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You think we're Rockyfellers, hey?
Where'd the money come from. I'd like
L know?
90 Money? Did you say money? I
thank tn Lord / amt so thick as you be,
Anne Twitchel! Money? How about old
Belle? Why don't you take an sell her to
Sock? She amt over an above Spry,
admit. but you're lucky on boss -tradin'-
he'll buy. all right-you see If he won't t.
Fix her up a mite an she'll be good fer
fifty anyway. Or praps he'd swap his
Kit, an give su'thin' to boot. Then
What? You want me t cheat my
neighbor an perjure my etarnal soul 1es,
| to crafty your wicked. worldly vanltles
| Why. Luell. how you do talk! Eff had
| thought, like them thar. I'd keep 'em to
myself, at least. an not
'Vanities? Wicked? Jes' cause l want
| t look decent an red myself up bit
SOS not to be laughin' stock with
Cousin Rim? Oh Anne, Anne! When we
| was married.
Gosh Almighty. but words did fly some.
though! They flew fer sev'ral weeks. hot
Sundays. till finally old Anne petered out.
Yes, Luella wore him to reg'!ar FRAGILE.
| till he weakened. wavered an give III Jes'
| fer the sake o peace. When man can't
| eat a meal O. vittles ner lay In his bed
| 'thout hearin' one perpetual yap-yap-yap-
| pin he gifts so, after a while. that he'll
rob his gran mother fer the sake o peace.
And Anne loved peace uncommon well, too.
| So twas peace he bought, with his own
conscience. He made up his mind he'd
swap old Belle. he give plum In to Lucia.
an he promised when the deal was car
ried through. that he'd turn the boot
what thar was of it-over TO his lovin'
wife fer the carryin' out of her heart S
| desire.
| Now Belle. d'yOu see. had been a good
one in her day. but of late years she'd
! ben a-runnin' down. runnin' down. same S
everythin on this mortal footstool does
eff you give it time enough. She was thin
| a bars hide she'd cast in one eye was
spawned an had the heaves somethin'
dretful BESIDES. su'thin' had went wrong
| with her nose SO she whistled ALFRED
| bad spite of all anybuddy cd do. Sound
| ed like a tarnation engine, when she got
het up to her full speed. Speed? Yep:
| Old an rickety as Belle was. she had
| some speed left in her sOmewheres. 'spe-
cally uphill. Some hosses Is built like
that-they run a heap sight better up a
grade than they do on TIL level Belle
come of blooded stock, way. way back;
| twas filtered out purity thin. l YUM. but
still it'd show out now an then on occa-
sons. So the case wa MT quite hopeless.
| An havni' surangled his conscience
DEATH an then stomped on 1t. made up his
mind TO do the job good an lib'ral. He
| thunk an thunk couple o days an then
| he done a few things. The result was his
new thoroughbred. jes' in from the west,
an not fer sale. swap CT hire.
| Say, d'yOu know anything bout HOSES.
hey? D'you know they'll eat pork? Well.
they will, when it's fed 'em an they have
| to- The heaves stops. subsequent. though
! they re an ALFRED sight wuss afterwards.
| Belle went right onto a meat diet. hog
meat an oil cakes. Yep, linseed oil-it'll
! fat rail fence. Belle took ON weight
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heerd Sock hollerin' an Rindy encour-
agin' Of him.
"'Aow: Aow.ow-ow-ow-w-w,w' What
cher pullin' so for. consarn We?
'Sh-hh-h. Sock! You set still jest a
minute an I'll be done. Remember. it's
in a good cause!''
cause h! Oo-oo-ooo! That cussed
razor's duller'n 'tarnal shovel:
Hush!
Thar. Now you've did 1t. I'm bleed
in like 'tarnation pig! Yes / be. too
en- feel 1t runnin' down my neck-I'm
all gore O. blood. Now hope you're
Sock he bellered like -yearlin. but he
had to set an take it. Rindy's bout six
sizes bigger. anyway. SO he hadn't no
show to skip out.
