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letting it fly to starboard. I began to
stand In awe of one who could work
such. q wonder. l wanted to go and
stand beside him, but somehow
couldn't do it. l made myself think
that l feared to disconcert him in his
critical work. This was not SO. There
was something uncanny about him
that held me off.
At last we shot into the broad basin
Of the inner harbor. l called the men
to lower an anchor-the n we had
put out had been left on the bottom
and when l heard the chain rattle
through the hawse pipes I turned to
thank Ben for having saved US.
The wheel was deserted.
A light appeared OF the water, and a
boat approached. GLOW did you get
in?" called a man in the bow.
"Ben Pa%ddock-he piloted u.s."
"Ben Paddock! You're gone daft.
He died a month ago."
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Blessings Of the Blind,

The calamity of the blind is Inn
mense, irreparable. But it does not
take away our share Of the things that
co~unt-service, friendship, humor, Inn
agination, wisdom. It is the secret
inner will that controls ones fate. We
are capable Of willing to be good. Of
loving and being loved, Of thinking I
the end that we may be wiser. We.
possess these spirit born forces equally
with all Gods children. Therefore
we, too, see the lightnings and hear the
thunders Of Sinai. We, too. march
through the wilderness and the solitary
place that shall be glad for US. and as
we pass God maketh the desert to bios
som like the rose We. too, go in unto
the promised land to possess the treas
ures Of the spirit. the unseen perma-
hence Of life and nature.-Helen Kel-
Ter In Century. (;
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Proper Form of Asseveration,

