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The boy sat on his uncle's knee with his
curly little head reclining against the old
mans breast. Night had fallen and there
was no light in the room save that of the
open crate.
They often sat thus, Tod and his uncle.
with long silences broken only by ir-
regular remarks.
The little fellow was looking up into the
clear cut features of the man as they we're
brought out in the subdued light from the
fireplace 1t was a kind face to look at
IN spite OF the very heavy chin, and the
boy knew the mirthful sparkle hidden
within the dark brows
The boy broke the meditation with a
quiet question:
why haven't you got a little boy of
your own, like papa. Nunkie?"
II" said his uncle, starting from his
reverie. 'Oh-well, I'm judge, you know.
and judges haven't time to support fam
HES, Tod. 1t takes so much of their
time to keep the other families straight"
After an interval of silence Tod recur-
red to his question with an argument.
But, Mr.. Harrow is a judge, and he
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has two little boys"
Judge Harrow is rich, my boy; besides,
he's an eXtravagant fellow and doesn' t
mind expenses" answered the uncle.
Presently, as though ne had not gotten
rid OF Tods question, he said: Bring
me the album, Tod
The man often looked in the album on
occasions like this when all was quiet and
still and he and the boy were alone in
the dim irelight. He turned to the pic
ture of sweet young girl. glance
revealed the photographers science of
ten years back.
Tod, this picture looks like the girl
an uncle OF yours wanted to marry years
ago. OF course, it isn't the same girl, but
1t looks like her. Your uncle and his
brother both loved the girl, but the uncle
was a struggling lawyer and 4 worthless
sort OF fellow, while the brother was a
prosperous man of business. She looked
favorably on both, but the brother spoke
first. The uncle remained silent, as he
should have done. He never deserved the
girl and would have made poor hus-
band"
And then as he stroked the boys curly
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FNOX HUNTERS of this country intend
r to celebrate the forthcoming ami.
L versary of Washington's Birthday
in a novel manner On that an
niversary hunt will be given at Mount
Vernon for the first time since Wash
ington himself followed the hounds on
his ancestral estate.
The event Will be the most notable OF
its kind in the sporting annals of this
country. The prominent hunt clubs OF
Eew York, Massachusetts, Maryland
Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New Jersey
will be represented, and more than two
hundred riders are expected to partici-
pate.
The arrangement of the hunt will be
largely due to the efforts of the Chevy
Chase Hunt Club of the District, an or
ganization whose meets twice a weeE have
been for several seasons past prominent
social and sporting features in the life of
the Capital
The membership of the Chevy Chase
Club includes some of the best known
people in Washington. The Diplomatic
Corps. the National Legislature. the
Master of the Hounds
The present master of fox hounds is
Mr.. Clarence Moore, whose stables at the
club contain fifteen of the finest breed
OF heavy-we eight carriers. Two OF Mr..
Moore's horses. Thunder" and Kohl
moor took first and second prizes at the
last horse show at Madison Square, New
York. Mr.. Moore is frequently absent
from the city, and his place IS master of
fox hounds is then generally given to Mr.
William Marrow.
The NJ. +. II. is absolute monarch IN the
hunting field. He is responsible for the
sport which the hounds furnish uhe pres
ent pack is owned by Mr.. Moore) and his
word is law. He may send home any per-
son who is unable to keep his horse in
control, or who is likely to disturb the
sport in any way. II he is not pleased
with the conduct of the field, he may go
home himself and take the hounds.
In the field, the master is DISTINGUISHED
by wearing cap shaped something like
that Of jockey. He leads the riders un-
til the pack is well advanced, attended by
the hunt servants. consisting of the
huntsman and two whips. This order is
observed SO that inexperienced riders will
not trample on the hounds, which are |
precious in the eyes of all true hunters.
In Pink and White.
The master is attired IN the hunt coat, |
which is usually "pink-that is, scarlet |
white breeches and top-boots. The SER
wants wear the hunt livery, a similar cos
tune, with the exception that the coats
ere much shorter.
