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“GAB." ’ I reckon if speed had been sprawl, He'd ’a’ dun’ to the very top notch. As it was, though, he made jest one crawl To a perch in a next-tlie-ground crotch. As others xvent, climbin’, he balked In Industry's towerin’ tree. He sot and he talked and he talked and he talked, “Says 1 and says he and says she!” There was men didn’t know r half as much And hadn't the science o’ gab. Put they dim’ like the very old Dutch, With their gnt and their gumption and grab. Hut he. though he knowed it most all, Sot poundin’ the trunk of the tree, Contented to argy and bicker and brawl: “Says 1 and says she and says he!” J 1 is neighbors went gruntin’ up past, A-diggin’ their to-nails right in. To trunk and to limb dingin’ fast. Jest bound and determined to win. He'd say as he’d see 'em go by, “I’ll ketch ye all right up the tree!” AnJ then his old tongue would unlimber and fly “Says 1 and says he and says she!” For years his good wife kept him propped As he sot there a-straddle that limb; Tie didn t take heed—would ’a’ dropped If she hadn’t clung holt of her Jim. So tarnal took up xvith his tongue 1 hat he hadn t no eyes for to sea How she sp’iled while'he’d sot there a-pumnin’ his iunr* “Says I and says he and says she!’’ His neighbors they propped him a spell When death had unloosened her holt. But at last they unclinched and he fell. And he fetched the poor-farm with a jolt. There he tells how it all might ’a’ ben, Explains how the world ought to be; How he’d do if he only could try it again: "Says 1 and says she and says he!” A FRIEND IN NEED. By ROE L. HENDRICK. When a mature horse “goes ugly,” t; re is so little hope of reformation tinr experienced horsemen make few ( , r n0 attempts to bring the animal hack to a normal state of mind and temper. Indeed, it is probable that a creature so afflicted is insane, and a!i the more dangerous for that rea son. If of little value, the animal usually falls before a ride bullet; but an expensive horse is killed only as a last resort, being confined in the meantime like a raging- lion. Asa matter of fact, of the two the lion is far more amenable to discipline. The difficulty is to tell when a real ly ugly horse will display all his vic iousness. He may appear mild —or, at least, not savage—for weeks at a time, and then, without warning, rush at the first living object within reach, displaying the ferocity of a carnivorous animal. Prince Chariey, a Clydesdale be longing to the Parker Stock Farm, cost S3OOO when imported. He was nervous and high spirited, but had been broken to harness, and for three years was driven about the adjacent country, attached to a sulky or dog cart, as freely as any other horse on the place. Tie was not even “skit tish,” and although he showed some excitement when driven close to an automobile or locomotive, he made no attempt to run away. Then he began to grow morose, sometimes striking or biting at stran gers who ventured near him. One day he was turned for exercise into the paddock, when he instantly rushed upon and killed two' prize Southdown sheep that were feeding in one corner. The poor animals n'ere bitten and trampled to death in a few seconds, the horse squealing and leaping in a rage as ungovern able as it was unprovoked. Four men were needed to get him back into a box stall, and they had to beat him severely to save their lives. From that moment no one could approach him with the slight est assurance of safety. 'v hen he was in a paroxysm of rage, no ordinary partition could hold him, so a stall of exceptional strength had to be built. About his exercise laid a ten foot fence was erected, the exterior gate being a panel of solid flanks, held in place by a £teel bar, or latch, a half-inch thick. All this, however, did not project stock farm employes, who had to constantly on their guard when IKar horse. The usual moment carelessness came, and David Ba one of the helpers, was terribly J f ten and bruisedr *He was dragged out alive, but not till Prince Charlie 1 Ijoen temporarily disabled by a ow ir °ni an iron bar. A few days later the county agent o* T he Society lor the Prevention of il y to Animals visited the farm, u ( companied by the district attorney. ~t olcl Parker flatly that the an * rnus t not be beaten again In a manner; and advised that, :! m e ! | e wa s vicious and dangerous, tning j- 0 (Jq a3 to jjjjj aj °lKr in R °nie humane manner. ‘0 this proposition the proprietor ‘• tired. “Kill him!” he exclaimed. p j hy * horse is worth $5000! ‘ pay all damages, of course; and ‘“• -•' that he isn’t abused. We GU;i la i' a finger on him, except to r >ue. bee here, gentlemen; just ! he precautions taken to pre- Gnr ' liim from escaping and doing #n y harm