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present. and what are You going to

present, and what are you going to
do?"
Griswold laughed mirth1essly. lam
fixed to run twenty-four hours long
er, thanks to your hospitality. For
that length of time presume shall
conform to what we have been taught
to believe is the natural order of
things After that"
He paused, and cambridge put the
question: What then?"
"Then, if the chance to earnit is still
denied me. and 1 am sufficiently hun.
cry, 1 shall stretch forth my hand and
take what l need"
cambridge fished in his pocket and
found a ten-dollar bill. "Do that first. ~
he said, offering Griswold the money.
The proletary smiled and shook his
head. "No; not to keep from going
hungry even to oblige you, Balm
bridge. 1t is quite possible that shall
end by becoming a robber, as you para
phrasers would put it, but shan't be-
gin on my friends. Goodnight, and a
safe voyage to you"
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has may hold-if he can. The answer
is simple; there is enough and to spare
for all, and it belongs to ALTO him
who has sown the seed and watered it
as we'll as to him who has reaped the
harvest. That is violent remedy, you
will say. So be it; it is the only one
that will cure the epidemic of greed.
There is an alternative, but it is only
theoretical"
And that?"
May be summed up in seven words:
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self When the man who employs
and governs-uses the power that
money gives him to succor his fellow
man, the revolution will be indefinitel y
postponed"
cambridge looked at his watch. 81
must be going" he said; "the 'Adelan-
tado' drops down the river at eleven.
But in passing I'll venture a little
prophecy. You're down on your luck
now, and bit hot-hearted in conse-
quence, but some day you will strike
it right and come out on top. When
you doi you'll be hard master, or I'll
lose my guess"
God do SO to me and more, if am. >
That's all right; when the time
comes you remember my little vatici-
nation. But before we shake hands
let's get back to concrete things for
the minute. How are you fixed for the
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IRISH. ABSURDITIES.
Amusing Instances of the Extreme
Simplicity of Country Folk Of
the Emerald Isle.

Here are a few samples of the alb
surdities arising out of the extreme
simplicity of some Irish folk, says
the London Spectator. A young man
came to confess to an Irish priest in
London whose experiences of the hui
mors of his fellow countrymen would
fill book. "WeH, my man." said
the priest, land how do you earn your
living?" ''I'm an acrowbat, your river
ence." The priest was nonplussed.
''I'll show you what I mean in brace
of shakes" said the penitent, and in
a moment was turning himself inside
out in the most approved acrobatic
fashion in and out Of the pews. An
old woman who had followed him to
confession looked on Mortified. "When
it comes. to my turn, father" she
gasped, "for the love of God don't
put a penance on me like that; it 'ud
be the death of mel" / think it was
TIE same good father, who. observing
that regular attendance at a Lent
mission had done nothing to reform
one of his parishioners, told him SO.
and asked him the reason of it. "Ah!
father" he replied, 81 can manage
the faith right enough, but the morals
bate me-" On another occasion this
priest was called upon to marry a
man of whom he knew nothing to a
girl of his congregation. On investi-
CATION he found the would-be bride
groom's knowledge of the Cath Ollie
faith very limited. Have you ever
been baptized?" he asked. "Well,
father, I can't trust my memory to
that" "Are your parents living?''
"The mother isl Lets have her
address" This was given, and tele-
gram dispatched to the old lady on
the spot, reply paid. The answer
came in due course: "Vaccinated, but
not baptized"
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A Knave of Conscience
BY FRANCIS LYNDE.
Copyright. 100, BY Francis Lynde.)

