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TO EXHIBIT RESOURCES
Plan? Formulated for Southern
Commercial Congress.
WILL MEET IN WASHINGTON
Commercial Bodies f ind Boards of Trade
of One Hundred Southern Cities
to Be Represented.
Columbus, Ga.—The important an
nouncement has been made by J. A.
Betjeman of Albany, Ga., secretary of
the committee recently appointed at a
meeting of trade bodies of eleven
southern states at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
that a southern industrial congress
will be held at Washington, D. C., on
December 6, 7 and 8.
It is hoped to make this congress
the most elaborate and accurate ex
position of southern resources and
southern conditions ever held, and
a program will be prepared with great
cp,re. In this program the south’s
best thought and most representative
men will take part, the idea being to
give the outside world a clear and in
telligent idea of southern conditions
as they actually exist.
The committee, which is composed
of G. G. Dawe, Montgomery, Ala.
chairman; E. Z. Shannon, of Nash
ville, Tenn.; Walter G. Cooper, of At
lanta, and Mr. Betjeman, secretary,
will meet in Atlanta .to begin
work on the porgram. Already twelev
of the leading southern cities have
formally given their indorsement of
the proposed congress, and Secretary
Betjeman is dailv receiving further
letters on the subject from various
cities.
Each constituent bpd< is expected to
appoint a committee of three to pre
pare printed matter and secure stere
opticon views of its scenes and insti
tutions and charts of its educational
work, manufacturing, civic institu
tions, etc.
The state geologist of each state,
the commissioner of agriculture, the
entomologist and the superintendent
of education are requested to act as
an advisory committee, and to asso-
* them the most prominent
editors and the presidents of the lead
ing commercial bodies in arranging
for suitable representation of the state
resources.
The congress will be held immedi
ately before the national congress on
rivers and harbors is held in Wash
ington, and this fact will swell the at
tendance. This will be the first plan
ned of a number of similar southern
industrial congresses which will prob
abiy be held in the northern, eastern
and western states.
WOULD IKChtASE THE ARMY.
President Will Recommend Force of
ICO.CCO Men— His Reasons.
Washington, D. €. —President
Roosevelt, in his final mesage to con
gress, probably will recommend an in
crease in the numerical strength of
the army to at least 100,000 men. At
present the array is on a footing of
00,000 men.
To the general staff it has become
evident in the last two years that
00,000 men aer too few properly to
garrison the posts at which it is ne
cessary to maintain an armed force.
These posts include the garrisons in
the insular possessions of America.
It is also pointed out that a consid
erable force will be required to gar
rison the fortifications at Pearl har
bor, in the Hawaiian islands. An im
mense amount of money is to be ex
pended in the erection of these forti
fications, and i4 is the opinion or
army officers that a garrison of at
least 2,000 men will have to be main
tained there. Just now there are
approximately 10,000 Japanese in the
Hawaiian islands. In the remote
event of a war between America'and
Japan and some other power with
which Japan is on friendly terms, it
would lie impossible for the compara
tively small force of United States
troops now in the Hawaiian islands to
prevent the landing cf arms and am
munition to supply the Japanese in
the islands.
BLACK HANDSVSTEM.
Studied in Itaiy by New York
Officials.
New York City.—After making a
study, wi-ih the aid of the Italian gov
ernment, of the black band system
in that country. District Attorney
Clarke, of Kings county, and Francis
L. Carrno, his assistant, have arrived
home. Their itinerary through Italy
was kept secret on advice of Brook
lyn Italians, because of the possibil
ities from Italian criminals.
Carrao learned on his arrival thal a
mass meeting of Italians would be
held in Brooklyn to denounce him
and demand his resignation. y
He was told that his fellow country
men in Brooklyn were indignant over
his written criticism concerning cor
rupt practices in the Italian judiciary.
FATAL FREIGHT WRECK.
Engine Rolled Down an Embankment
Scalding Fireman.
Macon, Ga. —Tom Turner, an extra
fireman, was scalded to death, and
Engineer T. O. Benett and Conductor
J. J. Rhodes were severely injured
when the engine of an extra freight
on the Southern railway jumped the
track on a siding at Scotland and
turned down a steep embankment. A
rail turned on the siding while some
cars were being moved. When the en
gine left the tracks all the men on
board jumped except the fireman, who
was scalded to death under the heavy
wreckage.
