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In an Indian Territory Town,

Muskogee Democrat: A hooking
bird sang in the tree by our bed room
window to wake us in the morning.
A bob white perched himself on the
fence opposite a $4,000 residence near
the heart Of the city and piped his
cheerful call at us as we plodded u
way down town to business. A trolley
car whized by us at the next corner.
A big, sharp-nosed coyote showed his
glittering white teeth at us from a
cage on the sidewalk in front Of a
handsome siS-story hotel. He was
to an eastern city. A federal Jail
doomed up diagonally across the
square. containing approximately $50
prisoners, while the door sprang open
gers and petty offenders in charge Of
deputies. We lodged a galloping cow
boy with a rope swinging from the
horn of his saddle at a street crossing
and gathered our equilibrium in time
to lift u hat to the chief of an In
I nation and his handsome daugh-
ter, driving behind a pair of thorough
bred horses. We stepped into the
Democrat office. at the metropolitan
corner Of Wall and Lombard streets, to
cogitate briefly over the spice and va
riety of life in Muskogee, I. T. An IN
dian came in, cultivated, accomplished
and the peer Of the average prosperous
business man, and disturbed our rev.
erie to discuss the interests of our
newspaper as a friend. Muskogee is
certainly an infatuating country for
one who loves variety, energy and ac-
tivity.
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their tires and they m.sn ! half-risNt

tneir ures ana Sney ma nAll-r19MS
turn. ssS
Crash! Bangl Crash! A thndl a
muttered oath! Our noble yoke leaps
in the air! hold on for dear life.
bump and . rattle and-we i over
them Ind safe.
Lord. lad, you can ride!" and West.
ropp's hand on my shoulder 10 Ike
vice. take my hand of the handle
bars n put It in his-no need tori
words we understand what il IN EACH
others hearts.
A hundred yards behind the moon isI
shining on a mass OF crumpled9 tubes
n twisted steel, and I can just make
out two dark forms huddled together
on the hard white road.
Mile posts come running up like baby
ghosts as we spin along through Benz
son, Dorchester, and Nuneham. We
turn up a wide avenue and glide Noise
lHssly up to a FL old manor house. We.
throw ourselves of to the right, and;
the tandem falls to the left. Westropps
leaps up to the porch and rings the
! bell. -
Phyllis herself opens 1t and tho light,
In the hall seems to make a halo of her
silky-golden hair.
THANH Heaven. Terence, you're In
time" I see him take her hand, and
bend his head down close to hers, and
then I see-that our lamp Is smoking
n that the dear old machine would be;
dll Tic OclI0r 1Or a uILl0 OIL G$R9 NEs
How long I stood out there In the
shrubbery I do not know. The old house
brought back many memories Of my
Oxford days when Terence andsI were
up at college together.
Twas under yonder elmstwo years
ago that my chum had first conflded IN
me his love for Phyllis. / remember 1T
as IL 1T were yesterday. Aye, and 4
remember the fierce struggle In my
breast as Ifhad pressed his hand and
wished him Good luck!" Since that
day I hadn't. seen Phyllis again.
As I stand leaning or the machine
that has carried us s. well I hear IS
voice by my side that brings me back
from my memories, and a dainty little
hand is placed in mine, and I am look
ing down into two soft brown eyes.
Terence has just told me what you
have done for him-for us'---and q
blush suffuses her soft velvety skin
this evening, Mr.. Cuthbert, ana nm
going to thank you as best I can. You
may kiss me IL you like" and she
frankly offers a dimpled cheek thatI
sets the blood racing through my veins.
I feel that I have tasted the greatest;
joy of my life. My exertions have been
Congratulate me, old man., on hay
ing won the sweetest little woman In
the world, thanks to you. God bless
| you, lad!"
Allow me to congratu :; ! try e
glad" I add tamely, as I turn my head
to gaze down the drive.
We'll, you don't seem in the least
pleased! Hang It, q you might show
a little more enthusiasm and he
places a hand on my shoulder and we
stand face to face. His steel blue eyes
change from wrath to wonder at what.
they read in mine. Good Heavens!
What's the matter, Reggie! What do
you mean?"
Nothing, old chap; only don't ask
me to be best man. that's all" I take
his arm and I notice that the blood 10
house together.
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"Redad, and it'll take a steam roller
all its time to stop this old yoke now.