10 write up the sugar situation Tor
Horton. 1t was humiliating failure,
like everything else of the kind have
ever set myself to do
did you send in anything?"
."Yes; and it was rejected Horton
said to try it on some of the reviews;
that it might go with them, but was
no good for newspaper. It's no use
talking, cambridge; the conditions
are all wrong when man with mes
sage to his kind can't get to deliver it
to the people who want to hear it,"
cambridge ordered the demi-tasses
and lighted cigar. That's about
what l suspected. You couldn't keep
your peculiar views muzzled even
while you were writing bit of pot
boiler. That brings us back to the old
contention. You drop your fool So
cialistic fad and write book that a
publisher can bring out without COM
hitting commercial hari-kari, and
you'll stand some show. Light up and
fumigate that idea awhile"
Griswold took the proffered cigar.
'It doesn't need fumigat ting; if could
consider it seriously, it ought to be
burnt with fire. You march in the
ranks of the well-fed, cambridge, and
it's your, business to be conservative.
/ don't, and it's mine to be radical"
What would you have? The worlds
as it is, and you can't remodel it,"
Eyes, l and my kind can remodel it,
and we will some day when the burden
has grown too heavy to be borne. The
aristocracy of rank went down in fire
and blood in France century ago;
that of money will come to it's end here
when the time is ripe"
That's rank anarchy. didn't know
you'd gotten so far along"
Call it what you please; names
don't change facts. Listen"-Gris-
void leaned across the table and his
eyes grew hard and the blue in them
was steely-"For more than a month
1 have tramped the streets of this &C
cursed city begging-yes, that's the
word-begging for work of any kind
that would suffice to keep body and
soul together; and for more than half
of that time, I've lived on one meal a
day. That is what we have come to
we of the submerged majority. And
that isn't all; the wage-worker himself
is but serf, a chattel among the other
possessions of some fellow-man who
has acquired him in the plutocratic re-
distribution of the earth and the full
ness thereof"
cambridge applauded in dumb show
with his thumb-nails. "Turn it loose
and ease your mind, old man." he said,
indulgently. 81 know things haven't
been coming your way lately. What is
your remedy?"
Griswold was fairly started now, and
ridicule was as fuel to the fame.
"The money people have set us the
example. They have made us under
stand that might is right; that he who
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er's train of thought, and he answered
II rather more fully and freely than be
might have at another time under diff
ferent conditions. From telling who
Griswold was, he slipped by easy de-
grees into the story of his UPS and
downs, ending with vivid little word
painting OF the scene in Chaudiere's.
ITO hear him talk, you would think
=he was a bloody-minded anarchist of
the thirty-third degree, ready to sweep
the existing order of things off the
face of the EARTH" he added; "but in
reality he is one of the best fellows in
the world. gone bit morbid over the
social problem. He has heart of gold.
as happen to know. He used to spend
good deal of his time in the backwa-
ter, and you know what the backwater
in big city is"
yes
"Well, one night he stumbled into
cellar somewhere down in the lower
levels on the East side. He was look
ing for fellow that he had been try
ing to find work fora crippled long
shoreman, / believe he was. When he
got into the place he found the man
stiff, the woman with the death-rattle
in her throat, and two-year-old baby
creeping back and forth between the
dead father and the dying mother
starvation, you know, pure and sim
pie. Griswold jumped into the breach
like a man and tried to save the wom-
an. 1t was too late; but when the
mother died, he took the child to his
own eight-by-ten attic and nursed and
fed it till the missionary people took
it off his hands. He did that. mind you,
when he was living on two meals day
himself; and l fancy he skipped one of
them to buy milk for that kid"
''Humph! And he calls himself an
anarchist, does he? It's a bowling pity
there amt lot more just like him."
said the detective, sententiously.
THAT is what l say" cambridge
agreed. Then, with sudden twinge of
remorse for having told Griswold's
story to a stranger, he changed the
subject with an abrupt question.
where are you headed for, Griffin ?"
The detective chuckled. "You don't
expect me to give it away to you-a
newspaper man-do you? But 1 will
seeing you can't get it on the wires.
am going down to Guatemala after
Mortsen.'
1.-The defaulter? By Jove! you've
found him at last, have you?"
Griffin nodded. cit takes a good
while, some times, but don't fall down
very often when there's enough money
in it to make the game worth the can
die. I've been two years, off and on,
trying to locate that fellow; and now
I've found him he is where he can't be
eXtradited. All the same, I'll bet you
five to one he goes back with me on
the next steamer. Have fresh smoke I?
No? Then let's turn in; it's getting
late"
ITO Be Continued
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FoRE1cN GOSSIP.

