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Superstition That People DO MOI
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superstltlon That People DO MOI
~ I: Easily outgulr,o,,w. Il. s5s.s.
y haven't had the grip, !, & says the
man in the restaurant. Then with q
queer little grin, half: sheepish, half
bravado, he raps his knuckles sharp
ly an the bare wood of the table. X
It's a universal superstition. People.
do not outgrow it. The man who calls.
out "unberufen" after such a boast
does not mean to echo a peasant su-
pelstltlon; it is a species Of second
nature grown out of the old heather
notion, common in all lands, that it is.
not well to attract the attention of the:
gods to conspicuous good luck
In many continental European COM
munltles it is considered bad luck to.
praise the beauty of a child. The
strange does not win gratitude but.
the reverse, by saying, What a pretty
BABY" Even the most loving mother
may under the circumstances respond
by scowling and calling the child
brat.
In Japan similar feeling survives
IN a rule of politeness. It is not
seemly to refer to ones possessions or
family in terms complimentary. MY
olsgracefully squalid home" my
stupld' son. are expressions more po-
lite 10 native than to foreign ears.
among modern Mohammedan tribes
*tne koranic law against making
craven images survives in a super
stltlous fear of pictures of the human
form or face. A*fcamera secretes
"djinn," or evil spirit; the person DOS
sesslns a mans picture has powe,
over his soul-these are variants OF
the picture-fear.
tempting fate'' is an expression
that harks back to the old delusions
TOO good to last" is another. The
truth is, of course, that good luck
brings more good luck, bad luck brings
more bad luck-not the reverse
New York World.
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Whims of the Docs,

Dogs have queer whims," said
woman who had three. That little
fellow is a coward, but it is Away.
something very funny that makes hin
afraid. Watch, now" said she, ane
said CONTEMPORARY "Pooh!" I'm
mediately the dogs tail went dow1
between his legs, and he skunk up
stairs to hide under the bed. "Now
watch Ted over there" she said. 90.
think he's making altogether too much
noise, don't you? Well stop him.
Then she, tied a handkerchief loosel,
around one of the dogs legs, and ht
dropped in a limp heap on the foo,
and, stayed there until the handker
chief was removed. DO you want tt
go to walk, Waggles pr she said to the
third little. dog. Away bounded the
dog upstairs, but he was down agai1
in minute with "a red pit1cushion II
his mouth. =" <.,.
II don't know how he learned thai
trick" said his mistress, ''but every
time: I ask him that question he darts
for my room and brings down that rec
cushion" ?~s
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-06

SslaadoNy a1p9es tae a. d ellD.,
the CLIMBING. hrelight could - lonEs,
f'nd them :, ~ ss = .s -
i And when the morning came, rosy
and wind-tossed. Hugh O 'Rourke cam
out to his serying-men with, life and
the Joy ofslife In his eyes, and he and
the fair woman clinging to his arm
gave them good-morrow and went
forth, laughing. But, an hour later.
these found the body, of = Hugh
O'Rourke lying. on his bed with shut
eyes and, folded hands, long cold. So
the serving men knew that they had
seen and hidden farewell to the soul
of Hugh O'Rourke and that all was
well with him at last.-The Sketch
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oATH-TAklNe IN MANY LANDS

Well Enough If All of Them Could In.
duce Veracity.
Chinese witnesses must be sworn in
several ways if they are to be bound
to tell the truth. In some cases the
witness breaks a plate and assents To
the imprecation that his soul may be
shattered in the same way if he strays
from the paths of veracity.
With a large section of the Chinese
the formula is for the person admins.
tering the oath to light a match or
candle, and, blowing it out, tell the
witness that thus will his soul be ex-
tlngulshed it he does not speak the
truth, to which he assents by giving q
short nod.
Some tribes living on the Thibetan
tab1eland can only be sworn in\courts
by cutting off the head of live game.
cock
The Hindu law says:
Let a Judge swear a Brahmin by
his veracity, a soldier by his horses,
his elephants or his arms; an agricul
turist by his cows, his grain, or his
money and souder by all his crimes. >"
A Gala of Abyssinia sits down over
a pit covered with hide, imprecatine
that he may fall into Z pit if he breaks
his word
I A Brazilian savage, to confirm his
statement, raises his hand over his
head and thrusts it into his hair or
touches the point of his weapons.
Among the Aracans, an Asiatic tribe
the witness swearing to speak the
truth takes in his hand a musket, a
sword, spear, a tigers tusk, a croco.
dies tooth, or stone celt.
The hill tribes of India swear by a
tigers skin, and the Ostraks by
bears head.
The sacred oath in Persia is "by the
holy grave" that is, the tomb of Shah
Besa de, who is buried in Cashmere.
Jews are sworn on the Pentateuch
with their hats on; Mohammedans by
placing the right hand fiat on the
Koran and the left ON the forehead,
and. then bringing down the forehead
to the book, and finally gazing while
at the book. The highest oath of the
man who dwells by the Ganges in In
dfa is taken on the water of that
river.
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Why Many Young Men Fail.