After the shave Rim she got out his
old brown suit an brushed 1t good. turned
his rubber collar inside out. got his satin
necktie with the pansies embroidered onto
it. combed his hair an made him grease
his boots. Then she turned him loose.
told him not L stir Outa the doOryard, an
sailed in on her own prinkin'.
Fur be 1t from me to understan' the
innardness O. that grand fixin up. All is,
when Rindy an Sock druv up to the
meetin' house, Kits coat all shiny. Sock
shaved an with his collar on. her in the
alpacky. with teeth an bangs. su'thin'
like a shiver went over the folks on the
'eni. it stunned an almost terrified EN-
'twan't accordin' to nature. such vilent
an sudden changes. The folks vas sure
thunderstruck-it BODIED no good. no good
at all, like you're a-goin' to see right
square OF.
II be a-fallin' up fast. hey? l be short
on fer looks. be II Rims gait an bearin
fairly screeched them questions as she
peraded UP the aisle to her pew with
lSockalexis trailin on behind, squeakin
in his creased boots an lookin like he'd
been catched a-stealin' sheep. Sech wick
ed, worldly vanity as RIMS never seen
I'm this here mortal vale OF tears; it fairly
brustled out all over her. Scand' lous
wicked. worldly pride. She stayed to
Sunday school. too. an aftnoon meet'n
Twas plum insultin'.
Some was mad some laughed an some
worse luck, was bit by the green-eyed
monster.
Mis- Anne Twitchell. Rims first cousin
sumin'. gnawin' envy. All that week an
the next she made the grasshopper bur-
den to Anne. Day after day, whenever
Anne want chorin or In the spoomill
twas Bangs. Alpacky. Shave: Neckte
Grease. Bunnct. Teeth Anne told me tina;
long toards the last on 1t he got to
dreamin' ne was a fashion magazine with
arded boots an bangs fer whiskers.
Pshaw. What's the use. Luell? jest
cause Rim makes a 'tarnaI fool outa her.
self. what for you want to-
"'Pshaw as much as you're a mind to-
Anne Twitchell. but you'd oughta be
| ashamed o yourself to see Rim 'arrayed
like one o. these" an me goin' to meet
in I'm my old print po'onay, with my con
! gress boots all worn to fragile! An as
fer your looks, weu-!'
"'Oh hush! Even eff / wanted you an
me L be couple O. dunn fools, where
dyou think the money'd come FROM
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along at fine. free stride--that's kinda
like a haze O. parcels all round the
wagon: the roadbed begins t look ALFRED
untidy in the wake o. the procession. Yes.
that's the cider jug. elders mighty full
o gas. Amt IL? Hear tn explosion when
it hits? Gallopin' ?-Whee ee-ee, Look at
'er run. Ny land. thar goes the whff1e-
tree. all { hundred. Wagons runnin' lop-
wheel hittln' a rock. Up she goes an
down in a rain O. spokes an felly. Now
the eX is draggin'! BY gosh. II catches a
tie-such a pull. Richocet. they ulster call
it in the army: wagon files high an comes
down all of a scatter, Thar. Kits free
at last! Wagons t'other side up In the
ditch. what amt strung long the track i'm
pieces. Jes' the harness left now an Mt
runnin' like a rabbit-no reel danger Ter
Kit up that grade an with Lockes Mills
only a mile away, but ALFRED strenuous.
"Somebuddy else runnin', too. What?
