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smelled things burnin', an Jim come in
after eatin' an he looked kind o.
drawn-like an dissatisfied. / kind o.
pitied him, but still I thought was
he? Jimmie come In several times in
the forenoon, to see me, he said, but he
spent more time in the kitchen than
with me- was feelin' better in the af-
ternoon, but thought I'd better stay in
bed. had some of my own cookin
where l could get at 1t, so ! wasn't SO
bad off as the others. l noticed JIM
mie looked as if he wasn't really enjoy
in his meals, an / pitied him, but
thought he could stand IL few days
now better than all his life afterward.
Kind o. like havin' tooth pulled. 1t
hurts like ey'rything for minute or
two, but that's lots better than havin'
TO stand the toothache for year or so.
"Wednesday come and went. an Jen-
ME still tried to keep things goin'. !
noticed Jimmie didn't come to the
house quite so often. An both him an
Jim looked hungrier than ever. On
Thursday mornin' l was feelin' so
much worse that had Jim stay In with
me while the young folks had break
fast. This meal was the turnin' point
of my whole scheme, so I was anxious
1t should go all right An 1t went.
When she called Jim to breakfast he
told him my sister would be there so
he could take Jennie home before noon,
an my sister could cook betten'n !
could If 1t was only half so good.
wouldn't be kiekin'. after these last
few days says he.
II had the room doors open so
could hear from the dinin n-room, an
couldn't hear nothin', so / had to get
up to see how things was goin'.
peeped through the crack of the door,
an there the two sat. Jennie at the
head Of the table, an Jimmie across
from her. Jimmie looked as slick as a
tin whistle. He always did. From the
time he was little he was always just
so p'ticular. He used to ask me to put
on faded patches on his overalls in
stead of new pieces, so they wouldn't
show So He wasn't proud, but they
didn't look so well. He didn't care for
their bein' patches, but he objected to
the contrast An he was always just
so, But Jennie, she hadn't half
combed her hair. an her shoes was un-
buttoned, an / could see two buttons
off her waist In the back, an noticed
Jimmie didn't look at her very often.
He would try to drink some of the
coffee, which couldn't have been very
hot cause it didn't steam like 1t. an
then he'd draw a long breath an try
one of the biscuits. That seemed TO
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on the next farm, the Hawkins one.
YOU know, the one we didn't buy, an
was pretty well acquainted before ever
Jimmie come home to stay. Then he
went to one of their parties, an pretty
soon his little drivin' mare an new
top buggy was workin nights an Sum
days, an even then Il seemed as If they
couldn't keep up. OF course, / knew all
the time what was goin on, an while
of course knew IL was one OF the new
folks, hardly thought that Jimmie
would be such a fool as to take the
least likely one OF the whole lot. But
that's just like a boy. looks is all they
think about. Well, of course, Ia been
over to visit 'em, an ! KEEP my eyes
open. Any woman that thinks any
thing of her sons keeps her eyes open
when there's girls around that there's
any' danger of her boys takin' shine
10. An ] noticed when there was any
work to be done, that the Oldest girl
was called on TO do II, an that the one
that Jimmie was so sweet on was late
in comm down TO meals, an she went
round the house till leven o'clock with
her shoes unfastened, an her hair
wasn't combed till the dinner-hell rang
one mornin' / was there. l don't be-
lieve in that sort of thing, an my boys
amt used to il. at least not since I've
been their ma, an / knew that Jimmie
didn't ever see that side OF the giris
character.
Jimmie KEEP on gettin worse an
worse smit, an finally made up my
mind II was time to do somethin',
They wasn't engaged yet. knew that,
but they was just on the point of bein'.
ANYBODY with any kind o. eye can tell
when a young couple is just on the
point o. bein' engaged. don't know
lust how il is, but If you ever see
couple together, or see one OF EN-
when the other is spoken Of, you can
always tell.
"One week / wrote to my sister an
asked her to come an see me the next
week Thursday. 1 knew she'd get
there about 10 in the mornin', an then
/ began carryin' out the rest or my
plan. / got Jim to arrange the farm
work so that Jimmie could be around
the house for two or three days Just
before my sister come, not loafin', but
workin' near enough the house so he
could come In two or three times IN the
forenoon, an the same In the after
noon.