An English farmer reckons to get
. ton of wheat straw to so bushels OF
grain.
In 1910 the Dutch possessed 60
tons out of every 100 afioat- Now
they own IA tons out of each 100.
The oldest large bridge in Europe
is that at Ratisbon, over the Danube.
1t was built in 1135, and is e94 feet
in length.
Greater Berlin, including all sub
urbs the Inhabitants of which do
business in the city, now has popu-
lation of nearly. 1850, 900.
The Mexican army of more than
$4,000 men is supported upon trifie
more than 100000 Mexican dollars
month. The Mexican congress does
not cost 100000 a year.
The British tea consumption in
1875 was $4,000. 900 pounds year.
more than one-half of which total
was struggled by foreign ships from
Canton operating in the English
channel.
Snow sells in the north of Sicily
for about one cent a pound. It is a
government monopoly, and the prince
OF Palermo derives the greater part
of his income from it. The snow is
gathered on the mountains in felt
covered baskets and is sold in the
cities for refrigerating purposes.
Before the French Academy of Sci
ences, recently was discussed the
question of the terminating power
of grains of wheat taken from the
old Egyptian tombs. 1t has been
said that wheat thus found has been
made to grow, but the truth is that
the albumen of wheat 5000 years old
has been found unchanged, but not
so the embryo; the latter had lost
its vitality and would not germin-
ate.
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ANIMALS THAT FAINT.
Cats and Horses, Among Others, Have
Weak Spells just Like Human
Beings.

When the little gray cat had been
brought to with camphor and laven-
der salts the woman who had been in
strumental in the resuscitation said:
"Well, that is the first time l ever
saw a cat faint
The rest of the boarders laughed.
says the New York Sun.
"Faint?" they said. 1.-The idea! That
wasn't a faint. Animals never faint
'Then what allied her?" asked the
woman.
The boarders couldn't tell, and after
dinner the woman went around to the
veterinarians office and asked him
about it.
"Of course she fainted," he said "It
is not the fashion to call the sudden
indisposition of a cat or dog a faint.
but that is what it really amounts to.
In common parlance, when an animal
drops over insensible the illness-is de.
scribed as a sudden rush of blood tc
the brain, but the symptoms are prac-
ideally the same as in the fainting of
human being, and the remedies used
to restore consciousness in the latter
case can be used to advantage in reviv-
ing a fainting cat or dog.
All animals, of course, do not faint.
Neither do all human beings. But
there are degrees of constituencies in
the lower orders of creation Just as in
the human race, and there is no doubt
that there are many animals of deli
cate organism who are just as apt to
keel over as man or woman.
This is particularly true of cats and
dogs and birds that are kept closely
within doors, yet fainting is by nc
means confined to domestic pets Ami
mails whose surroundings have pre-
vented their becoming versed in the
polite ailments of civilized life are
given to fainting. Monkeys, for in
stance, have their little dizzy spells
and topple over without rhyme or rea-
son.
Even the larger and more hardy
animals have attacks of weakness
which, no matter what they may be
called from scientific standpoint. are
really nothing more or less than faint
ing spells. 1 have seen horses fall to
the street in a faint so neat that not
even the most accomplished woman of
fashion could beatit These equine at
tacks must not be confused with stag
gers and sunstroke. They are faint
ing fits, pure and simple
The woman looked relieved.
"Then the next time anybody says
animals can't faint 1 can tell them that
they don't know what they are talk
ing about, can't I?' she said, tri-
umphantly.
you certainly cam" said the vet
erinarian.
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Under Dimcultfe.

Warwick just read about an
aeronaut that tried to make balloon
ascension in London.
Wickwire-Quite an exciting feat,
I fancy.
Warwick-Oh, I don't know. He
says that after he got up five or six
rods he couldn.t tell which way was
up on account of the fog, got turned
around. and first thing he knew was
back where he started from.-Judce.
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His Parting Shot

The Actor (about to leave the one
night stand)-That sign on the wall
reads: Accommodation Cor Man and
Beast" doesn't it?
The Landlord (of the Mansion house)
That's what she does!
The Actor-Well, I'd advise you to
obliterate the man." if you don't want
to be arrested for swindling, some day.
Puck
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-03

One Yarmouth mussel of deteriora-
ted character contained no fewer than
5000. 900 of harmful bacteria, while the
water in the shell was certified To con-
tain 500, 200 bacteria of the colon bacil.
u type, the forerunner of typhoid
Science.
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Berlin's Black Book.

