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CHAPTER XIV,

It was thirst, not any thought Of ad.
venture, that made Rob when she came
to her own demesne turn aside to Aunt
Phemy's cabin.
cit is only step out Of the way"
she said to herself, "and my throat is
parohed. Besides Aunt Phemy ought to-
be glad to see me. I hops she will not
be cross, as she was tie last time.
'Marse Robert, he better had be tole de
trufe,' she said then. AS If anything
could make me tell him! My darling
daddy T would suffer torture first. D."
The cabin stood only little way off
the mill road. Passersby often stopped
there for a drink from the spring. In
her heart Aunt Phemy was glad to see
them, though she kept her face impas-
sive. Company What did it matter?
she said. She had her pigs, her fowls
and her big dog Tige, who was Lions
full brother and the savager beast Of the
two.
In his guard she was safe, no matter
who came or went. The cabin sat in a
screen Of tangle. The Path to it ran
jaggedly through vagrant growths Of
sumao, sassafras and fruitful young
grapevines. 1t wound so, indeed, COM
ing in from the front, you hardly saw
the roof until you were in the shade of
the gourd arbor above the door. Thus
Rob was almost facing Ter before she
saw that the old woman was not alone,
but sight Of the visitor in nowise dis
oomfted her. 1t was apparently tall,
lean woman, with powerful shoulders,
yet a stopping, hollow chest, who sat
upon the doorstep, with arms locked
about the knees.
In spite Of the heat the stranger was
huddled in a fro.--y shawl. A deep SUM-
bonnet shroude head and face. The
long lower limos showed gaunt and
shrunken beneath the thin folds Of a
faded calico skirt. AS Rob's shadow
fell on the earth the creature started and
drew the poor skirt yet closer about her
feet, as though seeking to hide poverty,
yet more pitiful. Rob noted the action
with sympathetic thrill, then said
with civil nod:
"Good morning, madam. Aunt Phe.
my, how are you? Don't get mad when
tell you my lost turkey hen has come
home with ten fine young ones, for all
you were so certain the foxes had caught
her. The little ones are beauties and SO
pert. Why, they can outrun me now.
Though they are so late, mean to raise
them just to show you wise people that
you don't know everything"
"Uph! Dat dest your owdacious luck.
Had er been my ole turkey hen her
haid'd been off an Br'er Fox done had
er dinner er whole mont ago." Aunt
Phemy said, pretending to frown, though
she gave really mild 'uckle.
"Ah, how jealous you are! Aunt Phe'
my, didn't think that of you, ROB
retorted, letting her eyes rest casually
upon the hands of the visitor. They
were hard and brown, two masses OF
knotted muscle, with long, coarse hair
struggling over them and curious pale
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ROB McGREGOR.
BY MARTHA McCULL0CH WILLIAMS.

ring on the skin about one wrist.
Though Rob looked away instantly, she
knew the strange woman had felt her
gaze and been disquieted by its note of
details, for the knotted hands were
drawn back and began nervously to
wrap themselves in the ends Of the thin
shawl. o..
Aunt Phemy, too, noted the move
ment She half turned in her chair and
said slowly: IT amt gredgin you no
res, Miss Who-eber-you-is, but I specs
you better had be trabblin. I done KEEP
You now longer'n I tole you you mought
stay when you come yere ter my do
fore de Earn er day."
"Oh. don't send her away, Aunt
Phemyl 1t is hot, and she looks so very
tired" Rob said, plucking at the black
woman's sleeve. "Maybe she is more
sick than tired. Keep her until tomor-
row. ! know that is what pappy would
say"
"Umphl Yes; Marse Robert, he'd
take keer de whole worl an let um cheat
him outen he eyeteefs," Aunt Phemy
said.
The stranger got up, saying SO hoarse'
ly the sound made Rob shudder, II will
20 in jest er little while"
Rob opened her mouth to protest, but
before she could speak Tige sprang up
and gave tremendous howl. The
strange woman made wild, backward
spring, gathering her limp skirt as
though to run, then sank down, breath
ing hard. Aunt Phemy had been look
ing toward the path. Rob alone had
seen beneath the Tapping garment boots
and trousers miserably ragged and the
dull CLEAN of an iron ring about one
ankle.
go inside and lie down. Quiokl Let
me help you'll" she said imperatively,
looking full in the strange woman's
eyes. They dropped before hers, but the
tall figure Strengthened slow y and
Iurched within as hail came over the
matted growth in front:
"Hello, the house! Aunt Pbemy, tie
up your dawg. We're comm fer water, I"
a mans voice called cheerily. Next
breath three stout fellows had ridden in
sight, dismounted and flung themselves
down beside the slipping runnel. At
sight of Rob in the doorway the fore
most of them rose, touched his hat and
said awkwardly:
"Oh, howdy do, Miss Rob? My, but
we're thirsty! Been racin an chasin all
day after one er them trifin convicts
that got erway. You see, they're leased
out, an they had 'em at work, with ball
an chain, on the big new railroad fill,
an this poor fool must run of, though
be had jest one more year ter serve;
took chances er gittin shot an doin dou-
BILE time fer jest that little" D."
Don't say he came this way" Rob
said lightly, though she shivered lit
tie. II hope, though, you won't catch
him-that is, unless he is horse thief.
have suffered too much from them to
have the least bit of compassion LETT"
eyes, it's too bad about your stock, "
the man said. He was Deputy Sheriff
Reed and mighty ambitious to be sher
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be spoke of the queen. "The queens