outside.” ov/ / tWO ol^cials w&re shown all '-he place, and were treated very urteously by Mr. Parker, who had Hrsuasive tongue. They left only 1 ' uivi need, however; and before ; JU ' dway > the district attorney said, llQ pressively: p f a l>preciate your position, Mr. to ’ anc * s y m Pathize with you up yoiiVi main point ’ That horse cost Piorn j ljIJ<J ’ you tb * nk worth even nm- °’ < * ay an d you hate to lose so m l !n °ney. But it may prove far hin ° pensive to keep than to kill • Besides the damages of which a8 Speak - should he kill a person, tha t ° U x aie known to be fully aware wom, , is iucur ably vicious, you trial # iiable to indictment and tor manslaughter,” Mr. Parker winced at this, but simply reiterated his intention to guard against all accidents. He cei tainly did bis best to see that this promise was fulfilled, but a mar gin for human error must always be allowed. One afternoon in the fol lowing August some one neglected to drop the latch securely in its slot; Prince Charlie, while - exercising, bumped against the yard gate; it swung open, and lie galloped into the road. When a terrified stable hand hur ried to tell Mr. Parker what had hap pened, the horse, amid a cloud of dust, had almost disappeared to the south. BEGIN. - ) j OSE this day loitering--’twill be the bm same story t TO-MORROW--and the next more dila / tory; JHEN INDECISION brings its own de^ AND DAYS ARE LOST lament%4p£ e r MRE YOU IN EARNFjOP Seize this very minute-- M/hat YOU QfjjgK* DO, or dream you GENIUS, POWER, and Q£s!Y ENGAGE, and then the mind j grows heated-- o-o-o EGIN IT, and the work will be com pleted. <rr O tJi Goethe's Faust Prince Charley had been more than unusually savage for a couple of days. It was a white faced, anxious man who summoned his helpers and set off in swift pursuit, dreading what he might find along the way. The road south of the Parker Stock Farm leads straight to the Copperknoll “slashing,” a half cleared woodland of several thousand acres, from which all the best stand ing timber has been removed. On the three intervening miles there were less than half a dozen houses, and travel was infrequent. But at this season the slashing was beginning to be visited by the fami lies of neighboring farmers, in quest of blackberries. The bushes covered many acres, and the fruit was ripen ing. By early September hundreds of bushels would be going to waste daily. On the day before Prince Charlie’s escape, Dan Brad way, passing through the slashing, had noted that the blackberries on the Hogsback, a bare, isolated hill with scanty soil more ex posed to the sun than that of the re mainder of the tract, were ripening freely. He told his mother of his find, and she resolved to be among the first to gather the berries. Taking her ten-year-old daughter, Ruth, Mrs. Bradway harnessed Billy, an undersized road horse, to a buck board, and with an assortment of tin pails, drove over to the Hogsback. She left the pony, tethered to a long ! rope, to graze near the road, and as ! cend’ed the hill. While the berries 1 were not so plentiful as they would be a fortnight later, they were of fine quality; and by two o’clock the two had gathered fourteen quarts. They had just filled the first milk pail, when a scream from Billy— the peculiar cry of distress that a horse never utters except in extreme P a ‘n or terror— called their attention to the foot of the slope. f hey ran to the brow of the hill an pai t way down before an opening in ie bushes permitted them to see clearly what was happening. Billy y his time had broken his rope, an ’ “ m Ping and bleeding, was flee ing toward them, pursued by a great dappled horse that was biting him savagely. So keen were flight and pursuit that the animals were up the hill and past them in a half minute. Mrs. Bradway had heard of Prince Charlie's viciousness, but for the mo ment did not identify hir. . She cried out, and shook her aprjpn at the horses as they passed. They paid no heed to her; but on the sum mit, Billy succeeded in escaping down a deep and narrow ravine, and then bis pursuer turned, caught sight of the woman, and ran straight for her. With her heart in her mouth, Mrs. Bradway recognized the horse. She seized Ruth’s hand, and rail, over rocks and through briers, toward a patch of woodland at the right. The nearest tree was a hundred yards away, and there was no other shelter anywhere about. But for an unexpected interven tion it have gone hard with the two, who probably would have been killed or maimed for life, for Prince Charlie ran five feet to their one. Hid den in their vicinity, however, was a humble friend, to whom they had given only the barest toleration till that moment. Grip was a homeless mongrel, a cross between a collie mother and an