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A small amount to be her entire share of a relative’s •elate, but a large amount to Nan the taost she had ever ha<! al one time dur lag the U y< »re of Lor life How many things for b«*r b< mo her and Jim a home e.'iacould priH'urr with that' Jim had be«n out ot work tor a month and the rent was due and there were the grocer and the butcher to pay But per haps she could have a new carpet (or the Berio»—she bad wanted one so long— •nd a faw new dlabra for the tahlo How Surprised and pleaeed Jin* Woulc be - dear old Jatni.«' With a happy laugh that dried her tears. Nan Anally thrust the letter In a bureau drawer and returned to the kltrh- M. where her preparations for dinner had been Inlerruplt-d by the postman a Visit Thea Jim «wm* hosns poor, patient, discouraged Jim, with hla coarse clothes, his worn shoes and the pathetic stoop to his shoulders He came In qqjetlv and taking a eeat by the window, gazed at ths Wall tn nnlemn alienee. Nan thought at first to run to him and tell him of hor good fortune, then decided to serve the sur prise as desert to hla dinner "What luck. Jamie?" she ashed. *Ur- »Ing the frying potatoes with a oeae hnlfs "None at all.” he answered, soberly. "Don't seem to tie a vacancy anywhere, Nannie. I've been clear out to Wala- worth’a. but be ain't needin' any one just •ow flays he had to lay off two men Baturday Times are gettln' dull, ho says, and he has to cut expenses." Nan did not reply, but stirred ths po I tatoes vigorously. Presently Jim aroeeand going thio th* i kitchen sat down on the edge of the table Hla forehead was furrowed with deep line* of care and anxiety "Nan," he eald, after a long (lienee, 'the boys at the mill* want mo to run for constable They say they'll aJ) vote for mo and that I'm auro to bo elected." Nan looked up euililcnly. I ‘Tor constable?" she asked. Jim." "Why, I “And why not, Nannie?" he asked "It »ay* about 81,200 a year, and It's worth having. Thing what w* could do with 81.200 a year for two years, anyhow, Nan.” “I know,” she answered, "but—but I m I afraid. Jamie.” “Afraid?" he demandoA "I don’t know anything about poli ties," she said, "and I’m afraid you ■tight be defeated, and that would hurt — would make yon feel more discouraged than ever, wouldn't It?** She threw her arms afoUnd his neck "lint I can't be defeated '* he reptled then tripped Into the mom where the Al I need la the nomination, you know bureau was and laid her hai d upon the Our part)'* In tha majority and and If knob of the drawer u>at covialud bar I m nomli sled, why that settles II. don't precicas letter ,o’i see?” A i> oin«nt she hesitated BL* did so "Put sre you aure%< being nomi want a parlor carpet and a few dishes nated?" aha asked, looking at him with and besh.es, If this money was used hopeful eves and J,in should lose— U hs should— "The boys In the mill* ar* for me to a lucre «as no I*.ling— min <>( course they are not all the Her glance wandered tn the kitchen party, hu» they sre willing to work for a id she saw Jim leaning against ths me. and that would be a big start, don't table his chin resting In his hand you see?” "Jamie knows." she said to her heart; He grew enthusiastic and some of his "dear ulc Jamie be is *»• at xloue and so enthusiasm was imparted to his wife sure H- cannot be mistaken And If "Oh. wouldn't It be nice If you could be be should win, bow ulcely we can gel elected." she said, pausing In her work * •« " to look at him proudly. Some called A moment later she stood before him. Jim Paxton shiftless, but to Nan he was en'lllng Into his face, her bands behind always her big true-hearted, unfortu her back. nate JsnSI« "Twelve hundred—Why "Kiss me. tlr." she said, "and 1'11 give that's a hundred dollars a month! Per you somethin; haps we could buy a little home— He lifti-d her chin with a big, rough Jan.1» " hand and klarrd her, awkwardly and sb* "And you could havesome new dresses her ded him tl*e letter and a new hat and and there wouldn't As he read It. his eyes brightened and be anything I wouldn't get for >ou. Nan renewed courage erspt into hi* face But nie." when be had finished be smiled and He had left the table and was pacing handnd It back to her the floor, nervously "Hut you are to krop th* money." she "And I can get the nomination, too." said Keep it, Jamie and fig Lt— fight— he continued; "I can get It, 1 tell you and win.” I'm > ur« of all the laboring men's votes, He ebook his head "I can't take your and all I need Is—Is—" He paused and bls money, sweetheart." he sat'd. "It ain't lace clouded. mln*, and l—l wouldn't feel Just right "It what. Jamte?" About It" , “I* something I ?