= 1t is the fault and the cause of the
failure Of SO many bright, capable
young men that, being put into a GER
tain workday rut, they make no effort
to- climb or even crawl out of it; they
do not. seek the work that is not .rou.
tine, and go beyond the terms of the
bond in search of additional labor in
order to attract the approving notice
Of their employers. They do not go
to their posts before nor remain at
them after the fixed hour They are
content to. do enough, and no more
than enough, to earn their hire. The
life Of the average clerk is generally
genteel, easy, clean1y; he need not
soil his hands, nor his clothes, and
his ambition is satisfied with these
pleasant conditions. - Philadelphia
Ledger.
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One Mans Honor

at eighteen I kicked over all re.
straints and went the pace till-well.
TILL l came the worst kind of a cron.
per. You see, Margrave and two
or three others of the Oxford set
came into their money at the same
time, and, like a lot of hot-headed
FOOLS, we turned London upside down
hunting for some new devilment in
which to make ducks and brakes of
it all. l was the hottest-headed fool
OF them all and soon found that I
had not only established an unen-
vlable reputation for wildness, but
that had run dangerously near the
end of my tether-things had arrived
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at. a stage where l could no longer
hold my own with the fellows-so I
made up my mind to pull up stakes
and go to one of the colonies with the
remainder"
J. He sat gloomily silent for a mo-
ment, apparently lost in a RETROSPECT
anything but pleasant. An impatient
"Oh, go on, Dick, please go on" from
the girl brought him back to the pres.
ent again.
Just before I sailed for Australia
the day before, I think it was
Margrave came to me and said: See
here, old chap, I'm in devil of a
hole; I need two thousand pounds the
worst sort of way and not another
sou can I raise on the estate. I've
got to have it, or there'll be scandal
that will break the matters heart;
help me out, for Gods sake
'Margraves mother had been aw-
fully good to me when l was lonely
little chap at Eton-used to have me
down for the holidays, and all that,
you know-so the upshot of it all was
that promised to let him have the
two thOu.-and it was just half of
what l had left-and further, he got
me to promise to take the check to
the party he was rowing with. l took
it, got a receipt for it and sailed the
next day.
"For eight years in Australia l got
no. word from the home folks, but
thought that the letters had gone
astray, as was far up country, and
finally L went back to England with
a nice little pile and big longing for
the society of my own kind again.
God, what homecoming it was. Not
a welcome; black looks, yelled insiI-
uations everywhere. One day I asked
q chap who had refused my hand,
what it all meant. He told me. Mar
graves trouble had been the worst
sort-lOw-down, dishonorable treat
ment OF a woman We all
knew-conduct no gentleman could
ever forgive. had paid the
money with my own check-I had
left the country the next day-and he
NeAu IA1C AC 1o-4CL uC UCd4 Lu6
shame of it also came out to New
York and met you. / love you, dar-
ling, and you shall judge. Shall we
go back to- England and straighten
things out? It shall be as you say,
little woman
But, Dick, think what it would
mean to that other woman and those
children couldn't, dear-and
yet,when ! think Of how you have suf-
fered, could do anything; dear, dear
Dick y vii. Xxx
She buried her face in her hands
for g moment, and the man watched
her eagerly, anxiously. 49,
Dick, there is Just one thing . in
the world ! have always wanted more
even than to 80 home; and that is to
marry q hero. Wen stay here, dear,
and You shall forget the pain and the
hurt in my love. - Vivian Glare How.
ard in Chicago Examiner. . ..ss
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me-nay, but only with your eyes, be-
loved-and tell me how mortal l am
He kneeled down beside her now
and cast his arms about her fair body
as she sat in his seat, looking up at
her with eyes that changed slowly
their wonder for worship. Then he
loosed hand and drew down a. thick
curl of yellow hair to his lips, and
presently blindfolded his eyes with it's
softness.
Il am answered." the woman said
at last. THAT which is not mortal in
you has spoken to me immortal, and
we know one another. So'-she drew
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Too. Radical a Reformer.