Fancy you a-thrying to stop 1t with a
~sax-penny whistle!" shouted Westropp,
as we left one Of these Disguised 'Bok-
bies' behind us.
That's it, lad, that's it! Run like
the dickens and begorra! we'll make
the pace for the town of Nounslow!"
he cried to a more active member Of
the force who gave chase. Sure that
man was too l~ow-geared' to taxi us
on" added to me as the discounted
Peeler slowed up and resumed his ma
jestic dot-and-carry-one walk.
Hammersmith, Gunnersbury, Kew,
and Brentford came up n by one out
of the darkness, winked at us with 81
dirty yellow gas lamps, and then drop
ped behind. We were ~exhilarated by
the lovely night air, and the head wind
only got our "danders'' up and made us
work the harder.
Swishity-swishity-s wishity swish!
And the grand old tandem seemed to
waken to life beneath US like some
thoroughbred steeplechaser determined
to win the race for it's master.
A cloud of dust got up behind our
back wheel and gave chase along the
road. 'Hounslow-ten miles in TWEEN
ty-three minutes!" Westropp yelled
into my ear as we streaked past the
clock.
Now for a pacy seven miles," I cry,
as we clear h fork roads, n we
bring every muscle Of u bodies into
play; gradually our heads get down
lower and lower, and the strain of my
arms and shoulders q am steering)
becomes wellnigh uncomfortable as the
pace increases.
Faster and faster n faster we go
until the 'swishity-swish' of u nine
ty-siX gear fades into the everlasting
"t-s-s-s-s'' of what might be a
sixty-geared machine.
Colnbrook and Slough leave Buck
inghamshire to meet us-twenty miles
in forty-six minutes. The pace with
which we cleave the air is beginning to
tell and on the front seat I gasp for air,
and 1 can near Westropp's breath COM
ing in gasps.
Three of the young bloods Of the
place who are going home arm in arm
to steady themselves greet US with "a
bicycle built for two" but we are out
OF earshot before they car hiccough out
the second line.
AS the last house of the long strag-
Cling town fades out of sight I can just
make out a shadow moving along the
road a few hundred yards ahead-an-
other half minute and we can make out
a tandem by the aid of the full moon.
An extra pressure on the pedals and
we are riding abreast of our rivals!
Lawton swears softly in gasps. n the
Frenchman bites a "S~acre-bleu!" off
his tongue and settles himself down to
race.
Come on, you brutes, if you're COM
Ing" Westropp calculates, and they do
come on-they pass us-we pick them
up; they forge ahead again-we ride
abreast, and l can see the perspiraticn
on the F~renchrnan's eyelids gather in
thick drops and run down his cheek;
and so neck and neck we race on,
through Taplow II across the Sleep
ing Thames, through Maidenhead, and
now Castle Hill bars our way.
The pedals go round ~perceptibly
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|, co'yRl0HT Bx WRhEARSI ia,
GREAT BRITAIN RlGHTJ RESERVED.

I'm afraid poor old Uncle Herbert is
really going to make a die of it this
time" my chum Westropp said as he
stuffed a letter he had just re-read back
into it's envelope again. phyllis writes
me he isn't expected to live through the
week.
Well, I suppose, old chap" said 1
that he'll leave you his fortune, and
then all your seruples about marrying
an heiress will be overcome. Phyllis
Westropp's a pretty name." 1 added
musingly as I lay back in my arm
chair and watched my cigarette smoke
curling out through the window into
the summer air.
Don't be a fool" said Westropp;
then, after a long pause, which l be-
ieve he utilized to cover an incipient
blush, "Uncle Herbert's such a queer
old chap, he changes his mind about
the property once a month; it must
cost him a perfect fortune in Wills
One month I'm to have the old place
and the next it's that fellow Lawton-
nice mess he'll make Of 1t, too, IL he
gets it."
Anyway he can't will the beautiful
Phyllis away"
''Of course he can't, but don't you see
II I'm a pauper that won't help me
much; I'd rather sweep a crossing than
propose to a birl with $4,000 a year.
well, I've discussed that point till
the whisky; thanks! All I know is
that If I was in love with an heiress
and vas pretty sure she cared for me
I'd give up all idea of amateur crossing
sweeping" q
1t was a lovely night last June that
the above conversation took place; we
had finished dinner in the pretty little
fiat in Sn11th kanCinOfon that INV -n11,t,o
and 1 occupied conformity.
