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Afraid to lid.

At an auction sale of miscellaneous
goods at country store the auctioneer
put up a buggy robe of fairly good
quality. An old farmer inspected it
closely. seemed to think there was Il
bargain in it, and yet he hesitated to
bid.
Think it cheap" asked the auction
Ger, crying a 10 cent bid.
Yes, kinder" was the reply.
Then why don't you bid and get it:'
"Waal. I've bought heaps o things in
dry goods and so on" slowly rejoined
the old man. land | never yet took
home anything that the old woman
thought was worth the price. If get
that ere robe for even Is cents, she'd
grab it up. pull at one end. chaw on Il
corner and call out: Cheated again.
More'n half cotton. That's the reason
| dasnt bid" Ohio State Journal.
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and flank by a foe hidden from view.
The Royal Irish rifles had the adj
vance Of the line, and, when struck by
Boer fire, the battalion took to cover
behind lSopje, where it was soon join
ed by the other troops. But it soon
transpired that the shelter was itself
under the fire of Boer cannon. A
break for cover half a mile distant
from the kopje was necessary in order
to escape humiliation, and the with
drawal was made under cover Of two
British batteries. Finally the lines
were deployed for open battle. A de-
tsshment Of British attempted to flank
the Beers, but turn which way they
would the hapless English faced Boer
Mausers or machine guns. The affair
ended in rout, with the Boer artillery
pounding the rear of column. Gatacre
lost 631 killed, wounded and missing.
he was defeated by two unknown
Boer leaders, probably heads Of COM
mandoes or regiments. A disaster
which followed close upon the heels Of
Stormberg was that of Magersfontein,
where Methuen's relief column was
checked and hurled back by the Beers
under General Cronje. Cronje has
held up, during this war, the reputa-
ton he made in capturing Jameson's
raiders.
After Methuen crossed the Modder in
the face of an apparently determined
opposition on the part Of the Beers he
was expected to rush into Kimberley
some day without serious encounter.
He started forward on the 10th of De-
cember, but on the highroad to Kim
berley the Beers were found intrench-
ed. The ridge where the Beers lay ter
minated in a spur, and the highland
brigade, under General Wauchope,
marched during the night to position
close to the spur under orders to at
tack at daylight. When they took up
the advance on the morning of the
18th, all was still, but a strange light
was seen moving in the direction of
the Boer lines, and soon single rifle
shot was heard. Perhaps second aft
er the rifle shot, evidently signal,
there was a storm of Mauser hail let
loose upon the devoted highlanders at
200 yards. The fire was not alone from
the direct front, but in the flank along
the line of march.
General Wauchope's friends claim
that he protested against being sent to
slaughter without reconnaissance. 1t is
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Doubling His JOY.

Young man." said the girls father.
do you realize that in asking for my
daughters hand in marriage you are
asking me to give up my only child?"
Excuse me. sir" replied the young
man. but you are evidently laborng
under Misrepresentation. propose to
come and live with you after we are
married. and you will then have two
children instead Of one. Now. what
more could you ask?"-Chicago News
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An lnsinnntioa.

Il simply had to do it, said Mr..
Erastus Pinkly in an apologize tone.
Il had to draw my razzer SOS to hor
up my character"
Did he SANDER You behind your
back:"
NO, sub; twas TO my face. He axed
me what business was in, an says.
'Raisin Chickens Den he looked at
me solemn an says. You doesn' mean
ira sin" you means "liftin.' - -
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GENERAL YULE GENERAL GATACRE.
feking. England rushed troops to
South Africa under able generals. and
three columns moved forward for the
relief of the i'll starred cities General
Gatacre was stationed at Molteno in
Cape Colony, to guard the British base
against surprise. and. learning that
there was force of Beers at Storm
burg. he led 1000 men against them.
The march lay over rocklanls and
We H. and the coljl i-. ,.c.l6A its
destination, within a cotlN of miles,
when it was s.ddenly fred upon front
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BATTLE DISASTERS.
SIX STUNNING FAILURES OF THE
BRITISH ARMY.
Two Terrible Reverses For Each
Month of the War-Crack Troops
and Star Leaders Went Down Be-
fore the Mighty Boer.
Copyright, 1900, by G. L. Kilmer.l

N VAIN unhap-
py and bamed
England waited
through lon 6
a n d W e a ~
" e e ks fro m
Glencoe to Spion
kop for t h e
waves Of dis
aster" to b e
checked because
The sight OF a mas
ter compelled them
to pause.
