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"Ther' pears to be considerable doin'
in reel estate in these parts" re-
marked Mr.. Japes, who began to puff
noisily on his pipe. We had been
trying to get the old man Interested
in the purchase of town lots in the
suburbs. but the eloquence was
wasted
You young fellers keep away from
II, tell ye." after pause. ~ Oncet
bought farm through the papers.
and mebbe my egspcricnce might do
ye lot of good. The property was
located on steep hill 'bove the town
of Crooked Run. ldyho. Ef they'd
thowed In a elevator. I'd had n bar.
gain. for the groun' was mighty rich.
| concluded that I'd plant the hull
ten acres with watcrmelOns. thor' be-
in considerable call fur sich large
fruit In them parts. Wal sir. never
did see sich things fur CROWN after
they was sOt out. In n week they was
big as washtubs and apcriently was
1ist Ecttin' down to business. The
Mammoth MastOdon lron.Clad Gold
Medal Melon they was called. guaran-
teed to have as hard shell and keep
As long as n Cokynut
While the crap was engaged In
settin' filled out I'd 'casionally sa.
shay inter town to git groceries and
have my jug filed. tell ye that
there hill come in mighty handy fer
to lean up agin' when rcturnin' by
night feclin' some proud"
Here the patriarch wagged his head
remorsefully.
One night when | was comm home
and thinkin' no evil, | runs inter one
of the wust windstorms yc ever see.
but bein' well ballastcd didn't get
ratified none.
"Sudden'y somethin' like bari
comes a.bowlin' out o. nowhar, and
fetches me a knock that sends me to
grass all spraGdled out. Fore
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GENERAL NEWS.

asht Alfonso Penna of Brazil
"e l'th inst at Rio de Janeiro.
Cnd' columbia and New York
'ues have been warned Of lax
teetning standards at the insti.
which may violate the rules OF
a".s In the benefits OF the
,oundation for the advance.
ko,, eaching, according to the
automobile competition from
10 Munich, which is known as
aee Henry Touring race, has
W. oy Wilhelm Opel, Willie
'"'hs second. The contest
'e sent away on June 10th
iemplehof road, 1O9 ma
,'lhs M, at intervals of one
me course was 1,132 miles.
apanese government has pur.
on, 'he United States mint In
~ ,Seo, .n gold ingots to the
n,'1,Ioo'oOO. =, for tho announced
auementing its reserve fund
portion of its issue of bank
iSa.i A.. Ito was formally installed
nv OF the priyy co,incil NJ
,a .ae 18th inst. and viscount
ipv n.uent n., general of Korea,
lea :. r''nce !, Ito. The ceremonies
> s p,,s rescript expressing his
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Improved Make Of Khaki.

The Army and the Navy Journal
announces that the quartermaster's
department of the army has achieved,
a very important success in devisingi
new grade Of olive drab khaki cot.
ton cloth for the summer and tropical,
service uniforms for troops. This fab,
ric. unlike the old khaki. is soft, pli.
able. of open texture and of very firm
fiber. It takes color beautifully and.
If anything. inclines to the brown
rather than to the green Of the olive
shade. thus increasing the protective
character OF the color.
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Piles Inter Me. SimuItaneous-Iike

knowed what had took me about n
on'y heftier. seein' me at disadvant.
age. piles inter me simultaneous
like. Blest If the hull outfit of melons
hadn't slipped ther' moorin's and was
bearin' down on me with the inten-
ton of ploughin' me under the United
States.
"Ef you mudtortles kin imagine at
We went to sleep in a bowlin.alley
among the pins, and jest woke up
when tourneyment was in progress.
ycll have faint idee how | was fixed
on n suttn' night in July. 1898.
I'm pooty good when 1t comes to
a run, but soon see that ] want in
the same class as them fruit, which
likewise they had n good start O. me.
Their was one feller bout the size
of a waterbutt. | take 1t, at seemed
ter have a special grudge agin me. n
trippin' of me up, and then jumpin' on
me in the most onfriendly way. Then
I sticks my foot in ripe one, and
the next thing | remembers was roll
in down the hill mixed up with about
carload OF lTuit tha' "ouiu HaNe
made niger throw fit for j'y. A
spell alter some distinguished citizens
of the place gathers up my remains
and retires from publ..: life for some
two weeks
"When was able to open a. eye
was waited on by committee of
prominent parties of the town. Alter
expressin' their d!s'p'intmeMt at find
in me alive. they perceded to make
remarks cal.lated ter hurt the fee1in's.
They axes me, among other things,
would I prefer jumpin' the town that
night or spendin' the dim future In
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CLZ7lE47zTC cSEED BEDS

