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Brazil and Peru are threatening to
go to war They should bo spanked
Funny misprint In the Boston Tran
script— ‘Knd Edward” for the king of
England ' r
The assertion - that Joseph Cham
- berlaln Is enjoying poor health Is cer
talnly untrue ‘ t : ‘
After all are we really ready to
bear 'patiently with the ls it 'hot
enough for you?” bore?
Mr W K Vanderbilt Jr has' sold
all his racing automobiles ' Did the
life Insurance folks protest?
Taxes are to be increased in Eng-
land so that the royal family may
not bare to discharge any of its help
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The sword is mightier than the pea
r in the far East At least the corre-
spondents are not able to get to the
front -
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’ New York teachers And they are at
liberty to marry Nothing further is
needed beyond the desire and the
chance
‘
- ‘ AS the Russian ambassador will go
’ to Bar Harbor this summer the Japa-
nese tninister will probably go some
where else
r -- - r
Any one who had taken the troUbls
j y to lay up a good nary for a rainy day
'doubtless could sell it to Russia at an
advanced price
V‘'V " — — W ! I i
Give a man a seed catalogue and a
woman a fashion chart and they will
solve the problem of what to do with
7 ther surplus cash ' ‘
General Ma has been very quiet
during the past week or two Per-
haps he has succeeded in finding a
man under the bed
Jersey ai plejack is said to prevent
y hydrophobia and cause “snakes” The
economic and moral stales of the
fluid is thus open to debate
t '' r 11 " 1 " 1
There are said to be forty ways
of telling a woman you love her and
there are thirty-nine ways in which
she may pretend to misunderstand
you i -
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Georgia expects to produce 6000
carloads of peaches thts season Geor-
forts she puts forth to make herself
gia really deserves credit for the ef-
useful ’
It Is said to cost but 13 cents to
‘ make a gallon of whisky But don’t
attempt to test this until you ‘ have
consulted the Internal revenue au-
thorities ' ' ' ’
After 'advertising jor a husband
a Baltimore - woman kllledhereelf
Perhaps she had begun to realize the
sort of husband that 'could be pro-
cured In this way '
A Philadelphia Judge has decided
that a wife does 'not own her hus-
‘band’s pay envelope' That may be
the law but she will regard it as an
1 obsolete technicality
A San Francisco man has invented
'an airship that sails It is propelled
by a fifty horse power engine and
may be depended upon to smash some-
' i thing the first time It falls
The latest marvel in the surgical
' line is the heart massage This new
r treatment will probably save the lives
of many baseball enthusiasts when
the season is fully under way -
At this distance the glory of Jap-
an's victory on the Yalu completely
obscures the sorrow for the hundreds
y'j - of Jbe dead and the untold suffering
of the thousands who were wounded
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After his successful slx-mlle trip
from San Franeisco In bis airship
Dr Greth could probably make an en-
'gagement at Port Arthur even with-
out waiting to perfect his new ma-
t f' chine-
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V ' "Forget ipy bad habits” wrote a de-
: Apondent man in New Jersey Just be-
1 fore committing suicide That’s what
' 'many of us want our friends to do In---tii
stead of trying to break them off our-
? selves ’
” 1 Lillian Russell denies the soft matrl-
' -monlal impeachment and declares that
- to her stage happiness transcends all
the Joys of married life She ought to
know She has had varied experience
- ’ with both'
The ' Havana waiters who struck
against an order prohibiting them
from serving soup In whiskers wers
unduly hasty The ' order may be
amended to prohibit them from serv-
ing whiskers la the soup ' ' v
Cupid had stolen upon her in the
night He had fired An arrow ‘ and
fled She felt the delicious tingle
of the wound in her heart and won-
dered if it was Jovq
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CHAPTER TEN
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Samuel Lemuel Rounds
'“The Roundses don’t fun much tew
ance8try 1 reckon leastwise our end
on ’em don’t” Sam Rounds had ex-
plained to John Burt on one occasion
“Course I’ve got a lot of ancestors
back somewhar but who’n thunder
they are blamed f I know!”