G | e n C O e,
fought Oct. 81,
was a tactical
victorv for +bo
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which. too often repeated, wreck
the cause Of the victors. In 9TH
er words, while the British held
the battlefield it wasn't worth holding.
and they abandoned it between two
days. leaving their wounded in the
hands of the Beers
The fighting at Glencoe was brilliant
on the part of the British, but turned
out to be valor wasted because the
force engaged could not sustain itself
alone north Of Ladysmlth. 1t now
ranspires that General White was or
dered from London to hold on at Glen
coe and Dundee. In the fight General
Symons, commander Of the column,
was mortally wounded and fell into
the hands of the Beers. A squadron
Of the Eighteenth hussars and four
sections of mounted infantry were cut
off and captured. One battalion lead
er, Colonel Cunning, was shot, and -
out of II officers of his command fell.
After the fall of General Symons his
successor, General Yule, abandoned
the wounded and made hasty night
retreat to Ladysmith, taking his men
In minus their kits and sadly democrat
lied by their experience. The loss of
about 200 men in the hussar capture
at Glencoe staggered England at the
time, but she has become used to it by
subsequent disasters of the kind. On
the Both of October came Nicholson's
Mex, an incident of the campaign
around Ladysmith. In order to clear
the hills in front of the town of dan
gerous Boer batteries General White
led strong column against the main
iBoer position and sent out detach-
ment under Colonel Carleton to strike
the enemy's flank. Carleton had six
companies of his Irish fusileers, four
companies of the Gloucestershires and
Mountain Battery No. 10.
Astounding beyond belief was the re-
port that this party had been captured
entire, but General White, in announc-
ing the fact, explained that it was due
to mule stampede, which carried off
the infantry ammunition. Later re-
ports show that while the mules did
stampede they carried along with them
the valor of the men as well as the
ammunition. Fortunately it was night
or the Beers might have slaughtered
the party to man. The officers sue
ceeded in rallying the men. and just as
the Boer scouts We're beginning to APP
pear Colonel Carleton got his line upon
a convenient kopje, or small hill. and
prepared to defend himself. Gradually
the Beers surrounded the hill, taking
position at rifle range upon opposite
hills. They outshot the Gloucester
shires and took their vantage ground
from them and soon commanded the
plateau whereon the British vainly
sought cover and were soon hemmed
in. Accounts of the gallantry of the
Irishmen must be credited, for there
were 300 killed and wounded. 1t is
said that when the die was cast the or
der was given, "Faugh ballaghs
I(clear the ways), fix bayonets and die
like men," Then there was carnage
for few minutes, and the order to
cease firing was repeated many times
Before the Irishmen grounded arms
The number surrendered was $40, in.
Guiding some wounded.
For q month after Nicholson's Nell
the war went on around the besieged
cities, Ladysmith. Kimberley and Ma
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For Whooping Cough use
CHENEY'S EXPECTORANT.
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Tales Of Yankee EnChantnlent.
ADlNORAM PENWHlSSEL AND THE PERSIAN PRINCESS
Circus Story Showing How Poor Boy Can Sometimes
Make His Fortune by Visiting the Greatest
Show on Earth.


interested him the most, and when he
came opposite their cage the tigress
stopped in her FESTIVE walk and look
ed him right in the eye. And Adino-
ram. being an honest youth. returned
her gaze with intensity. Now. you
know no beast, wild or tame. can
stand the steady gaze of the human
eye, and yet this tigress looked at
Adinoram just as steadily as bad boys
look at girls at school when they are
trying to stare them out of counte-
nance and the teacher is looking the
other way.
Adinoram had logical mind. He
said to himself: 81 know that wild
beasts cannot stand the human stare.
This tigress can stand it, therefore,
she is not real tigress. And if she
isn't real tigress, what is it likely
that she is?''
He thought moment, still keeping
up the stare. and then it came to him
in a flash. She was a beautiful prin-
cess, who had been condemned to take
the form of a tigress to please the
whim of some wicked magician.
This much Adinoram was sure of,
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around the world for this circus. I'd
have made barrels of money. Now. no
one outside of this tent will believe
it happened, and I've lost the most
valuable beast had and all I've gain
ed is another woman for the congress
of Beauties.
But at this the princess drew her
self up and said with regal dignity,
and in English, with just a touch OF
Persian accent: Il will never consent
to become one of congress of beau
ties. Before | was enchanted L was
considered the most beautiful lady in
the East | can trace my ancestry
back hundred years, before Adam $
time, and j am the first one in all
that time who has ever been connect
ed with a circus. If you will adver-
tise me as the Princess Scheherezadc.
lineal descendant of the heroine of the
Arabian Nights, / will stay with you,
and your circus will be the greatest
upon earth. Otherwise | must return
to Persia. AS for this boy, who has
saved me from a wretched existence.
you must do something handsome for
him. | myself will give him letter
of introduction to the Shah of Persia.
who is my uncle"
| She meant well, no doubt. but fancy
an American boy wanting a letter of
| Introduction to Shah!