The remainder of the land which is
forest is of course put to the best use
by the practice of forestry when 1t Is
made to produce as much timber as
possible. In order that the admins
tration may be most effective the vari7
GUS Offices have been established at
Washington and at the district head,
quarters. each In charge OF trained
and experienced men directing spe-
cialized lines of work.
The office Of operation attends in
each district to the protection and ad-
ministration of the national forest and
| employs engineers. expert miners and
foresters to investigate claims. make
surveys and maps. and supervise the
building of telephone lines. trails,
roads. bridges. ranger stations and
other improvements.
The office OF grazing looks after the
range. cooperating in the enforcement
of quarantine regulations and issues
permits by which the grazing of stock.
within each national forest is so reg,
ulated as to improve rather than de-.
stroy its grazing capacity. II studies
the best means of re-seeding the range.
and conducts Investigations and de-
vises means of checking the growth of
poisonous plants which are Injurious
to livestock
The office OF silviculture makes a.
special study Of the management OF
umbered lands In order to make them.
yield the largest permanent returns
II makes timber sales on the national
forests. plants trees on bare national
forest land. makes estimates and for
est working plans. investigates forest.
conditions and all problems connected
with the life and growth OF trees and
gives advice where possible to private
parties who are interested In similar
lines of work.
The work of the Office OF products
is the determination of all ways and
means possible for utilizing wood and
timber. In order TO make the business
of forestry economical and profitable.
Markets and wood-using industries
everywhere are being investigated,
statistics of forest products are being
collected and the comparative strength
Of building timbers with reference to
their use for various purposes is be-
llS utteIIllntu ny aCurdle sCleHtluC
tests.
The office of products also makes
n study of the best ways of preserv-
ing timbers and co-operates with pri-
vate telephone companies. railroads
and other Embarrassing interests in de-
termining the best methods applicable
In each case. Experimental treating
plants for this purpose are being es.
tabished throughout the country.
In short. the forest service is en-
deavoring to bring about the practice
of true forestry-"the preservation OF
forests by wise use" And the key
note of the entire service. the watch
word of each member. from the chief
down to the forest guard. is conserva-
tion-the devotion of every resource
to the best possible use and the pres
ervation of all renewable resources
for the - of future generations.
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|. LATEST IMPORTANT Dis.
CATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
[0RY OF The week
nw,Ne THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Stroud, millionaire lumber
A of WlllistOn, n. D.. and Miss Ma
4 I eyerance, were married at Wait
ka Wis, a few days since after
hcouaintance of less than an hour.
h. Baptist minister's conference at
eapo by Il vote of thirty-seyen to
kteen, decided against cxpellinS
! membership Prof. George Bur
Foster OF the University of Chi
! for alleged infidel opinions.
ichtnlng struck the Holy Cross
AolIc church at Bay Settlement.
b OF Green Bay. Wis. during mass
khe 18th inst, killing one man.
kkIng and injuring sixteen others.
| Of whom may not survive. The
b caused panic
beCial agents of the Union Pacific
| making war on brakemcn and
h tralnmeu who take money from
hps and give them permission to
! their way over the road In freight
At Rawlins, J. J. Carter was
Fenced TO fifteen months in the
tenuary,
the suit at Jefferson City to oust
international Harvester Company
hllegcd violations OF the Missouri
thrust law. John B. Caldwell. local
ID for the corporation ut St.
ts, Kan. testified that local
Ats were free to cut prices to farm
b keep rival agents IRON making
Colorado Springs. while their
ns slept. thieves entered the Pull
hotel car Billings. standing on n
raCk in the Rio Grande yards. and
lied By ST. Louis grocers return
fUm their convention at Portland.
They secured money, clothing,
bad tickets and jewelry valued at
than 800.
Fernor Hadley has vetoed the bill
ding for an expenditure OF $4,000
Missouri exhibit at the Seattle