Anne Twitchell? Why. I YUM. so tits.
way behind. runnin' an yellin' like
soul in torment etarnal No chance fer
Anne, though-the old hoss has got about
a million times too big a start-Ame's
sure out OF it. but he keeps a-runnin an
a-screechn' jes' the same: after him
gan" O. South Ponders hollerin', yellin,
scootin' I'D the track like pack Of crazy
devils in a fit. Red faces, wavin arms.
sweat. dust an laughter. most uproar-
ious, ondecent laughter. What? Laugh
ter? Why. eff il amt Sockalexis Bean
that's laushin'! Yes-an' eff he don't stop
this very minute. right plum on. he'll sure
bust his suspender buttons an throw q
compton fit
'Jumpin' jewsharps"
TIL brakeman O. the local has jes'
came back over the top o the train an
catched a glimpse of an old hoss. all dust
an sweat. thunderin' along tn tracks
like a runaway cyclone in the midst OF a
cloud o. gravel an ballast. with tn whole
tarnatiOn town screamin' after her
"'Jumpin' jewsharps--
"One dive an he's down the ladder into
the caboose. jammin' on the air. Jerk!
Jolt! Grind d-d-d-Zeeeeee.-Whe
eu-uuu--
"Everybuddy runs up. pantin. My land.
what's the matter? Every buddys askin'
tas-end o. breath. Evcrybuddy? Well.
no, not quite. No. Mr. SocAalexis Bean
amt thar: bout that time he's jouncin'
outa town behind old Belle. sound an
well an happier than most men ever Is.
Happy? Did ] say happy? Yes, let il go
at that.
mo. IL never hurt Kit none. after she'd
cooled down an rested a bit: but the
wagon an supplies was too fragmentary
to ever be got together again at any one
spot. Lawsuit? My land. yes-it run six
months or a year: IL you want to you can
find out all bout II down to Berlin court
house. Damages? Yes-s-s-but precious
both sides o. the story. Damages?
Pshaw! Not much more n enough to
buy Luell Twitchell a set o. bangs to
match them what Rindy Bean KEEP pinned
in the front o. her best Sunday-go-to-
meetin' bunnet."
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been able to gather, single instance of
founding having become a figure in
history. That is the great philosopher.
D'Alembert. AS for the still more famous
Jean jacques Rousseau, one of the
fathers OF the revolution. it is notorious
that he made no secret OF tine fact that
his children were regularly laid at the
door OF the founding hospital. So, at
least, he himself declares. 1t seems prob
able however, that this was merely
vain boast. for there Is not a. scrap Of
written evidence of this in the archives
The writer has already mentioned that
the annual budget of the Paris Assistance
Publique Tor Public Relief Organization
il about $4,000 900. This enormous sum
Is furnished by the Communes of the De-
partment of the Seine. by the municipal
ity of Paris and by the state. A certain
percentage Of the proceeds OF the Paris
mutuel or betting on race courses and on
the sale of theater tickets is also as
signed to the Assistance Publiaue. The
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budget of the Hospice des Enfants AS
sistes, which is a part of the Assistance
Publique. amounts to about $3.G0o.COO an
nually. The latter organization exists
primarily for newborn foundlings, but
there is practically no limit of age. for
orphans are admitted up TO the age OF
fifteen or sixteen.
1t is worth recording that once child
has been received into the Hospice des
Enfants Assistes, even if 1t be an alien.
1t is adopted by the state, and may not,
therefore. be given to any private indi-
vidual to be adopted as his child. Thus
in the case Of the two little English waits
already referred to some fifty applica-
TONS several coming from abroad. were
received by the authorities from persons
willing TO adopt them. but all were re-
jected.
In Kindness of Heart.
1t may be said that France. with her
practically stationary population, has an
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one day to NJ. May, docs not my mother
a. least try to find me?'
The kind-hearted director seeking to
console her. said:
"If your mother were to find you. she
would probe bly, only be a burden to you"
The girl replied:
"Ah! monsieur. at least I should have
some one belonging to me. I should not
be alone!'
1t is this feeling of being alone In the
world which seems hardest to be borne
and which begets certain melancholy In
them.
Zone of my boys" continued the d.
rector, "is now the captain Of a transat-
lantic liner. He wanted to- become an
officer in the army. but unfortunately we
set about 1t too late. Well. I feel certain
in my own mind that If he had succeeded
in his desire he would have been the first
to lead forlorn hope and fall at the
head of his men."