Count Batthyany, a young man of
twenty:six; and an enthusiastic Tol.
stoian,5 has been confined in an asy.
lum ins Austria for the insane at. the
instigation ofs~his relations, - His
friends $say that he is perfectly "a.
tional, and are agitating for his re-
lease: The Count has an immense
estate, and set about to inculcate his
doctrines among his tenants. These
serf.like peasants he treated i as
brothers, preached anarchy, and read
to- them Tolstoi's works, which he
translated into the Magyar tongue:
On account Of these doings, his rela.
tives, to; whom such Innovations we're
abhorrent had him placed in the
asylum. j, Z, - ~ -, - ~
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| 1le you quite sure That you are
really happy, dear-very happy?"
And he leaned over the table deux
and touched her fingers behind the
friendly setter of the roses. Forget
full of the ubiquitous waiter, of every
thing but the earnest-faced man be-
fore her, the girl impulsively stretch
ed out both hands to him and said
with shining eyes:
so happy, dear, happier than l
ever hoped to be-and to think that
at last the dream Of my life is going
to be 'realized-I shall go home, home
to dear England again. I was very
little when mamma and Grace and I
left the old home after papa's death.
But America has never seemed SO
beautiful to me as our dear home in
Surrey" A look of sadness :. crept
into the glowing eyes and she did not
notice that the man moved uneasily
in his chair and that a gloomy, wor-
ried expression overshadowed the
bright hopefulness of a moment be-
fore.
I'VE shall go back just as soon as
we are married, shall we not, Dick?
Dear Old Dick, l am so glad that you
and not any one else are to give me
my dearest wish. Aren't you glad
you don't look uproariously happy
what is it,, ,dear?"
MAY, would you mind so awfully
if we-well, if we didn't go back to
England, after all?'
would l mind? Dick are you
crazy? Oh, you know I have hoped
and waited for that all my life. It
used to seem as if it would never
come true-till~ met you and you
told me you loved me. And since then
I have thought of it, waited for it day
and night =
Dick looked at her questioningly
for a moment and then said, a little
bitterly: DO you know, little girl,
that at times I have been tempted to
think that you loved the thought of
going back home better than you did
me-"
Her face crimsoned painfully, and
his heart smote him.
There, there, little one; that
wasn't fair. 1 was a beast to say it
to you-more of a beast because you
are going to be put to the test
why, Dick, what do you mean?"
Gust this, Maysie, grille; we can
not go back to England-at least
cannot"
''You cannot go back, Dick? Surely
surely you have not committed some
crime which prevents you from going
back. It isn't that? Say it isn't!"
''Well, I'm not exactly criminal,
little girl,but I might just as we'll be-"
he said bitterly. I should be treated
like one If Invent back, and every
one believes me to be the most des-
picable wretch On the face of the
green earth"
A nameless fear grew in the girls
eyes.
For heavens sake, Dick, tell me
what you mean
II mean just this: If went back
to England tomorrow my own rela-
tives would in all possibility cut me
dead. The fellows at the cubs-in
the park-on the street, would pass
me with cold nod; If offered them
my hand not a mother son of them
but would quietly and coldly ignore
it. My God, child, you don't know
what it meant to me. I went through
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As Others See Us