Conductor Rhodes was brought to
the Macon hospital.
FATAL HOTEL FIRE.
Five Meet Death In Flames—Fireman
Saved Ten Lives.
Denver, Col. —Five men lost their
lives and, a score of persons in
jured in a fire that destroyed the Bel
mont hotel, a three-story building.
/ Patrick Treadwell, a fireman saved
at least ten lives by inducing entrap
ped guests to jump from the upper
windows across a five-foot alley
in the roof of an adjoining building
and catching them in his arms.
OF POLITICAL INTEREST.
Before a large audience in Brown
auditorium of *the Ohio Northern Uni
versity at Ada, Ohio, Professor Aaron
S. Watkins was officially notified of
his nomination as the candidate for
vice president by the national pro
hibition party. In his speech of ac
ceptance Professor Watkins declared
that the saloon is doomed in the Unit
ed States.
Collar makers employed by a man
ufacturer at Galesburg, 111., sjent Wil
liam Jennings Bryan a collar for Mr.
Bryan’s mascot mule. Every man in
the shop took part in making the col
lar.
The Bryan democrats of Baltimore
are organizing a company to start a
morning paper. The bolt of the Sun
leaves Mr. Bryan out of the morning
newspapers in Baltimore and the Bal
timore papers cover Maryland.
A socialist speaker in New York
got so eloquent recently in telling
about the awful condition of the work
ing man that one of them who was
listening to him tried to commit sui
cide on the spot.
General Jacob S. Coxey, who led
the army of unemployed men from his
home in Ohio to Washington fourteen
years ago, has anounced that he in
tends to work for the populist party
and for the election of Thomas E.
Watson during the presidential cam
paign.
Jay W. Forrest of New York, chair
man of the national committee of the
people’s party, has established south
western headquarters for the populist
organization at St. Louis. According
to Chairman Forrest the populists will
p'oll one million votes in November.
E. W. Chaffn, prohibition candidate
for the presidency, in aspeech de
livered at Spokane, Wash., said that
one of the first things he would do
after inauguration, should he be elect
ed, woflld be to clean up the District
of Columbia. He said Washington
was one of the vilest cities in the
world.
The political situation in New York
state has been jolted by the announce
ment that Governor Hughes was kiss
ed “by a striking blonde,” after his
speech at a county fair. Just where
the brunette influence will be thrown
is an open question.
Exhausted by ten speeches, Eugene
V. Debs, candidate for president on
the socialist ticket, arrived at Kan
sas City on his red special from Des-
Moines. Mr. Debs was greeted by a
crowd of a hundred or more social
ists. Outside of a few reporters Mr.
Debs refused to see anyone. To the
newspapermen, Mr. Debs said that
he was contemplating taking his red
special from Omaha, Neb., to Birming
ham ,Ala., to campaign for the strik
ing coal miners there.
It was decided and announced that
Judge Taft with his family would ac
cept' the hospitality of his brother,
Charles P. Taft, when he goes to Cin
cinnati at least for the first few weeks
of the campaign.
Scores of republican spellbinders
received a shock when Frank 11.
Hitchcock, the national chairman, an
nounced that in the present campaign
no salaries will be paid to speakers.
Expenses will be allowed, but the fat
salaiies which were paid in the cam
paigns of 1900 and 1904 will be kept
in the treasury for other and more
urgent needs..
Mr. Bryan visited St. Paul, Minn.,
and delivered several speeches in
which he expressed himself as being
satisfied that Governor John A. John
son of Minnesota, his leading rival
for the nomination before the Den
ver convention, will loyally support
him in the coming campaign.
After long debate, the Central Fed
orated l nion, which is the central or
ganization of the labor unions of
New York City, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, adopt
ed a resolution pledging support to
the democratic ticket.
The independence league appeared
for the first time at the recent elec
tion in Vermont*, and polled about 1,-
OUO voles, while the prohibition and
socialist vote remained about the
same.
In an open letter io friends in Tex
as William Jennings Bryan makes an
appeal, to the Catholic vote. He pre
faces his statement by references to
reports alleged to have been circulat
ed in the present campaign to the ef
fect that he was not and never had
been disposed in a manner toward
Catholics. This Mr. Bryan denies,
and while declaring he is a member
of the Presbyterian church he says
he includes many Catholics among
his dearest friends.