A teacher in the Garfield school was
teaching a primary class the begin
nings of arithmetic.
"Now, l have one pencil in my right
hand and one in my left" she said.
"How many pencils have I? Helen.
you may answer"
"Two." piped a small voice.
"Then one and n make two. do
they?'
"Sure!" ~.
The teacher frowned at the disre-
spectful answer.
"That's hardly what you should have
said," she said. "Will some n in the
class tell Helen what her answer
should have been"
There was a moment of hesitation.
Then one brown fist shot confidently
into the air.
"Ah. James, you may tell Helen
what she should have said" =
"Sure, Mike" shouted Jimmy in a
tone Of triumph.-Kansas City Star.
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place. for he was GRAND boy no longer,
but the proprietor of a business. He
had retained the first floor for his own
use, and Il real estate agent had rented
the other floors. He handed Pengreave
quarterly checks. and Pengreave woy-
ried nc more.
He was sure of Il home, the only
home he had known. He sat at his
window in the ummer evenings and
looked across the square opposite and
gave no heed to the children swarming
in the street.
There had been few children when
he had first come to Barrow street. and
those We're well dressed and orderly.
Now the policeman on the beat had his
hands full, and only pengreave remain
ed serene and unworried.
Once for nearly a year he had wor-
ried. 1t was when he was nineteen
and he had fancied himself in love.
But Lena had married a junk dealer
on the corner below, and. after an I'LL
quiet month, during which he drank
seidles instead of the smaller glasses at
the Bierhalle, Pengreave had recovered
his placidity.
Since then it had pleased him to be-
lieve that his life had been wrecked,
and so he kept Lena's faded photo
graph on the mantelpiece, and at times
he took it down and sighed over it;
also he avoided all feminine society.
At his uncle's death the latter's bust
ness had passed to him, and under his
even administration it had grown great
ly. He lunched at better places. and
he also dined downtown. He bought u
new suit of clothes whenever his old
cashier discreetly limited that one was
needed.
The woman who acted as janitress
for the house attended also to his
rooms, and he found them always or
Derby. He asked nothing more.
But tonight a surprise waited for him
at his very door. AS he let himself in
a voice from the darkness of the floor
above reused him. 1t was a musical
voice with the indefinable accent Of
good breeding, and it gave to the SIM
pie question the melody Of a song.
81 am not the DOCTOR" was his reply
as he kept on up the stairs instead OF
turning into his own apartments on
the first floor lis there need of a doc
tor? Some one is ill?"
"Mrs. Brady" explained the voice
@she scalded her hand, and I sent a lit
tie girl for a DOCTOR"
Pengreave turned up the tiny flicker
Of gas, The increased fame revealed
q dainty feminine form in a simple
tailored gown. Pengreave was con
scious only that the girl was well dress
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ing figure far ahead. He knew that
Ben's sled was not as good as Nelrs
and that he would not catch her until
she reached the bottom Of the incline.
There was just n chance for him
self, and, throwing off his coat, he
caught up the pointer that Jimmie
Sweeney had just brought up to the top
Of the hill.
At the foot of the field was a place
where two lengths Of the fence had
fallen in, and there were two or three
similar breaks where he stood. 1t was
the work Of an instant to step through
one of these and throw himself face
downward upon the. sled.
Steering with both hands and feet,
Griswold shot down the steep declivity.
It was several years since he had been
on a sled. but it all came back to him,
and with a skill that was the talk of,
the hill for the remainder Of the season
he steered his flying sled in and out be-
tween the stumps. shaving the bark
here and lodging a trunk there just as
a fractured skull seemed imminent.
It took but a few seconds to. accom-
plish the journey. but to Griswold it
seemed years. before he shot through
the opening of the fence and with a
last terrific effort swung himself into
the road.
Just ahead were the smart gray jack
ct and saucy little hat that he was pur-
suing, and as he shot past he caught
the runner Of Nell's sled.
"tWho catches may keep" he quot
ed as he steered the two sleds into the
softer snow beside the road to permit
Ben to pass them.
"How did you do it," demanded Nell
wonderingly. =.
"Did you think it would be Benz" he
countered. The girl shook her head.
II wanted to see If you would make
an effort" she explained shyly. "All
the way down l heard Ben shouting,
and I was afraid that he was alone"
"He was" explained Griswold. Il
came the short way"
Nell looked at the runner marks
where Griswold had come through the
break in the fence and then at the
stump dotted, hill.
"You came straight down." she
gasped.
ut was the only way" he said quiet
~. Ben already had a lead on the
road, and l knew that I should have
to take the short cut in order to beat
him."
Nell looked him over sternly. The
thin leather of his shoes was cut and
torn. and here and there was a rent in
his clothing where he had struck a
tree. The gloves hung in shreds from
the scratched hands. and his necktie
waved under his left ear.
."You go back and get your coat" she
commanded, and then We'll go home
and tell mother and Harry. I'm awful
ly glad that you win," she added as he
turned away to obey the command. Il
didn't think you would. but ! never
dreamed you would come the short
way. No one has dared BEFORE"
mo one else had you at the end of
the slide," he explained. with a happy
laugh, as she slipped her hand in his
and they started up the hill after his
coat.
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/. Tran.vaaI Examinations.

In perusing the names of South At
rican towns in the daily newspapers
many must have noted the word "fon-
tein," which appears so often. This
word is the English fountain, and
towns with this termination have been
named after Dutch farms. which are
always built beside fountains Of spring
water. Thus Bloemfontein means Glow
cry fountain;" Modderfontein; muddy
fountain" Klenfontein, .'small foun-
tain" and Ellandsfontein, deer foun-
tain" Another town termination which
English. readers must have noticed Is
that Of 'laagte.'' which is pronounced
'.laughty." It means shelter for ami
mails" and hence when we talk Of the
battle OF Ellandslaagte we may know
that 1t was fought on a spot frequented
BY deer.-London Globe.
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|By the Short Cut
By MATTE BARNES.
: Copyrighted, 1903. by M. NJ. Cunningham.
By MATTE BARNES.

