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Legal DeljCacy,

The gift of felicitious address is
not bestowed upon every one, and no
doubt the Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States will con-
tinue to think kindly of Holmes Con-
rad, formerly Solicitor-General Mr..
Conrad was in court this week to
urge the speedy determination of the
suit brought by Virginia to compel
West Virginia to bear portion of the.
State debt. Already two vacancies
have occurred on this bench since
this suit was brought" he said, and
he told the justices how extremely in
convenient it would be for the parties
in interest if other members of the.
court should die before the suit wasj
settled. The judges listened respect!
fully to Mr.. Conrad. No doubt they,
shared his hope that their lives may
be spared until they can hand down:
an opinion in his case. - Hartford
Courant
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first person We net at the door of
the pension was' the little Old lady.
She had evidently Just come in, for
her outdoor things were still on. and
there was a rosy color in her cheeks.
She greeted lis warmly; ard when 7
asked Ter in great surprise if she
had been out alone. she drew me over
to a corner of the ball and answered
happily. while she fumbled for some
thing in her bag:
"'Yes, my dear, every day since
you have been gone ] have taken n
walk all by myself Then, taking a
huge piece Of white chalk from her
bag, she held it up triumpbantly.
See she whispered, proudly.
I make little white cross with this
on every third house, so I can go all
around alone and find my way back
quite easily"
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Women Grow Taller Now.

The contention of writer in
Health and Strength that with wo-
mans progress toward equal rights
her physical strength is also asserting
itself, has caused much controversy
in European journals. "The average
height of England's girls" says a
writer in Figaro, was five feet three
inches in 1895, and to-day it is five
feet five inches. This would be
pleasanter news to me if it were not
also a fact that the sterner sex is
growing shorter" Marcel Provost,
discussing the subject, believes that
sports have made the women taller,
and says: "Be on your guard, modern
man! Your position was never in
greater danger than now. Check the
retrogression or stop the advance OF
women while yet you are the larger
and stronger Another inch and you
will have become the weaker sex. -
Ohio State Journal.
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First Automobile Railroad.

Texas used to claim the distinction
of having the first automobile rail-
road. Five cars used to make regu-
lar trips on a three-hour schedule
over the forty-five miles between Lub-
book aud Plainview, the county seats
of Lubbock and Hale counties. The
line had private right of way fenced
off as for railway, and it's roadbed
was worked by section hands to this
extent-it was kept scooped free of
sand. The drivers (this in the sense
in which the English use the word)
were cowboys in blue overalls and
large felt hats. They were required
to make the forty-fve miles in three
hours because the line carried United
States mail and was under contract
to keep q schedule. Often the cars
would clip an hour Off that for good
measure. The round trip fare for
ninety miles was $10.-Leslie's.
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No Difference.

At a St. Patrick's Day banquet in
Minnesota Archbishop Ireland sat
near young guardsman. During the
course of the meal the guardsman
asked his Grace:
do you know the difference be-
tween an archbishop and an ass?'
The Archbishop was too taken back
to reply, and seeing his hesitation the
guardsman continued:
"One wears cross on his mitre,
the other wears it on his back"
The Archbishop looked the young
man over with the utmost gravity,
and without relaxing a muscle OF his
face he propounded another conun-
drum.
''Do you know the difference be-
tween a guardsman and an ass?"
''No, DO not" replied the other.
Neither do /, sir!" thundered his
Grace.-New York Times.
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WISE WORDS.

Fancies have more to do with love-
making than facts.
If wishes were horses there would
soon be hay famine.
It's easy 70 prescribe remedy for
other peoples ills.
The hedgehog and the porcupine
are truly a prickly pair.
Never Judge mans worth by the
amount of insurance he carries.
A man is apt to get his back up
when he is told to hump himself.
The airs of a self-made man are
mostly of the fresh or hot brand.
A man may be power in financial
circles and still be on the square.
Money doesn't talk long before it
begins to brag.
The greatness of many man is
due to inherited money.
Occasionally man who is open to
conviction is shut up in Jail.
But divorce usually costs less
than a suit for breach of promise.
Some men think they are ambi-
tious, when in reality they are only
discontented.
In a musicians strike the wind in
strument players are not likely to
come to blows.
Just think of the clothes a mans
wife could buy with the money he
squanders for cigars.
People look upon a six-footer who
weighs over 200 pounds as big man
until he proves that he's little.
It is more or less difficult for a
man to be kind-hearted when his
liver isn't working properly.
Somehow the average girl exercises
better judgment in choosing her
friends than she does in choosing
husband.
When a favored young man at
tempts to kiss a girl she seldom car
ries resistance to the point of actual
success.
When a man is at home and the
telephone bell rings his wife makes
a dash for it to see if it is some wo-
man who wants to talk to him.
From Pointed Paragraphs" in the
Chicago News.
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CHAPTER vi.