“My gracious! It us§d to/be that
when I said a thing was to be dune,
that settled it. But it does not
to be that way now. In these words,
addressed to a recent visitor to Sag
amore Hill, President Roosevelt show
ed that he chafed under the defiant
attitude of the leaders of the republi
can state organization on the ques
tion of " renominating Governor
Hughes for governor of New York.
Henry Waterson, editor of the Lou
isville Courier-Journal, has given out
a letter from Bishop Walters calling
on negroes to vote the democratic
ticket to secure fair treatment.
W. J. Bryan will write each week
until election a letter to be sent to
every precinct democratic club in the
country, giv.ing advice and suggestion
as to the campaign.
The democratic national committee
on college clubs organization includes
the following southern, members: F.
H. Weston, South Carolina; H. H.
Wallace, Athens, Ga.; M. T. Ormand,
Alabama; A. A. Murphree, Florida;
Luke Lea, Tennessee; C. Irving Carey,
Virginia; R. E. L. Saner, Texas; Josh
ua W. Herring, Maryland, and J. W.
Swartz, Oklahoma.
The organization of the eastern de
partment of the democratic national
committee has been completed and
National Chairman Norman E. Mack
has officially announced that National
Committeeman Robert S. Hudspeth,
of New Jersey, had been chosen vice
©guuuui oj 80DTUiuioo jo unui.iiuqo
the democratic campaign in the east.
The democratic national commit
tee has decided to establish an anti
trust bureau in New York. William
, H Black has been made head of the
bureau of statistics and William Hoge
the chairman of the commercial trav
elers’ bureau.
LABOR DAYJBSERVED
Throughout the Country With
Big Parades and Speeches.
W. J. BRYAnTt CHICAGO
John Mitchell Spoke at Marion, Illinois.
Birmingham, Savannah and Atlanta
Had Big Celebration.
Birmingham, Ala. —Labor day in Bir
mingham was unusually strenuous
this year. In addition to the great
picnic at Germania Park the crowds
in the city were increased enormous
ly by the reception tendered the first
train over the new Atlanta, Birmiiifr
ham and Atlantic raillroad; the open
ing of the national convention of the
postoffice clerks, which is attended by
over 500 delegates, and the congres
sional district teachers’ institute,which
opened with teachers attending from
four counties. While the crowds were
the largest seen since the confederate
reunion no disorders of moment were
reported.
Marion, 111. —John Mitchell, former
president of the United Mine Work
ers of America, addressed two thou
sand people at the Labor day celebra
tion "here. Mr. Mitchell spoke of the
rapid advance of laboring classes and
denounced the idea that the rich are
growing richer and the poor poorer.
He said that recently he had had
political ambition, but had abandoned
all aspirations in that direction. He
spoke highly of the judiciary, but crit
icised its course in some injunction
cases.
Atlanta, Ga. —This city was wholly
in the hands and in keeping of work
ing men of this section of the state
on Monday. From every county in
the congressional district working
men came to take part in the day’s
exercises, and along with the me
chanic came the farmer, the agiicul
turist being as much enthused over
the prospects of the day as his fellow
producer, who has long been locking
with pleasant anticipation from one
Labor day to another.
Never before has Atlanta seen a
larger or more thoroughly organized
body move through the streets. It
would leglike a well-trained military
bedy to surpass the work of the un
ions. There is not a working force
in Atlanta that was not represented
in that line of march.
Chicago, 111. —Organized labor Mon
day paid tribute to William J. Bryan.
Although it was labor day, it soon be
came manifest that the workers had
surrendered their privilege and made
it Bryan day. Within an hour after
his arrival in the city the democratic
candidate for president, standing on
the balcony of the Auditorium hotel,
received the plaudits of thousands of
toilers as they marched by in the mon
ster labor parade. * The air was rent
with cheers, and the enthusiasm was
unbounded.^
Savannah, Ga. —Thirty floats, two
scores of labor unions, detachments
of police and fire department, with
many carriages made up the most
elaborate parade as part of a La
bor day celebration Savannah lias
seen in many years, filing for many
miles through the city streets.
The city enjoyed its general holi
day, the parade being followed by a
series of athletic events at Tybee,
where some creditable records were
made by local athletes. The games all
had a long list of entries.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WARNED.
