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her plan which had formed in his
brain to revenge himself upon her
father both for his insulting words
and for the death of his own parent.
He had cut off a portion of her hair
while she slept and dipped it in the
blood of lamb. He had also sprink-
led blood over pieces of her dress.
The Ratchet was easily procured.
These he had placed in the cave dur
ing one of Col. Farrar's numerous alb
sences from the house and there also
he had himself emitted the means
which had been heard. He would
have carried his hellish plot through
to the end but that the colonel's plea
for forgiveness at the gallows I'M
nerved him.
''This confession was made partly
at the place of execution and partly
afterward in the Jail. AS soon as il
became clear that Leisure had an i'm.
portant statement to make the sheriff
turned to the colonel to take the in.
sigma of death from his head Far
rar, unobserved by all who were in
tent upon the words of Leisure, had
sunk into a sitting posture. The
sheriff stepped up to him and raised
the black cap. He was dead.
Leisure was Immediately placed
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on it. They do not cut any ice when
they are away and when they are
at home they fail to apply the pro-
cess to the woodpile.
Every father starts out in life to
become a plutocrat, but when many
of them stop living they are paupers
The only really good thing they ever
acquired was an appetite. Fathers are
not always what they seem. Some
of them think they need sympathy
when they ought to get 60 days.
Sometimes father gets next to him
self before it is too late and when
he does there never is any dust on the
family pew. 1t is then that he does
not envy mother as she stands on
the pedestal the poets have built for
her. He looks at her in pride and
chez rfully furnishes the funds. If he
has not fumbled the latch when op-
Dol tunity knocked, be is able to do
so cheerfully. At any rate he should
try to make living without boiler
or the use of hammer.
When father gets next to himself
he talks no more about the good old
DAYS when the bathtub was an I'M
Known luxury, and manicures his fin
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Facts About Father
BY Richard S. Graves.

1t is not true that everybody works
but father. He is not as bad as he
has been painted, as we will find if we
look into his case and weigh the evil
cuse can always be found for his
shortcomings. He can find them him
self. He also will tell you that the
jury is prejudiced, so many things
having been said against him.
1t is true that there are fathers who
are only false alarms. At the club
or in a political convention they are
the whole works, but frequently they
fall down when it comes to tying a
job to the fence and putting a saddle
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extending his haid to Leisure ex-
claimed: Young man, l have wronged
you and l have no wish to leave this
earth with the ill will of any man.
l ask your forgiveness for standing
between you and my poor child and
for the death of your father which
believed to be in the line of duty to-
ward my country
Leisure trembled violently but did
not reply or raise his eyes. The
march to the scaffold continued. A
deputy was forced to support the tot.
tering form of Farrar while the sheriff
adjusted the black cap. Then the
sheriff stepped back and all was in
readiness for the fatal word when
Leisure sprang forward and cried in
an agonized voice:
Stop! alone am guilty.
alone!'
"The officers of the law called him
forward and demanded an explanation
He declared that Lucille was not dead
but that they had run off and been
married and his wife was then living
in concealment in st. Louis, for fear
of the wrath of her father and until
he could settle up his affairs and
join her. But he had not divulged to
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The Earring of Jinx
BY Judd Mortimer Lewis.