be spoke of the queen. "The queens
good woman," he said.
~ suppose she's guide enough, but
there are things Gamma bear"
"What do you mean ?" asked Mr..
Irving.
"Well, I think there are things
which even the queen has no recht to
do. For one thing, she goes rowing
on the lake on Soonday, and it's not a
Chreestian thing to doP'
"But you know the Bible tells us
~ knaw," she Interrupted, angrily.
"I've read the Bible since I was 80
high, an I knaw ev'ry word int. I
knaw aboot the Sunday fishing and a.
the other things the good Lord did |;
but I want We 10 knaw, too, that I
don't think any the more, cen of him,
for a.doin' it,!
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SCOTTISH INTERCHANGEABLE. IT.
wing related in Boston that once, trav-
cling in Scotland near Balmoral, he
met an old Scotch woman with whom
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p~ Don't be satisfied to "keep going"
Be sure you are going somewhere.
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EDUCATORS TO MEET.
TWENTY THOUSAND EXPECTED
AT MILWAUKEE.
National Educational Association
Meeting Will Be Most Important
Gathering-A1I of the Great Peda-
go-ues Will Be Present.
Will Eclipse Ali Others.

During the second week in July Nil
waukee will be the Mecca of the teach
ers Of the United States. Then the city
wiz be filed with educators representing
every class, from the kindergarten TO the
| university. Then viii be held the con-
sention OF the National Educational As
| sociation, 10 whose sessions pedagogues
in every part Of the country are looking
forward with interest
Eleven thousand two hundred and nine
tyseven life members. active members
and associate members participated in the
proceedings OF the annual meeting OF the
National Educational Association which
was held AT Denver in 1895 Last year.
when ne convention was he'd al Buffalo.
the number taking part was 9.O13. 1t is
with these statistics in view that Milwau-
kse is making preparations to entertain
large :nfiuX Of visitors from ali parts of
the United States on the occasion of the
th;rty-s:xth ANNA, meeting of rhe asso-
citation.
Upon the educational and professional
side. the conventions of the association
appeal strongly to the interests of teach
ers and OF al intelligent people. Each OF
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@'(IlYIE]51l!SL>l57$ :