In Regard to Participation in Polit
ical Campaigns.
Washington, D. C. —A note of warn
ing against federal employees resign
ing to participate in political cam
paigns with the expectation of possi
bly re-entering the service is sound
ed in a statement given out by the
civil service commission defining its
attitude.
Inasmuch as the issuance of a cer
tificate is discretionary with the com
mission,” says the letter, which is
signed by President John R. Black,
Mio certificate will be issued in any
case where the party seeking' rein
statement resigned with a view *to
running for office or indulging in a
degree of political activity which
would be prohibited if he had remain
ed in the service, afterwards having
failed in his candidacy, or having in
dulged in the contemplated political
activity, seeks reinstatement.”
Roosevelt Will End Vacation.
Oyster Bay, N. Y.—Unless there is
a sudden change of plans, President
Roosevelt, will end his vacation at
Sagamore Hilfc on September 22 and
will return to Washington on that
day. This will be the shortest vaca
tion which the president has taken
in' several years, and it is said that
he is returning to Washington early
in order to be in closer touch with
the campaign.
Big Railroad Strike Feared.
Nottingham, England.—The opening
of the trades union congress, repre
senting 1,750,000 workmen has fore
casted the greatest railroad strike in
the history of England. A change in
working conditions, which will be
stoutly ressitefd by railroad compan
ies, is to be demanded in the near
future, and the congress will arrange
for an exhausting contest.
Killed In Melbourne.
Washington, D. C. —Admiral Sperry,
commander of the Atlantic battleship
fleet, has cabled to the navy depart
ment that Arthur J. Decker, a fireman
attached to the battleship New Jersey,
was killed in Melbourne, Australia,
in a street car accident.
Lives With Euiiet in Head.
Chicago, 111. —George Blair is spend
ing much of his time at the National
Emergency hospital reading the news
papers with a twenty-two calibre bul
let in his head. He seems to suffer
no inconvenience from the ball of
lead. - v
Blair, who is twenty-five years of
age, was shot in the forehead with a
rifle that he and Lawrence O’Brien,
a friend, were playing with. The
wounded man, then walked to the
hospital a mile distant.
FIRE DESTROYS TOWN.
Lost From Flames at Rawhide, Nevada,
Over SI,OQP,OOO.
Rawhide, Nev. —Three thousand
people homeless, a score or more in
jured, and a property loss of over
$1,000,000, is the result of a disas
trous fire which started in Dr. Gard
ner’s office, located in the Rawhide
Drug Company’s building. Fanned by
a gale the fire swept rapidly south
and east to Balloon avenue and up
Rawhide avenue to within fifty yards
of the People’s hospital.
Over a ton and a half of dynamite
was used in the demolition of build
ings, which in a measure stayed the
flames’ progress. The volunteer fire
department and 500 miners worked
heroically, but on account of the in
flammable construction of the build
ings they were swept away like tin
der.
In a short time the business por
tidon of Rawhide was a smoldering
ruin, the flames being finally checked
south of Balloon avenue.
Among the first buildings to go was
Collins’ hardware store, which con
tained two tons of dynamite that ex
ploded with *a terrific rip, hurling
burning planks and boards a great dis
tance, setting fire to numerous build
ings simultaneously.
The scenes were similar to those at
the fire at Goldfield in July, 1906,
and at Cripple Creek in April, 1896.
Many people were injured iby flying
debris.
A famine was feafed, as all the sup
ply houses and grocery stores were
wiped out.
A subscription list was started, and
in a few minutes over $5,000 was
raised and a relief train started from
Reno, carrying food and bedding.
All the mining towns of the state
came quickly to the assistance of Raw
hide sufferers with cash contributions.
San Francisco Mining Exchange at
once sent a contribution of SSOO.
Plans were well under way for a
reconstruction of the town before the
ashes were cool.
TRADE BOOMING IN MANY LINES.
Many Industries Showed an Increased
Activity in July.
Washington, D. C Notably increas
ed activities in a number of lines of
industry in the United States are
shown in the July report of the bu
reau of statistics of the department
of commerce and labor, which has
just been issued. There is a con
siderably heavier live stock movement
reported for the seven months end
ing with July than for the correspon
ding period of either of the two im
mediately preceding two years. Grain
receipts for July increased over the
preceding month and also over July
of last year. Lumber and coal move
ments, as well as the production of
iron, continue to show marked ad
vances over the preceding months of
the year, although the total is still
•below the heavy figures of July, 1907.