Regular fox hunts are only given by the
club on special holidays, such as Thanks
giving, Christmas. and New Year, the or
binary runs being over drag" or pre-
pared trail. In drag hunting, the scent is
laid by man who goes over the course
trailing upon the ground a bag OF fox
hitter or an'se, or mixture of both. The
MOUNDS are taken to the spot where the
drag begins, and when put on the line 20
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head he added. musingiy: YES. it is
much better as it is, for there is no
pain now
BY instinct the boy knew it was no time
Tor questions, SO he nestled closer in tbe
mans arms and. as he had done so many
times before, soon dropped into a peace
full slumber.
Some days later the boy was PLAYING in
the room near his mother He was look
ing IN the album when he came TO the
picture of the sweet young girl.
Who is this, mamma - he asked.
pointing to the picture
Gracious, what is that fright doing
IN there. That is a picture of your
mamma when she was young girl.
Here, give ii to me-
No, answered the boy. standing
guard over his uncle's treasures. This
IS Nunkie's album and you mustn't take
his pictures"
He didn't fully understand even vet,
and his little brain was puzzled. but he
leit In closer sympathy with the mans
feelings when they sat together after dusk
in the firelights shadows.
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OFF al once. After finding the scent, drag
hounds usually run mute, and very fast,
as the strong scent is easily followed.
At the end of three or four miles there
is check made by breaking the line of
the drag, the NJ. +. H. holds the hounds
a few minutes for stragglers to come up,
o. for the horses TO breathe or for the
riders to change If they have extra
mounts waiting for them. The dogs are
then put on the line again, and run three
or four miles more to the finish. A drag
is usually from six to ten miles long.
Casting OF the Hounds.
In fox hunting drag IS laid 10 the
point at wEich the fox is dropped or else
/ the huntsman takes the hounds TO a COW
ert where there is likelihood OF finding
fox; such locality cannot be found
nearer to the Chevy Chase clubhouse than
seven or eight miles In the latter case
the field wait on one side OF the covert.
One OF the whips usually goes around to
the other side so as to view the fox If
one breaks out and goes away. The hunts
man then casts the hounds into the woods
and the pack Immediately ranges out and
hunts a track perhaps 800 yards wide
The huntsman walks his horse through.
the covert and encourages them with his
voice or calls them with his horn If they
work out too far. The whips bring up the
rear, whipping in stragglers.
1t must be a very phlegmatic person
who is not excited by the spectacle of a
keen pack OF hounds hunting either in
covert or meadow. They run in all direc-
tions, shifting the ground. After awhile Il
hound evinces palpable suspicion. and
doubles his eagerness. He is joined by
two or three more of the pack and
punching together they wriggle along as
if intent upon smiling the very surface of
the ground.
Suddenly one gets a whiff of something
that is Enthusiastically fox. He lifts his
head for an instant and gives vent to a
cry that is something between yelp and
whine. This high pitched, fYenzied, |
hunting voice OF the fox-hound is quite |
indescribable.
On the Scent.
At the first note the nearest hounds |
dash in, put their noses to the line, and !
join in the extraordinary chorus. If the |
scent is good, the leading hounds in few |
moments are hurrying along with their
noses down, and the rest Of the pack is
breaking through the covert after them
with heads up in obedience to the NJ. f.
II. IS horn. If the whip on the farther side
OF the covert has seen the fox break out,
his cry of Gone away" will be heard,
and the run has begun.
The field follow through the woods or
around them, as the judgment of each
may prompt When fox-hounds get away
on fresh line, no one can predict what
is going to happen, and In this lies one
of the great fascinations of the sport.
