get the offscourings of Southern Europe and part with
some of our best blood to build np our neighbor to the
north, where fruits of their Industry are absolutely lost to
ns? Indianapolis News.
The Cost and Tolly ef War.
HE war In the far East according to the cam-
& M Iputation of a welfmformed newspaper of
t'arls, is costing the Russian government at
least $1,000,000 a day, and the expense Is in
creasing dally. If the war continues for years,
as the experts say It Is pretty sure to do, Rus
sia will accumulate a burden of debt that will
rest heavily upon many future generations.
Of course, $1,000,000 a day Is not. a surprisingly great
sum for a first-class poweto pay for the conduct of a
war. Our war with Spain cost us considerably more than
that But It was a short war and our financial condition
was very strong.' Russia, on the contrary, has been throw
ing millions after millions since the new policy with re
gard to the Asiatic portion of(tbe empire was put into
operation. Nobody knows how much the Trans-Siberian
railway has cost But it is an enormous amount; and the
expenditures on Port Arthur, Dalny, Harbin, Vladivostok,
and the other outposts have run Into the hundreds of mil-
o
;: OBEYING ORDERS.
During the war with Spain 47,000
soldiers were at one time camped nt
Chlckamauga awaiting orders for the
invasion of Cuba. Some of the regi
ments were made up of the finest and
most earnent young men of the com
munities from which they came. The
exigencies of camp life necessitated
duties with which they had been un
familiar. From one cavalry regiment
two young men, cultivated, wea.iuy,
and graduates of colleges, were detail
ed to assist in horseshoeing; and so
faithfully did they do their work that
within a month they were able to
make as good a horseshoe, and shoe a
horse as well, as men who hud been
trained to the trade from youth.
"It was not exactly what we had In
mind when we enlisted," said one of
them, "and it was as near the battle
field as we ever got; but it was our
way of serving our country then, and
we tried to do our duty."
A harder duty still was assigned to
another man in the same regiment.
The major detailed him to keep the
regimental canteen. Not only was he
a total abstainer, but he was opposed
to the canteen on principle, and In his
conversation with his comrades had
made no secret of his leellng In the
matter. y
He hotly resented his assignment to
this hateful labor, and could easily
have risen In rebellion at what seemed
a gratuitous Insult to his well-known
principles. But he said to himself that
the responsibility for his assignment
to the task rested with the major, but
the responsibility for the way In which
he performed his duty was his own.
So be took up the unpleasant work
amid not a little curiosity on the part
of his comrades concerning the way In
which he would obey the major's orders.
EMTdDIlALS
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HERE
"I will give you the beer If you want
it," he said to the first man who asked
for a drink of beer, "but I have some
thing better here in the finest lemon
ade to be found in camp." Removing
the cover, he disclosed a generous ves
sel filled to the brim with rich lemon
ade, and a large lump of Ice In the
middle. It was too tempting to re
sist, and the lemonude was purchased
lnstend of the beer. Before noon of
the first day his lemonade was known
throuKhout the camp, and the run upon
the canteen was such that he was kept
busy making more, and he took pains
to keep the quality up to the mark.
The major come by and saw how he
was conducting the place, but he rais
ed no objection. The men of the regi
ment understood the reason for sup
plying the lemonade, and although at
first there had been some disposition
on the part of the rougher ones to
make merry over the uncomfortable
situation in which the young man had
been placed, even these came to ad
mire the spirit In which he obeyed or
ders, and they rallied to his support.
When his duties at the canteen were
oyer, he was found at the camp
Young Men's Christian Association,
helping In the religious work of the
regiment. But the popularity of his
lemonade proved so great as to de
mand n steady supply of it, and In
proportion as the lemonade was con
sumed, the sale of other drinks dimin
ished. The young soldier bad obeyed his or
ders, and performed a task which his
soul despised, but he did it in a way
that helped to give nis regiment the
reputation of being one of the soberest
and most orderly In camp.
Waves of Pessimism. .
Pessimism always exists, but It
comes in waves, and a wave of this
kind Is Just now sweeping over the
world. Anyone who will take the trou
ble to look over the magazine and
newspaper files will find, half a dozen
times la the last 20 yean when .we
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Hons. Indeed, It was pretty well known to the Japaieie
as well as to the rest ef the world that Russia's treasury
was In an extremely bad way at the time war was declared.
But the 11.000.000 a day Is, after all, only a small part
of the bill Ruala haa to face. Her losses of battleships
have tueaut the destruction of hundreds of millions of dol
lars' worth of property that must be replaced, and the
prospective capture of her great towns with their arma
ments must make the Cur's heart sick.
Considered as a plain business proposition, the war with
Japan does not seem to be a very good Investment Even
though Russia should win at last, she will have to defend
her possessions more expenslvvly than ever, and how many
years of ownership of Manchuria will be required to make
up her losses? Chicago Journal.