English bulldog father, whose owner had turned him adrift as soon as his peculiar qualities had become pain fully apparent with advancing growth. He locked neither like a snub nosed collie nor a long haired bulldog, but was such an absurd car icature of the two breeds combined that the first glance at his ungainly form always excited a smile of deri sion. He had sneaked up to the Brad-- way farm bouse two months before, and although driven away repeatedly, had always returned, having nowhere else to go. In pity, Mrs. Bradway had thrown him scraps of food, and had even occasionally patted his block like head, perhaps the only caress he had received since he parted with his mother. The dog was grateful, for he could not appreciate how much the woman was ashamed of him —and new was the time to display his grat itude. Grip had followed the buckboard unperceived, and was enjoying a live ly hunt for an elusive woodchuck when he heard the squeals of Billy, followed by the pounding of feet and the cries of Mrs. Bradway. Rushing across the slope, he saw a huge monster, with open mouth, charging after mother and daughter, and almost upon them. Mrs Bradway could almost feel the hot breath of Prince Charlie on her cheek, when, like an arrow, a small er body shot between her and the ap proaching peril, as the dog launched himself straight at the horse’s nose. He caught it, and his teeth almost met; but when Prince Charlie flung down his head, prepared to strike with his forefeet, Grip dropped back, only to spring and gash his huge an tagonist’s throat. Trembling with fright,-Mrs. Brad way thrust Ruth into the branches oi an oak, and climbed after her. Ar rived at a place of safety, she turned and saw Grip running on three legs, his duty done, while the horse, ren dered still more savage by his wounds, was wheeling to rush upon a party of men who had just descend ed from a light spring wagon. Tliej avoided him, but as he whirled about to fall upon the team, a shot from s rifle brought him down, and anothei quickly ended his career. Grip had a badly injured fore leg but lie also had earned a permanent home, and seemed greatly to rejoice at the balance to his credit. Billy re covered, although he was painfull} hurt. Mr. Parker paid all the dam ages, merely remarking that he fel pleased to get off so cheaply* Youth’s Companion. THREE BANZAIS! s£) M-Mkv —Cartoon by Trigg?, in the New York Press. GOLCONDA FOUND IN THE CANAL ZONE. \ ' Commissioner Collins, of Washington, D. C., Says Life is Pleasant and Living Economical at Colon—lndians Trade In Gold Nuggets-Gambllng Not Popular- All American Games Pursued as f J ( Outdoor Sports. \ New York City.—After spending fourteen months on an investigation along the canal zone regarding the allegations that have been brought against certain officials in the employ of the Canal Commission, J. H. Col lins returned from Colon, en route for Washington, D. C., to make his report. He declined to discuss it be fore submitting it to the authorities. Mr. Collins said last month was a record one for the amount of money sent to the United States by men em ployed along the canal. He found them all in good spirits and fond of baseball, bowling, tennis, rowing, and all kinds of healthy outdoor sports. Gambling is not popular nor drinking to any ectent, Mr. Collins found, and this had been so marked during the last year that many of the saloon and gambling house pro prietors in Colon and Panama have closed up and gone to pastures new. The health of the employes as a whole was good, he said, and the labor conditions at the present time satisfactory. Excellent food at cost price is sent down by the Canal Com mission twice a week for the em ployes and their families. “Just before leaving Panama,” said Mr. Collins, “I jnet Baron von Tuber. He was sent out by the Smithsonian Institution to study the conditions of the San Bias Indians, who live in the interior of the Re public of Panama, about seventy miles up the coast on the Pacific side. He told some of the most ' JAPAN’S CORDIAL WELCOME. ■ y ' Tlic Reception of the American PSeet W'as Elaborate and Perfectly Carried Out. Tokio, Japan.—The reception ac corded the American Atlantic fleet by the Government and people of Japan is conceded by the American naval officers to be the heartiest and most perfectly carried out of tiie many re ceptions received by the fleet since it sailed from Hampton Roads. Rear- Admiral Sperry said that he was ut terly unable to say how it had been accomplished, but that the welcome given the *flee.t and its officers and men here had been so carefully planned and carried out to the most minute details that lasting impression has been stamped upon the mind of every American who has witnessed it. It is impossible to doubt the sin cerity of the Japanese. The Ameri can officers and sailors are already beginning to understand the fact that the evident desire on the part of the Japanese for the friendship of Amer ica is not founded upon opportunism, but finds its source in a sincere wish to show that such friendship, at least on the part of the Japanese, has ex isted always, and that this visit of the FORTY FOOT FOSSIL FOUND. Complete Tyrannosaurus Rex Now Tor Anierlcan Natural History Museum. New York City.