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81 PAID sI1 FOR THAT HORSE"

town turned out to the funeral. The meet
ing house was packed, and just as every
body wa settling back to hear the funeral
sermon a boy in the back yelled that a
school Of fish had been sighted.
when the dust had settled the church
looked like a Mormon household during
business hours-there wasn't a man there.
After a few seconds OF really painful indie
cision the preacher leaned over his desk
and, addressing the bereaved family
In his tenderest accents, admitted that
he was taken with q serious indisposition
that would interfere with his duties and
In consequence thereof he would postpone
the eulogy he had expected to recite till the
coming Sabbath. Then he sneaked, and
Joined the fishing crew.
They took q sight Of fish, but when the
wilder buried her next husband she sent
to Provinoetown for the preacher
Among the souvenirs that another traveller
from the same section exhibits proudly, is
q battered standard Of worn metal such az
holds the glasses familiar to tho lingerer
at soda water fountains.
sOne day. explained he: Capt. Plumer,
axed rs, who admitted that the eight mile
walk that he tool every morning before
breakfast was needed as be got older 70
give him an appetite, was missing from
his usual seat on the erand at 8 p. M,
when l usually CHANGED around to have a
little chat.
Il remembered that he was going 70
Boston and wondered II he had returned,
I opened the door Of his widowed home,
as neat as the deck Of a yacht and finally
heard his voice issuing from a subterranean
depth.
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-He had come ashore from a small cat
boat dressed In oilskins and rubber boots,
and Just to make conversation l remarked
on the Fitness Of his rig, as the breeze was
pretty stif.
'Fust time I wore this ere dress suit ;
he said, seating himself on the bench some
philanthropist had left there, 4 was. out
all alone in my boat there and II was blow
ing just as IL Is row.. l don't know TO this
minute how il happened, but all Of a sudden
the boom came about and knocked mo
clean over the gunnel into the sea-1ght
on Monomoy, too.
I'm a pretty fair swimmer and l man.
aRed TO get up with the boat, which was
wabbling a bit In the sail as IL lniied. l
caught hold Of the rudder and thought l
was all right, but IL that COMPOUNDED boat
didn't catch the wind cause my feel on the
rudder made it taut and sailed away 80
fast 1 couldn't get any purchase.
81 fell Oh and then the boat stopped
Jest az ef IL was lafin' at me, and again l
caught up, and il did the same trick again
and again. Finally l managed to climb up
on that rudder, where l sat as ef 1t was a
horse, and in that position / steered that boat
into port. They said l looked plum funny
with my pipe in my mouth, riding In astride
the steering gea that way. l dunno. It
seemed Material enough at the time
"One night I happened to stray into the
corner store just before breaking up time.
There was a ooterie OF types there. They
welcomed me warmly. I could see with half
Q glance that they longed for just such a
guileless audience.
One Of the strange tales that I heard
during the next hour related to bluefsh.
I had asked the usual question regarding
the weeks catch, when one OF them. rumi-
mating. said in u low, hcsrae voice that
there hadn't been a real catch Of fish there
since ole Sis funeral day. It didn't take
much p~ersuading to hear the story.
1T seems.that when ole 81 died the whole
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He invited me down and I went to tho
cellar to find him sitting on a cask a. busy
as a bee. He waved me toward anothar
cask and l accepted the invitation. There
was a barrelby his side containing a hundred,
or so OF these metal holders which be
polishing one by one.
Bought these in Boston he vouch-
safed while he handed me a rag and told me.
to scrub away and I could have one. Z
only paid q dollar for the lot
Those Old Inhabitants are too bright Ton
us mere childlike city folk. l hadn't anS
idea what he wanted them for. -
why said he, when | finally venture6
a question, they're souvenirs for the sum-
mer folks that find out all about these
turrible wrecks we nave and want TO buy
something that has been brought of Of 'en.
/ could have sold a huudred soovenirs
already and the summers young, I see
this outfit in the city and trundled IL down
here; it seemed to me to be just the thing
for the cryin' need
But you don't mean to say I askeds
that the people believe vessels carry soda
water fountains2' .
-Helooked at me as if I we're a new variety
Of aquatic bird.
L sold EN- all the third wife's flrnitlre,s
he answered, even to an old ice chest thaA
leaked. A woman bought it who said shs
didn't see why you shouldn't nave po'try
in the kitchen as well as in the parlor and
that whenever she'd go To it she would DO
able to hear the winter waves lashin' against
the sides of a gallant bark and the creaking
Of the wind in the cordage. / felt like
pote myself the way she talked and took
of half a dollar from the original price,
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Passing Of the Oldest Inhabitant
Reforming Summer Boarders Report the DISAPPEARANCE of an
sra Old Landmark.