- «n’t goteome- She locked her a-ms about his neck. thlng I ran t get. Nannie," he said, "But I want you to." she cried; "oh, gloomily. I want you to wlw—win—ar then we'll He sighed and the old look of dls- buy a little home and it wr.r be ours, courar,em*ht cgHle Ihto his facs. Jamie, ours!” "It's this way," he said, after a mo A light, not unlike that on a wafrlor'a ment. seeing tha unspoken question In face In the heat of battle, crept Into his her eye*, “I'd have to have more than eye*. just the labor vote. Nan I'd have to “t will!" he cried “God bleee you, make a canvas»' that it, l‘d have to see Nannie girl I will." every voter In our party and I'd have to The last of tha returns had been re have two or three other fellows help me ceived and those who had been success to get others to vote for me Of course ful at ths primaries, surrounded by their these fellows would have to he paid, and admiring friend«, ,«;t th« hall ufltll the then there'd be other expenses■ quite a big room was all but deserted. lot of Other expenses, and it would coat But over In one corner, where the light considerable. But I Ain I got any money, shone dim and Indistinct, a man lingered, Nan “ hs though loath to leave HI* ayes, like Nan's face clouded. those ot one who looks, but eess not. "How much do )<>u think—It would stared straight ahehd. and upon hl* face cost yon—Jamie?" she asked, very slow was a hard, rerentful gleam. ly trying to think The Janitor, coming in to turn off the "Oh. I could pull through on a hun lights, saw him dred dollars." hs replied. "Yes. a hun “Hello, Paxton," he said, "here's dred dollars would be plenty. But It where ;nu lose, ain't it?" night Just as well be a thousand, for "Here's where 1 Io**.” Jim replied, I ain't got BO show of getlln' II. that I trimly, “but 1 can't believe it, Bascom. can see.” I 1 can't believe I’m defeated. The boys Nan gasped A hundred dollars— all promised to stick by me, and—and should she let him have It? Should she I was so sure." stake It all ups* tha turn of a political "They ar* always sure." Bascom re wheel? plied. "Can't tell nothin' about poll "Jamie!" She spoke suddenly, almost llca, Paxton, can't tell who your friends Sharply. "Are»OU sure real sure—you are either until alter the vote* are could get the nomination if—if you had a counted." hundred dollar* "But I catne so near, Bascom; why, 1 lacked only 20 votes and It meant so "As sure as anything on earth,” he re much to me. You see It was Nan a plied "Why, sea here. Nan 1 donly bead He paused. Bosci.in had moved off in about 800 voles Ai.d 1 m sure ot almost different and was putting out the lights 600 at the start dead sure Then if one I at the further end of tho room out of every three of these 800 men got When Jim turned In at hla door yard, one other vote for me, I'd be nominated, ho saw a shadow on the porch, which don't you see?" came lightly down tha stops to meet him "You know beet. Jamie," she eaid. “1 It was Nan. don't I just wauled to be sure 1 would As the light from the window illu be so glad If you eouid win—oh, I'd be eu mined his face. Nan pause»! There war I proud of )ou ” no need tor him to tell h«r the news Sb«' I her heart sank witatn her He tried to speak, but bis .ips refused to move. "Never mir.d, Jamie dear.” she said, bravely see.ug the misery, greater than her own. In his face "But your money, Nannie," he cried. “It's—“ '1 know It, dear." she said, and her words nearly choked her. "but j ou did the best you could. Jamie." “Yes I did. Nannie. 