The governor said the state
td this money worse for cducat.
! children and for the poor. He
u the bill prohibiting the mar
Of CauCasians with Chinese. Jap.
and other Asiatics.
Very Rev. Benjamin Brewster
conseCralcd Bishop OF Western
adO at Salt Lake on the nth
in the presence OF represen.
church audience. including
ping Bishop Tuttlc OF ST. Louis.
" Brewster of Connecticut.
Us Of California. Griswold OF
and Paddock of Oregon.
historic sloop Gjoa, in which
ROald Amundsen successfully
lated the Northwest Passage for
Inst time and the only time in
me annals. has been presented
city Of San Francisco for per.
ht exhibition and will be trans
overland to small lake in
. Gate park. which will be Its
harbor
c. Barton. n millionaire several
over. former president of the
gan Smelling and Refining Com.
and the Omaha Street Railway
Ehy died at Omaha on the 18th
aged seventy. During the last
tars, MIR. Barton has visited most
health resorts in the United
and abroad. seeking relief that
not find.
ernor Iiadley of Missouri has
the bill amending the law to
iFatcrnal beneficiary societies
e endowment policies and grant
ea Insurance. The bill was
lot the special benefit of the In.
y department of the Knights of
out will assist other fraternals
are getting on the adequate rate
nu give their members some of
Nleges hprptpfora routrict,d IN
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gents | see they would prefer | choose
the latter Materially | axes the chief
of these he-b'ars wherefore they was
so eager to play it dirt on a orphan.
and they Oblecgingly shows their
keerds. 1t seems at the night my farm
took TO the road ther' were a enter.
tainment in the basement of the meet.
in'-housc give by The Lambs o. Zion
for the bcnifit O. suthin or other The
chapel sOt at the bottom o. NV hill.
and the Tcvclry was INTERRUPTED
mighty suddint when the front door
busts open an in sashays bout four
dozen o them iron-Clad watermelons
full o business and mixes up with the
company pcrmiscus. Them what
couldn't git in the door come tumblin'
in rough the winders, which hap
pencd to be open on count of the
warm night. Wal. ye'd imagined they
he'd he'd special invertations, 10 see
the way they made themselves to
hum.
Now it happened they was two
cliqucs 'mOng the Lambs o. Zion. an
when this fruit invades the place they
each accuses the other of putin up
the job. Words flew back and forth.
and soon the melons too. In ten min
utes ] was told the place looked like
slaughter house. 1t must ha' ben
sight,
Thar was one lady there doin' the
RcbeCca ut the well act what got took
back of the year by n green 'un. Here
she leaves her duties and disappears
In the lemonade bar' Bcin' sour
party, II don'tsweeten her diSpcrsition
none. She makes onkind remarks to
the gent what hshcd her out. and they
exchanges compliments and other
things. The room meanwhile was n
loadin up. The hull ten acres seemed
to have fixed on that meetin' room for
rendywoO. an the sociable folks was
Eottin' ter be anything hut social.
After spell thcr' was stimuli.
'ancous move for the door. but the
melons had the right of way on the
stairs, which the same was narrer.
When all did manage to scrunch ther'
way out | hear the remarks made was
tur'ble. and II was variously suggested
by Interested parties that burnin' at
the stake and boilin' in oil would be
shown angelic mercy to the caty.
mount that injured their clothes and
teciin'S.
"Sich was the theory the fust citi.
Zens onloads on me. They further re.
quests me ter pursue my farmin' oper-
ations a dozen states away-the further
the better insineratin' at II I didn't
see II in that light, n improved meth
cd of plantin' would be shown as a
illustration of what might be done
in that line.
Now the idce," exclaimed the pa
triarch. looking around the room for
sympathy with n snort of Indignation.
"biamin' n man cause his farm had
took to the road an was runnin'
amuck. Never heerd sich foolish.
ness.
They says orter ha' knowed not
to plant sich heavy vegetable artillery
on steep hill 'thout chainin 1t down
or gittin' i shepherd to watch it by
night with dog. SOS 1t couldn't git
away and hold up the town.
Course. see 1t was no use to
argify with them mushrats. so |
slings my hand and quits the game.
Since then. gents. ! buys no land on
I'll | gets all the p'ints from the last
fcller what squatted there"
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A Watermelon Waterloo
BY E. DE LANCEY PIERSON