More than 70 per cent of the report
ing car associations show gains over
the preceding months of the current
year. Live stock reports at seven inte
rior primary markets aggregated 2,-
784.193 head.
With Returns from forty-five leading
cities the tbuilding operations for July
showed improvement, a small gain
over the remarkably large business
of July of last year being reported.
Packing house products, receipts of
southern pine at New York, pig iron
and other productions showed gf’ns
over the preceding month.
Coal and coke traffic over seven
eastern coal carrying roads during
July, 1908. aggregating 9,961,996 tons,
was far in excess of the preceding
months’ totals, though still nearly 3,-
000,000 tons below the like shipments
for July, 1907. The increase over the
June figures is largely due to the 1,-
000,000-ton increase in shipments of
bituminous coal.
SPECTACULAR LEAP TO DEATH.
Florida Man Leaps from Third Story
Window of Hotel.
Hot Springs, Ark. —A. S. Waters, a
visitors from Tampa, Fla., made a
spectacular leap to his death from a
third story window of the new Pres
ton Hotel to the pavement* below, a
distance of fifty feet.
Before jumping out of the window
he tore up a handful of currency and
threw it in the wash basin of his
room. He died half an hour after his
fall.
Tampa, Fla.—A. S. Water, who com
mitted suicide in Hot Springs, was
an employee of the Tampa Box Fac
tory, in the capacity of sawyer. He
left ’here saying he was going to Hot
Springs to regain his health. No rea
son can be assigned for the suicide
except bad health.
Waters lived here with his mother
in-law, his wife having died several
years ago. He had considerable prop
erty and a bank account. His body
will be brought to Tampa for burial.
PRESIDENT WAS NUT SHOT.
Shots Heard Near President’s Home
Were Fired by Hunters.
Oyster Bay, N. Y. —Sensational re
ports that an attempt had been made
to shoot President Roosevelt appar%
ently have their origin in the fact
that the hunting season has opened
on Long Island, and there is consid
erable shooting daily in the outlying
districts. Close investigation fails to
show that there has been any overt
act directed against the president.
It is his custom to ride out every
day, covering various routes in the
country and it is not unusual for him
to encounter parties of hunters. Also
there is a shooting club which en
gages in target practice not far from
Sagamore Hill.
BOVIELD BY MEXICANS.
Crossed Border With Guns in Their
Posescion.
Washington, D. C. —The mother of
Robert Rechy, one of the American
boys from El Paso arrested by the
Mexican government because they
crossed the river with a target rifle,
has appealed to the state department
to seem e the release of her sen.
Because of the recent border trou
bles, it is appreciated that Mexicans
are suspicious of persons crossing the
border with guns in their possession.
SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
Do you come nearer day by day
To the port where your dreams all
anchored lie?
Or do you sail farther and far. away
In an angry sea with a sullen sky?
Do you come nearer the Ought-to-be
In the wagon you hitched to a distant
star?
Or do vou drift on hopelessly.
Content to bide with the Things that
are?
Are you a Drone or a Do-it-now?
A Hurry-up or a Wait-a-while?
A. Do-it-so or an Anyhcny?
A Cheer-up-bovs or a Never-smile?
It’s none of my business, that I know, -
For you are the captain and mate and
crew
Of that ship of yours, but the Where
you-go
Depends on the What-and-how-you-do.
Are you a Yes or a Mayhe-so?
Are you a Will or a Guess-yoii’ll-be?
A Come-on-lads or a Let’s-not-go?
A Yes-I-will or an Oh-i’ll-see?
It isn’t the least concern of mine.
I know that well, but as time endures,
When they thresh the wheat and store the
wine,
You’ll find it’s a big concern of vours.
• —J. W. Foley, in Youth’s Companion.
Maria’s
Burglar.
He is called Maria’s burglar be
cause l hired him on her account.
As the children would say, he was
not a “really” burglar. One glance
at his gentle 'frankness, his serene
respectability must have convinced
you of that fact beyond peradventure.
Moreover, he was my daughter’s
fiance, and no decent citizen, so far
as I am aware, would suffer an
avowed lawbreaker to remain in his
household in that capacity.