This seems to be an admirable decade
for private MISUNDERSTANDING Plain
Dealer.
The latest diagnosis is that the Sick
Man Of Europe has cot the grip.-Boston
Herald.
Perhaps Russell Sage is just working
up a good big Inheritance tax joke On
somebody. dy.-Cleveland Leader
Perhaps if the powers would guarantee
the balance. Col Hamid can be induced to
take Greece on account.-Elmira Tele-
gram.
When the United States decides upon a
Cuban policy, there will be no trouble
about maintaining the concert "-Colum-
bus Dispatch.
Miners in Pennsylvania are said to have
blown up a company store" The com
pany store should 90. but this is not the
way in which to abolish t.-Buffa!o Ex-
press.
Emperor William says to his subjects:
81 am the vine; ye are the branches -
Down in his heart, however. he believes
that he is the whole vineyard CIeveland
Leader.
No consensus has been reached among
those who are explaining McKinIeys Gu
ban policy. Ii might be we'll to let the
President speak for himself.-St Louis
Globe-Democrat.
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these great gatherings may be regarded as
national clearing house for the inter
change of ideas on leading topics Of the
time. There are other aspects in which
they are attractivethc social aspect and
the recrea tional aspect. 1t has become
the custom for a, Americans who can
afford it TO indulge in summer outing.
The fact that the railroads will make
half-fare excursion rate to Milwaukee for
persons coming from any part of the N
ion 10 attend the National Educational
Associations convention WI lead thou
sands OF people to select Milwaukee as
the headquarters OF their approaching va
cation. The ha.f-fare rate can be secured
by anyone purchasing tranSDorta ton
ticket with the associate membership cou-
pon.
From present indications the convention
viii be the greatest gathering of educa-
tors he world has ever seen. 1t is ex-
pected that at least 10000 men and WON
en- interested in education viii attend.
The reports receiver from every part of
the country rell of Il remarkable interest
in the convention. and the assembling
of all the brightest minds engaged in the
work IF education cannot fail to have an
| important effect on the progress OF educa-
ton IN the United States. They VIII dis
cuss the problems of retLagogy in the light
of principles and practical experiments,
and each of the educatonaiists who has
become famous for his discoveries along
certain lines viii freely give the others
the benefit Of his experience and theories.
| The interchange of ideas is expected to
give American education an impetus
which will accomplish much.
From every section Of the country Will
come rhe greatest minds. who will deliver
addresses on important educational top
icg. For instance Rev. Lyman Abbott,
D. D.. pastor of Plymouth Church.
Brooklyn. aEd editor of the Outlook, will
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Easy of Digestion.

For those with weakened digestive
powers, honey is a very desirable food.
If a person is very tired, ''too exhaust
ed to eat" few tastes Of honey will
act like magic. Almost no effort is re-
quired to make it ready for assimila-
ton. In eating comb honey, many
strive to eject every particle of wax,
fearing that, as wax is indigestible,
nightmare and other troublesome con
sequences will follow an indulgence
in warm biscuit and honey. 1t is true
that bread is more easily digested than
warm biscuit, as the latter is inclined
to pack in chewing, but it may sur
prise some TO know that comb honey
is really an aid to the digestion of hot
bread or biscuit The philosophy Of
the matter is that the flakes OF wax
prevent the packing" while the honey
really dissolves out leaving passages
for the gastric juice to enter the mass
of food. The flakes of wax are indi
gestible, that is true, but when warm
ed are perfectly smooth and soft, anc
will not injure the most delicate mem
brane. The unpleasant symptoms from
| which some suffer after eating hone!
may often be removed by drinking
| little milk.
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of riding in box cars and begging food.
The percentage of genuine tramps is
small. though there are apparently large
numbers of dangerous men on the road
As an Indication of the straits to which
these men are reduced, l may tell you
that only last Wednesday four tramps
armed with revolyers held up a box car
filled with other tramps near Butler. Ind.
and robbed them of what little money
they had. No one ever heard of such
thing before. The number of tramDs in
the country may be judged from the fact
that l counted 1917 of them on one freight
train that left Grand Crossing last Tues
day night. The average is nearly that
high. and you can readily see that freight
conductors and hrakemen are not anxious
to undertake the job of throwing them off.
The fact is that SO long as they keep out
Of sight in box cars the trainmen let the
tramps alone. They are afraid to do any-
thing else. All the twenty-four roads CEN
tering in Chicago have nearly an equal
number of tramps TO contend with daily.
With an allowance of three freight trains
in both directions on each road the daily
exodus will average over 10000, and the
influx is about the same number
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STRUNG Up BY 4 MOB.
NEGRO LYNCRED BY FRENZIED
PEOPLE CT URSsNA, Q.
Hob's First Attempt Was Met by
Deadly EolIeys of Rife BuIlets-Au
thoritfes Didn't Interfere with the
Second Attack.
Night of Awful Sensations.