Returning summer boarders report that
the old inhabitant u dying out and the new
generation does not supply his successor.
sThe place doesn't seem the same to me-
relates one middle aged business man, who
has Just returned from the resort where he
has summered for a decade, a quaint New
England hamlet. "No, l missed old Tommy
MIR. Brown We used to call him to his
face, for he was tremendously digniled.
lie was tall and spare and wore a string
az short grayish brown whiskers under
bis chin which waggled up and down when no
laughed. He always met you at the sta
ton With a broken down yellow stage that
didn't look as IL it would last an hour and
yet went through season after season.
when it was 30 hot hat the summer
boarder was longing to wear a costume
like that hung on the line the first washing
day in Eden, Tommy would feel under the
front seat in the stage and draw out a rusty
winter overcoat which he would put on.
It covered him from chin whiskers to knee
and he always said when the people in the
stage demonstrated, that he got all het up
without it. 1t was like the feather beds
that they tell you keep you cool In summer
and warm in winter.
Tommy had a guileless way with him.
Among his favorite stage rides wal the one
TO a big dune that looked seaward, where
some one with an eye for the picturesque
had located the graveyard. Tommy knew
all the stories Of the different families and
used to tell them in his terse way.
There was n grave that bore the In
scription, Ezekiel Smith. Etat So
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WHO PAID FOR THE DRINKSp
CHAIN Operated by Thirsty Men
on tho Mexican Border.

.Now, here is the best yarn Of the lot
and a good puzzle for the Sunday papers
to print" said the man with the alkAli In his
w~hiskers, when he had settled down In the
hotel lobby after a long day on the rubber
neck wagon
Several years ago American silver coin
in Mexico was on the same basis az Mexican
silver was at that time and still is in the
States; il passed at half its fac value.
Drinks in FL Paso and in Juarez, the Mexi
can tow across the line, were a bit apiece,
or 1871 cents, as you Fasteners would say.
In those palmy days a citizen Of FL Paso
could go into a drinking emporium and
buy a drink, paying for it with an American
quarter. The bartender would and him
back a Mexican quarter, which was, Of
course, worth 1871 cents in Texas.
Then with this Mexican quarter in his
hand the citizen could cross the bridge to
Juarez and there buy another drink, laying
his Mexican quarter on the bar.
IF the Greaser barkeep should give
him in change an American quarter worth
l2H cents in Mexico the joyous citizen
could return to Uncle Sans back yard
and repeat the process.
Now, the question is; Who paid for
those drinks7"
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Tommy was accustomed TO lean over this
with his china blue eyes opened as wide as
the daisies that marched in armies over the
slopes Of the dunes. Then he would gay
softly to the listening tourists:
MY father did better than that. He ct
at co.
Then he'd brush an imaginary ny-the
tourists all thought It was q tear-from the
neighborhood Of the china blues and go on
TO the next grave, and nine out Of every ten
Of the listeners would 60 back to tho city
and tell that story.
Il was one Of 'ern and il wasn't until q
year after, when one night Tommy Inc I
got very confidential in the corner grocery
over some plug swapping experiences, that
he surprised me by reciting an d from
Horace verbatim, and l discovered thab ever
since he was q youth and studied evenings
with the village schoolmaster, Latin odes
had been o ~favorite distraction Of his.
Talk about poker faces and roulette eyesi
They are like a sheet OF white paper In oom-
parison with the faoe and eyee Of one of
these old inhabitants. I tell you it's q great
loss to art when a man like Tommy drops
out, to dramatic and ssthetio art. He 10
the real thing"
Speaking Of stage drivers said a Wall
Street broker, as he rolled q yard Of ticker
tape absentmindedly. Il went back to the
old home after an absence Of fifteen years
and found the same station outfit and the
same driver, neither looking as II a day had
interviewed since I left with a heart and
pooketbook Of corresponding lightness.
my experience as We drove through the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-16
VAST STORE OF WEALTH.
Mother Earth Hal Supplied the World
Greatest Fortunes.