Maria’s burglarphobia exhibited its
firgt symptoms the night we moved
into our new home.
We were sleeping for the first time
under its roof. Hardly had 1 dozed
off when I felt the gentle impact of
Maria’s fist in my ribs and the soft
sibrlance of her whisper in my ear:
“Get up, John. There’s some one on
our roof.” I raised my head and lis
tened attentively. “There's no one
there,” I announced definitely. Maria
insisted there was; adding that there
were two of them, and that one wore
hob-nailed shoes. My query as to the
size of the shoes met with no re
sponse. At last, to satisfy lien, 1
arose and went to the little closet on
the top floor which marks the en
trance to our scuttle. In one hand I
fcarried a lamp; in the other an un
loaded revolver. Twice 1 called,
“Who’s there?” and twice was I an
swered only by the moaning of the
wind as it swept along the chimney
tops. I did not raise the scuttle lid;
Time for that in the morning.
Though fully regaled with the details
of my expedition Maria remained
awake for at least four hours. She'
told me about it the next day.
In the morning we found an old
felt hat on our rcof. Maria gloated.
Our neighbor’s son claimed it later
in the day, saying he had dropped it
on our roof while playing on his own
some weeks previously.
Our burglars next appeared on the
front steps about 4 o'clock of a frosty
winter’s morning. From her trem
bling place under the blanket Maria
could almost distinguish the words
of their conversation; something I
failed to accomplish, even though I
stood for three whole minutes in the
chilled vestibule with my ear at the
front door keyhole. That we arose
the next morning to find ourselves
alive, our silverware intact, and our
doors securely bolted, Maria was in
clined to attribute to a renascence of
the age of miracles. After that we
were besieged no less than three
times a week; sometimes oftener.
“Maria,” said I, at last, “what is it
about a burglar that you fear so
abjectly? If one wants to get into
our place he’ll get there, never fear.
Whatever he takes will be Replaced
by the insurance people, anyway.”
“And if he kills us where we lie
I presume that will be liquidated by
the insurance people as well —if
either of us is here to collect it.”
This in Maria’s most sarcastic man
ner.-
“So it is bodily injury you fear?
Why? Am I not here?” Our hero
spoke these words with calm confi
dence and fine fearlessness. Under
the circumstances Marie’s responsive
sniff was hardly complimentary.
Bluntly she inquired—if -a burglar
saw fit to enter our room with a
loaded pistol in his hand and a fero
cious scowl upon his face —what
would I do?
“I’d jump out of bed and grapple
him where he stood. I’d put my knee
on his neck and throttle him until
he howled for mercy. I’d pummel
him with all my might, and leave
hm lying inert on the floor, while I
w r ent off to fetch an ambulance in
■which to remove his battered carcass
—that is, of course, provided he was
not inconsiderate enough to take to
his heels before 1 had time to com
plete my vengeance.” So that due
modesty might attend my claim, I
vouchsafed the opinion that all bur
glars are cowards at heart.
“Indeed!” said Maria. The sub
limated sarcasm and skepticism con
tained in that brief word determined
me.
My prospective son-in-law, Clar
ence Colburn, failed to evince instant
enthusiasm over my plan, even
though I offered to purchase on his
behalf the real thing in the shape of
a mask, a jimmy and a lantern. Be
fore he agreed to carry out the part
I had assigned to him, 1 was obliged
to promise several things. First, the
wrath of his prospective mother-in-
law must be appeased by m .
of the discovery of his
whatsoever expense. Secondly 3t
demonstrations of bravery
strictly passive and largely oratorical
I mignt command him to de S | .'
leave the house under threat °
speedy apprehension; to abamW u
plunder where he found
must not leave my pia ce t 1
not to touch the floor until he S
full opportunity to clear the rn
Lastly, my pistol must remain
loaded—“in case we get too
you know.” These details fixed *
set Thursday as the date, and prnrJ
midnight as the hour of our af u
ture. ;en ’
Maria was very nervous that m-ht
Three evenings before the Sanborn
house in our street had been entered
and its contents removed to parts u
known. That very morning \ Ve
learned of two other burglaries j n o u r
immediate vicinity. Eagerly M aria
scanned the obituaries in he loj
journal; I fancy she was lisuppointed
at tlje lack of funeral announcements
Before we finally retired she saw fit to
recount all three affairs mosaicallv
and to remark dolefully that she was
sure our turn was coming soon.