"There he isl" exclaimed Tola,
leaping out of bed as a shower of lit
tie pebbles danced up against the
window
"Who? What?" said Janet, Sleep
lily.
only Arthur. l will run down and
let him in" And before Janet could
reassemble her scattered senses, Tola
had plunged into her little blue dress
ing gown and stolen swiftly down.
stairs.
Fancy his coming at this time of
night" said Janet, turning round on
the pillow and comfortably betaking
herself to slumber again.
The hall clock had just struck 4.
Tola, shivering with pleasure, eX-
citement and scanty ratment, opened
the door and threw her arms round
her brother in ecstasy. "My dear,
dear, darling old boy, come in at
once. Are you cold? Are you tired?
Are you hungry"
Neither of the two first, though
I walked from Plumtree; but hungry
is not the word. 1 am ravenous! I
could eat you up bodily"
Tola laughed merrily. "Come to
the schoolroom," she said. "I have
surreptitiously concealed regal re-
past there, and the remnant of a
fire."
Arthur caught up a shawl, fastened
her up in it like mummy and fol-
lowed her to the schoolroom. "Hur-
rah!" he said. "You are a jolly little
brick!"
There was so much to tell. Arthur
had to answer question after question
before he could begin on his own
side, and when the clock struck S,
the brother and sister were still
crouched over the dying fire, talking
over all the family affairs as If they
were the parents birds on whom the
care of the nest depended. But at
Arthur rose up. Nov Tola." he
said, II mean you to go to bed, and
not waste any more of the precious
midnight oil. You dear little soul,
you have certainly grown thinner
since saw you last"
Nevertheless, am as leathery and
active as-as-where shall l go for
a simile?"
go to bed, my child; we will talk
tomorrow to our hearts content"
The next morning the carrier
brought over Arthur's luggage, and
he consigned the interesting little
trunk to his mother with Mrs. Alfred
| Denstone's humble little message.
To be Continued.
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A MYSTERY SOLVED.

A new kind Of excitement to which
dwellers in the country are hence
forth likely to be subjected is set
forth somewhat amusingly in the Bal
timore Herald. The energetic editor
of the Gungawamp Advocate was
rudely awakened from his afternoon
slumber in his office chair by VIC
lent ringing of the telephone bell.
At first he thought it was the jing-
ling of silver coin, and smile played
over his sunken features, but when
he realized what it really was he
sprang to his feet.
"Hello!" he shouted, and seized a
pad and pencil.
"Hello!" came the answer. "Is
this the Advocate office?" :;
eyes. What do you want?"
"Well, say, there has been mur-
der committed out here on my farm,
and I want to have you come right
out and write it up"
ga murder! What makes you
think so?"
"Wen, 1 just found hat, pair
of spectacles and a set of false teeth
down in my south medder and there
amt another blessed thing in sight
anywhere. Oh, it's murder, all
right"
'Have you run down all the
clues?"
Yes. Amt even a footprint in
the grass"
"AlI right; I'll be right out"
The editor had jumped into his
shoes and coat, and was giving direcI
tions to his Office boy, when the bell
rang a second time.
"Hello!" he shouted, nervously.
"Hello!" came the answer. "You
needn't come out. An air-ship feller
has just come in, and says he dropped
'eIn -
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The Most Dangerous Cargo.