A long pause ensued after my last
remark-one Of those pauses that are
the proofs Of true friendship, and then
Westropp started the everlasting topic
bicycles! He and 1 had just invested
in a new tandem, and we had done
some very excellent times on it; We
though I say it, who shouldn't-were
both first class riders and we went
splendidly in double harness, so much
SO that a prominent cycling firm had
offered to give US a machine if we
would try to break some road records
for them.
We talked on for about an hour. dis
cussing gears, pedals, saddles, records,
and such like, and the clock had just
struck eleven when the maid brought
In a telegram and handed it to my
companions; he glanced over it, and
then handed it 20 me. 1t ran
Come at once. My guardian can't
last III night. Says he will leave
property to whatever nephew arrives
first. Phyllis"
Scarcely had I put down the pinky-
brown paper when the door opened and
MI. Lawton was announced. He nod
ded CURLY to US and then at the tele-
gram.
ooh. you've got one, too" he said.
pity, isn't it, Westropp, that the last
train for Oxford has left Paddington,''
and nc smiled maliciously at US. It
was an open secret hat my chum and
he detested one another.
May I ask to what cause / may at
tribute the pleasure of your visit o.
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years the soldiers of the two armies
nave been trained to march on skis,
and war games have been held in most
severe winter weather to test the en-
dressed, and when running on skis
they can cover a large territory. In
the Swedish army there is an estab-
lshed patrol service Of combined cav
airy and infantry. Each cavalryman
pulls two .infantrymen standing on
skis. Thus one horse serves to carry
three men forward without an effort
on the part of the horse, as far as he
other two men are concerned, and
without firing the men. as they only
stand on the skis. There is also estab-
lished a service of "Sparkstottings,"
being a long sleigh, or rather two run
ners Joined together by two uprights.
On this sleigh the soldiers can carry
large quantities of supplies without
much fatigue.
Now, as to the respective sizes of
tho two armies, Sweden, with a popu-
lation of over $500, 900 can, Of course.
Keep and sustain a considerably larger
army than Norway, with a population
of a little more han 100000. On the
other hand, one would think that Nor
way with its immense merchant ma
rinc, being according to the size Of
the country the fourth largest in the
world, would have a considerable navy
for its protection. Such is, however,
not the case. While Sweden during
the last fifteen years has been building
up a navy which for the size of the
Norway has been rather laggard in
this respect.
The two principal naval stations ct
Sweden are Kariskrona, on the south
coast, and Stockholm. on the east coast.
The nav consists at the present time
Of twelve second class battleships,
named Svea. Gotta, Thule. Oden, Niord,
Thor, Dristigheten, Aran, Wasa, Tap
perheten. Manligheten and Oscar II.
All these are Of about the same type,
between 300 and 4,218 tons. and maxi
ing between 1862 and 18 knots. They
carry an armament of 10 and S.2 inch
guns, placed In armored turrets. Be-
sides they carry a large number Of
guns of smaller caliber, as well as sub
merged torpedo tubes.
Tho Two Navies.
Fylgia, OF 4,600 tons and of IL, 900 horse
power, making 21.5 knots. She also has
five torpedo gun boats Of an effective
type, two torpedoboat destroyers, maxi
ing 81 knots, thirty t~orpedoboats of the
first class n q number OF smaller
classes. The eleven monitors in the
Swedish navy cannot be counted as
AAdSAilS ~ 6oou ASulllS value, as Lney
were built many years ago; some Of
them have been reconstructed during
the last years and may be useful for
liarbor defense. One submarine boat
was built in Sweden last year and has
proved herself to be Of good value. In
addition The Swedish navy consists OF
a numJer OF cruisers, gunboats ar:z
training ships. It is omcered by 2ls
officers and in the reserve there i, 100
additional officers.
The naval, station CT Norway 3s IIor-
ten, on the south coast.
Tie navy consists at the present
time Of four second class battleships--
the Harald Haarfagre. the Tordenski-
old, the Norge and Eidsvold. These
ships carry an armament Of eight q
inch guns and are capable Of making
17.2 knots. They also carry submayins
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VI You Would Be PopuIa,

vt You Would Be Popular.
Be sociable.
Be unselfsh.
Be generous.
Be a good listener.
Never worry or whine.
Study the art of pleasing.
Be frank. open and truthful.