Railroads in Darkest Africa.
only the other day that explorers were
gaining fame by penetrating to regions of
Africa through which one may now rWe In a
drawing room car. The other day the first
through train left Cape Town for Victoria
falls, on the Zambesi River, near where Liv
ingstone died, and on the edge of that region
the exploratlou of which made Stanley famous. With the
opening of traffic of tills southern section of the Gape to
Cairo road half the eplendld dream of Cecil Rhodes
dream which caused men of lesser minds to say that he
was touched with madness becomes materialized Into a
prosaic, working fact, a matter of freight rates, time tables
aud tips to the Pulman porter.
From the north one can now travel more than a thou
sand miles to where only a few yeara ago, "the Ares of
hell encircled In the desert lost Khartum" aa easily as one
can travel to Chicago, aud south of Gordon's reclaimed
capital the railroad Is creeping along the banks of the
Upper Nile. From Cape Town to Victoria Falla Is another
thousand miles, leaving something like 2,500 miles more of
road to be built but much leu than that If use Is made,
as It will be at first, of the long stretches of lake navigation
available. A section of only "M miles will carry the south
ern stretch of the road to lake Tanganyika, from the
northern end of which a short section will connect with the
head waters of the Nile.
Before we fully realize what Is being accomplished, the
xcream of the locomotive whistle will scare the Infant Nllus
In his cradle and the realm of the riiaraob find an outlet
along the shores where Table Mountain looks out toward
the Antartlc seas. All the schemes of ambition cherished
by the dead Egyptian kings had no vision of expansion so
great as this. The dream of Cecil Rhodes was greater than
the dreams of the riiaraohs. New York Press.
A National Peril.
la mors In tha Inlprntlnn nt rmomnt iia.
I I mobile performances on the highway than the
I I mere Ignoring of the rights and the safety of
s I . i. 1 1 . 1. A., . , . . .
viucr ycvyic, siuce iuo luing would no I Do pos
sible unless we had forgotten part of the spirit
of our Institutions.
For Instance, It ts Impossible to avoid the
conviction that the only reason some of the men who drive
racing machines escape gaol is that they are conspicuous
In some way, generally the possession of a good deal of
money. The average man would serve a term behind the
bars If he caused the needless annoyance and danger and
damage which these men de.
But If this is true, where Is the practical equality before
the law of which we have boasted for years? And without
that what becomes of the basis of our system of popular
government?
It is not merely In the matter of sport that the change
has come. It is commonly observed that it is almost im
possible to punish Individuals or corporations of a certain
prominence for some offenses. Between the complaint and
the exaction of the penalty there is almost always a way
of escape for these people, although there would not be
for smaller fry. The exceptions are Just about enough to
prove the rule.
It Is a more or less clear perception of the fact which
causes much of the discontent which existing In Ignorant
men, takes queer and unreasonable forms, but Is none the
less founded In a certain degree of Justice, and which
among wiser men lends to apprehension of the future, un
less we can bring about a more general regard for sound
principles of Justice and for the authority of law against
one exactly as against another. Hartford Times.
were treated to the same pessimism
and to much the snmo stories of na
tional, moral and political decay as We
are to-day. If all of these were true
we would bo sunk so low to-duy that
It would be impossible to go any lower.
If, however, we compuro long ranges
of time we see unquestioned progress
In every line, moral and political, as
well as industrial and financial." We
hear complaints of bad municipal gov
ernment of graft In St. Louis, crook
edness In Minneapolis and rottenness
in Philadelphia, but, as a matter of
fact the conditions for the country as
a whole are greatly improved. Tho
apparent decline is due to the fact that
we know of all the corruption to-day,
thanks to the press, whereas of old it
was bidden away in darkness and se
crecy. In the same way the apparent
Increase in crime, which Is the basis of
the English plaint,' the greater number
of arrests reported everywhere, the
larger number of prisoners In Jail, do
not really mean more crime, but are
due to the fact that we have, a better
police aystera and that very few
crimes go undetected and unpunished,
as they did formerly. New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Mechanism of Gasoline Engine.
It can be understood to whut a nice
ty the mechanism of a gasoline engine
is adjusted when it is stated that to
make 1,000 revolutions a minute means
that In a four-cycle engine there are
COO sprays of gasoline forced Into the
cylinder, 600 times the electric battery
makes a spark and COO times the es
cape valve Is opened to let the gas out
Too Much to Expect.
Brookelelgb I don't know what
time it is.
Ascura Isn't your watch running 1
Brokeleigh I don't think so. I
could hardly expect the pawnbroker to
keep it wound up. Philadelphia Press.
. What has become of tho old-fashioned
man who "popped" the question?
JUDICIAL DECISIONS.
A dilation of the heart, accompanied
by deathly paleness, coldness of th
extremities and a cold persptrstlon.
which results Iu death In a few weeks,
and la caused by a heavy lift Is held,
lu Ilortfall vs. Pacific Mut L. Ins. Co.