Lime is said to be the most danger
Gus cargo with which vessel may
be intrusted, for when it catches fire,
which it not infrequently does, des-
pite the greatest precautions against
the admission Of water into the hold,
it is practically impossible to extin-
guish it. The only method possessing
any value whatever in this event Is
to stop every crack of the hold with
soap, so that no air may reach the
lime. But often this will not stop
the fire, which will burn for weeks,
till the vessel at last sinks beneath
the waves.
When a vessel loaded with lime
takes fire, it is sure death to go
be.ow.-Harper's Weekly.
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Not Her First ChOjcc
Ie was excessively fond of dane

He was excessively fond of dancing,
also he was very clumsy
She, too, was excessively fond CT
dancing. But she was also the per-
sonification of grace. And row she
was suffering. Already he had torn
her tran with his ungovernabIe feet,
and her dainty slippers bore the
marks Of his toes. At last she could
stand it no longer.
Let us sit out the rest Of this
dance" she suggested. Il an tired"
He was reluctant.
Il thought you said you could die
dancing!" he accused.
so 1 could" she replied But
there are pleasanter ways of dying
than being trampled to death. Chi
cago RecOrd-Herald.
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GREAT DAYS ON
THE MISSISSIPPI.
Seventy Years Ago S25, 900, 800
Was Invested in Steamboats, and
Millions Were Spent Yearly in
Wages.

Reviewing the golden age Of river
traffic when Mark Twain was pilot
on the Mississippi, writer in the
Travel Magazine says that some
steamboats,, like the John Simonds,
the Robert E. Lee OR the Natchez did
a $4,000 business every round trip.
This. however, was exceptional.
AS a general rule, steamboating
was not paying industry, the most
fortunate owners making but six per
cent. on the money invested.
Many a hungry mouth did the
steamboat business fill in those days.
In 1892 the number of men earning
their living in the various depart
ments of the trade has been estimated
at 10000; ten years later, counting
only the laborers, engineers. pilots,
repairers. and others of actual crews,
there were about 10000 men en-
ployed During the year 1890, there
was 100000 invested in steam
boats. with yearly expense of ST.
671,S4O for wages, $1,390,200 for
wood, sS35,S20 for provisions and
$743,040 for other expenses. In 1880
almost 100000 was sepnt for wood
alone along the shores of Western
rivers.
The steamboat age began about
AS early as 1884 the number of
steamboats, on the Mississippi and its
tributaries is estimated at 290 and in
1912 there were $50 vessels, with a
value of s25,000,000. But the
golden era was from 1S4S till the
war Never did the valley and stean-
boating prosper moro than then.
Thousands of bales of cotton were
annually shipped to Southern mar
kets; and the wharves of ST. Louis
and Memphis and Vicilsburg and
other large ports were stacked with
piles of merchandise and lined with
scores Of steamers. But the war
came on, cutting off communications
between the North and South, and
sweeping the trade away. Iron-ciads,
tbuilt from former packets, paroled
Ehe mighty river. When peace was
finally declared the survivors of the
old steamboat days were dead, or en-
gagged in other industries. The bust
ness picked up bit then, but fell off
again before the cheaper and faster,
transportation of railroads. To-day
the occupations of the wood-cutters
have vanished. A few packet lines
control the Mississippi and Ohio river.
trodo and aIOnp tho leyees of the bie
river cities only half dozen or so
steamboats, can be seen at anchor,
the last survivors of that gala period
when the river was the great high
way.
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HOW MIX SAVED THE HORSE.

Down on the next corner the people
keep a number of horses, and also a
dog to keep watch over them. The
dogs name is Mix, and he sleeps in
the same barn with the horses. One
night last summer a fire started in the
barn, and the dog saw there was dan
ger and barked for help, but no help
came. After barking for some time
he jumped right through the window
and ran up to the house. Barking
again he awoke his master. The
horses were all saved, but poor Mix
was badly cut with the glass. His
now he is we'll dog.-Ethel Barrett,
in the New York Tribune.
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MARY ANN HUBBLE"