ION Monday nornin' after Jim had
gone 70 town with frankie, / was
taken sick so / couldn't do anything.
/ rung the dinner bell for Jimmie an
then went into the house an dropped
onto the lounge in the sittin' room. He
come in on the run, an found me
stretched out on the lounge. an he had
TO help me to the bedroom. l WASH
so sick as 1 was just weak. i told him
I'd been havin' such spells for some
time before, for he was awful scared
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When I want a thing kept, an I'm
pretty near Dustin holdin' ii in, I come
over an tell you. but when / want a
thing spread, an well spread, an
spread without bein' mixed in the pro-
cess, / go to her. She tells ev'rything,
but she tells it straight. II want the
thing well mixed an stretched before
it's spread, I go to another neighbor.
She couldn't tell anythin' straight If it
was only two words. Well, we got to
talkin', an she happened to mention
the girl, an said somethin' about Jim
mics goin' with her, an 1 says, kind o.
careless like, oh, he amt goin' with
her any more. An do you know,
don't care if he don't go with her? She's
a nice enough girl, but-well, I've got
some other plans for Jimmie There
was new family moved into the town.
ship over east, an knew she'd think
was thinkin' about one of them girls.
The next day sent Jimmie over to the
new family's on an errand, an the day
after that my spreadin' neighbor
hitched up an drove over to where the
girl lived that Jimmie wanted so bad.
We'll, there was picnic the next
week, an Jimmie took one Of the new
family's girls, as I told him to. He
didn't have a good time, but what's
one picnic more or less, when there's a
hfetime's happiness at stake? The next
iNCCA lllcIc was duOlQcI du the
girl was there. Jimmie had gone with
me, but he got away durin' the after
noon. 1 went down after some OF that
peppermint that Jimmie hadn't got for
me the time before. an while 1 was
comm back q was alone, havin' man
aged to get away from Jim for a little
while, though he did look kind O. lost
without mel. who should I meet but
Jimmie an his girl. an her hair was
kind o. mussed, an her cheeks was so
red, an Jimmie's eyes twinkled so, an
yet he looked so sheepish, that asked
just this way, 'When's it goin' to be?'
An Jimmie burst out, Christmas 1
sent Jimmie on ahead, tellin' him had
a few things to say to the girl, an
while we was talkin', she says. The
only reason / give him the mitten the
first time he asked me was just cause
you folks was so well of, an I amt
got nothin', an I was afraid you'd be
THROWN that up to Jimmie all the time
when we was married. But when Won
told Cousin Jane what you did about
me, that made me mad, an made m
my mind to get him in spite of Won
Then 1 laughed. an said, Well. I'lI trv
to get along with you for Jimmie's
sake
An that's why 1 come over TO-DAY
We want you to come to the weddin'
Christmas. l know it's a long time
ahead, but it's the last big doin's we'u
be havin' on the old place, for Jim an,
rs goin to move to town the first AZ
the year so that frankie can have
somebody to look out for him
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CHAPTER VII.
A Martyr 10 the Cause.


Good mornin'. I'm right glad to see
you. Thought since Jim had TO come
over here TO attend court that I'd come
along and spend the day. oh, yes. I'm
well. You heard I was sick? Yes, the
report got around. I did have TO have
some help for awhile, but we're all all
right again. The boys? oh, they're
both well. Frankie is in the high
school in town. Stays IN from Monday
till Friday. Jimmie's helpin' to run the
farm. How old IS he? did you say?
Oh, Jimmie's 1s, now, an Frankie's II.
He wants to be a doctor, an so we're
givin' him the chance. Jimmie wants
to stay on the farm. an he's doin'
right well. too. Jim seems to be gettin'
so he don't care If he don't work. Talks
about movin' TO town. an expect hen
want TO give up the farm to Jimmie as
soon's he gets married.