It Is reasonably well established
that a Rounds settled in Rehoboth
fully one hundred years before Sam
was born but the latter’s recollection
did not extend back of his father — one
Hiram Rounds The annals of Hiram
Rounds and his family can be epito-
mized In one word — work
“Dad shorely was er hard worker
an no mistake" explained Sam
“When thar wa’nt no work tew dew
on our farm he’d hire out tew ther
neighbors fer fifty er seventy-five
cents er day And at night we’d all
shave hoops after supper working ’til
nine an’ sometimes ten o’clock In
the winter dad would haul logs tew
Newport He shorely was the Cham-
plonworker ’round Rehoboth Lots er
strong young ' fellers came up from
Attleboro and tried to mow a swath
with dad but he bushed all on ’em”
“Killing himself to Jive” mused
John Burt
“Wall I reckon' he did — leastwise
Doc Reynolds Mowed so Dad died
when he was forty-eight He teamed
all night three nights runnln’ workln’
out the poll-tax fer the neighbors an’
he had er stroke Doc warned him
then tew let up erblt but dad Just
somehow couldn’t and he pitched in
ergain He was shinglin’ ther roof of
ther barn erbout elevon o'clock one
night an’ I guess he had erother
stroke The doctor couldn’t exactly
tell 'whether he had er stroke er
whether he' fell off aar broke his
neck er both — enyhow he was dead
when they picked him 'up ' I wasn’t
home at ther - time — I was in Fall
River workln’ in the mills- When us
young ones got tew be twelve years
old most on us was packed uff an set
tew work in ther cotton mills er in
the match factories Five of my sta-
ters worked in ther cotton mills
Nowadays ther workln’ men are talk-
in’ erbout er ten-hour day an some
on 'em is strikin’ fer an eight-hour
day My sisters an’ thousands of
other girls used tew work -from six
o’clock In ther mornln’ till nine at
night an’ they was mighty glad tew
git ther chance Where air my sisters
now? Two on ’em Is dead two mar-
ried an’ one’s In an asylum”
“You never told me how you made
your start! 8am " John safd taking
advantage of his friend’s reminiscent
mood - - - j'1
'“Reckon I never would got started
If I had tew depend on wages” re-
flected 8am' “Worked in er shop
in Providence fer three years an'
saved up ef hundred dollars Then
dad died an’ left me part of ther old
farm f sold out fer six hundred
Went up ter Vermont and bought
some bosses an’ brought ’em back an’
sold ’em Then 1 kept on buyln ah’
sellln’ ’em When -I bad enough
money I bought that air strip of land
I own now and I'Ve been there ever
since I’ve been down ter New York
lookin’ It over an’ have erbout decid-
ed ter locate tbare That’s er great
town John an’ I knows more erbout
bosses than mose on ’em down that-a-way
What dew ye think erbout it
Johar ’ ' '
- 8am looked anxiously Into the face
of his friend '
"I ah'uld go” said Jo decisively
“Thervs a fortune waiting for yoj
'
In New York Sam Go by all means”
"This settled it with 8am- A-month
after the Segregansett sailed away
with John Burt a Providence steam-
er carried Sam Rounds- and fifty
carefully selected horses to New
York Since the death of his father
Sam had provided for his mother who
lived with him in a well-built1 house
on his Hlngham stock farm -
Mrs - Rounds ' was a faded little
woman who had reached her three-
score of years She looked frail but
was seemingly Incapable of physical
fatigue She had reared a family of
ten children and for more than forty
years had averaged sixteen hours of
work a day Her girlhood was spent
in a factory and her honeymoon in a
kitchen
When Sam was able to build a
house he -declared that it should be
his mother’s home He registered a
vow that she should do' no more work
The good old lady ‘ was astonished
and a bit dismayed when she examin-
ed the modest house Sam had erected
“This is a nice place” she said —
pride of -her son and hereditary cau-
tion struggling for mastery “It must
ha’ cost a lot of money-I’m afraid
you’re reckless and extravagant Sam-
uel Don’t be extravagant Samuel
It’s a besetting sin” f '- ’
“There ain't no commandment agin
It leastwise I never saw none In the
Bible” said Sam who was a perpetual
mystery to his mother “To my way
of thlnkln’ extravagance is erbout the
only thing worth livin’ fer I alms ter
be the most extravagant chap ever
turned outer Rocky Woods”
The reproving look on his mother’s
face vanished when Sam threw his
strong arms around her and kissed
her with a resounding smack They
entered the house and Sam escorted
his mother to a cozy room and told
her that it was her own She looked
at the tasteful furniture the snowy
linen the bright rugs and the pic-
tures and tears stood in her eyes
“This Is too good for me Samuel”
she ssid holding bis hands and look-
ing fondly f into his eyes t “But you
must be hungry I’ll change my dress
and get dinner f Where’s the kitchen
Samuel?” i s e ' - I
“Never mind erbout the kitchen”
said Sam ’ “There ain’t no kitchen fer
you Dinner’s all ready anyhow
Come on Ma Rounds IM show you
the cutest dlnln’-room ye ever sot yer
eyes on" ' - - -
' It was a pretty dining-room A
broad bay window framed with morn-
ing glories looked out on a'well-kept
lawn- The table was decorated with
flowers and the table linen was flaw-
less To the old farmwlfe these mod-
est comforts realized her dreams of
prodigality ' ' ' ’
Sam touched a ben' and a 1 trim
white-aproned maid responded ‘ She
placed a tureen In front of the mas-
ter of the house and moved noiseless-
ly sway Mrs Rounds gazed search-
Ingly first at the young woman and
then at Sam ' ?-
“Seems like old times tew have yon
offer a bless In’ ” said Sam as he serv-
ed his mother a portion of the aarory'
sonp -
“Who is that woman r she asked
“Her name is Mrs Fletcher' She’s
the housekeeper here She’s a widow
lady an’ a mighty good -woman”
“Of course you'll let her go now”
hir mother said when the housekeep-
er had Served a roast of lamb a dish
of green peas browned potatoes and
sqms lender cabbage “I can do ths
cookin’ an all the work hers now
What do you pay her Samuel?”
