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During the noon meal the superintendent remarked that the door of the violent ward was being repaired nnd that the guards would have to be unusually watchful until It was fin ished After dinner the Indies went for n stroll down the beautiful lane lending tip to the main building. Sud denly they heard footsteps as of some one running behind them nnd were horrified on looking around to see n di sheveled, wild eyed man pursuing them One of the women quietly stepped to the side of the road. The other, screaming nt the top of her voice, ran down the road with the ma niac close upon her heels. At Inst, spent with running nnd gasping with fright, crouching In anticipation of the blow which she was expecting, she waited her fate. The man, panting and grinning, tapped her lightly on the shoulder nnd said: •’Tng! You’re It.” Cleveland Deader. Mohammedan Serenity. A Mohammedan people enjoy one great advantage over all others—they never suffer from the anticipation of thant which Is to come, and, as a natu ral result, they can always enjoy the present, although only a few hours may separate them from disaster or •von from death. Their Implicit be lief In an ordained future Imparts n dignified repose and outward calm to all their actions. Thus, In spite of the trials and troubles which threatened the state during my stay at Fez, a smooth surface of unchangeable seren ity Veiled the Inner thoughts of every individual, from the sultan to the ne gro at hie gates.-Blackwood Magazine. London Street Noises. A hundred years or so ago nA pun ishment could have been worse than that of subjecting the victim to the inferno of modern London noises if they had then existed. Dropping we ter on the forehead, torturing with tweezers, setting food before the starv ing culprit out of reach all of these were exquisite nnd retim'd forms of horror, but they all pale liefore a night ami n day In a modern London street. —Town nnd Country. His Defsnss. Cobble You certainly have a good cook By the way. where do you get your servants? Stone From our neigh bors When we hear of a good one among them we offer her more money to come with us. Cobble But, my dear fellow, is that honorable? Stone —Why not? Can you develop n sense of honor with a poor digestion?- Life. Quite a Difference. First Comedian What’s the differ ence between a beautiful young girl and a codtish? Second Comedian— Give It up. First Comedian Ono has a chance to become a fall bride and the other to become a ball fried Brooklyn Engle. Plant Wood’s Seeds For The Garden & Farm. Thirty years in business, with a steadily increasing trade every year—until we have to-day one of the largest businesße*s in seeds in this country—is the bexst of evidence as to TAe Superior Quality of Wood’s Seeds. We are headquarters for Grass and Clover Seeds. Seed Potatoes. Seed Oats. Cow Peas, Soja Beans and adl Farm Seeds. Wood’s Descriptive Catalog the most useful and valuable of Garden and Fann seed <Catalogs mailed free or. request. T. W. WOOD & SONS. Saadsmen, . Rtohmond. Va The Subaltern’s Retort. When Sir lan Hamilton was in South Africa acting as chief of staff to Lord Kitchener he had occasion to visit rath er a large dejiot of which a young of ficer was In command. Going through certain papers; General Hamilton found that these were not quite In order and at last said rather wearily to the of ficer: “You know this sort of thing will not do at all. What do you sup pose your brains were given you for?” “I am sure I do not know, general,” was the cheerful reply. “Since I came here I have worked sixteen hours a day and more. I have acted as mule teamster, porter, van guard, supply clerk, station master, order’,, room clerk, typist and a dozen other things. I think If I had not been endowed with brains I might have managed to take on two or three more Jobs as well, but as it Is I must admit I am some what handicapped.” Sir lan Hamilton was forced to laugh, and shortly after the young officer found himself attached to the general’s personal staff. - London Tit- Bits. Psychic Phenomena. The Chinese believe that the po is “equivalent to the supraliminal self, the visible personality interpenetrating and indissolubly attached to the body, the him being the subliminal or invisi ble self, also Interpenetrating the body, but not indissolubly attached to it.” For instance, “the bun of a girl elop ed with