Sparville was grateful to Henry Girls
void. Not since the engagement OF
i McMahon's minstrels two months be-
fore had the town had SO much to
talk about.
Nine years ago Hank Griswold had
gone to the city in his Sunday pepper
and salt suit. with cowhide boots and
cloth cap to complete his costume.
Now he had returned Henry Griswold,
and to the s%plendors of well tailored
clothes he added the magnifcence of
a fur lined coat and shoes and hat
equally glossy.
Sparvlle was accustomed to fur
coats, but with the fur outside, while
Henry showed only the cloth. Patent
leather shoes, too, every day in the
week were regarded with awe not an
mixed with envy.
Even more interesting was the evil
dent interest Griswold displayed in
| Nellie Morrison. They had been sweet
hearts in the old school days and had
| kept up a correspondence. a fact dis
seminated by the postmaster, but it
was evident that Griswold had come
home with the intention of cutting out
Ben Pierce. who escorted Nell home
from church Sunday evenings and. 9th
erwise gave evidence of ultimate seri-
Gus intentions.
Public sentiment was largely in IA
vor Of Ben. Had Sparville been so
frivolously minded as to indulge in
betting the odds would have been
about three to one in his favor, for
| Henry had seemed to lose interest in
skating and coasting and other winter
I sports in which Sparville delighted.
He visited the pond and the coasting
hill, but merely as a spectator, and at
such times Nell, fully conscious that
the exercise brought a stronger glow
to her cheeks and an. added sparkle
to her eyes. was most inclined to hec-
tor him.
Griswold ascribed her treatment to a
desire to display her powers of CO.
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WHO ITCH MAY KEEP," HE QUOTED.

WHO CATCHES MAY KEEP" HE QUOTED.
quetry. but when, zeal the close of the
second week, he made formal proposal
of marriage and was refused he stared
at her in dismay.
cts this way" explained Nell judi
ciously, seeing his bewilderment. II
like you, Harry. but you are so differ
ent now. When you were a boy there
was no one who could beat you in a
skating race. and you used to so down
Beeman's hill faster than any of the
others. Now you're afraid to coast"
"I'm rot afraid" denied Griswold.
II don't want to; that's all. have
found other amusements."
Nell smiled and changed the subject.
and Griswold went home feeling miser-
able. He loved Nell. and this refusal
was a blow to his heart and his pride.
1t was Ben who tugged Nell's sled
up Beeman's hill the following after
noon and found Griswold gloomily re-
garding the coasters. The hill swung
in a rough half circle down the steep
declivity. Usually the roadway was
beaten into a glare Of ice by the coast
ers, for it was the only good coasting
place in the neighborhood.
From the brow Of the hill the entire
road could be observed. Ali summer
Henry Beelnan had been cutting the
thick growth Of pines which had cover
ed the hillside. and now only a broad
expanse Of g%listening snow crust dotted
with the pine stumps remained.
1t was a pretty spectacle. and Girls
void enjoyed it in spite Of the evident
| favor with which Nell regarded Ben.
who accompanied her in her dashes
downhill and the walk back again.
with Nell walking by his side. Nomi-
nally Nell's sled was her sisters. and
Ben's was supposed to be the property
Of his little cousin, but those two
youngsters had little use Of their pos
sessions.
The Jul was dipping toward the hills
on the other side Of the valley and
most Of the coasters had gone home
when Nell settled herself for her last
ride. Ben had stopped to tie his shoe
laces. and Nell looked over her shout
der.
WHO catches may keep" she called
as the sled gathered momentum. Ben
sprang to his feet and ran for his sled.
throwing himself upon It and starting
OF alta terrific pace.
Grtswold gave one glance at the dy-
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Pengreave's
Helping Hand.
By w. F. BRYAN.
Copyrighted. 1908. by Homer sprague


Pengreave, coming slowly down the
street. gave no heed to his surround
ings. For twenty years he had been
coming down the same street. some
times a little earlier. sometimes very
much later, but always he passed
along with unseeing eyes. his thoughts
fixed upon. his business and his home.
At fifteen he had first turned into the
side street from the main thorough
fare. Horse cars had run unevenly
over the badly set rails. and Pickering
gas lamps had lighted all save the
business streets. Now there were troll
leys everywhere, and even the alley
ways were lighted by electricity, but
Richard Pengreave gave no heed to
these changes.
1t had been a good locality once.
When Pengreave. in the glory of his
first long trousers and his first "real"
job, had sought a boarding place Mrs.
Beldin's had been recommended as be-
ing in a mice residential neighbor-
hood"
It had been a we'll swept street then.
lined with rows Of three story brick
houses and here and there a 'brown-
stone 'front.' to break the monotony.
Now the homes had given way to five
and six story tenements. Mud heaps
and garbage barrels Uttered the un
kempt pavement and the broken flag
stones.
The Beldin house, too. had changed.
Mrs. Beldin's daughter had assumed
charge at her mothers death and had
changed it to a furnished room house.
declaring that the cares of a large
kitchen weighed too heavily upon her.
Then she married and had moved up
town, and some one else had taken over
the shabby house, with it's shabby fur
niture.
The change had annoyed Pengreave.
and he had promptly purchased the
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Had Showed Him the Right Way.