Copyright. 1863. by J. B. Lippincott Coz
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Not a Close Likeness.

81 believe that in time of peace n
nation should be in one respect like
wellbehaved young lady.
For goodness sake. what respect is
that?"
Maintaining proper reserve"
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1he Probable Reason,

She (nnocently)-What made Mr.
Triple go Off SO suddenly last night?
He (refiectively)-I rather think II
was because he was loaded.
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Startled.

Don't you know what to say when
! give you ten cents?" asked Mr..
Titewad.
YES" answered the waiter; II
know. But I'm too surprised to talk"
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cla..e. In PIaxaround..

The educational committee OF the
London county council has decided
upon the formation Of classes In the
school Fairgrounds for the summer
months. 7.
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Yl,s Iite of n1a,r

Like to tho falling of a star.
Or as the flights of eagles are
Or like the fresh springs gaudy hue,
Or silver drops of morning dew.
Or like wind that chafes the flood,
Or bubbles which on water stood
Zen such is man, whose borrowed light
Is straight called in and paid tonight
The wind blows out. the bubble dies,
The spring cntombed in autumn lies,
The dews dried up. the star IL shot,
The flight Is past, and mans forgot,
Francis Beaumont
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nevertheless true that less than three
years ago we had surviving among us the
widow of a revolutionary soldier.
This woman. who linked the thrilling
days Of 1916 with our present decade of
airships and automobiles. was Mrs.
Esther Sumner Damon, a first cousin OF
former United States Senator Charles
Sumner. During the last years of her life
she subSisted on pension of ST. per
month allowed her by Congress. but
year before her death this was doubled
She was born in Bridgewater, VT. All
gust /. 1914. the year of the close of our
second conflict with the British lion, and
when she eight her father met with a
fatal accident which left her family In
need. She worked her way through
school, became the teacher of a school in
the Green mountains at seventeen. and
at twenty married Noah Damon revo-
lutionary war veteran of seventy-six. Their
wedding took place September @. 1S34-two
years before the Mexican war. 1t Is relat-
ed that Damon was possessed OF $1,000 at
the time, and that he was married In
borrowed clothes. After living from hand
to mouth for three years, the Unmatched
couple separated, Damon going to live
with daughter at whose house he died
two years later. at the age OF eighty
one. Until his death, however, his faith
full wife clothed him ont of her meager
income. During the remainder of her
lfe-as long as her strength held out
she earned her living by sewing for q
tailor and nursing the sick. Her first
pension was but $50 per year. which was
increased to S12 per month about twenty
years before her death For some reason
she remained true to the memory of her
aged husband and refused number Of
subsequent offers of marriage. When
she died. November II, 1905, she was in
her ninety-third year. From her hus-
bands birth in 1883 until her death was
a span of 147 years. or what science calls
five generations. This period covered ev-
cry stage of our history including severn
teen years under the colonial regime tho
entire period under the Continental Con-
gress and the subsequent epochs of our
national growth under all of our Pres-
dents save Mr.. Taft.
About 400 widows Of the war of 1919
veterans survive. They are dying off very
fast. LAP having been upon the pension
rolls i'm 19ON
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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Our centenarian pensioner claiming the
greatest age is Mrs. Phoebe +. Sparkman
Of Fairfield, Fla. In sworn petition ac-
companying a special bill in Congress
which in January 1907, increased her pen
sion to Sic per month she set forth that
she was then 10 years old, which would
make her H. this year. She is pensioned
as soldiers widow, her husband, Henry
Sparkman. having served in the Florida
Indian war of 1S39-4O, as private in Capt.
divers Company, LIST Regiment, Florida
Mounted Militia. In dictated statement
which Mrs. Sparkman sent me some time
ago she says:
IT was brought by my parents to this
state Florida) when was eight years old
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Brakeman finally fell out of line after nay
ing seen the beginning and ending of our
four great wars.
Cronk also saw four of our wars begun
and ended Having been born in 1900 he
was only fourteen when he finished his
service in the second struggle with Brit
ain. He was forty-siX at the time of
the Mexican war. sixty-one when Sumter
was fired on and ninety-eight when
Our most interesting class of pension
ers now alive, if we exclude the CEN
tenarians already described, are our two
remaining daughters of revolutionary
soldiers whom Congress has pensioned by
special act. These are Mrs Phoebe M.
Woolley Painter of Brookfield. n. y,
and Mrs. Sarah G. Hurlbutt of Little
Marsh, Pa. Mrs. Painter in letter to
me of few weeks ago says:
Il am eighty-seven years of age; was
born in Windham county, Vt. Decem-
in 1899 and was married in December.
1871. to Russell Painter. OF this union
was born six children four of which are
living-two sons and two daughters. |
am cripple now. having broken my
hip nearly seven years ago. and am al
most dependent on others to do for me.
l am a great sufferer, as / am able to
eat scarcely anything on account of d
partially paralyzed throat, and have to
live almost entirely on liquid foods.
receive a pension Of So per month, but
it is insufficient for my support, being
barely what l need to supply my needs.
am member of the Mohawk
Valley Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution and have a gold
spoon presented to me by that chapter.
l prize it very highly. The ladies of that
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tleSe tHlHSS Help 10 brighten my way.
MY fathers name was Jonathan
Woolley. He was born in Swansea, n.
H., August 81, 1853, and died in YER
mont July u, 1913. He enlisted under Col.
Capron in the Vermont Volunteers in
1915 at the age of sixteen. He served
under Gates and Sullivan. He was at
Saratoga at the surrender of Burgoyne
and at Valley Forge. He was severely
wounded in the back, but / do not know
at what battle. He suffered many hard
ships. like the rest.
Il have heard him tell of Valley Forge,
about some one driving in with corn when
they were so hungry that they dipped in
their old hats and took the corn and ate
it. My father was an honorable man and
an earnest Christian
The other surviving real Daughter Of
the Revolution, Mrs. Hurlbutt. is ninety
one. and lives with her son. P. G. Hurl-
butt She is the daughter of Elijah
company during the great struggle for in
dependence. These two old ladies are our
nearest connecting links with the great
event in which our republic was Con-
ceived, and it should pay them homage
as long as they live.
Surprising as 1t may seem that there
still survive daughters of actors I'm the
great drama upon which the red curtain
rose d century and a third ago-espe-
cially when most of our Sons and
Daughters of the Revolution are bark
ing back to the records of revolutionary
ancestors of two and three greats-it is
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MRS ,lARAH G HURLBUTT
91TEARS OLD