Greutcet FOrtuhces
Belts vast wealth came from mines-dia-
monds, gold and copper-like the immense
fortune Of Senator William A. Clark Of
Montana; like the SIS, 900, 900 or more ac-
cumulated by Cecil Rhodes.
The earth was also the source OF the
wealth Of both John d. Rockefeller and
his brother William. The same thing is
true Of Carnegie's great store OF wealth.
It was really dug from iron mines-iron
and coal.
Krupp piled up the largest estate in Ger
many in like manner. He made his money
by manufacturing tho product OF iron
mines.
The earth is a magnificent storehouse Of
wealth. 1t has proved more fruitful Of
immense fortunes than the vast trans
portation business which made the for
tunes Of the Vanderbilts and the Goulds,
Hill, Hartman and the rest OF the railroad
kings. 1t has beaten the mere oVnership
and use Of the surface Of the ground, Aston
fashion, says the Cleveland Leader. Where
upon the Manufacturers Record adds:
Yes, and the great centre OF n earth'g
storehouse IL the South. Think Of its coal
area, nearly three times as great as the
combined Uoal fields OF Great Britain, Ger
many and Pennsylvania; OF its ron ore,
Tar ~eurpassing In quantity that which made
the fortunes Of Carnegie and Krupp; Of It's
oil, promising to exceed in yield all that
went to make the Rockefeller fortunes;
Of its sulphur, which dominates the worlds
Sllphur trade; Of its phosphate, which holds
the same unique position In the worlds
fertilizer industry; OF its vast stores OF
cement making materials; tho industry
which promises TO rival iron n steel; Of
its copper and other higher forms Of min
sr.lS and then Iet your Imagination attempt
10 fercoaet the Vastnsss Of the wealth which
thiS mineral storehouso Of b world In TO
turu loose Ia the South. aAmA
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THUNDERSTORM ON THE WATER.
Their Movements ~ Indicated ny the Ac-
~cOmpanytng Lightning.

'On the water" said a grizzled old bay
man, when you see a thunder storm rising
you want to keep an eye on the lightning.
II you see IL in the distance striking down
further and further to the right from where
you first saw IL, or further and further 10
the left, why, that indicates that the storm
is working to the right, or TO the left, and
il may pass around you.
But II you see it all the time coming
down in the same place and all the time
getting brighter and brighter. why, that
Indicates that it's coming straight toward
you; and that's the time, son, when you
want to make for home, Or get in your
sail and make everything mug till the
storm passes over.
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with the Napoleons OF finance for the time
being.
"'Oh, they just lafed,' he said, still more
TRANQUILITY, but I told EN- that ever since
the time I caught you stealing apples out
OF my orchard and you stood up and snid
you had a right TO because your father and
your grandfather always stole from the
same orchard, l knew II would take more'n
the Street to get the best Of you. Get up.
Liz
Liz responded to the poke in the stats.
and after a while, when I had recovered my
breath, l said
GOOD horse, that Liz.'
sought to be- he allowed, I paid 3i2 for
her."
1t was remarked by another summe
boarder that his favorite old inhabitant
had lost popularity In the village. The
summer boarder explained It to himself
by the fact that whenever the old lnhabi-
tant appeared on the street he was accom-
panied by q horid looking woman whose
hair showed unmistakably peroxide. He
learned that she was the old !nhabitant's
third wife.
The hummer boarder pondered . long
time on the narrowness Of the villagers
outlook.
"As long az she makes him happy I don't
see why other people should care he said
to the other old inhabitant, who was most
bitter in his structures about ladies with
painted hair.
He amt got any business TO marry OUT
side the family said the other old inhab-
liant. ITS been q kind o. custom In this
village to marry among ourselves. ! mar
RED for my first wife cousin once removed,
and when she was twice removed ] married
again, q fourth on the maternal side, almost
no relation at all. We, the Eldredges and
the Kits and the Perrys, have done that
way for generations, and there amt q store
sign or q business Of any kind that some OF
US amt got an interest In IL, and we feel
! proud Of our habits In that way. Il goes
ag'in the grain TO SEQ q man like Edredgs
take q wife that amt related to nobody
Another man who summered on the
Massachusetts, coast, where the old In
habitant type Is In better condition than
elsewhere, said:
Il assume that the salt air does some
thing besides preserve; it produces an
unmitigated set, OF liars. I ~recollect one
man 1 met as 1 was sitting on the high Cliff
one afternoon Watching the swallows
dip and the fishing feet com In from q
fruitlees day.
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UP, SAID
| ANDREW JACKSON.
Endorsement on a Tailor's BIZ
Against a State Depart
ment Clerk.