Had Showed Him the Right Way.
The colored boy was up in the chill
dren's court for the fifth time on
charges of chicken stealing. This time
the magistrate decided to appeal to the
boys father.
"Now, see. here, Abe" said he to the
old darby, "this boy Of yours has been
up in court sc many times for stealing
chickens that I'm sick of seeing hin,
here"
"Ah dom blame you, sah," returned
the father. "Ah's sick OBJ SEEM i'm
hyah too"
"Then why don't you teach him how
to act? ShowNhim the right way. and
he won't be coming here"
"Ah has showed i'm de right way,
sah," declared the old man earnestly,
"Ah has suttenly showed i'm de right
way. but he somehow keep gittin'
caught comm way wild dose chick
ens."-Woman's Home Companion.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-03-18

in exercises in honor Of Lincoln,
Washington, and Longfellow. 1t was
packed room when the pupils from
all four rooms were crowded into one,
with enough visitors to MI every avail
able bit of space. The program cen
sisted of recitations, singly, in groups
of three or four, and in classes. songs
and flag-salutes. As an entertainment
the occasion was worth moro than a
circus,-more, because there was
more than entertainment about it-a
deep meaning back of il all The lit
tie folks seemed to enjoy it fully as
well as we who were permitted TO be
visitors.-and that means a great deal.
Moreover, the teachers entered into
the matter with heart and soul. The
program did honor alike TO the mem
ory of Lincoln, Washington and Long
fellow. The dear old poet is not only
rare favorite to every intelligent
child, but is honored by every true pa
triot, for he gave US some of the best
of our patriotic literature.
There are in the 9Th ward many
children of foreign parentage,
large number who come from the fam
lilies of Russian Jews These same
children, under the influence of their
, teachers, seem 10 take as kindly as
the purest Americans to lessons in
patriotism and citizenship,-an they
are coming to think Washington and
Lincoln the greatest men that ever
lived. In their exercises we saw
there were little Russians reciting
bravely that "The best flag OF all is
the red, white and blue" l presume
they do not yet understand just what
those words -Nean, yet they will come
to do So aft, a while The teachers
say that when the children choose the
songs to sing they are more likely to
call for patriotic hymns than any
others.
Longfellow school has in it, like
others in the city. flags by the score.
| do not think, as it is sometimes
said, that the daily sight OF these lit
tie national emblems leads children 10
have less regard for them than they
would If they saw them only on rare
occasions. / cannot feel that this is a
case where familiarity breeds con
tempt, but that the oftener the stars
and stripes greet our eyes the more
important and significant they seem
TO US.
The teaching of patriotism in
schools, like the teaching OF morals,
depends almost entirely on the spirit
of the teacher. We G. A. r. men are
glad so many teachers have just the
right spirit.
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TO A YOUNG LADY.
Written While Sitting in the His
torical Library.