- “Seven - dollars a— a - month” snld
Sam -who preferred -the falsehood
rather than the confession of ths
sppsliiag truth that Mrs Fletcher re-
ceived that amount per week "She’s
an awful good cook ms” '
“fleven dollars a month and her
keep” mused Mrs Rounds Ttal
would be as much as twelve dollars S
month or use hundred and fifty del
lars a year Samuel We can save all'’
thatLet her go at once Samuel 'sfid
I -dflll do the work” -i U i
‘ lYoh’ll do ' nothin’ Ms Rin4s'
said Sam decidedly “You’ve worked
night onto fifty ' years an’ that’s
enough Now I’m go’in ter dew ther
work' kfl’ you’re goln' ter dew ther
playin’ an restin’ Of course you can
sew an’ boat ther girl an’ putter
’round like but you must keep -outer
ther kitchen an’ ferglt that brooms
over was made Don’t you worry er-
bout money I’ve got enough money
ter keep both on us er hundred years
an’ I’m goin’ ter have more”
Sam took his mother to Boston and
superintended the purchase of dress
materials a bonnet and various
articles of apparel On this occasion
he was guilty of a scheme of decep-
tion which filled his soul with Joy
He was acquainted with Mr Farns-
worth the merchant and calling him
aside said: 1
-I want you tew wait on mother an’
me yereelf Mr Farnsworth Mother
Is the best woman In the world but
she thinks I’m extravagant an I
wouldn’t hurt her feellns fer any-
thing Now I tell ye what ye can
dew When she picks out a cheap
thing you multiply the price by four
er five an’ when ye show her some-
thin bang-np an’ good enough fer a
princess put the price ' way down
D’ye understand? An’ when we gets
through give me the true bill and
show her the other one an’ I’ll make
it all right fer yer trouble An’ mind
ye I want the best In ther store for
Mother Rounds" - ' - ‘
The merchant smilingly agreed to
this arrangement and entered heartily
Into the deception Mrs Rounds had
never been In Boston until that day
although all her life bad been spent
within an hour’s ride from the New
England metropolis Occasional visits
to the dry-goods shops of Taunton
formed epochs in her life and she
was dazed at the contemplation - of
the sight before her The shelves
with their load of fabrics seemed
endless and she crouched behind a
marble - column for fear of being In
the way of 'the chattering laughing
throng of shoppers '
- “I don’t want much Samuel” ahe
whispered as Mr Farnsworth turned
to take down a bolt of dress goods
“We must be economical Samuel
Tell him to show us some ginghams”
“All right Ma Rounds watch me
beat him down” returned Sam nudg-
ing ber gently with his elbow
’ “Here Is a' stylish pattern t Mrs
Rounds” said Mr Farnsworth dis-
playing a neat gingham worth per-
haps ten cents a yard i
“How much a yard?” asked Sam
Mr Farnsworth gravely consulted
the cabalistic price mark
“The regular price Is ninety-five
cents a yard but” lowering his voice
and glancing about to make sure he
was not overheard “I will make It to
you at eighty cents”
“Eighty cents a yard for gingham!”
gasped Mrs Rounds !