Jinx had never been at meeting
of the club since he was married, but
this was the night of the annual cleo
ton of officers and, as he told Mrs.
Jinx, big dub was trying to be elect
ed to the presidents chair who was
no way fitted for the position, and he
considered it duty that he owed his
old associates to be present and lend
his influence and his vote toward the
election of a better man.
At the club that night there was a
considerable uncorking Of oratory pre-
ceding the casting of the ballot.
Jinx' man was defeated, but it was
only 9:35 when the election was con-
cluded and as sort Of consolation
for his disappointment he permitted
himself to be inveigled into little
round of roodles before going home.
So when he finally used his latch-key
on the front door it was going on one
o'clock and he was nervous and con-
science stricken, which means the
same as being ashamed of ones self,
and he thought he would creep to her
bedside and would kiss her uncon-
scious cheek and promise not to do it
again. AS Jinx tiptoed into the room
ne discovered her seated upon the up
hOlstered shoe-box with the family
Bible on her knees and tears on her
cheeks.
well, you see, Happy" began he
as his eyes followed her eyes to the
clock, Il just got to playing roodles
after the election and did not notice
the flight of time"
1T was more interesting than the
thought of your poor frightened little
wife at home here all alone, / sup
pose!"
ooh, dearest, were you frightened?
never dreamed that"
Eyes, I am, tooi And l guess you
would be frightened in a house all by
yourself till midnight"
MEN don't get frightened; but it
shall not happen again, dearest; I'll
get some one to stay with you the
next time
There amt going to be no next
time! I'm nervous; you read to me
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Proper Respiration Adds to Each, But
Is Too Little Under
stood.

There will be fewer f1at-chested wO-
men and much less nervous prostra-
ton when proper attention is giving
to breathing, says an exchange. AS
Delsarte has said, there should be
strength at the center, freedom at
the surface" and this freedom is but
acquired by learning to use ones
lungs at will. By developing and en-
larging them the thoracic cavity is in
creased, and upon the degree of this
power depends expansion.
In order to control ones nerves one
must learn to command ones involun-
tary muscles, which are diaphragm,
the heart and the intestines. By
breathing deep and controlling ones
breath and so increasing ones lung
capacity, the heart action is stimulat-
ed, and this supplies the nerve centers
with fresh blood, and the nerves act
upon the muscles and the brain upon
the nerves and muscles.
In order not to have any waste of
nerve force, the chest should be kept
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active by deep inhalations, thus loos
ening the tension of unemployed mem
bers. The persistent and regular prac
tice of a breathing exercise will not
only do this, but will give poise and
self-conidence.
The movements Of respiration stand
in a double relation to the nervous
system, being required to introduce
oxygen into the blood, which takes ur
the oxygen, and freeing itself of the
carbonic acid it contains, the latter
thus acts as powerful stimulus to
the lung nerves.
One should remember to avoid col
lar,bone breathing, to cultivate the
raised and active chest, and to gain
control of the diaphragm in order to
have complete mastery of breathing
1t is not necessary to take long
tiresome trip to some far away place
in order to be taught to care for
oneself, for nature will come to ones
aid with joyful alacrity in one spot as
well as another.
But knowledge is not the only thing
required. 1t is its application that
counts, and this means steadfast de.
termination.
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for awhile until l get sleepy; read
Lytton's Haunters and Hauntedv"
Gee! You'll never sleep if | read
that. Reading that book all alone in
a house at midnight will make any
one believe in ghosts"
"Oh, we'll, if you don't care to
read"
Sure I'll read!"
So Jinx read for an hour, and by that
time Mrs. Jinx was on the verge of a
scream and JinX had locked the bed
room door and they were both mag
lining that they heard strange and
ghostly noises coming from the silent
rooms about them, and finally they
crept into bed and tried to sleep with
out having extinguished the light.
Suddenly as though they were one
piece of mechanism they sat bolt up
right in bed and grasped one another
and gasped What was that?"
An unmistakable noise as of careful
footsteps along the hall, a crash in
the dining-room! Silence!
"By, that's no ghost! BY, that's a
burglar after our wedding presents!
If you sneak out carefully you can
catch him!"
''Do you suppose / will expose you
to that danger? There's a policeman
on the corner; I'll open the window
and boiler to him!"
"And in the meantime the burglar
will get away with all the cut glass!
I'm going out there!"
Followed by Jinx Mrs. Jinx opened
the bedroom door and turned the
button that flooded the house with
light. Holding Jinx firmly by the
wrist she tiptoed to the diningroom
and peeped in-and saw great tramp
cat crouched on the top of the bird
cage which it had knocked to the
floor.
I'm glad that I got home before
that happened, dear; you would have
been scared cold"
$50 am l." replied Mrs. Jinx. And
to her everlasting credit she refrained
from adding: Men don't get fright
ened."
Copyright, 1909, by w. G. Chapman1
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under arrest. He blew his brains out
in his cell that night with pistol
procured, no one knew how. Lucille
went mad on hearing of the tragedy
and was confined some time in ar
asylum. She recovered and ended hel
days in a convent.
THAT, gentlemen, is my story"
There was stirring of chairs and
a general lighting of pipes which had
been allowed to go out in the rapt
attention that prevailed while Judge
Stoakes was speaking, when Judge
Grower arose and said:
Il believe I voice the sentiments OF
the club in extending thanks to judge
Stoakes."
Copyright. 1903. by Joseph B. 8owles.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15
Open Letter to Female Book Agents
BY Charles BattelI LOOMS.