Foxes are apt to follow more or less
defined runways that lead from covert to
covert, and men who know the country
are often able TO cut corners, make their
way over gates, and get ahead at the fin
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fuss, no matter how successfully YOU
may endeayor to ware wheat
Nevertheless he continued. "the in
terest in the sport has increased here
wonderfully within the past two wears
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ana the present season far outbids any
other in the popularity to which it has
attained. We have obtained quite n num-
ber Of recruits lately among the fair sex
in addition to the dashing and enthusi-
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HLGs LAueHoRHz and HISS rAu1D1Ne

mingling with the barking of the dogs and
and whips.
The scene is animated and picturesque
in the highest degree. Some dozen or 50
Of the male riders are dressed in pink
coats. white broeches and tops-thc ira
ditionaI uniform Of The fox hunter-thus
lending bright color in contrast with the
general sombrencss Of attire. for even the
ladies' wear their darl, riding habits.
At length the II. f #. gives the signal
for starting. the huntsman casts the
hounds in the open and they catch up the
scent almost Immediately starting off in
compact body with noses close to the
ground. and at brave pace.
Back OF the master huntsman, and two
whips, follows the great BODY of the rid
ers. The spectators IN carriages whip
UP their horses in order to see as much
of the sport as possible, bat the last hun
ter is soon out OF sight, and the silvery
notes of the horns sound family in the
distance.
Then the invited spectators drive to the
club house where, in the course of a
couple OF hours or SO, the hunt will round
IN.
Not Like Old England.
"Of course" said one member of the
club. an Englishman, the drug has not
the excitement and sport OF the fox hunt,
which is the usual thing in England and
the United Kingdom. But then the char
acter OF the country is very different in
both places. There is great deal of
wire fence. for instance, in this coun-
try, and to ATTEMPT TO take this, even
In the case OF the best rider and horse.
is nearly suicidal.
There is, again, too much forest
growth, and not enough open country.
The farmers he-e do lot enter into the
spirit of the thing as they do in the
old country, where many of them ride
TO hounds themselves Here. if you
break into their fields, hey raise great ]
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/ ish, But Reynard may change his Tinfi
| and take a new line. which leaves behind
/ those who had anticipated his movements.
/ As no one can tell positively which
| way the fox is going, so no one can tell
what Will be the character of the footing
or obstacles which he crosses.
4 Drag aud the Real Thing.
drag is usually laid over line of
country which is possible for good
horse 1t avoids wire fencing (Which the
| horses cannot seeJ and impassable bar
riers.
On the other hand, fox may lead the
way into just such difficulties II is this
element of uncertainty quite as much as
the exciting hours spent in beating covert
which distinguishes fox hunting from drag
hunting
AS usual thing, thirty or more riders
follow the Chevy Chase hounds. Even
though the fox is, except on rare occa-
sions, fiction, and The course over
prepared trail which is generally pretty
well known to most Of the riders. a hunt
is an exciting event with plenty of ex-
hilaration and excitement for the partici-
pants and interest sor the spectators.
The onlookers gather many in car
rlages, being careful not to obstruct tbs,
course TO be followed by the hunters. The
latter, If the meet is at a private seat
generally congregate first at the club
house and ride in a body to the appointed
place. The notes of the horn, sounding
clearly through the wintry air, give the
first intimation to the spectators of their
approach. The pack has already arrived
in charge of the huntsman and one of the
whips and is visibly excited at the an
pearance of the hunters
At the Meet.
Three o'clock In the afternoon is usuaIIv
the time appointed for the meet. Fifteen
minutes grace is given, however. and the |
in the sport, being nearly al |
ways punctual, this period is consumed in |
merry talk, the laughter and gay voices |
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"Suddenly One Gets Whiff of Something
That IS Enthusiastically Fox. He Lifts His
Head for an Instant and Gives Vent to a
Cry That IS Something Between a Yelp
and Whine But to the Ardent Hunts
man 1t IS Sweetest Music.