Just as the night creeps slowly Ger
the earth
And takes away unseen all JOY and
That born were by he light OF early
uay,
Just so, my friend, thou tookst my
smiles away.
While there thou satst all lost in
solemn thought
In what some scholars somber mluG
had wrought
Thou vert to ne as Phoebus gliding
high,
A genial warn tia better soul was
nigh.
My bosom glowed, enamoGred was my
soul
Then, all at once alas, changed was
the whole.
Thou wentst away and lefst me all
alone;
My smiles then fed and cold turned
! as stone.
Oscar Rademaker
Madison, March, 1905
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~, the FIRST commodore and commonly
referred 10 rs the 't8fher Of the Ameri
can Navy, has, 81 tiHce on The Irish roe
ter. and Commodore Perry. the hero OF
Lake Erie. cri me Of Irish stock
Tue record made bv the irish fight
ers and stratcgjsis 10 this the first great
war gu this continent. was amply sustain
ed during iater struggles Gen Phil sberi-
dan the dashing ,avslry leader end the
most picturesque figure Of the CIVIL War.
was pure biooded IriShman. and 'Burky
O'Neil. the Rough Rider who fell at
Santiago. hsd "a deep affection for the
green Gag Members az the Kelly. Burke
and Shea fa,ni les were among those wbo
hred the -se.s heard around the world
al tie - ~ Lexington, md other
members Of these same Irish families
have their names recorded on the death
list OF the Inflated bsttieship Maine.
Kelley and q Murphy were with Hobson
when he sank the Merrimac. and today
there ere hundreds Of lads ~ Irish blood
aboat- the American bat, .eBhps that
have rounded the continent 70 the Pa
clfc.
10 public ife in America the Irish have
ever been % the fore. and IN tais sphere
their natlve VII and slcquence has stood
them 10 good stead James 9. Elaine
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Tor UNI approximalRg $1,000 900.
The transaction created the greatest
astonishment ia business circles
when ii was reported recently. The
lands that were disposed OF are 10
Gated IN Mount Pleasant township,
@estmoleiand county, Penn, and are
The very cream OF the coal lands
owned 10y the Thaw estate
Before old William Tbaw died, he
created what mas since been known
as the coal and coke trust, which has
since been the bulwark OF the Thaw
fortune. With the money set aside
for this fund, William Thaw pur-
chased coal lands in N'oStmoreland,
Fayette. Washington and Greene
.con.iues, which have increased IN
value at a rate almost past belief
When ne died he made a clause
in his viii that these coal lands
should not be sod for any purpose
whatsoever, unless it was absolutely
necessary. If the family was in need
of money and could hold the lands
no longer then they were to be leased
on royalty and not sold except as a
lasl resort.-New York Times
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schools there is alive to the impor
lance of the teaching of good citizen
ship. And" he added, there is MOI
town in the state of Wisconsin
| where there is a more patriotic PEG
pie, even if the most of them are
Scandinavians. Well, we all know il
to be a fact that the most of oul
Scandinayians readily become as good
citizens as if their great-great-great
grandfathers came over in the May
flower l have been looking into the
index OF soldiers Wisconsin sent to the
civil war, and l find there the names
of 70 Ericksens and Ericksons, 14i
Petersons and Petersens, 100 Hansons
and Hansens, 49, Nelson's, 1853 Olsons
Olsens, blossoms and Olesens and 564
Johnsons and JOhnsens. Now these
may not all have been Scandinavians
yet they sound very much that way
There are altogether 1477 persons
! bearing these fine names,-and then
just think of the thousands of other
names ending in son and sen. 1t al
goes TO show that Ole had great
deal to do in the saving of our Ameri
can Union.
And then think of the thousands OF
Scandinavlans who are teaching patri
otism in our public schools. Surely
they are doing their part i'll the way
of Americanizing the millions who are
flocking 10 this free land of opportun-
ity. And, by the way, a goodly num-
Der of the brothers and uncles and
fathers of these same school teachers
are doing credit to themselves as pub
lie officials in Wisconsin. In fact, the
Scandinavian in our country seems to
fit in most anywhere.
Some of us who wear the little
bronze button have had the pleasure
of attending some of the schools OF
the city during the month Of February
and getting into touch with the teach
ers and pupils in their patriotic exer.
cises. 1t has done US good to see the
spirit manifested on these pleasant
occasions. The hearty and courteous
welcome accorded us has made Us
happy.
First. we visited the Lincoln school
We found both teachers and pupils OF
the upper grades interested in every,
thing pertaining to the flag Their
lessons in history were about the war
and the children were very greatly
interested in talks about Gettysburg
by two old veterans who had been in
that great fight. The little folks were
especially interested in the fact that
these comrades had with their own
eyes seen Abraham Lincoln.
1t was surprising to find the pupils
Of this school and the Irving so alive
with information concerning the boy
hood and the character of Abraham
Lincoln. Even the teachers them
selves could hardly understand how
their little folks had come into pos
session of so much information con