My Dear Young Woman: If you are
contemplating selling books from
house to house in order to make
enough money to buy for yourself a
sealskin coat do not waste any time
with "the lady of the house"
II you ask to see her this is what
will happen:
II would like to show you"
Il was not born in Missouri, myself,
and do not need to be shown"
But I think l might interest you
in"
dressmaker upstairs, so III have to
ask you to excuse me-"
Certainly I'll excuse you, but if
you'll just look at our great offer"
81 have no time to read books and
no money to buy them. You are simply
wasting my time and your own by
talking to me-"
My dear young woman-light out!
If you talked till doomsday you
would never sell your book to the
AhioIi Co., IN" OuC "hCH ChO |HO
MASTER is at home. See him alone if
you can.
He is as faithful a husband as ever
took his wife to the theater, but he
does like pretty faces, and yours ap-
peals to him. He feels sorry that you
have to work at SO distasteful an oc-
cupation as selling books, and while
he has not the remotest idea of buy
ing anything, as he has not yet fin
ished paying for the piano, he asks
you in. 1t is a cold morning, and
a minute or two in an overheated
house won't do you any harm.
II would like to show you a little
work that we are putting out"
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sunlight as possible. About every
half mile there should be an
open square. The avenues should be
planted with groups of shrubs, six to
ten feet high, alternating with pedes-
tails ornamented with sculptures and
supporting baskets of flowers. All
the roofs should be fiat, with plants,
lowers, chairs, and tables, and, of
course, with an awning that could be
rolled up when not needed.
To this plan another expert says
there should be added an interior
court, where good part Of the family
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15
Ocean Cables,