Click Mitchell, the Urbaoa O.. negro
brute has paid the penalty OF his foul
crime with his life. An outraged people
took the law into their own hands and
meted out to him the punishment he SO
richly deserved and obeyed the command
and wish Of his PROSTATE and. as aRnounc
ed, dying victim. He was hanged TO a
tree in the court yard Friday in broad
daylight, after night OF horror and ira
gedy.
Recently Mrs. Eliza Gaumer. the widow
of the late publisher Of the Urbana Dem
ocrat, was crininally assaulted by Chas
Mitchell, alias Click" Mitchell. q noto-
rious negro. who was arraigned Weines-
day. but his victim was too i'll TO appear
in court. TIE man was taken 10 her home
for Identification. As he entered the door
she raised herself on her elbow and e1-
claimed: The brute. Hang him! How
dare you face me, you brute In de-
fault Of $1,000 bail Mitchell was locked
up in the city prison, but on account of
ehe feeling was removed to the county jail
the same night for safe keeping.
From the tine of his arrest threats of
synching We're made, and Sheriff Mclean
took al precautions TO prevent il. secur-
ing from the Governor the services Of
two companies Of militia. His Indictment
by the grand jury, his plea of guilty and
the sentence We're all recorded within Tour
hours Thursday evening. His sentence
was to twenty years imprisonment, and
he was TO have been taken from the Ur-
bana jail Friday to begin the term.
Thursday night the jail was surrounded
by threa tening mob. News of the in
tended attack ON the prisoner reached the
officers of the court in the afternoon, and
they called on the Governor for militia
10 protect Mitchell. The local company
was ordered out. and took up lodgings un-
der arms in the Jail. At 80 O'Clock Fri
day morning q mob attacked the Jail with
sledge hammers. The militiamen fired
into the crowd. killing and wounding
many of the attacking party and repe,lng
the assault.
At 40 o'clock in the morning a COM
pany of militiamen arrived from Spring
field, .. The crowd. already enraged at
the authorities, rallied for another at
tack on the Jail This time the authorities
made no resistance. None Of the-men in
charge had the nerve 10 order another vol
ley turned into the bodies of IS towns
men. The negro was hustled out of his
cell and hanged 10 the nearest tree in the
presence of howiing mob of 300 per-
sons, over 500 Of whom We're women. The
feeling is intense against the sheriff for
allowing the National Guards to fire on
the people, and there is a very general
approval Of the work of the mob.
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Triumphs in Surgery.

Cleansing of the wound itself was al
most Surgical heresy a few years ago
says the Forum. Fouled bandages
were the rule; and the thicker and more
abundant the discharges the more
'1audable" they We're considered to be-
Hence in the older works on surgeFE
the so-called ''laudable" pus was as
much a sign of safety as it is now OF
danger. Cleanliness of instruments
now a prime consideration. was then
entirely ignored. Oftentimes the same
instruments would be used at differ
ent times upon the dead as well as the
living body; and n celebrated operator
of that day was accustomed to hold MS
knife between his teeth when MS
hands were temporarily employed IN
the wound. If cut healed rapidly II
was rarity sufficiently great to court
comment. Now the exact opposite is
the fact. The former result was rather
an accident Of cleanliness than the de-
liberate acknowledgement Of Wha'
should have been the rule. Consequent
ly the most careful surgeons-rhose
who possessed instructive habits OF
neatness and cleanliness-were tht
moSt,successful.
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is PATRIOTISM DYlNG7
Sporting Events Crowd Ont Memorial
cervices.

Judging from the newspaper reports
and other appearances Decoration Day
has lost its character and significance in
New York, writss William E. Curtis to
the Chicago Record, when telling of the
observance OF last Memorial Day. 1t is
no longer an event TO revive patriotism
and stir the memories, but is almost Who'll
ly given UP to athletic exhibitions and
sports. The old battle flags are honored,
the Stars and Stripes float from every
public building and from the windows and
roofs Of many residences. and the Grand
Army posts still march with limping steps
10 the cemeteries. but the great mass of
the people do not give moments 5 thought
to their debt 20 the dead There were
ceremonies at the tomb Of Gen. Grant, ar
Greenwood. and at other silent camping
grounds, whore. Is an old veteran remark
ed, his comrades had been put to bed with
a spade, but the participants were mostly
the survivors of the war and the widows
and orphans Of lis dead. The people al
the cemeteries numbered hundreds, while
over 10000 saw Howard Mann win the
Brooklyn handicap: 1900 saw a baseball
game between the New York and Pitts
burg teams; similar crowd witnessed a
boat race on the Harlem river. and every
branch Of outdoor sport had some special
attraction 10 celebrate the holiday.
Newspapers are fair index of public
interest on these subjects. They give a
page to sporting intelligence and u column
to the ceremonies Of Decoration Day. In
one paper | counted twenty-four columns
filled with sports and four columns to the
soldiers monuments and cemeteries 1t
is serious question whether the his
toric significance Of the holiday is to be
lost, and whether the public mind is be-
coming 50 absorbed with athletics, games
and turf gambling that it cannot devote
one day in the year to the expression and
cultivation Of patriotism.
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OVERRUN WITH TRAMPS.
Alarming Increase Observable in the
Great Army of Unemployed.