1 did," he ul<J. "and Gregory only beat me by 20 votes. Oh. I wu to sure. Nannie, so sure.” Nan put her arm through his and pet ted his band as she would a child's, as they entered the bouse "Why is It," he Asked, bitterly, "that a man like Gregory, who doesn t need it is always elected, while fellows like me. who have bunted everywhere for some thing to do and have spent every cent we had. are beaten?" Nan ■ a«i>«*d hor bands behind his neck "But we have each other, Jamie, boy," she said. "Yes." he replied, with an effort at cheerfulness "U* have each other. Nan nie. girl, and 1'11 work—I'll get some thing to do—and 1 11 pay It back, every cent of it. Nau. and we ll—” A tramping of f«jet sounded u|«n the porch lol lowed by a heavy knock upon the door Jan o|« bed it and half a doxen mill hands swarmed In. Grasping Paxton by both hands, they swung him around and around and snapped him boisterously upon the back. "You're elected, old man!" they cried. "There was a mistake In the Sixth ward, and you're 'It' ’’ Jim stood a moment silently looking it them. "You say—I'm—elected?" be asked at last. "That's right." said one "There was a mistake of a hundred In tbs count, and you have 80 majority." "You are- not—fooling me—boys?" Jim asked, very slowly, the color com ing and going in his lace, his lips trem bling. "Sure not," they said. "It Is the truth. You didn't think we d go back on you, did you. Jim?" Jtm turred slightly and rested a rough hand tenderly upon the head of Nan who had suuk into a chair and had buried her face in her hands. “1 thank you, boys." hessld. hoarsely; "I thunk you more than you can ever know.“ _ Not Appreciated. "My heart Is lost." the milkmaid win«, And ths farmer said "B'soSh I reckon twouidn't make folks weep Ft you'd also lose yor* voice." —Cincinnati Enquirer. Mosquito Bite Remedies. Not only in America, but tn Europe as well, hae mosquitoes been excep tionally abundant this year Ammonia, the remedy commonly used in tout country, la condemned by a Germ tn physician, who says It does not pre vent the e fleet of a bite from remaln- Inr several days He recommends hold ing the place b‘ tan for a few seconds, and repeated' In hot steam, which' he says, pro itly relieves the itching and pnln Another remedy superior to ammonia is alum dissolved tn ahohol and rubbed In vigorously. To keep mosquitoes aw iy at night, rub tl.e face, neck and hands with letnou juice. process every farmer ran grow the ni- trogen-flxlng bacteria himself and ap ply them himself to his crop. Hs can send to the department of agriculture BACTERIA THAT WORI IM TH» and get a small packet at sterilised cot* ton. on which the germs are growing. FIELDS FOB FABMXBA With thia coms two tiny packages of chemical«. Ona of these he dissolves la Furnished Free by the Department of a certain amount of water, aau crops In the cotton, germa and all. to eoak over Agriculture to kepleulah the I night. The next morning he pours in Exhausted Boll with the other chemical, and the germs de Xi trogen. velop until the water becomes cloudy with them. Bac’erla! The very word has an om Thia milky fluid la then poured over inous sound Every one Instinctively the seed o< the legemlauua crop the wishes to keep away from bacteria as farmer wi»hea to plant, the seed la put things of fear, says Youth's Companion. into the grodnd, and the germs begin But there sre good bacteria as well as their career of taking in nitrogen. bad ones—“benevolent" bacteria, that They will do It In land where it baa isk nothing better than to work on the never been possible to raise a good crop of farm, with no reward except that of clover or cowpeas before, and they will their own virtue. Uncle Sam thinks so do It ttnfoM In ordinary fields The ex highly of this class of germs that since perimenters hope mat the bacteria will August. 19*>3. the department of agri increase crops from five to fifty percent, culture has off, red to send them, free, and do away wPh fertilisers. to the American farmer. If they can be cultivated on the roots And If the farmer Is wise, be will take of corn and wheat—and come of the ex- as many of them as he can get. and set perlmcnts have been promising—the ro them to work In his fields as soon as pos tation of crops can be done away with, sible. too. and grain-crops follow each other There industrious and deserving mi without cessation upon the poorest soils. crobes may be pretty well described by All this seems like a fairy-tale But calling them "nltrogen-fixlng bacteria." the fairy-tale of science often turns out or in more cumbrous phrase, "bacteria to be rober truth. At any rate, the of the root nodule« of leguminous farmer who hitches his wagon to the star plants.