Washington was still President, and was
nearly three years old when he died.
while she was fifteen when the war of
1912 broke out.
Our next Oldest pensioner. according to
his claims, is Henry DOrman OF Liberal,
Mo-, who served in the civil war in
Company F. 9TH Michigan Cavalry. In
a pension application made early in 1907
he stated that he was born January 10,
1893, which would make him almost a
year old when George Washington died,
and 40 years and $ months old at the
present time. Although he does not
boast, with Mrs. Sparkman, of having
lived under the administration of every
President of the United States. he claims
to have been contemporary with every
man who has held that office. Within
the present month | wrote out west to
inquire about him and received the
ply that he lis still alive and in good
health According. to his statement of
his age he was sxty-two at the time of
the outbreak of the civil war, in which
he fought.
The third pensioner claimir to be a
centenarian is Micajah Wise of Beaver
Brook, N. Y, who says he is 1OS years
of age. He served in Company G, 141st
Pennsylvania Infantry. In June Of this
year he was reported to be hale and
hearty
A fourth centenarian veteran of our
Wars-who is not. strictly speaking, a pen
sioner. but a sailor on the retired list of
the regular navy-is William Macabee,
who has just celebrated his one hundredth
birthday anniversary at the United States
naval Home, Philadelphia. His records
show that he was born in Baltimore, Sep
TENDER %, 1909, which was in the first
administration of Thomas jefferson.
Shortly after the war of 1912 he enlisted
as a cabin boy on the old frigate Consti-,
tuition, and this fact alone establishes his
great age. since he was but eleven years
old when our second war with Great Brit
ain closed. He was promoted to the rank
OF able seaman on the Constitution, re-
naming in active service in the navy
throughout the civil war, and until his
age compelled his going upon the retired
list, since when he has remained in the
naval home. On his one hundredth birth
day anniversary he was visited by Seq
rotary Of the Navy (now Justice) Moody,
accompanied by a delegation of naval Of
ticers of high rank, and upon that mo-
mentous event he said he would be zone
of the crew" for some time to come.
Until this summer he has been as spry
as any old salt at the home quarter
century his Junior, and has been accus-
toned to walk about unaccompanied, but
late last month while strollinS down one