a lover, leaving the physical body Informed by the p’o only, and there she 1 In bed, a semiconscious invalid, for everal years, until the re turn of a runaway pair, who had been duly married and were bringing home a couple of children. While the aston ished parents were wondering what to make of It all, the girl in the bed got up and went out to meet herself. The two fell Into each other’s arms, and there and then, In the presence of spec tators, they coalesced and became one —one ordinary woman, dressed, how ever, In two complete suits of clothes.” —Theosophical Bevlew. Weighing Touch. A remarkable Instrument is that used for the purpose of measuring the sense of touch. Tills device consists of a series of little disks, each three milli meters In diameter, suspended by fine, delicate thread from wooden handles, the last being stuck Into holes round a block. The lightest disk Is taken out and brought into contact with the skin of the subject, he having his eyes closed. If nothing is felt a heavier disk is employed, and so on until the pressure becomes noticeable. The disks weigh from one to twenty milli grams, and with their aid it has been proved that the sense of touch in the average person is conveyed by two mil ligrams on the forehead, temple and back of the forearm, five for the nose and the chin and fifteen for the inner surface of the fingers.—New York Trib une. The Assassins. The Assassins were a religious and military order who came into exist ence during the eleventh century in Persia and who devoted themselves to the destruction after stealthy approach of all who opposed the .Moslem faith in any way. The crusaders met with n branch of these desperate zealots In Syria, and many of the warriors of the cross were shdn relentlessly and with mysterious suddenness In consequence. The Tartars exterminated the Persian Assassins In 1256, nnd fourteen years later the Syrian band of murderers was wiped out by an Egyptian ruler. But the name they bore remains as a designation of dread. Herbert Spencer’s Regret. Mr. Tollemnehe In his reminiscences tells this story about Herbert Spencer: “Toward the close of his life Speneer frequented a boarding house, and, chancing to meet a lady who had often dined within earshot of him, I asked her if she could remember any wise sayings of his. After pondering for some time she answered: ’1 can re member one of his remarks. He said that “making good melted butter is a lost art in England.” ’ ” The Eccentrics. “I understand the Neweds are hav ing trouble,” remarked the spinster boarder. “Some people take her part, and some others side with him.” “And I suppose.” growled the scanty haired bachelor nt the pedal extremity of the mahogany, “there are a few ec centric people who mind their own business.”—C hicago News. Unconcerned. An incident illustrating the placidity, if so It may be called. of the Duke of Wellington has reference to a naval officer, a near connection of the duke. The ship which this officer command ed was lost, nnd be himself was drown ed. When the news whs communicated to the duke, he merely exclaimed, •"That's the second ship he has lost!” Hard to Please. “Your audiences scented shocked by the show.” “At first.” answered the manager, “but we expurgated it." *And then?” “Then they seemed disappointed.”— Exchange. . Balm For Fat Men. Every picture of the devil in human form represent/ him as very tall, very •lender and elegantly dressed. The fat men next all the comfort they can get and may find uome in this. -Atchi son Globe There Is < y. t -ure for public dis tress and t bile education, di rected to i»G thoughtful. mercl- fu. and Just Rusk i ( Where Chess Is Most Popular. Games may come and games may go, but chess blds fair never to loss Its popularity. Nowhere else Is It so popu lar as it is in the village of Strobeck, near Halberstadt, in Prussian Saxony. Some time in the eleventh century Count Gunnelin, held a prisoner In a stone tower in the village, amused himself by carving a set of chessmen and teaching the game to his Jailers. The tower, which still stands, Is known as the Chess tower. The Jailers tafight the game to their friends, who were so pleased with It that they devoted all their spare time to practice. This de light in chess continues to the present in Strobeck. Every person plays. The village hotel is called the Chess inn, tournaments are held every year, and prizes are given to the