“ □f progress Is a wiser man than he who Any boy who lives on a farm soon sneers at new idea*, and If bacteria can learns that to restore the fertility of be made to pay off the mortgage. they worn-out fields, clover or Its cousins ought to be welcomed eagerly all over must be sown. Cow-peas, vetches. al- ths land. falfa are all good for this purpose In the rotation of crops to keep land from being Horrible Punishment. worn out. clovet or its equivalent must In 1890 the last Instance of boilltig come round every fourth year. to death took place in Persia. The of The farmer does not know why. but fender. guilty of stealing state reve he knows the fact. The scientist knows nues. was put Into a large caldroh ot why. It Is because clover is a nitrogen- cold water, which was slowly heated producing crop Down on Its roots sre to the boiling point. His bones were multitudes of tiny nodules, and In those distributed, as a warning, among the nodulee are bacteria which have the provincial tax collectors. power to take In nitrogen somehow, from the air. and give it to the soil. Bocks vs. Sand. Then the com and wheAt crop take this ■dyth—I'm surprised to MAf of nitrogen up and exhaust It, and th« your engagement to old Bullyon. Was flel.1 must go th clover or its related he the only man with sand enough to :rops again. g.' opoae ? Almost one hundred million dollars' Maytns—Oh. no; but be was the worth of nitrogen Id Exported from only une with rocks enough to interest America yearly, it hs* been eetlmated. me.—Chicago Dsily Nrws. In the form of grain The American How He Got In. farmer, besides hl* rotation of crop*, Church —Did your friend get Into the has been forced to keep putting nitro Four mi nd red? gen back Into the soil in expensive fer Gotham—Well, he got Into a few of tilisers. This seemed, to a certain clever them to the extent of several thousand German scientist, rather a pity, as long dollars!—Yonkers Statesman. as bacteria exist which like the Job ot nitrogenixlng the ground. Ai man has Warranted. harnessed steam and electricity, why Innocent— la your antique bracelet not train germs to do the farming? authentic? So tor nearly ten years these bacterle Parvenu—Oh, yes! It was taken from have been under culture and experimen' the arm of the Venut de Mild, I am by Profs Ni.bbe. Hartleb, and others In told.—Detroit Free Press. Germany, a d lately by Profs MacMil lan and Burrill, in America. The Ger Hardly. mans wished to develop a high growth of the germe.on the roof* of th» legumin Somehow the girl in tMWP la ous plants In any soil Ths Americans proud of the photograph taken at went further, • xp^rlmcfitltlg upon when the seashore showing her senti and corn. to w* if a crop of grain could mental pose with a stray summer not be made to grow Itself and Its owe fertilizer at the same Uns—surely a true man as that individual is when Yankee idea. he exhibits it as evidence of how The most practical discovery, how “eraiy” she was over him.—Balti ever Is that of (Porge T Moore By bl» more American. --A, HELPFUL MICROBES - Phlloaephic Poverty. "Mike.” eald Plodding Pet*, "vr would yrtu do if you was rich?" "Well," answered Aleaodcring M "I'd very Ukel* be dota’ th-« a lot other rlcM folka an’ be woaler whe'her any InwoceM banker« get'in short-changed on t»«e «rang1 ot me signature."—Waahlachoas B , Secret Is Out. Amateur Author—I wonder why t ” tors always tell us u write on c. Side of the paper only. Amateur Poet—Why. so that th'’ can use the other side for writing theh own silly articles and things on course, and so save paper—A'l] Sloper. Tonque Exercise. A Russlan youns girl nsmed Navajoksta kanesz ijlvltrh. Whe II ved in the vi' ase ot Gotos»Kx<o keljtjvtteh, Oot tlr» d of her ñame And to bettsr ttesame Abe married .» man narrad Zhakalycha-p- d a-w bole-iot-tr.ura-oí - tha - alpLabaid vitch. -Rojal Maxiiíre Professor—Eet ee* my een’ usion t<i make xe great musician of yjur 1. > tit boy. but be must practice more c u he does Mrs Blubktne- It's all is father’1 fault, professor. E gives 'Im two- pence a day not to go anear the planar. The Unwilling Sock. “Terne out of ths drawer, you worn-out old chap. There s a place ready Walting In grard- mamma's .ap!" ■aid the sock with the holes where the !a light came through: “Get In grandmamma s ¡apt I'll be darn«.' It I do." —N O. Times Democrat. 1' Me Deal Tourist— I understand that y.u. he 4 relics of the war for sale, m Hi» 4 man? “We did hard," replied the boZ “*•«] they have bought us out, an J swords daddy burled last week wou'i get rusted Weekly. tore summer "—fcm.lh > _ _