“Nonsense,” said 1, having left the
door unlatched.
The town clock bell had completed
its dozen peals, and we were Ivins
cosily in our places when there came
a soft creaking on the hallway stairs
followed by the muffled tread of foot
steps outside of our door.
“John,” Maria whispered, “did you
hear that?”
“What?” I asked, fearlessly.
“Some one is at our door. Go out
and shoot him. Oh-h-h!’’ The door
opened softly and a circle of light
w T as planted on the opposite wall.
Our visitor made straight for the
bureau and started to fill his pockets.
I rose in my place. Impressively I
demanded, “What are you doing
there, r-r-rascal?”
For answer he flashed the light into
our faces. My own was unruffled;
smiling even. On Maria’s I saw such
a look of frozen terror that I was sore
tempted to abandon our experiment
then and there. It, was only my
promise to Clarence that impelled me
to see it through.
“See here, sonny,” said he, as he
took my watch. “Get your thinking
apparatus busy locating where you
keep the decent things. This is junk.
The stuff I got down in your dining
room is enough to make anybody
mad. You ought to be ashhined of
yourself. ”
“Out of my house this instant, or,
by Heaven, you perish where you
stand! Begone, villain. Vanish!
Vamoose! ”
“Vamoose” was Clarence's cue to
depart. Instead of that, he strode
over to our bedside and dealt me a
smart cuff on the ear. This was no
part cf the agreement, and I hastened
to voice my remonstration.
“Not do what?” was the answer,
gruffly given. “That is funny. Ha,
ha! Kqep quiet, you fossil, or I'll
run a rapid transit tunnel right
through you.” A ball of fire flashed
into my eyes and I felt the impact of
cold steel on my forehead.
“Spare us! Spare us!” came in
muffled tremolo from under the
blanket. “Give him that SIOO you
have under your pillow, .’ohu.
He did not wait for me to give it.
Hq pushed my head aside and thrust
his hand under the pillow. As the
gleam of the lantern was turned aside
for an instant I caught a glimpse el
the pistol as it went’by me It v. as
a tiny automatic revolver. And I had
bought Clarence a horse pis ol!
“Give me your diamonds, grovled
the intruder, “Quick, or i ■
My tongue clave to the ron;
mouth and my teeth ra>tb 1.
speedily as 1 could 1 wii hdrew ni>
beadjinder the coverlet and kept A
there until the sound of veweanag
footsteps made known that the bin*
glar had gone.
—lt'was Maria’s voice t ard as
I emerged. Her tones, 1 coniess, v - er ®
slightly hysterical. “Grapple I—h
throttle him, pummel him;
him, throttle him, grapple him. e
said this over and over again.
I did not stop long to lis to n.
jumped out of bed and made j t 0
window. I called for help, an laa
answering whistle told me Oav ia
call had been heard. As I '
window I spied some one coming T
on the run. I rushed down the -
and ran through the hallway. On -
porch I ran into a policeman. ■■ -
was another man with lhn
tishtly - u s ,id the
“Here's your burglar, saia
officer. “I got him as he ‘y*
back. Said he came up to kelp >°_•
good nerve, eh? His paru; . 1
quiie so cool about it; I sav. n
ning away with a bag. He was too
quick for me, so 1 nabbed '
The captive removed his r ‘‘
showed us fctis startled,
tenance. Yflte. It was ( m ' rrPr3
We have tried to explain ■‘ l ,
to Maria. Time and again
assured her that it was an *
perpetrated for her especial jel j
No use. Each time she rewai>^'—‘
of us with a cool stare and nn -
“Where, then, are my cof
my silver spoons and the Md
Besides, she invariably commies,
Clarence been the burgnar, s.
small doubt that I would In -
pled him, throttled him a-■
meled him. Cold type doeo“ . Q
produce the possibilities ■
her tone. —New York Trioum-
The Pet Dogs of paris * u g
In Paris dogs are treated as v.
human beings are. They L
mobile togs when they go I j i! ; ~;u; u
they have a hospital, and t ne.
have a good-sized cemeLL
monuments and headsione." -
scriptions and mortuai}
New York World.