II wonder If my face will change,
too, when I am your age?" asked the
sweet girl graduate, in a tone redol-
ent with insinuation.' y
Undoubtedly, DEAR replied the
elderly female, land you ought to be
thankful for the loss of a generous
portion of your cheek"
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anger, but now I lift my curse"
the bandage of hair from his eyes and
smiled down into them-t'you love me,
Hugh?"
If know what love is, beloved
She uncovered his eyes and looked
deep into them, laughing. Il am beau
ty and I am love, and l have chosen
to lie on the bosom of a man whom
the tongue of the world knows not
dreamer who has achieved none of
his dreams, a soldier whose sword has
won him nothing-and there is beauty
and success and strength in the world
outside. How is it you can keep me
here. Hugh?"
Sweet, shall never know"
Hush, unbeliever!> Let us be man
and woman together for little. NV
feet are cold, and I have hunger and
thirst upon me, Hugh. Bring me food
and drink, and let be the fire: You
shall warm my hands in your hands,
Hugh, when we have eaten together"
Dear, what will you eat? There is
only coarse bread here, but I have red
wine in my butt, and there is honey in
the comb, / think, and store of apples
in the ,loft-Winter Queenings, and the
like
Bring me here the bread and wine
and honey, beloved, and we will make
wedding feast of these. And bring
me Winter Queening that we may
play ball with it when we have eaten" "
He went out, and came back soon
with the bread and wine in a basket
on his arm, the apple in his hand, and
silk coverlet over his shoulder. He
laid the quilt down at her feet. ..
"This for your carpet, beloved. Now
will you eat?"
She drank half the cup of wine that
he poured out, and Hugh drank after
her; then they broke bread and ate
the honeycomb together
Tell me my name, Hugh?"
"Grania, maybe, because you shine
so bright, beloved: 49, ,-
mo"
"Esca, then, because your face is
as pale as the moon when she is
young"
mot Esca. Have you heard ever of
a woman that was bitterly wronged of
an O'Rourke long ago, and died ours
ing him, and has come back and back
to cry. for the passing of every
O'Rourke since then?"
Il have heard of her, beloved?''
Il am she, the banshee of your
house, Hugh O'Rourke; but for you I
shall not cry. Barren years have
abided in mine anger, but now I lift
my, curse, for my, love. is put upon q
man Of the house that wronged: me.
Do you take p me for your wife,
O'Rourke, knowing this?'' Z, T. =.
81 take you for my wife, Ban-shee,
in the face Of the sun and moon, and
plight troth to you past death,
whether it come tonight or in fifty
years. - = ' 5:a - .<.* y
%t"Istake thee to my husband, Hugh
O'Rourke, and I lift OH my curse from
thy house, thus and thus. : .t '; nc
The woman dropped to his feet, shod
in worn brogues as they were, and
kissed them i; rose to- her knees. and
kissed his hands and the hit 81 his
sword ( rose to her feet and kissed his
nouth 53.5 sss.
Then they went, handfast, into the
. ID =
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A Mise M. d.

Doctor said the village gossip,
I'm troubled with that tired feeling.
What would you advise me to do?"
"You might try five drops of chloro-
form on your tongue every half hour"
replied the local pillmaker, as he
win]ked his other eye. 80
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yO'Rourke's marria&e

over the low fire in the middle OF
the waste place that had been a. ban
quoting hall crouched Hugh ORourke
He was wet and chilled to the bone
with long ride through mountain
mists in the heart of winter. There
was winter in his heart, too, for his
step was broken one, and his name
prescribed, and, where his father
might have held together the breaking
fortunes of name and clan by the
sheer power of voice and face, Hugh
the younger had been borne by his
mother in time of tempest and terror,
and his face was wan and uncomely
and his eyes wild and sad.
My father did not we'll to take a
woman by force he said aloud to the
sinking hire that was all his company,
Black eyes and yellow hair pleased
MIN well, belize, but he pleased not
my mother, and she revenged her upon
me who was innocent and unborn, Civ
ing me an April mind and a craving
heart tor her gifts on the day that she
conceived me. Who enters there. in
the name of God?" He sprang up
sWorG in hand, and then laughed at
MS outcry, for it was a girl child who
stood in the doorway, little maid of
eleven years, fair to see, white as a
snoWdrop. with pale yellow hair
streaming from under her put back
hood.
Little maid, you come to an empty
house., Hugh ORourke said, but Won
are welcome. You do not come
alone?'
i come alone, Aodh," she said. an
s~ering his English with the irish
tongue. i shall not fill your house,
Hugh stood still beside the fire.
:1:'@ she Gaze :. ..evl:- *:~'e T.: room
toward him, shaking the raindrops
from her flowing hair as she came. A
little way from the fire she stood.
looking at him with large eyes.
Why do you meet me with bare
steel?" she said. Il looked for other
greeting from your fathers son, Hugh
ORourke."
Hugh cast down his sword upon the
bench he had risen from and took
step forward to meet her. Then he
stopped, amazed for it was not a
child she was, but grown woman it
was that cast off hood and cloak and
came to him with eager face and
eager hands.
Hugh O'ROurke,' she said again in
the kindly Irish tongue, have you for.
gotten me so soon?"
Have I ever seen Won before n fo;r
one?" Hugh said. Then, because her
fingers were warm in his and her eyes
aWelt on his, he ceased questioning
and had no more wonder or fear at
the fairy change than had passed upon
her in moment, making woman out
Of a child.
Il am she you have desired so long,
she said, with tears and laughter in
her voice. Il am she whose eyes YOU
have seen in many faces that looked
not kind on you, whose breast YOU
have desired to lie on SO many times.
whose soul your soul has. sought and
never found
And she laid her mouth to his
mouth, and the beating heart of her
huttered like bird against his breast.
and the fairy eyes of her darkened
and laughed and lightened into his
and set all his blood on fire.
A little while they chung together
so; then he put her from him and held
her at arms length, looking at her
with eyes that were anhungered.
IF l dared only think of it, be-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-06-06
Baciiiiz Make Fields Fertile