Berlin's black book. the criminal
record kept by the police. now con-
lists Of 81 volumes. containing $1,000
photographs of criminals Of all
classes.
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Personal Notes.

The Cleveland City Council will re-
move the Oliver Hazard Perry monu-
ment from Wade Park to site over
looking Lake Erie.
F. f. Fernald. of Chicago, has just
made a record from Japan to Chicago
covering the distance in thirteen days
and twenty-one hours.
"A marble bust of DR.. Walton L.
Brooks, formerly professor of natural
history in Colgate University. was uh-
yelled at Hamilton. N. Y. on Sunday.
Mrs. Charles Warren Fairbanks, wife
of the Senator from Indiana, will be a
candidate for reelection as president
general of the Daughters of the Revo-
luton.
Cope Whitehouse will sail for Egypt
on November Is. He will be one of the
guests of the Egyptian Government on
the opening Of the Assouan Reservoir
on December 10.
Emperor William is collaborating
with Joseph Lauff. the court poet. on a
drama entitled .'Under the Helmet
The hero is the great elector, Frederick
William, of Brandenburg. who died in
1888.
A French artist, Bechard. has dis
covered method by which he can re-
produce any subject by photography on
painters canvas. reducing to the mini
mum the difficult art of painting repro
auctions.
Miss Marion Talbot, dean of women
ut the University Of Chicago. having
offered sum of money to the coed
division for the best musical cheer, has
awarded the prize to Miss Amy Eliza.
beth Floyd.
Henry . l.. Dawes, ex-United States
Senator, although ne has just celebra-
ted his eighty-seventh birthday, is still
chairman Of the Dawes Indian Com
mission, and, from his home directs. thu
affairs OF the Five Civilized Tribes. l,.4
Sir Marcus Samuel, who becomes .
Lord Mayor Of London, on November 8
enters on his high position in order Of
seniority or the aldermanic bench, hav.
ing received election by the liverymer
of the city Of London recently, accord.
ing to time-honored custom.
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VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Popularity of Rural Delivery.
Relfast JournaI.)


The people of Swanville, who are
served by the r. +. d. route which
started from Monroe. Nov. /. celebrated
the event by the firing of guns and
with bon fires. In fact it was 4th OF
July on small scale. There were by
actual count fOrty-twO people present.
A vote of thanks and three cheers were
given Hon. f. C. Burleigh, who secured
the route. A complimentary supper
was given to Mr.. and Mrs. II. r. Daw-
son of Monroe at the residence OF Mr..
Charles Hartshorn of Swanville for his
earnest work in our behalf. The sup
per was fine one. On the wall of the
dining room was the motto, Welcome
r. F. D." Also on the cakes in colored
frosting was the same motto. Alter
the celebration the people gathered
in the house of Mr.. Hartshorn and the
evening was spent with music and
singing All were pleased to know that
their mail would be left at their doors
in the future vote of thanks was
sent to Mr.. Burleigh.
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Quaker Reflections.

Every wife should be labeled: Handle
with care.
There is always a turning point, even TO
dudes trousers.
A man is sometimes known by the
things he leaves undone.
In storing away clothes. one camphor
ball is worth three of the pawnbrokers
The automobile never gets a rest, but
the automobilist often gets arrested.
1t is seldom the black sheep of the fam
lily who has the wool pulled over his eyes.
No Maude, dear: there is no reason
why deaf mute should not be a sign
painter. -
The fewer friends we have the less dis
agreeable things we hear about ourselves.
For every self-made man there are a
hundred VINO claim they gave him his
first start.
DO you wursti' exclaimed the melo-
dramatic cog, as they led him to the sau-
sage mill. Il sses
Give a woman her own way, says the
cynical bachelor,s land she Is dissatts fled
because everything is so easy
HoPhiladelphia Record.
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STATE NEWS.
IKENnEBEc.
SOUTH FAYETTE. 4


