The Columbia register., October 28, 1904, Image 2

Topics of
the Times
But then, no American rlrl wanted
the German Crown Prince, anyway. .
Any man who attempts to serve two
masters la liable to be arrested tor
bigamy.
Fortunate Is he who hat nothing
against his neighbor or neighbors art
alow pay.
One-half of the people lire for each
ether. The other half Ut on each cth
tr. There art cannibals everywhere.
The Brooklyn man who lived on
grass for six months seems to have
succeeded in reducing a meat diet to
Its first principles.
We hear bf a man who recently con
templated suicide, but compromised by
getting married. It Is to be hoped that
he has made no mistake.
A French war correspondent advises
Russia to admit defeat and quit The
Czar would no doubt like to call off
the war, but he Is in the position of
the man who grabbed the bear by the
tall. lie can't let go.
Durham White Stevens says that he
will merely advise the Corean govern
ment, but as the Japanese government
will be behind him with a big stick he
probably has hopes that his advice will
be accepted pretty generally.
We can not be freed from all the
plagues at once otherwise our cup of
prosperity would run over at a riotous
rate. It the potato bug deserts us the
wheat rust happens along to check any
undue Inflation of farm-made fortunes.
George Ade has made money out of
his humor, and everybody Is glsd of
that But what Is this melancholy
news that he has purchased a great
farm and will go In for fancy farming?
Has the erudite author of "Fables in
Slang" forgotten that Biblical warn
ing, "Then shall the dust return to the
earth as it was?"
Every one who hss stood beside a
suburban road at night to signal a
trolley-car, and has had to run several
hundred feet after it' while the motor
man tried to stop for him, will appre
ciate a new device which Is coming
Into use on many lines. It consists of
a group of lights mounted on a trolley
pole, worked by a button within reach
of one standing on the ground. Turn
ing on the lights Informs the motor
man while he is still far off that pas
sengers wish to board the car at the
crossing.
Without inviting discussion of this
thorny question, L-may say that my
own . opinion is-rsupposlng anybody
wants It that a husband's rights are
what he can get My view of a wife's
rights Is the same. Whether It Is wise
for either party to get all that he (or
she) can Is a question of expediency,
to be decided according to circum
stances and Individual Inclination. The
governing principle of the situation is
that when two people ride the same
horse one must ride behind. The ques
tion, therefore, whenever a conflict of
rights arises, Is whether the front seat
Is worth flghtipg about and, if so, how
long and how hard.
It seems to us about time for intelli
gent people to call a halt In the indis
criminate abuse of everybody who hap
pens to enjoy the not altogether en
viable position of being rich. The ques
tion twelve months of every year,
whether it Is a presidential one or not
is not whether a man Is rich, but
whether he is honest If he is both
so much the better for him, but If he
Is rich and not honest the time to drop
him Is not when a campaign is on, but
when dally business is to be done and
social lines are to be drawn. Throw
the rascals overboard in commercial
circles', banish them from the society of
honest folk, and a real cleaning np will
be accomplished.
To our notion the most singular de
tail of the whole green goods transac
tion Is that the public almost Invaria
bly sympathises with the fellow whom
the professional rascals succeed in
duping. Now, such a person is even
more contemptible than the open
knaves who do for him. He gets out to
get counterfeit money for the purpose
of working it off on bis own friends
and' acquaintances, the persons with
whom he is dally In contact and so
far as he has a character and standing
to just that extent be trusts to his good
name to help him unload what is bad.
He goes in to cheat others and In the
end. he Is cheated himself. He Is at
least as mean as the other fellow and
any sympathy, bestowed on him is
worse than thrown away.