''Oh, no, he amt thinkin' OF gettin'
married, now. He was thinkin' pretty
serious awhile ago, but he's got all over
that. OF course, he wouldn't have got
married right away, he's so young, but
he would have got engaged, an he's the
kind that don't back out of anything
when he gets started. so I s'pose he'd
be wantin' to get married pretty soon
If hadn't been sick. An that's what
I come 10 tell you about. II seems so
SOOQ 10 nave one place Nnere i can
come an talk without it's bein' spread
all over the township. OF course, il
comes handy to have things spread
once in awhile, but this aint one of
en- An it's no fun talkin' to Jim
about ii, for he don't seem to under
stand. But Jimmie's different. He can
understand, but this amt a subject
that it's best to talk to him about
What am I tallxin' about? Well.
amt 1 goin' TO tell you just as soon as
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nobody but just our own folks. He
didn't say a word. but he didn't need
to, from the way he eat ! really
thought he'd die, an Jim was just as
bad. They both eat till thought even
the table wouldn't be left.
"How did it come out? Oh, Jimmie's
buggy stayed in the shed an his mare
in the pasture the next Sunday an the
next week Jennie went to picnic with
another fellow, SO Jimmie didn't feel
as If she was breakin' her heart over
him.
II tell you the best way to cure love-
sick young folks is just to plant 'em
side by side an let 'em see each other,
in fair weather an foul weather, sun
an rain, an If they can stand that for
few days they can stand 1t for a
lifetime. Most people can't keep on
their company manners more than a
day at time an after that day is the
time that does the work.
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7 can2 Now I'll start at the beginnin'.
Last year when Jimmie come back
from town school, an made up his
mind TO stay on the farm, he found we
had some new neighbors. They was
whole parcel of 'em, mostly girls, with
a shifless. OF t'bacco-furnace Of
father. an a dragged-out, washed-out,
OF mother, an the whole lot OF 'em
went slantin' along like as if they was
leanin' up against the wind. An L
kind O. suspected they had consump-
ton, the whole kit an bilin' OF EN-. but
! wasn't sure, an / amt yet. But the
girls all looked slick's could be, when
they was fixed up. All had yaller hair,
an pink cheeks, an blue eyes, that's
bright an pretty now, but just you
wait till they've been through what
their mother has, or any other woman
that lives on a farm, an they'll have
that same dragged-out, white-eyed
look that their mother has.
That's one trouble with boys gettin'
married. They don't look far enough
back even to see the mother. The girl
herself is the whole thing with them,
an three fourths of the time they don't
seem TO think that like mother, like
daughter, like father. like son. an
when they amt happy after they're
married, they blame everybody but
themselves. Just s'pose they was out
buyin' horses. Wouldn't they expect
TO get a crib-bitin', kickin' colt II the
mother was a cribber an a kicker, an
the colt had been raised with the
mare? An yet they don't use half the
judgment in pickin' out their wives
that the commonest fool does in buyin'
his horses an cattle. II it's good pay
in policy TO have pedigree cattle, an
registered horses. an even pigs, why,
in the name of common sense, amt 1t
a good payin' policy 70 know what your
wife's folks was. whether they was the
kind that starved out everywhere they
ever lived, or whether they really had
gumption enough to do things an
make livin'7 An you can't depend on
the kind O. houses the folks live in to
tell anything about II. Some of these
here log cabins back in the woods
turn out better pedigreed youngsters
than some of your swell houses in
town. You've just got to use your
common sense cause the finest regis
tered cattle don't always have the best
stables. That is, use what's a wo-
mans common sense. Seems like that's
mans uncommon sense. Well, it
seems as il when / get started on this
subject ] never can stop, an / don't
get the chance 70 talk very often on II.
for Jim Just laughs, an of course /
can't talk to the boys. There's things
that it's just as well not to talk to the
boys, but that don't mean that you
mustn't impress il on 'em some other
way. But I'll go back to what I was
tellin', now.