best players. If a young man goes to an adjoining vil lage for a wife who cannot play chess he must pay a fine, to be used toward the expenses of the next tournament This subtle ordinance has spread a knowledge of the game among the young ladies of all the surrounding vil lages. Bruges. What is flte right pronunciation of this word? It is usually pronounced by English people ns if It were French, with a soft, sibilant g, and in one syl lable. Is there any Justification for this? In the first place, why Is It not Anglicized. like Waterloo? And if not English, why French? Why not Flem ish? In Bruges Itself you do not hear the French pronunciation. It is the Flemish —Bru-ya. Ask at the station If this is Bruges (a la Francaise), and they will hardly understand you. They will say, “It is Bru-ya.” In Longfel low's “Carillon,” and also in “The Bel fry of Bruges,” the word has two syl lables. Is this Intended to be read with the Flemish pronunciation (Bru ya) or in the English fashion (to rhyme, say, with “subterfuges”)? It cannot be the French. It may be said that an American poet Is no rule for Eng lish people, but the word also occurs, I believe, In one of Browning’s poems (I cannot remember which) with two syl lables.—London Notes and Queries. Orchestral Oversights. The snare drummer happened to catch a selection that called for the use of half a dozen or more Instruments. To make the shift from one to an other he had to hustla in a fashion that nightly Impressed persons sitting near. When he had finished the lively Opera tion he was puffing and blowing and the perspiration was coming out in streams. A man Just outside the or chestra rail leaned forward and, point ing to the score, remarked: “That was good work, old man, but you missed ono place.” “I did!” responded the drummer in surprise. “Why, I thought I played everything that came my way.’’ “No,” the other resumed, “you didn’t do everything, and I saw the leader glance nt you. Right there, in the mid dle of thnt measure, is a place where it says you should have gone down cellar and shaken the furnace, and you didn’t pay any attention to it.”—Prov idence Journal. Suiting His Theory. “When I hear of a new theory,” said a scientist, “I am reminded of the two geologists. At a certain summer re sort one brilliant afternoon the young er geologist from his bedroom window saw the older man rolling a great rock down the side of a mountain. “He watched the work for nearly three hours. The old geologist, thin and little and white whiskered, had a hard time of It to guide that rock al most as big as himself. But he per severed. He got the rock down where he wanted It Just as the dinner bell rang. “The younger man said to him won deringly at dinner: “ ‘What were you doing with that rock this afternoon, professor?’ “ ‘Why,’ the professor answered, ‘the fact is the thing was 600 feet too high to suit niy theory.' ” Willing to End the Company. A Chicago man who once permitted himself to be persuaded to back a the atrical company was seated In his of fice one day when he received a tele gram from the manager of the show. The troupe was somewhere In Mis souri. nnd the telegram read thus: “Train wrecked this morning and nil scenery and baggage destroyed. No member of company Injured. What shall 1 do?” The answer sent back by the Chicago man was as follows: “Try another wreck and have the company ride In the baggage car.”— Chicago Record-Hernld. Gently Broken. “You were a long time in the fnr cor ner of the conservatory last evening," suggested the mother. “What was go ing on?” “Do you remember the occasion on which you became engaged to papa?” Inquired the daughter byway of reply. “Os course I do.” “Then It ought not to be necessary for you to ask any questions.” Thus gently the news was broken that they were to have a son-in-law. Art of Eating. Eating Is not merely an enjoyment It Is a science that must be learned, an art that must be acquired by Intelli gent patience. The man who at mid dle age has not discovered what and how much is suitable for him has not finished his education.—Health. Lots of Reasons. Robbies—l don’t sec w»jy any actor should ever be out of a job. Bobbins— Why? Robbins According to the ad vertieementa. every good play is ftrl! of good aftßatloaa.