American sailor apprentices have re
ceived a high compliment from the
British consul at Tangier. The captain
of an American training ship at that
port had promised his crew two days'
liberty on shore. The British consul
protested that it would be madness to
let them land, as the kidnaping of Mon
sieur Perdicaria bad aroused a strong
anti-foreign feeling in the city; but
the captain kept his promise. When
the time was up every man reported on
board, sober a"nd punctual. The Brit
ish consul afterward said to the cap
tain, "Your men are wonders. They
went everywhere, saw all the sights,
and behaved themselves as well as any
party X tourists I ever saw."' This
comet of the efforts to get sailors who
art sound end clean, morally and physically.
London Truth gives ua some wel
come Information as to the cause of
the British Invasion of Thibet News
a good deal of It is rather vague
baa been received from time to time
during the past few months concern
ing the progress made by Colonel
Younghusband's column, but the .pub
lic has been left In doubt as to the
eiact mission of the colonel and his
men. We are glad to be able, with the
aid of our London contemporary, to
furnish a full explanation of the mat
ter. This Is Truth's exposition: The
frontier between British India and
Thibet traverses districts where there
are mountain pastures, and our malu
grievance was that certain Thibetan
goats which were Ignorant of the line
of demarkatlon were In the habit of
straying Into British territory. What
particular harm the goats did by
browsing occasionally on British grass
Is not very clear. In any case, the
damage could not have been consider
able. In 1739 we went to war with
Spain on account of the ear of a cer
tain Jenkins, which, we asserted, had
teen cut off by some Spanish official,
although it was contended that the
ear was still attached to Jenkins' head.
It has, however, been reserved to this
century for this country to engage In
a war that promises X be extensive,
on account professedly, of a few wan
dering goats." No doubt there are
carping critics who will declare that It
might have been cheaper for Mr. Bull
to build a fence, but we need not give
serious heed to such people. They are
not familiar with the exigencies of
statecraft
Although It Is conceded that the
early bird catches the worm, it Is like
wise pointed out that If the worm were
not up and about even earlier than
the bird he would not be caught
There Is something to be said on both
sides of the early-rising proposition. An
English physician, for Instance, de
clares thst "to be forced to get up ear
ly grinds the soul, curdles the blood,
swells the spleen, destroys all good in
tentions and disturbs sll day 'the men
tal activities.'' He winds up by de
claring that criminals are recruited
from the early-rising class an asser
tion which is measurably sustained by
the known fact that the burglar man
and his contemporary, the foot-pad,
usually choose the very early morning
hours for the practice of their respect
ive professions. Setting aside the" eth
ical phase of the question, however, it
is certain that early rising is not a
source of joy to most people. The
avevage man hates to get up with the
lark, 'and If there Is anything In in
herited instincts the fact that be hates
to get up Indicates that It is not good
for him to get up. His disinclination
to arise Is nature's way of telling him
that he ought to stay In bed. The fa
ther of Frederick the Great permitted
his children only five or six hours'
sleep, declaring that more than that
made people lazy, but it is doubtful
whether any one ever had too much
sleep. If nature be not at fault a man
should sleep until he awakes not un
til he Is awakened. Nature, that Is,
did not intend our slumbers to be regu
lated by an alarm clock. Perhaps,
however, the way to get around the
'early-to-rlse" difficulty Is to practice
the "early-to-bed" maxim. He who
seeks his couch betimes in the even
ing will experience no difficulty In get
ting up while the light Is still faint In
the east. He will have bad his Bleep
out. and that, after all. Is the desidera
tum. The Submarine Boat.
One of the earliest suggestions of the
submarine was'that of a British smug
gler, Johnson, who Invented a boat
that was to travel under or above
water. ,Wlth this vessel he proposed
to carry Napoleon from St Helena,
but the emperor died while the boat
was under construction, The adher
ents of the emperor promised 'John
son two hundred thousand dollars on
the day the boat was ready to start
and an immense sum if It proved suc
cessful. Some years later Johnson built
a boat with which he experimented in
the Thames for the British admiralty.
In this connection it may be mention
ed that one of Napoleon's marshals.
Massena, began life as a smuggler on
a large scale, and Commodore Thurot
of the French navy of that time ob
tained his knowledge of the British
coasts while In the employ of a smug
gler. Elaborate Prevarication.