Harry Riggs Is doing carpenter work
at Wayne village.
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Walls, also
Charles Rose left here Saturday, fol
New Jersey ss.r ssyaerY
The Hubbard Brothers, Frank and
Guy. are making repairs and improve
ments on the Hubbard homestead
buildings.
j. M. Pike has finished packing and
shipping his apples. He had 473 bar
rels. f
I Jose Lymon and AL Monk Of the Bog
road are engaged at the North Wayne
Tool Company's Works.
Mrs. Animal Pike attended the sun
day-school convention held at West
Mt. Vernon last week.
James Prescott has gone to Worces-
ter. Mass, where he has secured a
good situation.
Miss Hazel Gibbs of Kent's Hill,
spent Saturday and Sunday with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Pike
Vernon. Wednesday, to purchase bar
rels for his extensive apple crop.
Lotion d. Jennings of North Wayne.
was admitted to the Maine bar for the
practice of law, Oct. Il. -
A. E. Mank of North Wayne, was in
town Wednesday afternoon. Mr.. Mank
recently purchased farm at South
Wayne. which will be occupied by his
son, Fred f. Mank, formerly of Fay
Of to
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THE HELLO" GIRL.
Something About an 0tSatlr in I,
Telephone Exchange.


Most OF the people who use the te,..
phone have never. seen the workings, az
telephone exchange, as the cenlra,
Office Is called. nor have any idea -
the tense. nervous life led by the sir,s
employed there. Always busy. WIFI,
calls constantly coming in and. morr
cross words than kind ones from impa-
tent subscribers, one wonders how
they keep sane. let alone well.
How do you manage to stand ite,
was asked of one of them, Miss May
Stowe. of No. 70 West Lake street.
Households. N. Y. sl ~E4.g
1T is very trying" she replied. "and
one time my health did give out. For
number of years was in a poor state
of health owing 20 thin blood, or anae-
mia. as the Doctor called it, but DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
made ME well and strong. l was ~
troubled with shortness of breath that
J couldn't walk over a few blocks.
was so nervous, could not get any rest
at night, was very thin and almost COL
orless. ] was also subject to very ,se-
we're headaches which not infreuuently
lasted for two weeks at time without
any let ur. I felt bad all over. a
My married sister had been cured
of anaemia by DR.. Williams Pink Pills
and so began taking them. While on
the first box l could see that they were
helping me, and by the time four boxes
were used up I was cured. Now I
walk down town and back at least
three times day, / feel perfectly well
and able to stand the strain Of my DO
cif:np wall anuhoAvo r-
Anaemia is not the only disease
which succumbs to the potent influence
of DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People. They are an unfailing specific
for such diseases as 1ocomotor ataxia.
partial paralysis, st. Vitus' dance. SCI
atica. neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache. the after-effects of the grip.
of the heart, pale and SAL
low compilations and all forms Of
weakness either in male or female.
They are sold by all druggists. or direct
from DR.. Williams Medicine Co.. Sche-
nectady, n. Y. Price, so cents per box;
six boxes $3.50.
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By the Governor
I THANKSGIVING
"a. PROCLAMATION.

= The year about to close has been flied
with many occasions for Thanksgiving.
Both the State and the Nation have en-
sfoyed to "a remarkable degree the bless
Sings of prosperity. Our harvests have
eeen more than sufficient for our require
Jnents. our wage earners have been well
employed, and nearly every material in
1erest has prospered as never before.
. In accordance with the custom which
has prevailed since the time of the Pill
.srims, who set apart a day of thanks
giving after the harvests had been gath
cred. and conforming to the proclamation
I,f the President. /. John F. Hill. Cover
s!or of Maine, hereby designate Thursday
the twenty seventh day of November in
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. There should be a thorough investi-
cation and a prompt placing of re-
Sponsibility FOR that awful tragedy of
election night in New York city by
Which a score We're killed and a hun
bred MANNED and mangled. II was
criminal carelessness to have a mass
Of high explosives in n crowded square
IN the midst of 10000 people. and their
premature explosion was a crime, not
sIn accident. u was all the result OF
Sae Tammany idea that the voters of
New York must be cajoled and amused
by free exciHsionss free drinks and
free shows