Little Adinoram squeezed her hand
and said he wanted nothing, but the
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but he did not know what steps to
take in order to dissolve the enchant-
ment.
You may wonder how a boy like
Adinoram. q half orphan, with a Sc
we're and busy father. could have
known about such things. but the
year before an aunt who lived in the
east had sent him Il copy of Grimm $
Fairy Tales" and after that Adino-
ram lived in new world. He worked
Just as hard. but he had an added
horizon, if you know what | mean.
He could see much further and he was
happier.
He was now divided in his sense of
duty. He supposed that the ticket
seller was the proprietor of the show.
Simple hearted little Adinoram. AS a
matter OF fact. the ticket seller was
sick of his situation and wished that
ne could become a clerk in dry
goods store where he would not have
to think so fast and would not run
the risk of losing large sums of mon
ey. Fancy having a chance to go
around with a circus. and wishing you
were in dry goods store! Bun Adj
Moran did not know this, and as the
ticket seller had passed him in for
twenty-three cents. he thought 1T
would be a very mean thing for him
to turn the tigress into a princess and
SO make the circus short one vallla-
BILE animal.
While he stood there. swaying be-
tween two impulses, the tigress step
ped toward him and gave low moan.
That settled it, Ticket or not, he
hadn't the heart to let a poor princess
suffer like that, and he said in low
voice:
Il will rescue you, my dear;
| will help you, never fear.
Then he left the cage and walked
away to think of the best mode OF
doing what he wished.
He knew that princesses who had
been compelled to assume human
forms We're released only after the
hero had done some doughty deeds.
| and Adinoram did not know what he
could do in that line. There were no
giants to kill, no dragons to Stay,
nothing for him to do. And yet the
remembrance of that moan made him
so unhappy that he did not hear the
houTishof trumpets that announced
the entrance of the grand congress of
riders. The people began to leave the
animal tent to go into the main tent
In a minute Adinoram was all alone
with the beasts. He went back to the
tigers cage and took up his stand
in front of the tigress. She put her
paw out between the bars and he fear
lessly took it in his-or as much of it
as he was able. While he was holding
it keeper came into the tent and was
struck dumb at seeing AdinOram play
ing with one of the fiercest beasts
| in the menagerie.
When he recovered the use of his
| tongue he said, without stirring an
| inch and in low tone, "Stand still
boy, and don't say word and I'll get
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Adinoram Penwhissel lived IN East
Bigtown. village somewhere be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
in the United States, and he was very
fond of going to the circus. That is,
if a person can be fond of doing a
thing that he has done but once in his
life. For until he was twelve his CIR
Gus going had been limited to one
small circus, and as a tornado mao
whipped the tent out OF sight before
the show began he really did not see
much of that one.
But soon after he was twelve real
aggregated Amalgamation. as 1t
was called on the posters, came to
Bigtown Center and Adinoram, after
he had Toasted his eyes on a picture
of a green and pink snake swallowing
himself in den of lions, hurried
home, and taking out his little tin
bank drew therefrom twenty-tbree
cents with the aid of his toad
sticlxer."
Twenty-three cents, and the admls-
sion for boys was a quarter of dol
lar! Adinoram was on the point or
tears. for he knew that his father did
not believe in circuses, having entirely
forgotten his own youth. No, that is
not the way to put it. Abraham Pen
whssel had not forgotten his youth;
he had never had any. He had been
one of those sober and distressing
boys who think it silly to laugh and
foolish to play, and he was just as
much an old man when he was eight
years old as when he was sixty.
Rather rough on Adinoram. who was
likely to remain a boy all through
life.
Adinoram had no mother from
whom to get two cents, so he Gid not
see how he was going to buy the
ticket. He had been six months saw
ing up the twenty three cents, and
the ways to earn money at East Big
town were few and far between. AT
last, knowing nothing of the ways OF
ticket sellers he resolved to try to get
in on twenty-three cents.
He lived some miles from Bigtown
Center and so he did not see the love
ly street parade with the most beau
tiful woman in the whole wOrld-bar
none sitting on top OF rickety 2lld-
ed globe and smiling hard enough to
give her facial paralysis. But his
father needed corn meal for the chick
ems, and not knowing anything about
the circus he told Adinoram that he
could go and get it. and even said
that he needn't hurry. as the horse
was little lame. This was sufficient
excuse for Adinoram. and he determine
ed to squeeze the circus in some
where. But on the way to town he
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forgot that the horse was lame, and
made a record that Betsy had not
eoualled since her younger days, some
twenty years previous.
He cot the meal and put Betsy I'M
der the Baptist church sheds, and
then his two feet ran a race to the
circus tent that was pitched in a hat
field near the Mad river.