Fine letters Of Andrew jackson rarely
come upon the market. While not so I'M
common as letters Of Zachary Taylor--the
rarest name in the series of American Prest-
dents-they occur infrequently at public
or private sale, and important specimens
bring good prices.
An interesting example Of the autograph
OF the hero Of New Orleans is in the shape
Of an Endorsement, written on the back OF
the following letter, addressed to him In
1888 by a merchant tailor: =
WASHINGTON. April 20. 1883.
To the President Of the United States.
SIR. the Signer Of this your Humble Servant,
begs leave Of you to Lend an car TO the
Statement Of a Case Of mine against -
Clerk in the State Department. .
lie Came to my Store Nov. IS, 1881. and 0oeI
measured for a Suit Of Clothes Amounting
to 'sO4 so. for which he promised TO pay ma
in 60 days. and his having the appearance Of
a Gentleman | took him to be one and let him
have the articles on those terms.
When the Sixty days expired | Sent TO him
and he promised Farther until II or II Months
expired, and nding no other way Of recover
ing my money ] entered a Suit against him
for which | received a Judgment after hs
entered the office when he took the Benehe
OF Insolvency. and having understood that
your Highness had taken the Steps for the
benefit Of Mec hanicks 4 Other Citizens Of this
place by removing or otherwise Making the
Clerks pay their Honest debts and finding
no other way Of recovering my money /
take this Liberty of requesting this great
favour and hope IL will not be in vain as I
have a large family depending on me for
Support aud Losing this would rob them Of
their dues. Respy Your Humble & ObedE
ent Servant. CHRISTIAN ECKLoFF.
The letter seems TO have aroused jack
sons indignation, and his indorsementJ
bearing the same date, was as follows:
Referred 10 the Sec. Of State. II on inquiry
the fact stated be true-unless the clerk pays
M the debt. let him be forthwith discharged.
The Government would become a party
TO such swindling provided it permits It's
officers TO become indebted for necessaries
and not see that they paid their debts out Of
their salaries.
Honest men will pay their ~debts-dishon-
est must lot be employed by thug Govern
mcnt. A. J.
Underneath this interesting Endorsement
is a postscript, also signed with Jacksonis
initials:
This case Is referred IN Amos Kendsll. Esdr,
and ON ten dollars per month being secured 70
FckIoh. MIR. $780, to be continued in hLA
office. A. J.
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IN THE ART MUSEUM.
The Engllshman and the Russian Some
Amateur Critics Or Pictures.


They were viewing the Bishop collection
OF jade in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. One was an elderly, transformations
Russian diplomat; the other was a forlornly
young, altogether ostentatious, English
chappie.
Presently they paused before a specimen
of lapis lazuli in one Of the cases.
Il saw" cried the English chappie, adj
iusting his monocle, Il nave a scarfpin
made of that at home; /"
Il have a mantelpiece made Of that at
home" quietly threw in the Russian.
And the English chappie actually won
dered why the girl in their party Uttered
a bit!
Slowly they made their way about the
galleries, always moving with the throng
which talked loudly and earnestly about
art. They were very droll, these two.
-Benner's simply crazy about that blue
green skin Of hist" cried one, a gray
Haired, dishevelled woman, who was claw
ing feverishly for her pendent ~lorgnette.
They were standing before Henner's
I "Magdalene." Her companion corrected
her.
"Oh, Henner, l meant, OF ooursel What
did I say, my dear? Well, quite the same,
quite the same. Look! There's dear old
iroyon and his country COWS. Do you
know, l always look ROUND Tor a fence,
they're so reall" Behind her lorRnette
she giggled ~kittenishly.
Her companion, who evidently disliked
her, spoke again.
aAh! Van Marker Is it2 What's the
d~ifference? They can't tell themselves
apart, I'll wager a oookie!' She dropped
her lorgnette in disgust.
That's pretty hard Of both Of them.
isn't it's suggested her companion.
In contTadistinction OF these two there
was a little group who seemed to know a
heap about pictures, but who talked so low
that only occasionally could their remarks
be overheard.
-That yellow sunset there murmured
one of them with an abrupt nod toward
a painting a great way on, AN %Inness,
isn't it2"
-Yes,' another assented; zone Of his early
things. It's painted a trife hard for Inness,
don't you think? All! but look at that
Vibert!'
They crossed the room quickly toward
q small canvas on which a Cardinals robe
and tiny cap were the only bits Of vivid
color.
A vibert it was, TO be sure. But what a
rosy checked, dimpling country girl wanted
TO know was, How could people tell a
thing like that such a long way of?'
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Poor Trout Season in England.