-Excbanga. Three Royal Toasts. The ‘'Grevllle Memoirs” tells this story of King William IV. of England and the Duke of Cumberland, his brother: “During dinner loud voices were heard, which soon became more vehement. Both brothers had drunk more than usual, and the duke had lost his temper and his head. Then for the first time King William sus pected the idea which from that time was never out of Duke Eftest’s mind— that he ought to be the next king of England should no male children sur vive his brother, William IV. The duke, rising, said: ‘Call in the suit. I am proposing a toast. The king’s health; God save the king.’ The suit came In and drank it. Then the duke said, ‘May I also, sir, propose the next toast?’ ‘Name It, your grace,’ replied the king. ‘The king’s heir,’ proudly said the duke, ‘and God bless him!’ “A dead silence followed. Then the king, collecting all his energies and wits, stood up and called out, ‘The king’s heir; God bless her!’’ Then, throwing the glass over his shoulder, he turned to his brother and exclaimed, ‘My crown came with a lass, and my crown will go to a lass!’ Every one noticed that the duke did not drink the toast. He left the room abruptly.” A Kind Hearted Waiter. A surprising experience was that of a lady who received a bit of advice on table etiquette. She is sufficiently free from vanity to tell the story herself. She says: I know that I am not a person of impressive appearance. I am inclined to be short and stout and to dress plainly. Still, I had hoped that I had an air of acquaintance with polite so ciety. But now’ I shall be more mod est than ever in my idea of the impres sion I make upon strangers. At my first meal at the hotel where I passed last summer I was pleased with the face of my waiter. It was radiant with kindliness and good na ture. I began my dinner with soup and fish. As the waiter set them in front of me he glanced at the persons of fashionable appearance who were my neighbors at table. His kind heart was suddenly struck with the fear that I might make an unfortunate Impres sion on them. He bent down and whispered in my ear: “Eat your soup first.” Grooming. Anciently man thought more highly of his horse than of his womenkind. But woman, as it chanced, was crafty. “Why does he esteem his horse be yond his wife?” she asked herself and resolutely faced the task of finding out. Her first answer was: “The horse will carry a heavier load.” Her next: “The horse doesn’t talk back at him.” But neither of these, somehow, im pressed her as being correct. “Most likely,” she declared at length, ‘‘lt’s In the grooming. Well, I’ll just be well groomed myself and see.” It was a lucky guess, and from that time forward woman’s position rose relatively until In our day the horse has scarcely a look in even at the horse show. —Puck. Her Darling’s Desire. "My darling,” said a fond mother, who believed In appealing to children’s tender feelings Instead of punishing them, "if you are so naughty you will grieve mamma so that she will get 111 and have to lie In bed In a dark room and take nasty medicine, and then she may die and have to be taken away out to the cemetery and be burled, and you”— The child had become more solemn, but an angelic smile overspread his face at his mother's last words, and, throwing his arms about her neck, he exclaimed: “Oh, mamma, and may I sit beside the coachman?”—London Queen. The Age of Man. It Is generally admitted by scientists that men lived on the earth contempo raneously with the big nosed rhinoc eros, which became extinct about the beginning of the glacial period. That period, so high an authority as the late John Fiske assures us, probably began not less than 240,000 years ago and came to an end 80,000 years ago. How long man existed on the earth prior to the glacial period we have no means of knowing.—New York American. Puzzled. Mrs. Gnswell—Who is that man who looked at you as If he knew you? Mrs. Highsome—He is a man who has done some professional work for rile once or twice. He’s a chiropodist. Mrs. Gas well—Chiropodist? Oh, yes; I’ve heard of them. They don’t believe in foreordlnatlon, do they?—Chicago Trib une. To What Base Uses. Etc. One of our State street brokers re ceived a note from a customer bear ing the cryptic message. “Richard HL, act 1, line ISS.” Turning to the pas sage he read. “Now, by St. Paul!” and next moment be had given the order.