The diameter of the Atlantic cable
varies according to the depth OF the
water, the character of the bottom on
which it lies, and the probabilities OF
interference from anchors. 1t is
smallest in mid-ocean depths. There
is little or no movement at the bot.
tom, and it is important that the cable
should not have great weight.
heavy cable in deep water would be
difficult to bring up for repairs ii
such were needed. In the shallower
water heavier type of cable is used.
The types are known as "shore end"
intermediate" and deep sea-" The
diameters of the commercial cables
are: Shore end, 2% inches; inter.
mediate, III inches; deep sea, one
inch.
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Melvin Leisure stood with white
face, clenched hands and gritted teeth
while Lucille threw herself at her
fathers feet and weepingly begged
and implored him to mitigate the
harsh sentence. But he cast her
turning to Leisure with murder in his
eyes, said:
You dog! Yo- want my daugh-
ter-you Why, l shot your father
down in cold blood because he differed
with me politically. Do you think
I'll do less for you for trying to rob
me of my daughter?'
$50 it was you who killed my
father returned Leisure in voice
beneath the quiet of which lay the
tense fixedness of stern, unbending
resolve. Then, Col. Farrar, tell you
that l will have your daughter and
will avenge my father. Are you mine
till death, Lucile?'
"T am yours till DEATH said the
girl as she went over and placed her
arm proudly about his neck.
Very little was seen of Leisure
in town after that and it was whis-
pered that he was staying out on his
farm and keeping out of the irate
cOlonels way.
about two weeks after his unsuc-
cessful interview with Farrar, which
was noised abroad as such things
are in small town, Lucille Farrar
| disappeared, and the tongues began to
wag in earnest. When for a week
she had not turned up the towns peo-
pie, who had little love for Farrar at
best, were ready to believe anything.
His threat against his daughter was
known and the holder ones did not
| hesitate to whisper that he had put
it into execution. These hints took
| form by degrees and at last a witness
| came forward who told of passing the
coloneps house, situated on the edge
of town, late at night, and of hearing
low means and pleadings.
"At last suspicion took such fierce
root that the sheriff headed an in
vestigating party. Col. Jim was away
and they had free run of the prem
Uses.
THE search led to a cave in the
side of the hill, once used as a cellar
but long since abandoned. There
they found torn pieces of a dress, a
bloof Ratchet and some tangled locks
| of black hair drenched with blood
| The dress and the hair were easily
rar, the Ratchet as the property of
the colonel.
When charged with the crime his
knees tottered and he nearly tainted.
He made no direct denial but moaned
and cried like a child During the
trial that followed he seemed stunned
and oblivious to what was going on.
1 will admit that the courts of
| to-day would be loath to accept so
inadequate a corpus deficit, but our
| blood was hot in those times and it
seems to me we hanged more than
we do now. Service was had on Les
sure and he testified to the facts of the
| quarrel and the threat. Upon this
evidence and the prisoners failure to
deny they found their verdict of guilty
and fixed upon the death penalty.
LAS the day of execution approach
ed Col. Farrar continued in a state
of almost total insensibility. But
when the sheriff came to read the
death warrant he reused and raising
his hand to heaven, said:
Before my maker l swear that |
am guiltless of my child's death
They led him to the scaffold and
on the way he passed Melvin Leisure
who was watching the scene like a
bird fascinated by snake Col. Far
rar requested the sheriff to stop, and
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Busy Man.

Mamma" asked little three-year
old Freddie, "are we going to heaven
some day." "Yes, dear, I hope So"
was the reply. Il wish papa could go
too," continued the little fellow.
"Well, and don't you think he will?"
asked his mother. ooh, no." replied
Freddie, ''he could not leave his bust
ness."-Tit-Bits.
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One Idea of Model City

he model city is pictured by a
nchman, one Henriet, as having all
avenues parallel and running from
theast to southwest in order that
prevailing southwest winds may
uiate through them freely and
prevent any stagnation in the
The houses should face one
.ue and have their backs to the
llel one, without any interior
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gernails frequently in the effort to
keep pace with the moderns Father
used to have the idea that there
could be nothing doing until he ar
rived on the scene and gave direc-
lions about how to proceed. He is all
right when he gets rid of that belief
and realizes that time has laid under
the sod a long line of his predeces-
sors who knew it all before he was
born.
Some fathers are coming to under
stand these things. They have lu-
cid interval and look into the future
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court, and they should be only one
room thick with window in front
and back, and door on corridor
parallel to the street, and having as
many windows as the number of
rooms.
Every 800 yards there should be
streets running at right angles to the
first. The avenues ought to be as
wide as the houses ere high in order
that the latter should have as much
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Merely a Permit.