—Dr. Henry Fair field Osborn, president of the Ameri can Museum of Natural History, re ceived word from Great Falls, Mon., that a research party from the mu seum, headed by B-arnum Brown, had discovered part of the skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus rex, a prehistoric ani mal, in the Bad Lands several miles south of Glasgow, Mon. The fossil, which is forty feet long and twenty-two feet high, has a per fect skull, an entire set of ribs, back bone and hip girdle and practically supplements the specimen discovered in the same section in 1902. Ever since the first fossil of the “king of the reptiles,” as the Tyran Nebraska University Orders Girls to Go Bareheaded. Lincoln, Neb. —The State Univer sity senate adopted a rule forbidding young women students to wear hats in classrooms. . The order was made necessary by feminine headgear which had grown so large that it not only tested the capacity of the classrooms but interfered with recitations. An other rule adopted prohibits students indulging in shirt-tail parades or kid naping class officers to break up so cial gatherings, on penalty of imme diate expulsion. thrilling adventures I have ever heard. His companions, two Ameri can boys, were killed by the Indians last January. ‘‘The Baron described the San Bias country as being very rich and the natives warlike. He was certain there is plenty of gold back in the mountains, as the Indians traded for merchandise in gold nuggets, which had evidently been washed down some mountain stream. He said that the difficulties to be encountered in the San Bias country were very great, as there were no roads at all, the only means of travel being by canoes, and navigating tortuous waterways, where an exploring party could be easily ambushed. In addition to the Indians there was the malignant black-water fever to be contended with. “The Baron is making monthly ex peditions into the San Bias country .on behalf of the Panama Govern ment to teach the natives how to get rid of the swarms of locusts that de stroy their crops. He stays in as long as his provisions last. Pie is ac companied by his brother, a Pleidel berg student. The baron said it would be perilous for any white man to attempt to reach the mountains in search of the gold, as the natives have never allowed any strangers to into the interior. He was there on suffrance,* and had to be always on the alert. Their coun try is rich in coal and all kinds of minerals.” * - fieet lias merely afforded tbs Japan ese an opportunity for that expres sion. Admiral Sperry was received at the imperial palace. On the next day the admirals and captains of the fleet were the guests of the Emperor at the palace. Admiral Sperry conveyed to the Emperor a message from Pres ident Roosevelt. This message breathes a spirit of friendship and sympathy and expresses keen expres sions of the traditional friendship be tween the two nations and an earnest wish for tt3 strengthening and con tinuance of the friendly relations of the past. Three thousand sailors from the American fleet were granted shore liberty daily, and it is remarkable that notwithstanding their long con finement aboard ship not a single dif ficulty has been reported, bearing out the statement of Admiral Sperry, made in one of his speeches here, that the American sailor of to-day is the result olKhat development and edu cation which Japan is seeking in every department of her national life. nosaurus rex is called, was found, re search parties from the American Museum have been searching through the Bad Lands for a specimen that would complete the missing parts. The first fossil had good hind limbs but incomplete back bones. Dr. Os born said that he believed the two specimens are about the same size and that the museum will now be enabled to mount the animal com plete. During the five years of search fragments of Tyrannosaurus rex have been found from time to time. Dr. Osborn said zoologists would be highly elated over this second dis covery. Shirt Sleeves For Church, Says Bishop Hamilton to Ministers. Boston, Mass. Bishop John W. Hamilton, formerly of California, speaking to Methodist ministers of the immigrant and how he should be assimilated, said: “I return to New England and I find anew New