This Is how the editor of a paper In
Pekin, China, declines a manuscript:
"Illustrious brother of the sun and
moon! Look upon the slave who rolls
at thy feet, who kisses the earth be
fore thee, and demands of thy chari
ty permission to speak and live. We
have read the manuscripts with de
light By the bones of our ancestors
we swear that never before have we
encountered such a masterpiece.
Should we print it, his Majesty the
Emperor would order us to take it as
a criterion and never again print any
thing which was not equal to it As
that would not be possible before ten
thousand years, all trembling we re
turn thy manuscript and beg thee ten
thousand pardons. See my head Is
at thy feet and I am the slave dt thy
servant" The "art of lying" Is not
forgotten In the East '
It is admitted that only 18 per cent
of London's population attend church.'
Wherever you live, you hear that
church going is very common In other
towns.
About everything a man meets on
the road after he passes 40 is. a sign
of age.
wires
Kellirtofi that Make One Faithful.
The railway superintendent came
down to his office on Monday momlug,
sat down at his desk and began to
open bis mall. The first letter was
from the wife of a discharged conduc
tor, whtch said:
"I take this opportunity to write
whllo my husband U at church. Ho
has been going regularly the last three
Sundays. He has been to see the min
ister, and the minister gave hi in good
advice and drew up a pledge, and he
signed it and every morning and night
he asks God to help him keep It I
am sure be will never drink again. We
have only seven dollars in the house.
I am doing my own work, though 1
am not stroug enough to do It The
baby Is sick, and I do not know how
we are to live when the little money
we now have Is gone. For God's sake,
pity us nnd give my husbaud his train
again, and I am sure he will never
drink another drop!"
The superintendent read the letter
and handed It across the desk to a
friend who had entered. "Read that"
said he, "and tell me what to do."
"What has been his record?" asked
the friend.
"This is the third time he has been
found drunk on duty. Each time I
warned him, and the second time I sus
pended him. This time I discharged
hftu for good. I can't place human
lives In the care of a man who can't
be trusted. If I take him back It won't
btt three weeks before he Is drinking
a little on the sly, and within three
years he will wreck a train, as sure as
the sun rises to-morrow.H' "
"Have you another place where you
could use him, some place Involving
less responsibility?"
"No, he is physically unable to do
hard work, and there Is no other kind
at which I can put a man of that sort
I don't dare set blm even to watching
a crossing. In fact there is no posi
tion on a railroad for a man who can't
be trusted to do bis duty." .'
Later in the day the conductor him
self came in. The superintendent re
ceived him kindly, but with no encour
agement in his manner.
"I kne w you would come," he said,
"und I must be frank and say that I
should have thought more .of you If
you. had stayed at home and helped
your wife with the housework. Instead
of going to church so chat she could
write me about it."
"But," sold the conductor, "she
wanted me to go, and I did not know
about the letter until she told me af
terward, and really, I am sure I shall
never fall again. I have asked God to
help me. 'Trust me once more and
have pity for my family."
The superintendent shook his head
sadly. "You want me to pity your
family," he said, "but you didn't pity
them yourself, and you never thought
about asking God to help you. except
to help you out of a scrape. You have
got your religion too late so far as this
office is concerned. It will help you to
forgiveness for your sins, and I hope
will make a better man of you, but it
la too late for a Job of running a
train. The kind of religion that we
have to insist on in this office isn't
the kind that helps a man to get nis
Job back; it is the kind that makes
him keep it I believe1 in renglon, and
wish every man. In the company's em
ploy was a religious man; but the kind
of religion this company needs Is the
kind that makes men faithful to their
work." . ,
The discharged man went out and
the superintendent's stern face relax
ed. "I am sorry for that wife und the
sick baby," he said, "but I can't trust
human lives to a man who gets his
religion so late." .