(Wash.), C3 L, II. A. 425, to be wlthU
the terms of a policy lusurlng against
the effect of bodily Injury "caused)
solely by external, violent and acci
dental meant,1
A mutual benefit society Is held, In
Royal Circle vs. Achterrath (1U-), (13
L, It A. 432. to be estopped to tako
advantage of a clause In Its certificate
relieving It from liability for death by
suicide by a clause that after the
lapse of a certain period, the only con
ditions binding on the member are the
arrangements' as 'to full compliance
with tho laws aud rules of the associ
ation aud full payment of the due.
A servant w ho shoot at a trespasser
aa ho is running away after having
broken away from tho servant, who
bus a r root imI him aud Is taking him to
the town calaboose. Is held, In South
ern Railway Company vs. James (lu.),
!3 I.. R. A. '.'7. to net within the wom
of his employment so as to render the
master lluble for an Injury thereby In
flicted, where he Is employed as night
watchman with authority to arrest alt
persons trespassing upon the premises.
In People vs. McDsnlel (Cat.) m
Pac. 1000 It was held that a prosecu
tion for assault with Intent to commit
murder Is barred by a conviction of a
lottery. The court said: "It Is well
settled that a conviction of 1 lower
offense embraced In a higher one for
the commission of which a defendant
was tried Is an acquittal of the higher
offense, ami an Independent trial and
conviction of the lower when pleaded
must, upon the same principle, bo a bar
to the prosecution for the higher of
fense, which Included It. People vs.
Defoor 100 Cal. 150; 33 Pac. 032 cited
by appellant la In point and we think
conclusive."
In a recent case that came before
Federal Judge I-acombo It was held
that a Porto Rlcan was an alien. It
appears that Isabella Gonzales, an un
married woman of Porto Rico, was ex
cluded from the country by the Immi
gration authorities on the ground that
she was liable to become a public
charge. She took out a writ of habeas
corpus alleging that she was a United
States citizen. The writ was dismissed,
the Judge holding that a tiutlve Porto
Rlcan had not bocome naturalized by
the following act of Congress fixing
their civil tights: "All the Inhabitants
continuing to reside thereon who were
Spanish subjects on the 11th day of
April, 1803, and then resided In Porto
Rico, and children born subsequently
thereto, shall be deemed and held to
be citizens of Porto Rico and as such
entitled to the protection of the United
States (excepting such as bad pre
served their allegiance to Spain), and
they, together with such citizens of to
United States aa may resldo in Porto
Rico, shall continue a body politic un
der the name of the people of Porto
Rico, with governments! powers as
hereinafter conferred."
LIFE IN ROME.
It Tenses the Temporary Visitor te
Think ns the Montana Think,
The strangest thing about life In
Rome Is that one not only does as the
Romans do, but ends by thinking as
the Romans think, feeling as the Ro
mans feel. The best Ulnstrutlon I know
of this U the mental attltudo of tho
foreign residents toward certain super
stitions, notably the belief in the evil
eye the inalocohlo or Jettatura, as it
la Indifferently called. I never knew
an Italian who did not hold more or
loss to this superstition. American
who have lived long In Rome either'
reluctantly admit .that "there does
seem to be something In It," or, If they
are Roman born, quietly accept It ns
one of those tilings In heaven anil
earth of which philosophy fulls to tako
account
In certain respects the Italian Is
markedly free from superstition as
compared with the Celt or the Scot;
for instance, the fear of ghosts or spir
its is so rare that I have never met
with it; on the other hand, tho belief
in the value of dreams as guides to
action is deep-rooted and widespread.
The dream book In some families is
held hardly second In Importance to
the Iwok of prayer. The Italian's emi
nently practical nature makes Mm util
ize hU dreams In "playing the lotto,"
as. the buying of lottery tickets Ia
called. To dream of certain things In
dicates that one will be lucky and
should play. The choice of the num
ber Is the chief preoccupation of the
hardened lottery player. It Is decided
by tho oddest chance by the number
on a bank note that has been lost and
found again, or the number of a cob
which has brought one homo from de
lightful festivity. Century.
The 8tck Hatch.
A farmer entered the village watch
maker's shop, and approaching the pro.
prietor, began, "I say, couldn't one o
your men come out in the country with
me and repair a watch?"
"Why can't you bring It here?" re-
turned the watchmaker.
"Well, you see It's ,this way. It
b'longs to a man that's pretty slek.
and he can't spare It from beside his
bed, bo's to tell when to take his
doses."
"I should think It must be going all
right If It answers that purpose."
"Oh, lfa a-runnin'," returned the
farmer, " 'cause the man makes It
But he says he's gettin' mighty tired
0' poking the wheels with a knittln'.
needle like that the day through, and
he's more'n wlllln' to send the old
mule down for any o you fellera that'll
come out and fix It"