MARY ANN HUBBLE"
I once knew a woman named Mary Ann
Hubble,
And this woman always was looking for
trouble;
She was looking all day from the time she
got up,
To the candlelight hour when she sat
down to sup.
She would look all around her, and search
high and low
Just looking for trouble whereer she
would go.
And you may be sure that this Mary Ann
Hubble
Had more than her share of what people
call trouble.
Deborah E. Olds, in st. Nicholas.
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Then you do not know whether he
is alive?"
"Alas, no, monsieur! I have been
absent from Peru for some years now.
I have neither seen nor heard any
thing of your young friend-or rela-
tive?"
"My nephew" said Monsieur Ri
gaud, "and, sir, excuse my many
questions. I am poor man myself,
and feel for those in similar circum-
stances. Monsieur and Madame Le-
duc-were they embarrassed for
money!"
"Oh, que non!" said the stranger,
quickly. "They were comfortably
off. Madame was always well
dressed; monsieur frequented the
most expensive club. They were not
rich bien entendu, but they had an
ample >suf1iciency, which I imagine
has descended to my young friend
Paul"
"Just So" said Rigaud, whose con-
science being set at rest on the SUBJ
ject of his sisters fate, cared to hear
liz L1Ol
They reached Southampton at last.
The stranger got out first, and kindly
offered his hand to assist Monsieur
Rigaud to descend. The incongruity
of that hand again struck Arthur,
and for a moment he looked ixedly
at their fellow-passenger The look
was returned frankly, the eyes were
bright, clear and penetrating, their
glance open and frank. The two
bowed a courteous goodnight as Ar
thur, carrying the black box in one
hand and supporting his old COM
panion on his arm, led him away
through the din of the railway sta
ton and across the docks to the st.
Malo boat.
Goodnight! A thousand thanks!
1 am at home again." said old Mon
sieur Rigaud, saying adieu with en-
pressement, and Arthur stepped on
shore as the boat moved off.
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Practice Made Perfect.

Eyes, sir" says the barber, deftly
rubbing the lather into the scalp of
the patron, 81 was ships barber on
transpacific steamer for five years, un-
til the ship was wrecked and l was
cast away on an island in the South
Seas [ lived there for two years and
never saw human being, but when
| was rescued l fiatter myself l was
better shampooer than ever. kept
in practice all the time"
''How Gid you manage it?' asks the
patron.
Il shampooed the cocoanuts. -
Life.
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Keep Mum.

Women, as women, are pretty
much alike. They have the same
hair, differing slightly only as to color
and length; same features, same
thoughts. When we love one of
them, therefore, we are in reality
loving them all. But it is just as
we'll not to mention this.-Life.
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SCHOOLBOY DEFINITIONS.

James I. died from argue.
Henry I. died of eating palfreys.
The earth is an obsolete spheriod.
Tennyson wrote ''In Memorandum :"
A deacon is the lowest kind of
Christian.
Geometry teaches us how to bisex
angles.
Parallel lines are the same dis
tance all the way and do not meet un-
less you bend them.
Shakespeare founded GAS You Like
IT. on a book previously written by
Sir Oliver Lodge.
If the air contains more than 100
per cent. of carbolic acid it is very in
furious to health.
The isles of Greece are always
quarreling as to which was the birth
place of Homer; Chaos has the most
right claim to him.-NeW York Tele-
gram.
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Serving Time.

t'No man can serve two masters"
said the priest to one of his parish
toner's.
Il know that, yer reverence. Me
brother tried it, and now he's doing
time for bigamy. ."-Everybody's
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DON'T WANT TO GO TO HARVARD.

Last Christmas vacation we went
to the country for a week, and of
course our pet dog, Johnny, went
with us. He knows a great many
tricks. He can walk on his hind legs,
say his prayers, beg and jump over a
cane. When he is asked what he
would rather do than go to Harvard
he lies down and pretends he is dead;
then, when we tell him he need not
go, he comes to life, sits up and cheers
for Princeton. One evening young
lady who was for Harvard was watch
ing him perform his tricks. After he
had died rather than go to Harvard,
she said: ooh, he will do it for any
college. Come here, Johnny. What
would you rather do than go to
Princeton" But Johnny sat right up
and cheered. You see, although he is
only dog, he is true Princetonian.
Ruth Handy, in the New York Tri-
bune.
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Sized Up.