The true faith is the faith which
makes faithful. It is never too late to
look to God for forgiveness, but peni
tence sometimes comes too late to re
store a lost opportunity. Youth's Com
panion. Make Every Day Count.
The man who starts out in the morn
ing with a determination to do some
thing during the day that will amount
to something, that will be distinctive,
that will have individuality, that wili
give him satisfaction at night, is a
great deal more likely not td waste, his
day In frivolous, unproductive work
than the man who starts out with no
plan. Begin every day, therefore, with
a . program, and determine that, let
what will come, you will carry It out
as closely as possible. Follow this up
persistently, day after day, and you
wlllbe surprised at the results. Make
up your mind, at the very outset of
the day, that you will accomplish some
thing that will amount to something,
that you will not allow callers to chip
away your time, and that you will not
permit the little annoyances of your
business, to spoil your day'a work.
Make up your mind that you '.will be
larger than the trifles which cripple
and cramp mediocre lives, and that you
will rise above petty annoyances and
Interruptions and carry out your plans
in a large and commanding way. Make
every day of your life count for some
thing; make It tell In the grand mult.
0. S, Marden.
Stand for the lteat.
What a subtle kind of heartache we
give others by simply, not being at our
best and highest when they have to
make allowances for ua, when the dark I
side la uppermost in our minds and
we take their sunlight aud courage
away, by even our unsjwken thoughts, I
our atmosphere ot heaviness! Oh, to
stand a)waya and eternally for sun
light and lift and cheer! Southern
Churchman,
Mlhtaad Main. .
We are not sent Into this world to
do anything Into which we cannot put
our hearts. We have certain work to
do for out bread, and that is to be done
strenuously; other work to do for our
delight and that la to be done heartily;
neither la to be done by halves and
shifts, but with a will, and what Is not
worth this effort Is not to be done at
all. Carlyle.
Be Happy,
There Is no duty we so much under
rate as the duty of being happy. By
being happy we tow anonymous bene
fits upon the world, which remain un
known even to ourselves, or when they
are disclosed surprise nobody ao much
as the benefactor. It L. Stevens.
BIQ TRIUMPH FOR THE MAFIA.
Notable Murder Trial Ends la Acquit
talof the Three Defendants,
A verdict of acquittal In the case of
Slgnor Tallzzolo, ex-Deputy for Paler
mo, and two of his friends, charged
with murder, recently returned at Flor
ence, ends a remarkable case. The vic
tim was Slgnor Notarbartolo, formerly
Mayor of Palermo, whose diath was
beyond doubt the work of the mysteri
ous criminal organization known aa the
Mafia.
On 'receipt of the news In Palermo
there was a scene of wild enthusiasm,
fifty thousand citizens parading the
streets carrying flags and branchta of
green foliage with the municipal band
at their head. Similar scenes took place
In other southern towns.
By its verdict In this case the Jury
has at length put an end to an affair
which has occupied the Italian courts
for over four yws, and arousvd im
mense Interest throughout the whole
of Italy.
On Feb, 1, 1803, Slgnor Notarbartolo,
a director1 ot the Sicilian bank in Pal
ermo, was found murdered on the rail
way line. A searching inquiry failed
to find the assassin, but showed that
the crime was the work of the Mafia,
whose criminal designs the murdered
man bad thwarted.
Among his enemies was known to be
Slgnor Pallzzolo, member for Palermo
In the Italian Parliament who, owing
to certain accusations by Slgnor Notar
bartolo bad txen obliged to resign his
seat on the board of the Sicilian bank.
Various sinister rumors were afloat re
garding his complicity.
People were already beginning to for
get the tragic affair when in 1800 Slg
nor Notarbartolo's nephew publicly ac
cused Slgnor Pallzzolo of having insti
gated the murder of his uncle. He
proved that the former was in close re
lations with, if not a member of, the
Mafia.