Eng land. I tell you to gather them into the churches. Break down your prej udices, social barriers. They will come.in if you want them. Get down to shirt sleeves and make a pair of them the Methodist church’s coat of arms. ” Household Matters. nmm ' Chocolate Mold. Two ounces of chocolate, soma whipped cream, half a teaspoonful of vanilla extract, cue and a half cup fuls of milk, two yolks of eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, cno heaping tablespoonful powdered gelatiD. Remove the saucepan from the fire, add the remainder of the milk, gel atin, sugar and yolks of eggs. Stir again over the fire until almost boil ing, strain into a basin, add vanilla, cool slightly. Pour into a wet mold and set aside in a cool place. Serve with whipped cream.—New York Press. • Curry of Fish. Three hard-boiled eggs, two table spoonfuls of butter or dripping, two tablespoonfuls of flour, one dessert spoonful of chutney, two cupfuls of milk, half a pound of cooked fisb, three ounces of boiled rice. Melt the butter in a saucepan, stir in the flour smoothly, stir it over the fire for a few minutes, then add the curry powder and chutney. Next add the milk and stir the sauce over the fire till it boils and thickens. Next cut the eggs into slices and the fish into flakes. Add them and the rice to the sauce, mix well together. Pile it up on a hot dish and garnish with croutons of bread. —New York Press. Gateau of Cherries With Cream. One pound of cherries, juice of half a lemon, half a cupful of sugar, half a cupful of whipped cream, one and a half cupfuls of water, one and a half heaping tablespoonfuls of powdered gelatine, a few drops of red coloring. Wash and pick the cherries, then cut them in two and remove the stones. Put .hem in a saucepan with the water, lemon juice and sugar; cook gently till tender. Strain the juice from the cherries and measure it; if not one and a half cupfuls, make up the quantity with water. Return this juice to the sauce pan, add the gelatine and a. few drops of red coloring. Stir ever the lira until the gelatine is dissolved. Place the cherries in a ring mold that has been rinsed out with cold water, then strain the liquid over them. Set aside till firm, then turn out and fill the centre with whipped and sweetened cream. New York Press. ■ ■" Broiled Shoulder of Lamb. Have you ever tried broiling a shoulder of lamb instead of roasting it? Here is the way an English woman, who knows all there is to know about cooking mutton, does it and declares it is delicious. “I choose a shoulder of lamb that is young and small. In buying lamb see that the kidney fat is abundant, semi-transparent and clean and there is no softness or discoloration, which shows the meat to be on the verge of spoiling. ‘'Put the roast in a moderate oven for about half an hour. Use as iittlo water in the pan as will prevent burn ing. “Take it out and rub both sides with melted butter, black pepper and a dash of cayenne and a little lemon juice. Broil over a clear and mod erate fire until well done. “Serve either with brown gravy or sauce piquante. The latter is nice when you use the lamb for iate sup per with a salad and Hollandaise po tatoes. “To make the sauce put one ounce of butter, three ounces of water, a tablespoonful of vinegar, a quarter of a teaspoonful of flour, yolk of one egg and a little stock into a saucepan and place on a good fire. Stir till thick, but do not let it boil. “After removing from the fire stir in slowly a teaspoonful of lemon juice.”—New York Press. 7 Ho VS E HINTS Jh Try mixing ginger cookies with cold coffee instead of water. A pan of borax and sugar kept under the sink will soon destroy roaches. | In mixing mustard add a drop or two of olive oil. It will greatly im prove the flavor. One source of impurity of milk and cream is damp, poorly ventilated cel lars and milk rooms. If you use too much salt by mis take, add a trifle of sugar or of vin egar, according to the dish. The matter of cfeanliness in the dairy is after all more a matter of inspiration than of education. Salt will curdle new milk. In pre paring porridge and gravies salt should not be added until the dish i3 prepared. Always cook vegetables grown above ground in salted water, those which grow beneath the ground in fresh water. Cream that is too thin to whip may be made to do so by adding the un beaten white of an egg before be ginning to whip it. To prevent fruit pies from boiling over while baking, add a tablespoon ful of cornstarch to the fruit. Sweet en the fruit to taste, add cornstarch and heat before adding the crust. A good rule for ironing a shirt waist is: Sleeves first, then waist. If back gets wrinkled when ironing front, then iron on wrong side, as armholes can thus be nicely la'&a* ierad.