When Jimmie come home he found
these new neighbors. They'd moved in
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lust about. let me see, fifty times three
hundred an sixty five. is about eight
cen thousand, and three meals day is
about somethin' over fifty thousand
I'd worked IL out beforehand, so had
il all ready. / watched him close when
i said that about settin down 10 the
breakfast table, but he didn't seem 10
suspec' nothin', so l went on. talked
pretty plain to him. 1t was rlght
should. / owed it to the boy an to my
self to do It, An say the first three
hundred and sixty-fve days there.H be
just you two at the breakfast table. II
you don't have no hired man bOard1n
with you, an after that, there'H De a
new little face ev'ry year or So an
some Of the faces will be like yours an
some like hers, an theren be sickness,
an sorrow, an some happiness mlxeu
in with II. Maybe a good deal or nap
piness IL she's the right one, but there ii
be mighty little If she's the wrong one.
An all through 1t Jimmie was as sol
emn as an owl, an said when got
done, Mother (he's called me mother
most always since he was ffteen),- I've
thought out all that, an there's Just
one girl that 1 want, an I'm goin' TO
have her if / can get her, an II you
can help me, all right, want you to do
It, but IL you can't. I'll go It alone, but
I'--l goin' to keep on tryin'.'
We'll, Wien / see he was in earnest.
told him I'd help him all could. an
told him 1 thought he might make
his plans TO be married Christmas
time, but not to say nothin' about 1t TO
nobody Only one thing he must do,
he must keep away from the girl. an II
he happened to meet her, he must act
kind o. cool, an as II he thought he
could stand 1T II she didn't care for
him. He almost refused, but 1 says,
All right, then, no weddin' for Christ
mas an then he come round, mighty
quick. Only he said he didn't think he
could act that way, an I told him II
was a case OF got-to, nOthin' else.
Seems so queer to me that men can't
act and put on as If they was just the
opposite from what they Is, when a wo-
man has to do it all the time.
He seemed TO feel lots cheered by
our ride, an the next Sunday afternoon
1 sent him away over to the other side
of the county. No special errand, but
there want no use his hangin' round
that girl, an the drive wouldn't hurt
him. OF course, he thought the errand
was a do-or-die matter, or he wouldn't I
have felt like goin'.
"On Tuesday the next week I put on
my things an went over to one OF the
neighbors that knew this girls folks
pretty we'll. related some way. guess
1 just dropped in to visit awhile. an to
get a pattern for a new kind Of apron
she had, an of course wanted to start
the good work. Now I've always
thought this neighbor was a good
spreader. Just as you're the other kind.
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serves, or anything except just the
most common things, that we just had
to have. We hadn't had any cake for
almost two weeks, now, an sauce only
once when we had company. Jim
looked around over the table, an then
he says more'n 1 ever heard him say
at one time before, Ma, guess we
might as well have all we want TO eat,
now, again. I told Hawkins this after
noon that we wouldn't want his farm,
wouldn't have no use for il. An to-
morrow, you can DO your bakin' for
that picnic next Wednesday. cause on
Saturday we're goin' to town, all OF US,
to get the boys some clo'es, an 20 ar
range for a boardin'- place for 'en SOS
TO be ready when school begins. An
you can send Mis- Jones sewin' back
an tell her you ain't goin' to do it,
An then ] said. for Of course ! had to
have the last word, Why, pa, that sew
in is the waist I'm maxim TO wear to
the picnic next week"
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H. d. Holbert. formerly OF the Ca
zette of Little Rock, has arrived in
the city to take the management OF
the Globe Democrat and Republic
agency in this city.
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HAS TIE BEST BRAIN
ELEPHANT MOST INTELLIGENT
OF ALL WILD ANIMALS.
Monkey Merely Initiative. Withou.
Powers Of ephant thu
Readiest to Own the Superiority
Man.

(which is the most intelligent ami
NAL, the elephant or the monkey"
was question put the other day to
William T. Hornaday, the director of
the New York Geological Park. and
one OF the best known animal men,
in this country.
'You could not have put a more puz-
zling question" Mr.. Hornaday replied
There is a great difference of opinion
on that subject among men who have
to deal with both animals. Undoubted-
ly, they are the two most intelligent of
beasts: but animal psychologists. with
their theories, and trainers and keep
ers. with their practical knowledge.
are equally in the dark as to which
stands first.