In spite of the ex-Deputy's attempts
to avoid a trial, he was arrested. In
order to escape the lnfluencdof the all-
powerful Mafia, Bologna was chosen ha
the venue In place of Falermo. After
a memorable trial hutting eleven
months, in which over 1,200 witnesses
were heard, and the speech for the de
fense lasted fourteen days, Slgnor Pal
lzzolo and two friends were pronounced
guilty by a majority of one vote and
sentenced to thirty years imprison
ment This verdict however, was made the
subject of dxamlnatlon by the appeal
court at Rome, which. finally quashed
It and In January, 1003, ordered a new
trial at Florence, which, after ten
months' continuous beurlng has result
ed In what Is practically a victory, for
the Mafia by the acquittal of all the
accused. .
Incubation in the Desert.
Many a person who has watched a
mother robin nestling patiently on ber
eggs In a blossoming apple-tree has
wondered how the little creature or her
ancestors ever learned that that long
process would cause the eggs to batch.
A greater puzzle is set for them, says
the author , of "The Land of Little
Rain," In the great desert, where the
same birds have learned to cool their
eggs Instead of warming them.
In the unsheltered nests on the
sandy plains it becomes necessary to
keep the eggs from cooking. One hot,
stifling spring in the Little Antelope
a traveler had occasion to pass and re
pass the nest of a pair of meadow
larks, located unhappily In the shade
of a very slender weed. The birds
were never sitting except at night, but
at midday they stood or drooped above
the nest, half-fainting, with pitifully
parted bills, spreading their wings be
tween the sun and the eggs. Some
times both of them tqjrether, with
wings spread and , half-lifted, main
tained a spot of shade in. a terrific
tomnrAtnr -S ' .
" I
Their patience whs in this case re
warded, for the compassionate traveler
at last spared them a bit of canvas,
which she mounted over the nest as a
permanent shelter. .
Negative Merit.
"How is your boy getting along, in
his new situation?"
"Purty good," answered . Farmer,
Corntossel. "If Josh makes a mistake
It'll be on the safe side. He ain't like
ly to do enough work to run any risk
of bein' Jumped on fur doln' somethla'
wrona-." Washington Star.
-OLD
I FAVORITES
Tubal Caliu
Old Tubal Cain was a man of might
la the days when Barth was young;
By the (teres red light ot hJs turuace
bright , ,
The strokes of his hammer rung;
And he lifted high hie brawny hand
On the Iron glowing clear.
Till the sparks rue bed out la scarlet
showers.
As he fashioned the sword and spear,
And he sang: "Hurrah for my handi
work! Hurrah for the spear and the sword!
Hurrah for the hand that shall wield
them well!
For he shall be king and lord."
To Tubal Cain rame mtny a one,
' As he wrought by his roaring fire.
And each out prayed for a strong steel
blade
A the crown of his denlre;
Aud he made them weapons sharp and
' strong,
Till they ehouted kud for glee.
And Bve him gifts of pevtrl and gold,
And spoils of the foreit free.
Ami they sang: "Hurrah for Tubal Cain,
Who hath glreu us atrenirth auewt
Hurrah for the smith, hurrah fyt the
fire,
And hurrah for the metal true!" ,
But a sudden chunce rame o'er hit heart
Ere the setting ot the sun,
And Tubal Cain was filled with pain
For the evil he had done;
He saw that men, with rage and hate,
Made war upon their kind;
That the land was red with the blood
they shed,
In their lust for carnage blind.
And he said: "Alael that ever 1 made.
Or that skill of mine should plan,
The spear and the sword for men whose
Joy.
Is to slay their fellow man!"
And for many a day old Tubal Gain
Sat brooding o'er his woe;
And his hand forbore to smite the ore,
And his furnace smoldered low.
But he rose at last with a cheerful face,
Ami a bright courageous rye,
And bared his strong right arm for woh,
While the quick fianiM mounted high.
And he sang: "Hurrah for my handi
work I"
And the red sparks lit the air:
"Not alone for the blade was the bright
steel made"
And he fashioned the first plowshare.