rom the SportiHO and Drdmdtc Ncvs.
When partrldges come IN trout go OUT.
This has been a traditional rule on orr south~
ern chalk streams for many years. but there
is now a tendency 20 give non-shOOtng men .
months grace.
prom all trOuting waters come the same
'complah ts, of no fly. and fish grubbing IN the
weeds instead OF rising to the surface. lt hAs'
undoubtedly been . most Disappointing seq
son In the south Of England.
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FISHES
They ForeteII storms and Frosty weather
Says the Old Fisherman.

'In their way" said the old fisherman;
fishes are good weather prophets.
If a storm is approaching the fish stop
biting and they won't bite again until the
storm is we'll over. They appear TO know
when a storm is coming and when 1t has
really passed.
And to fishermen; and farmers living
along shore, fish foretell the near approach
OF cold weather. Hours before IL comes
fishes leave the shallow waters in shore
and seek deeper water, which in its depths
will stay warm and keep an equable tenn
T~erature after the shallower and surface
waters have turned cold.
,-oh, yes, fishes know a thing or two about
the weather"
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A Use for Peach stones.

A firm Of merchants at Stroud has shipped
$50 bushels OF peach stones to Eastern manu-
fActurers Of favorinR extracts.
Children in the neighborhOod OF Stroud
gathered the stones. About 5000 stones
make Q bushel The merchants have q mar
kee for about 100 bushels this season.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1906-08-30
MISSOURI STATE FAIR.
Live stock Breeders Organize for Big
Exhibit.

Last December when the American
association of fairs and cxpositions met
in Chicago to arrange dates for 1906, a
petition was presented signed by two
hundred live stock exhibitors, asking
that state fair circuit be formed, com.
mencing with Iowa, thence to Ncbras-
ka, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois,
Missouri and ending with the Amcri-
can Royal at Kansas City. This
petition was received with much favor
and dates for the several state fairs
arranged accordingly, and agreed to
by each fair except Illinois, she claim
ing the date assigned to Missouri.
Missouri breeders protesting against
the action Of Illinois, and evidencing
their loyalty TO "A home institution,
will, almost without exception, exhibit
at the Missouri state fair. Live stock
exhibitors from Kansas, Nebraska and
Iowa wishing to work in harmony with
the advice Of the American association
of fairs, and TO conform to the wishes
OF breeders as represented in their
petition, are organizing to leave Illinois
out Of their circuit and will show at
Des Moines, Lincoln, Topeka, Hutch.
inson, ST. Joseph, Sedalia and the
American Royal at Kansas City. These
fairs all offer liberal prizes, are we'll
equipped for taking care of live stock,
and are located in territory making
the most extensive demands on the
improved herds of the country.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1906-08-30
Boys Versus Chickens.

Governor Folk has announced his
intention to recommend the passage by
the next legislature OF law making
the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors
a felony.
1t is now a felony, punishable by i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary, tosteal
a chicken. Men are even now serving
time for that Offense. Others are serv-
ing time for other trilling thelfts, such
as meat, corn, flour, etcetcra. Nobody
is saying a word against the propriety
of such laws. 1t is necessary that the
ownership OF property be safeguarded,
and thieves Of all degrees should feel
the iron hand OF the law.
But-any scamp may sell or give
illegally intoxicating liquors to your
boys and be liable to nothing more
severe by way of punishment than a
petty fine. Who would not infinitely
rather have every hen on the place
stolen than to have the stuff placed in
the hands of his hoy which may make
him drunken wretch, adisgrace to his
family and scOurgc to the community:
1t is pertinent to inquire Of your
candidate for the Legislature where he
stands on this question, which is now
and will continue TO be one of the lives
questions OF the times. The whiskey
influence is asking its friends to vote
for no man Of any party who will no
pledge himself to vote against TEN
perance legislation. Shall the ten
perancc people be less alive:
In the language of the Galeua Oracle
Sew men will take chances on going
to the penitentiary for selling intoxi
eating liquors illegally. Those wh'
will should be in the penitentiary.