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|oX HUNTERS of this country intend
r TO celebrate the forthcoming ami
| versary of Mashington's Birthday
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informed republican newspaper, the
Record-Herald, chat the president il
at the point of open rupture with Sec
rotary Shaw and that the latter may
resign from the cabinet. That there
were differences between the president
and Mr.. Shaw as to tariff revision has
been suspected"
This information is doubtless cor
rect as far as the differences about the
tariff, but that Shaw will resign from
the cabinet must be an exaggeration.
He may be forced out, he might die,
but he will never resign. Why, Shaw
never had such a soft snap in his life
before. With Wall street giving him
taffy and working him for favors Shaw
will not quit such delicious job. Then
think of all the glories of the wash
.ington season" that is in store for the
Shaws. What, retire to the Iowa corn
fields; not much. Shaw will talk pro-
lection or free trade, trust control or
free trusts, but resign, never.
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IN A BAD WAY.

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For sale by all druggists, price so
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POINTS AND OPINIONS.

speaking about party splits, the
monopoly of them just now.-Chicago
Chronicle.
1t is not true that the presidents
injury to his leg came from an attempt
to straddle the tariff question.-Louis-
Vile Courier-Journal.
We are now told that foreign
trade is stimulated by high tariffs.
Sure! Why not have them higher?-
indianapolis News Gnd.).
President Roosevelt's speeches
on trusts and public sentiment gener-
ally caused the abandonment of the
proposed meat merger" says a CO.
temporary. There ought to be closer
division. How much of the work did
the presidents speeches do?-Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
President Roosevelt has been
talking about the "strain which a re-
vision of the tariff every few years" in
wolves. as if our tariff laws had been
considered sacred from change for
long periods at time in the past. The
presidents, party has never hesitated
to tinker on the tariff whenever it
thought it would be to its advantage to
do so and the idea of setting fixed In
tervals between tariffs will hardly
strike the country as a businesslike
proposition.-Atlant Journal
The tariff, which has been the
plaything of party politics since 1927,
when Martin Van Buren, discovered its
usefulness in that direction, undoubt-
eddy should be dealt with quietly and
as matter of business merely. The
puzzle will be to devise the right meth
cd. How are needless delays to be
avoided? Unless, moreover, the COM
mission is to be empowered to take
cognizance of the existence of harmful
monopolies enjoying special favors in
the way of tariff protection, how is it
to decide what alterations are most
reeded ?-Chicago Daily News (ind.).
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ROOSEVELT PARAPHRAsED.
tbons That Need Cause the
Trusts Any Alarm.

1t is pleasing to know that some at
least of the republican leaders who had
come to look ON Mr.. Roosevelt as a
trouble hunter" are, since his speech
at Cincinnati, praising him for his
conservatism" This is based chiefly
on the very emphatic manner in which
the president made it plain that he had
no intention of advocating the only
practical present curb on the evils at
tending the trusts-namely, the with
drawal from them of the favors Of the
tariff. But without this most recent
demonstration of his purpose not to
interfere with the idol of his party
there does not seem to have been any
thing in the propositions of Mr.. Roose-
welt that need alarm the most timid of
the politicians, says the New York
Times. After giving effect to all the
qualifications on which he insists there
is not much left to his speeches. Take
his latest and most carefully elabor-
ated utterance at Cincinnati. Suppose
that he had contented himself with a
statement in substance as follows:
"No one knows exacly what is meant
by trusts There are good ones and
there are bad ones. I do not know ex-
actly how to tell them apart. 1 do not
know precisely what the evils of the
bad ones are. Whatever they may be,
congress has not now the power to
remedy them. / do not know exactly
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REPUBLICANS RATIFIED.
1T Is No Wonder That the Advocates
of High Tariff Don't Know
Where They Are al"

President Roosevelt in all his
speeches never once referred to the re-
publican campaign text book, nor for
that matter does any other campaign
orator that has so far been heard from.
Was all the time and labor of the COM
piler of thatinteresting production in
vain? Are all the reputed facts and
figures to be buried in the junk shop?