And men, taught wladom from the past
la friendship Joined their bands.
Hung the aword In tht hall, the spear on
the wall.
And plowed the willing lands;
And sang: "Hurrah for Tubal Cain!
Our stanch good friend Is he;
And for the plowshare and the plow
To him our prslae shall be.
But while oppression lifts Its head,
Or a tyrant would bo lord.
Though we may thank him for the plow,
We 11 not forget the sword
Charles Mackay.
QUiCK LUNCH RECORDS.
Queer Combinations ricked Out by
Nome of the Katere.
The manager of the quick lunch
palace shuddered, although the day
was hot, and bestowed a gaze of min
gled wonder and reproach upon tue
broad back of the man who bad Junt
picked up a number of dishes of food
from the counter and was weaving
his way through the crowd with them
skillfully balanced In two bands like
a vaudeville Juggler picking his way
across a stage filled with tossed-up
paraphernalia, according to the Wash
ington Star.
"Say," hoarsely Inquired the mana
ger, "d'Je see what that man took
with blm to eat?"
The man to whom the question waa
addressed bad not noticed.
"A bowl of milk, a dish of sliced cu
cumbers, .two deviled crabs and a
piece of rhubarb pie," groaned the
manager, feeling tentatively of the
fourth button of his waistcoat '
"Just try and figure that out,'' be
went' on. "How would you like to try
a combination like that milk, cucum
bers, crabs and pie? When that mau
first came In here It waa during the
first bad hot spell of the summer and
elected that assortment of dainties, I
pased him my Montmerency smile.
" 'Betr said I.
"He ' looked me over without a
blink.
"'Hey?' said he.
. ' "You bet the man, I suppose,' said
I, 'that you could beat blm over the
links by two and three to play and
you didn't make good?'
He rested his crabs and cucumbers
and bis bowl of milk and his pie on
the counter and looked me over.
" 'Say, what's the matter?' he final
ly asked me, with a mystified look.
. "Then I told him how weird that
combination of his looked.
" 'Oh, that's It, is It,?' said he, smil
ing. 'Don't you let a little thing like
that bother you. Y'ought to've seen
my grandfather. He used to smoke a
clay pipe and eat buttered gingerbread
and green apples at the . same time
and whistle "Old Zip Coon" without
missing a note,' and he walked over
to his seat and began bis dainty
luncheon.
"l kept an eye on him, neverthe
less, and looked up the telephone num
ber of the nearest ambulance hospital.
But he Just went right ahead as he's
doing now.
"While I was still studying him I
could not keep my eyes off of him
hi walked up to the counter' and se
lected a piece of cold mince pie and
a tall glass of iced tea to top off with.
"He's been back every week-day
since, and that's about his regular,
noonday ration. 'He'e got to be one of
my show pieces, lie's figure A la the
exhibition.
"But there are others. Ret that
little man over yonder with the white
Iders and tht pink cheeks tht one
off thert In the corner? What do you
suppose his regular winter and sum
mer high noon refectory U, and. tin
been for years, past? A plate of bread
and butter, two large dill pickles and
a cup of cocoa. Every week day of
the year that old boy with tht white
things at the sides of his countenance
commits that kind, of an assault and
battery on his diaphragm, and, ay.
Just look at him cheeks pink and
healthy, eyes aa clear as filtered wei:
water, and more hair on tht top of
bis head than I've pot, although he'e
00, If he'i a day. ,
"He told me the other day that be
hadn't bad a sick minute la sixteen
years. That, by the way, Is bow It It
with most of the cormorants. The
tougher the .kind of conglomerations
they habitually get away with th
healthier they look. But they're prob
ably born that way. And as a matter
of fact, the malorlty of the "men who
come In here for lunch seem to Just
try to loop the loop with their di
gestive apparatus."
8URPRISE FOR BIQ QRIZZUY.
Took a Photocraph of Ulmaelf While
Kiemlnliitf u Caw era.