There is only, as far as the writer has
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By GEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND.
tCopyrightl

AY, did I ever tell you bout
tx Mis- Sockalexis Beans new
bangs? No? l swan. that
too bad, Hitch tn old splint-
bottom up nigh to the stove
an, 7 yum I will!'
.hitched." Summer Sessions very
,.,bodically lighted his corncob with
.ulnhur match, then carefully stroKed
80, tho curve of his long. white mus
taches.
..Th' whole fool business started. Se
600 with them thar bangs. Mis- Bean
her that was Orindy Purrinston.s see a,,.
to be Gittin' along some into the sere an
waller. 1t CALLED her most uncommon now
folk was beginnin' to gossip.
...I.awsee (said some). but Rihoy
failin' up these days 3d.. .;n..
GOT hair enough left to make even SO
much's watch chain.
Teeth a-goin fast, 100. ain tney
".Yep-face faIlin' in like she was
a-eoin' to swaller it,
81 swan, If anybody ever was short
on fer looks Rim Beams that person:
..Folks' talk filtered back to Rindy an
CALLED her, as I've said. somethin' terri.
ble She stood II as longs she could. an
when she couldn't stan II no longer sne
made up her mind somethin' would have
to be did about 1t. So. after shed deilo.
rated good an plenty, she took some o
her boar d-money outa the bureau drawer
an went on the cars to Bethel. where she
had her upper gooms stamped In wax FER
a set bought her a pattern o black al
packy an purchased the foresaid bangs
which made all the to-dO. lawsuit an all,
like I'm a-gon' to tell you.
''Bangs-yes. they was first-rafe bangs
for s. cents. Easy to put on. too. They
was made outa somebuddy's hair, parted
fine. Rindy kept 'em pinned inside her
Sunday punnet: then. when she put the
bunnet on, they'd hang plum down over
her forred, natral as life. All she had
Z do was vet 'em down good an comb
'em. an they'd curl up somethin' grand.
/ tell you. Rindy looked some dinrent
VIXEN she got them bangs on. an the up
Mex Sunday after all the modern i'm
provements was installed, you bate she
didn't miss meetin'. no sir. Her an
Sockalexis had been abackslidin' Tor
some time what with livin' five miles
from the Pond. old Kit soin' lame an the
gen'ral slump In looks. But that mex
Sunday--not by a jugful
''Rindy she got up at . am. helped
Sock chore. streened the milk, got break
card Kit tthe first time in two years., done
up the dishes an fed the shoats all BY
1ralf-pas' seven. SOS she'd have two good
prinked some. too, now I bate we!
Elmer Bowker. drivin' past down the
Jericho road at s. seen Rindy Shawn Soch
on the side porch. which was most unu.
suaI. Sock was straddle of a kitchen
chair with an apurn pinned round his
red neck. an Rindy was 'tarniy layin
& TO him with Q razor. Elmer said he
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step or on a bench in the public squares.
as used to be frequently the case and as
still happens. though very rarely.
To such degree is this. scrupulousness
that woman is free to go to a lying-in
hospital and declare that she intends to
abandon her child soon as it is born.
The only fOrmality she has to comply
with is to write her name and address
and any other particulars she may de-
sire on sheet of paper. seal 1t herself in
an envelope and hand it to the hospital
authorities, so that in the event of her
death the necessary formalities may be
carried out. The envelope is otherwise
returned to her unopened on her leaving
the hospital.
Should the parent aba ndoning the child
declare its name and other particulars.
SO much the better: otherwise the au-
thorities have to name it themselves and
give ii what Is termed an etat civil. tan
tamount to our birth registration. When
the infant has been deserted its name is
frequently borrowed from the place
where it was found. The two little ch.l-
dren, for instance. to whom the writer
has already alluded. and who were de-
serted in a hotel in the Boulevard de
Rochechouart. may quite conceivably be
now bearing respectively the names Of,
let us say, Jean and Marie Rochechouart.