The ticket seller, in a gorgeous red
wagon with an opening at one end,
was very busy man just then, and
the stream of people approaching him
was very long, but he was just claw
ing in money and slapping down red
and yellow pasteboard tickets, but
when Adinoram reached him he put
his twenty-three cents down before
him, and speaking quickly and to the
point. said: 81 lack two cents. Give
me ticket and I'll come out before
it's over"
NowA l leave it to you if most ticket
sellers would not have told him to get
away from the wagon and not ask
silly questions. but there was some
thing in Adinoram's very honest little
face that made him slap down a tick
ct and say with a smile: you can
see the whole show and pay the rest
next year.
An old man just behind Adinoram
put kindly hand upon his shoulder
and said. Don't forget, sonney, you're
in debt two cents. Don't get in any
deeper. - And Adinoram said, You
bet I won't" He felt so big hearted
lust then that if he had found a GUAR
ter believe that he would have given
it all to the pleasant ticket seller.
But although he didn't find quar-
ter he did find himself in quarters
that were more delightful than any ne
had ever imagined. This was real
circus, with three rings. and the sight
of rows, upon rows of happy and eX.
pectant people, the delightful smell of
peanuts and sawdust combined wit h
the animal smell. made it seem like a
little heaven to him.
The performance in the ring would
not begin for half an hour, so he
went into the menagerie and looked
at the annals There was q sacred
OK that looked as if he had anything
but sacred temper, and an animal
that Adinoram took to be a zebra,
whose neck had been accidentally
stretched until he heard a small boy
call it ''gyrafe," and then he knew
the animal and the pronunciation too,
for Adinoram had picked up good
deal of information of various kinds.
But of all the animals, the tigers
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owner Of the circus, who realized
what an attraction he had, said to
him: Whatever you wish you shall
haye-Tin reason"
So Adinoram said: ''Well, / owe
your ticket seller two cents. Forgive
me the debt and let me in to the per-
Torrance tonight, because I've missed
half of it this afternoon"
And as he had asked, SO he re-
ceived.
But I'm sure | don't know what old
Mr.. Penwhissel said to him when he
returned at midnight with the bag of
meal. Probably he gave him lee
ture. \ lecture after circus!
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YOU free." But Adinoram only iaugh-
ed and put his other hand between
the bars. stroking the tigress as you
would stroke a cat.
But Adinoram had failed to take IN
to account that although she was
friendly. her mate. the Royal Bengal
tiger, was not of the enchanted kind,
and he would not stand for an instant
thi thing that he regarded as an IN
dignity to his wife. He crouched low
and then sprang for Adinoram arm:
He would have caught it, too. nad
not the tigress warded off the bloW
by a box on his ears that knocked
him on his side.
The tioress had saved Adinoram
life and he was now doubly bound 10
free her from bondage. His race
went white. for he realized how mar
row had been his escape. Then hei
heard a voice that seemed to come
from inside of his head and which
said:
kiss the tigress on the chin
If you'd save the maid within
All this time the keeper had stood
transfiXed. He now uttered cry OF
horror, for he saw the fearless and
reckless boy put his foot on the floor
of the cage, and grasping two of the
bars. raise himself so that his face
came on a level with that of the IL
9reSs. who bent her head down that
he might kiss her.
Adinoram kissed her square on the
chin and dropped just in time to save
himself from the second onslaught OF
her enraged mate.
Tho attendant vp1lp6 and npoDIe
came rushing into the tent. They saw
a strange sight. Adinoram stood in
front of the cage with an agonized ex-
preston on his face, and in the cage
stood beautiful Young Persian prin-
cess!
And the tiger. instead of knocking
her down. rubbed up against her like
an immense and amiable cat.
.'Ouick. the key" said Adinoram.
and the keeper FASTENED to the cage
and opened the door. The princess
patted the tiger on the head and calm
" stepped out of the cage and the
door was slammed behind her-and
lust in time As it was, the tiger
Iuneed against it and bent one of the
bars outward so far that the attend
ants had to transfer him to another
cage stllCI tuI odi iIatN ''t'N''N' -
For wild beasts are very responsive
creatures and these events had not
taken place without stirring them to
the utmost. The lions were roaring,
the hyenas were snarling, the ele-
plants were trumpeting, the monkeys
were chattering and the giraffes look
ed as if they wished they were not
voiceless that they might take part
in the concert.
In the midst of the uproar the own
en- of the circus came in, and he prov
eel to be very different sort of
man from the genial ticket seller.
Here. what's this rumpus about?
Interrupting the performance and IN
ritating the animals"
In few words the keeper told him
what had happened.
MY goodness, boy, why didn't you
tell me you were going to do this. We
could have gone to Chicago or st.
Louis and advertised it. and it would
have been worth a three years trip
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