Always be ready to lend a hand.
Be Rind and polite to everybody.
Be self confident. but not conceited.
Never monopoliZe the conversation.
Take a genuine interest i'll other
people.
Always look on the bright side of
things.
Take pains to remember names and
faces.
Never criticise or say unkind things of
others.
Look for the good in others. not for
their faults.
Forgive and forget injuries, but never
forget benefits.
Cultivate health and thus radiate
strength and courage.
Rejoice as genuinely in another's sue
cess as in your own.
Always be c]onsiderate of the rights
and feelings of others.
Have a good time, but never let fun
degenerate into license.
Have a kind word and a CHEEKY, en-
couraging word for everyone.
Learn to control yourself under the
most trying circumstances.
Be respectful to women, and chival-
rous in your attitude toward them.
Meet trouble like a man, and cheer
fully endure what you can't cure.
Believe in the brotherhood of man,
and recognize no class Of distinctions.
Do not be self opionated, but listen
with Difference to the opinions of others.
Never utter witticisms at the risk
of giving pain or hurting someone's
feelings.
Be as courteous and agreeable to
your interiors as you are to your equals
and superiors.
Do not bore people by telling them
long tedious stories, or by continually
dilating on your own affairs.
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Westropo said sarcastically. as he in

Westropp said sarcastically, as he in
dicated a chair.
ooh, 1 only just popped in on my
way down to Oxford to see how you'd
take the idea Of being too late"
We'll. you might have saved your
self the trouble and me the annoyance.
Good night"
All right, I'm just off; but I 1attered
myself you'd enjoy hearing how I'm
heard of Doyen, of course, one Of the
crack cycling pros? Well, he's watt
ing outside with a tandem, and he and
I are going to Oxford by road. Pity
you've not got a pro- up your sleeve
too"
Get OUT" said westropp, rising to
his feet and pointing to the door, and
Lawton got out, but as he reached the
hall door he stopped, and called back
by the way, I heard you We're rather
good on a cycle. and as I saw two sin
giles in the outside hall5I took the pre-
caution Of cutting the tires open. l
owed you a grudge for cutting me out
round tonight to pay it to you in full.
So long" and this loathsome young
fellow shut the door and clattered
down the stairs, four at a time.
We looked at one another aghast for
a minute, n then we both calculated
together.
Lucky he didn't know we had a tan
DEM"
Wen break the London-oxford rec
ord tonight, anyhow" I said a few min
utes later as I was changing out of my
smoking jacket into a cycling custume.
"Begorra, Well teach that spalpeen
to ride" calculated Westropp through
a shirt into which he was struggling.
MY chum always lapsed into his native
Irish brogue in moments Of excitement.
Five minutes later we were in the
saddle, and as we few past the church
in the Earl's Court Road the clock
struck half past eleven. Lawton had
ten minutes start. We were going by
the Henley route, as old General Lam
bert's house was on that road, some
three miles out OF oxford.
We We're just getting into full swing
as we passed Olympia, and our ninety
six gear was spinning round with q de-
nghtful churninE-grinding noise. The
few policemen we passed blew their
whistles right Justify.
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RISE OF SIR JOHN quick.
The Australian Statesman Who seaani
Life az q Mine Boy.

London Mail: One OF the founders
of the new order Of things in Australia,
who has probably contributed more to
the realization of federation than any
other single politician now in this;
country, is Sir John Quick, LID, who
appropriately represents the famous
%goldfelds Of Bendigo In h house sof
representatives.
The story of his life reads like a
page torn from a volume of old rom-
ance and presents a picture of cour-
ageous self-help that Is not, however.
uncommon in h new world. Sir John
Quick is q native Of Trevessa, near ST.
Ives, Cornwall, where he was born on
April IA, 1852. He is q descendant Of
an old-established family Of landed
proprietors in the great southwestern
country. but h family migrated to the.
gold fields in 1854, where the father
died of colonial fever two years after.
ward.
As a boy Sir John worked in the
mines as a driver, a whipper and a
stamn feeder, and while he. earned d
living by hard toll of u or II hours a.
day, he spent every homer of HIS
private time reading, studying, learn
otherwise qualifying himself for higher
things. He learned typesetting and be-
came a junior reporter and rose In the
ranks Of journalism until he secured q.
place on the stan of h Melbourne
Age. In time he bridged the chasm,
which lay between the mine and the.
university and passed triumphantly
through all the examinations OF the.
law and arts cours until he obtained,
the degree of doctors Of laws In 1882.