- “It Is 1“ Imported goods-' Mrs
Rounds ”’ explained Mf Farnsworth
critically stroking h& prlnU '’It wears
like silk We carry no domestic ging-
hams Here is one at elghjy-flve Cents
and this 'one Is a dollar and ten a
yard' -That would make -yon a-floe
gown Mrs Rounds’
“Lst’s go somewhere else Samnel”
whispered his mother positively
frightened “I can buy gingham In
Taunton for eight cents a yard1”
“Walt a bit” said Sam reassuringly
“What have ye got In alike Mr Farns-
worth?” V ’ - k
“We hsve a fine line of silks’! re-
plied that gentleman loadtng the way
to another counter “I should recom-
mend a heavy black gros grain silk
for Mrs Rounds We have them at
all prices Here is one at a dollor and
a half a yard '
He displayed a silk v°rth at least
three dollars a yard The old lady
looked fondly at the glossy fsbrlc
The temptation was great but she
closed her lips firmly and put 8atsn
behind her
-' “Too' much” said Sam ‘ decisively
“We’re not rich ner proud Mr Farns-
worth Show ns somethin’-cheaper’
“Very v ell Here Is one at it dollar
a yard and here Is one which is a
bargain” ’ He- unrolled a snperb
heavy bolt of silk lustrous black and
a delight to the eye He examined
thq price mark critically It told- him
that the wholesale host was four dol-
lars a yard and the upset retail' fig-
ure four dotfars and seventy-five cents
“I can let you have that at -eighty
cents a yard” he said After A mental
calculation' -j
' “Now ye’re cittin’ down tew busi-
ness” Sam declared ‘ tentatively
"That’s tew much but It’s more like
It What do you think of the goods
MA Rounds? You’d look like four-
year old In a gown made of that”
"It’s very flnetoo fine for me I’m
afraid" t She was weakening' “And
it’s cheap If It’s real silk’ Is It really
and truly allk?” ' 8b looked timidly
at Mr Farnsworth wbq assured her
It was silk beyond a doubt
(To be continued) ' -
Soiled Rats Fad to Pig-
At Braintree In Essex Eng
farmer has boiled a bushel and a half
‘ of dead'' rats- and given them to his
pigs He says that mixed with bran
and oat they are better than mutton
vbro&ry
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Bs Not Rash In Criticism
Beware of rash criticisms the rough
n! stringent fruits you condemn may
be an autumn or winter pear and that
which you picked up beneath the same
bough In August may have been only
lU'worm'-ekteif Windfalls — Holmes
i- Lefty Pootoffleoo 5
Among the Alps there' are! Ueveral
postofllces at a height of 6000 feet
or 7000 feet A letter box on the very
summit of the Laugaud from which
the- peslsisn -makes four collections
dally Is nearly 10000 feet above ths
sea level ' ' :
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The Heme ef the Tiger
At a recent meeting of the Zoologi-
cal Society In London MaJ Steward
expressed the opinion that tigers are
not Indigenous to India but came there
from more northern regions” The old
Sanskrit language haa name for the
lion but none for the tiger
Slight Sounds Carried Far
' In the Abbey church at St Albans
Is A curious echo Tho tick of a
watch-may be heard from one end
of the church to the other In Glou-
cester cathedral a gallery of octagonal
form' carries a whisper ' seventy-five
feet across- the nare !
Children Have Mo Foe twee r
Italian children of the poorer
classes caa neither hang up their
stockings at Christmas nor put their
shoes out the window at' Twelfth
night for the wise men to fill' For
when the weather Is too cold for
them to go barefoot they wear rags
bound around their feet for coverings
Cocaine in India
The natives of India are becoming
so much addicted to the use of co-
caine that the British authorities are
taking measures to restrict the dis-
tribution of the drug The Hindoos
chew It In a leaf mixed with areca
nuts and various aromatics Within
a few weeks 633000 worth of cocaine
was shipped from London to Calcutta
- Charity may cover s multitude of
sins but there' are a number of multi-
tudes still uncovered
Those Who Have Triad It
will nee no other Daflsnc Cold Water
Starch has no equal In Quantity or Qual-
ity — 10 oa for 10 canta Other brands eon-
tala only 13 os
If yon would reach perfection fol-
low the advice you give to others
Mn Winslow's Soothlaw Syrm
Tqrchlldr i tMtblnr aafUDa the rum reduces ta
Seiametkie allayspsla cares triad celhi SOcehoUlc
A cinder in the hand la worth two in
the eye -
Vlao’s One cannot be too blfhiyepokenof ar
a cough cure— J W O llKinn S3S Third Avne '
M Minneapolis Mina Jan A ISOA -
Honesty is the best policy provided
yon keep your premiums paid up
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nr too dk ball aunt
Get Red Crocs Ball Bloc tba best Ball Bloat
Large 3 os package only 5 cents
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All things coma to those who wait —
except the things they are waiting for
Insist onOsjttlng IL
Borne grocers ray they don't keep De-
Bun Btsrcb because they have a stock In
baud of 18 oa' brands which tbay know
cannot be sold to a customer who haa oooe
need the lft osrpkg Doflance Starch for
earne money
It-isrqniUr ponsible-for next-door
neighbore to !e rather distant
' WlflfllOStlek LACNUBT niDE
Won’t spill break freeze nor siot clothes
Costs to cents and equals 20 cauls worth of
any other bluing If your grocer docs not
keep it send Itto for sample to Tbo Laundry
Blue Go 14 Michigan Street Chicago
A good many prize fighters seem to
be Interested in paper mills
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