But one thing is certain. from the mo-
ment an infant has been received into the
HoSpice des Enfants Assistes its future
known to the authorities alone.
Parents Reclaim Children.
This is absolutely necessary. for II a
mother abandoning a child were able to
keep herself Informed of its movements,
the temptation to the poorer classes to
abandon their offspring would be we'll
nigh Irresistible. If. however, the chilo's
name has been duly declared on its being
received into the hospice. it is possible
for the parents TO reclaim it in after
years. IL they defray the outlay that has
been incurred. which Is about l100 a year
in the early period Of the child's Lire.
About 400 children are thus given back
to their parents every year.
Until 1t has reached the age a six or
seven years. every founding" wears I'M
derneath its clothing a little bone neck
lace, from which is suspended medal
lion bearing its number, SO that 1t may be
easily traced il lost. AS soon as 1t IL
sufficiently Intelligent to know Its own
name and where 1t lives TINS necklace Is
dispensed with.
No children remain at the Hospice for
more than thirty-sfx hours as general
rule. Almost as soon as they arrive they
are drafted into the country districts to
be nursed in the houses of the peasantry.
They are sent to school; the boys are
taught q trade or to work on farm. and
they perform their military service like
every other citizen. while the girls mostly
become domestic servants.
1t is an absolute and very humane prin-
ciple Of the authorities never to divulge
to the outside world the fact that their
nurselings have been "enfants assistes."
for the name recalls disagreeable, If not
painful. memories. something akin to our
''charity schoolboy." Some of these chill
dren are destined to make honorable, if
not great. names for themselves and fu-
ture professors. artists. teachers and even
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Also. Cousin Luell Twitchell showed up in
meetin' from that time on. dunn sight
more serum shus than Rindy d ever ben
Oh. things was bad, bitter bad an sore
for the Bans but Sockalexis bided hi.
time. he bided his time.
Now I'll have you know the railroad
runs through South Pond village in a
most curious manner. right plum through
the main street len1hwise fer half mile
fore it swings off in a stiff upgrade
round the lake to Lockes Mills. Snug
to the deepo thar's a side-track where the
local freight puts in back o the freight
shed every afternoon. It's a quiet spot
an pow full secluded. Yes.
''Well. one PM, Anne he druv to town
fer grain, vittleS an cider an hitched kit
by the deepn while he was a-tradin' In
Andrews store. Sock was i'm town. too
but not fer grain ner cider: twas bigger
hitehed mex 10 Anne an waited.
He didn't have t wait long fore the
local freight backed down to onload a car
at the shed. You bet Sock was a-keepin'
his eyes peeled bout then. Things looked
fav' BILE. an no mistake-the street was
purity nigh deserted an the caboose O.
the train stood not two rod away. Sock
he waited an waited. like a spider watch
in a-fat fly. He seen Opportunity knock
in at his door. an he want the man to
turn lady down; he didn't let her knock
in vain
"Ef you'd ben down thar back o the
freightshed. Mister. you might-a seen a
long. wiry cuss. answerin' TO the name o.
SockaleXs Bean onhitch Ame's boss in a
casual manner, lead her. wagon an all.
up to the caboose an make good, hard
knot with the bride round the hand-rail.
Th:n you might-a seen the same man
saunter away TO the deepo platform set
down on baggage truck. light his T. d.
an prepare for joyous doin's
foot! Toot.-Ding-don ding dong
Why. that's the local gittin' ready t pull
out fer Locke's Mills.
'Chu. Chu. Chu! Observation-Disclosures
(wheel a-sippin'D 'Chu! Chu! CHU!
CHI, sand on the rail: 'CHU:-cHU!
''Suthin' tugs kinda gentle at Kits
head. an she moves forrard at a show
walk.
Chu. Ghu. Chu: Chu. Chu. Chu.-'
1.-THE walk briskens up a bit. kinda
develops into a lope: the wagon jounces
over tn rails il comes in onto the
track.