The. bacilli which grow on the roots
Of clover plants and have the power e.
Of abstracting nitrogen from. the air
account for the increased fertility of
fields after a crop Of clover has been
grown on them. X. ss.G.>;;}>< -
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One Of MANY,

Bess-,l ! Calloboy is an. sexcep-
tionally good talker, isn't he? t..
Nell-Yes, he's a good talker all
right enough; but he has an. impedi.
ment in his thoughts. .z q: st*' ssS;
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3. N. Nazon, who died recently, had
been mayor Of the commune Of May.
mels- since 1854. IS I. g.. :.1$ RI s,s
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loved" Hugh said. Yet you have
mortal beauty upon your face and
body" -., t .:,I-
What do you, know of mortality,
Hugh O'Rourke?. And beauty is that
core of our little life that cannot pass
away. though the fruit that. covers It
turn rotten after growing ripe. Kiss
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( One Mans sNisdlon,

81 Kerwin have discovered u |. 1.
tosbest my wife ii 81 argument. 60 =''
Parker-Put me next. SIS
80 FSerWin---l keep ny mouth shut.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-02-05
DEAD
AND YET LIVES
Henry Forsythe Lives to Read his
Own Graphic Obituary.


Henry Forsythe, an aged citizen re-
siding in Simpson district. insists that
he is not dead, notwithstanding the
fact that the Daily News here said he
was dead and buried. giving the day
of his death and the place of burial,
namely Mt. Zion cemetery. The old
man has the opportunity to visit his
own grave, or atleast what is said to
be his last resting place. he had the
pleasure to read his own obituary too.
He has doubtless heard of dead live
men but this is probably the first time
he has personally experienced that
state OF affairs.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-02-05
1t is Proposed to Form County oul
OfParts of Harrison. Doddridge
and Tyler. With Salem The
County Seat.
strong Lobby Reported to be in Charleston Work.
iHg for Measure of That Sort Depends
Upon Fate of Augusta Bill.

Correspondent Earl Smith sends
out story from Charleston OF more
than ordinary interest. Upon its face
1t appears quite visionary. lie says in
speaking ofthe Augusta county meas
tire that there are new schemes
sprinKing up every day. contingent
upon The fate, OF the Augusta county
bill. The latest is To form a county
out OF slices of territory to be taken
from Harrison, DoddridEc and Tyler
counties with Salem as the county
scat. The proposed county is yet to
be given name.
For several days there has been a
strong lobby at Charleston In the In.
tsrest Of the proposed county and lots
OF work has been done notwithstand
Ing the fact that the object of the
Eentlemen's presence was made known
70 many until yesterday. The fate of
this proposition as was others Of the
samesnature mentioned before hangs
upon the success 1f The Augusta
scheme. and those wanting them arc
worling overtime for Augusta.
Iflthis be true, it is ali the more
urgent upon the peef.c Of this count,
to help kill the Augusta county bill.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-02-05
CITY PARK
AT SHINNSTON
Social Club Has the Movement In
Charge.

Shinnston, W. Va, February 81
The shinusten Social Club has ap-
pointed committee TO. select site
for the new city park, which that
organization of our most progressive
business men propose to provide for
the benefit and amusement of the
public. The committee consists of
W. J. S. Harmer, George f. Randall,
G. F. Lucas and ii. T. Shinn.
This action was taken at meeting
of the Club held at Hawker's hard
ware store. In the absence of Presi-
dent Robert r. uardesty, Vice resl-
dent L. N. wetzel presided over the
deliberations of the meeting.