— Boston Transcript Useless Prayers. An earnest young preacher in a re mote country village concluded a long ■nd comprehensive supplication by say ing, “And now let us pray for those who are dwelling In the uninhabited portions of the earth.” Willing He Should Know. A certain boastful man asserts that he knows how to play on two cornets at once, and the neighbors say that they do not object to his knowing bow, but that he had better not try to do it. The man who la always trying to find out what people him Is sel dom happy. -- ■ jflr Bl I I II l H I I i I ■ ,*« '■ *8 ! Fixing Things j For Arthur. | By HENRY BERLINGOFF. I Copyrighted, 1909, by Associated ? J Literary Press. j fil l llltl g , |t t T - T T _ T - . rt Arthur Lynwood looked longingly after Irma Shelby, and Dick, his small brother, glanced up shrewdly into his clean cut face. “Mushy,” he said shrewdly, “why don’t you marry her?” “You scamp!” began Arthur. Then he paused. Dick was only twelve, but more than once the busy little brain under the thatch of red hair had helped the big brother through a tight place. “I wish I knew her, old chap,” he went on in a different voice. “I’m not mushy, but—well, you know how it is yourself. I can’t very well force my self on her, and when we have no wo men folks to call on her I don’t se© how we are going to make it.” "They certainly are hard folks to get next to,” admitted Dick. "They’ve been here a month and two days now, and even gabby Mrs. Pitkin can’t get in with them. I guess there isn’t any chance for us, Art, just the three of us men.” Arthur smiled at the phrase “us men.” But, after all, Dick was one of sOJUr jHJ 1 // W I bWI 11 "I WANT HIM TO MAURY A TOP NOTCHER MKB YOU.” the three who had been very lonely in the big house since Mrs. Lynwood had answered the call of the great beyend. So, with an affectionate pat on the back and a brisk “Never mind, old fellow,” Arthur watched Dick turn into the schoolyard. Dick swung around suddenly after Arthur and tugged at his coat sleeve. “Don’t worry until I see what I can do for you,” he commanded, then turn ed and sped back as the last bell was ringing. The promise cheered Arthur oddly. Dick was fertile in Invention and could be trusted to bring about even this coveted acquaintance if it could possibly be done. The Shelbys had kept very much to themselves since they had come to town. Inquiring busybodies had been told by the maid that Mrs. Shelby was too ill to receive callers as yet. She begged to be excused for a few weeks more, and the girl—Arthur bad discovered that her name was Irma had shared her mother’s seclusion. Despite bis confidence in Dick, Ar thur was rather surprised that even ing when Miss Shelby came running out of the house as he passed. Evi dently she had been watching for him, and Arthur paused uncertainly as she reached the gate. “You are Mr. Lynwood?” she said, with questioning inflection. “And you are Miss Shelby?” he re turned. “I am at your service.” “It's about your brother and my brother,” she began in pretty embar rassment “It seems that your brother made an entirely unprovoked attack upon mlye after school this afternoon. Poor Robert was badly treated. He is not accustomed to mixing with boys —and he knows little about fighting. I understand that your brother promised him another thrashing tomorrow.” "I shall speak to Dick this evening,” promised Arthur, but Just as he gave the assurance Dick came tearing out of the Lynwood house, and Arthur called him across the street. He came promptly, for Dick was not a boy to shirk responsibilities. He re garded Irma with mild amusement as Arthur repeated her statement. "He started it.” Insisted Dick stoutly. “I guess no fellow’s going to he.anhis brother called names. Your broth; r said mine was a dude and a nrettj boy. and Art ain’t that It’s different being just good looking.’’ “Never mind that.” ordered Arthur hastily. “That is no excuse for you to hit him.” “That wasn’t all,” supplemented Dkk. "He called you a big stiff and said that if you had any get up and get about you you'd get married and give me another mother to keep me from being lonely, and I told him that there wasn’t anybody good enough for you. and he said anybody was good enough for you, and then I lammed him a good one. and there was a fight It wasn’t much of a fight, though,” he added, with contempt. “I had to chase him four blocks to get in one punch.” • i “Do you understand that you will be . thrashed if you lay hands on young Shelby again?" demanded Arthur sori ously. "I’ll lick him if lie talks about you," declared Dick truculently. He then proceeded to address l.is remarks to Miss Shelby. "An's Just the best ever." he plain,d. "Ev.