One of the significant and disquieting
evidences of the long-e1ntinued depression
in industry is the large number Of tramps
reported in all sections of the country.
This is particularly true of the territory
east of Chicago. The movement appears
to be toward the oder States. California
and the Rocky Mountain States are no
longer favored by tramps. The coast is
played out and Colorado is no better is
the verdict of the travelling fraternity.
A railroad detective whose business
keeps him on the road between Chicago
and Cleveland a large part of the time,
said that the number Of tramps exceeded
anything in his recollection. There are
thousands of them he said. and it is
not fair to call them tramps, either. The
majority of them appear TO be mechanics
and laborers out of employment. They
drift from one place to another in search
of work. and are reduced to the necessity
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The state, var and navy building was
begun in 1871 and cost $4,000 600 to
complete
The hall of the House of Represen-
tatiyes is the largest assembly room in
the world.
The Congress Of the United States
has met annually in Washington since
Nov. II, 1900
The Crawford bronze door of the Sen
ate wing weighs 14.O00 pounds and cost
nearly $4,000.
\ marble column surmounted by q
statue of Lincoln stands in front of the
district courthouse
The new naval observatory at Wash
ington is one of the finest scientific
plants in the world.
General Winfield Scott fathered the
soldiers home, which was established
by Congress in 1857.
1t COTS about 500, 900 a year to run
the White House exclusive Of the Presi-
dents salary Of SJOO0O.
The treasury building was completed
in 1869 at a cost of SSCO0,OO0 1t is the
largest government department.
The columns OF the eastern portico
of the capitol are each solid blocks of
sandstone thirty feet high.
The Rogers bronze doors at the main
entrance Of the capitol tell the history
of Columbus ana cost $2S.GG0.
Lincoln's inaugural ball was a very
frosty affair IL spite of the pleasant
weather. Every one felt that storm
was brewing.
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coop put q rooster. The newt ~
when the crows called tbo. A'oran,
stuck his head out and Groves ,,OCSta
The crows have not returned '0sds
In the Port Royal mountain,
ca, an interesting archaeloricaI' 1anlsi u.
cry was recently made of 20 NNcOF'
tanning the skeletons of at leas. Con
.yfour of the original ARRIVALS Nv, mea
Columbus discovered the islans T.. Naea
the Arawahs We're estimated a. lss
600,o0o. A century and a half lo.a aUOal
the capture of Jamaica by the Fna.n@. .@
they had completely disappearad s''sa
A New York firm has gone int,
ell business-namely. the removals. ,''
dress skirts. The badly worn ''JI s,.,'
are thoroughly cleansed, facaa SA'ts a
bound with velvet binding, and wh slo
pressed looked quite like new al +el
the sum of 75 GEMS. This has nral NJ. lof
to be boon to women who are an.aa
ed in business and have LITTLE oss
time to do such repairing for tbol lo
selves.
At Gray and Berkeley streets Rcs.o,
stands big box from which flows f,s
ice water. The box contains mora +hss
a ton of ice, packed about the cO,.
| through which the water flows nv
tank is surmounted with a signboass
with the quotation from Timon Of Az
ems: Honest water, which ne'er Ia.
man i the mire." The fountain is tan.
going by the Young Mems Institute
In the precincts Of the cathedral 4.
Hildeshe:m there is rose tree said IA
be more than 1000 years old. The fra,
for some years past has given signs Of
decay. and in order to preserve ii sav.
eral botanists and gardeners were call,
ed in. The Malone says they have no.
only succeeded in keeping the traa
alive, but have made it flourish as il did
in the past. They expect soop to see |,
bearing rich crop of roses.
Mayor Boyd, of Newcastle, Del. la;
made an arrangement with the Dea
ware Iron works that will either maxi
workmen of tramps or rid Newcastle O
their presence. All tramps who com
are offered laboring work in the but;
welding department of the works a
fair wages. About a dozen have a
ready tried the work, but all give it II
after laboring for an hour or twt
When they refuse to work they ar
driven beyond the city limits.
1t is shown by an analysis of censl
figures that more than half the men
twenty-eight Of the forty-nine Stat
and Territories are engaged in agl
culture, and that farming is the leadiI
pursuit in all Of them except Ne
Hampshire, Massachusetts,, Rhode Il
and, Connecticut and New Jerse
where manufacturing and mechanic
arts take the lead. There are in t
United States 100000 men engag
in agriculture to 9,22O,00O in 9th
forms Of business.