Sporting Editor-Just what do you
understand by the term poetic Ii
cense?"
Literary extraordinarily speaking,
it is that singular provision in the
constitution of the universe under
which poets are permitted to exist
Chicago Tribune.
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I'm afraid it won't do any good.
paying for 'Greenroad's History of
Every Single Country in the Whole
World Since Creation in so volumes,
that l would never again indulge in a
set of books. They are in the cellar
at present, unpacked, because we
haven't a bit of room since my brother
in-law took the second floor"
well, l don't suppose you would
care for this offer, then, but you see
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with prophetic eyes There they see
the world moving right along without
them just the same as it did when
they stood around and talked in SUI
perior tones about how it ought to be
managed.
Father is all right when he gets out
of the picture as a still-life study.
passes up poker and the ponies and
learns to lead in prayer He is on the
right road when he realizes that he
needs courage more than coddling.
and when he can turn his back on the
past and face old age without batting
an eye, father is on with both feet.
Copyright, 1909, by w. G. Chapman)
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With the Worlds
Great Hzlrya0riSfS
Selections from the TVr1nSs Of the Besf Knos0n
Makers Of Mirfb.

morocco. You can't buy this book in
the stores. 1t is given to those who
subscribe to our Lives Of the Great in
All Chimes"
Won't you be seated?"
Thank you. All yesterday / did not
sell single set because / saw no
one but women. Women's inhuwoman-
ity to women makes countless thou
sands mourn, as the poet says. have
my living to make, and it does seem
hard"
Eyes, you might let me see the
books. l don't intend to buy, but
might be able to give you the names
of some who would like to subscribe.
It's a nice looking book
Eyes, and what's the money once
it's paid? You don't think of the dol
lar, and what's a three-dollar check
once month to a man of your earn
ing capacity"
Il really can't afford to subscribe,
but l think my wife would like it"
''Of course your wife would like it.
1 had the pleasure of meeting your
wife once, and l should say that she
was just the type of woman to whom
the book would appeal. Of course,
among the frivolous it has no pur-
chasers. 1t is among the women
thinkers that we make our largest
sales"
Il believe that perhaps under the
circumstances-you say it will help
you to earn an honest living?"
II live if l sell the book. If I
don't"
ooh, I wouldn't have you die-and
the winter not half over yet. You
might put me down for a set"
My dear young woman Avoid his
wife as you would the plague.
Tackle the next man.
Yours for success.
Copyright, 1909, by w. G. Chapman)
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life is passed in some European coun
tries.
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we not only deliver the entire set in
20 volumes, on receipt of a dollar,
but we also give you, free of cost, the
Life of Andrew Johnson bound in
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AUTHORS NOTE.

The material facts in this
story of circumstantiaI evidence
are drawn from an actual re-
corded case, only such change
of names and local color being
made as to remove them from
the classification of legal re-
ports to that of fiction. All the
essential points of evidence,
however, are retained.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-23
cuRRANTs FROM CUTS.

It is no trick to grow currant
bushes, by planting cuttings in Sep
TENDER.
Cut the new shoots to eight to ten
inch lengths. Spade up small piece
of ground very deep, putting on first
four inches of well-rotted manure.
Pulverize the soil, making it fine as
a garden seed bed.
Set the cuttings in this, say four
hv four inches, or four by six.
Put them down so as to leave only
one inch above the surface.
Upon the approach of winter mulch
the patch with straw or hay to pre-
vent heaving out. Cuttings so set
will callous in the fall and start root
growth.
They will be ready for an early
start in the spring, and with favor
able season you will have vigorous
bushes the next fall.-Indianapolis
News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-23
CLIMBING EVERGREEN.


The climbing euonymus (Euony-
mus Japonica, var. radicans) is a
plant that ought to be better known
as a vine. 1t is often seen in masses,
used as low shrub for covering bare
spots, and for this it is very we'll
adapted, but it is also of great merit
as true vine for walls, trees, rocks,
etc. 1t clings as tenaciously to a
rough surface as does the English
ivy. lis leaves are small, and growth
is slow two attributes which fit the
plant v fell for use on low wall. Be-
sides the green form, there is also a
variegated leaved one that is extreme
ly decorative. Both are perfectly
hardy in Indiana, and for some dis
tances moi Their SMALL, beauti-
full, shiny green leaves, about an inch
across, are evergreen. 1t is quite
easy to establish either as vine on
wall or as a ground cover. Plant
in early spring in a rich soil.-Indian-
apolis News.