-r since hmtiicr di. d bi/iflgglß i 1 ...:.,- everything for ni". ami 1 ain't ing to have any boy call him and say that any girl is good for him to marry. When lie marries want him to marry a !■ p mm lier you.” AMU The girl’s face went crimson at praise and its suggestion, but she /fl smiled into the freckled face before she turned to Arthur. "I shall see that Robert is punished if he repeats his offense,” she prom ised, "and I don't blame such a loyal ■ little hero worshiper for defending his big brother. I don't blame aiMMfl j. r n [•••■■ i f r :<n instant on gr.tv.-. It.indsome fa.ee. “1 shall ''m? to s ■.■ y 'ii should you care to be b >rly, Mr. Lynwood. Mother is im- 1 proving, but she wi ties to be stronger «■ . before site faces the influx of the kind- ’ 1 ly and the curious.” ] “I shall be glad to run.in this even- J ing if I may,’’ was tbejijuick response, 1 and Arthur was too eat. r for an m win i with wliii '.i Dick favored him. ' The girl gave assent promptly, and the big and the little brother bowed. I lek hung back at the Lynwood gate. "I got something to do,” he ex plained reproachfully. “You were late j this evening. You always come home ’ about 5.” “A client came In at the last mo ment,” explained Arthur. “Were you waiting to see me?” “Only about an hour,” answered Dick. “I figured she would lay for you at the gate, and I wanted to finish off the job. I'!’ be home in about an hour. Art.” He dashed off clown the street and by a circuitous route reached the rear of the Shelby bouse, where the plump and > •.""what clierubic Rober, v. , playing by himself. lie started to run when Dick ap peared on the scene, but the more active lad had ills victim pinioned by the arms, while one mittened hand was clapped over the squirming one’s mouth. ■ “I ain’t going to hurt you—now,” ■ promised Dick. “I just want to talk mJ to you. You told your sister that I 1 punched you for nothing, didn’t you?” B “That’s just what you did.” wailed J Bob Shelby. 1 “That ain’t so,” corrected Dick. “I did punch you for something, but I ain’t telling you what for. I told your sister that I licked you for calling my brother names, and if you ever dare E say that it ain’t so I'll get you In a corner where you can't run away and ! —you'll know how !t-fee!s to ba in a I dynamite explosion. I can do. it, can't I'.-” he added fiercely, nnd the Ing lad assured his lord nnd master [ that he certainly could. ( “I don’t want to have to do it,” ex plained Dick. “You're so soft that if . I beat you much you’ll get ‘out of shape, and you ain’t got too much ' shape as it is. You'll,make a fierce brother-in-law, Skinny, but I suppose . that I’ll have to stand you, for I’ve been fixing things for Arthur and— well, I guess you go with the family.” I ■ i So Near and Yet So Far. “I've lived for twenty years in New York apartments,” said a man who , would rather pay rent than shovel suow , around his own home, “and I've en i countered some extraordinary wrin- t , kies in that form of existence. But the queerest thing of all happened a few • days ago.” [ “Rent reduced?” asked an alleged humorist. “No. In the apartment over me has lived for four years a family whicA I came to know pretty well. While iot ■ on visiting terms, we met often a.id ’ J . agreeably. The head of the house was a fine fellow, for whom I entertained a . sincere liking. “Well, sir, this man. a familiar ac quaintance, living in the same house with me, died suddenly and had been buried nearly two weeks before I beard of his death, and then I learned. • of it quite accidentally through a . chance remark by the elevator boy. • “A neat commentary on New York ; life, isn't it? I wonder what they'd think of it down on the old farm?” — > New York Globe. A Canine Marvel. ’ I A contirar. rei ii B fl fl '■ the case of a lioss-sliire wli- _-e collie was unfi rtnmie enough fl to be caught in a steel vermin trap. sB ! | The gamekeeper, gun in band, was fl soon on the scene, but In the short ~ time the dog had become quite infuri i i ated with pain. Having nothing suit- • I able for muzzling the animal and scar- ! ing to place his foot upon the trap : i spring with the dog’s jaws free, the - | gamekeeper placed the gun barrels in ■ the dog's mouth and held them there > ‘ while easing the spring. With a vi- ‘ cious snap the teeth < lased on fl| fl up