The president openly rebuked the con-
gressional com mittee that issued the
campaign book by discussing the very
matters that were omitted from that
interesting production, such as Cuban
reciprocity and the reciprocity treaties.
He also took issue with the committee
on the tariff and trust questions.
With the president on the stump re-
futing the arguments put forth by
the republican committee in its Off
cial text book and rebuking the mis-
sion of matter that makes important
issues, that party certainly is in torn
up state and it is no wonder that so
many republicans don't know where
they are at.
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SUBSTITUTE FOR ABILITY.
n Time and i'm Some Cases, But
1t Does Not Last.

During the civil war, certain manu-
facturers who tried to get rich out
of the misfortunes of the country,
andat the expense of soldiers who were
fighting their battles for $13 a month,
made shoddy clothing that looked all
right when new, but which, when the
poor soldiers were lying in the wet
trenches, or tramping through the
rain and snow, fell to pieces. 1t had
no wearing quality. The rain and wet
unmasked the shoddy. Shoe manufac-
terers put paper or pasteboard soles
and poor leather into shoes for the
soldiers. The shoes looked all right
when they were new and dry, but few
days of rain and mud ruined them,
and the poor soldiers suffered pain,
exposure and disease through the
fraud, says Success.
A counterfeit coin may pass for
genuine for some time, until some OBJ
serving person detects the cheat, or
the dull, leaden thud betrays the lie;
then the condemned coins career is
ended, and the unfortunate holder suf-
fers loss.
Shoddy character and counterfeit
worth can impose on the world for a
time. People have found this out.
Many young men, to-day, are trying
to make "bluff" do their work, and
accomplish the results of honest train
ing and solid education. Strangely
enough, they sometimes seem to sue
coed in keeping up the deception for
years. So long as their boasts are not
questioned, so long as they can load
the work or the responsibility upon
more competent shoulders, they i'm
pose on the world, and are apt to get
higher regulations and larger salaries
than more worthy and more modest
men. But bad work will not always
be accepted, cheap eXpedients will not
always avail, props and crutches will
not always be at hand, and mere boast
ing will not always be accepted as abil-
ity. Some day, in the midst of panic
or an emergency, the pretender is
found out, and shame and disaster are
his only portion. All his undeserved
triumphs are forgotten. Scoffers cry
that they thought all the time he did
not know as much as he said he did.
The lion skin is stripped off, and the
stupid donkey is a laughing stock.
Geat occasions, which, like lightning
flashes reveal unsupported heroes, just
as surely reveal the unworthy, the
buffers, the sham workers. Luck that
makes the fortune Or the reputation
of the man who is prepared in char
acter and knowledge for emergencies
is only bad luck for the shoddy char
acter and the unframed workman.
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Enough to Confuse.

It appears from the campaign
speeches that all the good things which
have come upon the country are due to
the Dingley tariff; all the bad things
are the result of natural laws, over
which the republican party has had no
control. Thus, while republican policy
has caused good crops and general
prosperity, it has had nothing to do
with the growth of trusts, which
merely illustrate universal tendency.
The general advance of prices indi-
Gates the prosperity flowing from the
tariff; if wages and salaries have not
advanced correspondingly, it is be-
cause they are controlled by the law
of supply and demand. A similar dis
tinction runs through the whole po-
litical and economic field. If not al
ways convincing it is most convenient.
Yet sometimes it is little confusing
to the logical mind.-Philadelph
Ledger.
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hat definite power it ought to- have,

what definite power it ought to have,
but the only way to give it is by an
amendment to the constitution, the
nature of which cannot be stated in
advance. But it will take great while
to get the amendment, and we can have
time to study it out. All can say is
that we must act with the greatest firm
ness and caution, courage and delibera-
ton, do nothing until we are sure we
are right, and do it without hesita-
ton"
Would not that be in reality all that
he did say in his speech at Cincinnati
or in the speeches that have preceded
it? As we have paraphrased his utter
ances they seem nonsensical. But is
the paraphrase unfair or incomplete?