'Chuchuchuchuchu Gnu chu chu chu
"A trot! See. The old boss is beginnin
to step out right peart: Ears laid back
an rein a traidn'. thar she goes. taggin
after that local freight with ur'ous per-
sistency. Things begin bouncin' in the
wagon. toO-looks bad for the eggs-yes
thar they go! My land what splattera-
ton. Flour? Jeefns Rice. what "A dust
flour does raise when bagfu busts.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Observation-Disclosures
Chu.-'
..Lopin' now, Kit? Sure enough. so We
be. Bounce. Bounce. Slam, Bang
Kits fully onlimbered bout now, swlngin'
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millionares are to be bound within their
Refused to Give Their Names.

millionaires are to be bound within their
ranks.
Refused to Give Their Names.
The director of the Enfants Assistes.
while ready to give all possible Informal
ton with respect to his numerous family,
declined absolutely to quote single in
stance of the successful founding" by
name. He remarked that these poor chill
dren always retain mournful recollec-
ton of the fact that they were "aban-
doned." 1t is a phenomenon which NJ
May has again and again observed that
the child. when it has grown to mans or
woman's estate. fOrgives it's mother for
having given birth to it. forgives her
even for having abandoned it. One thing
however, eats like a canker worm at it's
heart-the fact that its mot her has never
sought to trace it's whereabouts in after
years.
Why said a poor domestic servant
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Scrupulously Uninterested.

Every facility is thus granted for evad-
ing awkward questions as to identity, 30
that there is no excuse whatever for the
abandonment of an infant on the door
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1t may be said that France. with her
practically stationary population, has an
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1908-11-07
Insulated screwdrlyer.

Working around electric wires with
an ordinary screwdriver has been the
cause OF numerous injuries to the OPP
orators. Contact with the live wire,
OF course, results in a short circuit.
How easily such accidents can be
averted Is shown by a Connecticut
man, who has invented and patented
the insulated screwdriver shown here.
Instead OF constructing the handle Of
wood II is made of non-conducting
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1908-11-07
HON DAVID JAYNE ILL. OF NEW YORK
Democracy Under Foot.

One Of the Ohio Congressman tells
the following as indicative of the pes
slmistic view OF the average politician
when in the throes of defeat:
The day after the routing Of Parker
In 1904 one OF the Democratic news
papers in the Buckeye State sent out
a circular telegram soliciting express
sions OF opinion from various poll
ticians throughout the State. 1t IS
claimed that the Quaintest of the lot
was the report OF one county chair
man. expressed in these terms:
County has gone for Roosevelt by
$50. The people are In minority.
Heaven help us!" - Philadelphia
Ledger
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material. The latter also incases the
metal shank to within a few inches
OF the end. This allows ample sur.
face for the operator to grasp ira
operate the screwdriver without fear
OF being electrically shocked by con-
tact With live wire, and Is thus as
sured OF protection from such acct
dents. -W Washington Star,
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cream server is in the form of cylln-
der, which is attached to a handle.
Sliding within the handle and the
cylinder are a piston and a plunger.
so devised that the insertion of the
instrument into the receptacle con-
tanning the fee cream will cause the
receiver to be filled. Pressure upon
the piston causes the contents OF the
cylinder to be expelled. The plunger
is operated in n novel manner by
means OF a trigger which is oct in the
handle convenient for operation by
the fingers of the Wash
ington Star.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1908-11-07
Novel Ice Cream Server.

An entirely new method OF serving
ice cream is the recent patent Of a
New York man. lie abolishes the old
system by means Of a spoon. AS
shown in the Illustration, this fee
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1908-11-07

The Chinese guilds OF South China
are selling stock for the organization
OF a Chinese steamship company 70
run 10 San Francisco or Seattle.
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Just Opened

COUPON WRAPPED WITH EACH QUART OF OUR WHIsKEY. BY
RETURNING TWELVE
PURE WHISTLES, AND LIQUORS.
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