"Yes," remarked the fat man on
the rear platform, Il once refused to
buy the site of Chicago for four clam
shells and quart of rum"
The tall passenger was silent.
st could have bought the original
telephone patents for eleven Mexican
dollars and a brass watch" continued
the fat man, "but I turned 'em
down"
No response.
"You are not interested in my
"reminiscences, friend?"
Il am not" answered the tall man
candidly, I'm selling airship stock.
You don't want any.''-Washington
Herald
Objects to Standing On His Head.
An attorney of Mount Gilead, Ohio,
has brought suit against the Sentinel
Publishing Company, of that city,
asking $4,000 damages, which he al.
leges were sustained through his pic.
ture being run in the Sentinel upside
down on the first Eage, together with
an article containing, he declares, ma.
licious charges with the purpose OF
injuring his character.
Seven years ago there were two
thousand students in China, and in
1907 there were 1882.
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THE SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE.

THE SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE.
An American woman who travels
much abroad tells this story of an
elderly gentlewoman who could sure
ly have qualified for membership
in Mr.. Clement Shorter's proposed
Jane Austen Sisterhood" I'VE met
her," says the lady, "at a pension in
Florence, where she was nominally
chaperoning her two nieces, energetic,
robust American girls, who were de-
terminedly and unrelentingly sight
seeing.
THE little old lady had long ago
given up the attempt to keep up with
them, and used to sit all day long in
the dreary pension parlor, reading
several-weeks' papers from home.
She never went out alone, for the mar
row, crooked streets confused her
hopelessly, and she was in constant
terror OF getting lost.
Several times we persuaded her
to go with us; but she was sensitive
little old lady, afraid of troubling
people, and worried SO constantly lest
she might be burden to us, that she
was hardly able to enjoy the trips.
Sc -re reluctantly left her to her own
devices, and went to Fiesole for few
days.
when we returned to Florence, the
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A BIT OF TREACHERY.

Carl Hagenbeck, the most en- inent
owner, exhibitor and trainer of wild
animals in the world, has had many
adventures in his half-century of eX-
perience. Some of them are described
in a recent book, entitled Beasts and
Men," On more than one occasion
an elephant has come uncomfortably
near putting an end to Mr.. Hagen
beck's career. One of the worst acci-
dents happened at the end of the SIX
ties. About that time he purchased
menagerie at Trieste, which includ-
ed among the other beasts a female
elephant, which stood about eight feet
high. 1t seemed to be thoroughly
good-tempered animal, its only fault
being that it occasionally had the
sulks-'a not uncommon characteris-
;ic," comments Mr.. Hagenbeck, Gin
Ill feminine creatures.
He soon made friends with the ele-
ohant, which he named Lissy, and
he never. passed it's stall without CIV
ing it handful of food. He was,
therefore, he believed, justified in
thinking he had quite won its heart,
and as it never showed any signs Of
violence, it did not occur to Mr.. Ha-
genbsck that he might be dealing
with grossly deceitful creature.
The elephant was learning a trick
in which it had to swing its keeper
into the air witt Its trunk, and then
slowly set him upon the ground again.
The word of command which was
given to the beast when it had to per-
form this simple exhibition was:
'Lissy, apport!"
Zone day." to continued in Mr.
Hagenbeck's own words, 81 found
Lissy alone in her stable, the keeper
being absent 1t must have been a
devil that made me feel a desire to
be raised on high by her, after the
nanner of her affectionate treatment
Of her keeper l stroked and fed her,
and then taking hold of her trunk,
called out the word of command:
Lissy, apport!'
"Then followed one of the most
vilely treacherous acts of which I
udNS SfSl uGdl LlSSy DSSdu " oOCJ
the order, but 1 soon felt that she
was bent on mischief, for the embrace
Of her trunk WAS unpleasantly vigor-
Gus, and 1 scared high into the air. :
But 1 was not quietly deposited
once more upon my feet.
Instead of this, Lissy dashed me
violently against the wooden barrier
in front of her stall, and went flying
over into the menagerie.
Il lay almost senseless upon the
ground until the old keeper, Philippe,
appeared to help me home.
Fortunately no bones were
broken, but I was terribly battered
and bruised, and for weeks could only
hobble about with great pain