Il think I should be inclined to favor
the monkey because of the marvellous
tricks / have seen the larger apes
trained to dO-tricks which are not
merely initiative, but disclose powers
Of reasoning. On the other hand, I
have seen elephants in the East work
as intelligently as men,
Animal psychology is practically a
new science, and think some animal
psychologist ought to devote himself
for years to making a careful com
parative study of the brain capacity
nd the intellectual achievements. if
J may use the term, OF the elephant
and the larger apes, 50 that this
ve'xed question might he cleared up,
In one respect, the ele' Aant is the
most intelligent OF al lid animals.
He is the most formidable of all of
them, but he is the readiest to own
mans superiority and make the best
OF condition of servitude. Tigers
lions, Jaguars, monkeys. and other
beasts can never be made anythjns
Of "hea they are captured full grown,
ley sulk and rage themselves to
death. But the elephant is a philoso.
pher In month or two after he il
removed from his native jungle. 4
child can ride him. If respect for
ones superiors is mark of intel-
gence, the elephant is certainly the
most intelligent of beasts"
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A Memorv,

Down in a deep glen on AN autumn day,
l sat upon a pile of fallen leaves
Nothing around there seemed but dread
decay,
And "A harsh rustlins sound, among the
trees.
Whnn a full glow came right from out
the West
I watched it round the dark Old t,lrret
climb,
breast.
And. lighting up the naked branches
That poised aloft the longforgotten
Gliding their gnarled ribs. all brown and
Sere.
Awhile as in unea:thly glory dressed.
The heavens that were so dark and duh
Bound with crimson line the edge of
While Ger the barren waters-and the
Family there came the voice of Hopo
to me-
And all that has been noiseless grief
and woe,
Shall wake to life and gaze upon the
sun
In joy. as spring flowers rising from
Sea mists were rolling up the lonely
glen,
Yelling its jagged Sides-and rocky
scars.
But Hope sweet arms We're round about
me then,
! homeward turned beneath night of
stars!
Violet de NJ 2lortie in London Queen.
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CHIN WHISPERS HID SCARS.
Explanation fer Capt. Gibbons Luxari-
ant t,irsute Growth.

ant h.irsute Growth.
Capt. Gibbons had lah;t of wear
lag chin Whiskers. 7 had alwav8
thought this was due to the fact that
hey were more becoming, but I learn,
ed the reason to be otherwise. It
seems that his chin and throat we're
Scared and these sears are thus eX,
plained:
On one Of the ships which he com.
manded there was mutiny Of the
crew one morning on the high seas
which he promptly started to quel
The sailors were too many for him.
however, as he was unarmed and they
soon had him down on the deck
bound and gagged with a long llnifs
across his mouth. 1t was this knife
that produced the wounds whose
sears the captain carried the remain.
der of his life concealed beneath The
beard. While thus bound and gagged
a lady passenger came to him and cut
ting the bonds handed him loaded
revolver. With this weapon he sooA
had the crew at his feet a.1d thss rin.-
leaders were placed in irons.---Lewis.
ton Journal.
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STRONG IN HIS BELlEF.
Justice Harlan Would Not Bow to
Majority Opinion.


Majority Opinion.
Justice Harlan is member of the
faculty of the Columbia law school
and night or two ago was talking
al the school with Judge Peele OF the
district court of claims. II wish. Mr..
Justice said Judge Peele. that you
would have your clerk send me copies
3f some Of the recent decisions of
the supreme court" <All right" JUS
lice Harlan replied Then he asked
abruptly: do you want those cases
IN which have rendered dissenting
spinions?" II assume some of the
aases come under that head" said
Judge Peele. you frequently do dis.
sent, you know" Il shall not send
rAcm,' snorted Justice Harlan 81
sh all not be responsible for the dis
geIaination Of such law as appears in
khose majority opinions to which
iaye dissented.
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Newspaper Work In Russia,

Newspaper work in Russia is not
pleasant. The government spends
more money On its press censors than
on its schools. Last year eighty-three
papers were suspended for various
periods, and twenty-six were forbid.
den to accept all advertisements.
while 259 editors were told they could
have short vacation in Siberia II
they continued their methods Of re-
vivinE various public questions.