Bert (Jlblm.U the amateur photog
rapher hear hunter of all Round valley.
But he doean't bunt that class of sub
Jects since a big Mendocino grizzly
took his camera sway from blm. II
had shot everything In his neighbor
hood, and to his prized collection of
snaps ot living bird, squirrels and
deer he longed to add, the photograph
of a live bear one with a fierce, whis
kered phis, with tongue lolling out and
eyes gleaming In all the savage fire ot
lowest brutedom.
He was brave, waa Bert, and filled
with the cntbuslaiin of the true "fiend"
took hit solitary way Into, the far
woods armed with Ms loaded picture
box. While cautiously beating up a
huckleberry patch, trying to flush hi
bear, he fell over a bank and badly
sprained an ankle. After lying all
night disabled where be bad fallen he
concluded that be was doomed to re
main there till be starred to death. He
photographed In his mind his emaciat
ed body found days hence, and the
ad Idea came to him to take a last
khot" at himself. He bad beard that
people In tht last ditch always reserv
ed last ihots for their personal uses.
He would do this, and the faithful
camera would glvt up a farewell view
of him taken, while dying.
Then he fastened a string , to th
shutter of tht machine, placed It on a
log and was beginning to 'ioou nat
ural" before it when a huge grizzly
lumbered out of the brush lancbe.
Glbbs heaved himself In one mighty
prlng. His ankle was disabled, but
he found no difficulty In getting up a
near-by tree. The bear paid no atten
tion to him, but squatting on bin
haunches, proceeded to instruct him
self In camera craft He picked It ti
with his forepaws and was making a
minute examination with eyes and
nose when the shutter snapped. The
sharp sound frightened him, and, drop
plug the box, be galloped off Into the
woods. ,
Glbbs came down from the tree
cured of the sprain, picked up his cam
era and weut home. Then be devel
oped the photograph which the grizzly
bad taken of Itself with the last shot
bo bad reserved for himself. Sail
Francisco Call.
Cy's Choice,
Cyrus Pettlnglll made brooms for a
living and Ezra Hosklns kept a store
In the New Hampshire town where
both of them lived. One day, says the
Columbia Record, Cy came in with a
load of brooms, and then dickering be
gan. "Ezra, I want to sell you these
brooms."
"Ml right Cy, I'll take them.'.'
"I don't want any store pay," con
tinued Cy. "I want cash for them."
After a thoughtful pause Ezra said.
"I tell you what I'll do, Cy. I'll give
you half cash and bait trade."
Cy pulled a straw out of one of the
brooms and looked at it as If for
Inspiration.
"I guess that'll be all right," be skid, v
atlast ' -
After Ezra bad put the brooms In
their place In the store, he said:
"Here's your money, Cy. Now,
what do you want In trade?"
Cy's shrewd glance swept, over the
miscellaneous stock of the store.
"Well, Ezra," suid be, "If It's all the
same to you, I'll take brooms."
Irrigation from loe. ,
in Montana the experiment has been
tried of freezing, wafer 'to be used for
Irrigation. As soon as the weather be
comes such as to melt the ice it is fit
for the operations requiring the water.
The plan, which so for is In the na
ture of an experiment, consists in mak
ing a series of shallow basins on the
slope of a hill in such locations that,
when water is plentiful, they may be
filled, each of those below the highest
receiving successively , the overflow
from the one above it. ' '
Once frozen, the Ice In these shallow
reservoirs Is there until the thaw sets
In, when It melts so slowly as to keep
up a supply of moisture sufBclent for
the germination and growth of the
early . crops. This unique method has
been tried so far only in the vicinity of
Dillon, but it appears to be successful
and is to be given a , trial In several
other favorable localities. v
fiuld Fact.
The Barber Try oino Balr restor
er? The Philosopher Oh, no; I have
long ceased to regard hair as one ot
the necessaries ot life'. Brooklyn Life.