In the pre-federal days he repre-
sented the gold fields in the state par.
lament, as he pes now In the federal
legislature, and he stands high among
the strong men who uphold the empire
In these civilized seas" He is the
author Of several standard works, h
most notable Of which are THE His
tory of Land Tenure in Victoria'' and,
The Annotated Constitution of the
Australian Commonwealth" which is
the Bible of the Australian m
wealth and which was drawn on lines
originally drafted by him. He is the
president of the royal commission APP
pointed by the federal government to
ing ministers in parliament.
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If Sweden and Norwav
Should Go to War

Kansas City Star: In these days when
so much is spoken of the disruption of
the union between Sweden ard Norway
IT may be Interesting TO look into the
military establishments of the two pos
sjble ~con1batants. These two little
countries Of the north may break the
peace With which they nave been
blessed for more than ninety years-a
longer period OF peace than either of
them ever before experienced in their
history, SO full of war between them
selves.
The situation is certainly most COM
plicated. Here are two countries, per-
fcctly independent of each other except
as far as the management of their re-
lations with foreign powers is con-
cerned, which latter is under the direc-
ton Of the Swedish minister of foreign
affairs, though the ministers II con-
suls abroad are both Swedes and Nor
wegiars.
They have their own separate armies
n navies, with nothing in common ex-
cept that the king of Sweden and Nor
way is comraander-in-chief OF both arm
les and thai the princes of the royal
family are officers in different regi-
ments and in the naVies of both coun-
tires. Thus, up to the time of the re-
cent revolution, nothing could be done
IN the way of arming Norway for a
PossLole eoniilce Milnout .le hnowhtuse
OF lhe KING OF sWeaen asainsl "hlcll
country such aclloh Wouia rave peeil
could have been made in Sweden
agalnst any Val Wlthou the Iacil un-
~aerslalolhg OF the KING OF norway.
me armies aIa haVles oI we tMo
countries a taken the oath OF aile-
glance TO the same
ana therefore t1ey Woulo De eAPected 70
opey ordels eailanae1ng IRON MN
however, as Lar as NofWay IS con-
cerneo the troops nave taken u new
oath OF arrogance 70 the new temporary
government since tne
a Winter Campaign.
II the two Scandinavian countries
should go to war a winter campaign
D,av - expected the like OF which mod
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slower as the steep ascent and rough
surface begin to kill our pace. Every
muscle is strained to the utmost; the
Frenchman seems to be licking the
dust off his front tyre.
On, on, through the night we four
men race for a woman and a fortune.
Hedges, gates, cottages and trees skim
past unnoticed.
Another terrific hill leaves us pant
Ing and aching in every fibre some
twenty yards ahead; but Doyen isn't
to be beaten. He remembers the Bor-
deaux-Paris race he won last year, and
we rush, bump and skid down Henley
hill side by side, through the peacefully
sleeping town, and out again into the
moonlit country.
"Thirty-four miles in an hour and
twenty-four minutes" Westropp tells
me as We settled down to the Fair
Mile"
Surely we've broken some record"
I think, but haven't breath to say.
Side by side h two tandems start
to negotiate the three miles of up hill
to Nettlebed. The Precipitation is run
ming from us in streams.
How we reach the apex Of the Chill
terms l cannot tell. I only know that
the four of US are working out our
souls. and the live steel beneath me
seems to leap with Joy as we rush
down a steep decline.
We leave the last slope Of the Chill
terms, and Doyen and Lawton make a
final sprint. They are going to pieces
now; Instead of the even push-and-pull
they are jerking their cranks round.
AS they gradually move past us 1
hear awto whisper to his companion
in French, I'm done! We can't beat
them! We must upset them!"
I translate to Westropp and grasp
my handles firmly. Now at last my
trick riding will be Of some avail. Many
a time in my volunteer corps have /
practiced riding owe supposed wound
ed men. I grind my teeth as we draw
nearer to our rivals and increase the
lpace.
Now, lad, show the craytures what
you a do. and the Lord be with us
ALL" And I can hear my chum's teeth
snap together as he nerves himself to
the ordeal.
Wesare riding six inches to the right
ana tosths rear Of our rivals. Suddea-
~ ] hear their brake scream against